Richard DOLLOFF

Abt 1678 - 1750  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Richard DOLLOFF
  Born	Abt 1678	Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Aug 1750	Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I33207	Main
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Christian DOLLOFF,   b. 1639, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 18 Aug 1708, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Sarah SCAMMON,   b. 1656, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. Aft 1708, New Hampshire  (Age > 53 years)
  Married	10 Dec 1674	Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F11325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine BEAN,   b. 1680, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. Aft 1744, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age > 65 years)
  Married	Abt 1699	Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Children	+ 1. John DOLLOFF,   b. 20 Apr 1708, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 1754, Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire  (Age 45 years)   2. Infant DOLLOFF,   b. Dec 1700   3. Sarah DOLLOFF,   b. 10 Jan 1702   4. Margaret DOLLOFF,   b. 18 Mar 1704   5. Abigail DOLLOFF,   b. 26 Feb 1706   6. Jonathan DOLLOFF,   b. 17 Oct 1710,   d. Abt 1745, Nova Scotia, Canada  (Age 34 years)   7. David DOLLOFF,   b. Abt 1712,   d. Bef 1749  (Age ~ 36 years)   8. Ebinizer DOLLOFF,   b. Abt 1714   9. Abner DOLLOFF,   b. Abt 1716, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. Oct 1783, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 67 years)   10. Ann DOLLOFF,   b. Abt 1718
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F11324	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The original house built by Christian DOLLOFF no longer stands. Richard, his son, built a house on the family homestead in 1741, which stands today as the center portion of the existing structure. The house remains in the Dolloff family to this day, following in descent from Richard's brother Samuel's son Abner. Between approximately 1650 and the early 1700s, there was nearly constant conflict between the English colonists of Maine and New Hampshire and the Canadian French settlers to the north, with the Indians, and inter-European conflicts which the English colonists were expected to fight as well: King Phillip's War, King William's War, and the other French and Indian Wars. The on going conflict between the European settlers and the French was fueled by the Canadian French paying the northern Indians to raid, massacre, and steal women and children from the colonies in what is now Maine and New Hampshire. Two of Richard and Catherine's children were stolen by the Indians. Richard's stolen children were taken to Canada upon their capture. An officer Dudley went to Canada on behalf of the many families who had lost wives and children to kidnapping, and recorded the names of all the surviving captives. Dudley then returned with lists, which included the names of Richard's two stolen children. Richard then petitioned the courts as a “poor petitioner" for assistance in raising money to aid him in ransoming his captive children back from the Indians in Canada. Both of those children, however, died in captivity, one soon after being captured, and another about ten years after having been captured. From another source: Three children of Richard and Catherine were captured by Indians, while a fourth child hid in the woods. John was about 2 years old, Margaret was 6, and another unnamed daughter, probably older. Richard got them back in the summer of 1716. After peace was secured, the other two were returned but the older one had married an Indian and feeling slighted, returned to Canada.