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31. Lieutenant Colonel
John TALCOTT18 was
born in 1630/31 in Braintree, Essex County, England. He died on 23
Jul 1688 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Lieut.-Col.
John, son of the Worshipful Mr. John Talcott and Dorothy Mott,
was born in Braintree, Essex Co., England, previous to 1632; married 1st Helena,
daughter of John Wakeman, Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, October 29,
1650.
Lieut.-Col. John Talcott died in Hartford July 23, 1688. He came
over from England with his parents and sister Mary (who afterwards married the
Rev. John Russel) in the ship Lyon, in 1632. He resided in Hartford; was made
an ensign in 1650, a captain in 1660; was elected a deputy, or Assistant magistrate,
of the Colony of Connecticut, before it was joined to New Haven, May 18, 1654,
and Treasurer to succeed his father, May 17, 1660, which office he held till
1676. He was one of the patentees named in the Charter of Charles the First,
granted to Connecticut April 20, 1662; which document was entrusted to Wyllis,
Talcott and Allyn for safe-keeping. In 1676, on the breaking out of the Philip
war, he resigned the office of treasurer and was appointed to the command of
the army with the rank of major, and in June of that year went into the field
at the head of the "standing army" of Connecticut, accompanied by 200
Mohigan and "Pequot Indians." In the various battles with the Indians
in which he was engaged, he was always victorious, and obtained great renown
as an "Indian fighter." Many of his official papers are on record
in the Secretary of State's office in Hartford, and are interesting relics of
the memorable Philip war. Early in the war he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel.
In March 1662 the General Court granted to him and to John Allyn 600 acres of
upland and 100 acres of meadow land, to be in Hammonaset (Killingsworth).
Lt.-Col. Talcott died intestate, his property amounting 2232 (lbs.) 3s. 6d.,
was claimed by his oldest surviving son, Governor Joseph Talcott, who petitioned
the General Court May 15, 1691, to give him possession thereof, which he claimed
by right of primogeniture.
Gov. Joseph, the eldest of his two surviving sons, settled in Hartford and
became the head of the family in that city, and Hezekiah, the other son removed
to Durham, Ct., and held a prominent position in that town, they were children
by different wives.
The old account book belonging to Lt.-Col. Talcott, in which he entered a
memorandum of early events connected with his father's family, went into the
hands of his son-in-law, Capt. Joseph Wadsworth, and was used by him for the
same purpose.
It was the custom in those days for each head of the family to keep a parchment
covered account book and besides the accounts kept in it, all important events
that occurred, births, marriages and deaths of parents and children, state of
the weather, crops, etc., were entered in it. In this book of Lt.-Col. Talcott's
were the following memoranda written by himself.
"My Oncle, Mr. Mott, sold my honored father his house (i. e. my honored
father's house) that he lived in Braintry, old England, per order in the year
1644, my father then living in his house in Hartford." (Mr. Mott was the
brother of the first John Talcott's wife, Dorothy Mott.)
"The kitchen that now stands on the north side of the house that I live
in, that was the first house that my father built in Hartford, in the Connecticut
Colony, and was done by Nicholas Clark the first winter that any Englishmen rought
or built in Hartford, which was in the year 1635. My father and mother and his
family came to Hartford in the year 1636, and lived first in the said Kitchen,
which was first on the west side of the chimney.
The great barn was built in the year 1636, and underpined in the year 1637,
and was the first barn that was raised in this colony.
The east end of this house that we live in, and was my father Talcott's,
deceased, was built with the porch that is, in the year 1638, and the chimneys
were built in 1638.
The cowhouse on the north side of the cow yard, now part improved for a corn
house, was finished and built in the year 1640.
The house and barn that was in partnership between my father and my Oncle
Wadsworth, at Farmington, was finished in the year 1642.
The hay barn standing on the north end of the great barn next Capt. Allyn's
garden, was built in the year 1644.
The west end of that house we live in, which was belonging to my Honoured
Deceased Father Talcott, was built in the year 1645.
The prison house or common Gaol for the Colony, was built in Hartford in
the year 1641.
The meeting house or first church built in Hartford, was in the year 1638.
The Peqout war was in the year 1637, at the Englishe's almost first comming
to Connecticut."
From another part of the book which had been used by the Wadsworth family
for accounts, is taken the following family record:
"William Wadsworth, born March, 1723; married July 2d, 1751.
William Wadsworth, Jr., born about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, July 16,
1752.
Roger Wadsworth, born Mch 19, 1756, about 3 o'clock A. M.
William Wadsworth departed this life May 29, 1771, in the 49 year of his
age.
Joseph Wadsworth departed this life Augt 24, 1778, in the 96th year of his
age.
Mary Wadsworth, the wife of Capt. James Nickles, departed this life June,
1783, in the 75th year of her age.
William Wadsworth, Jr., departed this life August 28, 1786 in his 33' year.
Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Semour, departed this life October, 1759.
Daniel Wadsworth was married to Eunis Talcott January 18, 1762.
Joseph Wadsworth, Jr., departed this life March ye 25th, 1758.
Joanne Wadsworth, wife of Joseph Wadsworth, departed this life Febry 7, 1762,
in the 78 year of her age.
Daniel Wadsworth departed thus life Febry ye 25, 1762, in the 42d year of
his age.
Daniel Wadsworth, Jr., son of the above, born Oct. 14, 1762.
Joanne, ye wife of Tim Goodman, departed this life March 9, 1768, aged 57
years."
The book from which the above extracts were taken, was last known to be in
the possession of Judge John Talcott, of Buffalo, N. Y. Lieutenant Colonel
John TALCOTT and Helena WAKEMAN were married on 29 Oct 1650 in Hartford, Hartford
County, Connecticut. Helena WAKEMAN (daughter
of John WAKEMAN) died on 21 Jun 1674 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
She was born in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Lieutenant
Colonel John TALCOTT and Helena WAKEMAN had the following children:
Lieutenant
Colonel John TALCOTT and Mary COOK were married on 9 Nov 1676 in Hartford, Hartford
County, Connecticut. Mary COOK was born
in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. She died in Hartford,
Hartford County, Connecticut. Lieutenant Colonel John TALCOTT and
Mary COOK had the following children:
+52 | i. | Ruth TALCOTT. | 53 | ii. | Sarah TALCOTT
was born on 16 Nov 1679 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
She died on 6 Dec 1679 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. | +54 | iii. | Rachel TALCOTT. | 55 | iv. | Jonathan TALCOTT was born on 15 Feb 1683
in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. He died before 1688 in
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. | +56 | v. | Hezekiah
TALCOTT. |
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