Ancestry of
Joseph Capen

(1658–1725)

Joseph Capen

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Capen 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bass   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Dec 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 2 Jan 1658/1659 
  • Christening Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1725 
  • Death Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 

• Marriages for Joseph Capen

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  • Spouse:
  • Priscilla Appleton
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1684

• Sources for Joseph Capen

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.2, p. 22.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Capen (m. 1637), p. 5.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/30/2012).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester Births, Vol. 1, p. 6.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 210.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield Births, Vol. 1, p. 22, Baptism for daughter Mary Capen.
  • ⁷ Appleton, William Sumner, A Rough Sketch of the Appleton Genealogy, Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1873), 5.
  • ⁸ Bass, Charissa Taylor, Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass, Freeport, IL: Privately printed (1940), 8.
  • ⁹ Hayden, Rev. Charles Albert and Jessie Hale Tuttle, The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass., Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House (1929), 16, 20-21.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 566.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 814.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 467, 473.