Watching
Atherton
Born about in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of Humphrey Atherton Esq.
and Mary (Kennion) Atherton
Brother of
Jonathan Atherton, Elizabeth (Atherton) Mather, Isabella (Atherton) Wales, Consider Atherton, Mary (Atherton) Weeks, Margaret (Atherton) Trowbridge, Rest (Atherton) Swift, Increase Atherton, Thankful (Atherton) Bird, Hope Atherton and Patience Atherton
Husband of
Elizabeth (Rigby) Atherton
— married
23 Jan 1678 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
Patience (Atherton) Chaffee
Died after
after about age 34
in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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Contents |
Biography
Name
- Watching Atherton
Baptism
- 24 AUG 1651 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts[1]
Marriage
- 23 JAN 1678 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts[2]
- Wife: Elizabeth Rigby
- Child: Patience Atherton
- 23 JAN 1678 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts[2]
Sources
- S00211: New England Historical & Genealogical Society
- S00245Chaffee, William H. The Chaffee Genealogy: Embracing the Chafe, et al Descendants of Thomas Chaffe of Hingham, Hull, Rehoboth & Swansea, Massachusetts 1635-1909 The Grafton Press, NY 1909. Accessed at HathiTrust.com The Chaffee Genealogy
- Census of Bristol in Plymouth Colony, now in Rhode Island, 1689
- On 11 Feb 1688/9 he was married and had four children.
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