Name Info

JOSIAH WHITCOMB 1638 MA to 1718 MA
Fathers:JOHN,JOHN

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09001432
Gender.........male
Status.........deceased
Age............80y2m19d
Last-Marital...married
Fam-Group......MOORE
Fam-ID.........WHITCOMB
Citizenship....US born

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......12
#Events........1
#Images:.......7
#Comments......1
#Siblings......9
#Children......11

Person-Type....A
Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........father
Spouse?........husband
Sibling?.......brother
Child?.........son
Twin...........no
Adopted?.......

Title(s).......
Ancestor.......ancestor
RelatedToMe....8XGreat
Gen-#..........11
Ahn-#..........00000001432
Religion.......
PoliticParty...
Ht/Wt/Eye/Hair.
Burial.........

Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: JOHN WHITCOMB, male, born:1588 Taunton, Somerset county, England, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:ANN HARPER, #M:1, #SrcDocs:14
  2. Parent: FRANCES COGGAN, female, born:1605-02-24 , died:1671-05-17 (66y2m18d) , Anc:1, Dad:HENRY COGGAN, Mom:JOANE BORIDGE, #M:1, #SrcDocs:14
  3. Sibling: Catherine\Mary WHITCOMB, female, born:1624 , died:1695-1714 (71y0m0d) Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
  4. Sibling: John WHITCOMB, male, born:1626-08-06 Somerset county, England, died:1683-04-07 (56y8m1d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
  5. Sibling: Jonathan WHITCOMB, male, born:1628 England, died:1690-02 (62y1m0d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #M:1, #SrcDocs:6
  6. Sibling: James\Jonathan WHITCOMB, male, born:1628-02 Taunton, Somerset county, England, died:1686-11-23 (58y9m22d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #M:2, #SrcDocs:5
  7. Sibling: Robert\John WHITCOMB, male, born:1629 Taunton, Somerset county, England, died:Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
  8. Sibling: Joane WHITCOMB, female, born:1634 Taunton, Somerset county, England, died:1634-1724 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:3
  9. Sibling: Job WHITCOMB, male, born:1636 , died:?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #M:1, #SrcDocs:6
  10. Sibling: Abigail\Joane WHITCOMB, female, born:1640 , died:1690-02 (50y1m0d) , Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5
  11. Sibling: Mary WHITCOMB, female, born:1643-08-13 , died:1643-1733 (0y4m19d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1665-01-04 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts
  2. Spouse: REBECCA WATERS, female, born:1640-02 , died:1726 (85y11m0d) , Anc:1, Dad:LAWRENCE WATERS, Mom:ANN\ANNA LINTON, #SrcDocs:12
  3. ..Child: Josiah WHITCOMB, male, born:1665-09-12 , died:1665-09-12 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:7
  4. ..Child: Josiah WHITCOMB, male, born:1666-11-07 , died:1718-04-12 (51y5m5d) , Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:7
  5. ..Child: David WHITCOMB, male, born:1668-02-20 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1730-04-11 (62y1m22d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:7
  6. ..Child: Rebecca WHITCOMB, female, born:1671-09-12 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:8
  7. ..Child: Joanna WHITCOMB, female, born:1674-01-08 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1717-09-24 (44y3m4d) , Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:6
  8. ..Child: Damaris\Deborah\Rebecca WHITCOMB, female, born:1679 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1699-1769 (20y0m0d) , Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:8
  9. ..Child: HEZEKIAH WHITCOMB Sr., male, born:1681-09-14 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:9
  10. ..Child: Mary WHITCOMB, female, born:1681-09-14 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1718-1771 (36y3m18d) , Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:8
  11. ..Child: Deborah WHITCOMB, female, born:1683-12-26 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1683-1773 (0y0m6d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:7
  12. ..Child: Eunice\Abigail\Deborah WHITCOMB, female, born:1687-03-13 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1687-1777 (0y9m19d) , Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:5
  13. ..Child: Abigail\Eunice WHITCOMB, female, born:1688-03-13 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1771-09-24 (83y6m11d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOSIAH WHITCOMB, Mom:REBECCA WATERS, #SrcDocs:7

Events
Birth
: 1638 y0m0d, Dorchester, Suffolk county, Massachusetts
Govt-court
: 1658 , Age:20y0m0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:defendant, Other Party, Stephen Gates, Josiah and his brother Job were in court because they had killed three pigs of their neighbor. Stephen Gates was trying to get their father John to pay damages for the pigs.
Married
: ?1665-01-04, Age:27y0m3d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Death
: 1683-03-21, Age:45y2m20d, Rochester, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
Job
: 1688 , Age:50y0m0d, Massachusetts, was paid a bounty for killing a wolf
Military
: 1702-1717, Age:64y0m0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:garrison commander, Queen Anne's War, His house was in the part of Lancaster that later became a part of the new town of Bolton. Assigned to his garrison were: his son Josiah, David Whitcomb, Hezekiah Whitcomb, Jacob Houghton, Henry Houghton, John Wilder Jr.
Will-written
: 1718-03-20, Age:80y2m19d, ?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:writer
Death
: 1718-03-21, Age:80y2m20d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts
Military
: ?, Role:soldier
Livedin
: ?, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, The location of Josiah's property is given on a map of the Lancaster area from about 1675. It was in the northeastern part of what became the town of Bolton.

Places In
Rochester, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
Dorchester, Suffolk county, Massachusetts
Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts

General

There are many pages of information on Josiah's descendants in Mary Anne R. Shepherd's 1987 book "John Whitcomb and Frances Coggin: 350 Years Later". <<<>>>


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Sources
Book 1600 Lines to Pilgrims, Mary E. Mayo, 1982
Book Ancestry of John Barber White, Almira L White, 1913
Book Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725, Nourse, 1884
Book English Origins of New England Families, G.B. Roberts, 1985
Book John Whitcomb and Frances Coggin, Mary A.R. Shepherd, 1981, 1987
Book New England Families, W.R. Cutter, 1914
Book New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, 1985
Book Our Whitcomb Ancestry, R.B. Hall, 1985
Book Whitcomb Genealogy, Charlotte Whitcomb, 1904
Letters from Jim Gunderson, Seattle WA, 1995
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Historical
1638: United States - Delaware is settled by Peter Minuet
1639-1651: England, Ireland, Scotland - Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England
1639: Italy - Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649
1639: Spain, England - Naval Battle of the Downs, Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters
1639: United States - John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds a colony in New Hampshire
1640-1668: Portugal - The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union
1640: England - Torture is outlawed in England
1640: Scotland - King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots
1640: United States - The population of the American Colonies is estimated at 5,700. Starting in the 1990's, Charles Anderson of the New England Historic Genealogical Society begins books that provides information about all persons in New England by 1640.
1641: France - Rene Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy
1641: Ireland - The Irish Rebellion
1641: Japan - The Tokugawa Shogunate Institutes Sakoku, foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan
1642-1649: England - Civil War in England, Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell
1642: England - Isaac Newton is born
1642: Neatherlands, New Zealand - Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand
1644-1674: Mauritania - The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War
1644: China - The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty, the subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912
1644: Italy - Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644
1645-1669: Turkey, Italy - Ottoman war with Venice, the Ottomans Invade Crete and capture Canea
1645: Japan - The death of Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese Samurai warrior of natural causes
1647-1652: Spain - The Great Plague of Seville
1647: Turkey - Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes Ottoman sultan
1648-1653: France - Fronde civil war in France
1648-1667: Poland, Lithuania - The Deluge wars leave Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins
1648-1669: Turkey, Italy - The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia
1648: Spain, Italy - The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers
1649-1653: Ireland - The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1650: United States - An estimated 40,000 people are living in the American Colonies
1652: England, Netherlands - Anglo-Dutch Wars begin
1652: South Africa - Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa
1654-1661: Turkey, Albania - Mehmed Koprulu is Grand Vizier
1655-1661: Sweden - The Northern Wars cement the rise of Sweden as a Great Power
1658: India - After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire
1660: England - Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded
1660: England - The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration
1661: China - The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins
1661: India - Mehmed Koprulu dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed
1662: France - Jacques Aymar-Vernay, who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe, is born
1663: France - France takes full political and military control over Its colonial possessions in New France, microscope of Hooke discovers cells
1663: Turkey, Austria-Hungary - Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary
1664: England - Forestry book by John Evelyn called Sylva is published in England
1664: Hungary, Turkey - Battle of St. Gotthard (first of two), count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans, the Peace of Vasvar is Intended to keep the peace for twenty years
1664: United States - British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename It New York
1665: England - The Great Plague of London (aka. Bubonic Plague, Black Death) kills 70,000 people
1665: Portugal, Congo - Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire
1666: England - The Great Fire of London burns most of the city
1667-1668: France, Netherlands - The War of Devolutionm France Invades the Netherlands, the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt
1667-1699: Turkey - The Great Turkish War halts the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe
1668: Spain, Portugal - Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as Independent country
1669: Turkey, Crete - The Ottomans capture Crete
1670: Canada - The Hudson Bay Company is founded in Canada
1672-1673: Turkey, Ukraine - Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks, John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673)
1672-1676: Poland, Turkey - Polish-Ottoman War
1672-1678: France, Netherlands - Franco-Dutch War
1672: Belgium - Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague, William III of Orange takes power
1672: Netherlands, France, England, Germany - Rampjaar in the Netherlands, combined attack by France, England and two German states on the Republic of the United Provinces
1674: England - The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces
1674: India - Maratha Empire founded in India by Shivaji
1676-1681: Russia, Turkey - Russia and the Ottoman Empire fight the second (of ten) Russo-Turkish Wars, Turkish victory
1676: Poland, Turkey - The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt
1676: Turkey - Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier
1678: Netherlands, France - The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities between the Netherlands and France
1680: United States, Spain - The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692
1681: Hungary - The Pasha of Buda supports rebellion led by Imre Thokoly in Hungary
1682-1683: Turkey - The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople
1682: Russia - Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696)
1682: Turkey - Sultan Mehmed IV, advised by Kara Mustafa, decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I, due to expire in 1684
1682: United States - La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France
1683: Austria - A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna
1683: Austria - The Battle of Vienna finishes the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire in southeastern Europe
1683: China - China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan
1685: France - Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France, King Charles II dies
1686-1700: Turkey, Russia - The Russo-Turkish War (third of ten), Russia wins
1687: England - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
1688-1689: Netherlands, England - The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic Invading England, England becomes a constitutional monarchy
1688-1691: Ireland - The War of the Two Kings in Ireland
1688-1697: France - The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War
1688: England - The Siege of Derry
1689: England, Ireland, Scotland - William ascends to the throne over England, Scotland, and Ireland
1689: England - John Locke publishes his first work called Letter Concerning Toleration
1689: Russia, China - The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China
1689: Scotland, England - Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1690: Ireland - The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1691: United States - Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony merge. This is in response to an attempt started in 1685 by King James II attempts to establish control over the colonies
1692: United States - Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. Over twenty people are hung for being witches.
1693-1694: France - Famine in France kills two million
1694: England - Mary II of England dies
1694: England - The Bank of England is established
1696-1697: Finland - Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population
1697: England - The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex
1699: England - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society
1699: Turkey - The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War
1700-1721: Russia, Sweden - Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War
1700: Japan - The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude nine) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the coast of Japan is struck by a tsunami
1701-1702: England - The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England
1701-1714: Spain - War of the Spanish Succession (aka. Queen Anne's War) was a conflict which Involved most of Europe
1702-1715: France - Camisard Rebellion in France
1702: Japan - Forty-seven Ronin (aka. Forty-seven Samura) attack Kira Yoshinaka (court title of Ko-zuke no suke, a province overseer) and then commits seppuku (a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment, originally reserved only for samurai)
1703-1711: Austria - The Rakoczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy
1703: Russia - St. Petersburg founded by Peter the Great, Russian capital until 1918
1704: Japan - End of Genroku period in Japan
1706: United States - Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston
1707: England, Scotland - Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain
1707: India - After the death of Aurangzeb, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces It
1707: India - War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends in India
1707: Japan - Mount Fuji erupts in Japan
1708-1709: Germany - Famine kills one third of the population of East Prussia
1708: East Indies - The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and English Company Trading to the East Indies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies
1709: Afghanistan - Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan
1709: Russia, Sweden, Turkey - Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava
1710-1711: Russia, Turkey - Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War (fourth of ten), Turkish victory
1713-1714: India - Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu
1714: England - Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain, he rules until 1727
1715: England, Scotland - First Jacobite rebellion breaks out
1715: France - Louis XIV dies, leaving France deep in debt
1715: Italy - Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism Incompatible
1716: India - Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the India Pakistan border
1718-1730: Turkey - Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire
1718: United States - Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina Inlet on the Inner side of Ocracoke Island
1718: United States - City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America