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- Nathaniel BISCOE - bap. Nov. 16, 1595, Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire,England. Married Oct. 21, 1615, Little Missenden; d. England. Son ofEdward BISCOE and Alice TAYLOR. He was at Watertown, Massachusetts by1642. Selectman 1648 and 1650, he was a tanner by trade. In 1642 he wroteand circulated privately a pamphlet "against the way of supportingministers," that gave great offense, and for which he was fined tenpounds. In that year, his barn, with leather and corn, amounting to Ð100,was destroyed by fire. He was so dissatisfied with the prevalentecclesiastical intolerance in the Colonies that he returned to Englandabout the end of 1651, leaving four children by wife Elizabeth inMassachusetts.
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