HEARD, Elizabeth

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• Name: Elizabeth D Heard Nute
• Name: Elizabeth Heard
• Name: Elizabeth Heard*
• Birth: 1642
• Birth: 1653
• Birth: 15 Sep 1653, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Death: 1664
• Death: 1705
• Death: 11 Nov 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Elizabeth married NUTE, JamesUSA. James (son of NUTE (NEWTE), James and SARAH) was born in Jan 1643 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 24 Oct 1691 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. NUTE, Sarah was born on 21 Jan 1676 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 28 Apr 1762 in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
2. NUTE, Leah was born in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1748 in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.

Elizabeth married FURBER, Lieutenant William on 13 Aug 1694 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. William (son of FURBER, Captain William and CLARKE, Elizabeth, son of CLARKE, Elizabeth) was born in 1646 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 14 Sep 1707 in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant; signed the Dover Combination
• Great Migration: Yes, arrived in Dover by 1635
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heard-49
• Residence: Maine, USA
• Residence: Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Arrival: 1639, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Public Service: 1647; Fined for calling Godfrey an old knave abd criticizing Capt. Champernowne
• Residence: 1650, Kittery, York, Maine, USA; Living on Champernowne's island
• Court Case: 1 Mar 1651, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; John Heard successfully sued Anthony Emery for slander
• Residence: 1654, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Permanently settled here by this date
• Will: 2 Apr 1687, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; signed on this date

Notes:

He was called "Capt. Heard" because he was commander of ships in the foreign trade of Dover while in business connection with Capt. Richard Walderne. While he was in the shipping business he lived on Dover Neck, where he lived for 20 years before moving to the house he built on the hill where National Block now stands. He appears to have come to the Dover area in 1655. About 1675 when the Indians became dangerous, he had a stockade placed around his house and it became known as "Heard's Garrison." The next garrison below was that of Richard Otis. Of the five garrisons near the falls, that of Capt. Heard was the only one saved in the massacre of 28 Jun 1689. By some incredible folly two squaws were allowed to sleep before the kitchen fire in each garrison that night,even though fears of Indian troubles had sent many persons into the garrisons each night for safety. Early in the morning the squaws opened the gates to the stockades and let the Indians in, while the families were fast asleep. Elder Wentworthand his family were at Heard's garrison. Just as the Indians were about to enter a dog barked and awakened Elder Wentworth; he arose and closed the gate just as the Indians were about to enter. He fell upon his back and held the gate closed till other members of the household came to his aid. The Indians fired several bullets through the door, but no one was hit.
Stackpole notes there were two John Heards - one who was in Kittery in 1640 on Champernowne's Island. He cautions that the other was of Dover and lived at Cocheco. He died 17 Jan 1688 leaving a large family, and it may have been he who owned land and lived in Gorgeana in 1648. John signed the Dover Combination in 1640. In March 1648/49 he had lot No. 8 in Cocheco Fresh Marsh assigned him. He did not appear on the tax lists of 1648, but does appear on that of 1657 and years following.
An interesting point to the second John Heard (of Kittery) is that he had a son James who had a son John who had a daughter Dorcas who married a Hugh Tucker in the early 1700s. Could this be a tie to the Kittery John Heard?
Pike's Journal notes John died after a short sickness before the massacre.

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Died:
may have been 1688

John married HULL, Elizabeth in 1643 in York, York, Maine, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of HULL, Reverend Rev. Joseph and UNKNOWN, Joanne) was born in 1628 in Northleigh, Devon, England; died on 30 Nov 1706 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Immigrant; The Great Migration
• Residence: USA
• Arrival: 1635, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Elizabeth Hull, daughter of Reverend Joseph Hull, was born in 1626 in England, and married Captain John Heard at York, Maine in 1642. Soon after their marriage, they settled at Dover, New Hampshire. The leader of the colonists at Cochecho (near Dover) was Richard Waldron (Walderne), an Englishman who had emigrated in 1635. In 1642, Waldron owned a large tract of land at the Lower Falls of the Cochecho River where he built a sawmill. That spot became the foundation of the settlement known as Cochecho.

In 1652, Captain John Heard had grants of land "under the Great Hill of Cocheco," and he and Elizabeth built their house on the brow of the Great Hill.
By 1666, a total of 41 families lived and worked there. Indians became a familiar sight around town when Richard Waldron opened a large trading post, but there were occasional problems with the Indians, because Waldron was not above breaking the laws that forbade selling liquor or firearms to Indians.
For over half a century following Dover's founding in 1623, the English settlers had co-existed peacefully with the local Pennacook tribe. The Indians helped the colonists to develop the fishing, hunting, and farming skills necessary to survive in New England.

The Indian chieftain, Passaconaway, was responsible for forming the Penacook confederacy, a unification of local tribes against the hostile Mohawks. Passaconaway's 50 year reign marks one of the most peaceful periods in the New Hampshire province. His son Wonalancet took over leadership of the tribe in 1665 and continued his father's peaceful ways.
In 1676, many Indians fled Massachusetts due to bloody fighting between a confederation of Indian tribes and English settlers. By September, over 400 Indians were at the Cochecho settlement. Half of them were strangers, the other half were Wonalancet's people. Two companies of Massachusetts soldiers arrived to recapture the escaping Indians. They were ready to fight the Indians, but Major Waldron intervened.
Waldron agreed that the Massachusetts Indians should be returned to Boston for punishment, but he did not want local, loyal Indians to be harmed in the process. The Indians were invited to assemble close to town for a day of war games. The unsuspecting Indians were surrounded by four militia companies who separated out the local Indians. Over 200 of the Massachusetts Indians were taken back to Boston. Some of them were hanged or sold into slavery.
Elizabeth Heard saved the life of a young Indian boy that day by concealing him until his would-be slayers had left her house, and then helped him to escape.
For the next eleven years, tensions mounted between the settlers and the Penacook Indians. The peaceful Chief Wonalancet was replaced by the warlike Kancamagus, who bitterly resented the injustices meted out by English settlers to his people. More and more land was seized from the Indians for paltry payments like a "peck of corn annually for each family."
In 1684, the Governor ordered that the meeting house at Dover be fortified against Indian attacks. Every neighborhood developed at least one fortified blockhouse where people could flee to safety if Indians attacked.
Five homes at the Cochecho settlement were garrisoned at public expense, including Elizabeth Heard's, which became known as Heard's Garrison. These five sites were chosen because of their locations on the highest knolls of the town. The garrisons were built with foot-thick squared logs impenetrable to bullets and a second story that projected over the lower story by two to three feet.
This overhang feature was designed to combat Indians who customarily attacked with fire or smoke. A loose board in the overhang could be removed in order to pour boiling water on marauders or on fires below. Each wall also had narrow slits for firearms. The garrisons were also surrounded by an eight foot palisade of large logs set upright in the ground.
The settlers at Cochecho became frightened by the large number of hostile Indians now living with the local tribe. The settlers took refuge at the blockhouse each night, and during the day, guns were kept close to hand in the fields.
Advance word that the Pennacooks were massing for an attack on Cochecho was known as far away as Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The vendetta against Waldron was described in a warning letter from Chelmsford. Waldron, aware of the tensions, reportedly laughed it off, telling his townsfolk that he could assemble 100 men simply by lifting his finger.
On the evening of June 27, 1689, several Indian women asked for shelter at each of the garrison houses, a common practice in peacetime. They were shown how to open the doors and gates in case they wanted to leave in the night. No watch was kept as all the Cochecho families retired for the night.
During the early hours, the Indian women quietly opened the gates to several hundred Pennacook. Waldron, then 74, is said to have wielded his sword in defense. He was tied to a chair and cut across the chest repeatedly as each warrior symbolically "crossed out" his trading account with the distrusted merchant. Waldron was forced to fall on his sword, the garrison was burned, and his family killed or captured.
Elder William Wentworth was guarding the Heard property while Elizabeth was away. He was awakened by a barking dog and managed to close the gates against attack. Elizabeth Heard - by then a widow - her three sons, her daughter, and their families were all returning from their voyage to Portsmouth with the dawn tide. The smell of smoke and the chilling sound of Indian cries alerted them to their peril. Mrs. Heard was so overcome with fright that she could not go on. She pleaded with her family to flee for their lives, and they left her hidden in some nearby bushes.
As daylight broke, an Indian spotted Elizabeth in the thicket. He raised his gun and aimed it at her. He stared hard at her face, then silently ran away, never revealing her to his tribesmen. In a curious twist of fate, Elizabeth Heard had saved the life of this Indian in 1676. He had never forgotten her kindness and took this opportunity to repay the favor.
Mrs. Heard remained hidden in the thicket until all the Indians had left Cochecho. She wearily returned to her home expecting to find burnt ruins. Thanks to her courageous neighbor, William Wentworth, she found her home and family intact.
Several years passed before Cochecho fully recovered. Houses and mills were rebuilt, but the loss of so many persons (about 25% of the population) was a severe blow to the settlement's prosperity. By 1700 however, the town had begun to resume its former importance. Although Cochecho was occasionally harassed by Indians, it was never again the target of so destructive a raid.
Elizabeth Hull Heard died at Dover, New Hampshire, on November 30, 1706.SOURCESElizabeth Hull HeardThe Cocheco MassacreNative American Massacre

Thomas married CUTLER, Elizabeth on 28 May 1609 in Chichester, Sussex, England. Elizabeth was born in 1590 in Chichester, Sussex, England; died on 14 Apr 1625 in Chichester, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Immigrant; The Great Migration; Brought 106 followers from England, minister in Wessaguscus (Weymouth), expelled because of progressive preaching that offended the Puritan leaders
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB116/rd/7118/452/235155505
• Web Address: https://kindredconnection.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/joseph-hull/
• Web Address: https://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2013/02/reverend-joseph-hull-of-somerset.html
• Education: 14 Nov 1614, Oxfordshire, England; Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary's Hall, Oxford University
• Ordained: 23 May 1619, Exeter, Devon, England; Ordained a clergyman of the Church of England by the bishop at Exeter, Devon
• Occupation: Between 1621 and 1632, Exeter, Devon, England; Assigned as rector of Northleigh, a diocese of Exeter
• Occupation: 1621, Northleigh, Devon, England; Became the rector for Northleigh, another village in Devon, England
• Public Service: Jan 1635, Crewkerne, Somerset, England; Twice cited for illegal preaching at Broadway
• Departure: 26 Mar 1635; Boarded a ship (the Marygold) bound for America with his family and 106 followers
• Arrival: 6 May 1635, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; On the Marygold
• Residence: Jul 1635, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Rev. Hull and his congregation then settled in Wessagusset. (present day Weymouth), Massachusetts.
• Occupation: 1636; Expelled as the minister of Wessagusset.; progressive preaching offended the Puritan leaders
• Public Service: 2 Sep 1636; Took the oath as a Freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Public Service: 5 May 1639; Expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony by Gov. Winthrop; preached his farewell sermon
• _EXCM: 1 May 1641, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; At the request of some of the residents, he served them in a ministerial capacity. However, he neglected to secure the approval of the Barnstable church and was excommunicated
• Public Service: 7 Mar 1642, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; The General Court at Plymouth issued a warrant directing Joseph Hull’s arrest should he attempt to exercise his ministerial duties within the Plymouth Colony, describing him in the warrant as an excommunicated minister
• Residence: 1643, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, USA; A church-chapel was erected by the inhabitants of the Isles of Shoals on Hog Island for a congregation of which the records Rev. Joseph Hull was the minister.
• Residence: 1643, York, York, Maine, USA; Relocated to Accominticus (modern-day York, Maine), where Joseph Hull became minister.
• Departure: 1650, Cornwall, England; Returned to England. Joseph was given the parsonage at St. Buryan.
• Departure: 1660; Returned to the Colonies, briefly staying in Oyster River, New Hampshire, before returning to the Isles of Shoals in 1663.
• Residence: Between 1663 and 1665, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, USA; Joseph Hull remained as minister of the Isles of Shoals, where he continue his ministry until his death on 19 November 1665.

Notes:

Joseph Hull was born on 25 April 1594, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. He was the youngest child of Thomas Hull, a yeoman, and Joane Peson/Pysing

On 4 November 1614, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford University in Oxfordshire, England. During the next five years, Joseph Hull studied theology, serving as a teacher and curate under his eldest brother, William Hull, who was the vicar of Colyton a village in Devon, England.

On the 23 May 1619, Joseph Hull was ordained a clergyman of the Church of England by the bishop at Exeter, Devon.

On 14 April 1621, Joseph Hull was made rector of Northleigh, a diocese of Exeter, where he would serve for the next 11 years.

In 1629, Joseph Hull incurred the wrath of the church, when the wardens of Crewkerne were “presented” for allowing him to preach there without signing the Book of Strange Preachers.

In 1632, Rev. Joseph Hull resigned his rectorship at Northleigh and returned to Crewkerne. Joseph and Joanne’s final child, Dorothy, was born in Crewkerne, circa 1632. Unfortunately, either during childbirth or soon thereafter, Joanne Hull died and was buried in 1632, in her hometown of Crewkerne, Somerset, England.

With Joanne’s death, Joseph Hull was left to raise several young children alone. As he was still serving as a rector (probably in somewhere in Somerset), he would have had difficulties being a single parent. Consequently, on 13 March 1633, Joseph Hull married Agnes Hunt in Wells St. Cuthbert, Somerset, England.

Joseph Hull was cited for illegal preaching at Broadway twice in January 1635. Joseph Hull continued ministering to the masses. He allegedly preached a sermon at Glastonbury, in which he was quoted as saying that “judgment hung over the land and that first it would fall on the clergy and then the laity.”

Then, on 17 February 1635, Joseph Hull was expelled from the Church of England-not for his preaching but for “failing to respond to the court’s citation.”

On 20 March 1635, at Crewkerne, Joseph Hull gathered 106 followers. Together, along with his wife Agnes and seven of his children, they headed to Weymouth, England. On 26 March 1635, they boarded a ship bound for America. The group arrived in Boston on 5/6 May 1635. Rev. Hull and his congregation then settled in Wessaguscus, Massachusetts. Governor Winthrop’s Official Journal, under date of 8 July 8 1635, contains the following entry:

At this court Wessaguscus was made a plantation and Mr. Hull, a minister of England, and twenty-one families with him allowed to sit down there.

The arrival of this group doubled Wessaguscus’ population. The village soon became a full-fledged town, invested with municipal rights, renamed Weymouth, and given representation in the General Court. A church was formed on 8 July 1635, with Joseph Hull installed as its first pastor.

Meanwhile, Joseph Hull more progressive religious teachings were offending the Puritan leaders:

Reverend Joseph Hull…was a man of exceptional ability who came with his family to the Bay Colony and settled at Wissagusset (Weymouth). There he gathered a church and served as pastor until his liberal views were known. He hoped to bridge the gap between Anglicans and Puritans, but was dismissed by the congregation he had gathered… (The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend, by Lyman V. Rutledge, pg. 39).

His replacement was a Puritan minister, Thomas Jenner of Roxbury

In 12 June 1636, Joseph Hull received a land grant in Nantasket, then a part of Hingham.

On 2 September 1636, Joseph Hull took the oath as a Freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

During that same time period, Joseph Hull represented that town twice as a Deputy in the General Court of Massachusetts in September 1638 and March 1639. He was both a political and a religious opponent of Gov. John Winthrop; apparently the “very contentious” Joseph Hull sided more with the Anglican residents than the Puritan leaders. Gov. Winthrop retaliated by expelling Joseph Hull from the Massachusetts Colony. On 5 May 1639, it was recorded in Hobart’s Journal that Joseph Hull preached his farewell sermon in the Massachusetts Colony.

After leaving Hingham, the Hull Family relocated to the Plymouth Colony. Tradition credits Rev. Joseph Hull with having preached the first sermon in Barnstable

While Joseph Hull was in the Plymouth Colony, he began raising cattle. Unfortunately, because of his new endeavor, Joseph Hull was named defendant in several trespass suits. It is interesting to note that in all but one of these actions, the constable attached two of Joseph Hull’s steers. Obviously, Joseph Hull’s cattle were highly desired by the plaintiffs.

Joseph Hull was appointed one of the first two deputies for the town of Barnstable, as noted in the 3 June session records of the General Court of Plymouth.

Meanwhile, Joseph Hull’s preaching again came to the notice of the Puritans. In response, a Puritan minster was sent to displace Joseph Hull. On 11 October 1639, Rev. John Lathrop arrived in Barnstable with his church from Scituate, and on 31 October 1639, a Day of Humiliation was observed. Apparently, Joseph Hull made no effort to perform any ministerial functions after the arrival of Rev. Lathrop.

About a year later, Joseph Hull moved into the adjoining town of Yarmouth, where, at the request of some of the residents, he served them in a ministerial capacity. However, he neglected to secure the approval of the Barnstable church and was excommunicated on 1 May 1641.

Soon thereafter, Joseph Hull became a transient preacher, moving from place to place.

…After some wandering [he] went to the Isles of Shoals, where he served around the year 1640 (The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend, by Lyman V. Rutledge, pg. 39).

From the book, Religion at the Isles of Shoals: Anglicans, Puritans, Missionaries, UUs, and UCCs, by Lois Williams, pg. 10-11:

Although there was no resident clergyman at the Shoals, the Anglican concept of parish included all within its boundaries, and mainland clergy reached out to fishermen on the Isles of Shoals. The Reverend Joseph Hull, an early Church of England clergyman at York…occasionally visited the islands where he preached and administered the Holy Sacraments. In this Hull ran little risk of being disciplined, for he lived in the province of Maine which stoutly supported Episcopalian and royalist friends.

On 7 March 1642, the General Court at Plymouth issued a warrant directing Joseph Hull’s arrest should he attempt to exercise his ministerial duties within the Plymouth Colony, describing him in the warrant as an excommunicated minister. Four days later, Joseph’s wife Agnes was readmitted to the church in Barnstable.

Our Sister Hull renewed her covenant, renouncing her joining at Yarmouth and confessed her evil in so doing, with sorrow.

Joseph Hull was readmitted to the Barnstable church on 10 August 1643 “having acknowledged his sin.”

But this must not have sat well with Joseph Hull, because soon after, the Hull Family relocated; this time to Accominticus (modern-day York, Maine), where Joseph Hull became minister. A church-chapel was also erected by the inhabitants of the Isles of Shoals on Hog Island for a congregation of which the records Rev. Joseph Hull was also the minister.

In 1643, he accepted a call to York, but he had become so much attached to the islands that he went back often to conduct services (The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend, by Lyman V. Rutledge, pg. 39).

The Hull Family remained in this area until circa 1650, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony brought Maine under their jurisdiction. Again, a Puritan minister, this one a Rev. Brock, was sent to supersede Joseph Hull.

Obviously, enough was enough for Joseph Hull. He and his family decided to return to England.

Upon their return, the Hull Family settled in Cornwall, England, where Joseph was given the parsonage at St. Buryan.

The Hull Family remained in Cornwall for more than a decade, at which time Joseph Hull was ejected from the parish. In 1660, the Hull Family returned to the Colonies, briefly staying in Oyster River, New Hampshire, before returning to the Isles of Shoals in 1663.

From the book, Religion at the Isles of Shoals: Anglicans, Puritans, Missionaries, UUs (Unitarian Universalists) and UCCs (United Church of Christ), by Lois Williams, pg. 17:

The Reverend Joseph Hull moved to the islands in 1663 to follow the Reverend Brock. Hull died in 1665 without receiving his expected payment of twenty pounds from the Sholaers…Reverend Hull [is credited] with trying to find common ground with both Anglicans and Puritans, and the Shoalers seem to have welcomed his more tolerant approach.

Joseph Hull remained as minister of the Isles of Shoals, where he continue his ministry until his death on 19 November 1665. His estate was valued at 52 pounds, five shillings, and five pence. A learned man, his library alone was valued at ten pounds. Upon his death, Joseph Hull was owed 20 pounds from the Isles of Shoals for his ministry.

Rev. + UNKNOWN, Joanne. Joanne died before 1633 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died during or shortly after childbirth

Thomas married PESON, Joane on 11 Jan 1572 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. Joane was born in 1551 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 30 Nov 1629 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; was buried in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]