Francis SMALL

Abt 1625 - 1714  (~ 89 years)

• Name	Francis SMALL
  Born	Abt 1625	Biddeford, Devonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	6 Oct 1625	Devonshire, England
  Occupation	Indian trader
  Immigrant?	Y
  Parents Unproven	Y
  Died	1714	Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Buried	unknown   [1]
  Person ID	I39080	Main
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Edward SMALL,   b. Abt 1600, Biddeford, Devonshire, England ,   d. 10 Feb 1665, Maine  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth SHURTT,   b. 8 Oct 1596, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England ,   d. 10 Feb 1665, Biddeford, Devonshire, England  (Age 68 years)
  Married	Abt 1624	Biddeford, Devonshire, England
  Family ID	F27844	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth LEIGHTON,   b. 1634, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maine ,   d. Aft 11 Oct 1712, Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts  (Age > 78 years)
  Children	1. Francis SMALL,   b. Abt 1659, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts ,   d. Abt 1709, Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F27843	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1625 - Biddeford, Devonshire, England Baptism - 6 Oct 1625 - Devonshire, England Died - 1714 - Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Long Reach Long Reach is a tidal inlet surrounded by Sebascodegan Island in Maine. Land owned by Francis Small.

  
  

• Notes

  Francis was a Indian trader & lived much of the time Small Point Harbor, Maine. —— Francis Small was born in 1627, as a deposition shows. Some have supposed him to have been son of the above Edward Small, and the supposition is a natural one but has not been proved. In 1648 he lived in Dover, N. H. Had wife Elizabeth, born 1634. Her maiden name may have been Leighton. In 1668 he bought a large tract of land, known as Ossipee, of an Indian chief and had dwelling house and trading post there, supposed to have been located in what is now Cornish, Me. He was at Kittery in 1668. About 1700 he left Kittery and went to live with his son Daniel at Truro, Mass., where he died about 1714 or 1715. —— He made the first recorded land purchase in what is now the state of Maine, then part of Massachusetts, and proceeded to amass so much property that he was called "the great landholder." He owned the most acreage of anyone who ever lived in Maine. Chief Wesumbe (or Captain Sandy), the sagamore of the Newichewannock Abenaki tribe, warned Small of a planned attempt on his life by renegade tribesmen. They owed him payment for goods purchased in the spring on credit, to be settled in the fall with furs. Instead, they decided to erase the debt by killing him at early dawn on a coming day, setting fire to his house and shooting him when he ran out the door. At first Small thought the warning a trick to frighten him away and avoid payment. Just to be on the safe side, however, he took refuge on a nearby hill, from which he could peer through the pines and observe what might transpire. As forewarned, at first light his trading post went up in flames. Small fled, by his account not stopping until he reached Kittery [2, 3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 149757832. [S128] Old Kittery and Her Families, Stackpole, Everett S., (Press of Lewiston Journal Company, Lewiston, ME. 1903). [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Small.