Matthias I Sension 

Generation No. 1

      1.  Matthias I (Sension) 1 was born abt 1604. At the baptism of two of his children, he lived at or near St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, England, and died after 19 Oct 1669 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co. CT. This is the date his Will was written. Will probated on March 10, 1670, so Matthias I died between October '69 and March '70. Matthias married Mary Tinker 01 Nov 1627 in New Windsor, Berkshire Co, England, daughter of Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin. She was born 06 Aug 1606 in New Windsor, Berkshire, England, and died after 1670 in Norwalk, CT.

Notes for Matthias I (Sension) St. John:

The following is from Donna Siemiatkoski (from the 'Founders of Windsor' (CT) http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/foundwind.htm):

Betty asked Donna:  “How is Matthias St. John a founder of Windsor?”

Donna: “You probably only know of his later life in Norwalk. I consulted the draft of my book on Windsor's founding era, which I hope to publish this year. In it I have every surname in 17th century Windsor and the first documentation of the individual. I have for Matthias St. John (Sension) that his grant of land from the town was recorded on November 28, 1640, the date many other grants were recorded, by the recent order of the General Court. He started out in New England as a freeman in Dorchester on September 3, 1634. He probably came to Windsor with the rest of the Dorchester group in 1636. He was in Wethersfield 1643-1645. He was part of the group of Wethersfield people who later removed to Norwalk, where he died.”
Children of Matthias St. John and Mary Tinker are:

+     2                i.    Matthias II2 St. John, born  30 Nov 1628 in New Windsor, Berkshire, England; died Dec 1728 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co. CT. Note: 1630 - other birth year seen, but may be baptism date. Matthias II married Elizabeth Hoyt, born 1634 at Norwalk, Fairfield, CT, died after 05 Sept 1732. Married about 1654 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA

       3                ii.    Thomas St. John, born 24 Oct 1631 in St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, England.

+     4               iii.    Mark Sension St. John, born 10 Jun 1633 in St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, England; died 12 Aug 1693 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co. CT. Mark married Elizabeth Stanley born 1635 of Hartford, CT, died Jan 1692 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co, CT. They were married in 1655.  2nd  marriage for Mark  was Dorothy Smith born 1636 MA; died 1706 Farmington, CT, they we re married on 21 Jan 1693 in Farmington, CT.

+     5               iv.    Samuel I [Sension] St. John, born 1639 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT; died 14 Jan 1684/85 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co. CT.  Samuel married Elizabeth Hoite/Hoyt, born about 1643. She died in 1706 at Windsor, Fairfield, CT. They were married on Sep 1663 in Norwalk. Other death date seen for Elizabeth is 1686.

+     6               v.    Mercy St. John, born 1640 in Windsor, Hartford, CT; died 1694 in Windsor, CT. Other death date seen - 01 Feb 1684/5. Mercy married Ephraim Lockwood born 01 Dec 1641 at Watertown, Middlesex, MA. He died on 01 Feb 1685 at Norwalk. Married 08 Jun 1665 at Norwalk.

       7               vi.    James St. John, born 1649 in Windsor, Fairfield Co., CT; died 09 May 1684 in Norwalk, CT. He married Rebecca Pickett  on 31 Dec 1673 in Norwalk, CT; Rebecca was born 30 Jun 1650 in Stratford, CT.

Notes for James St. John:

“James SENSION, SENTION, SENCHION, or ST. JOHN, Norwalk, s prob. of the first Matthew, m. 31 Dec. 1673, Rebecca, d. of John Picket of Stratford, propound. as freem. 1674, d. prob. bef. 1688, yet may have had sev. ch. MARK, Norwalk, s. of Matthew the first, suppos. eldest, perhaps b. in Eng. m. Elizabeth youngest d. of Timothy Stanley, had Elizabeth b. 6 Dec. 1656; Sarah, 18 Jan. 1659; perhaps others; was freem. 1664, constable 1669,  [[vol. 4, p. 52]]  rep. 1672. He took sec. w. prob. in Jan. 1693, Dorothy, wid. of Francis Hall, d. of Rev. Henry Smith, and had been wid. of John Blakeman; and d. 12 Aug. foll. For her fourth h. the wid. took deac. Isaac Moore, first of Farmington, aft. of Norwalk. MATTHEW, or MATTHIAS, Dorchester 1634, freem. Sept. of that yr. rem. prob. in 1638 to Windsor, was one of the first sett. at Norwalk, a. 1654, there d. 1669, aft. 11 Oct. the date of certific. by the constable (wh. was his s. Mark), mak. return of the freem. of the town. Beside him, he left Matthew, Samuel, James, and sev. ds.”
GENERATION TWO