Henry Wolcott

Bef 1578 - 1655  (> 76 years)

• Name	Henry Wolcott  [1]
  Birth	Bef 6 Sep 1578	Tolland, Somerset, England   [2]
  Baptism	6 Sep 1578	Lidyard St. Lawrence, Somerset, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 May 1655	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Burial	Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Person ID	I18129	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	John Wolcott,   b. Abt 1547, of Tolland, Somerset, England d. 1623 (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Agnes Crosse
  Family ID	F11078	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Saunders,   b. 1584, Lidyard St. Lawrence, Somerset, England d. 5 Jul 1655, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	19 Jan 1606	Lidyard St. Lawrence, Somerset, England   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Simon Wolcott,   b. 11 Sep 1624, Somerset, England d. 11 Sep 1687, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 63 years)   2. Mary Wolcott,   b. Abt 1622, Somerset, England d. 16 Sep 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 67 years)   3. Henry Wolcott,   b. 21 Nov 1610, Somerset, England d. 12 Jul 1680, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F11077	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to New England in 1630 on the Mary and John. First at Dorchester, then at Windsor. Inherited property in England in 1639; the following year he travelled back to England to deal with it, returning in 1641. He was one of the first twelve men elected to the lower house of Connecticut's first General Assembly in 1637, and in 1643 he was elected to the Magistrates, the upper house of that assembly where he was a member until his death.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S2420] Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants (The First Six Generations) by John Benjamin Wolcott and Charles V. Waid. Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2543] John Wolcott, The Wolcott Family of Somerset, England., year and place only.