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The Hooker House
James Hooker built this house when he was married to his second wife. When she died he married the girl next door. She was the daughter of Hezekia Chaffee and the sister of James’ business partner. She lived in this house.
From Family Search: “When Captain James William Hooker was born on 15 August 1742, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Capt. Nathaniel Hooker Jr., was 31 and his mother, Eunice Talcott, was 34. He married Hannah Allin on 6 January 1763, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 10 December 1805, in Brush Creek, Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.”
James Hooker was born in Hartford in 1742, and was the great-great grandson of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut. Like other members of the Hooker family, he was a merchant, and was a partner in the firm of Hooker and Chaffee. This firm helped to provide supplies for the American soldiers during the American Revolution, and Hooker was commissioned as a captain in the Continental Army. He built this house around 1772, several years after the death of his first wife, Hannah Allin. He remarried in 1777 to Dolly Goodwin, and after her death in 1784 he remarried again, this time to Mary Chaffee. She was the daughter of Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee, who lived in the house next door, and was also the sister of John Chaffee, one of Hooker’s business partners.