Caleb Closson

1688 -

• Name	Caleb Closson  [1]
  Birth	16 Apr 1688	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I6931	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Josiah Closson,   b. 1655, of Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 13 Feb 1699, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Mary Williamson,   b. 7 Jul 1654, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. Between 1720 and 1726, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	10 Mar 1679	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F5823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna
  Children	+ 1. Bathsheba Closson,   b. 21 Jul 1713, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F3551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  In 1721 he was living in Rochester in Plymouth County.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2717] Massachusetts births and christenings, 1639-1915, on familysearch.org. [S479] Little Compton Families, from records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967. Fifth edition, Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997. [S989] Kimball G. Everingham's Genealogical Database. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S3732] The Josiah Closson Family of New England by William Gideon Closson. Flushing, New York, 1952. [S1515] Grace Williamson Edes, "Timothy Williamson of Marshfield, Mass., and His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 81:72, January 1927., says "9 Mar. 1678/9".