Martha Close, 17141813 (aged 98 years)

Name
Martha /Close/
Birth
Marriage
Death of a brother
Note: Died young.
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
Death of a mother
Note: Estimate
Marriage of a parent
Note: She was a widow, and looks to have been maried at least twice before marrying Benjamin; Scofield and Brown.

She was a widow, and looks to have been maried at least twice before marrying Benjamin; Scofield and Brown.

Married as the widow of Joseph Brown.

Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Note
Note: John Baxter sold his Greenwich estate, wife Martha joining in the deed, 15 November 1750, and removed to North Salem, where their three youngest children were baptised in the Church of Christ (Episcopal).
Birth of a son
Death of a brother
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
Death of a sister
Note: Estimate
Death of a father
Death of a half-brother
Death of a brother
Death of a son
Note: Died of wounds received during the revolutionary war. No record as to where he received the wounds at this time. Is listed on applications for the American Revolutionary War.
Burial of a son
Note: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=134121556
Death of a husband
Burial of a husband
Note: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Baxter&GSiman=1&GScid=64985&GRid=134122141&
Death of a brother
Note: Benjamin was a Loyalist, sent within the British lines in 1778, and died there at Long Island in 1782.
Death of a son
Death of a brother
Death of a daughter
Death of a son
Burial of a son
Note: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21701019
Death of a daughter
Death of a son
Burial of a son
Note: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21701076
Death of a son
Burial of a son
Note: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21701142
Note
Note: The Close Family according to Daniel M Mead in his book A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut published in 1857.
Death
Note: Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

Name: Martha Baxter
Death Date: 4 Jun 1813
Death Place: Newtown, Connecticut, USA

Burial
Note: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21701027
Family with parents
father
1857: Close Family (page 1)
16791759
Birth: 18 May 1679Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about March 1759Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
mother
16841734
Birth: about 1684Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: before 1734Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Marriage Marriageabout 1711Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
14 months
elder brother
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17121782
Birth: 6 March 1712Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 25 January 1782Long Island City, Queens County, New York, America
3 years
herself
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17141813
Birth: 26 October 1714Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 4 June 1813Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
23 months
younger sister
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17161758
Birth: 19 September 1716Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: after 1758Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
17 months
younger brother
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17181795
Birth: 9 February 1718Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about 1795Florida, Orange County, New York, America
2 years
younger brother
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17201754
Birth: 3 February 1720Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 22 February 1754Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
2 years
younger brother
17221733
Birth: 5 May 1722Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: between 1723 and 1733America
2 years
younger brother
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17241770
Birth: 31 July 1724Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about December 1770Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
3 years
younger sister
1857: Close Family (page 1)
1727
Birth: 22 April 1727Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Father’s family with Ruth Slater
father
1857: Close Family (page 1)
16791759
Birth: 18 May 1679Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about March 1759Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
stepmother
1694
Birth: 13 March 1694Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, America
Marriage Marriage17 May 1734Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
10 months
half-brother
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17351770
Birth: 6 March 1735Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 4 November 1770Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Family with John Baxter
husband
17061778
Birth: about 1706Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about 1778North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
herself
1857: Close Family (page 1)
17141813
Birth: 26 October 1714Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 4 June 1813Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Marriage Marriage25 January 1731Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
23 months
son
17321809
Birth: 16 December 1732Horseneck, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 5 February 1809North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
3 months
daughter
17331802
Birth: 11 March 1733Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about June 1802North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
4 years
son
1736
Birth: about 1736Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
3 years
son
17391809
Birth: 22 April 1739Horseneck, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 20 February 1809North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
3 years
son
1741
Birth: about 1741Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
3 years
daughter
1743
Birth: about 1743Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
3 years
daughter
17451808
Birth: about 1745Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 10 April 1808Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
3 years
son
17471782
Birth: about 1747Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: about 1782Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
3 years
son
17491777
Birth: about 1749Fairfield County, Connecticut, America
Death: 27 February 1777New York, America
3 years
son
17511806
Birth: about 1751North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
Death: 25 June 1806North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
4 years
son
17541820
Birth: about 1754North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
Death: 28 February 1820North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
2 years
son
1755
Birth: after 1755North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
2 years
daughter
17561829
Birth: about 1756North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
Death: 16 July 1829North Salem, Westchester County, New York, America
Birth
Marriage
Note
Note

John Baxter sold his Greenwich estate, wife Martha joining in the deed, 15 November 1750, and removed to North Salem, where their three youngest children were baptised in the Church of Christ (Episcopal).

Note

The Close Family according to Daniel M Mead in his book A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut published in 1857.

Death

Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

Name: Martha Baxter
Death Date: 4 Jun 1813
Death Place: Newtown, Connecticut, USA

Burial

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