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Family: Thomas Bolles / Zipporah Wheeler (F905)

m. 1 Jul 1669


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  • Male
    Thomas Bolles

    Birth  1 Dec 1644  Wells, York, ME Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  26 May 1727  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Marriage  1 Jul 1669  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Joseph Bolles | F907 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Mary Howell | F907 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Zipporah Wheeler

    Birth  19 Nov 1648  Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  6 Jun 1678  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Father  Thomas Wheeler | F911 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Mary Beckley | F911 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Mary Bolles

    Birth  Abt 1673  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  6 Jun 1678  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Male
    Joseph Bolles

    Birth  Abt 1675  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  6 Jun 1678  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Male
    + John Bolles

    Birth  Aug 1677  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  7 Jan 1767  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Spouse  Sarah Edgecombe | F896 
    Marriage  3 Jul 1699  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location


  • Notes 
    • Montville: Zipporah Wheeler of Groton, married 1 July 1669. "On the evening of June 6, 1678, while Thomas Bolles was absent from home, Mary and Joseph, with their mother, Zipporah, were murdered by a boy named John Stoddard. The wife and two eldest childdren were found dead, weltering in their own blood, with the infant, not a year old, wailing, but unhurt, by the side of its mother The perpetrator of this bloody deed was a vagrant youth, of uncontrolled passion, who had demanded of the wife shelter and lodging in the house, but was refused. Some angry words ensued, and the diabolical boy, seizing the axe that lay at the wood pile, rushed in and took awful vengeance on his victims. He soon afterwards confessed..." and was tried, convicted and executed at Hartford 9 Oct. 1678.

      From "History of Montville, Connecticut, formerly the North Parish of New London," by Henry A. Baker. [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S95] Baker, Henry A., History of Montville, Connecticut : formerly the north parish of New London from 1640 to 1896, (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn, 1896).