Jonathan COUCH

Male 1736 - Bef 1786  (50 years)


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  • Name Jonathan COUCH 
    Born 16 Jul 1736  Fairfield Township, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 3 Aug 1786 
    Person ID I2785  adkinshorton
    Last Modified 1 May 2013 

    Father Ebenezer Couch, Sr.,   b. 05 Apr 1709, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Mar 1797, Redding, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Mother Ann CRANE,   b. 24 May 1711, Windham, Windham Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 18 May 1731  Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F20099  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eunice GRIFFIN,   c. 22 Oct 1738 
    Married 15 Aug 1759  Redding, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Lucy COUCH,   b. 1761, Redding, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Apr 1843  (Age 82 years)
     2. Anna COUCH,   b. Abt 1764
     3. Joseph COUCH,   b. Abt 1769,   d. 16 Dec 1841  (Age ~ 72 years)
    +4. Eli COUCH,   b. 11 Jun 1773,   d. 6 May 1832  (Age 58 years)
     5. Eunice COUCH,   b. Abt 1774,   d. 23 Jul 1856  (Age ~ 82 years)
    Family ID F21580  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • From "The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Ct" by William Edgar Gruman, pg. 131 ...
      Couch, Jonathan, April 2, 1777, he was appointed on a committee of nine to take care of the families of soldiers in
      the service of the country.

      Another accounting of Jonathan's ancestry is listed in a "Transcription of Frost/Couch genealogy" (The link to
      Oliver Couch needs to be investigated. Is this the same family? )

      Oliver Couch History_1 gen. - Oliver Couch - a native of Wolverton, Lincolnshire, England, whose father kept a
      hotel then called Lincoln's Inn, came to America in the ship Live Oak, Nov. 16, 1636.__In 1640 he settled in
      Saybrook or Lyme, Connecticut. He had two brothers, Henry and John, who came with him. Oliver, our ancestor,
      had a son named:__2d gen. Henry, who had a son_3d " Oliver - Oliver's son_4th " Johnathan had six children
      (his wife was Eunice) who were:_5th gen. Joseph_Eli_Lucy (underscored in text)_Eunice_Hildah_Mary__Eli
      married Edna Parsons. They had seven children.__Lucy married Joseph Frost 4th September 19, 1781. The
      names of their 10 children are given in the Frost History.

  • Sources 
    1. [S18908] Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, (Connecticut-ODM).

    2. [S16] Connecticut, All Town Birth Records, Pre-1870 (Vital Stats), Fairfield, p40.

    3. [S16] Connecticut, All Town Birth Records, Pre-1870 (Vital Stats), Fairfield, p39.


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