Grace Bullen

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Category: Lancaster, Massachusetts

Biography

Birth===Grace was born to Jonas and Lydia Prescott Fairbank in Lancaster on November 15, 1663<ref>Henry S. Nourse Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records & Epitaphs of Lancaster Mass. 1643 to 1858. 1890:"Grace, the daughter of Jonas and Lydia Fairbanks, was born the 15:9m:1663', that is, November 15, 1663 new-style</ref>

Marriage

Ephraim Bullen must have married Grace Fairbanks of Lancaster by 1681,judging from the birth of their first child, but no town vital recordof that marriage has been found. The marriage is recorded by Torrey this way:"Bullin, Ephraim (1653-1694) & Grace __?__ (-1689), b(efore)1681; Sherborn"<ref>Torrey, Clarence, New England Marriages prior to 1700, p. 117,</ref>

Children===Ephraim and Grace had, in Sherborn:<ref>Middlesex, Vital Records of Sherborn, MS from 1674 to 1850, pages 22, 112, 194</ref>

• Mary, b. Mar. 6, 1681-2, married john Sherman*Ephraim, b. Apr. 19, 1685, married Ruth Morse, (daughter of Nathanieland Mary, b. Oct. 21, 1688, p. 69), sometime before 1711/2
• John, b. Feb. 22, 1686-7, married Sarah Underwood, Aug. 31, 1709*Grace, b. Aug. 7, 1689, died August 20, 1689, ten days after her mother.

Death

Grace died in Sherborn on August 10, 1689, while giving birth to her daughter Grace, who died 10 days later.<ref>Middlesex, Vital Records of Sherborn, MS from 1674 to 1850, p. 194</ref> Grace FAIRBANKS predeceased her mother Lydia Prescott Fairbanks BARRON: "Lydia Barron, widow of Jonas Fairbanks, made an account of her daughter Grace Fairbank's portion of the estate on 8 Aug 1698 (Middlesex Co.Probate Files, 1st series, #7131).

Burial: The Old Burying Field, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Sources

<references />* Lorenzo S. Fairbanks. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897. Boston: 1897. p.38, 39.

• Henry S. Nourse. Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records & Epitaphs of Lancaster Mass. 1643 to 1850. 1890: p.10
• Abijah P. Marvin. History of Lancaster. 1879: p.59.
• Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series, #7131. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52684110&ref=...

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2 AGE 25-26

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> FP9T-7G