Pomeroy, Eltweed

Name	Town	State	From	To
Pomeroy, Eltweed (Elty, Eltwed, Eltweed, Eltwud, Eltwood)	Dorchester	Massachusetts	1631 or 1633	1637
Pomeroy, Eltweed (Elty, Eltwed, Eltweed, Eltwud, Eltwood)	Windsor	Connecticut	1637	1671
Pomeroy, Eltweed (Elty, Eltwed, Eltweed, Eltwud, Eltwood)	Northampton	Massachusetts	1671	1673

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Eltweed Pomeroy, his Christian name is variously spelled, was gunsmith. He was born July, 4 1585 in Beaminster, England, which is in Dorset. On May 4, 1617 he maried Joanna Keech. They had two daughters who both died young. Children by Joanna Keech, Dinah, born August, 6, 1617 and died young, Elizabeth, born in November 1619 died one year later. His wife Joanna also died on November 27, 1620. Seven years later, May 7, 1627 he married Margery Rockett in Crewkerne, England, which is in Somerset. Between 1631 and 1652 they had eight children. Children by Margery: Eldad born in February 1629 or 1639 in Plymouth, England which is in Devon, died May 22, 1662 in Northampton Mary, born in Dorchester but date of birth is unknown, died 1640 in Windsor, Commecticut John, born 1634 in Dorchester and died 1647 in Windsor, Connecticut Medad, born about 1638, Windsor, died December 30, 1716 in Northampton, Massachusetts Caleb, born March 6, 1641 in Windsor Connecticut died November 18, 1691 in Northampton Mercy, Born about 1644, died 1657 in Windsor, Connecticut Joshua, born 1646 died 1689 Joseph Born 1652 died 1734 Eltweed was a felt-maker and was said to have a successful business in Beaminster. It's not known exactly when he migrated to America, and some have said he was on the Mary and John in 1630. But a record in Beaminster shows that he testified on behalf of some tenant farmers on April 5, 1631, so this would make his arrival a little later. He first appears on the records in Dorchester, Massachusetts on March 4, 1633. However, it seems that the colonial government of Massachusetts Bay Colony grantet him 1000 acres on the Connecticut River, on the condition that he carry on the business of gun making there in 1630. Decendentes of that family stayed in the business until 1849 In 1637, Eltweed joined the group headed by Reverend John Warham who moved to the new settlement of Windsor, Connecticut. Eltweed received a land grant in Windsor in 1638 and owned a house on the Palisado (early Windsor's main road), which he sold in 1641. He gave two of his sons other houses in Windsor. His wife, Margery died in July 1655 and Eltweed married a third time to a widow, Lydia (Brown) Parsons, in Windsor on November 30, 1664. In 1671, he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts to live with his son Medad. Tradition says that he became blind. He died at his son’s house on March 7, 1673, at the age of 78. There has been some research that suggests Eltweed was a blacksmith and a gun maker like his son Medad, but no hard evidence of this has been found. However, it is said that he made the first guns at Windsor about 1637.

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Eltweed Pomeroy, his Christian name is variously spelled, was gunsmith. He was born July, 4 1585 in Beaminster, England, which is in Dorset. On May 4, 1617 he maried Joanna Keech. They had two daughters who both died young. Children by Joanna Keech, Dinah, born August, 6, 1617 and died young, Elizabeth, born in November 1619 died one year later. His wife Joanna also died on November 27, 1620.

Seven years later, May 7, 1627 he married Margery Rockett in Crewkerne, England, which is in Somerset. Between 1631 and 1652 they had eight children. Children by Margery:
Eldad born in February 1629 or 1639 in Plymouth, England which is in Devon, died May 22, 1662 in Northampton
Mary, born in Dorchester but date of birth is unknown, died 1640 in Windsor, Commecticut
John, born 1634 in Dorchester and died 1647 in Windsor, Connecticut
Medad, born about 1638, Windsor, died December 30, 1716 in Northampton, Massachusetts
Caleb, born March 6, 1641 in Windsor Connecticut died November 18, 1691 in Northampton
Mercy, Born about 1644, died 1657 in Windsor, Connecticut
Joshua, born 1646 died 1689
Joseph Born 1652 died 1734

Eltweed was a felt-maker and was said to have a successful business in Beaminster. It's not known exactly when he migrated to America, and some have said he was on the Mary and John in 1630. But a record in Beaminster shows that he testified on behalf of some tenant farmers on April 5, 1631, so this would make his arrival a little later. He first appears on the records in Dorchester, Massachusetts on March 4, 1633. However, it seems that the colonial government of Massachusetts Bay Colony grantet him 1000 acres on the Connecticut River, on the condition that he carry on the business of gun making there in 1630. Decendentes of that family stayed in the business until 1849

In 1637, Eltweed joined the group headed by Reverend John Warham who moved to the new settlement of Windsor, Connecticut. Eltweed received a land grant in Windsor in 1638 and owned a house on the Palisado (early Windsor's main road), which he sold in 1641. He gave two of his sons other houses in Windsor.

His wife, Margery died in July 1655 and Eltweed married a third time to a widow, Lydia (Brown) Parsons, in Windsor on November 30, 1664. In 1671, he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts to live with his son Medad. Tradition says that he became blind. He died at his son’s house on March 7, 1673, at the age of 78.

There has been some research that suggests Eltweed was a blacksmith and a gun maker like his son Medad, but no hard evidence of this has been found. However, it is said that he made the first guns at Windsor about 1637.