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- 'Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal ..., Volume 4 By Ellery Bicknell Crane
- Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal ..., Volume 4 By Ellery Bicknell Crane
- Pg. 15
- HUBBARD HAMMOND BRIGHAM, M.D.
- Thomas Brigham (1), the pioneer ancestor of the Brigham family and of Dr. Hubbard Hammon Brigham, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was undoubtedly an Englishman by birth. The name Brigham is from the Saxon brigg (bridge) and ham (house). There is a Manor of the name in county Cumberland, adjoining Scotland, and in ancient days part of Scotland. They Barony from which the family name is derived is now generally called by another name, Cockermouth. The old castle was one of the strongest in its day. It was built largely of material taken from an olf Roman castle in the vicinity. As late as 1648 it was garrisoned and stood siege for a month. After it was captured it was nearly destroyed, but at last accounts a small part was still habitable. From this Manor the English and American Brighams get their names, and all probably are descended from the early Brighams of this place.
- Thomas Brigham embarked at London for New England, April 18, 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," Edwary Pyne, master. No other of the same name is known to have embarked for the American colonies. He settled in Watertown. In 1637 he had a fourteen acre lot there, bought of John Doggett. It was situated in a part later annexed to Cambridge. He built his house in Cambridge on a lot containing three acres and a half. His neighbors were Joseph, Isaac and Simon Crosby. His home was about two-thirds of a mile from Harvard College, and at one point abutted on Charles river. He resided there until 1648. He was admitted a freeman April 18, 1637. He was one of the leading citizens, was selectman in 1640, 1642, and 1647, and was a constable in 1639 and 1642. He made a specialty on his farm of raising hogs, and in 1647 owned a third of all the swine in the town. He was fined for letting his hogs get away and run at large. He owned a wind mill in which corn was ground.
- He died December 8, 1653. His will was dated December 7, 1653-4, and was proved October 3, 1654. He married (first) Mercy Hurd, who is said to have come with her sister alone from England owing to religious difference from which they suffered annoyance and persecution at home. After the death of Mr. Brigham she married (second), March 1, 1655, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury, and Marlboro, ancestor of a notable Worcester family, by whom she had two daughters. (See Rice Sketch). He died 1663, and she married (third) William Hunt, of Marlboro, 1664. He died 1667, and she died December 23, 1693, after being in her third widowhood a period of twenty-six years. The children of Thomas and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham were: Mary, born probably at Watertown; Thomas, see forward; 'John, March 9, 1644, died September 16, 1728, aged eighty-four years'; Hannah, March 9, 1649, married Samuel Wells; Samuel, born January 12, 1652-3, died July 24, 1713.
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- Residence: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 1645
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 17 2022, 17:54:21 UTC
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Dr. John Brigham's Timeline
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March 9, 1644
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Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1667 |
August 19, 1667
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Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1674 |
March 27, 1674
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Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1678 |
May 6, 1678
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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1680 |
June 6, 1680
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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March 27, 1683
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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May 6, 1687
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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
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1689
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Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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September 16, 1728
Age 84
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Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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