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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
p. 13.
BACON
John, s. of Daniel and Mary, [born] Sept. 8, 1647.
[Note: the birth is recorded in the Newton VRs as 7 Aug 1647, but is marked as one of the additions by a 1850 committee, i.e., not an authentic record. Interestingly, the Bacon Genealogy (cited below) uses the 8 Sep date, but says "recorded in Newton".]
- Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
Vol. 17, p. 16.
[Note: the documents in the file on americanancestors.org have so little contrast that they cannot be easily read, and even with image processing available on familysearch.org the document that is not a will is virtually impossible to read. So the following relies on the recorded versions.]
Will of "John Bacon of Watertown ... Planter being weak in body", dated 26 Mar 1713 [but see original on familysearch.org, one of the readable parts, it clearly says 1712], presented 20 Sep 1723, proved 27 Sep 1723, names only son John Bacon "forty shillings per year during his natural life; and a liveing in my house his lifetime to be paid by my Executor"; daughter Abigail Reed; granddaughters Mary Reed and Abigail Reed; daughter Mary Bacon "rest and residue of all my Estate". Wife Abigail Bacon & daughter Mary Bacon to be executors.
27 Sep 1723: "The foregoing will was lodged in this office the 20th Curr't: by Robert Gage (who married the abovenamed Mary)", present Robert and his wife Mary, Thomas Learned and Joseph Coollidg (two of witnesses third being deceased), and Justice Bond "who has a Bond in keeping for performance of a Covenant between the Testator and his afores'd Daughter Mary". Executorship granted to Mary with consent of her husband, he to give bond to pay debts and perform the will.
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. (Thomas Williams). Bacon genealogy : Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and his descendants. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
p. 116.
John Bacon [#162], s/o Daniel Bacon [#160] and Mary Read, b. 8 Sep 1647, "found dead on Boston marsh Aug. 31, 1723" [sic, see discussion below], m. Abigail ---.
- Middlesex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900: indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950). (Cambridge [Massachusetts]: [s.n.], 1965-1966).
Vol. 10, p. 577 4 Feb 1678: Daniel Bacon of Cambridge yeoman in observance of the last will of Thomas Read late of Colchester County Essex in old England to my children by my wife March Bacon daughter of s'd Thomas Read, give to my son John Bacon a parcel of land in Watertowne about 5 1/2 acres. Also signed by Mary Bacon.
Vol. 17, p. 342 [note: obscured by tape?] 26 Mar 1712: John Bacon of Watertown [& Abigal Bacon my Well Beloved wife] for valuable sum coneys to daughter Mary Bacon of Watertown Weaver one messuage in Watertown containing Mansion house Barn orchard & seven acres; also 2 acres swampland; also 5 acres of upland in Newton; also 2 acres woodland.
- ↑ The Watertown Records, Vol. 2, p. 72, report the death of John Bacon 31 Aug 1723 found dead on the Boston Marsh. The probate of the will in September suggests this is John Sr. His will was dated 1712 and his wife died 1715. The collection Source:Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Deaths in Boston 1700 to 1799 has two entries that give this death, both saying age 34, which would imply it was John Jr. One cites Bond, but on p. 10 where he covers Bacon, he does not say age 34. He does report the death immediately after reporting the birth of the son, so that may be a reasonable inference, however, the rest of the paragraph is simply a listing of facts about unidentified Bacons, so it is not clear it was Bond's intention to suggest the death belonged to the son (certainly better editing would have made his intent clearer). The second Boston record cites the Holbrook Fiche and for all that can be determined, this may very well be a copy of the first.
One situation is that the father died earlier, the will was never presented for probate because the will gives the son a right to live in the house with his "liveing" paid by his executor. It was the death of the son that made probating the will necessary in order to sell assets, Mary being the residual legatee. This seems reasonable because according to the will, the father was "weak in body" in 1712.
Source:Baldwin, Thomas W. Bacon Genealogy : Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and His Descendants, p. 116-117, gives the above death date to the father, but its coverage of the son merely says, "He had a living in his father's house during his natural life and probably never married."
No conclusive evidence to indicate whether this 1723 death was the father or the son has been found.
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