He was one of the early settlers & proprietors of Norwalk, Ct. He was a fence viewer & a deputy to the Oct. session of General Court in 1658, 1659 & 1661. He was confirmed as sergeant of a company at Norwalk by the Gen. Court of Election, Hartford, May 19, 1659. "Serjt. Walter Hoit" was a deputy in May and Oct. 1667. He was on the list of freemen in the plantation of Norwalk, Oct. 1669. In May 1672, he and others gave their names to the General Court for the beginning of a plantation near the backside of Norwalk. He agreed to beat the drum on all occasions required, at 10 shillings. He was chosen to beat the drum in 1670.
A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF JOHN HOYT OF SALISBURY AND DAVID HOYT OF DEERFIELD AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.by David Webster Hoyt, 1857
MARRIAGE DATE C. 1710
He was an immigrant from the Upper Rhine Palatinate who arrived at Philadelphia Sept. 26, l737.
Johann Jacob Lingel, born January 23, 1708/09 in Niedergrenzebach, Roershain, Schwalmstadt, Hessia; died Abt. 1775. He was the son of Johann Yost Lingel and Anna Catharina Jaeger. He married Anna Ursula Banckhard December 27, 1736 in Ungstein, Palatinate, Germany.
Notes for Johann Jacob Lingel:
Johann Jacob Lingel and his brother Johann Paul Lingel came to America on the St. Andrew Galley on September 26, 1737. (See Strassburger's Pennsylvania Germans) They came from the Upper Rhine Palatinate.
Sources:
SEARCH FOR THE PASSENGERS OF THE MARY AND JOHN, VOL. 11
Her first husband was a joiner. She had a son, Aaron Cooke, by him. She came on the "Mary and John" with her husband, her son, astep-daughter, & 4 of her daughters in l630.
Sources:
SEARCH FOR THE PASSENGERS OF THE MARY AND JOHN, VOL. 11
CONNECTICUT COLONISTS, WINDSOR l635-l703
NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO l700
THE ENGLISH ORIGINS OF THE "MARY AND JOHN" PASSENGERS
THE ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY
THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, VOL. l6, "Thomas Ford of Dorchester, England,and
Dorchester, Mass."