Ancestors

Bathsheba Wilde

b. 1724 · Braintree MA
Born 1724, Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Father: John Wild
Mother: Abigail Bass
Children include Ephraim

Bathsheba Wilde married Ephraim Wetherell at Norton, Massachusetts, on 10 July 1742. The town clerk wrote her name "Barshebe Wilde".

She was a daughter of John Wild of Norton, formerly of Braintree, and his first wife Abigail. She was baptized at the South Church of Braintree on 23 August 1724. The minister, Samuel Niles, wrote "Bathsheba Wild Daughter of John Wild was baptised August 23 1724". Her father's will, made in November 1765 and proved in March 1776, leaves money "unto my Daughter Barshebe Wetherell Wife of Ephraim Wetherell", alongside her sisters Abigail Skinner and Mary Clark. The family moved to Norton when she was about two.

Her mother was probably Abigail Bass, a daughter of Deacon Samuel Bass of the same church. Bathsheba was the name of Abigail Bass's half-sister, baptized in that church in 1712. Through that line Bathsheba descended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Mayflower. The Mayflower Society accepts the descent, but no record names her mother as a Bass after her marriage.

She and Ephraim had nine children at Norton between 1743 and 1765. In November 1758 she lost two of them within three weeks, Abigail and Noah. Her eldest son, Ephraim, fought in the Revolution and died at Keene, New Hampshire, in 1785. Under her father's will she was to have twenty-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence, paid by her brother Samuel and her nephew Benjamin Wild. Her death has not been found.

Sources

Bristol County, Massachusetts, probate records, recorded March 1776, pp. 88-89, via FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-XQVT.
Bristol County, Massachusetts, probate records, recorded March 1776, pp. 89-90, via FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-XQV1.
Journal of Rev. Samuel Niles, 1697-1777, p. 236 (image 91), South Church of Braintree records, RG5302. Congregational Library & Archives, In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted.
Journal of Rev. Samuel Niles, 1697-1777, South Church of Braintree records, Congregational Library & Archives, RG5302 (congregationallibrary.quartexcollections.com, item 4387), with the library's 2018 transcription (item 79322), p. 236; Norton vital records (1906); Records of the Town of Braintree 1640-1793 (Bates, 1886; archive.org recordsoftownofb00brai); will of John Wild, Bristol County probate record (FamilySearch images 3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-XQVT and 3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-XQV1); Boston Evening Transcript genealogy columns, 1903, 1911, 1921, 1924, 1948 (FS 3:1:3Q9M-CS54-GP1Q, 3:1:3Q9M-CSQS-19VF-R, 3:1:3QHV-J362-7GJX, 3:1:3QHN-B3YP-F9QC-4); Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 16 pt 1 (General Society of Mayflower Descendants; Google Books QjBnAAAAMAAJ); Lothrop, The Nicholas White Family (1902), p. 25.

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