. The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut:. bro. Christopher, intestate, 1639,the family , including the manor-house, mill, etc., also came into his posses-sion after his removal to America. The earlier portion of his life was passed in thequiet pursuit of a country squires duties and responsibilities: but, becoming con-verted under the teaching of the Rev. John Elton, he soon found himself closelyidentified with the Puritan party in the religious and political revolution which thenconvulsed England. America presented to him, as to hundreds of others like-minded, the
. The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut:. bro. Christopher, intestate, 1639,the family , including the manor-house, mill, etc., also came into his posses-sion after his removal to America. The earlier portion of his life was passed in thequiet pursuit of a country squires duties and responsibilities: but, becoming con-verted under the teaching of the Rev. John Elton, he soon found himself closelyidentified with the Puritan party in the religious and political revolution which thenconvulsed England. America presented to him, as to hundreds of others like-minded, the only asylum where civil and religious freedom could be found; and,though then past 53 years of age, and with children of an age when they mostneeded the social and educational advantages afforded in their native land,— to em-igrate to a new home beyond the ocean. Taking their three sons, and leavingbehind them for a time two daughters and their youngest son (se. 5), they joinedthe Warham and Maverick emigration of 1630, on the 19th of October in which MR. HENET WOLCOTTS DEED CHEST, 1680.{Wolcotl Family Memorial.) we find Henry Wolcotts name as one of the first list of freemen of Boston. He Dorchester to W. in 1635; in 1637 was elected a member of the lower house ofthe first Genl Assembly of Conn.; in 1640 stands first in a list of the inhabitants of\V.; in 1643 was elected to the House of Magistrates (the present Senate) of Conn.,and was annually re-elected during life, and was probably, after tlie pastor, themost distinguished citizen of W.; the younger ch. who had been left behind, re- 800 GENEALOGIES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF ANCIENT WINDSOR. joined the family between 1631 anil 1641. He d. 30 May, 1655; his wid. d. rtn July5, same year. His est. was inventoried at £764, 8*., lOrf., not a large sum for onewho is known to have sold about £8,000 worth of estate in Eng. preparatory to re-moving to America, and ilhistrating the rcmarli of the historian Trumbull, that
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