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Daniel Bacon (c. 1615–1691), son of Michael Bacon and Alice Unknown
Mary Read (say 1620–1691)
Daniel, the son of Michael Bacon, was born in England about 1615, probably in county Suffolk. He died on 7 September 1691 in Newton. [1]
Mary, the daughter of Thomas Read/Reade and Rachel ___ of Colchester was born say 1620. Mary, the wife of Daniel, died on 4 October 1691 in Newton. [1]
In 1685 Daniel witnessed a deed in Woburn and said he was 70. [2]
Thomas Read, carpenter of Colchester, made his will in July 1665; it was proved in March 1666. He mentioned his son Thomas in New England and his daughter Mary and her husband, Daniel Bacon, who were also living in New England. [3]
Mary was the sister of Thomas Read of Sudbury. [2]
Daniel was a tailor and a yeoman. [4]
After coming to New England, Daniels's father made a return trip to England. Daniel came with his father when he came back to New England in mid-1640. [4] He first shows up in the New England records on 18 December 1640, when he was a signer of Woburn orders that established the town from a part of Charlestown. [4]
He was a freeman on 26 May 1647. [2] He was granted land in Woburn in 1648. [4] He was on a Woburn tax list in 1655. [4]
Daniel was on a jury to lay out highways in Bridgewater in 1664. [4] He was granted land in Bridgewater on 9 October 1665. [4] He was chosen constable in Bridgewater on 5 June 1666. [4]
In 1668 Daniel bought land in Cambridge from Gregory Cooke. [2] In that year he also bought land in Cambridge from Nathaniel Steadman. On the deed, Daniel witnessed that he purchased half of the property with a legacy given to him by his father-in-law Thomas Reade for the benefit of his children by his wife Mary, Thomas's daughter. He assigned this part to these children after the death of himself and his wife, as Thomas's legacy appointed. [2]
In 1669 Daniel was an early settler of Newton. He bought 25 acres there where his sons John and Isaac later settled. [2] In 1670, calling himself of Cambridge, he traded his land in Bridgewater for land in Woburn with his nephew Michael Bacon, Jr. of Woburn. [4]
Mary Ball, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Pierce) Ball was born about 1651 in Watertown. In about 1656 her mother Elizabeth Pierce became insane and Mary went to live with her mother's parents. When her grandmother died she went to Woburn where her uncle Robert Pierce lived and went to work for Michael Bacon, Jr. of Woburn. She apparently fled to her "kinsman" Frances Brayton in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and on 3 April 1671 she wrote to Michael Bacon accusing him of being the father of her child. [5] Michael was apparently the son of Daniel's brother Michael. A 2 (9) [November] 1671 court order directs the constables of Cambridge or Watertown to arrest Michael Bacon, who broke prison last night and will probably pass this night over the bridge at Watertown at his uncle Daniel Bacon's. [6]
In 1678 Daniel gave deeds to his children in observance of the will of Thomas Read of Colchester, Essex. In these deeds, Mary is called Thomas's daughter. [2]
Daniel called himself of Newton when he sold his land in Woburn in 1681.
Inventory was taken on Daniel's estate on 7 October 1691. [2]
Children of Daniel Bacon and Mary Read:
i. Daniel Bacon was born about 1641/2. [4] He married Susanna, the daughter of Michael and Isabel Spencer of Salem, on 1 August 1664. [2][4] She died after 12 October 1728.
Daniel was a shipwright of Salem. [2]
On 10 January 1678, Daniel deeded his brother Isaac Bacon of Cambridge, tailor, land that he had received from his father Daniel. The deed is acknowledged by Daniel's wife Susanna. [2]
ii. Thomas Bacon was born on 12 April 1645 in Newton. [4][1] He probably died young.
The birth records contain inaccuracies. The 12 April 1645 birth record says it is for Daniel. However, Daniel was probably born before 1645. [4]
iii. John Bacon was born on 7 August 1647 in Newton. [1] He probably died young.
iv. Isaac Bacon was born on 14 April 1650 in Cambridge or Newton. [1][7] He died on 8 January 1684, age 34, in Newton. [1] He married Abigail ___. [2]
Isaac lived in Cambridge. [2]
v. Rachel Bacon was born on 8 June 1652 in Cambridge or Newton. [1][7] She married Thomas Pierce on 24 March 1680. [2] Thomas the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cole) Pierce, was born on 21 June 1645 and died on 8 December 1719. [2] He married first Eliza ___.
vi. Jacob Bacon was born on 2 June 1654 in Cambridge or Newton. He married Elizabeth Knight.
vii. Lydia Bacon was born on 6 March 1656 in Cambridge or Newton. [7] She died on 5 December 1717. [2] She married Samuel Pierce—the brother of her sister Rachel's husband—on 9 December 1680. [2] Samuel was born on 7 April 1656 and died on 5 July 1721. [2]
viii. John Bacon was born say 1658. He was found dead on the Boston marsh, probably drowned, on 31 August 1723. [2] He married Abigail ___. [2] She died on 10 July 1715. [4]
John was admitted to the church in Watertown on 19 June 1687. [2] He was a freeman on 18 April 1690. [2]
ix. Hannah Bacon was born on —— in Newton. [1]
References:
1. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1905), 13–15, 421–2.
2. Thomas Williams Baldwin, Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and his Descendants (Cambridge: Mass, n.p., 1915).
3. W.S.A., "More Immigrants Traced," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 21 (1867): 369.
4. Alicia Crane Williams, "Early New England Families, 1641–1700," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Daniel Bacon (m. 1639).
5. Frederick W. Wead, "A Brayton-Pierce Relationship," The American Genealogist 27 (1950): 97-99.
6. "Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Records, 1643–1674," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, 2: 126.
7. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), vol. 1: 31–32.
09-Apr-2023