John Wolcott V(2) (abt. 1730 - aft. 1778)

Born about 1730 in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

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Died after 1778 after about age 48 in Bald Eagle Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

"John Wolcott/Wilcott, b. c.1730. According to the History of Center County Pennsylvania, (John B. Linn, 1884) John Wilcot was the first settler in the present township of Potter, which was organized in 1774. It is located in central Pennsylvania in the Appalachian Mountains, and was officially opened to settlers in 1769. In a court case, Miles v. Potter and Barber, 1810, it is recorded that George McCormick testified: "Wilcot was the only settler in Penn's Valley in 1772. He lived where Earlytown now is." Earlytown is also in Potter Township. John Wilcott was one of five men appointed in 1773 to lay out the road from the east end of the Great Plain west to Sunbury. The Great Plain is adjacent to Penns Valley. John Wilcott was one of the 54 men of Bald Eagle and Potter who signed a request for arms and ammunition in 1776. In 1778 John Wilcot is listed at Bald Eagle in Potter Township as having 2 horses and 4 cows but not holding any land, never having gained legal title to the land on which he lived."

DNA Analysis

• Descendants of John Woolcott of Newbury (c.1635-1690), son of John Woolcott of Watertown, (1599-1638), third cousin of Henry Wolcott, the immigrant, show the Wolcott norm with a 35th marker that is 2 steps above the CT/NJ Wolcotts markers.
• In the extended tests there is also a difference in the 14th from last marker from the Connecticut Wolcotts.
• John's descendants include the Pennsylvania Wolcotts, described in the article, "The Illusive Wilcotts", found on the "Descendants of John Wolcott of Watertown" page at this web site, http://www.wolcottfamily.com/dna.html , and the Delaware and North Carolina Wilcotts who have DNA with the differentiation that divides the Connecticutt Wolcotts and the Massachusetts Wolcotts.
• The value of the marker CDYb in the Wolcott DNA Project is that it is the principal marker that distinguishes between the descendants of the immigrant, Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Connecticut, and his second cousin once removed, the immigrant John Wolcott of Watertown, Massachusetts.
• 72 participants are in the Wolcott DNA Project as of July 2014
  • 46 show DNA patterns consistent with being descended from the early Wolcott Family of Devon and Somerset in England that included Henry Wolcott of Windsor and John Wolcott of Watertown..
  • Of these 46, 22 are descended from Henry Wolcott of Windsor, 18 are from John Wolcott of Watertown
    • Of the 22 participants descended from Henry Wolcott of Windsor, 17 show the same value for CDYb and 5 show an increase of 1.
    • Of the 18 participants descended from John Wolcott of Watertown, 17 show a 2 unit increased value over the original Henry value for CDYb, and 1 shows 1 additional increase.
  • To date, no descendant of John of Watertown has shown a Henry value for CDYb, and no descendant of Henry of Windsor has shown a John value.
    • This is very strong evidence that the Pennsylvania Wolcotts could not be descendants of Josiah Wolcott and Lucy White.
      • While there are no known descendants of Josiah's undisputed sons, three of his brothers have living descendants who participated in the project. All five of these descendants show the Henry value for CDYb. It is unlikely that Josiah's dna would be different than that of his three brothers, thus he was most likely a descendant of Henry. SNP testing of Henry's descendants, the most numerous of the Wolcott DNA project participants and which include the descendants of the brothers of Josiah Wolcott, reveals that they belong to haplogroup Y20600, this is definitive proof that Josiah can not have been the ancestor of the Pennsylvania Wolcotts, who belong to Y haplogroup Y22158, which branched from Henry's haplogroup about 1570AD.

Gary Lynn Wolcott's positive result for DNA SNP Y22158 provides definitive proof that descendants of Silas Wolcott of Pennsylvania are descended from John Wolcott I of Watertown, MA including the Wolcott community of Brookfield, MA. Beardsley-386 13:43, 1 November 2016 (EDT)

• 'John V1 and John V2 are the names used to distinguish two half-brothers named John, one born at Brookfield to wife Dinah Walker, and the other believed to have been born while his father was living in the wilderness with Native Americans, mother unknown.

John was born after 1728. He passed away after 1778.

Sources

• Burial: "Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current"
  Ancestry Record 60541 #158650079 (accessed 7 January 2022)
  John Wolcott V burial (died in 1780).
• http://www.wolcottfamily.com/dna.html
• John Woolcott of Watertown MA, 1599-1638
  • Revised May 2013: http://www.wolcottfamily.com/watertown.html
• http://www.wolcottfamily.com/index.html
• Wolcott, John Benjamin Wolcott Immigrants (Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott, Rochester, Washington, 2002)
• Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants (The First Six Generations) : Published by The Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002
• http://wolcottmilitarymen.blogspot.com/ John B Wolcott
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L1KZ-89T