Notes:

From Cothren's "History of Ancient Woodbury" Volume 1, page 633
"According to information in the possession of Minot Mitchell, Esq., of White Plans, NY, the Mitchells were originally from Scotland, but removed to Halifax, in Yorkshire, where they resided for three generations. Matthew Mitchell, who is the ancestor of the family in this country, was born in 1590. He was a dissenter and is represented to have been not only a very poius man, but a man of very considerable fortune. The dissenters from the Church of England being constantly persecuted and annoued in their religious worship, he with many other of his persuasion, determined to leave England; and on the twenty-third of May, 1635 they set sail from Bristol (England), and arrived at Boston, Aug. 17, the same year. On the 15th, two days before they landed, there arose an exceedingly sever storm, which carried away their sails, cables and anchors, and they narrowly escaped being shipwrecked on the coast. he and his family spent the winter at Charlestown (South Carolina), and removed to Concord (Massachussets) in the spring, where he lost considerable property by fire. The next summer he removed to Saybrook, Connecticut and the next spring to Wethersfield (Connecticut). Here he lost still more of his property. Toward the close of that year, his son-in-law was murdered by the Pequot Indians, who also destroyed his cattle and injured his estate, as history informs us, to the extent of several hundred pounds. His situation finally becaome so uncomfortable there, that he changed his residence once more, and located himself at Stamford, which was then in the colony of New Haven (Connectiuct). Here his house, barn and goods were consumed by fire, and at length, after suffering for some time with the gravel or stone in the bladder, he died, in 1645, aged 55.

MATHEW married SUSAN BUTTERFIELD on 16 Apr 1616 in HALIFAX,YORK,ENG. SUSAN (daughter of BENJAMIN BUTTERFIELD and ANN) was born about 1595 in PARISH - OVENDEN,YORK,ENG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

BENJAMIN married ANN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]