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    1. [MAWORCES] BRIDGES continued part 2
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    3. (IV) Hackaliah BRIDGES, son of Caleb BRIDGES (III) was born in Framingham, Mass. on May 30, 1705 and died Sept. 27, 1739. He settled in Framingham and Southborough, Mass. an adjacent town. He married SARA RUGG, daughter of Jonathan RUGG. Their children, born at Southborough were: James born Sept. 18, 1729, lived at Southboro; Jonathan born Feb. 18, 1730 died Nov. 23, 1736; Nathan born Sept. 13, 1733, married Sarah PARKER in 1755 and Tamar HUDSON in 1757, he died 1809 at Southboro; Sarah born Sept. 7, 1735, married John CHAMBERLAIN; Hackaliah, of whom later; Benjamin born Nov. 26, 1739, lived in Holliston, Mass. and had 5 children (V) Hackaliah BRIDGES, Jr., son of Hackaliah BRIDGES (IV) was born Oct. 11, 1737 at Southborough, Mass. He and several of his father's family settled in Holliston, a town set-off from Sherborn. He is credited with service in the Revolutionary War in Colonel CUSHING's regiment. He married Nov. 29, 1764, at Holliston, Elizabeth UNDERWOOD. Their children were: Milla born July 29, 1765, married 1783 to James HOLBROOK; Jonathan, of whom later; Jemima born Dec. 30, 1768; Betty born June 23, 1770; Sampson born Jan 12, 1772; Ruth born Aug. 12, 1773; Elijah born April 15, 1775; Ede born June 18, 1777; Ziba born NOV. 11, 1778; Uraner born April 4, 1780; Luther born March 20, 1782; Calvin born Oct 29, 1783; Sarah born Dec. 9, 1787. (VI) Jonathan BRIDGES, son of Hackaliah BRIDGES, Jr.(V) was born in Holliston, Mass. on May 15, 1767. He and Timothy BRIDGES, son of Benjamin BRIDGES, brother of Hackaliah, settled in Western Mass., now Warren, Mass. Timothy was born 1765, had 3 children: Baxter, Dexter and Hadasseh, ancestors of many Warren families. Jonathan BRIDGES died early in the year 1825, and Nathan DAY was appointed guardian of his minor children-- Arba, Delia and George who were then over 14 years old. Jonathan bought land at Brookfield, May 8, 1799, of Gersham MAKEPEACE. He bought of Eli and Martha JOHNSON land in Western (Warren), June 30,1800. Various other land he owned in Brookfield and Western with that mentioned were sold under execution the year before he died. He engaged in a freighting business to Boston with one HAMILTON, but this proved a financial failure. Children of Jonathan and Mary BRIDGES were: Arba born 1804, of whom later; Mary Betsey; Delia ; George ; John . Jonathan removed to the South in the forties and has not been heard from since.

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