Hannah Munger

Family/Spouse: Increase Munger. Increase (son of Joseph Munger and Miriam Pond) was born in 1729 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; and died in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin Munger was born in 1755 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA; died in 1817 in Munger Family Cemetery, Sarasota Springs, Sarasota, New York, USA.

Samuel married Sarah Dennis on 7 Oct 1734 in Long Island, Queens, New York, USA. Sarah was born in 1685 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA; died in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph was a cordwainer, and lived in the East Parish of Guilford. A deed bearing the date of 1740 gives his place of residence as Guilford. Witness to will of Josiah Arnold of Haddam, 15th June 1733. It is said he moved to Killingworth, Conn. No record of his death is found here or at Guilford. Probably moved west with one of his sons.

Joseph married Sarah Ingham on 17 Jun 1716 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Sarah was born on 14 Dec 1692 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Jun 1726 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah Hand on 11 Oct 1688 in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Hand and Jane Wright) was born on 2 Mar 1664 in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 1 Aug 1751 in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family history says he was brought by Henry Golden from England before 1651. Henry Goldam was the father of Susannah Goldam, who married John Bishop Jr of Guilford, and step-father to Nicholas Munger. Henry Goldam had no other children and by his will, dated July 9 1661, he left to Nicholas Munger, his "son -in-law," "all my land in the Neck, paying myself, if demanded during my lifetime, one barley corn by the year by way of acknowledgement, and, after my death, if my wife shall survive and shall demand the same, the sum of five bushels of whete by the year, but if she miss demanding in or at the very expiring of the year, then to be free from any payment that present year, and at the death of my aforesaid wife, to be to him fully and freely and to his heirs forever." [The New England Historical and Genealogical Society , New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, New York , 1913, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996, 1997, p. 1328

1652, Connecticut
Nicholas Munger took the Oath of Fidelity and became a freeman in 1652. To qualify, he had to be of age, of sober and peaceable conversation, orthodox in religion, and possessed of a ratable estate of at least twenty pounds.

He came to Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639, and was one of the founders of the church there on Jun 1 1639. he served as a representative to the General Court in twenty-seven sessions between 1643 and his death in 1661. He also served as a towrate. He was one of six people selected to purchase land from the Indians in Guilford and was one of four who received "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the publick weal and civile government of the plantation until a church is gathered amonge us."

Because of his experience and rank, he was the chief military man in the town of Guilford. His home lot was on the south side of Broad Street at the turn west of the green. His estate was inventoried at 677 pounds 16 shillings and 7 pence.

Source:
Title: Ernest Flagg, The Founding of New England (The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1926) Page: 287.

Title: John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin: n.p., 1993.) Page: 260.

Nickolas married Sarah Hall on 2 Jun 1659 in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of William Hall and Esther) was born on 4 Oct 1640 in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 31 Jan 1689 in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Jane Wright in 1663. Jane was born about 1646; died about 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Esther. Esther was born in 1628 in Rolvenden, Kent, , England; died in 1683 in Rolvenden, Kent, , England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]