Joshua Buffum

Joshua Buffum was born 22 FEB 1634 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and died 19 OCT 1705 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. He was the son of Robert Buffum and Tamasin Ward. He married Dameris Pope, daughter of Joseph Pope and Gertrude Shattuck. She was born 23 APR 1643.    

notes

"It seems that the baptism of Joshua and subsequently of Mary Buffum were registered at both Great Yarmouth [St Nicholas, Norfolk] in1635 and 1637 respectively and also entered in the registers of Salem, Massachusetts." [1]
Joshua "was a bulder of vessels and lived in Salem." [4]
"The first Quaker Meeting in New England was held at the home of Joshua Buffum. There are many accountings of Joshua Buffum in the early court records of Salem . . . . " [1]

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• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lahope&id...
• http://www.quakers-n-othersr.us/getperson.php?personID=I3436&tree=t...

1. [S188] Buffum Family Vol II, Owen A Perkins, Historian, Buffum Family Association, (Buffum Family Assoc. Inc., New York, 1983).
2. [S198] 1701 The Four Blessing Sisters, Walter Goodwin Davis, (American Genealogist, Vol. 33).
3. [S172] Descendants of Joseph Pope, of Salem, Henry Wheatland, (Essex Institute Collections of June, 1866 (Vol. viii)).
4. [S186] Descendants of Robert Buffum, sketch in The Massachusetts Magazine, Lucie Marion Gardner, (Salem MA, The Salem Press Co. (Jan 1910) ).