Surname Saturday ~ BOUTWELL of Lynn and Reading, Massachusetts

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BOUTWELL

Not much is known about James Boutwell or his origins in England. He was made a freeman in Salem, Massachusetts on 14 February 1638/9. The Lynn, Massachusetts court records mention a wife named Mary in 1640. His will dated 22 August 1651 lists his wife as Alice, and his children John, James and Sarah. He must have died soon because his will was probated four days later on 26 August 1651.

His two sons, John and James Boutwell removed to Reading, Massachusetts from Lynn (a contiguous town). I decend from Sargent James Boutwell and his wife, Rebecca, the daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall. Their gravestones are still standing at the Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts (formerly known as South Reading). Their daughter, Sarah Boutwell, married John Townsend in Reading in 1698, and there my Boutwell line daughters out.

Sources for Boutwell research:

Descendants of James Boutwell of Salem and Lynn, by Donald Erienkotter

“Descendants of Abraham Bryant,” New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 137, October 1983, page 238.

Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts by Lilley Eaton, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1874.

Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts

My BOUTWELL genealogy:

Generation 1: James Boutwell, born in England, died in August 1651; married to Alice Unknown. Three children possibly born in Massachusetts.

Generation 2: Sargent James Boutwell, born about 1642 in Massachusetts; died 5 December 1716 in Reading, Massachusetts; married on 15 June 1665 in Reading to Rebecca Kendall, daughter of Thomas Kendall and Rebecca Payne. She was born 10 February 1644 in Reading, and died 30 August 1713 in Reading. Ten children.

Generation 3: Sarah Boutwell, born 7 July 1677 in Reading, died 18 September 1737 in Reading; married on 28 April 1698 in Reading to John Townsend, so of John Townsend and Sarah Pearson. He was born 17 March 1675 in Lynn and died January 1757 in Reading. Six children.

Generation 4: Sarah Townsend, born 25 March 1705 in Lynn; married on 17 June 1725 in Reading to Deacon Brown Emerson, son of Peter Emerson and Mary Brown. He was born 16 April 1704 in Reading and died 16 March 1774 in Reading. Ten children. Sarah Townsend and Brown Emerson are the ancestors of astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. of Derry, New Hampshire through two of their daughters.

Generation 5: John Emerson m. Katherine Eaton

Generation 6: Romanus Emerson m. Jemima Burnham

Generation 7: George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 8: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Allen (my grandparents)

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Genealogy Events Calendar

April 29, Wednesday, 6pm, Sex, DNA and Family History, a lecture by Shellee Morehead at the Abbey Room of the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts. Certified genealogist Shellee Morehead will explain genetic genealogy- the use of DNA for defining ancestral relationships. Free to the Public.

April 29, Wednesday, 10am, The Court Martial of Paul Revere, at the Pilgrim Hall Museum, presented by Michael Greenburg, on his new book about Revere and “America’s forgotten military disaster”.

May 1, Friday, 2pm, Lecture and Exhibit: Katharine Gibbs: Beyond the White Gloves, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, Free to the public. Join Rose Doherty, author, for this illustrated talk and exhibit of memorabilia. She will provide a brief history of the school and graduates. Book sales and signing to follow. Click here to register: http://shop.americanancestors.org/products/katharine-gibbs-lecture?pass-through=true

May 2, Saturday, 10am - 3pm, Heifer Parade at the Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury, New Hampshire. Parade at about 11am. Free admission. The heifers will parade to the pastures for their first spring grass, maypole dancing, barn dancing, may baskets and guided tours of the Shaker community for $10 per person at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heifer-parade-with-food-fiddle-tickets-15230028425

May 2, Saturday 11am to 1pm, Beacon Hill Walking Tour, meet up at the Harrison Gray Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts. $12 per person, you must register ahead at this link: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-5712-beacon-hill-walking-tour-may-2.aspx

May 2, Saturday, 12 noon – 4pm, Ipswich Back in Time, Commemorating the 1657 Alexander Knight House,A Fun Family Day of Exploring Where History Comes to Life, The Ipswich, Massachusetts Historical Society.

May 2, Saturday, 10am – noon, Shared Spaces: Maintaining History in Condo Living, at the Phillips House, 34 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts, $15 Young Friends and Historic Homeowner members, $20 members of Historic New England, $25 non-members, bring pictures and info on your own home and project for short consultations; learn about historic colors, details and furnishings; work with your condo association on preservation issues; take home a packet of resources. Light refreshments served. Click here to purchase tickets: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=10099&SEName=shared-spaces-maintaining-history-in-condo-living

May 3, Sunday, 2pm, Meet Louisa May Alcott – Not Such a Little Woman, at the Shirley- Eustis House and Gardner Carriage House, 33 Shirley Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts, a living history portrayal by Jan Turnquist. $10 per person. Call 617-442-2275 for more information.

May 4, Monday, The 35^thAnnual Marjorie Gibbons Lecture with Speaker Bill Brett, at the South Boston branch of the Boston Public Library, free to the public with a reception following the program. Bill Brett will present his latest book on the Boston Irish.

May 6, Wednesday, 7pm, Unlocking the Clues of your own Family Photos, a lecture by Maureen Taylor, the “Photo Detective”, at the Norwood Historical Society, 93 Day Street, Norwood, Massachusetts.

May, 6, Wednesday, Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston, at the Boston Public Library. Free to the public. Between 1765 and 1774 Robert Love issued warnings in Boston to four thousand itinerants, including migrant workers, demobilized soldiers, and other newcomers. This program is presented as part of “Revolutionary Boston” www.bpl.org/revolution

May 6, Wednesday, 7pm, Colonial New Hampshire, at Charlie’s Barn, 29 South Village Road, Loudon, New Hampshire, A talk by Jere Daniell. For more information contact Michele York at 603-396-2362.

May 7, Thursday, noon, Lunch and Learn: In Modest Attire – Clothing the Pilgrims, at Plimoth Plantation, Free for members, $8 non-members, Speaker Kristen Haggerty will describe how the clothing of the colonists has been portrayed throughout history, and why today’s interpreters wear what they do!

May 7, Thursday, 7pm, A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes, at the Stephenson Memorial Library, 761 Forest Road, Greenfield, New Hampshire. Adair Mulligan lectures on the rich history behind cellar holes and how one town has created an inventory of its cellar holes. Contact Adele Hale for more information 603-547-3403. Free to the public.

May 8, Friday, 7:30pm, Call the Midwife! A Look at Colonial Midwifery, a lecture by Dr. Abby Chandler, sponsored by the Topsfield Historical Society, FREE to the public, at the Gould Barn, 1 Howlett Street, Topsfield, Massachusetts.

May 9, Saturday, noon - 1pm, NEHGS Art and Architecture Tour, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public, and you are welcome to use the library after the tour. Register here: http://shop.americanancestors.org/products/nehgs-art-architecture-tour?pass-through=true

May 9, Saturday, 1:30pm, Evernote vs Zotero for Genealogists, at the Acton Memorial Library, 486 Main Street, Acton, Massachusetts, sponsored by the Middlesex Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, presented by Denise Picard Lindgren. Free to the public.

May 9, Saturday, 11:30am, The Battle of Bunker Hill, at the Brighton Branch of the Boston Public Library, Free to the public, a slide lecture by John Horrigan, historian.

May 9 and 10, Opening Weekend at the Fort at No. 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire. The 25^th Continental Regiment and the 3^rd Massachusetts Regiment will garrison the fort. http://fortat4.org/garrison_weekends/25thcon_3rdma.html

May 9, Saturday, 10am – noon, Uncovering Your Family History in Federal Publications, speaker Connie Reik, professional genealogist, sponsored by the Genealogy Group at the Kennebunk, public library, 112 Main Street, Kennebunk, Maine, call 207-985-2173 for more information. Free to the public.

May 10, Sunday, 10am – noon, Women of Beacon Hill Walking Tour, meet at the Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts, $7 Historic New England members, $15 non-members. Reservations required, click here to purchase tickets: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=6558&SEName=women-of-beacon-hill-walking-tour-may-10

May 12, Tuesday, 7pm, Massachusetts Record Repositories, at the Zion Lutheran Church, 41 Whitmarsh Avenue, Worcester, Massachusetts, sponsored by the Worcester County Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists. Free for members, $3 for non-members. Presented by genealogist Michael Brophy, who will emphasize major genealogical resources in Eastern Massachusetts and Boston.

May 13, Wednesday, 6pm, Women and Physical Culture in Nineteenth Century Boston, a talk by Helaine Davis and Linda Stern at the Abbey Room of the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts. This lecture is about how several pioneering women changed the face of sports and recreation in Boston at the close of the 19th century. Free to the public.

May 14, Thursday, 7pm, Espionage in the American Revolution, at the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Free, a lecture by Kenneth Daigler, retired CIA officer.

May 14 and 16. Events all day, Pirates Ashore in Plymouth, at the Mayflower Society House, 4 Winslow Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts 10am, the pirates land at State Pier, 3pm Murder Trial at the Mayflower House, 7pm lecture “Caribbean Buccaneers in Early Plymouth” at Pilgrim Hall. Plymouth colony was attacked by privateers in May 1646, come celebrate and learn more about pirates and privateers in early New England. Rain date May 17^th. Sponsored by the Plymouth Historical Alliance, the Mayflower Society, and the New Plimmoth Gard www.newplimmothgard.org

May 16, Connecticut Society of Genealogists Annual Meeting with Marcia Melnyk, open to the public, luncheon will be served. See the website http://www.csginc.org/csg_view_event.php?event=235 for more information.

May 16, Saturday, 10am – 11:30am, Those Were the Days: A Look Back at the Historic Chestnut Street Days, at the Phillips House, 34 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts. $8 Historic New England members, $12 non-members. A lecture by Jim McAllister about the most beautiful street in America using journals and correspondence. Learn about the characters that lived here. Reservations required. Click here to purchase tickets: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=5755&SEName=those-were-the-days-a-look-back-at-the-historic-chestnut-street-days

May 16, Saturday, tours at noon, 1:30pm, 3pm, Heart of the Home: Family Life in Downtown Boston, tours at the Otis House, Gibson House, Nichols House, Prescott House and Paul Revere House. Learn the stories and view the collections that tell about childhood and the families of Boston. Tickets sold separately at each site. Call 617-994-5920 for more information or click here for tickets: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-10101-heart-of-the-home-family-life-in-downtown-boston-may-16.aspx

May 18, Monday, 6:30pm, The Loyalists: The Other Side of the American Revolution, at the Derry Public Library, Derry, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Contact the library for more information: 603-432-6140.

May 18, Monday, 5:30pm, Evacuation Day 1776: Enslaved Africans and the “Freeing” of Boston, at the Dudley branch of the Boston Public Library, free to the public, presented by Joel MacKall, a local historian and educator who will lead an illustrated talk outlining the developments facing Africans in Boston and abroad during the birth of the United States.

May 18, Monday, 6pm, Lost Boston Tour: Old Scollay Square and Vicinity, led by Anthony Mitchell Sanmarco, Author and Historian and sponsored by the Victorian Society, New England Chapter. Meet under the Steaming Tea Kettle at Cambridge and Court Streets, $12 or $10 members of the Victorian Society.

May 20, Wednesday, 6:30pm, How did Old North Become Old North?, at the Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston, Massachusetts, a presentation by Robert J. Allison of Suffolk University, who will discuss how this Puritan meeting house became an Episcopal church. Free to the public.

May 20, Wednesday, 6:30pm, Abraham & Mary Lincoln: The Long and Short of It, at the Bedford Public Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, New Hampshire. A living history presentation by Steve and Sharon Wood set in 1861 portraying the Lincolns. Free and open to the public, with light refreshments.

May 21, Thursday, 7pm, The Shaker Legacy, at the Gordon-Nashu Library, 69 Main St., New Hampton, New Hampshire, FREE lecture by Darryl Thompson about the history of the Shakers and his personal memories of the Canterbury Shakers.

May 21, Thursday, 8pm, New Hampshire’s Grange Movement: Its Rise, Triumphs and Decline. At the Lawrence Barn, 28 Depot Road, Hollis, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Steve Taylor discusses the rapid social and economic changes that forced the steep decline of the once-powerful movement. Potluck at 7pm with program to follow at 8pm. Contact Sharon Howe 603-465-3935 for more information.

May 23 and 24, Garrison Weekend at the Fort at No. 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire. The Vermont Brigade garrisons the fort. http://fortat4.org/garrison_weekends/vtgarrison.html

May 26, Tuesday, 7pm, Meet Eleanor Roosevelt, at the Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Elena Dodd’s living history interpretation of Mrs. Roosevelt offers a frank and humorous look at the woman who was eyewitness to the tumultuous events of her day. Free to the public. Contact Donna Hammill at 603-569-1212 for more information.

May 27, Wednesday, 6pm, Finding Living Ancestors: Being a Genealogy Gumshoe, by genealogist Michael Maglio. A discussion on how sometimes it is necessary to find a living relative in order to track down records, get a DNA sample, return a rare photo or family Bible, but finding the living can be as challenging as finding a dead ancestor. Free to the public.

May 27, Wednesday, 6pm, Abraham & Mary Lincoln: The Long and Short of It, at the Upper Valley Senior Center, 10 Campbell Street, Lebanon, New Hampshire. A living history presentation by Steve and Sharon Wood set in 1861 portraying the Lincolns. Free and open to the public, with light refreshments.

May 27, Wednesday, 7pm, Meet Eleanor Roosevelt, at the Moultonborough Public Library, 4 Holland Street, Moultonborough, New Hampshire, Elena Dodd’s living history interpretation of Mrs. Roosevelt offers a frank and humorous look at the woman who was eyewitness to the tumultuous events of her day. Free to the public. Contact Nancy McCue at 603-476-8895 for more information.

May 30, Saturday, 2015 Southern Maine Genealogical Conference sponsored by the Greater Portland Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society will be held in Portland, Maine. The keynote speaker will be Margaret Dube, CG. For more information see www.maineroots.org

May 30, Saturday, 1pm Summer Walking Tours of the Black Heritage Trail in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Meet up at the Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire from May to September. There will be a fee involved. Stay tuned or call for more information.

May 30 and 31, Blacksmith Weekend at the Fort at No. 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire. http://fortat4.org/blacksmith/blacksmith.html

May 31, Sunday, Home Sweet Home Event, come celebrate some maverick Massachusetts families North of Boston, Massachusetts on May 31st? Four locations at historic homes, presented by the Trustees of Reservations, and learn the stories of the Crane, Appleton, Dodge, Coolidge, and Emerson families. Click here for the details...http://www.nobomagazine.com/2015/04/08/home-sweet-home/

June 4, Friday, noon, Lunch and Learn: The American Plate, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Free to members, $8 non members, Bring or buy lunch and learn about the evolution of the American diet. Click here to register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-and-learn-artisanry-in-the-modern-world-speakers-alan-burton-thompson-and-marnie-smith-tickets-15616928654

June 6, Saturday, 11am – 1pm, Beacon Hill Walking Tour, meet at the Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts, $10 Historic New England members, $15 non-members. Tickets required, click here: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-6450-beacon-hill-walking-tour-june-6.aspx

June 6 and 7, French and Indian War Encampment at the Fort at No. 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire. http://fortat4.org/F&I.html One of the biggest re-enactment weekends with battles at 1:30 both days, open hearth cooking, blacksmithing, textile productions, joinery, tours of the fort, and colonial vendors.

June 10, Saturday, 10am, From the Roots Up- The Basics of Climbing your Family Tree, at the Nevins Public Library, Route 28/ Broadway, Methuen, Massachusetts, sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, and presented by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Free to the public.

June 11, Thursday, 6pm, Lowell Lecture: Joseph J. Ellis, at the Boston Public Library, free to the public. Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Ellis will discuss the years between the end of the American Revolution and the start of the Federal Era. A book sale and author signing will follow the lecture.

June 15 – June 20, Monday – Saturday, Program in New England Studies, $1,500 Historic New England members, $1550 non-members, an intensive week-long learning experience with lectures and tours on history, architecture, preservation, decorative arts, workshops, and specialized tours of properties, museums and private homes. Purchase tickets here: http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-6852-program-in-new-england-studies.aspx

July 2, Friday, noon, Lunch and Learn: Artisanry in the Modern World, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Free to members, $8 non members, Bring or buy lunch and learn about the role of collegiate artisan programs and their applicability in a modern economy. Click here to register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-and-learn-artisanry-in-the-modern-world-speakers-alan-burton-thompson-and-marnie-smith-tickets-15616928654

July 11, Saturday, The Maine Genealogical Society Fair at the Cultural Building, Home of the State Library, Archives and Museum, Augusta, Maine, Free admission. Visit with genealogical and historical societies from around the state of Maine.

June 20 and 21, Stark’s Muster and Garrison at the Fort at No. 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire. Check the website for schedule and details http://fortat4.org/stark/starks_muster.html During the American Revolution, Charlestown was an assembly point for 1,500 troops under General John Stark who will appear again and make his call for the men of New Hampshire to fight for freedom. Drills, recruitment, dance instruction, inspection and marches.

July 14, Tuesday, 4 – 5:30pm, DNA Testing and Revolutionary Ancestors, at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by Jennifer Zinck. Free to the public. www.bpl.org

July 26, Sunday, Massachusetts Genealogical Council Annual Meeting and Seminar, Mansfield, Massachusetts

August 6, Friday, Noon, Lunch and Learn: The Yale Indian Papers Project, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Free to members, $8 non-members, bring or buy a lunch and learn about the cultural significance and potential historical impact of the Indian Papers Project. Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-and-learn-the-yale-indian-papers-project-speaker-paul-grant-costa-tickets-15617038984 Click here for the Indian Papers Project http://www.library.yale.edu/yipp/

August 11, Tuesday, 4 – 5:30pm, Mustering Military Resources for Revolutionary War Genealogy Research, at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by David Allen Lambert. Free to the public. www.bpl.org

September 3, Friday, Noon, Lunch and Learn: One Colonial Woman’s World, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, free to members, $8 for non-members. Bring or buy lunch and learn about Michelle Marchetti Coughlin and her book which chronicles the life and times of Mehetabel Chandler Coit (1673-1758) and her diary, which may be the earliest surviving diary by an American woman.

September 15, Tuesday, 4 – 5:30pm, Beyond Historical Records: The Old Colony Historical Society Revolutionary War Collection, at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by Andrew Boisvert. Free to the public. www.bpl.org

September 20 and 21, Return to No. 4: Revolutionary War Weekend at the Fort at No. 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire. One of the biggest re-enactments of the year with battles both days at 1:30pm. Fortified village tours, sutlers row for shopping, and self tours of the camps where you can see drills, open hearth cooking and demonstrations of colonial camp life. See the website for more information and a schedule of events http://fortat4.org/revwar/revwar.html

October 13, Tuesday, 4 – 5:30pm, Using the DAR Genealogical Research System to Find Revolutionary Patriots and Descendants, at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by Carolyn Holbrook. Free to the public. www.bpl.org

November 10, Tuesday, 4 – 5:30pm, Our Ancestors in the Revolution: Telling the Story to Family, at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by Barbara Matthews. Free to the public. www.bpl.org

November 14, Saturday, 2pm, How to Discover Your Family and Community History, part of the “Exploring the World War One Home Front” series at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts. This workshop will support you in exploration of family stories from the World War 1 era, and help you find the documents and resources to uncover your family narrative. Free to the public, registration required by November 5^th, contact programs@monh.org

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Today is General John Stark Day in New Hampshire

April 27, 2015, 2:51 pm

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The New Hampshire Revised Statutes 4:12-1 "And the governor... shall urge cities and towns throughout the state to observe this day in commemoration of General Stark's gallant and illustrious service to New Hampshire and his country". For those who need to brush up on their American history, General Stark not only was a hero at the Battles of Bunker Hill, Bennington and Saratoga, he was the one who first wrote our state motto "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils".

April 27th is General John Stark Day in New Hampshire. Manchester, New Hampshire, my newly adopted home, is where the Stark farm was located. The Stark family, like me, came from Londonderry to Derryfield (now Manchester) and lived along the banks of the Merrimack River for generations. The Stark descendants donated part of this land, along with the family burial ground, to the city for a park.

Canons and flagpole at Stark Park

The Stark Family Burial Ground at Stark Park

(stay tuned tomorrow for details on "Tombstone Tuesday")

Stark Park is now a real gem, but suffered from neglect in the end of the 20th century. A group of concerned citizens formed "The Friends of Stark Park" and transformed this land back into a lovely memorial, and also placed it on the National Register of historic places. As one volunteer told me yesterday, "... after all, General Stark is buried here" as she lovingly watered the pansies planted for ceremonies which took places today.

The Stark family farmhouse burned many years ago, but it once stood on River Road not far from the park. The childhood homestead of the General, now owned by the Molly Stark Chapter of the DAR, known locally as the "Molly Stark House" for the General's wife, was moved away from the riverside to 2000 Elm Street. He was born Londonderry (now Derry).

STARK PARK

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This 30 acre tract along the Merrimack River

was the family farm of Revolutionary War hero

General John Stark and his wife Molly. When

soldiers were stricken with smallpox at Ticonderoga,

the General sent them here to his farm to recover.

General Stark returned here at the end of the war.

He died in 1822 and is buried in the family plot

in the park. The city of Manchester purchased

this site from Stark descendants in 1891, and it

was dedicated as a public park in 1893.

There is also a bronze statue of General Stark in front of the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord, dedicated in 1890, and another statue at the Bennington Battle Monument in Vermont.

Links:

Friends of Stark Park http://www.friendsofstarkpark.org/

Manchester Historical Society's John Clayton's address today for Stark Day at Stark Park:
http://manchesterinklink.com/its-john-stark-day-raise-a-glass-to-the-man-the-myth-the-nh-legend/

"Happy General John (AKA Molly Stark's husband's) Day" from Janice Webster Brown's Cow Hampshire blog:
http://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2015/04/24/happy-general-john-and-molly-page-stark-day-april-27-2015/

A previous blog post about Dunbarton, New Hampshire, home of Molly Stark
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-autumn-visit-to-dunbarton-new.html

Click here for the Stark family genealogy
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/06/general-john-stark-live-free-or-die.html

29 April 2015 Tombstone Tuesday Blog Post on the Stark Family burial ground
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/04/tombstone-tuesday-stark-family-plot.html

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The Stark Family Burial Ground

at Stark Park, Manchester, New Hampshire

(the former Stark family farm property)

ARCHIBALD STARK JOHN STARK 2ND

1683 - 1750 1752 - 1844

ELEANOR NICHOLS MARY HUSE

HIS WIFE HIS WIFE

1686 - 1740 1752 - 1838

GEN. JOHN STARK JOHN STARK 3RD

1728 - 1822 1790 - 1872

ELIZABETH PAGE SARAH F. POLLARD

HIS WIFE HIS WIFE

1734 - 1794 1794 - 1883

ALBERT G. ROBIE

DEC. 1, 1805

JULY 27, 1886

LOUISA B. STARK

HIS WIFE

OCT 3, 1809

SEPT. 7, 1906

B. FRANKLIN STARK JOHN F. STARK

1820 - 1855 1825 - 1826

HARRIET KIMBALL THOMAS P. STARK

HIS WIFE 1822 - 1848

1820 - 1886 GEORGE F. STARK

BURKE F. 1815 - 1820

THEIR SON DAVID M. K. STARK

1853 - 1887 1832 - 1849

AUGUSTUS H. STARK

1834 - 1902

EDITH F. STARK

HIS WIFE

1844 - 1913

ELIZABETH P. STARK

1827 - 1896

HANNAH POLLARD SLEEPER

1834 - 1884

GEN. JOHN STARK

died

May 8, 1822

AEt. 94

John Stark’s Family Tree:

Generation 1: Archibald Stark, b. 1697 in Glasgow, Scotland, d. 25 June 1758 in Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire; married to Eleanor Nichols, b. about 1697 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Generation 2: General John Stark, b. 28 August 1728 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, d. 8 May 1822 in Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire; married on 20 August 1758 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire to Elizabeth Page, "Molly", b. 1737 in Haverhill, New Hampshire, d. 29 June 1814. General John Stark is buried at the John Stark State Park, Manchester, New Hampshire.

1. *Caleb Page Stark b. 03 Dec 1759, Dunbarton, New Hampshire, d. 26 Aug 1838, Oxford, Ohio
2. Archibald Stark b. 28 May 1761, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. 11 Sep 1791
3. John Stark b. 17 Apr 1763, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. 24 Nov 1844, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire
4. Eleanor Stark b. 04 Mar 1765, d. 20 Aug 1767
5. Eleanor Stark b. 30 Jun 1767, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. Abt 1843
6. Sarah Stark , b. 11 Jun 1769, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. 29 Jan 1801
7. Elizabeth Stark b. 10 Aug 1771, d. 13 May 1813, Ryegate (Caledonia County), Vermont
8. Mary Stark b. 09 Sep 1773, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire
9. Charles Stark . 02 Dec 1775, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. Nov 1796, At Sea
10. Benjamin Franklin Stark b. 16 Jun 1777, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. 19 Jul 1809
11. Sophia Stark, b. 21 Jun 1782, Derryfield (Manchester), New Hampshire, d. 18 Jun 1870, North Reading, Massachusetts

This statue of Caleb Stark is in Dunbarton, New Hampshire

Caleb Stark, age 15, and his maternal grandfather, Capt. Caleb Page

left Dunbarton to join the troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Boston.

For more information about this statue, click this link

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-autumn-visit-to-dunbarton-new.html

For more information:

History of Manchester (formerly Derryfield), by C. E. Potter, 1856, Chapter 24

John Stark: Maverick General, by Ben. Z. Rose, Hobblebush Books, Brookline, New Hampshire, 2007

Please see yesterday's post about General John Stark and Stark Park at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/04/today-is-general-john-stark-day-in-new.html

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Weathervane Wednesday ~ An old church with a new congregation

April 29, 2015, 3:00 am

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Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly. I started by publishing weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes all across New England. Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting. Often, my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weather vanes, too! If you know an interesting or historical weathervane, please let me know.

Today's weather vane is from New Hampshire.

Do you know the location of weather vane #206? Scroll down to see the answer!

Today's weather vane is on the steeple above the Faith Bridge Church at 301 South Main Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. This old, gilded weather vane is a banner style, often seen on churches. This congregation was founded in 2012 and is a blend of two former churches, the South Main Street Church (founded more than 100 years ago) and the newer Grace Haven Baptist, both located on the West Side of Manchester.

This building is the former South Main Congregational Church, which was built in 1917, but there had been a Congregational church here at this spot long before that. This weather vane probably dates from the reconstructed building project in 1917.

The Faith Bridge Church, Manchester, New Hampshire:
http://www.faithbridgenh.org/

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Hilton Point, New Hampshire - Photo Friday

May 1, 2015, 3:00 am

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UPDATED 2 May 2015

Historians say that in the year 1623 William Hilton settled on Hilton Point (now Dover Point) in the current town of Dover, New Hampshire. This has been disproved by several sources, but the date lingers on in many books and websites. Hilton Point is still considered the first permanent settlement in New Hampshire, because David Thompson’s Pannaway settlement on Odiorne Point in 1621 was soon abandoned. Hilton Point is a peninsula where the the Bellamy and Cocheco Rivers meet up with the Piscataqua River and the Great Bay. The Hilton brothers, William and Edward, established a fishery and then they were granted the “Squamscot Patent” for this land. The settlement was very small ~~(only three houses)~~ until 1633 when they were joined by Puritan “non-conformist” families who formed the Plantation of Cochecho.

William Hilton was a member of the Fishmonger’s Guild in London on 9 April 1621. Edward, with his wife and children, arrived at Plymouth Plantation in 1623. ~~William had David Thomson transport his family to his brother’s settlement at Piscataqua in 1624.~~ William later moved to the York River in York, Maine. Edward later removed to Newfields, near Exeter, New Hampshire. (For more information on William please see the very interesting sketch in Anderson's The Great Migration Begins, Volume II, pages 954-955.)

Thomas Roberts came over to New England with Edward Hilton ~~in 1623~~. Roberts remained at Dover Point, where his family lived for many generations. ~~Roberts married Rebecca Hilton, sister to Edward and William.~~ He became "President of the Court" of the Dover Colony until it came under the Massachusetts Colony in 1642/3. He is not listed in the Great Migration series, so he must have arrived later than 1635 and before 1639 when he became president of the court.

Please be aware that the historical information you see on these two signs is NOT ACCURATE. See my correction to this post from 2 May 2015 at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/05/corrections-to-story-of-hilton-point-or.html

You can reach Hilton State Park at the west bound exit 5 of the Spaulding Turnpike, Route 16. The memorials are located near the playground and parking area. The state historical marker was placed in 1973, and the granite marker to Edward Hilton was placed by descendants in 1955.

MEMORIAL TO

EDWARD HILTON

PIONEER SETTLER

1623

IN HONOR

EDWARD HILTON

FOUNDER OF DOVER 1623

FATHER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

MAKER OF THE FIRST ROAD

IN THE PROVINCE

MARKED BY HIS DESCENDANTS

1955

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Corrections to the Story of Hilton Point. Or “Why Historians should listen to Genealogists”

May 1, 2015, 9:26 pm

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On Friday, 1 May 2015 I posted a “Photo Friday” story about Hilton Point in Dover, New Hampshire, with photos of the two memorials built there to the memory of Edward Hilton. Both memorials state that New Hampshire’s first permanent settlement was when Edward Hilton arrived in 1623 to fish.

I checked the official government website for the state of New Hampshire, https://www.nh.gov/ The page with the history of our state reads “… in 1623, under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason, in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, A Scotsman, And Edward and Thomas [sic] Hilton, fish merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in what is now New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River…. the Hilton brothers set up their fishing stages on a neck of land eight miles above, which they called Northam, afterwards named Dover.”

My blog post used the information on the historical markers, and from several books on the History of New Hampshire. Were they wrong?

I didn't use Robert Charles Anderson’s Great Migrationseries for this blog post, because I was just doing a quick local history post, not a genealogy story. But I should have. As fellow blogger Jeanie Roberts pointed out to me in a comment on my blog post, “Edward did not migrate until 1628” according to Anderson.

I couldn't wait to run to my copy of the Great Migration to see what it said. I used to teach fourth grade, the year that New Hampshire students learned all about state and local history. We always taught them that 1623 was THE YEAR. I was imagining fourth graders being assigned homework, googling the story and reading my blog post. Was it full of wrong information?

Anderson made a good case in Great Migration Begins, Vol. II, page 950. He quoted The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, page 331 (a sketch of Edward Hilton) “He likely made a voyage to Piscataqua with trading goods and began a plantation, unrecorded, in 1628” and on page 334 (a sketch of his brother William (not Thomas as stated on the New Hampshire state website) “The historian Hubbard cared little about the eastern country and his paragraph about the founding of N.H. (N. E. Reg. 31.179) is mostly false, Hilton did not come to the Piscataqua with David Thomson in 1623 and Chr. Levett’s book proves that no settlement had been made up the river in the spring of 1624”

GDMNH was published in 1939. The Great Migration Begins was published in 1995. This is 2015. Why are we all still saying that New Hampshire’s first permanent settlement was 1623? Don’t the historians communicate with our great genealogists?

Instead of just updating my first blog post from Friday, I’m also publishing this one, and linking the two posts. I can’t wait to see if a fourth grader challenges his teacher with this information!

Sources mentioned (all three are traditional genealogysources):

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Sibyl Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012 (originally 1939 in five volumes)

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 – 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, three volumes, 1995.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 31 (1877), page 179 “Some of the Descendants of William Hilton” by John Hassam.

Jeanie Robert's blog The Family Connection blog post 5 January 2013, "Thomas Roberts of Dover, New Hampshire"
http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2013/01/thomas-roberts-of-dover-new-hampshire.html

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Surname Saturday ~ LILLIE of Reading, Massachusetts

May 2, 2015, 3:00 am

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LILLIE / LILLEY

George Lillie (about 1637 – 1691) is my 8^th great grandfather. His parents, origins and immigration are all unknown, but he was probably from England. He settled in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts as a school master and owned land on the north side of the Ipswich River by 1658. In 1667 the town made a list of the 59 houses in Reading, and George Lilly is on the list.

My 7^th great grandfather, John Lilley, removed to Woburn, a contiguous town and married Hannah Bassett. Hannah was the daughter of William Bassett and Sarah Burt whose children were affected by the 1692 witch hysteria. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, sister to Hannah, married John Proctor (my 8^th great grandfather in another lineage). Elizabeth (Bassett) Proctor was accused of witch craft along with her husband, John, who was hung. William Basset Jr., Hannah’s brother, had a wife Sarah (Hood) who was also arrested, tortured and tried for witch craft. Hannah’s other sister, Mary, wife of Michael Rich, was also arrested, tortured and tried for witchcraft. Fortunately, my 7^thgreat grandmother, Hannah (Bassett) Lilley escaped suspicion!

My Lillie lineage daughters out with my 6^th great grandmother, Phebe Lilley (1706 – 1786) who married Noah Eaton of Reading and Haverhill. They had eight children all born in Reading.

Some LILLIE resources:

George Lilly and his descendants, by Georgiana Hewins Lilly, 1945 – a typescript manuscript at the New England Historic Genealogical Society library in Boston, call number G LIL 964

Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts including the present towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading with chronological and historical sketches from 1639 to 1874, by Lilley Eaton, 1874 also available online at https://archive.org/ and also reprinted by Heritage Books of Bowie, MD in 1994 (facsimile reprint).

Be aware that in the Reading records and vital records (and probably elsewhere) the name is spelled LELLEY, LELY, LILLE, LILLIE, LILLY, LILEY and LILLEY. Also be aware that there are unrelated LILLIE familes in Boston and Marshfield, Massachusetts.

One big genealogy clue I like to share about this family is to look for children with the first name of "Lilley" or "Lillie" (spelled with two LLs), and they are usually sons with a grandmother or other ancestress with the maiden name LILLIE or LILLEY from Reading. I have a 5th great grand uncle named Lilley Eaton (1738 - 1812), and I was surprised to find out he was a boy, and happy that this discovery lead to finding his mother's maiden name was LILLEY. The historian who wrote the town history of Reading, Massachusetts in 1874 was also named Lilley Eaton (1802 - 1872), and he is a gentleman, not a woman, and is my 2nd cousin five generations removed. He is the son of Lilley Eaton (b. 1768) and the grandson of Lilley Eaton mentioned above as my 5th great grand uncle.

My LILLIE genealogy:

Generation 1: George Lillie, born about 1637 in Scotland or England, died 14 February 1691 in Reading, Massachusetts; married first on 15 November 1659 in Reading to Hannah Smith (four children), daughter of Francis Smith and Alice Unknown; married second to Jane Unkown on 6 May 1667 in Reading (two children).

Generation 2: John Lillie, born 5 December 1662 in Reading, died in Woburn, Massachusetts; married to Hannah Bassett, daughter of William Bassett and Sarah Burt. She was born about 1670 in Lynn. Six children.

Generation 3: Phebe Lilley, born 21 February 1706 in Woburn, died 1786 in Reading; married on 21 December 1726 in Woburn to Noah Eaton, son of Jonathan Eaton and Mary Cowdry(?). He was born 26 January 1704 in Reading and died 1770 in Reading. Eight children.

Generation 4: Katherine Eaton married John Emerson

Generation 5: Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham

Generation 6: George Emerson married Mary Esther Younger

Generation 7: Mary Katharine Emerson married George E. Batchelder

Generation 8: Carrie Maude Batchelder married Joseph Elmer Allen

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The DAMM Garrison House, Dover, New Hampshire

May 4, 2015, 3:00 am

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Under this wooden pavilion stands the Damm Garrison

built in 1675, the oldest wooden garrison house in New Hampshire

You can see how well the hewn timber house has survived 100 years under this roof

and see the slits for muskets cut into the walls of the garrison

The fortified door to the wooden Damm Garrison House

under the pavilion at the Woodman Institute, Dover, New Hampshire

The Damm Garrison House

This garrison house was built by William DAMME (also known as DAME, DAM or DAMM) in 1675 at Dover, New Hampshire. It is unlike other first period New England houses, since it is built of sturdy hewn logs, and originally had a stockade fence surrounding it. There are slits in the walls for rifles and muskets. The roof overhangs the walls in order to see down or to pour water in case of fire. The Damm garrison is the oldest intact garrison house in New Hampshire.

There were many garrison houses in Dover, for the protection of the settlers, usually one for each neighborhood. Dover was known as the “Garrison City” because there were 17 different garrisons in the area. The Damme family lived inside their garrison house, and on the occasion of alarms they would provide protection to their neighbors. Families were expected to bring their own bedrolls, food and provisions with them to the garrison house. The other Dover garrisons were lost in the famous Cocheco Massacre in 1689.

The kitchen room of the Damm Garrison house

A musket pointed through a gun slit in the garrison wall

The William Damm Garrison is now located on the campus of the Woodman Institute in Dover, New Hampshire. There are three other brick houses built in the 1800s on the museum campus. The garrison house is open to the public for guided tours only, and is part of the admission fee to the museum.

DAMM Garrison House history:

Generation 1: Deacon John Damm immigrated to Dover, New Hampshire from England.

Generation 2: William Damm, born 14 October 1653, died 1718; married Martha Nute, daughter of James Nute. William built the garrison in the Back River area of Dover, New Hampshire

Generation 3: William Damm, died 1740, and his sister, Leah Damm married Samuel Hayes (lived in the house from 1740 – 1770)

Generation 4: Hayes children grew up in the garrison

Generation 5: Hayes granddaughter Leah Nute inherited the garrison, and married Joseph Drew in 1771 and lived the Drew family grew up in in the garrison

Generation 6: Son William Plaisted Drew (1794 – 1868) inherited the garrison.

Generation 7. Grandson Edward Plaisted Drew, lived in the house until 1883 and sold the garrison to Mr. Bryant Peavey, who gave it to his daughter, Ellen.

Generation 8: Ellen S. Peavey married Mr. Holmes B. Rounds, and lived there until 1915. She donated the garrison to the Woodman Institute, who moved the house three miles from the Back River district to the museum campus at 182 Central Avenue. It took one horse one week to pull the house on rollers to the current location. In 1915 a wooden house was built over the garrison to protect it from the elements, which is why the house is in such good condition 100 years later!

The Damm family lived in the garrison for 95 years, and the Drew family for 112 years.

Support the Old Damm Garrison

Send a donation to:

The Woodman Institute

PO Box 146

Dover, NH 03821-0146

http://woodmanmuseum.org/

There are several other surviving garrison houses nearby:

The Dustin Garrison House in Haverhill, Massachusetts was built in 1697 of brick. During its construction Hannah Dustin was captured by Indians and taken up the Merrimack River, where she escaped and made her way home. Tours by appointment only, call 1-978-430-4506

McIntire Garrison House in York Maine was built in 1707 is possibly the oldest house in Maine. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. It is on Cider Hill Road, Route 91. This house is not open to the public.

The Gilman Garrison House in Exeter, New Hampshire is now part of Historic New England, and is located at 12 Water Street. It was built in 1709 and has been added to and remodeled by generations of Gilmans, so it now looks like a colonial home. The interior has reveals to show the sawn log walls, and there is still a pulley to operate a portcullis or reinforced door.

http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/gilman-garrison-house

Fort at No. 4 in Charlestown, New Hampshire is a community of several garrison houses and a fort surrounded by a stockade. It dates from about 1740 and is a living history museum open to visitors seasonally with many weekend battle re-enactments portraying the historical periods of the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War periods. http://fortat4.org/

A list of the 17 garrison houses in Dover, New Hampshire (Only the Damm Garrison survives)

http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/DoverHistory/garrisonsarounddover.htm

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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mr. John Patterson, 1793, Londonderry, New Hampshire

May 5, 2015, 3:00 am

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This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, New Hampshire

Memento Mori

ERECTED

In Memory of

Mr. John Patterson

who departed this life

Augt. the 29th 1793

Aged 42 years 7 months

and 8 days

Affliction sore long time I bore

Physicians were in vain

Till God did please and death did seize

to ease me of my pain.

Death thou hast concor'd [sic] me

I by thy Darts am slane [sic]

Christ hath concor'd [sic] thee

and I shall live again.

John Patterson, son of Peter Patterson and Grisey Wilson, was born 21 January 1751 in Londonderry, New Hampshire and died 29 August 1793. His parents were Scots Irish immigrants from Northern Ireland. Peter was born in Priestland, Antrim, Ireland and his wife was born in Dufermline, Fife, Scotland. John served in the American Revolutionary War. There is no record of his final illness.

I love that more than 200 years later the scribed lines are still visible on this stone, which aided the stone carver with his careful lettering!

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Weathervane Wednesday ~ Above the store at a popular apple orchard...

May 6, 2015, 3:00 am

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Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly. I started by publishing weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes all across New England. Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting. Often, my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weather vanes, too! If you know an interesting or historical weathervane, please let me know.

Today's weather vane is from the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #207? Scroll down to see the answer!

Today's weathervane was photographed above the store at Mann Orchard in Methuen, Massachusetts. The Mann family has been farming in Methuen since 1877. During the 1950s they started selling apple pies. In the 1970s the Manns moved to a location at 65 Pleasant Valley Street and expanded the farm stand. This business grew so big that recently they moved to this larger location at 27 Pleasant Valley Street. The Fitzgerald family, descendants of the original Mann family, still run the operation.

Mann Orchard, Methuen, Massachusetts http://www.mannorchards.com/

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The Oyster River Massacre, 1694 (and two lucky uncles)

May 7, 2015, 3:00 am

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The Falls at Oyster River

The Oyster River Massacre happened on 18 July 1694 at Durham, New Hampshire, then part of the town of Dover. There had been a period of peace with the native Abenaki tribes following the Cochecho Massacre and the Seige of Pemaquid, Maine in 1689. The government at Boston entered a new trade negotiation with the Abenaki and the French wished to end this agreement. They didn't want the Abenaki to ally with the English. The New England settlement at Oyster River was attacked by about 250 Abenaki led by Claude-Sebastien de Villieu of Quebec. About 100 inhabitants were killed and 27 taken captive to Canada. Half the town was destroyed, along with crops and animals, which left the survivors destitute. Five out of twelve garrisons were destroyed. Many of the refugees fled to Massachusetts. It was the worst massacre of King William's War.

The settlement eventually rebuilt, and was protected by troops from Massachusetts. By 1716 Oyster River Plantation was a separate parish of Dover, named after Durham in England. The town of Durham was incorporated in 1735 and included parts of Dover, Madbury, Lee and Newmarket.

Oyster River from the footbridge below the historic marker

I could not find a complete list of deaths or captured individuals from the Oyster River Massacre. According to the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers, Volume 2, pages 125 – 128, some of the surnames mentioned as killed were Dean, Adams, Drew, and Davis.

List of some of the captured individuals of the massacre was found in the bookNew England Captives Carried to Canada, by Emma Lewis Coleman, pages 253-254 and the names include the following people:

Mercy Adams

Two daughters of John Davis

John Dean’s wife and child

Peter Denbow

John Derry

Deliverance Derry

John or Joseph Derry

Thomas Drew

Tamsen Drew

Thomas Edgerly, Sr.

Joseph Edgerly

A daughter and some children of Thomas Edgerly, Jr.

Judah (Davis) Emerson

Ann Jenkins and three children

Samuel Rand

Remembrance Rand

Mrs. Hannah Watson

Joseph Watson

Abigail Willey/Willis, daughter of William Pitman of Dover

There are many interesting stories from this event. John Bickford (about 1625 - 1697) married my 8th great aunt, Temperance Hull, the daughter of Reverend Joseph Hull. He was the half brother of Thomas Bickford who built the Bickford Garrison at Oyster River. I can only imagine that my great aunt and uncle Bickford were sheltering at this fortunate garrison because John Bickford did not die in this attack, but he died three years later in 1697. According to The History of New Hampshire, by Jeremy Belknap, ed. John Farmer (Dover, N.H.: S.C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, 1831):

"Thomas Bickford preserved his house (12.) in a singular manner. It was situated near the river, and surrounded with a palisade. Being alarmed before the enemy had reached the house, he sent off his family in a boat, and then shutting his gate, betook himself alone to the defense of his fortress. Despising alike the promises and threats by which the Indians would have persuaded him to surrender, he kept up a constant fire at them, changing his dress as often as he could, shewing himself with a different cap, hat or coat, and sometimes without either, and giving directions aloud as if he had a number of men with him. Finding their attempt vain, the enemy withdrew, and left him sole master of the house, which he had defended with such admirable address."

Another great uncle was lucky. Robert Burnham (about 1614 - 1691), my 9th great grand uncle, built a garrison house at Oyster River in 1654. The Burnham Garrison was about a mile below Durnham Falls. It sheltered the Burnham descendants and the Pitman family, and none were lost. Seven garrisons were defended: Burnham, Bickford, Smith, Bunker, Davis, Jones and Woodman. Robert Burnham's daughter, Sarah was married to John Woodman (about 1634 - 1706), who also successfully defended the Woodman Garrison, the largest garrison in the Oyster River area.

The state historical marker is on the south side of Route 4, just east of the intersection with Route 108, by the bridge over the falls at Oyster River.

OYSTER RIVER MASSACRE

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On July 18, 1694, a force of about

250 Indians under command of the

French soldier, de Villieu, attacked

settlements in this area on both

sides of the Oyster River, killing

or capturing apporximately 100

settlers, destroying five garrison

houses and numerous dwellings. It

was the most devastating French and

Indian raid in New Hampshire during

King William's War. 1993

Oyster River Massacre links:

http://minerdescent.com/2013/02/01/oyster-river-massacre-1694/

http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/as-i-please/digging-into-the-oyster-river-massacre/

“The Great Massacre of 1694: Understanding the Destruction of Oyster River Plantation”, by Craig J. Brown, Historical New Hampshire, Volume 53 (1998), pages 68 – 89.

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The First Amputation of the US Civil War

May 9, 2015, 5:36 am

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The Civil War Monument, Beverly, Massachusetts
photographed on Veteran's Day, November 11, 2011

We think of the US Civil War one of the first injuries we think of is amputation. Movies like Gone With the Wind all have bloody scenes portraying the military surgeons as butchers, chopping off limbs with abandon. However, the truth is that these doctors had no choice. The minie bullets used in the 1860s caused catastrophic injuries, and cannon balls blew off parts of men’s bodies so horribly that the surgeons had no choice. Amputation was the only way to treat these injuries.

Amputation was the most common surgery during the Civil War. There were amputees among the officers, like Stonewall Jackson, down to the lowest enlisted men. It is estimated that the Union suffered 30,000 amputations. The very first Civil War amputation was performed on a young man from Beverly, Massachusetts named Moses Stevens Herrick. I recognized this name right away.

My great grand aunt Mabelle Cloutman Hitchings married a Moses Stevens Herrick in Salem, Massachusetts on 12 December 1900. This Moses was born on 28 July 1880 in Beverly, and a quick look at the vital records showed me that his grandfather was the Moses Stevens Herrick who had served in the Civil War. (See the genealogy chart below)

The American Civil War stated with Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. The 8^th regiment in Massachusetts, often known as the “Minute Men of ‘61” was one of the first regiments to respond to this event. They quickly gathered into companies on 15 April 1861 and traveled to Washington DC to defend the capitol. Moses Steven Herrick of Beverly was a member of company E. My 2^nd great grandfather, Abijah Franklin Hitchings (1841 – 1910) of Salem, was part of company I. The amputation happened on 26 April 1861, just after the Riot at Baltimore.

“EIGHTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA (INFANTRY)

THREE MONTHS

The 8th Regt. Mass. Vol. Mil., "Minute Men," was called to Boston by Special Order No. 14, issued on the afternoon of April 15, 1861, by the Adjutant General of Massachusetts. Having only eight companies, one company was added from the 7th Regt., a Salem unit, and one from Pittsfield, taken from the 1st Battalion of Infantry. Leaving the State April 18, it proceeded to Annapolis, Md., on its way to the national capital. At Annapolis two companies were placed on the frigate CONSTITUTION, guarding her until she was safely removed to the harbor of New York. Another company was detached to do guard duty at Fort McHenry near Baltimore, Md.

The remainder of the regiment, after repairing the road-bed from Annapolis to Annapolis Junction and restoring the rolling stock of the railroad, proceeded to Washington, arriving April 26. Not until April 30 were the men mustered into the service of the United States. On July 2d the entire regiment was ordered to Baltimore, Md., the left wing arriving in the morning and the right wing in the evening of the following day.

On July 29 it was ordered to Boston, Mass., and here on August 1, 1861, it was mustered out of the service.

My 2nd great grandfather, Abijah F. Hitchings, was in the regiment that moved the USS Constitution to safety. His granddaughter, Mabelle, married Moses Hitchings grandson, Moses. You can read all about that story at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/old-ironsides-during-civil-war.html

Here is more:

See page 732 History of Essex County, Massachusetts

“The first man of the regiment injured was Lieut. Moses S. Herrick, of the Beverly Company, who was shot in the foot by the accidental discharge of a musket, in the rotunda of the Capitol. The muskets, loaded with ball cartridges, were stacked around near the wall, and as some men were bringing in mattresses, they knocked a stand down, one of the guns being discharged into Lieut. Herrick’s foot, mutilating it terribly. The limb was amputated by the surgeon of the Sixth, and Lieut. Herrick bore his great misfortune bravely, only lamenting that he could not have received the wound while fighting in the field. Attentions of every sort were showered upon him as he lay in hospital and also en route home and in Beverly. He is residing in Beverly, in the Upper Parish, the house of the Chipmans and Herricks.”

See page 178 of the A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War, Volume 2, by William Schouler (available on Google Book Search)

Resolved, " That our warmest sympathies be tendered to Lieutenant Herrick, in his misfortunes, and that we pledge ourselves to him, and to all his associates in our Beverly company, and our other Beverly soldiers, and to their respective families, to render unto their necessities all the material aid and comfort that we can legitimately bestow."

In the resolve, chapter seventy-two, in favor of Moses S. Herrick, for injuries received in military service, the sum of three hundred dollars.

I also found this in the The Statutes at Large, The United States of America from December 1895 to March 1897, Volume XXIX, Page 800

February 9, 1897

Harriet F. Herrick Pension

Chap 210 – An Act Granting a pension to Harriet F. Herrick.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, athorized, and directed to place on the pension roll, at twelve dollars per month, the name of Harriet F. Herrick, of Beverly, State of Massachusetts, widow of Moses S. Herrick, deceased, late a member of Company E, Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Approved, February 9, 1897”

In Beverly you can find the Grand Army of the Republic Hall on Dane Street, next to the Congregational Church. The GAR was a nationwide fraternal organization of Civil War veterans. Inside the hall hung the portraits of members, including a portrait of Moses S. Steven, my 2^nd great grandfather Abijah Hitchings, and other ancestors, such as my 2^ndgreat grandfather Samuel Mears. These portraits are now stored at the Beverly Historical Society. You can find the photograph of Moses in the GAR Portraits: Box 3, No. 6, Moses S. Herrick (1831 – 1894) Beverly Historic Society, GAR finding aid.

Dr. Norman Smith, the military surgeon, was from the 6^thMassachusetts Regiment. If you want your hair to stand on end, then you can read all about this amputation and the surgeon that performed it at this website, including photos of the actual amputation surgical kit: http://www.medicalantiques.com/civilwar/Surgery_Sets/Norman_Smith_MD_Tiemann_Civil_War_set_c1861.htm

Click here to read more about Civil War Battlefield Surgery https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/amputations

Click here to read more about Moses Stevens Herrick and the first amputation of the Civil War

http://www.medicalantiques.com/civilwar/Civil_War_Articles/Moses_S._Herrick.htm

Herrick Genealogy Chart:

Gen. 1: Henry Herrick (1604 – 1671) m. Editha Laskin

Gen. 2: Zachary Herrick (1636 – 1695) m. Mary Dodge

Gen. 3: Henry Herrick (1672 – 1747) m. Susanna Beadle

(my 7^thgreat aunt)

Gen. 4: William Herrick (1709 – 1783) m. Mary Tuck

Gen. 5: William Herrick ( b. 1736) m. Mary Wallis

Gen. 6: John Herrick (b. 1781) m. Lydia Butman

Gen. 7: William Herrick (1802 – 1861) m. Harriet Ayers

Gen. 8: Moses Stevens Herrick (1832 – 1894) m. Harriet F. Burnchstead

Gen. 9: Frank B. Herrick (b. 1856) m. Isabelle A. Sias

Gen. 10: Moses Stevens Herrick (1880 – 1922) m. Mabelle Cloutman Hitchings

(my great aunt)

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Happy Mother's Day! My Mystery Matrilineal Line

May 10, 2015, 3:00 am

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My maternal line

My mother-

Little Sister, Yours Truly and Mother

My grandmother – Gertrude Matilda Hitchings

b. 1 August 1905, Beverly, Massachusetts

d. 3 November 2001, Peabody, Massachusetts

m. 14 February 1925 to Stanley Elmer Allen in Hamilton, Massachusetts

My great grandmother - Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

b. 20 August 1871, Beverly, Massachusetts

d. 10 February 1941, Hamilton, Massachusetts

m. 25 December 1890 to Arthur Treadwell Hitchings in Beverly, Massachusetts

3x great grandmother – Mary Etta Healey

Mary Etta is seated, with the baby on her lap
Florence Etta is standing with a baby

b. 19 May 1852, Beverly, Massachusetts

d. 23 July 1932, Beverly, Massachusetts

m. 14 March 1870 to Peter Hoogerzeil in Salem, Massachusetts

4x great grandmother – Matilda Weston

b. October 1825, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

d. 19 August 1909, Beverly, Massachusetts

m. 3 February 1848 to Edward Joseph Healey

5x great grandmother – Mary CLEMENTS(or PRATT?)

m. to Zadoc Weston

Mary, my 5^thgreat grandmother, is a mystery to me. I can travel back thirteen or fourteen generations on many of the branches in my family tree, but my maternal line ends after six generations with a solid brick wall. I've tried to smash this wall for nearly 30 years.

The Mayflower Society’s Five Generations Project Book (Silver Book, Volume XIV, Myles Standish, 2007, page 121) lists the wife of Zadoc Weston as Mary Pratt of Chester, Nova Scotia. However, my 3x great grandmother’s death record in Beverly, Massachusetts lists her parents as Zadoc Weston and Mary Clement. Did Mary Pratt remarry someone name Clement? Was there a completely different wife named Mary Clement? Was the informant wrong?

Another possible clue: Zadoc Weston, her husband was born 1761 probably in Plympton, Massachusetts, son of Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson. Nathan is a descendant of the following Mayflower passengers: Edward Doty, George Soule, and Myles Standish

My mtDNA maternal haplogroup is H. Is that a clue?

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Major General John Sullivan (1740 - 1795) of New Hampshire

May 11, 2015, 3:00 am

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Major General John Sullivan (1740 - 1795)

from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004666644

John Sullivan, born 17 February 1740 in Somersworth, New Hampshire, was the son of Irish immigrants John Owen Sullivan and Margery Browne. John had an older brother, Benjamin, who served in the British Navy before the American Revolution, and Benjamin was lost at sea. His three other brothers and himself all served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and John rose to the rank of Major General. He commanded the Sullivan Expedition in 1779 against the Iroquois towns west of New England.

After the war, John Sullivan was a delegate to the Continental Congress, the 3rd Governor of the state New Hampshire, and a US Federal Judge. He married Lydia Worcester and had nine children. He was also the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire. Major General John Sullivan is a celebrated New Hampshire hero. There are many things in New Hampshire named for him including a town, a county, a bridge in Durham, among others.

Major General John Sullivan's brother James (1744 - 1808), Governor of Massachusetts, was married to Mehitable Odiorne. That is an unusual name, except along the New Hampshire seacoast. I'm also an Odiorne descendant, making Mehitable my 2nd cousin, seven generations removed. We both descend from William Odiorn and Agnes Hickins, and from their son, John Odiorne (about 1625 - 1707), who came from Sheviock in Cornwall and settled along the New Hampshire coast at what is now known as Odiorne Point in Rye, New Hampshire.

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN SULLIVAN

--- 1740 - 1795 ---

Revolutionary patriot, soldier, politician, first

Grand Master of Masons in New Hampshire, and

a resident of Durham. He left the Continental

Congress to serve under Washington from

Cambridge to Valley Forge. Commanded at Rhode

Island in 1778 and led campaign against the

Six Nations in New York in 1779. Re-entered

Congress, then served three terms as Governor

of New Hampshire. Led fight for ratification

of U. S. Constitution and became a federal

district judge.

This state historical marker is on the south side of Route 4, just east of the intersection with Route 108, by the bridge over the falls at Oyster River in Durham, New Hampshire. At one end of the bridge is the memorial to General Sullivan, at the other end is the memorial to the Oyster River Massacre in 1694.

Just behind the Sullivan memorial is the John Sullivan house at 23 Newmarket Street in Durham, New Hampshire. The house is privately owned, but is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built between 1729 and 1741 by Dr. Samuel Adams, and sold to General Sullivan in 1763.

The John Sullivan House is visible behind the memorial

IN MEMORY OF

JOHN SULLIVAN

BORN FEB. 17, 1740

DIED JAN. 23, 1795

ERECTED BY THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

UPON THE SITE OF THE MEETING HOUSE

UNDER WHICH WAS STORED THE GUNPOWDER

TAKEN FROM FORT WILLIAM AND MARY

Another curiosity was located on the ground near this monument.... see below!

BENEATH THIS DRIPSTONE

FROM THE FORMER MARSTON HOUSE

THE PEOPLE OF DURHAM ON MAY 21, 1976

DEPOSITED A VAULT TO BE OPENED ON

THIS NATION'S TRI-CENTENNIAL IN 2076

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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Margaret (Morrison) Hodge, died 1829, Londonderry, New Hampshire

May 12, 2015, 3:00 am

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This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, New Hampshire

Sacred to the Memory of

Mrs. Margaret

wife of Mr. Perkins A. Hodge

and daughter of the late Rev.

Wm & Mrs. Jane Morrison

who died April 13

in 1829

aged 36 years.

Earth cannot give

what heaven's high will denies.

Margaret Morrison was the daughter of the Reverend William Morrison and Jane Fullerton of Londonderry, who are also buried at Valley Cemetery. Margaret was born on 11 September 1791 in Londonderry, and died on 13 April 1829 in what is now the town of Derry. She was married on 22 January 1828 in Londonderry to Perkins Andrews Hodge, who was born 9 February 1795 in Francestown, New Hampshire and died 14 March 1837 in Sartartia, Mississippi, but is also buried here.

Perkins Andrews Hodge was the son of Samuel Hodge and Hannah Andrews. Hannah Andrews was the daughter of Isaac Solomon Andrews and Lucy Perkins. Both of her parents are my 1st cousins 7 generations removed. Our common ancestors are Andrews, Ingalls, Perkins, Woodward, Thompson, Knight, Gifford and Cogswell - all from Ipswich, Massachusetts.

The epitaph on this stone comes from the sacred poetry of Henry Kirke White.

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Weathervane Wednesday ~ An airplane

May 13, 2015, 3:00 am

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Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly. I started by publishing weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes all across New England. Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting. Often, my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weather vanes, too! If you know an interesting or historical weathervane, please let me know.

Today's weathervane is from New Hampshire.

Do you know the location of weather vane #208? Scroll down to see the answer!

Today's weather vane was seen above a private residence in Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a simple two dimensional single propeller airplane. I'm sure that this represents someone's hobby, like many other weather vanes seen at private residences over garages, homes and sheds.

As I was driving away I realized that there were TWO airplane weather vanes at this residence, and the second one was above the garage. But, since this was a busy street I couldn't pull over again to take another photo. If you see this one, be sure to check out both weather vanes!

Click here to see the entire Weathervane Wednesday collection!

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How do I write up my Surname Saturday posts?

May 14, 2015, 3:00 am

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As of this week I've written more than 165 Surname Saturday posts. I've made it a habit to re-examine my research on all the immigrant ancestors in my family tree, starting at the top of my 15 generation chart with my paternal ancestors and working my way down. I recently finished my paternal lines and have started on my mother’s side of the family. It has proven to be an excellent way to freshen up old research done 30 years ago, correct lineages, and to make cousin connections.

How do I structure my posts?

I try to be consistent with my posts.

1. I include a photo if I have one of a tombstone or historic place associated with the surname, or a map or town seal of the town where the immigrant ancestor lived.

2. Next I do a sketch of the family for two or three generations if the surname didn't daughter out earlier. I try to do a very modified version of a Register style family sketch (everything is modified to make it short and brief to fit on the blog page).

3. I try to list a short bibliography all the best resources for the surname, including any compiled genealogies, recent articles or family associations, but I don’t include the usual vital records, court records, town records that you should have looked at already. I just include the unusual ones you might not have known about.

4. Then I write out my lineage from the immigrant ancestor, usually for nine or ten generations until my grandparents (they have all passed away). Occasionally I have double, or triple (or more – in the case of BURNHAM I had 8 lineages from one immigrant) lineages to list out.

How do I research each surname post?

1. Almost all of my surnames have already been researched. However, some were researched 30 or 35 years ago, so it is a good time to re-examine new articles and books.

2. First I check the book New Englanders in the 1600s by Martin Hollick. This book lists the most recently published articles and books between 1980 and 2010 on any New Englander. About 50% of the time I will find an article I haven’t read.

3. I check online to see what has been published since 2010, especially in the NEHGS Register, The American Genealogist, and other online sources. I also have a library of journals I subscribe to and have saved for the past 12 or 15 years. If I have time, I can check at the NEHGS library, the American Canadian Genealogy Society library or my local library for other journals. Usually there is nothing, but if I find something it is wonderful!

4. I check to see if my ancestor has a new sketch I haven’t previously read in The Great Migrationseries (for those who arrived before 1635).

5. Did I already check the Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Pope’s Pioneers of Massachusetts and Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, or any Mayflower Silver Books (not just for Mayflower families, but for families closely related)?

6. I look at online card catalogs to see if I have already read any compiled genealogies on this surname, checking the NEHGS library, Family Search, Google Books, my local library, and other libraries.

7. I make sure I've checked the local history books for the towns where my ancestors lived, too. A surprising number of town histories in New England have genealogy sections in the back of the book, or in Volume II. You can find a lot of older town history books on Google books, but new town histories are being published all the time, so double check this. It’s good to read the local history anyways, even if your ancestor is not mentioned by name.

8. Sometimes I double check with the local historical society to see if anyone there is also researching this family name. I've had a lot of good phone conversations on local experts, and most of them turn out to be cousin connections! (This how I hear about family reunions, too)

9. As I write up the sketch, I find out what primary sources might be missing even though I don’t include sources for everything in my blog posts. (If it is an unusual source other than vital records, court records, town clerk records I will list it in my bibliography) Going over and over research you thought you had wrapped up years ago is a good idea. The more you physically write out sketches, the more you find missing. This isn't always apparent if you are just entering information into a family tree database on your computer.

10. Don’t worry if after all this double and triple checking you find that a lineage was wrong. This has happened to me more than just a couple times. I've had to prune off a surname or three or five since starting my Surname Saturday posts. But in most cases I've replaced them with new, correct surnames! Win – Win!

Don’t forget to have fun, too!

Click here for the link to all my "Surname Saturday" posts (by keyword surname)
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Surname Saturday ~ TOWNSEND of Lynn, Massachusetts

May 16, 2015, 3:00 am

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TOWNSEND / TOWNSHEND

The Townsend family has published genealogies going back in time to Roger de Townshende and his wife Catherine Atherton who were born about 1325 AD. It is a noble lineage that includes knights and ladies. One Roger Townshend was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1518, and his son was also knighted by King Henry VIII in 1545. Some are buried at the High Cancel of Ludlow Church with recumbent figures in knightly armor. Queen Elizabeth dined with Sir Thomas Townsend at Mergate Hall in July 1578. His grandson, also named Thomas Townsend, left England and went to Lynn, Massachusetts. This noble lineage was confirmed when I read a line by noted genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, author of Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol. III, page 497 “A mass of circumstantial evidence to be embodied in a memorial volume when published has satisfied several expert genealogists and myself that Thomas Townsend son of Henry and Margaret was identical with the settler at Lynn.”

Thomas Townsend (1594 – 1677) was baptized at Bracon Ash, Norfolk, England. He was granted 60 acres in Lynn, Massachusetts, near the ironworks. He was made a freeman in 1639. He had come to America with three sons, and remarried to Mary Newgate. I descend from two of his six children- Thomas and John. Mary Newgate was described as “a cousin” to John Winthrop, but the true relationship has not been found.

Thomas Townsend (1636 – about 1700) was a farmer. His daughter, Susannah (1672 – 1737) married Daniel Hitchings. The Hitchings family has lived in Lynn and Salem, Massachusetts since the 1620s through my great grandfather, Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, who was born in Salem in 1868.

Little is known about Thomas Townsend’s brother, John (about 1640 – 1726), and his son, John jr. (1675 – 1757) who removed from Lynn to Reading (a contiguous town at that time). His daughter married Deacon Brown Emerson of the Reading Congregational Church.

Some Townsend sources:

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 13, pages 152- 165, 218 – 228, Volume 14, 45 – 52.

Thomas Townsend Jr’s son Nathan can be found in the Mayflower Silver Book Volume 23 for 3 generations (he married Elizabeth Howland (about 1694 – 1707), granddaughter of Mayflower Passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley)

Medieval Heritage: A multi-ancestor genealogy of Thomas Townsend, 1597 – 1677, who emigrated to New England about 1637, showing his lineage back to the time of William the Conqueror, by Rich Townsend, New Haven, Connecticut: 1985. (at the NEHGS library)

The Townshend Family of Lynn, in Old and New England: Genealogical and Biographical, by Charles Hervey Townshend, New Haven, Connecticut, 1882. (at the NEHGS library and also online at Hathi Trust Digital Library)

The Townsend Society of America (Genealogy and DNA studies)

21 West Main Street

Oyster Bay, NY 11771

www.townsendsociety.org

My TOWNSEND genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Townsend, son of Henry Townsend and Margaret Forthe, was baptized 8 January 1594 in Bracon Ash, Norfolk, England, and died 22 December 1677 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married first to Unknown in England; married second to Mary Newgate. She was the daughter of John Newgate, born about 1615 and died 28 February 1692 in Lynn. Six children.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Thomas Townsend, born about 1636, died before 22 July 1700 in Lynn; married on 30 October 1661 at the Second Church in Boston, Massachusetts to Mary Davis, daughter of Samuel Davis and Anna Norcross. She was born 21 May 1647 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and died after 1700. Thirteen children.

Generation 3: Susannah Townend, born 5 November 1672 in Boston, died 12 May 1737 in Lynn; married on 19 October 1708 in Lynn to Daniel Hitchings, son of Daniel Hitchings and Eleanor Unknown. He was born about 1660 in Lynn and died 15 January 1735 in Lynn.

Generation 4: Daniel Hitchings married Hannah Ingalls

Generation 5: Abijah Hitchings married Mary Gardner

Generation 6: Abijah Hitchings married Mary Cloutman

Generation 7: Abijah Hitchings married Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 8: Abijah Franklin Hitchings married Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings married Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 10: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings married Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 3: John Townsend, born about 1640 in Lynn, died 14 December 1726 in Lynn; married first on 27 January 1669 in Lynn to Sarah Pearson, daughter of John Pearson and Maudlin Bullard. She was born 20 January 1647 in Lynn and died 9 July 1689 in Lynn. Three children. He married second to Mehitable Brown.

Generation 4: John Townsend, born 17 March 1675 in Lynn, died January 1757 in Reading, Massachusetts; married on 28 April 1698 to Sarah Boutwell, daughter of James Boutwell and Rebecca Kimball. She was born 7 July 1677 in Reading and died 18 September 1737 in Reading. Six children.

Generation 5: Sarah Townsend, born 25 March 1705 in Lynn; married on 17 June 1725 in Reading to Brown Emerson, son of Peter Emerson and Mary Brown. He was born 16 April 1704 in Reading and died 16 March 1774 in Reading. Ten children.

Generation 6: John Emerson married Katherine Eaton

Generation 7: Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham

Generation 8: George Emerson married Mary Esther Younger

Generation 9: Mary Katharine Emerson married George E. Batchelder

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder married Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Cochecho Massacre, 27 June 1689, Dover, New Hampshire

May 18, 2015, 3:00 am

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The Damm Garrison House in Dover, New Hampshire

is located inside this pavilion at the Woodman Institute

This map is located inside the Damm Garrison at the Woodman Institute in Dover, New Hampshire
It explains the events of Cochecho Massacre, and maps out the locations of the garrisons

The first recorded captives carried to Quebec, Canada to be sold to settlers and native Indians occurred at the Raid on Dover, also known as the Cochecho Massacre, in Dover, New Hampshire on 27 June 1689. This makes this raid very interesting to genealogists, since some of the women and children who were taken north converted to the Catholic religion. These same English people later married French spouses and left descendants in Canada. Some of the captives were redeemed and came home, and some of the redeemed refused to return because they preferred life in Canada!

At the beginning of King William’s War (1688- 1697) there were many raids on New England settlements by the French, and the English raided French villages in Penobscot Bay and Chedabouctou (Guysborough, Nova Scotia). In June 1689 several hundred Abenaki and Pennacook Indians raided Dover and killed more than 20 and took 29 captives. This was one quarter of the Dover population. The raid was quite a blow to the English settlements in New Hampshire.

The Dover Raid was revenge on Major Richard Waldron who had tricked and captured many Abenaki and Wampanoag in 1676 during King Phillip’s War. These Indians he captured were taken to Boston where some were executed and some were sold into slavery in the Caribbean. Twelve years later the Abenaki retaliated with the help of the French in Canada.

Waldron's garrison was attacked with a vengeance. The Major was singled out for a particularly horrendous torture and execution. His nose and ears were removed and stuffed in his throat. Each Indian slashed his chest, and he was forced to fall on his own sword. Waldron had been well known as a cheat at trade with the Indians and he had been a particularly cruel leader to the English settlers (especially to Quakers). You can read more about Waldron at this blog post:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-women-went-from-dover.html

There were five garrison houses in town at Dover, and others in outlying areas. Five Indian women came into town and asked to shelter at the garrisons, one at each. In the middle of the night, each woman opened the gates of the garrison to the attackers. The rest was history…

According to the book New England Captives Carried to Canada, pages 142 - these are some of the identified captives, all traced to French records in Quebec:

John Church (sometimes misspelled Chase)

John Evans

Sarah Gerrish, 7 year old granddaughter of Major Waldron,

Mrs. Elizabeth Hanson, wife of Tobias

----- Heard “a young woman of Cochecho”

Esther Lee, daughter of Richard Waldron, along with her child

Grizel Otis, wife of Richard, daughter of James Warren

Margaret Otis, rebaptized Christine in Quebec

Rose Otis

John Otis

Stephen (rebaptized Joseph Marie)

Nathaniel (rebaptized Paul), son of Stephen Otis and Mary Pitman

Joseph Buss

William Buss

Here is a list of some members of my family tree who were victims of the Cochecho Massacre:

I'm forced to admit that I'm closely related to Major Richard Waldron (1615 – 1689). He was married to my 9^thgreat aunt, Ann Scammon. I descend from Ann’s sister, Elizabeth (about 1625 – abut 1680) who married Thomas Atkins. Major Waldron, as I described above, was killed, along with most of his family, and his garrison was burned to the ground, along with his grist mills and trading post.

I'm proud to tell you about Elizabeth Hull Heard (about 1628 – 1706), my 8^thgreat grandmother. According to stories in Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana and Belknap’s History of New Hampshireand other books, she was a witness to Waldron’s deceit in 1676, and sheltered a young native Abenaki boy from death. On the night of the Cochecho Massacre she was hiding In the woods when an Indian pointed his weapon at her, but suddenly spared her life and ran away. The Heard garrison house was one of the few homes that were successfully defended that night by William Wentworth because Elizabeth's husband had died a few months before the attack. It is suggested that the Indian who spared her life was the young Abenaki boy in 1675. Elizabeth's children survived, too, including her daughter Mary (1650 - 1706), my 7th great grandmother, and her husband John Ham and children.

[You can see that I am related to both the villain and the heroine of this massacre]

Ensign John Tuthill, born 1634, is my 9^th great grand uncle. I descend from his brother Simon Tuthill (1637 – 1691) who married Sarah Cogswell. He was killed in Cochecho, but his son Thomas escaped. His wife was Judith Otis and that family was killed or taken captive (see the list above), and the Otis garrison was burned to the ground. John Tuthill left his wife a widow with six children, the oldest only fourteen years old.

Richard Otis (1626 – 1689), John Tuthill’s father-in-law, was killed in the massacre, along with his son Stephen and granddaughter Hannah. Stephen’s wife, daughters and some grandchildren were captured. Some were freed by the captors at what is now Conway, New Hampshire, the rest were taken to Canada.

For more information:

New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars, by Emma Lewis Coleman, published in 1925, reprinted by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.

From the Dover, New Hampshire Public Library website

http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/doverhistory/cocheco.htm

An online article from Portsmouth, New Hampshire historian J. Dennis Robinson

http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/colonial/massacre.html

Magnalia Christi Americana, or "The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting in the year 1620 Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698", Cotton Mather, in seven books (reprint), New Haven, CT,1820

The Hull Family in America, Compiled by Col. Weggant, Hull Family Association

"A Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Richard Otis" -- 1851 -- by Horatio N. Otis. NEHGRfor July 1848 & April 1850 has the Genealogy of the Otis Family Descending from John Otis, who immigrated to New England & settled in Hingham, Mass. about 1635.

Click here for blog post about the DAMM family garrison, which survived the Cochecho massacre in 1689. The DAMM garrison was built in 1675, and is the oldest surviving garrison house still standing in New Hampshire.

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