Old Dead RelativesThe genealogy of my extended family
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| 5501 | Sarah was the granddaughter of Mayflower passengers James and Susanna (Furner?) Chilton. She came to Plymouth Colony with her parents probably about 1630. Sources that refer to Solomon's wife as Mary have confused him with Solomon Jr. | CHANDLER, Sarah (I26726)
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| 5502 | Sarah was widowed when she married Jonathan. | WHIPPLE, Sarah (I32024)
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| 5503 | Sarah's surname and parents are unknown, she was not a daughter of Roger Chandler. | MNU, Sarah (I26727)
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| 5504 | Sarah, Daughter of R. & P. Cecil, Died April 20, 1854, Aged 20 Days | CECIL, Sarah (I38195)
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| 5505 | Scales, John; History of Dover, NH. Lived Nottingham, NH. Soon after his marriage he settled in business at Little River Falls, newar Lee Hill; he had a tannery there, also was one of the stockholders in a sawmill at the falls. He carried on business there for more than 40 years. He died at the home of his son, Samuel, in Nottingham in 1787. p274«s12» | DAME, Capt Moses (I1298)
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| 5506 | SCAMMON, SCAMMAN, or SCAMMOND, HUMPHRE, Kittery or Saco perhaps both, m Eliz d of the first Dominicus Jordan, had Humphrey b 5/10/1677; Eliz;Mary; Rebecca; and Samuel. JOHN, Kittery perhaps s of William, certain brof Humphrey and of Richard as also of Eliz w of Peter Lidgett, had Elizbut wh was his w the diligence of Quint has not discov. RICHARD, Dover,br of the preced perhaps s of William, m Prudence, only d of Wm Waldron and Catherine Raven. From Diane Smitley Williams, descendant of Humphrey: Humprey was the first Scammon born in America. He lived in Kittery, ME until 1679 when he moved to Saco, and purchased the estate of Henry Waddock, which consisted of about 200 acres of land along the East Bankof the Saco River. Humphrey's home was located near the ferry, which he operated as well as a tavern for the entertainment of travelers. In 1697, Indians attacked the settlement at Saco and with others, took Humphrey and his family captive. They were taken to Canada and spent one year in captivity. When peace was restored, they returned to Saco and found that the only item to survive the Indian raid a year earlier was a beer mug which was found outside their ruined home. This mug has been preserved as a memorial to the hardships and sufferings endured by our forefathers. The mug is brown earthenware with alternate stripings of violet and blue and bears a medallion of King William stamped on the front. In his will he stipulated that " 2 acre of land at the ferry place be reserved forever as a burying place for my relations". The exact site of Humphrey's final resting place cannot be found but the slate markers on the graves of his two sons are visable today. | SCAMMON, Humphrey (I33350)
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| 5507 | Sec B, grave 4040, | NEWTON, Jerome J. (I25927)
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| 5508 | Sec. E, Grave 6246 | CARLTON, John Stevens (I25618)
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| 5509 | Second Lieut. 10th Infantry, U. S. A. Assigned to Aviation Corps; d. inservice. --"Sherman genealogy", p. 404 | ROCKWELL, Lewis Cassidy (I43194)
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| 5510 | Second s/o Sir Cuthbert Scofield, of Scofield Manor, 'the family being of ancient and honorable lineage'. He is believed to have married Catherine de Mors of Rouen, Normandy in 1570. He soon relocated to Lancashire where he received a commission in the Army [Courtesy of the Prejebscot Historical Museum, Maine.] Scofield Manor - Kent. The name had its origin in Normandy in the tenth and eleventh centuries - as: de Cillesfelle - their forbears having been the Norse settlers, who inter married with the native "Frankish" or French, and became known as the "Normans" Sir Esbern de Cillesfelle was a Norman Knight who came to England with the invasion armies of Duke William of Normandy in 1066. Sir Esbern's name appears in the "Domesday " Book of Kent- second page and reads. In the List of Sudtone and in the List of Ailsford - " Esbern de Cillesfelle" - end quote. By 1150 A.D. the name had become: de Skolefeld - ( the English equiv.) then on to Skolfield, Skolefeild. By 1290 the decsendants of the first de Cillesfelle had shortened their name to de Scofield- Scofield. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, arms were granted to Sir Cuthbert Scofield, as a younger s/o the "Scofields of Kent" for his services against the Spanish Armada, and was knighted. A.D. 1588, Family Arms were granted in 1582. de Cillesfelle - de Skolefeld -Skolfield - Scofield. | SCOLFELDE, Richard (I38830)
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| 5511 | Second s/o Sir Maurice Berkeley and his wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew of Hanworth. After the Civil War in England in 1663, Charles II named Berkeley one of eight “true Lords and Proprietors” over the newly formed Province of Carolina. The original Province of Carolina was a vast area of land that stretched from the 31st to the 36th northern parallel – approximately the modern-day southern border of Georgia up through Raleigh – and on westward. Charles’s subsequent 1665 charter extended the border of the Province north to an area near the modern-day Virginia southern border and south to modern-day mid-Florida. The vastness of this land made difficult the governing of the territory, worsened by the challenge of governing from England. Berkeley also owned interest in the Province of New Jersey, to which he was granted a Proprietorship in 1664 by the Duke of York. In his first year as proprietor, Berkeley signed the Concessions and Agreements which allowed freedom of religion in New Jersey. In 1673 or 1674, Berkeley sold his interest in the New Jersey Province. Berkeley served as proprietor of Carolina until his death on August 26, 1678. | BERKELEY, John (I35295)
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| 5512 | Sedgewick civil records list the name in the marriage as Conray. | CONARY, Cyrus M. (I2159)
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| 5513 | Sedgley, George Burbank, and Henry DeLore Burbank. Genealogy of the Burbank family: and the families of Bray, Wellcome, Sedgley (Sedgeley) and Welch. (Farmington, Maine: G.B. Sedgley, c1928), 391-92. Thomas Bray, immigrant ancestor; ship-carpenter and farmer; born in 1604, died Nov. 30, 1691. He was married by Mr. Saltonstall, March [May; misinterpreted double dating] 3, 1646, to Mary Wilson (she died March 27, 1707). In a deposition dated 1658 he gave his age as 54 years. He was an early settler in the seaport town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and had with other grants of land, six acres in 1647 at the head of Little river, and in 1651 one-quarter of an acre in the bottom on the north side of Coro-Island marsh, "for a house to be sett on". He probably settled at that time in the part of the town not far from where his descendants still continue to reside and do business. There is a "Bray Hill" and a "Bray Street" in Gloucester. It is stated, by Prof. Verrill of Yale - a direct descendant, that he was in King Phillip's War. ----- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 1:239-40. Thomas (Bray), Gloucester, shipwright, m. 3 May 1646, Mary Wilson, had Mary, b. 16 Jan. 1647; Thomas, 31 Mar. 1649, d. in Aug. 1653; ano. Thomas, 16 May 1653, d. soon; John, 14 May 1654; Nathaniel, 21 June 1656; [Sarah;] Thomas, again, 19 Jan. or Feb. 1659; Hannah, 21 Mar. 1662; and Esther, 13 Apr. 1664. He d. 30 Nov. 1691, and his wid. d. 27 Mar. 1707. [Mary m. 18 Nov. 1664, John Ring of Ipswich; Sarah m. James Sawyer;] Hannah m. 4 Feb. 1678, John Roberts[; and Esther m. 30 Oct. 1683, Philip Stanwood]. | BRAY, Thomas (I36546)
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| 5514 | See Leslie Mahler, FASG, Robert Battle, FASG, Three Great-Migration Gentlewomen: Sisters Margaret (Gentleman) Ibrook, Susan (Gentleman)(Hunter) Hollingsworth, and Joan (Gentleman)(Herrington)Youngs of Southwold, Suffolk, and Massachusetts) in The American Genealogist (2020) 91.4:250 Margaret Gentleman b by 1587 [in Southwold, Suffolk, England] d Hingham, MA, 3 Apr 1664 daughter of Thomas Gentleman and Christian Cock of Southwold, Suffolk,; m. by 1607, Richard1 Ibrook. See The American Genealogist, JUL/OCT 2020, 91:259. This is new research indicating her maiden name was Gentleman. | GENTLEMAN, Margaret (I15705)
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| 5515 | Seems to have been a faithful husband, with 10 children and no recorded bastards. He was a brave, vigorous and deadly fighter into his seventies. He turned his extensive tournament experience into an efficient and lucrative business. Starting from nothing after his father's death (which left him penniless), William died leaving his family one of the most powerful in the British Isles. He knew personally all the English kings who ruled from 1135 to 1272. —— Through his daughter Isabel, William is ancestor to both the Bruce and Stewart kings of Scots. Through his granddaughter Maud de Braose, William is ancestor to the last Plantagenet kings, Edward IV through Richard III, and all English monarchs from Henry VIII and afterward. | MARSHALL, Earl William (I35181)
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| 5516 | Sent by John MASON into New Hampshire. | FERNALD, Dr Renald (I33452)
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| 5517 | Sent by John MASON to settle New Hampshire. —— HUMPHREY, bp. 23 April 1615; m. Lucy Treworgye, daughter of James and Katherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye of Kittery. She m. (2) Thomas Wills and (3) Elias Stileman, son of ELIAS STILEMAN [GMB 3:1761]. (In her undated will of about 1676, Katherine (Shapleigh) (Treworgye) Hilton made "Mrs. Lucy Wells" one of her residuary legatees [GMB 2:948-49, citing NHPP 31:172-73]; when Lucy made her will on 8 January 1699/1700, she signed as "Lucy Stileman alias Wells alias Chadborn," and made explicit references to her two earlier husbands [NHPP 31:452-53].) | CHADBOURNE, Humphrey (I33700)
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| 5518 | September 18, 1675, Captain Lathrop and 84 men were ambushed by a band of Nipmuc Indians while delivering wheat from Deerfield to Hadley. | DICKINSON, Azariah (I42544)
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| 5519 | Served as cook at Fort Warren. | DAME, Benjamin Franklin (I1226)
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| 5520 | Served as Pvt under Capt Jesse Safford, VT Militia; as Sgt under Capt Amose Wase during Lexington Alarm in MA. | CHURCHILL, Ichabod (I16410)
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| 5521 | Served in Capt. Nathaniel Gage's Company. To Phineas Carlton, one of the Constables for the Town of Bradford: These are in the name of the Government and People to will and require you forthwith to notify all the male inhabitants that are free, and twenty-one years of age, belonging to the Town of Bradford, that they assemble and meet at the West Meetinghouse in said town on Wednesday the Fourth day of August next at two oclock, afternoon. To see if the Town will send a man or men to Cambridge in the county of Middlesex upon a convention the first day of September next, in order to agree upon a new Constitution or form of Government for this state. Also to see what instructions they will give their delegate or delegates when so chosen. PHINEAS CARLETON, Was the s/o Dea. Thomas and Abigail Carleton; born Oct. 1, 1740; married, first, Dec. 8, 1763, Susannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Goodrich) Stickney; second, August, 1784, Sarah Mullicken. Mr. Carleton was a sergeant in Capt. Nathaniel Gages company, and served from Sept. 30, to Nov. 6, 1777. He lived on Christian Hill, South Groveland, in the house now owned by Mrs. Benson; as a miller, and had a grist mill on Johnsons Creek, near the place where the old woollen mill now stands. Ancestor of Thomas H. Balch and family, Frank P. Balch, Mrs. C. P. Savary, Mrs. L. K. Pemberton, Mrs. Abigail Carleton, Phineas B. and Alvin R. Carleton and Mrs. Newton Tilton. | CARLTON, Deacon Phineas (I37542)
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| 5522 | Served in Civil War - 1st Battalion Heavy Artillery Mass., enlisted 6 June 1863, promoted to Cpl 5 Aug 1864, mustered out 29 June 1865. | DAME, James Augustus (I36035)
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| 5523 | Served in Navy in WW II. Survived by 3 brothers, Marvin of Rent | MANSON, Claude E. (I27636)
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| 5524 | Served in the American Revolutionary Army from 1775 to 1781. | EDSON, Ebenezer (I19366)
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| 5525 | Served in the ARMY OF THE OHIO (TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS). under Maj. Gen. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD during the Siege on Atlanta during the Civil War. The famous Brigadier General Charles Edward Smith served on a committee to arrange the funeral of Civil War Veteran Colonel Benjamin Orcutt of the 25th Michigan Infantry. | ORCUTT, Benjamin F. (I16308)
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| 5526 | Served in the Revolutionary War, entering from New York, according to the DAR. He was also in one of the Indian wars, and was a prisoner. | PIERCE, Daniel T. (I30137)
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| 5527 | Served in Union Army, enlisted 5 Sep 1861, discharged disability Dec 31 1862, re-enlisted Feb 29 1864, mustered out Nov. 24 1865. | DAME, William (I31083)
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| 5528 | Served under Capts Isaac Pope & S Learned, Col Shephar. | BURGESS, Bangs (I16714)
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| 5529 | Served under Daniel Grouts, Colonel Enoch Hallet's Regiment. Asa was a Pvt in Capt Geo Kimball's Co Apr 20 1775 from Lunenburg...he was 46 yrs old, doubt he served for 3 mo under Daniel Grout's Co. with roll sworn to Suffolk Co. See the "History of Lunenburg" 1977. | CARLTON, Asa (I37612)
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| 5530 | Service in King Philip's War. Married Rebecca (d. Apr. 15, 1702, Watertown, MA). No children. Records say born 8th month, which was October. | COOLIDGE, Stephen (I30902)
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| 5531 | Service Number: 05540501; Served aboard a submarine. Was sunk, possibly by US forces. ----- Dorado, a newly commissioned submarine, under Lieutenant Commander E.C. Schneider, sailed from New London, Connecticut, on 6 October 1943 for Panama. She did not arrive at Panama nor was she heard from at any time after sailing. The Commander in Chief, United States Fleet in his comments concerning the Court of Inquiry covering the case, lists three possible causes for the loss of Dorado: operational casualties, enemy action, and attack by friendly forces. The standard practice of imposing bombing restrictions within an area of fifteen miles on each side of the course of an unescorted submarine making passage in friendly waters and fifty miles ahead and one hundred miles astern of her scheduled position was carried out and all concerned were notified. A convoy was so routed as to pass through the bombing and attack restriction area surrounding Dorado on the evening of 12 October 1943, assuming correct navigation and adherence to schedule by both. A patrol plane which was assigned by Commandant, Naval Operating Base, Guantanamo to furnish air coverage on the evening of 12 October, received faulty instructions as to the location of the bombing and attack restriction area surrounding Dorado and at 2049, local time, the plane delivered a surprise attack of three depth charges on an unidentified submarine. About two hours later, the plane sighted another submarine with which it attempted to exchange recognition signals without success. This submarine fired upon the plane. A German submarine was known to be operating near the scene of these two contacts. Because of the lack of evidence, the Court of Inquiry was unable to reach definite conclusions as to the cause of the loss of Dorado. (DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060) | FACKRELL, Carl Elbert Hancock (I28778)
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| 5532 | Service Source: FERNOW, DOCS REL TO THE COL HIST OF STATE OF NY, “NY IN THE REV,” VOL 15, P 508; PENROSE, MOHAWK VALLEY IN THE REV, PP 159-160 Service Description: 1) CAPT CAYSER, COL KLOCK; 2) SIGNED ASSOCIATION TEST, 1775 | TILDEN, Rufus Walter (I7102)
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| 5533 | Service Source: FERNOW, DOCS REL TO THE COL HIST OF STATE OF NY, “NY IN THE REV,” VOL 15, P 508; PENROSE, MOHAWK VALLEY IN THE REV, PP 159-160 Service Description: 1) CAPT CAYSER, COL KLOCK; 2) SIGNED ASSOCIATION TEST, 1775 | WALLRATH, Jacob W. (I38151)
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| 5534 | Service Source: MEDAR, TOWN OFFICIALS 1775-1783, GRC 1964, S2, VOL 33.2, PP 8-10 —— Inscription: In Memory of Mr. Thomas Skolfield Obt Jan 6th 1796 in the 89th Year of his age "Of all the sorrows that attend mankind With patience bore the lot to him assigned. At four score nine he bid the world adieu And paid with joy the debt to nature due." —— Born in Dublin Ireland, he married Mary Orr on August 9, 1734. He was educated in Ireland at Dublin University and emigrated to America with the Orr family in the early 1700's. Originally, he lived in Boston, Massachusetts where he taught a Latin school. Around 1742 he and the Orr family settled in Brunswick, Maine. Prominent in civil affairs he served two terms as the town clerk in Brunswick, and for 23 years he served on the Brunswick Board of Selectmen.(Courtesy of the Maritime Museum Bath, Maine.) information was taken from a book,(The Skolfields And Their Ships.) by "Erminie S. Reynolds and Kenneth R. Martin" He and Mary were the parents of 14 children: Elizabeth, George, Rebecca, Michael, Richard, Clement, Anne, Thomas, Mary, Stephen, Martha, John, Joseph and William Skolfield. | SCOFIELD, Thomas (I38210)
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| 5535 | Service Source: NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS #979, ROLL #S.115.127; NC REV ARMY ACCTS, BOOK D, P 141, ROLL #54.1 Service Description: 1) PAID FOR CLOTHING & SERVICES WHILE IN MILITIA | SUTTON, David (I5942)
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| 5536 | Service Source: NJ REV WAR SLIPS: SINGLE CITATIONS OF THE NJ DOD MATERIALS, ROLL #573043, MSS #4287 Service Description: 1) WAGONMASTER FOR QUARTERMASTER GEN DEPT | SUTTON, Jonathan (I5888)
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| 5537 | Service Source: NJ REV WAR: COMP OF REV WAR SLIPS & DOCUMENTED MATERIALS FROM OTHER SOURCES, FHL ROLL # 569421 Service Description: 1) CAPT JOHN POLHEMUS,COL WM ALEXANDER, 1ST REGT | SUTTON, Jonathan (I6102)
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| 5538 | Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank: SERGEANT Birth: 9-14-1729 WRENTHAM SUFFOLK CO MASSACHUSETTS Death: 11-10-1804 WRENTHAM NORFOLK CO MASSACHUSETTS Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 12, P 539 Service Description: 1) CAPT LEMUEL KOLLOCK, COL JOHN SMITH 2) LEXINGTON ALARM | POND, Timothy (I38265)
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| 5539 | Service: CONNECTICUT Rank: PRIVATE Birth: 1743 GLASTONBURY HARTFORD CO CONNECTICUT Death: 12-17-1801 GLASTONBURY HARTFORD CO CONNECTICUT Service Source: JOHNSTON, CT MEN IN THE REV WAR, PP 381, 385 Service Description: 1) CAPT JONATHAN HALE, COL ERASTUS WOLCOTT | HOUSE, William (I4846)
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| 5540 | Service: CONNECTICUT Rank: PRIVATE Birth: 7-28-1723 GLASTONBURY CONNECTICUT Death: 12-3-1806 WEST HARTLAND CONNECTICUT Service Description: 1) 6TH CO, 7TH REGT, CAPT EDWARD SHIPMAN 2) COL CHARLES WEBB, CONT LINE | SHIPMAN, Pvt Jonathan (I2109)
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| 5541 | Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 1-2-1750 Death: 5-21-1822 GREENE CO TENNESSEE Service Source: EARLIEST TN LAND RECORDS, GRIFFEY,P 317 Service Description: 1) SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO MAKE LAND 2) ENTRY 9-7-1783, GREENE CO NC | OLIPHANT, John Woolsley (I19735)
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| 5542 | Seth Huntress resided at Portsmouth, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire. He was a soldier in the Revolution in Capt. Eliphalet Daniels' Matross Company, stationed at Fort Sullivan on 4 June 1777. | HUNTRESS, Seth (I35767)
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| 5543 | Seth Webb, the son of the subject of the preceding notice, settled upon what is now known as "Babbidge Neck," on the lot of land afterward the property of Mr. Joseph Whitmore, who, when a boy, resided and came here with him. His wife was Miss Hannah Winship, of Windham, a daughter of the man of that name mentioned in Williamson's History of Maine, who was, when away from his house, scalped by the Indians, and recovered. He was at the time in company with a man of the name of Brown, who was killed by them, but Mr. Winship escaped death in consequence of the savages' becoming alarmed and fleeing, not stopping to strike him upon the head with a hatchet, as often was their practice, fracturing the skull. After the scalping he remained for some time insensible, and upon becoming conscious found himself unable to return home. As it happened, he was lying down by the edge of a bog upon which cranberries grew plentifully. It was the time of the year when they were ripe, and, as there happened to be no rain while he remained, he was able to creep upon his hands and knees to procure them to appease his hunger and thirst, and at the end of two weeks returned to his home, much to the surprise of his family, who had given him up for dead; and las the weather proved moderate, he was enabled to recover. A physician in the neighborhood informed him that cranberries were beneficial to the blood and caused his wound to heal. He lived for many years, and afterward married the widow of the Mr. Brown who was with him. After Mr. Webb resided upon the first land taken up by him, he gave up his claim to Mr. Whitmore and took up a lot near what is now known as Webb's Cove; he also, a part of the time, resided upon Kimball's Island, now in the town of Isle au Haut, and he was there during the war of the Revolution. When he left Windham he owned considerable property, but having a fondness for hunting, he came East and was considerable of his time engaged in that pursuit with the Indians, with whom he was on good terms, and frequently those with whom he was engaged when about here made his house their home. Among others who did so was a noted man among them, a chief who was named Orono, said to be a natural son of one of the sons of Baron De Castine. Orono lived to a very great age, and was said to be one hundred and ten years old at the time of his death. I have often heard his last surviving daughter speak of his being at her father's house frequently. Mr. Webb often hunted upon Union River and its tributaries, and in all probability, the pond near it, now known as Webb's Pond, and the brook leading out of it were named for him. The year before his death he discovered a lead-mine on the banks of that river at a time when the water was low, and he traced it across it, and I have understood that it was not far from its mouth. He brought home a piece weighing several pounds, and at the time of taking it he marked the place with his hatchet so as to enable him to find it on his next visit. He sent a part of it to Boston and it was pronounced a good specimen of lead ore, in which was some silver, and it was probably a continuation of one of the veins of that metal lately discovered in the towns east of the city of Ellsworth. His daughter, before referred to, informed me that the family had it for several years, and the piece of ore was as large as a man's two fists. His death took place in 1785, and was caused by accidental shooting; at the time he was on Kimball's Island and his family on this island, and either in launching his canoe, or in drawing her ashore if she was afloat, his loaded gun was discharged as it lay in the bow of the canoe, killing him instantly: his body being found upon the shore. At the time of his death he was fifty-three years of age. His wife survived him till 1815, and she lies buried in what is known as the "old burying-ground," not far from the Town House, and hers is the only gravestone in the yard as now enclosed. Their children were Mr. Samuel Webb, who died in 1837, much respected, at the age of sixty-five years, and William, who died more than fifty years ago. One of the daughters was the wife of Mr. James Saunders; another the wife of Mr. Francis Kimball, who removed to Waterville, where his descendants still reside. Another was the wife of Mr. Joshua Emerson; another, the last survivor, was the wife of Mr. John Eaton. She died in 1860, and another removed to Portland, remaining unmarried, and another was the wife of Mr. Daniel Moore, of Castine. The wife of Mr. Samuel Webb was Miss Hannah Eaton, and they were the parents of the late Jonathan E. Webb, Esq., the present Mr. William Webb, and Mr. James L. Webb. Mr. Samuel Webb represented this town in the Legislature in 1831, and he resided upon the land taken up by his father near Webb's Cove. After the death of Mr. Seth Webb, his widow attempted to procure a title to Kimball's Island, but the agent to whom she entrusted her business did not procure it for her, but did so for himself, as has been stated by the family. An Early Sketch Of The Town Of Deer Island Maine: With Notice Of Its Settlers & Early Inhabitants | HALLBERG, Gerda Kristina (I46730)
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| 5544 | Seth Webb, the son of the subject of the preceding notice, settled upon what is now known as "Babbidge Neck," on the lot of land afterward the property of Mr. Joseph Whitmore, who, when a boy, resided and came here with him. His wife was Miss Hannah Winship, of Windham, a daughter of the man of that name mentioned in Williamson's History of Maine, who was, when away from his house, scalped by the Indians, and recovered. He was at the time in company with a man of the name of Brown, who was killed by them, but Mr. Winship escaped death in consequence of the savages' becoming alarmed and fleeing, not stopping to strike him upon the head with a hatchet, as often was their practice, fracturing the skull. After the scalping he remained for some time insensible, and upon becoming conscious found himself unable to return home. As it happened, he was lying down by the edge of a bog upon which cranberries grew plentifully. It was the time of the year when they were ripe, and, as there happened to be no rain while he remained, he was able to creep upon his hands and knees to procure them to appease his hunger and thirst, and at the end of two weeks returned to his home, much to the surprise of his family, who had given him up for dead; and las the weather proved moderate, he was enabled to recover. A physician in the neighborhood informed him that cranberries were beneficial to the blood and caused his wound to heal. He lived for many years, and afterward married the widow of the Mr. Brown who was with him. After Mr. Webb resided upon the first land taken up by him, he gave up his claim to Mr. Whitmore and took up a lot near what is now known as Webb's Cove; he also, a part of the time, resided upon Kimball's Island, now in the town of Isle au Haut, and he was there during the war of the Revolution. When he left Windham he owned considerable property, but having a fondness for hunting, he came East and was considerable of his time engaged in that pursuit with the Indians, with whom he was on good terms, and frequently those with whom he was engaged when about here made his house their home. Among others who did so was a noted man among them, a chief who was named Orono, said to be a natural son of one of the sons of Baron De Castine. Orono lived to a very great age, and was said to be one hundred and ten years old at the time of his death. I have often heard his last surviving daughter speak of his being at her father's house frequently. Mr. Webb often hunted upon Union River and its tributaries, and in all probability, the pond near it, now known as Webb's Pond, and the brook leading out of it were named for him. The year before his death he discovered a lead-mine on the banks of that river at a time when the water was low, and he traced it across it, and I have understood that it was not far from its mouth. He brought home a piece weighing several pounds, and at the time of taking it he marked the place with his hatchet so as to enable him to find it on his next visit. He sent a part of it to Boston and it was pronounced a good specimen of lead ore, in which was some silver, and it was probably a continuation of one of the veins of that metal lately discovered in the towns east of the city of Ellsworth. His daughter, before referred to, informed me that the family had it for several years, and the piece of ore was as large as a man's two fists. His death took place in 1785, and was caused by accidental shooting; at the time he was on Kimball's Island and his family on this island, and either in launching his canoe, or in drawing her ashore if she was afloat, his loaded gun was discharged as it lay in the bow of the canoe, killing him instantly: his body being found upon the shore. At the time of his death he was fifty-three years of age. His wife survived him till 1815, and she lies buried in what is known as the "old burying-ground," not far from the Town House, and hers is the only gravestone in the yard as now enclosed. Their children were Mr. Samuel Webb, who died in 1837, much respected, at the age of sixty-five years, and William, who died more than fifty years ago. One of the daughters was the wife of Mr. James Saunders; another the wife of Mr. Francis Kimball, who removed to Waterville, where his descendants still reside. Another was the wife of Mr. Joshua Emerson; another, the last survivor, was the wife of Mr. John Eaton. She died in 1860, and another removed to Portland, remaining unmarried, and another was the wife of Mr. Daniel Moore, of Castine. The wife of Mr. Samuel Webb was Miss Hannah Eaton, and they were the parents of the late Jonathan E. Webb, Esq., the present Mr. William Webb, and Mr. James L. Webb. Mr. Samuel Webb represented this town in the Legislature in 1831, and he resided upon the land taken up by his father near Webb's Cove. After the death of Mr. Seth Webb, his widow attempted to procure a title to Kimball's Island, but the agent to whom she entrusted her business did not procure it for her, but did so for himself, as has been stated by the family. An Early Sketch Of The Town Of Deer Island Maine: With Notice Of Its Settlers & Early Inhabitants | WEBB, Seth (I6639)
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| 5545 | Settled at Westcustogo, now North Yarmouth, Maine, and lived on an island near the mouth of Royal river, still called by his name, purchased of Richard Vines. Parentage unknown. | COUSINS, John (I36258)
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| 5546 | Settled in Framingham, MA. | PARK, Richard (I5133)
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| 5547 | Settled in Newington, NH on the ancestral farms at Dame's Point.«s10» | DAM, John (I1290)
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| 5548 | Settled in North Carolina, near Cape Fear river, Fayetteville, Cumberland county. His descendants are today settled over the southern states. ----- I Ebenezer Folsom of Cumberland County and State of North Carolina, being weak of body but of perfect mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and utterly annuling all and every other testament and will by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. After payment of all my just debts and funeral charges I will and bequeath unto my beloved wife Edith, one negro fellow Faw, and also one wench Filles at her own disposal but the first child that Filles has I give to Andy Bryan, and also I give to my wife one third of all my pewter and one chair and two pots and five cows and calves, also two beds and furniture and likewise five hundred weight of meat, and twenty barrels of corn, and twenty bushels of wheat and I likewise give her one bay mare Janus and I lend to her during her natural life three hundred acres of land in Johnson County joining William Bryans, and after her death I give it to Needham Bryan his son, and I lend her negro boy called Will during her natural life and after her death to be equally divided as my other estate and my (???) to build a house on said land twenty by sixteen frame and plank floor and clear ten acres of land on the (???), and build a smoke house and milk house and is not to move from the Manner plantation until it is completed, and I give and bequeath unto my son Israel one negro fellow Simon and forty pounds, and I give to my son Nathaniel one negro fellow Guep and fifty pounds. I give to my son Ebenezer forty pounds, to my sons George and Thomas I give fifty pounds each for their schooling, and the remaining part of my real and personal estate I leave and give to my seven children to be equally divided by my executor at there (???) and according to there (???), and lastly I hereby constitute make and appoint and ordain my three sons Israel, Nathaniel and William my executors of this my last will and testament whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the seveenth (seventeenth) day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight. Signed and delivered in the presence of John Bohammont X his mark Ebenezer Folsom (Seal) Henry Stephenson Stephen Smith I hereby certify that I am satisfied and contented with the contents of within will. Edith, Her X mark, Folsom | FOLSOM, Col Ebenezer (I11077)
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| 5549 | Settled in Quamscot before 1709, which became a part of Stratham. Aug 1710, he was sentinel in Capt. John Gilman's company. Abt. 1730 he returned and bought lands on the road to Copy Hole, in the part of Exeter which in 1742 became Brentwood. He and his family for many years continued to spell their names in the old way — Foulsham or "Folsham." 1743 he sold his homestead to his son John, and was soon after killed by the Indians in Nottingham. | FOLSOM, Nathaniel (I11041)
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| 5550 | Several of their children died of consumption and were unmarried. | LEWIS, Ruth (I4480)
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| 5551 | Seymour Woodford Orcutt was born December 10th, 1848, at "noon in theday" at Vanceburg, Lewis County, Kentucky, according to the family recordkept by his parents, Augustus C. and Mary Crull Orcutt. Mote, as Seymourwas called, had an older brother, Dolph. Mote and Dolph, unlike theyounger brothers yet born, were old enough to have had memories of livingin Kentucky, on the banks of the Ohio River, before the family began it'sseries of western movements beginning in 1857. River travel on the Ohio was brisk and varied at this time. TheOrcutt brothers would no doubt have spent a lot of time at the waterwatching people in all manner of watercraft traveling the river. Perhapsthey were treated to "rides" on the riverboat piloted by their uncle,Thomas Collier. No doubt they spent hours at the water's edge fishing,investigating the banks, and being typical boys with a place to playand explore that would be the envy of any kid. Dolph and Mote would have been expected to help out in the storeowned and ran by their father, and his partner, James Todd. Thisexperience in business without a question was impressed on their minds,for as the boys grew to be men they proved capable of making whateverventure they pursued payoff, be it farming, or operating a retailbusiness. Although few facts are actually known about Mote's early years, knowingthe times and places he lived give insight into his life. The years from the time of Mote's birth until moving from Kentuckywere turbulent because of the accelerating controversy over the StatesRights and slavery issue. The conflict was at it's worse on the "borderstates", naturally, because people of both views were living literallyside by side. Many friends and even relatives split over the issues fastcoming to a head. This must have been an exceedingly hard time forAugustus Orcutt, born, and with ties in the north, a member of the Whigand Republican political parties, and raised in the south. Some of thefamilies that were married into the Orcutt family at that time had strongties and loyalties with the people of the south. In 1857, with the threat of succession and war becoming more and moreimminent, Augustus decided to move the family out of Kentucky. It was tobe more than 10 years before the family would finally locate for anylength of time in one place. Seymour Woodford Orcutt married Martha Ann Yocham late in 1869, orvery early in 1870. The Orcutt family settled on the White River inMarion County, Arkansas on land bought from Martha's father, JacobYocham. The day of the land transaction, January 8 1870, was Martha's18th birthday. Martha had pale blonde hair and black eyes. Mote and Mat, as Martha was known, lived for a while in MarionCounty. Their first son Adolphus De Lorraine was born at Orcutt Flat inJan 1872. Sometime after this, and before 14 Dec 1873,when the nextson, James Emery was born, they had moved to near Independence,Montgomery County, Kansas. Mote had obtained a farm in Sycamore Twp, andwas farming it by late 1872. Two more sons were born while the familywere living in Montgomery, They were Augustus Theodore, (Dode) born20 Oct 1875, and, Andrew Murray, born, Nov 1879. In late 1880, or early1881 Mote moved the family back to Orcutt Flat in Marion,, Arkansas.Mote had kept his farm in Arkansas while the family had been living inKansas. The next event in the family was the birth of Seymour "Moat"Jr. inApril of 1882. The next son, Charles Lee, was born in Oct 1886. Theonly girl to survive infancy was Mary Louise, born Jan 1892. Moat and Martha bought and sold land in Marion, many times in the nextten year period. On May 6, 1898 they signed a Mortgage With Power ofSale in favor of the Keet and Roundtree Dry Goods,, Springfield, Mo.,in the amount of $589.89 for stock to open a new dry goods store inOakland, as Orcutt Flat had come to be known. In the Marion County newspaper, The Mountain Echo, October 27, 1898in the Oakland items ran a short paragraph saying that; "Mr. S.W. Orcutthas a new dry goods store just completed and is ready for business." Dode Orcutt would later relate of experiences growing up on the WhiteRiver. One thing he and his brothers would do was to jump horses off froma cliff into the river. Dode and his brothers fished the White River,and enjoyed hunting the surrounding countryside. | ORCUTT, Seymour Woodford “Mote” (I16378)
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| 5552 | SHAPLEIGH, spelled sometimes as sounded SHARPLEY, more often SHAPLEY, ALEXANDER, Kittery 1642, had some years before been agent, probably of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and so may be thought to have come from Devonshire, had Catharine, who married, perhaps in England, James Treworthy; Nicholas, and other children; all, it may be, born in his native land. He soon went home, and died there before 1650. —— Alexander Shapleigh the Immigrant Alexander Shapleigh, the pioneer of the American Branch of the Family, was born apparently at Kingsweare, about 1574, and was probably the s/o Nicholas Shapleigh, of that place, but of this we are not quite sure. Alexander Shapleigh, as described in available historical records, became a man of importance in Kingsweare. He was a merchant, shipbuilder, and owner of vessels engaged in extensive commerce in Europe and in the New World. There can be little doubt but what he had agents in America and did business long before he purchased land in what was afterwards the town of Kittery. The purchase of land was an afterthought, brought about by the King's grant to the Council of Plymouth and their grant to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Before that, land in America was common domain, and its use and products were free to the citizens of England. It now became cheaper to purchase land and have the protection of the government than to do a clandestine business. The Shapleighs of Dartmouth and Kingsweare were mostly merchants. Their ships traversed almost every sea, and were especially engaged in commerce between England and America. They would bring over knives, hatchets, coarse cloth and trinkets of all kinds from England and exchange with the Indians for valuable furs and skins, taking back at the same time a shipload of masts and round timber which they could then cut, with very little trouble, almost anywhere. In this way they accumulated quite a respectable property. A large importer of salt from the salt mines of France and Spain, Alexander sold this commodity not only to English markets but also to the numerous European fishing fleets operating during the summer months off the northern shores of North America. These fleets had found their most productive fishing grounds in the shallow sea surrounding a group of islands described at length and named the Isles of Shoals by the famous Captain John Smith during his explorations along the Maine Coast in 1614. Located ten miles offshore from the mouth of the Piscataqua River, where Alexander Shapleigh later settled, these islands became the center of the dressing, salting and curing of fish caught nearby, including the salmon and sturgeon found at that time in great abundance in the Piscataqua River and its many tributaries. Having been appointed an agent of Sir Fernando Gorges, who had already developed extensive commercial operations along the coast of Maine, it is probable that Alexander Shapleigh, in the interests of his employer, came to Maine several times before emigrating to Amerca. During these trips of investigation, which he undoubtedly made, he had ample opportunity to estimate the large profits which he might reap if he stationed a fishing fleet at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, and opened a nearby trading post dealing in furs and supplying the many needs of fishermen, settlers and Indians, including the highly prized firewater. Water-power sawmills could also be built, easily provided with logs of virgin oak and pine floated down the numerous streams. And lumber was at that time in great demand, not only in the coastal colonies but also in the shipyards and cities of England. The prospects for success in such ventures apparently persuaded Gorges' agent to extend his own activities in New England. Accordingly, Alexander Shapleigh came to Kittery, Maine, in 1635, sailing with his neighbor Captain Francis Champernowne in their jointly-owned ship "Benediction" to Piscataqua Plantations, the original name for the Kittery, Maine-Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. One of five original villages of Piscataqua Plantations on the Maine side of the Piscataqua River was named Kittery Point and later became the Town of Kittery in 1647. It is the oldest town in the State of Maine and, until 1820, was known as the Province of Maine. —— Alexander Shapleigh the Merchant Venturer Alexander Shapleigh, ancestor of the Shapleighs in America, who settled in Kittery, Maine, in 1635, was a merchant in Kingsweare, England in the early 1600s. He was associated with a group of ambitious men known as "Merchant Venturers". They were merchants whose ships were engaged chiefly in trading and colonizing enterprises in far distant lands, including the shores of North America. They were also adventurers, termed "venturers", whose vessels were subject to attacks by Spanish and other enemies of England and by numerous pirates as they carried on their hazardous operations. Coldham's "English Adventurers" reported the following discovery in the Admiralty Records - "On Sept. 20, 1610, Alexander Shapley [sic] of Kingswear, Master of the "Restitution" of Dartmouth, while returning from a fishing voyage to Newfoundland and enroute to Portugal was seized by Robert Stephens, a pirate." Among Alexander's ships, his largest and finest was the "Golden Cat", of four hundred and fifty tons, a small vessel now but in Alexander's day it was more than twice as large as most of the ships that plied the traffic lanes of the North Atlantic. It was similar in size, design and rigging to the "Merchant Venturer's Ship" of 1615 pictured above (the sketch was from Adrian Mapple, Curator of the Dartmouth Borough Museum, Dartmouth, Devonshire, England). The "Golden Cat" was twice as large as the Mayflower in which the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock in 1620, and three times the size of the "Golden Hind", earlier called the "Pelican", in which the "Merchant Venturer" Francis Drake and his crew of fifty-six men made a three year journey through the Straits of Magellan to San Francisco, to the China Sea, and returned by way of the Cape of Good Hope to their home port, Plymouth, England, only a few miles from Kingsweare. Drake, in this "Venture", brought back to Queen Elizabeth and other members of his trading company a huge profit of 4,700 per cent from his bartering, and other less legal transactions which filled the ship's hold with Spanish silver and gold stolen on the western shores of South America. Like the "Golden Hind", Alexander's "Golden Cat" was armed with good English cannon, as well as muskets, cutlasses and other weapons used in repelling enemy attacks and in capturing ships of England's enemies, also for protection against the hordes of pirates who infested the shores and shipping lanes of the North Atlantic. —— Alexander Shapleigh's Properties in England & America Kittery Court, Kingsweare, Devon, England The beautiful English estate of Alexander Shapleigh was named Kittery Court. It was located in the picturesque village of Kingsweare, overlooking the Dart River in the County of Devon. (See picture link at end of text.) Kittery Court was a name that had come down in the Shapleigh family for several generations, and the name, as we shall see later, followed the family to America and finally gave name to the Town of Kittery. It was located in the picturesque village of Kingsweare, overlooking the Dart River in the County of Devon, England. Kittery Court, now a small estate in acres, is on the brow of a hill, adjoining and facing the river Dart. The present estate is about four hundred feet long, by about two hundred feet wide. It is divided into terraces, with retaining walls about eighteen feet high, one above the other. All of the houses and buildings are several hundred years old, and are without doubt the very buildings in which Alexander the Immigrant once lived. They are of stone. The ancient stone mansion and outbuildings remained in outward appearance in the middle of this century much the same as in 1914, when Mrs. Hannah Tibbetts, the Shapleigh Family Association's first historian, visited the estate, and have changed little since Alexander lived there in 1635. The two-story mansion has four chimneys, and there are bay windows on the river side, looking out toward the ocean, but the bay windows are a modern innovation. The estate's terraces extended upward from the stone retaining wall at the water's edge. The buildings and grounds still retain their old-time charm, though no longer owned by Shapleighs. Several descendants related to our association members or members themselves have visited the estate grounds in recent years. Alexander Shapleigh's American Properties Kittery House, now in present-day Eliot, Maine Alexander Shapleigh came to Kittery, Maine in 1635 and soon acquired large tracts of land and established his new enterprises. There can be little doubt but that Alexander had agents here in America, and did business, long before he purchased land in what was afterwards the town of Kittery. As noted, the purchase of land was an afterthought, brought about by the King's grant to the Council of Plymouth and their grant to Sir Fernando Gorges. Before that, land in America was common domain, and its use and products were free to the citizens of England. Accordingly, orders were sent over to Alexander's agents to purchase certain tracts of land, and on May 5, 1636 John Treworgy, his agent and grandson, purchased 500 acres of land at Kittery Point, for his grandfather Shapleigh, and a few months later, on January 10, 1637 , he purchased, for his grandfather Shapleigh, 800 acres of land in what it now Eliot, then a part of Kittery. The price paid and to be paid, for the Kittery Point property, was 100 merchantable dried codfish per year, and half the net income of contemplated ferry, which never paid its expenses. This price, small as it was, was soon remitted and the grants comfirmed in fee to the Shapleigh estates, by both the town of Kittery and the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The northwesterly side line of the Kittery Point tract began at the river side, at a certain notch in what then or later was known as Warehouse Point and extended up to the southeasterly corner of Philip Swadden's wigwam, which stood on the westerly side of Warehouse Point, thence upon a straight line unto the creek that turns up at Brave Boat Harbor. A dwelling house was immediately built, or more likely, had already been built. We know by William Reeves' deposition that the house had already been built, as early as 1637, and from the same deposition, we gather that John Treworgy, Mr. Shapleigh's agent, had formerly obtained of Philip Swadden a right to the house, and so to the saw-pit. Philip Swadden is supposed to have held the Indian title to that part of Kittery Point. Rev. Everett S. Stackpole, in his history of Old Kittery, places the building of this house in 1635. We are inclined to place the date still earlier. Philip Swadden was probably in the employ of Alexander Shapleigh and had placed his wigwam, which was doubtless of wood, next-door neighbor to Mr. Shapleigh and within a few feet of the warehouse. The deposition also shows that in 1637, at least, Mr. Shapleigh was running a sawmill at Spruce Creek, and probably before that date, for permission was given for free passage between his dwelling-house and the saw-pit, and there would be no saw-pit, if there was no sawmill. In the old court records at Alfred, Maine, under date of October 15, 1650, is the following: "Forasmuch as the house at the river's mouth, where Mr. Shapleigh's father first built and Mr. William Hilton now dwelleth, in regard it was the first house there built and Mr. Shapleigh intendeth to build and enlarge, it is thought fit it should from time to time be for a house of entertainment or ordinary, with this proviso, that the tenant be such an one as the inhabitants shall approve of." Whatever the date of the building of the house may have been, we here learn that it was the first house ever built at Kittery Point. Alexander Shapleigh's warehouse or store at Kittery Point, for he had two warehouses, stood on the easterly side of Warehouse Point, within one hundred and fifteen feet of the water, just in front of this ordinary/hotel. The site of the old dwelling house, which soon became a hotel, is probably covered by this hotel or, if not, probably but a few feet up the rising ground. In our Vol.1 No. 3 edition of "The Shapleigh Chronicles" we included a picture of the Champernowne Hotel, Kittery Point, Maine, from the Association's library. Our historian wrote "this hotel was built in 1890. It was located opposite the Kittery Point (Maine) Congregational Church on Route 103 and at the end of Lawrence Lane opposite the foundation remains of Alexander Shapleigh, the Immigrant's buildings at Warehouse Point and Phyllis' Notch and located on his 500 acre tract of land there. The hotel was the site of several Shapleigh Family reunions during the 1920's and was torn down in 1927." Philip Swadden's wigwam stood just over yonder, on the westerly side of the road, or path, which afterwards extended down the present road and through Philliss's Notch to the ferry; for here was the public ferry from Kittery to Great Island, now Newcastle, and to Strawbery Banke, now Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the next thirty or forty years. We have now in 1637 the warehouse or store, the dwelling house which became a hotel, the wigwam, and out in the distance is the old sawmill. William Hilton, originally one of David Thompson's party, was placed in charge of the house and proposed ferry, a position which he continued to hold until June 7, 1651, when the premises were leased to Hugh Gunnison for the term of twenty-one years. It is probably that Alexander Shapleigh may have lived here a few months, from time to time, but this was not his manor house. That was located on his eight hundred acre tract in what is now Eliot. The southerly side of this tract originally began at the river-side at Watts Fort, otherwise called Point Joslain, and ran northeast by east into the woods about two and one quarter miles to a red oak tree, which stood about forty rods to the eastward of Sturgeon Creek brook. The northerly side line began at the riverside at the mouth of Cammock's Creek, afterwards called Mill Creek, and ran up that creek and into the woods 560 rods to Sturgeon Creek Marshes, the river being the westerly bound. The date of this deed, as we have seen, was Jan. 10, 1637 . A settlement was immediately commenced by the riverside just above Point Joslain. A warehouse or store was built same as at Kittery Point, and near it a large building was erected for an ordinary or hotel, for what was the use of having a store to sell goods to the Indians, unless there was an ordinary where fire-water could be sold to them at the same time! Captain William Everett, a very convenient man for Mr. Shapleigh, appears to have been placed in charge of the ordinary, and a large five-chambered manor house was built further up on high land and about half a mile from Point Joslain, with kitchen, brew-house, barn and out-buildings all on a large scale to match the manor house; which after the house at Kingsweare was named Kittery House, and by this name it was known for the next one hundred years. Alexander could not call his estate Kittery Court, same as the English estate, for it consisted of eight hundred acres of timber land, but he named the house after the old house in England, and the name was preserved by his son Nicholas during his whole lifetime. It was here that Alexander Shapleigh, when living in America, made his home; but his stay in America was brief. His business kept him most of the time in England, and the American end or branch was left mostly in charge of agents and members of his family. Different mills were built, and his money from 1636 to 1641 was spent by his agent, with a lavish hand. Such a course could not always last, and one bright morning in the spring of 1641 James Treworgy, Alexander's son-in-law who was then living in Kittery, came forward with the story that he had purchased all of Mr. Shapleigh's property, that was situated in America. There were debts out, and of course there was a flutter of excitement, for at this time the town had grown largely in population. The records of court at this time are fragmentary and we shall never know the whole of what happened. But on April 2, 1641, James Treworgy passed title to all of Mr. Shapleigh's property in America to Mr. Nicholas Shapleigh, then of Kingsweare, s/o Alexander Shapleigh. The consideration was fifteen hundred pounds in English money, or about seven thousand five hundred dollars of our money; a large sum for those days. Doubtless James Treworgy, with this money, fixed up the creditors as best he could. The ordinary or hotel, together with the warehouse and a small tract of land, appears to have been left in the possession of Captain William Everett, who soon died, and his widow was never troubled by Major Nicholas Shapleigh. Sixty-seven acres of land adjoining were afterwards, in 1652, confirmed by the town to Nathan Lord, who married the daughter and only surviving heir to Captain William Everett. Twenty acres more were confirmed by the town to the heirs of Nicholas Frost, who made claim, on an alleged promise made to their father by Mr. Warnerton, prior to the sale of the land to Mr. Shapleigh's agent. Twenty acres more were lost, by reas/o the bounds of a previous grant to Dennis Downing overlapping on the Shapleigh land; and twenty-seven acres more were lost by reas/o an earlier grant to Abraham Conley, making in all one hundred and thirty-four acres; but this was partly compensated by Mr. Shapleigh's original grant covering more than 800 acres. So that Major Nicholas Shapleigh finally saved about seven hundred and sixty acres clear, out of this tract. Sandy Hill and Kittery House Alexander, the Immigrant, purchased through his grandson John Treworgy, this "800 acre tract" on 10 January 1636 and it was recorded in York Deeds on January 20, 1636, Book III, Folio 2. It was purchased from Thomas Cammock who had earlier purchased it from the Laconia Company in 1633. The small tidal creek off the Piscataqua River in Eliot, which forms one of the boundaries of Alexander Shapleigh's 800 acre land tract and the current Sandy Hill Farm of the late Merritt Shapleigh Jr. and his wife Nancy, was originally called Cammock's Creek (in the 1600's), later appeared on maps as Stacy's Creek. This creek was deeded to Alexander Shapleigh as part of the 800 acre tract. At about the same time Alexander built his house there - KITTERY HOUSE - a garrison, several hundred feet away and soon thereafter constructed a saw mill and grist mill at the entrance to the creek. We believe Cammock's Creek took on the Shapleigh Old Mill Pond name about that time. We know for certain it bore that name in 1850 since there is an 1850 map that still hangs in the William Fogg library in Eliot, Maine, which carries that name. River Road was also called Sandy Hill Road, Fore Road was called Shapleigh Road and Old Road was called Fore Road at that time. The town has no record of the pond being changed to Stacy Creek which all of the current maps now show. There were several Stacy families living on the other side of the creek according to an 1872 map which Richard W. Shapleigh, Sr., our historian, has a copy of. The Shapleigh Family Association was instrumental in getting the townspeople of Eliot to change, by vote, the creek back to its historical name. This was readily accomplished without objection on March 17, 1990. Alexander's son, Major Nicholas Shapleigh (1618-1682), for whom the Town of Shapleigh was named, had no children, but brought from England and raised his nephew John Shapleigh, s/o Alexander, Jr. who died quite young. Lieutenant John Shapleigh(3) (1642-1706) received a grant of land consisting of 110 acres at Spruce Creek in Kittery which was in the area of where the present Kittery Trading Post is located. He inherited from his uncle, Major Nicholas Shapleigh (when he was killed at the launching of a boat at John Diamond's shipyard in Kittery in 1682), the estate of his uncle at Sandy Hill in Eliot. Thus, we can conclude that the name Sandy Hill is well over 300 years old. "Old Eliot" printed in 1898 indicates the name dates back to 1655. It has been suggested that it could have originated with the Indians. We do not know much about the two earlier houses, the first of which - Kittery House - was built about 1638, but quite likely they were destroyed by fire. We do have a written description but no pictures. Our records indicate that the first house was "later enlarged and fortified as a garrison" for the protection of the villagers at Sturgeon Creek against Indian raids. The second Shapleigh house built on the site of Kittery House next door to Sandy Hill was a garrison to protect themselves from the Indians, which the town ordered Lieutenant John to build and fortify. John subsequently met a cruel death at the hands of the Indians. An article in the "Boston Globe" indicated that the first cup of tea made in this country was brewed on the Shapleigh estate in Eliot, Maine in the 17th century. This had to be at Sandy Hill and probably was as early as 1636. A grist mill located at Sturgeon Creek was about a mile away from Sandy Hill. (We know that Major Nicholas(2) had a grist mill there. As noted, River Road was called Sandy Hill Road as late as 1850. Across the street from Sandy Hill (River Road), where Shapleigh creek empties into the Piscataqua River, there can be seen the remaining timbers of Major Nicholas Shapleigh's saw mill and grist mill that has been preserved for over 300 years by the salt water. This site was to be nominated to the Register of Historic Sites by the Maine Historic Preservation Committee. Less than a mile from here on River Road, in front of what used to be the Lanzier Tea Room, is a bronze placque marking the site of the Signing of the Submission of the Province of Maine to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1652. Major Nicholas Shapleigh(2) was a signer of this historic document. Sandy Hill is next door to the third house built in 1802 on the site of the Kittery House was built by Captain Elisha Shapleigh (1749-1822), a Revolutionary War veteran and sixth generation descendant of Alexander Shapleigh. A bronze placque stands near the road (River Road) in front of this house, marking the site of the original Kittery House, which gave name to the Town of Kittery. The placque was placed there in 1912 by the Shapleigh Family Association. Captain Elisha Shapleigh had ten children. One his grandchildren, Augustus Frederick Shapleigh, founded the Shapleigh Hardware Company in St. Louis around 1843. Mrs. Nancy Shapleigh, widow of Merritt J. Shapleigh, Jr. extended an invitation to SFA to have its year 2000 reunion at her Sandy Hill Farm which borders Shapleigh Old Mill Pond at 76 River Road in Eliot. She owns 42 acres on the Shapleigh 800 acre tract, so-called, and still has her beautiful Belgian horses (about a dozen at last count) which are pastured in a corral that borders River Road and overlooks the Piscataqua, a real picturesque scene during Spring, Summer and Autumn. Two earlier reunions were held at Sandy Hill Farm, in 1987 and 1990. | SHAPLEIGH, Alexander (I6649)
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| 5553 | She arrived in Preston in the fall of 1898 with her family, the youngest being 6 months old. She has been called the "first woman in Preston". | DRAPER, Martha Jane (I28786)
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| 5554 | She d aft 4 Dec 1704 and bef 6 Jul 1725. She is not the Lydia White who died at Mendon in 1727. THAT Lydia was Lydia Copeland, the wife of her son Joseph. d/o John ROGERS and Judith (FRENCH?) Rogers. Children: Joseph White Lydia White COOK Joseph White m Lydia COPELAND John White Thomas White Samuel White Ebenezer White Mary White HILL CHAPIN Ann White TRASK Experience White MILLARD Hannah White WARFIELD | ROGERS, Lydia (I43729)
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| 5555 | She did much in giving direction to the intellectual training of her posterity. | CARLETON, Abigail (I36808)
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| 5556 | She died 2 weeks after giving birth. | HOWARD, Mary (I23774)
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| 5557 | She died at Carter's Point in Blue Hill, ME. Rev. Jonathan Fisher said that she was deranged in the latter part of her life. | DAY, Lydia (I7279)
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| 5558 | She died at the home of her daughter, Dorcas Wynne.«s89» | AYER, Jane Yanacha (I6126)
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| 5559 | She died the same day her last child, Joseph, was born. The Holyoke family was one of the most prominent and aristocratic families in the colony. | HOLYOKE, Anne (I4276)
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| 5560 | She died young and had a younger sister named after her. | LATHAM, Nancy (I29879)
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| 5561 | She emigrated from Ireland with her husband and three small children. She signed a will on 12 Jul 1786 in Hardwick Township, Sussex Co, New Jersey. All seven of her children are mentioned in her will. She died on 4 Mar 1788 in Hardwick Township, Sussex Co, New Jersey. She had her estate probated on 4 Mar 1788 in Hardwick Township, Sussex Co, New Jersey. —— Children born in Ireland: * Mary (1742) * William (1745) * Grace (1747) Children born in New Jersey: * John (ca. 1752) * Elizabeth * Allen (1758) * Patrick (ca. 1760) | WRIGHT, Catherine “Katy” (I6128)
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| 5562 | She had 10 children, 1. Text: S79-Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family by James Edward Greenleaf, 1896. Reprinted 1989 by Heritage Books. 2. Text: S81-Selected 18 pages of biographical material and 3 page s of genealogies reproduced from “The Coffin Family” as edited by Louis Coffin . Printed by Nantucket Historical Association. Copied at NEHGS in Nov. 1996. | COFFIN, Elizabeth (I32394)
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| 5563 | She had been previously married to a Raymond and to a Jones. | CONANT, Louisa (I26971)
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| 5564 | She had been the Duke's lover for many years before their marriage. The couple's children, born before the marriage, were later legitimized during the reign of the Duke's nephew, Richard II. probably youngest child of Paon de ROET, a herald and, later, knight m1 Sir Hugh Ottes SWYNFORD. One of her sisters, Philippa, was the wife of Geoffrey CHAUCER Katherine's children by John of Gaunt were: • John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373–1410) • Henry, Cardinal Beaufort (1375–1447) • Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (1377–1426) • Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (1379–1440) | DE ROET, Katherine (I44664)
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| 5565 | She had several children and grandchildren, and was a well-respected member of the community. Although there was no credible evidence against her, she was hanged in a tree as a witch and died on 19 July 1692 at Proctor's Ledge. | TOWNE, Rebecca (I47255)
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| 5566 | She is called Martha Cora Turner in her California death record. | KNOPP, Martha Catrina (I26917)
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| 5567 | She is mentioned in her father’s will. | BOIES, Martha (I12104)
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| 5568 | She is not the daughter of Francis WALKER and Elizabeth SOULE. | WALKER, Mary (I36354)
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| 5569 | She is survived by her husband; two sons, William L. Locke IV and Daniel B. Locke; three grandsons, William L. Locke V and his wife Sonya, Collis C. Locke, and Ian H. Locke, a granddaughter Corensa Locke; daughters-in-law Priscilla Locke, Maveline Locke, and Stacey Locke; her younger brother Gerald K. Butler; and many nieces and nephews. | BUTLER, Elaine Alice (I45307)
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| 5570 | She liked to drink, smoke, and play poker. She was known to go into German bars in Cincinatti. The drinking in particular was to be a bone of contention with her husband after Prohibition was passed. There was never any suggestion, however, that she over-drank or was an alcoholic. | HERRON, Helen “Nellie” (I33938)
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| 5571 | She lost her hearing at 2 years of age due to meningitis. She graduatedfrom the Faribault School for the Deaf on June 4, 1889. She was ofBaptist , worked at dressmaking and had relatives in Oneonta, NY. She died of pneumonia. | PIERCE, Anne Elizabeth (I30390)
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| 5572 | She m. John Johnson as his 2nd wife | THROCKMORTON, Hannah (I19952)
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| 5573 | She married vice admiral Roy Gano and both are buried at Arlington national cemetery. | HOWARD, Harriet Pauline (I10430)
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| 5574 | She may have been the daughter of Samuel SMITH and Grace (PLATTS) GAWKROGER.«s131» | SMITH, Grace (I30939)
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| 5575 | She started to Utah with Brigham Young's company and died enroute. | CALVERT, Elizabeth (I20680)
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| 5576 | She stayed in Holland when Thomas and Joseph came over on the Mayflower and is believed to have died there. She was listed on the 1622 poll tax list at Leiden, Holland, and referred to as "poor people" and "without means". The rest of their children also stayed in Holland until they were grown at which time they, too, came to America. http://worldconnect.rootsweb..com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cduke&id=I00513 | COSFORD, Alice (I40532)
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| 5577 | She was a schoolteacher in Joliet, IL.. She never married. She was a graduate of the Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa. She retired from teaching in 1967 in Joliet, Ill. She died of kidney malfunction in St. Joseph Hospital. She was buried at the Bingham Township Cemetery, Woden, Iowa. A funeral service was held on 20 Oct 1970 at the First Presbyterian Church, Joliet,Ill. | MISSMAN, Florence Emily (I29910)
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| 5578 | She was adjudged non compos in April 1794. | DOWNING, Susanna (I35476)
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| 5579 | She was an invalid the last 10 yrs. as a result of strokes. | DAY, Cecile Blanche (I20096)
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| 5580 | She was born in the castle at Domfront, Normandy on 13 October 1162, and was baptised by Henry of Marcy. Her half-siblings were Marie and Alix of France, and her full siblings were Henry the Young, Duchess Matilda, King Richard, Duke Geoffrey, Queen Joan and King John. —— When she was 12 years old, in 1174, Eleanor was married to King Alfonso VIII of Castile in Burgos. The marriage had been arranged with a betrothal in 1170 but, because of Eleanor’s youth at the time, and the uproar in Europe six months later of Archbishop Thomas Becket's murder implicating her father, the wedding was delayed. Her parents' purpose in arranging the marriage was to secure Aquitaine’s Pyrenean border, while Alfonso was seeking an ally in his struggles with his uncle, Sancho VI of Navarre. In 1177, this led to Henry overseeing arbitration of the border dispute. —— The couple had 11 children. | PLANTAGENET, Queen Eleanor (I40415)
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| 5581 | She was born Jan 12, 1886 and died at Jane Lamb Hospital in Clinton, Ia. on 28 Jan 1975. Aunt Eleanor lived in Clinton and grandma was in a nursing home there. ( Eleanor Morrison Starr daughter of Minnie and Harry John Dodds, also Hillys Morrison Mosier is a daughter also.) Grandma married Harry Dodds 2 Sep 1908 in Van Buren Co., Ia. He died 11 Jun 1962. At the time of her death Mrs. Charles (Hillys) Mosier was living in Kearney, Nebraska and Mrs. Francis (Elenor) Starr was living in Clinton, Ia. Grandma Minnie never worked outside her home. She sewed and made hats for people and painted pictures, she was very artistic. She also was a club lady belonging to several. She was also quite a church going lady and use to walk clear across town and up a steep hill to get to church on Sundays and other church meetings during the week. She was in a rest home about 2 miles outside of Bonaparte and did not like being there. She felt she should be in her home where she had resided for many many years. One evening she decided to go home. She took her walker and walked over gravel roads to get home. This was quite a feat since she was blind in one eye and had partial paralysis on one side. She was quite a lady. Of course her family had decided she would be safer and have the best of medical care and returned her to a rest home. —— Dodds - Morrison Mr. Harry Dodds - Miss Minnie Morrison were married at Keosauqua wed Sept 2, 1908. Rev Moody of the Christian Church officiating. Mr. Dodds, s/o Mr. and Mrs John F. Dodds of Harrisburg twp. and is an industrious young man of good habits. He has been employed in the C. W. Dodds furniture and undertaking establishment at Keosauqua. Mrs Dodds is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Morrison also of Harrisburg township. She is a talented young lady, a graduate of Bonaparte H. S. and will undoubtadly do her part toward making a happy home. The record joins the many friends in congratulations. | MORRISON, Minnie Minerva (I36156)
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| 5582 | She was born Jutta (Judith), the second daughter of John the Blind, king of Bohemia, and his first wife, Elisabeth of Bohemia. She was the first wife of King John II of France; however, as her death occurred a year prior to his coronation, she was never a French queen. Jutta was referred to in French historiography as Bonne de Luxembourg. She was a member of the House of Luxembourg. Among her children were Charles V of France, Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, and Joan, Queen of Navarre. Jutta was married to John, Duke of Normandy on 28 July 1332 at the church of Notre-Dame in Melun. She was 17 years old, and the future king was 13. Her name Jutta (or Guta), translatable into English as Good (in the feminine case), was changed by the time of her marriage to Bonne (French) or Bona (Latin). Upon marriage, Bonne was the wife of the heir to the French throne, becoming Duchess of Normandy, and Countess of Anjou and of Maine. The wedding was celebrated in the presence of six thousand guests. The festivities were prolonged by a further two months when the young groom was finally knighted at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. John was solemnly granted the arms of a knight in front of a prestigious audience bringing together the kings of Bohemia and Navarre, and the dukes of Burgundy, Lorraine and the Brabant. | DE LUXEMBOURG, Bonne (I40422)
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| 5583 | She was captured by a war party of Abernaki Indians in a raid at Oyster River, NH in August of 1689. Her husband James was killed along with 17 other men who were nearby the garrison working in the field. Her Son Robert was also captured, but escaped the following day. Sarah was held captive until 1691 when she was rescued by a combined force under "Col Church". She returned to Oyster River, married again (Capt. John Woodman) on October 17, 1700, and lived out her life. She did not have any more children. Of interesting note - she once again survived an Indian attack during the more famous Oyster River Massacre of July 18, 1694. | BURNHAM, Sarah (I4952)
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| 5584 | She was captured by Indians January 25, 1692 (the Candlemas Day Massacre) and remained in Canada (GDMNH, p. 321). | HEARD, Anne (I6471)
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| 5585 | She was crippled according to Stanley D. Gray She is buried as "our mother" | BLACK, Lorenza (I8449)
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| 5586 | She was his concubine. d/o Wrymund, King of Teorddin | WRYMUNDSDOTTER, Countess Groe (I35276)
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| 5587 | She was his concubine. | WRYMUNDSDOTTER, Countess Groe (I35276)
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| 5588 | She was known as Dolly. | MOULTON, Dorothy O. (I43074)
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| 5589 | She was living May 31, 1634. Married Apr. 10, 1621, Coddenham, Suffolk, Anthony MILLS (d. by May 31, 1634, probaby at Brantham, Suffolk). Children of Elizabeth and Anthony MILLS: John; Richard; and Elizabeth.«s131» | RAVENS, Elizabeth (I30920)
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| 5590 | She was married to George R. SHEPARD and of Concord, MA when she and her siblings quit claimed to her mother in April 1933. By the early 1960s, when she corresponded with William F. Leonard, she was Marguerte Lund, as she was at her death. | TURNER, Marguerite Elizabeth (I26895)
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| 5591 | She was married to Joseph YORK prior to marrying Eliab LATHAM. | BLANCHFORD, Betsy (I23818)
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| 5592 | She was mentioned in the will of her uncle John Carlton. | CARLETON, Elizabeth (I37307)
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| 5593 | She was of Dutch-English, Chippewa descent. | KETCHUM, Kathlyn Mary (I31867)
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| 5594 | She was of the family of Newcomen, of Saltfleet- by, in the county of Lincoln, one of the most ancient and respectable families of that county. | NEWCOMEN (I6298)
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| 5595 | She was on Deer Isle as early as 1764. She had a settler's right to the lot known as the "Granny Lot;" She was known as "Granny Staples." | CANE, Mercy (I4934)
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| 5596 | She was the heir of Thomas Forster of St. John Street, near London, son of Thomas Forster of Iden, Co Susex —— Susanna is buried in a tomb outside the Church. | FORSTER, Susanna (I39862)
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| 5597 | She was the third daughter of Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster and his wife Mary, born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She was named Fear because at the time of her birth, the Puritans were holding secret meetings and were under constant threat of arrest. Her early years, and indeed her whole life, were full of unrest. In 1608, she moved with her family and other pilgrims, to Amsterdam (and later Leiden), Holland. Fear was only 14 when her parents, William Brewster and his wife Mary and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling, left for America on the Mayflower. She was left in the care of her older siblings, Jonathan (born in 1593) and Patience (born in 1600). Jonathan joined the pilgrims in 1621 on board the Fortune. Fear arrived in America with Patience on board the Anne in July 1623. | BREWSTER, Fear (I43454)
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| 5598 | She was the widow of John Nelson. After William Hight (Hoyt)'s death she married Nicholas Hilliard of Portsmouth for her third husband on December 16, 1718. On November 2, 1732 she was married, for a fourth time, to John Dam of Newington. The New Hampshire Gazette of March 8, 1765, records her death: "Mrs. Elizabeth Hight, aged 99, died in Newington, N.H., the first of the week beginning Feb. 24, 1765. She was married four times and had 8 children and about 300 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, most of whom survived her." [All above information from Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis. Vol. II. Gardner-Moses record for an ancestor] | HALEY, Elizabeth (I14)
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| 5599 | She was visiting a cousin at the time of her death, Mrs. Sarah Pearse Parker. | NEWTON, Rispah Bisby (I27087)
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| 5600 | Sheldon F Conary United States Public Records Name Sheldon F Conary Titles and Terms (Original) SR Also Known As Sheldon Conary Residence Date 20 Oct 2008 Residence Place Oakton, Virginia, United States Birth Date 18 Dec 1907 Phone Number (207) 348-9383 Phone Number Recorded Date 25 Mar 2008 Address 3537 Valeview Dr Address Continued Oakton, Virginia 22124 Address Date 20 Oct 2008 2nd Address 211 Sunshine Rd 2nd Address Continued Deer Isle, Maine 04627 2nd Address Date 30 Dec 2000-25 Mar 2008 3rd Address 3390 Gandy Blvd N Lot 11N 3rd Address Continued Saint Petersburg, Florida 33702 3rd Address Date 01 Jan 1996-21 Dec 2004 4th Address 7 Cedar Pkwy 4th Address Continued Hudson, New York 12534 4th Address Date 31 Aug 1967-01 Feb 2002 Possible Relatives Catherine S Conary, Cheryl A Karoly | CONARY, Sheldon Forest (I38949)
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