John Pickett

d. 1684

Died 1684

Children include Thomas

John Pickett was at Salem in Massachusetts by 1648. On 19 November that year four of his children were baptised together at the First Church: John, James, Thomas and Sarah. The church record dates it in the old style, "19: 9 m: 1648," the ninth month, since the year then began in March. Three more children were baptised at Salem: Rebeca on 30 June 1650, Danyell on 25 January 1651/2 and Jacob on 3 September 1654. Where he came from is not known.

Samuel Orcutt's history of Stratford places the family in that Connecticut town from about 1650, although the last three baptisms were at Salem. His wife was Margaret. Their children married into the towns along the Sound. Sarah married Robert Lane in 1665. John married Mary Crosse in 1672/3. James married Rebecca Keeler in 1673 and was at Danbury by 1690. Rebecca married James Sention of Norwalk on 31 December 1673, and the Norwalk clerk wrote: "James Sention tooke to wiffe Rebecka Pickett, the daughter of John Pickett of Stratford." Thomas married Abigail Seymour of Norwalk in 1676.

Margaret died on 6 October 1683. John Pickett died at Stratford on 11 April 1684.

Children

Thomas Picket b. 1648

Sources

Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct. (1904), archive.org cu31924012053629, p. 309

Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, vol. II (1916), archive.org vitalrecordsofsabyu02sale, p. 173

Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport (1886), pp. 1268-1269, archive.org ahistoryoldtown01conngoog, p. 1268

Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, vol. II (1916), archive.org vitalrecordsofsabyu02sale, p. 173; Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport (1886), pp. 1268-1269, archive.org ahistoryoldtown01conngoog; Edwin Hall, The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Conn. (1865), archive.org ancienthistorica01hall

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