Person:Joseph Bird (40)

Watchers
m. 6 Feb 1665/66
  1. Joseph Bird1666 - 1711/12
  2. Thankful Bird1667/68 - 1729
  3. Sarah Bird1669 - 1731
  4. Anne Bird1671 - 1747/48
  5. Thomas Bird1673 - 1690
  6. Mary Bird1674/75 -
  7. Submit Bird1678 - 1760
  8. Mercy Bird1679/80 - 1733/34
  9. Patience Bird1681 - 1681
  10. Patience Bird1683 - 1757
  11. Benjamin Bird1686 - 1757
  • HJoseph Bird1666 - 1711/12
  • W.  Miriam (add)
m. Bef 1690
  1. Aaron Bird1690 -
  2. Hannah Bird1692 -
m. Bef 1698
  1. Joseph Bird1698 - 1727
  2. Comfort Bird1701/02 -
  3. Patience Bird1705 -
  4. Thankful Bird1710 -
Facts and Events
Name[3] Joseph Bird
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1 Oct 1666 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[5] 24 Jun 1683 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1690 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Miriam (add)
Marriage Bef 1698 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Joanna Leeds
Death[2] 9 Mar 1711/12 near Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    p. 10.

    Joseph the Son of Thomas Bird Jun'r was Born the 1st day of ye (8th mo.) 1666.
    [Note: In old-styles dates, the eighth month is October. More info may be found here.]

  2. Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    p. 127.

    Joseph Bird Dyed March the 9th 1711/12.

  3. Trask, William Blake, and Matthew Bird. The Bird Family: a Genealogy of Thomas Bird of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants. (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1871)
    p. 12.

    Joseph Bird [#5], s/o Thomas, b. 1 Oct 1666, d. 9 Mar 1711-12, m. (1) Miriam, (2) Johannah, d/o Joseph Leeds.
    [Note: Quotes passage from Blake's Annals, which is cited below.]

  4.   Blake, James. Annals of the town of Dorchester. (Boston, Massachusetts: David Clapp, 1846)
    p. 39.

    [Under 1712]
    "This year Mar. 9th Joseph Bird died by a wound in his fore-head occasioned by his Gun flying out of ye Stock when he fired it at Fowl, being upon ye water in his Cannoo."

  5. First Church (Dorchester, Massachusetts). Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734. (Boston, Massachusetts: G. H. Ellis, 1891)
    p. 194.

    The 24 4 [16]83 weer baptized
    Joseph
    Thankfull
    Sarah
    Thomas
    Ann
    Mary
    Submit &
    Mercy } all thes ye Children of Thomas Bird their mother being latly admitted into full Com[m]union.