John Sherman Brace, Brace Lineage (1927)

Read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md, October 2026). Independent of the Chapin sources.

• Capt. Henry Brace (pp. 94-96), born at Hartford 15 Mar 1713, lieutenant (1748) and captain (1760) of the 4th company or train band at Hartford, “Married (1) July 15, 1740, Elizabeth Cadwell, daughter of Samuel Cadwell. She died February 25, 1766, aged 53 years”; died 2 Sept 1787. His will, dated Hartford, 28 Dec 1781, and printed in full: “I give and bequeath to my son Abel Brace five shillings to be paid by my executor.”
• Capt. Abel Brace (pp. 97-98): “son of Henry II, was baptised at Hartford, September 28, 1740. His marriage to Keziah Woodruff, of Farmington, Connecticut, was published March 22, 1761. He married Keziah Woodruff April 2, 1761. Later he removed from Hartford to Hartland, Connecticut. Here he took an active part in public affairs, being repeatedly sent as Representative to the General Assembly. When the Revolution broke out he was made a Captain in the 18th Regiment of the Connecticut Militia and served with honor and distinction in the war. In 1793 he removed with his wife, nine sons and five daughters to New York State, being one of the earliest settlers in what is now Winfield. At that time, in this locality, there were no roads leading south from the Mohawk and travelers were guided by marked trees. A home was built in the wilderness and most of his children settled near. A son, Charles, kept in 1794, what was probably the first Inn in the town.”
• Children of Abel and Keziah include “Charles, born May 4, 1764, died April 3, 1823, married Pursis Brandicha and had six daughters: Nancy (Gage); Pursis (Avery); Polly (Woodruff); Lovina (Hewitt); Sally (Chapin); Candace (Angel),” and Orange (b. Hartland 1765), James (1767), Marvin (1769), Jeduthan, Asahel (b. Hartford 1779) and Erastus.
• James Brace (p. 104), “son of Captain Abel Brace, born November 1, 1767 at Hartford … In 1793, he accompanied his father to New York, but not liking the country returned to Connecticut and settled at Litchfield”; his son John Pierce Brace was “a famous principal of the female school at Hartford”; and his grandson Charles Loring Brace, “son of John P. and Lucy (Porter) Brace, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 19, 1826,” founder of the Children’s Aid Society of New York.