Joshua BIGELOW

Male 1655 - 1745  (89 years)


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  • Name Joshua BIGELOW  [1, 2, 3
    • "Genealogy of the Bigelow Family": He was a soldier in King Phillip's War in Capt. Tiug's company and was wounded, and in consideration of his services in that war the General Court gave him a grant of land in Narragansett No. 2. He lived in Watertown the most of his life and his children were born in that town, and when his father died he was appointed executor of the will with his brother-in-law Isaac Learned, and was a well known citizen in Watertown; but late in life (his 87th year), being anxious to reside on the land that he had earned at the peril of his life, removed from Watertown (in company with his son Eleizer) to the grant of land in Narragansett No. 2, now Westminster, making the journey June 9, 1742, where he spent the last years of his life, and died Feb. 1, 1745, in the 90th year of his age, and was the first adult who died in the new town... [1]
    Birth 05 Nov 1655  Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 21 Feb 1744/5  Westminster, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I06018  Main Tree
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2022 

    Father John BIGELOW,   b. Poss. England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jul 1703, Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Mary WARREN   d. 19 Oct 1691, Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 30 Sep 1642  Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F10377  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth FLAGG,   b. 22 Mar 1654/5, Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 09 Aug 1729, Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 20 Oct 1676  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Daniel BIGELOW,   c. 29 Aug 1697   d. Abt 1789, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 91 years)  [Birth]
     2. Joshua BIGELOW,   b. 25 Nov 1677   d. 09 May 1728, Weston, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F10375  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2022 

  • Sources 
    1. [S4982] Gilman Bigelow Howe, "Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America, from the marriage in 1642 of John Biglo and Mary Warren to the year 1890", (Worcester, Mass. Printed by Charles Hamilton - 1890).

    2. [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.

    3. [S3154] William Richard Cutter, A.M., Ancestry.com: Genealogical and Family History of Central New York Vol. II.