John Waterbury

Notes:

John Waterberye, a 'sherman' or cloth dresser, was admitted freeman at Sudbury, Suffolk Co., England, 17 June 1588. St. Peter's Church, Sudbury, records indicate: John Austen, alias John Waterburye was buryed the fyrst daye of Septem6.? Father of:

William Waterbury, son of John Waterburye. St. Peter?s Church records indicate: Wm. the sonne of John Waterbery was baptized XI jth day of March 1593-4. When John Winthrop embarked from Cowes, England on 29 March 1630 to take the cf the Massachusetts Bay Colony to America, William and his wife Alice of Lincolnshire, England, were included among the passengers of the Eagle, afterwards named the Arbella, one of four ships in Winthrop?s fleet. They settled for a time in Watertown, Massachusetts. Their names appear as the 35th and 36th members of the church there. William and Alice supposedly returned to England a few years after arriving in Massachusetts, but no trace of their deaths has been found in England or America.

Children (baptisms recorded at St. Peter's Church, Sudbury, Suffolk Co., England):

Rachell, 25 July 1619
John, 30 December 1621; mentioned below
Mary, 29 February 1624
William, 26 February 1626, died 15 October 1626
William, 9 August 1627
Samuel, 20 September 1629


(3) John Waterbury, born in Sudbury, Suffolk Co., England, baptized 30 December 1621, died 1658, Stamford,
Connecticut; married Rose Lockwood of Watertown, Massachusetts. It has been suggested that when William and Alice left to return to England, possibly to retrieve other children and with intentions to return to America, they left John in the custody of the Lockwood family which was established at Watertown in 1630, thus accounting for the romance which sprung up between he and Rose. Since no trace of his siblings have ever been found on this side of the Atlantic, it has been supposed that John and Rose are the progenitors of all who bear the name Waterbury both in the United States, and of the large New Brunswick, Canada, Waterbury family.
On 15 October 1646, John and Rose sold their home to Robert Pierce of Watertown and left for Wethersfield, Connecticut, but they soon moved on to Stamford where they remained until John?s death at the early age of 37. He was a landowner ord as early as 1650. John served in the Connecticut Colonial Legislature for several years.
After John?s death, Rose married 11 May 1659 Joseph Gurnsey, by whom she had one son, Joseph, on 30 June 1662.

Children of John Waterbury and Rose Lockwood:

Rachel Parcett, born 1639 in Watertown, Massachusetts; married 11 March 1659 John Holmes of Stamford, Connecticut.
Sarah, born 1646 in Watertown, Connecticut; married first 10 May 1666 Zachariah Dibble of Stamford, Connecticut; married second Nicholas Webster of Stamford who died 12 August 1687.
John; mentioned below
Jonathan, born 1653 in Stamford, Connecticut
David, born 1655 in Stamford, Connecticut

John married Rose Lockwood in 1640 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Rose (daughter of Edmund Lockwood and Ruth) was born about 1618 in Suffolk, England; died on 12 Feb 1685 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married John Holmes on 3 Dec 1659 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. John was born in 1635 in Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Jul 1703 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Richard Wescott in 1687 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. Richard (son of John Westcott and Ruth Hyatt) was born in 1668 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died in 1758 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rose married Benjamin Ketchum in 1724. Benjamin was born in 1690 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died in Mar 1741 in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Abraham Canfield on 27 Jan 1748 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. Abraham (son of Jedediah Canfield and Lydia Kellum) was born in Mar 1720 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 29 Sep 1813 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married John Carmichael in 1766 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. John (son of William Carmichael and Martha) was born on 5 May 1740 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 6 Nov 1806 in Sand Lake, Rensselaer County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Thomas Clark in 1801. Thomas was born on 11 Apr 1773 in New York; died on 4 Mar 1849 in Greenwich, Washington County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Franklin Coleman Beckwith on 22 Oct 1837. Franklin (son of Jedediah Beckwith and Huldah Kingsley) was born on 2 Jul 1817 in Schuylerville, Saratoga County, New York; died on 8 Feb 1875 in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey; was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]