Joshua Atwood

JOSHUA ATWOOD (b. 1722), son of Joseph Atwood and Bethiah Crowell

MARY KNOWLES, daugher of Paul Knowles and Phebe Paine

Joshua Atwood was born on 27 October 1722 in Eastham. [1] Joshua Atwood of Eastman married Mary Knowles of Truro on 27 November 1746 in Truro. [2] Joshua married second Mercy Nickerson, the widow of Heman Kenney. [3] Edwin Crowell says that when Joshua was old he married the widow of Heman Kenney. [4]

Mary Knowles, the daugher of Paul and Phebe (Paine) Knowles, was born on 20 January 1726/7. [3] It appears from the records of the settlement of her father's estate that Mary died by 11 April 1775. [3]

Joshua moved to Nova Scotia about 1766 and was one of the original proprietors of Barrington. [3]

Joshua had lot number 34 at the Head in Barrington. [4] He was a tanner. [4]

Joshua Atwood, tanner of Barrington, sold one and a half shares of all of the small islands lying to the west and southwards of the Green Cape Island in Barrington on 28 December 1774 for 15 shillings. [5]

Children of Joshua Atwood and Mary Knowles

i. Joseph Atwood was born in 1749 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died on 20 Sep 1833 in Barrington. married Susanna Smith.

ii. Mary Atwood married Joseph Homer in 1779. [6] Joseph, the son of John and Abigail (Osborn) Homer, was born in 1757. [6]

Joseph and Mary had five children. [6] Picture: [7]

iii. Temperance Atwood married John Reynolds in 1775. [4]

From [8]

iv. Knowles Atwood married Rhoda, the daughter of John Nickerson in 1784. [4]

References

1. "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant 8: 12–13, son of Joseph and Bethiah.

2. George Ernest Bowman, Vital Records of the Town of Truro, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1 (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933), 51.

3. New Englanders in Nova Scotia, manuscript, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic and Genealogical Society, online database, American Ancestors, 8–9.

4. Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity (Yarmouth, N.S: n.p., n.d.), 433–6.

5. Crowell, History of Barrington, 179.

6. Crowell, History of Barrington, 492.

7. Crowell, History of Barrington, 429.

8. Crowell, History of Barrington, 542.

last revised 11-Jul-2020