There was an early settler named John WOTTON in the
Piscataqua region in the 1600s.
According to Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of New England,
Volume IV, page 624 the General Court ordered him home to England in 1654 “to
go home to his w. [wife]”. There is no
reason to believe this man was kin to my 7th great grandfather, John
WOTTON of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
There was also a John WOODIN of Ipswich, who appears to be a different
man, too. There was also a Revolutionary
War pensioner, John Wotton, of Northfield, Massachusetts who appears to be no
relation.
John Wotton, born about 1700 is of unknown origins. I don’t have a birth or death record for him,
just his marriage recorded in the Gloucester vital records and his son’s birth
naming him as the father. He also
appears on a list of early settlers in Babson’s History of Gloucester, on page
261 under “a list of settlers from 1701 to 1750 inclusive, which contains all
new-comers who are known to have been heads of families during that period.”
John Wotton, Jr. was born in 1720. He is another mystery since I don't know much about him either. I know that he had nine children in the Gloucester birth records, including Mary, born on
15 August 1755, my 5th great grandmother. She married to mariner Levi Younger, a Revolutionary
War veteran, and had five children. He
died sometime before 1801 when she remarried to John Carter. There is a guardianship docket 4776 in the
Essex County probate records naming her as guardian for John and Mary Carter,
dated 19 August 1828.
Some WOTTON resources:
I have only found WOTTON records in the Gloucester vital
records, and in Essex County probate records.
There are no WOTTONs (nor any of the spelling variations) listed in
FindAGrave, nor any other mentions in compiled genealogies, journals or local
histories.
My WOTTON lineage:
Generation 1: John
Wotton, born about 1700; married on 12 July 1720 in Gloucester, Massachusetts
to Mary Allen. .
Generation 2: John
Wotton, jr., born 13 September 1720 in Gloucester; married on 6 October 1739 in
Gloucester to Mary Hall. She was born
about 1720. Nine children.
Generation 3: Mary
Wotten, born 15 August 1755 in Gloucester; married on 17 July 1784 in
Gloucester to Levi Younger, son of William Younger and Lucy Foster. He was born 7 February 1756 in Gloucester and
died before 4 February 1806 in Gloucester.
Five children.
Generation 4: Levi
Younger m. Catherine Plummer Jones
Generation 5: Mary
Esther Younger m. George Emerson
Generation 6: Mary
Katharine Emerson m. George Batchelder
Generation 7: Carrie
Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 8: Stanley
Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WOTTON of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 7, 2017 (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/surname-saturday-wotton-of-gloucester.html: accessed [access date]).
I am descendant of Mary Wotton's (b. 1755) brother Benjamin. The family moved to Maine sometime in the mid 1770s
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Wotton came to Friendship Maine summer of 1776.He purchased land of Paul Minck of the German settlement Waldoboro Maine
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