Generation XV
John Isham
1691–1773
Life
John Isham, entered in the Barnstable town records as John Issum, son of John Issum and Jane Parker, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, on 25 August 1691. The record gives the year as 1681, but the years in that entry are ten years too early.1,2 His father's will of 1713 left him and his brother Isaac two thirds of the homestead and named him joint executor with his mother.?
He married Deborah Daggett.? He died at East Windsor, Connecticut, on 17 April 1773.?
- Barnstable town records: marriage of John Issum and Jane Parker, December 1687 (recorded as 1677), births of their nine children, and death of John Issum Senr, 3 September 1713
- John Issum, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
? marks 3 statements for which no attached source was found.
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Records
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1681
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1687
Vol. 1, pp. 387-388. Marriage of John Issum and Jane Parker entered as December 1677; children Jane (7 Oct.) and John (25 Aug.), then Isaac, Sarah, Mary, with years entered as 1679, 1681, 1682/3, 1684, 1687; Hannah, Patience, Joseph and Thankful named without dates. A note in the margin reads "10 years too old". The or…