John Wattles

- 1676

• Name	John Wattles  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Mar 1676	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I3373	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Mary Gould,   b. 23 Dec 1651, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Married	25 Dec 1666	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Wattles,   b. 1 Aug 1668, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F3541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Waddell. According to The Wattles Collection (citation details below), he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Dunbarin 1650, and arrived in New England in 1652 as a prisoner on the John & Sara. He was then sold to Samuel Richardson of Woburn. On the other hand, according to Mark Sumner Still (citation details below), he was "probably the son of Richard Wattles, or Wattels, and his wife Mary who were residents of Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1648." Hew was killed in King Philip's War.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4973] The Genealogy of the Gould Family by Mark Sumner Still. Whitter, California, 1971. [S4974] Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass. 1640-1850, Including the Modern Towns of Randolph & Holbrook and the City of Quincy, After the Separation from Braintree in 1792-3 by Waldo Hamilton Sprague, compiled from 1934 to 1960. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. [S676] The Wattles Collection by Lucille Wattles. Copper City, Florida: 1997.