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• Hij is geboren op 3 maart 1605 in Aston Parish, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.Bron 2
• Hij werd gedoopt op 30 maart 1606 in Aston Parish, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.Bron 3
• Geëmigreerd rond 1637.Bron 3
• Geïmmigreerd in het jaar 1634.
• Beroep: Farmer.Bron 3
• Woonachtig:
• voor augustus 1637: .
• in het jaar 1639: .Bron 3
• (Alt. Death) : Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 3
• (Alt. Birth) voor 30 maart 1606: Aston Parish, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.Bron 3
• (Alt. Birth) op 30 maart 1606: Aston Parish, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.Bron 4
• (Alt. Christening) op 30 maart 1606: Aston Parish, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.Bron 4
• (Fact) voor 13 mei 1640.
• (Alt. Death) op 25 november 1674: Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 2
• (Alt. Death) op 25 november 1674: Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 4
• (Alt. Burial) op 27 november 1674: Hancock Cemetery, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 2
• (Alt. Burial) op 27 november 1674: Hancock Cemetery, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 4
• Hij is overleden op 25 november 1674 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 27 november 1674.Bron 3
• Een kind van Thomas Belcher en Deborah Hunt
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Gregory Belcher

Hij is getrouwd met Catherine Allcock.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 december 1627 te Manchester, Lancashire, England, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.Bronnen 3, 5

Kind(eren):

1. Jonah Belcher  
2. Josiah Belcher  1631-1683 
3. Elizabeth Belcher  1632-1682 
4. John Belcher  1633-1693
5. Moses B. Belcher  1635-1691
6. Samuel Belcher  1637-1679 
7. Mary Belcher  1639-1678
8. Gregory Belcher  1641-1727
9. Joseph Belcher  1641-1678 

Notities over Gregory Belcher

(Research):[Sharon Bearce.ged]

FATH: may be Thomas Belcher MOTH: May be Deborah Hunt

The Belcher Families in New England by Joseph Gardner Bartlett, Esq, NEHGR, 1906, Vol 60 pg 125-126:

The name Belcher is of great antiquity in England, being found as early as 1176, when Ralph Belcher was witness to a deed.  (Historical Collections of Staffordshire, Vol. 1, page 291.)  The name is uncommon, however, and is found mostly in the county of Warwick and the surrounding counties of Stafford, Worcestor, Oxford, Wilts, and Northampton.  One line of the family was seated at Guilsborough in Northmanptonshire for several generations, and was fineally descended from Hugh Belcher of Needwood, Co. Stafford, who was living in the reign of Edward IV., about 1470.  This branch of the family held landed estates, and bore for arms "Paly of six or and gules, a chief vair"; and their pedigree was entered in the Visitation of Northamptonshire in 1619, and also in the Visitation of Warwickshire of the same year.  The will of Gregory Belcher, yeoman, of Berkeswell, Co. Warwick, dated Mar. 20, 1620, mentions wife Joane; son Thomas Belcher; sons-in-law John Bonney and William Cook; daughters Elizabeth Cook, Isabel Bonney and Alice Pembertno (Putnam's Historical Magazine, vol. 4, page 183.)  It seems likely that Thomas Belcher, son of Gregory ofthis will, was the Thomas Belcher who lived in the hamlet of Wardend, Parish of Acton, Co. Warwick, where he had three children recorded: John, bapt. Aug.24, 1604; Gregory, bapt. Mar. 30, 1606 and Margery, bapt. July 9, 1615.  Acton is about nine miles north-west of Berkeswell.  As Gregory Belcher, one of the emigrants to New England, in a depostion made in June 1655, stated he was then about sixty years of age, it seems proble that he was born in Acton in 1606, who would be in his sixtieth year at the time of the deposition, and of whom no further mention appears in Acton registers, although his brother and sister wre married there.  How these Belchers of Berkeswell and Acton were related ot the amorial Belchers of Guilsborough has not been ascertained; but doubtless they were of the same original stock.

GREGORY BELCHER, born about 1606, came to New england about 1637 and settled in Braintree, where he died Nov. 25, 1674.  He had seven children and many descendants live in the United States.  He was perhaps the Gregory Belcher, son of Thomas, who was baptized in Acton, co. Warwick, England, Mar. 30, 1606, as suggested above. Page 128-129:

GREGORY BELCHER OF BRAINTREE.

1.  GREGORY BELCHER, b. about 1606, was in New England as early as 1637, and on Dec. 30, 1639. was granted a lot of 52 acres at Mount Wollaston (Braintree), for fifteen heads, paying three shillings per acre for the same. (Boston Town Records.)  Here he settled, was admitted freeman on May 13, 1640, and was made selectman in 1646.  He deposed in June, 1665, aged about 60 years.  (Essex Co. Court Files.) By occupation he was a farmer.  On July 11, 1661, he purchased of John Smith 9 acres of land in Milton, which he gave to his son Joseph Belcher for a marriage portion.  (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 1, page 204a.)  On Jan. 6, 1657-8, he obtained a lease of the Salter farm in Braintree, from the estate of William Tyng of Boston; and on Jan. 15, 1666-7, Gregory Belcher and others bought the Salter farm for 1900 pounds, Belcher's interest being one-eighth.  (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 5, page 229.)...

He died Nov. 25, 1671.  The inventory of his estate showing a total of 629:5:0, was presented by his widow, Jan. 29, 1674-5  His wife Catherine survived him, and died in the spring of 1680.  Her will, dated Sept. 3, 1679, proved July 20, 1680...

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Immigration: Abt 1634 New England Occupation: Was a "Selectman" 1646 Braintree, Massachusetts

Came to America on John Winthrop's fleet of ships to the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Came to Boston 1634, was a Freeman by 13 May1640: "listed on the freeman list" ("Colonial America 1607-1789 MA Census index") selectman in 1646. and received a land at Brainard, Massachusettson December 30, 1639, paid eight shillings per acre for 52 acres.

Gregory must have been a man of prominence as he was one ofthe founders of the first church of Braintree.  Resident of Mt. Wollastan, Braintree (Now Quincy) Farmer "on July 14 1664 he purchased of John Smith, 9 acres of land in Milton, which he gave to his son Joseph Belcher for a marriage portion.  (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol 4 page 204)

When Gregory Belcher died on November 25, 1674 at the age of 69 years his inventory showed: a total of 629 pounds 5 shillings and 0 pence. and soon settled at Braintree (now Quincy) and on Dec. 30 1639 was granted a lot of 52 acres at Mt. Wollaston for 13 heads, his family. The exact bounds have not been determined, but the lot was along Franklin St just north of Pernis Hill.  He was in Braintree before Aug. 1637 when his son Samuel was born.

Occupation: was a selectman 1646 Braintree (Quincy),Massachusetts

On Jan. 6 1657/8 he leased from the heirs of William Tyng of Boston the Salter Farm in Braintree (now Wollaston), and on Jan. 15 1666/7 he was one of a group of five men who purchased the farm, his interest being 1/8part.  (S.D. 5:229).  On 26 Mar 1670, he and his son in law Alexander Marsh purchased 200 acres of the Iron Works land, where the furnace stood (in West Quincy) and on May 18 1671 they bought 40 acres adjacent to the above at Crane's Plain on the Milton line.  (S.D. 7:172).  He also leased on April 1 1658 from Boston the Blue Hill lands in Braintree.

Will: 29 JAN 1674/75 S.P. 5:234 Inventory of Gregory Belcher Nov. 25 1674, Katherine Belcher made oath to it.  Presented Jan. 29 1674/5. ?629/5/0. Taken by Richard Bracket & Edmund Quincy.  Half the dwelling house & half the barn ?50; 10 acres upland @ ?50; 4a. salt marsh at Salter Farm ?40 - ?90; 24 a. in Haugh Neck ?70; 106a. upland of the furnace ground ?200; To land in the woods swamp 50a. ?15.  To a servant Henry Baitlet ?.

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[STEPHANIE HOWELL.ged]

1. GREGORY1 BELCHER1,2 was born March 30, 1606 in Aston Par
ish, Juxta Birmingham, Warwick, England, and died November 25, 1674 in Hancock Cemetery, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts. He married CATHERINE ALLCOCK3,4. She died July 1680 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts4.
Notes for GREGORY BELCHER:
FROM: Dorchester Reporter, 2002

It Happened in Dorchester
Roads, "Rough Trade," and Revelry
Bits and Pieces of Dorchester's Past
January 31, 2002
By Peter F. Stevens

A roadways project that comes in on time and on budget? In the land of the Big Dig? That's exactly what happened when Nicholas Clap, of Dorchester, with Moses Paine and Gregory Belcher, both of Braintree, designed and built a road from latter-day Quincy to Dorchester and Roxbury in 1655.

After taking measurements and scouting their route, the trio went to work. They recorded their project in Dorchester's Town Records:

"First, that the way shall be four Rodd Wide from Brantre [sic] bounds to roxbury bounds: secondly beginning near Henry Crane's house, the Way to Lye on the Sowtheast [sic] side of it in the old Beaten roede waye [sic]: and so to a Low White oake [sic] marked on the same side of the waye and so by the marked trees to the brooke [sic]: so from the Brooke the way being Lade [sic] in the Winter we agreed to take about a rod wide into Anthony Golliford's lot where the fence interrupts the waye: and so to a marked post towards John Gill's howse [sic]: from thence to a stake in Elder Kingsley's yard and from thence to the mill in the old beaten roade waye..."

The route ended in Roxbury, and while today's contractors and crews might chuckle at the quaint 17th-century "road gang's" reliance upon marked trees and posts, taxpayers now footing the cost overruns might long for the bottom-line efficiency of 1655 Dorchester road-builder Nicholas Clap and his associates: they finished their project on time and met their budget. Who says that change is always for the better?

Of that Colonial thoroughfare, in the late 19th Century William Dana Orcutt notes: "As nearly as can be estimated, this must have been the road which now runs over Milton Hill, from Quincy, to the Lower Mills, and then over Washington Street, in Dorchester, to Roxbury." No mean engineering feat in 1655.

Worried about the sort of miscreants who might wander into Dorchester via that engineering feat, Dorchester's Town Meeting enacted a number of laws designed to keep "rough trade" moving along that road and quickly out of town, and, as Dorchester's Colonial records show, the laws were applied.

Orcutt writes: "Many of the old laws...seem utterly absurd and unreasonable to us of this later date. For instance, an attempt to enforce such a law as that passed in 1659, concerning 'strangers,' would be apt to call forth at least the accusation of inhospitality. This law began by defining what strangers should reside within the jurisdiction [Dorchester], and how they should be licensed, and then went on to state that if any of the townspeople should entertain any sojourner or inmate in his house more than one week without first obtaining a license from the selectmen, he would be liable to a fine." If visitors had not worn out their welcome, a scramble by their hosts to the Town Meeting selectmen was a necessity.

A pair of "strangers," John Brown and John Hoppin, received the proverbial heave-ho in 1677 for "having no settled place of abode." In the following year, visitor Robert Stiles learned that newcomers who did not yet own their own home or property and "tarried too long" in Dorchester were, in the opinion of the Town Meeting, suspect. He was ordered to report to local leaders to explain his lengthy stay and to provide them an account of the "manner in which he spent his time."

In 1677, Robert Spur broke the town's "guest laws" and was called in front of the meetinghouse congregation. His offence? "Giving entertainment in his house to loose and vain persons." A fine, as well, perhaps, of a lecture on the perils of vanity, made him think twice about throwing future get-togethers in his home.

At about the same time when Spur was charged with having too much fun, Samuel Rigby, neither a vagrant nor a visitor just passing through Dorchester, upset his neighbors by "cutting up" around town. Rigby's actions; "the sin of cursing, excessive drinking, and the neglect of attendance upon the public ordinances"; led to an uncomfortable session in which he "had to answer" in church to his pastor and neighbors. Apparently, he reformed his ways or else imbibed and cursed afterwards in private.

As in the case of Samuel Rigby, 17th-century Dorchester resident John Merrifield also had a taste for spirits. To make matters worse in his neighbors' collective eyes, Merrifield, while under the influence, ranted and railed against the "spirit" that most townspeople embraced: when he was hauled in front of the gathered community at the meetinghouse, he was charged with "drunkenness, and also for contempt and slighting the power of Christ in his Church." Merrifield, like his fellow miscreants, left the meetinghouse with his a stern reprimand, a warning against future misdeeds, and a lighter purse.

In 17th-century Dorchester, the wages of many sins literally had a pricetag, as many who rode or walked into town on Nicholas Clap's road soon learned. Had there been a road sign leading into the settlement, it could have read, "Welcome to Dorchester; But Behave or Be Gone."

(Peter F. Stevens's newest book, The Voyage of the Catalpa; A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedom, Carroll & Graf, will be published on March 1, 2002.)

FROM: Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition
Gregory Belcher (1606-1674) Gregory Belcher was a carpenter. He was born in County Warwick in 1606 and received a land grant in Braintree in 1639. His inventory listed a few tools, furniture?"3 chests, 2 boxes, 2 hanging cupboards, 3 tables 6 stools six chairs 6 cushions"?and a "servant" Henry, who was probably an apprentice. Belcher?s earlier servant was "Andrew Rounsimon, . . . a Scotish man dyed 8th 31 1657." Belcher?s widow Katherine died in 1680. Presumably, much of the furniture listed in her inventory was her husband?s: "the cupboard with the lock and some small things 5s," "6 cushions 10s another cupboard 4s," "a great press 20s, 2 chests 2 boxes 20s," and "a press and chairs 45s 6 tables 2 stooles." (Sources: Bates, ed., Records of Braintree, p. 636; SCRP, no. 720; SCRP Misc. Docket; Sprague, Genealogies of the Families of Braintree.)

FROM: Thayer and Burton Ancestry , 1894
GREGORY BELCHER came from England to this country in 1634, and first settled at Boston, Mass. He soon after removed to Braintree, where, about 1640, he assisted in founding the first church. He afterwards owned the land where the first iron foundry was located in America in 1640. His wife, who probably came from England with him, was Catherine ((???)). He died at Braintree, November 25, 1674. She died in 1680, or soon after.

FROM: Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Massachusetts Vol 2
Gregory was an early settler and an original member of the First Church of Quincy. The relationship existing between the members of the foregoing families is unknown to the Compiler. Gregory Belcher was the ancestor of the Farmington family, and must have been a man of some prominence in Boston, as he was one of the founders of the Old South Church.

FROM: Rich Houghton
Gregory Belcher, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1606. He is most likely the Gregory Belcher baptized on 30 March of that year in Aston Parish, Warwickshire, the son of Thomas-A Belcher of the hamlet of Wardend, Aston. This Thomas-A appears to have been the son of Gregory-B Belcher, yeoman, of Berkswell, Warwickshire; Berkswell is about nine miles southeast of Aston. Gregory-B and his wife Joane had at least one child:
i Thomas b. m. ------ ------
Gregory's will was dated 20 March 1620. Thomas-A lived in Aston, where the births of three children were recorded:
i John bpt. 24 August 1604 m. ------ ------
ii Gregory bpt. 30 March 1606 m. Catherine ------
iii Margery bpt. 9 July 1615 m. ------ ------
Although both Thomas and Margery married in Aston, there is no further record in the parish of Gregory, supporting the conclusion that he and the immigrant were the same.
He married CATHERINE ------ , probably in England; it is unknown who her parents were. They had the following children (not necessarily in order):
i Elizabeth b.c. 1629 m. Thomas Gilbert
ii Josiah b.c. 1631 m. Ranis Rainsford
iii John b.c. 1633 m. Sarah ------
iv Moses b.c. 1635 m. Mary Nash
v Samuel b. 24 August 1637 m. Mary Billings
vi Mary b. 8 July 1639 m. Alexander Marsh
vii Joseph b. 25 December 1641 m. Rebecca Gill
Although Savage states that they came to Boston in 1634, it is more probable that they came to New England in 1637. He settled in Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony, where his name first appears in the records on 19 February 1637/8. He was made a freeman there on 13 May 1640, and a Selectman in 1646 ? an office in which he served until June 1665.
He was one of the founders of the town's church. On 16 September 1639, he and seven others drafted and signed the covenant of the First Church of Braintree:
" We poor unworthy creatures, who have sometime lived without Christ and without God in the world, and so have deserved rather fellowship with the devil and his angels, than with God and his saints, being called of God out of this world to the fellowship of Christ by the Ministry of the Gospel, and our hearts made willing to join together in Church Fellowship, so by the help and strength of Christ, renounce the devil, the wicked world, a sinful flesh with all the remnants of Anti-Christian pollution, wherein sometimes we have walked, and all our former evil ways, and do give up ourselves, first to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and offer up our proferred subjection to our Lord Jesus Christ as the only Preist, Prophet and King of his Church, beseeching him in his rich grace and free mercy to accept us for his people in the blood of his Covenant, and we give up ourselves also one to another by the will of God, promising in the name and power of our Lord Jesus Christ, who worketh in us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure, to worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth and to walk in brotherly love and the duties thereof according to the will of the Gospel, to the edification of the body and of each member therein, and to be guided in all things according to God's revealed will, seeking to advance the Glory of Jesus Christ, our head, both in Church and Brotherly Communion, thro' the assistance of his Holy Spirit which he hath promised to his Church, and we do manifest our joint consent herein this day in presence of this assembly, by this our present public profesion and by giveing to one another the right hand of fellowship."
On 30 December 1639, he was granted a fifty-two acre lot in the Mount Wollaston area of Braintree for which he paid three shillings per acre. On 6 January 1657/8, he obtained a lease of the Salter farm in Braintree from the estate of William Tyng. On 14 July 1664, he bought nine acres of land in nearby Milton from John Smith, which he later gave to his son Joseph for a marriage portion. On 15 January 1666/7, Gregory and some others bought the Salter Farm for £1,900; he had a one-eighth interest. Finally, he bought forty more acres of land on the Braintree plain from Henry Crane on 18 May 1671.
On 26 March 1670, he and his son-in-law Alexander Marsh bought the town iron works and 200 acres of land. The iron works -- the first established in the United States -- had gone bankrupt in 1653, and its assets were tied up in litigation until acquired by Thomas Wiggin, who in turn conveyed it to Gregory and Alexander.
Gregory died in Braintree on 25 November 1674. His widow presented an inventory of his estate on 29 January 1674/5, signed a bond to administer her late husband's estate on 30 January 1674/5, and another along with her son Josiah on 6 March 1678/9. The inventory listed the following items:
"A Inventory of the Goods & Chattels of Gregory Belcher Deceased 25th November 1674
Imp. wearing apparell 7.05.00
money 3.07.00
1 feather Bed Bolster Bedsted & furniture 10.00.00
2 Bed such furniture 8.00.00
10 pr sheets & table linnen & new Cloath 11.00.00
a Carpit a Coverlid 3 pillows 2.15.00
2 Blankitts a pere [?] & 2 remnants of Cloath 3.02.00
pewter 4.00.00
3 Brass Kettles & warming pan, 3 Iron pots & botle skellit friing pan 3.12.00
2 tramels a paire Cob Irons tongs firepan pot hooks 2.10.00
3 Chest 2 Boxes 2 hanging Coubbord 1.00.00
3 tables 6 Hooks six [knives?] 2.00.00
Bible & other books 2.04.00
6 Cushins 2 spits 3 axes & Bolte rings 1.05.00
halfe the dwelling house & halfe the Barne 2.00.00
10 acres upland at 50 4 acres salt marsh at salter [?] 40 50.00.00
24 acres in Knight neck 90.00.00
106 acres of upland of the [?] ground 70.00.00
land in the woods swamp 50 acres 200.00.00
a servant Henry [Bai?ler] 5.00.00
2 oxen 7: 6 cowes at 15: 2 bulls 3: 2 heiff 2: calfe 28.00.00
old horse old maier 2 young maires & two calfes 6.00.00
30 sheep 7 swine & 6 pigs 8.12.00
2 fat swine 3.00.00
Barly Pese & oates 16.06.00
Cart wheals harrow cart pines & yoake 3.10.00
a plow share fork & shovel 0.15.00
log Chaines 7 load hay 5.00.00
meat Cart Rophooks & Sickles 2.10.00
Lumber 0.12.00
debts due to the estate 11.00.00
debts to be payd out of the estate 102.00.00"
The total value of the estate was £629.05.00.
Catherine died in Braintree in the Spring of 1680. Her will, dated 3 September 1679 and proved 20 July 1680, provided a cow for her son Josiah "if he molest not my son Moses in his present dwelling and possessions;" to son John a cow and a horse; to daughters Elizabeth Gilbert and Mary Marsh some household effects; and to her son Moses "who hath carried himsef so dutifully to myself and his father the Great Bible and the whole house and land he now possesses which I declare his father gave him." On 9 July 1680, Josiah entered a caveat against the probate of his mother's estate "until he be present." It does not appear, though, that any contest was made to the will.

Gregory Belcher, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1606, according to his own deposition. He was in New England as early as 1637, when he was a famer in Braintree, Massachusetts, and a proprietor of the town. On December 30, 1639, he was granted a lot of fifty-two acres on Mount Wollaston (Braintree) where he settled. He was admitted a freeman, May 13, 1640, and served as selectman in 1646. In 1664 he purchased land in Milton which he gave to his son John at his marriage. In 1657-58 he leased the Salter farm in Braintree from the estate of William Tyng, of Boston, and with others in 1666-67 he bought the place, his interest being one-eighth. With his son-in-law, Alexander Marsh, he bought the iron works with two hundred acres of land in Braintree. He died November 25, 1674. He married Katherine ___, who survived him and died in the spring of 1680. Her will, dated September 3, 1670, was proved July 20, 1680. Children: Elizabeth, married Thomas Gilbert; Josiah; John, born about 1633; Samuel, August 24, 1637; Mary, July 8, 1639, married December 19, 1655 Alexander Marsh; Joseph, December 25, 1641. [ref 61:1455]

Several places show Gregory as Thomas's son:
Others Henry Thomas's son:
In Joseph Bartletts " Belcher Families in New England" 1906:
The will of Gregory Belcher, yeoman of Berkeswell Co., Warwickshire, dated March 20 1620 mentions wife Joane, son Thomas H. Belcher: sons-in-law John Bonney and William cook: daus Elizabeth Cook, Isabel Bonney and Alice Pemberton(Putmans Historical Magazine vol 4 page 182)
It seems likely that Thomas H. Belcher , son of Gregory of this will, was the Thomas Belcher who lived int he hamlet of Wardend, Parish of Aston, County Warwickshire where he had three children recorded,at that time
John Belcher, bap 24 Aug 1604, gregory Bap March 30 1606, and Margery 9 July 1615:
Aston is about 9 miles from Berkeswell:
in the early Genealogy lines of England this Gregory Belcher family (1620)is listed in the line of Edmund Belcher:
II....GREGORY BELCHER B 1606 England CAME TO AMERICA ON THE WINTHROP FLEET
TO THE MASS BAY COLONY: FARMER: CAME TO BOSTON 1634: WAS A FREEMAN BY 13 MAY 1640:
LEASED THE LAND"BLUE HILLS" OF BOSTON: APRIL 1, 1658
ESTATE ADMINISTERED 30 JAN 1674 TO WIDOW KATHERINE
KATHERINES WILL DATED 3 SEPT 1680 BEQ TO SONS JOSIAH, John, AND MOSES B.
DAUGHTERS Elizabeth GILBERT AND MARY, WIFE OF ALEXANDER MARSH, AND GR DAU,
MARY MARSH.
HE ASSISTED IN FOUNDING OF THE Church OF BRAINTREE.
MARRIED: CATHERINE? HER WILL IS LISTED 1680 MENTIONING LAST 4 CHILDREN:
KATHERINE SOLD LAND IN BRAINTREE APRIL 6, 1667:
THE GENEALOGY DICTIONARY OF FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW England DOES NOT STATE HER SURNAME:
SEVERAL PLACES HAVE THIS GREGORY LISTED AS MARRIED TO: CATHERINE ALLCOCK
NOTE: THIS LINE OF GENEALOGY EXTENDS TO DOUGLAS MACARTHUR:
AND BY A DISTANT ROUTE TO John ALDEN:THORUGH THE BASS FAMILY
AND WINSTON CHURCHILL:
AND FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT THROUGH THE DELANO AND Church FAMILIES
More About GREGORY BELCHER:
Burial: November 27, 1674, Hancock Cemetery, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts
Christening: March 30, 1606, Aston Parish, Juxta Birmingham, Warwicks., England
Fact1: September 16, 1639, Gregory Belcher was one of the first settlers in old Braintree. He signed, along with seven others, the covenant of the first church in Braintree.
Fact2: April 06, 1667, Sold land in Braintree, Massachusetts
Fact3: Was granted 52 acres at Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts.
Fact4: Possibly buried in the old Crosby tomb, whcich has long since been vandalized leaving no inscriptions.5
Fact5: His house was located at the site of a business called, in 1975, the Bargain Center6
Fact6: With his son Lieut. Alexander Marsh, Gregory purchased the first Iron Foundry in America, located in Braintree, Massachusetts
Will Dated: March 20, 1619/20

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