376Ĭame to Stonington from Ipswich as early as 1666. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. He represented the town of New London CT at the general court. The land he won was to be know as the town of Voluntown CT. John served as Sergeant in King Philip'sWar against the Narragansett Indians. John Frink, of Stonington, "that they with the rest of the English volunteers in former wars might have a plantation granted to them." The petition was formally received, and a tract six miles square was granted, "to be taken up out of some of the conquered land." _ Thomas Leffingwell, of Norwich, and Sergt. The petition to the General Court for the grant was presented in 1696 by Lieut. Mason and others engaged in the Pequot war were granted lands which simulated those who had performed such significant feats in the Narragansett war to ask for a grant of a town in acknowledgement of their services. From the organization of the colony it had been customary to make grants to officers and soldiers who had distinguished themselves in the service of their country. The greater part of the tract embraced within the bounds of the present town of Voluntown was granted in 1700 to the volunteers in the Narragansett war, from which circumstances the town derived its name. In 2001, the Frink farm received Connecticut's Century Farm Citation, recognizing the contributions of the Frink family to the continuity and stability of Connecticut's farming industry over 300 years.
His grandson, Zachariah Frink (1702-1777), was the first Frink to live on the land, which is still in the family, owned by Albert Kinnie Frink (1933- ), Zachariah's great-great-great-great-great-grandson. John received 200 acres in what became Voluntown, CT. 2 on the list of those who received land. After this war, in 1696, the Colony of Connecticut awarded tracts of "the conquered land" to the "English Volunteers" who had served in the war. He served as a Sergeant in King Phillip's War, a fierce Narragansett Indian uprising. He was also chosen as a surveyor for the town. At a town meeting in 1677, he agreed to make a table for the meeting house. John Frink was Stonington's first carpenter. of Ipswich the mariner, who was born say 1642.īorn in 1639 in County Devon, England, John Frink d 1717, in Stonington, CT, where his original hand-carved fieldstone marker still exists beside the modern tombstone placed there by Major General James Luke Frink (1885-1977) in 1971.
He cannot have been the son of John Frink, Sr. Sargeant John Frink Some people consider this to be the immigrant John Frink.
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