Son of Jonathan and Mary Newton Walcott was born in Salem Village, December 7, 1666. John Walcott learned his father's craft and was a carpenter.
Shortly after his twenty-fifth birthday he saw his sister, Mary Walcott, then father swept up by the tumult of the Salem witch hunt.
Before his twenty-seventh birthday John married Mary Newton. By the age of thirty-four he had prospered enough to own his own farm with a house on it.
Mary's death left him a widower with five daughters and two sons, all of who to maturity. In 1717 at fifty-one John married a second time to Elizabeth Perkins. She bore him no children. Later in life he bought three acres of meadow in Middletown.
When John Walcott died in 1737 at the age of seventy-one, his estate was worth 730 pounds. All of John and Mary Walcott's daughters married, Son Jonathan was a joiner who married and spent his life in Salem Village, Jabez Walcott was a wheelwright and a yeoman.
John Walcott was buried on the Walcott farm in Middletown (Middleton) at his request.
The Walcott Book: History and Genealogy of the American Family Walcott and Notes of English Walcotts by Arthur Stuart Walcott. Published Salem, Mass, 1925, by Sidney Perley
History of the Walcott and Adams Families by William Odell Walcott, 1961.
Son of Jonathan and Mary Newton Walcott was born in Salem Village, December 7, 1666. John Walcott learned his father's craft and was a carpenter.
Shortly after his twenty-fifth birthday he saw his sister, Mary Walcott, then father swept up by the tumult of the Salem witch hunt.
Before his twenty-seventh birthday John married Mary Newton. By the age of thirty-four he had prospered enough to own his own farm with a house on it.
Mary's death left him a widower with five daughters and two sons, all of who to maturity. In 1717 at fifty-one John married a second time to Elizabeth Perkins. She bore him no children. Later in life he bought three acres of meadow in Middletown.
When John Walcott died in 1737 at the age of seventy-one, his estate was worth 730 pounds. All of John and Mary Walcott's daughters married, Son Jonathan was a joiner who married and spent his life in Salem Village, Jabez Walcott was a wheelwright and a yeoman.
John Walcott was buried on the Walcott farm in Middletown (Middleton) at his request.
The Walcott Book: History and Genealogy of the American Family Walcott and Notes of English Walcotts by Arthur Stuart Walcott. Published Salem, Mass, 1925, by Sidney Perley
History of the Walcott and Adams Families by William Odell Walcott, 1961.