Zerubabel Filer^[1]

1644 - 1714  (69 years)

• Name	Zerubabel Filer
  Birth	23 Dec 1644	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Oct 1714	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I30202	Master
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	Walter Fyler,   b. 1602, Dorchester, Dorset, England d. 12 Dec 1683, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Jane Irving,   b. 1602, , , , England d. 11 Sep 1690, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	1640	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F7472	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Experience Strong,   b. 4 Aug 1650, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 20 Oct 1714, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1669	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Children	1. Thomas Filer,   b. 25 Jan 1670, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 7 Sep 1756, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Sarah Jane Filer,   b. 1 Jan 1671, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. Apr 1726, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Sarah Filer,   b. 1 Jan 1671, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1703 (Age 31 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Jane Filer,   b. 1 Jan 1671, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1760, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 88 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Zerebabel Filer,   b. 31 Oct 1673, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 27 Nov 1673, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Zerubabel Filer,   b. 25 Dec 1674, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 2 Jan 1761, Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. John Filer,   b. 2 Mar 1676, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 10 Aug 1715, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 39 years)   8. Abigail Filer,   b. 5 Jan 1679, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 9 Jun 1680, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Samuel Filer,   b. 5 Jan 1680, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 5 Jun 1680, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Samuel Filer,   b. 26 Sep 1681, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 13 Sep 1710, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Abigail Filer,   b. 8 Apr 1683, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 24 Dec 1754, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. Stephen Filer,   b. 27 Mar 1688, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 21 Feb 1760, , , Connecticut, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   13. Ebenezer Filer,   b. 2 Dec 1690, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 16 Dec 1690, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 14. Experience Filer,   b. 25 Dec 1691, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 25 May 1744, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   15. Elizabeth Filer,   b. 2 Jun 1694, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1769 (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   16. Abigail Filer,   b. 6 Feb 1702, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 24 Dec 1754 (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   17. Rachell Filer,   b. 29 Sep 1706, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1771 (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F7471	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Dec 1644 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Marriage - 27 May 1669 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death - 21 Oct 1714 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Walter Filer Arrival, Farm, Family and Will The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN WALTER FILER ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester REMOVES: Windsor 1636 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [ MBCR 1:369]. "Walter Fylar" was freeman of Connecticut at Windsor, 11 October 1669 [ CCCR 2:519]. OFFICES: Dorchester fenceviewer, 20 May 1634, 10 February 1634/5 [ DTR 6, 10]; chosen bailiff for six months, 2 November 1635 [DTR 13, 16]; assessor for militia rate, 18 January 1635/6 [DTR 15]. Hartford Particular Court jury………[CCCR 1:55; RPCC 12, 18, 19, 24, 26, 30, 39, 43, 46, 47, 50, 54, 57, 69, 83, 86, 87, 122, 157, 185, 195, 199, 202, 238, 239, 240, 256, 258, 259]. … Appointed recorder of ships clearing Windsor for Saybrook, 5 February 1644/5, 1 December 1645 [CCCR 1:121, 135]. Deputy to Connecticut General Court for Windsor, 3 October 1661 (as "Lt. Walter Filer"), 14 May 1663, 8 October 1663 [CCCR 1:372, 399, 409]. Grand jury, 7 December 1654 [RPCC 132]. Sergeant of the Windsor train band by 1642 [CCCR 1:76; RPCC 17]; appointed ensign 7 June 1660 [RPCC 214]; appointed lieutenant 6 September 1660 [RPCC 219]. ESTATE: Dorchester land of Walter Filer referred to as abuttor of town pound, gate in pales, and driftway for cattle, 3 November 1633, 3 November 1634 and 17 April 1635 [DTR 4, 8, 11]; granted two acres marsh, 27 June 1636 [DTR 16]; in meadows beyond Neponset, received Lot #30, six acres [DTR 321]. On 8 May 1673 Connecticut General Court granted to "Lt. Walter Fyler the sum of one hundred and fifty acres of land, provided he take it up where it may not prejudice any former grant" [CCCR 2:194]. In his will, dated 14 September 1679 and proved 6 March 1683/4, "Walter Fyler of Windsor" bequeathed to "my wife" his entire estate for life (along with £100 which she could dispose of as she pleased), to grandchild Thomas £20 and to "the three other children now in being" £5 apiece, and to "my two sons John and Zerubbabell Fyler" the residue equally; in a codicil of 2 November 1680, "It having pleased God to add one more year to my life," he specifically bequeathed to son John "my homestead, barn, garden and orchard, together with the press and mill in the barn," and to Zerubabel land, wearing clothes, and any debts incurred [ Manwaring 1:302]. His inventory totalled £629 5s. 8d. In her will, dated 22 June 1687 and proved 5 November 1690, "Mrs. Jane Fyler of Windsor" bequeathed to "my son John Fyler" £30 "of that my estate my husband willed me to my free dispose," to "my son Zerubbabell Fyler" £20, to Zerubabel's son Thomas £10, to Zerubabel [Zerubabel's son] £10, to his daughter Jane "out of the same estate" movables, to each of his other three children £5, and to "my daughter-in-law, Zerubbabell's wife Experience," wearing clothes; codicil dated 17 May 1689. The inventory of Mrs. Jane Fyler, who died 11 September 1690, relict of Lt. Walter Fyler of Windsor deceased, was taken 10 November 1690 and totalled £122 5s. 8d. [Manwaring 1:445-46]. BIRTH: By 1613 based on date of freemanship. DEATH: Windsor 12 December 1683 [ CTVR 55 (and from probate inventory)]. MARRIAGE: By 1642 Jane _____; she died Windsor 11 September 1690 (from probate inventory). CHILDREN: i JOHN, b. Windsor 12 September 1642 [ Grant 36; CTVR 34], bp. 18 September 1642; Harvard 1666 [ Sibley 2:214]; m. (1) 17 October 1672 Elizabeth Dolman [Grant 36 (and see JOHN WITCHFIELD)]; m. (2) 21 October 1686 Bethesda Poole "of Dorchester" [CTVR 52]. ii ZERUBABEL, b. Windsor 23 December 1644 [Grant 36; CTVR 34]; m. Windsor 27 May 1669 Experience Strong [Grant 36]. Source: The Fyler - Filer Family Genealogy and History Volume 1 by Jack Fyler Arnold Zerubabel and Experience Strong Pg 2 When they married, Experience's Grandfather Thomas Ford, gave them the Hosford place

  
  

• Sources

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