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Nathaniel Bacon, Jr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Middletown, New London, CT
Death: 1769 (71-72)
Middletown, Middlesex Co, CT
Place of Burial: Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Andrew Bacon and Mehitable Bacon
Husband of Jean Bacon
Father of Jane Bacon; Susannah Goodrich; Nathan Bacon; Jabez Nathanial Bacon; James Bacon, of Torrington and 4 others
Brother of Andrew Bacon; Hannah Williams; Josiah Bacon; Daniel Bacon; Mehitabel Kilburn and 4 others

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About Nathaniel Bacon, Jr.

From "The Bacon Family of Middletown and Simsbury, Connecticut", by Donald Lines Jacobus (prominent genealogist). pages 237-8 https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-th...

Born in Middletown, CT 10 July 1697, died there 1769.
Married there Jane Bevin on 30 July 1724, daughter of John and Susannah Bevin b. 24 Sept.1702. Died before her husband.
He was "of Three Mile Hill", and from village of Middlefield.
Will dated 4 Aug 1769, proved 4 Dec 1769, named sons:

  • Jabez of Woodbury (eldest living)
  • James of Torrington
  • Timothy daughters:
  • Susannah wife of Charles Goodrich of Chatham
  • Mehitabel wife of Samuel Griffin of Middlefield grandhildren including daughters of son Nathan and daughter Jane Marks, dec'd, who was wife of Samuel Marks.

Children born at Middletown:

  1. Jane 11/28/1725 died before 1769
  2. Susannah 9/2/1727
  3. Nathan 9/17/1729 [nothing is known of his wife, but a widow Abigail m. 6/2/1763 Beriah Wetmore, Jr.], died before 1769
  4. Jabez 7/5/1731
  5. James 10/1/1733 was of Torrington CT in 1769 (will) and made freeman there 1777 (so NOT of Brimfield in 1775)
  6. Mehitabel 10/13/1736
  7. Phebe 4/24/1739 - 10/11/1742
  8. Anna 5/31/1741 - 11/12/1764 (unmarried)
  9. Timothy 5/19/1744

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bacon-2916

  • ****Disclaimer - The son James shown on Wikitree is a "merge" of Nathaniel's son James and James the son of Jonathan Bacon, II, of Bedford, who was the Revolutionary War soldier and husband of Martha Jewell. The incorrect information apparently came from the DAR site, which has an incorrect birthdate and place.*****

Nathaniel Bacon

  • Born 10 Jul 1697 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
  • Son of Andrew Bacon Sr. and Mehitable (Whitmore) Bacon
  • Brother of Josiah Andrew Bacon, Daniel Bacon, Jonathon Bacon and Abigail (Bacon) Loomis
  • Husband of Jean (Bevin) Bacon — married 30 Jul 1724 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
  • Father of Jane Bacon, Susannah Bacon, Nathan Bacon, Jabez Bacon, James Bacon, Mehitable Bacon, Phebe Bacon, Ann Bacon and Timothy Bacon
  • Died about 1769 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut

Biography

Nathaniel Bacon, son of Andrew and Mehitable Bacon of Middletown, Connecticut, was born 10 July 1697 at Middletown. Nathaniel's grandfather, Nathaniel Bacon, Sr., was among the earliest settlers of that town, (before 9 June 1654). [1] Nathaniel's mother was the daughter of Middletown founder Thomas Wetmore.[2]

Nathaniel's father Andrew Bacon was a farmer with 420 acres, and a weaver with three looms, as listed in his estate inventory at his death.[3] Nathaniel is listed as one of Andrew Bacon's sons in Andrew's will.[3]

Nathaniel BACON married Jane BEVIN on 30 Jul 1724 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT.

Sources

  • The Wetmore family of America and its collateral branches
  • Bacon Family of Middletown and Simsbury, Connecticut, page 140 and pages 237-8.
  • 3.0 3.1 Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol 2, page 462
  • The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Bacon Family of Middletown and Simsbury, Connecticut, by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., F.A.S.G., TAG vol 47, pp 140 - 142
  • Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, (Hartford District), Charles W. Manwaring, Hartford, 1902, Vol 2, p 462
  • Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.
  • Source: S12 Wetmore, James Carnahan The Wetmore family of America and its collateral branches: with genealogical, biographical, and historical notices, (Albany, New York, Munsell and Roland, 1861), 683 pages. As reproduced in facsimile at HeritageQuest.com.; Repository: #R1 see pages 20, 35,
  • Repository: R1 ProQuest Information and Learning Company, PO Box 1346, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 48106-1346 HeritageQuest Online, owned by ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:34FM-VZP : accessed 2017-10-26), entry for Nathaniel /Bacon/.
  • https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45368218
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Nathaniel Bacon, Jr.'s Timeline

1697
July 10, 1697
Middletown, New London, CT
July 11, 1697
Middletown, Mdsx, Ct
1725
November 28, 1725
CT
1727
September 2, 1727
Middletown, CT
1729
September 17, 1729
Middletown, CT
1731
July 5, 1731
Middlefield, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
1733
October 1, 1733
Middletown, CT
1736
October 13, 1736
CT
1739
April 24, 1739
CT
1741
May 31, 1741
CT