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13 4- George ;'^ who settled in Wethersfield, Conn.
14 5. Christopher ;^ who inherited the family-homestead in Windsor,
and died September 7, 1662, unmarried.
15 6. Afary;'^ who married, June 25, 1646, Sergeant Job Drake of
Windsor (see NOtCS Ott tJ|t iFStUUff Of 3ita1fer at the end of this
monograph).
16 7. SIMON,* born between September 11, 1624, and September 11,
1625 ; who, having been seven years old at the time of his father's emigra-
tion, joined the family in New England at a later period, not exactly
known ; married : first, March 19, 1657, Joanna daughter of Aaron Cook ;
and, secondly, October 17, 1661, Martha Pitkin, '"a woman of eminent
good sense, virtue and piety,'" "sister of William Pitkin Esq. of East
Hartford, Attorney-General and Treasurer of the Colony."
Simon Wolcott, with others, in 1667, received a grant of land in Sims-
bury, Conn., and removed there in 1671. But this investment proved
unfortunate, and he returned to Windsor, and afterwards settled at South
Windsor. He died September 11, 1687, under gloomy apprehensions of
sufferings to come to the colonists from the administration of Sir Edmund
Andros. Says his son Gov. Roger Wolcott, in his autobiography :
" It was generally expected persecution for religion would soon ensue ;
it filled
him with agonizing fears, and excited his fervent prayers for deliverance, but God
took him away from the evil he feared to come."
Martha Pitkin, second wife of Simon Wolcott and the mother of all
his children, had been left in England by her brother William, together
with a brother Roger who was an officer in the Royal Army ; but she
followed the former to America, with a view, it is said, to induce him to
return to England.
" This girl [about twenty-two years old at the time] put the Colony in commotion.
If possible, she must be detained ; the stock was too valuable to be parted with. It
was a matter of general consultation what young man was good enough to be pre-
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