Talcott, John, 1630 - 1688

John Talcott was the son of John Talcott and Dorothy Mott of Braintree, Essex, England, who immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1632.  He removed to Hartford, Connecticut with his family four years later and there was elected assistant magistrate (1654-), deputy (1660-1661), and treasurer of the colony (1660-1676).  Talcott became a prominent military figure, serving as ensign (1650), captain (1660), major (1673), and lieutenant-colonel in the colony’s militia.  During King Philip’s War, he commanded a force of Mohegan, Niantic, and Pequot soldiers and participated in a number of brutal massacres of Indian people throughout the summer and fall of 1676.  For his service to the colony, the General Court granted him and John Allyn 600 acres of upland and 100 acres of meadow at Hammonasset.  S. V. Talcott, Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876 (Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1876), 32-35. Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias, King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict (Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press, 1999), 63-64, 232-33.