Individual Details
Henry Wolcott
(1578 - 30 May 1655)
IMMIGRATION AND RESIDENCE: To America on the "Mary and John", 30 May 1630 with his wife, Martha, and three of their children: Henry, George, and Christopher (the others arrived soon after), arrived Massachusetts. Dorchester, Massachusetts until 1635 or 1636, then Windsor, Connecticut. Land: 14 acres beyond Naponset. Windsor land inventory of 11 Jan 1640/41, eleven parcels: 12 acre homelot, 22 acres in Great Meadow, 8 acres in Plimouth Meadow, 58 acres toward Hartford, 24 acres over the Great River, parcel over the Great River 20 rods in breadth and 3 miles in length, parcel over the Great River 10 rods in breadth and 3 miles in length, 18 acres over the Great River, parcel upon Plimouth Meadow Bank, 50 acres over the Great River, 8 acres and 50 rods in swamp. Later also parcel over the Great River 13 rods in breadth and 3 miles in length.
PUBLIC SERVICE: Dorcester Selectman 28 Oct 1634, Constable in Windsor, Connecticut April 1636. Member of first General Assembly of Connecticut in 1637. Collector in Windsor, February 1638. Connecticut Legislature April 1639.
BURIAL: 1st Congregational Churchyard, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
PUBLIC SERVICE: Dorcester Selectman 28 Oct 1634, Constable in Windsor, Connecticut April 1636. Member of first General Assembly of Connecticut in 1637. Collector in Windsor, February 1638. Connecticut Legislature April 1639.
BURIAL: 1st Congregational Churchyard, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Events
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Saunders (1584 - 1655) |
| Child | John Wolcott (1607 - 1642) |
| Child | Henry Wolcott (1611 - 1680) |
| Child | George Wolcott (1622 - 1662) |
| Child | Anne Wolcott (1624 - 1704) |
| Child | Mary Wolcott (1626 - 1689) |
| Child | Christopher Wolcott (1628 - 1662) |
| Child | Simon Wolcott (1625 - 1687) |
| Father | John Wolcott Jr. (1545 - 1623) |
| Mother | Agnes Crosse (1552 - 1623) |
| Sibling | Christopher Wolcott ( - ) |
| Sibling | John Wolcott ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. George Hubbard, Ancestors and Descendents of Josiah Hosmer, Jr. (1902).
2. Clifford L. Stott, "Humphrey Blake (1494-1558) and His Descendants in New England and South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Selleck, Torrey, and Wolcott," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 163, Nos. 650, 651, 652 (2009): 85-97, 199-211, 278-295.
3. Robert Griffen and Mitchel Alegre, Wolcott Family in America.
4. Robert Griffen and Mitchel Alegre, Wolcott Family in America.
5. Find-A-Grave.com, online [http://www.find-a-grave.com], accessed.
