Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . rs to Convers, andlater to Converse, in this county. This Edward wasborn in 1590, and in 1630 he came with Winthropto America, and with him settled in Charlestown,near Boston, where he was a man of considerableprominence, and was one of the founders of thefirst church, now known as the First Church ofBoston, and also as the First Church of Charles-town. The town of Woburn, Mass., was incorpo-rated
Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . rs to Convers, andlater to Converse, in this county. This Edward wasborn in 1590, and in 1630 he came with Winthropto America, and with him settled in Charlestown,near Boston, where he was a man of considerableprominence, and was one of the founders of thefirst church, now known as the First Church ofBoston, and also as the First Church of Charles-town. The town of Woburn, Mass., was incorpo-rated in 1642, and he was one of the first settlersand became one of the founders of the first churchin that town. With him from his English home,came his wife Sarah, after whose death he mar-ried Joanna Sprague. and died at Woburn, in children were: Josiah, James, Samuel andMary, from some of whom descended the Thomp-son, Converses. (The History of Wind-ham County says that Samuel Converse, son ofSamuel and Judith (Carter) Converse, and agrandson of Edward, the emigrant, settled in 1710,in Thompson Parish, town of Killingly, in whichhe was among the very first settlers). From this. JULIUS CONVERSE COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 4S town came Asa Converse, the son of Henry, thehead of the Converse family under consideration,in the town of Stafford. Asa Converse, son of Henry Converse, ofThompson, Conn., married, and his children were:Solvin, James, Darius, Asa, Alpheus and Sybil. Capt. Solvin Converse, son of Asa, was bornin 1758, in Statford, and in 1780 was married toSarah, dauqihter of Josiah Holmes and granddaugh-ter of Deacon David Holmes, who was a son ofJohn Holmes, one of the first settlers of Wood-stock, Conn. Deacon David Holmes was the great-grandfather of the famous Dr. Oliver WendellHolmes. The children born to Capt. Solvin andSarah (Holmes) Converse were: Josiah; Sally,who married Olney Rrown, of Union ; Lucy, whomarried David Brown, of Union ; Solva,
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