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THE PARISH OF RYE.
rated as " a parish by the name of Rye." By this act Rye was to send a representative to the assembly, and the selectmen for that year were to be William Seavey, Jr., Samuel Brackett, Joshua Foss, Richard Goss, Joseph Philbrook, John Garland, Richard Jenness, Lieut. William Lock, and Joseph Lock. The town elected Richard Jenness to the assembly the same year.
It was in 1721 that the first move of the residents of Sandy Beach toward securing a separation of their district from New- castle was made, a petition to that effect being presented to the provincial authorities that year. The petition and the signers thereof were as follows :
To his Excellency Samuel Shute Esqr Capt Geni & Governor in chief in and over his Majties Province of New Hampshire &c .- To the Honble the Coun- cil & House of Representatives. Now conven'd in Gen1 Assembly in & in and for sª Province :
The humble Petition of Sundry the Inhabitants living about Sandy Beach, partly in New Castle, Hampton and Portsmouth humbly sheweth :
That Your Petitioners, the subscribers hereof, have for these many Years past lived under great inconveniencies as to their having the free benefit of the gospell, most of us Living at great Distances from our respective Meet- ing Houses, especially those belonging to New-Castle ; for that besides the great distance wee live from thence, there is great Inconvenience of a Ferry, by the Reasons of which for neare half the yeare, Wee the Masters of fami- lies that are best able cannot but now and then attend upon the Publick wor- ship of God (as in duty we are bound) and when we doe, It is many times late within Night e're wee can reach our habitations ; And besides this great inconvenience to ourselves, there is a much greater happens to the greatest part of our families (viz) our Women and Children, Who can rarely attend at all or not above two or three times in the Yeare-and then but those that are grown to years ; for our Younger children that should imbibe in the pre- cepts of the gospell with their milk, Cannot attend untill grown to some years ; Wee having four, five & some more than six miles besides the Ferry ; And we can now count amongst us above two hundred and forty souls and not one third Capeable to attend as wee are now circumstanced ; And we think ourselves Capeable to maintain a Minister of the Gospel, and to give a Competent Liveing, as our neighboring Pa'shes & precincts do :-
Therefore wee, Your humble Petitioners prays that we may be set off a p'tic- ular precinct (from Mr William Seaveys and West ward by the Sea-side as far towards Hampton as the little Boars head or Little River, And back into the Country about three miles & a halfe or soe far as in Your wisdom shall
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see meet ) and that we may be impowered to make and raise all our own taxes & gather them ; So prays Your humble Petitioners :
Samuel Locke
Thomas Rand
John Locke
Isack Libe
Benjamin Seavy Jun
William Wallis
Jacob Libe
Moses Seavey
John Brackett
James Locke
William Marden
Thomas Rand
John Garland
Nemiah Beary
Joshua Foss
Ebenezer Philbrick
Nathaniel Beary
Edward Locke
William Seavey
William Beary
Benjamin Sevey
James Seavey
Samuel Beary
William Lock
Phillip Pain
Samuel Dovost
Nicolas Hodge
Samuel Rand
James Marden
James Fowler
Samuel Brackett
Richard Goss
Samuel Seavey
Joseph Seavey
Ebenezer Berry
Joseph Brown
Francis Locke
Jethro Locke
Stephen Beary
John Knowles
Hezekiah Jennes
Thos Jennes
John Jennes
Chris : Palmer
Samuel Seavy
Richard Jannes
John Locke Jr
Joseph Locke
Nathaniel Rand
Samuel Dovst (Dowst)
Samuel Wallis
William Sevey Jun
This petition proved ineffective, and the Sandy Beach peo- ple continued to suffer through being a long way from any church, and separated by an arm of the sea from the one at Newcastle; and in 1724 another petition was drawn up and presented, as follows :
To the Honble John Wentworth Esq Liut Govr and Commander in chief in and over his Maj sts Province of New Hampshire in New England, and to the Honble the Council for sd Province :
The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants living in that part of New Castle called Little Harbour and Sandy Beach and the Inhabitants living at the Eastward of the Little River commonly so called, att the Easterly end of Hampton next Sandy Beach and Sundry others of Portsmouth Living near the sd Sandy Beach humbly Sheweth That there being sixty familys or up- ward within the Precints above named who having for a long time lived att. a great Distance from any Meeting house Where the publick Worship of God has been carried on, and most of us having great familys which very rare above one or Two of a family can go to the House of God for the great- est part of the time by Reason of the Distance we live from any Meeting house, and thereby the greatest part of our familys have been Deprived of the Dispensation of the Gospell, and there has been allmost a famine of the
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THE PARISH OF RYE.
Word and Worship of God amongst us, theire being near four hundred souls Whereof not above the sixth or seventh part can attend sd Worship Which is very Preduditiall to the glory of God and Destructive to our Eternall wellfare, for the greatest part of us thus to be brought up in Ignorance which is a Greater Griefe to us than we can herein Express and the only cause of addressing yr Honr and the Honble the Council herein
And for preventing the Difficulties and Hardships which wee have for a long time labourd under, and for the advancement of the Glory of God and good of Souls. Wee the Subscribers hereof humbly prays your Hont and the Honorable the Councill that Wee may be sett off a Particular District or Precinct for the maintaining a minister with the Priviledges of carying on the affairs of a Town or Parish according to the bounds hereafter Exprest or as your Honrs in wisdom shall see meet (viz.) To begin att Sampson's
TYPICAL RESIDENCE OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO AT SANDY BEACH.
Point and run South West to the Road from Seaveys to ye Bank [Ports- mouth] and there on the Southerly side of the Road by Capt Walkers and Capt Langdon's to the road that goes to Breakfast Hill (Exclusive of that part of Capt Walkers and Capt Langdon's Land that now lyeth in Ports- mouth) and on the Southerly side of the road from between Capt Langdon's and Sloper's Farms to Breakfast Hill to the Road from sd Sandy Beach to Greenland, and then on a South West line until it meets with Little River in Hampton Bounds, and then on the Easterly side Little River to ye Sea and then round by the sea side to ye Place where itt began, and that all the land that Elias Tarleton and Jeremiah Jordan and Abraham Libby enjoy may be poled off to sd Town or Parish herein mentioned, wee having been at the charge of building a Meeting House by the Consent and att the charge of most of the Inhabitants within the Bounds herein mentioned ; hopeing
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your Honra will grant so reasonable a request for so good End, and your Petitioners shall ever pray &c
Jotham Odiorne
Sam1 Doust
Hez Gennins Jun
Wm Sevey
Eben Berry
Sam1 Wallis
Wm Wallis
Sam1 Brackett
Nehemiah Berry
Hezh Gennins (Jenness) Sam1 Seavey Jun
Richd Rand
Tho Rand
Jno Noles (Knowles)
Thos Edmunds
Phillip Payne
Jno Lock
Edwd Lock
Jno Gennins
Jno Locke Jun
Jno Moor
Richª Gennins
James Marden
Benja Seavey Jun
Richª Goss
Solomon Doust
James Randall
Sam1 Seavy
Christ Palmer
Isaac Libby
Sam1 Rand
Theo Gennins
Jacob Libby
Thos Rand Jun
Nath1 Rand
Eben Philbrick
Jos Seavy
Wm Locke
Sam1 Locke
Elias Tarlton
Wm Marden
Abm Libby
Jeremiah Jordan
Jos Lock
Wm Seavy tertius
Elex Simes
James Seavy
Wm Webster
Benja Seavy Jun
WVm Berry
James Shute
Nath1 Berry
Ez Noles (Knowles)
Wm Seavy Jun
Francis Locke
Joshª Foss
Sam1 Berry
Stephen Berry
James Lock
Wm Gammon
Jonathan Locke
James Fuller
Stephen Marden 63
This petition, though not so numerously signed as the one of 1721, states the number of persons to be benefited by a separa- tion, at " near four hundred," as against the " above two hun- dred and forty souls" mentioned in the earlier one, and also mentions that the petitioners and other inhabitants of the dis- trict have already built a meeting-house. The difference in the number of residents is accounted for by the greater extent of the territory asked by the second petition to be set off.
Portsmouth did not take kindly to the proposition for a fur- ther contraction of its boundaries, as the following from the town records, signed Josh. Pierce, town clerk, and dated 2Ist April, 1724, shows :
Vote and Remonstrance of Portsmouth against the Petition from Sandy Beach :
Att a Publick Town Meeting held in Portsmouth the 20 Apr. 1724 Votd That Ye Prayer of Sandy Beach so far as it relates to this Town is highly unreasonable & yt Coll Plaistead & Capt Phipps Esqr & Mr Wm
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Fellows be a Comittee in behalfe of sª Town to appear before Ye Govr & Councill upon ye hearing of ye sd Petition & Remonstrate against ye same & Implead ye Petition's generally so yt there may be no further curtailing or Dividing of ye sd Town ; which is already Reduc'd to very narrow limits, by New Castle, Greenland & Newington & yt ye Committee be Impowerd to imply an attorney in ye Premises if there be occasion.
The opposition of Portsmouth and Newcastle proved effec- tive, and the request of the petitioners was not granted; but they did not weary in the work, and the next year (1725) pre- sented the following :
Petition from sundry inhabitants of Little Harbour, Sandy Beach and Hamp- ton 1725.
To the Honourable John Wentworth Esq' Lieut Governor and Commander- in-chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire : To the Honourable the Council and Representatives in Gen1 Assembly convend at Portsmouth in the sd Province :
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Little Harbour and Sandy Beach in the town of New Castle, and Sundry of the Inhabitants of the East end of the Town of Hampton and some of Portsmo or Greenland most humbly sheweth : That the dwelling-Places of yr Petitioners with their families which consists of the number of more than Four hundred Souls are very far distant from the settled Meeting-Houses in the respective towns to which they belong and thereby their attendance on the publick Worship of God on the Lord's days is rendered extremely difficult and at some times impossible in stormy Weather, and in the Winter season, especially, to their Women and children, so that they cannot pay to God the Honor of publick Wor- ship on his day, which Religion and the laws of the Government demand of them; and your petition'rs with their wives and children are brought up in Ignorance of his word : Which evil cannot be remided but by the favour of Your Honors and the Honorable Assembly in constituting them a seper- ate District or Precinct from their respective towns, to which they now be- long, and enabling them to carry on the Public Worship of God amongst themselves ; and therefore Yor Petitioners most humbly pray that your Honour and this Honorable Assembly would please set off that part of New Castle called Sandy Beach & Little Harbour, with such of Hampton Portsm" or Greenland as to you in Your Wisdom shall seem proper to be a district or Precinct for the carrying on the Worship of God and maintaining a School therein according to law, and your Petitioners shall ever pray as in duty bound &c
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HISTORY OF RVE.
Sam1 Seavy
Thos Jennes
Ebenezar Berry
Joseph Lock
John Jennes Jun
his
John Lock Jun
Sam1 Lock
William X Marden
Thomas Jeffrey ( ?)
Phillip Pain
mark
James Fuller
Richard Jennes
William Marden Jun
David Smith
Samuel Gove
Solo Doust Jun
Ezekeel Knowls
Francis Lock
Samuel Rand
Wm Gennings (?)
Isiak Lybe
Solomon Doust
Stephen Beary
Alexander Sims
William Barry
William Lock
John Knowles
Nehemiah Barry
Jethro Lock
Jonathan Lock
James Seavy
Oreno Doust
Hezekiah Jennes
Samuel Wales
Willm Sevey Jun
William Wallis
John Jenes
James Shute
Samuel Brackett
James Lock
John Lock
William Lock
John Garland
Christopher Palmer
Isaac Dow
Beneamen Lamprey
Ebenezar Philbrick
James Marden
William Rand
James Berry Thomas Rand
Simon Knowles
Joseph Seavy
John Pain
Jacob Libbe
Benj Seavy
Nath' Rand
Nathaniel Bary
Edwd Randle
Thomas Rand
Daniel Hasley
Edward Lock
Joshua Foss
WVm Gammon
This petition, after being considered in the house, was tem- porarily disposed of in accordance with a vote recorded as fol- lows :
Xth Ye 29, 1725. In the House Representatives
The Within Petition being read : Ordered that the towns of New Castle, Portsmouth, Hampton & Greenland be notified by the Petitioners to appear on the second day of the sitting of the spring Sessons next, to shew cause (if any they have) Why the Prayer of the Petition may not be granted.
Jas. Jeffry, CIr. Assm.
With the hearing on their petition postponed to another year, the petitioners set about strengthening their case, and to that end drew up and signed the following :
Whereas we the subscribers did formerly Petition to the Goverment of this Province to be set off for a Precinct or District, which we humbly con- ceive was denyed because it was thought that if the prayer of the Petition were granted, the Great Island could not subsist to maintain a Minister there without the assistance of a great part of the subscribers ; now to take of that objection, and in order that the Gospel may be continued both at the Island
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and Sandy Beach, We the subscribers consent that Twenty pounds annually during the Revd Mr. Shurtliff's life, or continuance in the ministry at the Is- land, be allowd as follows : viz, That wheras Little Harbour side with Sandy Beach used to pay near one third part of Mr Shurtliff's Salary, and there being five persons on Little Harbour side that do not desire to join with us, the Petitioners, viz Lieut Jno Sherburn Tobias Lear, Jno Odiorne, James Randle, and the Widow Wallis who used to pay about six pounds annually towards the minister's rate, We the subscribers do promise and engage to make that sum Twenty pounds annually as aforesd, Provided that we may be cleared from all other Parish Taxes to the several places where we do now belong.
December 14th 1725
In Province of New Hamp
We also quit or right to the Twelve Pounds paid by the Isle of Shoals-
William Seavey
Nathl Berry
William Lock
William Walles
Edward Lock
Richard Goss
Thomas Rand
Benjamin Seavey
Nathanael Rand
Samuel Brackett
Samuel Walles
William Marden
John Lock Joshua Foss
Ezekiel Knowles
James Lock
Samuel Berry
Solomon Doust
Benjamin Seavey, jun
Joseph Lock
John Garland
Samuel Rand
James Shute
David Smith
Philip Pain
William Rand
Ebenr Philbrick
James Fuller
Zach. Berry
Joh Knowles
William Gammon
William Berry
Stephen Berry
William Seavey, tertius, James Marden
Jonathan Lock
Jethro Goss
Saml Doust
John Locke, jun.
Amos Rand
Ebenr Berry
Samuel Seavey
Joshua Rand
Ozem Doust
Hezekiah Jenes
William Marden, jun.
Samuel Seavey, jun.
Richard Jennes
William Lock, jun.
Francis Lock
John Jennes
John Pain
Jethro Lock
Nehemiah Berry
Thomas Rand, jun.
Samuel Lock
Thomas Berry
Thomas Jennes
Christopher Palmer
Sandy Beach, Petition, Dec. 29, 1725.
The movement for a separate parish succeeded in 1726, as the following extracts from the legislative records for that year show, the first extract evidently referring to the disposition made of the question at the previous session, and being merely explanatory of the action taken in 1726:
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HISTORY OF RYE.
Joseph Locke and others Prefered a Petition to the board directed to the Gen1 Assemly Praying for a Precinct at Sandy beech Wch was read and sent down by Sam' Penhallow & George Jaffray. It was at last resolved That the hearing on sª Petition be Suspended till ye Second day of ye next Spring Sessons.
Joseph Locke and others were admitted to the Board to proscute their Petition for a Parish at Sandy beach & the Agents for Portsmouth, Green- land, Hampton & New Castle appeared also & when fully heard upon sd Pe- tition, The Petitioners for a Parish at Sandy Beach having obtained leave to bring in a bill. Presented one accordingly Weh having had its several readings in Each house the same was Pass'd to be enacted and was signd & sealed accordingly. The title is "An act for Settling and Establishing Two Parishes In the Town of New Castle."
In the House of Representatives
At a Rehearing of the affairs of Sandy Beech Petition Voted That the Petitioners be Let off from all charges both of Poore & all other Town charges relating to the Ministry and Schools of the Town whereto they belong ; that said Petitioners pay fourteen pounds a yeare to the Island of New Castle towards the support of the Ministry There During the Contin- uing of the reverend Mr William Shurtlief in the Ministry there. And that the Island of New Castle be allowed and Paid twelve Pounds pr Annum out of the Exercise towards the Sallary of Mr William Shurtlief, During his abode at New Castle in the Ministry there: And that the Petitioners are obliged to make good all former arrearages & Ingagements in the Towns whereto they belong. And that the Petitioners are obliged to Maintain an able Orthodox Minister of the Gospell at their own charges And that the Island of New Castle be at liberty about a Grammar schoole. And that the Petitioners be and are hereby Impowered to make taxes for the Maintaining theire Minister and Poore as other Towns in this Province are .- Mr John Redmond & } entered theire Dissent agt the above Vote Mr John Sanborn
The Sandy Beech Petition being in Dispute whether it should pas with the Amendments on the Vote of the Councell And the house Consisting then of Eleven Members present, five were for passing on it with the Amendment & five agt it and y" it rested with the Speaker to determine the Vote who tooke time to consider thereon till the next Morning & then the house Adjourned to friday ye 15th Apr 1726-
In the House of Representatives-A Vote past for Sandy beech Petition- ers to be a p'ish by the Name of Rye &c sent up.
March ye 26, 1726 House of Representatives Voted that there be a Precept Sent to the Town of New Castle to Chuse a Meet Pson to represent the P'ish of Rye in the fall Sessons
James Jeffrey Clr Ass™
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Thursday April 28th 1726 A. M. In the House of Representatives The Vote for Sandy Beach Petitioners after several amendmts was Voted and Sent up and Now to be Named the P'ish of Rye.
Mr Sheriff Gambling made Return of his precept to New Castle for the choice of a Representative for the P'ish of Ry : there being some Defect in his return-it was sent to him to amend it. 1726-9 mo 23ª
A Messª from the House to the Board yt there was a Member for the P'ish of Rye to be Qualified and Mr CIr Waldron, Richard Wibird & archie MacP Esqrs was Sent Down to Admr the Proper Oaths to ye said Member which being Don the said Richard Jennes was admitted to his place as a member of the Gen1 Assm.
The seating of Richard Jenness as a member of the general assembly from the parish of Rye marks the first success of the endeavor to secure separation from Newcastle; yet still the separation was not complete and absolute, for Rye, though its people were "impowered to make taxes for the maintaining their minister and poore as other Towns in this Province are," was not a full-fledged town. "The Island of New Castle" was left " at liberty about a grammar school " in the new parish ;. and the precept to " chuse a meet person to represent the Parish of Rye in the fall sessions " was sent, not to designated officials of the parish of Rye, but " to the Town of Newcastle." Though independent in the management of church affairs and the care of the poor, Rye was not yet in all respects an inde- pendent town. The selectmen, in a petition to the general assembly in 1729 for the establishing of a boundary line between Hampton and Rye, call it " the humble petition of the Parish of Rye in New Castle "; and in deeds and state papers, up to the close of the Revolutionary war, though Rye is not always mentioned as " in New Castle," it is always designated as a " parish," and never as a " town." And that it continued to be only a parish for some time after the close of the Revolu- tionary war, is shown by the following from the State Papers :
At a Legal Meeting of Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Parish of Rye conven'd at the Meeting House in sd Parish on Monday the Ninth day of June A. D. 1783
Voted that the Selectmen Present the within Petition to the general Court and that a Copy of this Vote be inserted on the Back of the Petition
True Copy Attest
Joseph Parsons Clerk P. T.
RYE CENTER, 1889.
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Samuel Jenness for a Magistrate! addressed to the President and Coun- cil 1784
We your Humble Petitioners Shoes that wharas Samuel Jenness Esqr of Rye in the state aforesaid and County of Rockingham has been one of our Justes of the Peas for abought Twelve Years and in Peticular through the Deficaltes of the late War and as their has Northing appeared against his Conduct in that office we your Houmbel Petitoners prayes that he may be Renued under the New Constitution and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound will ever Pray-
Rye January 20th 1784
Joseph Rand
William Seavy
Daniel Seavey
Nathan Knowles
Samuel Mooreson
Dowst Rand
Samuel Daves
Jonathan Jenness Junr
Nathaniel Rand
Jacob Beary Jonathan Lock
Ebenezar Walles
Richard Brown
Benjamin Jenness
Daneil Mason
Jonathan Lock Junr
Frances Jenness Junr
Walles Foss
Samuel Walles (Wallis) Job Foss
William Yeaton
David Lock
Robord Sanders
Timothy Beary
Isaac Dow
Abraham Mathas
George Randall
Levi Goss
Samuel Rand
William Bary
John Webster
Richard Jenness 3ª
Joseph Rand Junr
thomas Lang
Richª Jenness Junr
Tristam Sleeper
Samuel Walles
Joseph Yeaton
Reuben Moulton
Abraham Libbey
Peter Johnson Junr
Jonathan Towle
John Jenness
John Foss
Samuel Towle
William Trefetheren
Bickford Lang
Stephen Rand
Robord Sanders Junr
Jeremiah Barry
Jeremiah Brown
Enemiah Moulton
Benjamin Marden
Samuel Smith
Joseph Jenness
Nathaniel Tucker
Henry Elkins
Richd Webster
Isrel Rand
Richª Jenness
Jonathan Jenness
Edward Hall,
John Jenness
Joseph Seavey
William Tucker
Nathaniel Jenness
Levi Jenness
Joseph Hall
Nathaniel Jenness Junr
Benjamin Marden
Simon Jenness
Reuben Philbrock
John Doust
Frances Jenness
Peter Jenness
Ozem Doust
Joseph Rand
John Jenness 3ª
James Brown
Job Jenness
John Brown
Eliger Lock
William Lock
Simon Jonson
Peter Garland
Neckles Dolbey
Benjamin Garland
Neither the state records nor those of the town (or parish) of Rye tells us, except indirectly, where the people of Rye were required to vote. Probably all meetings relating to church
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affairs, the poor, the election of selectmen, etc., were held in the church; for the election of representatives, at Newcastle. In 1745 the house " Voted that ye member for Ry be seated & placed immediately next to New Castle," and in 1748 a pre- cept for representatives was issued for "New Castle and Rye jointly. Two to be chosen at a meeting of both towns or par- ishes jointly at New Castle." In 1749 "Wm. Frost Esq brot into the House of Representatives a Petition from Sundry In- habitants of New Castle and Rye representing illegal proceed- ings in the election of Theº Bell & Richard Jenness Esqrs to be Representatives & Praying that they may be dismissed from this House "-which prayer was not granted. This precept and petition are conclusive that the voters of Rye in 1749 went to Newcastle to elect a representative, and it is a reasonable inference that all elections of representatives for Rye, so long as it was a parish of Newcastle, were held in the latter place. The earliest record of an election (other than a parish election) be- ing held in Rye is the following :
Alleged illegal Election 1775
Colony of New Hampshire
To the honorable Provincial Congress to be held at Exeter 21 st day of De- cemr 1775-
The Humble petition of us the Subscribers Freeholders and Inhabitants of Rye in the County of Rockingham Shews that Mr Nathan Goss of said Rye Carpenter at a Meeting of the free holders and Inhabitants of said Rye held there the Eleventh day of this instant by indirect ways and means obtained the Majority of the Votes of said Inhabitants appointing him as a Delegate of said Congress, the said Goss having no real Estate in this Colony to qualify him for that important Trust-
Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray that the said Goss may be dis- missed and that the Inhabitants of said Rye may be admitted to a New Choice-and your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever Pray
Rye Decem' 15th 1775
Ozem Doust Nehemiah Moulton
William Berry Jun™
Francis Jenness
Arter Libbey
William Berry
Joseph Jenness
Henry Elkins
Nathan Towl
Jonathan Towl Jun™ Samuel Elkins Nicholas Dolbeen
Richard Brown
Richard Jenness 3ª Francis Jenness Jun™
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Titus Philbrick
Benjamin Libbey
Richard Jenness Junr
Sam11 Jenness
Reuben Moulton
Jeremiah Berry
Samuel Wells
Simon Lampere
Joseph Rand Junr
Simon Jenness
Richard Jenness
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