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View Tree for John MulfordJohn Mulford (b. 1606, d. 1686)

John Mulford (son of Thomas Mulford and Sarah Southcott)359 was born 1606 in England359, and died 1686 in East Hampton, NY. He married Friedeswiede Osborn.

 Includes NotesNotes for John Mulford:
The two brothers came to Southampton, L.I. in 1643 from Salem, Mass. According to p. 29, Vol I of the Southampton Town Records, John Mulford was granted two acres of land there on May 28, 1643 and on p. 55 it is recorded he sold his house in Southampton on Feb. 8, 1648 and in that or the following year was one of the nine persons who settle East Hampton; his younger brother William soon following him there. The name of John Mulford appears many times in the council minutes of Connecticut, of which Colony eastern Long Island became a part. He was commissioned a Judge in 1674. In town affairs, keeping peace with the Indians, and representing the eastern town in Hartford, and afterward in new York, he was prominent until his death in 1686.

When the eastern end of Long Island was first settled, a patent on certain lands was issued to the colonists direct by the reigning King of England; and under that charter the colonists instituted a government; the first Republic of American soil, it might be called. The chief magistrate was constituted the common court. A second court was constituted by a jury of twelve freeholders, and a third, the highest judiciary, was a general court presided over by the magistrate, but in which the whole body of freeholders was constituted a jury. From 1650 to 1654, the name of John Mulford, and his only, appears as chief magistrate of this little republic, which had full treaty power with the Indians.
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CONTRIBUTED BY TEUNIS D. HUNTTING, ESQ.

About the year 1643 there came to Southampton, from Salem, Mass., two brothers, John and William Mulford, When East-Hampton was first settled they sold their belongings in Southampton and moved to the new settlement farther east. John was an active participant in political affairs and was commissioned a Judge by the Connecticut Council. William turned his attention to farming.
JOHN 1 b. in England abt. 1606, d. 1686, m. Mrs. Friedeswiede Osborn, widow of William Osborn, of Salem, Mass.; they had ch. Samuel 2 b. 1644, John 2 b. 1650; Mary 2 m. Jeremiah Miller, Hannah 2 m. Benjamin Conklin and d. Feb. 4, 1712.


Children of John Mulford and Friedeswiede Osborn are:
  1. +Samuel Mulford, b. 1644, d. Aug 21, 1725.
  2. +Hannah Mulford, b. Aft. 1644, d. Feb 04, 1711/12.
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