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     Elizabeth Filer married Moses Thrall, son of John Thrall and Mindwell Moses, on 2 April 1730.

     Moses Thrall was born on 29 April 1702 at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was the son of John Thrall and Mindwell Moses. Moses Thrall married Elizabeth Filer on 2 April 1730. Moses Thrall died on 24 August 1770 at age 68.

     Mary Roberts married John Thrall, son of John Thrall and Mindwell Moses, on 5 April 1727 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary Roberts died on 20 June 1772.

     John Thrall was born on 13 October 1699 at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was the son of John Thrall and Mindwell Moses. John Thrall married Mary Roberts on 5 April 1727 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. John Thrall died on 10 March 1748/49 at age 49.

     John MIller married Martha Miller, daughter of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Thomas Terry married Martha Miller, daughter of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Martha Miller married John MIller. Martha Miller married Thomas Terry. Martha Miller was born on 16 June 1697. She was the daughter of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Martha Miller was born on 3 November 1695. She was the daughter of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Rebecca Prichett married Nathaniel Miller, son of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Nathaniel Miller married Rebecca Prichett. Nathaniel Miller was born on 12 June 1693. He was the son of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Noah Miller was born on 12 February 1690/91. He was the son of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Abagail Lee married John Miller, son of Lazarus Miller and Mary Burbank.

     Stukeley Scranton was born in 1701 at Rhode Island, USA. He was born circa 1710 at Rhode Island, USA. He was the son of John Scranton and Sarah Stafford. Stukeley Scranton married Bethiah Chappell, daughter of Joseph Chappell and Bethiah Dart, on 3 January 1734/35 at 1st Ch Of Christ, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.¹
     Stukeley Scranton was also known as Stutely Scranton.

     William Frederick Braunig is the son of William Stanley Braunig and Esther Guyle. William Frederick Braunig married Elizabeth Young, daughter of Victor G. Young, on 19 June 1957 at First Methodist Church, Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.² William Frederick Braunig and Elizabeth Young were divorced circa March 1974 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.¹ William Frederick Braunig married Suzanne Darrow, daughter of Marvin Darrow, on 18 May 1974 at Sand Beach Church, Fleming, Cayuga, New York, USA.³

     David Paul Braunig Sr was born on 18 November 1945 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.^1,2 He was the son of William Stanley Braunig and Esther Guyle. David Paul Braunig Sr married Marilyn Helen Lockwood on 29 May 1965 at New York, USA.³ David Paul Braunig Sr died on 19 December 2017 at Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA, at age 72.^4,5
     David Paul Braunig Sr lived at 479 Jacktown Rd., Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA.

     Esther Guyle married William Stanley Braunig, son of William Edward Braunig and Mary Ada Walters. Esther Guyle was born on 3 February 1912.¹ She died on 14 November 1993 at Orlando, Brevard, Florida, USA, at age 81.

     Eliakim Cooley was born on 8 January 1648/49. He was the son of Benjamin Cooley and Sarah (?)

     Obadiah Cooley was born on 27 January 1646/47. He was the son of Benjamin Cooley and Sarah (?)

     Martha Chapman was born on 7 April 1616 at Digswell, England. She was the daughter of Simon Chapman and Mary () Chapman. Martha Chapman married Samuel K Kitcherel, son of Joseph Ketcherell, in 1643 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Martha Chapman died on 17 December 1662 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA, at age 46.

     Samuel K Kitcherel was born in 1619 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was the son of Joseph Ketcherell. Samuel K Kitcherel married Martha Chapman, daughter of Simon Chapman and Mary () Chapman, in 1643 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Samuel K Kitcherel died in 1650.

     Martha Kitcherell was born on 4 January 1644/45 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She was the daughter of Samuel K Kitcherel and Martha Chapman. Martha Kitcherell married Abel Wright, son of John Wright and Jane Richall, on 1 December 1659 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.¹ Martha Kitcherell died on 19 October 1708 at Scalped by Indians, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA, at age 63.¹

     Abel Wright was born circa 1631 at England. He was the son of John Wright and Jane Richall. Abel Wright married Martha Kitcherell, daughter of Samuel K Kitcherel and Martha Chapman, on 1 December 1659 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.¹ Abel Wright died on 29 October 1725 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA.
     He First Generations: Abel and Martha

Our colonial histories tell us that the first of the colonists in Massachusetts were the Pilgrims who established the town of Plymouth. They were followed a few years later by the Puritons who founded Salem, Beverly and Boston, farther north. Manyo f these early Puritans found the wilderness and the rough, rocky land about them undesirable for raising their crops and cattle. Also, as in most of the early colonies, there was political and religious dissension among them.
A small group of the Puritans, led by William Pynchon and others, left their mother colony on the coast and ventured into western Massachusetts until they reached the broad, fertile valley of the Connecticut river. Here, in the 17th century, they founded the towns of Springfield, Northampton, Hadley, Ware and Deerfield.
Abel Wright, our first know Wright ancestor in America, appears on record in Springfield in 1655 while the town was still in its infancy. (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. ***V, 1881, p. 74) He was 24 years old at that time. Where he came from or he names of his parents, is not recorded. Undoubtedly he came from England. There were weveral other Wrights from England in the early colonies before him in eastern Massachusetts, and it is possible, if not probably, that he was related to one or more of them.
This early Springfield settlement was an agriculture and trading center. An entry in the town records there, dated Jan. 2, 1855, reads: "There is granted to Abell Wright a home lot containing three acres in the land next ye Round Hill." And again, on Feb. 13, 1856: "It is granted to Abell Wright an amount of Twenty (20) acres which had formerly Come into the hand of Rowland Thomas, lying in ye great plain over ye great river, called Chickuppy plain, provided he continue five years in town."
It was soone evident that Abel had come to stay, for again reads the record: "March 13, 1660, There is granted to Thomas Bancroft, Abell Wright, John Lumbard and Richard Sikes, a parcel of land lying on the west oside of ye great river over against ye long meadow below George Colton's, which land hereby granded, leth between two brooks, and it is to run westward from ye river to a hill about 40 rods westward; Thos. Bancroft to lie next to the Southermost brook, Abell Wright next toward the north, John Lumbard next to him, and Richard Siikes next to him; they four sharing thereof Equally in three-score acres of land, if there be so much there; or is there be not so much they are to divide the piece equally amongst them, lying as above expressed." (Record of Deeds, vol. i, p. 203) Various other grants of land to Abel, from 1655 to 1695 are on the town records.
Our Abel married, on D1 Dec. 1859, Martha Kitcherel, of Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of Samuel Kitcherel and Martha (Chapman( Kitcheral. Abel and Martha had 13 children, all born in Springfield.... (all listed with spouses)
Our Abel soon made a place for himself among these early settlers of Springfield. He became a Lieutenant in the militia, and was aactive in the religious and civic affairs of the town as well as the military. A record of the First congregational Church reads: "Feb. 23, 1662. In the order of Seating persons in the church, Abell Wright is put in the 'eigth seat' with Mr. Horton, John Bag, Joshua Riley and Lyman Beamsn."
Springfield, with its exposed frontier location, had early experienced sporadic Indian attacks which the settlers had drivien off without difficulty. In early 1675, the Indians in that locality were relatively peaceful and friendsly, while north of them the hostile Chief, King Philip, with his united tribes, were making murderous attacks on other settlements. Evidently this beliggerent Wampanoag Chieftain had not yet contacted the local tribes, or perhaps Springfield was not considered important enough to destroy.
Now, however, at midnight on the 14th of October of that year, a solitary horseman from nearby Windsor came riding fast into town. He dismounted, and quickly awakened the townspeople. "The Indians are coming!" he told them. "You will be attacked at dawn!" (Henry Morris, "History of the First church in Springfield.")
Most of the town's protecting troops had been sent north to join the forces under Pynchon. Now, the others hurridly barricaded themselves in the various garrison houses, loaded their muskets, and stood watch at the peepholes in the walls. They waited. Had it been a flase alarm?
The Indians did attack at dawn. And this time they came in a horde, thundering their horses' hoofs among the houses, whooping frenziedly, shooting their flame-tipped arrows. They found the garrison houses too strongly defended to attack. Compariatively few of the settlers lost their lives. But the abandoned houses were easy. pery. Some 30 houses and 25 barns, with their contents, were burned to the ground. And then suddenly the Indians were gone, as quickly as they had come.
These were the events and times during which our Abel and Martha lived in this frontier outpost. Even more unfortunate hardships and tragedies were soon to befall them.
After springfield was nearly destroyed, the people were discouraged and many spoke of abandoning the settlement altogether. A few actually left, but the greater part of the inhabitants, encouraged by the sympathy and aid of the colonial government, determined to ramain. Abel and his family were among the latter.
Springfiled was quickly rebuilt.
Again, the records disclose, that abel in 1695 was elected a Representative to the General court. And in May, 1696, the Deacon Burt and Liert. Abel Wright were chosen to answer a petition of the people on the west side of the river asking to become a separate parish and procure a minister of their own.
The farm and residence of Abel and Martha was still on the exposed west side of the river, near a place bearing the Indian name of Skepmuck, later to become the present town of Westfield. Apparently at least one of their sons, Henry, lived nearby with his own family.
On 26 July 1708, Indians again came upon the town and its outlying farms. After they had gone, Martha was found lying unconscious in the yeard beside their ransacked house. She had been scalped.
Martha lingered on until the 19th of October of that year, then died of her wounds. The Indians also had killed in this attack an infant of Abel's son, Henry, and captured Henry's wife, who died soon after. Henry and his wife, Hannah, had been married only three years before.
This then, was the life of our Abel. And yet this venerable ancestor, despite his hardships and tragedies, lived until 1725. His tombstone, in the old Pine Street Cemetery iin sSpringfield, reads: "Lieut. Abel Wright died October 29th, 1725, aged 94 years."
His second son, Benjamin, was the next of descent in our line.¹ Abel Wright was also known as Abell Wright.

     Willard G. Scranton was born circa 1872. He was the son of George Harrison Scranton and Sarah G. (?) Willard G. Scranton died on 30 January 1897 at 33 Court St., Utica, Oneida, New York, USA.¹
     Willard G. Scranton was also known as William Scranton. He lived in 1891 at 33 Court St., Utica, Oneida, New York, USA; Name: William Scranton
Location 1: 183 Genesee
Location 2: boards 33 Court
Occupation: drug clerk
Year: 1891
City: Utica
State: NY.²

     Sarah G. (?) was born circa 1852. She married George Harrison Scranton, son of William Harrison Scranton and Elexey Ann Bond, circa 1870; Age at first marriage on 1930 census would suggest 1868, however, George is still single and living with his parents in the 1870 census.^1,2 Sarah G. (?) died after 1930.

     Walter Gaylord was born before 1619. He was the son of William Gaylord and (?) Unknown.

     Elizabeth Gaylord was born before 1619. She was the daughter of William Gaylord and (?) Unknown.

     William Gaylord was born before 1619. He was the son of William Gaylord and (?) Unknown.

     Joseph Gaylord was born on 27 December 1624. He was the son of William Gaylord and (?) Unknown.

     John Gaylord was born on 24 February 1621/22. He was the son of William Gaylord and (?) Unknown.