Person:John Eliot (14)

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m. Oct 1632
  1. Hannah Eliot1633 - 1708/09
  2. Rev. John Eliot1636 - 1668
  3. Rev. Joseph Eliot1638 - 1694
  4. Samuel Eliot1641 - 1664
  5. Aaron Eliot1643/44 - 1655
  6. Benjamin Eliot1646/47 - 1687
m. Bef 1662
  1. Sarah Eliot1662 - 1687
m. 23 May 1666
  1. John Eliot1667 - 1719
Facts and Events
Name[1] Rev. John Eliot
Gender Male
Birth[2][3] 31 Aug 1636 Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Degree[2][3] 1656 Harvard College
Marriage Bef 1662 to Sarah Willet
Marriage 23 May 1666 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusettsto Elizabeth Gookin
Will[5] 8 Aug 1668
Death[2][4] 13 Oct 1668 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[5] 9 Jan 1668/69

For a detailed overview of the life and career of Rev. John Eliot, see Sibley's sketch in Harvard Graduates.

References
  1. Gookin, Frederick William. Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687: assistant and major general of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry. (Chicago: Priv. print., 1912)
    page 179.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:110.

    "JOHN, Newton, first min. of that town, then Cambridge vill. s. of the apostle, freem. 1660, ord. 20 July 1664, had w. Sarah, third d. of Thomas Willet, the disting. first Eng. mayor of N. Y. of wh. the Cambridge rec. gives date of d. 13 June 1664, but Jackson's Hist. says 1665. By her he had Sarah, bapt. 21 Sept. 1662, wh. m. 16 Nov. 1681, John Bowles. He m. next, 23 May 1666, Elizabeth d. of Daniel Gookin, had John, b. 28 Apr. 1667, H. C. 1685, wh. was a man of some distinct. at Windsor in Conn. At the age of only 32 he was cut off, 13 Oct. 1668, in his will of 15 Aug. preced. provid. for the two ch. and ano. if his w. Extrix. had one. She m. 8 Dec. 1680, Edmund Quincy."

  3. 3.0 3.1 John Eliot entry, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    1:631.

    Children...ii JOHN, b. 31 August 1636 [ RVR MS 1; RChR 76 ]; Harvard 1656 [Sibley 1:476-80]; m. (1) by 1662 Sarah Willet (only child bp. Roxbury 21 September 1662 [ RChR 124]), daughter of THOMAS WILLET; m. (2) Cambridge 23 May 1666 Elizabeth Gookin, daughter of Daniel Gookin.

  4. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    2:543.

    Elyott, John, [died] Oct. 13, 1668.

  5. 5.0 5.1 Eliot, William H, and William S Porter. Genealogy of the Eliot Family. (New Haven, Conn.: George B. Basset & Co., 1854)
    138-42.