John Bigelow

Abt 1617 - 1703  (~ 86 years)

• Name	John Bigelow  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1617	England   [2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jul 1703	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I15454	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Mary Warren,   b. Bef 12 Sep 1624   d. 19 Oct 1691, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 67 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1642	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7]
  Children	1. Samuel Bigelow,   b. 28 Oct 1653, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1731 (Age 77 years)   2. Joshua Bigelow   d. 21 Feb 1745, Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts   3. Elizabeth Bigelow,   b. 15 Jun 1657   d. 18 Apr 1694 (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F9741	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He is not at all proved to be the son of Randall and Jane Baguley (Bauguley, Beagly, etc.) of Wrentham, Suffolk who was baptized there 16 Feb 1617. This claim, still held to by the Bigelow Society, appears to have been the work of the notorious 19th-century genealogical forger Horatio Gates Somerby. As the WikiTree page about this John Bigelow notes, all three of the "proofs" for this ancestry cited by the Bigelow Society, on their web site and in the 1986 Bigelow Family Genealogy, are entirely unsourced.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996. [S1638] Bigelowsociety.com. [S5480] Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen. Syracuse, New York: 1901., place only. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990., date only.