Talcott researchers, The various spellings of the surname (i.e., Tailcot, Taylcot, Tailcoat) are exactly as I found them in the quoted material in the source. So, too, are the antiquated spellings of some of the words in these quotations. Typos in the text outside the quoted material are my mistakes. I did proofread it against the original but that is not a warrant of error-free transcription, as you know. Source: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of HARTFORD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT (Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families.); Illustrated.; Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1901. Pages 166-168 TALCOTT. The family Talcott was originally of Warwickshire, England. The Arms --Ar. on a pale Sa. Three roses of the field. Crest -- a demi-griffin, erased. Ar. gorged with a collar Sa., charged with three roses of the first. Motto -- VIRTUS SOLA NOBILITAS. (I) John (1) Talcott, a descendant from the Warwickshire family, was living in Colchester, County Essex, previous to 1558. He married (first) -- -- -- Wells, who died, her husband and three children surviving. John Talcott died in Colchester about Nov.1, 1606, survived by his wife and her six children. His will, dated September 24, 1606, was admitted to probate Nov. 12, 1606. His bequests indicate a large estate -- "to his grandchild John Talcoat, the son of my son the John Talcoat, late of Brantree, the sum of 40 pounds good and lawful money to be paid unto himself by myn executors at the age of 20 years if he lyve so long." Signed: John Taylcoat. (II) John (2) Talcott, son of John (1) and -- -- -- Wells, was born (probably) in Colchester, previous to 1558. Married Anne, daughter of William Skinner. He died early in 1604, and before the decease of his father, John (1), and his wife, one son and five daughters surviving. His will, 1604, Anne, his wife, being sole executrix and residuary legatee: "I John Tailcoat of Brantree in the countie of Essex, England, gives his homestead to his wife Anne, during her life, and after her decease to his son John Tailcoat. He gives to dau, Rachel Tailcoat, John Taylcot, my sonne, and to Anne Tailcot, Marie Tailcot, Grace Tailcot and Sarah Tailcot, my daughters, and fortie pounds apeece of lawful money." Signature: John Tailcot Witness: Marke Mott Erasmus Sparhawke James Sparhawke (III) John (3) Talcott, son of John (2) and Anne Skinner, his wife, was born in Braintree, County Essex, England. He married Dorothy, daughter (probably) of Mark Mott, Esq., and Frances Gutter, his wife, of Braintree. Issue: Mary and John, born in England; and Samuel, born in New England. John Talcott was an only son, and was left a minor by the death of his father in 1604. No other family of this name ever emigrated to this country. He came, with others of Rev. Thomas Hooker's Co., to Boston, in the ship "Lion", Capt. Mason, which sailed from England June 22, 1632, and arrived there September 16, 1632. This Company first settled in Newtown (now Cambridge), near Boston. John Talcott was admitted a freeman by the General court of Boston Nov. 6, 1632; was a Representative in the General Court May 14, 1634; was chosen one of the selectman of Newtown February 4, 1634. He was the fifth greatest proprietor of houses and lands out of 80 townsman, 1634. When the party of Mr. Hooker decided to come to Hartford, John Talcott sold all his possessions May 1, 1636, to Nicolas Danforth. The year before he sent Nicholas Clark, the carpenter, to build him a house, which stood where the North church now stands, better known as Dr. Bushnell's Church. He became one of the distinguished "Founders of Hartford", in the Colony of Connecticut; one of the chief magistrates; a member of the General Court for many years; and was styled the worshipful Mr. John Talcott. His will, dated March 3, 1659/60, proved March 3, 1660/61, inventoried 1708-04-04 pounds: "I give and doe give and bequefe unto my sonne, all my housing and house lotts lying in Wethersfield; both of medow and swamp; land upland with all my rights therunto belonging now in the okupation of John Belden, or Enoch Buck, or any other, both on the east, and west side of the river forever to injoy himselve, and Ayers. Provided that he marry, and leave no issue of his body lawfully begoten when he depart this life that then his wife shall only posese it during her natural livfe and then the land and housing to return to the eldest sonne then living of my sonn John to injoy after my sonn John his death" (sic; this makes no sense unless it is to the eldest adopted "sonne" to which the property is to revert. Transcriber). Mrs. Dorothy (Mott) Talcott died February, 1669/70. (IV) Capt. Samuel Talcott, the second son of the worshipful Mr. John Talcott (3) and/or the, his wife, was born probably in Newtown (now Cambridge), Massachusetts, about 1634 or 1635. He married Hanna, daughter of Honorable Elizur Holyoke and Mary Pynchon, his wife, Nov. 7, 1661. She died in Wethersfield February 7, 1677/78, leaving a family of eight children -- six sons and two daughters. He was the scholar of the family, a graduate of Harvard College, 1658; a freeman, 1662; 1669 to 1684 commissioner from Wethersfield; from 1670 to 1684 deputy to the General Court; May 12, 1677, he was lieutenant in the Wethersfield train band; Oct. 14, 1679, lieutenant of troop; Oct. 16, 1681, captain of troop of Hartford county. From 1683, except during the Andross administration, he was an Assistant until his death, Nov. 1, 1691. His will was dated April 22, 1691;inventoried 2181-01-06 pounds; taken Dec. 21, 1691. His will was presented in court Jan. 23, 1661/62, having no witness, "and his hand being so well-known he having wright it all with his own hand the court accepted of it together with the inventory." (V) Cornet Samuel Talcott, son of Capt. Samuel Talcott and Hanna Holyoke, his wife, was born in Wethersfield in 1662, and married Mary, daughter of William and Mary Ellery. He died in Wethersfield April 28, 1698. His estate was inventoried at 774-02 pounds. Children: Samuel, age years; Anne, seven years; and Mary, eight months. Adms. to Mary, the relict and widow. (VI) Ensign Samuel Talcott, son of Cornet Samuel Talcott, born in 1696, married Dec. 5, 1723, Thankfull Belding, born 1731. He died May 6, 1739. Estate inventoried at 3912-18-01 pounds. taken July 3, 1739. Adms. to Thankfull Talcott, widow. (VII) Ebenezer Talcott, son of Samuel Talcott and Thankfull Belding, born 1731, died Aug. 25, 1795, aged 64 years. Sarah, daughter of John Talcott, his wife, died April 13, 1801, age 68. Children: Samuel died young, unmarried. Ebenezer, a sailor, was lost at sea. Samuel, born February 6, 1758, married Mary (Molly) Hurlbut, Dec. 25, 1788; he died Dec. 23, 1794, age 36 years. Josiah, a sailor, was drowned in the Connecticut river. John, a sailor, was lost at sea near Saybrook, coming from the West Indies. Sarah married Capt. James Treat, of Wethersfield. William, born Nov. 7, 1771, married Amelia Hanmer, July 31, 1800; he died June 28, 1813, aged 42 years. Mary died unmarried. Joseph married Anna Boardman in 1803; he died June 17, 1832. (VIII) Deacon William Talcott, son of Ebenezer Talcott and Sarah, daughter of John Talcott, born Nov. 7, 1771, married July 31, 1800, and died June 28, 1813, aged 42 years. His wife, Amelia, daughter of Francis Hanmer, a Wethersfield, born Dec. 18, 1775, died Sept. 4, 1837, aged 62 years. Children: Amelia, born July 6, 1801, married David Hills, of East Hartford; she died April 3, 1847, aged 46 years. Celia, born February 1, 1804, married Harry Robbins, of Wethersfield, Ellen died in 1886, aged 82 years. William, born Sept. 22, 1806, married Eliza H. Harris May 12, 1830, and died March 14, 1886, aged eighty years. Sarah Treat, born July 21, 1809, married John Loveland, and died Dec. 3, 1873, aged 64 years. Francis H., born April 19, 1812, died Dec. 2, 1854, at Brattleboro, VT, aged 42 years. William Talcott was deacon of the First Congregational Church in Wethersfield. A druggist by occupation. (IX) William Talcott, son of Deacon William Talcott and Amelia Hanmer, his wife, born Sept. 22, 1806, married May 12, 1830, Eliza H., daughter of Thomas Harris, of Wethersfield, born April 10, 1806, died March 31, 1883, aged 77 years. He died March 14, 1886, aged eighty years. Children: William Hanmer, born February 17, 1831, married Charlotte F., daughter of Charles Church, of Hartford. Francis Hanmer, born March 3, 1833, married Ellen Sophia, daughter of Nathaniel Hanmer, of Hartford, June 16, 1856. No issue. He died Oct. 30, 1893, aged 60 years. Thomas Harris, born May 23, 1835, a resident of New York City. Elizabeth Amelia, born February 3, 1838, was married Nov. 23, 1864, to James T. Smith, born May 4, 1833. Marshall Decatur, born Oct. 3, 1840, married Alice Benedict, of Marshall, Michigan. Dewitt Clinton, born June 3, 1842, died Aug. 25, 1886, without issue, aged 44 years. Cecelia Augusta, born Nov. 8, 1845, married George Smith, of Wethersfield. Harriet Ella was born March 3, 1849. William Talcott, father of this family, was born and reared in Wethersfield. By occupation he was a builder of houses. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding May 12, 1880, all their children surviving. He was a Representative to the State Legislature in 1847, and was Colonel of the First Regiment, National Guard. (X the major William Hanmer Talcott, born in Wethersfield February 17, 1831, married Nov. 5, 1861, Charlotte F., daughter of Charles Church, of Hartford, born Jan. 31, 1836. Issue: Charles Church, born Aug. 15, 1862, died June 28, 1866, aged four years. William Church Talcott, the second son of Major William H. Talcott, was born February 21, a to. Major William Hanmer Talcott, son of Colonel William Talcott, of Wethersfield, was educated in the town schools of Wethersfield, leaving there in 1848. He served an apprenticeship of four years with Alan S. Stillman, to learn the trade of book-binding in Hartford. After this service he was employed at wages by Edmund Hunt, or others, until 1860, when he bought the bindery of Horace E Goodwin, and began business for himself. Ten years later he bought the bindery of his former master, Capt. Alan S. Stillman, which was established in 1798, it being the oldest in the State. His brother Francis was in partnership from 1870 until his death, in 1893. This successful business of 40 years has resulted in a wide and favorable acquaintance. With his active business life he has found time for other service: two years in the city council, three terms on the board of Alderman (never missed a meeting and but once its opening). The Major is a Democrat in politics; an active member of the Methodist Church; a trustee of the YMCA; a member of the executive committee of the Connecticut Bible Society; a member of Trumbull Council, National Provident Union; a councillor in the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America; major commanding in 1878-79 the First Company, Governor's Foot Guards, chartered Oct. 19, 1771; and a member of the Connecticut Historical Society. The Major has some interesting family papers in his possession, among them being a Colonial writ that has been passed down in the family for over 130 years, coming to our subject with the papers of his father, who in turn received it from his father. It was issued Nov. 19, 1769, in favor of Joseph Talcott, who was treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut from 1756 to 1769, and was a son of Governor Joseph Talcott, who was at the head of the Colonial government for 17 years from 1725. Joseph Talcott had received judgment against Silvanus Phelps, of Hebron, for 8-10-5 pounds, not including the cost of the court, amounting to 8s, 6d, the judgment being obtained before John Ledyard, of Hartford. The constable who served the writ was Samuel Gilbert, Jr., of Hebron, then a part of Hartford County, and the document bears his signature. In want of money, goods or chattels, satisfying the judgment, the sheriff of the town was commanded to take the body of the said Silvanus and him commit unto the keeper of the gaol in Hartford, in the County aforesaid, within this said prison, who is likewise hereby commanded to receive the said Silvanus, and him safely to keep until he pay unto the said Joseph the full suns above mentioned. The Major also has the commission of Ensign Samuel Talcott to command the trained band, dated Hartford May 10, 1735, and Joseph Talcott, Governor of Connecticut Colony, by his Honour's Command, George Wyllys, Secretary. John Talcott and his son-in-law, William Wadsworth, seized the Charter of Connecticut given by Charles II, and secreted it in the oak tree in Hartford afterward known as the Charter Oak . Karl Email: karlh@concentric.net Homepage: http://hakmiller.rootsweb.com/