Anthony Needham^[1]

1696 - 1763  (66 years)

• Name	Anthony Needham  [2]
  Birth	23 Nov 1696	Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Jul 1763	South Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I1277	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	Anthony Needham,   b. 11 Apr 1663, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts d. Abt 1757, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Mary Swinerton   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	3 Jan 1694/95	Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F347	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary (Molly) Moulton,   b. 30 Sep 1702, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts d. Abt 1790, South Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	10 Jun 1722	Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts   [3]
  	Anthony and Molly Needham are said to have gone to Brimfield about 1722, and are said to have been in 1726 the first white settlers of South Brimfield...the name of which was changed in 1828 to Wales in honor of James Lawrence Wales. Absalom Gardner's Compendium of Wales, 1873, p 3224 says "Anthony Needham was one of that band of adventurous pioneers who first made lodgment with a view to permanent settlement in this Town about 1726. He fixed his abode upon what we now call the Orcutt Place...There he lived, there he died". - NEHGR
  Children	1. Mary Needham,   b. 21 Jun 1725, Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. 16 Jun 1799, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2019

  
  

• Notes

  South Brimfield is now Wales

  
  

• Sources

  [S647] Pastor of the Church, Brimfield Church, (Samuel Bowles & Co, Printers, Springfield, Mass 1856), p16 (Reliability: 3). "Nov 22nd 17 1734. We whose names are Underwritten Do own & Acknowledge Our Selves to Be of that persuasion commonly Called anabaptists...Anthony Needham...others". Footnote from same page: "The Needhams lived south of the Moultons on the way to Stafford". [S365] Gary Boyd Roberts (Ed.) and Judith McGhan (Index), Conn Genealogies, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, Md. , 1983; 3v; ill; 23cm ). [S650] New England Historic and Genealogical Society, NEHGR-1, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) ), Needhams of Wales, Mass, and Stafford Conn (Reliability: 3). [S583] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., Mass Marriages, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0761210 (Reliability: 3).