FATHER

Isaac Bronson

MOTHER

Mary Root

WIVES

Mary Morgan

Sarah Andrews

CHILDREN with Mary Morgan

1. Jerusha Bronson b. 08 Nov 1703

2. Isaac Bronson b. 27 Mar 1707

3. Anne Bronson b. 28 Aug 1709

4. Josiah Bronson b. 06 Jun 1713

5. Mary Bronson b. 29 May 1716

6. James Bronson d. young

7. Nathan Bronson b. 29 Mar 1719

                              d. 24 Dec 1722

8. Patience Bronson b. 14 Apr 1725

9. James Bronson b. 22 Oct 1727

Isaac Bronson
by Susan Brooke
Aug 2021

According to the cemetery inscription, Isaac Bronson died 13 Jun 1751 "in the Eighty-second year of his Age."  This would make him born about 1670 in Farmington. (1) In 1674,  his father and uncle became subscribers to the "Mattatuck Plantation" which became Waterbury. King Phillip's War delayed the development, but by 1681 his father had settled in "Mattatuck." (2)  His father, Isaac Bronson, Sr. of Mattatuck was admitted to the church at "Farmington"  on 25 May 1684 and he had his first five children, including Isaac Bronson, Jr, baptized there on 29 Jun 1684. (3)
At the age of 31 Isaac Bronson Jr. married Mary Morgan on 3 Jun 1701. (4) He was purchasing land about this time and moved to Middlebury sometime before 1707. (5)  He and Mary had nine children, the last being born in Oct 1727.  His wife, Mary Morgan, died in 1749 and Isaac Bronson remarried to Sarah Andrews, the widow of Deacon Joseph Lewis, on 14 May 1750. (4) 

Sources

(1) Cemetery Inscription

(2) Report on his father, Isaac Bronson, Sr. 

Anderson, in his History of Waterbury (p. 173) included a prosetic tour of the village of “Mattatuck as a Plantation” as it was in 1681, and has this to say about Isaac:

... The reliable Isaac Bronson. He is a man who seems in all ways to have been faithful to his promises, building on his four-acre lot [in Farmington] in time, and “according to articles,” and therefore not afraid to enter complaints against others. Isaac is thirty-five years of age. His wife is Mary, the daughter of John Root of Farmington. Their children are: Isaac, age 11 years, John, age 8 years, Samuel, age 5 years, Mary, age 1 year.

(3) Baptisms in "Farmington First Congregational Church 1652-1738
     Isaac Bronson of Mattatuck baptizing first five children

(4) Waterbury Vital Records (Barbour Collection)
     Isaac son of Isaac Sr. of Waterbury m. Mary Morgan daughter of Richard Sr. of New London, June 3, 1701
     Isaac Sr. m Sarah Lewis, wid. Dea. Joseph, decd b. of Waterbury, May 14, 1750

(5) The History of Waterbury, Connecticut: The Original Township Embracing Present Watertown and Plymouth, and Parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck. With an Appendix of Biography, Genealogy and Statistics by Henry Bronson, 1858 

pg 141

Isaac Bronson b 1670 and died June 13, 1751. As early as March, 1694-5, he (with others) had a grant of land out East, on the south side of the Farmington road, near Carrington Pond, (south of Timothy Porter's,) where he proposed to settle; but the enterprise was given up. After his marriage, he purchased (April 24, 1704) of Ephraim Warner a house and lot on the northwest corner of Cook and Grove streets, where he perhaps lived for a time. He owned land at Breakneck Hill at an early date. In June, 1701, he purchased of Thomas Warner twelve acres on the south side of the Woodbury road. He went there to live before March, 1707, (N. S.,) and is considered as the first permanent settler of what is now Middlebury. According to a tradition of the family, his eldest son, Isaac was the first child born (March 27,1707) within the limits of that town.

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