John Wolcott

Sources for birth, marriage and death came from: Williams - Wolcott and Related Families by Turner, Dorothy Williams, p. 100

Henry Wolcott was born in 1579, baptized 6 Dec 1679 in the parish church of Lydiard St. Lawrence in England, and died 30 May 1655 in Windosor, Connecticut. He was the son of John Wolcott II, born 17 Apr 1545; died 10 Dec 1623; and married, 9 Feb 1578/79 to Agnes Crosse, born 3 Jan 1552; died 2 Nov 1623. John II was a miller as was his father, John Sr. born 10 Sep 1516, died 7 Dec 1571; married Agnes Butler, born circa 1523; died 6 Nov 1606.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁶⁹³
The father of Henry Wolcott was John Wolcott of Tolland. The parish record of his birth has disapped, but the faint inscription on his veneralbe sarcophagus next to the Tolland church shows that he died on 21 mar 1618. John Wolcott's will is dated 10 Nov ____ and proved 16 Jan ____.

~European and American family of Wolcott, p. 14

• Will. ⁶⁹⁴
The will of John Wolcot, dated 10 Nov 1623, and proved Jan 16____ bequeaths, "my soule into the hand of god my avious and reddemer of my body to Christian burial, " with bequests "unto John Wolcoot my son John's eldest sonne," . . . "unto Agnes Wolcott, the daughter of John," . . . "unto Mary Wolcott the daughter of my sonne John," . . . "unto Symon Wolcott my kinsman," . . . "unto Giles More my servant," . . . and "unto Richard Locke, Alexander Thatloke, John Sealy and Alexander Engrance;" . . . and makes John Wolcott executor; witnessed by Christopher Wolcott and Henry Woolcott, his two eldest sons - being in the handwriting of the former.

~Memorial of Henry Wolcott, p. 3

John married Agnes Cross 9 Feb (1578) 1579 in Parish of Lydiard, St. Lawrence, Somerset, England.⁵⁴⁰