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John BACON VI

BIOGRAPHY: JOHN BACON Born , 14 , England. Son of EDMUND BACON OF DRINKSTON and ELIZABETH CROFTS.
Married AGNES COCKFIELD Daughter of SIR THOMAS COCKFIELD children; ROBERT BACON, b. , 14, Drinkston, Suffolk County, England. +Isabella, daughter of John Cage of Kerkenham, Suffolk Co., England.
THOMAS BACON
JAMES BACON, b. Married Mary, dau. of John Gardner of Grove, Buck.An Alderman of London and ancestor of GENERALNATHANIEL BACON the Virginia Rebel; of MARY BACON, wife of Dr. Hugh Chamberlaln, physician to Queen Anne; of ANN BACON, wife of Captain John Mason of Seabrooke; of COLONEL NATHANIEL BACON, Governor of Virginia; and of the Baconsof Barnstable, Massachusetts.
SIR NICHOLAS BACON, b. , 15 , Suffolk County, England. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth was lord keeper of the great seal. He was the first person to be created a baronet by James I.
Children: SIR NICHOLAS, SIR NATHANIEL, EDMUND, EDWARD, JOHN, and
1241-1-3-3 LORD FRANCIS BACON, b. Jan. 22, 1561, London, England.
In 1617 was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, andin 1618 was made Lord High Chancellor of England, and the same year was created Baron Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans.

BIOGRAPHY: From "English Ancestry of Michael Bacon of Dedham" compiled by Eliza Buckingham Bacon of New Haven: "Edmund Bacon of Drinkston Co. Suffolk m. Elizabeth Crofts, by whom JOHN, who m. AGNES d. of Sir Thomas Cockfield (ibid and Visit. of London 1568-Cooke-Harl. MS 1463). From "The Baronetage of England" by Kimber and Johnson: "The said John Bacon was father of Edmund Bacon of Drinkston, who married Elizabeth, daughter of (???) Crofts, by whom he had issue JOHN BACON who married AGNES, daughter of Thomas Cockfield, and had issue Robert Bacon of Drinkston." From "The Bacon Genealogy" by Thomas W. Baldwin (1915): "It will be seen that JOHN BACON son of Edmund, had, in addition to son Robert, who has been spoken of, sons John THOMAS, Henry and William. THOMAS, the ancestor of MICHAEL OF DEDHAM, was of Helmingham, Norfolk Co. His will was proved at Helmingham Feb. 28, 1535, and is here given." Data from "Bacon Genealogy" by Thomas W. Baldwin (1915).

Agnes COCKFIELD

Note: Nathaniel Bacon of the Virginia Rebellion and the Bacons who settled on Cape Cod and Hingham, MA are descendants. American explorer Meriwether Lewis is a descendant.