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Records of Mars. Bay. Vol. I. p. 278 and III .. 253, and V .. 445.
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Evens at the request of Mr. Peter Coffin in the presence of Capt. John Wincoll. Capt. Charles Frost, and Lt. Joseph Hammond, Selectmen of the Town of Kittery, the tract of land being 870 acres." The deed reserves "Thirty Acres' or thereabouts lying within ye limits and boundaries abovesd now in ye Possession of Joshua Downing."1 This large tract was known as the "Bay Land" and commonly so called. A glance at the shore line in the map will show that the strong current from the Great Bay oppo- site has dug out a broad bay on the Eliot shore. Dr. J. L. M. Willis has pointed out that a chain of rocks and shoals extends from Watts Fort to Franks Fort, rarely appearing at low tides, and that this chain was, doubtless, the ancient river bank.2
In the division of the land Joseph Hammond paid for and received one-third, the part toward the north, and in considera- tion of the fact that Joshua Downing was already well estab- lished on Hammond's division, the latter was allowed a strip eighty-eight rods wide. There was a lawsuit about this later, and Downing was allowed a lot of land extending from what was afterwar Is called Nutter's Cove to Watts Fort. The other four divisions were each thirty-eight rods wide. Stephen Tobey was awarded the southerly division, David Libby" the one north of him : Matthew Libby came next, then Daniel Fogg and last Ham- mond. We must pause to inquire who these men were.
Thomas Tobey is said to have come from the west of England or from Wales to Long Island, N. Y., and about 1640 to have settled at Sandwich, on Cape Cod. The records of Sandwich mention him there in 1644. James Tobey appears in Kittery in 1687 and deeds land to his sons in 1695. So he must have brought a family with him. He was killed by Indians, 21 May 1705.
Matthew and David Libby, brothers, were born in Scar- borough and were sons of John Libby, who was born in England in 1602 and came over with John Winter in 1632. The Indians drove them out of Scarborough to Portsmouth, and thence they came to the Bay Lands. Both lived to old age and had large families of children.
York Deeds VI. 88. Old Eliot. Vol. III. p. 186.
In the map of Middle Parish there is an error. The lot of David Libby is marked as Matthew's and that of Matthew Libby as David's.
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Daniel Fogg was son of Samuel Fogg of Hampton, N. H., who is said to have emigrated from Wales. Daniel first settled in Scarborough, and the Indians persuaded him also to leave for Portsmouth. He married Hannah Libby and lived to a good old age. The descendants of these five men who bought the land of Hansard Knollys are numerous, and their names still survive in Eliot. They have an honorable record, and one of Fogg's descendants has done, as all will admit, more than any other to collect and transmit the ancient history of the town.
Mention has been made of Joshua Downing, who held thirty acres in the northwest corner of Hammond's division, bordering on the river. The history of that lot and of a few small lots north of it will take us back a little from the dates of which we have been writing.
Old deeds show that John Vgroufe, for so he signs himself, though he is more frequently called Newgrove, was living here as early as 1635. He may have bought a part of Jocelyn's1 grant. He is mentioned in the Court Records of 1640 as an inhabitant of Pascataqua. Mary Vgroufe witnesses one of his deeds. He signed the Dover Combination of 1640 and owned land there earlier than 1642. James Nute of Dover sold to his son, James, 15 Feb. 1671, land bought "many years since" of John Newgrove, then of Dover. In 1694 Sarah Morrill of Boston was adminis- tratrix of her father-in-law, John Ugrove's, estate in Kittery, and it seems that he had not sold all his land there, "lying and being between Watts fort and ffranks fort."
In 1646 Ugrove, who had "taken a liter to go in till Michaell- mass," wrote to George Smyth of Dover to sell his house and lands, and consequently Smyth sold. 18 Dec. 1650, to Dennis Downing, already a tenant, Ugrove's house-lot and thirty acres of upland .= Downing was a blacksmith. His son, Joshua, inherited this place. He left sons but no grandsons, and so the surname Downing has been long extinct in Kittery.
Vgroufe, Ugrove or Newgrove, had sold lots earlier than the date of this sold to Downing. Reynold Jenkins testified in 1683
1.A court record, dated 30 March 1647. says: "John Ugrove's house and ground attached to answer Henry Jocelyn Esqr in an account in the case for damage to the value of ten pounds."
York Deeds III. 114-115.
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that "between forty & fifty years since," that is, earlier than 1643, he bought "six acres of Land of John Newgrove, beginning at the water side between the Lands of Thomas Joanes & Joshua Down- ing." Jenkins built a house and lived here for a while, and after the death of William Everett offered the place to his widow, in the charity of his heart, but the widow seems to have been too proud to receive it as a gift, as a deposition of her daughter. Martha. afterward Nathan Lord's wife, shows. At the age of forty-two she testifies that "when she was little, her mother having ten shillings of her. as the Deponent heard my mother say, which money the Deponents mother Margarett Euerett layd out for six acres of Land which shee bought of Renald Jenkins, which Land this Deponents husband would not accept of, upon ye refusall wrof the Deponents mother gave him a steere in lew yrof & her mother sould that six Acres of Land to Mr. Will Leighton.1 Did Boaz treat Ruth any better than friend Jenkins did this little fatherless child and her mother? On the other hand Joshua Downing crowded his line fence too far north and encroached upon this little six acre lot
Widow Everett did not remain long in affliction, for in 1656 she and her second husband. "Isacke Nash" of Dover, sold to . William Leighton this six-acre lot and also the original home- stead of William Everett. a little further up the river.
John Vgroufe, alias Newgrove, sold also to Abraham Conley a six-acre lot just above this of Jenkins. 1 Jan. 1638. Conley was already a tenant. He sold it, 24 June 1648, to Thomas Jones. It was "next adjacent unto House & Field of William Everet." Jones sold it. 30 Nov. 1686. to William Leighton's son John, who had already inherited the original Everett lot. the next one north. Thus he had three small lots combined into one farm.
Of William Everett not much is known, nor can we tell how he acquired his lot, probably by purchase from Wannerton. He appears in Court records of 1640, and was licensed to keep an ordinary in 1649. He seems to have been a sea captain and to have been lost at sea. He was a man of some consequence and must have had a spacious house, for all the inhabitants of Kittery were called together here, 16 Nov. 1652, to hear Simon Bradstreet and others tell why they ought to come under the
'York Deeds, IV. 50.
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jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Everett's son William died also at sea, sine prole, and his only daughter, Martha, married Nathan Lord.
The point of land on which William Everett lived is shown in the picture of Franks Fort. It was first called "Point Joslain," and has long been known as Leighton's Point. Its southern shore once extended out fifty feet or more from the present bank, and some persons now living can remember apple trees growing on Watts Fort, which is now entirely washed away. At low tide its location can be discerned easily. Mr. George Leighton pointed out to me a place a little out beyond the present bank, perhaps ten rods to the north and a little west from Watts Fort, where within his remembrance there could be seen an old cellar, and beyond it there was an ancient warehouse and ferry. That cellar probably marked the spot where William Everett lived and where Kittery's inhabi- tants signed their submission to the government of Massachu- setts. Some memorial should mark the spot.
The ferry at this point was a very ancient one, kept by Thomas Trickey and his son, Zachariah, and later by John Knight, alias Chevalier, all of whom lived at Bloody Point on the opposite or Newington shore. In his diary President John Adams mentions having once crossed here. The ferry points at the reason of an "ordinary" here in 1649 and also shows why there were numerous settlers in this vicinity.
Some have supposed that William Everett's house stood a little west of the site of the Old Leighton House, on Leighton's Lane, but this seems to me improbable. The Leighton House was built in 1600 according to Mr. Fogg, and was demolished in April. 1895. It stood on the exact spot now occupied by the house of Mr Leander II. Plaisted. The ancient road or lane ran from a little west of this house almost straight northwest toward the river, north of the old burial place. The present road swings around to the south. The old parish cemetery. west of Mr. George Leighton's, is now overgrown with pines. and only two headstones remain. though there are indications that scores of the old settlers here were buried.
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THOMPSON'S
YORK POND
SAMUEL SHOREY
RIVER
COCHECHO RIVER
WM. FURBISH
DANIEL FERGUSON 16,59
JOHN NEAL 1676
YORK
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JOSEPH GODLA
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EDWARD WEYMONTH
JONATHAN MASON 1070
STURGEON
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FEVER WITTUM ISEN
InCARD 1645
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NICHOLAS SHAPLEIGH
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YDANIEL FÜGG
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JOHN GREEN 1648 JOS HAMMOND 1679 CEO ROGERS 1641
PETER STAPLE 1674
WAYMOUTH LYDSTON 1662 DANIEL PAUL 1648
TETHERLY 1660
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3 REYNOLD JERKINS
4 NICHOLAS FROST SNC LEIGHTON 1690
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80.0 CEMETERY
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MATTHEW LIBBY
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DANIEL KING 1674
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C. FEMICHNY GREAT COVE PETER DIXON JOHNFERNALD THOMAS
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ADRIAN FRYE 1663
WM THSRELAX 1656
JAHEZ JENNYS 1684 TANTHONY EMERY 1648
JOHN MORRELL 1676
SAMUEL HILL 1686
EDWARD AYERS 1685 ALEXANDER DENNETI 1682
EDWARD SMALL 10/40 ANTIPAS MAVERICK :647
CAMMOCK CREEK
FROST'S HILL
RAITT'S HILL
(NICHOLAS FROST 1075 DAVID CLARK 1723
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The location of William Everett's house is still more clearly indicated by the following testimonies :-
"The testimony of Martha Lord aged eighty-four years or thereabout saith that her father William Everett formerly of Kittery in the County of York deceased did in his life Time dwell on a Tract of Land in Kittery aforesd now in the posses- sion of Capt. John Leighton and that said Everets House stood by an old orchard & a certain run of water Issuing into Piscataqua River, which run of water is Northward from the most Northerly Point of Watts Fort so called, which house my mother lived in & possessed after the Death of my sd Father untill she married with Isaac Nash & they sold the same to Mr. William Leighton. And that she never knew or understood that Major Shapleigh claimed any further than the lane between him and Nicholas Frost deceased. She further saith that her Father died about seventy-two years since.
Elizabeth Gowen [ daughter of Major Charles Frost] aged seventy-nine years thereabout testifieth to the Truth of what is written above onely she doth not Remember Willm Everetts . living on the place abovesd but his widow after his Decease."1
York ss. March 18. 1723-4.
Thomas Jones, already mentioned, was born in 1609, as a deposition shows, and was a servant of Alexander Shapleigh in 1639. He came upon the town for support in 1686. He seems not to have been connected with any others by the name of Jones in old Kittery.
Capt. William Leighton, born about 1625, is said to have settled in Kittery about 1650, though I have found no trace of him before his purchase of the Everett lot of Nash in 1656. The same year he married Katharine, daughter of Nicholas Frost, who after Leighton's death in 1666 married Major Joseph Hammond. The deed from Nash locates his lot "neare ve poynt of Land Commonly Called Watts Fort." It lay between the lands of Thomas Jones and Nicholas Frost and ran to the back part of the Great Swamp. This brings us to the first dwelling place of Nicholas Frost.
It has been often written that Frost settled where his son
York Deeds XII. 8.
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Charles afterward lived, and this earlier homestead has been overlooked. It is not supposable that Nicholas Frost settled in 1634 two miles from the river, with no road nor neighbors, when he could have almost his choice of good lots bordering on the river. The following deposition is enlightening. Philip Swadden, or Swaddow, testified in 1673 that thirty-eight or thirty-nine years before, that is, in about 1634, the time of Frost's arrival with his family, "Mr. Thomas Wannerton gave to Nicholas Frost a Prcell of Land up in Piscataqua River, now known by the name of Kittery, which pcell of Land was bounded. on the East with a little Cove, Joyneing to the Fort Poynt, on the South West on the River, on the North West Northerly with a great stumpe called the Mantilltree stumpe; which is about the Middle of the Lane wch Joynes to ye Land which Major Nicho. Shapleigh now possesseth, & soe runneing into ve woods as fare as the sayd Wannertons Land went, which tract of Land Mr. Thomas Wannerton gave to the sayd Nicholas Frost to come to bee his Neighbor." Wannerton, then, was living here about 16344. perhaps in the house afterward occupied by William Everett. He held a large section of land granted by Gorges. It adjoined Cammock's, afterward Shapleigh's, on the southwest. A strip along the north of his grant Wannerton gave to Frost without any deed, and later he seems to have sold the whole tract to Nichlas Shapleigh. Nov. 24, 1653, the selectmen confirmed to Shapleigh "all those tracts of land bought of Capt. Cammock and Mr. Wannerton the breadth whereof is from the Mill Creek by the water side unto a little fresh brook of water near unto Goody Everetts where she now Dwells and so backward into the woods by the same breadth half way to York and to run upon an East by north line or upon that line where those Evidenceys of Capt. Camocks & Mr. Thomas Wannerton doe specifie always provided that if any other former grant made by the Town fall within this said tract of land they are to remain good to them their heirs or assigns forever."
Another deposition throws light upon the early residence of Nicholas Frost. John White in 1670 testified that forty-two years before, or about 1637. "Mr. Alexander Shapleigh and Mr. James Treworgy did agree with the Neighbors dwelling at and
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about Sturgeon Creek that there should be alwayes a high way from Nicholas ffrosts house down to Sturgeon Creek and Soe along to the Ceaders And the said high way hath bin held ever Since without Interruption." This is of interest as showing when the Country road through Shapleigh's land was first in use. The southern end of that road brings us to the lane that ran down to the ferry, and at the upper end of that lane stood, evidently, the house of Nicholas Frost in 1637. This is where some have supposed William Everett to have lived. There seems to have been dispute between Nicholas Shapleigh and Nicholas Frost's heirs as to the rightful ownership of the land given by Wannerton to Frost, and how much the heirs of Frost retained I can not say. Whatever it was seems to have come into the possession of the heirs of William Leighton. The inventory of Nicholas Frost's estate, 1663, mentions "The house & Land at Kittery, Joyneing to Willia Leighton, by estimation 30 acers." The inventory of the estate of John Frost of Boston, 1687, mentions twelve acres here still in the possession of the Frost family. In 1651 the town granted to Nicholas Frost three hundred and forty acres, "joining on the west to Anthony Emery's land and on ve east side of ye land with a brook which runs into Agmenticus river." This may have been a compensa- tion for taking away a part of Wannerton's gift and awarding it to Shapleigh. Other grants were made to Nicholas Frost from time to time till he had one of the largest estates in Kittery. Just when he built his house on the southern slope of Frost's hill is not known, but it was probably about the time the grant of land was made, 1651. It was a garrison house built of large hewn square logs.
There is conclusive evidence that Nicholas Frost was on the coast of Maine as early as 1632. He probably returned to England for his family and came again in 1634. He was born in Tiverton, Devonshire, 25 April 1585. He was chosen con- stable in 16440 and he served repeatedly as one of the selectmen. He was a man of force and leadership and reared a distinguished family.
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VII. ALONG THE NEWICHAWANNOCK.
In our sail up the Pascataqua we have now arrived opposite a historic place, called Hilton's Point, on Dover Neck. Here the first settlement in this region of the country was made by Edward and William Hilton, in 1623. It is probable that some of those who came with the Hiltons soon made their homes on the east side of the river Newichawannock, as it was called by the Indians, from this point upwards.
The first grant above the lot of Nicholas Frost, afterward William Leighton's, was the earliest one recorded. It was from the Laconia Company to Capt. Thomas Cammock, 2 June 1633. It was confirmed to Cammock by a deed from Walter Neale, agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, I May 1634, and described as a piece of land on the east shore of the Pascataqua, "where William Hilton lately planted corne, being bounded on the north side with a small Creeke known by the name of Cammocks Creeke and on the south side with a small Rivolett abutting upon the lands alotted unto Thomas Wannerton gent." Here is our reason for saying that Wannerton first owned the lands possessed later by Frost, Leighton and Shapleigh. Cammock sold this tract to John Treworgy, 10 Jan. 1636, who seems to have acted as agent for his grandfather, Alexander Shapleigh, the same who had five hundred acres at Kittery Point. The tract extended half way to York River and contained about seven hundred and fifty acres. Here his son, Nicholas Shapleigh, made his home, at "Sandy Hill," and Cammock's Creek came to be called Shapleigh's Creek. It is better to hold onto the first names.
Mention is made in 1633 that William Hilton had been plant- ing corn over in Maine. Was this an old Indian corn-field, and did Hilton live at the Neck opposite and row across to cultivate his field? So some have thought. The Court Records. perhaps, furnish a clue. Oct. 25. 1653. William Hilton recovered judg- ment in the sum of one hundred and sixty pounds against Ann
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Mason, executrix of the will of Capt. John Mason of London, deceased. Of this sum fifty pounds were for the proprietary of his land, which the defendant took from him, and for the vacancy of one year's time and cutting down his house and for other inju- ries, ten pounds, and for the interest for the whole sixty pounds for the term of one and twenty years, one hundred pounds. Twenty-one years previous to 1653 carries us back to 1632, the time when William Hilton was planting corn on the estate after- ward Shapleigh's. He had a house here and reason for calling the land his own, which the Court acknowledged.
Nicholas, son of Alexander Shapleigh, who built the first house at Kittery Point, was one of the most prominent men of old Kittery. He served as one of the Provincial Councillors from 1644 to 1652 with the exception of one year. He was also County Treasurer and one of the Commissioners to hold the first term of Court in York County, in June. 1653. He was several times on the Board of Selectmen and Deputy to the General Court. He was appointed, in 1656, Major in the Militia. As Justice of the Peace he was qualified to marry, and once. in 1660. he was presented at Court for marrying Capt. John Mitchell and Widow Sarah Gunnison before their publication. He gave sym- pathy and entertainment to the early Quaker preachers, for which he. with two other Selectmen, was deposed from office and dis- franchised. Yet he was afterward elected as Deputy. In 1667 he had command of the Militia in Maine and in 1678 was one of the Commissioners to conclude a peace with Squando and the Sagamores on the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers. He was extensively engaged in lumbering and milling, owning with others mills on Spruce Creek. Cammock's Creek and Sturgeon Creek. He had a long lawsuit with Hugh Gunnison about sale of land at Kittery Point, the record of which in the Supreme Court at Boston has been published in the Maine Historical Col- lections. He was in 1674 imprisoned and fined two hundred pounds for the offense that, to use his own words. "I did incon- siderately and out of foolish pity receive and conceale William fforrest and two others being in a sudden hurry, my compassion overcoming my reason."! These were accused of piracy. His sister. Katharine Hilton, sent in a touching petition that he be
Me. Hist. Coll. VI. 40.
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released, reminding the Court that "38 years since, in a time of great scarsity, in this land, our father layd out a good estate, for the supply of this Country, & the setleing some part of it, & in a season of there want supplyed them soe reasonabley with provis- ions, that it was thankfully accepted and acknowledged by the Authority then in being."1 He was at one time owner of Sebas- codigan Island, off the coast of Harpswell. The town of Shap- leigh was named in honor of him, he having once bought that township of Francis Small. He was killed at the launching of a vessel at the shipyard of John Diamond, at Kittery Foreside, 29 April 1682. A spar struck him on the head as the vessel moved. The early prosperity of Kittery was due as much to this man as to any other. He left no children, and his nephew, John Shap- leigh, inherited his estate. The farm at "Sandy Hill" has been held by a Shapleigh ever since about 1636.
The bridge near the mouth of Cammock's or Shapleigh's Creek is a recent affair. In the old times there was only a lane along the river and a fording place here. The dam was a few rods west of the present bridge, and the mill was at the northerly end of the dam. In the will of Samuel Hill, dated 28 Aug. 1713, mention is made of "the Saw mill, griest Mill and Wind Mill, as also the Dwelling House and Land Lying and adjoyning to Shap- leigh's Creek." Hill owned an interest in the mills.
The next lot above Shapleigh was owned first by Edward Small, to whom it was granted by Thomas Gorges, 28 July 1643. It contained a hundred acres, "lying between the two Creekes." Small had built a dwelling house and cultivated a field. He came to the Pascataqua about 1632 and is said to have been a kinsman of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He was a magistrate in 1640. We find him at the Isles of Shoals in 1653. Perhaps he went back to England. Francis Small, afterward of Dover and Kittery, is thought to have been his son.
Small sold this lot to Antipas Maverick, 23 June 1647. Feb. 17, 1653, the town granted and confirmed to Antipas Maverick "all that tract of land where he now liveth betwixt ye two Creeks, the Creek on ye South Side of his house called and known by ye name of Mill Creek and ye Creek on ye North Side of ye tract
'Coll. of Me. Hist. Society. Vol. V. pp. 38-9.
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of land comonly known by ye name of Daniel's Creek." This locates Maverick's house near the mouth of Shapleigh's or Cam- mock's Creek and north of it. A mortgage in 1661 describes it as "on the South East side bounded by the Mill cricke & on the North East side by a Cricke sometime known by ye name of Danjell Dauises1 Cricke." The lot ran back to Sturgeon Creek. Exception was made to land enclosed and possessed by William Ellingham, granted unto him for twenty-one years. "And alsoe except those Two Tracts of Land granted by the Town of Kittery unto Nicholas Frost & Anthonie Emerie, if they shall happen or appeare to be within the bounds of the aformentioned Land." A deed in 1686 calls the two creeks "Daniels Creek & Camocks Creek."
There is some cause for thinking that Antipas Maverick was brother to Samuel Maverick of Noddles Island, or East Boston. If so. he was the son of the Rev. John Maverick of Dorchester. Antipas was of the Isles of Shoals in 1647. He signed the sub- mission of 1652 and was licensed to keep an ordinary in 1659. He had a brother, Moses, who lived in Marblehead. Antipas Maverick died in 1678.
The one hundred acres of Maverick were increased by grants from the town, and the whole estate was sold by his heirs, at different times. Samuel Hill seems to have bought two pieces, one next to Shapleigh's Creek, which he willed to his son, Samuel, and another, bought in 1686, further north, which he willed to his son. Benjamin. Alexander Dennett bought, 7 June 1682, forty acres, being thirty rods in breadth on the river. Then came a lot once occupied by William Ellingham, a lumberman, which passed to John Shapleigh and from him to Edward Ayers. This takes us to "Daniels Creek." Then came the upper lot of Samuel Hill, lying "between ye lotts of John Morrell & Edward Ayers."" This estate has remained in the Hill family ever since. Samuel Hill was the son of John Hill of Dover. He married Elizabeth Williams in 1680 and settled in Kittery soon after. He owned land also in Portsmouth.
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