Killed by indians in Dunstable
Was a cooper
JOSIAH BRACKETT on 4 February 1672/3 at Billerica. He was born at Braintree 8 May 1652, son of Richard' and Alice (Blower) Brackett. He died, perhaps at Braintree, prior to 14 January 168 1/2, when the inventory of his estate was taken. He is said to have been an early settler at Billerica, Mass., but to have left that town about 1675, when it was threatened by the Indians, during King Philip's War. He apparently returned to Braintree. In 1677 he and six other men who had departed the town were ordered by the General Court to pay their war tax at Billerica. The family was at Chelmsford before the return to Braintree: Josiah Brackett was a deacon in the church there. He may have lived on his father's and/or his father-in-law's properties in Billerica and Chelmsford; he does not appear as a grantee or grantor in Middlesex County deeds.
ELIZABETH2 WALDO, the daughter of Cornelius1 and Hannah (Cogswell) Waldo, was born, probably at Ipswich, Massachusetts, circa 1648-. She died 6 November 1742 at Bristol, at the reported age of 94, having outlived all six of her children. As Elizabeth Brackett, wife of Josiah she was dismissed from the Chelmsford church 12 November ~ and admitted to full communion at the Braintree church 31 December 1676. As Mrs. Walker, she was received into the Bristol church prior to 25 June 1695. Her will was signed 23 June 1735 and proved 8 April 1743. In it she mentioned son William Walker; daughter Mary, wife of Edward Little; granddaughters Mary and Elizabeth Little, both under eighteen and unmarried; grandchildren John, Thomas, Sarah, Esther, and Elizabeth Bowen, children of daughter Elizabeth Bowen, deceased; granddaughter Jane Walker of Barbados, daughter of son Thomas Walker, deceased; Sarah Little, under eighteen and unmarried, eldest daughter of Edward Little. Elizabeth Walker was judged non compos mentis 12 March 1741, and Joseph Russell, gentleman of Bristol, was appointed her guardian.