Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Rev. John Eliot
1636 - 1668 (32 years)1. Rev. John Eliot was born on 31 Aug 1636 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 13 Oct 1668; was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: 11 Oct 1668
Notes:
A.B. Harvard College, 1658. Assistant to his father in proselytizing Native Americans. He was the first pastor at the First Church in Newton, Massachusetts.
Family/Spouse: Sarah Willett. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Willett, Mayor of New York and Mary Brown) was born on 4 May 1643; died on 13 Jun 1665; was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
John married Elizabeth Gookin on 23 May 1666 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Maj. Gen. Daniel Gookin and Mary Dolling) was born on 14 Mar 1645; died on 30 Nov 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. John Eliot
was born on 28 Apr 1667; died on 25 Mar 1719 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
Generation: 2
2. John Eliot (1.John1) was born on 28 Apr 1667; died on 25 Mar 1719 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. 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."John married Mary Wolcott on 19 Dec 1706. Mary (daughter of John Wolcott and Mary Chester) died about 1746; was buried in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 3. John Eliot was born on 21 Jan 1717; died on 27 Nov 1790 in Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), Middlesex, Connecticut.
- 3. John Eliot
Generation: 3
3. John Eliot (2.John2, 1.John1) was born on 21 Jan 1717; died on 27 Nov 1790 in Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), Middlesex, Connecticut. Notes:
A.B. Harvard College, 1737. A merchant in New Haven, in 1760 he moved to Spencer, Massachusetts where he owned a mansion house and was much in public life. In 1770 he moved to Upper Middletown, Connecticut, where he died.
John married Lydia Atwater on 7 Mar 1739. Lydia (daughter of Jeremiah Atwater and Lydia Rosewell) was born on 18 Oct 1715; died on 28 Jan 1776. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 4. Lydia Ann Eliot was born on 22 Jun 1760; died on 17 Sep 1836.
- 4. Lydia Ann Eliot
Generation: 4
4. Lydia Ann Eliot (3.John3, 2.John2, 1.John1) was born on 22 Jun 1760; died on 17 Sep 1836. Lydia married Dr. Daniel Lee on 4 Feb 1784 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Daniel (son of Benjamin Lee and Mary Ely) was born on 5 Jul 1762 in of Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 5. Nancy Atwater Lee was born on 30 Apr 1787 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died on 12 Apr 1846; was buried in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.
- 5. Nancy Atwater Lee