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     John Talcott Most Worshipful was born circa 1590 at Braintree, Essex, England. He was the son of John Talcott and Anne Skinner. John Talcott Most Worshipful married Dorothy Mott at Brintree Essex. John Talcott Most Worshipful died in March 1660 at Hartford, Conn, USA.

The Most Worshipful John Talcott came to Boston with others of Rev. Hooker and company on the ship Lion in 1632. Settled in Hartford, Conn.

Born after 1583 - minor in father's will of 1604. Essex IGI has m 1615/1620. Assumed born around 1590 taking into consideration the marriage of 1615 & the birth years of his sisters. Ub 1995 according to Richard Clarke Roberts, Connecticut State Library, John b. bef 1604. From "Hale, House and Related Families, mainly of the Connecticut river valley" by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, 1952.

     Dorothy Mott married John Talcott Most Worshipful, son of John Talcott and Anne Skinner, at Brintree Essex.

     John Talcott of Braintree, England. John Talcott was born in October 1562 at Colchester?, England. He was the son of John Talcott and Alice Wells. John Talcott married Anne Skinner, daughter of William Skinner and Margery Trotter, circa 1583. John Talcott died in 1604 at Braintree, Essex, England.

     Anne Skinner married Moses Wall. Anne Skinner was born circa 1570. She was the daughter of William Skinner and Margery Trotter. Anne Skinner married John Talcott, son of John Talcott and Alice Wells, circa 1583. Anne Skinner died on 6 April 1637 at Braintree/Felsted, Essex, England.

     John Talcott was the son of John Tyllcott. From David J. Tylcoat

"John Talcott of Colchester - 1st wife ... d. of .... Wells - 2nd wife Mary d. of Pulen" Shown on a pedigree of the Talcott family in the 1664 Visitation of Essex. This is on p 90 of J.J. Howard's 1888 edition of the visitation. John Talcott was buried in 1606 at St. Peters, Colchester, England. He died on 1 November 1606 at Colchester, England.

     Captain Silas Newcomb was born in 1775. He was the son of Bradford Newcomb and Azubah Phelps.

     Served in the War of the Revolution. Bradford Newcomb was born in 1747 at Lebanon, New London Co., CT. He was the son of Silas Newcomb and Submit Downer Pineo. Bradford Newcomb married Azubah Phelps in 1769. Bradford Newcomb died in 1822 at Greenwich, MA.

     Azubah Phelps married Bradford Newcomb, son of Silas Newcomb and Submit Downer Pineo, in 1769.

     Silas Newcomb was the son of Hezekiah Newcomb and Jerusha Bradford.

     Jerusha Bradford was born on 28 May 1693. She was the daughter of Thomas Bradford and Anna Smith.

     Thomas Bradford was born in 1657 at Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. He was the son of Major William Bradford and Alice Richards.

     Major William Bradford was born on 17 June 1624 at Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA.^1,2 He was the son of Governor William Bradford and Alice Carpenter.¹ Major William Bradford married Alice Richards. Major William Bradford died in 1704.¹

     Alice Richards married Major William Bradford, son of Governor William Bradford and Alice Carpenter. Alice Richards died on 12 December 1671 at Plymouth, MA.¹

     Governor William Bradford was baptized on 19 March 1589/90 at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.¹ He married Dorothy May on 10 December 1613 at Amsterdam, Holland.¹ Governor William Bradford married Alice Carpenter on 14 August 1623 at Plymouth Colony, MA.^2,1 Governor William Bradford died in 1657.

Came on the Mayflower in 1620. He was governor of Plymouth Colony for many years.

Indians

At the time of the landing of the Mayflower, Ousamequin (Yellow Feather), the powerful Native leader of the Pokanoket people, and Great Sachem or Massasoit of the Wampanoag Confederacy, lived in the area now known as Warren, Rhode Island. Despite his own vigor and equanimity, he ruled over a people who had been devistated by diseases brought by European fishermen. The relationships that early explorers to this region had with the Natives were mostly contentious, with both sides frequently initiating combat and taking captives as slaves. In fact, there were many hostile exchanges with the Natives before the the Mayflower voyagers even reached Plymouth. Massasoit forged political and personal ties with William Bradofrd and other colonial leaders which resulted in a peace treaty on March 22, 1621.

More information on the Treaty can be found at Duane A. Cline's page: The Wampanoag/Pilgrim Treaty. This alliance was significant since two outbreaks of smallpox brought by the English had devastated the Wampanoag during the previous five years. While Bradford and Massasoit created a peace that lasted a generation, their children could not sustain it. However, this treaty insured that the Wampanoag did not join the Pequot War in 1636 which resulted in the near total annihilation of the Pequot people.

Numerous conflicts between the colonists and various Indian tribes culminated on 20 July 1636 with the killing of a respected trader named John Oldham while on a trading voyage to Block Island. John Mason was put in charge of a militia raised in Hartford and he set out with Mohegan warriors. On 26 May 1637 Mason's group attacked the Pequot village at Misistuck and killed perhaps 700 Indians, mostly women and children, by turning the village into a "fiery oven." Those Pequot who survived the massacre at Mystic were distributed as slaves to the Mohegan, Narragansett and the Metoac. Others were enslaved and shipped to the West Indies or were forced to become household servants in Puritan households in Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay colonies. The Pequot War ended with the first Treaty of Hartford, signed on September 21, 1638.

In 1675 a fairly long period of peace came to an end with King Phillip's War. Metacom (or Pometecomet, or Metacomet) was the second son of Massasoit who was known as "Philip." When Massasoit's first son, Wamsutta, died in 1662, Metacom succeeded him. Metacom believed that Wamsutta had been treacherously murdered at the hands of the English; this was one of the leading factors that eventually lead to King Philip's War, the bloodiest war in American history that lasted eleven years. On 20 June 1675, some Pokanoket set two Enghish homes on fire and killed some cattle in Swansea, Massachusetts. ³ Thus began the war that would end with the virtual removal of all Indians from New England.

     B. West Talcott was the son of Martin Talcott and Sybil Cutler.