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William Wilcoxson
b.Cal 1601
- William WilcoxsonCal 1601 - Bef 1652
Facts and Events
William was age 34, when he came with his wife, Margaret, age 24, and their son John aged 2, on the ship PLANTER, sailing from London, 10 April 1635, arriving at Boston, Massachusetts on 7 June 1635 (C. E. Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth, p 143). William was a linen weaver in Stratford, Connecticut and a deputy to the General Court in 1647. He died in 1652, leaving a will dated 29 May 1651, inventory 16 June 1652 (Bailey's Abstracts of Fairfield Probate Records 1:75). Margaret remarried and on 22 October 1668 an agreement was signed by her and her Willcockson children.
source: The Connecticut Willcocksons by George E. McCracken appearing in the American Genealogist. vol 59.
References
- ↑ Bostwick, Henry Anthon. Genealogy of the Bostwick family in America : the descendants of Arthur Bostwick of Stratford, Conn., Location. (Ancestry.com, Utah, 2009)
map of Stratford 1639. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 McCracken, George. The Connecticut Willcocksons. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1983)
59:34-35.
- From genealogy of "Abner Wilcox & Lucy Eliza Hart Wilcox":
...just because the passengers of the Planter embarked with a blanket certificate from the minister of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, there is no reason to believe that William lived there. The records of the shire do not contain his name, and he was more likely from Derbyshire, the town of Biggin. If so, his father could have been the William Wilcoxson who married Anne Howdische 8 Feb 1575. Since William was a linen weaver, and Biggin was an area where flax was grown and woven into cloth, there is credibility to this theory.
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