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.