1Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, pp. 45-46 (1907).
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"(II) Joseph Aldrich, son of George Aldrich (1) was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, June 4, 1635, died 1701. He married Patience Osborne, who died in 1705. They lived at Braintree, Massachusetts, and at Providence, Rhode Island. He received his father's wearing apparel in his will dated November 2, 1682. He was a tax-payer in Providence in 1687. He made an agreement with his son Joseph Aldrich, Jr., to support him in consideration of the property deeded to him. The inventory of his estate was filed August 20, 1701. The children of Joseph and Patience Aldrich: Joseph, Jr., born July 14, 1663, died April 24, 1705; Samuel, died April 2, 1747, see forward; Ephraim, resided in Providence and Gloucester, Rhode Island; married Barbara ------, had Daniel; John, died March 17, 1735, resided at Providence and Scituate, Rhode Island, married, March 20, 1699, Martha Evans; was miller at Providence."