John Walcott

John Walcott
BIRTH 7 Dec 1666
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH 1737 (aged 70–71)
Middleton Colony, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 187139561

Son of Jonathan and Mary Newton Walcott was born in Salem Village, December 7, 1666. John Walcott learned his father's craft and was a carpenter.

Shortly after his twenty-fifth birthday he saw his sister, then father swept up by the tumult of the witch hunt. Before his twenty-seventh birthday John married Mary Newton. By the age of thirty-four he had prospered enough to own his own farm with a house on it.

Mary's death left him a widower with five daughters and two sons, all of who to maturity. In 1717 at fifty-one John married a second time to Elizabeth Perkins. She bore him no children. Later in life he bought three acres of meadow in Middletown.

When John Walcott died in 1737 at the age of seventy-one, his estate was worth 730 pounds. All of John and Mary Walcott's daughters married, Son Jonathan was a joiner who married and spent his life in Salem Village, Jabez Walcott was a wheelwright and a yeoman. John Walcott was buried on the Walcott farm in Middletown (Middleton) at his request. [2,3]

Parents
Jonathan Walcott 1639–1699
Mary Sibley Walcott 1644–1683

Spouse
Mary Newton Walcott 1670–1711 (m. 1690)

Siblings
Joseph Walcott 1673–1674
Mary Walcott Harwood 1675–1752

Half Siblings
Anne Walcott Felt 1685–1736
Thomas Walcott 1688–1688
William Walcott 1691–1777
Benjamin Walcott 1695–1745

References
[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187139561/john-walcott

Sources
[2] History of the Walcott and Adams Families by William Odell Walcott, 1961.
[3] The Walcott Book: History and Genealogy of the American Family Walcott and Notes of English Walcotts by Arthur Stuart Walcott. Published Salem, Mass, 1925, by Sidney Perley