1635 Luke Hitchcock emigrated from Warwickshire, England, to Hartford, Connecticut, about 1635. [1]
1644 Luke Hitchcock took freeman's oath in New Haven, Connecticut, 1 July 1644 in company with Edward Hitchcock and soon afterward removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut. [2] [3]
1655 Luke son of Luke and Elizabeth Hitchcock was born on June 5 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. [4]
1659 Luke Hitchcock signed an agreement to remove to Hadley, Massachusetts. [5] [6]
1659 Luke Hitchcock died on November 1 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. [7]
Research Notes:
A biosketch reports [8]:
Luke Hitchcick and his wife, Elizabeth, were residents of New Haven, Conn., in 1644. They moved to Wethersfield on their way to Springfield. He died there in 1659. His widow and children came to Springfield and she married William Warriner, October 2, 1661, the same day that her daughter married Chileab Smith of Hadley. William Warriner died June 2, 1676, and she married Joseph Baldwin of Hadley. He died November 2, 1684, and his widow Elizabeth died at Springfield, April 25, 1696. The children of Luke Hitchcock and Elizabeth were:
Hannah, b. -, m. Chileab Smith of Hadley, October 2, 1661.
John, b. -, m. Hannah Chapin, daughter of Deacon Samuel.
Luke, b. June 5, 1655, m. Widow Sarah Dorchester.
[1] William Carroll Hill, "Memoirs of the Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103 (1949), 66-76, at 74, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] H. G. Cleveland, "Excerpts from the Hitchcock Genealogy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 40 (1886), 307-9, at 307, [InternetArchive].
[3] Mary L Hitchcock, "Queries. Hitchcock," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44 (1890), 213, [InternetArchive].
[4] "Wethersfield Vital Records, 1635-1665," The American Genealogist 9 (1932-33), 27-31 at 29, [AmericanAncestors].
[5] H. G. Cleveland, "Excerpts from the Hitchcock Genealogy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 40 (1886), 307-9, at 307, [InternetArchive].
[6] Mary L Hitchcock, "Queries. Hitchcock," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44 (1890), 213, [InternetArchive].
[7] "Wethersfield Vital Records, 1635-1665," The American Genealogist 9 (1932-33), 27-31 at 31, [AmericanAncestors].
[8] Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield, The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, Vol. 2 (Springfield, Massachusetts: Henry M. Burt, 1898), 589, [HathiTrust].