Captain William Trask, III

Birth: William, s. William and An (Putnam), 7: 7m: 1674. CT. R. This correctly read is 7 Sept 1674, under old style calendar rules, not July. Birth is recorded in Salem, Massachusetts.[1]

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William Trask (1674 - 1745)

William Trask

Born 7 Sep 1674 in Salem Massachusetts

Son of William Trask Jr. and Ann (Putnam) Trask

Brother of Ann (Traske) Brooks, Elizabeth (Traske) Trask, Sarah (Trask) Thompson, Susanna (Trask) Fuller, John (Traske) Trask [half], Mary (Trask) Southwick [half], Elizabeth (Trask) Hanson [half] and George Traske [half]

Husband of Ann (White) Trask — married 1696 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Sarah (Hayden) Trask — married 3 Nov 1743 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay

Father of William Trask, Samuel Trask, John Trask, Elias Trask and Ann Trask

Died 20 Nov 1745 in Braintree Massachusetts

02:15: Katherine (Alvis) Patterson edited the Other Last Name(s) for William Trask (1674-1745). [Thank Katherine for this]

This William's correct Last Name at Birth should be TRASK. The printed version of the Massachusetts Vital Records in Salem makes a distinction between surnames spelled TRASK and TRASKE, and William is definitely in the Trask section.

Death:
Date: 1745[citation needed] Sources

↑ Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume II – Births. Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1918. See Google Books p. 359 Lechner Family History, compiled by Michael Lechner, with my father Ted Harrold Lechner. Lechner Family History. Check these Possibly useful Titles from list from old website: Eben Putnam. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol 1. Salem, MA, Salem Press, 1891. Sidney Perley. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem, MA, 1926. p. 109. and Vital Records from assorted Massachusetts towns. See

References

• Trask, William Blake. "Captain William Traske and Some of his Descendants. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55:324-7. Boston: NEHGS, 1901 link