Lucy Forbush

(20 September 1751 - 8 May 1837)
Lucy Forbush|b. 20 Sep 1751\nd. 8 May 1837|p1068.htm|Aaron Forbush Junior|b. 31 Oct 1722\nd. probably before 1790|p1230.htm|Sarah Lamson|b. 1721\nd. 21 Nov 1808|p1223.htm|Aaron Forbush|b. 3 Apr 1693\nd. 1752|p1228.htm|Susana Morse|b. 1698|p1229.htm|Thomas Lamson|b. 3 Jan 1682/83\nd. Jul 1767|p1210.htm|Abigail Faulkner|b. 12 Aug 1683\nd. 26 Dec 1746|p1217.htm|

5-greats-grandmother of Darrell Allen Martin.
Lucy was born in Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on 20 September 1751.1,2,3 She was the daughter of Aaron Forbush Junior and Sarah Lamson. She was "of" Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on 8 November 1769.4 She married Paul Knowlton in Hardwick, Mass., on 8 November 1769.5,6,7 Lucy was probably in Paul Knowlton's household in the 1790 Census taken in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.8 After her husband's death in 1799, she joined the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts church, 1800. Lucy was a head of family, as "Lucy Knowlton", age 45 and up, in the 1800 Census taken in Shrewsbury, Mass..9 Lucy was a head of family, as "Lucy Knowlton", age 45 and over, in the 1810 Census taken in Shrewsbury, Mass..10 Lucy died on 8 May 1837 in Shrewsbury, Mass., at age 85.11
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Pedigree of Darrell Allen Martin

Children of Lucy Forbush and Paul Knowlton

Cited documentation

  1. [S130] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy. The descendants of Daniel Forbush, who came from Scotland about the year 1655, and settled in Marlborough, Mass., in 1675 (Chicago: Published for the Author, 1892), pg. 36, children of Aaron Forbush "Res., Hardwick, Mass." and Sarah Lamson, "iii. LUCY, b. Sept. 20, 1751."
  2. [S128] Trustee, Systematic History Fund Franklin P. Rice., Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Systematic History Fund, 1904), pg. 262, deaths, "KNOWLTON ... Lucy, May 8, 1837, a. 85."
  3. [S229] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Hardwick to 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1917), Forbush/Furbush births, pg. 45, "Lucy, d. of Aaron and Sarah, Sept. 20, 1751."
  4. [S128] Trustee, Systematic History Fund Franklin P. Rice, Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, pg. 151, "FORBUSH ... Lucy of Hardwick" and pg. 181 "Lucy Forbush of Hardwick."
  5. [S128] Trustee, Systematic History Fund Franklin P. Rice, Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, pg. 151, marriages, "FORBUSH ... Lucy ... and Paul Knowlton, Nov. 8, 1769. In Hardwick" and pg. 181, marriages, "KNOWLTON ... Paul and Lucy Forbush ... Nov. 8, 1769. In Hardwick."
  6. [S130] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy. The descendants of Daniel Forbush, who came from Scotland about the year 1655, and settled in Marlborough, Mass., in 1675, pg. 36, "LUCY ... m. Nov. 8, 1769, Paul Knowlton."
  7. [S229] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Hardwick to 1850, Marriages, "FORBUSH (see Firrobush, Furbush), Lucy and Paul Knowlton of Shrewsbury, Nov. 8, 1769."
  8. [S124] Knowlton, Paul, 1790 US Census, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; NARA M637 Roll 4, pg. 238.
  9. [S125] Knowlton, Lucy, 1800 US Census, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; NARA M32 Roll 16, pg. 370.
  10. [S127] Knowlton, Lucy, 1810 US Census, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; NARA M252 Roll 22, pg. 2.
  11. [S128] Trustee, Systematic History Fund Franklin P. Rice, Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, pg. 262, deaths, "KNOWLTON ... Lucy, May 8, 1837."
 
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