John Eliot

1667 - 1719  (51 years)

• Name	John Eliot
  Birth	28 Apr 1667  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Mar 1719	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [1, 3, 4]
  Burial	Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I18510	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. John Eliot,   b. 31 Aug 1636, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 13 Oct 1668 (Age 32 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Gookin,   b. 14 Mar 1645   d. 30 Nov 1700 (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	23 May 1666	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F11268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Wolcott   d. Abt 1746
  Marriage	19 Dec 1706  [2]
  Children	1. John Eliot,   b. 21 Jan 1717   d. 27 Nov 1790, Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F11266	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Lawyer and politician. Deputy from Guilford to the Connecticut General Assembly, 1696-97. Deputy from Windsor several times between 1701 and 1718. Speaker of the General Assembly at least eight times. According to William B. Weeden's Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789, this John Eliot's library was unusual and comprehensive for its time. "It contains 243 titles. The brilliant and permanent literature of Queen Anne had made hardly any impression in our colonies, but this collection had two volumes of 'The Tattler.' It is a most heterogenous lot, old histories, sermons, a few medical books, and more upon law, miscellaneous literature, almost all now unknown to the ordinary reader."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2480] Find a Grave page for John Elliot, III. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S2478] Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 by William Horace Eliot. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1905. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., date only. [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.