Simon COUCH

1633 - 1688

• Name	Simon COUCH  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	1633	Devonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Mar 1688	Greens Farms, Fairfield Co, CT
  	Simon Couch - Will 22 Dec 1687, probated 1689.
  Buried	Couch Burial Hill, Greens Farms, Fairfield Co, CT
  Person ID	I2771	adkinshorton
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Lewis Couch,   b. 20 Sep 1583, Hartland, Devonshire, England ,   d. Hartland, Devonshire, England
  Mother	Isot Maine,   b. 1590, Hartland, Devonshire, England ,   d. 16 Jul 1610, Hartland, Devonshire, England
  Married	16 Jul 1610	Hartland, Devonshire, England
  Family ID	F27051	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary Frances ANDREWS,   b. Abt 1645, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT ,   d. 1691, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT
  Married	1664	Fairfield Co, CT
  Children	1. Thomas COUCH,   b. 1659,   d. 1689   2. Mary COUCH,   b. 1663 > 3. Simon COUCH, II,   b. 1669, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT ,   d. 1713 > 4. Samuel COUCH,   b. 1666, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT ,   d. 11 Dec 1739, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT > 5. Martha COUCH,   b. 1667,   d. 1725 > 6. Sarah COUCH,   b. 1669 > 7. Hannah COUCH,   b. Abt 1671, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT
  Documents		Simon Couch & Mary Frances Andrews - Marriage Record (compiled) New England Marriages Prior to 1700, page 186
  Histories		History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield - Couch References Compiled & Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus, 1902 (retyped as searchable PDF 2011)
  Family ID	F20130	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents

  Simon Couch - Will (16-page, 8.7MB PDF file)

  
  

  Histories		THE HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Vol. I From the settlement of the town in 1639 to 1818 by Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Shenck - New York, 1889 www.archive.org
  		THE HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD, Fairfield County, Connecticut - Vol.II From 1700 - 1800 by Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Shenck - New York, 1903 www.archive.org

  
  

• Notes

  Simon treated slavery as indentured servitude. He became a free man in 1665 having endentured himself to the Andrews family for his passage over from Plymouth. Plymouth is close to Cornwall, England. By the time of his death, he owned two neighboring "bankside farms," on Long Island sound in CT and had 3 businesses. In his will, his slaves were to be set free and were each given 8 acres of the farm lands. Buried at Couch Burial Hill, Fairfield Co., CT Will 22 Dec 1687, proved 15 Mar 1687/8; wife Mary; eldest son Thomas; 2nd son Simon; 3rd son Samuel; brother's son Thomas Couch that lives with me; brother's daughter living at John Grumman's; cousin Susannah Couch living at Milford; eldest daughters, Mary and Martha; daughters Sarah and Hannah. - "History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield" by Donald Lines Jacobus, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR, Fairfield, CT, 1930. Allen Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN. Gc 974.602 F161j Simon Couch was made a freeman 13 Oct 1664 - "History of Fairfield Vol 1 1889" pg 364 ("50 Puritan Ancestors") The History of Fairfield Co, CT 1700-1800 Vol.1 gives Simon's will as 22 Dec 1687, proved in 1689. If his death date is 15 Mar 1687/88, the sequence is correct, allowing for transcription errors in how the dates were to be recorded.

  
  

• Sources

  [S18732] History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Jacobus, Burr, DAR 1930. [S18733] History of Fairfield. [S18734] 50 Puritan Ancestors.