John Winter, of Cambridge Farms

Biography

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Winter_%282%29

Henry Bond, M.D. Watertown, Massachusetts Genealogies and History. (Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1855) page 656.

The Will of JOHN WINTER, of Camb. Farms, son of the preceeding, aged 56, dated Dec. 12, 1690, proved May 1, 1691, mentions no wife, but sons John (the eldest), Thomas, Samuel and drs. Sarah, Hannah, and Mary. Inventory, Jan. 12, 1690-1, 359 pounds.16.6., by David Fiske, Sr. and Samuel Stone, Sr. The Commisioners appointed by the Coury, Oct. 6, 1691, to the estate, (viz.: Lieut. David Fiske, Samuel Stone, and Lieut. Benjamin Garfield), reported, each of the other chil. 1 share. JOHN HARRINGTON, who m., Nov. 17, 1681, the dr. HANNAH, and guardian of Mary, had received their shares. The shares of the younger chil. to remain in the hands of son John.

JOHN WINTER, of Camb. Farms, son of the preceeding; o.c., in Wat., June 20, 1690, then called "young John," and had,

• 1. SARAH, bap. Ap. 22, 1688
• 2. HANNAH, bap. June 22, 1690, by Mr. Bailey.
• 3. JOHN
• 4. THOMAS
• 5. ABIGAIL
• 6. PATIENCE, bap. Sept. 12, 1698, by Mr. Angier.

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He served as a private in King Philip's War [History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register: Supplement and Index].

He was a private serving in King Philip's War.

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John Winter 1 April 1638–18 December 1690

Birth • 2 Sources 1 April 1638 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Age 52 Death • 1 Sources 18 December 1690 Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Jno Winter in entry for Samuel Winter, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

John Winter 1638-1690

Marriage: 15 June 1665 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Hannah Cutler 1638-1689

Children (8)

Hannah Winter 1665-1741

Sarah Winter 1667-1690

John Winter 1667-1748

Thomas Winter 1669-1691

Joseph Winters 1671-1689

Mary Winter 1675-1723

Elizabeth Winter 1678-

Abigail Winter 1680-

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

John Winter 1606-165

Marriage: 1636/1637

Elizabeth Katherine Wheaton 1613-1653

Children (5)

John Winter 1638-1690

James Obadiah Winter 1639-1675

Catherine Winter 1641-1658

Timothy Winter 1641-1694

Elizabeth Winter 1644-1683

Hannah was born in Watertown, Mass. in 1644 or 1645 [2] after the death of her father, Thomas King. [5]From this we may infer that Hannah's mother Anna, maiden name unknown, was first married to Thomas King, and then married to James Cutler, who raised Hannah as a step-daughter, explaining references to her as Hannah Cutler rather than Hannah King.

However, the will of James Cutler mentions daughter, Hannah, not stepdaughter or daughter of my wife, Mary. The Stuart Bloom assessment of the will of James Cutler appears to be in error.

Citations

• Sanborn, “Great Migration Diary,” NEXUS 15:202-203 (1998). Sanborn uses the will of James Cutler and other contemporary documents to support a convincing analysis that shows that Hannah Winter was the posthumous daughter of Thomas King and the stepdaughter of James Cutler, and not—as had been long accepted, based on incomplete analysis of his will—Cutler’s daughter. Cited by Stuart Bloom

Links

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Winter-461

Notes

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brookefamily/wint...

Selectmen were duly appointed and discharged the duties of their offices. Books were procured for recording land-deeds-David Church serving as town-clerk. Joseph Cady was chosen lieutenant and John Winter ensign of the soldiers or train band, and at the suggestion of some unsuitable person the graceful Indian Aspinock was exchanged for barbarous Killingly. In October of 1708, the Court granted "liberty to the inhabitants of Killingly, to survey and lay out one hundred acres of land within their township for the use and encouragement of a minister to settle there and carry on the worship of God among them." A hundred acres of land for the first settled minister was also pledged to the town by Captain Chandler, in presence and with concurrence of the selectmen.

The growth of the new town was very rapid despite its poverty and remoteness. Land was cheap and open to purchasers. Grantees hastened to take up their rights and sell them out to settlers, so that population increased much more rapidly than in the richer neighboring towns owned by corporations and large land-holders. The land north of Danielson's, extending from the middle of "the long interval" to Lake Mashapaug, was conveyed by Major Fitch to John, Nathaniel and Nicholas Mighill; a farm east of the lake was sold to John Lorton; David Church of Marlborough, and William Moffat settled in the Quinebaug valley, adjoining James Leavens. Many grants were bought up by Nicholas Cady north of Rattlesnake Hill, in the neighborhood of Richard Evans, and sold by him to George Blanchard of Lexington, Thomas Whitmore, William Price, John and Samuel Winter, John Bartlett, William Robinson and others, who at once took possession of this northern extremity of the town. So near were they to the mystical Woodward's and Saffery's Line, that they often ran over it into the territory of Massachusetts, and Captain Sampson Howe, who settled at Nashaway in 1708, though clearly beyond the limits of Connecticut, was ranked among the inhabitants of Killingly. Far in the east, northeast of Rattlesnake-then known as Killingly-Hill, a settlement was begun by Isaac Cutler and his son Jonathan of Cambridge, who purchased of James Leavens, in 1709, land on a brook running into the Assawaga, with a dwelling-house and part of a sawmill.

Within the time allotted, the grantees had taken up their land, and on October 13, 1709, on the payment of forty pounds through Captain Chandler, a patent of the remaining lands in Killingly was granted by the Governor and Company of Connecticut to its proprietors, viz.: Colonel Robert Treat, Major James Fitch, Captain John Chandler, Joseph Otis, James Danielson, Ephraim Warren, Peter Aspinwall, Joseph Cady, Richard Evans, Sen. and Jun., John Winter, Stephen Clap, John and William Crawford, George Blanchard, Thomas Whitmore, John Lorton, Jonathan Russel, Daniel Cady, William Price, William Moffat, James and Joseph Leavens, John, Nathaniel and Nicholas Mighill, John Bartlett, Samuel Winter, Ebenezer Kee, Isaac and Jonathan Cutler, Peter Leavens, Sampson Howe, John Sabin, John Preston, Philip Eastman, David Church, Thomas Priest, Nicholas Cady, John, Thomas, Matthew, Jabez and Isaac Allen. Nearly one-third of these forty-four patentees were non-resident, so that Killingly numbered at this date about thirty families.

XXIV.

Land-Tax. Chestnut Hill. Church Organization. South Killingly Settlement.

Killingly was thus in 1709, an organized township, owning its land and enjoying to an unusual degree the favor and protection of the Government. Only a small part of its large territory was yet occupied. Its inhabitants were mostly gathered within the Quinebaug valley and in the open country north of Killingly Hill. "A gangway" leading from Plainfield to Boston extended through the whole length of the town, connecting by a cross road with the ways to Hartford and Woodstock at the fording-place below the Great Falls of the Quinebaug. Its condition may be inferred from the tradition, that when James Danielson's negro was sent to Boston with a load of produce, he had made so little progress after a day's journey as to go home to spend the first night. The Providence way after encircling the base of Killingly Hill wound back far to the north, past Isaac Cutler's, enabling the inhabitants to procure boards from his sawmill and helping build up that remote section. Mr. Cutler was early allowed to keep a house of public entertainment and his tavern was noted as the last land-mark of civilization on the road from Connecticut to Providence. Other parts of the town were only accommodated with rude bridle paths. A grist-mill was set up by James Danielson and supplied such inhabitants as were remote from Woodstock. Several of the settlers were members of the Woodstock church and many frequented its house of worship but were so remiss in paying their dues that a committee was ordered to report their failure to the Government of Connecticut.

One of the first objects of the town, was to settle religious ordinances among themselves-manifested by "the humble request of Lieutenant Peter Aspinwall in behalf of the inhabitants of Killingly to the General Court convened at New Haven, October 12, 1710, showing:- That whereas said town having been legally convened did pass a vote, That the non-residents of said town should bear a proportion in a tax laid, or to be laid, of fifteen shillings on the hundred acres of all the divided lands throughout said town for the building a meeting-house, a minister's house and for settling a minister-the inhabitants humbly move that the General Assembly would pass their sanction on this vote, which will be a lightening of their burdens and no urgent imposition on the non-residents. Thus in humble confidence of your favor in passing your order with respect to the premises ever imploring the divine blessing to attend the great and honorable Court, we subscribe ourselves your humble petitioners."

This request was graciously granted and power given to levy this rate upon the land of any proprietor who should neglect or refuse to pay. Freedom from the payment of Colony rates had been previously accorded-the sum levied to be improved for building a minister's house and meeting-house. A minister was soon procured-Mr. John Fisk of Braintree, Mass., a son of Reverend Moses Fisk and a graduate of Harvard College in 1702. Religious services were now held in different parts of the town. July 16, 1711, the town agreed to give Mr. Fisk three hundred and fifty acres of land for his encouragement to settle in the work of the ministry. James Leavens and Sampson Howe were appointed a committee to lay out this land; Eleazer Bateman and Ephraim Warren to survey it. Two hundred acres were laid out to him on French River, beyond the bounds of Killingly as it afterwards proved. Seventy-five acres for the homestead were selected on the eastern slope of Killingly Hill, and seventy-five on Assawaga or Five-Mile River. Stated religious services were probably held after this date by Mr. Fisk, though some years passed before his settlement. Special services were held September 9, 1711, when the sacrament was administered by Mr. Estabrook of Canterbury and three children were dedicated to God in baptism. Arrangements were also made for the erection of the meeting-house and minister's house, but no records concerning them have been preserved.

Immigration was still progressing. In 1711, a Massachusetts Colony took possession of Chestnut Hill, an extensive rise of land in the east of the town, with steep sides heavily wooded and a broad open plateau on the summit. This fine site was included in the grants laid out to John and Joseph Haynes, Timothy Woodbridge and Governor Treat; sold by them to John Allen; by him to Captain John Chandler, who sold the whole tract-twenty-four hundred acres for £312-to Eleazer and Thomas Bateman of Concord, Samuel and Thomas Gould, Nathaniel Lawrence, Ebenezer Bloss, Thomas Richardson and Ebenezer Knight, joint proprietors. John Brown, Moses Barret, Josiah Proctor, Daniel Carrol, Samuel Robbins, Daniel Ross and John Grover were soon after admitted among the Chestnut Hill proprietors. Most of these purchasers became valued citizens of Killingly. Home lots were laid out on the hill summit; the remainder of the land was held in common for many years. A road was laid over the hill-top, and carried on to Cutler's mill and the Providence way. The remainder of Haynes's grant was laid out east of Assawaga River, bordering south on Whetstone Brook and was purchased by Nicholas Cady, who in 1709, removed his residence to this more southern locality. This tract, together with Breakneck Hill on the east and much other land in this vicinity, passed into the hands of Ephraim Warren, son of Deacon Jacob Warren of Plainfield and one of the first settlers of Killingly centre. The Owaneco land in the south of Killingly, held by Plainfield gentlemen, was still unsettled and undivided, though many rights were sold and bartered. Edward Spalding bought the rights of James Kingsbury and William Marsh, for £1. 10s. each. In 1708, Michael Hewlett purchased Parkhurst's right for one pound; Jacob Warren sold his right to this land to Nicholas Cady in exchange for land north of Whetstone Brook, southwest from Chestnut Hill," in 1710. Thomas Stevens, at the same date, sold his share to Ephraim Warren of Killingly. John Hutchins bought out the rights of Nathaniel Jewell and Samuel Shepard.

He served as a private in King Philip's War [History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register: Supplement and Index].