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- James Atherton, Harvard Massachusetts
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF HARVARD MASSACHUSETTS
1732-1893 BY HENRY S. NOURSE, A.M.
HARVARD: PRINTED FOR WARREN HAPGOOD 1894
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The Athertons sold their homestead upon Lancaster Neck in 1702, and built a new dwelling at the south end of Bare Hill. James and Hannah Atherton were among the earliest comers to the Nashaway Plantation, being from Dorchester. It is supposed that he was a younger brother of Major Humphrey Atherton. His oldest son, James, was born 1654, 3 mo. 13 day, and married Abigail Hudson, June 6, 1684. The father gave his Lancaster home to James, Jr., in 1686,and died at the age of eighty-four years in Sherborn, while living with his daughter, Deborah Bullard, his will being dated January 3, 1707-8. The Harvard Pioneers were James, Jr., and his son, born February 27, 1684-5.
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BIRTHS.
ATHERTON.
The children of James Jr., and Abigail (Hudson), m. June 6, 1684, were: James, February 27, 1685, Jonathan, Benjamin (m. Eunice Priest, 1727), Abigail (m. John White), Marj (m.___ Goodman), Ruth. Inventory of the father's estate is dated November 19, 1718.
The children of James Atherton Jr. (3rd) and Sarah, baptized at Lancaster, were: Simon and Amos, 1708; John, 1710; Abigail, 1712; Sarah, 1714; James, 1716; Moses, 1718; David, 1722; Submit, 1725; Prudence, 1727.
Clarification Note:
Atherton, James 4th
6 May 1716 - Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts
28 Oct 1798 - Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
Atherton, James 3rd
27 Feb 1684 - Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts
1750 - Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts
Atherton, James 2nd
13 May 1654 - Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts
19 Nov 1718 - Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts
Atherton, James 1st
1626 - Wigan, Lancashire, England
6 Aug 1710 - Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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