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Felch John
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  • Birth  Jul 1773  Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  17 AUG 2009 18:29:21 GMT-5 
    Person ID  I4266  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Falch or Felch Joseph,   b. 1727/28, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Feb 1803, Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Hoyt Mary,   b. 06 Jan 1738/39,   d. 04 Apr 1804 
    Married  1756 
    Family ID  F1766  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Thompson Olive,   b. 07 Aug 1778, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Nov 1860, Francestown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  22 Dec 1796  [1, 2, 3] 
    Children 
     1. Felch John Thompson,   b. 13 Mar 1808, Deering, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jun 1887
     2. Felch Olive,   b. 07 Mar 1798
     3. Felch Asenath,   b. 26 Feb 1800
     4. Felch Mary,   b. 26 Jan 1802,   d. 29 Jan 1890
     5. Felch Irene,   b. 09 Jun 1804,   d. Jun 1881
     6. Felch Charlotte,   b. 26 Mar 1806
     7. Felch Samuel,   b. 24 Mar 1810
     8. Felch Luke,   b. 28 Jul 1812,   d. 11 Aug 1876
     9. Felch Hiael or Hill,   b. 17 Nov 1814,   d. 1834, New Orleans, Jefferson, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Felch Chelmsford
    Family ID  F1745  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • (V) John Felch, son of Joseph Felch (4), was born at Seabrook, New Hampshire, July, 1773. He received .a good education in the public schools and became a school teacher in Deering and Weare for several winter terms. He worked at farming during the summer seasons from early youth. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was said by a contemporary to have "had the best intellect in the family." All of his brothers located in Weare. He settled in Deering, New Hampshire. He was a member of the Orthodox church. In politics he was a Democrat. He removed to Francestown to conduct the farm of his wife's parents and to care for them in their old age. When they died the farm came to him. He married, December 22, 1796, Olive Thompson, who was born August 7, 1778, at Ded- ham. Massachusetts, died November 24, 1860, at Francestown, daughter of Samuel and Olive (Felch) Thompson. Her mother. Olive, was daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Fisher) Felch. of Natick, and Walpole, Massachusetts. Her only sister, Mary Felch, born at Dedham, December 27, 1779, married Benjamin Felch, of Weare, brother of John. April 14. 1/99. Samuel Thompson built and occupied a log house on what is known now as the Bryant farm quite early. The present house was built for Mr. Thompson by Mr. Benjamin Deane. After working a year, clearing his farm, Thompson brought his family to Francestown about 1785. He was born May26, 1749, and died January 30, 1825.

      Children of John and Olive Felch, of Deering: i. Olive, born March 7, 1798, married, May i, 1823, Samuel Gould. 2. Asenath, born February 26, 1800, married, November 17, 1822, Daniel Hadley. 3. Mary,born January 26, 1802, died January 29, 1890; married, March n, 1824, Whitcomb May, of Hancock, New Hampshire; children: i. Mary E. May, born December 10, 1824; ii. Betsey F., December 12, 1826; iii.Charles P. O. May, February 22, 1829; iv. Nathaniel H., October 16, 1831, died March 19, 1854; v. Samuel May, February 18, 1835, died February 19, 1835; vi. Thomas M. May, June I, 1836, vii. John E. May, April 30, 1841; viii. George D. May, September 22, 1843. 4. Irene, born June 9, 1804, died June, 1881; married, August 5, 1840, Rufus Moore. 5. Charlotte, born March 26, 1806, married, November 17, 1825, William Baldwin. 6. John Thompson, mentioned below. 7. Samuel, born March 24, 1810, died in Florida. 8. Luke, born July 28, 1812, died August n, 1876; married (first), Mrs. Lucy Ann Burn- ham; (second). Elizabeth Wardwell; (third), Mrs. Elizabeth Mann. 9. Hill, born November 17, 1814, died at New Orleans, 1834, in the regular army. 10. Chelmsford, married Elizabeth Mace, of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

      All settled in Weare, except John, b. July, 1773, who located in Deering, m. Olive Thompson, Dec. 22, 1796. This John "was a soldier in the war of 1812, had a good education for a man of his times, taught school extensively, and seems to have possessed the best intellect in the family." So writes a, kinsman and friend.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S230] Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908;), 408 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S147] Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: 1908;), 1285 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S231] History of Francestown, N. H.: From Its Earliest Settlement April, 1758, to January 1, 1891. With a Brief Genealogical Record of All the Francestown Families, Warren Robert Cochrane, George K. Wood, (Name: J. H. Barker, Printer, 1895;), 951 (Reliability: 3).

  

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