Joseph Bump

BUMP, JOSEPH Ancestor #: A016918 Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank: PRIVATE Birth: 10-28-1749 MIDDLEBORO MASSACHUSETTS Death: 2-17-1817 MIDDLEBORO MASSACHUSETTS Service Description: 1) CAPT.KING COL.BREWER

Biography

From “ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts: Containing Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ...“ J.H. Beers & Company, 1912. Page 1673. GoogleBooks

(V) Joseph Bump, son of Joseph and Mehitable, born Oct. 28, 1749, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He made his home in that part of Middleboro known as Warrentown, where he was a landowner and farmer. He died there Feb. 17, 1817, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. On Oct. 8, 1775, he married Mercy Barden, who died July 5, 1811, aged fifty-seven years, and they had a family of ten children, born as follows: Joseph, Dec. 14, 1775: Polly, March 12, 1777; Nathaniel, Dec. 3, 1778; Sukey, Nov. 8, 1780; James, Feb. 3, 1783; Sally, March 27, 1785; Mercy, May 1, 1787; Betsey, March 21, 1789; Thomas, July 8, 1791; Levina, Nov. 8, 1793.