Martha Bigelow
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Name Martha Bigelow [1] Birth 1 Apr 1662 Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 
[2, 3, 4] Gender Female Burial Unknown Person ID I621 Gage and Shook Families Last Modified 5 Dec 2022
Father John Bigelow, b. 16 Feb 1617, Wrentham, Waveney District, Suffolk, England d. 14 Jul 1703, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 86 years) Mother Mary Warren, b. 1624, Wrentham, Waveney District, Suffolk, England d. 19 Oct 1691, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 67 years) Marriage 30 Aug 1642 Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts [2, 4, 5] - This is the earliest marriage found in town records. [2]
Family ID F257 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Obadiah Woods, b. 1648, East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut d. 11 Apr 1712, East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 64 years) Family ID F281 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Dec 2022
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Birth - 1 Apr 1662 - Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 
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Notes - Martha supposedly initially married Thomas Olmsted and then promptly divorced him. However, she married Obadiah Wood Jr of East Hartford CT on 12/10/1684 in Watertown MA but the marriage to Thomas was supposed to have occurred in 1686 so something's uncertain.
Birth date is from the Massachusetts, Town Clerk, 1626-2001 records. [3]
- Martha supposedly initially married Thomas Olmsted and then promptly divorced him. However, she married Obadiah Wood Jr of East Hartford CT on 12/10/1684 in Watertown MA but the marriage to Thomas was supposed to have occurred in 1686 so something's uncertain.
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Sources - [S78] Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond, 29.
- [S78] Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond.
- [S8] Find a Grave.
- [S89] Gertrude W. Wells-Cushing, Genealogy of the Wells family, (Milwaukee, S.E. Tate & Company Printers, [1903]).
- [S77] Gilman Bigelow Howe, Genealogy of the Bigelow family in America. https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbigel01howe/page/n11/mode/2up, (C. Hamilton, Worcester, Mass, 1890).
- [S78] Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond, 29.