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were men of good intellect and real ability, the Pitkin marriage brought in
a more brilliant strain of talent ; and
that, ever since, it had been in their
lines of Pitkin descent that the chief talent of the Wolcott family had
appeared.
We now come to the third generation of the Wolcott family in New
England, and to the eldest son of the elder branch of that generation,
Henry, ^ born in 1643. He married, in 1664, Abiah daughter of Edward
Goffe Esq. of Cambridge, Mass., and had a son Henry, ^ who died early,
unmarried. Another son of his was Capt. Samnel,^ born in 1679, the first
Wolcott graduated at Harvard College. This Samuel Wolcott took his
degree in 1698, under the presidency of Increase Mather, and died, unmar-
ried, in I 709. Thus the line of the eldest son of the eldest son of the
Wolcott family became extinct in the male line. One of the daughters
of Henry and Abiah (Goffe) Wolcott, named Sarah,^ married Rev.
Charles Chauncey of Stratfield, Conn, (his second wife), a grandson of
Rev. Dr. Charles Chauncey, President of Harvard College, through the
President's youngest son Rev. Israel Chauncey of Stratford, Conn.^
The second child of the elder branch, John,^ was born in 1645 ;
mar-
ried : first, in 1677, Mary daughter of Capt. John Chester and grand-
daughter of Governor Thomas Welles; and, secondly, in 1692, Mrs.
Hannah Nicholas of Stamford, Conn.; and died in 1711-12. One of his
daughters, Mary,^ married John Eliot, a son of John and Elizabeth
(Gookin)' Eliot. He had five sons, one of whom was Charles,^ born in
1681, dead in 1754; at whose death this branch of the family became
extinct in the male line.
8 Memorial of the Chauncej'S. . . . B)' William Chaunce)' Fowler. Boston, 1858, pp. 206, 213.
' For her Gookin descent and relationships, see Family Memorials. .
Salisbury. Privately Printed, 18B5, pp. 375-456.
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