Recompense Wadsworth

1688 - 1729  (40 years)

• Name	Recompense Wadsworth
  Birth	30 Jul 1688	Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Mar 1729	Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 6]
  Burial	Milton Cemetery, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [5]
  Person ID	I42399	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Deacon Ebenezer Wadsworth,   b. Mar 1660, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 1 Aug 1717, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 57 years)
  Mother	Mary,   b. 1660   d. 8 Mar 1737, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	1683	Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [6]
  Family ID	F24804	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Morey,   b. 11 Apr 1682, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 18 Apr 1728, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	20 May 1714	Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [6, 7, 8]
  Notes	Marriage officiated by the Rev. Peter Thacher.
  Children	+ 1. David Wadsworth,   b. 24 Mar 1720, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 6 Dec 1749, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 29 years)
  Family ID	F24803	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  His Find a Grave page shows no image of the actual grave, but transcribes the gravestone inscription as "Here lies ye Body of Recompence Wadsworth aged 39 years 7 mo's & 16 D's Dec'd March ye 15 1727-8".

  
  

• Sources

  [S8195] The American Roots of Ezra Pound by J. J. Wilhelm. New York: Garland, 1985., year and place only. [S8196] Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth Family in America by Horace Andrew Wadsworth. Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1883., year and place only. [S2717] Massachusetts births and christenings, 1639-1915, on familysearch.org. [S8197] Edward Doubleday Harris, “Rev. Peter Thacher’s Record of Marriages at Milton, Mass.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 38:26, 1884., place only. [S8198] Find a Grave page for Recompense Wadsworth. [S662] The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson, 1899-1986: Memoirs, and Bollenbach Genealogy by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2003. [S5174] Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, on ancestry.com. [S8197] Edward Doubleday Harris, “Rev. Peter Thacher’s Record of Marriages at Milton, Mass.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 38:26, 1884.