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| John Wolcott migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 7, p. 531) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
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Biography
John Woolcott, son of Edward Woolcott was baptized at Axbridge, Somerset, England, May 13, 1599. He died by June 5, 1638 when his wife was ordered to bring in the inventory of his estate.[1]
John married first at St. John, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, January 18, 1620-1621, to Mary Wrinkmore/Wrentmore. He was identified as a woolen draper from Axbridge; Mary was identified as a spinster from Glastonbury.
John possibly married second by 1634 an unnamed woman.
He married Winifred (Longman?) Crawford, widow of John Crawford, by 1637 at Watertown, Massachusetts.[1]
John "Woolcocke" immigrated on the ship Recovery; on March 31, 1634, he was listed by that name on the passenger list, preparing to depart England from Weymouth, Dorcet. He first resided in Salem; in 1636 he removed to Cambridge, and in 1637 he removed to Watertown.[1]
John was made a freeman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 4, 1634-1635.[1]
John's known children were:[1]
- with first wife:
- Elizabeth Woolcott, baptized St. John, Glastonbury, Somerset, March 31, 1622; married David Offley of Boston by 1639
- Mary Woolcott, baptized St. John Glastonbury, February 17, 1623-4; living in New England on November 26, 1638, unmarried; no further record
- Martha Woolcott, baptized Axbridge, Somerset, March 24, 1625; buried there September 25, 1626
- Martha Woolcott (again), baptized September 12, 1629 at Axbridge; no further record
- with probable second wife
- (possibly) John Woolcott, born about 1634 (deposed September 1664 "aged about thirty years"; married at Newbury November 20, 1653, Mary Thurlow, daughter of Richard Thurlow
- with third wife:
- Martha Woolcott, born say 1636; married by !675 Benjamin ______
- Sarah Woolcott, born say 1638 (perhaps posthumously); married at Plymouth March 1, 1659[60?], William Clark, son of Thomas Clark
On June 6, 1638, Winifred Woolcot was ordered to bring in the inventory of John's estate, John having died previous to that. The inventory was taken July 17, 1738.[1]
Probable son, John
A John Wolcott appeared first in Newbury, Massachusetts, in the 1650s. Based on a deposition he gave on September 27, 1664, in which he said he was "aged about 30 years", his birth year is estimated to be about 1634. A Mr. John Woolcot, in his will dated at Brookfield, September 21, 1690, among other things, he bequeathed his farm at Watertowne to his two sons.[1]
- "John Woolcott of Watertown is almost certainly the father of John Woolcott of Newbury, although no clear documentary evidence has yet been found. John Woolcott of Watertown married Winifred sometime after the death of Winifred's first husband in August of 1634, so children of his by Winifred would have been born between May of 1635 and April of 1639. John Woolcott of Newbury married in Nov. 1653, so would have been 18 at the time of his marriage if he was born in 1636. A case from the Essex County Quarterly Court files dated 1664 gives the age of John of Newbury as "about 30", so he was born "about" 1634. A birth date of 1635 or 1636 would not be unlikely. John Woolcott was not mentioned in Thomas Allyn's will as Winifred's two daughters were. If Winifred remarried in 1649 when she and Thomas Allyn signed over her Waterford property, John would have been about 15 when his mother remarried, the right age to have begun an apprenticeship. He was apparently apprenticed to Richard Thurlay, carpenter, his future father-in-law.
The evidence for this relationship of John of Newberry to John of Watertown is that the younger John Woolcott of Newbury sold land at Newbury to Nathaniel Clark, son of William Clark who married Sarah Woolcott (his probable half-sister) daughter of John of Watertown; and that John of Newbury owned land at Watertown at the time of his death (the farm he bequeathed to his sons). The dates, locations, circumstances, and DNA evidence are also right for this relationship, and there were no other Wolcotts or Woolcotts known to have been in the area who are not already well documented." [2]
DNA
Y DNA SNP tests of John of Newbury's descendants reveal they all belong to haplogroup Y22158, which branched off from haplogroup Y20600 around 1570ad. No other branches of the Wolcott family have been shown to belong to Y22158. John of Watertown's ancestry traces back to Thomas Wolcott Sr. (c.1500-c.1555) of Tolland, England. Thomas almost certainly belonged to haplogroup Y20600. Thomas' son Thomas Jr. (c. 1525-1589), grandson John (c. 1545-1589), gr-grandson Edward (c. 1570-1638) and 2nd gr-grandson John of Watertown as well as John of Newbury could each be the originator of Y22158 as they each were born around the time this haplogroup branched off from Y20600. None of the other Wolcott families known to have lived in Watertown or Newbury have been shown to belong to Y22158, making John of Watertown the most likely parent of John of Newbury based upon DNA evidence.
- Gary Lynn Wolcott's positive result for DNA SNP Y22158 provides definitive proof that descendants of Silas Wolcott of Pennsylvania are descended from John Wolcott I of Watertown, MA including the Wolcott community of Brookfield, MA.
- - Beardsley-386 13:40, 1 November 2016 (EDT)
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Reference pages 531-542 $Subscription
- ↑ Wolcott Family Society Web Pages
See also:
- Great Migration: "New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635"
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2496 #17936 (accessed 7 January 2022)
Name: John Wolcott; Gender: Male; Alternate Surnames: WOOLCOTT;
Household Members:
John Wolcott. - Child Record: "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000"
Book Title: Wolcott Genealogy The Family of Henry Wolcott
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61157 #3194984 (accessed 7 January 2022)
Name: John Wolcott; Gender: Male; Child: John Wolcott. - Marriages: "Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 49372 #107488 (accessed 7 January 2022) - Unclassified: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
Place: Watertown, Massachusetts; Year: 1634-1635; Page Number: 514
Ancestry Record 7486 #4171722 (accessed 7 January 2022)
Name: John Wolcott; Arrival Year: 1634-1635; Arrival Place: Watertown, Massachusetts; Primary Immigrant: Wolcott, John; Source Publication Code: 6799.25; Annotation: Most are date and port of arrival; some are date and place of settlement in Massachusetts. Name of ship, place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical data pertaining to will administration may also be provided.; Source Bibliography: POPE, CHARLES HENRY. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. 550p.;
Household Members:
John Wolcott. - Burial: "U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current"
Ancestry Record 60525 #111372800 (accessed 7 January 2022)
John Wolcott burial (died in 1638) in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America. - Marriage: "U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 3824 #74206 (accessed 7 January 2022)
John Wolcott marriage to Winifred Wolcott in 1634 in New England, USA. - Wolcott, John Benjamin; Waid, Charles V. Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants (The First Six Generations), The Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002
- Bartlett, J. Gardner, Genealogical Bulletin Reference Volume 1 (1904) page 170
- Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts,, published 1860. Page 668
- Chamberlain, George Walter, The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts, published 1923. Reference page 102
- Lechford, Thomas, Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, esq., lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641, published 1885. Reference page 39
- Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
- Walcott, Arthur Stuart, The Walcott book : history and genealogy of the American family of Walcott and notes of English Walcotts, published 1925. Reference page 14
- Wolcott Family Society, "John Woolcott of Watertown MA, 1599-1638" Accessed May 31, 2021
- Wolcott Family Society, Wolcott Family of Somerset, England ; Revised July 2012
- The Wolcott Family Society Facebook Page
- Wolcott, Chandler, Wolcott genealogy : the family of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, published 1912. Reference page 378
- Wolcott, John Benjamin; Waid, Charles V., Wolcott immigrants : and their early descendants (the first six generations), published 2002. Reference page xiii
