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Cornet Henry Bright
b.16 Aug 1684
d.24 Oct 1756 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Cornet Henry Bright1684 - 1756
  2. John Bright1689 - 1754
  3. Hannah Bright1694 - 1786
Spouse and Children
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  1. Benjamin Bright1721 - 1766
  2. Silas Bright1724 - 1766
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Cornet Henry Bright
Gender Male
Birth[1] 16 Aug 1684
Marriage to Margaret Jackson
Death[1][2] 24 Oct 1756 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[2] Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesOld Burial Place of Watertown
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Henry Bright, in Bond, Henry, M.D., and Horatio Gates Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston (1860): To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860)
    p 110.

    2. Henry, b. Aug. 16, 1684; d. Oct. 24, 1756, aged 73.
    Cornet HENRY BRIGHT, m. MARGARET JACKSON, dr. of Abraham and Elizabeth (Biscoe) Jackson. [Biscoe, 9.] She d. Ap. 16, 1758, aged 73. In her Will, dated 1757, she mentions her son Silas, dr. Jemima Trowbridge, dr. Kezia Sanderson, dr. Mellicent, gr.-son Henry Bright, only son of her son Henry, son Benjamin, and appoints John Kimball, executor.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Henry Bright, in Harris, William Thaddeus, and Edward Doubleday Harris. Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Watertown. (Boston, Mass.: Unknown (Apparently Privately Published), 1869)
    p 8.

    "Here lyes Buried ye Body of Cornet Henry Bright; Who Departed this lie Octor ye 24th 1756, in ye 73d Year of His Age."

    Henry Bright, Cornet, b. Aug. 16, 1684, eldest son of Nathaniel and Mary, and grandson of Deacon Henry, the settler, mar. Margaret, dau. of Abraham Jackson, b. 1685. She bore him eight children, i. Jemima mar. Jonathan Trowbridge; 2. Elizabeth, probably died young; 3. Henry, d. young; 4. Kesia, mar. Isaac Sanderson; 5. Henry, by wife Sarah had only child Henry, H.C. 1670; 6. Benjamin, d. unmar; 7. Silas, died unmar. ; S. Mellicent, d. unmar.

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