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Ruth Varnum

Ruth Varnum

Female 1703 - 1771  (67 years)


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  • Name Ruth Varnum  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth 5 Feb 1703  Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4] 
    • Age: 0
    Gender Female 
    Death 1771  Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Burial Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I657  My Tree
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

    Father Joseph Varnum,   b. 15 Mar 1672, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1749, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Ruth Jewett,   b. 21 May 1681, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Nov 1728, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 3 Oct 1697  Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Family ID F177  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James Colburn,   b. 31 Jan 1689, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Aug 1757, Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 4 Dec 1719  Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5, 10] 
    Children 
     1. James Colburn,   b. 7 Nov 1720, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Thomas Colburn,   b. 16 Aug 1723, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Feb 1729, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 5 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Thomas Colburn,   b. 1 Dec 1729, Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1767 (Age 37 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Ruth Colburn,   b. 16 Jul 1732, Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1762, Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Sarah Colburn,   b. 24 Apr 1737  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F175  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

  • Photos
    VARNUM_RUTH_1774_10_11_HEADSTONE    		VARNUM_RUTH_1774_10_11_HEADSTONE
    The broken monument immediately adjacent to the Lieut. James Colburn monument more than likely belongs to Ruth.

  • Sources 
    1. [S365] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Town Birth Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year ;).
      Birth date: Feb 5, 1703
      Birth place: Dracut
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mabirth&h=247806&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

    2. [S69] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Town Marriage Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year ;).
      Marriage date: Dec. 4, 1719
      Marriage place: Dracut
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mamarr&h=111325&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

    3. [S333] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).Original data: Town and C;).
      Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988      		 Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988


    4. [S350] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    5. [S345] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil;).

    6. [S340] Compiled from Family Papers and Officials Records by John Marshall Varnum, of Boston., The Varnums of Dracutt (in Massachusetts): A History of Geroge Varnum, his son Samuel who came to Ipswich about 1635, and grandsons Thomas, John and Joseph, who settled in Dracutt, and their descendants, (Name: David Clapp & Son, Printers; Location: Boston; Date: 1907;), The Varnums of Dracutt, Storage 929.2 VAR.
      Among the very first entries in the records of Dracutt, commemorating an event which occured many years previous, is the announcement, made by John Varnum, borther to Joseph, at that time Town Clerk: "Joseph and Ruth Jouett of Roully was lawfully marrid in Octobear ye 3 day in the year 1697."
      Ruth was the daughter of Capt. Joseph and Ruth (Wood) Jewett, and was born about 1681. Her tombstone in the little burial-ground, near the "Navy Yard" in Dracutt, adjoining the spot where for many years, up to 1900, stood the old Garrison House, the residence of Col. John Varnum, which sheltered in times of apprehended or actual danger the early settlers of the neighborhood recites:
      Here lyes buried ye body of
      Mrs. Ruth Varnum
      wf of Colonel Joseph Varnum
      who dyed November ye 28, 1728,
      In ye -8 year of her age.

    7. [S69] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Town Marriage Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year ;).

    8. [S359] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    9. [S375] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.;), Birth year: 1681; Birth city: Ipswich; Birth state: MA.

    10. [S328] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived;), Source number: 1399.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WVB.


 

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