Friday, March 11, 2022

52 Ancestors - Week 422: #306 Joseph Grout (1683-1758) of Watertown and Westborough, Massachusetts

Joseph Grout (1683-1758)  is #306 on my Ahnentafel  List, my 6th great-grandfather, who marrie#307 Mary (Harrington) Rogers (1693-1774)  in 1717 in Watertown, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #153 Mehitable Grout  (1725-1795) who married #152 Moses Brigham (1723-1769)  in 1749.
* their son #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802), who married #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) in 1779.
* their son, #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) who married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.
* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) who married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 

*  Name:                  Joseph Grout[1–4]

*  Sex:                    Male

*  Father:                Joseph Grout 1649-1720
*  Mother:              Susannah Hagar 1653-1731

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                  6 February 1682/3, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]

*  Death:                13 October 1758 (age 76), Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[3]
*  Burial:                after 13 October 1758 (after age 76), Memorial Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[3]

*  Probate:             12 April 1759 (age 77), administration granted; Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[4]
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:            Mary Harrington 1692-1774
*  Marriage 1:         3 January 1716/7 (age 33), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]

*  Child 1:             Mindwell Grout 1717-1741
*  Child 2:             Susannah Grout 1719-1816
*  Child 3:             Mehitable Grout 1725-1795
*  Child 4:             Joseph Grout 1727-1798
*  Child 5:             Jonathan Grout 1730-1801
*  Child 6:             Sarah Grout 1732-    
*  Child 7:             Daniel Grout 1735-1809

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Joseph Grout was born on 6 February 1682/3 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay, the son of Joseph and Susannah (Hagar) Grout[1.3].

Joseph married Mary (Harrington) Rogers on 3 January 1716/7 in Watertown[2] at age 33.  She was the daughter of Edward and Mary (Ockington) Harrington and the widow of Daniel Rogers of Watertown.

They had seven children, all born and recorded in Watertown, except for one born and recorded in Sudbury and one born and recorded in Westborough.  The children were:

*  Mindwell Grout (1717-1741), married 1735 Silas Brigham (1710-1791).
*  Susannah Grout (1720-1816), married 1745 Levi Brigham (1716-1787).
*  Mehitable Grout (1726-1795), married 1749 Moses Brigham (1725-1769).
*  Joseph Grout (1727-1798), married 1755 Sarah Rice (1734-1808).
*  Jonathan Grout (1730-1801), married 1761 Hannah Merriam (1738-1811)
*  Sarah Grout (1732-????), married 1754 Jason Parmenter (1726-????).
*  Daniel Grout (1736-1809), married 1762 Elizabeth Adams (1743-1822).

The Joseph Grout family moved to Westborough, Massachusetts prior to 1736. 

Joseph Grout died on 13 October 1758 in Westborough at age 75[3], according to his gravestone in Memorial Cemetery in Westborough, Massachusetts[3].

His intestate probate record is in Worcester County Probate Court packet 26,009 (9 images)[4]. His widow, Mary (Harrington) Grout, wrote a letter to the Judge of Probate for Worcester County dated 11 January 1759 and declined being administratrix to her husband's intestate estate, and suggested their son, Jonathan Grout.  Jonathan Grout posted a 200 pounds bond with Joseph and Daniel Grout (sons, brothers or uncles) on 12 January 1759 and was appointed administrator on that date.  The committee was appointed to take an inventory of the estate on 5 February 1759.  The inventory was taken on 7 April 1759 by Simon Tainter, Samuel Harrington and Nathaniel Whitney.  It had no real estate, and the personal estate totaled £49, 18s 5p.  The inventory was was presented to the Court on 9 April 1759.  The probate packet contained no administrator's account or distribution.

5)  SOURCES

1. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Watertown > Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 93, (image 171 of 3991), Joseph Grout birth record, 6 February 1682/3.

2. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town Records, 1620-1988," digital images, Ancestry.com, Watertown > Births, Marriages and Deaths > page 47 (image 308 of 3991), Joseph Grout and Mary Rogers, 3 January 1716/7.

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial Cemetery, Westborough, Mass., Joseph Grout (1682-1758) memorial #63336243.

4. Worcester County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #26 009, Joseph Grout of Westborough, 1759 (9 images); "Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881," digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 10 October 2020).

NOTE:  This genealogical sketch is out of Ahnentafel order because I found new information linking Sophia Newton to her birth father, Lambert Brigham.  

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2022 for a ninth year to 468 Ancestors in 468 Weeks. The (incomplete) list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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