Caleb Pomeroy

     Caleb Pomeroy was christened on 6 March 1641 at Windsor, Connecticut.^1,2 He was the son of Elweed Pomeroy.² According to Pomeroy (1912): An old document recites that Caleb received a grant of "land from his father Eltweed on his entering into marriage with Hepzibah Baker, a part of a child's portion at present one acre of land : that he also engaged the remaining portion of land in that dose for Caleb at his death: but now. Whereas, Caleb bought a couple of oxen of his father and was to pay his father il8 for them in work, as he needed it yearly, in six vears. and he having paid little of it, and now going to Northampton, his 'father is necessitated to sell the acre of land to John Grant for £7, and promises that the £7 shall go for the oxen or land : if he pays for the oxen he will make good the land sold with an acre as good at his death.¹ He was one of the original settlers of Northampton, Massachusetts.¹ Caleb Pomeroy was admitted as a freeman in 1663 at Northampton, Massachusetts.¹

Caleb Pomeroy, age 24, married Hepzibah Baker, age 18 on 8 March 1665.¹ He was engaged in the Falls Fight on 19 May 1675 during King Phillip's War.¹ In 1686 he sold his homestead, and moved to either Southampton or Easthampton, Massachusetts.¹ Caleb Pomeroy died on 18 November 1691 at age 50 from an epidemic of fever and ague.¹