William TROWBRIDGE

                   Plot 554

Trowbridge Family Pg. 220 - #2187 - Deacon William Trowbridge, son of Deacon James and Margaret (Jackson) Trowbridge, born 19 November 1684, married - 1st Sarah Ward, daughter of John Ward, Junior, December 14, 1708 and took the end of his father-in-law's house.  She died 1 June 1720, and he married, 2nd, Sarah Fullum, daughter of Francis Fullum, Esq, of Weston, 30 May 1721.  Said Sarah was born 2 March 1694.  He was Selectman, Lieutenant, and Deacon of the church, in Newton, and died 19 November 1744, aged 60.  His second wife, Sarah, died 10 September 1787, aged 93.  His will, dated, 1744 gives £5 to the church, "to be loaned out so as not to depreciate." The interest thereof to be given to such poor widows as the deacons judge proper.  To his son James, £200, Huldah and Mary, each, £100; Margaret, £200; Beulah, £200; Thaddeus, £50; children of daughter Mary Coolidge, £325; wife Sarah, £50, and the residue of his estate to Lieutenant Joseph Fuller, Lieut. william Hyde, Deacon John Stone and Thomas Greenwood, in trust, for his wife Sarah during her life.  At her decease, two-thirds of his real estate, and one-fourth part of his grist mill, to his son Thaddeus, and he to pay his son James one quarter of its value.

Find a Grave - Deacon William Trowbridge - born 1684 - died 19 Nov 1744 - age 60 - burial: East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA - Plot 554