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Ancestors

Joseph Stetson

b. 1667 · Scituate MA
Born 1667, Scituate, Massachusetts
Father: Joseph Stetson
Mother: Prudence Stetson
Children include Nehemiah

Joseph Stetson was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1667. The town book enters him as "Joseph, eldest s. Joseph". His parents were Joseph Stetson and his wife Prudence. His father was the eldest son of Cornet Robert Stetson, who had been granted a farm on the North River in 1634 and was cornet of the colony's first troop of horse.

On 6 November 1688 he married Hannah Oldham, a daughter of Thomas Oldham of Scituate. She had been born on 7 March 1664/5. Their ten children were entered at Scituate as children of Joseph or of Joseph Jr. Ruth was born on 11 September 1689, Lois on 10 August 1692 and Bathshua on 29 September 1693. Nehemiah followed on 25 June 1696 and Joseph on 23 May 1698. Hannah came on 1 August 1700, Hesaciah on 29 August 1703, Abthiah on 24 April 1706, Abigail on 17 January 1707/8 and Mary on 1 February 1713/14.

Deane's History of Scituate notes only his sons: "Joseph, (son of Joseph) left sons, Nehemiah born 1696, Joseph 1698, Hezekiah 1703." Nehemiah married Sarah Despard at Pembroke in 1718 and later lived at Halifax. On 1 March 1736 he married a second wife, the widow Mary Perry of Pembroke. His death is not recorded.

Parents

Prudence Stetson

Joseph Stetson b. 1639

Children

Nehemiah Stetson b. 1696

Sources

Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1909), vol. I, Stetson births, archive.org vitalrecordsofsc01newe, leaf 344
Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1909), vol. I, archive.org vitalrecordsofsc01newe, Stetson births, leaf 343
Vital Records of Scituate, vol. II (1909), archive.org vitalrecordsofsc02newe, Oldam marriages, leaf 225
Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (1831), archive.org historyofscituat00deane, p. 341, leaf 349
John Stetson Barry, A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson (Boston, 1847), p. 16, archive.org genealogicalbiog00inbarr, https://archive.org/details/genealogicalbiog00inbarr/page/n21
Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1909), vol. I, archive.org vitalrecordsofsc01newe; Vital Records of Scituate, vol. II (1909), archive.org vitalrecordsofsc02newe; Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (1831), archive.org historyofscituat00deane, p. 341; John Stetson Barry, A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson (Boston, 1847), p. 16, archive.org genealogicalbiog00inbarr (leaf 21)

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