John1 Curtis, baptized at Nazing, co. Essex, England, 15 Sept. 1577, died possibly at Wethersfield, Conn., about 1640. … He is last of record in England in 1637, when he appears as taxed in the Ship Money list and also sat as a juror in the manorial court of Nazing. Apparently his eldest son John was sent to New England in advance, for a John Curtis, aged 21, embarked in the Safety, 10 Aug. 1635, which corresponds with the age of the younger John. By 1639 the rest of the family followed and settled in Roxbury, Mass., where John's nephew William was already living. In the earliest list of estates drawn up at Roxbury, evidently in 1639, John Curtis is listed with a family of five persons, who would be himself, his wife, and their three sons. Sherman W. Adams supposes that a John Curtis who owned a home lot in Wethersfield, Conn., before 1640 was the younger John of this family, but gives a great deal of misinformation concerning him. Mr. Hoppin thinks it was the older John and that he died in Wethersfield. Certainly John died early in or shortly after 1640. His widow Elizabeth and the three sons were settled in Stratford, Conn., soon after. Two of the sons had children recorded there in 1642.
