Bigelow John b. 09 MAY 1675 d. 08 SEP 1769

1675 - 1769

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Birth 09 May 1675 [1, 2]

Gender Male

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Died 08 Sep 1769 [1]

Person ID I1755 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father Bigelow Samuel, b. 28 Oct 1653

Mother Flagg Mary, b. 14 Jan 1658, d. 07 Sep 1720

Married 03 Jun 1674

Family ID F802 Group Sheet

Family Garfield Jerusha, d. 10 Jan 1758

Married 12 Jun 1696 [1, 2]

Children

Family ID F801 Group Sheet

Notes	JOHN BIGELOW m. June 12, 1696, Jerusha Garfield, and settled in Marl. In 1705, being at Lancaster, at the garrison house of Mr. Thomas Sawyer, he was, with Mr. Sawyer and his son Elias, taken by the Indians, and conveyed to Canada. They obtained their release in the following manner. Both of them were ingenious mechanics — Sawyer a blacksmith, and Bigelow a carpenter. While at Montreal, they proposed to the French Governor, that in case he would procure their ransom, they would erect for him a saw-mill, there being none at that time in Canada. The offer was readily accepted ; they fulfilled their engagement ; and after some delays, they were permitted to return to their friends. Mr. Bigelow, in token of his gratitude for his remarkable deliverance from captivity, called his daughter, bornafter his return, " Comfort,'" and a second, "Freedom," as expressive of the happiness and peace he then enjoyed, compared with what he suffered while a prisoner. He d. Sept. 8, 1769, aged 94 years, 4 mos. and 7 days. She d. Jan. 10, 1758.

[S138] History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Charles Hudson, Joseph Allen, 326 (Reliability: 3).
[S142] Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Ellery Bicknell Crane, (Name: 1907;), 268 (Reliability: 3).