Falch or Felch Joseph
Male 1728 - 1803

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  • Birth  1727/28  Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  18 AUG 2009 18:05:13 GMT-5 
    Died  05 Feb 1803  Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 5, 6, 7
    Buried  Sugar Hill Cemetery, Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID  I4329  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Felch Daniel,   b. 05 Jan 1668, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Oct 1752, Seabrook (Hampton Falls), Rockingham, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Curtis or Curtious Hepzibah or Hepsibah,   b. 28 Nov 1694, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  12 Jan 1725  Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F1789  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Hoyt Mary,   b. 06 Jan 1738/39,   d. 04 Apr 1804 
    Married  1756  [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
    Children 
     1. Felch John,   b. Jul 1773, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Felch Benjamin,   b. 12 Nov 1775, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Apr 1848
     3. Felch Anne,   b. Sep 1757, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Felch Jabez,   b. 14 Feb 1759, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Aug 1830
     5. Felch Curtis,   b. 23 Jan 1761, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1849
     6. Felch Molly,   b. 12 Jul 1764, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1803
     7. Felch Joseph,   d. Jun 1846
     8. Felch Jonathan Hoyt,   b. 29 May 1768, Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire or Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jan 1852, Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F1766  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • (IV) Joseph Felch. son of Dr. Daniel Felch (3), was born in Hampton Falls or Seabrook, New Hampshire, about 1725, and died at Weare, New Hampshire, February 5, 1803. He bought the farm at Weare, of Stephen Russell, in 1779, and the place is still owned by the family. He showed his sympathy for the cause by signing the association test in 1776, in support of the Revolutionary war. He married, in 1756, Mary Hoyt, who was born January 6, 1739, and died April 4, 1804, aged sixty-five years. Children, born at Seabrook: i. Anne, born September, 1757. 2. Jabez, born February 14, 1759, died August 24, 1830; married, February 14, 1785, Patience Johnson. 3. Curtis, born January 23, 1761, died January 28, 1849, aged eighty- eight years; married Sally Evans, who died December 30, 1846. 4. Molly, bornMay 12, 1764, died February 10, 1803; married Joseph Brown. 5. Joseph, born April 28, 1765 or 1766, died June, 1846; married, 1788-89, Sarah Ayer, who died September 23, 1797; married (second), July,1799, Abigail Manchester, who died September 18, 1859. 6. Jonathan Hoyt, born May 29, 1768, died January 27, 1852; married Abigail Favor. 7. John, mentioned below. 8. Benjamin, born November 12, 1775, died April 10, 1848; married Polly Thompson, who was born December 27, 1779, and died December 24, 1837.

      Joseph, son of Dr. Daniel Felch, (Joseph4. Daniel3, Henry2, Henry1,) was b. 1729, probably in Seabrook: m. Mary Hoyt, 1756; and d. Feb. 5, 1803, aged 74. Joseph moved to Weare in 1779. He had six sons, Jabez, Curtis. Joseph, Jr.. Jonathan, John and Benjamin. Jabez was in the Revolutionary Army seven years. 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.

      (IV) Joseph, second child of Dr. Daniel and Hepzibah Felch, was probably born in Seabrook, from whence he went to Weare, where about the year 1779 he purchased of Stephen Rowell two hundred acres of land lying about one and a half miles north of the present village of East Weare, and this he improved into a good farm, which has since that time remained in the possession of his descendants, and isnow owned by Hiram M. Felch, (see forward). His death occurred in Weare in 1803. In 1756 he married Mary Hoyt, of English descent, who died in 1804. Their children were : Annie, Jabez, Curtis, Molly,Jonathan, John and Benjamin.

      24. Joseph, bapt. at Danvers, 24 Apr., 1728. There was a Joseph Fetch bapt. and owned the covenant Dec. 13, 1747, Second (West or Rocky Hill) Church, Salisbury, evidently an adult.1 Joseph Felch m. about 1756, Mary (Benjamin, Benjamin, Thomas, John) Hoyt, who was born 6 Jan., 1738-9; bapt. 28 Oct., 1750, at the First (East) Church, Salisbury, and d. 4 Apr., 1804. Mary (Hoyt) Felch was admitted tofull com- munion Jan. 4, 1756, in the First Church of Salisbury. Joseph and wife Mary renewed the covenant Oct . 9, 1758, at the First Church, Salisbury, and they had two children baptized in this church. Joseph Falch was parish collector of Hampton Falls, N. H., 1776; signed the Association Test as of Seabrook, N. H., with his brother Samuel and others, Apr. 12, 1776. He settled in Weare, N. H.,in 1779, purchasing the Stephen Rowell farm, which has since remained in the family,1 now owued and occupied by one of his great- grandsons, and d. 5 Feb., 1803, in Weare, N. H.
     
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