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Joseph Waters

Lancaster was first settled as "Nashaway" in 1643. It was officially incorporated as "Lancaster on the Nashua" in 1653. It originally included many current towns in central Massachusetts. It was the home to Mary Rowlandson. During King Philip's War the town suffered several massacres. It was abandoned in 1680 and resettled several years later.

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Children of Lawrence Waters
and Anna Linton
  • Lawrence Waters
  • Sarah Waters Skeath
  • Mary Waters Davis
  • Rebecca Waters
  • Daniel Waters
  • Stephen Waters
  • Rebecca Waters Whitcomb
  • Adam Waters
  • Joseph Waters
  • Jacob Waters
  • Rachel Waters
  • Samuel Waters
  • Joanna Waters
  • Ephraim Waters
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    Joseph Waters was born on April 29, 1647 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. His birth was the earliest recorded in Lancaster. His parents were Lawrence Waters and Ann Linton.

    He returned to Lancaster in 1679 in the resettlement and occupied part of his father's and grandfather's lands.

    He married Elizabeth and their children were Elizabeth Waters (August 11, 1679), Joseph Waters (April 2, 1681), and Martha Waters (January 17, 1683).

    Joseph moved to Groton where he died in 1720.
    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.
    Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts was settled and incorporated in 1655. During King Philip's War, Indians burned all but four of Groton's garrisons. Survivors fled, but returned two years later to rebuild the town. Groton was again threated by Indians during Queen Anne's War.
         
     

    History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, 1732-1893: 1732-1893, by Henry Stedman Nourse, published by W. Hapgood, 1894

    		  
     

    The birth of Joseph Waters is the earliest recorded in Lancaster, dating April 29, 1647. He had a wife Elizabeth, and a son Joseph, born April 2, 1682, who is the one named as belonging to the Still River garrison. He sold his Harvard lands to Isaac Hunt, a blacksmith from Cambridge, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Henry Willard. Waters removed to Groton, where he died in 1720.

    		  

     

         

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