Rev. Asahel 7 BIGELOW

15133.26    Rev. Asahel 7 BIGELOW, son of Andrew 6 ( Charles 5 , Joseph 4, John 3, Samuel 2, John 1), and Sarah (FAWCETT) BIGELOW, was born 14 May 1797 Boylston, Worcester, MA. In the Fall of 1817, and after working for a time for his brother Solomon in the blacksmith trade, he had earned $30. He walked 45 miles to Andover to begin a course of education and to prepare himself for college. He graduated from Harvard, 1823, and Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained at Walpole, MA 12 March 1828 and stayed there 21 years and for 2 years represented that town in the State Legislature. Next he was installed over the church at Hancock, NH, (May 1850), where he held this position until his death 16 August 1877. He had married, in Boston, 15 September 1830 Dorcas Freeman Homes, daughter of Henry Homes. She was born 26 August 1810 in Boston. In late life, 1888, she was living in Hancock.

Children of Rev. Asahel and Dorcas (Homes) Bigelow, all born Walpole:

15133.261     Isabella Homes, b 13 July 1831; m 18 Aug 1856 C. W. Kitteridge; in late 1880's res San Francisco, CA.

15133.262     Henry Augustus, b 05 April 1833; early entered Williams College, but left due to illness; went to Pacific Coast engaged in mining in OR and AZ; chosen to first Territorial Legislature and other offices of trust; res Prescott, AZ in late 1880's; d 16 Dec 1892 Prescott; unm.

15133.263     Lucy Maria, b 17 March 1835; m 14 January Adolphus D. Tuttle a merchant in Hancock, NH.

15133.264     Miranda, b 25 April 1838; d 16 Sept 1840 Walpole.

15133.265     Benjamin Franklin,b 31 July 1841; d__ June 1879; m 28 Aug 1866 Mary Parker of Natick, MA; served two years in the navy during Civil War as Asst. Surgeon; practiced medicine in Clayton, IN, where he died.

15133.266     Charles Freeman, b 07 Sept 1845; m June 1883 Lucy Stickney; in late 1880's res. Cochituate, MA.

Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol I , p 210-211;
Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol II ; pg 20;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; pg 167;
   Massachusetts vital records;
   pension records;
   e-mail from Fran Pitman, fpittman@techwarrior,net (8-2007), 642 Bonneau Lane, Mount Pleasant, North Carolina 29464,  giving information of Andrew's descendants;
   "A Prelude to Hancock's Second Hundred Years, by A. D. Tuttle;"
   An article about Asahel was printed in the Bigelow Society Quarterly, "Forge," Jan 1977, Vol 6, No 1, pg 10 and another article in Jan 1988, Vol 27, No 1, pg 11;
Article sent Jan. 1977 FORGE, Vol. 6, No 1, p.10 by Adolphus Darwin Tuttle about Asahel from "A Prelude to Hancock's Second Hundred Years", contributed by reader Barbara Horne of Dover, New Hampshire.  Asahel was "of Walpole, Massachusetts" and received a call to become pastor in Hancock, New Hampshire, 19 Mar 1850. In Sep.1817, age 20, he took his bundle and walked 45 miles to Andover to attend Phillips Academy and once told that he had 25 cents in his pocket when he started to get his education.  He preached 6 months in Portland, Maine, then in Walpole, Massachusetts 25 years.  Twice sent to the legislature.  "He visited us often....once he came to see my brother who lived at the time at the homestead on Norway Hill and the talk turned to honey bees (my brother having quite a few hives.)  "They fixed up an incline leading to one of the hives, covered it with a sheet and poured out the other swarm.  Mr. Bigelow poked them over hunting for the queen to destroy it. I stood back at a safe distance.  The bees crawled all over him.  He was barehanded and without a bee hat.  He said 1 or 2 'pinched him a little.'  Once when he couldn't move a stone, working on the foundation of his barn, he straightened up and said 'I believe that stone is water-soaked.' 

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