Abijah Bigelow

1756 - 1848  (92 years)

• Name	Abijah Bigelow
  Birth	16 Apr 1756	Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Oct 1848	Michigan City, Indiana   [1, 2]
  Burial	Greenwood Cemetery, Michigan City, Indiana
  Person ID	I15448	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	8 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	Jacob Bigelow,   b. 1 Sep 1717, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 6 Sep 1800, New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Susanna Mead,   b. 1 Aug 1719, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 28 Feb 1789, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1738  [3]
  Family ID	F9739	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Amelia Spring,   b. 28 Feb 1761, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 20 Aug 1846, Bigelow's Mills, Indiana (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1780  [1, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Amelia Bigelow,   b. 4 Oct 1794, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1880 (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F9738	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  "He was married, on 30 November 1780, to Mercy Amelia Spring, daughter of Converse and Mercy (Learned) Spring. She was born in Watertown 28 February 1761, and was niece of the well-known physician, Tory, and politician Marshall Spring. They lived a number of years at Waltham, then in 1796 moved to New Braintree until 1808, when he moved to Barre where his brother Samuel lived. In 1817 he moved to Leicester, MA, and after a few years to Brooklyn, CT. In 1836 he moved to Indiana, founding Bigelow's Mills, where his wife died 20 August 1846. In 1848 he moved to Michigan City, IN to live with a daughter. He died there 22 October 1848, at the ripe old age of 92 years, 6 mos, 6 days." [bigelowsociety.com] "[P]rivate in Abraham Pierce's Co., from Waltham, in Lexington alarm and also served at Bunker Hill." [Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1638] Bigelowsociety.com. [S1600] Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr. by Charles Allen Converse. Boston: Eben Putnam, 1905. [S1604] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston by Henry Bond. Second edition. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860. [S1600] Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr. by Charles Allen Converse. Boston: Eben Putnam, 1905., month and year only.