George WOLCOTT

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George Wolcott came with his parents from England. He was made a freeman by the General Court of Connecticut, May 21, 1657, and settled in 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. Elizabeth Treat, and d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 12, 1662. and from the Probate Records that the Christian name of his wife was Elizabeth.

George married Elizabeth TREAT before 1650. Elizabeth (daughter of Hon. Richard TREAT and Alice GAYLARD) was born in 1627 in Pittminster, Somerset, England; was christened on 25 Jul 1627 in Pitminster, Somerset, England; died after 1662 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George WOLCOTT was born on 20 Sep 1652 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died in Jul 1726 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

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• Fact: Son of John Wolcott of Tolland near Taunton, Somersetshire, England

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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.)

Henry married Elizabeth SAUNDERS on 19 Jan 1606. Elizabeth was christened on 20 Dec 1584; died on 7 Jul 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of Thomas Saunders of Lydiard, St. Lawrence Somersetshire, England