WOLCOTT Family History


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04-Oct-1997                  Family Group Sheet

 Husband: John WOLCOTT   age: 55 
    Born: 10-Sep-1516     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died: 11-Apr-1572     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
  Father: Thomas WOLCOTT  
  Mother: Alice WOLCOTT  

    Wife: Agnes WOLCOTT   
 Married:                 in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Born: ABT 1527        in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died:  5-Apr-1637     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
  Father:
  Mother:

M Child 1 John WOLCOTT  age: 78 
    Born: 17-Apr-1545     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died: 10-Nov-1623     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Spouse: Joan WOLCOTT  
 Married: ABT 1574/1578   in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
F Child 2 Alice WOLCOTT  
    Born:                 in:                                             
    Died:                 in:                                             
F Child 3 Mary WOLCOTT  
    Born:                 in:                                             
    Died:                 in:                                             

                             Family Group Sheet

 Husband: John WOLCOTT   age: 78 
    Born: 17-Apr-1545     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died: 10-Nov-1623     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Father: John WOLCOTT  
  Mother: Agnes WOLCOTT  
                  Source of Information: Wolcott Genealogy by Chandler Wolcott,
                  Rochester, NY 1912.
                  Will dated 10 Nov 1623. John WOLCOTT of Goldon Manor, Tolland, SOM, ENG

    Wife: Joan WOLCOTT   
 Married: ABT 1574/1578   in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Born: 1550            in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died:  5-Apr-1637     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
  Father:
  Mother:

M Child 1 Henry WOLCOTT  age: 76 
    Born:  5-Dec-1578     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
Baptized:  6-Dec-1578     in: Lydiard St. Lawrence, SOM, ENG             1
    Died: 30-May-1655     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Spouse: Elizabeth SAUNDERS  
 Married: 19-Jan-1606     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                          2
M Child 2 Christopher WOLCOTT  
    Born:                 in:                                             
    Died: 1639            in:                                             
M Child 3 John WOLCOTT  
    Born:                 in:                                             
    Died:                 in:                                             

 
1 Braun, Brian. 1702 Bentbrook Drive, Champaign, IL 61821. (217) 359-8578
 
2 Hillhouse has his marriage 10 Jan 1606. Hillhouse, Margaret P. Historical and
 Genealogical Collections Relating to the Descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse.
 Publish by Tobias A. Wright, 1924. pages 48-50.

04-Oct-1997                  Family Group Sheet

 Husband: Henry WOLCOTT   age: 76 
    Born:  5-Dec-1578     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
Baptized:  6-Dec-1578     in: Lydiard St. Lawrence, SOM, ENG             1
    Died: 30-May-1655     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Father: John WOLCOTT  
  Mother: Joan WOLCOTT  
                  Source of Info: Wolcott Genealogy by Chandler Wolcott, Rochester, NY, 1912.
                  Henry Wolcott came to MA during the reign of Charles I; later went to
                  CT to help found Windsor, CT; brought wife and 3 sons, left younger son
                  and 2 daughters in England (with older son?); member of 1st General
                  Assembly of CT 1637; magistrate 1643; resided in Boston 1630.
                  9th ggf of Gordon Fisher
                  
                  "XV.  Henry Wolcott (the emigrant), who conveyed the manor-house to his
                  son Henry."  (Somerby's list, Boardman p 312-4.  Boardman says, p 312:
                  "Through the researches of Mr. Somerby, of Boston, in the *Herald's*
                  office, among the subsidy rolls, wills, and parish records of England, the
                  genealogy of Henry Wolcott, Esquire (the emigrant), has been traced
                  through fifteen generations. back to Sir John Wolcott, knight, as
                  follows:".  Each entry in this list has here been placed in its
                  appropriate place in the tree, with its corresponding Roman numeral.
                  
                  "HENRY WOLCOTT, son of John Wolcott of Tolland, England, and descended
                  from an ancient family of position and wealth, was baptized December 6,
                  1578, in the Parish of Lydiard St. Laurence.  [Footnote:  Authorities on
                  the Wolcott family are *The Wolcott Memorial* and Stiles's *History of
                  Windsor*.]  He removed to New England with his wife and several children,
                  in March, 1630.  He was one of the first twenty-four freemen of
                  Dorchester, Mass., and received grants of land there as early as April,
                  1633, and probably before; and was Selectman in 1634.  He was one of those
                  most interested in the Connecticut settlement, and removed to Windsor in
                  1636, as one of the original proprietors.  In the year following he took
                  an active part in the earliest legistlative proceedings of the new Colony;
                  was elected a Magistrate in 1643, and continued to hold this office until
                  his death, May 30, 1655.  Mr. Stiles, the historian of Windsor, says of
                  him:--- "He was probably, after the pastor, the most distinguished man in
                  Windsor."  (P) In speaking of the life and public services of Henry
                  Wolcott, Mr. Hollister, in his *History of Connecticut*, says:--- "In the
                  78th year of his age, but with a judgment unclouded, and his usefulness
                  unimpaired, the venerable Henry Wolcott, one of the principal magistrates
                  and advisers of the colony, quickly followed his comrade (Haynes) to the
                  grave.  I cannot help making a brief mention of him, and yet were I to
                  speak at any considerable length of all the bright examples of patriotism
                  and exalted worth that have borne the name of Wolcott in Connecticut, I
                  should find this work extending itself beyond the limits that I have
                  marked out for it."  (P) "Henry Wolcott, Esquire, ther ancestor of all the
                  Wolcotts of this State, was of a very ancient family, and the owner of a
                  large estate in Somersetshire.  He was born in Tolland, on the 6th of
                  December, 1578, and was the son and heir of John Wolcott of Galdon Manor.
                  The manor-house is still standing, and is of very great antiquity and
                  extent.  It was originally a splendid mansion, designed as well for the
                  purposes of defense against the excesses of a lawless age, as for a
                  permanent family residence.  It is still richly ornamented with carved
                  work, and if left to itself unassailed by the hand of violence, it will
                  stand for ages.  The familiar motto of the family arms, borrowed from the
                  Roman poet, is still to be seen upon the walls of the manor-house, its
                  bold words informing us that the family who have adopted it as their text
                  of life were "accustomed to swear in the words of no master."  It is alike
                  in keeping with the independent spirit of an English gentleman of the
                  middle ages, and with that of a Puritan of the 17th century who spurned
                  the dictation of ecclesiastical dominion."  (P) "In his early life Henry
                  Wolcott lived after the manner of the landed gentry, at an era when the
                  term "country squire" was synonymous with whatever was bold, athletic, and
                  hardy in the steeplechasing, hospitable days of "merry England."  But as
                  the years stole on, and the principles of the Reformation, making little
                  progress at first, began to invade not only the wrestling-ring of the


                  yeoman and the counting-room of the merchant, but the hall of the
                  county-gentleman, Wolcott, among others, was led to direct his thoughts to
                  more serious topics than the pastimes that had engrossed his earlier
                  manhood.  While meditations respecting a future state of being occupied
                  his mind, a religious teacher, Mr. Edward Elton, became his guide, and led
                  him to that clear understanding of the doctrines of Christianity, and
                  those firm convictions of its truth, that remained with him to the day of
                  his death.  Of an ardent temperament and lively sensibilities, and seeing
                  that much needed to be reformed in the severities practiced upon so many
                  of the best subjects of the realm, he soon became identified with the
                  Puritan party, sold a large estate in lands, including the manor-house,
                  for which he received about eight thousand pounds sterling, probably much
                  less than its value, and made preparations to spend the remainder of his
                  days in America.  In 1628 he visited New England to examine the country,
                  and returned.  His sympathetic nature could not fail to attach itself
                  inseparably to the self-accusing, though charitable, Wareham, and he
                  sailed with him for the new world in the same ship, and arrived in
                  Massachusetts in May, 1630.  Roger Ludlow was of the same party.  Wolcott
                  remained in Dorcherster until 1636, when he removed to Windsor upon the
                  Connecticut river.  He was, as most of our best inhabitants were, a
                  planter, and was the principal one in Windsor.  He was a member of the
                  General Court of Connecticut in 1639."  (P) "In 1643 he was chosen into
                  the magistract, and continued to be one of its most safe and immovable
                  pillars till his death in 1655.  His monument of imperishable sandstone,
                  built by the same hands that fashioned the one that stands over the
                  Fenwick tomb at Saybrook, has always been a shrine to tempt towards it the
                  feet of his numerous descendants, who have piously guarded it and lovingly
                  adorned it for two hundred years.  Time has spared, and the gray moss not
                  obliterated, the quaint and simple epitaph, whose plain lettering tells us
                  that it is the resting place of "Henry Wolcott, some time a magistrate of
                  this jurisdiction."
                     --- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph
                  Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906, p 308-311.  Boardman lists the
                  children of Henry Wolcott and Elizabeth Saunders as follows (p 312):  "I.
                  John, bap. Oct. 1, 1607; d. without issue in Eng. after 1631 and before
                  1655.  II. Anna, m. Oct. 16, 1646, Matthew Griswold of Windsor and
                  Saybrook.  III.  Henry [see under HENRY (2) WOLCOTT].  IV. George, m.
                  Elizabeth Treat, and d. Feb. 12, 1662.  Res. Wethersfield.  V.
                  Christopher, d. unm. Sept. 7, 1662.  VI. Mary, m. June 25, 1646, Job Drake
                  of Windsor, and d. Sept. 16, 1689.  VII. Simon, b. abt. 1625; m. 1st, Mch.
                  19, 1657, Joanna, dau. of Aaron Cook, who d. Apr. 27, 1657; 2nd, Oct. 17,
                  1661, Martha Pitkin, who m. 2nd, Daniel Clarke, and d. Oct. 13, 1719, ae.
                  80.  He d. Sept. 11, 1687."
                  
                  "HENRY WOLCOTT (1636), from Dorchester, had a lot granted to him ten rods
                  wide. His children were born in England.  Both himself and wife died,
                  1655.  Of his sons, Henry had a lot granted to him twelve rods wide.  He
                  married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Newberry, 1641, and had three sons and
                  two daughters.  After the death of his brother Christopher he had his
                  father's homestead.  He died, 1680.  Christopher had a lot granted to him
                  six rods wide.  He had no family, and died, 1662.  His brother Simon had
                  his place.  George removed to Wethersfield.  Simon married first a
                  daughter of Aaron Cook in 1657.  She died a month after, and he married
                  Martha Pitkin, "late from England." 1661.  He had three sons and three
                  daughters.  He lived first on the richard Whitehead place; second, on his
                  brother Christopher's place.  He removed to Simsbury previous to King
                  Philip's War, and he then removed to the east side of the Great River."
                     --- Jabez H Hayden, "Early Windsor Families," in *THe Memorial History
                  of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, ed J Hammond Trumbull, v. 2,
                  1886, p 560
                  
                  "The register of the parish of *Lidiard St. Lwrence*, adjoining that of
                  Tolland, contains the following:  "HENRY, ye sonne of John Wolcott, was
                  baptized the VI of December, 1578"; and "HENRY Wolcott & Elizabeth
                  Saunders [of Lydiard St. Laurence, b. 1584], were married 19 January,
                  1606."  (P) Henry Wolcott, whose m. and bp. are thus recorded, was the
                  emigrant to Windsor, Conn.  As the second son of John Wolcott, of Galdon
                  Manor, Tolland, Co. Somerset, Eng., he held a fair position among the
                  landed gentry, and an estate which placed him in affluent circumstances.



                  By the decease of his elder bro. Christopher, intestate, 1639, the family
                  estate, including the manor-house, mill, etc., also came into his
                  possession after his removal to America.  The earlier portion of his life
                  was passed in the quiet pursuit of a country squire's duties and
                  responsibilities: but, becoming converted under the teaching of the Rev.
                  John Elton, he soon found himself closely identified with the Puritan
                  party in the religious and political revolution which then convulsed
                  England.  America presented to him, as to hundreds of others like-minded,
                  the only asylum where civil and religious freedom could be found; and,
                  though then past 52 years of age, and with children of an age when they
                  most needed the social and educational advantages afforded in their native
                  land, --- to emigrate to a new home beyond the ocean.  Taking their three
                  sons, and leaving them behind them for a time two daughters and their
                  youngest son (ae. 5), they joined the Warham and Maverick emigration of
                  1630, on the 19th of October in which yr. we find Henry Wolcott's name as
                  one of the first list of freemen of Boston.  He rem. from Dorchester to W.
                  in 1635; in 1637 was elected a member of the lower house of the first
                  Gen'l Assembly of Conn.; in 1640 stands first in a list of the inhabitants
                  of W.; in 1643 was elected to the House of Magistrates (the present
                  Senate) of Conn., and was annually re-elected during life, and was
                  probably, after the pastor, the most distinguished citizen of W.; the
                  younger ch. who had been left behind, rejoined the family between 1631 and
                  1641.  He d. May, 1655; his wid. d. on July 5, same year.  His estate was
                  inventoried at #764 [pounds], 8s., 10d., not a large sum for one who is
                  known to have sold about #8,000 worth of estate in Eng. preparatory to
                  removing to America, and illustrating the remark of the historian
                  Trumbull, that "many of the adventurers expended more, in making
                  settlements in Conn., than all the lands and buildings were worth, after
                  all the improvements which they had made upon them." [Hist. Conn., i, 117]
                   Mrs. Wolcott wa adm. to W. Ch. Apl., 1640. ... In the ancient "Family
                  Chronologie" it is recorded of Henry Wolcott and his wife, that "these
                  both dyed in hope and Ly buried under one Tomb in Windsor."  Ch.:  1.
                  John, bp. 1 Oct. 1607; living in England 1631; d. without issue, in Eng.,
                  previous to date of his father's will, 1655.  2. Anna. came over to Am.
                  between 1631 and 1641; m. 16 Oct. 1646, Matthew Griswold of W., afterwards
                  of Saybrook.  3. Henry, b. 21 Jan., 1610/11. [see under Henry (2) WOLCOTT]
                   4. George [see under George WOLCOTT], b. ---  5. Christopher, came to Am.
                  with his father, 1630; rec'd by will his father's homestead in W.; d.
                  unmarried 7 Sept., 1662; by his (nuncupative) will, est. divided among his
                  brothers and sisters, Henry being the chief legatee.  6.  Mary, m. 25
                  June, 1646, Job Drake of W.; both d. 16 Sept., 1689. [see under Mary
                  WOLCOTT] 7. Simon, b. betw. 11 Sept., 1684, and 11 Sept., 1635."
                     --- Henry R. Stiles, *Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Windsor,
                  Connecticut*, vol. 2, 1892, p. 799-800
                  
                  "[p. 34] HENRY WOLCOTT, who emigrated from England and was the ancestor of
                  the family in this country of which a record is given here, was the second
                  son of John Wolcott of Tolland in Somersetshire, England, and was baptized
                  in the adjoining parish of Lydiard St. Lawrence, Dec 6, 1578.  He m. Jan
                  19, 1606, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Saunders, of Lydiard St. Lawrence.
                  She was baptized, Dec. 20, 1584.  Children:-- (P)  (1) JOHN, bap. Oct. 1,
                  1607, was living in England in 1631, and apparently never emigrated to
                  this country.  He had d. without issue previous to the date of his
                  father's will in 1655.  The family record makes no mention of him.  (2)
                  ANNA.  She came over with her sister and youngest brother after the family
                  had become settled; m. Oct. 16, 1646, Matthew Griswold, of Windsor.  (3)
                  HENRY b. Jan. 21, 1610/11 [see under HENRY (2) WOLCOTT].  (4) GEORGE [p.
                  41-2: came with his parents from England.  He was made a freeman by the
                  General Court of Connecticut, May 21, 1657, and settledin Wethersfield.
                  His history is more obscure than that of his brothers.  The names of his
                  children are given in the Family Chronology but none of their descendants.
                   We learn from this that he m. --- Treat, and d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 12,
                  1662; and from the Probate records that the Christian name of his wife was
                  Elizabeth.  Children: -- ELIZABETH, b. June 20, 1650; m. Dec. 15, 1686,
                  Gabriel Cornish.  GEORGE b Sept. 20, 1652 [p 53] m. Aug. 30, 1691,
                  Elizabeth Curtis who d. Aug. 13, 1741.  He lived in Wethersfield and d.
                  July, 1726.  [back to p. 42] JOHM. b/ Aig. 5, 1656.  Nothing more is known
                  of him except that he was living at the date of his father's death in
                  1662.  MERCY, b. Oct. 4, 1659; was living in 1687 an invalid. [back to p.


                  34]  (5). CHRISTOPHER.  He emigrated to America with his parents and two
                  older brothers in 1630.  The family homestead in Windsor was bequeathed to
                  him by his father.  He d. unm.
                  Sept 7, 1662.  ...  (6) MARY.  She m. June 25, Job Drake of Windsor.  She
                  and her husband d. the same day, Sept. 16, 1689.  .....  (7) SIMON, b.
                  between Sept. 11, 1624, and Sept. 11, 1625.  [p. 42] was but five years
                  old when his father emigrated to America.  He remained in England with his
                  two sisters until the family had effected a settlement in this country;
                  they came over within ten years after, but the exact time of their arrival
                  we have not been able to ascertain.  He was admitted a freeman in 1654.
                  He m. (1st) March 19, 1657, Joanna, dau. of Aaron Cook, one of the first
                  settlers of Windsor; she was b. Aug. 5, 1638.  Her married life was brief;
                  she d. Apr 27, 1657.  He m. (2nd) Oct. 17, 1661, Martha Pitkin described
                  in the Windsor Records as "late from England."
                     --- Chandler Wolcott, *Wolcott Genealogy:  The Family of Henry Wolcott,
                  One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut*, Rochester NY (The
                  Genesee Press) 1912
                  
                  From same, p 16:  "The old "Famely Chronologie, 1691," has this entry
                  respecting the parents, Henry and Elizabeth Wolcott:  "This happie pair
                  were married About ye year 1606.  He came to New England about the year
                  1628, and in the year 1630 brought over his family, to avoid the
                  persecution of those times against dissenters."  There follows a quotation
                  from Macaulay's History of England, vol. I, p 69, 71:  "Every corner of
                  the nation was subjected to a constant and minute inspection.  Every
                  little congregation of separatists was tracked out and broken up.  Even
                  the devotions of private families could not escape the vigilance of spies.
                   And the tribunals afforded no protection to the subjects against the
                  civil and ecclesiastical tyranny of that period. ..... This was the
                  conjuncture at which the liberties of England were in the greatest peril.
                  The opponents of the government began to despair of the destiny of their
                  country; and many looked to the American wilderness as the only asylum in
                  which they could enjoy civil and spiritual freedom.  There a few resolute
                  Puritans, who, in the cause of their religion, feared neither the rage of
                  the ocean nor the hardships of uncivilized life; neither the fangs of
                  savage beasts nor the tomahawks of more savage men, --- built, amidst the
                  primeval forest, villages which are now great and opulent cities, but
                  which have, through every change, retained some trace of the character
                  derived from their founders.  The government regarded these infant
                  colonies with aversion, and attempted violently to stop the stream of
                  emigration, but could not prevent the population of New England from being
                  largely recruited by stout-hearted and God-fearing men from every part of
                  old England."  Chandler Wolcott continues (p 16-18):  "It was at this
                  juncture that HENRY WOLCOTT left England; and no one will question his
                  title to the character of "a resolute Puritan, --- a stout-hearted and
                  God-fearing man."  He was not an obscure adventurer, but held a fair
                  position among the gentry in England, possessing an estate which yielded
                  him a fair income, and his property was freely devoted to the service of
                  the expedition which he accompanied. .....  The company of which they [he,
                  his wife, and children Henry, George and Christopher --- 3 children were
                  left behind temporarily] were members consisted of one hundred and forty
                  persons; and the historian of Connecticut makes the following mention of
                  them:"  Here Chandler Wolcott quotes from Trumbull, *Hist. Conn.*, 1.23:
                  "In one of the first ships which arrived this year [1630] came over the
                  Rev. Mr. John Warham, Mr. John Maverick, Mr. Rossiter, Mr. Ludlow, Mr.
                  Henry Wolcott, and others of Mr. warham's church and congregation, who
                  first settled the town of Windsor, in Connecticut.  Mr. Rossiter and Mr.
                  Ludlow, were magistrates.  Mr. Wolcott had a fine estate, and was a man of
                  superior abilities.  This was an honorable company.  Mr. Warham had been a
                  famous minister in Exeter, the capital of the county of Devonshire.  The
                  people who came with him were from the three counties of Devonshire,
                  Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire."  Chandler Wolcott continues (p 18):
                  "They sailed from Plymouth, in England, on the 20th of March, 1630, in the
                  ship *Mary and John*, of four hundred tons burden, Captain Squeb, master.
                  B4efore their embarkation, after their passage had been engaged, they were
                  allowed the privilege of organizing themselves into an independent church.
                   This is now the First Church in Windsor, --- the oldest in the State of
                  Connecticut.  The Barnstable and Plymouth churches, in Massachusetts, had
                  been organized in the same way; and these three, as far as we know, are


                  the only New England churches which had a trans-atlantic origin.  (P) They
                  arrived at Nantasket on the Lord's Day, May 30th, 1630, after a voyage of
                  two months and ten days, and landed the next day."
                  
                  "HENRY [WOLCOTT]  Came on "Mary and John" 1630 following earlier visit ca
                  1628, Dorchester (Mass.) 1630, Windsor 1636.  d. Windsor 30 May 1655.
                  Deputy.  Assistant.  *European and American family of Wolcott* (pamph.)
                  1912, *Wolcott genealogy* 1912; *Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Conn.* 1950."
                     --- Meredith B Colket, *Founders of Early American Families*, Cleveland
                  OH 1985, p 363

    Wife: Elizabeth SAUNDERS   
 Married: 19-Jan-1606     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                          2
    Born: 1582/1584       in: Lydiard St. Lawrence, SOM, ENG             1
Baptized: 20-Dec-1584     in: Lydiard St. Lawrence, SOM, ENG             1
    Died:  7-Jul-1655     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Father: Thomas SAUNDERS  
  Mother: Anne BLAKE  
                  Source of Info: Wolcott Genealogy by Chandler Wolcott, Rochester, NY, 1912

M Child 1 John WOLCOTT  
    Born: 1606            in: ENG                                         
Baptized:  1-Oct-1607     in:                                            1
    Died: BEF 1655        in: ENG                                         
M Child 2 Henry WOLCOTT  age: 70 
    Born: 21-Jan-1610     in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                          1
    Died: 12-Jul-1680     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
  Spouse: Sarah NEWBERRY  
 Married:  8-Nov-1641     in: ENG                                         
F Child 3 Anna WOLCOTT  
    Born: ABT 1620        in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died:                 in:                                             
  Spouse: Matthew GRISWOLD  
 Married: 16-Oct-1646     in:                                            1
M Child 4 Christopher WOLCOTT  
    Born:                 in: ENG                                         
    Died:  7-Sep-1662     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
M Child 5 George WOLCOTT  
    Born:                 in: ENG                                         
    Died: 12-Feb-1662     in: Wethersfield, HartfordCo, CT               1
  Spouse: Elizabeth TREAT  
 Married:                 in:                                             
F Child 6 Mary WOLCOTT  
    Born: ABT 1623        in: Tolland, SOM, ENG                           
    Died:  6-Sep-1689     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
  Spouse: Job DRAKE  
 Married: 25-Jun-1646     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
M Child 7 Simon WOLCOTT  
    Born: 1624/1625       in: Golden Manor, Tolland, SOM, ENG            1
    Died: 11-Sep-1687     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
  Buried:                 in: Old Graveyard,Windsor,CT                    
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Spouse: Joanna COOK  
 Married: 19-Mar-1657     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
  Spouse: Martha PITKIN  
 Married: 17-Oct-1661     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1

 
1 Braun, Brian. 1702 Bentbrook Drive, Champaign, IL 61821. (217) 359-8578
 
2 Hillhouse has his marriage 10 Jan 1606. Hillhouse, Margaret P. Historical and
 Genealogical Collections Relating to the Descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse.
 Publish by Tobias A. Wright, 1924. pages 48-50.

04-Oct-1997                  Family Group Sheet

 Husband: Simon WOLCOTT   
    Born: 1624/1625       in: Golden Manor, Tolland, SOM, ENG            1
    Died: 11-Sep-1687     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
  Buried:                 in: Old Graveyard,Windsor,CT                    
     Ref: Claude Barlow       Occupation:                                 
  Father: Henry WOLCOTT  
  Mother: Elizabeth SAUNDERS  
                  Source of Info: Wolcott Genealogy by Chandler Wolcott, Rochester, NY 1912
                  Source of Info: article by Florence Roe Wiggins
                  8th ggu of Gordon Fisher
                  
                  The youngest son of Simon and Martha Wolcott was Roger Wolcott, born 4 Jan
                  1679, m. Sarah Drake 3 Dec 1702, rose from selectman of Windsor in 1707 to
                  Governor of Connecticut in 1750.  (Rev Increase Tarbox, "South Hartford,:
                  in *The Memorial of Hartford County ,,,*, ed Trumbull, v. 2, 1886, p
                  133-134).  A son of Roger, Alexander Wolcott, b. 7 Jan 1712, grad. Yale
                  1731, m. Lydia dau. of Jeremiah Atwater of New Haven 4 Dec 1732, was for
                  many years a prominent physician in Windsor CT, d. 1795, aged 83.  (Same
                  source, p 136)

    Wife: Joanna COOK   age: 18 
 Married: 19-Mar-1657     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Born:  5-Aug-1638     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died: 27-Apr-1657     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                     
  Father: Aaron COOK  

    Wife: Martha PITKIN   
 Married: 17-Oct-1661     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Born: 1639            in: Berkhamstead, HRT, ENG                      
Baptized: 12-Dec-1639     in: Berkhamstead, HRT, ENG                     1
    Died: 13-Oct-1719     in: East Windsor, HartfordCo, CT               1
  Father: William PITKIN  
  Mother: Elizabeth  
                  Martha PITKIN came to Hartford, CT 1661.

F Child 1 Elizabeth WOLCOTT  age: 45 
    Born: 19-Aug-1662     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died: 31-Jan-1708     in: Springfield,HampdenCo,MA                   1
  Spouse: Daniel COOLEY  
 Married:  8-Dec-1680     in: Springfield,HampdenCo,MA                   1
F Child 2 Martha WOLCOTT  age: 23 
    Born: 17-May-1664     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died:  7-Sep-1687     in:                                            1
  Spouse: Thomas ALLYN  
 Married: 6-Jan-1686/1687 in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
M Child 3 Simon WOLCOTT  age: 66 
    Born: 24-Jun-1666     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died: 29-Oct-1732     in:                                            1
  Spouse: Sarah CHESTER  
 Married:  5-Dec-1689     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
F Child 4 Joanna WOLCOTT  age: 86 
    Born: 30-Jun-1668     in: East Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                
    Died: 10-Jan-1755     in: Longmeadow,HampdenCo,MA                     
  Spouse: John COLTON  
 Married:  2-Sep-1690     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                     
M Child 5 Henry WOLCOTT  
    Born: 20-May-1670     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died: Nov 1746        in:                                            1
     Ref:                     Occupation: Lieutenant                      
  Spouse: Jane ALLYN  
 Married:  1-Apr-1696     in:                                            1
  Spouse: Rachel TALCOTT  
 Married:                 in:                                             
M Child 6 Christopher WILCOTT  age: 20 
    Born:  4-Jul-1672     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                     
    Died:  3-Apr-1693     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                     
F Child 7 Mary WOLCOTT  
    Born: 1674            in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                     
    Died: 1676            in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                     
M Child 8 William WOLCOTT  age: 72 
    Born:  6-Nov-1676     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died: 27-Jan-1749     in:                                            1
  Spouse: Abiah HAWLEY  
 Married:  5-Nov-1706     in:                                            1
M Child 9 Roger WOLCOTT  age: 88 
    Born:  4-Jan-1679     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
    Died: 17-May-1767     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1
     Ref:                     Occupation: Governor of CT                  
  Spouse: Sarah DRAKE  
 Married:  3-Dec-1702     in: Windsor, HartfordCo, CT                    1

 
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