Note: John perished at sea off of Cape Cod. Since his death notice said he was frozen to death, it appears his body was found and recovered, in which case he was likely buried here in Stoughton, Mass. where he lived with his wife. His property became a part of the town of Canton in 1797. Note that the surname of the subject is usually given as McFadden, whereas the surname of his two sons is usually given as Fadden.
John was the oldest of seven children born to James McFadden and Rebecca Pierce of Georgetown, Maine. He was a mariner. This memorialist has seen no hard evidence that the John McFadden from Georgetown Maine is the same as the one of that name who married in Stoughton, Mass. on 12 April 1751 to Grace LISCOM, but the circumstantial evidence is strong. John and Grace had only two children before she remarried in 1758, so we know her husband died within a few years before then, and this coincides with the death at sea of the John McFadden from Georgetown. John's death was recorded in a compilation of newspaper extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, which pulled the following item from the Boston Gazette: "McFadden, John, master of a wood sloop from the Eastward, wrecked and frozen to death on Cape Cod. issue Mar. 25, 1755. Gaz."
John's wife, Grace LISCOM, b. Stoughton 14 Aug 1732, d. 1823, was the daughter of John Liscom and Joanna Leonard of Stoughton. Following John's death, Grace married in Stoughton (recorded in Sharon), Mass. 24 Aug 1758 Comfort WHYTON/WHITING, b. 1736, d. 1823, a mariner from Hingham, Mass. Grace had eleven children with her second husband.
John had two children with Grace before his premature death. They were:
* James, b. early in 1752, m. Stoughton 13 Aug 1772 Mehetible WENTWORTH. The relationship between James and his father was expressed in the Boston Transcript, perhaps the work of the noted genealogist, G. Andrews Moriarty.
* John, likely the one baptized at Milton, Mass 18 March 1753, where the Milton Church baptismal record reads "John, son of John McFadden by virtue of his wife's owning the Cov't at Dorchester" (NEHGR 24:43 [1870]). He is likely the one of his name whose marriage intention appeared in Stoughton, Mass. on 11 Feb 1775 to Mary BILLINGS. Very soon after this date, John Fadden became heavily involved as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and his service was extensive. What happened concerning his marriage is not certain, but his wife appears to have either died, or else they were divorced. Supporting the latter theory is the record of the marriage of a Mary Fadden of Stoughton who married 4 March 1787 Ozias Whiting. As for John, it appears that he remarried during the war, In Albany, NY on 4 December 1778 to Catharine Amanda Van Der WERKEN, b. c. 1759, d. Noyan, Quebec 19 Feb 1849, of a Dutch family. Did he just abandon his first wife, with no intention of returning to Massachusetts? John had many children with Catharine, and lived in both New York and Vermont. In 1790 he is enumerated on the federal census in Albany, New York, under the name "John Fadon", apparently living with wife, four sons and one daughter. John applied for a pension on 28 March 1818, based on his war service, and in a 12 June 1820 document he called himself a resident of Franklin County, Vermont, aged 66. He died in Albany, New York on 29 July 1825, and on 18 July 1837 his widow, Catherine, applied for a pension in Grand Isle County, Vermont, she being 78 years old at the time. Also on that date, a son of John, James Fadden, of Caldwells Manor in the Province of Lower Canada, made an affidavit and provided significant information about himself and his siblings. The pension file for John Fadden is 39 pages in length, and available on the Fold-3 website. John Fadden had a child with his first wife, Mary: John, b. Stoughton (birth found in Canton records) 18 Nov 1776. The children of John and Catherine were: (1) Margaret "Peggy", b. c. 1780, d. 1817; (2) James, b. Albany, NY 15 Mar 1782, living 18 July 1837 when he made an affidavit; (3) Comfort William, b. Albany, NY 2 Aug 1784, d. Clinton Co., NY 25 Apr 1874; (4) child whose name is illegible in brother's affidavit, b. 25 April 1789; (5) child, name illegible, b. 9 Sep 1792; (6) Joseph, b. 13 March 1795; and (7) Caty, b. 16 March 1798.
John was the oldest of seven children born to James McFadden and Rebecca Pierce of Georgetown, Maine. He was a mariner. This memorialist has seen no hard evidence that the John McFadden from Georgetown Maine is the same as the one of that name who married in Stoughton, Mass. on 12 April 1751 to Grace LISCOM, but the circumstantial evidence is strong. John and Grace had only two children before she remarried in 1758, so we know her husband died within a few years before then, and this coincides with the death at sea of the John McFadden from Georgetown. John's death was recorded in a compilation of newspaper extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, which pulled the following item from the Boston Gazette: "McFadden, John, master of a wood sloop from the Eastward, wrecked and frozen to death on Cape Cod. issue Mar. 25, 1755. Gaz."
John's wife, Grace LISCOM, b. Stoughton 14 Aug 1732, d. 1823, was the daughter of John Liscom and Joanna Leonard of Stoughton. Following John's death, Grace married in Stoughton (recorded in Sharon), Mass. 24 Aug 1758 Comfort WHYTON/WHITING, b. 1736, d. 1823, a mariner from Hingham, Mass. Grace had eleven children with her second husband.
John had two children with Grace before his premature death. They were:
* James, b. early in 1752, m. Stoughton 13 Aug 1772 Mehetible WENTWORTH. The relationship between James and his father was expressed in the Boston Transcript, perhaps the work of the noted genealogist, G. Andrews Moriarty.
* John, likely the one baptized at Milton, Mass 18 March 1753, where the Milton Church baptismal record reads "John, son of John McFadden by virtue of his wife's owning the Cov't at Dorchester" (NEHGR 24:43 [1870]). He is likely the one of his name whose marriage intention appeared in Stoughton, Mass. on 11 Feb 1775 to Mary BILLINGS. Very soon after this date, John Fadden became heavily involved as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and his service was extensive. What happened concerning his marriage is not certain, but his wife appears to have either died, or else they were divorced. Supporting the latter theory is the record of the marriage of a Mary Fadden of Stoughton who married 4 March 1787 Ozias Whiting. As for John, it appears that he remarried during the war, In Albany, NY on 4 December 1778 to Catharine Amanda Van Der WERKEN, b. c. 1759, d. Noyan, Quebec 19 Feb 1849, of a Dutch family. Did he just abandon his first wife, with no intention of returning to Massachusetts? John had many children with Catharine, and lived in both New York and Vermont. In 1790 he is enumerated on the federal census in Albany, New York, under the name "John Fadon", apparently living with wife, four sons and one daughter. John applied for a pension on 28 March 1818, based on his war service, and in a 12 June 1820 document he called himself a resident of Franklin County, Vermont, aged 66. He died in Albany, New York on 29 July 1825, and on 18 July 1837 his widow, Catherine, applied for a pension in Grand Isle County, Vermont, she being 78 years old at the time. Also on that date, a son of John, James Fadden, of Caldwells Manor in the Province of Lower Canada, made an affidavit and provided significant information about himself and his siblings. The pension file for John Fadden is 39 pages in length, and available on the Fold-3 website. John Fadden had a child with his first wife, Mary: John, b. Stoughton (birth found in Canton records) 18 Nov 1776. The children of John and Catherine were: (1) Margaret "Peggy", b. c. 1780, d. 1817; (2) James, b. Albany, NY 15 Mar 1782, living 18 July 1837 when he made an affidavit; (3) Comfort William, b. Albany, NY 2 Aug 1784, d. Clinton Co., NY 25 Apr 1874; (4) child whose name is illegible in brother's affidavit, b. 25 April 1789; (5) child, name illegible, b. 9 Sep 1792; (6) Joseph, b. 13 March 1795; and (7) Caty, b. 16 March 1798.
Note: John perished at sea off of Cape Cod. Since his death notice said he was frozen to death, it appears his body was found and recovered, in which case he was likely buried here in Stoughton, Mass. where he lived with his wife. His property became a part of the town of Canton in 1797. Note that the surname of the subject is usually given as McFadden, whereas the surname of his two sons is usually given as Fadden.
John was the oldest of seven children born to James McFadden and Rebecca Pierce of Georgetown, Maine. He was a mariner. This memorialist has seen no hard evidence that the John McFadden from Georgetown Maine is the same as the one of that name who married in Stoughton, Mass. on 12 April 1751 to Grace LISCOM, but the circumstantial evidence is strong. John and Grace had only two children before she remarried in 1758, so we know her husband died within a few years before then, and this coincides with the death at sea of the John McFadden from Georgetown. John's death was recorded in a compilation of newspaper extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, which pulled the following item from the Boston Gazette: "McFadden, John, master of a wood sloop from the Eastward, wrecked and frozen to death on Cape Cod. issue Mar. 25, 1755. Gaz."
John's wife, Grace LISCOM, b. Stoughton 14 Aug 1732, d. 1823, was the daughter of John Liscom and Joanna Leonard of Stoughton. Following John's death, Grace married in Stoughton (recorded in Sharon), Mass. 24 Aug 1758 Comfort WHYTON/WHITING, b. 1736, d. 1823, a mariner from Hingham, Mass. Grace had eleven children with her second husband.
John had two children with Grace before his premature death. They were:
* James, b. early in 1752, m. Stoughton 13 Aug 1772 Mehetible WENTWORTH. The relationship between James and his father was expressed in the Boston Transcript, perhaps the work of the noted genealogist, G. Andrews Moriarty.
* John, likely the one baptized at Milton, Mass 18 March 1753, where the Milton Church baptismal record reads "John, son of John McFadden by virtue of his wife's owning the Cov't at Dorchester" (NEHGR 24:43 [1870]). He is likely the one of his name whose marriage intention appeared in Stoughton, Mass. on 11 Feb 1775 to Mary BILLINGS. Very soon after this date, John Fadden became heavily involved as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and his service was extensive. What happened concerning his marriage is not certain, but his wife appears to have either died, or else they were divorced. Supporting the latter theory is the record of the marriage of a Mary Fadden of Stoughton who married 4 March 1787 Ozias Whiting. As for John, it appears that he remarried during the war, In Albany, NY on 4 December 1778 to Catharine Amanda Van Der WERKEN, b. c. 1759, d. Noyan, Quebec 19 Feb 1849, of a Dutch family. Did he just abandon his first wife, with no intention of returning to Massachusetts? John had many children with Catharine, and lived in both New York and Vermont. In 1790 he is enumerated on the federal census in Albany, New York, under the name "John Fadon", apparently living with wife, four sons and one daughter. John applied for a pension on 28 March 1818, based on his war service, and in a 12 June 1820 document he called himself a resident of Franklin County, Vermont, aged 66. He died in Albany, New York on 29 July 1825, and on 18 July 1837 his widow, Catherine, applied for a pension in Grand Isle County, Vermont, she being 78 years old at the time. Also on that date, a son of John, James Fadden, of Caldwells Manor in the Province of Lower Canada, made an affidavit and provided significant information about himself and his siblings. The pension file for John Fadden is 39 pages in length, and available on the Fold-3 website. John Fadden had a child with his first wife, Mary: John, b. Stoughton (birth found in Canton records) 18 Nov 1776. The children of John and Catherine were: (1) Margaret "Peggy", b. c. 1780, d. 1817; (2) James, b. Albany, NY 15 Mar 1782, living 18 July 1837 when he made an affidavit; (3) Comfort William, b. Albany, NY 2 Aug 1784, d. Clinton Co., NY 25 Apr 1874; (4) child whose name is illegible in brother's affidavit, b. 25 April 1789; (5) child, name illegible, b. 9 Sep 1792; (6) Joseph, b. 13 March 1795; and (7) Caty, b. 16 March 1798.
John was the oldest of seven children born to James McFadden and Rebecca Pierce of Georgetown, Maine. He was a mariner. This memorialist has seen no hard evidence that the John McFadden from Georgetown Maine is the same as the one of that name who married in Stoughton, Mass. on 12 April 1751 to Grace LISCOM, but the circumstantial evidence is strong. John and Grace had only two children before she remarried in 1758, so we know her husband died within a few years before then, and this coincides with the death at sea of the John McFadden from Georgetown. John's death was recorded in a compilation of newspaper extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, which pulled the following item from the Boston Gazette: "McFadden, John, master of a wood sloop from the Eastward, wrecked and frozen to death on Cape Cod. issue Mar. 25, 1755. Gaz."
John's wife, Grace LISCOM, b. Stoughton 14 Aug 1732, d. 1823, was the daughter of John Liscom and Joanna Leonard of Stoughton. Following John's death, Grace married in Stoughton (recorded in Sharon), Mass. 24 Aug 1758 Comfort WHYTON/WHITING, b. 1736, d. 1823, a mariner from Hingham, Mass. Grace had eleven children with her second husband.
John had two children with Grace before his premature death. They were:
* James, b. early in 1752, m. Stoughton 13 Aug 1772 Mehetible WENTWORTH. The relationship between James and his father was expressed in the Boston Transcript, perhaps the work of the noted genealogist, G. Andrews Moriarty.
* John, likely the one baptized at Milton, Mass 18 March 1753, where the Milton Church baptismal record reads "John, son of John McFadden by virtue of his wife's owning the Cov't at Dorchester" (NEHGR 24:43 [1870]). He is likely the one of his name whose marriage intention appeared in Stoughton, Mass. on 11 Feb 1775 to Mary BILLINGS. Very soon after this date, John Fadden became heavily involved as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and his service was extensive. What happened concerning his marriage is not certain, but his wife appears to have either died, or else they were divorced. Supporting the latter theory is the record of the marriage of a Mary Fadden of Stoughton who married 4 March 1787 Ozias Whiting. As for John, it appears that he remarried during the war, In Albany, NY on 4 December 1778 to Catharine Amanda Van Der WERKEN, b. c. 1759, d. Noyan, Quebec 19 Feb 1849, of a Dutch family. Did he just abandon his first wife, with no intention of returning to Massachusetts? John had many children with Catharine, and lived in both New York and Vermont. In 1790 he is enumerated on the federal census in Albany, New York, under the name "John Fadon", apparently living with wife, four sons and one daughter. John applied for a pension on 28 March 1818, based on his war service, and in a 12 June 1820 document he called himself a resident of Franklin County, Vermont, aged 66. He died in Albany, New York on 29 July 1825, and on 18 July 1837 his widow, Catherine, applied for a pension in Grand Isle County, Vermont, she being 78 years old at the time. Also on that date, a son of John, James Fadden, of Caldwells Manor in the Province of Lower Canada, made an affidavit and provided significant information about himself and his siblings. The pension file for John Fadden is 39 pages in length, and available on the Fold-3 website. John Fadden had a child with his first wife, Mary: John, b. Stoughton (birth found in Canton records) 18 Nov 1776. The children of John and Catherine were: (1) Margaret "Peggy", b. c. 1780, d. 1817; (2) James, b. Albany, NY 15 Mar 1782, living 18 July 1837 when he made an affidavit; (3) Comfort William, b. Albany, NY 2 Aug 1784, d. Clinton Co., NY 25 Apr 1874; (4) child whose name is illegible in brother's affidavit, b. 25 April 1789; (5) child, name illegible, b. 9 Sep 1792; (6) Joseph, b. 13 March 1795; and (7) Caty, b. 16 March 1798.
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