Samuel POND

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There is a tradition running through all the Pond families that thePonds of America descended from "three brothers who came fromEngland". Record evidence to fully prove the tradition true iswanting. From the "Dedham Settler Book," a work published by E. D.Harris, Esq., of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1873, giving the Genealogyof Daniel Pond of Dedham and his descendants, (to whom application canbe made for said work) we learn that ---" John Pond, and a brotherwhose name is not given, sons of one of Governor Winthrop's oldneighbors, came to New England with the Governor in 1630. After hisarrival here, Governor Winthrop wrote home to his eldest son inGroton, England, desiring him to tell 'Old Pond that both his sons arewell and remember their duty.' What that 'duty' was that was sofaithfully remembered we are left to conjecture. John and his brotherwere doubtless, men of humble birth and small means, launched forthfrom the paternal roof by the old sire to seek their fortunes in thenew world. of the former we hear nothing more. He may have returned toEngland new world. Of the former we hear no more. He may have returned toEngland, or pushed on to a more congenial climate. But one Robert, whoit was surmised was the brother, sat down at Dorchester. He died in1637." Here we have but two brothers instead of three. Now some havethe tradition that "two brothers came first, and one afterwards." In aletter from Enoch Pond, of Bangor, Maine, written 4 May 1871, we learnthat --- "In the Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections,series 3d, vol. 3d, page 262, Thomas Pond arrived at Boston fromEngland in April 1635." Here then we have record evidence of twobrothers coming first, and another Pond coming afterwards, but nopositive proof that the latter was brother to the two former. It is said that Robert Pond, of Dorchester had his dividend of land in1633. None of his descendants can be traced down with any degree ofcertainty. There was one Robert Pond, of Milton who was made a freemanin 1642 --- supposed to be a son of Robert, of Dorchester. If so, hemust have been a lad when his father came from England. There was alsoone William Pond, of Dorchester, supposed to be a son of Robert ofDorchester. If so, he too must have been a lad when he came fromEngland. Daniel Pond of Dedham, who settled there in 1652, wassupposed to be a son of Robert of Dorchester. If so, he might havebeen American born. There is nothing better than suppositionsconnecting them, save the names Daniel Pond, of Dedham, gave his sons,viz: John, Robert, and William, a remarkable coincidence if there wasno kinship; still, we might as well suppose he was the son of John. At the same time that Robert Pond, of Milton was made a freeman(1642), there was one Samuel Pond who married and settled in Windsor,CT. He too, might have been a son of Robert of Dorchester, or of John,or of Thomas. In either case, he must have been a lad when brought byhis father from England. It is said that Windsor, CT was settled in 1635, mostly by emigrantsfrom towns in Massachusetts, and so largely from Dorchester as to makeit necessary to re-organize the church there, as well as the town; andas that was the time that Thomas came from England, it is very naturalto conclude that he, listening to the glowing accounts of a morecongenial clime, joined in with the rest: and as Samuel might havebeen a son of Thomas, his residence might have been at Windsor ontheir coming from England, or soon after. We hear no more of Thomas any more than we do of John. But Samuelmarrying, acquiring land, dying, and having an estate to settle, thereis a commencement of records from which we are enabled to trace, as webelieve in an unbroken line. There is, therefore, a strong presumptiveproof that the Ponds of America descended from one, or more, of threebrothers. If there is no truth in the tradition it seems to me that itcould not have been handed down through all branches of Ponds to thepresent day. The case is here presented, not as an undoubted truth,but as a probable one. Samuel Pond His earliest existence in Windsor, Connecticut is when he purchasedland on Silver Street in 1641.

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