John Warner

d. 1707

Died 1707

Father: John Warner

Mother: Margaret Warner

Children include Dr.

John Warner was a son of John Warner of Hartford and Farmington in Connecticut, a soldier of the Pequot War, and his wife Margaret. Father and son are both on the list of the freemen of Farmington in 1669 and on the list of its proprietors in 1672. In 1674 both signed the articles for the new plantation at Mattatuck, which became Waterbury, and the son made an early move to secure his right there. His name is in all the fence divisions.

Henry Bronson, the historian of Waterbury, calls him John Warner Jr., to keep him apart from his father. Waterbury's own records called him Sen., because by then he had a grown son John of his own. On 19 February 1702/3 he recorded an acre and a half of land on which his dwelling house stood, east on Jonathan Scott's house lot and on highways on the other three sides. Bronson places it on the north side of West Main Street, near Willow Street. He had owned land next west of Robert Porter in 1687/8. He sold the place to John Judd on 4 March 1704/5.

He had already gone back to Farmington, soon after 1700. He called himself "of Farmington" in a deed of April 1703 and again in 1705/6. Yet his will, dated at Farmington on 27 December 1706, calls him "John Warner Senior of Waterbury but now resident in Farmington." He was "weak as to bodily Strength, and in my own Sense not like to Continue long in this world." He died soon after. His inventory was taken in March 1706/7, and his personal estate was valued at 71 pounds. He signed the will by a mark. Bronson notes that his brother Thomas also signed by a mark.

The will named five children. To Ephraim went eight acres in the Old Town Platt at Waterbury and about half an acre at the north end of the house lot, "this with what I have formerly given to and don for him, Shall be his whole portion." To John went the house and the rest of the homestead in Waterbury and half of all the lands. Robert and Ebenezer divided the remaining Waterbury land. His daughter Lydia Bronson got all the beds and bedding, the household goods "both Iron, brass, pewter, Tinn and wood," and all the sheep. His son John and his son-in-law Samuel Bronson were the executors. His wife is not named in the will.

Three of his sons practised medicine. Ephraim became the physician of Waterbury. Ebenezer practised at Woodbury. John, born on 1 March 1670, was the first settler on Buckshill, lived for a time at Stratford, and on his return about 1723 was "sometimes called Dr. John Warner, as though he had been practicing medicine while absent." He became the first physician and the first deacon of Westbury.

Parents

Margaret Warner

John Warner d. 1679

Children

Dr. Ephraim Warner 1670-1753

Sources

Recorded copy of the will of John Warner Sen. of Waterbury, photographed on Find a Grave memorial 41027605 (photograph 2); dated by Henry Bronson, The History of Waterbury (1858), p. 196

Henry Bronson, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut (Waterbury, 1858), p. 195; archive.org historyofwaterbu00bron, leaf n238

Henry Bronson, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut (Waterbury, 1858), p. 196; archive.org historyofwaterbu00bron, leaf n239

Charles William Manwaring, A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. I (1904), archive.org digestofearlycon01manw, estate of John Warner of Farmington

Henry Bronson, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut (1858), pp. 195-196, archive.org historyofwaterbu00bron; recorded copy of the will of John Warner Sen., photographed on Find a Grave memorial 41027605; Charles William Manwaring, A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. I (1904), archive.org digestofearlycon01manw, estate of John Warner of Farmington, 1679

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