Benjamin 4 BIGELOW


16C1     Benjamin 4 BIGELOW, oldest son of Eleazer 3( Joshua2, John1), and Mary (FISKE) BIGELOW, was born in Watertown, Middlesex county, MA on 13 Oct 1725. As a youth, he moved to Westminister with his parents. In the third division of land in that town he had Lot No.6, 62 acres.
     He was married 13 June 1751 to Mary WYMAN, the marriage recorded at both Woburn and Cambridge. In 1762 Benjamin received land from his father Eleazer by will, but afterwards moved to Portsmouth, NH. He was one of the principal taxpayers of Portsmouth in 1770. He was deceased before 1790, as he does not appear in the first U.S. census.

We have little knowledge of the family of Benjamin and Mary (WYMAN) BIGELOW, but feel the following were probably his children:

16C11.+      Benjamin jr , b ____ ; d _____ ; in business in Portsmouth, NH in 1798, and head-of-family 1790 through 1810; after which his widow Salome is listed as head-of-family. He left issue, two sons and a daughter identified by church records.

16C12.      ?Ruth, b ____ ; d _____ ; m 06 Apr 1775 Portsmouth, NH) William McINTIRE.

16C13.      Sarah, bapt 16 Jan 1757 Brookline, MA, "daughter of Benjamin."

16C13.?     Joseph, b ca 1766; d 26 Aug 1783 Portsmouth, NH; age 17 yrs old; son of Benjamin and Mary Bigelow; buried in Old North cemetery, Portsmouth, NH (see below)

Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. I page.79;
Howe, Bigelow Family ofAmerica;
vital records various towns MA & NH;
censuses 1790-1820;
church records, Portsmouth, NH.


In Memory
of Joseph Bigelow
who Departed this Life
August 26th 1783
in the 17th Year
of his Age
son of Benjamin
& Mary Bigelow

Rod Bigelow
Box 13  Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
  rodbigelow@netzero.net 
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