William WILCOXSON

1601 - 1652  (51 years)

• Name	William WILCOXSON
  Born	1601	Biggin, Derbyshire, England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	89E49F9615F542919D41E4079087093EA6BB
  Died	1652	Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
  Person ID	I23122	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Family	Margaret BIRDSEYE,   b. 1611, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. Jul 1655, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut  (Age 44 years)
  Married	1632	France
  Children	1. John WILCOXSON,   b. 1633, France ,   d. Nov 1690, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut  (Age 57 years)   2. Joseph WILCOXSON,   b. 1635, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 9 Feb 1703, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age 68 years)   3. Timothy WILCOXSON,   b. 1638, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Jan 1713, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut  (Age 75 years)   4. Samuel WILCOCKSON,   b. 1640, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. 12 Mar 1713, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut  (Age 73 years)   5. Elizabeth WILCOXSON,   b. 1642, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Hannah WILCOXSON,   b. 1644, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. 19 Apr 1722, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut  (Age 78 years)   7. Sarah WILCOXSON,   b. 1646, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. 24 Nov 1691, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age 45 years)   8. Obadiah WILCOXSON,   b. 1648, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. 1713, East Guilford, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age 65 years)   9. Phoebe WILCOXSON,   b. 31 Aug 1650, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. 20 Sep 1743, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut  (Age 93 years)   10. Joanna WILCOXSON,   b. 1652, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F9787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  CONFLICT: Birth 1601, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England., Death: 16 jun 1636, Hartford, Ct., Marriage abt 1629, Windsor CT/ or England. Hum3.paf BIOGRAPHY: The first specific allusion to William Wilcoxson in either English or American records, is to be found in Hotten's "Original Lists of persons emigrating to America prior to 1700". There we find that William Wilcoxson, age 34, together with his wife Margaret, age 24,and their infant son John, age 2, sailed from London on the ship, Planter, April 5, 1635. The vessel arrived at Boston, May 26th of the same year and we have the word of 'Orcutt', "History of Stratford and Bridgeport", that his first American home was at Concord, MA. When they appeared at Stratford in 1639 the family was composed of the father, mother and three small children. From this we know that the children were born in Concord. He had arrived from England May 26, 1635 and his very first American home was at Concord, MA. He lived there for four years. The children born here were Joseph and Timothy. At the very beginning of its settlement, Stratford was called Pequennocke, then changed to Cupheag Plantation and then to Stratford. The earliest map of Stratford (as it was in 1639) shows seventeen families living there. This map shows William Wilcoxson's lot in the central part of the "town". On one side of it was the lot of William Beardsley and on the other that of John Peat. Here six more children were born to William and Margaret. Their entire family comprised nine children, all of whom lived to adulthood, married and had families of their own. William Wilcoxson was selected to serve his town as Deputy in the Connecticut Assembly and was on intimate terms with Governors Winthrop and Bulkley. William Wilcoxson died early in the year 1652. This we know from the fact that there is record of the inventory of his will on June 16th, 1652. All his children were still under age, with John, the oldest was but 19, and Phoebe yet a babe in arms. Margaret evidently remarried in 1663 (11 years later) to William Hayden, an immigrant of 1630. By this time John, Joseph, Timothy and Elizabeth had married. William Hayden had removed to Killingworth with his three motherless children and there he was joined by Margaret and the younger Wilcoxson children. John and Timothy remained with their families in Stratford, Elizabeth moved with her husband, Sergeant Henry Stiles, to Windsor. Joseph, already the father of three children, followed his mother to Killingworth and settled there permanently. Samuel married the following year, thus did not live long at Killingworth. The younger chjildren who accompanied their mother to Killingworth were Hannah (who became the bride of her step brother Daniel Hayden), Sarah, Obadiah and Phoebe. Savage corroberates the names of the children of William and Margaret. The name of this line was originally Wilcoxson, but the last syllable was generally dropped about the middle of the eighteenth century. From "Abner Wilcox & Lucy Eliza Hart Wilcox" the fact that just because the passengers of the Planter embarked with a blanket certificate from the minister of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, there is no reason to believe that William lived there. The records of the shire do not contain his name, and he was more likely from Derbyshire, the town of Biggin. If so, his father could have been the William Wilcoxson who married Anne Howdische 2/8/1575. Since William was a linen weaver, and Biggin was an area where flax was grown and woven into cloth, there is credibility to this theory.