FISH CT : Aaron Fish descendants

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Ideally want to find:

• according to THE SETTLERS OF BEEKMAN PATENT p.204:
  The Bible of Aaron Fish, son of Aaron and Irene, and Lydia Backus of Windham, CT is at NYS DAR Bibles 4:107




• Proof of Sprague Fish as son of Asahel (son of Aaron)...




• The exact identity of persons in Warranty in possession of M.K.McManus-Muldrow:
  "Warranty Deed from Moses Fish to Jo Billings dated Feb 1st 1750 ...Stonington...original Deed to John Fish for 50 acres...
  a like deed from Aron Fish for himself & sister Lydia & Sarah .....12th March 1750
  a like Deed from Abigail Dennison of the same tract 5th Feb 1750
  .......
  a like Deed from Davd. Fish & Sarah Fish of the same dates Jan 17,1743
  all this to Joseph Billings

from the Volumes of the New York Genealogical Society
Vol 102 p.198: That Christopher⁵ Helme of Groton,CT, blacksmith, married Sarah Fish, dau. of Dr. Aaron and Irene (Sprague) Fish of Stonington and Groton, is proved by a quitclaim deed to Samuel Fish releasing their title to land in Stonington which belonged to her honored father, Aaron Fish, deceased (Stonington Deeds 6:436)

from Lester Fish's Book

(truncated)
1360 Capt Samuel Fish b.1656 appeared at Mystic and Groton in 1655
m.Sarah Starke m(2)Dorothy (Wheeler) Smith
children:
 1497 Samuel5 b.1682 or 1684 m.Elizabeth Williams
 1498 John b.1686 d.~1704
 1499 Moses b.1688 d.1773 m.Martha Williams
 1500 Abigail b.1690 d.1784 m.Capt Daniel Eldridge m(2) Dea Daniel Dennison
 1501 Aaron b.~1693 m.Irene Sprague
 1502 Nathan bapt 1699 d.1732 m.Abigail Havens
 1503 Sarah b.~1702 d.1733 m.Rev Hezekiah Lord

1499 Moses Fish son of Samuel and Sarah b.~1688 m.Martha Williams
children:
  1627 Moses b.1714 d.1802 m.Elizabeth Morgan
  1628 Thomas b.1716 d.1775 m.Jemima Morgan
  1629 Elisha b.1720 d.1795 m.Hannah Forbush
  1630 Jonathan b.1723 d.1796 m. Abigail Fish (his cousin-dau. of 
       #1502 Nathan) 
  1631 Abigail m.Andrew Lathrop
  1632 Eunice b.1725 d.1740

1627 Capt Moses Fish son of Moses and Martha b.Groton 1714
    m. Elizabeth Morgan 1745.
Children:
  1633 Elizabeth b.1746 d.1775 m.William Stewart
  1634 Moses b.1749 m.Jerusha Phillips
  1635 Eunice b.1752 m.Elias Fish
  1636 Daniel b.1758
1501 Aaron5 Fish ....was b. at Groton,Conn about 1693.
He married Irene Sprague of Lebanon, Conn, July 9, 1723.
Children:
 1778 Aaron6, bapt. Apr 27, 1729 m. Lydia Backus
 1779 Samuel, bapt. Aug 8, 1731 d.Feb 1761? m.Elizabeth Haynes
 1780 Asahel, bapt Aug 3, 1735; m.Esther Billings m(2) Elizabeth
      Dorrance
 1781 Zerviah b.Nov 20, 1736
 1782 Irene b.July 30,1738 m.Zebulan Case
 1783 Eunice, b.Sep 28,1740 m.Nathaniel Bliss


1780 Asahel Fish6 son of Aaron and Irene Fish b.Aug 3,
     1735 at Groton,Conn.  He died at Wilkes-Barre,Pa May 17,1814.
Children:
 1851 Eunice b.Mar 15, 1756
 1852 Aaron b.Oct 23, 1758 d.1845 m.Anna Babcock
 1853 Sprague? b.Mar 10,1768 m.Abigail Park

1853 SPRAGUE7 FISH, who may have been a son of (1780) Asahel and Esther 
(Billings) Fish, and grandson od Aaron and Irene Sprague Fish, w. b. 
Mar.10, 1768, at Groton, Conn.  He m. June 16, 1789, Abigail (Nabby) 
Park.  He was a cooper; sailed in a trader to the West Indies, and was 
there drowned while attempting to land.

Children:
 1870 Park8, who married Abigail Packer Nov 17, 1811, and was lost in 
      Christmas storm of 1811.  She was b. Aug. 10, 1773. She m. (2)
      Oliver Dewey, and (3) Elisha Lyman, a Rev. soldier and a fine
      man. (He stood within three feet of him when the spy, Major
      Andre, was hanged).
 1871 Sprague,b. at Groton, Mar.10,1790, and followed his father's
      trade of whaler.  He m. Betsey (Perkins) Adams, and had at least
      three sons (all of New London, and b. about 1840, all captains of
      whalers): (1873) Captain Asa9, (1874) Captain Coddington; and
      (1875) Captain Gilbert (or George).
 1872 Coddington, who settled in Vermont.

Descendants of Sprague Fish