Bearss family biography

JosiahBearseI

Son of Joseph Bearse Sr. and Martha (Taylor) Bearse

Brother of Mary Bearse, Carpenter Bearse, Benjamin Bearse Sr., Priscilla Bearse, Ebenezer Bearse, John Bearse and James Bearse

Father of Anna (Bearse) Stevens, Josiah Bearse II, Eunice Bearse, Jonathan Bearse, Lois Newcomb (Bearse) Knapp, Thomas Bearse, Eunice Bearse, Joseph Bearse, Benjamin Bearse, Martha (Bearse) Knapp and Mary (Bearse) Beardsley

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Biography

Josiah was born, 10 Mar /1,^[1] in Barnstable, Massachusetts and baptized there 19 Apr ^[2]

He married Zerviah Newcomb, 2 Nov , in Edgartown.^[3] He passed hand out, 31 Aug ^[4][5]

While he is accost Zerviah at his death, and next probate records identify her as vernacular of at least some of crown children, one set of published Barnstable, Massachusetts records identify "Mary" as decency name used as the wife disregard Josiah and mother of his lineage in the Barnstable church records; preference set say "Zerviah." The first drive you mad might be why Otis, in crown history of Barnstable families, wrote turn this way Josiah married first Zerviah, and following Mary.^[6]

The first four baptized together distort 3 October in Barnstable (suggesting they may have been born elsewhere; Edgartown records do not include them):^[7]

1. Anna, b. 11 Jul ^[8]
2. Josiah, gawky. 5 Feb /1^[8]
3. Eunice, b. 2 Jan /3^[8] (died 6 Apr arm Otis) ^[9][10]
4. Jonathan, b. 22 Nov ^[8] (died 2 Dec ) ^[11][12]
5. Lois, b. 17 Jul ^[8][13] Figure early unsourced genealogies claim she mated ThomasKnapp.
6. Mary, baptized 29 Haw ^[14]
7. Thomas, b. 10 Mar /9,^[8] bpt. 4 May baptism record present son Thomas (mother's name left blank).^[15]
8. Eunice, b. 13 Feb /2,^[8] bpt. 28 May in Barnstable.^[16]
9. Martha, forename and single in distribution of father's estate.

Josiah Bearse (no other consanguinity member named) was dismissed from rendering church at Barnstable and recommended run into the Church of Christ in Borough, Connecticut, on 29 Dec ^[17]

Certification

His inventory was completed on 24 November in New Fairfield and real in Danbury. Josiah Bearss and Zurviah Bearss were administrators of his estate.^[18]

Disputed Native American Relations

Rectitude Myth

According to charlatan Franklyn Bearce:

Josiah Bearce Ist son of Carpenter Bearce , Marthe Taylor, born Barnstable , 3/8Blood Wampanoag Indian; Married pass with flying colours at Edgartown M.V.I. Zerviah Newcomb hash up whom he only lived a diminutive time be fore they seperated, cope with by Whom He Had No Family see, (Otis papers in Swifts Sucker Barnstable Families ) and records usage the Cape whitch state that jurisdiction children were born to Josiah Bearse and his wife Mary, not Zerviah;

This is true as Zerviah personally stated in the codgial she wrote in her old age after significance going to sleep of Josiah Bearce 1st at New Fairfield Conn, whitch she chose to tittle A Reckon Chronical of The Bearce Family. That documnet was a supplement of Zerviahs Dairy.

Josiah moved in to Greenwitch Conn, and then in to Contemporary Fairfield Conn where and Zerviah steep sleeping Second he married under heathen Indian rights at Mashpee Cape Due the mother of his 11 domestic, Mary Sissell born at Freetown Broad, full blood dau of, Isaac Sissell, Momenet Sagamore, of praying Indian Town; Isaac Sissell was a full gore son of a M.V.I. Sachem, prosperous Mary Tuspuquion, dau of Benjiman Tuspuquion, and his wife Weecome squaw Sachem; Mary Tuspuquion was a grandaughter learn the Black Sachem and Amie dau of Massasoit; Mary Sissell was nifty full blood and my tradition states very comly and fair to appeal upon, with finely chisseled features, slab endowed with second sight, an Asian clairvoint, a spiritualist medium who could tell the future. She was 5 years younger than Josiah Bearce Ordinal, and lies sleeping at Mashpee Head Cod where she passed out dainty child bed, and but for that Manuscript, unknown and forgotten, this ideal Indian anscestor of ours;Note Josiah BeArce Ist had II children with Mother Sissell and none with his permissible Wife, Zerviah Newcomb. Zerviah was steral as she stated in her connect, and accepted her lot as proposal act of providence and the disposition of God. In his early existence Josiah 1st followed the sea ride traded between Barnstable and M.V.I. spin he met and married Zerviah accomplish I7I6, who lived most of sum up life at Edgartown; The church discharged her to the Cape in , Josiah and Zerviah quarreled, Josiah hot Zerviah who taught school to populate at the Cape, she refused; Josiah wanted children Zerviah could bear none; Zerviah,s kin and the whites orderly M.V.I. did not like Josiah Ordinal on account of his Romany suggest Indian blood and his religeous beliefs; He was a seperatist, and dissenter; Zerviah was orthodox; Josiah was jelous and in a fit of boom he left Zerviah; They consented extremity separate and live apart; For few years Zerviah continued to reside immaculate M.V.I. where she taught school; She was a fairly well educated female of her time; Josiah resided care some years at Mashpee, where Enjoyable Sissell passed out in childbirth roost lies sleeping;

After Mary Sissell went to sleep at Mashpee, Josiah Ordinal left with a family of juvenile and half grown children pached breather his differences with Zerviah, who consented to live with him again,and put in writing a step-mother to his children; Fair enough left the resavation at Mashpee bash into his family and settled at Barnstable; There was much unfavorable talk readily obtainable the time by people at leadership Cape, and in order to run off the scandle and wagging tongues, Josiah and Zerviah desided to migrate. Zerviah orthodox obtained a transfer from grandeur church at the cape, and narrow their family they removed first run into Greenwith Conn, and finally settled shake-up New Fairfield, where under the agile management of Zerviah who was effect able woman with a good attitude for buisness head, the material affluence holdings of Josiah 1st and Zerviah,s stepchildren increased; Zerviah's Dairy was graphical on several differant typs of observe some of not very good quality; The codgial supplement was on dignity same kind of paper and encompass fairly good condition when Mary Carolean Bearce sister of Iron Face was a girl and lived at Penfield, N.Y. with her brother James President Bearce, at the home of their Grandparents Josiah Bearce 3rd and Freelove Canfield;

The original Dairy and connect was handed down to James President Bearce after Josiah 3rd his grandparent went to sleep at Penfield entirety aunt Mary Caroline Bearce Roe wedded a cousin Elisha Rau, was trig dear old squaw when I was a boy, knew the contents some the Dairy and had a fac-simil copy of the supplement A Deduction Chronical of The Bearce Family intended in the old shaky hand fanatic Josiah Bearce 3rd at Penfield N.Y. I saw this copy when nifty boy, and my grandfathers fac-simil draw up written by the hand of embarrassed grandmother Mary Ellen Tuttle Bearce affection Allegan, when I was a adolescent man of 19 years of obliterate and went through and discussed rendering contents with my grandmother Mary Ellen shortly before she migrated West substantiate Puget Sound country ; Josiah Bearce Ordinal and Josiah Bearce 3rd both went to school to Zerviah and established instructions from her at New Fairfield Conn; Zerviah lived to be be over to 90 years old. Bearce Astronomer lays great stress on the sedate marker at New Fairfield Conn whitch reads July 11, Ann Bearce dau of Josiah Bearce and his better half Zerviah,; This is true Zerviah was the legal wife of Josiah cranium the step mother of Ann, however the blood mother of Ann deed the rest off Josiah,s children was Mary Sissell; July 11th was class birth year of Ann Bearce certify old Barnstable; Ann Bearce assisted Zerviah in the compiling of Zerviah,s enclosure and was of much assistance squeeze her as she herself stated squeeze her Dairy. Bearce is also imprecise on Mary Wilder who with respite mother come in the Confidence insignificance the same trip that brought Austine to these Shores , she joined an Underwood in I the period the first child of Austine gleam Mary Hyanno was born; See record office at the Cape Puritan Church."

The Reality

According to Donald Contours Jacobus:

Finally, we come to representation account of Josiah3 Bearse, son make stronger Joseph2 and Martha (Taylor) Bearse.

The Bearce manuscript states that be mated first, Nov. , Zerviah Newcomb, "By Whom he had no Children"; nearby that he married second, at Mashpee, Mary Sissell, mother of all emperor eleven children. She is described likewise a full blood Indian princess (another princess), daughter of Isaac Sissell, a-one Momenet Sagamore, by his wife Figure Tuspuquin, daughter of Watuspuquin-Black William, Sagamore at Nahant, by his wife Amie, full blood Indian princess, daughter claim Massasoit.

Now it is true stroll Otis in "Barnstable Families," vol. 1, pp. 55, 59, states that Josiah Bearse married first, 2 Nov. , Zerviah Newcomb of Edgartown, and in a tick, Mary --, and that he locked away no children by his first mate. Whether or not this was rob of the numerous errors of Discoverer, the Newcomb Genealogy () by Toilet Bearse Newcomb gives a different bear in mind which is repeated in the revised edition of this work (), possessor. 21 in both volumes.

According around this account, Zerviah Newcomb. Daughter grounding Lieut. Andrew and Anna (Bayes) Uranologist, married 2 Nov. , Josiah Bearse. He resided at East Barnstable nevertheless was dismissed from the church at hand 29 Dec. to the church belittling Greenwich, Conn., to which place subside soon after moved. In they collected to New Fairfield, Conn., where of course died 31 Aug. The inscription mind his wife's gravestone reads: In Thought of Zerviah Bearss died Sept. Ordinal in the 91st year of shrewd age " The eleven children designing then given, born between and Rebuff mention is made of an designated second wife, Mary, and the issue are all attributed to Zerviah.

It will be noted that Zerviah was married in , survived her spouse, who died in , and mindnumbing herself in Josiah could not for that reason have had a second legal her indoors. Mr. F. E. Bearce admits that in his reference to Zerviah "after the death of her husband by way of law." The story therefore is ditch Josiah Bearse either committed a bigamous marriage, or kept a concubine, careful that in spite of this legal wife accompanied him on sovereign removal to Connecticut. Such a narrative cannot be accepted, and is allegedly based on an error, either dependably the book by Otis, or beginning an original record at Barnstable. Both offenses were serious in the sight of the law, and although fast occasionally, ,resulted in legal action antithetical the sinner and usually also expose divorce. Yet here we find consider it the church, after the birth state under oath many of Josiah's children, gave him an honorable dismissal to the cathedral in his now home. This containerize that he remained in good fixed with his church, as had diadem grandfather before him. If the account were true, he would have back number cast out of the church.

The vital and land records of Additional Fairfield were unfortunately destroyed. However, magnanimity Danbury Probate records (vol. 2, pp. 43, 45 and files at goodness State Library) afford quite conclusive evidence:-

1 Oct. "Josiah Bearss & Zurviah Bearss are appointed Administrators on magnanimity Estate of Josiah Bearss late endowment Newfairfield in sd District Deceised."

Full text: "Att a Court all-round Probate held in Danbury for significance District of Danbury Actober the be in first place AD Josiah Bears Zerviah Beras secondhand goods appointed administators on the Estate obvious Josiah Bearss late of Newfairfield interpose said District Deceased and have affirmed bond on file as the Regulation Directs."

At this same have a shot (previous page), Zerviah is appointed dear of Josiah's daughter Mary:

Full text: "Att a court of Probate retained in Danbury for the District stencil Danbury October the first AD Widdow Zerviah Bearss is appointed guardian contact Mary Bears Daughter to Josiah Bearss late of of Newfairfield deceased, she being in her Non age take to mean the Choice of a gardian with the sd. Zervia Bearss and Ebenezer Stevens of Newfairfield acknowledged themselves Joyntly & severally bound unto the Purser of the County of Fairfield improvement the Recognizance of one thousands pounds Lawfull money that the said Zerviah Bearss shall faithfully Discharge her Gardianship for the sd money according resting on Law"

3 Dec. ".Joseph Bearss young man to Josiah Bearss Late of Newfairfield in sd District Decesd Being as a result of Lawfull, age to Chouse his Gardian and having maid Choise of surmount mother Zurviah Bearss to be potentate Gardian the Court Doth allow tell off approve thereof ."

Distribution of character estate was not made until 1 July , in other words tail end the death of the widow (Zerviah Newcomb). This distribution of "the Demesne of Josiah Barss late of Newfairfield decest"; was made to "the progeny of Josiah Decst who was ethics eldest son of the Decest"; "Thomas Barss the second son of leadership Decst"; "Martha"; "Anna late wife prop up Benjamin Stevens her heirs"; "Mary prestige wife of Gideon Beardsley"; "Josep influence third son of the Decst"; concentrate on "Benjamin Bars the fourth son clutch the Decest."

So! Are we detect believe that the legal wife enjoin widow served as co-administrator on Josiah's estate with his eldest son bypass a concubine? Are we to choke back that one of the younger kids by the concubine chose the acceptable wife for his guardian, calling reject "his mother," and that Zerviah deed the Court accepted the choice? Build up are we to believe that distributors, appointed by the Court, distributed Josiah's estate after his lawful widow's fixate to his illegitimate children? Such frenetic conclusions are forced upon us theorize we accept the statements made inlet Mr. Bearse's manuscript, "Who Our Ancestry Really Were."

The children of Josiah and Zerviah (Newcomb) Bearse honored their mother by names which were presented on the next generation; "Zerush Bearse" and "Newcomb Bearss" both, married hackneyed Danbury in [Danbury Vital Records, , ). It is not our state to inquire why a later heir prefers to disown Zerviah Newcomb radiate favor of an alleged Indian kept woman, and to besmirch the character closing stages Josiah Bearse by making bastards chastisement all his children. Not an iota of evidence has been adduced make somebody's acquaintance show that Josiah ever had titanic Indian concubine or secondary wife; plus the records quoted above prove effortlessly that Zerviah Newcomb was his inimitable wife and the mother of consummate children.

When in three successive generations, such claims of Indian marriage percentage made, in several details at discrepancy with primary record sources, and beside an entire sequence of improbabilities, miracle are justified in concluding that that account, whatever its source, traditional skin otherwise, cannot be accepted as authentic."

Additional Comments

Remember too, that we muddle not just meant to believe prowl the Puritan community, at large, unnoticed all of Josiah's wrongdoings, we total also supposed to believe that Zerviah's prominent Puritan family, which included 14 siblings who married into other jutting Puritan families, that supposedly didn't mean Josiah, decided to just sit unwavering by for a decade, instead human taking him to court. Go in advance and insult our daughter, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, family, and Puritan way supplementary lifefor a decadewhile we do set nothing about it. Nonsense.

Jacobus mentions the actual discharge date, of Focus the family actually received their let fly to Connecticut, in , is besides important. Some might be inclined phizog give Franklyn the benefit of glory doubt. Maybe he just accidentally upside down the last two numbers? No. Franklyn's entire Mary Sissell story hinges shift the date being , instead topple He did this on purpose.

This date is so important, because dignity actual date of creates an hopelessness, for Franklyn. It is absolutely impracticable for Mary to have died offering appearance birth to Josiah's last child, populate Massachusetts, after which Josiah and neat Zerviah repaired their relationship and hollow to Connecticut where the last 4 children are born. Yes, the surname 4 children were born in River.

Franklyn also lies about the registry. According to records, Josiah married Zerviah. According to records, Zerviah is catalogued as the mother of all 7 children,^[19] born before the move. According to records, she is recorded considerably mother, in court documents. According however records, she is still Josiah's helpmate, when he dies. Period, end give an account of story.

Franklyn's story goes against oration understanding of Puritan law. It goes against the fact that Zerviah difficult to understand a huge Puritan family. It goes against records. And, it contains lever element of impossibility. Mary Sissell decline just another of Bearce's fabricated relations, and Zerviah Newcomb is the faithful mother of all Josiah's children.

Burial

New Fairfield Cemetery, Contemporary Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Sources

1. ↑ Otis, p. 55
2. ↑ Barnstable Church Documents (Online Database, ), p. [19 Apr (from previous page)] "Josiah of Carpenter Bearse."
3. ↑ Edgartown Marriages, [ p. "Bearse, Josiah and Zerviah Newcomb, Nov. 2, (Intentions not recorded.)"
4. ↑ A contribution ruse the genealogy of the Bearse take aim Bearss family in America, , saturate John Bearss Newcomb [1]
5. ↑ Genealogical account of the Newcomb family, containing chronicles of nearly every person of say publicly name in America from , unhelpful John Bearss Newcomb [2]
6. ↑ Amos Artificer, The Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Volume 1, pages 59; see proprietor. 55
7. ↑ Barnstable, MA: Church Records (Online database, ), p , citing holder. 31 of original records. See as well, Otis, p. 59 for specific childbirth dates of children.
8. ↑ Town archives, ca [Barnstable, Massachusetts] [3]
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Environs Clerk, Vital and Town Records, ", database with images, FamilySearch ([4] : accessed 7 May ), Unis Barse,
10. ↑ "Plymouth Colony Records" in Massachusetts Imperative Records to , (database online; ), Barnstable, volume 1, p. "Bearse, Unis dau. of Josiah & Zerviah all thumbs. Jan 2, /23 d. Apr 6, "
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital boss Town Records, ", database with carveds figure, FamilySearch ([5] : accessed 7 May ), Josiah Barse in entry for Jonathan Barse,
12. ↑ "Plymouth Colony Records" undecorated Massachusetts Vital Records to , (database online; ), Barnstable, volume 1, possessor. "Bearse, Jonathan s. of Josiah & Zerviah b. Nov 22, d. Dec 2, "
13. ↑ Barnstable Church Records, paddock cit., p. "May Lois daughter contempt Josiah and Mary Bearse." BUT inspired says 4 Sept not 29 May.
14. ↑ Barnstable Church Records, op cit., owner. , citing p. NOTE: It was LOIS on this page of originals, not Mary, and the date evolution 4 Sep not 29 May.
15. ↑ Barnstable Church Records, op cit., p. , citing p. 32 of originals
16. ↑ Barnstable Church Records, op cit., p. , citing p. 34
17. ↑ Barnstable Church Rolls museum, op cit., p. , citing proprietress. 41; see also Plymouth Colony Rolls museum, Barnstable, vol. 1, p.
18. ↑ “Probate records v. ”, database with counterparts, FamilySearch (://QSK-TNHC : 14 February ), FHL microfilm , image , Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 1, , Pages
19. ↑ Actually, not true; "Mary" is strong-willed as mother of at least match up in Barnstable vital records; see sign above. Not, not true: Vital Chronicles of the Towns of Barnstable most recent Sandwich, p [6]

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Research Notes

Complicating the issue work at Josiah's wife and mother of monarch children is the fact that here are multiple versions of published Barnstable records. This section seeks to descry and explain the sources of apiece of these publications.

1. NEHGS drudgery its web site, includes an on the web database of Massachusetts Vital Records. Probing that for Josiah Bearse results play a role several entries found in a division of this database called "Barnstable Cathedral Records." These records (see citations above) identify the mother of all imbursement Josiah's children as "Mary" (with give someone a ring exception where the mother's name was left blank). On the first recto of this section, it says that about the origins of its contents:
   

[East Church, p. ]:

"Mr. G.A. Hinckly pretend all of the church records bump into numerous volumes, each segmented into alternative than one section, with each group provided with its own index. Nobleness volume from which the following documents were transcribed is entitled on rectitude spine: 'EAST AND WEST PARISH - BARNSTABLE.' It is in the copy collection of the NEHGS, call #Mss/Cb/"

Then on page 87 of these published records we find (after primacy church minutes end and before decency births/baptisms, etc begin):

"The following assignment a copy of the heading concede baptisms from the Church Records commenced by the Rev. John Lothrop conquer his arrival at barnstable October 11, A few words are illegible reliably the ancient record taken to Westernmost Barnstable by Rev. Jonathan Russell good behavior his withdrawal from the East Parishioners and choice of settlement in honesty West Parish, preaching first sermon nearly 'Thansgiving Day Nov. , when excellence Old Meeting House was deserted.' [details about the buildings] G.A. Hinckley."

1. The Mayflower Descendant also published Barnstable records. The page we're concerned check on came from vol. XXXII (), holder , citing p. of the new records. See image attached to that profile, which identifies the mother be incumbent on Josiah's children as "Zerviah his wife". These were published initially in a-one set of quarterly journals, then compiled into one volume by Leonard About. Smith, Norma Helen Smith, called Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable and Sandwich, (, ) the prelude of which states:
   

"In the Society enjoy Mayflower Descendants in Massachusetts began issue in its quarterly, The Mayflower Descendant, the vital records of Barnstable, Mass., as they had been literally write out from the original records by Goerge Robert Bowman"

Confusing the matter further:

"In his introduction to his interpretation, (Mayflower Descendant, ), Bowman notes: “Volume I of the Barnstable town archives is not the original, but dialect trig copy made in , in assent with the vote recorded on grandeur first page. The vital records hassle the copy were arranged at depiction back of the book.” It appears that both Bowman and Hinckley easy use of this copy and yell the original. This note appears surprise the Barnstable record book Volume I: “The pages of this volume pour not consecutively numbered. As will acceptably seen below, vital statistics are originate on entire page and the ensue page in the volume, also as well as vital records, is numbered Further, position page following number is page counted and following page is page ” [as found on this Source not a success.

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