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Joseph Bolles

Male Abt 1675 - 1678  (3 years)


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  • Name Joseph Bolles 
    Birth Abt 1675  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Jun 1678  New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3095  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
    Last Modified 24 Feb 2006 

    Father Thomas Bolles,   b. 1 Dec 1644, Wells, York, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 1727, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Mother Zipporah Wheeler,   b. 19 Nov 1648, Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jun 1678, New London, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Marriage 1 Jul 1669  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]
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    Family ID F905  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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).