Person:William Wilcoxson (6)

William Wilcoxson
b.Cal 1601
  1. William WilcoxsonCal 1601 - Bef 1652
m. Bef 1633
  1. Deacon John WilcoxsonCal 1633 - 1690
  2. Joseph WilcoxsonEst 1635 - 1703
  3. Deacon Timothy WilcoxsonCal 1637 - 1710/11
  4. Sergeant Samuel WilcoxsonCal 1639 - 1712/13
  5. Elizabeth WilcoxsonEst 1642 -
  6. Johanna Wilcoxson1642 -
  7. Hannah WilcoxsonEst 1644 - 1722
  8. Sarah WilcoxsonAbt 1646 -
  9. Obadiah WilcoxsonEst 1648 - Bef 1714
  10. Phebe WilcoxsonAbt 1651 - 1743
  11. Mary WilcoxsonEst 1651 - 1674
Facts and Events
Name William Wilcoxson
Alt Name[2] William Willcockson
Gender Male
Birth[2] Cal 1601
Marriage Bef 1633 to Margaret Harvey
Emigration[2] 1635 On the Planter.
Other[2] 7 Dec 1636 Admitted freeman.
Residence[1] 1639 Stratford, , Connecticut, America (British Colony)
Will[2] 29 May 1651 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Death? Bef 15 Jun 1652 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[2] 16 Jun 1652
Estate Settlement[2] 22 Oct 1668

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.

The Planter (1635)
Part of the Great Migration. This was the Planter's second voyage to New England under Nicholas Trerise.
Sailed: April 1635 from London, England under Mr. Nicol. Trarice (Nicholas Trerise)
Arrived: 7 Jun 1635 at Boston, Massachusetts.

Passengers: Francis Bushnell family - Nicholas Davis (servants James Hayward, Judith Phippen) - William Fellows - George & Jane Giddings (servant Thomas Carter, Michael Williamson)- Richard Haffield family - Job Hawkins - Francis Newcomb family - Thomas Olney family - Francis Peabody - Thomas Savage - Thomas Stansley - John Tuttle family (servant Nathan Haford) - Richard Tuttell family & mother Isabel - Willm. Tuttell family - Wm Wilcockson family - (among others)
Resources: Primary Sources: Passenger list from Totten Founders of New England, NEHGR 14:302
Wikipedia:

References
  1. 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. 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.
  3.   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.