Henry R. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1891-92)

Read in the archive.org full text for the McMillan-side research (research/mcmillan/McMillan_Humphrey_Bell_Connections.md, October 2026); vol. 1 is https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi01stil. Stiles transcribes the Windsor town record and the Old Church Record (O. C. R.) for each family.

• James Eno, the barber: “came to W. 1646”; married (1) 18 Aug 1648 Anna, (2) 5 Aug 1658 Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Holcombe, (3) 29 Apr 1680 Hester (Williams) Eggleston; died 1 July 1682. On 28 Nov 1663 the town granted him a strip “in the Palizado, to build him a shop upon, to barber in, and he has now built it”; his shaving bowl of 1663 is pictured (vol. 2, pp. 240-241). “1665. May 11. Jas. Enno was fined for his wife’s fault, in selling cider to the Indians” (vol. 1, p. 183).
• James Eno (b. 30 Oct 1651) married 26 Dec 1678 Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Holcombe) Bissell, b. 6 July 1661; he d. 16 July 1714, she 19 Apr 1728, both buried at Simsbury; “He was probably the J. who was one of 11 petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in the Swamp Fight.” Their son James b. 23 Sept 1679 (vol. 2, p. 242).
• John Bissell, “the founder of the W. line of Bissells,” received in 1648 or 1649 “the monopoly of a ferry across the Conn. River”; d. 3 Oct 1677, “æ. 86”; his son Samuel m. 11 June 1658 Abigail, daughter of Thomas Holcomb; Samuel d. 17 May 1697/8, Abigail 17 Aug 1688 (vol. 2, pp. 77-78).
• Thomas Holcombe, “early at Dorchester, Mass., where, in May, 1634, he was made freeman”; to Windsor, and in 1639 to Poquonock; d. 7 Sept 1657; his widow Elizabeth m. (2) James Eno; their daughter Abigail “bp. 6 Jan., 1638/9” (vol. 2, p. 394).
• Stiles makes Sgt. James Eno’s second wife Hannah a daughter of Lt. Timothy Phelps (vol. 2, p. 242), which The Phelps Family of America (1899) disproves; elsewhere he makes her a daughter of Joseph Phelps (p. 594n).
• John Porter (vol. 2, pp. 620-621; read October 2026 for the Porter ancestors of Ella (Chapin) Browne): “‘John Porter, Sr., came from Eng. and settled here in Windsor in 1639.’ — O.C.R.” From statements of Henry D. White, he came “with wife and nine children from Felsted, County Essex, Eng., probably in the ship Susan and Ellen, 17 July, 1638”; the Messing parish register has “1620. Oct. 18. John Porter of Felsted & Anna White of Messing,” Anna “bp. 13 July, 1600,” daughter of Robert White of Messing and Bridget Allgar, “probably the sister of Mary White of M., who m. Joseph Loomis”; another sister, Elizabeth, married William Goodwin of Hartford, “and the three are thought to have been the sisters of Elder John White, though this is not yet proven.” “He had land grant in Windsor; was appointed constable, 1639/40; juror, 1640; grand-juror, 1643; deputy to General Court, 1646 and ’47, and a prominent man in the community. He ‘d. 21 and was bu. 22 April, 1648’ (W. R.); left a large est.” “John Porter, Sen’rs, wife d. 1647.” Among the children born in England: “Samuel, m. about 165[-], Hannah (dau. Thomas) Stanley; settled Hadley, Mass.; became the ancestor of the H. Porters … he d. 6 Sept., 1689”; and “Mary, m. 27 May, 1658, Sam’l Grant of W.” His son John “m. Mary (dau. Thomas) Stanley of Hftd.”