Martha (Bullard) Fairbanks (1695 - 1749)

Born 11 Feb 1695 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Eleazer Fairbanks II — married 25 Dec 1712 in Sherborn, Middlesex, MA

Descendants

Died 22 Jan 1749 at age 53 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Martha was born on February 11, 1695, in Sherborn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Capt. Samuel Bullard and Deborah Atherton. She married Eleazer Fairbanks, also of Sherborn, on December 25, 1712.^[1]

Children of Eleazer and Martha Fairbanks:^[2][3]

• Eleazer, born July 23, 1716
• Joseph, born September 17, 1718, married, died 1790 without children
• Deborah, born November 12, 1719, married Joseph Twitchell
• Moses, born August 14, 1721
• Sarah, born September 15, 1722
• Martha, born August 2, 1724, married Benjamin Mason
• Abel, born November 28, 1726
• Abigail, born August 18, 1728, died young
• David, born February 2, 1730-1
• Abigail, born May 5, 1732
• Ebenezer, born June 1, 1734
• Mary, married Capt. Samuel Sanger, had no children

Eleazer Fairbanks died in 1741. Martha married John Phip(p)s on December 22, 1743. They removed to Brookfield, Massachusetts.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Morse, Abner. The genealogy of the descendants of several ancient Puritans. Boston, Mass., 1857. pp. 13-14
2. ↑ Morse, Abner. A genealogical register of the inhabitants and history of the towns of Sherborn and Holliston. Boston, Press of Damrell & Moore, 1856. p. 83
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles. Genealogy of the Fairbanks family in America, 1633-1897. Boston, Printed by the American printing and engraving company, 1897. pp. 62-63