When Joseph Hitchcock was born on 23 July 1686, in Iron Works Village, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Eliakim Hitchcock, was 45 and his mother, Sarah Merrick, was 43. He married Rebecca Thomas about 1711, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 17 November 1760, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 74, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873
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English: from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Hitch , a pet form of Richard , with the Middle English diminutive suffix -cok. Compare Heacock .
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