Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1715 Death Record of Joseph Gleason of Wayland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

 It's Treasure Chest Tuesday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1715 death record of Joseph Gleason in the Sudbury, Massachusetts town  record book:

The Joseph Gleason death record is the 9th record down the right-hand page: 

The transcription of this record is:

"Sargent Joseph Gleason dyed Nov 20'th 1715"

The source citation for this record is:

Wayland, Massachusetts Town Records, Joseph Gleason death entry, 20 November 1715; imaged, "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2495/records/4771173), "Wayland > Births, Marriages, and Deaths," page 303, image 164 of 1060.

This is a Derivative Source record for the death of Joseph Gleason, since it appears to be a transcription of an earlier town record.  It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the death date and place. The original source records are probably Wayland town records for the time period that are either lost or unavailable to digitize, but were transcribed at a later time.

Joseph Gleason (1640-1715) is the son of Thomas and Susannah (Page) Gleason, who married Martha Russell in 1667.  They are my 8th great-grandparents, through their daughter Susannah Gleason (1675-1756) who married Samuel Willis (1675-1758) in 1703 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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