Joseph Talcott, Governor of Connecticut

1669 - 1741  (72 years)

• Name	Joseph Talcott
  Suffix	Governor of Connecticut
  Birth	1669  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1741  [1]
  Person ID	I31179	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Lt. Col. John Talcott,   b. Abt 1625, Braintree, Essex, England d. 23 Jul 1688, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Helena Wakeman,   b. Bef 23 Dec 1632   d. 21 Jun 1674, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 41 years)
  Marriage	29 Oct 1650  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F18503	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "Ensign of the Hartford (North) Train Band, Oct. 1697; Lieutenant, Oct. 1698; Captain (between 1706 and 1709); and Major of the Hartford County Militia, May 1710. He was given command of three companies in the Indian War, 1723-24. He was Justice from 1705 to 1710 inclusive; Judge of the County and Probate Courts, 1714, and of the Probate Court, 1715-41; and Judge of the Superior Court, 1721. He was Deputy for Hartford, Oct. 1708, May, June and Oct. 1709, and May, Aug. and Oct. 1710, being Speaker of the Lower House at the 1710 sessions; Assistant, 1711-23; Deputy-Governor, Oct. 1723, and 1724: and Governor, Oct. 1724 to 1735." [Hale, House and Related Families, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S4970] Wakeman Genealogy 1630-1899 by Robert P. Wakeman. Meriden, Connecticut, 1900. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32.