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William Fiske and Eunice Jennings
Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Quabbin (later called Greenwich), Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut
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.

Greenwich was Incorporated in 1749 and dissolved in 1938. It was renamed from Quabbin in 1754. It was also called Quaker Plain and Narragansett. Quabbin is now under the Quabbin reservoir. It is also spelled Quabin.

Spellings of Jennings
Gennings, Jennens, Jennings, and Jenyns

 

William Fiske and Eunice Jennings married on November 3, 1708 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

William Fiske, Jr. was born on April 20, 1709 in Watertown. Hannah Fiske Powers was born on April 20, 1712 in Quabbin..

About 1714 the family moved to Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut.

Their last two children were born in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut. Stephen Fiske was born on September 14, 1714 and Nathan Fiske was born on February 13, 1722/23.

William died in 1750. Eunice remarried in 1754.

Framingham was first known as Danforth’s Farms. In 1701 the  Framingham Church was organized with the Rev. John Swift as the town's first minister. In 1706 the town hired its first schoolmaster and in 1716 the first schoolhouse was built.

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.
 

(from Fiske and Fisk Family by Frederick Pierce)
WILLIAM FISKE (Nathan, Nathan, Nathaniel, William, Robert, Simon, Simon, William, Symond), b. Wat. Nov. 10, 1678; m. Nov. 3, 1708, Eunice Jennings of Fram., b. 1686, dau. of Stephen, who settled in Framingham, Mass., in 1680, and who m. Jan. 1, 1685, in Sudbury, Hannah Stanhope. After William's death his widow m. Jan. 3, 1754, William Johnson. He d. Mar. 16, 1759; res. Willington, Conn.

Ch.: Lydia, b. Feb. 14, 1756; Sarah, b. July 19, 1757; Benjamin, b. Dec. 12, 1758; Abigail, b. May 12, 1760; Eunice, b. May 8, 1762; Mehitable, b. June 3, 1764.

Wm. was b. in Watertown and m. his wife in Framingham. During the year 1715 he removed to Connecticut and settled in Ashford. May, 1716, he sold to Thomas Orcutt, "the land where the house he now occupies is situated." In the town records of Ashford, which by the way are in a very bad condition, his wife Eunice is called "Unis." He d. Nov. 8, 1750; res. Watertown, Mass., and Willington, Conn.

 
     
 
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
By Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society
  
 

Fiske.—William, b. 10 Nov. 1678, son of Lieut. Nathan and Elizabeth (Fry) Fiske, m. 3 Nov. 1708, Eunice, b. 1686, dan. of Stephen and Hannah (Stanhope) Jennings, of Framingham, and had, William and Stephen, both bapt. 17 April, 1715. (Bond's Watertown.)

The mutilated records of Ashford, Conn., contain the following:—
William, son of William Fisk by Unis his wife, born 20 Apr. 1709.
Hannah, dau. of same, born 20 Apr. 1712.
Stephen, son of same, born 14 Sep. 1714.
Nathan, son of same, born 13 Feb. 1722-8.

William Fisk appeared at Ashford as early as May, 1716, when he sold to Thomas Orcutt " the land where the house he now occupies is situated."

  
     

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