Deacon John WADSWORTH

1662 - 1718  (56 years)

• Name	John WADSWORTH  [1, 2]
  	He was representative for nine sessions, between 1703 and 1717 inclusive, and served as Townsman of Farmington as the following vote shows: "This Assembly being informed that great differences are arisen in the town of Farmington about the choice of town officers, to put an issue to such difference and that the affairs of the town may not suffer, this Assembly doth order that Mr. John Hooker, Sam Gridley, John Wadsworth, Sam Cowells and Dan Andross shall be townsmen for this present year." May Session, 1702. At the May session of 1717, he was appointed on a committee "to audit the Colony's accounts with the Treasurer." At the same session he was chosen on a committee to investigate and report to the "Assembly in October next" the matter of the bounds between Waterbury and Wallingford. In October, 1717, the last session he attended as Representative he was chosen "to receive the bills of credit from the Treasurer, in place of Capt. Aaron Cooke dismissed." He is called Deacon in a number of the Probate Documents, even by John Hooker in an affidavit, tho' his name is not included in the printed list of Deacons. [1]
  Prefix	Deacon
  Birth	14 Apr 1662  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aug 1718  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I83066	Main Tree
  Last Modified	18 May 2021

  
  

  Father	John WADSWORTH,   b. Abt 1630, England d. 1689 (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Sarah STANLEY   d. 1718
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Abt 1656  [1, 2]
  Family ID	F33940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth STANLEY,   b. 28 Nov 1672, Farmington, Connecticut d. 25 Oct 1713 (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	20 Aug 1696	Farmington, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Sarah WADSWORTH,   b. 3 Jun 1697   d. 14 Sep 1786 (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F33942	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Mary HUMPHREY
  Family ID	F33948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 20 Aug 1696 - Farmington, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking. [S9347] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.