Nathan BRIGHAM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Was a Captain, and filled many town offices

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth HOWE. Elizabeth was born about 1664; died on 29 Mar 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ephraim BRIGHAM was born on 20 Jan 1708.

Family/Spouse: Mehetabel PARKE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: He married 2nd Mrs. Susanna Morse of Watertown

Notes:

Name:
He came into marl. with his mother, who m. Edmund Rice, and on arrive at age, he purchased a town right, settled in the southwest part of the town, on what is now called the "Warren Brigham farm," and on the south road to Northborough. The house which he built after King Phillips war, is still standing; and even the chair in which he expired, is in the neighborhood, in the possession of one of his descendants, Mrs. lewis Ames. He was a prominent man in the town.

Thomas married Mary RICE. Mary (daughter of Henry RICE and Elizabeth MOORE) was born on 19 Sep 1646; died before 30 May 1695. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Henry Rice and Elizabeth Moore

Notes:

Name:
Thomas Brigham, the ancestor of the Brighams in New England, embarked at London for America, April 18, 1635, in the ship Susan and Ellyn, Edward Payne, master. He was then 32 years of age, and consequently was b. in 1603. He settled in Watertown, near Cambridge line, on land which was afterward set to Cambridge. He was made freeman in 1639, and was selectman in 1640, and subsequently. He m. about 1637 Mercy Hurd, b. in England. He d. Dec. 18, 1653, and she m. 1655 Edmund Rice, then of Sud., but afterwards of Marl. He d. and she m. as her 3rd husband William Hunt of Marl., who d. 1667, and she d. 1693.

Thomas married Mercy HURD about 1637. Mercy was born in England; died in 1693. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name:
Henry Rice called himself 50 years old Jan. 25, 1667, as appears by a deposition on the files of the court - hence b. about 1617. He was admitted freeman 1658.

Henry married Elizabeth MOORE on 1 Feb 1643 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John MOORE and ? UNKNOWN) died on 3 Aug 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]