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Ancestors

Joshua Fobes Jr.

b. 1715 · Bridgewater MA
Born 1715, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Father: Joshua Fobes
Mother: Abigail Dunbar
Children include Caleb

Joshua Fobes the younger was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1715. He was the third child and the only son of Joshua Fobes, the man later remembered as the first white settler in Titicut, and of Abigail Dunbar. His sisters were Bethiah, Hannah, Mary, Leah, Betty and Abigail.

In 1740 he married Esther, a daughter of Nicholas Porter of Abington. The Bridgewater clerk entered their children as children of "Joshua Jr. and Esther". Mitchell's history of the town lists eight: Azariah 1741, who died young, Daniel 1742, Ruth 1744, Abigail 1747, Joshua 1749, Caleb 1750, Robert 1753 and Solomon 1756. Ruth married Ebenezer Alden of Middleborough in 1763 and Abigail married Joseph Cowen in 1772. Of the youngest son Mitchell writes: "Solomon had Laban, Martin and others. Laban m. Hannah Richmond 1816, and remained here, the rest moved away." Caleb was one of those who moved away. He married Susanna Keith in 1776 and went to Lyme, New Hampshire.

Joshua's death is not given. A Joshua Fobes of Preston, Connecticut, born 22 September 1715, is a different man.

Parents

Abigail Dunbar b. 1691Joshua Fobes 1689-1767

Children

Caleb Fobes b. 1750

Sources

Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater (1840; reprint 1897), p. 164, archive.org historyofearlyset00mitcch, leaf 182
Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, vol. I, births (1916), Fobes births, archive.org vitalrecordsofbr01bost, leaf 117
Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater (1840/1897), archive.org historyofearlyset00mitcch, pp. 163-164, entries 5 and 11; Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, vol. I, births (1916), archive.org vitalrecordsofbr01bost; Mitchell p. 163, entry 5; Mitchell p. 164, entry 11

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