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John Birge
Sarah Unknown
John Birge of Bristol was born about 1649. He died on 5 September 1733, age 84. [grave]
Sarah Unknown was born about 1654. She died 25 January 1716, age 62. [grave]
John and Sarah are buried in the East Burial Ground in Bristol. [grave]
John Birge and Thomas Lewis are listed as attending the first town meeting in Bristol and being admitted citizens in (apparently) 1681. [mun] However, John did not move to Bristol until some time between 1688 and 1691.
John Birge, tailor, was on a 6 June 1687 tax list in Boston. [tax]
John Birge gave a bond to Bartholomew Mercier on 31 August 1694. [roots]
A 1 September 1696 list of the debts of William Bental of Bristol's estate has the entry "Payd to Mr John Birge for work." [pro]
In his will of 23 July 1697, William Hoar, baker of Bristol, appointed his "Very Good freinds" Deacon John Cary, John Birge and Nathaniel Blagrove his overseers. [pro]
Inventory on John's estate was taken on 34 September 1733; it totalled £1182: 19: 6 and included tailor's shears. It was testified to on 6 October 1733. [will]
Children of John and Sarah Birge: Births of the first three recorded in Boston. [bos]
i. Elizabeth Birge was born on 20 September 1683. She married Joseph Lewis.
ii. Mary Birge was born on 9 June 1687.
iii. Sarah Birge was born on 15 July 1688.
iv. Samuel Birge was born on 1 August 1691 in Bristol. [arnold] He married Hannah Bragg on 9 November 1727 in Bristol. [arnold] Hannah, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Bragg, was born on 27 September 1698 in Briston. [arnold]
Samuel, the son of Mr. John Birge, was baptized on 7 September 1712 upon his owning the covenant. [sherman]
References:
grave. Find A Grave website, Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com):
| Name | Memorial Number | Inscription / Comments |
| John Birdge | 129372535 | "Here lieth interred ye body of Mr. John Birdge who died Septem ye 5th 1733 in the 85th year of his age." |
| Sarah Birge | 129372639 | Here lyeth the body of Sarah the wife of John Birge who dyed January the 25 1716 in the 63 year of her age." |
will. "Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686–1880," database with images, AmericanAncestors > Bristol 2000–3999, file 2074.
tax. Frances Everett Blake, "Boston Tax List, 1687," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55 (1901): 140.
bos. "Boston, MA: Birth, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630–1699," database with images, AmericanAncestors > Boston, pp. 159, 172, 178.
mun. Wilfred Harold Munro, The History of Bristol, R.I. (Providence: J.A. and R.A. Reid, 1880): 79.
pro. Lucy Hall Greenlaw, "Bristol County Probate Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 62 (1908): 183–4 (Hoar) and 64 (1910): 64 (Bental).
arnold. "Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors > vol. 6, pps. 1-62 (birth of Samuel) and 1-66 (birth of Hannah Bragg); vol. 8, p. 200 (marriage).
roots. "Tables of Contents to the Land and Notarial Records of Rhode Island ...," Rhode Island Roots 13 (1987): 29.
sherman. Ruth Wilder Sherman and Robert M. Sherman, "Bristol, R.I. Church Records," The American Genealogist 70 (1995): 183.
Last revised: 08-Oct-2021