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Many thanks for this info too!! RE: Rev War. Tryon may have commanded either a CT war ship (CROMWELL was the first built) or a privateer, I don't remember. Don't know about George. My Prudence Tryon who married one of the Churchills is in the mix somehwere--I get the wives mixed up as to who married whom, unless I look them up.
But the Tryon family is even more interesting. They were Dutch refugees from the Spanish invasion of the Netherlands in the 16th century. And they were rich, bringing with them ca, 50,000 lbs. sterling into England. As a result William was immediately knighted. He was also a staunch Puritan and funded many Puritan churches all over England, including one in Colchester. The Footes who first settled CT, that is, Wethersfield, were from Colchester. At the end of the 17th cnetury, a Tryon emigrated and bought up a lot of land around Wethersfield--apparently they retained their bucks.
There is so much interesting politics in CT as it was a raidcal state from the begininng (the only always self-governing colony). During the English Civil War, the radical Puritans acquired the "Warwick Patent", the area around what is now Saybrook, CT, then Fort Say (named after Lord Say and Sele, protector of Thomas Welles, Gideon Welles' ancestor who had been convicted in a Star Chamber proceeding for not taking the test oath that recognized Charles I head of the Anglican Church--like the Presbyterians in Scotland, the Puritans believed Christ was head of the church). John Pym, the radical Parliament leader, even visited Fort Say. It appears that the Warwick Patent was the "getaway plan" for the Puritan nobility in Parliament if things go too hot with Charles. Lord Say and Sele was the Lord Chief Justice and signed Charles I's death warrant. Sir Richard Saltonstall was also one of the radicals who high tailed it to CT.
Very interesting, eh?
Kay