Matthias ST. JOHN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 30 Nov 1628

Matthias married Elizabeth SEELY in Sep 1663 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1632; died after 05 Sep 1732 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James ST. JOHN was born in 1674 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in Jun 1754 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
2. Ebenezer ST. JOHN was born about 1660 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1723-1724 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
3. Mattias ST. JOHN, III was born in 1667; died on 17 Aug 1728 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
4. Mary ST. JOHN was born in 1656 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Aug 1745.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will Proved: Between Jan 1669 and 1670
• Will: 19 Oct 1669
• Death: Abt Nov 1669, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

Came to Dorchester, Mass., about 1632; freeman 3 Sept. 1634. Removed to Windsor about 1640, and in 1654 to Norwalk, where he died about Jan. 1669-70.

Excerpt from "The Whitney Family of Connecticut": Matthias St. John, came from Eng; freeman of Dorchester, 1634; removed to Windsor, about 1638; an early settler of Norwalk, soon after 1650; was named there in a lsit of freeman, 19 Oct. 1669; made his will the same day, and died before 31 Jan. 1669-70. when the inventory of his estate was taken. he mentioned his wife without giving her name; gave "unto my dearly beloved brother and sister ???, Twenty shillings apiece as a token of my love." A year later, 3 Jan. 1670-71, the townof Norwal voted that his son, "Matthias ??? is to take up his proportion of six acres to the hundre upon Elie's neck,next to his unkell Hoite." Probably this was Walter Hoyt.

Matthias married Mary TINKER on 01 Nov 1627 in New Windsor, Berkshire Co., England. Mary was born on 06 Aug 1606 in Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]