The Culvers

of New London County, Connecticut

My Culver ancestry begins with my fifth great-grandmother, Mary Culver, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Eddy) Culver of Groton, Connecticut. Mary Culver was the great-great-granddaughter of Edward Culver, the immigrant ancestor of this family, who came to America from England with the Winthrop Fleet of 1635. Edward Culver was one of the first settlers of Dedham, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and "of an enterprising and energetic spirit", as Valerie Dyer Giorgi describes him in her Colver-Culver Family Genealogy.

In 1653, eighteen years after Edward Culver arrived in New England, he moved his family to the Pequot Country (what is now New London) in the colony of Connecticut. Some time after 1664, he settled on the four-hundred acre farm called Chepadas (Intersection of Trails), which had been granted to him by the Mohegan chief, Uncas. In 1678, Edward and his wife, Ann, deeded the Chepadas farm to their sons, Joseph and Ephraim. This farm remained in the hands of a line of three Joseph Culvers until the death of Joseph Culver III (Mary's father), after which the land was divided amongst his heirs, including Mary and her husband, William Heath.

My line of descent from Edward Culver and his wife, Ann Ellis, down to my maternal grandmother is as follows:

Direct Descendants of Edward Culver

1 Edward CULVER Abt. 1610 - 1685 & Ann ELLIS 1619 - 1678

2 Joseph CULVER 1646 - 1731 & ANN _____1650-1665 - 1708-1716

3 Joseph COLVER 1680 - 1747 & Mary STARK 1669-1676 - ca. 1769

4 Joseph CULVER 1711 - 1776 & Mary EDDY 1710-1720 - 1755-1758

5 Mary CULVER 1751 - Abt. 1848 & William HEATH Abt. 1750 - 1794

6 Amos HEATH 1786 - 1848 + Mary CHAPMAN 1797 - 1886

7 Sarah HEATH 1822 - 1905 + Francis B. CLARK 1814 - 1875

8 Levi N. CLARK 1863 - 1934 + Carrie E. LARKHAM 1855 - 1933

9 Sarah H. CLARK 1884 - 1955 + Frank R. BURDICK 1885 - 1960

10 Bertha M. BURDICK 1912 - 1976