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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Rice, Franklin P. Vital records of the town of Auburn (formerly Ward), Massachusetts to the year 1850: with the inscriptions from the old burial grounds. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1900)
p. 45.
PUTNAM, John, s. John and Huldah, [born] Feb. 1, 1789.
- ↑ Benedict, William Addison, and Hiram A Tracy. History of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, from 1704 to 1876: including Grafton until 1735; Millbury until 1813; and parts of Northbridge, Upton, and Auburn. (Worcester, Mass: Sanford & Company, 1878)
p. 217.
"John Putnam, son of Fuller [i.e., father of this John], had three wives and many children ... Among the first wife's children were John, jr. (who married Nancy Cummings, and had five children ..."
- ↑ Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sutton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1907)
p. 452.
PUTNAM, Jr., [died] Dec. 13, 1824.
- ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Worcester County). Probate files, 1731–1881. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2012)
Case 48381 Putnam John Jr Sutton 1824.
1 Dec 1824: Request of Nancy Putnam widow of John Putnam Jun'r late of Sutton Deceas'd and John Putnam father declining administration and requesting appointment of Silvanus Putnam brother to deceased.
7 Dec 1824: Bond of Silvanus Putnam as Administrator of John Putnam Jun'r late of Sutton deceased.
28 Dec 1824: Inventory of John Putnam Jr Late of Sutton Gent deceased: real: $539.75, personal $227.34 plus several notes of hand, by Asa Putnam, Israel Putnam, Daniel Tourtellot.
28 May 1825: Real estate of John Putnam Jr late of Sutton and set off to Nancy Putnam widow for her dower.
5 Jul 1825: Estate insolvent (major creditor was his father).
- The Find A Grave memorial with this death date, of course having no gravestone image, erroneously pairs the death date of this man with information belonging to his great-uncle. They were both called John Jr. at the times of their death, but they died over 50 years apart! This is shown by consulting probate files (the great uncle who died in 1770 had married Mary Cummings, probate file 48380, while the younger man who died in 1824 had married Nancy Cummings, probate file 48381), or even, The Putnam Genealogy (the great uncle is John #393, Vol. 1, p. 248, the man who died is John #2266, mentioned, but not covered, on p. 385).
Another Find A Grave memorial has an image of the apparently correct gravestone, but the stone is virtually unreadable, and specifically, nothing can be made of the date. The memorial page gives the wrong year of death, 1825, when his probate clearly shows he died in 1824.
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