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ELEAZER METCALF (b. 1685), son of Michael Metcalf and Elizabeth Fuller
JUDITH ROCKWOOD (ROCKET) (b. 1683), daughter of Benjamin Rockwood and Judith Ellis
Eleazer, the son of Michael and Elizabeth Metcalf, was born on 12 February 1684/5 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [1][2][3] He married Judith [Rockwood] George on 15 February 1709/10 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [3][4]
Eleazer is not the Eleazer Metcalf [husband of Hannah] who died on 7 June 1763 in Wrentham. [4]
Judith Rocket, the daughter of Benjamin and Judith Rocket, was born on 17 March 1681 in Wrentham. [3][4] She married first John George of Dorchester on 26 May 1703 in Wrentham. [3][4] John may be the John George who died on 21 September 1704 in Wrentham. [4]
On 7 April 1701, in the settlement of their father's estate, Michael Metcalf named his siblings Thomas, Mary Woodcock, Sarah, Eleazer, Hannah and David. [5]
On 17 December 1738 Judith Metcalf, widow, was admitted to the First Congregational Church in Franklin, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [6]
Children of John George and Judith Rockwood:
i. Judith George was born on 4 April 1704 in Wrentham. [4]
Children of Eleazer Metcalf and Judith Rockwood: Births recorded in Wrentham. [4]
i. Eleazer Metcalf was born on 21 November 1710. Eleazer, Jr. died on 10 August 1742, age 31, in Wrentham. [4] He married Margaret Ware of Dedham on 29 January 1734 in Dedham. [4] Margaret, the daughter of Michael (Robert) and Jane (Wight) Ware, was born on 21 October 1712. [7]
Eleazer was an original signer of the covenant of the First Congregational Church in Franklin in 1737/8. [6]
The inventory of the estate of Eleazer Metcalf, husbandman of Wrentham, was presented on 15 March 1742 and was valued at 572 pounds. Margaret Metcalf, widow, and Robert Blake and David Darling, husbandmen, all of Wrentham, posted bond on Eleazer's estate on 24 November 1742. [5]
"August.19.1739. Margaret Metcalf having stood propounded a Convenient time and not objected against was received into full communion with this Church, and was Baptized."[6]
"Decr. 30. 1744. Lords day. the Chh being Stayed after the publick Exercise an attested Copy of an Oath which Margaret Metcalf had taken, relating to her Being now wth Child, and and charging David Darling with having had the Carnal Knowledge of her Body ... "[6]
"Jan. 2. 1744/5. ... Whereas Margaret Metcalf, Widow, A sister in This Chh, hath Sworn, before Law of Authority, that She apprehended she was with Child, wc Child, when it Shall be born, will be a Bastard, Brethren, if it be therefore your minds, that ye Said Margret Metcalf be suspended from Communion with this Chh in Special Ordinances, until we Shall receive Christian Satisfaction from her, please to Signifie it by holding up the hand, and it passed in the Affirmative. Also voted, that Elder [Michael] Metcalf carry a Copy of this Vote to the Sd Margaret Metcalf." David Darling was treated in the same fashion. [6] Margaret and David Darling were excommunicated on 31 May 1749. [6]
ii. Abigail Metcalf was born on 18 January 1713. She married Captain Simon Slocum.
iii. Benjamin Metcalf was born on 3 May 1715. He married Mary Slocum on 7 August 1739 in Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [3]
iv. Jeremy Metcalf was born on 13 March 1718/9. Jeremy, the son of Eleazer and Judith, died on 19 September 1729 in Wrentham. [4]
References:
1. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Dedham, p. 19. Eleazer, ye son of Michaell & Elizabeth Metcalfe, was borne the ____. [With 1684 and 1684/5 births]
2. Luther Metcalf Harris, "Metcalf Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852) 174.
3. Howard Hurtig Metcalf, Some Descendants of Reverend Leonard Metcalf, 2nd. ed., vol. 2 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2012), 110, 245.
4. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Wrentham: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: Stanhope Press, 1910). Birth of Judith George (1:96), births of children of Eleazer and Judith (1:144, 147–9), birth of Judith (1:180), marriage of John George and Judith (2:303), marriages of Eleazer and Judith and Eleazer, Jr. (2:341), death of John George (2:450), deaths of Eleazer and Eleazer, Jr. (2:477), death of Jeremy (2:478).
5. "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers," database with images, AmericanAncestors (2017–2019), case 2130 (Michael Metcalf), case 7827 (Eleazer).
6. "Church Records, 1737–1781," images with transcription, Franklin, Massachusetts First Congressional Church, Congregational Library & Archives (https://www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series1/FranklinMAFirst4842).
7. Emma F. Ware, "Genealogy of Robert Ware of Dedham, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 41 (1887): 21–52, specifically 36.
Last revised: 09-Dec-2023