Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections . ember 14, 1698, and died there October 28, was twice married, his first wife being Abiah Dwight,daughter of Justice Nathaniel Dwight and MehitablePartridge. She was bcrn February 17, 1704 and diedFebruary , 1748. They had a number of children,one of whom was Elijah Kent. The date of his birth is not given, but he v/as aLieutenant in the Colonial Military forces and was withthe Fourth Regim^ent at Lake George. He died March17, 1768, aged forty-six years and is buried at v/as married, first, February 27, 1745
Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections . ember 14, 1698, and died there October 28, was twice married, his first wife being Abiah Dwight,daughter of Justice Nathaniel Dwight and MehitablePartridge. She was bcrn February 17, 1704 and diedFebruary , 1748. They had a number of children,one of whom was Elijah Kent. The date of his birth is not given, but he v/as aLieutenant in the Colonial Military forces and was withthe Fourth Regim^ent at Lake George. He died March17, 1768, aged forty-six years and is buried at v/as married, first, February 27, 1745 to Rachel Kel-logg and they had one son, Elijah Kent, Jr., born July3, 1747. She died two weeks after her child was born,and on October 26, 1748, he miarried her first cousin,Jemima Kellogg, daughter of Martin Kellogg, Jr. andDorothy Chester. Slie was born August 24, 1723, anddied November 25, 1791. Elijah Kent and Jemima Kellogg had four chil-dren of whom the eldest, Rachel Kent, bom in Suffield,July 26, 1750, married David Tod, and died September11, 1798. 8. u Qy c HISTORY OF THE TOD FAMILY A number of Kents still live in Sufaeld, and theKent Memorial Library is a fine stone building in thecenter of the town. On her maternal side, Rachel Kent was a de-scendent of Joseph Kellogg, a weaver, of Farmington,Connecticut, and subsequently of Boston and was a lieutenant in the militia and commanded thesoldiers from Hadley in the Fails fight, dying about theyear 1707, aged about eighty. His first wife, Joanna, died September 14, 1666,and on May 9, 1667, he married Abigail Terry, daughterof Stephen Terry, one of the first settlers of Windsor,Connecticut, who was born September 21, 1646. Four-teen children survived him. A son by his first marriage was Martin Kelloggwho was also twice married; first, December 10, 1GS4,to Ann Hinsdale, daughter of Samuel Hinsdale andMehitable Johnson, who was born February 22, 1666,and died July 19, 1689. A son of this marriage v/as Martin Kello
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