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About Joseph Chamberlin, Sr.
Joseph Chamberlain was the son of Richard Chamberlain and Sarah Bugbee, and the husband of Hannah Gilbert. He served in King Philip's War and participated in Turner's Falls Fight under Capt. William Turner.
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In 1675, he enlisted in Captain Jonsthon Poole's Company, probably at Concord, MA. This company marched to Haddley and Hatfield, MA, and defeated the latter from an attack of the Indians on 11/19/1675. He took part in the "Swamp Fight" in December of the same year. On 1/25/1676, he received 14s for his services under Captain Poole. He re-enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. William Turner 4/7/1676. This company was in the celebrated "Falls Fight" which occurred 5/19/1676, at the place which has ever since been known as "Turner Falls". He was at the garrison in Westfield, MA 8/24/1676 and recieived 14 8s for his services.
In 1676, he returned to Sudbury, where 8/28/1682, he married Hannah Gilbert and although he sold his farm in Sudbury in 1703, he remained there until 1713 when, with his elder brother, Benjamin, and his eight children he removed to Oxford, MA where he bought 40 acres of land of Joseph Dudley of Roxbury.
The town of Oxford had been founded late in the preceding century by French Huguenots but deserted by them and the successors of the original grantees of the town brought in thirty English families to found a new town. Of Joseph's children Nathaniel, Ebenezer, and Joseph Jr. were of age and took up land with the other proprietors of Oxford.
Joseph Chamberlin Sr., was a member of the first board of selectmen of Oxford. He died 8 August, 1721. His wife Hannah was a member of the church of Sudbury before 1706 and died before him.
His will dated 24 March, 1721, wherein he calls himself a yeoman, is recorded in the "Suffolk County Wills," Vol. 22, p. 500. By this instrument his son Joseph is given twenty-five acres of land and another lot of twelve acres and sons Benjamin and Simon (who are named as executors), his lands, messages, and tenements, subject to legacies to be paid to other heirs: to Sybela Rocket, his grand-daughter, a cow; to Elizabeth, daughter of his son Nathaniel, a cow; before eight years; to grandson Richard Chamberlin, son of his son Nathaniel ( 10 when fifteen years old; to daughter Rebecca within two years--; son Ebenezer, ( 5 when in need of the same; grand-child Patience, daughter of son Joseph, a cow within five years of his decease; to son Joseph, blackish gray mare; to daughter Hannah Rockett, his gray mare; to sone Nathaniel, his heirs and assigns, the first colt that comes of said gray mare, which to said Hannah is to keep till the said colt is a year old; to sone Benjamin, young black horse colt; to Simon, his youngest son, his bay mare; and said Simon is ordered to give the first colt from said mare to Benjamin.
The entire property was appraised at ( 306 13s. 6d., of which ( 220 was for homestead and building, 10 shillings for book, ( 4 4s. 6d for pewter and brass and ( 3 5s for three guns. On 22 February, 1731, Ebenezer Chamberlin, Joseph Rockett and his wife Hannah, Benjamin Chamberlin and Simon Chamberlin (children of this Joseph) conveyed to their brother Joseph of Keehamoochaug all their rights in their father's lots laid out or to be laid out to "ye soldiers which were in ye fight commonly called ye Narragansett or Swamp Fight".
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Fought in King Phillip's War. Participated in the Swamp Fight and the Falls Fight
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Joseph Chamberlin, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1655 |
June 4, 1655
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1665 |
June 4, 1665
Age 10
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1671 |
January 21, 1671
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MA, United States
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| 1683 |
February 4, 1683
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1689
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1694
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1696
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Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1721 |
August 8, 1721
Age 66
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Oxford, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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