Descendants of Tinker

 

Generation No. 1

1.  RANDALL1 TINKER1,2 was born Abt. 15373, and died Unknown.

 

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Child of RANDALL TINKER is:

2.                i.    ROBERT2 TINKER, b. Abt. 1565, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England; d. 02 Jun 1624, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  ROBERT2 TINKER (RANDALL1)3,4,5 was born Abt. 1565 in New Windsor, County Berkshire, England6,7, and died 02 Jun 1624 in New Windsor, County Berkshire, England8,9.  He married (1) AGNES BERRINGTON9 14 Feb 1589/90 in New Windsor, County Berkshire, England9.  She was born Oct 1568 in Dachet, County Buckingham, England9, and died 05 Dec 1600 in England9.  He married (2) MARY MERWIN10,11,12 26 Jan 1600/01 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England12, daughter of THOMAS MERWIN and MARGARET.  She was born Abt. 1575 in Amersham, County Buckinghamshire, England13,14, and died Aft. 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA14.

 

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Burial: 02 Jun 1624, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England14

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Residence: Abt. 1648, Was Living In Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA18

       

Children of ROBERT TINKER and AGNES BERRINGTON are:

                   i.    RANDALL3 TINKER18, b. 10 Dec 1591, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. Bef. Jun 1594, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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                  ii.    RANDALL TINKER18, b. 23 Jun 1594, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. 28 Mar 1664, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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                 iii.    THOMAS TINKER18, b. 31 Aug 1595, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. 11 Nov 1596, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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                 iv.    EDWARD TINKER18, b. 17 Oct 1596, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. 11 Nov 1596, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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                  v.    MARGRET TINKER18, b. 05 Feb 1597/98, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. Aft. 11 Mar 1641/42, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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                 vi.    THOMAS TINKER18, b. 27 Jul 1600, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. 16 Aug 1670, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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Children of ROBERT TINKER and MARY MERWIN are:

                vii.    SARAH3 TINKER18, b. Abt. 22 Nov 1601, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. 01 May 1617, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

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Burial: 01 May 1617, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18

Christening: 22 Nov 1601, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18

Record Change: 06 Oct 200118

               viii.    HELEN TINKER18, b. Abt. 160418; d. Unknown.

Notes for HELEN TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

Also known as Ellen; baptism not found.  By the terms of the 1623 will of her father, Ellen and her sister Mary were to inherit a messuage or tenement in Winkfield, Berks, following their mother's death or remarriage.  Helen's husband may be the William Hulbard (or Hulbeard) who appeared in 1633 at Dorchester, Mass., and afterwards lived at Windsor and Hartford, Conn., and Northampton, Mass.

Record Change: 06 Oct 200118

3.               ix.    MARY TINKER, b. Abt. 06 Aug 1606, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England; d. Aft. 1670, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

                   x.    ROBERT TINKER18, b. Abt. 20 Feb 1608/09, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18; d. Bef. 12 Feb 1625/26, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18.

Notes for ROBERT TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

In 1623, he was a legatee in his father's will, to inherit a messuage or tenement with closes, tanyards, and buildings in Burnham, Bucks, following his mother's death or remarriage.

Burial: 12 Feb 1625/26, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18

Christening: 20 Feb 1608/09, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18

Record Change: 06 Oct 200118

4.               xi.    RHODA TINKER, b. Bef. 16 Jun 1611, New Windsor, Berkshire, England; d. Nov 1694, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

                 xii.    JOHN TINKER18, b. 13 Jul 1613, England18; d. 21 Oct 1662, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA18.

Notes for JOHN TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

Immigrant to New England.  By the terms of his father's will in 1623, John was to inherit a messuage or tenement in Burnham, Bucks, following his mother's death or remarriage.  Sometime prior to 1638 he and his mother, the widow Mary Collins, immigrated to New England, settling first probably at Dorchester, where two of his married sisters, Mary Sension and Anne Thornton, already resided.  He may have come by 1636, possibly with John Hawthorne and William Knight, both of Berkshire, who settled then in Salem.  In 1638, John Tinker returned to England on business, commissioned by Governor Winthrop to look after his affairs in England.
    In 1640, he returned from England and settled in Windsor, CT, where his mother and several sisters then resided.  They were joined there by Tinker's nephew, Miles Merwin; the two may have sailed from England together.  John Tinker acquired a 226-acre tract of land with housing at Poqonnoc in Windsor on the east side of the Rivulet or Farmington River.  Walter Hoyt, then of Windsor and his probable brother-in-law, owned a 50-acre tract opposite Tinker's farm.  On 14 Apr 1654, then a resident of Boston since 1648, Tinker sold these premises to Edward Griswold, Thomas Holcomb, and Samuel Phelps. Besides this property in Windsor, Tinker also owned a houselot and other lands in Wethersfield.
    On 3 May 1654, John Tinker was made a freeman of the Mass Bay Colony. About 1655, he moved to Lancaster, where he served as town clerk and selectman.
  In August 1659,  John Tinker moved with his family to New London, CT, where he settled on a 240-acre farm on the east side of the Thames River, within present-day Groton.  He took charge of the disorganized affairs of Governor John Winthrop the younger, traveling often to Boston and Hartford.  He served as Moderator of the Town Meeting and Deputy to the General Court for New London.  His estate amounted to 145 pounds 15 shillings.

Christening: 18 Jul 1613, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18

Record Change: 06 Oct 200118

                xiii.    ANNE TINKER18, b. Abt. 21 Jul 161618; d. Bet. 1653 - 168318; m. THOMAS THORNTON18, 23 Apr 1633, St. Margaret Monastery, London, County Middlesex, England18; b. Abt. 1607, Staines, County Middlesex, England18; d. 15 Feb 1699/00, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA18.

Notes for ANNE TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

She was of Horton, Bucks, when she married.  Shortly after marriage, they immigrated to New England, where they settled initially at Dorchester.  On 6 Oct 1633, the town appointed Goodman Thorneton and one Phillips "to see the fences for the Westfield."  Thomas was made a freeman 3 Sept 1634.  On 22 Nov 1634, the town of Dorchester ordered Thomas Thorneton, Thomas Sandford, and Henry Wright to "have four acres of ground on the west side of the way by Mr. Hathornes by the brooke on Roxbury bounds."  On 4 Jan 1635/36, the town granted Thornton and several others "great lotts at the bounds betwixt Roxbury & Dorchester at the great hill," Thornton's allotment was a 16-acre tract.  In 1638, Thomas Thornton and his brother-in-law recorded articles of agreement of factorage made between them.
    Sometime prior to 1640, Thomas and his family removed from Dorchester to Windsor, Conn., where he owned a homelot in the Palisado.  About 1647 he sold his Windsor property to Thomas Ford and Ford's son-in-law, John Strong, and removed to Stratford, Conn.  In 1649, Thomas Thornton was appointed one of the overseers of the will of William Hills of Fairfield.  He served as Deputy to the General Court, 1651, and was on the war committee for Stratford in 1653.
    Soon after 1653, he returned to England where he became a minister.  [Was Anne still living?  This is about the date of the last child.]  At the restoration of King Charles II, he was ejected from his living and returned to New England where he settled at Yarmouth, Mass by 18 Jun 1663.  In 1677 he removed to Boston, where he joined Mather's church.  In Jan 1694 Cotton Mather called to testify how Margaret Rule was raised from her bed by an invisible force, to touch the garret floor, being "lifted up from all that was under her."

Christening: 21 Jul 1616, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England18

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Burial: Unknown, Copp's Hill, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA18

Record Change: 06 Oct 200118

                xiv.    SARAH TINKER18, b. Abt. 162019; d. 06 Jun 165220.

Notes for SARAH TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

DEATH: One week after the birth of her sixth child, who did not long survive her. She is believed to be the Sarah Tynkler, aged 15, who appears on a list made 17 June 1635 of passengers to be transported to New England on the Blessing. She joined the Scituate church on 14 May 1637.

Christening: 26 Jul 1619, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England20

Record Change: 06 Oct 200120

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

3.  MARY3 TINKER (ROBERT2, RANDALL1)21,22,23 was born Abt. 06 Aug 1606 in New Windsor, County Berkshire, England23,24, and died Aft. 1670 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA25,26.  She married MATTHIAS SENTION, SR.27,28 01 Nov 1627 in New Windsor, County Berkshire, England28.  He was born Oct 1604 in St Botulph's, London, County Middlesex, Englang29,30, and died 31 Jan 1669/70 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA31,32,33.

 

Notes for MARY TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

By the terms of the 1623 will of her father, Mary and her sister Ellen were to share the legacy of a house in Winkfield, Berks, following their mother's death or remarriage.  Matthias and Mary (Tinker) Sension resided in the parish of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, where he was a chandler.  They immigrated to New England, and were living at Dorchester by 3 Sept. 1634 when he was made a freeman of the Mass Bay Colony.  On 4 Jan 1635/6, the Town of Dorchester granted Matthias Sension a "great lot" of 20 acres "betwixt Roxbury and Dorchester at the great hill."  On 16 Jan 1636/7, the Town ordered Matthias Sension and Thomas Sampford to "keepe the Cowes this yeere" and to "have for their pay in keepeing 5 shill[ings] the head."  Some time in or before 1637, "Mr. Sention" was granted 2 acres of meadow land "beeyond the Naponset river."  On March 18, 1637/8, called Matthew Sension, he received 3 acres in the neck and 2 acres of cow pasture.  Shortly before 23 April 1638, Matthias sold his house in Dorchester to Mr. Henry Withington, and on that date, the Town ordered  that Withington should have the swamp above and the swamp beneath adjoining the said house "that was Mr. Sensions."  Withington also acquired Sension's three acres at the neck.  Soon afterwards, Matthias and his family moved to Windsor, Conn., where he resided on a one-acre homelot inside the Palisado, bounded by the burying place and the lands of Thomas Parsons and William Hill.  He also owned a 6- acre homelot outside the Palisado, a 2 1/2 acre meadow tract, 3 1/4 acres in the great meadow , a 4-acre tract in Hoyt's meadow, 24 acres in the woods near Rocky Hill, and another tract on the east side of the Connecticut River.  By 1648, Matthias Sension sold his land holdings in Windsor to Walter Gaylord and removed to Wethersfield, where he had a houselot at the extreme north part of the Commons (by the present Cove).  He is doubtless "Sentyon the baker" of W ethersfield who owed an unspecified amount to the estate of Isaac Grosse of Boston in 1649 .  About 1654, the Sension family moved once again, to Norwalk, Conn., where Matthias Sension died ca. January 1669/70, when his inventory was taken.  He left a will dated 10 Oct. 1669 , naming his youngest son James and "my wife his mother," sons Samuel Sention and Ephraim Lockwood, and leaving the residue of his estate to son Matthias (a double portion), and sons Mark, Samuel and Ephraim Sention. For more information, see Jacobus, Old Fairfield, and the St. John genealogy.
Churchyard: Recent research has been published which indicates that Matthias St. John's wife was Mary Tinker, a daughter of Robert Tinker and his second wife Mary Merwin. Mary Tinker was baptized 6 August 1606 at the parish of New Windsor, in the town of Windsor, Berkshire. She married Matthias Sention on 1 November 1627. And their first child, another Matthias, was baptized there on 30 November 1628. [Ref. 8, which in turn references only "Parish Registers of New Windsor, at Berkshire Record Office"]
Her parentage is given in the four generation parentage chart at the end of this article.
The Tinker, Merwin, and Sention families migrated together to New England, and it is no coincidence that their joint settlement was named Windsor (CT) in honor of their home city.
Obviously, further research into the Windsor and Berkshire records are warranted. Any results of such researches have not yet been reported.

Baptism: 06 Aug 1606, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England33

Christening: 06 Aug 1606, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England33

Record Change: 09 Nov 200134

Residence: 1669, Living In Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA35

 

Notes for MATTHIAS SENTION, SR.:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

From Jean (Mrs. Melvin Otis) St. John in Honolulu, Sept. 1995.  He came from London, where he lived at St. Bottulph's, Bishops Gate, and he arrived in Dorchester in 1633 or 1634.  He owned land there and in 1640 moved to Windsor, CT.  A group of people from Dorchester went to Windsor at that time and were among the first settlers there.  He owned land there and moved on to Wethersfield in 1643, and left there in 1645 and settled in Norwalk, where he lived until he died.  I think he came from Ireland, or his father did.  I think his father was Richard , and he may have been from Tipperary.  Matthais (Mathais) is a spelling used in Ireland for Matthew. Source: Toby Dills, WDILLS@umassd.edu.  Born abt 1605, d 1669 Norwalk, sp not known. Source: Bonnie Jacobsen.  Born Oct 1604, London, England, will dated 10/19/1669. Source: James Churchyard.  Born abt 1605, died Oct 19, 1669.

Source: One Branch of the Miner Family, with extensive notes of the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of CT and Long Island, by Lillian Lounsberry [Miner] Selleck, 1928.  Made freeman of Dorchester 3 Sep 1634.  He received a grant in Dorchester, 14 Jan 1635, of 20 acres "at the bounds betwixt Roxbury and Dorchester."  Removal to Norwalk in 1654 .  The name in public records was usually spelled Sension or Sention in the early generations , indicating that the family gave it the French pronunciation, and hence was doubtless of French descent.

He was of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, where his children were baptized. He was not the Mathias Sension of St. Bottolph's, Bishops Gate.  Source: TAG, vol ?, pp 241-3, Robert Leigh W ard.

DEATH: Inventory of estate, 31 Jan 1669/1670.

p. 251, Colket.  Dorchester 1632, Windsor 1640, Hartford 1650, Norwalk 1654 d Jan 1669/70.

Churchyard: Matthias Sension (as the name is originally spelled) and his wife came to New England in the early 1630's. They settled first at Dorchester, Mass. He was made a freeman there on 3 September 1634.  They removed to Windsor, Connecticut, about 1640, and then to Wethersfield, CT, about 1648. In 1654 they moved to Norwalk, CT, where his will was made on 19 October 1669, and recorded on 10 March 1669. The will mentions his wife, but does not name her. [Reference 1]

The will uses the spelling Sention, and this spelling is used on other documents apparently signed by family members. Senchon is another spelling found in the original documents. The St. John version of the name is not found in these earliest records and apparently surfaces in the early 1700's.

Matthias St. John was survived by five children. And their children were prolific in the typical New England manner. So today there are a great many descendants from this immigrant ancestor.

The parish registers of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, record the baptisms of children of Matthias Sension and his wife Mary and of James Sension and his wife Anne. Both of these are called chandlers -- merchants of candles and other small wares and groceries.

Two entries for Matthias and Mary ---- Sension appear: the baptisms of Thomas on 24 October 1631 and Marke on 10 June 1633. There are no further mention of this family in England and shortly after the records in New England start. So, tentatively, this family can be identified as the immigrants.

Mentions of James Sension and his wife Anne occur from 1636 through 1652. These are baptisms and burials of children. So apparently this family remained in England.

The information on the records of this parish are from Reference 5. In that source it is hypothesized that this Matthias and James Sension were brothers and that the former was the immigrant.

References

     1. The St. John Genealogy, Orline St. John Alexander, The Grafton Press, New York, 1907
     2. Planters of the Commonwealth, C. E. Banks, Genealogical Publishing Co. (reprint) 1972, page 155
     3. "St. John of Bletsoe," John Brownbill, The Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. V (April 1929 - December 1931), pp 355 - 359,
     4. "The Families of St. John and of Port," The Genealogist, Vol. XVI (1899-1900)
     5. "Two Contemporaries Named Matthias Sension," Robert Leigh Ward, The American Genealogist, whole number 212, Vol. 33 No. 4, October 1977, pp. 241 – 243
     6. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists ..., Frederick Lewis Weis, Fourth Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1969
     7. Visitation of London, 1633-1634, vol. 17 of the publications of the Harleian Society, page 221
     8. "The English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families of New England," Part Two.. . Douglas Richardson, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXLIX: October 1995, whole number 596, pages 402 and 410-12.

an original proprietor of Norwalk, Connecticut

Ancestral File Number: G3GQ-L8

Burial: Unknown, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA35

Record Change: 09 Nov 200136

Will: 19 Oct 166937

 

Children of MARY TINKER and MATTHIAS SENTION are:

                   i.    NICHOLAS4 SENTION, d. Unknown.

                  ii.    SARAH ST. JOHN, d. Unknown.

                 iii.    MATTHIAS ST. JOHN, b. Abt. 30 Nov 1628, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England; d. Dec 1728, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

                 iv.    ELIZABETH SUSANNA ST. JOHN, b. 1631; d. 1694.

                  v.    THOMAS ST. JOHN, b. Abt. 24 Oct 1631, St. Nicolas Cole, London, County Middlesex, England; d. Unknown.

                 vi.    MARK ST. JOHN, b. Bef. 10 Jun 1633, St. Nicolas Cole, London, County Middlesex, England; d. 12 Aug 1693, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

                vii.    SAMUEL ST. JOHN, b. 1639, Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; d. 14 Jan 1685/86, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

               viii.    MERCIE ST. JOHN, b. 1645, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; d. 1694, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

                  ix.    MERCY ST. JOHN, b. 1645, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; d. 01 Feb 1684/85, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

                   x.    JAMES ST. JOHN, b. Abt. 1649, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; d. 09 May 1684, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

 

 

4.  RHODA3 TINKER (ROBERT2, RANDALL1)38,39,40,41,42,43 was born Bef. 16 Jun 1611 in New Windsor, Berkshire, England44,45,46, and died Nov 1694 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA47,48,49.  She married (1) WALTER HOYT50 Abt. 1649 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA51, son of SIMON HOYT and JANE STOODLIE.  He was born Bef. 29 Nov 1618 in West Hatch, Somersetshire, England52,53, and died Bet. Feb - Mar 1698/99 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA54.  She married (2) JOHN TAYLOR54 Bef. 165154.  He died Unknown.

 

Notes for RHODA TINKER:

[Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.]

Widow of Holt and John Taylor.  May have been a sister of Mary Tinker Sention. Will of Mathia s Sention, 19 Oct 1669, mentions "my dearly beloved brother and sister Hoit".  Also listed as Rhoda Wilson, perhaps a widow of Wilson, before marriage to Walter Hoyt. Source: NEHGR Oct 1995, pp. 412-3. Widow of John Taylor.

DEATH: Dan Stephenson writes, She died about 1694 in Deerfield, Franklin Co., MA or possibly in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., CT.

Christening: 16 Jun 1611, New Windsor, County Berkshire, England55

Record Change: 16 Nov 200156

 

Notes for WALTER HOYT:

[Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 13 May 2008.]

4A. WALTER HOYT, son of Simon and Jane Hoyt, baptised 29 or 30 Nov. 1618 in West Hatch, Somersetshire, England; died in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, probably in the late February or early March 1699. Three signatures of Walter are extant, showing that he spelled his name "Waltar Hoyte." Walter came to Massachusetts with his father and siblings probably in 1629. His mother Jane most likely had died by this time, and the family may also have sailed with his stepmother Susannah, unless Simon and Susannah married within a year of the Hoyt family's arrival in Charlestown. Walter probably came of age in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, and it was probably there, circa 1641, that he married his first wife, (NN). (She was not Elizabeth St. John as claimed in earlier writings on this family.) Walter had two daughters and one son from his first marriage. He married secondly circa 1651 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, to RHODA, widow of John Taylor, most likely the Rhoda Tinker who was baptised 16 June 1611 in New Windsor, Berkshire, England, daughter of Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin. In the will of Mathias St. John ("Sention") of Norwalk, who was the same generation as Walter, there is a reference to his "brother and sister Hoyt," and the most probable interpretation of that reference is that Mathias' wife Mary Tinker was the sister of Rhoda, wife of Walter Hoyt. Walter's wife Rhoda died Nov. 1694 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She and Walter had a son and, some say, a daughter.
Hoyt researcher Doug Sinclair is very skeptical about the marriage of Walter and Rhoda, but gives the mistaken impression that published genealogies had claimed that Rhoda was Walter's first or only wife and mother of all of his children. Sinclair is correct that it would be extremely unlikely that the widow Rhoda would be Walter's first or only wife. But The Great Migration Begins (1995) and Descendants of Simon Hoyt show Walter with two wives, the first being of unknown name, and the second being Rhoda Tinker Hobbs Taylor. The sources cited in support of the marriage of Walter and Rhoda are The American Genealogist (1991) 66:217-18; New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1995) 149:412-13; and Donald Lines Jacobus' old 1930 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield 1:295. Jacobus' work is not current, but the TAG and NEHGR articles are recent, and both of those journals have very high standards of scholarship. Sinclair's arguments do not address the article in The American Genealogist, and in any case they are not pertinent to the way Walter's marriages have been presented in The Great Migration Begins and other published sources, but only address an unlikely scenario in which Rhoda was Walter's first or only wife. Responding to Sinclair's skepticism, Mary Stewart Kyritsis opined on 6 Oct. 2002, "I think it's clear enough that Rhoda (--) Taylor married Walter, it's the Tinker bit that's speculation at its best." Speaking of Douglas Richardson's article in NEHGR 149, Kyritsis comments, "Henry Hoff, at that time still with [The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society], but who is now the Editor of the Register, is a demon when it comes to sources and he is given special thanks by the author of this piece (note on p. 401). . . (but) I wonder how much of that Henry Hoff actually vetted." In light of these considerations, unless better arguments to the contrary are advanced, the marriage of Walter and Rhoda should be accepted.
|Thirty acres in Windsor, Connecticut, were set aside for Walter from his father's grant on 28 Feb. 1640/41. Early Windsor land records describe Walter's grant as, "yt lyes neere the falls in the rivulett [probably the Farmington River]; it is in length from the river back a hundred and twenty rodd, in breadth a hundred twenty six rodd, bounded every way by the Common." Walter is also supposed to have purchased a house lot in Backer Row in "the Palisado," the fortified heart of the settlement of Windsor. His brother Nicholas also lived there. Other early records describe other Windsor land transactions involving Walter Hoyt, such as:
    "Walter Hoyt hath Granted from the Plantation of Land, threescore and four acres more or Less, in bredth seventy-three, in Length a Hundred and forty, Bounded East by Nicholas Hoyt, West and North by the Commons, and South by the Rivulett; Also fifty acres more or Less, opposite John Tinkers farm, Bounded North and East by the Land of Nicholas Hoyt, Southeast by the Land of William Thrall, and South by the Rivulett; also Ten acres of Land, in bredth Twenty Rod, in Length four score, Bounded west by Nicolas Hoyt, North by Richard Willer, & South by William Thrall."
and:
    "John Denslow hath by Purchas of Walter Hoyt, a homelott and house with all the appurtenances and Common Priviledges pertaining thereto, Twelve acres more or Less, which formerly was Elias Parkmans, the bredth is fourteen rod and half, Bound North by Nicholas Hoyt, South by a way in part, and William Hofford the other part, West by the wood Lott of John Mason, East by the Sreet."

 

Walter moved to Norwalk, Connecticut, by 18 Dec. 1653, at which time he and Ralph Keeler entered into an agreement with the town to build or oversee the construction of a house for Rev. Hanford. On 29 March 1655, he and Ralph Keeler were chosen fenceviewers "to worke the fence." On 22 May 1655 Walter, Matthias St. John ("Sention") and Matthias' brother Mark were reported to have driven the "dry" herd of cows to "Rooton" and were to receive 6 pence "a turne." In the same year he is listed among the landowners of Norwalk, with a property value probably around 100 to 110 pounds. He was chosen a deputy to the General Court of Connecticut in 1658/59, 1661, and 1667, and he is also reported to have served as a selectman. At the General Court of Election at Hartford confirmed Walter as a sergeant in Norwalk's local militia on 19 May 1659. Norwalk town records show that on 24 July 1665 "Walter Haite" agreed to "beate the drumm for meetings when all occasions required," for which service he was paid 10 shillings. He performed that duty again on 21 Feb. 1670. Walter's estate continued to grow in size and value during his years at Norwalk, being valued at 192 pouds in 1670. He made out a written will on 11 Feb. 1675/76, when he was about 78 years old, about 20 years before his death. Walter was one of the signatories of the Norwalk charter of 8 July 1686. The following year, he is listed among the men having "estates of commonage," with an estated valued at 242 pounds. The exact location of his residence is not known, but it is said to have been in the old village of Norwalk, in the area that is now East Norwalk, on land east of the cemetery and bordering in part on the harbor.
The date of Walter's death is unknown, but on 13 Aug. 1695 he was involved in a confirmation of property ownership with Samuel Camfield. An inventory of his estate was taken after his death, and the date on the inventory is given as "Jenewairy the 10: 1698," which probably translates to 10 March 1699. That would indicate that Walter died in late February or early March 1699. Doug Sinclair writes, "Walter's will bequeaths his land to John and Zerubbabel, and his inventory indicates that he had no other assets to speak of, material or financial, to give to daughters or their children." In Matthew Grant's 1677 list of heads of households in Windsor in this early period, Walter is said to have had three born in Windsor. Records ascribed to Mr. Rowland give the death in 1647 of a child of "Hoyte," but it is uncertain who that child might have been (see possible stillborn child of Simon Hoyt above). Walter certainly had four, and perhaps five, children:

     --  ELIZABETH HOYT, born circa 1643, md. Samuel St. John ("Sention").
     --  JOHN HOYT, born 13 July 1644 in Windsor, Connecticut.
     --  HANNAH HOYT, born circa 1645, married Judah Gregory.
     ??  RHODA HOYT, born and died young in Windsor, Connecticut.
     5A. ZERUBBABEL HOYT, born circa 1649 or 1652 in Windsor or Norwalk.

Baptism: Bet. 29 - 30 Nov 1618, West Hatch, Somersetshire, England57

       

Children of RHODA TINKER and WALTER HOYT are:

                   i.    RHODA4 HOYT, b. Abt. 1649, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; d. Abt. 1651.

                  ii.    DEACON ZERUBBABEL HOYT, b. Bet. 1649 - 1651, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; d. Abt. 1730, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Endnotes

 

1.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

2.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

3.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

4.  From: "Dan Stevenson" <website21626@webtv.net>.

5.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

6.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

7.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

8.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

9.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

10.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

11.  From: "Dan Stevenson" <website21626@webtv.net>.

12.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

13.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

14.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

15.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

16.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

17.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

18.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

19.  Steven Lusk, Personal Estimate, Estimate based on notes and the birth was probably after 1617, the death of her sister of the same name.

20.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

21.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

22.  Kinnun, Dotty, Keeler, Jehu,  (Dotty Kinnun, Ojai, California; February 10, 2000).

23.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

24.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

25.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

26.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

27.  Kinnun, Dotty, Keeler, Jehu,  (Dotty Kinnun, Ojai, California; February 10, 2000).

28.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

29.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

30.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

31.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005: States that the date of death is 11 Oct 1669.

32.  Susan B. Stavropoulos, v10t0507.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 0507), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 25, 2000.

33.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

34.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

35.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

36.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

37.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

38.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

39.  Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,  (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930.  Reprinted in 3 volumes for the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of the DAR, Fairfield, CT.).

40.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R),  (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic."

41.  From: "Dan Stevenson" <website21626@webtv.net>.

42.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

43.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 13 May 2008.

44.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., States date is Abt 16 Jun 1611, Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

45.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

46.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 13 May 2008.

47.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

48.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

49.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 13 May 2008.

50.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

51.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 13 May 2008.

52.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

53.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 12 May 2008.

54.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 13 May 2008.

55.  Lucille Chestnut, Betts Genealogy, Homepage "Lucy's Root Cellar" at http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jericho/331/genpg.html.  A Worldconnect  database., Date of Import: 29 Aug 2005.

56.  Robert A. Benedict, The Benedict Topics Website, Internet site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~benedicttopics/index.html/, Date of Import: 6 Apr 2005.

57.  Jared L. Olar, The Hoyt-Haight Genealogy, January 2008 as of 10 May 2008 located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fesschequy/Hoyt.html, Entered on 12 May 2008.

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