Person:Joan Wilton (1)

m. Est 1607
  1. David Wilton1608 - 1677/78
  2. Joan Wilton1610/11 - 1679
  3. Robert Wilton1619 - 1640/41
  4. Stephen Wilton1623 - 1638/39
  5. Nicholas WiltonEst 1628 - 1683
Facts and Events
Name Joan Wilton
Gender Female
Christening[1] 14 Jan 1610/11 St Mary's Church, Beaminster, Dorset, England
Death[1][2] 29 Apr 1679 Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Parsons, Gerald James. Were Joseph and Benjamin Parsons and David Wilton of Beaminster, Dorset, England, the New England Colonists?. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1989)
    143:118-19.

    'Children [of Robert Wilton], baptized at St. Mary's Church, Beaminster, Dorset; surname Wilton: ...
    Joan, bp. 14 Jan. 1610/11; undoubtedly the Joan Wilton who d. 29 April 1679, unmarried, at Northampton, Mass. (Northampton Vital Records, transcribed 1:136, ...). ...In his will, dated 25 Dec. 1677, David Wilton left £1 to "my sister Joane Wilton" and "Also my desire is (if my said beloued wife please) that my sister Joane may liue in my house where now shee liues, during her naturall life" (File 6129, Hartford Probate District).'

  2. Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Northampton, Massachusetts: Corbin Collection Volume 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)
    page 108.

    'Deaths from 1677 to 1681 ...
    Wilton Joan Apr. 29 1679'

  3.   Coddington, John Insley. Wilton and Marshall Families of Windsor, Conn., and Northampton, Mass. The American Genealogist. (1962)
    38:1.

    'When David Wilton made his will at Windsor, 25 Dec. 1677, he mentioned (in addition to his wife, daughter and grandchildren), "my Brother Nicholas Wilton," "my sister Joan Wilton," ... Though no place of residence was mentioned for the sister Joan, the inference is that she did not come to America, ...'