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WIFE

Hannah King Cutler

CHILDREN

1. Sarah Winter
    b. 1663
    d. 19 Dec 1690 Lexington, Middlesex, MA

2. Hannah Winter
    b. 10 Apr 1665 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    m. 17 Nov 1681 John Harrington
    (Marriage record gives names of parents as John Winter and Hannah Cutler)
    d. 17 Jul 17411 Waltham, Middlesex, MA

3. John Winter
    b. 17 Sep 1667 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    m. 22 Sep 1689 Abigail Smith
    d. 25 Jun 1748 Killingly, Windham, CT

4. Thomas Winter
    b. 25 Jun 1669 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    d. 4 Feb 1690/1 Lexington, Middlesex, MA

5. Joseph Winter
    b. 2 Mar 1671 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    d. Dec 1690 Lexington, Middlesex, MA

6. Mary Winter
    b. 6 Feb 1675 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    m. 1694 Daniel White
    d. 26 Jan 1723 Lexington, Middlesex, MA

7. Elizabeth Winter
    b. 20 Aug 1678 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    m. 1 Feb 1698 John Cooper

8. Abigail Winter
    b. 12 Mar 1680 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
    m. 1701 David Russell

9. Samuel Winter 
   b. 12 Jan 1684/5 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
   m. 16 Feb 1714 Elizabeth Philbrick
  d. 20 Aug 1756 Killingly, Windham, CT

John Winter
by Susan Brooke
Jan 2023

The father of John Winter, John Winter Sr. wrote his will on 4 Mar 1662 and referred to his son, John, of Watertown, and named him as his executor. (1) So, we know the father of John Winter, was the John Winter who died in Watertown in 1662.  Savage, in writing about John's father, believed John Jr. was about 2 years old when he was brought to Massachusetts, and John was baptized by his father, John Winter, on 1 Apr 1638 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. (2) About 1662 he married Hannah and they had 9 children.  (3) He was "ensign of the soldier or trainband" and paid £40 for land in Killingly in 1708. (4)
John Winter wrote his will on 12 Dec 1690 and died six days later on 18 Dec 1690 in Lexington, Middlesex, MA.  He mentioned his sons John, Thomas and Samuel and daughters Sarah, Hannah and Mary.  His inventory taken on 12 Jan 1691 totaled £359.  On 6 Oct 1691 the probate court appointed three commissioners to divide the estate.  (Two of the children named in the will, Thomas and Sarah, had died before the distribution.) His estate was to be divided into 7 shares with his son John getting two of those shares.  Therefore, there were at that time, 6 living children: Hannah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail and Samuel.

Sources

(1) will of John Winter

(2) Baptism of John Winter
1 Apr 1638 Scituate, Plymouth, British Colonial America
Father, John Winter

(3) The birth record for their daughter Hannah, named the parents as John Winter and Hannah Cutler

(4) History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II, 1760-1880
Aspinock. Killingly.


No report of the organization of town government is preserved, nor is there any record of town acts the first twenty years of its existence. Selectmen were duly appointed and discharged the duties of their offices. Books were procured for recording land-deeds-David Church serving as town-clerk. Joseph Cady was chosen lieutenant and John Winter ensign of the soldiers or train band, and at the suggestion of some unsuitable person the graceful Indian Aspinock was exchanged for barbarous Killingly. In October of 1708, the Court granted "liberty to the inhabitants of Killingly, to survey and lay out one hundred acres of land within their township for the use and encouragement of a minister to settle there and carry on the worship of God among them." A hundred acres of land for the first settled minister was also pledged to the town by Captain Chandler, in presence and with concurrence of the selectmen.
The growth of the new town was very rapid despite its poverty and remoteness. Land was cheap and open to purchasers. Grantees hastened to take up their rights and sell them out to settlers, so that population increased much more rapidly than in the richer neighboring towns owned by corporations and large land-holders. The land north of Danielson's, extending from the middle of "the long interval" to Lake Mashapaug, was conveyed by Major Fitch to John, Nathaniel and Nicholas Mighill; a farm east of the lake was sold to John Lorton; David Church of Marlborough, and William Moffat settled in the Quinebaug valley, adjoining James Leavens. Many grants were bought up by Nicholas Cady north of Rattlesnake Hill, in the neighborhood of Richard Evans, and sold by him to George Blanchard of Lexington, Thomas Whitmore, William Price, John and Samuel Winter, John Bartlett, William Robinson and others, who at once took possession of this northern extremity of the town. So near were they to the mystical Woodward's and Saffery's Line, that they often ran over it into the territory of Massachusetts, and Captain Sampson Howe, who settled at Nashaway in 1708, though clearly beyond the limits of Connecticut, was ranked among the inhabitants of Killingly. Far in the east, northeast of Rattlesnake-then known as Killingly-Hill, a settlement was begun by Isaac Cutler and his son Jonathan of Cambridge, who purchased of James Leavens, in 1709, land on a brook running into the Assawaga, with a dwelling-house and part of a sawmill.
Within the time allotted, the grantees had taken up their land, and on October 13, 1709, on the payment of forty pounds through Captain Chandler, a patent of the remaining lands in Killingly was granted by the Governor and Company of Connecticut to its proprietors, viz.: Colonel Robert Treat, Major James Fitch, Captain John Chandler, Joseph Otis, James Danielson, Ephraim Warren, Peter Aspinwall, Joseph Cady, Richard Evans, Sen. and Jun., John Winter, Stephen Clap, John and William Crawford, George Blanchard, Thomas Whitmore, John Lorton, Jonathan Russel, Daniel Cady, William Price, William Moffat, James and Joseph Leavens, John, Nathaniel and Nicholas Mighill, John Bartlett, Samuel Winter, Ebenezer Kee, Isaac and Jonathan Cutler, Peter Leavens, Sampson Howe, John Sabin, John Preston, Philip Eastman, David Church, Thomas Priest, Nicholas Cady, John, Thomas, Matthew, Jabez and Isaac Allen. Nearly one-third of these forty-four patentees were non-resident, so that Killingly numbered at this date about thirty families.

(5) Birth of Hannah Cutler

Hannah Cuttler  Birth 26 May 1638 Watertown, Middlesex, MA
Parents: James Cuttler and Anna

(5) Winter Deaths in Lexington in 1690

Deaths in Lexington, Middlesex, MA

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