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AMBROSE GIBBONS first comes to view as Steward of Masen at Newichawanneck. though it has been asserted that he began a settlement at Cape Ann in 1621. In 1634 land was Perhaps Benmore.
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granted to him at Sanders Point, between Little Harbor and Sagamore Creek. He soon moved to Oyster River, afterward Durham, N. H. He is mentioned as a Captain in 1642. He was one of the Selectmen of Dover in 1647 and 1648. He died II July 1656. His wife's name was Rebecca. She died 14 May 1655. Their only child. Rebecca, married. 13 Nov. 1637, Henry Sherburn. She died 3 June 1667. He was an honest, capable, and faithful steward, and knew better than his employer what the plantation needed.
CAPT. THOMAS CAMMOCK was a nephew of the first Earl of Warwick. He was sent out "for discoverie." Neal deeded him a lot in Eliot that became the Shapleigh homestead. In 1631 he had from the Council of Plymouth a grant of Black Point, in Scarborough, where he made his home. He died in 1643 while on a visit to Barbadoes. About all his property he willed to his intimate friend, Henry Jocelyn, who married his widow Margaret.
WILLIAM RAYMOND is unknown. John Raymond was purser of the Pied Cow. This suggests a possible error in the first name.
FRANCIS WILLIAMS is called Governor of the Province of Mason in 1640. He made an agreement with Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in 1635. to plant a small colony on six thousand acres of land in any place he might choose. He selected lower Kittery, which was sold to Francis Champernowne. Instead were deeded to Francis Williams and wife Hellen one thousand acres in the northern part of what is now Eliot. Hubbard says that he diedl at the Barbadoes soon after 1640. lle brought with him to the Pascataqua eleven persons.
GEORGE VAUGHAN remained but a short time in the Province. He started for England in 1634 and arrived the following year. Nothing more is known of him.
THOMAS WONERTON or WANNERTON had charge of the house at Strawberry Bank till about 1644. when according to the deposition of Francis Small he carried "quantities of goods and arms belonging unto Mason's Plantation and sold them unto the French that did inhabit Port Royal." He had a
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grant of land next to Cammock's. He was killed in an attack upon a house on the Penobscot in 1644. Winthrop says he had "been a soldier many years and lived very wickedly." He should not be confused with the partner of Gorges and Mason, who bore the same name. The Court Records of New Hamp- shire say that on the fifth of the fifth-month, 1643, Thomas Wannerton "for striking his wife with a stoole was admonished not to do soe any more." His widow, Ann, married Thomas Williams of Portsmouth and in 1670 brought action against Richard Cutt for refusing to let them have the third of a house and land which was her former husband's. The verdict was for the defendant.
HENRY JOCELYN was son of Sir Thomas Jocelyn, born about 1611. Soon after Mason's death he removed to Black Point, Scarborough, and was a Commissioner under Deputy Governor William Gorges, attending the first court held 25 March 1636. He may have served as agent for the company till 1638. In such a capacity he signed a lease in 1637. He declares he had a grant on the Pascataqua, together with ('ammock and Wannerton. We read of "Watts' Fort alias Point Joslain" in the first book of Town Records, p. 66. He married the widow of Capt. Thomas Cammock and received in Cammock's will the estate at Black Point. It has been said and disputed that being driven away by Indians he went to Pemaquid, where he died in 1683. He was a man of high character and always held responsible positions in the govern- ment of the Province.
FRANCIS NORTON was an inhabitant of Charlestown, Mass .. in 1637. He acted as Mrs. Mason's attorney and agent after 1638. He became a member of the church at Charlestown, 10 April 1642. His sympathies were with the government of Massachusetts, and he is charged with having connived with its encroachments for his own private ends. Mason's store- house at Newichawannock was burned in 1645, and it may have been then that Norton drove away the hundred cattle to Boston and sold them for about twenty-five pounds apiece.
SAMPSON LANE succeeded Wannerton as steward at Strawberry Bank in 1644. He remained three years and returned to England. None of these ten Governors and
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Stewards left descendants in New England. except Gibbons through his daughter. Rebecca Sherburn.
REGINALD or RENALD FERNALD was the surgeon or physician of Mason's Colony. He lived at Strawberry Bank, and died in 1656 on Pierce's Island and was buried, it is said, at the Point of Graves in Portsmouth. His wife's name was Joanna. She died in 1660. One who has given much study to the genealogy of the Fernald family has told me that the descendants of Reginald Fernald number fifty thousand.
RALPH and HENRY GEE. A deposition of Henry Lang- staff, about 1699. states that Ralph Gee kept the cattle of Mason and was also employed in making staves, etc. He lived in the stone house at Little Harbor, probably after the departure of Mason's agents. He was given a plantation adjoining, and at his death in 1645 William Seavey, to whom Gee was much indebted, got possession of said plantation, and Joseph Mason, in 1660. gave Seavey a quit claim deed of it. The name Gee is still found in Maine.
WILLIAM COOPER. Hubbard says that one Cooper of Pascataqua was drowned in December. 1633 It was probably William. The Coopers of Berwick are descended from Alex- ander Cooper, who, according to tradition, was one of Mason's company and landed the first cow at Cow Cove.
WILLIAM CHADBOURNE was one of the millwrights and carpenters who came in 1634 to build the mills at Newichawan- noch. His son HUMPHREY came before him. in 1631. and built the Great Ilouse at Strawberry Bank. WILLIAM JR. lived in Portsmouth. He had wife Mary and daughter Mary, who mar- ried John Fost. Humphrey Chadbourne settled at Newichawan- nock and was one of the leading citizens in the town of Kittery.
FRANCIS MATTHEWS received from Richard Vines. Henry Jocelyn, and Thomas Wannerton, 1 Oct. 1637. a lease of a hundred acres of land for a thousand years, "on the north west side of the great Island. commonly called Muskito Hall." He signed the Exeter Combination in 1640. He bought land at Oyster River of William Hilton, 7 July 1641. He lived at Dur-
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ham Point. Ile died in 1648 and his widow Thomasin after 1684. They had three children, BENJAMIN, who had a grant in 1654 and was taxed, 1661-8, in Dover. His son Francis mar- ried, 23 Feb. 1691-2, Ruth Bennet. WALTER, taxed in 1668. He had wife Mary and died in 1678, leaving children, Samuel, Susanna Young and Mary Senter. MARTHA, who married a Mr. Snell and second a Mr. Browne. The descendants of Francis Matthews write their name Mathes.
FRANCIS RAND, born 1616, was a juryman at Portsmouth in 1656. He was killed by Indians 29 Sept: 1691. His wife was also killed by Indians while her husband1 was gone to mill. His will, dated 31 Dec. 1680, names wife Christian, sons Thomas, John. Samuel and Nathaniel, and daughters, Sarah Herrick and Mary Barnes. A son Francis, born 1650, was living in 1669. His son Johin, born 1645, married Remembrance, daughter of John Ault of Oyster River.
JAMES JOHNSON, born 1602, signed a petition from Bloody Point in 1643, was ferryman in 1648, and had a part in the distribution of land in Portsmouth in 1657. Widow Mary Johnson was living in Portsmouth in 1678. There are many Johnsons in Kittery and vicinity, and the name James occurs fre- quently.
ANTHONY ELLINS was constable in Portsmouth in 1655 and was living there in 1678. He died soon after this, and the inventory of his estate mentions "3 Bibles and ten other books:" also "Anthony Ellins Island." The total estate was valued at £375. The inventory of his widow Abigail is dated 8 Sept. 1681 and mentions a house on Great Island which she "brought with her when she married said Anthony." There is no record of any children.
HENRY BALDWIN. Unknown.
THOMAS SPENCER was born in England in 1596, and is said to have come over in 1630. He married Patience, daughter of William Chadbourne. He was a planter. lumberman and tavern-keeper at Berwick. A large number of descendants per- petuiate an honored name. He died 15 Dec. 1681. and his wife in 1683.
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THOMAS FURRAL, unknown.
THOMAS HERD, unknown. There was a John Heard in Dover and another in Kittery in very early days.
THOMAS CHATHERTON, unknown. Michael Chat- terton signed the grant of the Glebe in Portsmouth, in 1640. The Court ordered, 26 May 1646, "that good wife Chatterton shall go to her husband before ye 20th of ye next month ; if she will not goe, to make a warrant to send her by the Marshall."
JOHN CROWTHER signed the grant of the Glebe in Portsmouth in 1640. In 1648 he deeded to Ambrose Lane land near his dwelling house. In 1656 "the houses and land and the Island which was formerly possessed by John Crowder" were granted to John Jackson.
JOHN WILLIAMS, unknown. There were plenty by the name of Williams, in the early days, both in Kittery and at Oyster River.
ROGER KNIGHT, born 1596, bought land in Portsmouth of Thomas Wannerton 4 Jan. 1643 ; was of Portsmouth in 1667. Had wife Anne in 1652. A daughter, Mary, married John Brewster, according to Savage.
HENRY SHERBURN, born 1612, came in the ship James, arriving 12 June 1632, in eight weeks from London. He mar- ried. 13 Nov. 1637, Rebecca, daughter of Ambrose Gibbons. She lied 3 June 1667 and he married second, Sarah, widow of Walter Abbot. His home was on Great Island and in Portsmouth. He was church warden in 1640 and died in 1680. His descendants are many.
JOHN GODDARD came as a millwright in 1634. He had a lot on Dover Neck in 1648. Was made freeman of Dover in 1653. In 1669 he sold land at Oyster River to William Wil- liams. The inventory of his estate is dated 12 Nov. 1660. Widow, Welthea, married John Symonds. She was born in 1621 and was living in 1703. John Goddard's children were JOHN, born 1621. probably unmarried, came to an "untimely death" about 1674: BENJAMIN, living in 1672; DAUGHTER, who mar-
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ried John Gilman; DAUGHTER, who married Arthur Bennet ; DAUGHTER, who married James Thomas. A daughter, MARTIIA, perhaps one of these, married Elias Crichett. The Goddard name is spread widely through Maine and New Hampshire.
THOMAS FERNALD, supposed to have been a brother of Dr. Reginald. Nothing is known of him.
THOMAS WITHERS was born in 1606, as a deposition shows. He had from Sir Ferdinando Gorges four hundred acres in Kittery, directly opposite the city of Portsmouth, and eight hundred acres more at the head of Spruce Creek. He was a Commissioner in 1644, Deputy to General Court in 1656, and prominent in the affairs of the town. His wife's name was Jane. He died in March or April, 1685. and his widow mar- ried William Godsoe in 1691 and was living in 1703. Three daughters. SARAH, married John Shapleigh about 1673; MARY, married Thomas Rice about 1675 : ELIZABETHI, married (1) Ben- jamin Berry, 27 Nov. 1688, (2) Dodavah Curtis before 1702.
THOMAS CANNEY bought land of Capt. Wiggin in Dover in 1634. He was living in 1671, and had second wife, Jane, in 1655. He lived on the Pascataqua shore of Newington. Children were THOMAS, born before 1645, married Sarah, daughter of Anthony Taylor of Hampton. She married (2) John Wingate. JOSEPH, married Mary Clement. DAUGHTER, married Henry Hobbs. MARY, married Jeremy Tibbetts.
JOHN SYMONDS came in 1634 and was in the employ of John Winter in 1636. He was appointed, before 1652. to lay out lands in Kittery. Was Selectman in 1659. Had a town grant in 1661, near Boiling Rock, but had lived a little above that point from 1640. His second wife was Welthea, widow of John God- dard. A daughter. Rebecca, by first marriage, married William Hilton of Exeter. Symonds was a juryman in Dover in 1672.
JOHN PEVERLY was a resident of Portsmouth in 1678. Thomas Peverly was a land-owner in Portsmouth in 1657 ; and married Jane, daughter of Thomas Wolford, and had children. John, Thomas, Lazarus, Samuel. Jeremiah. Sarah and Martha Noble.
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WILLIAM SEAVEY, aged about 75 years, deposed. 3 Sept. 1676, that he came as a fisherman to the Isles of Shoals "about a year before Capt. Neale went from this country for England." He came, then, in 1632. He was constable at the Isles of Shoals in 1656 and a Selectman in Portsmouth in 1657, where he was living in 1682. He had a grant of 50 acres in what is now Rye, N. H., in 1652 and bought land there, in 1669, of Jane Drake, widow of William Berry. This land is still owned by Seavey's descendants. His wife's name is thought to have been Mary. His children were WILLIAM, b. 1649: JOHN. b. 1650., m. 29 July 1686, Hannah Philbrick, widow of Joseph Walker, and moved to Bradford, Mass. : ELIZABETHI, b. 1652, m. ( Philip) Odiorne ; and STEPHEN, m. Anne
HENRY LANGSTAFF was living at Bloody Point in 1643. and was Selectman in Dover in 1651 and several times thereafter. Pike, in his Journal, says that he died 18 July 1705. nearly one hundred years old. He had a son Henry, mentioned in 1698 and 1713. A son John removed to New Jersey about 1667. A daughter, Sarah, married Anthony Nutter. Another daughter, Mary, married Eleazar Coleman.
WILLIAM BERRY is said to have been the first settler at Sandy Beach, in Rye. N. H. He signed the Glebe conveyance in 1640 and died about 1654. Ilis widow, Jane. married Nathaniel Drake. Children were JOSEPH, mariner of Ports- mouth, married Rachel-bought half an acre of land of Withers in Kittery in 1683: Joux ; JAMES, had grant in Kittery in 1673 ; WILLIAM; ELIZABETH married John Locke about 1652.
THOMAS WOLFORD was the first settler of Charlestown. Mass. Ile removed to Portsmouth and. it seems, was in the employ of Mason. He lived first at Great Island and later at "Sagamore Creek." Jeremiah Wolford may have been his brother. Thomas was a church warden in 1640. a juryman in 1654. and died in 1666. His wife, Jane, was born in 1598 and was accused of being a witch by Robert Couch in 1670. His children were THOMAS, JEREMIAH, Martha, born 1645. who m. Thomas Hlinekson and (2) John Westbrook; JANE m. Thomas Peverly, (2) Goss: HANNA m. Mr. Jones: MARY. b.
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1635. m. Wm. Brookin and (2) Wm. Walker: ELIZABETH, m. Henry Savage. Jeremiah, son of Thomas Wolford, made his will 16 April 1662, leaving widow, Mary, and children, JEREMIAH and THOMAS, and two daughters. Widow, Mary, married John Amensene.
JAMES WALL, millwright and carpenter, signed the grant of the Glebe in Portsmouth in 1640 and the Exeter Combination the same year. He was living in Exeter in 1638 and in 1652. Moved to Hampton, N. H., where he died 3 Oct. 1659. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married (2) Widow Mary Tuck, daughter of Thomas Philbrick of Hampton. There were two daughters by each marriage, ELIZABETH, m. Thomas Harvey : SARAH, m. Thomas Dow : MARY. b. 8 Jan. 1656, m. John Marston ; and HANNAH. b. 17 March 1658, m. Benjamin Moul- ton. (See Dow's History of Hampton, Vol. II. p. 1024.)
WILLIAM BROOKIN or BROOKING was a land-owner in Portsmouth in 1657. and resident there in 1678. Either he or a son William married Mary, daughter of Thomas Wolford. He died in 1694 and his widow married William Walker and was living in 1720 at a great age. His daughters, REBECCA, m. Thomas Pomeroy: MARY m. a Mr. Lucy; SARAH m. Jacob Brown : and MARTHA m. John Lewis : RACHEL, and another who m. John Rouse. ( N. E. Reg. Vol. IN. p. 220. ) Henry Brookin deposed in 1670 that he was aged about 27 years. (Cf. Land- marks of Ancient Dover, p. 31.)
THOMAS MOOR, unknown.
JOSEPH BEAL is thought to have been the father of Arthur Beal of York and so the ancestor of a large family of Beals.
HUGH JAMES, unknown. William James was in Kittery about 1650 and sold land to John Diamond.
ALEXANDER JONES, born 1615, was the first owner of the land where now is the village of Kittery. He sold to William James. He had a part in the distribution of land at Portsmouth
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in 1657, was of the Isles of Shoals in 1661. Married Mary, dau. of Thomas Wolford, probably. Children, Sarah, Samuel, John, born 1641. and Alexander, it is said.
JOHN AULT, born 1601, lived at Oyster River, 1645-1679. Had wife, Remembrance, who came over about 1638. Children, JOHN : REMEMBRANCE, m. John Rand; REBECCA, b. 1650, m. Thomas Edgerly of Dover.
WILLIAM BRACKET, unknown. Perhaps an error for Anthony Bracket, a settler in Portsmouth before 1640.
JAMES NEWT or NUTE lived on Dover Neck. Was alive in 1691. Signed the Dover Combination of 1640. In 1660 he was fined for entertaining Quakers four hours forty shillings per hour, "according to law." Children, JAMES, b. 1643, had wife, Mary, died about 1691 ; ABRAHAM, born 1644, living in 1724. There are many descendants.
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III. KITTERY POINT.
The southern part of the boundary between Kittery and York is a shallow stream that winds through marshy lands and has several small branches. At high tide one narrow channel con- nects it with Kittery harbor. The main channel is not deep and is difficult of entrance especially at low tide when the surf is roll- ing in. Perhaps for this reason it has been called from as early as 1645 "Braveboat Ilarbor." Its salt marshes were granted in small lots to the early inhabitants of Kittery, for here fodder could be cut for their cattle. At the head of the harbor the earliest set- tlers were John Andrews, Christopher Mitchell and James Foye.
West of Braveboat Harbor and on the northeast side of the mouth of the Pascataqua is a large island, first known as Cham- pernowne's Island. It was granted by Sir Ferdinando Gorges to Arthur Champernowne 12 Dec. 1636. It comprised, as then was estimated, about five hundred acres and was named Dartington in the grant, from the name of an estate owned by Champernowne in England. At the same time another five hundred acres were granted to Champernowne, northeast of Braveboat Harbor, in York, to be called Godmorrocke. All this Francis, son of Arthur Champernowne, inherited. Hle belonged to an aristo- cratic family of England, was "cousin" of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and had served as Captain in the navy. For some years, 1640-57. he lived on his estate in Greenland, N. H .. and probably transferred his residence to Kittery for purpose of easier trade. John Arch lale, agent for Gorges, deeded. 20 Oct. 1665, three hundred acres to Champernowne on the mainland, "between the land of Thomas Crockett & an house formerly the Sayd Capt Champernownes." The town granted five hundred acres to Champernowne, 17 July 1666. "adiojneing to the house where Capt Lockewood now liveth, Neare the lower end of the Town by the water side, that runneth towards Braue boate Harbour." The grant was "to begin next Major Shapleighs land, & not two
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much breath by the water side, to the Preindice of the Inhabitants towards Braue boate Harbour:" Champernowne had two houses. One was near the eastern end of his island and com- manded a fine view of the ocean and of the Isles of Shoals. On its exact site is now the attractive residence of Mr. John Thax- ter. Here seems to have been Champernowne's principal place of abode.
THE THAXTER COTTAGE, ON SITE OF CHAMPERNOWNE'S HOUSE.
Champernowne sold his island to Capt. Paul White in 1648, but the sale, though recorded, was somehow annulled. He sold the western end of it to Nathaniel Fryer. 5 June 1672. Fryer gave eighty acres of this to his son-in-law, John Hincks, and sold the rest of it. 20 Aug. 1700, to Robert Eliot for one thousand pounds. This end of the island alone was then estimated to con- tain "a thousand acres, more or less." Eliot deeded this condi- tionally, 15 June 1705, to his son Robert, and 10 Feb. 1709, to his son-in-law. Timothy Gerrish, and wife. Sarah. Robert Eliot, Jr .. may be supposed to have died meanwhile. Since the last date the western end of the island. which is separated from the east- ern part by a creek and marsh, has been known as Gerrish's Island.
Champernowne deeded the eastern end of the island to his wife. Mary, and to her daughter by a former marriage. Eliza-
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beth Cutt, who married Humphrey Eliot. After these moved to South Carolina, they sold to Richard Cutt, and this part of the estate of Francis Champernowne has since been known as Cutt's Island.
Champernowne sold his estate on the mainland, 16 Nov. 1658. to Walter Barefoot, including his "lower house." This was sit- uated near the mouth of Champernowne's, now known as Chauney's Creek, at its junction with the outlet of Deering's Guzzle. It was later the residence of Charles Chauncy, Esq., and
KITTERY HARBOR, FROM THE EXACT SITE OF CHAMPERNOWNE'S "LOWER HOUSE."
later still of Col. Paul Lewis.1 Theodore Keen's house stands very near the site of Champernowne's. Here the view of the harbor is one of the finest.
Walter Barefoot sold the house and thirty acres to Sylvester llarbert in 1661. Harbert sold it to Nathaniel Fryer. 29 April 1662, and he sold it. 2 Nov. 1663. to Richard Lockwood. Hub- bard records, under date of 24 Jan. 1671. that "Capt. Lockwood's
See article by Meses A. Safford. Esq. in Proceedings of Maine His- torical Society. Vol. H.
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wife, going in a canoe with a drunken fellow from the great Island to Kittery side, was carried away by the tide and never heard of more ;"' but Richard Lockwood and wife, Deborah, signed the deed conveying their estate at Kittery to Simon Lynde 22 Sept. 1671, and the same wife, Deborah, is mentioned before that year. Hubbard's date is probably inaccurate. Lockwood is
THE GRAVE OF FRANCIS CHAMPERNOWNE.
110 more mentioned in the history of Kittery. A daughter. Deborah, married John Phoenix, and another daughter, Ann, married Ephraim Lynn. At the time of the last sale Robert Edge was living on the northern boundary. He was supported by the town in his old age.
Francis Champernowne died in 1687 at the age of seventy- three. He married in old age the widow of Robert Cutt and left Hubbard's History of New England. p. 648.
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110 children. In wealth and social station he ranked higher than any others of the early settlers on the Pascataqua. Traces of his old wharf near his lower house may still be seen, and here he had a warehouse and carried on extensive trade. His remains rest in a little plot of ground enclosed by a stone wall, a little east of where his house stood, on Cutt's Island. Only a heap of rough stones marks the grave.
In a deed dated 14 Dec. 1648, Champernowne mentions the fact that he had already granted one hundred aeres to "John Pearce of Noodles Island." This was on the mainland, at the western end of Champernowne's estate, known afterward as Pearce's Neck. This John Pearce should not be confused with one who afterward lived in York, Maine, and had wife, Phoebe. in 1670, and whose daughters married Micum Melntire and a certain John Bray of York. Some have fallen into this error. The widow of John Pearce of Kittery was named Eleanor. She made her will in 1675 andl named a son Joseph, who died at sea about 1676 and left all his estate to Margery Bray' of Kittery, the same who married Col. William Pepperrell and became the mother of the Baronet. Had it not been for the untimely death of Joseph Pearce, Margery Bray might have become his wife, and so there would have been no Sir William Pepperrell and per- haps no conqueror of Louisburg. The other children of John and Eleanor Pearce were Mary, who seems to have married Joseph Fleete in 1670, and Sarah who married, first ( Alexander ?) Jones, second. Hughbert Mattone in June, 1673, and third. Henry, son of Thomas Seavey of Portsmouth. Mattone deposed that "Sary" married him when she knew that her first husband was alive and then sailed away with Jones to the Barbadoes. She declared in 168; that Mattone had threatened her life and deserted her "above these seven years." They were divorced. By her thirl marriage she had a son. Joseph Seavey, who with wife. Hannah, sold, 10 May 1710, a portion of John Pearce's homestead in Kittery to Dominicus Jordan. The eight acres included the house, garden and orchard "commonly known by ve name of John Pearces house and land," situated "on ye westerly Side of ve Stepping Stones between sd Stepping Stones & Mr. Roger Dearings house." Some of these Stepping Stones may still be seen, though some have been removed. The deel was
'York Deeds. III .. 39.
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renewed in 1712. The land sold was then bounded "upon ye Southard Side with ve Creek going into Braveboat harbr and upon ye North Side of ve Cove going into mr Roger Dearings building Yard and upon ye Eastwd side bounded with ye Creek which goes between ye Neck & ye Land formerly Called Lock- woods land & upon ve Northside with two Acres belonging to ye Neck which is bounded by ye land which was formerly Accounted Majr Nicholas Shapleigh & now in ye possession of Mr Roger Dearing & lying near ye highway & by ye house of mr Robert Mitchell which Neck & Two Acres of land formerly was in ye possession of John Pearce decd & after ye decease of John Pearce was in ye possession of Joseph Pearce his son." It may be added that Margery Bray was not allowed to peaceably inherit Joseph Pearce's estate and that Sarah Jones-Mattown-Seavey, who was made executrix of her brother's estate, retained his prop- erty against a suit brought by William Pepperrell, in 1685, for his wife's inheritance.
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