Gershom BRIGHAM

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• Occupation: Physician and a land surveyor

Family/Spouse: Mehetabel ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail BRIGHAM was born on 25 Nov 1708 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 6 Mar 1790 in Chesterfield, Cheshire Co, New Hampshire; was buried in West Burying Ground, West Chesterfield, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire.

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• Fact: He married 2nd Mrs. Susanna Morse of Watertown

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He came into marl. with his mother, who m. Edmund Rice, and on arrive at age, he purchased a town right, settled in the southwest part of the town, on what is now called the "Warren Brigham farm," and on the south road to Northborough. The house which he built after King Phillips war, is still standing; and even the chair in which he expired, is in the neighborhood, in the possession of one of his descendants, Mrs. lewis Ames. He was a prominent man in the town.

Thomas married Mary RICE. Mary (daughter of Henry RICE and Elizabeth MOORE) was born on 19 Sep 1646; died before 30 May 1695. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Henry Rice and Elizabeth Moore

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Thomas Brigham, the ancestor of the Brighams in New England, embarked at London for America, April 18, 1635, in the ship Susan and Ellyn, Edward Payne, master. He was then 32 years of age, and consequently was b. in 1603. He settled in Watertown, near Cambridge line, on land which was afterward set to Cambridge. He was made freeman in 1639, and was selectman in 1640, and subsequently. He m. about 1637 Mercy Hurd, b. in England. He d. Dec. 18, 1653, and she m. 1655 Edmund Rice, then of Sud., but afterwards of Marl. He d. and she m. as her 3rd husband William Hunt of Marl., who d. 1667, and she d. 1693.

Thomas married Mercy HURD about 1637. Mercy was born in England; died in 1693. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Henry Rice called himself 50 years old Jan. 25, 1667, as appears by a deposition on the files of the court - hence b. about 1617. He was admitted freeman 1658.

Henry married Elizabeth MOORE on 1 Feb 1643 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John MOORE and ? UNKNOWN) died on 3 Aug 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edmund Rice came from Barkhamstead, in the county of Hertfordshire, in England, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638 or 9; as he shared in the three divisions of land inSudbury, the first of which was made in 1639, he was not doubt residing there at that time.

No record has been found of his embarkation for this country, nor in what ship he came, or at what place he first arrived; there is not so much as tradition on the subject. The first we find of him is at Sudbury, with a wife and family of at least seven children that came over with him; that place, called "the planation lying near unto Concord," was incorporated in 1639 by the same of Sudbury. His residence was on the east side of Sudbury river, in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, and near the border of the extensive meadows through which that river flows in a northeasterly course to the Merrimac.

He was Selectman in 1644, and subsequent years; Dea,. of the church 1648, and in 1656, one of thirteen petitioners belonging to Sudbury, who besought the General Court for a new plantation, saying, "Whereas your petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now, divers of them, grown to man's estate, and wee, many of us grown into years, so as that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence; as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so straightened, that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some of us having taken some pains to view the country, wee have found a place, which lieth Westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might bee comfortable for our subsistence."

Sudbury at that time contained less than seventy-five families, and in territory included what is now Wayland. One would naturally think they were "straightened" for the want of 'neighbors', rather than for want of 'room' for themselves, or 'meadows' wherefrom to procure subsistence for their cattle; and so they found it, even twenty years later, when the town, with an increased population, was broken up and nearly destroyed by the Indians. Their petition was granted, and the plantation laid to them was incorporated by the name of Marlborough in 1660; whereto he removed and had a house lot of fifty aces granted to him by the proprietors of that town, with the rights appertaining thereto in after divisions.

His wife "Tamazine" died at Sudbury, June 13, 1654; the record of her death is the only one wherein her name has been found.

His 2d wife was "Mercie" wid. of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge; whom he married, March 1, 1656. His house lot in Marlboro',on which he built and resided, was in the westerly part of the town, on the old county road leading from Marlboro' to Northboro', and in the bend as it passes round the northerly side of the pond, a short distance northerly of the ancient "Williams tavern," afterwards kept by Gates and since by Wetherby. he was intrusted with various important duties by the General Court, which he discharged with a fidelity that occasioned repeated calls for his services, while the records of Sudbury and Marlboro' contain ample evidence of his vigilant and fatherly care in promoting the welfare of those infant settlements; the destruction of which by the Indians, occurring a few years after, he was not permitted to see by reason of death.

He died at Marboro', May 3, 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. A deposition of his on the court files at Cambridge states his age, April 3, 1656, to be "about 62 years" -hence he was born about 1594, and about 69 years old when he died.

Edmund married Thomasine FROST about 1617. Thomasine (daughter of Edward FROST and Thomasine BELGRAVE) was born in Stanstead, St. James, Suffolk, England; died on 13 Jun 1650 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"William Henry Moore Genealogy": John Moore, probably the John Moore, aged twenty-four, who emigrated on the "Planter," in 1635, was at Sudbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1642, and in September of that year bought a house and land in the section that is now Wayland. He took the oath of allegiance there on July 9, 1645. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Philemon Whale. Possibly she was a second wife, as the will of Philemon Whale, made in 1674, mentions the four sons of his daughter, Elizabeth Moore: William, Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin; while John Moore's will refers to his eldest son John and eldest daughter Elizabeth. It seems probable that they were the children of a former wife. Elizabeth (Whale) Moore died on December 14, 1690, at Sudbury. Moore died January 6, 1673/74, at Sudbury. His will of August 25, 1668, was probated April 7, 1674. He named his wife Elizabeth, his sons Jon (of Lancaster), William, Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin, and his daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Rice; Mary, wife of Daniel Stone; and Lydia, wife of James Cutter.

John married ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]