Fiske, John, 1693 - 1761

John Fiske was the son of John Fiske and Hannah Baldwin and the brother of the Rev. Phineas Fiske (1682-1738, Yale 1704).  He was captain of the First Train band of Haddam, Connecticut and the deputy for Haddam to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1742.  In 1757 Fiske was a member of a committee that petitioned the Town of Middletown to consent to making Middletown’s Third Society a separate township.  Albert A. Fiske, The Fiske Family: A History of the Family Ancestral and Descendant of William Fiske, Sen. of Amherst, N. H. (Chicago, 1867), 207.  Register of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1893-1917 (Boston: Thomas Todd Company, 1917), 453. J. H. Beers, The History of Middlesex County, 1635-1885 (New York: J. H. Beers, 1884).