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Capt Joshua Bangs

Birth
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
13 Jan 1710 (aged 63–64)
Burial
Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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He married Hannah Scudder on Dec 1,1669 at Eastham,MA. She married, second, about 1712 as the third of his four wives, Moses Hatch. She died May 13,1739 at Falmouth,MA.

Children: Some sources say he had one son, Joshua, who died young. No children are mentioned in his will of Feb 13-20,1706/7:

Being in a weak and low condition, his wife, Hannah, he give "all his estate both real and personal during her natural life, including his house where he now lives in Eastham." To Anthony, his negro (Sambo), his freedom and forty pounds. He give to John Knowles, after his wife's decease "that his dwelling-house in which sd. Knowles now lives and all other out housing belonging to it, and land thereto adjoining, and his meadow near Black-fish creek in Eastham, containing 4 acres." "To Joseph Atwood, after my wife's decease, I give the house wherin I now live and the other housing thereto belonging and a house lot of 30 acres, and 3 parcels of meadow at Boat meadow in Eastham, and 2 lots of meadow or sedge found and all my rights to lands in Eastham." The rest of his estate after his wife's decease, he give to his sister Lydia Higgins one-eighth, and to his sister Apphia Atwood, one-eighth, and to the children and heirs of his deceased sister Rebecca Sparrow one-eighth, and to Hannah Doane's (his deceased sister's) children one-eighth, and his deceased sister Mercy Myrick's children one-eighth, and to Lydia, wife of Nicholas Snow, and her heirs one eighth. John Knowles and Joseph Atwood, sole Executors. Proved Feb. 7,1709-10.

He married Hannah Scudder on Dec 1,1669 at Eastham,MA. She married, second, about 1712 as the third of his four wives, Moses Hatch. She died May 13,1739 at Falmouth,MA.

Children: Some sources say he had one son, Joshua, who died young. No children are mentioned in his will of Feb 13-20,1706/7:

Being in a weak and low condition, his wife, Hannah, he give "all his estate both real and personal during her natural life, including his house where he now lives in Eastham." To Anthony, his negro (Sambo), his freedom and forty pounds. He give to John Knowles, after his wife's decease "that his dwelling-house in which sd. Knowles now lives and all other out housing belonging to it, and land thereto adjoining, and his meadow near Black-fish creek in Eastham, containing 4 acres." "To Joseph Atwood, after my wife's decease, I give the house wherin I now live and the other housing thereto belonging and a house lot of 30 acres, and 3 parcels of meadow at Boat meadow in Eastham, and 2 lots of meadow or sedge found and all my rights to lands in Eastham." The rest of his estate after his wife's decease, he give to his sister Lydia Higgins one-eighth, and to his sister Apphia Atwood, one-eighth, and to the children and heirs of his deceased sister Rebecca Sparrow one-eighth, and to Hannah Doane's (his deceased sister's) children one-eighth, and his deceased sister Mercy Myrick's children one-eighth, and to Lydia, wife of Nicholas Snow, and her heirs one eighth. John Knowles and Joseph Atwood, sole Executors. Proved Feb. 7,1709-10.


Inscription

HERE LYES Ye BODY
OF LIEUT. JOSHUA BANGS
DEC'D JANUARY 13, 1709/10
IN HIS 64th YEAR



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