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John Fiske (1654 - 1715)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: between 1715 and 1718 (60-64)
Milford, New Haven County, CT, United States
Place of Burial: Haddam, Middlesex County, CT, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Fiske, of Wenham and Remember Goodhue
Husband of Hannah Fiske
Father of Rev. Phineas Fiske; Benjamin Fiske; Ebenezer Fiske, of New Milford; John Fiske; Hannah Peck and 1 other
Brother of Jonathan Fiske; Samuel Fiske; Noah Fiske; Elizabeth Fiske; Waitstill Stevens and 1 other

Occupation: Physician, surgeon, Doctor
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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:

  1. +Benjamin Fisk, b. 1683, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, d. February 14, 1765.
  2. Phineas Fisk, b. December 02, 1682, d. October 14, 1783, Haddam, Connecticut.
  3. +Ebenezer Fisk, b. 1689, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, d. October 04, 1747.
  4. 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:

  1. Phinehas, born December 4, 1682;
  2. Benjamin, born 1683;
  3. Ebenezer, born 1689, married Mehitable ____ and Rebecca Trowbridge;
  4. John, born 1693;
  5. 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

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Dr. John Fiske's Timeline

1654
December 12, 1654
Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1682
December 4, 1682
<Wenham, Essex, Mass>
1683
1683
Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1689
1689
Ireland
1689
Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1693
1693
Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1695
1695
Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, Colonial America
1715
1715
Age 60
Milford, New Haven County, CT, United States
1718
1718
Age 63
Thirty Mile Island Plantation Burial Yard, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT, United States