Peter Wolcott

Peter Wolcott, b. c.1665, d. 1690 Burlington NJ. Peter was about 22 when Samuel Wolcott died. He apparently moved to West Jersey, which had been given to the Quakers a few years earlier. He is not mentioned in Samuel's will, possibly because he was disowned for becoming a Quaker. There is no indication that Sanmuel or his son, Nathaniel, were Quakers. In 1685, the Burlington Society of Friends records show that "Peter Woolcott is willing to make graves and to look at ye fences of ye burying ground." At this time he was also hired to open and close the Friends meeting hall. The records also show that in 1686 Thomas Budd and others were requested to take care of Peter Wolcott and his wife, "being poor." This may have meant that he was in poor health. Peter Woolcott served on a jury at Burlington in 1688. His widow, Joan Wolcott, was a witness to births at Burlington in 1691 and 1693. Jone Woolcott of Burlington m. William Worth of Shrewsbury in 1695 at the Burlington Friends' meeting house. William Worth died at Shrewsbury in 1711, and Joan died at Shrewsbury in 1720. 

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