Lydia married Benjamin PIERCE in 1692. Benjamin (son of Daniel PIERCE and Elizabeth MILWARD) was born on 17 Feb 1668 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 19 May 1711 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John PIERCE was born on 1 Sep 1703.

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• Will Notes: Charles Frost of Kittery, Province of Maine, made his will on 7 January 1690/1 and probated 3 November 1697, in which he named his wife Mary, eldest son Charles, second son John, youngest son Nicholas, son-in-law John Shipway lately deceased, brother John Frost, daughters Mehetable, Lidia, Mary and Elizabeth, daughters Sarah Shipway & Abigail Fryer, granddaughter Mary Shipway, brother-in-law Joseph Hammond, Capt. Francis Hooke and kinsman John Leighton both of Kittery, wife Mary to be sole executrix, friends Capt. Francis Hooke and Capt. Joseph Hammond & John Leighton as overseers and executors in the case of Mary's death. Wittnesses were Geo: Jaffray, John Belcher, Sarah Chadbourn.
• Military Event: Indian Wars - Major
• Immigrant?: Y
• Military Flag: Y
• Cause of Death: Killed by Indians
• Migration: Abt 1637
• Census: 1652, Kittery, York, Maine

Notes:

m2 or 3, Mary BOLLES, d/o Jospeh BOLLES of Wells
Children:
Sarah
Abigail
Mehitable
Lydia
Mary m. 12 Dec. 1694, Capt. John Hill of Saco.
Elizabeth
Charles
John, b. 1 Mar. 1683
Nicholas d. without issue, but leav. wid.
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Charles was person who took advantage of opportunities.
Upon his father’s death, Charles presented a document he said was his father’s last will and testament. But the court found it invalid and ordered a distribution of the estate.
He also aided Capt Richard Waldron to trick the Indians and then, together with the captains and their companies, to surround and capture them. This event had the effect of prolonging King Philip's War, in the north-eastern theatre of New Hampshire and Maine, until 1678. The Dover Massacre was part of their revenge.
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He was a soldier at 16 and rose to the rank of Major, and commanded all the troops in the Province of Maine. His commission was dated Aug. 23, 1689, and was signed by President Thos. Danforth. (See "Old Eliot," Vol. 2, Page 137.) Major Chas. Frost was a Representative to the General Court, 1658-1663, 1672 1674 and 1678-1693; Town Clerk, 1669-1670; Selectman, 1667-1670; Councillor to Pres. Danforth 1680-1685, and a Justice of Peace at the same time. He was a Councillor from 1693, until his death in 1697.
Williamson in his "History of Maine" said, "Charles Frost was one of the most eminent and public spirited men of his age within the Province of Maine. His death was deeply lamented as it occurred in the height of his usefulness and fame, and at a time when his services were greatly needed."
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[24 March 1646/7] Charles Frost saith that he being about his father's door looking into the marsh saw three geese light in the marsh, as he though, by a little puddle of water, and he taking a piece ran down into the marsh to get a shot at them and he coming there crept along on his belly. Warwick Heard seeing the same three geese light, and being crept into the brush & long grass before him, he not knwoing him to be there, and it being after sunset, Warwicke Heard being upon his knees ready to give fire, and the wind blowing the skirts of his jacket abroad, Charles Frost lifting up his head as he was creeping thought it to be a goose picking herself, presently gave fire and so shot him.
The coroner's inquest did not think Frost guilty, but a grand jury indicted him for murder, and a petit jury found him not guilty [MPCR 1:108-9].
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CHARLES, Kittery, s. of Nicholas, prob. b. in Eng. came with his f. a. 1637; was rep. 1658, 60, and 1, capt. ment. by Hubbard, p. 28 of Ind. Wars, and major, chosen at the first elect. under the new chart. 1693, a counsellor, tho. not by Increase Mather nam. in it, was k. by the Ind. in ambush, as he was going home from pub. worship on Sunday, 14 July 1697, aged 65 yrs.

Charles married Mary BOLLES about 27 Dec 1665 in Kittery, York, Maine. Mary (daughter of Joseph BOLLES and Mary HOWELL) was born on 4 Jan 1642 in Wells, York, Maine; died on 11 Nov 1704 in Wells, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: BOWLES

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• Will Notes: At a court at Wells on 29 September 1663 "Lt. Charles Frost of Kittery, the eldest son & heir unto Nicho[las] Frost lately deceased, hath present- ed a certain instrument in the nature of a deed of gift made in September 1650 ... conceiving the said instrument ... to be the last will & testament of the said Nicholas his father." The court considered this and other documents, declared this not to be a valid will, appointed Charles Frost administrator of the estate, and ordered distribution of the estate as follows: eldest son Charles Frost to have a double portion (including the homestall) and £30 more; the residue of the estate to be equally divided among the other four children (each share to come to £105 12s. 7d.), and specifically William Leighton is to "have liberty to cut 3 loads of hay against the next winter out of Sturgeon Creek Marsh which was formerly his father-in-law's, John Frost is to have "the long marsh with that 300 acres of land belonging to it, & lying within York bounds 2 acres & 1⁄2 of salt marsh, "William Leighton shall have disposed unto him in the behalf of Katterne Leighton his wife's part," "Elizabeth Frost at 18 years of age or when she marries is to have her part," and Nicholas Frost at twenty-one years of age is to have his part" including "a house & land at Kittery" and "in the meantime may choose his guardian if he see cause" [MPCR 2:383-85]. On 5 March 1663/4 Charles Frost (on behalf of himself and his brother Nicholas), William Leighton, John Frost and Elizabeth Frost consented to the division of the estate that had been made, and Charles Frost was released from his administrator's bond [MPCR 2:388-89]. At a court at Wells on 6 October 1674 there was a report of a dispute over the settlement of the estate, and a committee was ordered to resolve the matter [MPCR 2:496]. The inventory of the estate of Nicholas Frost, taken 24 September 1663, was untotalled and included £318 of real estate: "homestall of dwelling house, barn & other out houses... containing in all three hundred acres," £205; "former grant of land of three hundred acres from the proprietors' agent joining to his home land," £18; "the Long Marsh by estimation ten acres & the grants of land belonging to it, three hundred acres," £60; "two acres & a half of salt marsh in York bounds," £5; "house & land at Kittery joining to William Leighton's by estimation 30 acres," £20; and "a grant of one hundred acres of land on the south side of Sturgeon Cricke," £10 [MPCR 2:380-83].
• Immigrant?: Y
• Parents Unproven: Y
• Migration: 1632, Damariscove Island, Lincoln, Maine
• Residence: 1634, Kittery, York, Maine
• Anecdote: 25 Jun 1640, Piscataquis County, Maine
• Anecdote: 8 Sep 1640, Kittery, York, Maine
• Anecdote: 27 Jun 1648, Kittery, York, Maine
• Anecdote: 3 Jul 1660, Kittery, York, Maine

Notes:

s/o John FROST (b. 17 Nov 1558 near Cornbre Hill, Cornwall, England) and Anna HAMDEN (b. 8 Oct 1565 near Caer Bran, Cornwall, England).
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DEATH: Between 7 July 1663 (grand jury service [MPCR 2:137-40, 144]) and 24 September 1663 (date of inventory) [MPCR 2:380]. MARRIAGE: By about 1632 ; does not appear in any record. (Although the birthdates of the children are all based on estimates, the gap of nearly a decade between the second child and the third may imply that Nicholas was married twice.)
CHILDREN:
1 CHARLES, b. about 1632; m. by 1664 Mary Bolles, daughter of Joseph Bolles [YLR 5:34].
2 CATHERINE, b. about 1634 ("Mrs. Katherine Hamond died August the 15th 1715 in the 82nd year of her age" [KitVR 12]); m. (1) by about 1655 William Leighton; m. (2) shortly after 5 July 1670 (date of contract [GDMNH 304]) Joseph Hammond.
3 JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) 1 June 1668 Mehitable Buttolph, daughter of Thomas Buttolph (eldest child b. Boston 9 January 1669 [BVR 110; TAG 58:130-32]); m. (2) 24 August 1680 Maria Davis (eldest child b. Boston 16 May 1681 [BVR 154]). (The dates of these two marriages, and the maiden surname of the second wife, do not ap- pear in the Boston vital records. They appear to be from a family Bible cited by John E. Frost [Frost Gen 17]. See also NEHGR 17:241.) ELIZABETH, b. say 1645; m. 14 May 1667 William Gowen (date from GDMNH, but not in published Kittery vital records; eldest child John b. Kittery 19 November 1668 [KitVR 9], although son Nicholas may be older, in which case the marriage date would be in doubt).
4 NICHOLAS, b. about 1647; d. Limerick, Ireland, "about the beginning of August 1673" [MPCR 2:295-97, 303-04, 486; YLR 2:150, 3:67-68].
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3 October 1632: "It is ordered, that Nicholas Frost, for theft committed at Damerill's Cove upon the Indians, for drunkenness and fornication, of all which he is convicted, shall be fined £5 to the Court, and £40 to Henry Way & John Holman, shall be severely whipped, & branded in the hand with a hot iron, & after banished out of this patent, with penalty that if ever he be found within the limits of the said patent, he shall be put to death; also it is agreed that he shall be kept in bolts by Henry Way & John Holman, till his fines be paid, during which time he is to bear his own charges" [MBCR 1:100-01].
On 14 October 1651 Nicholas Frost was indicted for conspiring with James Bunker, William Ellingham and others to steal from Mr. Shapleigh [MPCR 1:170]. At the same court Nicholas Frost was presented for "saying he hoped to live so long as to wet his bullets in the blood of the Saints" [MPCR 1:164].
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Philip Swaddon deposed on 27 August 1673 that thirty-eight or thirty-nine years earlier (i.e., 1634 or 1635) Thomas Wannerton granted to Nicholas Frost "a parcel of land up in Piscataqua River, now known by the name of Kittery ... which tract of land Mr. Thomas Wannerton gave to the said Nicholas Frost to come to be his neighbor" [YLR 3:13].
On 30 March 1649 Nicholas Frost gave a seven-year lease to Jeremy Sheires on "his new house and ground at Kittery" [MPCR 1:130-31].

Anecdote:
Constable

Anecdote:
Fined for non-appearance

Anecdote:
Timber warden from the mouth of the Piscataqua to the upper part of the river

Anecdote:
Constable

Nicholas married --?-- MNU about 1632 in England. --?-- was born about 1610 in England; died about 1650 in Kittery, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant?: Y

Notes:

Her name is not in any found records

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• Education: Cape Porpoise, ME
• Immigrant?: Y
• Baptism: 19 Feb 1608
• Migration: 1640

Joseph married Mary HOWELL about 1640 in Wells, York, Maine. Mary was born in Mar 1624. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anna HAMDEN. Anna was born on 8 Oct 1565 in Caer Bran, Cornwall, England; died in 1593 in Devonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

d/o Griffith HAMDEN & Anna CAVE

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• Education: Oberton, Notthinghamshire, England

Thomas married Elizabeth PERKINS about 1600 in Oberton, Nottinghamshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1580 in Fishlake, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]