1 William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: a Record of the the Achievements of Her People in the Making of . . ., Vol. 1 , p. 91 (1913).
"(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Twitchell, was an early settler in Sheborn, Massachusetts. He married Lydia -------, who died between 1715 and 1730. He had one hundred acres of the first grants in Sherborn, and June 12, 1682, united with others in paying off the Indian claims. In 1686 he was rated to extinguish the Indian claim to the remainder of the lands. He built his house near Royal Stone's house in Sherborn. Children: Patience, December 2, 1678; Content, January 25, 1680; Charity, December 7, 1682; Sarah, November 15, 1684; Lydia, October 11, 1686; Joseph, mentioned below; Ephraim, October 24, 1695.".
1 William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: a Record of the the Achievements of Her People in the Making of . . ., Vol. 1 , p. 91 (1913).
"(III) Joseph (III) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Twitchell, was born September 3, 1688, died January 31, 1728. He lived in Sherborn, where he was born. He married, March 27, 1717, Elizabeth, born in Sherborn, July 22, 1696, died their March 31, 1782, daughter of John Holbrook, who was born in Sherborn in 1674, died February 28, 1740; he married Silence Wood, born in "Bullard's Fort," February 22, 1675, the day after her father's death, and her mother died a few days later; she died in Sherborn, May 11, 1756; she was daughter of Jonathan Wood, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, January 3, 1651, and killed by the Indians of the bank of the Charles river, February 21, 1675-76. Jonathan Wood was son of Nicholas Wood, freeman of Dorchester, June 2, 1641, who died in Natick Bounds, February 7, 1670; the inventory of his property was dated 1649; he married Mary Williams of Roxbury, died February 19, 1663, daughter of Robert Williams, who came to Roxbury in 1637, was made freeman, May 2, 1638, and is said to have come from Norwich, county Norfolk, England, with wife Elizabeth (Stratton by family tradition), who died July 28, 1674; he died September 1, 1693. John Holbrook was son of Thomas Holbrook, born about 1727. Thomas Holbrook married, in Weymouth, January 26, 1669, Margaret Bouker, who died April 9, 1690. Thomas Holbrook was son of John Holbrook, of Dorchester, who was made freeman, May 13, 1640, and later removed to Weymouth, Massachusetts. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Twitchell: Joseph, mentioned below: Deacon Jona, July 22, 1721.".