. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. of Watertown, in addition to thehomestead, and on his death. May 11, 1726,the homestead, under his will, went to hisbrother Henry. Nathaniel Bright was mar-ried July 26, 1681, to Mary, daughter of Sam-uel and Hannah (Barron) Coolidge, andgranddaughter of Ellis Barron, of Watertown,and they had ten children born between theyears 1682 and 1698. Of these, Mary mar-ried Deacon Thomas Livermore, of Waltham,in 1704; Henry married Margaret Jackson,of Newton: John married Re
. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. of Watertown, in addition to thehomestead, and on his death. May 11, 1726,the homestead, under his will, went to hisbrother Henry. Nathaniel Bright was mar-ried July 26, 1681, to Mary, daughter of Sam-uel and Hannah (Barron) Coolidge, andgranddaughter of Ellis Barron, of Watertown,and they had ten children born between theyears 1682 and 1698. Of these, Mary mar-ried Deacon Thomas Livermore, of Waltham,in 1704; Henry married Margaret Jackson,of Newton: John married Rebecca Wain; Jo-seph married Elizabeth Elliot; Hannah mar-ried Jonas Bond; Abigail married JohnBrown; Mercy married John Coolidge, 1726. (III) Nathaniel Bright, son of Nathanieland Mary (Coolidge) Bright, was born inWatertown, December 28, 1686. He enlargedthe tanyard inherited from his father andadded to the property by purchase. He mar-ried Anna, daughter of Captain Nathaniel andAnn (Barnerd) Bowman, and they had sixchildren: Anne, bom 1715, married DanielBrown, of Lexington, 1736; Nathaniel (q. v.) ; ^OSTo, PU BI 1 c. 1. r MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 765 Hannah, born 1720, died in infancy; Hannah,bom January 15, 1721 (o. s.), married (first)Amos Bond, of Watertown, and (second) ? Wheeler, of Concord; Sarah, barn 1726, married Thomas Clarke; Mary, bornApril, 1731, married David Bemis. NathanielBright, Jr., died in Watertown, December 14, 1737- (IV) Nathaniel Bright, only son of Nath-aniel (1686-1737) and M^ry (Coolidge)Bright, died at the homestead in Watertown,October 21, 1754. He was a tanner. Hemarried Sibil, daughter of Captain Samueland Abigail (Reed) Stone, of Sudbury, and adescendant from Deacon Gregory Stone, ofCambridge and Watertown. (V) John Bright, son of Nathaniel and Sibil(Stone) Bright, was born in Watertown, Feb-ruary 5, 1754. He carried on the tannery,as well as a small farm. His father died in1754, the year of Johns birth, and his mothermarried, in 1757, Samuel White.
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