Atwater History and Genealogy, Volume V, The Great Adventure
By Charles Hobart Attwater

The Attwater names belongs to a large class of English family names where the personal name of a man qualified for identification by a description of his home, “at-the-hill,” etc., became fixed as a surname for his descendants. The earliest mention of the name Attwater found in England appears in the chartulary of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, Godfried atte Water, of Elywarton, in the Parish of Stone, near Faversham, County of Kent, before A.D. 1367.

This book starts the first generation with David Attwater, one of the first planters of New Haven, who married Damaris. They had 10 children: Mercy, Damarias, David, Joshua, John, Jonathan, Abigail, Mary, Samual, and Ebenezer.

(328pp, illus, Publishers Hall, Santa Monica, CA, 1956)