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- DWS "Removed to Carolina but came home poor. Was a wheelwright and lawyer. Fought his brother-in-laws over his Father's estate." From:"New England Ancestry of Albert Wilcox Savage" 1968 found in Union College, Lincoln, NE LLCGS 929.2 Sa9
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DWS: From Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut by N.Y.
Lewis Historical Publishing Co. 1911 at the Nebraska State Historical Society
Museum Lincoln NE call 929.746 C98G V.1:
(II) Joseph, son of John Kirby, was born July 17, 1656. in Upper Houses, and married (first), December 10, 1681, Sarah Markham, in Wethersfield; (second), October 17, 1704, Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Norton) Plum, of Milford, Connecticut. He was a wheelwright by trade. He inherited the house and lot bought by his father of David Sage; this he sold and was given one of the four-acre lots in what was to be "comon forever," on which he built. He removed to Southampton, Long Island, and sold May 13, 1685, 350 acres in Middletown, to John Haven. He returned by November, 1687, and went to the Carolinas, but came home poor and had a law suit with other heirs, brothers-in-law, Alexander Rollo and David Robinson, about the estate of his father, 1706 and 1707. In this law suit he was his own attorney, and was partly successful. March 1, 1708-09, he was admitted with others to be "attorneys at the bar" of Hartford county, and was one of the first lawyers in Connecticut.. From July, 1706, to June, 1708, he lived in Milford, Connecticut. He died December 2, 1711, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Lower Middletown. He left to his wife Mary his four-acre lot, on which he had built his home. Children: Elizabeth, February 20, 1683-84; Sarah, August 10, 1685; Deborah, March 27, 1688; John, February 16, 1691, mentioned below; Mary, June 10, 1693; Joseph, baptized June 9, 1695, died young; Bethiah, about 1698; Joseph, baptized July, 1706; Susanna, December, 1706; Margaret, September 2, 1709."
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DWS: 'The History of Middletown Upper Houses' , The Kirby Family pg 594-606
by Charles Collard Adams M.A. secy of Society of Middletown Upper Houses, Inc
(History of Middletown, CT by the Society of Middletown Upper Houses, Inc) Grafton Press 1908
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DWS: A Genealogical Dictionary Of The First Settlers Of New England By James Savage,
Former President Of The Massachusetts Historical Society Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Originally Published Boston, 1860-1862:
"JOSEPH, Middletown, only surv. s. of the preced. went to Carolina, but at the end of some yrs. came home poor, had lawsuit with other heirs a. est. of his f."
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1624 - 1697 (73 years)