Henry WOLCOTT, Sr.

1578 - 1655  (77 years)

• Name	Henry WOLCOTT  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  	By the decease of his elder brother, Christopher, in 1639, he inherited the family estate including the manor house Galdon Hall, but this occurred after his removal to America. The earlier part of his life was spent in the ordinary pursuits of a country gentleman, but becoming converted to Puritanism, he, like hundreds of others, sought refuge in America. Although past 52 years of age at the time and with a family of young children, he joined the part of Maverick and Warham, which emigrated in 1630. it is said he had visited New England two years earlier and returned for his family. He took with him his wife and three sons, leaving behind two daughters and the youngest son, aged 5. On October 19th of this same year, his name appears in a list of those desiring to be made Freemen of Boston and he was sworn May 14, 1634. May 14, 1634, the General Court of Massachusetts granted him and two others liberty "to looke out fiermes for themselves," etc. He first settled at Dorchester, but in 1636 left that place with Warham's party to found Windsor. In February, 1637-8 he was appointed collector of the Rates for Windsor and April 11, 1639, he was one of the so-called Committee of the General Court. At the court of Election held april 13, 1643, he became a magistrate or Assistant, to which office he was annually chosen until his death. After the pastor, he was the most important citizen of Windsor. he is one of the twelve whom Trumbull calls the civil and religious Fathers of Connecticut. It has been said that he inherited a considerable estate in England, but these accounts have doubtless been exaggerated. At his death, his property was inventoried at L764-8-10. In the ancient "Family Chronologie," it is recorded of him and his wife, "these both dyed in hops and Ly buried under one tomb in Windsor." (N.E. reg., 9 p. 338; Ibid., 5, pp. 463-4; Stiles' Ancient Windsor, 2, p. 799; N.E. Reg., I, p. 251; Address by the Rev. Peter Clark Wolcott, Aug. 1911, before the Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott.) [1]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1578  [4]
  Christening	6 Dec 1578	the parish of Lydiard St. Lawrence   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Son of John Wolcott of Tolland near Taunton, Somersetshire, England   [1]
  Death	30 May 1655  [1]
  Person ID	I82723	Main Tree
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	John WOLCOTT,   b. of Golden Manor, Tolland, Somertshire d. Abt 1623, Date of will
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	? UNKNOWN
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F42006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth SAUNDERS,   c. 20 Dec 1584   d. 7 Jul 1655 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	19 Jan 1606  [1, 2]
  Children	1. John WOLCOTT,   c. 1 Oct 1607   d. Bef May 1655 (Age ~ 47 years)  [Birth] + 2. Anna WOLCOTT,   b. 1620   d. Jan 1700 (Age 80 years)  [Birth] + 3. Henry WOLCOTT,   b. 21 Jan 1610/11   d. 12 Jul 1680 (Age 69 years)  [Birth] + 4. George WOLCOTT,   b. England d. 12 Feb 1662/3  [Birth]   5. Christopher WOLCOTT   d. 7 Sep 1662, Windsor, Connecticut  [Birth]   6. Mary WOLCOTT   d. 16 Sep 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  [Birth] + 7. Simon WOLCOTT,   b. 1625   d. 11 Sep 1687, Windsor, Connecticut (Age 62 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F33769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Fact - - Son of John Wolcott of Tolland near Taunton, Somersetshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking. [S12069] Chandler Wolcott, Wolcott Genealogy The Family of Henry Wolcott One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut. [S12070] Samuel Wolcott, Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of Some of his Descendants. [S10254] Ancestry.com: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000.