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Henry Wolcott

Male 1611 - 1680  (69 years)

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  • Name Henry Wolcott 
    Birth 21 Jan 1610/11  Tolland, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15] 
    Immigration 1630 (18 years)  [2, 14] 
    Freeman 1 Apr 1634 (23 years)  Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 8, 13, 15] 
    Miscellaneous 1636 (24 years)  Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Moved To 1636 (24 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15] 
    Offices Held 1650 (38 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 13, 15] 
    Travel 1654 (42 years)  [8, 13] 
    Offices Held 1655 (43 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Offices Held 1662 (50 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 8, 12, 13, 15] 
    Petition 1662 (50 years)  [1, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15] 
    Land/House 14 Oct 1669 (58 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Will 21 Sep 1670 (59 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Travel 1671 (59 years)  [15] 
    Offices Held 1675 to 1676 (63 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Death 12 Jul 1680  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15] 
    Burial 13 Jul 1680  Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A.

    Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Connecticut

    Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7] 
    Inventory Aug 1680 (69 years)  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Probate/Proved 27 Aug 1680 (69 years)  [15] 
    Siblings 4 brothers and 2 sisters 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    father Wolcott   (2 x Great Grandfather) 
    Elizabeth Saunders,   c. 20 Dec 1584, Lydiard St Lawrence, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 1655, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)  (Mother) 
    Person ID, Branch I16562 
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2021 

  • Notes 
    • He was master of a short-hand which had puzzled us in several documents, and to which we did not imagine that any key could ever be found. Amono- the papers deposited in the library of the Connecticut Historical Society, many years since, was a stout little vellum-covered volume of nearly four hundred pages, closely written in this hand, with no clew to the subject nor to the writer's name. It lay unnoticed until about the year 1857, when it attracted the attention of J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., who is as ingenious in such matters as he is persevering in his researches. He succeeded in deciphering it, and found it to consist of notes of sermons and lectures, delivered in Windsor and Hartford, between April, 1638, and May, 1641, in regular course. The writer's name is not given, but his birthday is noted on the first leaf of the volume, and this and other facts identify him as Henry Wolcott, Jr.; and it is a curious fact that the only record of his birth is found among these hieroglyphics, and the date has been unknown till now. Having called Dr. Trumbull's attention to this fact, we give his answer, which explains his discovery of the authorship : —

      I was aware that the entry of Henry Wolcott's birth in the short-hand notebook supplied a date not hitherto ascertained, and corrects the year to which his birth has been usually assigned. This entry was my first clew to the ownership of the note-book. It is made at the top of the first leaf in the volume, in a single line, which, deciphered, reads : " Tlie day I was born was the 21 of January 1610" — that is, of course, 1611, N. S. So I had given, a regular hearer of Mr. Warham and Mr. Huit from 1638 to 1641, who was an occasional hearer of Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone, at times when the Court was in session at Hartford, and who was born in 161 1. Henry Wolcott, Jr., was the only man in the Colony that could satisfy the conditions of the problem ; and on looking, for corroboration, into the " Wolcott Ledger," I found numerous entries in the same characters employed in the notebook. The latter contains no other entry of personal or family matters. The Ledger notes the birth of one or two children in short-hand, but supplies no new dates. [8, 11, 13, 15]

    • Father Henry Wolcott, Esq,   c. 6 Dec 1579, Bishops Lydeard, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1655, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Elizabeth Saunders,   c. 20 Dec 1584, Lydiard St Lawrence, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 1655, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Family ID F930  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Spouse / Partner Sarah Newberry,   b. 1614   d. 16 Jun 1684, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Other Partners: Walter Price 
    Marriage 8 Nov 1640  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15] 
    Age at Marriage He : 29 years and 10 months - She : ~ 26 years and 11 months. 
    Children From 1643 to 1658  [13] 
    Family ID F7913  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2021 

  • Pedigree← Click to display

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 21 Jan 1610/11 - Tolland, Somersetshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsFreeman - 1 Apr 1634 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMiscellaneous - 1636 - Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMoved To - 1636 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 8 Nov 1640 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffices Held - 1650 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffices Held - 1655 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffices Held - 1662 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand/House - 14 Oct 1669 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWill - 21 Sep 1670 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffices Held - 1675 to 1676 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 Jul 1680 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 13 Jul 1680 - Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInventory - Aug 1680 - Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources

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    🔴 Unreliable Evidence
    1. [S1622] anonymous. "Memoir of Hon. Oliver Wolcott, Sen, Governor of Connecticut, 1796-7" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume XXVI, January 1872).

    2. [S1621] Antiquarian, Dorchester & Historical Society. History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, (Boston: Ebenezer Clapp Jr., 1859).

    3. [S1571] Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of First Settlers of New England, (Lancaster, Massachusetts: Carter, Andrews, & Company, 1829).

    4. [S14] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 64773960 Henry Wolcott .

    5. [S1620] Hinman, Royal R. Catalogue of Names of the First Puritan Settlers, (Hartford, Connecticut: Royal R. Hinman, 1846).

    6. [S705] Keatley, Vivien Bulloch. The Cooley Genealogy, the Descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley, (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co., 1941).

    7. [S1193] Parsons, Samuel H. "Record of Marriages and Births in the Town of Windsor, in Connecticut" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume V, 1851).

    8. [S1627] Rudd, Alice Böhmer. Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, one of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, (Washington, DC: Guild Publishing Company, 1950).

    9. [S956] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume IV, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862).

    10. [S1628] Stott, Clifford L. "Humphrey Blake (1494?-1558) and His Descendants in New England and South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Sellecck, Torrey, and Wolcott", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 163, 2009).

    11. [S1624] Trumbull, J. Hammond. The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, (Boston: Edward L. Osgood, 1886).

    12. [S1625] Wolcott, Chandler. Record of the Descendants of James and Miriam Wolcott, (Rochester, New York: Chandler Wolcott, 1907).

    13. [S1626] Wolcott, Chandler. Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Conn., (Rochester, New York: Genese Press, 1912).

    14. [S1229] Wolcott, Frederick. "Genealogies - The Wolcott Family", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume I, July 1847).

    15. [S1623] Wolcott, Samuel. Memorial of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of Some of His Descendants, (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1881).



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