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About Jonathan Forbush
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Deacon Jonathan Forbush was born March 12, 1684; married Hannah Holloway in 1706. He lived in Marlborough near Stirrip Brook, and in 1711 was apportioned to the garrison house owned by Samuel Goodenow, where Mary Goodenow was massacured by the Indians. There is a deed dated October 13, 1703 in which Nathaniel Oaks "especially for the love and respect I bear to my kinsman, Jonathan Farabush, also taking notice of the faithfulness the time he hath lived with me." conveyed to said Jonathan twelve acres near Strawberry Meadow and forty acres of the Crane farm in the northerly part of Northborough.
In 1728 he was living on a farm five or six miles from this old location, in the part of Westborough now containing the town reservoir. He had a sawmill where is the present reservoir dam, which in 1741 he gave together with twenty acres of land, to his son Jonathan Jr. To Daniel he gave that part that part of his farm now known as Jackstraw pasture.
He owned large tracts of land in different locations, among other for two years Thomas Pratt's, fourth of the Elijah Corlett grant of 320 acres in the Farms District in Grafton. He paid for this 500 pounds.
In 1728, he, with other families his farm then being within the bounds of Sutton, was annexed to Westborough. Either he or his sixteen year old son Jonathan was one of the "young men" who in 1731, "requested the room in the long gallery behind the seats to build them a pew." The request was granted.
He soon became prominent in the church, being chosen tything man in 1731, and seven years later, one of the deacons. He was one of the two who paid for the "necessaries for ye first Sacrement," double the amount assessed, making his contribution 12 shillings.
He was brought before the church in 1735 for having written some poetry. The account of the matter is thus given in the church records: "Novenber 23, 1735. Mary Bradish offered a confession for having composed a paper of verses of a scandalous and calumiating nature respecting the committee appointed by ye town (some time since) to search out who it was cut the pulpit cushion, and tending to defame others also. She was very penitent, but there was some objection made by several against reading said confession to-day, but the church more generally insisting for it, and the chief objectors yielding, it was read and she was restored.
---27 being lecture day, Brother Jonathan Forbush offered an acknowledgement to ye church for having used some unjustifiable expression in the resentment he composed in answer to the injurious and defaming verses before mentioned (he being one of the committee aforesaid) and although he knew not the author of said verses at the time of his answer to her, yet afterwards, when he came to the knowledge thereof and percieved his own miscarriage, he made her satisfaction, and being it was known to divers there who were offended therewith, he freely and humbly offered public satisfaction also, and was accepted.
He was also active in town affairs, being constable for six years, moderator of the annual town meetings, selectman, as well as holding other town offices.
He died in 1768, and his death is thus mentioned by a Boston newspaper: Deacon Jonathan Forbes, of Westborough, died March 24, 1768, aged 84, father of Rev. Eli Forbes, of Brookfield. His sister (the deacon's sister) Mrs. Rebecca Byles, died at Westborough, January 28, 1768 aged 94, lacking one month. A short time before, his brother Samuel died in his 92nd year. A sister is living in her 82nd year, and a sister, the half-blood, in her 80th year.
Deacon Jonathan Forbush resided near Stirrip Brook, in Marlboro, and was either set off to Westboro in the division of the town, or else moved to Westboro, where he was a deacon and took on the name of Forbes.
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Jonathan Forbush's Timeline
| 1684 |
March 12, 1684
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1706 |
December 31, 1706
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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July 29, 1708
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October 23, 1710
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
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| 1712 |
December 31, 1712
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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February 3, 1714
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, MA, United States
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February 17, 1717
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Westboro,MA
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| 1718 |
January 5, 1718
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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1726 |
October 26, 1726
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Westborough, Worcester , Massachusetts
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