John Talcott

Abt 1594 - 1660  (~ 66 years)

• Name	John Talcott  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1594	Braintree, Essex, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 25 Feb 1660 and 27 Mar 1660	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Alternate death	Mar 1660	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Person ID	I19409	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	John Talcott   d. Between 30 Sep 1604 and 24 Jan 1605, Braintree, Essex, England
  Mother	Anne Skinner   d. Between Jan 1637 and 25 May 1637, Felsted, Essex, England
  Family ID	F11710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Mott   d. Feb 1670, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Marriage	Bef 1625  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Lt. Col. John Talcott,   b. Abt 1625, Braintree, Essex, England d. 23 Jul 1688, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 63 years) + 2. Samuel Talcott,   b. Abt 1635, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 10 Nov 1691, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 56 years)
  Family ID	F11709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Came to New England on the Lyon in 1632. First at Cambridge, where he was a deputy to the general court from 1634 to 1636. He was among the so-called “Adventurers Party” of twenty-five men who set out to explore the area that would become Hartford, led by Founder John Steele in October 1635, prior to the departure from Cambridge of the Rev. Hooker’s party in May 1636. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. He was a deputy to the Connecticut general court from Hartford 1637 to 1653; Treasurer of the Colony 1652, 1654, 1655, 1656 and 1659; Assistant from 1654 to 1659; and Commissioner of the United Colonies 1656 to 1658.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [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., date only. [S4969] Douglas Richardson, "A Royal Ancestry for Mary (Cooke) Talcott of Hartford, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:225, 1994., place 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. [S4969] Douglas Richardson, "A Royal Ancestry for Mary (Cooke) Talcott of Hartford, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:225, 1994., year only.