Rev. Michael Wigglesworth

1631 - 1705  (73 years)

• Name	Michael Wigglesworth
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	18 Oct 1631  [1]
  Baptism	21 Oct 1631	Wrawby, Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Jun 1705	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I15750	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Edward Wigglesworth,   b. Bef 6 Aug 1603   d. 1 Oct 1653, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age > 50 years)
  Mother	Esther Middlebrook   d. Aft 10 Sep 1655
  Marriage	29 Oct 1629	Wrawby, Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Family ID	F9615	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Reyner   d. 21 Dec 1659, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	18 May 1655	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F9614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Martha Mudge,   b. Abt 1662   d. 4 Sep 1690, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	Aft 8 May 1679  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Wigglesworth,   b. 20 Mar 1681, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 28 Jan 1771, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 89 years) > 2. Esther Wigglesworth,   b. 16 Apr 1685, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Aft 25 Mar 1759 (Age > 74 years)
  Family ID	F12696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Author of the eye-searingly dreadful Puritan epic poem (and early bestseller) The Day of Doom.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1726] Maxine Stansell, "The Middlebrook Sisters: Mother and Mother-in-Law of Michael Wigglesworth." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 156:309, 2002. [S2660] Memoir of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, Author of The Day of Doom by John Ward Dean. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell, 1871. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.