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John Bacon, I

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony
Death: August 20, 1731 (70)
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony
Place of Burial: Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Hon. Nathaniel Bacon and Hannah Bacon
Husband of Mary Bacon and Sarah Bacon
Father of Hannah Morton; Desire Greene; Nathaniel Bacon; Patience Bacon; John Bacon, II and 3 others
Brother of Hannah Shove; Nathaniel Bacon; Mary Lane; Samuel Bacon; Jeremiah Bacon, I and 2 others

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About John Bacon, I

  • 'Genealogical notes of Barnstable families (1888) Vol. 1
  • http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028819212
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n30/mode/1up
    • NATHANIEL BACON.
  • To write a genealogical memoir of Nathaniel Bacon and his descendans would require a volume. .... Among the many of the name who came over early, were Nathaniel and Samuel, supposed to be brothers, and Elizabeth, probably a sister, all of whom settled in Barnstable. .....
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n32/mode/1up
  • Mr. Bacon was a tanner and currier. ....
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n33/mode/1up
  • It would be instructive and interesting to trace step by step the progress of Mr. Bacon through life. He came to Barnstable a young man, comparatively poor, without friends to assist him, and without the advantages of a good education; but a good moral character, good business habits, energy and industry more than compensated for the want of these advantages. He died Oct. 1673, probably not 60 years of age. His widow survived him many years. She was living in 1691.
  • The inventory of his estate, appraised at L632, 10. 2, is dated Oct 29, 1763, sworn to by his widow Mistress Hannah Bacon, ....
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n34/mode/1up/se...
  • Nathaniel Bacon married Dec. 4. 1642, Miss Hannah, daughter of the Rev. John Mayo, then teacher of the church in Barnstable,
  • Children Born in Barnstable.
    • I. Hannah, born Sept. 4, 1643, bap'd 8th Dec. 1644. She married Mr. Thomas Walley, Jr., son of Rev. Thomas Walley of Barnstable, and had one son Thomas, who died leaving no issue; and daughters, Hannah, who m. first, Wm Stone, and had two dau's; second, James Leonard, by whom she had Lydia who m. Thomas Cobb; and Elizabeth, who m. Edward Adams, Hannah m. Feb. 16, 1675, her second husband Rev. George Shove of Taunton, and had Mary Aug 11, 1676, Johanna Sept. 28, 1678; Edward Oct. 3, 1680, and Mercy May 1682. She is named as one of the "remote members" of the Barnstable church in 1683. She died in Taunton Sept. 1685, aged 42 years.
    • II. Nathaniel, bap'd 15th Feb. 1645-6.
    • III. Mary, born Aug. 12, 1648, bap'd 20 Aug. 1648.
    • IV. Samuel, born Feb. 25, 1650-1.
    • V. Elizabeth, born Jan'y 28, 1653-4. She died unmarried in 1676, according to the Plymouth records "in the 28th year of her age." She was only 21, or at most 22 years of age. Her estate was settled by agreement on record.
    • VI. Jeremiah, born May 8, 1657.
    • VII. Mercy, born Feb. 28, 1659-60, married Hon. John Otis, the third of the name, July 18, 1683. She died
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n35/mode/1up
    • Dec. 10, 1737 aged 77 years. She was buried at West Barnstable, where a monument is erected to her memory.-- [See Otis Famly.]
    • ' VIII. John, born June, 1651 the record says, but according to his grave stones in the buring ground near the Meeting House in the East Parish, he was born in June 1665. He "died Aug. 20, 1731, in the 67th year of his age."
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John Bacon, I's Timeline

1661
June 1661
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony
1687
June 7, 1687
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony
1688
March 15, 1688
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts
1692
January 16, 1692
Barnstable, MA
1694
January 15, 1694
Barnstable, Barnstable, MA, USA
1697
March 24, 1697
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts, (Present USA)
1699
March 29, 1699
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
1701
April 3, 1701
Barnstable, MA, USA
1703
December 9, 1703
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts