Marriage 1 : Elizabeth WHITE
Marriage 1 : Robert Fulton COOKE , b. 1788, d. 1845
Marriage 1 : Mary Elizabeth BREWER m. 27 April 1780 Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, b. 16 January 1761, d. 1808
Notes:
As a young boy Joshua Wyeth, Sr. dressed as an Indian and had a part in the Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 18, 1773. At the time of the destruction of the British tea in the Boston Harbor he was a journeyman blacksmith in Boston, living with a Tory master, the fact that he was a young man who was not known in town and not easily recognizable, it was proposed that he and other men, similarly unknown, would smear their faces with soot or lamp-black. No one even recognized who they were and it was said that they resembled "devils from the bottomless pit." He was a volunteer at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He enlisted as a Private in the 1st Massachusetts Regiment under Captain E. Newell. He served as a Blacksmith under Captain Faxons. He was at the Battle at Flatbush Long island, Harleaw Heights and White Plaines, 1776. Military Pension records of him are found for the Revolution he fought in.
Joshua served faithfully for seven years in the war and lived near Boston in 1773, was found in the 1790 Census at Worcester County, Harvard Township, Boston, Massachusetts and while living there he was burnt out in the great fire of 1791, and soon afterwards moved to the Lake Region of Central New York to find a home and retrieve his fortunes. Here the family were sorely afflicted by the ills incident to that region, and Mr. Wythe left to move to Towanda, Pennsylvania in pursuit of a more favorable locality for a home. He purchased of John Heath on Towanda Creek and moved here with his family in 1794. In the 1800 Census of Pennsylvania he is at Luzerne County, (now Bradford County) Wysock Township, Pennsylvania. From 1810--1830 I could not find him in the Census. His wife, Elizabeth Brewer Wyeth died in 1805 and Joshua returned to Boston and married a second wife and emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio where he stayed from about 1805-1818. He was a Market man there and his son Prentice died on August 29, 1810 there. From 1818-1819 he is found in Champaign County, Urbana, Ohio & in 1820 at Clark County, Ohio, where he made appearances concerning his pension, and apparently he returned to Cincinnati where he may have died in 1832 or in Franklin County, Brookville, Indiana and is believed to be buried in Franklin County, Columbus, Ohio in a Revolutionary War Soldier's Cemetery.
Marriage 1 : Joshua WYETH m. 27 April 1780 Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, b. 06 October 1758, d. 22 February 1832
Marriage 1 : Mary WINSHIP m. 05 November 1751 Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, b. 18 April 1731, d. 09 September 1798
Notes:
# Military Service: BET. 1776 - 1778 MInuteman in the Battle of Lexington & Concord and Bunker Hill in the Revolutionary War
# Note: Ebenezer Wyeth II and his brothers, Jonas and Noah, all sons of Ebenezer and Susannah Wyeth, and Joseph, a cousin & Joshua a son, all assisted in establishing American Independence during the Revolutionary War. They were part of the seventy-five men of Captain Samuel Thatcher's company who attacked the British at or near Concord Bridge on their retreat from Lexington. It was the fight that Emerson wrote the immortal lines: "Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world." Some give his death date as August 5. He was a Minuteman and his name is on the honor roll at Valley Forge. He was in the war until 1781 at Dorchester Heights where he was stationed and at Breeds Hill. In 1781-1790 he was a Selectman (one of the Governors) in Cambridge. He was a Farmer found in the 1790 Census at Cambridge.
Marriage 1 : Ebenezer WYETH, II m. 05 November 1751 Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, b. 08 April 1727, d. 04 August 1799
Marriage 1 : Susannah HANCOCK , b. 06 July 1707, d. 13 December 1708
Marriage 1 : Ebenezer WYETH, I , b. 01 July 1698, d. 03 April 1754
Marriage 1 : Deborah Jackson WARD m. 02 January 1682 First Church of Christ, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, b. 19 July 1662, d. 13 December 1708
Marriage 1 : John WYTHE m. 02 January 1682 First Church of Christ, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, b. 15 July 1655, d. 13 December 1706
Marriage 1 : Rebecca Demaris (Craddock) ANDREWS m. 1647 Newton (Now Cambridge), Middlesex County, Massachusetts, b. 01 November 1623
Notes:
Since Nicholas's children are buried at Saxtead, England as late as 1638 it is not believed that he came to America in 1630 with the Winthrop Colonies or in 1634 from Nellis, England. I believe that he came to America in about late 1643 and on January 7, 1644 he was added to the First Church of Christ of Cambridge by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Nicholas grew up at Saxtead, England and in 1616 he traveled to Wymondham in Norfolk County, England, to become an apprentice of a mason. He returned to live at Saxtead to work as a mason. In 1628, he and a friend, Nicholas Danforth, traveled to hear Mr. Banks preach 16 miles away. He met and married Margaret Clark in about 1631, the daughter of Thomas (1570-1627) and Rose (Kerridge) Clarke of Suffolk County, Westhorpe, England. Margaret's brother John Clarke emigrated to Boston in September of 1637 and was credited with helping found Rhode Island. Margaret was baptized at Westhorpe on October 12, 1608.
In about 1631 Nicholas & Margaret were blessed with a daughter Sarah, who was baptized on October 28, 1632 at Saxtead. She went to America with her father and married John Fiske at Watertown, Massachusetts. There second son John Wyth was baptized at Saxtead and was buried there on April 23, 1638. There next son also died young and was buried on May 21, 1637 at Saxtead. Therefore Nicholas and Margaret are in Saxtead until at least April 23, 1638. So sometime between 1638 and 1643 they left for America with his wife dying on the voyage. The sudden increase in the English cost of living may have caused them to make their decision to go to America as well as religious reasons. He came against the wishes of his family and settled in Newton, Massachusetts instead of Long Island where he had friends. He came as a Free Man and paid for the passage of himself, his wife and daughter. He was classified as a Yeoman in England and there was no doubt that he was a member of a family who had been large land owners at one time. He was listed under the heading of "Outdwellers toward Saxtead" on page 55, as dwelling on the same street as Nicholas Danforth. Robert Hawes in his "History of Framlingham, Suffolk County" says in the book that Nicholas Wythe held 89 acres wit four other men.
In the year of our Lord 1642 or 1643 the Wythe (Wyeth) family left England and landed in America and settled in Massachusetts where on January 7, 1644 Nicholas made his confession which could be found in the New England Historical Society papers. He became a Proprietor at Cambridge on May 20, 1645 and he bought a dwelling house and 1/2 acre of land from Robert Daniell. It was on the westerly side of Garden Street near Phillips Place, which remained in the Wyeth name for more than 2 centuries. Wyeth Street, near Harvard College, is named in his honor. In the same year he purchased from George Williams 2 more acres in Westfield and he received a grant of 6 acres. Nicholas was left to mourn the death of his sons, his wife and his friend Nicholas Danforth.
In 1648 Nicholas married Rebecca Damaris Andrews, the widow of Thomas Andrews and daughter of Matthew & Damaris (Winne) Craddock. She was baptized in London, England on November 1, 1623. She later married Thomas Fox in 1685 after the death of Nicholas. She died in may of 1698 at Salem, Massachusetts. But before her death she became a party to a cause celebre. By her first husband she had, Thomas, Daniel, and Rebecca, all three baptized at the First Church of Christ in Cambridge. Rebecca was born in Cambridge on April 18, 1646 and married John Frost in 1666, and second George Jacobs, Jr. of Salem, Massachusetts. In the witch scare which swept Salem at the end of the 17th Century, Rebecca Andrews Jacobs father-in-law George Jacobs, Sr. and one of his daughters were imprisoned on suspicion of witchcraft. Her husband fled the town to escape arrest. Rebecca was imprisoned on suspicion, and although she was mentally deranged, she was kept in prison without a trial for almost a year, leaving the care of her own children to the mercy of the neighbors. Rebecca Wythe (Wyeth) her mother and the wife of Nicholas wrote a plea to the court asking them for her daughter Rebecca Jacobs release. The court took no action on her plea, but when the trial came to court she was acquitted and released.
Between 1648 and 1657 they had seven children. The family was recorded in the new church roster in 1658. Nicholas died on July 19, 1680 and was buried in the Old Burying Ground on Garden Street where he first lived and it lies between Christ's Church and the First Church of Christ in Cambridge, which was the church Nicholas belonged to founded in 1632. He was buried in the Gamage Tomb with no tombstone to mark his grave, however there is a monument listing Nicholas, his son John, Ebenezer, Jonas & Jonas Wyeth right down the line. The lot where the marker is located was originally purchased by Jonas Wyeth II and inherited by his son Edwin A. Wyeth, who died in 1917. Nicholas was enterprising, prosperous, and a man of great integrity and Christian character. He was a brick mason and he taught his sons the trade.
Marriage 1 : Nicholas WYTHE m. 1647 Newton (Now Cambridge), Middlesex County, Massachusetts, b. 1595, d. 19 July 1680
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