Simon Wolcott

1624 - 1687  (63 years)

• Name	Simon Wolcott  [1, 2]
  Birth	11 Sep 1624	Somerset, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Between 11 Sep 1624 and 11 Sep 1625  [4]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1630  [5]
  Death	11 Sep 1687	South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Burial	Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Henry Wolcott ,   b. 21 Nov 1610, Somerset, England d. 12 Jul 1680, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 69 years) ▻ Sarah Newberry ,  m. 18 Nov 1641 + 2. Mary Wolcott ,   b. Abt 1622, Somerset, England d. 16 Sep 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age ~ 67 years) ▻ Job Drake ,  m. 25 Jun 1646 + 3. Simon Wolcott ,   b. 11 Sep 1624, Somerset, England d. 11 Sep 1687, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 63 years) ▻ Martha Pitkin ,  m. 17 Oct 1661
  Person ID	I18125	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Henry Wolcott,   b. Bef 6 Sep 1578, Tolland, Somerset, England d. 30 May 1655, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 76 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Saunders,   b. 1584, Lidyard St. Lawrence, Somerset, England d. 5 Jul 1655, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	19 Jan 1606	Lidyard St. Lawrence, Somerset, England   [3, 5]
  Family ID	F11077	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Pitkin,   b. Bef 12 Dec 1639, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England d. 13 Oct 1719, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 79 years)
  Marriage	17 Oct 1661	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [3, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Lt. Henry Wolcott,   b. 20 May 1670, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 17 Nov 1747, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 77 years) + 2. Roger Wolcott, Governor of Connecticut,   b. 4 Jan 1679, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 17 May 1767, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F11076	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Came to New England with his sisters around 1635.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2067] Clifford L. Stott, "The Higginson Family of Berkeswell, Warwickshire, and Its American Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 171:181, Summer 2017; 171:318, Fall 2017; 172:81, Winter 2018; 172:175, Spring 2018. [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. [S2420] Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants (The First Six Generations) by John Benjamin Wolcott and Charles V. Waid. Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002. [S2419] Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut by Chandler Wolcott. Rochester, New York: The Genesee Press, 1912. [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. [S2419] Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut by Chandler Wolcott. Rochester, New York: The Genesee Press, 1912., date only.