A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in
Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700


(Communicated by the Rev. Emerson Davis of that town, Corresponding Member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.)

In a private journal, kept by Rev. John BALLANTINE, it is written, "April 8, 1754, died Benjamin SEXTON, aged 88 who was the first white person born in the town." If so he must have been born in 1666. But there is no record of any birth prior to 1667.

John ROOT, wife Mary
      chn, Mary, b. Sept. 22, 1667
             Sarah, b. Sept. 24, 1670
             John, b. Dec. 28, 1672
             Samuel, b. Sept. 16, 1675
             Hannah, b. Dec. 9, 1677
             Abigail, b. June 26, 1680
             Joshua, b. Nov. 23, 1682
             Mercy, b. March 15, 1684



John PENDER, wife Temperance
      chn. Susanna, b. March 11, 1669
             John, b. Sept. __, 1670; died April 28, 1676
             Mary, b. Sept. 30, 1672
             Elizabeth, b. Feb'y 3, 1675
             Nathaniel, b. Sept. 3, 1677
             John, b. March 11, 1679
             Thomas, b. March 5, 1681; died Aug. 4, 1750
             Martha, b. Feb'y 27, 1683
             Sarah, b. July 28, 1686; died Sept. 15, 1690
      Temperance, wife of J. P. d, Oct. 27, 1732.

(New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume VI, pages 265-271, July 1852)


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