Nathaniel Francis

From HISTORIC HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS AND GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF WORCESTER COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS WITH A HISTORY OF WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY by ELLERY BICKNELL CRANE Librarian of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and Editor of its Proceedings; NBW YORK CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1907

Nathaniel Francis, fourth child of John Francis (2), was born in Cambridge in 1693. He was brought up in Medford and settled in Charlestown. Massachusetts. He died September 2, 1764, aged seventy-one years.

NOTE: his first wife was Sarah Whitmore (d 1743). His second wife was Ann Harrington, widow of Samuel Cutter.

His wife Ann died in Mason, New Hampshire, December 31, 1777, aged seventy-four years.

His children were:

• Nathaniel, born January 6. 1732, was a soldier in the revolution; married Phebe Frost. April 11, 1751;
• Benjamin. November 11, 1734. married Lydia Converse, of Medford, April 7. 1757; married (second) Sarah Hall ; he was a soldier in the revolution in 1775 and 1777: he settled in Medford;
• Richard, of whom later;
• William, baptized February 6. 1737.

Notes

inscription:

• Here lyes Buried
• the Body of Mr
• NATHANIEL FRANCIS
• Who departed this life
• Sept ye 2d 1764 in ye
• 71st Year of His Age.

From page 535 of History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: From Its ...By Charles Brooks, William Henry Whitmore, James M. Usher

29 Nabhall Francis m. Sarah Whitmore, May 16, 1723; and, from the dates, may have been a son of John No. 4, born about 1694; but all these sons of this John seem, if rightly traced, to have married comparatively late in life; and the unusual length of the generations seems to call for another generation to be inserted.

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