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State of Service: RI
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: abt 1691 Salem Village / Essex / MA Death: 13 Nov 1777
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
Spouse: (1) Mary Felt; (2) Ruth Perkins Children: Members Who Share This Ancestor
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Author: Peter Sarazin
William Walcott was born in 1691 or 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts at about the time the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria began. He is the son of Captain Jonathan Walcott and his 2nd wife, Deliverance Putnum. William Walcott is the half brother of Mary Walcott, one of the accusers in the Salem Witch trials, and the first cousin of Ann Putnum, Jr., another accuser.
Both of William’s parents died in the year 1699.
William Walcott married his first wife, May Felt of Casco Bay, now North Yarmouth, Maine on August 6th, 1712.
William and Mary had the following children while they lived in Salem; Anna was born 1713 and died 1727. Elizabeth was born 1715, married Ebenezer Emerson of Wrentham, and died about 1747. William was born 1717, married Esther Foster, and died 1799. Mary was born 1720, married Eleazer Rhoades, and died 1809. Moses was born 1722, married Mary Blackinton, and died 1813.
About twenty-three years after the death of his father, William received his portion of the estate, under an agreement in 1722. He then immediately disposed of it, selling it off piece by piece.
He removed to Attleboro with his family where he purchased land including fifty acres on either side of Abbott’s Run. They were dismissed from the church at Salem Village, and joined the First Church of Attleboro on April 7th, 1723.
William and Mary had four additional children after moving to Attleboro; Deliverance was born 1724, married Stephen Rhoads, and died 1792. Lydia was born 1727, and married Ichabod Peck. Her date of death is unknown. Benjamin was born 1729, married Mary Foster, and died 1781. Prudence was born 1732 and died that same year.
In 1734 William Walcott and two others purchased water privileges at Arnold’s Mills and built a saw mill which remained in operation until 1862.
In 1746 the area of Attleboro where William and his family lived was set off and became the town of Cumberland, Rhode Island. William is listed as having served as one of the first six town council members of Cumberland in 1746 and served for a period of at least three years.
His first wife, Mary Felt, died sometime before 1763.
He married a second time to Ruth Perkins, a widow from Cumberland, Rhode Island on December 5th, 1763.
William Walcott was an elderly man in his eighties when the American Revolutionary War began, yet the records list him as serving and say that he was excused from active duty by General Spencer to haul wood for the troops in Providence.
William Walcott died at home on November 13th, 1777 when he was approximately eighty-six years of age. He is buried in Peck Cemetery also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Cumberland #19. His headstone has his last name spelled Wallcut, and it says he died in the 88th year of his age which is likely incorrect.
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