Fifth Generation

45. Elizabeth TALCOTT²² was born on 21 Feb 1655 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut.-Col. John Talcott and Helen Wakeman, was born in Hartford, Ct., February 21, 1655, and married Joseph (son of William Wadsworth, who came from England with four children, Sarah, William, who died young, Mary and John, and settled in hartford in 1636. William Wadsworth came out at the same time and in the same ship with John Talcott, senior, was made freeman in 1632, and was frequently chosen Rep. from 1636 to 1675; married July 2, 1644, for his second wife, Elizabeth Stone, a sister of the Rev. Samuel Stone, minister of the first church of Hartford, who outlived him and died in 1681-2. He died in 1675. By this wife he had Elizabeth, b. May 17, 1645; Samuel, b. Oct. 1646; Joseph, 1648; Sarah, 1650; Thomas, 1651; Rebecca, 1656.)
Joseph, and his brothers Samuel and Thomas, were propounded for freemen in 1676. He was a Lieut. in the Philip war, and a Captain in 1630. He married for his first wife Elizabeth, daughter og Bartholomew Barnard, who died Oct. 26, 1710, for his second , Elizabeth Talcott, and for his third, Mary Blackleach, widow first of Thomas Wells, and second of John Olcott. His children were all by his first wife. He died in 1729.
"He it was who on the night of Oct. 1687, aided by Lt.-Col. John Talcott, seized the Charter of Connecticut given by Charles 2d, and secured it in an Oak tree in Hartford."

Elizabeth TALCOTT and Joseph WADSWORTH were married in 1711 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.²¹ Joseph WADSWORTH (son of William WADSWORTH and Elizabeth STONE) was born in 1648 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.²³ He it was who on the night of 31 Oct. 1687, aided by Lt.-Col. John Talcott, seized the Charter of Connecticut given by Charles 2nd, and secured it in an Oak tree in Hartford. He died in 1729 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.