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Nathaniel Fiske
Children of Nathan
and Susannah Fiske
  • Lieutenant Nathan Fiske
  • David Fiske
  • Nathaniel Fiske
  • Sarah Fiske Gale
    • Watertown was settled in 1630 by English Puritans in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In 1632 Watertown residents protested against paying taxes for a fort at Cambridge. The town hosted a horse and cattle market. About 1632 a grist mill was built and in 1662 a woolen mill was built.

    Nathaniel Fiske was born on May 12, 1653 or July 12, 1653 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Nathan and Susannah Fiske. Nathaniel was a weaver.

    He married Mary Warren Child in Watertown on April 13, 1677.  She was born November 29, 1651 in Watertown. She was the daughter of Daniel Warren and Mary Barron and the widow of John Child. John died on October 15, 1676.

    Mary already had four children: Mary Child (1663), John Child (1669, Eliza Child (1670), and Daniel Child (1677).

    Nathaniel and Mary's children were Nathaniel Fiske (1678), Hannah Fiske Bigelow (1680), John Fiske (1683), Sarah Fiske Hastings 1684), Lydia FiskeWarren (1687), Mary Fiske Knapp (1690), Elizabeth Fiske Flagg (1692) and Abigail Fiske Flagg (1698). 

    Mary died May 12, 1734 and Nathaniel died on September 23, 1735.

    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.
     

    Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907

    Nathaniel Fiske, son of Nathan Fiske (9), was born at Watertown, July 12, 1653; married April 13, 1677, Mary (Warren) Child, born November 29, 1651, daughter of Daniel Warren, of Watertown, and widow of John Child, of Watertown, born 1636, died October 15, 1676. She died May 12, 1734. He was a weaver. His will is dated June 10, 1735, and was proved October 3, 1735. He was a weaver by trade. He died September, 1735.

    Children:
    1. Nathaniel, born June 9, 1678; mentioned below.
    2. Hannah, born August 29, 1680; married October 17, 1701, Joshua Bigelow, Jr.; settled at Westminster.
    3. John, born March 17, 1682; married Lydia Adams.
    4. Sarah, born July 4, 1684; married January 8, 1706, John Hastings, Jr.
    5. Lydia, born December 2, 1687; married May 14, 1711, John Warren.
    6. Mary, baptized April 20, 1690; married in Watertown, October 30,1716, James Knapp.
    7. Elizabeth, born June 24, 1692: married January 25, 1715, Captain Flagg, Jr., who settled in Worcester.
    8. Abigail, born August 28, 1698; married April 10,1717, Allen Flagg, Jr.

    		  
     

    Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families by Elias Child

    John Child, third son and child, as it appears, of William Child was born after his parents removal to America, in 1636, in Watertown, Mass.; m. 1st, Mary; m. 2d, May 29, 1668, Mary Warren, who was b. Nov. 29, 1651, and was a granddaughter of John Warren, who came to America in the "Arabella" with Governor Winthrop, in 1630...

    Mr. John Child took a prominent part in the affairs of town and colony, and was chosen representative to the General Court of Massachusetts. He became the head of a large line of posterity, who have honored the name. By a nuncupative will, witnessed by his brother Richard and two others, he left to his eldest son, John, his "dwelling house with its lot of twelve acres, also some meadow lands," and "the reversion of all lands upon the little plains." His youngest son, Daniel, received his farm lands. Mr. Child died Oct. 15, 1676,

    40. Mrs. Child remarried ; and d. May 12, 1734, ae. 83. [Third Generation.] Children:

    4733. i. Mary Child, b. Jan. 8, 1663
    .4734. ii. John Child, b. Apr. 25, 1669, m. Oct. 5,1693, Hannah French
    4735. iii. Eliza Child, b. July 24, 1670.
    4736. iv. Daniel Child, b. June 5, 1677, m. Jan. 29,1702, Beriah Bemis.

    		  
    King Philip’s war was a bloody and costly series of raids and skirmishes in 1675 and 1676 between the Native American people and the colonials. King Philip was the Native American leader Metacom.

    Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907

    Daniel Warren, son of John Warren (1). was born in England, 1628. and came with his parents to America. He lived in Watertown, was a farmer, and died there. He was a soldier in King Philip's war; selectman of the town of Watertown, 1682 to 1698. He took the oath of fidelity 1652.

    He married, December 10, 1650, Mary Barron. Children:
    1. Mary, born November 29, 1651, died May 1, 1734: married, May 29, 1668, John Child.
    2. Daniel, born October 6, 1653, admitted freeman April 18. 1690; selectman and deputy.
    3. Hannah, born September 24,1655, married David Mead.
    4. Elizabeth, born December 6, 165—, married Jonathan Taintor.
    5. Samuel, born July 4, 1658.
    6. Susanna, born December 26, 1663, died 1678.
    7. John, born March 5, 1665-66, mentioned below.
    8. Joshua, born July 4, 1668, died January 30. 1760.
    9. Grace, born March 14, 1671-72, married, January 20, 1690-91, Joseph Morse, Jr.. of Watertown.

    		 

     

         

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