Joshua Atwood (1722)

Born 27 Sep 1722 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Knowles) Atwood — married 27 Nov 1746 in Truro Mass.

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Joshua was born 22 October 1722^{[1] [2]}

He died in 1833.

According to Ye Atte Wood Annals and the Truro Massachusetts, he married Mary Knowles on 27 November 1746 in Truro, Massachusetts.^[3]

He lived in Nova Scotia. A Joshua Atwood appears in Barrington in the 1770 census.^[1][4]

Birth

Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988.

Research Notes

Atte Wood annals does not mention wife Mercy Nickerson.

The Nickerson Family documentation is copyrighted 1973 and may only be available to members of the family association; assumption is that documentation of that marriage is available in that record. The NIckerson Family, part 1, 1973, p.58 Does say she married Joshua Atwood and resided Barrington but no indication it is this Joshua; part 3, p. 406 says only "828. Rhoda Nickerson m. Barrington Dec 1784 to Knowles Atwood, probably born at Eastham, MA; son of Joshua and Mary (Knowles) Atwood."

The FindAGrave memorial for Joshua refers to a memorial for wife Mary Knowles, but there is no memorial for Mercy Nickerson.

Page 22 of Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Vol. I lists Joshua Atwood (son of Joseph, born in Truro on October 1722) and Mary Atwood (born 20 January 1726/7, daughter of Paul Knowles), immigrated to Barrington, Nova Scotia, in 1760. Image.

Mercy Nickerson had married Herman Kenney. They also migrated to Barrington. Both Herman Kenney and Mary Knowles Atwood died in 1775. The idea that Joshua and Mercy married is plausible.

SOURCES

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Atwood: Part 3, Page 4
2. ↑ Joshua Atwood in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Image
3. ↑ Joshua Atwood in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Ancestry Record 2495 #82118323Image
4. ↑ Joshua Atwood in the Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records, 1770-1795, 1827, 1838. Nova Scotia Archives; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Census, Assesment and Poll Tax Records 1767-1827; Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 443 no. 9 p. 1. Ancestry.com. Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records, 1770-1795, 1827, 1838 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Citing: Halifax Real Estate Valuation, 1775. Commissioner of Public Records collection. Series: City of Halifax, 1749–1869. RG 1, vol. 411. Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #92439370 Riverdale Cemetery, Barrington, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
• Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2013
• Elijah Francis Atwood, Ye Atte Wood Annals (Sisseton, SD: Atwood Publishing Company, 1929).

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Erin Gillis for creating Atwood-653 on 22 Aug 13.