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| 1 | Steyning then Old Minster, Winchester; remains may now be in Winchester Cathedral[ | AETHELWULF King of Wessex (I7177)
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| 2 | VANDERSCHELDE, Adriana (I1519)
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| 3 | A Portsmouth Herald personal notice 3 July 1939 said that Mr and Mrs Orville De Rochemont of Baltimore, Maryland were spending the holidays at the home of Mrs De Rochemont's parents, Mr and Mrs Harold Gile of Kittery. | DEROCHEMONT, Orville Fessenden (I299)
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| 4 | Aaaron moses was born at Sagamore Creek. Brewster, in his Rambles, says he was married in 1677 to Ruth, daughter of Henry Sherburne; she was born June 3, 1660. His widow's given name, written in her will, is "Mary." Ruth is believed to be an error. There is no record of his death. The town Tax-book of the year 1713 shows that the "Old Homestead" was taxed to the "Widow Moses" and her son James. From town and provincial papers it appears that he was a public man, having held a number of offices in the town and state. He was Lieutenant in Captain Tobias Langston's company, and was one of the members of a court martial called by Governor Usher at New Castle, Sept. 29, 1696. After his death in 1713, his widow, Mary, was appointed administrator of his estate. His widow later married John Sherburne, her cousin, Oct. 20, 1720. In 1733 his son James was appointed to close up its settlement. The inventory showed 97+ acres, besides marsh. AARON MOSES NH 2 lst wife RUTH SHERBURNE 2nd wife MARY Aaron Moses was born at the Old Homestead at Sagamore Creek. He was a Lieutenant in Capt.Langdon's Company. He was also a member of a court martial called by Governor Usher at New Cas September 29,1696. From Town and Provincial papers, it appears that he was a public man, having number of offices in the town and state. According to the agreement dated January 6,1679, between Sergeant John Moses and his wife, with their son, Aaron Moses, Aaron inherited from his father the plantation farm on Sagamore Creek, Portsmouth, where he lived and died. Aaron died June, 1713 at Sagamore Creek. He married 1st.on June 1,1676 to Ruth Sherburne, daughter of Henry Sherburne of Portsmouth, descendant of English noble family, came to Portsmouth 1631, member of church of England. She was born June 3,1660. He married 2nd Mary Leach, her surname dates are unknown. She married 2nd October 20,1720, John Sherburne who was probably a cousin of Aaron's first wife. Mary Sherburne left a will dated October 9,1732, executors, her sons, James and J Moses. John Sherburne witnessed the agreement between John Moses and his son Aaron, dates January 6,1679. The Town Tax-book of the year 1713 shows that the "Old Homestead" was taxed to the “Moses" and her son James. After the death of Aaron in 1713, his widow, Mary was appointed administratrix of his estate, and in 1733, his son James was appointed to close up its settlement. A son Aaron, and a daughter, Elizabeth (Moses)Smith, are mentioned as having died without issue previous closing up of the estate, September 10, 1734. The original will of Mary widow of Aaron Moses, dated October 9,1732 was in possession of the Moses Family at Portsmouth (1889) and was a personally examined by Zebina Moses. The will shows that her name was Mary and that she married October 20, a second husband, John Sherburne, and they lived on the Rye road near the line separating Rye and Portsmouth, in a field now owned by the heirs of Michael W. Tucker. The Old cellar is still visible about one-third of the way from "Sherburne's Well" to Tucker's barn. The line runs southwest from Samso Point, on Sagamore Creek, to Bellahack Brook, and the above mentioned place is on the Rye side. The copy of the will follows. (The above information was from Zebina Moses Volume 1 & 2) (The following information is from the book titled The Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse.) Lieut. Aaron Moses was born at Sagamore Creek in Portsmouth about 1650. His only wife of whom contemporary documentary evidence is found was Mary ___________, whom he married about 1868. That he had an earlier wife whose name does not appear on the records is not conclusive, that she was Ruth Sherburne, youngest daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Gibbons) Sherburne of Portsmouth. Aaron Moses died in July, 1713 and his widow Mary Moses, married on October 20,1720 to Captain John Sherburne “of the Plains.” The statement that Aaron Moses and Ruth Sherburne were married on June 1,1676 appears in that version of Mary (Sherburne) Sloper’s family record printed in the “New England Historical and Genealogical Register“ in 1863, while, in the version printed in he same publication in 1907, the marriage is again set forth bit the date is changed to January 1,1677. It does not appear in the version printed in the “Portsmouth Journal” of June 8,1867, and later reprinted in Rambles about Portsmouth, Second Series in 1869, which of the three, is the only one likely to have been an honest copy of Mary Sloper’s original manuscript. Thus far, therefore, we have no reputable evidence that such a marriage took place, but theirs is not to argue that it did not. The person who made the additions to the manuscript in 1863, reasonable supposed to have been Dr. George Gains Brewster (1797-1872) who was a descendant of Mary Sloper and also of Aaron Moses by three different lines of descent, may have had other manuscript evidence or traditional accounts on which he based the added entry, even if he used a synthetic date. Time and propinquity as well as family association are all favorable, and there is no contradictory negative evidence. As we have seen, the care of Rebecca Sherburne, the unfortunate sister of Mary and Ruth Sherburne, was entrusted to Mary Huff, the sister of Aaron Moses, which would have been a reasonable family arrangement. Aaron took over the management of the family farm at Sagamore Creek in his father’s old age, and on it he lived his entire life. He made only one recorded purchase of land, a small tract on the south side of the mill-dam adjoining Thomas Beck’s land, from Richard Jose on February 11,1692/3, (NH Deeds 6:111). He sold to Elizabeth Savage, widow, a lot of 35 feet by 78 feet on which stood a house, near the meeting-house, on November 3,1701. His nephew George Walker bought from him a cart path from the King’s highway to Walker’s new field, and all of the Moses land on the western side of the highway in 1702 and in 1712 Walker also purchased for L40 the 45 acre grant made to Moses from the town commons in 1699, lying on the north side of the road from Capt. Langdon’s to Breakfast Hill (NH Deeds 6:826; 8:277). His only other conveyance was a small lot of 1½ acres lying on the hill about 50 or 60 rods from his dwelling house, to his well-beloved son James Moses on January 11,1711/2 (NH Deeds, 9:220). At his death the Moses farm contained about 98 acres. Moses took an active part in local military life. His house was a garrison in 1690 when the New Hampshire settlements were in grave danger from the French and Indians, and on May 23,1691/2 five pounds of powder were delivered to him for its defense. By 1684 he was the lieutenant of Capt. Tobias Langdon’s company of Portsmouth militia, and an original order of Lieut. Col. Thomas Parker (Packer), dated November 9,1695, survives by which thirty men from the two Portsmouth companies were detailed and equipped to range the woods in a circuit from Portsmouth to Dover to Exeter and home to Portsmouth, “to performe thaire march under ye command of Lft Aaron Moses,(NH Council Book, II:78). On the civil side, Aaron Moses was Portsmouth’s constable inn 1690 and by 1694 he was marshal of the colony his duties being comparable to those of a present day county sheriff. A warrant was addressed to him as “Provost Martiall” in 1684 and in that same year he called himself “Field Marshall,” a title that sounds more impressive to our ears by association with great military figures than it did to his. He sat on a trail jury in 1696. The petition to Massachusetts Bay to aid in the defense of New Hampshire, dated February 20,1689/90, had borne his signature. In the seating-list of the Portsmouth meeting-house of 1693/4, Aaron was placed in the third seat in the ,men’s gallery fronting the pulpit, while his wife was in he third seat in the women’s gallery. Administration on the estate of Aaron Moses was granted to his widow, Mary Moses, on November 21,1713, John Abbot and John Leach going on her bond, and an inventory amounting to L237:17:04, taken by Tobias Langdon and Hugh Banfield, was entered on February 5.1713/4 on the estate of “Aaron Moses who desesed July last past.” Over four years later, on June 4,1718, the court ordered William Sevy, James Randall and Ephraim Denet to make a new appraisal of the land only which they did on July 12, giving it a value of L261. Fifteen years more were to pass however before steps were taken to divide and settle the property, (NH Probate, No. 479). As before stated in 1720 at the North Church Mary Moses, Aaron’s widow, married John Sherburne. This was Capt. John Sherburne of the Plaines, who was born about 1650. Capt. Sherburne died between December 17,1723 and February 16,1730/1, the dates of the making and proving of his will, by which his estate was left to his many children and in which his wife was not mentioned, presumably because of the terms of a marriage agreement. Mary Sherburne of Portsmouth, widow made her will on October 9, 1732. It was not placed in probate but was preserved with only family papers. To her sons, James Moses, Joseph Moses and Josiah Moses she left a sheep a piece. To her granddaughter Mary Moses, daughter of her son Joseph, her featherbed, the bedding belonging to it and her biggest iron pot. To her three granddaughters, Mary, daughter of her son Joseph, Abigail, daughter of her son Josiah and Mary, daughter of her son James, all her silver, either wrought into plate or in money, to be equally divided. To her four daughters, Martha Moses, Hannah Moses, Abigail Moses (her daughter-in-law), and Sarah Scott, all her wearing apparel, to be equally divided. To her son Mark Moses, all her household goods of what kind soever not hitherto disposed of, her oldest cow, one steer, and three hogs, he paying small debts owed to Joshua Peirce, Mr. Priest and Thomas Sibson. Executors: James Moses, Joseph Moses, Witnesses: Theodore Atkinson, Samuel Sherburn, Margaret Fickett. Shortly before his mother’s death, James Moses took steps to settle his father’s estate to buy the interests of his brothers and sister in the farm at Sagamore Creek, securing quit-claim deeds from Josiah (December 20,1728) Mark (February 19,1730/1), Joseph (January 31,1731/2) and his sister Sarah Scott “one of the daughter of Aaron Moses” (March 9,1732/3) (NH Deeds 17:462, 19:372.387) He was appointed administrator de bonis non on October 19,1733, George Walker his cousin, and John Jackson, his brother-in-law, being his bondsmen. On October 22 a warrant was issued authorizing Thomas Beck of Portsmouth and John Sherburne of New Castle to appraise the estate, the widow Mary Moses (sic) having died. They wasted not time but signed the inventory of L191:15:0 on the following day, and on the day after that, the 24th, John Lang, Thomas Beck Jr., and Samuel Beck were ordered to repot on the division of the estate into eight equal parts. These steps must have been the subject of a previous agreement for on October 25 the three men reported that the estate could not be divided without damage to the whole----”if the Land be well improved the whole of it will not be more than sufficient to Maintain one small family great part of ye Land being Rocky & Barren & but Little firewood upon the whole.” This being the case the court again appointed appraisers on the next day, they being Seth Ring of Newington, Samuel Brackett of Rye and Joseph Langdon of Portsmouth, who were to decided for what sum the eldest son might purchase the entire farm. They were more deliberate than their predecessors and more optimistic in their estimates for on April 3,1734, they produced much greater figure of L294:8:9 which was nearer the valuation put on the land in 1718. The court accepted the appraisal and on September 10,1734 allowed James’s account. He showed that he had paid to “his brother Aaron who is since Dead without Issue” L15:12:0. All expenses being subtracted from L294:8:9 left L239:10:0 which “Remains to be Divided into Seven Shares.” On the same day the court ordered “to be Divided into Seven Shares among the Surviving Children the sum of L239:9....each share is L34:4:41/2.” Who were the surviving children? We know that Aaron out lived his father, but it was probably not for long as the only mention of him in the records is in James’s account where he is definitely stated to have died without issue. Elizabeth Smith died in Ipswich in 1725 also leaving no children. Mary Sherburne’s will names her five Moses Children---James, Josiah, Joseph, and Mark Moses, and Sarah Scott, all of whom were living in 1734. In a division into seven shares this leaves two share to be accounted for. The first theory since discarded, was that James, the oldest surviving son in 1734, had an extra share, leaving one share for a surviving daughter by their father’s first wife, who doubtless had her own mother’s personal belongings and was not mentioned in her stepmothers will. This provides a place for Ruth, wife of Timothy Waterhouse, as a surviving daughter. It does not explain, however, why the court contemplated division into eight shares on October 24,1733, but ordered division into seven shares in September, 1734. The final theory is that in 1733 the court believed that James, who was the oldest son then alive, was entitled to two shares, leaving six shares to be allotted to six other children, but that on further consideration the judge decided that only Aaron, the oldest surviving son in 1713 when the father died, would have been entitled to a double share, and, he being dead without issue, the seven surviving children as of the year 1734 should take a single share each. To make up the tally of seven we have (1) James, (2) Joseph, (3) Josiah, (4) Mark, (5) Sarah Scott, all named in their mother’s will, (6) and (7) two daughters by Aaron Moses’s first wife, one of whom I believe, or cumulative circumstantial evidence and no negative evidence to have been Ruth Waterhouse, and the other an unknown sister, on the “missing wives” subject to constant genealogical search. | MOSES, Lieutenant Aaron Sr (I9867)
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| 5 | According to Gene de Rochemont of Los Angeles, George was the superintendant of the Bridgeport Brass Corporation in 1903. He worked there until two years before his death and then was a farmer according to his Brimfield, Massachusetts death record. His son was the informant, and he died from paralysis with bright's disease as a contributing factor. For some reason in the 1880 census, George, Catherine and son Irving were living in Austin, Illinois. He was a foreman in a brass factory. Palmer Journal Date: Friday Evening, August 26, 1910 Volume XLI, Number 22, page 1 Brimfield. George W. de Rochemont. George W. de Rochemont, 73, died at his home in Little Rest last Friday after a lingering illness with Bright's disease. Mr. de Rochemont was born in Portsmouth N.H. January 8, 1837. His grandfather came from France and belonged to the French nobility before the Reformation when the family was driven from France. This ancestor was married to a Miss Dewitt from Holland, who was a young cousin, because of the custom of intermarriage between noble families of different nations. This branch of the family emigrated to America in 1806. George de Rochemont lived upon his father's farm in Portsmouth until 17 years of age, when he served apprenticeship in the brass and bronze foundry business which he followed for 52 years. For 20 years he was forman for the "Adams & Wesetake Manufacturing Co. in Bridgeport, Ct. He was married to Miss Catherine Stores of Springvale, Me., whom he survived, and the couple celebrated their golden wedding. Always retaining his passion for farming he came to Brimfield a few years ago and enjoyed that occupation in his later life. He was a member of the Methodist church for 50 years and a consistent Christian, but on account of deafness he had not attended church in his old age, though he kept up his religious interest in the reading of sermons and other religious literature. The body was taken Maine and placed beside that of his wife in the Springvale cemetery. | DEROCHEMONT, George Washington (I1648)
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| 6 | According to Gene de Rochemont, Irving was a dramatic critic. He also notes that he was the superintendant of American Locomotive Works in Providence, Rhode Island ca 1904. He and his wife separated, according to granddaughter Barbara Wippperman, because he travelled around the country too much, and Nellie was tired of that life and wanted to stay home. | DEROCHEMONT, Irving Storer (I1656)
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| 7 | According to Virginia de Rochemont, Florence had endured a nagging illness that probably kept her in constant pain, and sometimes she could be shrill. She never married. | DEROCHEMONT, Florence Estelle (I1645)
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| 8 | Charles was the proprietor of Cold Springs Farm in Greenland and owned 200 acres of land. Gladys Chapman reports that he liked the women and that because of his running around, he couldn't pay the mortgage and lost the farm. | BRACKETT, Charles H (I1560)
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| 9 | Evidently this twin was stillborn as there is no death record in New Hampshire and both girls were born in Massachusetts. | DEROCHEMONT, Daughter (I1629)
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| 10 | Fred and family were in the 1920 Portsmouth census. | SHANNON, Fred Odde (I1905)
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| 11 | Fred's death benefit was sent to Dellslow, West Virginia 26531 | GARDNER, Frederick De Wit (I1742)
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| 12 | From the Portsmouth Herald, July 3, 1907: The marriage of Harry Melville de Rochemont of Newington and Miss Lena Katherine Fogg of Rockland, Maine took place on Tuesday afternoon at the home of the bride in that city. The ceremony was performed by Reverend. Robert Sutcliff in the presence of a large gathering of friends and relatives from this city and Rockland. The bride was becomingly gowned in white muslin with val lace and carried a bouquet of bride roses. Miss Orressa Fogg was bridesmaid and wore ecru lace over silk. The groom was attended by Percy Ellis de Rochemont, his brother, who wore evening dress. After the reception which followed the ceremony, Mr and Mrs de Rochemont left for a short wedding trip, after which they will reside for the summer in Newington. Many beautiful and useful gifts came from legions of friends and acquaintances, who extent best wishes for a long and happy wedded life. The groom is an employee of the Portsmouth Heating and Plumbing Company of this city and is much respected by the firm members and his associates. The bride is one of Rockland's fairest daughters. For some time she has filled a position in the public schools of that city and is known for her kindly disposition and pleasant manner which have endeared her to a host of friends and acquaintances. In 1920 Henry was a farmer in Waldoboro but by 1930 was a plumber in Rockland. | DEROCHEMONT, Henry Melville (I1353)
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| 13 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I1642)
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| 14 | He was born about May 1634 in the parish of Sainte-Solemne (today: the parish of Saint-Louis) in Blois (diocese of Chartres), Orléanais, the son of Sébastien Jahan and Jeanne Oudinet/Audinet.He most likely received his "dit" name from his or his father's military service.The French issued a nickname like the military assign identification numbers today. Jacques Jahan dit Laviolette was baptized on June 12, 1629 in Sainte-Solene, Blois, France, the son of Sebastien Jahan and Jeanne Ouidinet. His contract to marry was notarized on September 7, 1658 and he married on September 24, 1658 . His bride was Marie Ferra, the daughter of Jean Ferra and Antoinette Hubert from Creve-Coeur of Beauvais in Picardie, France. They had 11 children. There is evidence from a contract that Jacques was living in Quebec by May 29. 1656. The contact was with Mr. Quentin Moral from Trois- Riveieres. Jacques was a tanner, but also made a living as a farmer. On March 22, 1660 he obtained official title to land of two acres frontage along the coast of Beaupre called Les Chesnes from Guillaume Couillard. They settled on the Île d'Orléans, in the first parish created, but the church of Sainte Famille was not built until 1669, so until that time their children were baptized at Château-Richer. He was listed in the 1681 Île d'Orléans census as a 50 year old tanner. the trade he already had when arriving in New-France (Québec), the same trade as the one of his father, Sébastien Jahan. Jacques Jahan dit Laviolette was buried 04 April 1699 at Québec City. On May 5th, one month after Marie buried her husband, she buried her son François at Sainte Famille.Both may have been the victims of an unidentified epidemic that struck the colony that year (I can't find any documented evidence of this).Marie Ferra was buried 17 February 1713 at Saint-Jean, Île d'Orléans.Of her 11 children, only three girls survived her. https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/jamme/6/ Leatherworking was highly regulated in France, but this was not the case in New France. Leathermakers in Quebec could use many methods that were reserved for other artisans in France. In the beginningof the leatherworking industry in Quebec, the taners received skins processed in France as well as by local private tanners. It is likely that Jacques was a private tanner. Tanning was the process of converting skins of cows, goats, calves, sheep, hogs, sheep, and dogs into raw hides and eventually leather. To be successful in the trade, Jacques would have needed a steady supply of skins, tanbark from trees which was used for making tannin, as well as a great deal of water to wash and clean animal skins. From their union are born eleven children. He is in the country of 1655, as evidenced by a promise he made to Sieur Quentin Moral of Trois-Rivieres May 29, 1656. He practices the trade of taneur, but also engages in agriculture. On March 22, 1660, Guillaume Couillard officially granted him a land of two arpents front by a league of depth on the Cote de Beaupre, at the place called Les Chesnes. It was already established since the previous year. He made it the next April 4th to Hilaire Charonnet and Mathurin Tessier. Moreover, Sieur Charles de Lauzon had granted him land in the seigniory of Liret on the Island of Orleans, the previous favor. It is on this earth that he will fix himself. On February 19, 1661, he carried 32 books to Jacques Renouard for a sum of 71 livres. An act of the next April 10 tells us that the Sieur Nicolas Juchereau the sum of 472 pounds he prom As he did not argue, he owed Mr. Juchereau the sum of 472 pounds which he promised to pay in six months. In the company of Jacques Baudon, he gave up to Hypolite Thiverierge on August 25 of the following year, an acre of his land for a lively capon, 20 soils and 12 deniers of annual income. In the 1667 census, he declared that he owned a horned animal and twelve acres of land in value. At the start of this Vincent Renaud acting as attorney for Jean Norman gives him a 25-pound receipt upon the acquittal of Elie Masson and on July 2, Monseigneur de Lavel grants him land of three arpenta at the front on the south coast of the island of Orleans. He does not seem to have gone to live there, because at the recession of 1681, he still lives on his land in the seigneury of liret at Sainte-Famille and declares having a rifle, ten horned beasts and five hundred and five arpents of land in value. However, we know by a declaration of February 26, 1684 that he has until then, paid the rents of his land on the south side. On February 3, 1683, he partnered for nine years with his neighbor Hypolite Thivierge to assert a tannere, at common costs, in Ile d'Orleans. The tan mill is located on the land of Thivierge. As for him, he promises to supply the leathers. Thivierge promises to make the purchases, which is why he commits 730 pounds 8 floors and 4 deniers. As for him, he promises to assert these purchases. This company seems to have worked well, because on November 10, 1688, he was able to agree to pay 1000 pounds to Jeanne Badeau and Pierre Parent for a land of three arpents front on the south coast of the Isle of Orleans. He obtained a final receipt on March 1698. In addition, on April 22, 1689, his son-in-law Jean Bilodeau, husband of his daughter Marie, gave him a receipt for the books promised during their marriage contract. To settle his accounts with Mr. Louis Rouer de Villeray, on October 20, 1691, he promised to reimburse him 750 pounds, from which he obtained a final receipt on August 26, 1693. In the meantime, on July 16, 1692, he had acquired the half a piece of land belonging to Jacques Gerber at Sainte-Famille and for which he paid 100 pounds for 200 pounds of the sale price. He obtains final receipt on March 28, 1693. The following April 11, himself gives receipt of 200 pounds to Gervais Faucher, who in the name of Jacques Gerber cancels the sale of July 16, 1692. He died in Quebec and was buried on April 4 1699, at the age of seventy-two according to the register. | JAHAN DIT LAVIOLETTE, Jacques (I5098)
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| 15 | http://books.google.com/books?id=rKdN8t3Y9kkC&pg=PA5&dq=reverend+joseph+bass+adams&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MxHyU6iLG5SmyATxy4BI&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=reverend joseph bass adams&f=false Served in King Philip's War and a Selectman for the Town of Braintree in 1699, 1716, 1717. This qualifies me for membership in the General Society of Colonial Wars | ADAMS, Joseph Jr (I269)
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| 16 | In about 1744, the Hiltons along with another dozen families settled neat the Montsweag River in Embden, in a neighborhood between Wiscasset and Woolwich. On 31 Jul, 1747, Ebenezer and his sons Joshua and William and his son-in-law John Boyington who had married his daughter Sarah, were out working in the fields. William was spared but Joshua and John were killed, as was Ebenezer. The story is that Ebenezer stood with his back against a tree and after the Indians cut off his feet, he continued fighting kneeling until he died. William was taken prisoner and at 16 was taken up the Kennebec River to Canada and given to the French. But he escaped and made his way home by autumn of 1747--a trek of 150 miles. Illegitimate, Ebenezer was born Ebenezer Thompson, then took step-father's name, and then legally took his father's name before he married Mary Lord. | HILTON, Ebenezer (I6723)
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| 17 | In the 1860 Newington census Henrietta, 15, was living in a household with brother Lewis Leonard, 21, and Gee Pickering, 40. | DEROCHEMONT, Henrietta Ann (I1653)
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| 18 | In the 1880 Portsmouth census, Helen is called Nellie, 16. | PICKERING, HelenNellie (I1846)
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| 19 | In the 1920 Portsmouth census, Edith, a single woman and bookkeeper, is listed with widowed mother Sarah J and divorced sister Fannie Fernald and son Wesley G Fernald. | SHANNON, Edith Marion (I1902)
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| 20 | It appears that she never married. | RICKER, Jennie De Rochemont (I1885)
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| 21 | John French, b. in England ca. Feb. 1635, immigrated age 5 mo. [4] with parents, m1. 21 Jun 1659 to Abigail Coggan, dau. of Henry of Barnstable. Abigail d. 5 Apr 1662. John m2. 3 Jul 1663 Hannah, dau. of John Burrage or Burridge of Charlestown, MA. Hannah d. 7 Jul 1667. John m3. 14 Jan 1668 Mary Rogers. Mary d. 16 Jun 1677. John m4. 16 Jan 1677/78 Mary, dau. of Francis Littlefield of Woburn, MA and widow of John Kittredge of Billerica. Mary d. 1719. John was a colonel in the militia, and was often in the Town’s service. He was wounded by the Indians in an assault on Quaboag in 1675, d. Oct 1712. John French, son of William French (1), was born in Eng- land, early in 1635, and was brought over to America by his parents when but five months old. He died in Billerica, Massachusetts, in October, 1712. He resided on the south side of Fox Hill, on the east road. He was a soldier in King Philip’s War, and was a corporal in the fight at Brookfield in 1675. He was wounded in this assault at Quaboag (Brookfield), and in a petition subsequently describes him- self as a “poor wounded” man. He was poor enough for a time, and was harassed by the constable before he recovered from the losses of the war. He was an influential citizen of Billerica, and held many town offices from time to time. He married (first) June 21, 1659, Abigail Coggan, daughter of Henry Coggan, of Barnstable, Massa- chusetts. She died April 5, 1662, aged twenty-four, and he married (second) July 3, 1662, Hannah Burrage, daughter of John Burrage, of Charlestown. She died July 7, 1667, aged twenty-three, and he mar- ried (third) January 14, 1667-68, Mary Rogers, daughter of John Rogers. She died June 16, 1677, and he married (fourth) January 16, 1678, Mary Kittredge, widow of John. She died October 7. 1719, surviving him. Children of the second wife: 1. Hannah, born Janu- ary 20, 1663-64; married John Kittredge. 2. Abigail, born December 6, 1665; married Benjamin Parker. Child of the third wife: 3. Mary, born March 4, 1669^70 ; married Nathan Shed. Children of the fourth wife: 4. John, horn May 15, 1679; mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, born July 24, 1681 ; married December 25, 1706, Thomas Abbot. 6. William, born November 26, 1683; died April 21, 1685. 7. Sarah, born September 15, 1685; married --------- Flint. 8. William, born August 8, 1687. 9. Hannah, born February 18, 1692-93; married Jonathan Richardson and Benjamin Frost. A descendant of John French, named William French, a resident of Dummerston in the New Hampshire grants, was the celebrated victim of the Westminster massacre in 1775. As this was the direct result of the first organized resistance to British authority in the American colonies, William French has been claimed as the first martyr to the cause of American Independence. On his gravestone is this quaint inscription: In memory of William French Son of Mr. Nathaniel French, Who was shot at Westminster, March ye 13th. 1775, by the hands of Cruel Ministerial tools Of Georg ye 3d, in the Corthouse at 11 a’clock At Night in the 23d year of his Age. HFRF WILLIAM FRENCH his Body lies for Murder his Blood for Vengeance Cries King Georg the third his Tory Crew that with a Bawl his Head Shot threw For Liberty and his Countrys Good he lost his Life his dearest blood. | FRENCH, John (I2637)
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| 22 | John was not in the 1860 census. | DEROCHEMONT, John (Carsten) (I1660)
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| 23 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I1557)
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| 24 | NICHOLAS & ELIZABETH (SHORT) HOLT, his first wife, came on the JAMES, to Dorchester in 1635. He was deposed on Feb. 11, 1671 and gave his age as 63 yrs. making his birth year 1608. Savage gives his age at death as 83, which makes his birth year 1602. He was a tanner by trade and an original settler of Newbury where historic accounts refer to Holt's Neck and Holt's Rock. On Sept. 1, 1635, he witnessed a legal paper. He was made a freeman of Mass. on May 17, 1637 and was chosen as town surveyor on April 19, 1638. The family next removed to Andover around 1644 and was an original settler in the southern part of the town known as "Holt Hill". His name is on a list of the Church of Andover, organized Oct. 24, 1641, as sixth of the first ten members who were freeholders. In 1647, he was one of the persons appointed to lay out the road from Reading to Andover. He married second Hannah (Bradstreet) Rolfe, daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet and widow of Daniel Rolfe in June of 1658. She died June 20, 1665 and he married third on May 21, 1666, Martha, widow of Roger Preston. In 1680 he conveyed 20 acres of upland to his son-in-law, Roger Marks. The name, Nicholas Holt, was on the list of the ten original members of the Church of Andover, organized October 24, 1645. The James passenger list shows Nicholas Holt, tanner of Romsey, Hampshire.450 He moved immediately to Newbury, as one of the first settlers there. In 1637 his name appears as one of the ten persons who in order to prevent the relection of Sir Henry Vane to the office of governor, and to strengthen the friends of Governor Winthrop, went from Newbury to Cambridge on foot, forty miles, and qualified themselves to vote by taking the freeman's oath May 17, 1637. He was also part of the team that divided Nebury into lots, and served as a commander of militia forces in 1638. In 1644 Nicholas Holt was one of the ten original settlers who removed their families from Newbury and accompanied their pastor, the Rev. John Woodbridge, to "Chochichawicke," now Andover. On a leaf in the town records containing the list of householders in order as they came to the town his name is sixth. He was one of the ten male members, including the pastor elect, who composed the church at the ordination of Mr. John Woodbridge, October 24,1645. He was later on several committees charged with setting the boundaries of Andover and laying out a highway to Reading. Nicholas married three times while his children were young - he first had 9 children with Elizabeth, then married widow Hannah, who had two young children and they had two children together. Then he married widow Martha, who also had two young children.38 The "tanner" on the ships roll is probably a mis-understood "turner" - he manufactured woodenware, and when distributing property to his children before his death, he called himself a "dish-turner." (Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV. 1915. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., inc., 1996. Quoted at http://www.family2remember.com/bios/nholt1602.htm) | HOLT, Nicholas (I4956)
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| 25 | No. 19 Joseph Worcester, (Richard4, William3, Peter2, Robert1). Joseph gives two deposititons in 1606 in the Court of Exchequer proceedings and deposes that his father Richard (No. 15) is the grandfather of the defendant Richard (No. 20). He testifies in 1606 as being “age 40 years or thereabouts” and indicates that he is from West Haddon and also “of Rugby.” The will of Joseph Worcester the elder of Rugby is dated Feb. 10, 1644/45. In his will, Joseph names his wife Alice, eldest son William, another son Joseph, and daughters Anne French, Alice Cave, and Susanna Mason. The Parish Register of the Church of St. Andrew, Rugby, indicates that Joseph was the churchwarden there. His signature appears on the register for 1624 and 1634. His unusual script for the letter “W” probably caused the error in the Lists of Rugby Church-wardens 1623-1949 compiled by Edward R. Reid-Smith, 1950, wherein is listed a Joseph Borcester. Children of Joseph Worcester 28 William. 29 Joseph. 30 Anne, b abt. 1590; m Edward French, b England, died in Salisbury, Mass., on December 28, 1674. Four children listed above. 31 Alice, m ___ Cave. 32 Susanna, m ___ Mason. from http://www.frenchfamilyassoc.com/FFA/CHARTS/Chart008/Worcester.htm Will Will of Joseph Worcester In the name of God Amen. The tenth daie of Februarie Anno Dom 1644 And in the twentieth yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England, Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the faith be. I Joseph Worcester the elder of Rugbie in the Countie of Warw yeoman being in good health and perfect memory (I praise God therefore) doe make constitute and... ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following that is to say First I comend my soule into the hands of Allmightie God my Creator and his sonne Jesus Christ my onlie Saviour and Redeemer hopeing assuredlie to obtaine pardon and remission of all my sins and transgressions and finallie eternall life and Salvacon of my soule by faith in him And my bodie I remitt to the earth whereof it was formed. And I dispose of my worldly goods as followeth. And first I give and bequeth unto my eldest sonne William Worcester twelve pence of lawfull English money. And likewise to my sonne Joseph Worcester twelve pence of like lawfull money. Item I give unto my daughter Anne French twelve pence Item I give unto my daughter Alice Cave twelve pence. Item I give to my daughter Susanna Mason twelve pence. Item I give unto evrie one of my grandchildren six pence Item I give unto the poor of Rugbie aforesaid five shillings to be distributed in white bread by penny dose at my buriall by my executrix hereafter named. All the rest and residue of my goods shepe money Cattle and Shattells whatsoever I give and bequeth unto my loving wife Alice my debts and funerall expenses being discharged. And I doe make the said Alice my wife full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. Sealed with my seale and Dated the daie and yeare first above written. Joseph Worcester. Sealed read published and declared in the presence of John Hiccock of Bilton his marke Fawkes(?) Newbolde | WORCESTER, Joseph (I17029)
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| 27 | On his death record it says that James was a single farmer and that he had died from an accidental shot of a gun and that the gun had been found in his hands. | PICKERING, James Brackett (I1847)
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| 28 | ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1631 FIRST RESIDENCE: Piscataqua FREEMAN: On list of Dover freemen for Dover, 5 April 1653 [ NEHGR 4:247]. EDUCATION: He made his mark to his deeds, petitions and other documents. OFFICES: Grand jury, 30 August 1643, 26 August 1646, 8 October 1650, 8 October 1652, 28 June 1654, 27 June 1655, 25 June 1661, 24 June 1662, 27 June 1671, 24 June 1673 [ NHPP 40:11, 20, 57, 97, 108-9, 155, 168, 265, 288]. Dover selectman, 8 December 1651, 1655, 5 June 1659, 20 April 1663, 28 April 1664, 1665, 3 May 1669, 4 March 1672 [ Dover Hist 255-56; NHPP 1:274]. ESTATE: In the Dover tax rate of 1648, he was rated £75 and paid £1 5s. [ NHGR 1:179]. He also appeared in subsequent lists for 1649-50, 1657-59, 1662-63, 1666 [ GDMNH 49-50]. On 18 March 1648 he received six acres in Cochecho marsh [NEHGR 4:46]. On 5 December 1652, William Furber, William Wentworth, "Henery Lankster" and "Thomas Caney" were granted accommodations at Fresh Creek for a sawmill [NHPP 40:453]. He received a grant of two hundred acres, and also his lot where Stephen Tedder's house was, laid out 5 April 1658 [GDMNH 415]. On 27 March 1669 "Henry Longstaff," Phillips Lewis, and Nathaniell Fryer of Portsmouth purchased land and buildings in Greenland from Francis Champernown of Kittery [ NHPLR 9:63]. In June 1668 Henry Langstaff of Bloody Point purchased all the lands, house, household stuff and swine, etc., of John Hale of Bloody Point, yeoman [NHPLR 10:241]. On 7 October 1702 "Henry Langstaffe" of Dover sold to Capt. Peter Coffin of Exeter twelve acres of fresh meadow at Cocheco Meadows, "six acres of which was granted to me by the town of Dover, the other six was granted to James Rolins and bought of him by me" [NHPLR 7:34]. On 8 September 1703 Henry Langster Sr. of Bloody Point deeded to "my daughter Mary Langster" for "natural love, goodwill, affection, etc., and her carefulness in taking pains to wait and attend upon me upon all occasions in this my great age" fifty acres of upland in Dover at Stephen's Point [NHPLR 7:143]. On 27 October 1704 Henry Langster Sr. of Bloody Point in Dover deeded to "my lawful begotten daughter Mary Langster, spinster," land in the little bay in Dover and half all his lands and marsh at Greenland, and half all his household goods, "excepting three cows and ten sheep which I give to my daughter Sarah Nutter" [NHPLR 7:141]. On 27 October 1704 Henry Langster Sr. of Bloody Point in Dover deeded to "my lawful begotten son Henry Langster" of Dover, yeoman, for natural love and affection "my homestead at Bloody Point," also one piece of land at Broad Cove Creek in Dover, being "part of the land granted to me by Dover 9 July 1652," also "one half all my lands and marsh at Greenland," also "one half all my household goods and all other moveables whatsoever, excepting three cows and ten sheep which I give to my daughter Sarah Nutter," this deed to be in effect "after the decease of the donor" [NHPLR 9:472]. On 26 June 1705 Henry Langstaff Sr. of Dover quitclaimed to William Partridge of Portsmouth any right he might have in Champernown's farm in Greenland [NHPLR 5:116]. BIRTH: About 1610 (deposed aged 70, 15 February 1682[/3] [NHPLR 26:295]; aged "ninety years or thereabouts" on 9 May 1699 [NHPP 2:529]; and "aged about ninety years" on 13 August 1700 [NHPP 2:541-42]). DEATH: Dover July 1705 ("July 18, 1705. Mr. Henry Langstar of Bloody-point deceased after ten days sickness, occasioned by a fall into his leanto, four stairs high, whereby being grievously bruised, it brought an inflammation upon him. He was about 100 years old, hale, strong, hearty man, & might have lived many years longer, if &c." [NHGR 3:104, citing Pike's Journal]). (Unlike many other early claims of extreme longevity, Henry Langstaff must have been very close to one hundred when he died, as he would have been about twenty when he first came to New England. He was certainly well into his nineties at his death.) MARRIAGE: By about 1640 _____ _____. She may have been related in some way to the Sheafe family. She was certainly deceased by 1704 when Henry divided the homestead between two of the children. CHILDREN: i JOHN, b. say 1640; m. by 1675 Martha _____ (son b. Piscataway, New Jersey, 26 January 1675/6 [ Monnette 2:235]). ii SARAH, b. say 1643; m. by 1663 Anthony Nutter (eldest child b. 27 December 1663 [GDMNH 516]; on 27 October 1704 Henry Langstaff gave livestock to "my daughter Sarah Nutter" [NHPLR 7:141]). iii HENRY, b. about 1647 (aged 66 in 1713); d. by 1718, unmarried [GDMNH 415]. iv MARY, b. about 1650; "aged 63 in 1713 when she m. as his first wife Eleazer Coleman, aged 23" [GDMNH 158, 415]. ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Langstaff Jr. sold land to kinsman Sampson Sheafe [GDMNH 415]. COMMENTS: On 3 June 170[4] Henry Langster "above ninety years of age" testified that "about the year 1635 he came with others from England and served at Little Harbor under the command of Capt. Neal..." [NHPP 2:530]. Some years earlier he had been more specific, deposing on 9 May 1699 as follows: Henry Langster of Bloody Point, of Dover in this Province, aged ninety years or thereabouts, testifieth and saith, that about the year one thousand six hundred and thirty five, he arrived at the port of Piscataqua River, in the service of Captain Jno. Mason, & that he lived two years in the service of said Mason, with Mr. Walter Neal, one of the agents of said Mason at Little Harbor, then called Randevous" [NHPP 2:529]. But Neal left New England on 15 August 1633, not to return. The elderly Henry deposed regarding Thomas Walford's land and stated that Capt. Neal did not molest Walford in his possession of it, implying that he was there to witness that Neal had no objections [NHPLR 26:295]. Assuming that Langstaff would more easily have mistaken his date of arrival than his residence with Walter Neale, Langstaff arrived on the Piscataqua no later than 1631. Henry Langstaff signed the Bloody Point petition of about 1644, asking to be taxed with Dover, not Strawberry Bank [ MA Arch 3:442; NHPP 1:176-77]. He signed the Dover petition against the Patentees about 1654 [MA Arch 3:446; NHPP 1:212-14]. He favored Massachusetts government, 22 October 1677 [NHPP 17:524-25]. With his son of the same name, he signed the 10 August 1692 petition by New Hampshire in~hab~i~tants to the King asking for equal privileges with Massachusetts [GDMNH 13]. "Henrye Langster" was successfully sued at the 3 October 1648 Dover court by Philip Lewis for mowing the marsh near Capt. Francis Champernoune's farm [NHPP 40:37]. "Langster" won an appeal in the case at court 29 June 1653, but other aspects of the case dragged on and he was again in court October 1652 [NHPP 40:79]. "Henry Langstaffe" appraised the estates of Tobias Langdon of Portsmouth 30 November 1664, Hatevil Nutter 25 June 1675, Thomas Trickey 3 December 1675 [NHPP 31:81, 159, 169]. He was the "well beloved trusty and true friend" of James Rawlings in 1685 when Rawlings appointed "Mr. Henry Langstaff Senr." one of his overseers in his will [NHPP 31:294]. He was unsuccessfully sued by Thomas Willey at Portsmouth court 27 June 1654 [NHPP 40:107]. At Dover court 29 June 1669 with Mr. Nathaniel Fryer and Philip Lewis, Henry "Langstar" sued John Kenniston for "using and improving a house and lands of the said plaintifs' at a place called Greenland called ... Capt. Champernowne's farm and for making spoil of their timber & improving their house & land & detaining it from them & disowning their title to the said house & premises to their great damage" [NHPP 40:245]. Apparently Major Thomas Clark of Boston also trespassed on this land, and the owners tried to sue him at Portsmouth court 7 December 1680, but although the court found for the owners, Major Clark was out of the province [NHPP 40:369]. Clark countersued and the court ruled at Hampton 6 December 1681 that if the Champernowne deed was good, Langstaff and co-owners should win judgment, and if the deed was no good, Clark should prevail [NHPP 40:381]. "Henry Langstarr" and Anthony Nutter were sued by William Earl for a debt against John Partridge at court 24 June 1673 [NHPP 40:292]. On 16 February 1682[/3] Henry Langstar aged seventy years or thereabouts testified that Thos. Walford lived & planted upon the great island in Portsmouth above fifty years ago & also built at Sandy Beach on the Little Harbour side & that he lived in that enjoyment in Capt. Neal's time without any disturbance from the said Neal, who was an agent for Capt. John Mason, the which is to the best of my knowledge, and further saith not [NHPLR 26:295]. --- Langstaff, Henry - Dover abt 70 yrs in 1682, 90 yrs in 1699, 97 in 1702 By his own depos. arrived at the port of Piscataqua about the yr 1635 in the service of Capt. Mason and lived two years with Mr. Walter Neale at Little Harbor, then called Rendezvous. Dover prop. 1642. Mr Henry Langstar, ab. 100 years old, hale, strong and hearty, died from effects of a fall down the 4 steps of his leanto (Pike, 18 July 1705). daughter Sarah, married Lt. Anthony Nutter. | LANGSTAFF, Henry (I8092)
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| 29 | Reverend Samuel Dudley was among the founding families of Salisbury, MA From Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical New Hampshire, Vol 1 (1822) Pgs 156-157 Received his education in England, began his ministry in Exeter, NH in 1650. Died 1683 aged 77 Rev. Samuel Dudley, was born at Canons Ashley, England, 1606, eldest son of Thomas Dudley, many times elected governor of Massachusetts Colony, and his first wife, Dorothy Yorke. Rev. Samuel Dudley came to America in 1630 with his father Thomas and Governor Winthrop. Rev. Samuel Dudley was baptized on 30 November 1608 in All Saints, Northampton, England. Rev. Samuel Dudley graduated in 1626 from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He came to New England in 1630 on the Arabella. He lived in Cambridge, Ipswich and Salisbury as a planter and a farmer; called to Exeter, New Hampshire, 30 May 1650 where he settled as minister. He married firstly Mary Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop and Mary Forth, about 1632. Rev. Samuel Dudley died on 10 February 1682/83 in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the age of 74. http://www.sewellgenealogy.com/p68.htm#i7082 In 1630 came the arrival of John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Aboard the Arabella from Yarmouth, England, Winthrop and Dudley sailed, and after a difficult ten week voyage, they landed on the shores of the New World, with Salem and Boston Harbor being the Arabella's earliest destinations. In 1637, the General Court of Massachusetts granted some 2,200 acres (9 km²) of land, including Huckins Farmland to the first residential Governor Winthrop and Deputy Governor Dudley. The following year, the two men agreed to divide the land so that the parcel south of the two large boulders by the Concord River (Brothers Rocks) belonged to Governor Winthrop and north of the Rocks was to belong to Deputy Governor Dudley. Later, Dudley became governor. Dudley’s son Rev. Samuel Dudley[1] and Winthrop’s daughter Mary were married, thus Brothers Rocks were so named because of this marriage of families. The Two Brothers When Governor Winthrop and his Deputy Thomas Dudley viewed their lands in early 1638, they decided to use two great stones on the site to divide the property. Winthrop claimed the land to one side of one rock; Dudley claimed the land on the other side of the other rock. They named the rocks "The Two Brothers." Over the years, the two men had many differences; however they learned to work together and even considered themselves "brothers" by their children's marriage. The rocks have come to symbolize the men's spirit of cooperation and democracy. The two brothers can still be seen near the banks of the Concord River in the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. This site is currently the eagle project of Dennis Warner. The Reverend Samuel Dudley by Barbara Rimkunas This "Historically Speaking" column appeared in the Exeter News-Letter on Friday, May 24, 2013. In Exeter, as in most of New England in the 1600s, the most important man in town was the minister. The Reverend John Wheelwright had organized Exeter in 1638, but had been forced to leave when the townsmen voted to align themselves with the Massachusetts Bay Colony just five years later. Some of Wheelwright’s followers left with him, but many remained and quietly absorbed newcomers who arrived after Wheelwright’s departure. Although the town was able to govern itself with elders and selectmen, not having a spiritual leader weighed heavily on the inhabitants. Wheelwright had hoped that his friend Thomas Rashleigh would accept the job, but Rashleigh refused for his own reasons. A substitute, the Reverend Hatevil Nutter of Dover, was asked to fill-in while the town searched for a new permanent minister. It was a time when money was in short supply, and so the Rev. Nutter was paid not with cash but with service. He owned a tract of land on the Lamprey River and it needed fencing. Every year, the townsmen of Exeter were required to donate time and materials to enclose the property. After five years, the job was done, the Reverend Nutter signed the town book acknowledging the work was done and his services were no longer needed. Fortunately, by that time, June of 1650, the search committee had located a new preacher when the Reverend Samuel Dudley accepted the call to come to Exeter. It had been difficult finding someone to serve the town. There were few trained ministers available and Exeter had little to offer. It was still a fledgling community; the only resources in town were trees and fish. Several times, the committee had made offers to likely candidates, only to see the deal fall through. To attract Dudley, they had to make his commitment worth the privations he would have to endure. In exchange for his services, Mr. Dudley was to receive Wheelwright’s house, garden and cow-house - all of which needed some renovations before he could move in. He would also receive £40 a year as pay. The particulars are written into a contract that was transcribed into the town records, “it is further agreed upon that the old cow-house, which was Mr. Wheelwright’s, shall by the town be fixed up fit for the settling of cattle in, and that the aforesaid pay of £40 a year is to be made in good pay every half year, in corn and English commodities at a price current, as they go generally in the country at the time or times of payment.” There was very little actual money circulating in the colonies during this time and commerce was done with a barter system similar to the Rev. Dudley’s contract. To pay the minister his due, townsmen were taxed based on the number of pipe staves, hogshead staves or bolts that they produced. These were finished pieces of saleable lumber that the people used as currency. The tax rate, as listed in the town records, was, “for every thousand of pipe staves he makes, two shillings, which shall be for the maintenance of the ministry; and for every thousand of hogshead staves, one shilling sixpence; and for every thousand of bolts sold before they be made into staves, four shillings.” All the lumber had to be delivered to the wharf twice annually and would be shipped down the river to Portsmouth or Boston to be exchanged for “English commodities.” The type of goods that were collected was not listed, but one can imagine Mr. Dudley received bolts of cloth, tea and rum for his efforts. Some of these he would no doubt trade around town in exchange for other goods. It was a complicated system - how much was one yard of cloth worth? Perhaps two or three chickens? Dudley came to the town well-recommended from Massachusetts. He was the son of Governor Thomas Dudley and, although not university trained, had studied hard under his father’s tutelage and was considered well-qualified to preach. His first wife, Mary, had been the daughter of Governor John Winthrop. After Mary’s death in Salisbury, Dudley had married Mary Byley of Salisbury. She was his wife when he arrived in Exeter in 1650. After her death, he married a third time, to Elizabeth Smith of Exeter. The succession of wives bore him eighteen children, a sure sign of God’s grace to the people of that era. Quite often during his tenure, the town was incapable of paying him the promised £40. To keep him in town, he was granted land and water rights. At the time of his death, his personal inventory showed him to be a man of means and great commercial instincts. Dudley remained in Exeter and served as minister for thirty-three years. Charles Bell, author of the “History of Exeter, New Hampshire,” comments that, “there was no visible sign of failure of the powers, physical or mental, of Mr. Dudley, as he drew on to old age. When he was sixty-nine, he was appointed upon a committee for the equal distribution of the of the town lands, a duty which no feeble man would have been selected to perform.” He died in Exeter in 1683 and was buried, according to tradition, in the small cemetery on Green Street. Rev. Samuel Dudley Rev. Samuel Dudley was baptised on 30 November 1608 at All Saints, Northampton, England.2 He was the son of Govenor Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke. Rev. Samuel Dudley graduated in 1626 from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.2 He came to New England in 1630 on the Arabella.2 Lived in Cambridge, Ipswich and Salisbury as a planter and a farmer; called to Exeter, New Hampshire 30 May 1650 where he settled as minister.2 He married firstly Mary Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop and Mary Forth, circa 1632.3,4 Rev. Samuel Dudley died on 10 February 1682/83 in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the age of 74.2 Children of Rev. Samuel Dudley and Mary Winthrop Ann Dudley+ b. c 1633 John Dudley5 b. 1635 Citations [S70] Unknown author, The Chandler family. The descendants of William and Annis Chandler, who settled in Roxbury, Mass. 1637., p. 144 (calculation). [S75] Frederick Lewis Weis, Colonial Clergy, p. 74. [S62] William Richard Cutter, New England Families, p. 77. [S70] Unknown author, The Chandler family. The descendants of William and Annis Chandler, who settled in Roxbury, Mass. 1637., p. 144. [S102] Annie Haven Thwing, Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, 29466. | DUDLEY, Rev. Samuel (I810)
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| 30 | Salem Witch Trials connection: John Clough and his wife signed the petition in favor of Mary Bradbury. Mary was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang, but managed to evade the sentence being carried out until after the trials had ended. She lived until 1700. Interestingly, my direct ancestors John Allen and Robert Pike supported Mary Bradbury as well. Our ancestor John Clough, sometimes spelled Cluff and Cluffe, was born about 1613. John Clough’s descendants have wondered if they were related to the Welsh Clough family, but despite much effort, could trace no connection. Richard Clough Yr Hen (meaning “Senior”) from Denbigh, Wales, was the father of three daughters and seven sons. One son, Richard (Jr.) made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on crusade. He returned to Great Britain, where he accumulated a considerable fortune, and was knighted…becoming Sir Richard Clough. Members of the John Clough Genealogical Society (descendants of John Clough of Salisbury, Massachusetts) contacted Oxford ancestors to start a Clough Y-line DNA study. The Y chromosome of a male member of the Society (surnamed “Clough”) was analyzed, as was the Y chromosome of a direct male descendant of Sir Richard’s son by a Dutch mistress. The results were exactly the same. Meanwhile, our John Clough sailed from London, England, to America on the ship Elizabeth in 1635. Unlike many of the other settlers in New England, the passengers on the Elizabeth were not an organized company, but rather a group of individuals seeking land and a new home. “John Clough evidently came from a prosperous family as he paid at least 25 pounds for his passage on the Elizabeth and 50 pounds to become a proprietor of Salisbury.” He arrived at the age of 22. His name is first found on the records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, from there he went to Watertown, Massachusetts, and became a proprietor. Later, Clough removed to Salisbury. In 1639, John Clough was among original settlers of a new township named Colchester near the mouth of the Merrimack River. The name of this new town was changed to Salisbury the following year. There is a record of the general court granting to John Clough, land at Salisbury in 1639. Like most of the 20,000 Englishmen who migrated to New England between the years 1620 and 1640, John Clough was a Puritan, yet he was even more of a dissenter than the Pilgrims or the Puritans of the Bay Colony. John Clough was a Presbyterian, a member of a religious sect that was forbidden to assemble in England by order of the King in 1610. Nevertheless, he was quickly admitted to the church of Salisbury and was made a freeman in 1640. John received his land in the “first division” and acquired additional land in 1640. He paid 50 pounds to become a proprietor in Salisbury. To receive his share of the second division of upland land, he had to possess at least another 150 pounds. John married Jane Sanders in 1642. John received land in the first division at Salisbury and again in 1640; he was a taxpayer in 1650 and he subscribed to the oath of fidelity in that year; he was admitted freeman in 1642. By 1650, then 37 years old, John Clough was firmly established in Salisbury, where he became prominent in public affairs. He was appointed as the “Jury of Tryals,” an office he filled many times before 1677. That he was involved in other activities is indicated by this note in a town meeting: “Liberty be granted to John Clough, Robert Pike and Henry True to transport so many plank as will serve for the deck of a vessel building in Boston.” Pike, a wealthy business man, True and Clough were in an enterprise of building a “vessel in Boston,” probably for the coastal trade, which was a means of rapidly accumulating one’s income. All these outlays suggest that John Clough received considerable money from an inheritance in England, yet he left no record of his lineage or birthplace. About 1656, he became a pioneer on Salisbury Plains where he bought a farm of several hundred acres. This is where he erected his homestead. Salisbury Plains was a distance about two miles northwest into the wilderness. His rights as a commoner in the divisions of “upland” probably permitted him to purchase shares of land that is now part of Kingston, New Hampshire, where his grandchildren lived in the early 1700s. Before his death, John Clough acquired hundreds of acres of land in Salisbury, Amesbury, and Haverhill, which he distributed either by gift during his lifetime or by will to his children and grandchildren. John and Jane Clough were the parents of seven children. All were born in Salisbury. Both boys and girls attended the school that was taught first by the minister and then by Thomas Bradbury. Bradbury is highlighted in a chapter of the book titled Mary Bradbury. Jane died in 1679. John then married Martha Blaisdell, the widow of Thomas Cilley, in 1686. Martha is part of the Shipwreck Survivors chapter of this book, while Thomas is featured in the Cilley Family chapter. John Clough died in 1691 in Salisbury. His will was witnessed by Henry Blaisdell, the brother of Martha. Thomas Clough, the second son and fifth child of John and Jane, is our next direct ancestor. He was born in 1651. Their oldest child, Elizabeth, was born in 1642. She married William Horne. Elizabeth had the distinction of being the only woman to sign her own name, among many signers of a petition to Massachusetts to set up a temporary government. All other women made their mark. Horne was killed in the Indian massacre at Oyster River, New Hampshire, in 1689 when the Waldron Garrison House and several other garrisons were burned. Elizabeth was taken by Indians in Dover in 1707 and killed. from https://vandenheedemarkfamily.wordpress.com/gilman-family/clough-family/ | CLOUGH, John (I4452)
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| 31 | She died from peritonitis after a C-section. | GOODWIN, Phyllis Evelyn (I209)
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| 32 | She died unmarried. After college, she came home and lived on the farm in Newington. According to Virginia de Rochemont, she never did farm labor. Instead, she pulled a few weeds, ordered next year's seeds, talked to the birds, read into the night and slept into the day, avoiding work of all kinds. | DEROCHEMONT, Sarah Hill (I1699)
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| 33 | She died unmarried. She taught Greek in Springfield, Massachusetts. | DEROCHEMONT, Emilie Nutter (I1640)
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| 34 | Thomas' death record shows that he was single and died from pneumonia. | PICKERING, Thomas T (I1851)
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| 35 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I1558)
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| 36 | Wesley Fernald may be the same one who died in Manitou Springs, Colorado in April 1987. | FERNALD, Wesley G (I1731)
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| 38 | Killed in the Battle of Evesham with de Montfort's forces in 1265 with his lands and titles being forfeited due to his rebellion | BASSETT, Ralph (I17239)
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| 39 | "died at Poplin...being slain by the Indians." | DUDLEY, John (I139)
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| 40 | "Germain, born in c1650, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Belliveau, probably at Chignecto in c1673. They had three children, including a son who married into the Mius de Plenmarais and Thibodeau families. Their daughter married into the Breau family. Germain remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Dugas and sister of brother Charles's wife Anne, probably at Chignecto in c1682. They had 10 children, including two sons who married into the LeBlanc family. Their eight daughters married into the Poirier, Richard dit Lafond and dit Beaupré, Girouard, LeBlanc, and Robichaud dit Prudent families. Germain commanded a ship in Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville's attack on the New England fort at Pemaquid, Maine, in 1696 during King William's War. Later that year, Germain confronted Massachusetts Colonel Benjamin Church when the Englishman attacked Chignecto. Germaine died in 1711, in his early 60s, from the rigors of being held hostage by British Colonel Samuel Vetch in the dungeon at Port-Royal during Queen Anne's War. " | BOURGEOIS, Germain (I15182)
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| 41 | "Her voice is as pure as gold and clear as the note of zither. Her skin is as roses mixed in snow. Her blonde hair circles her head like a chrysolith. Her eyes are lively, her white neck like milk, lillies, ivory. Her graceful hands are like the snow." | TOURS, Ermengarde of (I10422)
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| 42 | "Maitre-Menuisier, capitaine de la Cote de Lauzon, del la Rochelle; un d e ses descnedants est mort a la Louisiane, en 1826, a l'age de 120 ans" | MIVILLE, Pierre dit Le Suisse (I1482)
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| 43 | "Nana" was the matriarch of the family and was always on hand to help any of her children or grandchildren, though she ruled her home with no nonsense. I (Ernest S. Jr.) remember her as loving and with an ever-present plate of goodies for the children. I remember her in the large bright kitchen in her rocking chair, sewing and talking. The chair was located in a corner between two windows so she could look out either way to see the birds and flowers in the back and side yards. The kitchen had an oil range as well as a gas range, and during the winter months the kitchen was always warm and cozy. Off the kitchen was a pantry with a pass-through into the dining room - which always fascinated me as a child. During her later years she suffered with angina, and died after one of her feet became infected and gangrene developed. Because of her angina, surgery was impossible for the gangrene. She joined the Advent Christian Church in Lynn 10 June 1906, and was always a very active participant. For years she received the Mothers Day flowers for having the most of her family present at church. This tradition of gathering on Mothers Day lasted for many years with the family gathering at different homes in the afternoon for cookouts and socializing. | SHOREY, Alice Mae (I951)
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| 44 | "Ouvrage orné de portraits et de plans."|||Vol. 8 has imprint: Montréal : Socété de Publication Historique du Canada.|||Includes indexes. | Source (S104)
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| 45 | "She was a very beautiful and extremely graceful young girl who loved chastity and truth and all God-fearing people." | BARCELONA, Berengaria of (I10409)
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| 46 | "The suggestion has been made that he was the same as John Church of Dover, New Hampshire, but this seems unlikely. [NEHGR 123:183]"Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, Boston, MA 1995, p359 John gave his birth year as about 1641 in a deposition, so many have tried to indicate he was not the son of Garreth Church. However, there is no other explanation for him and where he came from. My hypothesis is that his year of birth was ither misstated or misrecorded and was the son of Garreth so I am keeping him listed as a son of Garrett Church and his wife Sarah for now. | CHURCH, John (I4047)
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| 47 | <a href="/search/dbextra.aspx?dbid=1276" target="_blank">View all sources.</a> | Source (S1598)
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| 48 | <i>Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891</i>. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1891. <p>Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England. 2,131 rolls. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.</p> | Source (S1581)
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| 49 | <i>Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901</i>. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. | Source (S1582)
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| 50 | <i>Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911</i>. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911. <p>Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.</p> | Source (S1583)
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