Josiah BELCHER

1631 - 1683  (52 years)

• Name	Josiah BELCHER  [1, 2]
  	Josiah Belcher, born in 1631, was a wheelwright, and settled in Boston, where he acquired an estate on the southeasterly corner of what is now Essex Street and Harrison Avenue, measuring 126 feet onEssex Street, and running back 285 feet to the water. After the death of his widow, a partition as made of this estate among his surviving children on Sept. 20, 1693, which is described and recorded in Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 19, p.158. Further deeds in relation to this property show that all his sons except John and Benjamin died without issue and apparently unmarried, and that his daughter Dorothy died without issue soon after her marriage. (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 40, p.225; vol. 41, p.210; vl. 46, p. 90; vol. 41, p.212.) He was one of the founders of the Third or Old South, Church and died Apr. 3, 1683, aged 52, being buried in the Granary Burying Ground, where his gravestone still remains. His will made the day of his decease, names wife Ranis, sons John, Jonathan, Joseph, Edward, Nathan, and Benjamin, and daughters Elizabeth, Rebecca, Anna, Dorothy, Abigail, and Ruth. (Suffolk Co. Probate) He married Mar. 3, 1654/5, Ranis, born June 4, 1638, daughter of Elder Edward and Elizabeth Rainsford of Boston. She died Oct. 2, 1691. [1]
  Birth	1631  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Apr 1683  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I579	Main Tree
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Gregory BELCHER,   b. Abt 1606   d. 25 Nov 1674 (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Catherine ?   d. 1680
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	1631	England   [2]
  Family ID	F619	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ranis RAINSFORD,   b. 4 Jun 1638   d. 2 Oct 1691 (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	3 Mar 1654/5  [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin BELCHER,   b. 20 Mar 1680/1, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts d. Abt 1719 (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F612	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2023

  
  

• Sources

  [S84] William Henry Belcher and Joseph Warren Belcher, The BELCHER Family in England and America. [S9347] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.