Joseph Briscoe
Drowned at Boston on 1 Jan 1657/8; Rev. John Wilson wrote a printed elegy on him built on the anagram "Job cries hopes". Probably the son of William Briscoe baptized at Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1627, the husband of Abigail Compton (married at Boston in 1651/2) and the father of Joseph Briscoe, born in 1658.
Life
- 1627Bornbp. 19 Aug 1627, Watford, Hertfordshire, England
"Joseph, Sonne of William and Jane Briscoe—19" (St Mary, Watford, register, as printed in NEHGR 178:11).
- 1651Married Abigail Compton30 Jan 1651/2, Boston, Massachusetts
Before the magistrate William Hibbins. Boston's record reads "Joseph Brisco was married to Abigail Compton dau. of John Compton 30th — 11th mo. by William Hibbins" (RC 9).
- 1657Died1 Jan 1657/8, Boston, Massachusetts
Drowned (RC 9:61). Wilson's elegy dates his death "Jan. 1. 1657."
Family
- Father
- Mother
- Jane Briscoe
His baptism names his parents as William and Jane Briscoe (Watford register, as printed in NEHGR 178:11).
Pedigree
Notes
His only known child, Joseph, was born on 21 Aug 1658, more than seven months after he drowned (NEHGR 178:6, 26).
Rev. John Wilson, pastor of Boston’s First Church and his father’s first cousin, wrote a broadside elegy for him, “A Copy of Verses … On the sudden Death of Mr. Joseph Brisco,” printed at Cambridge by Samuel Green and built on the anagram “Job cries hopes” (NEHGR 178:6). It names the cause of death: “Not by a Fiery Chariot as Elisha was, / But by the Water, which was the outward cause.” Written in Joseph’s voice, it goes on: “What if I was so soon in Waters drown’d, / And when I cry’d to men, no help I found” (broadside, Library of Congress).
Connections
- In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Joseph's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.