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ELIZABETH b. 6 Aug. 1803; m. Jonathan Thompson.
JOHN b. 19 April 1806; m. 11 Feb. 1830, Hannah Langley. Ch., Abbie, Jeremiah O., and James Frank.
MARY b. I Dec. 1808.
9. Simon Randall (Simon4, Nathaniel3, Richard2, Richard1), born about 1756, married, June 1789, Lydia Caldwell, born probably in Nottingham in 1754. She died 15 or 27 May 1850, aged 96 years, 6 months; was the daughter of William and Eliza- beth (Lamos) Caldwell. He died 2 Sept. 1833, aged 77. Child- dren born in Lee:
PAUL b. 19 Oct. 1790; m. Elizabeth Hayes, b. in Madbury 19 Sept. 1794. He l. in Lee, and Hampton. Ch., Nathan- iel, Lydia M., Mary A., and Elizabeth.
MARY b. 28 April 1793; m. 1816, John Morrison of Alton; d. 10 March 1879.
JOHN b. 18 March 1796; m. Mary J. Demeritt. Ch., Fran- ces L., Israel A., Mary E., Martha A., Frank D., Amanda L., and Herbert C.
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ISRAEL b. 1801; d. 2 June 1877 in N. Y. city. Known as Dr. Randolph.
10. Joseph Randall (Simon4, Nathaniel3, Richard2, Richard1), born about 1760, married (1) 21 June 1785, Anna Langley, (2) 4 Aug. 1801, Lydia Avery. He died about 1830. Children born in Lee :
JAMES b. 31 Aug. 1787; 1. at Center Harbor.
JOHN b. abt. 1789; 1. at Berlin, N. H., and Montpelier, Vt. LoIs b. abt. 1792; m. Rev. John T. Hill.
KEZIAH b. 29 March 1795; m. Benjamin Jackson in Starks- boro, Vt.
BRADBURY C. b. 30 April 1796; 1. in Taunton, Mass.
JOSEPH b. I July 1800; 1. in Starksboro, Vt.
THOMAS b. 7 Feb. 1807; 1. in several towns in New Hamp- shire.
SIMON d. in infancy.
REYNOLDS OR RUNNELS
William Reynolds was of Plymouth, Mass., as early as 1634. He received land in Duxbury, 6 Feb. 1637. He married, 3 Aug. 1638, Alice Kitson. He removed, about 1640, to Cape Por- poise, in what is now Kennebunk, Me. He took oath of alle- giance to the government of Maine, 5 July 1653. Kept a ferry at Kennebunk. He with wife, Alice, deeded land to son, John, 12 April 1675, conditioned on care for life. He seems to have had a brother, John Reynolds, at the Isles of Shoals. William Reynolds, Jr., is mentioned in the Court Records of York County in 1672, also John Reynolds.
His family seems to have consisted of John, born 1651, who perhaps married Sarah Crawford and d. s. p. in Portsmouth before 1722, leaving 400 acres on the northwest side of Kennebec River and other property in Kennebunk, that was divided among heirs; Samuel, unknown; Job; William; Jane, who married Thomas Wormwood of Wells; and Hope, who married, 23 Oct. 1664, Thomas Sanders, in Saco, Me. [Cf. Pope's Pioneers of Maine and N. H.]
The above Job, son of William Reynolds, is little known. He seems to have lived at Falmouth, Me., for a time. His family were evidently driven out of Maine by Indians.
June 21, 1718, Job Renalds, John Renalds, James Langley and wife, Mary, all of Dover, sold to Thomas Perkins of Portsmouth,
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all their right, etc., in 200 acres in Arundel, the old name of Kennebunk. [York Deeds, X. 130.]
July 15, 1720, Samuel Renolds of Bradford, Mass., sold to Thomas Perkins, formerly of Greenland now of Cape Porpoise, all right, etc., in 200 acres at Cape Porpoise, which formerly belonged to my honored grandfather, William Renalds, of Cape Porpoise. [York Deeds, X., 130.]
July 30 1720, John Renolds of Oyster River sold to Stephen Harding right to land which was my fathers and grandfathers in Cape Porpoise. [York Deeds, X, 57.]
July II, 1722, John Buss and Alice, his wife, Richard Blanchard and Sarah, his wife, all of Dover, sold to Stephen Harding of Arundel, alias Cape Porpoise, one sixth part of land formerly belonging to uncle, John Runalds; deceased. [York Deeds, XI, 31.]
May 17, 1721, John Rennels of Oyster River sold to Thomas Perkins all right to 200 acres formerly belonging to uncle, John Reynolds. In this deed he names his grandfather, William Reynolds, and his father, Job Reynolds, deceased. [York Deeds, XIV, 168.]
Job Reynolds signed a petition from Falmouth before 1700. From the above citations and other sources he seems to have had the following children:
SAMUEL of Bradford, b. abt. 1674; m. Abigail Middleton. JOHN of Oyster River; m. 23 Dec. 1718, Hannah Clark.
JOB of Oyster River; m. Hannah (Huckins) Chesley.
ALICE m. John Buss, Jr.
Mary m. James Langley.
SARAH m. Head, (2) 3 Sept. 1718, Richard Blanchard. [See History of Canterbury.]
MARTHA m. William Wormwood.
HOPE, or HOPESTILL, m. Eli Demeritt.
John Runnels (Job2, William1) who deposed 22 Feb. 1734, aged 58, married, -, Hannah Clark. He was bap- tized 8 Jan. 1720/1 and 28 Sept. 1721 was baptized “John Rennolds the little child of John Rennolds, his wife a Quakeress not consenting." He lived in the south part of what is now Lee and died in 1756.
JOHN bapt. 28 Sept. 1721; 1. in Barrington; twice married; d. s. p.
ABRAHAM b. -; m. 1744, Hannah Smith. Rem. to New Durham.
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WILLIAM m. Lydia Blacksmith in Lee. Died about 1773.
ELIZABETH m. Solomon Snell of Barrington.
JOSEPH b. 10 June 1727; m. Lydia ----- ; d. in Dover, 1765. SARAH b. 4 Aug. 1731; m. Jonathan Bunker, Dec. 1749. HANNAH m. Thomas Willey.
Four other children supposed to have d. young.
Job Runnels (Job2, William1) bought of Joseph Davis, 13 Nov. 1713, sixty acres on the west side of Wednesday brook, in what is- now Lee. He was then "of Dover." He married Hannah, daughter of James and Sarah (Burnham) Huckins, and widow of John Chesley. She was admitted to church 5 May 1723. She conveyed to Joseph Smith, 3 Feb. 1748/9, her right in the estate of her grandfather, Robert Burnham. Job Runnels bought thirty acres of Naphtali Kincaid, 22 May 1719. He conveyed his homestead of 100 acres to his son, Job, 2 Dec. 1758. He was born about 1685 and died before I May 1763. He was baptized with Abigail, his infant child, 8 April 1722.
ABIGAIL bapt. 8 April 1722; m. Miles Randall of Lee.
MARY b. 15 May 1724; m. Nathaniel Randall.
JOB bapt. 16 April 1727; m. Sarah Ellison.
HANNAH b. 4 June 1728; m. Samuel Langley.
SAMUEL b. abt. 1730; m. ; (2) Love Tibbetts.
Captain in the Revolution.
JONATHAN m. 24 Aug. 1757, Keziah Carter.
SUSAN m. (1) 21 June 1749, Samuel Thompson, (2) 24 Dec. 1755, Jonathan Thompson.
ENOCH m. Frances , d. in Canada.
Daniel Reynolds (Daniel5, Stephen4, Samuel3 of Bradford, Job2, William1) was born in Londonderry 7 Oct. 1771. His father was a colonel in the Revolutionary army and first repre- sentative to the General Court of New Hampshire from Lon- donderry. Daniel was a teacher in Dover and Durham and afterward deputy sheriff and crier of the court at Dover. He died at Alton Bay 24 Oct. 1809. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James and Sarah (Thompson) Leighton, who was born 19 April 1778 and died 12 Sept. 1851.
HANNAH b. 9 Dec. 1797; m. 17 Feb. 1817, Daniel Nason. DANIEL b. 9 July 1799; m. 24 Nov. 1824, Sarah Watson. MARY b. 1801; d. 1802.
EBENEZER THOMPSON b. May 1803; m. 5 March 1824, Abigail Wyatt.
STEPHEN b. I Jan. 1805; m. I Sept. 1831, Sally Garland.
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ADDISON b. 15 Jan. 1808; m. 13 Jan. 1833, Elizabeth W. Rogers.
ELIZA b. 23 July 1809; m. 15 Aug. 1828, Rev. Converse L. McCurdy.
Stephen Reynolds (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Samuel3, Job2, William1), born in Durham, I Jan. 1805, married, 8 Sept. 1831, Sarah, daughter of James and Polly (Mills) Garland, who was born in Durham 24 Nov. 1809 and died 17 March 1880. He died July 1882, having been shoemaker, farmer and station agent of the B. & M. R. R. at Madbury. His children are recorded in Durham :
MARY ELIZABETH b. 22 July 1832; m. 28 Dec. 1858, Levi L. Elder of West Falmouth, Me.
LYDIA MARGARET b. 29 Dec. 1833; m. 27 March 1853, John M. Davis; d. 29 Dec. 1868.
STEPHEN HENRY b. 17 March 1835; m. 8 Sept. 1866, Lucy Adams of Brookline, Mass. Sergeant in Civil War, wounded. Served in many battles. L. at Hyde Park, Mass.
JAMES ADDISON b. 7 Nov. 1836; m. 16 March 1864, Miriam Hanson of Madbury. Shoemaker in Charleston and Dover.
HANNAH JANE b. 9 Aug. 1838; m. 29 Oct. 1864, Hiram S. Wentworth, (2) Everett Hall.
CHARLES WILLIAM b. 9 May 1840; m. 20 Dec. 1866, Eliza- beth Smallidge. L. in Detroit, Mich. Union soldier and prisoner at Andersonville.
SARAH MITCHELL b. 12 Dec. 1841. Unm.
JOSEPHINE MARIA b. 12 July 1843; m. 1868, Joseph French Berry.
JOHN TILTON b. 3 Aug. 1845. Farmer in Madbury.
GEORGE ALBERT b. 19 Sept. 1847; m. Aug. 1881, Fanny Harrington.
BERNICE ANN b. 17 June 1849 in Dover; d. unm. F
ROBERTS
William Roberts was fined for mending the stocks 5: 5: 1643. Perhaps he did a poor job. Jan. 12, 1645, Darby Field conveyed to William Roberts land at Oyster River, which "was in the use of Thomas Roberts," between lands of Matthew Giles and Thomas Stevenson. This shows that he was related to Thomas Roberts of Dover Neck, perhaps a son, not named in will of Thomas Roberts. On the 6th of 8th month 1650 he and others were fined for going to the ordinary in the time of meeting, on the
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25th of May last. In 1664 he deeded his farm to William Pitman and his oldest son, Ezekiel Pitman. It may be that his daughter, Ann, had married William Pitman. William Roberts and Ann Roberts, evidently his wife, gave testimony in 1673. He was killed by Indians in 1676.
Dec. 10, 1720, Hannah Cocks, daughter of William Roberts deceased, and William Hill, grandson to the same William Rob- erts, sold to Salathiel Denmore (Denbow) all right to 100 acres granted to William Roberts, near Wheelwright's Pond.
April 7, 1727, Timothy Moses and Grace, his wife, sold to Thomas Harris of Dover land which "fell to sd Grace Moses being daughter to ye sd William Roberts and coheir to ye sd land."
June 4, 1720, Richard Denbo sold to Salathiel Denbo one share in 200 acres on the north side of Wheelwright's Pond, called Roberts Neck, which formerly belonged to William Roberts. The same day Salathiel Denbo bought two shares of the same property from John Sias and wife, Ann. June 30, 1737/8, Salathiel Denmore sold to Francis Mathes all right to two grants made "to my grandfather William Roberts," near Wheelwright's Pond.
Jan. 2, 1727, John and Sarah Harmon of Scarborough, Me., sold to Thomas Harris of Dover their right in the estate of William Roberts, father of said Sarah Harmon.
Feb. 15, 1726/7, Nicholas Dunn of Kittery, Me., and wife, Deborah, conveyed to Joseph Jenkins of Dover one fifth part of 100 acres granted to William Roberts, deceased, adjacent to Wheelwright's Pond.
The children of William Roberts, then, were as follows: ANN perhaps; m. William Pitman.
HANNAH m. (1) William Hill, (2) 22 May 1694, John Cox. GRACE b. 1662; m. abt. 1682, Philip Duley, (2) Timothy Moses.
Daughter m. Salathiel Denbow, or Denmore.
SARAH m. John Harmon of Scarborough, Me.
ELIZABETH prob .; m. Nicholas Dunn.
WILLIAM "a simple youth," mentioned in 1669.
ROGERS
Robert Rogers with wife, Susanna, was in Newbury, Mass., as early as 1651. His son, John, born 13 March 1654, married Dinah Chiske of Ipswich. Their son, Robert, born 20 Feb.
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1682, went to Rowley and married, Dorothy daughter of Richard and Hannah (Cheney) Smith. He died 18 April 1723. His wife died 17 Aug. 1718. They had a son, Daniel, baptized 22 Jan. 1709, who was doubtless the Daniel Rogers, blacksmith, that lived in Durham and bought land of Peter Mason in 1735. He married, about 1737, Sarah (Mason?). He became captain in the militia and one of the selectmen. The Rev. Curtis Coe records his burial 17 Dec. 1785.
JOIIN DAVIS bapt. at Dover 6 Aug. 1738; prob. went to Cabot, Vt.
DANIEL bapt. in Durham 16 July 1749; m. 25 March 1773, Elizabeth Hawkins of Dover and s. in Rochester.
ELIZABETH bapt. in Durham 16 July 1749; born 20 May 1744; m. 20 Sept. 1764, John Burnham Hanson.
DOLLY bapt. 23 April 1754; m. Valentine Mathes.
ROBERT bapt. II Aug. 1754; m. (1) 7 Aug. 1774, Rose, dau. of Isaac Hanson of Dover, (2) 25 Aug. 1776, Sarah Evans of Dover, (3) Mary , who d. 1824, aged 75. He d. in 1820, aged 73. He had a son, Hanson Rogers, b. 4 March 1776, who s. in Cabot, Vt. Another child was buried in Durham 30 April 1782.
SAMUEL (?) d. in Durham 17 Feb. 1784. His wife d. Oct. 1782. A dau., Elizabeth, was bapt. 3 March 1754 in Durham.
RUNLETT
John Runlett, who died in Conway 6 June 1846, aged 86, married Christiana, daughter of Charles Fox. She was born in Fox's garrison house in Lee. She died in 1830. These families were affiliated with the Society of Friends. John Runlett had children, Charles, Lydia, Eliza, Elijah, Mary, John and George.
Charles Runlett (John) was born in Lee 8 Jan. 1792. He mar- ried, 1813, Abigail, daughter of Hunking and Hannah (Huckins) Dame. She was born 7 April 1791 and died 20 July 1859. He died in Lee 9 Feb. 1861. They had children, Susan, who married Henry Willey; Charles, who married Lucy Reynolds, and Samuel Runlett, born 11 April 1814, who married, 23 Oct. 1843, Sarah Ann French, who was born I June 1819 and died 29 June 1884. He was a millman in Durham. He served twelve years as town clerk. Children were:
CHARLES W. b. 19 Dec. 1844; m. I Jan. 1870, Caroline D. Paul; d. in Dover 3 Jan. 1884.
SAMUEL b. 5 Oct. 1850; m. 26 Nov. 1871, Ellen M. Morrison.
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ANNA MARTHA b. 14 Feb. 1857; m. 27 Feb. 1886, John S. Drew.
Children of Samuel and Ellen M. (Morrison) Runlett:
MATTIE M. b. 7 April 1873; d. young.
HAROLD M. b. 17 Oct. 1878; m. 5 Aug. 1908, Elizabeth Wheeler of Brooklyn, N. Y. He graduated at New Hamp- shire College. Ch., Harold M. b. 25 June 1913.
EUGENE P. b. 23 June 1881. Graduated at New Hampshire College.
SARAH N. b. 8 Oct. 1890; m. 28 June 1911, Clyde H. Swan, b. in Winchester, N. H., 22 Aug. 1888. He is a graduate of New Hampshire College and is teaching in the High School of Amesbury, Mass.
John Runlett, born in Lee 28 March 1807, married, 27 Sept. 1840, Sarah Willey, who was born in Durham 13 Nov. 1809. They had a daughter, Mary Ann, born 15 May 1843.
SAWYER
William Sawyer is thought to have come from Lincolnshire, Eng. He was in Salem, Mass., in 1640. Four years later he was in Newbury, Mass. Wife's name was Ruth. He died in 1702. Lived in what is now West Newbury, Mass. Twelve children.
Lieut. Samuel2 Sawyer was born 22 Nov. 1646. He married, 13 March 1671, Mary, daughter of John Emery of Newbury and died II Feb. 1718. Eight children.
Capt. Josiah3 Sawyer was born in Newbury 20 Jan. 1681 and married, 22 Jan. 1708, Tirza, daughter of Thomas Bartlett of Newbury. He died 4 April 1756.
Josiah4 Sawyer was born in Newbury, Mass., 12 April 1709 and married, about 1735, Mary, daughter of John Ordway of New- bury. In 1746 he bought a farm in South Hampton, N. H., and removed hither. He died 10 June 1792.
Dea. Moses5 Sawyer was born at South Hampton 2 Aug. 1750. He married 16 Jan. 1775, Ann Fitz and removed to Salisbury, N. H., where he was on the list of training soldiers, 27 May 1776. He died 29 April 1821.
Isaac Fitz6 Sawyer was born in South Hampton 9 March 1778. He married Rebecca, daughter of Capt. David Pettingill, who died 9 March 1834. He died I Feb. 1846. Nine children.
Isaac Newton7 Sawyer was born in Salisbury 5 April 1811. 21
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He married, 22 Jan. 1834, Abigail Chellis of Plainfield, who d. s. p. 15 April 1860. He married (2) I Jan. 1861, Jane L. Hoitt, daughter of Gorham W. Hoitt of Lee. He was a practical farmer, dealing largely in Merino sheep. He died Nov. 1894, aged 83. Two children.
Gorham Hoitt8 Sawyer was born in Salisbury 15 June 1866. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Exeter, in 1886, taught one winter, spent a year in California and located at Durham in 1889. He conducted a wholesale and retail meat and provision business, from the year 1893. He has been tax collector several years and served on the library committee and the committee for remodeling the village school house. He married, 20 Feb. 1891, Alice M. Little, born 4 June 1866, daughter of Dea. Thomas D. Little of Salisbury, being of the eighth generation from George Little of London, who came to Newbury, Mass., in 1640. Chil- dren born in Durham:
LESTER LITTLE b. 16 Aug. 1893.
CHARLES GORHAM b. 20 Oct. 1895.
WARREN DEARBORN b. 14 Jan. 1897.
JOHN THOMAS b. 22 Aug. 1900.
EUGENE HOITT b. 24 June 1904.
LENA ALICE b. I Dec. 1905; d. 4 April 1906.
SCOTT
Clarence W. Scott, professor of history and political economy in New Hampshire College for over thirty years, is a graduate of Dartmouth College. He was admitted to the Vermont bar but did not practice law. He was born in Plymouth, Vt., 20 Aug. 1849. His father, Charles Augustus Scott, was born in Cavendish, Vt., 8 Jan. 1819 and married in 1844 Betsey Watkins, who was born in Reading, Vt., 24 Aug. 1826. Prof. Scott married, 30 April 1888, Harriet Maria Field, born in Montpelier, Vt., 15 Oct. 1855, daughter of Cornelius A. Field, who was born in Berlin, Vt., 4 Feb. 1825 and married, 20 Jan. 1853, Marcia Dewey, born in Berlin, Vt., 12 March 1828. New Hampshire College conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Prof. Scott in 1913. Children :
CHARLES FIELD b. 22 Jan. 1891. New Hampshire College, 1913. SUSAN HELEN b. 30 July 1895.
ALICE HOVEY b. 12 Aug. 1899.
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SHEPHERD
Samuel Shepherd was admitted to church, 3 July 1726, with Widow Anne Shepherd, his mother. He married, 23 March 1726/7, Margaret Creichton and had children baptized, viz., Samuel 24 Dec. 1727, who married 21 Oct. 1761, Elizabeth Hill [See page 287 of Vol. I.] and Mary baptized 13 April 1729.
John Shepherd had children baptized, Mary 25 June 1726 and Susanna 6 Jan. 1728/9. He lived near Shepherd's bridge, on the road to Newmarket and may have been father or grandfather of Deborah Shepherd who married Joseph Hearne, 16 Nov. 1796, and of Polly Shepherd who married Ebenezer Kent in 181I. John Shepherd removed to Holderness and was captain of a company of Rogers's Rangers in 1757.
In 1792 Reuben Bickford was released from the demands of the town for £15, if he would take care of his sister Shepherd and three children for three years.
William Shepherd was baptized 21 April 1728. He lived in Durham, 1726-47, on ten acres next to Joseph Bickford, on the east side of the Newmarket road. It is probable that the above Samuel, John and William were brothers. William Shepherd had one third of a share in the division of common lands in 1734.
Rebecca Shepherd married Joseph Hanson, 28 Nov. 1727.
SIAS
Some think this family is of Huguenot origin and that the name may have been Seyes. John Cyas was of Wells, Me., in 1698 and then married Ann Pitman. [See York Deeds, Vol. V.] She was doubtless daughter of William Pitman of Oyster River, whither John Sias removed immediately after his marriage. In 1701 he had a grant of twenty acres, "adjoining his house." He had a share in the division of common lands in 1733, as also did John, Jr., Samuel, Solomon and Clement Sias. His home- stead was sold by his son, Joseph, to Samuel Demeritt, 18 Sept. 1756. His wife was baptized by the Rev. Hugh Adams, 7 June 1724. She made a deposition 22 Feb. 1734, aged about 62, that forty-five years ago she lived with William Follett and raked hay on his marsh near Johnson's Creek four or five seasons. [Court Files, 23424.]
HANNAH b. 21 Aug. 1700; m. 15 March 1719/20, John More of Portsmouth; d. II Feb. 1786 in Canterbury.
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RACHEL m. Nathaniel Meader, 17 Dec. 1724/5.
JUDITH bapt. 7 June 1724; m. 3 Dec. 1724, Hercules Hunking of Portsmouth.
2. JOHN m. Hannah Sampson of Wells.
3. SAMUEL m. Phebe SOLOMON bapt. 25 July 1725; m. Hannah L. in Lee in 1765.
CLEMENT 1. in Canterbury in 1737.
4. JOSEPH m. Ruth Mathes.
2. John Sias, Jr., was baptized 8 Oct. 1721 and admitted to church 2 Feb. 1723. He married, 16 July 1728, Hannah Samp- son of Wells, Me. She was born in 1710 and died in Danville, Vt., Feb. 1794. He removed to Canterbury.
ABIGAIL bapt. 26 Oct. 1729. BENJAMIN 1. in Canterbury, N. H., and Danville, Vt.
5. NATHANIEL m. Abigail CHARLES 1. in Canterbury. Had son, Samuel, who m. Chamberlain.
3. Samuel Sias (John) was of Lee in 1765. His will, 5 Sept. I774-8 Feb. 1775, names wife, Phebe, and the following children:
ANNE m. Leathers.
ABIGAIL m. Watson.
COMFORT m. Valentine Kenniston of Northwood.
ELIZABETH.
TAMESIN bapt. 3 Sept. 1749; m. Jeremiah Ladd.
Daughter prob. who m. - Hill and had son, John Hill, named as grandson in Samuel Sias' will.
JOHN m. perhaps Widow Lydia McCrillis, whose first hus- band, William McCrillis, was mortally wounded at Bunker Hill. John Sias of Lee enlisted in 1775, aged 21. It was perhaps his son, Solomon, who was impressed in the British Navy and got his freedom by the War of 1812.
4. Capt. Joseph Sias (John) was a prominent man in Durham, often serving as moderator and selectman. He bought land of John Sias, Jr., in 1731. He is called Joseph Sias, Esq., in 1793 and was then of Lee. He married Ruth, daughter of Francis and Lydia (Drew) Mathes. He is called lieutenant and captain in the town records. He is named as grantee in more than fifty deeds. He signed the petition for the incorporation of Lee and was representative from that town, 1776-77. He deeded land, 29 Nov. 1783, to daughter Lois, wife of William French. He was delegate to Congresses at Exeter before the Revolution and
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Special Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. His wife died 10 Feb. 1801, aged 79-3-18. Children known were:
Lois m. William French.
LYDIA b. 4 Sept. 1745; m. 7 Feb. 1765, David Lawrence of Epping.
THIRD GENERATION
5. Nathaniel Sias (John2, John1) had wife, Abigail, and lived in Lee. Little has been learned of him, except that he had a son,
Maj. Nathaniel Sias, born in Lee 10 Sept. 1770. He married (1) 28 Feb. 1793, Rebecca, daughter of Richard Risley of East Hartford, Conn., who died at Danville, Vt., 20 March 1800. He married (2) 25 Aug. 1800, Nancy, daughter of Winthrop Smith, who died 10 Sept. 1859, aged 90 years. He removed from Danville, Vt., to Newmarket, N. H., and died 27 Feb. 1837, aged 66-5-17. Children by first marriage were:
WELTHEN DEMMING b. 8 Jan. 1794; m. 25 March 1818, Phineas Willey; d. 17 May 1830.
NANCY SMITH b. 22 Jan. 1798; d. 3 Jan. 1818. Unm. Children by second marriage:
MARY WILSON b. 18 July 1801; m. -- Howe. Had son,
Nathaniel Sias Howe, b. in Newmarket 28 March 1828.
ABIGAIL SHERBURNE b. 9 Feb. 1805.
AMELIA b. 22 April 1807.
SUSANNA CHESLEY b. 29 Jan. 1810.
REBECCA RISLEY b. I April 1812; d. 3 Oct. 1826.
UNCLASSIFIED
m. 17 April 1759, Thomas Noble and Mary Sias.
Samuel Sias, Jr., soldier in 1748, aged 21.
Samuel Sias, Revolutionary soldier, of Nottingham, in 1775, aged 30.
SIMPSON
Andrew Simpson, born in Nottingham, died I July 1835, aged 66. He married 29 June 1800, Sarah, daughter of Robert Lapish of Durham, who died 16 Feb. 1854, aged 73. He lived near the Durham end of Pascataqua Bridge and in Durham village, in the house that is now the parsonage. He had a son,
Capt. Andrew Lapish Simpson, born 2 Oct. 1800, who married, 23 Sept. 1840, Lydia Kelly, who was born in Madbury, 29 Jan. 1814 and died 31 May 1895, daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Leighton) Kelly. [See page 215 of Vol. I.]
Andrew and Sarah (Lapish) Simpson had also children, Caro- line b. April 1802 and James b. April 1804.
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SMALL
Edward Small, son of Francis Small the emigrant, born about 1651, married Mary, daughter of Capt. John and Mary (Field) Woodman. He is said to have been in Jones' garrison during the Indian raid of 1694. There were granted to Edward Small, 19 March 1693/4, "forty acres of land joining to his plantation above the head of Oyster River, with the privilege on both sides of said river for erecting and setting up a mill." He removed to Chat- ham, Mass., then called Monomoit, and died there the last day of April 1702. He was a carpenter and had charge of the building of the church at Monomoit. [See letter of Capt. John Woodman in chapter on Military History.] His widow returned to Oyster River and, 10 June 1707, Jonathan Woodman and wife, Elizabeth, "for ye natural love and affection which I have & bear to my sister Mary Small," conveyed to her twenty acres on the south side of Oyster River betwixt the mill pond and the river. Just here an old cellar is easily found. Mary Small had a grant of twenty acres, 24 Oct. 1721, for doctoring one Archibel Smith, who had a very bad wound in his knee. This land she conveyed with the buildings thereon, in 1742, to her two grandsons, Edward and Joseph Small of Durham. Children were:
EDWARD mn. 3 April 1704, Sarah Nickerson and 1. in Chatham, Mass.
ELIZABETH m. I Sept. 1704, Caleb Lumbert of Monomoit. JONATHAN m. 30 July 1713, Damaris Winslow and 1. in Har- wich, Mass.
2. JOSEPH m. 27 Nov. 1718, Jemima Davis and 1. at O. R.
ZACHARIAH b. 1698; m. 3 March 1720, Jane Davis, (2) Hannah, widow of Ebenezer Paine of Eastham, and 1. in Harwich, Mass.
BENJAMIN m. 29 June 1726, Patience Baker and 1. in Harwich, Mass.
ALICE.
2. The following children of Joseph and Jemima (Davis) Small were baptized by the Rev. Hugh Adams:
3. EDWARD bapt. 17 Sept. 1721; est. adm. 1770; m. I Aug. 1749, Hannah Hall.
JOSEPH bapt. with his mother 6 Aug. 1721; had wife, Joanna, in 1770.
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