Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . till living,at home. HON. WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Forbes (l), the immigrant ancestor of Will-iam Trowbridge Forbes, judge of probate of Wor-cester county, was probably born at Kinellar, Scot-land, about 1620. It is thought that he wa< oneof the Scotch prisoners of war taken at the battleof Dunbar, September 3, 1650, eight thousand ofwhom were sent to the English colonies. In theearly town records his name and that of his. de-s
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . till living,at home. HON. WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Forbes (l), the immigrant ancestor of Will-iam Trowbridge Forbes, judge of probate of Wor-cester county, was probably born at Kinellar, Scot-land, about 1620. It is thought that he wa< oneof the Scotch prisoners of war taken at the battleof Dunbar, September 3, 1650, eight thousand ofwhom were sent to the English colonies. In theearly town records his name and that of his. de-scendants is spelled variously: Forbes, Farrabas,Farrowbush. Forbush, Furbish, Farebush, etc., andthe name Forbes is still pronounced in Scotlandwith two syllables. In Burkes Heraldry it isstated that the surname of Forbes was assumedfrom the lands of Forbes, county; Aberdeen, Scot-land, granted by Alexander II in 1249 to the pro-genitor of this noble family. Daniel Forbes wasin the employ of Edmund Angler, to whom heconveyed land granted him by the town of Cam-bridge, Massachusetts. He removed from Cam-bridge to Concord and thence to Marlboro, where. S.^ ^j/-^- -p. WORCESTER COUNTY 353 he died October, 1687. lie married at Cambridge,March 26 or 27, 1660, Rebecca Perriman, supposedto have been a sister of Tliomas Perriman, of VVey-niouth, and of Frances Perriman, who married, 1654,Isaac Andrew, of Cambridge. His lirsl wife diedMay 3, 1677, and he married (second), May 23,1679, ijeborab, of Concord, born 1652, daughter ofJohn and Ann Rediat of Sudbury. She married(second) Alexander Stewart. He had tight chil-Jren; Daniel, Thomas, EHzabelh, Rebecca, Sanuiel,John, Isaac, Jonathan. (II) Deacon Jonathan Forbes, son of Daniel(l), born in iMarlborough, Massachusetts, March 12,1684, died at Westborough, an adjoining town,March 24, 1768. He was prosperous, owning a saw-nill and large tracts of land; was constable, of town meetings and selectman of the town,nid deacon of Westbo
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