Felch John
Male 1660 - 1746

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  • Birth  26 Feb 1659/60  Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 11:28:26 GMT-5 
    Died  09 Apr 1746  Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts or Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Person ID  I4411  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Felch Henry,   b. Abt 1610, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Nov 1699, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Sargent Hannah,   b. 1629, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Dec 1717 
    Married  Abt 1648/49 
    Family ID  F1768  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Gowing Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1660,   d. 10 Apr 1746, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Y  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Children 
     1. Felch Elizabeth,   b. 23 Feb 1686, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Felch John,   b. 17 Feb 1686, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Felch Samuel,   b. 11 Feb 1690, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1725
     4. Felch Hannah,   b. 03 Aug 1692, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Felch Mary,   b. 17 Mar 1695, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Felch Daniel,   b. 03 Jun 1697, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jul 1703
     7. Felch Nathaniel,   b. 27 Apr 1699, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Felch Ebenezer,   b. 20 Jul 1701, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1779, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Felch Abigail,   b. 15 Jun 1703, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F1799  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • (III) John Felch, son of Henry FELCH Felch (2), was born in Reading,.

      Massachusetts, February 26, 1660, and died in Weston, Massachusetts, April 9, 1746, aged eighty-six years. He married, May 25, 1685, Elizabeth Gowing, of Reading. He was a farmer. At some time between 1703 and 1709 he removed to Weston, formerly part of Watertown, and resided there the remainder of his days. The inscription on his gravestone in the Weston burying ground reads: "Here lyes buried ye body of Mr. John Felch, who departed this life April the gth in the 86th year of his age." On the gravestone of his wife: "Here lyes buried ye body of Mrs. Elizabeth Felch, wife of Mr. John Felch, who departed Apl 10, 1746, in the 86th year of her age."' His son John administered the estate. . The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Felch, born in Reading, were: i, Elizabeth, born February 23, 1686. 2. John, born February 17, 1688, removed to Canterbury, Connecticut. 3. Samuel, born February n, 1690, died November, 1725; married, May 6, 1714, Katharine Smith, daughter of Francis and Ruth Smith, ofReading. 4. Hannah, born August 3, 1692, married, January 4, 1715, Thomas Clapp. 5. Mary, born March 17, 1695. 6. Daniel, born June 3, 1697, died July T5. I7°3- 7- Nathaniel, born April 27, 1699. married, October 29, 1732, Mary Hanks, of Lynn; ancestor of the Maine branch. 8. Ebe- nezer, mentioned below. 9. Abigail, born June 15, 1703.

      10. John, b. 26 Feb., 1659, at Reading; d. at Boston, 9 Apr., 1746, aged 89 yrs. He m. 25 May, 1685-6, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Brock) Gowing, who d. at Western, 10 Apr., 1746, aged 86 yrs. They had 9 children.

      John Felch. 1660-1746. Son of Henry. Born at Reading Feb. 26, 1660. Married May 25, 1685, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Gowing. About 1709 he removed from Reading to Wes- ton and there died April 9, 1746. His wife, Elizabeth, died one day later, and a double headstone marks their graves at Weston. Under date of Sept. 12, 1730, he deeded all his lands in Natick to his son Ebenezer.
     
  • Sources 
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    2. [S147] Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: 1908;), 1284 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S233] Essex Institute Historical Collections, Essex Institute, (Name: Essex Institute, 1918-1920;), 150 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 22 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 24 (Reliability: 3).