Family: Thomas Bolles / Zipporah Wheeler (F905)
m. 1 Jul 1669-
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Thomas Bolles
Birth 1 Dec 1644 Wells, York, ME Death 26 May 1727 New London, New London, CT Burial Marriage 1 Jul 1669 New London, New London, CT Father Joseph Bolles | F907 Group Sheet Mother Mary Howell | F907 Group Sheet
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Zipporah Wheeler
Birth 19 Nov 1648 Salem, Essex, MA Death 6 Jun 1678 New London, New London, CT Burial Father Thomas Wheeler | F911 Group Sheet Mother Mary Beckley | F911 Group Sheet
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Mary Bolles
Birth Abt 1673 New London, New London, CT Death 6 Jun 1678 New London, New London, CT Burial
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Joseph Bolles
Birth Abt 1675 New London, New London, CT Death 6 Jun 1678 New London, New London, CT Burial
Male
+ John Bolles
Birth Aug 1677 New London, New London, CT Death 7 Jan 1767 New London, New London, CT Burial Spouse Sarah Edgecombe | F896 Marriage 3 Jul 1699 New London, New London, CT
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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]
- 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.
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Sources - [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).
- [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).