Heartwell 6 BIGELOW
16815.8 Heartwell 6 BIGELOW ,
son of Elias 5 ( Joseph 4,
Joseph
3, Joshua 2, John 1), and Abigail
(MYRICK) BIGELOW
was born 03 June 1795 at Sterling, Worcester county, MA. He
married,
on
20 March 1821, Lavinia Jones of Lincoln. They lived in Concord, MA,
where
he
kept a tavern and accumulated "a
handsome property." (see below) He died
there 21
October
1851. His widow died __ (after1889).
Children of Heartwell and Lavinia (Jones) Bigelow, all born Concord,
Middlesex
co, MA:
16815.81t Henry
Heartwell, b 4 Sep 1822; d 18 July 1854 Chicago, IL; m Mary Ann
Seaver; res Chicago, IL. 1 daughter.
16815.82t Ann Jones, b 23 June 1824; d ____
;
m Benjamin Tolman; res Concord, MA. 1 daughter.
16815.83 Eliza Jane, b 28 Oct 1829; d
____
; m Samuel D. Kent; res Concord, MA 3 children.
16815.84 John, b 16 Oct 1832; d ____
Lake Maitland, FL; m (1) ____ Whiting, and (2) ____ Sturtevant. He went
to TX during
the Rebellion, and lived there many years until after the close of the
war,
then migrated first to AL, then to FL, where he kept a hotel at Lake
Maitland,
and was killed by lightning.
16815.85 Abba, b 13 Nov 1835; d 14 Mar
1852.
16815.86 George, b 17 Nov 1842; lived
with
his brother in TX and FL many yrs, but in 1889 was living Concord, MA;
unmarried.
16815.87 Mary, b 24 Sept 1843; d 17
Sept
1847.
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I page 342;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America.
From web:
Walden Pond
On October 4, 1844, Emerson wrote his brother
William about his recent purchase of land at Walden Pond: “I have
lately added an absurdity or two to my usual ones, which I am impatient
to tell you of. In one of my solitary wood-walks by Walden Pond,
I met two or three men who told me they had come thither to sell &
to buy a field, on which they wished me to bid as a purchaser. As
it was on the shore of the pond, & now for years I had a sort of
daily occupancy in it, I bid on it, & bought it, eleven acres for
$8.10 per acre. The next day I carried some of my well-beloved
gossips to the same place & they deciding that the field was not
good for anything, if Heartwell
Bigelow should cut down his pine-grove, I bought, for 125
dollars more, his pretty wood lot of 3 or 4 acres, and so am landlord
& waterlord of 14 acres, more or less, on the shore of Walden … ”
Emerson’s purchase of land at Walden provided Henry Thoreau with the opportunity
he had been looking for to live simply and self-sufficiently in nature
and to devote himself to writing. Thoreau built a cabin on and
moved to Emerson’s Walden property in 1845.
Emerson himself took great pleasure in the peace and
beauty of Walden Pond and the Walden Woods. Edward Emerson wrote
of his father’s enjoyment of the place: “The garden at home was often a
hindrance and care, but he soon bought an estate which brought him
unmingled pleasure, first the grove of white pines on the shore of
Walden, and later the large tract on the farther shore running up to a
rocky pinnacle from which he could look down on the Pond itself, and on
the other side to the Lincoln woods and farms, Nobscot blue in the
South away beyond Fairhaven and the river gleaming in the afternoon
sun.” Emerson often walked to Walden with his children on Sunday
afternoons.
In 1866 (a mere four years after Thoreau’s death), the
Fitchburg Railroad built an amusement park at Walden, on the side of
the pond nearest the railroad track. It featured picnic,
swimming, and athletic areas, boathouses, footpaths, swings, see-saws,
merry-go-rounds, and pavilions for speakers. The construction of
this complex distressed local people, Emerson included, who had enjoyed
Walden in its undeveloped state.
Emerson’s poem “My Garden,” written about Walden and the
surrounding area, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for
December, 1866 (Myerson E169). It was collected in May-Day
and Other Pieces (1867; Myerson A28).
Also:
Book by Susan Cheeve; "American Bloomsbury"
quote:
"..Emerson bought land (pine grove)
from Heartwell Bigelow, where Thoreau set up his cottage on Walden
Pond."
More from Web:
Bigelow, Heartwell. December 25, 1857, and November 22,
1858.
Henry David Thoreau made surveys for Mrs. Bigelow of a woodlot near
Walden
Street east of the present Fairyland, and of the old woodlot which had
belonged
to Caleb Bates, Senior.
Mrs. Bigelow's name appears on the surveys of Ebby Hubbard and Abel
Brooks.
also see Thoreau page.
Modified - 02/19/2010
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