Person talk:John Wilcox (16)

From John Wilcox (44): Who are the wives of this John Wilcox (of Hartford and Middletown) [27 December 2011]

Whitmore in "The Wilcox Family" (NEHGR 29:25-26 1875) states that John, son of John of Hartford, married four times: (1) Sarah d/o William Wadsworth, 17 Sep 1646; (2) Catherine Stoughton 18 Jan 1650 and moved to Middletown; (3) Mary, widow of Joseph Farnsworth of Dorchester (MA), who was previously the widow of ___ Long, she died in 1671; and (4) Esther, dau. of William Cornwell (Middletown VR has a John Willcocke married Esther Cornwell (TAG 13:42)

This scenario is supported by Nash, in "Fifty Puritan Ancestors"

Middletown VR (TAG 13:42) John Willcocke & Ester Cornwell, married (Blank) Willcock, Ephraim s. John & Esther b. 9 Jul 1672 Willcocke, Easter da. John & Easter b. 9 Dec 1673 Willcocke, Mary da. John & Easter b. 24 Mar 1676 Willcock, John d. 24 May 1676

(Next follows VR for the family of Samuel and Abigail (Whitmore) Willcock--Kpb2011 17:54, 27 December 2011 (EST)

In discussion of relationship between the Culver and Winthrop families (TAG 22:110) there is a paragraph pertinent to this Wilcox discussion:

The relationships specified, while thoroughly exploding the Winthrop myth, are rather complicated. Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Wadsworth) Wilcox, born 3 OCt 1648, died 3 Feb 1717/18, married 3 Oct 1666 Thomas Long, son of Joseph and Mary (Lane) Long. They had six surviving children on of whom, as proved by the above deed was Sarah Long, wife of John Culver of Roxbury, NJ. THe Longs were divorced in 1681, and Thoas Long married second, Sarah Elmer, by whom he had five more children; and he died at Windsor, Conn., 8 Nov 1711. Sarah Wilcox, following the divorce married seond, David Ensign, who had been divorced in 1682 from his first wife, Mehitabel Gunn. David Ensign died 12 Dec. 1727 in his 82nd year, and by Sarah (Wilcox) Long had a son David.--Kpb2011 18:03, 27 December 2011 (EST)

In the Stoughton Families (TAG 29:197) Katherine (dau of Thomas Stoughton), married 18 Jan 1649/50 (recorded at Hartford), John Wilcox, Jr., as the second of his four wives." in TAG 29:202, an unnamed daughter of Israel Stoughton may be the Katherine who married John Wilcox, but Thomas Stoughton is more likely the father.

CT Nutmegger (3:202, 203) William's (william Wadwsorth) daughter Sarah was married on 17 Sep 1646 to John Willcox in Hartford, and later removed to Middleton, where after giving birth to a daughter Sarah, born in 1648, she died then, or else eearly in the next year. The familiar custom of the time was to name the first daughter born to a marriage after her mother, and liewise to name the first-born son after his father. Since William and Sarah;s marriage took place in 1625 (month and day unknown), young Sarah would have been just 20 years old on her wedding day. This would certainly suggest that she was their first hild, and i have deduced therefore that she was born in 1626.--Kpb2011 18:25, 27 December 2011 (EST)

NEHGR 75:5 Charles Sidney Ensign

His son, David (James and Sarah) was born at Hartford in 1644. Like his father he was prominent in church and town affairs, and was chosen chimney view, surveyor, and grand juryman. He married first, 22 October 1663, Mehitable Gunn, daughter of Thomas Gunn of Windsor, Conn., who came from Dorchester, Mass, in 1636, and secondly, Sarah (Wilcocks) Long of Middletown, Conn, daughter of John and Sarah (Savage) Wilcocks and former wife of Thomas Long.

Joseph Hand of East Guilford (now Madison) Conn. NEHGR 55:31 Joseph Hand, Jr., .. married Hester Wilcox, daughter of John of Middleton, who died March 15, 1698,

Family of William Cornwall NEHGR 49:40 Children of Sgt William Cornwall and Mary: vii. Ester b 165, d May 2, 1733,, m. 1st 1671 (as 4th wife) John Willcox, Jr. m. 2d 1678 John Stow.

Family of John Savage NEHGR 48:312 Sarah b 30 Jul 1657, m. 28 March 1678, Israel Wilox, son of John and Catharine (Stoughton) Wilcox of Hartford, b. 19 June 1656. He died in 1689 she d. 30 Jan. 1742.--Kpb2011 18:56, 27 December 2011 (EST)

See Hale, House and Related Families (Jacobus and Waterman, 1952), pp. 805-808 for further details.--jaques1724 03:41, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Parentage [18 February 2015]

Manwaring states that the Mary Wilcox (d. 1667) who was of Hartford, widow of John (d 1651), was the not the mother, but the stepmother to John Wilcox, son of John, named in his father's will.

The above was moved from his person page. The John referred to by the writer was not John Wilcox but John Bidwell, husband of Sarah Wilcox (b. abt. 1618) and son-in-law of the Mary Wilcox in question.--jaques1724 00:31, 19 February 2015 (UTC)