Mary SLOPER

1663 - 1744  (81 years)

• Name	Mary SLOPER
  Born	11 Feb 1663	Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Gender	Female
  Noteworthy	Scalped by Indians, but survived for many years.
  Died	17 Feb 1744	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Buried	unknown
  Person ID	I10440	Main
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Richard SLOPER,   b. Nov 1630, England ,   d. 16 Oct 1716, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 85 years)
  Mother	Mary Gibbons SHERBURNE,   b. 20 Nov 1640, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 22 Sep 1718, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 77 years)
  Married	21 Oct 1658	Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F3574	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John BREWSTER,   b. 1667, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England ,   d. 8 Aug 1726, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 59 years)
  Married	30 Apr 1692	Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Children	+ 1. Samuel BREWSTER,   b. 30 Apr 1692, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 21 Nov 1754, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 62 years)
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F3572	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 11 Feb 1663 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire Married - 30 Apr 1692 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire Died - 17 Feb 1744 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  .... It was on the 26th of June 1696, that the Indians made their way to this very spot (in the Plains), after their fearful predatory incursions on Dover....  .... In the afternoon previous to the Indians commencing their attack on the people and property of that vicinity, the clouds and chilled air portended rain. That night a thunderstorm occurred; the cattle came frightened from the woods, and at an unusually early hour sought refuge around their owners' homes. Dover having suffered from the murdering hands of the treacherous Indians before the thinly settled neighborhood of the Plains had constant foreboding that they might soon be subject to like incursions.  ….     ….The person named by Mr Belknap as being scalped, was Mary (Sloper) Brewster, born Feb.11,1663, (daughter of Richard Sloper) wife of John Brewster, Jr. ….     ....When Mrs. Brewster was met by her friends, she was about mid-distance between her house and the garrison, being but a few rods east of the present school-house. She was taken up for dead. Her scalp was entirely removed from her head, and she was deeply wounded by a tomahawk. She became a mother shortly after, and fully recovered her health. The fracture made in the cranium by the tomahawk, was closed by a silver plate (literally a plate from her silver service), and her loss of hair was supplied by an artificial substitute (a horse hair wig). She was afterwards the mother of four sons, and lived till Sept. 22, 1744, then departed this life, aged 81y., 7m., 11d.  http://mv..com/viewer/0e783fd6-908e-404b-b321-f66f74bc049e/3995281/-1457256622