According to primary records there is no conclusive evidence for his date of birth, various records indicate his birthdate to be Oct, Nov or Dec 1807.
~GEORGE FORBES, s. Elisha, born Dec 1807 [Vital Records of Roxbury MA to 1849, transcribed, pg 133, published by The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass, 1925]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes [Roxbury Births, pg 87...last date recorded was 11 Oct 1807 with ditto marks on the next births.. Where George's date should be, it is illegible.]
~GEORGE FORBES, s. of Elisha, born Nov 1807 [Index to Roxbury Mass births]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes and Nancy Burrell, born 22 November 1807, married Susan Winslow Ball. [secondary source: Forbes and Forbush Genealogy, The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland about the year 1655 and Settled in Marlborough, Mass, in 1675, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, published 1892, pg 75]
George Forbes married Susan W. Ball on 22 January 1839 at Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts [Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, listing Marriages solemized by Daniel E. Emerson, Minister of the Gospel for Northborogh, Worcester Co. Mass]]
On 26 May 1869, George Forbes, aged 61 yrs, born in Roxbury of the son of Elisha Forbes (born Westoborough) and his wife Nancy (born Roxbury), married, a farmer, died of Lung Typhoid Fever at Boylston, Massachusetts. He was interred in Northboro. [Boylston Death Register, pg 3]
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George Forbes was a very individual man; one who would be called, I think, a self-taught man - as I believe he never went to school after he was 13; but he was a great reader, and I think might have been called a student, as he supplied the want of a school education so that when he came into the country, at the age of 30, some thought he had a college education. In character he was of sterling integrity, generous to a fault, so that as a young man he was always ready to help some poor struggling fellow, and often expected and received no return.
He gave away large sums of money in this way. His disposition was always helpful, so that neighbors and friends always came to him for counsel. He always, in the main, looked on the bright side of life.
He had a ready wit and a keen sense of humor, and was very bright in conversation. He never grew old, and all of his life was full of the warmest sympathy for the young, and they in turn always enjoyed his companionship.
As a thinker he was bold and fearless. He dared to be an abolitionist when it was very unpopular to be so, and was always, from principal, a total abstinence man. A lady, who knew him well, said to me after his death: “Your father was one of nature’s nobleman.”
~ Source: FORBES AND FORBUSH Genealogy – The Descendants of Daniel Forbush Who Came From Scotland About The Year 1655, and Settled in Marlborough, Mass., in 1675 – By Frederick Clifton Pierce of Chicago, Illinois – Published For the Author 1892 - Page 112
~ Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
~GEORGE FORBES, s. Elisha, born Dec 1807 [Vital Records of Roxbury MA to 1849, transcribed, pg 133, published by The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass, 1925]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes [Roxbury Births, pg 87...last date recorded was 11 Oct 1807 with ditto marks on the next births.. Where George's date should be, it is illegible.]
~GEORGE FORBES, s. of Elisha, born Nov 1807 [Index to Roxbury Mass births]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes and Nancy Burrell, born 22 November 1807, married Susan Winslow Ball. [secondary source: Forbes and Forbush Genealogy, The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland about the year 1655 and Settled in Marlborough, Mass, in 1675, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, published 1892, pg 75]
George Forbes married Susan W. Ball on 22 January 1839 at Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts [Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, listing Marriages solemized by Daniel E. Emerson, Minister of the Gospel for Northborogh, Worcester Co. Mass]]
On 26 May 1869, George Forbes, aged 61 yrs, born in Roxbury of the son of Elisha Forbes (born Westoborough) and his wife Nancy (born Roxbury), married, a farmer, died of Lung Typhoid Fever at Boylston, Massachusetts. He was interred in Northboro. [Boylston Death Register, pg 3]
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George Forbes was a very individual man; one who would be called, I think, a self-taught man - as I believe he never went to school after he was 13; but he was a great reader, and I think might have been called a student, as he supplied the want of a school education so that when he came into the country, at the age of 30, some thought he had a college education. In character he was of sterling integrity, generous to a fault, so that as a young man he was always ready to help some poor struggling fellow, and often expected and received no return.
He gave away large sums of money in this way. His disposition was always helpful, so that neighbors and friends always came to him for counsel. He always, in the main, looked on the bright side of life.
He had a ready wit and a keen sense of humor, and was very bright in conversation. He never grew old, and all of his life was full of the warmest sympathy for the young, and they in turn always enjoyed his companionship.
As a thinker he was bold and fearless. He dared to be an abolitionist when it was very unpopular to be so, and was always, from principal, a total abstinence man. A lady, who knew him well, said to me after his death: “Your father was one of nature’s nobleman.”
~ Source: FORBES AND FORBUSH Genealogy – The Descendants of Daniel Forbush Who Came From Scotland About The Year 1655, and Settled in Marlborough, Mass., in 1675 – By Frederick Clifton Pierce of Chicago, Illinois – Published For the Author 1892 - Page 112
~ Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
According to primary records there is no conclusive evidence for his date of birth, various records indicate his birthdate to be Oct, Nov or Dec 1807.
~GEORGE FORBES, s. Elisha, born Dec 1807 [Vital Records of Roxbury MA to 1849, transcribed, pg 133, published by The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass, 1925]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes [Roxbury Births, pg 87...last date recorded was 11 Oct 1807 with ditto marks on the next births.. Where George's date should be, it is illegible.]
~GEORGE FORBES, s. of Elisha, born Nov 1807 [Index to Roxbury Mass births]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes and Nancy Burrell, born 22 November 1807, married Susan Winslow Ball. [secondary source: Forbes and Forbush Genealogy, The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland about the year 1655 and Settled in Marlborough, Mass, in 1675, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, published 1892, pg 75]
George Forbes married Susan W. Ball on 22 January 1839 at Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts [Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, listing Marriages solemized by Daniel E. Emerson, Minister of the Gospel for Northborogh, Worcester Co. Mass]]
On 26 May 1869, George Forbes, aged 61 yrs, born in Roxbury of the son of Elisha Forbes (born Westoborough) and his wife Nancy (born Roxbury), married, a farmer, died of Lung Typhoid Fever at Boylston, Massachusetts. He was interred in Northboro. [Boylston Death Register, pg 3]
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George Forbes was a very individual man; one who would be called, I think, a self-taught man - as I believe he never went to school after he was 13; but he was a great reader, and I think might have been called a student, as he supplied the want of a school education so that when he came into the country, at the age of 30, some thought he had a college education. In character he was of sterling integrity, generous to a fault, so that as a young man he was always ready to help some poor struggling fellow, and often expected and received no return.
He gave away large sums of money in this way. His disposition was always helpful, so that neighbors and friends always came to him for counsel. He always, in the main, looked on the bright side of life.
He had a ready wit and a keen sense of humor, and was very bright in conversation. He never grew old, and all of his life was full of the warmest sympathy for the young, and they in turn always enjoyed his companionship.
As a thinker he was bold and fearless. He dared to be an abolitionist when it was very unpopular to be so, and was always, from principal, a total abstinence man. A lady, who knew him well, said to me after his death: “Your father was one of nature’s nobleman.”
~ Source: FORBES AND FORBUSH Genealogy – The Descendants of Daniel Forbush Who Came From Scotland About The Year 1655, and Settled in Marlborough, Mass., in 1675 – By Frederick Clifton Pierce of Chicago, Illinois – Published For the Author 1892 - Page 112
~ Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
~GEORGE FORBES, s. Elisha, born Dec 1807 [Vital Records of Roxbury MA to 1849, transcribed, pg 133, published by The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass, 1925]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes [Roxbury Births, pg 87...last date recorded was 11 Oct 1807 with ditto marks on the next births.. Where George's date should be, it is illegible.]
~GEORGE FORBES, s. of Elisha, born Nov 1807 [Index to Roxbury Mass births]
~GEORGE FORBES, son of Elisha Forbes and Nancy Burrell, born 22 November 1807, married Susan Winslow Ball. [secondary source: Forbes and Forbush Genealogy, The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland about the year 1655 and Settled in Marlborough, Mass, in 1675, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, published 1892, pg 75]
George Forbes married Susan W. Ball on 22 January 1839 at Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts [Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, listing Marriages solemized by Daniel E. Emerson, Minister of the Gospel for Northborogh, Worcester Co. Mass]]
On 26 May 1869, George Forbes, aged 61 yrs, born in Roxbury of the son of Elisha Forbes (born Westoborough) and his wife Nancy (born Roxbury), married, a farmer, died of Lung Typhoid Fever at Boylston, Massachusetts. He was interred in Northboro. [Boylston Death Register, pg 3]
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George Forbes was a very individual man; one who would be called, I think, a self-taught man - as I believe he never went to school after he was 13; but he was a great reader, and I think might have been called a student, as he supplied the want of a school education so that when he came into the country, at the age of 30, some thought he had a college education. In character he was of sterling integrity, generous to a fault, so that as a young man he was always ready to help some poor struggling fellow, and often expected and received no return.
He gave away large sums of money in this way. His disposition was always helpful, so that neighbors and friends always came to him for counsel. He always, in the main, looked on the bright side of life.
He had a ready wit and a keen sense of humor, and was very bright in conversation. He never grew old, and all of his life was full of the warmest sympathy for the young, and they in turn always enjoyed his companionship.
As a thinker he was bold and fearless. He dared to be an abolitionist when it was very unpopular to be so, and was always, from principal, a total abstinence man. A lady, who knew him well, said to me after his death: “Your father was one of nature’s nobleman.”
~ Source: FORBES AND FORBUSH Genealogy – The Descendants of Daniel Forbush Who Came From Scotland About The Year 1655, and Settled in Marlborough, Mass., in 1675 – By Frederick Clifton Pierce of Chicago, Illinois – Published For the Author 1892 - Page 112
~ Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
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