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About Dr. John Fiske
John Fiske
- Birth: Dec. 12, 1654, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
- Death: 1715-18, of Milford, Connecticut
- Burial: Thirty Mile Island Plantation Burial Yard, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, US
- Parents: John Fiske, Remember Gott
- Wife: Hannah (Baldwin) Fiske (Nov. 20, 1665 - Dec. 17, 1723)
John Fiske, MD (son of John Fiske and Remember Gott) was born December 12, 1654 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, and died 1715 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. He married Hannah Baldwin on January 17, 1681/82 in Milford, Connecticut, daughter of John Baldwin and Mary Bruen.
Notes for John Fiske, MD:
He was a doctor
Dr. John Fisk, one of the most eminent physicians in the colony, then lived in Wenham, within four miles of Mr. Parris’s meeting-house. The family tradition has it that he was skeptical about witchcraft.
More About John Fiske, MD and Hannah Baldwin: Marriage: January 17, 1681/82, Milford, Connecticut.
Children of John Fiske, MD and Hannah Baldwin are:
- +Benjamin Fisk, b. 1683, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, d. February 14, 1765.
- Phineas Fisk, b. December 02, 1682, d. October 14, 1783, Haddam, Connecticut.
- +Ebenezer Fisk, b. 1689, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, d. October 04, 1747.
- John Fisk, b. 1693, d. date unknown.
Biography
From Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1 (Google eBook) Ellery Bicknell Crane. Lewis Publishing Company, 1907 - Worcester County (Mass.). Page 381. "Fiske"
(IX) Dr. John Fiske, son of John Fiske (8), was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, December 12, 1654. He married. January 17, 1682. Hannah Baldwin, daughter of John Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, and wife Mary Bowen, born November 20, 1663.
John Fiske was admitted a freeman in 1685. He practiced medicine and surgery in Wenham and also in Milford, Connecticut, whither he removed with his family in 1694 and joined the church there. He sold his property in Wenham, November 15. 1693.
He was a prominent physician in his day and he was a man of wealth. He was a soldier in the Indian wars and on account of a wound received in the war was released by the court from the payment of country rates.
He died about 1715-18.
Children of Dr. John and Hannah (Baldwin) Fiske were:
- Phinehas, born December 4, 1682;
- Benjamin, born 1683;
- Ebenezer, born 1689, married Mehitable ____ and Rebecca Trowbridge;
- John, born 1693;
- Hannah, married, August 20. 1713, Jeremiah Peck.
Wenham (Mass.) Vital Records has his birth record as "(FISKE ( see also Fisk)) John, s. John, sr., Dec. 12, 1654. CTR" Archive.org
Dr. John Fiske's Timeline
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December 12, 1654
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Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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1682 |
December 4, 1682
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<Wenham, Essex, Mass>
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1683 |
1683
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Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1689
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Ireland
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1689
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Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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1693 |
1693
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Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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1695 |
1695
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Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, Colonial America
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1715 |
1715
Age 60
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Milford, New Haven County, CT, United States
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1718 |
1718
Age 63
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Thirty Mile Island Plantation Burial Yard, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT, United States
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