"EARLY CONNECTICUT MARRIAGES
AS FOUND ON ANCIENT CHURCH RECORDS PRIOR TO 1800,"
Edited by Frederick W. Bailey.
New Haven, CT: Bureau of American Ancestry (1896)

BOOK IV, STAMFORD — New Canaan
PAGE 21

The town of New Canaan was incorporated in 1801. Previous to this date what is now New Canaan was part of Norwalk and Stamford, and called Canaan Society,incorporated 1731. The Congregational Church of New Canaan was organized in 1733 from the churches at Norwalk and Stamford. The following are the marriages recorded on the New Canaan church book.

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Josiah Weed & Abigail Boutten, April 15, 1742

John Richards & Rebekah Fitch, Jan. 19, 1742-3

David Holly & Sarah Little, July 28, 1743

Peter Smith & Jemima Benedict, Feb. 29, 1743-4

Jonathan Husted & Mary Carter, Dec. 3, 1744

Elijah Green & Elizabeth Roberts, Jan. 20, 1744-5

Eleazer Slosson & Sarah Raymond, Aug. 20, 1745

Jonathan Burall & Hannah Carter, April 7, 1746

John Benedict & Mary Benedict, June 12, 1746

John Williamson & Mary Hoit [Hoyt / Haight], Sept. 17 1746

Peter Husted [Heusted / Heustis] & Anne Seymour, Oct. 23, 1746

David Stevens , Jr., & Susanna Seeley, Sept. 1, 1747

Moses Comstock & Elizabeth St. John, June 30, 1748

Israel Lockwood & Susanna Smith, Sept. 1, 1748

Nathanael Cryssey & Martha Bishop, Sept. 29, 1748

William Bolt & Kydia Fitch, Dec. 8, 1748

Benjamin Bolt & Hannah Keeler, Dec. 29, 1748

James Hays & Eunice Wood, Feb. 9, 1748-9

David Benedict, Jr., & Anna Holt [Hoyt / Haight], Feb. 20, 1749-9

Ezra Boutten [Bouton] & Mary Boutten, June 28, 1749

Pierson Bishop & Hannah Finch, Aug. 17, 1749

Hezekiah Boutten & Abigail Penoyr [Pennoyer], Oct. 12, 1749

Ebenezer Crofoot & Sarah St. John in Norwalk, Nov. 1, 1749

Reuben Lockwood & Elizabeth Stevens, Dec. 21, 1749

Eliphalet Seely, Jr., & Sarah Schrivner, May 10, 1750

Samuel Finch & Abigail Resco [Ruscoe], May 15, 1750

John Finch & Sarah Penoyr [Pennoyer], June 14, 1750

Abram Hoit [Hoyt / Haight ] & Dorothy Keeler, June 20, 1750

Stephen Benedict & Ruth Keeler, July 31, 1750

Samuel Seymour, Jr., & Sarah Betts, March 17, 1750

"Here the names of 14 couples were torn out of the original records."

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