Catherine Stoughton

Catherine married John Wilcox, Jr. on 18 Jan 1650 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. John (son of John Wilcox, Sr and Mary Wylsher) was born on 13 Jan 1622 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England; died on 24 May 1676 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Wilcox, III was born on 29 Oct 1650 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 24 May 1676 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
2. Mary Wilcox was born on 13 Nov 1654 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Dec 1711 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
3. Israel Wilcox was born on 19 Jun 1656 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 20 Dec 1689 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
4. Samuel Wilcox was born on 9 Nov 1658 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 16 Mar 1713 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 09 Dec 1593, Abbey, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England
• Residence: 1630, , , Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

THOMAS STOUGHTON
ORIGIN: Aller, Somersetshire
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1635
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: The lengthy theological discourses composed by Thomas Stoughton make it clear that he was a member of the Windsor church, and had probably been a member of the church when it was in Dorchester.
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [ MBCR 1:79, 366].
EDUCATION: To Winthrop and Dudley, Thomas Stoughton wrote on 12 September 1646 "I being neither scholar nor logician, neither any way fitted for (nor attempting to meddle in) dispute until now upon this occasion," and then proceeded to write at great length on just such a range of topics [ WP 5:103-11]. Again on 26 July 1651 he wrote to Winthrop a lengthy theological treatise, signing himself as "Thomas Stoughton son and heir of Thomas Stoughton deceased suffering" [WP 6:113-30]. The reference here is to his father, Rev. Thomas Stoughton, a leading light of Elizabethan Puritanism who was silenced early in the reign of James I and spent the rest of his life producing theological pamphlets. Thomas Stoughton the immigrant may not have had a formal university education, but he must certainly have gone to grammar school, and benefited from the learning of his father and of his brother, Rev. John Stoughton.
OFFICES: Dorchester constable, 28 September 1630 [MBCR 1:76]. Fenceviewer for the East Field, 10 February 1634/5 [ DTR 10].
Connecticut assessor, 11 April 1640 [ CCCR 1:48]. Jury, 2 March 1642[/3], 1 June 1643 (as "Mr. Stoughton"), 30 June 1646 (as "Mr. Stoughton"), May 1657, 6 March 1661/2 [ RPCC 18, 20, 41, 176, 244]. Windsor constable, 4 March 1657 [RPCC 186].
ESTATE: At Dorchester in 1633 "Mr. Stoughton" was responsible for eighty feet of fencing for four cows (although this record may be for his brother Israel Stoughton, as both men were called "Mr." in the Dorchester records) [DTR 2]. On 17 April 1635 reference was made to "Mr. Thomas Stoughton's lot" [DTR 11].
On 11 January 1640[/1] Thomas Stoughton's holdings included the grant of a homelot with fifty-two acres of meadow, "his meadow twenty-four acres" in an exchange with Thomas Gunne; "towards Pyne Meadow sixty nine acres"; "two parcels of swamp and woodland" purchased from the four sons of Thomas Dewey, Thomas, Josiah, Israel and Jedidia; "one parcel is seventeen acres [and] one quarter more or less"; "another parcel thirteen acres" [ WiLR 37].
BIRTH: Baptized Naughton, Suffolk, England, 23 January 1592[/3], son of Rev. Thomas and Katherine (_____) Stoughton (evidently their second son of this name since "Thomas `Sloughe' the son of Thomas & Katherine his wife was bapt. 9 July 1588").
DEATH: Windsor 25 March 1661 [ Grant 82].
MARRIAGE: (1) Great Totham, Essex, 5 May 1612 Elizabeth Tompson. She was buried at Aller, Somersetshire, on 29 December 1627.
(2) About 1634 Margaret (Barrett) Huntington (in his letter of December 1634 to his stepfather Rev. John Stoughton, James Cudworth of Scituate reported that "my uncle Thomas is to be married shortly, to a widow that has good means and has five children" [ Letters of NE 142]). She had married (1) SIMON HUNTINGTON. She died after 14 March 1665/6, when John Winthrop Jr. treated "Mrs. Stoughton, Margaret, of Winsor" [ WMJ 634].
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i ELIZABETH, bp. Great Coggeshall 28 February 1612/3; d. soon.
ii ELIZABETH, bp. Great Coggeshall 20 March 1613/4; bur. there 15 July 1619.
iii ANNA, bp. Great Coggeshall 29 October 1615; no further record.
iv SARAH, bp. Great Coggeshall 10 January 1618/9; d. Windsor 1652 [Grant 82].
v KATHERINE, bp. Great Coggeshall 12 May 1622; m. Hartford 18 January 1649/50 John Wilcock [ HaVR 608].
iv THOMAS, bp. Aller, Somerset, 21 August 1625; m. Windsor 30 November 1655 Mary Wadsworth [ CTVR 42; Grant 65].
ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of ISRAEL STOUGHTON.

COMMENTS: On 1 March 1630/1 "Mr. Tho[mas] Stoughton, constable of Dorchester, is fined £5 for taking upon him to marry Clem[en]t Briggs & Joane Allen, & to be imprisoned till he had paid his fine"; this fine was remitted in the general amnesty of 6 September 1638 [MBCR 1:83, 243].
In 1953 Ralph M. Stoughton, in discussing Thomas Stoughton the son of the immigrant, suggested that "[t]he Sarah Stoughton whose burial in Windsor was recorded in May 1652 was probably his first wife" [ TAG 29:197]. This death more likely applies to Sarah Stoughton, sister of this Thomas, a person who would not have been known to Ralph Stoughton, leaving Thomas with only one known wife.The Great Migration Begins
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PRESERVED PURITAN

Thomas married Elizabeth Montpesan on 5 May 1612 in Great Totham, Essex, England. Elizabeth was born in 1594 in Great Totham, Essex, England; died on 29 Dec 1627 in Aller, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]