John Wincoll (abt. 1622 - 1694)

Born about 1622 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 22 Oct 1694 at about age 72 in Kittery, York, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Two John Wincolls in Watertown

The earliest John Wincoll in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony

There has been speculation that John was the same as the John Wincoll who was granted land in Watertown in 1636 and 1637. The Watertown list of grants, along with two inventories, are posited by Richard Charles Anderson to have been drawn up in the early months of 1644 by order of the Massachusetts Bay General Court.^[1] The name John Wincoll appears in one of the inventories with pieces of land that are different from the grants. This is the "Inventory of Possessions," giving holdings acquired by purchase or inheritance. Thomas Wincoll is in both inventories, the other being the "Composite Inventory" of all real estate regardless of how they were acquired. His "Possessions" inventory is completely different from that of John's, but his "Composite" inventory shows he somehow acquired John's "Possessions" land. Since both are evidently from about the same time, there is an error involved. Whatever that error may be, John's land was actually in Thomas's hands since it is included in his 1657 estate inventory. This shows all the signs of John either dying or selling his land with the intent to move away.

John Wincoll, son of Thomas Wincoll - when and where was he born and who was his mother?

The following are excerpts from a larger work exploring the evidence for the John Wincoll who appears in New England records after 1646.^[2] This work was written in part for use at this profile, thus explaining the extensive quotations that are otherwise discouraged for Wikitree profiles.

"There is a widely held assumption that John of Watertown and Kittery was the 13-year-old “Jo. Winckoll” who came to New England on the ship Rebecca in 1635.^[3] He was accompanied by Elizabeth Winckoll, age 52, who, by inference, has been called John’s mother and Thomas’s wife. There is no record that connects them to Thomas, whose only wife of record was named Beatrix. Her 1655 Watertown death record says "Beatrix Wincoll wife of Thomas Wincoll dyed the eleventh of Jun: aged abought 80 years.”^[4] Going with this assumption, John’s birth year is estimated at 1622. Anderson thinks the identity of John is correct, but suggests Elizabeth could have been John’s mother or his aunt.

In the early to mid-17th century, the name Thomas Wincoll, with its various spellings, paired with a wife named Beatrice, is found in a few scattered records in England and only in the instance of the Watertown couple in any of the British Colonies. In England, Thomas Winckall and Betterys Feryan married at St. Butolph Aldgate, London, on 3 October 1613 with banns from St. Benet Paul’s Wharf parish.^[5] William Winkall, son of Thomas (no mother named), was baptized on 17 Aug 1617 at St. Mary Whitechapel, London.^[6] John, son of Thomas and Betteris, was baptized on 24 June 1620 in Caxton, Cambridgeshire.^[7] This suggests William was the one buried on 3 June 1619 in Caxton.^[8] Finally, a Thomas “Wynall” the elder was buried in Caxton on 21 September 1626.^[9] This is likely a recording error, since there are no other people with this surname, phonetic spellings included, in or near Caxton in the 17th century. Also in Caxton is an Agnes Wyncoll, wife of Thomas, buried in Caxton in 1616 and a Hannah Wyncoll married there in 1618.^[10] If the William who died in 1619 in Caxton was the one baptized in 1617 in London, and if Thomas and Betterys (Feryan) Wincoll of London were the same as Thomas and Betteris of Caxton, they were somewhat fluid between those two places.

A connection between Caxton and a family named Wincoll is in The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the year 1619.^[11] On a pedigree chart, Thomas of Caxton, son of Roger of Waldingfield, Suffolk, is married to Susan Madock, and they had a son Thomas who was alive in 1619. No other information is given. They must have been the Thomas Wincoll and Susan Maddockes who married at St. Bartholomew by the Exchange, London, on 10 March 1581/2.^[12] In the Little Waldingfield parish register are the baptisms of children of Thomas: Susan, 7 February 1584; Abigail, 16 October 1586; Anna, 10 July 1592, and Ann, 20 August 1593.^[13] Also in Little Waldingfield are burial records for Susan Winckoull on 21 August 1584 and Susan Wincoll in 1619.^[14] If the Susan who died on 1584 was Susan (Maddockes) Wincoll, the Agnes who was buried in Caxton in 1616 might have been a second wife of Thomas, whom he may have married about 1585 in Little Waldingfield. Therefore, the timeline might be that Thomas and Susan lived in Little Waldingfield after they married and had Thomas, Jr., Susan and two Ann(a)s. After 1593, the family moved to Caxton. In Caxton, Agnes died in 1616, Anna/Hannah married in 1618 and Thomas, Sr., died in 1626. The parish records for Caxton begin in 1599.

If Thomas, Jr., of Caxton was the same as the immigrant to Massachusetts, his son John was born in 1620. The two-year discrepancy between the baptism year and the age of the John who came over in 1635 isn’t enough to discount that they are the same person. However, neither of these birth years could be for the John Wincoll who had land grants in the 1636-7, who had to have been born in or before 1615.

Another mystery is the younger John being accompanied by a woman named Elizabeth Winckoll. As mentioned earlier, Anderson (and others) allow that she may have been an aunt, but the presumption is still present in other publications and online that she was his mother. If the passenger list is correct, she was born about 1583. There is no likely woman with that name in indexed English parish registers, so her being an aunt can only be speculation. There is no further record of her. If the ages at death for Thomas and Beatrix are correct, they were born about 1587 and 1575 respectively. This is extremely unlikely if this was a first marriage for Thomas, and far more likely if he married Beatrix as a widow, either in 1613 or later in life. If the Watertown Beatrix was the mother of John baptized in Caxton in 1620, she was about 45. This was at the far end a woman’s fertility, barring intervening circumstances, so the connection is possible. There are no records of other children of this couple indexed after 1620. Despite all this evidence, it doesn’t clearly show how all these people were related."

John Wincoll in Watertown and Kittery

After the 1630s land grants and the supposed 1644 inventory of land holdings, the name John Wincoll doesn’t appear again in Massachusetts Bay Colony records until a list of those becoming freemen at the General Court on 6 May 1646.^[15]

"No towns of residence are given on this list, but many lived in Watertown. The Watertown town records mention him first when he was elected a surveyor on 28 December 1647 and in a land dispute on 29 February 1647/8.^[16] Meadow land John bought from the town is mentioned in the latter record, but that transaction isn’t recorded. To have been elected to a town office, John would have been in town long enough to establish himself as capable of it, putting him in Watertown as a landowner earlier in the 1640s. In 1650, the name John Wincoll starts to appear in recorded deed transactions. As resident of Watertown, he bought several pieces of meadow land in Cambridge on the Watertown town border in that year,^[17] followed by land in Watertown in 1651.^[18]

...he is said to have bought land in Kittery in 1651.^[19] He was elected a selectman there in 1652.^[20] “Mr.” John Wincoll represented Kittery at the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court session of on 18 May 1653.^[21] Also at this session, he was among the residents of Kittery who agreed to submit to the authority of the Massachusetts government. He was called a sergeant of Watertown when he sold land in Watertown on 3 August 1653,^[22] and at the 3 May 1654 General Court session, he represented Kittery again, but as “Lieut.” John Wincoll.^[23] He was “Mr.” again at the 23 May 1655 list of Kittery representatives,^[24] but he was “Sergt.” when, at the same session, he was one of the men appointed to lay out land in the remote meadows of Watertown. As a sergeant, he was elected one of the Watertown selectmen on 27 November 1655.^[25] “Sergt.” John Wincoll presented the inventory of Thomas Wincoll’s estate at court in 1657. On 19 May 1658, he was one of two representatives from Watertown at the General Court, with the prefix “Mr.”^[26] John was appointed a captain at the 24 June 1665 session of the province court of Maine.^[27] In July 1671, he was “Capt.” John of Piscataqua,^[28] lately of Watertown, in his bond involving Thomas Broughton. Thereafter, he was usually referred to as a captain in Maine. Except for the “lieutenant” reference, which may have been a clerical error, the sequence makes sense. “Mr.” was a distinction of elevated social status and could apply to John at any time after he was elected to prominent town duties and started acting as a representative to the legislature. His wife Elizabeth doesn’t appear in records until 1662, when she began jointly selling land with him that would have been part of her dower right.^[29] They sold land in Watertown and Kittery. With all the evidence considered, it isn’t reasonable to think there were two Johns involved. Having said that, it was unusual for someone to have established residency in two different towns at the same time and be a town leader in both."

Who was Elizabeth, wife of John Wincoll?

"Elizabeth's maiden surname isn’t given in extant records. As mentioned above, Wincoll calls Thomas Broughton a brother in a bond record. Wincoll calls Thomas’s son George Broughton a cousin in a deed, which, at the time, usually meant nephew or niece.^[30] Broughton’s wife was Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Honor) Biscoe.^[31] If Wincoll and Broughton were brothers-in-law, Wincoll’s wife would have been either a Broughton or a Biscoe.

There is no credible evidence of where Thomas Broughton came from before coming to Massachusetts Bay Colony, although he had a brother in London.^[32] With so little to go by concerning the Broughtons, Elizabeth could have been one. There is a candidate for identifying John’s wife as Elizabeth Briscoe, but it comes with several problems.

The Biscoes came from Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. An extensive genealogical review based on the registers of that parish were included by Ellery Crane in Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts in 1907.^[33] Previous accounts of Nathaniel and his family were based only on records in New England, the earliest account was perhaps in 1855.^[34] In a list of Nathaniel and Elizabeth’s children found in the Little Missenden records, Crane, or whoever did the research in England, left out daughter Elizabeth, baptized in Little Missenden on 19 February 1616/7.^[35] There is no extant record known to say when the Biscoe family immigrated, but all of Nathaniel’s children of record except Elizabeth, they being Mary, John, Sarah and Nathaniel, are known to have come over, so unless Elizabeth died or married in England (for which there are no records) or died early in Massachusetts, she is a plausible candidate for marrying someone in New England. If Capt. John Wincoll was born in 1620, their age difference was about three years. A wife being older than her husband for a first marriage was unusual, but not so much that it can be discounted, especially if they married later in life than usual. John’s son John’s birth lies in a wide area of possibility, so it can’t be said if Elizabeth was certainly his mother or how old his parents were when he was born.

There was a significant business connection between Wincolll and Broughton, having a shared interest in an important sawmill on the Salmon Falls River in what is now Maine.^[36] John sold his interest to Thomas’s son George.^[37] This further supports that Elizabeth Wincoll was a Broughton, but it’s not insignificant that Thomas’s brother-in-law Nathaniel Biscoe sold John Wincoll some of his land in Watertown on 2 October 1651.^[38] The deed was witnessed by Nathaniel Biscoe, Jr., Thomas Broughton and Mary Broughton. If John’s wife was a Broughton, then Nathaniel Biscoe would be an in-law of an in-law. If she was a Biscoe, they were just in-laws. No other records were found to favor one theory over another, leaving us to speculate on another mystery."

List of land transactions

(John Wincoll of Watertown, grantor, with Elizabeth where noted)

8 Feb 1649/50 - bought land in Cambridge from John Bridge ^[39]

20 Sept 1650 - bought land in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from Edward Goffe ^[40]

2 Oct 1651 - bought land from Nathaniel Biscoe. It was witnessed by Thomas Broughton, Nathaniel Biscoe Jr, and Mary Broughton. ^[41]

12 Nov 1651 - bought land in Cambridge from Richard Champney ^[42]

3 June 1653 - sold land in Cambridge to Thomas Hastings ^[43]

2 August 1662 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Cambridge to John Church ^[44]

2 August 1662 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Cambridge to Thomas Hastings ^[45]

2 August 1662 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Cambridge to William Perry ^[46]

2 August 1662 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Cambridge to Joseph Morse ^[47]

20 October 1662 - bought house and land in Watertown from Thomas "Arnall" (Arnold) ^[48]

26 May 1663 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Watertown to Nathaniel Tredaway ^[49]

30 November 1663 - sold land in Watertown to Simon Coolidge ^[50]

30 November 1663 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Cambridge to John Shearman ^[51]

(John Wincoll in Kittery, grantor, with Elizabeth where noted)

8 June 1672 - Capt. John of Pascattaque, York (Piscataqua, York, now Maine), and Elizabeth sold land in Watertown to William Price ^[52]

11 June 1672 - Capt. John of Kittery sold land in Cambridge to Daniel Warren ^[53]

4 November 1672 - sold land with his wife Elizabeth in Cambridge to Mathew Bridge ^[54]

11 June 1677 - sold land in Cambridge to John Winter ^[55]

13 May 1678 - sold land in Watertown to John Smith ^[56]

13 May 1678 - sold land in Cambridge to Nicholas Cady ^[57]

Marriages

John married Elizabeth (surname unknown) by 2 August 1662.^[58] She may have been Elizabeth Biscoe, baptized in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England, on 19 February 1616/7, daughter of Nathaniel Biscoe and Elizabeth Honor.^[59]

He made a prenuptial agreement with William Spencer, guardian of Mary Etherington of Kittery, on 29 February 1675/6. ^[60]

He married Olive, widow of Roger Plaisted, before 16 September 1682. ^[61]

Child

John had a son, John, but there isn't enough recorded evidence to estimate his birth other than a rough guess. The time-frame of his activity as an adult suggests he was the son of Mary (Etherington) Wincoll rather than Elizabeth (Biscoe?) Wincoll.

King Philip's War

In Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis ^[62] it says:

When King Philip's War broke out in 1675 the Brown farm, on a point extending into the marsh at the foot of Scottow's Hill, was literally a frontier post and the buildings were eventually attacked and burned. On October 30, 1675, Capt. Scottow writes that Capt. John Wincoll and about sixty men went up from Black Point "to guard the house of Andrew brown at Dunstan," and on November 4 Scottow directed Wincoll "to forthwith repair with all the town soldiers to the house of Andrew Brown, there to give war to the Indians."

Death

From the diary of Samuel Sewell is the following entry: Oct. 22, 1694. Capt. John Wincoll mounting his Horse to ride with Major Hook and others, from Newitchewannock to the Point, falls off his Horse; in falling cries, Lord have mercy upon me, and dies imediately.^[63]

Other records to be integrated within profile

He and John Bernard were involved with the estate of the late John Fleming about 23 February 1662. ^[64]

John was involved with the estate of the late John Fleming again on 19 November 1662. ^[65]

Information to be further edited from an older iteration of this profile

Biography from York Deeds, Book IV

From York Deeds, Book IV ^[66]:

After the revolution of April, 1689, John Wincoll of Kittery was chosen clerk of the courts and recorder of the province of Maine, at York, on the 20th of December. Captain Wincoll was then about 67 years old. He came from Watertown, Massachusetts, to Kittery, while still a young man, and was one of the signers of the submission to the government of Massachusetts in 1652. The first representative of Kittery in the general court at Boston, in 1653, he was reelected in 1654 and 1655, and was also one of the selectmen of the town in 1654, and many times afterward. After his service as deputy in 1655, he appears to have returned to Watertown for a time. At any rate he sat for Watertown in the general court for 1658, and in an extensive timber grant from the town of Kittery in 1659, he is described as John Wincoll of Watertown. This grant conveyed to him the right to cut timber above Salmon falls on the great Newgewanac river to the northern boundary of the town and three miles from the river eastward into the woods. Having secured this privilege he built two saw mills at Salmon falls, where he lived for many years. He was aided in this enterprise by Thomas Broughton, a Boston merchant, who had previously been interested in a mill at Sturgeon creek, where Wincoll bought a house and land in 1651. In 1676, a fourth part of the property and rights at Salmon falls was conveyed to George and John Broughton, sons of Thomas, to satisfy their claim. Appointed a justice of the peace by John Archdale in behalf of Ferdinando Gorges, in 1663, Wincoll was reappointed to the same dignity by the royal commissioners who in 1665 overthrew the short-lived Gorges government. After the authority of Massachusetts was restored, in 1668, Wincoll remained in private life for a season in consequence of his acceptance of office from the obnoxious royal commissioners; but from 1671 to 1686 he was continuously in the magistracy — associate of York county from 1671 to 1680, justice of the peace in Governor Danforth's council from 1680 till 1686. He was again deputy for Kittery to the general court in 1675, 1677 and 1678. He was also for many years town surveyor; a large part of the real estate in Berwick was platted by him, and he was often employed as referee in the division of important properties, such as the Lewis and Bonython patent at Saco in 1680 and the Shapleigh estate in Kittery in 1684. As early as 1670, he was captain of the Kittery company. In October, 1675, while he was with his company at Scarborough, which was beset by Indians, his house at Salmon falls was burned by the enemy. In the second Indian war when the greater part of the settlement at Salmon falls was burned by a party of French and Indians in March, 1690, Captain Wincoll's house was twice assaulted but the enemy were beaten off by six or seven men who were within. On the 1st of November, 1692, Wincoll was reappointed clerk of York county under the new Massachusetts charter, and in 1693, when the probate court was reorganized, he was appointed register. He continued to serve as clerk of courts and register of deeds and of probate until October 22, 1694, when he was killed by a fall from his horse.

While the John of this profile was certainly the son of Thomas Wincoll of Watertown,^[67] his birth and his mother's identity aren't clear from available records. His is supposed to have been the same as "Jo. Winckoll," age 13, who travelled with Elizabeth Winckoll, age 52, on the ship Rebecca.^[68] There is no further record of Elizabeth and nothing to show where Elizabeth and John settled. While it's plausible they were the wife and son of Thomas, it's the relatively uncommon last name in 17th century Massachusetts and the first name John that suggests the connection.

John certainly had a wife named Elizabeth, who appears in numerous deed records between. and . There is no record of her after 8 June 1672, when she signed the last of the deeds. Referred to as Capt. John Win---, he had a prenuptial agreement with William Spencer, guardian of Mary Etherington, on 29 February 1675/6 in Kittery. Mary Etherington, based on circumstantial evidence, appears to have been much younger than John, Sr. Her sister Patience is said to have married after 29 February 1675/6, although sources given for this claim were not found to support it. They were both underage when their parents died in 1664.^[69] John had a son named John whose birth can only be very roughly estimated, and it would be plausible for him to have been the one who married Mary except that the prefix "captain" confirms it was his father.

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts , vol. 3 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1919), 23.

John Wincoll yeoman of Watertown MA, proprietor at 6 May 1636, surveyor at 1647. Removed to Kittery...built a sawmill upon salmon falls for Walter Price and Richard Cooke. The town gave him timber on a certain tract of land, this he mortgaged 1666. York Deeds IV. Deposed 6 July 1671 mentioning his "brother" Thomas Broughton. Was associate judge 1673. He was killed 22 Oct 1694 when he fell from his horse. page 238 The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660: A Descriptive List ...By Charles Henry Pope. <https://books.google.ca/books?id=GVAcK6zjUJsC&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=John+Wincoll+died+of+fall+from+his+horse&source=bl&ots=7WA_60GFPi&sig=ZCuSz1t5L1HnIgn5tRPKsjf1HEI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRsrO2stnbAhUENn0KHRZEAYMQ6AEIWjAP#v=onepage&q=John%20Wincoll%20died%20of%20fall%20from%20his%20horse&f=false/>

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68. ↑ John Camden Hotten, The original lists of persons of quality, etc. (London: 1874), 54. [22]. On 9 April 1635, they were list with two teenage boys named Swayne "to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Rabecca" from London. <ref>John Camden Hotten, <i>The original lists of persons of quality</i>, etc. (London: 1874), 54. [https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft/page/54/mode/2up]. </li> <li id="_note-67">[[#_ref-67|↑]] see [[Etherington-248|Thomas Etherington's]] profile.</li></ol></ref>