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1631 - 1683 (52 years)
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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]
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Birth |
1631 [1, 2] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
3 Apr 1683 [1, 2] |
Person ID |
I579 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
16 Jun 2023 |
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Sources |
- [S84] William Henry Belcher and Joseph Warren Belcher, The BELCHER Family in England and America.
- [S9347] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
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