Hezekiah Wyllys
American, 1747 - 1827
BiographyHezekiah Wyllys was born in 1747 to Mary Woodbridge (1716-1774) and George Wyllys (1710-1796) in Hartford. His siblings included Gen. Samuel Wyllys (1737-1823), Susannah Wyllys Strong (1750-1794), and Maj. John Palsgrave Wyllys (1754-1790). He was made captain of Col. John Chester’s regiment during the American Revolution, and two years later rose to lieutenant colonel. In 1785 he married Amelia Dyer Trumbull Wyllys (1750-1818) and with her had children: Amelia “Emily” Wyllys Adams (1786-1854), George Wyllys (1787-1822), Charlotte Elizabeth Wyllys (1789-1789), Harold Wyllys (b. 1790), John Palsgrave Wyllys (1791-1795), and Ferdinand Wyllys (1793-1800). He lived in the Wyllys family mansion on Hartford’s Charter Oak Hill, dying in 1827. He was buried in the city’s Ancient Burying Ground. (Sources: Fort Ticonderoga; Historical Marker Database; Sexton’s List of Burials, Center Church Burying Ground, Hartford, Connecticut, annotated by Mary K. Talcott)
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