Individual Details

Capt. Peter Joslin

(22 Feb 1665/66 - 8 Apr 1759)

After working in the fields one July day, Peter returned home to find his wife Sarah and three children, along with Mrs. Whitcomb, who happened to be with them, massacred by Indians. His wife's sister Elizabeth Howe and another one of his children had been taken into captivity. Elizabeth Howe was returned, but his child was not.

Peter married four times.

Events

Birth22 Feb 1665/66Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America
MarriageAbt 1686Sarah Howe
Marriage26 Dec 1708Joanna Whitcomb
MarriageAft 19 Mar 1712Hannah Farwell
MarriageAft 14 Aug 1739Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Martha Prescott
Death8 Apr 1759Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, British America

Families

SpouseSarah Howe (1669 - 1692)
SpouseHannah Farwell (1667 - 1739)
SpouseMartha Prescott (1679 - 1748)
SpouseJoanna Whitcomb (1674 - 1717)
FatherNathaniel Joslin (1627 - 1694)
MotherSarah King (1632 - 1706)
SiblingJoslin (1657 - 1657)
SiblingNathaniel Joslin (1658 - 1726)
SiblingSarah Josselin (1660 - 1702)
SiblingDorothy Joslin (1661 - )
SiblingElizabeth Joslin (1667 - 1702)
SiblingRebecca Joslin (1672 - 1731)
SiblingMartha Joslin (1675 - 1768)

Notes

Death

Peter died at the house of his son John.

Endnotes

1. Holman, Alfred L., Blackman and allied families. (Chicago: Priv. print. for N.L. Blackman, 1928, 281 pgs.), p. 95.

2. "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch, (https://familysearch.org: accessed 14 September 2012), Peter Joslin, 1665.

3. Holton, David Parsons., Farwell ancestral memorial : Henry Farwell of Concord and Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and all his descendants to the fifth generation : to which are added three branches, the families of Daniel, of Groton and Fitchburg, Mass., 1740-1815, Bethiah, of Mansfield, Conn., and Westminster, Vt., 1747-1813, Elizabeth, of North Charlestown, N.H., 1751-1840, and their descendants to 1879 (New York: D.P. Holton, 1879, 271 pgs.), p. 13.

4. Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1905 vol.3 (Haverhill, Mass.: Press of Nichols, "The Printer", 1905).

5. Carter, Clara A.,, Carter : a genealogy of the descendants of Samuel and Thomas, sons of Rev. Samuel Carter : 1640-1886 : a contribution to the history of the first Carters of Lancaster, Lunenburg and Leominster, Massachusetts. (Clinton, Mass.: Printed by W.J. Coulter, Courant Office, 1887, 272 pgs.), p. 249.