Martha Bigelow
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Name Martha Bigelow [1] Born 1 Apr 1662 Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 
[2, 3, 4] Gender Female Buried 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) Married 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) Last Modified 4 Dec 2022 Family ID F281 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 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] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond, Bond, Henry, 29.
- [S78] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond, Bond, Henry.
- [S8] Find a Grave.
- [S89] Genealogy of the Wells family, Gertrude W. Wells-Cushing, (Milwaukee, S.E. Tate & Company Printers, [1903]).
- [S77] Genealogy of the Bigelow family in America. https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbigel01howe/page/n11/mode/2up, Gilman Bigelow Howe, (C. Hamilton, Worcester, Mass, 1890).
- [S78] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond, Bond, Henry, 29.