Thankful Frisbie
Lifespan: 1708 - 1782
Birth: 8 Apr 1704 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Occupation: Homemaker
Marriage: Phillip Pond (spouse 1), William Stebbins (spouse 2)
Children: Dan Pond, Timothy Pond, Rebecca Pond Twin, Bartholomew Pond Twin, Edward Pond Twin, Samuel Pond Twin
Parents: Edward Frisbie & Martha Pardee
Death: 26 Nov 1904 in place: Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Burial: Unknown
Chapter 1: Early Family Origins
Thankful Frisbie entered the world on April 9, 1708, in the colonial town of Branford, Connecticut, a settlement clustered along the tidal waters of Long Island Sound. The daughter of Edward Frisbie (b. 1670s) and Martha Pardee, she was born into a world where kinship governed not only personal identity but land, power, and piety. She was baptized into a Congregationalist tradition where sermons thundered about sin and salvation—and where her role as a girl was already set: obedience, labor, marriage.