An American Family History

Nathan Fiske, Sr. was born about 1615 in Suffolk, England.

Nathan married Susannah. Their children and life together are described in detail in the section on Nathan and Susannah Fiske.

He was a resident of Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts as early as 1642 and was admitted as a freeman on May 10, 1643. He bought land there on October 7, 1643. In the third inventory of estates taken in Watertown about 1644, Nathan Fiske was the proprietor of a lot of nine acres of upland bounded east by Edward Howe, west by Robert Harrington, north by Richard Gale, and south with the highway. 

He was chosen surveyor of the highways on January 9, 1659/60.  He was made constable for 1662. He was made selectman of the town in 1673. Nathan, John Whitney, and Isaac Mixer, three of the selectmen were to "goo about the town to see that children wear taught to Read the inglish tunge and to be cattycysed.

His sister, Martha Fiske Underwood, wife of Martin Underwood, testified that he "was very crazy in his memory" before he died.  His will ( witnessed by Joseph Taynter and William) was dated June 19 and he died on June 21, 1676 in Watertown.

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