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Fisher Joshua
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  • Birth  Abt 1585  [1] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 08:15:04 GMT-5 
    Died  09 Nov 1674  Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID  I4874  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Fisher Anthony,   d. 11 Apr 1640 
    Mother  Fiske Mary 
    Family ID  F1972  Group Sheet
     
    Married  Y  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Fisher Joshua,   b. Abt 1620/21,   d. 10 Aug 1672, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F2022  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Luson Anne,   d. 27 Jan 1676 
    Married  07 Feb 1638  Syleham, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Family ID  F2023  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • 3. Joshua*, son of Anthony (1) and Mary (Fiske) Fisher, of Syleham, England, was baptized there, Feb. 24, 1585 ; m. 1st, ; m. 2d, Feb. 7, 1638, at Syleham,

      England, Anne Luson, a sister of John Luson, who also came to New England, settled at Dedham, and received his house- lot there at the same time as the Fishers. Joshua Fisher came to New England in 1639, with his second wife, (Anne Luson), and daughter Mary. His son Joshua had preceded him, arriving some time in 1638; for on "The First of ye nth Month (1638)," Jan. 1, 1638-9, Joshua, Jr., enters upon the lot granted the smith and is to hold it and make improvements for ' ' the behalfe of his Father wch is expected this next somer." Joshua was made a freeman, May 13, 1640; was a blacksmith by trade; settled first in Dedham, from there going to Medfield at its settlement in 1650. He drew his houselot in the center of the town of Medfield, where the house of William P'. Hewins now stands. Was the first deacon in the Medfield church, and was a selectman in 1653 and 1655. The value of his property in 1652 was ¿180. In 1656 Joshua and Anne Fisher deeded part of the homestead and other property to their son, John Fisher (7); for an account of which see under John (7). The Medfield homestead was inherited by JohnJ (7), John' (16), Samuel" (37), and finally John* (78), who, dying childlessin 1802, left it to his nephew, Samuel Hill, of Medway. Joshua d. in Medfield, Nov. 9, 1674; his widow d. Jan. 27, 1676-7. His will Is as follows :

      " la the year of our Lord one thousand Six hundred seventy four

      the second daye of May, 1. Joshua ffisher of Medfield Senior

      brought to old age and being thourby with the inffirmities . . . wife Ann . . . the bed with all belongings in the little chamber next to. the stairs and all soe two good blankets more and two pay res of sheets & two pillows and that trunke now standing in the bed Chamber below marked A : F : with what soe ever is now in it and all hir wearing apparrell as well Linen as Wooling and one payer of

      andirons .... and payer of tongs one Trammel and two

      heaters one payere of pothookes two brass vessel les .... bellows .... two chairs two fouer Sooted stolles two chushings such us she shall chuse and three puter dishes two of the .... and one .... and three bushels of Endian corne and forty pound wayt of butter and forty pound of chese and fifty pound wayght of porke and one cow such as she shall chuse and all nty are wood that 1s cut out when god shall take me away whether in the woods or in my yard and soe much more of my moveable goods as shall be vallued at ten pound in such as she shall chuse or also soemuch in good and merchantable wheat as com to ten pound, aud fifteen pound in good and curant new England mon y and further my will and desire is that my above said wife may live in that end of the house that I live in according to the will of my son John ffisher Deceased until! such time as the heirs shall cum of age (and then to iujoy .... with the benefit of any one now of the apple trees in the orchard) and then to live in theother end and there to in joye During the terme of her naturall life all such Liberties and prevelidges as are Enjoyed in my deed of gift {formerly made to my son John ffisher

      Unto my daughter Marcy Battle the wife of Thomas Battle and her heires ffor ever thirty pound .... to grandson Joshua ¿do it being already in his hands payd to him out of that Estate which I had in his fathers hands .... to Mary Clap my grand daughter aud wife of Thomas Clap ¿$ .... to Abigail Houghtou, wife of John Houghtou

      my grant child ¿5 John ffisher grand child, son Joshua

      ffisher /5 to Hannah B. . . (? writ1ng unintelligible) grand

      child ¿s John ffisher son of my sou John ffisher all land in

      Medfield, etc. . . further that John ffisher sou of my son John ffisher within the space of two years after he shall co1n to one and twenty years of age shall pay /'40 to his brother Jonathan ffisher.... Vigilance ffisher my grand child sou of my sou Joshua ffisher 41«.

      and I constitute appoint and ordain my trusty and well

      beloved cosen Daniel ffisher of Dedham and Joshua Fisher my Grande child Executors of this my last will

      John Wilson

      Ralph Wheelocke CL

      His widow Anne made her will, dated April 8, 1675, proved Feb. 1, 1676-7, in which she gave "daughter Battle 2os.; grandson John Fisher, the son of my late son Lievtenant Joshua, .¿5 ; grandson John and granddaughter Elizabeth Fisher, children of my late son John Fisher, 20s. apiece ; rest and residue to grandson Joshua Fisher (son of my late son Lieut. Joshua Fisher) whom I have brought up from his childhood, whom I make my sole Executor." Ch1ldren b. in England, and by first wife, were :

      Elizabeth-*, bapt. at Syleham, England, July 3,1619 ; probably married aud settled in England ; no record of her in New England.

      6. Joshua.', bapt. at Syleham, April 2, 1621 ; m. 1st, Mary.Aldis,

      Nov. 15, 1643; m. 2d, Lydia Oliver, Feb. 16, 1654.

      61. Marvj, b. ; m. Thomas Battelle, Sept. 5, 1648; d. Aug. 7,

      1691.

      7. Johnj, b. ; m. Elizabeth Boylston, April 6, 1658.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S236] The Fisher Genealogy Record of the Descendants of Joshua, Anthony, and Cornelius Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., 1630-1640, Philip A Fisher, (Name: Massachusetts Pub. Co., 1898;), 4 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S236] The Fisher Genealogy Record of the Descendants of Joshua, Anthony, and Cornelius Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., 1630-1640, Philip A Fisher, (Name: Massachusetts Pub. Co., 1898;), 5 (Reliability: 3).

  

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