Deacon David Wadsworth

1764 -

• Name	David Wadsworth
  Title	Deacon
  Birth	25 Dec 1764	Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Notes	In 1774, at the age of 10, David was a member of William Billings' Sacred Music School in Stoughton, David is listed under the heading,"Singers of Counter."(possibly todays equivalant of Alto). By 1786 he was a member of the Stoughton Musical Society. David was a charter member of the Rising Star Lodge F. & A.M Dec 1799 and present at the first meeting in Stoughton,Mass in January 1800 (also present was Paul Revere) where he was elected Senior Deacon. Today it is one of the oldest Masonic Lodges in Massachusetts. David moved to Vermont about 1810, from Stoughton,MA where he was a farmer. In the fall of 1831 he moved with his wife and widowed daughter, Lucy (and two children), to Mt.Vernon, Ohio where his children Samuel, David, and Azuba already resided. May have had two other children: Eliza (d.y.) and Eleanor(1808-1832)
  Person ID	I255	OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Recompense Wadsworth,   b. 12 Feb 1729, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Aug 1798, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Abigail Lyon,   b. 29 May 1741, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
  Marriage	21 Feb 1760	Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F199	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor Capen,   b. 18 Jun 1763, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 02 Sep 1832, Wayne, Knox Co., Ohio, USA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	15 May 1788	Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Wadsworth,   b. 24 Jun 1789, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. Abt 1860, Hardin, Johnson Co., Iowa, USA (Age 70 years) + 2. Azuba Wadsworth,   b. 28 Oct 1791, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Jan 1852, Quincy, Branch Co., Michigan, USA (Age 60 years) + 3. Milly Wadsworth,   b. 21 Aug 1795, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 04 Dec 1839, Dansville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 44 years) + 4. Lucy Wadsworth,   b. 17 Sep 1797, Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 9 Jun 1842, Wayne, Knox Co., Ohio, USA (Age 44 years) + 5. Doctor David Wadsworth,   b. 8 Jun 1800, Canton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 1831, Knox Co., Ohio, USA (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F99	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Dec 1764 - Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 15 May 1788 - Stoughton, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  David Wadsworth, 1835 - Pride and Ostentation Transcribed poem written and read by David Wadsworth in Fredericktown Ohio 1835, it was published in the Bath,NY Steuben Advocate, 1883.