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Joshua Bullard (1716 - 1792)

Joshua Bullard
Born in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Provincemap
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Husband of — married 22 Dec 1741 (to 20 Jan 1744) in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Provincemap
Husband of — married 28 Aug 1744 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Provincemap
Husband of — married 10 Nov 1747 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Provincemap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 75 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Provincemap
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Biography

Birth

Joshua Bullard was born in Medfield in 1716 [1]

Trade

Joshua was a cordwainer, that is, a shoemaker. He became Medfield's official sealer of leather in 1742.[2]

Marriages

Joshua Bullard first married Judith Bullen in Medfield in 1741 [3]

Judith died in Medfield on Jan, 20, 1743-4, one month after the birth of her only child.[4]

Joshua next married Olive Harding in Medfield on Aug. 28, 1744[5]

Olive died in Medfield on Mar. 17, 1745-6, two weeks after the birth of her son Silas.[6]

Joshua next married Anna Barber Penniman, the widow of Nathan Penniman, in Medfield on November 10, 1747[7]

Anna survived him, living in Medfield as a widow until Nov. 25, 1811.[8]

Children

Joshua and Judith Bullard had, in Medfield:[9]

  • Job. b. Dec. 26, 1743, died in 1751

Olive and Joshua Bullard had, in Medfield:[10]

  • Rhoda, b. Oct. 22, 1745, died Feb. 15, 1745-6
  • Silas, b. Mar. 3, 1746-7, m. Sarah Baxter in Medfield on Mar. 26, 1778, then Thankful Adams of Medway in 1782,

Anna and Joshua Bullard had, in Medfield:[11]

  • Judith, b. Sept. 7, 1749, m. Eliphalet Fisher of Dedham in Medfield on Dec. 5, 1771
  • Nathan, b. Jan. 15, 1754, removed to Newburgh, New York
  • Anna, b. Feb. 23, 1756, m. Benjamin Rockwood
  • John, b. Sept. 30, 1758, m. Thankful Allen on Oct. 24, 1780, then Calle Hartshorn of Dover, intentions posted in Medfield and Dover on May 14 and 31, 1790
  • Olive, b. Sept. 13, 1761, died May 16, 1779, 17 years old
  • Abigail, b. May 16, 1764, died Aug. 16, 1787 at 23
  • Kezia, b. Oct. 25, 1766, m. John Sanger of Sherborn in Boston on Aug. 28, 1798[12]
  • Zilla, b. Feb. 5, 1770, died Oct. 27, 1795 at 25.

Death

Joshua died in Medfield in 1792. [13]

Sources

  1. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 26: 'Joshua, s. Ebenezar and Susanna, Nov. 25, 1716.'
  2. Tilden, p. 331
  3. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 123: 'Bulle - Judith and Joshua Bullard, Dec. 22, 1741'
  4. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 197
  5. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 122 & 145
  6. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 197
  7. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 122 & 163
  8. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 196
  9. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 26, 197
  10. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 26, 123, & 197
  11. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 26, 122197
  12. Middlesex, Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 167
  13. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 197: 'Joshua, h. Anna, Sept. 4, 1792'
  • Tilden, William S., History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts. 1650-1886 ,p. 331




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