Bathsheba Brooks

• Daughter of Sgt. Gilbert Brooks, of Rehoboth and Elizabeth Simmons
• Inscription: IN MEMORY OF BATHSHEBA WIFE OF JAMES WALKER DIED FEB. YE 24 1738 IN YE 85 TH YEAR OF HER AGE
• Birth: April 08, 1655 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
• Death: circa February 24, 1738 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts
• Burial: Walker-Blake Graveyard, Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
• Bathsheba Brooks Find A Grave Memorial
• In his will proved September 1, 1718, bequests are made to his wife, six sons and five daughters. To James - 50 acres where he lives. Nathan, land in Taunton, So. Purchase, David, two lower lots in Dighton, where he lives,

Nehemiah, my new dwelling house and barn in Taunton, and land, and my land over the creek, and 50 acres lying on the Three Mile River, at a place called the narrow passage. Josiah, three upper lots in Dighton. James and Bathsheba are buried in the Walker/Blake Cemetery on the property of B. F. Cleary Generating Station.

Married

• Married: Capt James Walker III on 23 December 1673 in Taunton, Bristol, Plymouth, British Colonial America

Sources

• Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony, James Bradford Richmond Walker, Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony ( Metcalf and Co., Printers; Northampton; 1861;), Page 5.
• Compendium of American Genealogy 1600s-1800s Vol. VI, Fredrick A. Virkus, Editor, Compendium of American Genealogy 1600s-1800s Vol. VI (Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimre; 1968;), Page 601.
• New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Vol. III, Wiliam Richard Cutter, A.M., Editor, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Vol. III ( Lewis Historical Publishing Co.; New York; 1914;), Page 1554.
• Anonymous, Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850 ((Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), 909 pgs.), 1:50.
• A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol. I (A-C), James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol. I (A-C) ( Little, Brown & Co.; Boston; 1860-1862;), Page 260.
• Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 April 2018), memorial page for Bathsheba Brooks Walker (1653–24 Feb 1738), Find A Grave Memorial no. 35983961, citing Walker-Blake Graveyard, Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Will Hunter (contributor 47031690) . "IN MEMORY OF BATHSHEBA WIFE OF JAMES WALKER DIED FEB. YE 24 1738 IN YE 85 TH YEAR OF HER AGE" Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35983961/bathsheba-walker

Sources

• Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of N.E. by Savage, Volume 4, pages 254, 393-394; N.E. Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13, page 254; Manuscript - Old Colony Historical Society Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Researched by Gertrude Clifton Pierce Nelson. !
• Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials, and Other Records, 1633-1689, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Editor, Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials, and Other Records, 1633-1689 (The Press of William White; Boston; 1857;), Page 55.
• Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of James, of Taunton; Philip, of Rehoboth; William of Eastham; John, of Marshfield; Thomas, of Bristol; and of Their Descendants from 1620 to 1860 - https://books.google.com/books?id=zvAUAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redi...
• GEDCOM Source MH:S674 WikiTree MyHeritage <a href='http://www.wikitree.com' target='wikitree'>www.wikitree.com</a> https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10109 46957105/bethsheba-brooks-in-wikitree Event: Record Role: 10109:46957105: Bethsheba Brooks&lt;br&gt;Gender: Female&lt;br&gt;Birth: Apr 8 1655 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America&lt;br&gt;Marriage: Dec 23 1673 - Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, British America&lt;br&gt;Death: Feb 24 1739 - Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, British America&lt;br&gt;Father: Gilbert Brooks&lt;br&gt;Mother: Elizabeth Brooks (born Simmons)&lt;br&gt;Husband: James Walker&lt;br&gt;Child: Nathan Walker