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AUSTIN, Elizabeth

1596 - 1674  (78 years)

Great Migration: Henry Tibbets (1596-1676)

Henry and Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) Tibbetts arrived on the ship James from London on July 13, 1635, both age 39, he was a shoemaker and they had two children with them, Jeremy, age 4 and Samuel, age 2, and his sister Remembrance Tibbetts, age 28, who was in Mr. Thomas Wiggin’s service before her arrival in New England. Henry received a 20 acre grant in Dover in 1642, lot no. 3 “On the west sied of ye Back Rever or over ye Back Rever” (the Bellamy River). He also had a grant in 1643 to a 3 ½ acre house lot on Dover Neck bounded by William Furber, John Heard, George Walton and the commons on the east side of High St. near the site of the lower schoolhouse. His house was a garrison against Indian attack.