Dea. Cornelius (Deacon) Fisher, Sr

7. Cornelius Fisher bp. 22 Feb 1652/53 22 Feb 1653, d. 2 Jan 1699/00 2 Jan 1700, m1. Leah Eaton/Heaton, m2. Sarah Everitt

biography

From page 21 of The Fisher genealogy: A record of the descendants of Joshua, Anthony, and Cornelius Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., 1630-1640 Massachusetts Pub. Co., 1898 - 466 pages

9. Cornelius Fisher, son of Anthony (3) and Mary ( ) Fisher, was one of the first settlers in Wrentham. He joined the Dedham church, Feb. 6, 1648, was made freeman, May 2, 1649, and admitted a " townestnan "at Dedham, Jan. 3, 1652*3. His property in Dedham was assessed, Feb. 20, 1657, at ^76. He was a carpenter by trade, was Representative to the General Court in 1692 ; Constable in Dedham in 1668, and Poundmaster in 1672.

He m. 1st, at Dedham, Feb. 23, 1653, Leah, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Heaton, of Dedham. She d. at Wrentham, Jan. 12, 1664, and he m. 2d, at Dedham, July 25, 1665, Sarah, daughter of Richard and Mary (Winch) Everett, who was b. at Dedham, April 12, 1644, and d. at Wrentham, Feb. 28, 1675.

He was one of the 13 Wollonopaug Proprietors who signed Feb. 27,1662-3, and was improvements (so-called) upon the easterly and south-easterly side of Whiting's Pond or the Great Pond (previously known as the mill pond), but their houses were some distance from the Pond, probably on what is now Franklin Street and South Street." Nov. 2, 1669, the Colonists were assessed " for the payemt of Capt Pincheon ^96 - 10s for the purchase of the Indian Rights at Pawcomptucke." To make the Country Rate in 1669 things were appraised as follows: "broken Land meadowe at ios per acre, horse 5£. 2 year 1 year i£. 10, Cowes Z£, oxen 5£. 3 yearheffers 2£. - 1 year heffers: i£: sheep ios. swine: i£:" On Jan. 9, 1671-2, " Cornell: Fisher came this daye desireing that halfe the Fence betwixt the Church Lott and his house Lott may be made by the Church according to Lawe."

On 12: 11: 1673 (Jan. 12, 1674), the Dedham selectmen "agreed with Cornelius Fisher to ring the bell and sweepe the meeting House: and for his paynes heer in he is to recaiue fifty shillings for one holle: yeare:" and as his property was next to the cemetery he is required to keep the fence in repair, and Dec. 29,1673, " The Towne is debtor to Cornelious : Fisher for mending fenc about the church: lott 31 — o—o."

"The last meeting of the inhabitants prior to abandonment of the place was holden on the 19th of January, 1675, and on March 30th, they left on account of the Indian war." Cornelius subscribed to an agreement to go back and "rebuild and inhabit Wrentham." Cornelius name does not figure in the Dedham records subsequently, and we can only wonder where he lived and paid the tax to support the community, while they were compelled to forsake Wrentham.

He d. at Wrentham, June 2,1699, "the first head of a family died in the town of a natural death for thirty years." By his will he gave the homestead to his eldest son Cornelius on conditions; he to pay £25 to rest of children; they to receive ^5 a year from wife's decease; "to Eleazer one-half meadow at Pine Plaine; son-in-law Benj. Hall meadow land at Stoney Brooke;" rest to Eleazer and the four daughters. The inventory taken June 20, 1699, shows the Homestead, ^105; Outlands, meadows, etc., ^68; the total being ^242 19. 8.

Children were:

• Elizabeth4, b. Jane 20, 1654; d. Sept. 14, 1665.
• 20. Lsah4, b. May 5, 1656; d. Sept. 10, 1720; m. William Goddard, of Sherborn, Dec. 10, 1685.
• Experience4, b. Jan. 10, 1658 ; was living in 1699; probably died unmarried.
• 21. Cornelius4, b. Feb. 8, 1660; d. Jan. 6,1743; m. ist, Anna Whitney ; m. 2nd, Mary Colburn; m. 3d, Mary Ware, Feb. 13. 1727.
• 22. Ann4, b. Aug. 22, 1661; m. ist, Isaac Heath; m. 2d, Francis Youngman.
• 23. Eleazer4, b. July 8, 1663; m. ist, Hannah Leonard [SIC: Lorance]; m. sd, Mary Maccany, Tune 2, 1718.

* Dorothy4, b. April 17, 1667; d. April 10, 1668. 

• 24. Sarah4, b. 1668; m. Benjamin Hall, Jan. 5, 1691; she d. Nov. 2, 1756 or 1751.
• Jonathan4, b. Oct. 26,1671; d. Nov. 9, 1675 ; the third death on the Wrentham records.

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