Barnabas Shurtleff (1696 - 1759)

Born 17 Mar 1696 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Jemima (Adams) Shurtleff — married 16 Mar 1726 in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 18 May 1759 at age 63 in Carver, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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BIOGRAPHY

Born:
Barnabas born the 17th of March 1695/6 [of William Shirtlif & of Suzannah Shirtlef his wife] in Plymouth, Mass.^[1]

Married:
Barnabas SHURTLEFF of Plympton & Jemima ADAMS married March 16th 1726/7^[2]

Died:
Barnabas Esq., Capt. [h. Jemima], May 18, 1759, in 64th y. G. R.1. in Carver, Mass.^[1]

Buried: Lakenham Cemetery North Carver Cemetery, Carver, MA^[3]

Mr. Shurtleff was captain of a military company and a justice of the peace. He died with the measles.^[4]

Plympton HR 1750; selectman 1735-38; moderator 1736, 37, 39; JP 1755; capt.; M Jemima Adams (1707- 1773) in 1727, 9 ch; farmer; will. Very good estate. Three committees, a below-average workload.^[5]

Probate

The will of Barnabas Shurtleff of Plympton was dated 10 May 1759 and proved on 4 June 1759 in Plymouth. He mentions his wife Jemima, his four daughters, Susanna Atwood, Jemima, Elizabeth, and Molly, and his two sons, Francis and Barnabas.^[6]

His inventory was taken on 21 June 1759 in Plympton.^[7]

In 1759, his real estate was divided between his widow, Jemima, and his two sons, Francis and Barnabas.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). Images of the print version of town record books.
2. ↑ Vital Records of Plymouth, Mass. To 1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the year 1850. Compiled by Lee D. van Antwerp; Edited by Ruth Wilder Sherman, Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993.)
3. ↑ FindaGrave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36500032
4. ↑ Shurtleff, Benjamin (compiler). Descendants Of William Shurtleff Of Plymouth And Marshfield, Massachusetts Volume I. Revere, Massachusetts: MCMXII (1912).
5. ↑ Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. by Northeastern University Press , Boston, MA. John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary, 1997.)
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-692X : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1758-1764 vol 15-16 > image 144-145 of 623; State Archives, Boston.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-69V8 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1758-1764 vol 15-16 > image 152 of 623; State Archives, Boston.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-69PD : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1758-1764 vol 15-16 > image 177-179 of 623; State Archives, Boston.

• More Information on pg 38 of -- Shurtleff, Benjamin (compiler). Descendants Of William Shurtleff Of Plymouth And Marshfield, Massachusetts. Volume I. Revere, Massachusetts: MCMXII (1912). Available online.