1. | Roger Wolcott was born on 4 Jan 1678/79 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut (son of Simon Wolcott and Martha Pitkin); and died. |
2. | Simon Wolcott was born on 11 Sep 1624 in Tolland, Somersetshire, England (son of Henry Wolcott and Elizabeth Saunders); died on 27 Sep 1687 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony. Notes: From Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts page 395: Wolcott, Captain Simon (1625-1687, Simsbury, Conn. Captain of the Simsbury Train Band, 1673. Deputy to the General Assembly 1673. Trooper from Windsor under Major March, 1657. Simon married Martha Pitkin on 17 Oct 1661 in Windsor, Connecticut Colony. Martha (daughter of William Pitkin and Elizabeth [wife of William Pitkin Jr]) was born about 1638 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was christened on 12 Dec 1642 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; died on 13 Oct 1719 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Martha Pitkin was born about 1638 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was christened on 12 Dec 1642 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England (daughter of William Pitkin and Elizabeth [wife of William Pitkin Jr]); died on 13 Oct 1719 in Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony. Notes: (Research):Berkhamsted is a historic market town close to the western boundary of Hertfordshire, England. People have been living in the Berkhamsted area for over 5,000 years. There is evidence of flint working in the Neolithic period and metal working in the late Iron Age and Roman periods. The high street is on a pre-Roman route known by its Saxon name Akeman Street. The earliest written reference to Berkhamsted is in 970 AD. Berkhamsted was recorded as a "burbium" (an ancient borough) in the Domesday Book in 1086. The oldest known extant jettied timber-framed building in Great Britain, built 1277-1297, survives as a shop on the town's high street.
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4. | Henry Wolcott was born about 1578 in Tolland, Somersetshire, England; was christened on 6 Dec 1578 in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somersetshire, England (son of John Wolcott and Living); died on 30 May 1655 in Windsor, Connecticut Colony. Notes: Henry Wolcott, an English gentleman from the Parish of Lyiard, St. Lawrence, and his wife Elizabeth Saunders, with their sons Henry, Christopher and George, emigrated to New England on the ship Mary and John. The ship left Plymouth England and arrived in Massachusetts on May 31, 1630. Henry was described as "a resolute Puritan, a stout-hearted and God-fearing man". He may have been influenced by Simon Venn of Lydiard St. Lawrence, who Henry later appointed as overseer of his property he inheirited at Tolland. Simon was a brother of John Venn of London, one of the partners in the Massachusets Bay Company in 1628 and 1629. Henry married Elizabeth Saunders about Jan 1605/06 in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somersetshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Living and Living) was christened on 20 Dec 1584 in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somersetshire, England; died on 7 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Connecticut Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
5. | Elizabeth Saunders was christened on 20 Dec 1584 in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somersetshire, England (daughter of Living and Living); died on 7 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Connecticut Colony. Notes: [Henry's] widow survived him about five weeks; she died July 7 [1655], and her will, dated July 5, is attested by her mark. The explanation of this, which we find in one of our old manuscripts, is unquestionably authentic: "Their wills were made just before their deaths, and Mrs. Wolcott, not being well enough to write her name, only made her mark." Notes: Married:
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6. | William Pitkin was born on 11 Jan 1607/08 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was christened on 11 Dec 1608 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England (son of William Pitkin and Jane Mason); died on 24 Jul 1643 in Farringdon Without, City of London, England; was buried about 1643 in St. Dunstan-in-the-West Churchyard. Notes: William Pitkin Jr was educated at Berkhamsted School and Pembroke College Oxford. Received MA from Oxford 17 Oct 1631. Sixth Headmaster of Berkhamsted Grammar School for Boys (est 1541) on 8 Aug 1636, a position which he held for seven years. William and his brother George went to Mr. Sturmey's house in Chancery Lane in London in the summer of 1643 where they became ill possibly with the plague. They died there (six months before their father) George two months after William. Both were buried from Mr. Sturmy's in Chancery Lane. William married Elizabeth [wife of William Pitkin Jr] on 10 May 1637 in Thaxted, Essex, England. Elizabeth was born about 1612 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; died on 28 Dec 1641 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
7. | Elizabeth [wife of William Pitkin Jr] was born about 1612 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; died on 28 Dec 1641 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England. Notes: Married:
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8. | John Wolcott was born in Tolland, Somersetshire, England; died on 21 Mar 1617/18 in Tolland, Somersetshire, England. Notes: The English ancestry of this Wolcott line goes back to John Woolcott-I of Tolland, Somersetshire. His will there was dated 9 Feb 1571, proved 11 April 1572, and mentioned the children John-II (b. 1582, bap 20 Dec 1584), Alice, and Mary, his wife Agnes, and brothers Henry and Roger Woolcott. The will of John Wolcot-II, yeoman of Tolland dated 10 Nov 1623 mentions several children, among them his two eldest sons Christopher and Henry. Henry was the progenitor of the New England Wolcott line. CG p447 John married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
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10. | Living Notes: Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
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12. | William Pitkin was born about 1580 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; died about Jan 1644/45 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried about 1645 in St Peter's Churchyard, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England. Notes: William was churchwarden[1] of St. Peters in Berkhamsted after 1610. He was a Justice of the Peace, Member of Parliament, Agent for the Duchy of Cornwall (belonging to the King) in Berkhamsted about 1612. This was the beginning of enclosures[2] in Berkhamsted, in which he was involved with the Duchy lands. William married Jane Mason about 1606 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England. Jane was christened on 5 Oct 1587 in St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, England; died about 1628 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried on 8 Apr 1628 in St Peter's Churchyard, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
13. | Jane Mason was christened on 5 Oct 1587 in St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, England; died about 1628 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried on 8 Apr 1628 in St Peter's Churchyard, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England. Notes: Epitaph "That worthy woman". She died in childbirth.
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