Nielsen Hayden genealogy
John Brockett

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Name John Brockett Alternate birth Abt 1612 [1] Birth Abt 1613 [2] Gender Male Alternate death 12 Mar 1689 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut [1]
Death 12 Mar 1690 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut [2]
Person ID I23377 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 29 Feb 2020
Children + 1. Samuel Brockett, b. 14 Jan 1652, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 26 Oct 1742, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut
(Age 90 years)
Family ID F14052 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Feb 2019
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Notes - "John Brockett was one of the original settlers at New Haven, where he was made a freeman in 1639, and was one of those to sign on June 4, 1639, the compact to govern the community according to the scriptures. He was an excellent surveyor, and was called upon soon after its settlement to lay out the square in the centre of the town, which he did with great accuracy. A few years later the Governor of New Jersey sent for Brockett to lay out Elizabeth Towne (Elizabeth, New Jersey). When the first General Assembly of New Jersey convened at Elizabeth Towne on May 26, 1668, Brockett was chosen as its representative in the House of Burgesses." [Babcock and Allied Families, citation details below]
He was later one of the original founders of Wallingford, Connecticut.
- "John Brockett was one of the original settlers at New Haven, where he was made a freeman in 1639, and was one of those to sign on June 4, 1639, the compact to govern the community according to the scriptures. He was an excellent surveyor, and was called upon soon after its settlement to lay out the square in the centre of the town, which he did with great accuracy. A few years later the Governor of New Jersey sent for Brockett to lay out Elizabeth Towne (Elizabeth, New Jersey). When the first General Assembly of New Jersey convened at Elizabeth Towne on May 26, 1668, Brockett was chosen as its representative in the House of Burgesses." [Babcock and Allied Families, citation details below]
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Sources - [S3763] Babcock and Allied Families by Louis Effingham De Forest. New Haven, Connecticut: De Forest Publishing Co., 1928.
- [S185] Families of Ancient New Haven, originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, vols. I-VIII, compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Rome, New York: Clarence D. Smith, 1923-1932.
- [S3763] Babcock and Allied Families by Louis Effingham De Forest. New Haven, Connecticut: De Forest Publishing Co., 1928.