Joseph BEMIS, Jr.

1651 - 1684  (32 years)

• Name	Joseph BEMIS
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	12 Dec 1651	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	20 Dec 1651	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Burial	1684	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Death	7 Aug 1684	Westminster, Massachusetts   [1]
  Notes	"This son of the immigrant, the first to arrive at mahood, m. Anna ------- and removed to Westminster, Mass; then called Narragansett No. 2. In 1740, his son, probably Philip, 'Disposed of all right and title to the property of my honored father and mother, Joseph and Anna Bemis, to my brother Joseph and siter Mary of Cambridge.' (p. 542. Hist. of Westminster Mass. by William Haywood.) As we know that Joseph's wife was Anna, and that he went to Westminster to live, it proves that he was the son of Joseph Bemis the immigrant. The records of the towns of Westminster and Watertown do not furnish any data of an intervening generation, and the author therfor [sic] assumes there was none. Joseph Bemis, or Bemish so spelt, was a soldier in King Phillips War as evidenced from the following entries in Bodge 'Soldiers in King Phillips War' p. 176. Joseph Bemish credied under Capt. James Oliver, for services Mar. 24, 1675-6. £2. 14s. p. 376. The same soldier received £2. s10. p. 147. Under a list of the Grantees of Narragansett No. 2 now Wetminster, Mass, appears Joseph Beames, deceased, claimed by his son Joseph Beames. Grant made about Oct. 17, 1733. In 1700, the son of the Narragansett settler, Joseph 3rd was aided by a contribution 'having had his substance consumed by fire'." [2]
  Person ID	I7322	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011

  
  

  Family ID

  F5334

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• Sources

  [S340] Watertown Records Vol. 1, (Watertown, Massachusetts: The Historical Society, 1894), Birth, Marriages and Deaths, p. 55, REF F74 /W33/W3. (Reliability: 3). [S344] Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan, C.E.M.E., Bemis History and Genealogy, (San Francisco, California: Self Published, 1900), p. 5 (Reliability: 3).