Caleb Trowbridge (1670 - 1704)

Born 28 Oct 1670 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Howlett) Gilbert — married 19 Jul 1704 (to 10 Sep 1704) in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Died 10 Sep 1704 at age 33 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Caleb Trowbridge was born at New Haven, Connecticut, in late October of 1670, a son of Thomas Trowbridge and his first wife, Sarah Rutherford; he married the twice-widowed Mary (Howlett) [Emms] Lilly in July of 1704. The marriage was brief; Caleb died in mid-September. Mary was remarried in 1708 to mariner Capt. Thomas Gilbert.

Sources

• Birth (NEHGS): "Caleb fonne of mr Thomas Trowbridge was borne the 28th of octobr 1670" -- New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850.(Online database: AmericanAncestors.org.New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850, Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, Hartford, CT, 1917; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB334/i/7397/33/5796598 (subscription)

• Birth, marriage, lineage, and death: The Trowbridge Genealogy, History of the Trowbridge Family in America, by Francis Trowbridge, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Connecticut, 1908, p. 61; https://books.google.com/books?id=VWEbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA61