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Third Generation
11. The Worshipful
John TALCOTT11 emigrated
on 22 Jun 1632 from England. He died in Mar 1660 in Hartford, Hartford
County, Connecticut. He was born in Braintree, Essex County, England.
John, son of John Talcott and Anne Skinner, his wife, was
born in Braintree, Essex Co., England, married Dorothy, the daughter of
(probably) Mark Mott, Esq., and Frances Gutter, of Braintree, Essex Co., England.
John Talcott was left a minor by the death of his father in 1604,
and was an only son. The 1st wife of Baggot Eggelston, who came first from Dorchester
in 1630, and thence to Windsor, was a Mary Talcott, whom he married in England
before he came to America
No other family of the name ever emigrated to this country, and all of the
Talcotts here are descendants of the above named John, who settled in Hartford,
Ct. He first came to Boston, Mass., with others of the Rev. Mr. Hooker's Company
in the ship Lion, which sailed from England June 22, 1632, and arrived there
Sunday, Sept. 16, 1632. The following are the names of some of the passengers:
William Wadsworth, Jonathan Wade, Thos. Carrington,
John Talcott, Robert Bartlett, William Goodwyn,
Joseph Roberts, John Browne John White,
John Cogsall, John Churchman, James Olmstedd,
John Watson, Tobie Willet, William Lewis,
Robert Shelly William Curtis, Zeth Graunt,
William Heath, Niel's Clark, Nathaniel Richards,
Richard Allis, Daniel Brewer, Edward Collmer,
Thomas Uskett, Jo Benjamin, Edward Holmer,
Isaac Murrill, Richard Benjamin, Jo. Zotman,
John Wichfield, William James, Charles Glover.
These persons names were taken from an old book of Records of Emigrants found
in Westminster Hall, England. The ship Lion was Commanded by Capt. Mason, and
had 123 passengers (among whom were 50 children) and they all arrived in good
health after a passage of twelve weeks from England.
This company first settled in Newtown, now Cambridge, near Boston. John
Talcott was admitted a freeman by the General Court at Boston, November 6, 1632;
was one of the Representatives in the General Court together with Mr. Goodwin
and Mr. Spencer, for Newtown, May 14, 1634.
At a general meeting of the whole town of New town, held February 4, 1634,
he, and Haynes, Bradstreet, and four others, were chosen Select men of Newtown
to do the whole business of the town.
He was the fifth greatest proprietor of houses and lands in the town, out
of eighty enumerated in the registry of 1634, "of those only who were considered
townsmen."
He owned four houses in the "West End," and maintained and kept
in repair, thirty-six rods of public fence.
These are his houses and lands as recorded in the "Newtown Register
book, October 5, 1635." In the "West End" his dwellings, out-houses,
etc., with 3 1/2 acres of land. In the "Old-fields," 3 3/4 acres of
land in one piece, and 2 acres in another. In "The Neck," 32 acres
of land in one piece, and 45 in another. In the "Ox Marsh," 2 1/2
acres. In the "Large Marsh," 7 1/2 acres. In the "Great Marsh,"
27 1/2 acres in one piece, and 50 acres in another. And in the "Windmill
Marsh," 5 acres.
The Rev. Mr. Hooker joined his people in Newtown, and they, becoming dissatisfied
with their location, after repeated efforts and much difficulty, obtained permission
from the General Court to remove to the Connecticut River. John Talcott thereupon
sold all his possessions in Newtown to Nicholas Danforth, May 1, 1636, and with
about one hundred others left Newtown in June of that year (having first sent
a carpenter Nicholas Clark, over the previous year to build him a house, which
stood on the ground where the North Church [late Dr. Bushnell's] now stands,
and was the first house built in Hartford), led by the Rev. Hooker, and went
on foot, through the wilderness, to the Connecticut River, where they founded
the present city of Hartford; here he took an active part in the affairs of the
town, was a member of the General Court for many years, and was styled "The
Worshipful Mr. John Talcott;" he was one of the committee appointed May1,
1637, to take into consideration the propriety of a war with the Pequot Indians,
and upon whose recommendation a war was accordingly declared. He was one of
the Chief Magistrates of the Colony until his death, which occurred at his Mansion
at the head of Main Street, in Hartford, in March, 1660. He left by his will
his property to his wife and two sons (his daughter having previously died),
and grandchildren. He was buried in Hartford, Conn., and his name is inscribed
upon the monument erected by the citizens of that place to perpetuate the memory
of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut.
Referring to the death of John Talcott, the Rev. John Davenport, of New Haven,
writes to Governor John Winthrop, Jr., under date of March 29, 1660, "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 to me that no art of man could cure him."
Note,----"May 17, 1660, Mr. Bray Rossester, for and in consideration
of his pains in coming to and attending Mr. Talcott in his sickness, was allowed
5(lbs.), and paid out of the Treasury."
The Worshipful John TALCOTT and Dorothy MOTT were married in Braintree, Essex
County, England. Dorothy MOTT12 (daughter of Mark MOTT Esq. and Frances GUTTER) died
in Feb 1669/70 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. She was
born in Braintree, Essex County, England. Dorothy Mott,
widow of the worshipful Mr. John Talcott, died in Hartford, Ct., February,
1670. She is supposed to have been the daughter of Mark, son of Thomas and Alice
(Mead) Mott, of Braintree, Essex Co., England, who was born April 25, 1549, married
Frances Gutter.
Mark Mott was the ultimate heir of his father Thomas, who was the
owner of Sheme Hall, Lexenden hundreds, and other real estate in 1599.
Frances, wife of Mark Mott, died in Braintree, and was buried Feb.
23, 1615.
Mark Mott died in Braintree, and was buried Dec. 14, 1637.
Dorothy Mott, widow of the Worshipful John Talcott, made her will
in Hartford, Ct., Sept. 22, 1669, which follows below. (See appendix I for wills)
As there is no mention made in either the will of John Talcott, or that of
his wife, of property possessed by them in England, it is presumed that they
disposed of it all before they came to this country, with the exception of the
house they lived in Braintree, which was sold by Mr. Mott, brother of Dorothy,
in the year 1644, by order of her husband.
The Worshipful John TALCOTT and Dorothy MOTT had the following children:
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