John HARTSHORN

1650 - Aft 1737  (> 87 years)

• Name	John HARTSHORN
  Born	6 May 1650	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Weaver, tailor, stone mason
  Died	Aft 7 Dec 1737	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts
  Buried	Plains Cemetery, Franklin, New London, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I35049	Main
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomas HARTSHORN,   b. 1614, Reading, Berkshire, England ,   d. 18 May 1683, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Susanna BUCK,   b. 1622,   d. 18 Mar 1660, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 38 years)
  Family ID	F12304	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth SWAN,   b. 10 Mar 1652, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 12 Dec 1690, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 38 years)
  Married	19 Sep 1672	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Ruth HARTSHORN,   b. 26 Jan 1675, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1731, Arundel, York, Maine  (Age 55 years)
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F12303	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 19 Sep 1672 - Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Died - Aft 7 Dec 1737 - Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  m1 Ruth SWAN m2 Joanna THORN STEVENS m3 Mary LEIGHTON He Served in King Phillip's War; Capt Sills company, 1675 AND 1676. He was one of the last surviving veterans of King Phillips War. He also survived a French and Indian raid on Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1708, in which his third wife, his son, and three grandsons were killed. He became a lieutenant in the militia and was active in the Indian Wars, serving under Capt. Sill, from 1675-76. He served in Queen Anne's War in the Massachusetts Militia. John Hartshorn was a weaver from Haverhill, MA, a town about ten miles up on the Merrimack River. Boston's slate gravestones did not make it in to Haverhill. This left the town and its neighbor, the town of Bradford across the river without gravestones. Circa 1700 Mr. Hartshorn, at age fifty, decided to take on a second career. He started carving gravestones. He developed his own image, a mask-like face. Emanating out from the face were lines of many configurations. Later on he added large circles with geometric designs inside. What he created is called the Merrimac Valley Style. Hartshorn borrowed ideas from designs he found on Boston's gravestones. Those ideas he reworked into his own creations. He obviously had the ability to carve skull and wing designs but did not. Through various circumstances he moved a couple of times and ended up living in Connecticut where he continued to carve gravestones into his eighties. Many of his garvestones can be seen in MA. & CT. to this day. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 24097950.