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Mark Fiske

Children of Joseph Fiske
and Susannah Warner
  • Joseph Fiske
  • Hannah Fiske Platts
  • Susanna Fiske Kilburn
  • Sarah Fiske
  • Elizabeth Fiske Dwinnell
  • Ruth Fiske Estey Kilburn
  • Abigail Fiske
  • Joseph Fiske
  • Mark Fiske
  • John Fiske
  • Mark Fiske was born on November 20, 1716 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. His parents were Joseph Fiske and Susannah Warner.

    He married Lydia Smith on November 2, 1738 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. Lydia was born February 14, 1717/18 in Ipswich. Her parents were Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Emmons (Emins).

    Mark was the executor of his father's will. In 1740, Lydia owned the covenant of the church.

    Their children were Lydia Fiske (1739) Joseph Fiske (1741), Mark Fiske (1743), John Fiske (1746), Susanna Fiske (1748), Elizabeth Fiske (1750),  Sarah Fiske (1752), Abner Fiske (1755), and Ruth Fiske (1757).

    Lydia died on September 27, 1759.

    According to Fiske and Fisk Family by Frederick Clifton Pierce, after she died, Mark married Eleanor Porter Abbott on March 12, 1762. She was the widow of Nehemiah Abbot.

    Eleanor died in April, 1766.

    Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.
    The town of Ipswich was established on August 5, 1634, from common land called Agawam. On October 18, 1648, that portion called the "Village" at the New Meadows was set off as Topsfield. The boundary line between Ipswich and Topsfield was established, February 28, 1694.

     

    The Fiske Family: A History of the Family (Ancestral and Descendant) of William Fiske, Sen., of Amherst, N. H. by Albert Augustus Fiske

    ...Mark [Fiske], born in 1716, married Lydia Smith in 1738, and had
    Lydia,
    Joseph (1741),
    Mark (1743),
    John (1746), and
    Susanna.

    Of these, Joseph [Fiske] was twice married, and had following
    Eleanor,
    Joseph (1767),
    Benjamin (1768),
    Sarah,
    Lydia,
    Elizabeth, and
    Mark (1778).

     
     
     

    The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 1 edited by Sidney Perley

    Nehemiah Abbot, born in Ipswich Oct. 19, 1692. He was a yeoman, and lived in Linebrook parish, Ipswich. He married Eleanor Porter of Topsfield (pub. March 24, 1743). He died before May 22, 1760; and his widow married Mark Fisk Sept, 21, 1762.

    A yeoman was a man who owned and cultivated a small farm. He belonged to the class below the gentry or land owners. A husbandman was a free tenant farmer. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman.

     

         

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