Wolcott History – The Alcox Family

John Alcox (1705-1777) and his wife Deborah [Blakeslee] from New Haven (1713-1790) were the first settlers of Wolcott (then called Farmingbury) in 1731.  They are buried in the Edgewood Cemetery near the center of Wolcott.  As mentioned in an earlier blog, they had twelve children.  This is what happened to all their children. 

Lydia (1730-1796), married Isaac Blakeslee from New Haven (1734-1814) (2^nd cousin to her mother Deborah), 9 children, buried in New Haven

(Lydia is my great*5 grandmother)

John (1731-1808), married Mary Chatfield (1736-1807), 9 children, buried in Edgewood Cemetery

(John is the grandfather of Amos Bronson Alcott and the great-grandfather of Louisa May Alcott)

James (1734-1806), married Hannah Barnes from Waterbury (1736-1840), 4 children, buried in Waterbury

Jesse (1736-1809), married Patience Blakeslee from New Haven (1742-1840), 8 children, buried in Northeast Burying Grounds

Daniel (1738-1805), married Elizabeth Dutton from Wallingford (1737-1817), 8 children, buried in Colebrook

David (1740-1821), married Abigail Johnson from Waterbury (1745-1798), 4 children, married Sarah Pratt (1738-1799), buried in Edgewood Cemetery

Deborah (1742-1831), married Isaac Twitchell from Derby (1842-1776), 3 children, married Wait Hotchkiss from Guilford (1739-1799), 2 more children, buried in Edgewood Cemetery

Mary (1744-1825), married Obed Bradley from North Haven (1733-1814), 7 children, buried in New Haven

Thankful (1748-1839), married Thaddeus Baldwin from Waterbury (1739-1813), 7 children, buried in Plymouth

Hannah (1750-1821), married Joel Norton from Durham (1753-1823), 5 children, buried in Bristol

Anna (1751-1822), married Abel Curtiss from Wallingford (1750-1828), 1 child, buried in Edgewood Cemetery

Stephen (1754-1754), died as an infant

That’s 12 children and 67 grandchildren!  Families were just a little bit larger in those days.  While many of the family members were buried in Edgewood Cemetery, Jesse and his wife are buried in the Northeast Burying Ground up off of Beecher Road and one of their children is one of the very few people still in the Pike’s Hill Cemetery which is in the woods near there.