AFN: FBZP-RO LDS Records.
AFN: FBZP-S5 LDS Records
Source of information Great Historic Families of Scotland, Vol. I by James
Taylor, 1887 AF of LDS Library.
AFN: 8533-LF LDS Records
Source of information: AF of LDS Library
Submitted by Betty Louise Homes, 1150 S. Maine St., Fallon, Nevada 89406
dtd 12 Dec. 1992.AFN: 8533-K8 LDS Records
Source of information: AF of LDS Library
dtd 12 Dec. 1992.
AFN: B3CD-ZB
Source of information: AF of LDS Library
According to information in the possession of Minot Mitchell, Esq., of White
Plains, N. Y. the Mitchells were originally for Scotland, but removed to
Halifax, in Yorshire, England, where they resided for three generations.
Matthew Mitchell, who is the ancestor of the family in this country, was born
in 1590. He was a dissenter and is represented to have been not only a very
pious man, buut a man of very considerable fortune. The dissenters from the
Church of England, being constantly persecuted and annoyed in their religious
worship, he with many others of his persuasion, determined to leave England;
and on the twenty-third of May, 1635, they set sail from Bristol, and arrived
at Boston, Aug 17, that same year. On the 15th, two days before they landed,
there arose an exceedingly severe storm, which carried away their sails, cables
and anchors, and they narrowly escaped being shipwrecked on the coast. He and
his family spent the winter at Charlestown, and removed to Concord in the
spring, where he lost considerable property by fire. The next summer he
removed to Saybrook, Conn., and the next spring to Wethersfield. Here he lost
still more of his property. Toward the close of that year, his son-in-law was
murdered by the Pequot Indians, who also destroyed his cattle and injured his
estate, as history informs us, to the extent of several hundred pounds. His
situation finally became so uncomfortable there, that he changed his residence
once more, and located himself at Stamford, which was then in the colony of New
Haven. Here his house, barn and goods were consumed by fire, and at length,
after suffering for some time with the gravel or stone in the bladder, he died,
in 1645, aged 55. By Winslow's Journal, we are informed that the Mitchells cameover in the ship JAMES, of Bristol. (Copied from History of Ancient Woodbury,
written by......Ancestral file listed his place of birth as South Ouram, Halifax, York County,
England. Chr: 1590 same place as previously listed. Died 16 Jun 1646
Fairfield, Connecticut
Source of information Great Historic Families of Scotland, Vol. I by James
Taylor, 1887 AF of LDS Library.