Caleb SILVESTER
- BIRTH: 14 Dec 1719; Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts (now part of USA)
Father: Amos SILVESTER
Mother: Elizabeth HENCHMAN
Family 1: Desire STETSON
- MARRIAGE: 1 Nov 1750; Hanover, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts (now part of USA)
- CHILDREN:
- Desire SYLVESTER
- Caleb SYLVESTER
- Desire SYLVESTER
- Henchman SYLVESTER
- Lillie Turner SYLVESTER
- Grace SYLVESTER
- Joseph SYLVESTER
- Celia SYLVESTER
- Lucinda SYLVESTER
_Richard SILVESTER _
_Joseph SILVESTER _|
| |_Naomi // __________
_Amos SILVESTER _____|
| | _William BARSTOW____
| |_Mary BARSTOW _____|
| |_Anna HUBBARD_______
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|--Caleb SILVESTER
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| _Joseph HENCHMAN___|
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|_Elizabeth HENCHMAN _|
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Notes
Updated December 25, 2024. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records via Ancestry.com: Scituate.
"Caleb [SILVESTER], s. Amos [s. Amoss and Elizabeth, C.R.2.], Dec. 14, 1719"
(2) The New England Historical & Genealogical Register via Ancestry.com
- Name: Caleb SILVESTER
- Event Type: Birth
- Birth Date: 14 Dec 1719
- Birth Place: USA
- Page number: 127
- Volume Number: 086
(3) Genealogies of Mayflower Families, Vol. III via Ancestry.com: "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of His Descendants."
"Caleb-4 SILVESTER (Amos-3, Capt. Joseph-2, Richard-1), of Hanover, was born at Scituate 14 Dec. 1719. He married, 1 Nov. 1750, Desire STETSON of Hanover, daughter of Benjamin STETSON. For some years after his mariage he lived on what is now Main Street in Hanover; and he is said to have lived later at Townsend, probably with his son Caleb. Children, born probably at Hanover: i. Desire... ii. Caleb... iii. Desire... iv. Henchman... v. Lillie Turner... vi. Grace... vii. Joseph... viii. Celia... ix. Lucinda..."
(4) Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, Vol. II Hanover via Ancestry.com.
"Caleb SYLVESTER & Desire STETSON, Nov. 1, 1750"
(5) A genealogical and biographical sketch of the name and family of Stetson via Ancestry.com: Page 50 "Capt. Benjamin of Scituate"
Desire [STETSON; dau of Benjamin STESTON and Lillis // of Hanover, son of Captain Benjamin STESTON], "bap. Aug. 10, 1729. m. Caleb SYLVESTER, Nov. 1, 1750."
(6) Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 362