. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. n the battle ofHastings in 1066. William de Warren received the title of earl before coming to is mentioned in Domesday Book as possessing land in almost every county in England,comprising one hundred and thirty-nine lordships. Earl William Warren selected his residencein the village of Lewes, county of Surrey. He erected there his beautiful castle, of whichthe ruins are still to be seen on an eminence surrounding the town. Although the principalparts are demolished, its gates are still standing, showing its massive construction. Heand his wife
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. n the battle ofHastings in 1066. William de Warren received the title of earl before coming to is mentioned in Domesday Book as possessing land in almost every county in England,comprising one hundred and thirty-nine lordships. Earl William Warren selected his residencein the village of Lewes, county of Surrey. He erected there his beautiful castle, of whichthe ruins are still to be seen on an eminence surrounding the town. Although the principalparts are demolished, its gates are still standing, showing its massive construction. Heand his wife (Jundred erected the priory in the town of Lewes, and he continued his benefactionto it during liis life. He died in 1088, and his countess died in 1085. They were first buriedin the convent of Lewes built by Henry VHI. In 1775 their remains were removed to theold church at Southover to a little chapel at the end of the church. The traveler ofthe present, selecting one of the lanes running to the southward of Lewes, soon comes to the. BRIDGEPORT AND XICIXITY 119 pleasant siibiiib of Soiithover, and passing its cluircli will rraiiily recognize the remains ofthe priory built by William de Warren and Gundred. From this point, Colonel Tracy B. Warren, mentioned below, traees his ancestry in adirect line for seventeen generations to Richard Warren, tlie Mayllower Iilgrim, fromwhom he is descended in the ninth generation, thus making twenty-seven generations inunbroken line from William de Warrenne, previously referred to, wlio married Gundred,the youngest daughter of William the Conqueror, ile is also a descendant of WilliamBradford of the JIayfiower, the first colonial governor. (li Richard Warren, the American progenitor, born in England, came to New Englandfrom Greenwich. England, in the historic MayHower company which founded Plymouth,Massachusetts, in 1620, and was one of the nineteen signers of the famous compact whosurvived the first winter. The register at the end of Bradfor
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