Individual Details

Mary Wolcott

(1622 - September 16, 1689)

Mary Wolcott was born in Tolland, England 1622/3. On June 25, 1646 Mary and Job Drake marry, probably in Windsor, Connecticut. They both arrived at Boston in 1630 on the “Mary and John”. Job was 7, not sure who he arrived with. Mary was 8 and came with her family. A coincidence the couple arrived in America on the same ship. Mary’s family ends up in Connecticut by 1636. An even bigger coincidence, this husband and wife die on the exact same day: September 16, 1689. Their double headstone is at FindAGrave in the Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Connecticut: Mrs. Marih Drake, Mr Job Drake.

Events

Birth1622Tolland, Somerset, England
Arrival1630on the Mary and John - Boston, British America
MarriageJune 25, 1646Connecticut, British America - Job Drake
DeathSeptember 16, 1689Windsor, British America
BurialPalisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Families

SpouseJob Drake (1623 - 1689)
ChildAbigail Drake (1648 - 1696)
FatherHenry Wolcott (1578 - 1655)
MotherElizabeth Saunders (1584 - 1655)
SiblingAnna Wolcott (1620 - 1704)

Notes

Birth

Her birthdate is an estimate from her arrival date of 1630, she was 8 years old.

Arrival

Mary has 2 arrival dates. PLatner of the Commonwealth states the ship Henry Wolcott and family sailed on did not have a passenger list. The US Canada Passenger List Index source state Mary age 8 and brother Simon age 5 sailing together.

Death

Mary Wolcott and husband Job Drake may have died on the very same day,

Burial

Mary and Job share a headstone.

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, US and Canada Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, 2010), Index, no image.

2. C. Edward Banks , The Planters of the Commonwealth: a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times; to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony, the ships which brought them, their English homes, and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1975), Page 87 and 91 Mary and John sailed from Plymouth England March 20, Wolcott family.

3. (2008). || Volume 1 page 473.

4. (1847) || Volume 163 page 285.

5. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Volume 3 P-W, page 2051.

6. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .