Thomas 5 BIGELOW


# 15576.    Thomas 5 BIGELOW,  sixth child of Jacob 4( Thomas 3 , Samuel 2, John 1)  BIGELOW and Susanna (MEAD)  BIGELOW was born 26 Nov 1751 at Waltham, Middlesex county, MA. He was married 24 Nov 1774 to Elizabeth Wales. Thomas was in the militia, in training at Providence, RI, and was accidentally shot by Martin Thurber while performing the manual exercise, according to a newspaper obituary printed 14 Jan 1775. The estate was probated in Feb 1775. His only child was born seven months later, and his widow, married (2) on 29 Dec 1778 Joseph Field, and had four more children, as noted below, one of whom married a son of Thomas' brother Jacob Bigelow.

Posthumous child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Wales) Bigelow:

15576.lt    Susanna, b 9 Sep 1775 Waltham, MA; d 3 Sep 1810; m at Boston 3 July 1796 Samuel Stimson. 1 son.

       Elizabeth's children by Joseph Field, all born in Boston, Suffolk co, MA:

                        Betsy, died unmarried.

                        Sophia, b 16 July 1790; m Henry Bigelow l5572.2.

                        Joseph.

                        a daughter who married a Rev. Mr. Pratt.

SOURCES:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol I, pg 128-129;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Waltham and Sudbury town records;
Marriage Notices from Columbian Centinel & Mass. Centinel, 1796-1840, compiled by American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA 1941;
Index of Obituaries in Boston Newspapers, 1704-1800, Boston Atheneum, pub Hall, 1968.

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