Ancestors

John Talcott

John Talcott lived at Braintree in Essex. He was the eldest son of John Talcott of Colchester and his first wife, who was a Wells. His brother Robert became an alderman of Colchester. He married Anne Skinner, a daughter of William Skinner. Their son John Talcott Jr. became one of the early proprietors of Hartford in Connecticut, and their daughter Rachel married John Steele, later secretary of the colony.

He made his will in 1604. Its heading reads "Anno Domini 1601", but it is dated in the second year of King James, and that year ran from March 1604 to March 1605. He made Anne his executrix. He left his son John "my booke of Martirs and my booke intituled by the name of Mr. Roger's booke." The book of martyrs was John Foxe's account of the Protestants who died for their faith. The will names his daughter Rachel, still unmarried and under twenty one, and a tenement in Braintree then occupied by Barnabe Bottell, a tailor.

He bound Anne to pay the children's legacies. She was to "enter her owne bonde in the somme of thre hundred poundes to my Father in law, William Skinner, and Rob't Tailcot." If she married again she was to find "one sufficient suretie that my saide Father-in-Lawe, William Skinner, and Roberte Tailcot, my brother, shall like of, to the same William Skinner and Roberte Tailcot, trulie to p'forme all the legacies which on her parte are to be paide according to the true meaning of this my last Will and Testament." He signed it "John Tailcot". The witnesses were Marke Mott, Erasmus Sparhawke and James Sparhawke.

He died in 1604. The will was proved in London on 24 January 1604/5, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the oath of Moses Wall, "mariti Anne relicte", the husband of Anne the widow. She had married again before the will was proved.

His father outlived him. In September 1606 John Talcott of Colchester made his own will and left forty pounds to "my grandchilde, John Talcoat, the son of my son, John Talcoat, late of Braintree," to be paid at twenty one.

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Cite: Heirology, "John Talcott (d. 1604)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-talcott-1604-fbcbf6.