Daniel Hawley
Daniel married Elizabeth Brinsmade in 1707 and raised 5 children in Trumbull and died on July 28 1750. On May 26 1708, Daniel recorded his 48 acres of land by way of the division in the woods of the six mile division;
lying in the sprains of the Pequonnock River west of Porters Hill bounded on the south with the land of John Hurd and common land and west north and east with common land being in length on the west side 84 rods and at the north end 80 rods in length and at the south end 108 rods wide here note that part of the above land at ye south east corner on the east side is a parcel of swamp land and is bounded on the east with a brook on the west side of Porters Hill and at the north east corner with a chestnut tree and stones laid to it the line runs westerly on the south end of the hill to the line that runs from the northwest corner bounded with a white oak tree on the west side of a hill about 10 links northward which line runs southerly to the northwest corner of John Hurds land.- Ebenezer Hawley
Ebenezer, great grandson of Daniel, built a colonial mansion in 1765 for his bride, Hannah Beach the daughter of Israel and Hannah Burritt. He owned and operated the family gristmill which had been rebuilt in 1722 by his great grandfather and his cousin Ephraim. His home was located on a rise just east of the Pequonnock River, in present day Trumbull Center, on his grandfather Daniel's farm. He fought in the French and Indian War and died in 1767, at the age of thirty, leaving behind a 1,135 English pound note payable to John Hancock of Boston.
This large home was converted into a tavern by Eliakim Beach during the American Revolutionary War and from 1862 to 1883 served as Trumbull's first municipal town hall. This is also where Mary Silliman, wife of captured American General Gold Selleck Silliman, fled when the British burned Fairfield, Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War. While at the tavern she gave birth to son Benjamin Silliman, America's first Scientist and pioneer in energy. . The town sold the historic house for $100 in 1961 and it was dismantled and reassembled in Darien, CT.
- Nero Hawley
Nero Hawley, a free negro man, was a slave who earned his freedom after fighting in the American Revolution in place of his owner Daniel Hawley.
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