 Josiah Whitcomb, son of John "The Emigrant"" Whitcomb and Frances "The Emigrant, Francis, Cogin" Coggan.Born Feb 1639 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, died 22 Apr 1718 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, 79 years America's First Families http://www.firstfamilies.org/db/040.htm WHITCIMB Mary (Cudworth) bapt.1637-bef1682 Plymouth Colony F&P WHITCOMB David 1668-1730 Lancaster, PA DCW WHITCOMB Frances Mrs. m.bef.1635-d.1671 Plymouth, MA F&P WHITCOMB Frances (Cogan) 1604-1671 Dorchester, MA 1-001 WHITCOMB Frances (Coggan) m.1623-1671 Scituate, MA DAC WHITCOMB John c1588-1662 Lancaster, MA CD17/DAC/F&P/DCW WHITCOMB John d1683 Lancaster, MA SCW WHITCOMB Jonathan 1634-1690 Scituate/Lancaster, MA DAC WHITCOMB Jonathan 1669-1715 Lancaster, MA DAC WHITCOMB Josiah c1638-1718 Lancaster, MA 1-001/SCW/DCW WHITCOMB Mary (Josslyn) b1666-m1689 Lancaster, MA DAC WHITCOMB Rebecca (Waters) 1640-1726 Lancaster, MA 1-001 WHITCOMB Robert m.1660-d.bef.1682 Plymouth Colony F&P --------------------------- Ancestry of Gov. Bill Richardson compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html 522 & 523 have other descendants, such as: Josiah Whitcomb m. Rebecca Waters .David Whitcomb m. Mary Hayward .Benjamin Whitcomb m. Dorothy White (below) .Tamar Whitcomb m. Asa Johnson .Tamar Johnson m. William Ross .Peter Ross m. Polly Kendall Burpee (below) .Olive Ross m. Samuel Walton Burbank .LUTHER BURBANK (1849-1926), horticulturist .Rebecca Whitcomb m. Jacob Houghton (below) .Jonathan Houghton m. ---- .Jonathan Houghton m. Susannah Moore .Rufus Houghton m. Abigail Bernard .Amory Houghton m. Sophronia Mann Oakes (below) .Alfred Augustus Houghton m. Caroline Garlinghouse (below) .Katharine Martha Houghton m. Thomas Horval Hepburn .KATHARINE HOUGHTON HEPBURN (1909-2003), actress ------------------ --------------------- The History of Harvard, Massachusetts, 1643-1732, by Henry S. Nourse,Clinton, Mass. 1894. - W. J. Coulter, Printer. http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/GenMassachusetts/2006-04/1144793270 Noteworthy Old Homes of Harvard. p.91 None of their earliest dwellings have withstood the wear of time save that of Caleb Sawyer's; and long ago this passed from the ownership of his descendants. It is now occupied by James Ford, and generally knownas the Washington Warner place. Since Phineas Sawyer sold it to SilasCraggin in 1810, it has been transferred to Jabez Priest in 1812,Sylvester Priest in 1821, Washington Warner in 1840. Here Caleb andSarah (Houghton) Sawyer lived for more than fifty years, and here hedied when almost one hundred years old. He divided the home acres several years before his death, between his sons Jonathan and Seth Sawyer, the latter living with his father inthe old house, and Jonathan Sawyer building a short distance to the north, opposite the present farm house where Manasseh, Luther and AradSawyer, three generations of his descendants spent their lives. Amongthe outlying lands of Caleb Sawyer was a tract now forming the farm ofWilbur F. Sawyer, and opposite his dwelling, a cellar marks the siteof an older home - that of Caleb Sawyer, son of Seth Sawyer, whoprobably built here about 1761. Phineas Sawyer, the youngest son ofSeth Sawyer became a very skilful mechanic, as a rifle dated 1777 and stamped with his name - now owned by Warren Hapgood - attests. It wassaid of him that "he, (Phineas Sawyer) could make anything but ahornet's nest." The first John Priest garrison house, it is supposed, stood a littleeast of, and very near the house of Benjamin J. Priest. A very old dwelling was torn down here after the present house was built by the father ofthe late owner, Andrew Priest. The second John Priest, after the death ofhis father in 1704, took his wife, Anna Houghton, to a new house builtnear his brother Joseph Priest's, upon inherited lands at the northernend of end of Bare Hill. After the death of Rachel, widow of the firstJohn Priest - who survived her husband by thirty-three years, theheirs transferred all their rights in the original Priest homestead toGabriel Priest; and his descendants have ever since held the title toit. The journal of Rev. William Brinsmead of Marlborough states that"Sept. 20, 1687, John Warner of Lancaster was taken into the church at thehouse of Jonathan Johnson." This marks the year of the coming of theWarner p.92 History of Harvard. and Priest families from Woburn; and as for some time they jointly occupied a farm of thirty-six acres, the two hearthstones could nothave been far apart, if they were not under the same roof. John Warner's three sons in due time had families and passed their lives in the neighborhood. The oldest, Samuel Warner is supposed to have built, where an old cellar was filled up a few years ago, five or six rods west of the dwelling of Miss Elizabeth Fairbank. John Warner had a farm further to the eastward upon the road to Hudson. Ebenezer Warner, the youngest, remained with his parents and the first Warner homestead successively fell to Ebenezer Warner, Jr., Calvin Warner and Calvin Warner, Jr. and Luke Warner. The house built by Calvin Warner was burned in 1877 being then owned by Jonathan Crouch. The older residence was not upon the site of this, but probably nearer the brook and highway. John Nichols, in 1740, sold his Harvard estate to Jonathan Houghtonand removed to the neighborhood of Fort Pond in Lancaster. He hadbuilt upon his land, but no clue to the site of his home is known. Hedied in Lan caster June 7, 1783 aged eighty-five. Jonathan Houghtonwas a resident of Bolton. James Atherton, third of the name, also sold, in 1740, his farm lying partly in Harvard and partly in Bolton, to Josiah Kent fromGloucester, who lived upon it until his death in 1767. Having no sons, ason-in-law, Abraham Scott, a blacksmith, owned and occupied the Athertonhomestead. This was probably located on or near the road which leadsfrom Still River to Bolton, perhaps at the place where the LeviHoughton house now is. James Whitcomb was the son of Josiah Whitcomb, Sr. of Bolton. Hislands, upon which he had built in 1729, comprised sixty acres, boundedeast upon the town line. He built the first mill upon the branch ofthe Assabet and and mentions the "old dam," in 1768, when deeding hisfarm to his sons, James Whitcomb, Jr. and Abel Whitcomb. In Stow Leg, 1732, the largest land-owner was Shadrach Hapgood. He wasa grandson of that Shadrach Hapgood who on May 30, 1656 at the age offour teen years, embarked for New England from Gravesend in the shipSpeedwell. p.93 The first Shadrach Hapgood lived with his uncle, Peter Noyes ofSudbury, during his minority and married Elizabeth Treadway on Oct.21, 1664, and was slain by the Indians in the surprise of CaptainsHutchinson and Wheeler at Brookfield, August 2, 1675. The eldest ofthe five children, fruit of the marriage was Nathaniel Hapgood born1665. He married Elizabeth Ward of Marl borough, August 14, 1695,became a deacon and a wealthy land-holder in Stow, and was longprominent in town councils. Nathaniel Hapgood was the father of theHarvard Shadrach Hapgood and transferred to him in 1725 all his lands upon Pin Hill Brook and Bare Hill, amounting to three hundred andfifty acres. Shadrach Hapgood was born in Stow November 6, 1704 and marriedElizabeth Wetherbee. He was commissioned lieutenant by GovernorWilliam Shirley in 1742, but what military service he rendered is not known. He had but oneson, Shad rach Hapgood Jr. and five daughters, all of whom had families.The Hapgood house is an excellent example of the homes of thethriftier farmers of New England at the period when the town ofHarvard was incorporated. In it Shad rach and Elizabeth (Wetherbee)Hapgood passed their married life of more than half a century andtheir son Shadrach succeeded to its possession, living here with hiswife, Elizabeth Keep, nearly fifty years. He was succeeded by his youngest son, Joel Hapgood, whose wife wasSally, the daughter of Jonathan Fairbank. The large addition to theold mansion at its western end was built by Joel Hapgood in 1812, andthe capacious farm barn by Jonathan F. Hapgood in 1854. The last ownerof the estate bearing the name Hapgood was Warren Hapgood, third sonof Joel, now living, a retired merchant of Boston. The old house was probably new and perhaps reputed the finest in thetown of Harvard, when the town in July 1734, complimented it and thebuilder by in structing a committee to engage board for the ministerswho should come to supply the pulpit, at Shadrach Hapgood's, althoughover a mile from the meeting house. The original leaden lattices withtheir bottle-green diamond lights were preserved in the gable windowsfor several years after the opening of the present century. To be continued p. 94 - John Daby. Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth God Bless America History & Genealogy Freely Shared Janice Farnsworth _http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm) and Toni Feeney _http://www.tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/page7.htm_ (http://www.tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/page7.htm three generations of his descendants spent their lives. Among the out- lying lands of Caleb Sawyer was a tract now forming the farm of Wilbur F. Sawyer, and opposite his dwelling, a cellar marks the site of an older home - that of Caleb Sawyer, son of Seth Sawyer, who probably built here about 1761. Phineas Sawyer, the youngest son of Seth Sawyer became a very skilful mechanic, as a rifle dated 1777 and stamped with his name - now owned by Warren Hapgood - attests. It wassaid of him that "he, (Phineas Sawyer) could make anything but ahornet's nest." The first John Priest garrison house, it is supposed, stood a littleeast of, and very near the house of Benjamin J. Priest. A very old dwelling was torn down here after the present house was built by the father ofthe late owner, Andrew Priest. The second John Priest, after the death ofhis father in 1704, took his wife, Anna Houghton, to a new house builtnear his brother Joseph Priest's, upon inherited lands at the northernend of end of Bare Hill. After the death of Rachel, widow of the firstJohn Priest - who survived her husband by thirty-three years, theheirs transferred all their rights in the original Priest homestead toGabriel Priest; and his descendants have ever since held the title toit. The journal of Rev. William Brinsmead of Marlborough states that"Sept. 20, 1687, John Warner of Lancaster was taken into the church at thehouse of Jonathan Johnson." This marks the year of the coming of theWarner p.92 History of Harvard. and Priest families from Woburn; and as for some time they jointly occupied a farm of thirty-six acres, the two hearthstones could nothave been far apart, if they were not under the same roof. John Warner's three sons in due time had families and passed their lives in the neighborhood. The oldest, Samuel Warner is supposed to have built, where an old cellar was filled up a few years ago, five or six rods west of the dwelling of Miss Elizabeth Fairbank. John Warner had a farm further to the eastward upon the road to Hudson. Ebenezer Warner, the youngest, remained with his parents and the first Warnerhomestead successively fell to Ebenezer Warner, Jr., Calvin Warner andCalvin Warner, Jr. and Luke Warner. The house built by Calvin Warnerwas burned in 1877 being then owned by Jonathan Crouch. The older residence was not upon the site of this, but probably nearer the brook and highway. John Nichols, in 1740, sold his Harvard estate to Jonathan Houghtonand removed to the neighborhood of Fort Pond in Lancaster. He hadbuilt upon his land, but no clue to the site of his home is known. Hedied in Lan caster June 7, 1783 aged eighty-five. Jonathan Houghtonwas a resident of Bolton. James Atherton, third of the name, also sold, in 1740, his farm lying partly in Harvard and partly in Bolton, to Josiah Kent fromGloucester, who lived upon it until his death in 1767. Having no sons, ason-in-law, Abraham Scott, a blacksmith, owned and occupied the Athertonhomestead. This was probably located on or near the road which leadsfrom Still River to Bolton, perhaps at the place where the LeviHoughton house now is. James Whitcomb was the son of Josiah Whitcomb, Sr. of Bolton. Hislands, upon which he had built in 1729, comprised sixty acres, boundedeast upon the town line. He built the first mill upon the branch ofthe Assabet and and mentions the "old dam," in 1768, when deeding hisfarm to his sons, James Whitcomb, Jr. and Abel Whitcomb. In Stow Leg, 1732, the largest land-owner was Shadrach Hapgood. He wasa grandson of that Shadrach Hapgood who on May 30, 1656 at the age offour teen years, embarked for New England from Gravesend in the shipSpeedwell. p.93 The first Shadrach Hapgood lived with his uncle, Peter Noyes ofSudbury, during his minority and married Elizabeth Treadway on Oct.21, 1664, and was slain by the Indians in the surprise of CaptainsHutchinson and Wheeler at Brookfield, August 2, 1675. The eldest ofthe five children, fruit of the marriage was Nathaniel Hapgood born1665. He married Elizabeth Ward of Marl borough, August 14, 1695,became a deacon and a wealthy land-holder in Stow, and was longprominent in town councils. Nathaniel Hapgood was the father of theHarvard Shadrach Hapgood and transferred to him in 1725 all his lands upon Pin Hill Brook and Bare Hill, amounting to three hundred andfifty acres. Shadrach Hapgood was born in Stow November 6, 1704 and marriedElizabeth Wetherbee. He was commissioned lieutenant by GovernorWilliam Shirley in 1742, but what military service he rendered is notknown. He had but one son, Shad rach Hapgood Jr. and five daughters,all of whom had families. The Hapgood house is an excellent example ofthe homes of the thriftier farmers of New England at the period whenthe town of Harvard was incorporated. In it Shad rach and Elizabeth(Wetherbee) Hapgood passed their married life of more than half acentury and their son Shadrach succeeded to its possession, livinghere with his wife, Elizabeth Keep, nearly fifty years. He was succeeded by his youngest son, Joel Hapgood, whose wife wasSally, the daughter of Jonathan Fairbank. The large addition to theold mansion at its western end was built by Joel Hapgood in 1812, andthe capacious farm barn by Jonathan F. Hapgood in 1854. The last ownerof the estate bearing the name Hapgood was Warren Hapgood, third sonof Joel, now living, a retired merchant of Boston. The old house was probably new and perhaps reputed the finest in thetown of Harvard, when the town in July 1734, complimented it and thebuilder by in structing a committee to engage board for the ministerswho should come to supply the pulpit, at Shadrach Hapgood's, althoughover a mile from the meeting house. The original leaden lattices withtheir bottle-green diamond lights were preserved in the gable windowsfor several years after the opening of the present century. To be continued p. 94 - John Daby. Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth God Bless America History & Genealogy Freely Shared Janice Farnsworth _http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm) and Toni Feeney _http://www.tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/page7.htm_ (http://www.tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/page7.htm Married 04 Jan 1664 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (54 years married) to:  Rebecca Waters, daughter of Lawerence Waters and Anna Linton.Born 01 Feb 1639 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, died 07 Mar 1720 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 81 years Children: 1. David WhitcombBorn 20 Feb 1668 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 11 Apr 1730 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 62 years 2. David WhitcombBorn 20 Feb 1668 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 11 Apr 1730 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 62 years My Family Line http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=9a8e2735-b0b8-4386-bcbe-e7be850872a2&tid=22138222&pid=1227005084 My Family Line http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=9a8e2735-b0b8-4386-bcbe-e7be850872a2&tid=22138222&pid=484 3. David WhitcombBorn 20 Feb 1668 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 11 Apr 1730 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 62 years 4. Rebecca WhitcombBorn 09 Oct 1671 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 22 Oct 1752 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 81 years 5. Rebecca WhitcombBorn 09 Oct 1671 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 22 Oct 1752 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 81 years 6. Rebecca WhitcombBorn 09 Oct 1671 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 22 Oct 1752 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 81 years 7. Hezekiah WhitcombBorn 14 sep 1681 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 20 Jun 1732 Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 50 years 8. Hezekiah WhitcombBorn 14 sep 1681 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 20 Jun 1732 Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 50 years 9. Hezekiah WhitcombBorn 14 sep 1681 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 20 Jun 1732 Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 50 years 10. Deborah WhitcombBorn 26 Dec 1683 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 1683 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, under 1 year old 11. Deborah WhitcombBorn 26 Dec 1683 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 1683 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, under 1 year old 12. Deborah WhitcombBorn 26 Dec 1683 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 1683 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, under 1 year old 13. Eunice WhitcombBorn 1685 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 1685, under 1 year old 14. Eunice WhitcombBorn 1685 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 1685, under 1 year old 15. Eunice WhitcombBorn 1685 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 1685, under 1 year old 16. Johannah WhitcombBorn 1686 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 1727 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, 40 or 41 years 17. Johannah WhitcombBorn 1686 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 1727 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 40 or 41 years 18. Johannah WhitcombBorn 1686 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 1727 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 40 or 41 years 19. Demaris WhitcombBorn 27 May 1686 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 03 Dec 1772 Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 86 years 20. Demaris WhitcombBorn 27 May 1686 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 03 Dec 1772 Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 86 years 21. Demaris WhitcombBorn 27 May 1686 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 03 Dec 1772 Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 86 years 22. Abigail WhitcombBorn 13 Mar 1688 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, died 24 sep 1771 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 83 years 23. Abigail WhitcombBorn 13 Mar 1688 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 24 sep 1771 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 83 years 24. Abigail WhitcombBorn 13 Mar 1688 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 24 sep 1771 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 83 years 25. Elizabeth WhitcombBorn 24 sep 1713 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 26. Elizabeth WhitcombBorn 24 sep 1713 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 27. Elizabeth WhitcombBorn 24 sep 1713 Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States | |||
| 2nd marriage/ relation Josiah Whitcomb, son of John "The Emigrant"" Whitcomb and Frances "The Emigrant, Francis, Cogin" Coggan.Married/ Related to: N.N. Child: 1. Damaris WhitcombBorn ±. 28 Feb 1686 Lancaster,Worcester,Ma, died 03 sep 1772 Petersham,Worcester,Ma, approximately 86 years, buried 06 sep 1772 Petersham, Worcester, MA | |||