John Deming

Infobox_Politician
name =John Deming


birth_date =1615
birth_place =Essex, England
death_date =November 21, 1705
death_place =Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
office =Patentee — Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
spouse = Honor Treat, daughter of Richard Treat

John Deming (abt 1615 - 11-21-1705) was an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony. [cite book |last=Deming |first=Judson Keith |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=John Deming and His Descendents |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1904 |month= |publisher=Press of Mathis-Mets Co. |location=Dubuque, Iowa |language= |isbn= |oclc=2285125 |doi= |id= |pages=4 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]

Deming was born in Shaford, Essex County, England. He arrived in New England during the Great Migration with his older sister Elizabeth and her husband Nathaniel Foote. [Some historians disagree whether John Deming and Elizabeth Deming were actually siblings. However, Deming and the Footes founded Wethersfield together.] Deming and the Footes first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, but left for the Connecticut River Valley in 1636, where they helped found the town of Wethersfield.

Deming was brother-in-law to Connecticut governors Robert Treat and Thomas Welles. After Foote died Deming's sister Elizabeth married Welles in 1646. [cite web |url=http://abraley.home.att.net/gendocs/deming/index.html |title=Demings in America |accessdate=2008-02-14 |format= |work= ]

Trumbull named Deming one of the "fathers of Connecticut." [cite book |last=Trumbull |first=Benjamin |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=A Complete History of Connecticut |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition=Volume I |series= |date= |year=1818 |month= |publisher=Maltby, Goldsmith, and Co. |location=New London, Connecticut |language= |isbn= |oclc=2610754 |doi= |id= |pages=46 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]

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