Shirley, I missed the opening gun of this MOTT/TALCOTT thread. I descend from Sarah TALCOTT (1595 Braintree, co Essex, Eng - c1640 Hartford, CT) d. of John and Anne (SKINNER) TALCOTT, who md. Wm. WADSWORTH. Did spot your queries: >> 10th gr grandparents >> John -1) TALCOTT b 4 Oct 1562 Colchester, Essex, Eng. d 29 Jan 1604 >> Braintree, Essex, England. md 1594 at county Essex, England, TO: >> Ann -1) SKINNER d/o Wm & Margarie (...) SKINNER. Ann was born >> 1572/74 at Braintree, Essex, Eng, d 6 Apr 1673 Braintree, Essex, Eng. > >Is there a source for the marriage date of 1594? It seems John was born two >years before they married, in 1592. I have no birth or marriage date for John and Anne (SKINNER) TALCOTT but as their 1st child, John was born after 1595, 1594 seems a plausible. However, like you I'd love a source. The date of after 1595 for the birth of their son John is calculated from his age at the time of the will of his grandfather Wm. SKINNER in 1616 per: Waters, Henry F. A.M., Genealogical Gleanings in England: Abstracts of Wills Relating to Early American Families, with Genealogical Notes and Pedigrees Constructed from the Wills and from other Records, Vol. II (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969). In the will he was still minor; therefore, he was born after 1595 to qualify as a minor in 1616. >> 9th gr grandparents >> John 1) TALCOTT b 1592 Braintree, Essex, Eng., d Mar 1660 at Hartford, >> Hartford, CT., md bef 1630 at Braintree, Essex, England TO: Dorothy >> MOTT d/o Mark -1) & Francis -1) (GUTTER) MOTT. > >Is there a good source for Dorothy's parents? Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977; compiled before 1934). Has her parents as John and Abigail (WARRINGTON) MOTT. However, this certainly is not sealed in concrete because: S. V. Talcott, "Talcott and Mott Families" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXI (Boston: NEHGS, 1867), p. 217. Lists no Dorothy as a child of John and Alice. Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XLVI (Boston: NEHGS, 1892)p. 320. The will of Mark MOTT, brother of this John, says "cousin Dorothy the wife of John Talcott." Dorothy would have been Mark's niece rather than cousin but as we all know it was a common practice to call all relatives cousin, brother or sister when they were not. --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ ----------------------------------------------- USGenWeb Mansfield, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html USGenWeb New London, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html USGenWeb Norwich, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html USGenWeb Windham, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html USGenWeb Plymouth, MA http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ -------- New England Genealogy Collections Outside of New England http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/NECollections.html WWW Genealogy Resource Links http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/webresources.html *********************************************************