Warner, John, 1615 - 1679
Born in Boxted, England in 1615, John Warner (1615-before December 4, 1679) sailed to new England on the Increase in 1635 bound for Ipswich, Massachusetts. He took up residence in Hartford, served in the Pequot War of 1637. By 1657, Warner removed to Farmington as an original proprietor. For his military service, the General Court awarded him fifty acres of land in October 1671. Two years later, Warner was one of three men who indicated that they had found Mattatuck (Waterbury) suitable for English plantation. He became a patentee for that town but did not remove. He died in Farmington at the end of 1679.
Find A Grave (Memento Mori Cemetery, Farmington, CT). Julius Gay, Farmington Soldiers in the Colonial Wars (Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1897), 6. Towns & Lands 1 1:163. Bodge, Connecticut Soldiers in the Pequot War, 31. John Warner, Society of the Descendnats of the Founders of Hartford, https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/john-warner/. Sources for this biography also come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.
Born:
1615Died:
1679