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- Came from England 1633, was in Hartford before 1640 and removed to Saybrook perhaps as early as 1648.
William Hyde, 4th son, matriculated at Christ College, Cambridge, 1597, and was a contemporary of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who was founder of Concord, Mass. William Hyde, the founder of this branch of thefamily in America, and a descendant, according to the old family tradition,of the Hydes of Norbury, County Chester. He went to Leyden, Holland, and afterwards in 1635 to Boston, Mass., and is believed to beidentical with the William Hyde, 4th son of Robert Hyde of Norbury, who was among the original Founders of Hartford, Conn., 1639. (Burke says that he was father of another William Hyde.) William Hyde was one of the 35 original proprietors of Norwich, Conn., where he settled in 1659,with his son Samuel and son-in-law John Post, who married his daughter, Hester Hyde. The first wife of William Hyde is unknown, but he married 2nd Joanna, widow of Robert Abell. References: Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. 3, p. 2760. Ormerod's Chester, 3:393-5.
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1616 - 1681 (84 years)
