John Brockett
John Brockett was the man New Haven sent out to lay its ground out. He was there from the beginning, and the first order that names him is from the general court of 4 January 1639, when the town agreed that the Neck should be planted or sown for seven years "and that John Brockett shall goe about laying it out forthwith."
He kept doing it. In 1645 the court ordered "that brother Brockett shall survey the meddow betwixt the two rocks onn the farr side of the harbour," to see whether it would accommodate two men whose own meadow was too bad to improve. He was chosen a viewer of fences. He was admitted a member of the court on 7 November 1642 and received the charge of freemen, and he was fined a shilling for coming late to training.
One entry catches him whole. The court was worried about the smallness of the bread being sold in the town and wanted it sized, so that the baker might have a due profit and the buyer not be wronged, and it asked whether anybody had a book that might give light on the sizing of bread. John Brockett said he had one, and was desired to carry it to the governor.
He moved up to Wallingford and died there on 12 March 1689/90, aged seventy seven. His wife is in the record too, and only once: the meeting house seating plan puts Sister Brockett in the third seat, with Sister Hill, Sister Clarke and Goody Ford. Her own name is not recorded.
His second and third children were baptised together on 23 February 1644 and one of them was called Be Fruitful. She died young.
Children
Benjamin Brockett (1644-1679)
Sources
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Cite: Heirology, "John Brockett (1612-1689)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-brockett-1612-1689-e1295b.