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Arms :
Arg.
tlttfein-^olcott
Woltntt
a chevron between three chess-rooks Ermines ; Crest : a bull's head erased Arg.,
armed Or, ducally gorged, lined and ringed of the last ; Motto :
I by
addictus Jurare in verba magistri.
7iullius
HE materials of this monograph are drawn from the "Memorial
of Henry Wolcott .
. . and
of some of his Descendants,"
the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Wolcott of Longmeadow, Mass.,
printed in 1881 for private distribution. This beautiful and elaborate
memorial-volume embraces all that was known of the male line of the
family, up to that time ; and
must remain, for generations to come, the
chief authority on the subject it treats of. The following paper is, there-
fore, mostly an abstract of Dr. Wolcott's volume. We had his kind
permission to make it ; and
it was submitted to him and met his
approval. The distribution of that costly book was necessarily so limited
that to provide for a wider acquaintance with its contents seemed to be
desirable. All our quotations are in the words of Dr. Wolcott, unless
otherwise credited. From the facts given in this book we have drawn up
a Pedigree of Wolcott, the first that has been made in tabular form, which
we add as our contribution to Wolcott genealogy.
HENRY 3 WOLCOTT, a first settler of Windsor, Conn., to whom
most of the Wolcotts of New England trace back their descent, emigrated
from Tolland, co. Somerset, where the family is found to have been Hving
as early as 1525, all the earlier generations being as devoted Papists as our
emigrant Wolcott ancestors were distinguished for their adherence to the
principles of the Reformation. They were of the class of English "gen-
tlemen ;" the eldest brother of the emigrant Henry held, in 1618, under
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