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Middletown upper houses:
a history of the north society of Middletown, Connecticut
THE STOCKING FAMILY
1. George Stocking, his wife Anna, and their four children came over in 1633, in the ship Griffin, which brought Hooker company. His antecedents are unknown, but the name Stockin, Stocken, Stocking can be found in the Domesday Book. He built a house in Cambridge, at the corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets. He as made a freeman May 6, 1635, and in 1636 came with Hooker to Hartford, being one of the original founders and a prominent proprietor. He was a selectman in 1647; surveyor of highways in 1654 and 1662; chimney viewer in 1659 and was excused in 1660 from military duty owing to his "great age." He d. May 25, 1683, aged 101 years and his name is among the one hundred but in the brown stone obelisk erected in the old Center Church burial ground. His will, made July 15, 1673, names his wife, Anna, and each of his children. His old son, Samuel, was his chief heir and the executor of h is estate.
Children:
2 Samuel, b. ¬¬¬abt 1620
Sarah, b. ¬¬¬¬¬¬_______; m. Samuel Olcott
Lydia, b. _______; m. John Richards
Hannah, b. _____; m. 1649, Andrew Benton
2 Samuel2 Stocking (George1), b. in England about 1620, removed 1850-1, with others, from Hartford to Middletown Upper Houses. His adjoining neighbor was George Grave, whose father had witnessed his own father's will. His home-lot is shown on the map of 1675. He was one of the three signers in 1672 of the Indian deed. When the church on the "south side" was organized in 1668, he was one of the original members. He represented the town in the General Assembly for seven years, and held local offices and served on many committees. He was a Sergeant in King Philip's War. He and each of the four others who located on the same side of the street was given two acres on the west side. The four others returned to Hartford and Wethersfield and he had his west side two acres increased to eight and then to eleven and he built his barn on the west side. The well is still in use.
He m. Bethia Hopkins, dau. of John and Jane Hopkins, and granddaughter of Samuel Hopkins, one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, in 1620. He d. Dec. 30, 1683, and the widow m. James Steel, of Hartford, who had to sue for his wife to get what her first husband had given her by his will. It will be seen that he remembered his pastor in his will, which was witnessed by Nathaniel White and John Savidge, Sr., while his codicil was witnessed by his pastor and by Nathaniel White, who, with pastor Collins, had laid ands on him to ordain him one of the first deacons in 1670. The anxiety to have his children brought up in the "Nurture and Admonition of the Lord" is made known therein.
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d. 12 Jul 1712, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States