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The several successive generations of our colleague’s an- 
cestors seem to have been, without exception, men of moral 
worth, and of influence in the community. 
Rey. Joun Hupparp, in the fourth generation, was set- 
tled in 1698 at Jamaica, Long Island, where he was distin- 
guished by a Christian charity and tolerance remarkable for 
those days. His son Jonn settled in New Haven, where he 
served the community in the various capacities of physician, 
Colonel, Representative, Judge of Probate, and Judge of 
Common Pleas ; and his descendants have continued to reside 
in the vicinity of this beautiful and classic city.* 
Here our colleague was born, 1823, Sept. 7 (in the ninth 
generation from the American founder of his family), being 
* The line of descent is as follow: 
Witt1aM, b. in England, 1595 ; d. Ipswich, Mass., 
II. Rev. Wrrtram, b. England, 1622 (H. C. 1642) ; fe aa 
1794, Pie 14; married Margaret, daughter of Rev. Na- 
thaniel Rog 
II. gence a of Boston, b. Ipswich, 1648 ; 5 1710, Jan. 8; 
d Ann, daughter of Goy. John L 
et git oun, of Jamaica, N. Y., b. Boston, one Sa 9 (H.C. 
1695); d. 1705, Oct. 5. [See Thompson, Hist. of Long 
Island, 1st seas p. 388; also Boston News Letter, No. 79, 
1705, Oct 22,] 
Dr. Jonn, of f New Haven, b. Jamaica, 1703, Nov. 30 (A. M. 
Yale, 1730); d. 1773, Oct. 30; married 1724, Elizabeth 
Stevens. 
Rey. Jonn, of Meriden, Conn., b. New Haven, 1727, Jan. 24 
(Y. C. 1744) ; d. 1786, Nov. 18; married 1750, Jan. 25, Re- 
becca Dickerman. [See Meriden Historical Collections.] 
Isaac, of Meriden, b. Meriden, 1752, Nov. 22; married 1782, 
Dec. 5, Jane, daughter of Thomas - 
VIII. Ezra Srizzs, of New Haven, b. Meriden, 1794, May 13; d. 
1861, Aug. 20; married 1820, Dec. 13, Eliza, daughter of 
Josiah Church. 
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TX. Josern Strxuman, of Washington, D.C., b. New Haven, 1823, 
t. 7 (¥.C. 1843). 
