Joseph Belcher (1641 - 1678)

Born 25 Dec 1641 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 29 Jan 1678 at age 36 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Anderson's Great Migration Directory on page 25 gives several references for Joseph's father Gregory Belcher-57 and his wife Catherine. One of the references, NEHGR, Vol 60 (1906), pages 128-129, and pages 131-132, shows that Joseph was born 25 December 1641 and died about 1678. He married Rebecca Gill. There's quite a bit of information about Joseph in the article. You may want to track it down. I found it on AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society's website.

Braintree Vital Records have birth of Joseph BELSHAR, son of Gregory Belshar on 25-10-1641 (i.e., 25 December 1641). Source is Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638-1850. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016.) Transcription. By Waldo C. Sprague from the original records held at the Randolph Town Hall, donated from the estate of Mr. Sprague to NEHGS in 1962.

A Joseph Belchar was excommunicated from the church in Quincy (which was part of Braintree) in 1677: "Joseph Belchar though not in full communion, 7-8-___; Rejected, 11-9-1677" -- from Quincy, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1672-1870. . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org., New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Unpublished transcription by Waldo C. Sprague from original records held at the Randolph Town Hall, donated from the estate of Mr. Sprague to NEHGS in 1962). (I'd interpret the date as 11 November 1677.)

According to the same Quincy church source, in 1674, 20-7, John & Joseph, sons of Joseph Belcher, were baptized in that same church. (I'd interpret that date as 20 September 1674.)

There are also some Quincy church records for a Joseph Belchar in 1693.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #148648728
• Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. The Belcher Families in New England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1906) Vol. 60, Page 131.
• Anderson's Great Migration Directory on page 25 gives several references for Joseph's father Gregory Belcher-57 and his wife Catherine.
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
• https://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Belcher/600000000393870734