Heirology

Ancestors

Asa Fisk

b. 1708 · Sherborn MA
Born 1708, Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Father: Nathaniel Fiske
Mother: Hannah Adams
Children include Aaron

Asa Fisk was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts, on 27 February 1708, the son of Nathaniel and Hannah Fisk. His father had moved to Sherborn from Watertown, and his mother, Hannah Adams, died when Asa was ten. His father died the next year, in August 1719.

On 30 January 1734-5 he married Lois Leland, daughter of Timothy Leland, at Holliston, the town set off from Sherborn in 1724. Their children were all entered in the Holliston records: Lydia, born 12 November 1738; Huldah in March 1740-1; Abel on 14 March 1743-4; Asa on 3 September 1746; Aaron on 20 March 1748-9; Lois on 6 May 1751; and Abner on 27 March 1754.

Asa made his will on 6 November 1770, "being very weak in body." In it he is styled gentleman, a title for a man of some standing in the town. He left his wife Lois one third of his estate. The will was proved on 8 January 1781.

Lois made her own will on 3 March 1775. It was proved in 1801. Their daughter Lydia married a Burbank of Holliston, Huldah married Caleb Claflin of Hopkinton, and Lois married Amariah Marsh of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Abner settled at Lee, in Oneida County, New York.

Parents

Nathaniel Fiske 1678-1719

Hannah Adams (d. 1718)

Children

Aaron Fisk 1749-1837

Sources

Vital Records of Holliston, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, 1908), births under Fisk and marriages under Leland; archive.org vitalrecordsofho00newe.
Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, 1911), births under Fisk; archive.org cu31924028839210.
Frederick Clifton Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (Chicago, 1896), entries 126, 169, 193, 289, 413, 689 and 1235; archive.org cu31924029841024.
Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1911), births (archive.org cu31924028839210); Vital Records of Holliston, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1908), births and marriages (archive.org vitalrecordsofho00newe); Frederick Clifton Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (Chicago, 1896), entry 689, p. 118 area (archive.org cu31924029841024).

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