John Talcott (aft. 1592 - 1660)

Born after 1592 in Braintree, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Mott) Talcott — married [date unknown] in Braintree, Essex, England

Descendants

Died 23 Mar 1660 before age 68 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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John Talcott migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1794) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

He was referred to as "The Worshipful" John Talcott.^[1]

Born by about 1594, son of John and Anne (Skinner) Talcott (apparently eldest of five children in 1604 when his father named him in his will, and under age in 1606. Came from Braintree, Essex, England to Massachusetts Bay in 1632 on the "Lyon." First settled in Cambridge, but moved to Hartford in 1636.

In Hartford he took an active part in civic duties, and was a member of the General Court for many years and was styled "The Worshipfull Mr. John Talcott."^[1]

He died between 25 February 1659/60 and 27 March 1660 (John Winthrop Jr. treated him for stomach pains on 16 November 1659, and apparently for the last time on 25 February 1659/60; on 29 March 1660 Rev. John Davenport wrote to John Winthrop Jr. "I am sorry for your loss of Mr. Talcott, whose decease I heard of, but not how his diseases were found incurable, till I received your letter of the 27th, whereby it is most clear to me that no art of man could cure him."

Will dated 12 Aug 1659, inventory taken 4 Jan 1660 " ...bequeath ... onto Dorethy my loving wife ... unto my sonn John ... onto my sonn Sam ... grand child John Russell, grand child John Tallcott ... grand child Same well Talcott ... grand child Elizabeth Tallcott ..." and others

Married by about 1625 Dorothy Mott, daughter of John and Alice (Harington) Mott. John Winthrop Jr. treated her for sciatica on 30 November 1658 and for swollen legs on 19 April 1660. He treated her 7 September 1667 for ague. She was living 1 June 1669 when he gave her something for breathing and swelling. She died at Hartford in February 1669/70

Marriage

Spouse: Dorothy Mott Talcott (____ - 1669)

Children

1. Samuel Talcott (____ - 1691)
2. Mary Talcott Russell (1625 - 1650)
3. John Talcott (1630 - 1688)

Burial

Ancient Burying Ground Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, according to the Founders Monument.^[2]

Research Notes

1624 - John lived elsewhere in Essex County where he met a future North America immigrant and Lyon passenger.

Another passenger aboard the Lyon in 1632 had 1st made John's aquaintance about 12 years previous, being abt May 1624. That passenger was Penarth-born, William Lewis, in Glamorganshire County, Wales, and his wife Felix Collins. In 1624, Lewis receives a gift of property belonging to Felix's dad, William's father-in-law, Walter Collins, of Stanstead, Essex, England. The gift property is located in Stanstead, consisting of land and a dwelling house (shorthand for this is "messuage, etc.,"), which at the time of the Deed was occupied by one John Talcott of Braintree, Essex County.

We know that John's family was of Braintree. As there are few John Talcotts of Braintree, it seems highly probable this was the same John Talcott who borded the Lyon along with William and Felix twelve years later.

Deed of land naming Felix's dad, and Talcott, who was aboard the Lyon w his wife and two children with w Wm & Felix and their son, Wm.

from the Stanstead Deeds Book: - Deed, Walter Collins, late of Cardiff, Glamorganshire, now of Stanstead, Essex conveyed May 3 1624 to my son-in-law William Lewys of St. Messuage, etc, now in the occupation of John Talcolt late of Braintree...&c.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Talcott, Sebastian Visscher. Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876. (Albany, 1876), pages 22-27.archive.org LINK
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35303680/john-talcott: accessed 04 September 2023), memorial page for John Talcott (1594–1660), Find A Grave: Memorial #35303680, citing Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703). (Founder's Monument, not original gravestone.)
3. ↑ Lewis with Collateral Lines...&c by Barnes, Harriet Southworth Lewis Publication date 1910, privately published link to digitized images

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (Boston: NEHGS, 1995), vol. 3 "P - W", pp 1794-1797, biography of John Talcott. AmericanAncestors.org (paid) LINK

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Baltimore, MD, 1952):745-752. Free link on Archive.org

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 50 no. 1 (January 1896): 134-135. Genealogical Gleanings in England: Talcott, by Henry F. Waters. Books.google.com LINK

• Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol 1. (Hartford, Conn., 1904): 154, will of John Talcott, Archive.org LINK

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut', (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut): pp. 592.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Ronda Bennett for starting this profile.
• Thanks to Elizabeth Loftus for starting this profile.
• This person was created through the import of Rodney Timbrook Ancestors and Relatives_2010-09-10.ged on 10 September 2010.
• This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 13 September 2010.