Zacheus Goldsmith Sr. (abt. 1662 - 1747)

Born about 1662 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 30 Oct 1747 at about age 85 in Wenham, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Zacheus Goldsmith was born in about 1662, in Wenham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the son of Mary and Richard Goldsmith.

He married Martha Hutton in about 1690, in Wenham. Martha was also born in about 1662, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Martha Hutton Goldsmith died on 14 Nov 1744, in Wenham, at the age of 82.^[1]

Zaccheus Goldsmith died on 30 Oct 1747, in Wenham, at the age of 85.^[2]

Research Notes

Deed Research. Essex (Massachusetts) Deed index (grantee) 1640-1799 A-Hac, Goldsmith begins at image 588 of 637.
Essex (Massachusetts) Deed index (grantor) 1640-1799 Fos-Nix, Goldsmith begins at image 103 of 724.

See especially, Essex (Massachusetts) Deeds 13:87, "Richard est., Zacheus Goldsmith to Nathaniel Waldron, dated 7 January 1695/6, recorded 16 February 1698/9, "Deeds 1697-1700 vol 12-13" in "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch, FHL film DGS 007,462,658 image 292-293 of 538. Zacheus is a weaver, his wife is Martha, who waived her right of dower; Waldron is a bricklayer; sale is "two certain parcels" of land at Wenham; one parcel of about 18-1/2 acres bounded by "ye oarchard that was formerly Richard Goldsmith Deceased" of which 16 acres "being that which Richard" Goldsmith died possessed of, the remainder being formerly Capt. Smith's; the other parcel contains 5 acres by ?measure of upland and meadow by the river; immediately prior deed is John Abbey (yeoman) and Hannah his wife, to Nathaniel Waldron, dated 29 October 1696, recorded 16 February 1689/9. (Image 291 of 538.)

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Wenham - Deaths, p. 200:http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Wenham/Images/Wenham_D200.shtml (accessed 6 Apr 2017)
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Wenham - Deaths, p. 200:http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Wenham/Images/Wenham_D200.shtml (accessed 6 Apr 2017)