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Felch John
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  • Birth  Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  17 AUG 2009 18:29:42 GMT-5 
    Died  28 Oct 1776  White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Buried  North Natick, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID  I4428  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  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 
    Mother  Bacon Mary,   b. 28 Mar 1708, Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  15 May 1728 
    Family ID  F1804  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Bacon Mary,   b. Abt 1737,   d. 26 Aug 1813 
    Married  28 Apr 1757  Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Children 
     1. Felch Mary,   b. 04 Jun 1757, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1841
     2. Felch John,   b. 28 Mar 1760, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Mar 1830, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Felch Ruth,   b. 09 Dec 1762, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1852
     4. Felch Zeruiah,   b. 30 Apr 1765, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 03 Mar 1850
     5. Felch Asa,   b. 09 Jul 1769, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1846
     6. Felch Levi,   b. 08 Jun 1773, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1861, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F1806  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • (V) Captain John Felch, son of Ebenezer Felch (4), was born in Natick, Massachusetts, 1729-30, and like his father was one of the leading citizens. He was selectman, assessor, member of the school committee and, like his father, teacher of the Natick school. He married Mary Bacon, of Natick, a descendant of the immigrant, Michael Bacon, of Dedham, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was thesame. (See Bacon family in this work). She died August 26, 1813, aged seventy-six years. John Felch was captain of the Natick company, and when the Lexington alarm came on April 19, 1775, he went with Captain Joseph Morse's company, Colonel Samuel Bui- lard's regiment. In 1776 his eldest son John was drafted, and the captain took his place as substitute in the ranks in June, 1776. The son was then but sixteen years old, the father was forty-five or more. Captain John Felch was in Captain Aaron Gardner's company, Colonel Brook's regiment, and was killed in the battle of White Plains, New York,October 28, 1776. His gravestone at North Natick gives his age as forty-seven. Children, all born in Natick: I. Mary, born June 4, 1757, died July 12, 1841, aged eighty-four; married Thomas Cool- idge, September 19, 1776, and had seven children, many of whose descendants still live in Natick. 2. John, born March 28, 1760, mentioned below. 3. Ruth, born December 9, 1762. died June 23, 1852, aged eighty-nine; married, September 9, 1784, James Eames; removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, and thence to Newry, Maine; had nine children. 4. Zeruiah, born April 30, 1765, died March 3, 1850. aged eighty-four; married. May 18, 1786, Ethel Jennings; had seven children. 5. Asa, born July 9, 1769, died March 21, 1846. aged seventy-seven; married Lavinia Newton at Wayland, Massachusetts, about 1792; had five sons and three daughters; among these children were Isaac Felch. who was the father of Lucy E., Sarah G., Isaac K.. Charlotte K., Laura E. and Henry F. Felch. of Natick. Asa's home was what was later known as the Deacon Wright place on the Worcester turnpike ; Asa sold it to his son-in-law, Rev. Isaac Jennison. 6. Levi, born June 8, 1773,.died September 19, 1861, aged eighty; married, April 16,1816, Patty Coggin, widow, and had three daughters, two of whom lived at Park- ersburgh, Iowa; Levi removed from Natick to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he died.

      John. b. April 6, 1729. m. April 28, 1757, Mary Bacon. He was of Natick, innholder. He was Captain in militia and was on the Crown Point and other Colonial military expeditions. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was killed at the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. Left 6 children. His widow, Mary, died at Natick, Aug. 26, 1813, aa. 76.
     
  • 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;), 411 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [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;), 23 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S252] Vital records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Sherborn (Mass. : Town), Thomas Williams Baldwin, (Name: Stanhope Press, 1911;), 128 & 103 (Reliability: 3).

  

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