Constance Bigelow

Birth: 1 Sep 1881

• "United Kingdom, Outgoing Passenger Lists, 1890-1960", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:685C-PRCD : accessed 21 Jan 2023), Constance Bigelow, Emigration, 1956.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VSDQ-NZ4 : accessed 21 Jan 2023), Constance Bigelow, Aug 1969; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

Death: 17 Aug 1969, York, York Co, ME

• "Miss Constance Bigelow," death notice, Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg, Mass), 18 Aug 1969, p. 2, col. 3; online at Newspapers.com.

Father: Albert Marshall Bigelow
Mother: Mary Ann Wheelock

Notes:

Like her mother, Constance Bigelow was also an artist. Some of her art is on display at the Fitchburg Art Museum (2023).

Her funeral notice in the 18 Aug 1969 edition of the Fitchburg Sentinel referred to her as "Constance Bigelow of Boston," and identified the following survivors: her brother, Wheelock Bigelow of Dennis, Mass, a niece, Mrs. Paul B. Akin of St. Louis, Mo., and three nephews, Wheelock Bigelow, Jr. of Hinsdale, Ill., and Bigelow Crocker and Charles T. Crocker 3rd, both of Fitchburg, Mass.

Mary Brewer

Birth: estimated 1698

• Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1860), p. 92; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam121bond/page/92/mode/2up : accessed 7 Jan 2023).
• Charles Henry Pope, Merriam Genealogy in England and America (Boston, Mass.: Charles H. Pope, 1906), p. 69; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/merriamgenealogy00pope/page/68/mode/2up : accessed 7 Jan 2023).

Death: before 12 Mar 1783

• Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16435 (1783), estate of Mary Park late of Lincoln, widow, administered by her son in law, John Chandler, wife of her daughter, Beulah Merriam. See also Charles Henry Pope, Merriam Genealogy in England and America (Boston, Mass.: Charles H. Pope, 1906), p. 69; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/merriamgenealogy00pope/page/68/mode/2up : accessed 7 Jan 2023).

Father: John Brewer
Mother: Mary Jones

Spouse: Joseph Merriam
Marriage: 9 Oct 1718, Weston, Middlesex Co, MA

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZV-7TXN : 28 Dec 2022), Joseph Merriam and Mary Brewer; citing Marriages, Weston, Middlesex Co, MA, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009675.
• Charles Henry Pope, Merriam Genealogy in England and America (Boston, Mass.: Charles H. Pope, 1906), p. 69; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/merriamgenealogy00pope/page/68/mode/2up : accessed 7 Jan 2023).

Spouse: Josiah Parks
Marriage: 7 Apr 1757, Lincoln, Middlesex Co, MA

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH3K-NHZ : 24 Dec 2022), Josiah Parks and Mrs. Mary Merriam; citing Marriage, Lincoln, Middlesex, Co, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010703.

Notes:

Mary was the daughter of John Brewer and Mary Jones, of Watertown and later Weston. She married Joseph Merriam in Weston, and they settled in Lexington. Mary administered the estate of her husband when he died in 1745. She later married Josiah Parks.

Her daughter, Sarah (Merriam) Barret, heir to Joseph Merriam, sold her rights to her mother's dower property on 13 November 1773, calling her Mary Parks of Lexington, widow.¹

Mary died before 12 March 1783, when her son-in-law, John Chandler, was granted letters of administration on her estate.²

Sources:

1. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, deeds 88:127, Benjamin and Sarah Barret to John Chandler, dated 13 Nov 1773, recorded 30 Nov 1784; see also Charles Henry Pope, Merriam Genealogy in England and America (Boston, Mass.: Charles H. Pope, 1906), p. 69; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/merriamgenealogy00pope/page/68/mode/2up : accessed 7 Jan 2023).
2. Middlesex County probate case 16435 (1783).

Thankfull Cooledge

Birth: estimated 1705

Father: Nathaniel Cooledge
Mother: Lydia Jones

Spouse: Josiah Parks
Marriage: 5 Aug 1730, Weston, Middlesex Co, MA

• Town of Weston, Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1707-1850, Gravestones, 1703-1900, Church Records, 1709-1825 (Boston: McIndoe Bros, Printers, 1901), p. 26; online at Archive.org, accessed 24 Dec 2022.

Notes:

"Thankfull Parks, the wife of Josiah Parks of Weston, the deceased's third daughter" is identified as an heir in the estate of Nathaniel Cooledge of Weston, 20 Oct. 1733.¹

Sources:

1. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 5131, image 12 at AmericanAncestors.org, 30 Jan 2023.

Mary Fairbanks

Spouse: Samuel Whiting
Marriage: 29 Apr 1702, Dedham, Suffolk Co, MA

• Theodore S. Lazell, Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass. (Boston, Mass: author, 1902), p. 13-14; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/whitinggenealogy01laze/page/12/mode/2up : accessed 27 Dec 2022).

1. Mary Whiting, born 18 Jul 1703, Dedham, Norfolk Co, MA

Stephen Fish

Birth: 15 Dec 1695, Reading, Middlesex Co, MA

• Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850.
• Lester Warren Fish, The Fish Family in England and America (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 1948), p. 403; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/fishfamilyinengl00fish/page/402/mode/2up : accessed 1 Feb 2023).

Death: 13 Jan 1766, Uxbridge, Worcester Co, MA

• Uxbridge Vital Records to 1850

Father: Stephen Fish
Mother: Mary Micrist

Spouse: Abigail Parks
Marriage: 7 Jan 1722/23, Reading, Middlesex Co, MA

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZJ-TYH1 : 24 Dec 2022), Stephen Fisk and Abigail Parks; citing Marriages, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009675, image 127 of 240.
• Frank Sylvester Parks, Genealogy of the Parke Families of Massachusetts... (Washington, D.C. : author, 1909), p. 37; Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofparkef00inpark/page/36/mode/2up : accessed 27 Nov 2022).

Sarah Grant

Birth: 16 Mar 1701/2, probably Watertown, Middlesex Co, MA

• Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1860), p. 260; online at Archive.org, accessed 24 Dec 2022; Bond says b. 16 Mar 1702/03 - not consistent with baptism or age at death.
• Watertown Records Comprising the Third Book of Town Proceedings and the Second Book of Births, Marriages and Deaths to End of 1737 ..., 4 volumes (Watertown, Mass: Press of Fred G Barker, 1900), v. 2, p. 27; online at AmericanAncestors.org; Watertown record says b. 16 March 1702, omitting dual dating notation. 16 Mar 1701/02 is consistent with baptism, and age at death.

Baptism: 29 Mar 1702, Watertown, Middlesex Co, MA

• Watertown Historical Society, Watertown Records Comprising East Congregational and Precinct Affairs 1697 to 1737 also Record Book of the Pastors 1686 to 1819 (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1906), p. 133; online at AmericanAncestors.org.

Death: 7 Jan 1729/30, probably Concord, Middlesex Co, MA

• Town of Weston, Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1707-1850, Gravestones, 1703-1900, Church Records, 1709-1825 (Boston: McIndoe Bros, Printers, 1901), p. 400; online at Archive.org, accessed 30 Jan 2023.
• Concord, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, and Deaths: 1635 to 1850 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891), Sarah Parks death, p. 121; database with images, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/concordmassachus1635conc/page/121 : accessed 28 November 2022); 6 January 1729/30.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18042122/sarah-parks: accessed 06 January 2023), gravestone photo for Sarah Parks (d. 7 Jan 1730, in 28th year), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18042122, Farmers Burial Ground, Weston, Middlesex Co, MA, maintained by Bette Hartman (contributor 46633755).

Burial: Farmers Burial Ground, Weston, Middlesex Co, MA

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18042122/sarah-parks: accessed 06 January 2023), gravestone photo for Sarah Parks (d. 7 Jan 1730, in 28th year), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18042122, Farmers Burial Ground, Weston, Middlesex Co, MA, maintained by Bette Hartman (contributor 46633755).

Father: Caleb Grant
Mother: Elizabeth Jackson

Spouse: Josiah Parks
Marriage: estimated 1722

• Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1860), p. 260, 386; online at Archive.org, accessed 24 Dec 2022.

Notes:

Sarah was the daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth Grant, born 16 March 1702.¹

Caleb Grant was deceased by 7 Apr 1718 when his widow Elizabeth Grant was granted letters of administration for the estate of her deceased husband, Caleb Grant, late of Weston.²

Josiah Parks was witness to guardianship papers for Sarah's siblings, dated 30 March 1722, in which Jonathan Draper accepted guardianship for Elizabeth, a minor in her fifteenth year, Caleb in his eleventh year, and Ruth in her seventh year of age, all children of the late Caleb Grant of Weston.³

Research Notes for Sarah Grant:

Bond in Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts gives her birth date as 16 Mar 1702/3, and shows a different Sarah bapt. 22 Mar 1701/2 (p. 260). These dates are likely incorrect.

The Watertown records give a birth date of 16 March 1702, omitting the dual dating notation.⁴ The records also indicate she was baptized 29 March 1702.⁵

Assuming the baptism date is correct, it would imply a birth date of 16 March 1701/2.

Her gravestone has inscribed a death date of "Janry 7th, 1730 in ye 28th Year of her Age." The Concord vital records give a death date of 6 Jan 1729/30.

The Records of Weston state that she was received into the church there (as Sarah Grant) 17 July 1720, and died (as Sarah Parks) 7 Jan 1729/30, p. 400.⁶

The Concord and Weston death records are likely correct. She was in her 28th year, which implies a birth date of 16 March 1701/2, which is then consistent with the baptism date of 29 Mar 1702.

Sources:

1. Watertown Records Comprising the Third Book of Town Proceedings and the Second Book of Births, Marriages and Deaths to End of 1737 ..., 4 volumes (Watertown, Mass: Press of Fred G Barker, 1900), v. 2, p. 27.
2. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 9638.
3. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 9639.
4. Watertown Records Comprising the Third Book of Town Proceedings and the Second Book of Births, Marriages and Deaths to End of 1737 ..., 4 volumes (Watertown, Mass: Press of Fred G Barker, 1900), v. 2, p. 27.
5. Watertown Historical Society, Watertown Records Comprising East Congregational and Precinct Affairs 1697 to 1737 also Record Book of the Pastors 1686 to 1819 (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1906), p. 133.
6. Town of Weston, Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1707-1850, Gravestones, 1703-1900, Church Records, 1709-1825 (Boston: Town of Weston, Mass., 1901), 400; online at Archive.org.

John Post

Spouse: Sarah Parks
Marriage: 12 Dec 1723, Canterbury, Windham County, CT

• "Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870," database, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/414/connecticut-vital-records-the-barbour-collection-1630-1870 : accessed 23 Dec 2022), John Post and Sarah Parks, Canterbury, p. 133, citing vol. 1, p. 192 of the original records; from Lucius Barnes Barbour typescript.

Notes:

The ancestry of John Post is not known.

Adeline R. Wheelock

Birth: 4 Dec 1826, Orange, Franklin Co, MA

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-3F8L : accessed 28 Dec 2022), Family Register for Josiah and Nancy Wheelock; Orange Births, Deaths 1770-1850; FHL 770464 image 44 of 93.

Father: Josiah Wheelock
Mother: Nancy Perry

Caroline Maria Wheelock

Birth: 12 Oct 1831, Orange, Franklin Co, MA

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-3F8L : accessed 28 Dec 2022), Family Register for Josiah and Nancy Wheelock; Orange Births, Deaths 1770-1850; FHL 770464 image 44 of 93.

Father: Josiah Wheelock
Mother: Nancy Perry

Mary Whiting

Birth: 18 Jul 1703, Dedham, Norfolk Co, MA

• "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," database with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2495/ : accessed 27 Dec 2022), Holbrook Research Institute, Dedham, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, imagege 32 of 1916, Mary Whitting birth; City clerk, Dedham, Norfolk Co, MA.
• Theodore S. Lazell, Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass. (Boston, Mass: author, 1902), p. 13-14; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/whitinggenealogy01laze/page/12/mode/2up : accessed 27 Dec 2022).

Father: Samuel Whiting
Mother: Mary Fairbanks

Spouse: Jonathan Parks
Marriage: 27 Aug 1728, Dedham, Norfolk Co, MA

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCH-1VMT : 26 Dec 2022), Jonathan Parks and Mary Whiting; citing Marriages 1673-1893, Concord, Middlesex Co, MA; FHL microfilm 007011226.
• Don Gleason Hill, The Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and Intentions of Marriage, in the Town of Dedham, Mass. (Dedham, Mass.: Dedham, 1886), vol. 1, part 1, p. 55; Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/earlyrecordsofto01dedh/page/54/mode/2up : accessed 27 Dec 2022).

Samuel Whiting

Spouse: Mary Fairbanks
Marriage: 29 Apr 1702, Dedham, Suffolk Co, MA

• Theodore S. Lazell, Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass. (Boston, Mass: author, 1902), p. 13-14; online at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/whitinggenealogy01laze/page/12/mode/2up : accessed 27 Dec 2022).

1. Mary Whiting, born 18 Jul 1703, Dedham, Norfolk Co, MA