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Mr. Bachiler was thrice married. His second wife, England, was Helena -; she died --- , and he married (about 1648) at Portsmouth, Mrs. Mary Beedle, widow of Robert Beedle. Mr. Bachiler took her as his house-keeper in 1647, and later they were married. They had one daughter, Mary Bachiler, or Batchelder, as the name is now spelled. The genealogists have overlooked this daughter, so it is well to make particu- lar mention of her, as she has descendants. She was born about 1649. She married William Richards. See N. H. Probate Records as published, Vol. I., p. 141. It appears that Mr. Bachiler did not publish his marriage, as the law demanded, for which offense he was fined in court, in 1650. In 1652 he applied for a divorce. They appear to have separated, as in November of that year "Mary Bachiller," with thirty-five land-owners in Kit- tery, signed the document which placed the District of Maine under Massachusetts, where it remained till 1820. She was the only woman who signed that document. See page 142 of Stackpole's History of Old Kittery.
The children from whom Hampton families are de- scended are:
A daughter who married John Sanborn in England and who died there; her children, grandsons of Mr. Bachiler, came to Hampton with him; from them the Sanborn families are descended.
A son, Stephen Bachiler, whose son Nathaniel came to Hampton with his grandfather, and from whom the Batchelder families are descended.
A daughter, Theodate, wife of Christopher Hussey; she is the only child of Mr. Bachiler who came to Hampton, or New England.
The tradition is that Mr. Bachiler was of remarka- ble personal appearance; he commanded attention where ordinary men would pass unnoticed. He was vigorous, bodily and mentally, till past four score and ten years of age. He was particularly noticeable for his wonder- ful, fascinating eyes, which were dark and deep set
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under broad arches: when he had "gathered his forces," and the occasion demanded, he could throw lightning glances that carried the audience by storm.
Descendants :- Mrs. Deborah Carr, Franklin Benja- min Sanborn, Albert H. Lamson, John Scales, Mrs. An- nie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney, John Mark Moses.
BRACKETT, CAPTAIN ANTHONY was son of Anthony Brackett of Portsmouth. Much of his life was passed in Falmouth, (Portland) Me., and it was there that on the 9th of August, 1776, Indians killed one of his cows and he complained to a Chief, named Symon, who promised to bring the culprits to him. Two days later Symon appeared, early in the morning, at the head of a party of Indians and said-"These are the Indians who killed the cow." Then they rushed into the house and seized the Captain's guns and said: "Will you go into captivity with us, or be killed?" The Captain pre- ferred captivity to killing. The Indians then bound his hands behind him, also they bound his wife and negro servant, and took the five children, and marched them off to Canada. In November following Capt. Brackett, his wife, servant and one child made their escape in a leaky boat and came to Hampton, N. H., where he spent several years. His wife Ann died soon after they returned. Anthony Brackett, Sr., signed the grant for the Glebe lands in Portsmouth in 1640.
He married, second, 9 Nov. 1678, Susannah, daughter of Abraham Drake (3). The historian Drake says: "When Col. Church had the memorable fight with the Indians at Casco, Sept. 21, 1689, Capt. Brack- ett was killed. After that his wife and children went to live with his father at Hampton, but finally returned to their possession in Falmouth." Their children's births are recorded in Hampton, as are the children of Zachariah, hence the presumption is that the family lived in Hampton, off and on, so that the records were kept there.
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Children: (1) James, b. 7 Feb. 1679 .- (2) Zippo- rah, b. 28 Sept. 1680 ; m. Caleb Towle (5) ; d. 14 Aug. 1757 .- (3) Zachariah, b. 20 Jan. 1682; m. Hannah (1) .- (4) Ann, b. 18 June, 1687; m. James Leavitt (4) ; d. 10 Feb. 1748 .- (5) Susannah, b. 29 Aug. 1689; m. Jasper Blake.
Descendent: Hon. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Dr. James Spalding.
BARTLETT, NATHAN, b. 1691-1775. He was born in Newbury and came to Kittery in 1713. He was son of John and Margaret (Rust) Bartlett of that town; John was son of Richard and Abigail Bartlett, of the same town, and grandson of Richard Bartlett who came to America in 1635 and settled in Newbury, Mass .; he was a tanner; he died there 25 May, 1647. The ancestors of the Bartletts came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and fought at the battle of Hastings. Stopham, England, is the ancestral seat of the family. There were two brothers, Richard and John; the latter came over to Newbury in the ship "Mary and John," in 1634. He was one of the earliest settlers in Newbury. His brother Richard came the next year. They were both tanners and cordwainers, and became bosses of that business in that town. Ac- cording to the biography of the Bartlett family pub- lished by Levi Bartlett, Esq., of Warner, N. H., in 1876, these brothers, John and Richard, were sons of Ed- mund Barttelot of Ernley and Stopham, England, and that they sold their lands to the heir of the Stopham estates and thereby had the pecuniary means to emi- grate to America and set up business here, at New- bury; they located in business at what has ever since been called Bartlett's Cove in Newbury, opposite Ames- bury Ferry, where some of their descendants of the same name still reside, engaged in the same occupation, and perhaps on the same spot. The town records show that they were men of ability and influence, and while
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taking good care of their private business, participated in public affairs in a creditable manner. Richard Bartlett, Jr., was Deputy in the General Court at Bos- ton, in 1679, 1680, 1681 and 1684. He was born in England in 1621, died at Newbury, 1698, aged 77 years.
Nathan Bartlett, grandson of Richard, Jr., settled on the Bartlett farm at Rosemary Junction of the elec- tric railway, in Eliot, in 1713; it was then Old Kittery. He built the house that now stands there, in 1740. It is a large two-story dwelling, and in good state of preservation. Here six generations of the Bartlett family have dwelt. The late James W. Bartlett, who died in 1914, was the last of the name to own it; it is still owned by the family, but not in the name-Bartlett, in which it had been for two hundred years-1713- 1914.
Nathan Bartlett married 10 March, 1714-5, Shua, daughter of Capt. John and Phebe (Littlefield) Heard. Capt. Heard was son of Ensign James Heard, who was son of John Heard of Sturgeon Creek, Eliot. Capt. Heard lived at Sturgeon Creek in 1645. They were not of the Dover family of Capt. John Heard of Garri- son Hill fame. The name "Shua" was for her grand- mother, wife of James, who married as her second husband, Richard Otis of Dover.
The children of Nathan and Shua (Heard) Bart- lett were : (1) Shua, b. 1 Jan. 1715-6 ; m. 15 Nov. 1732, Dr. Edmund Coffin .- (2) Mary, b. 1 March 1717-8; m. Thomas Dennett; (2) - Lord .- (3) Nathan, b. 30 April 1720 ; d. 7 May 1720 .- (4) Phebe, b. 8 May 1721; m. Feb. 1739, John Dennett of Portsmouth .- (5) Abigail, b. 6 Dec. 1723; m. 1741, John Shapleigh; (2) Moses Hanscom; d. 1800 .- (6) John Heard, b. 8 April 1726; m. (1) in 1747, Dorcas Moulton of York, who died 29 Jan. 1788; (2) 15 June 1788, widow Elizabeth Atkinson; (3) 1790, widow Bertha Miriam of Berwick, who died 11 April 1817, aged 82 years. He died 28 July, 1805. He was a successful school teacher. He
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was graduated from Harvard College in 1747 with the degree of A. B .; later he received the degree of A. M .; also in 1773 Dartmouth conferred the degree of A. M. Harvard Catalogue says he died in 1809; History of Kittery says 1805. Probably the Catalogue has the correct date. His son, Capt. Daniel Bartlett, m. Sarah Cutts.
Children: (1) Hannah, b. 29 Oct. 1728; m. 9 June 1745, Robert Cutts .- (2) Nathan, b. 31 March 1737; m. Sarah Shapleigh .- (3) Sarah, b. 26 May 1741; m. 28 March 1742, Stephen Ferguson; (2) - - Wentworth.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney, Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Elizabeth M. Bartlett.
BERRY, WILLIAM, was in the service of Captain John Mason in 1631. He died about 1654, and his widow, Jane, married Nathaniel Drake. After mar- riage they lived at Strawberry Bank. He died before June, 1654.
January, 1648-49, at a town meeting held at Straw- berry Bank, it was-"Granted that William Berry shall have a lot upon a neck of land upon the south side of Little River, at Sandy Beach."
John Berry, son of William, is said to have been the first settler at Sandy Beach. His wife's name was Susannah.
Children: (1) John, b. 14 Jan. 1659 .- (2) Wil- liam .- (3) James.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
BOULTER, NATHANIEL, 1625 - 1693. Na- thaniel Boulter had received a tract of land in Hamp- ton, and had sold it to William Howard previous to 8 July 1644, when in answer to the question whether he
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was an inhabitant of Hampton, it was decided as fol- lows: "The townsmen do judge that he was an inhabi- tant, and therefore approve and confirm the bargain between him and Howard." In 1645, he was living in Exeter. Not long after, perhaps 1647, he married Grace, daughter of Richard Swaine, and perhaps re- turned to Hampton at that time.
July 4, 1660, Boulter bought of John Barrett, "En- signe of Wells, in ye county of York, England," about 100 acres "lying up Taylor's river by the Indian graves (called James Wall's farm) ;" and Sept. 4 he received from his father-in-law four acres, more or less, with all the orchard growing on it, off the easterly part of his houselot, abutting, on the meeting house green," (Rand's hill). Also Swaine gave to his daughter Grace the rest of his house-lot, westward to the fence of the heirs of William Swaine, except a small parcel, about one acre, in the custody of Moses Coxe, to be kept fenced by him, he having married William Swaine's widow. In 1667, Nathaniel and Grace Boulter sold to Hannah and John Souther, minor children of John and Hannah Souther, a part of the Swaine land, one acre. The same year Boulter sold to Daniel Dow two and a half acres of planting ground west of the Souther acre, together with one share of the cow common and one share of the great Ox Common.
Children: (1) Mary, b. 16 May 1648; m. James Prescott .- (2) Temperance, b. 8 Jan. 1651; was living in 1670 .- (3) Nathaniel, b. 4 March, 1654; m. Mary Drake; d. June 1689 .- (4) Joshua, b. 1 May 1655; d. in infancy .- (5) Joshua, b. 23 Jan. 1657; d. 15 Nov. 1661 .- (6) Rebecca, b. 12 Oct. 1659; d. 1666; (7) Elizabeth, b. 23 Feb. 1669; m. 6 May 1697 Joshua Fan- ning .- (8) John, b. 2 Dec. 1672; m .-. (9) Martha.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
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BRAY, JOHN, born in England -; died in Kit- tery in the winter of 1689-90. His wife's name was Joan. He was a ship carpenter. There is no record of his being in America before 1660. In 1662, he built the house at Kittery, known as the "Bray house," a short distance east of the Pepperrell mansion. His ship yard was on the shore there, in possession of which his son-in-law, Col. William Pepperrell, carried on that business after Mr. Bray's death. The administrators of his estate were William Pepperrell, Joan Deering and Mary Bray.
The house built by John Bray in 1662 probably is still standing and is the oldest house in the present Kit- tery. It is a comfortable dwelling house, and its in- terior finish shows that it was once considered a home of luxury. It is said that anciently it was larger than now, and John Bray kept a public house of entertain- ment, then called an "ordinary." In 1672 and 1673, he was directed to put up a sign. There is no record of what was on the sign; usually they had some painting, as well as wording. Some have spoken of this as the birthplace of the mother of Sir William Pepperrell, but as she was born in 1660, it is more likely that she was born in Plymouth, England. He was one of the pioneers in shipbuilding and laid a foundation for the future wealth of his son-in-law, William Pepperrell. An interesting old painting is shown in the Bray house. Some say it is a view of Kittery Point in England. Some think it is a picture of some point in Louisburg. In the early days provincial courts were held in this house.
Children: (1) John, b. -. (2) John, b. -; m. Clement Deering, 1678 .- (3) Margery, b. 1660; m. 1680, William Pepperrell .- (4) Mary, b. 1662; m. Joseph Deering.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney, Mrs. Abby C. Griffith, John McIntire, Miss Edith M. Raitt.
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BRACKETT, JAMES, 1714-1803, was son of Joshua and Mary (Weeks) Brackett of Greenland; Joshua was born at Falmouth, Me., 1671; m. Mary Weeks and settled in Greenland. He was son of Thomas and Mary (Mitton) Brackett; Mary was daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Mitton and grand- daughter of George Cleeves, the first settler in Fal- mouth. Thomas Brackett was son of Anthony Brack- ett, Sr., who was a settler at Portsmouth before 1640, having come over with some of Captain John Mason's men. He was selectman at one time, gave money to the church, and died in 1696. His wife's name is not known. His son, Thomas, was born in 1640, and set- tled in Falmouth about 1662. He was killed by the In- dians August 11, 1676, and his wife and children were carried into captivity, but escaped and came to Ports- mouth to live, thinking it was a safer place for a resi- dence. She died in 1677.
Children of Thomas and Mary: (1) Joshua, b. 1672 ; m. Mary Haines Weeks of Greenland ; d. June 19 1749 .- (2) Samuel, b. 1673; settled in Berwick .- (3) Sarah, b. 1673; m. John Hill of Portsmouth. - (4) Mary, b. 1675 ; m. Christopher Mitchell of Kittery.
Children of Joshua and Mary (Haines Weeks) Brackett : (1) John, b. 1700; m. Elizabeth Pickering; d. 1758 .- (2) Joshua, b. 1701; lived in Falmouth; d. 1794 .- (3) Thomas, b. 1705; d. 1753 .- (4) Samuel, b. 1705; d. 1757 .- (5) Anthony, b. 1707; lived in Fal- mouth; d. 1784 .- (6) Mary, b. 1708; d. -. (7) Abi- gail, b. 1710 ; lived in Falmouth .- (8) Eleanor, b. 1710; m. a Folsom .- (9) James, b. Jan. 3, 1714; d. 1803 .- (10) Mary, the second of that name, b. 1716; m. a Fabyan of Newington .- (11) Keziah, b. 1718; m. a Clark .- (12) Margaret, b. 1719 .- (13) Nathaniel, b. 1721 ; m. Elizabeth -; d. 1778.
James Brackett, the ninth child in this list and father of Martha Brackett, who married Capt. John Parrott, was generally known as "Deacon" Brackett,
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although he never would grant that he was serious enough to be a deacon of the Church. He gave the land in Greenland on which the village church stands. He was noted as a "Peace-maker," and was famous for settling minor disputes and quarrels. For example :- two of his neighbors quarrelled as to which should build a certain piece of fence ; it left a gap on to James Brackett's adjoining land. One day when both of his neighbors were away, he hitched up his team and with his "hired" man, took the job in hand and built the fence before the men got home; he said nothing to them until they spoke to him about it. That settled the quarrel.
James Brackett married 24 May, 1739, Martha Cate of Greenland, b. Sept. 5, 1718 ; d. Nov. 26, 1778.
Children: (1) Joseph, b. 1749; d. 1813 .- (2) Judith, b. 1742; d. 1811 .- (3) Ebenezer, b. 1742; d. 1820 .- (4) Martha (great-grandmother of Dr. Spald- ing of Portland) , b. 28 Dec. 1745 ; m. Captain John Par- rott of Portsmouth .- (5) Mary, b. 1747; d. 1819; m. Tufton Wiggin of Stratham; they had a daughter "Patty" who married a Bartlett and lived in Bangor .- (6) Deborah, b. 1749; m. Capt. John Weeks ; d. 1831 .- (7) James, b. 1751; d. 1802; was a well known physi- cian of Lee .- (8) Joshua, b. 1755; m. Alice Pickering ; d. 1817 .- (9) Comfort, b. 1757; she eloped with a Neal and lived in New York .- (10) Hannah, b. 1759; m. Mr. Creighton; d. 1836. John, b. 1762; d. 1765.
Descendant: James A. Spalding, M. D., Port- land, Me.
BREWSTER, LIEUT. JOHN, 1627 - 1693. In the earliest records he is mentioned as "John Bruster." No connection has been traced between him and Elder William Brewster of Plymouth, the Pilgrim minister. He was born in England, and came to Portsmouth at some year in the 17th century. The record says he died in 1693, aged 66 years. The Portsmouth records
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state that 5 Feb., 1676-1677, Richard Martyn, in set- tling town accounts, paid John Bruster 10 pounds, which the town owed him for work. The record of marriages states that "John Bruster and Mary his wife were married in 1687." Savage's Dictionary states that he married Mary Knight, daughter of Roger and Anne Knight, of Portsmouth. Roger Knight came over in 1631, being one of the party sent by Capt. John Mason; from this it would appear that Mary Knight was his second wife, because in the list of Grand Jurors for February, 1686, his name is "John Brewster, Sr.," which shows that there was a "John Brewster, Jr.," who was at least 21 years old, hence was born before 1665. This John (2) Brewster died in 1720. In a pe- tition to the General Court of Massachusetts, of date of 20 February, 1689, the name of "John Bruster" is on the long list of signers. In report of one of the militia companies, he is styled "Lieut."
As there was a John Brewster, Jr., in 1686, it may be that he is the one who married Mary Knight in 1687. A deposition of John Brewster, aged 53, was made 12 July, 1720. According to that, he was born in 1667. The first Brewster in his will, 1691, names son John, and grandson John. The deposition is in folder 18787 of N. H. Court Files. The John Brewster who deposed in 1720 was father of Joshua Brewster, as the deposition says. But there is a plain forgery in those old Court Files ; somebody tried to connect John Brews- ter of Portsmouth with Wrestling Brewster. The handwriting is a sufficient exposure of the forgery. It was probably Mary (Knight) Brewster who was scalped by the Indians in 1696. See Stackpole's His- tory of N. H., Vol 1, p. 187.
Descendants: Capt. Thomas Manning Jackson, Albert Henry Lamson, John Mark Moses.
BROWN, ANDREW, had been a leading citizen of Scarborough, and when that Town was taken by the
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Indians, 1690, he and his family escaped to Portsmouth, where he was living in 1694. He probably died in Bos- ton, at the home of his son, William, after 1696. In 1663 "Andrew Brown's five sons" received a legacy, but there is explicit evidence of only four sons.
Children: (1) John, served in Philip's War; was "lately deceased" in 1696, leaving sons John and Samuel .- (2) Joseph .- (3) Andrew, b. 1657; m. Anne, dau. of Ralph Allison. His gravestone at Ken- nebunkport reads-Lieut. Andrew Brown, died 4 july 1723, aged 66 .- (4) Charles .- (5) William .- (6) Joshua, lived in Portsmouth ; m. Rebecca Libby of Scar- boro, who as his widow was still living in Portsmouth in 1732; seven children; son Andrew returned to Scarboro .- (7) Samuel .- (8) Elizabeth, m. Matthew Libby and lived 40 years in Eliot.
BUNKER, JAMES, 1628-1698. He was one of the early settlers at Oyster River. He is mentioned in the records of Old York County of 1648. He was a young man who had just come over from England to seek his fortune. In 1652 he is found in Dover and bought land below Johnson's Creek, which empties into the north side of Oyster River. He appears to have stood in good favor with the old settlers, as the town granted him land between Johnson's Creek and Bunker's Creek in 1653, and on a hill in this grant he built a house, which was made a garrison about 1675. It continued to be used as a dwelling house until the first years of the 20th century. It was not properly cared for, and in a heavy gale of wind in the fall of 1904 it was partly blown down, and was not repaired. Some of the timbers and other debris can still be seen in the cellar (1918).
This garrison was savagely attacked by the In- dians in July, 1694, when they destroyed much of the settlement, but failed to capture this garrison, or do
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much injury to it. Mr. Bunker and his neighbors con- ducted the defense successfully, but in 1695 the govern- ment placed three soldiers there to do guard duty, as it was feared that the attack would be renewed by the enemy.
Belknap's History says that two young girls were carried away from Bunker's garrison by the Indian's 22 May, 1707. At the same time they stole a daughter of Thomas Drew, about 13 years old, and a daughter of Nathaniel Lamos, much younger. These children were carried to Canada and sold to the French. The records there show that-"Marie Ann was baptized in Canada 12 Sept., 1709, as daughter of Thomas and Mary (Bunker) Drew. She was naturalized there 25 July, 1709. Elizabeth Lomax was baptized in Canada 11 Sept., 1707, as daughter of Nathaniel and Deliver- ance (Clark) Lomax.
James Bunker in his wills made 14 Oct., 1697 and 24 June, 1698, names wife, Sarah, and three sons.
Children: (1) James, m. prob., (1) Anne Thomas, (2) Martha Downes .- (2) Joseph, m. -. (3) John, m. Dorcas Field .- (4) Mary, m. Thomas Drew.
Descendants: Mrs. Clara A. P. Blinn, Mrs. Mary F. P. Gowen, Eri Melvin Hall.
BURNHAM, ROBERT, 1614-1691. He was born in England and came over in the ship "Angel Ga- briel," which was wrecked at Pemaquid, on the coast of Maine, 15 August, 1635, but the passengers all escaped, and later came up the coast, stopping where each one might fancy. Mr. Burnham at first tried his fortune at Ipswich, Mass. He was at Boston in 1644, and pros- pered in business there until 1654. He was a carpenter by trade and assisted in building houses there, and part of the time he was boss of the business. He came to Oyster River in 1654, and at first engaged in work at his trade. In 1656 he purchased 200 acres of land from
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the heirs of Ambrose Gibbons, who died that year, hav- ing given the farm to his grandson, Samuel Sherburne.
When Mr. Burnham took possession, he built a house for himself, on a steep hill, on the south side of the river, about one mile below Durham Falls. This craggy and precipitous eminence was, and is, approach- able on only one side, so in the Indian wars it had to be defended at a very small space, in case of an attack. There was just room enough on top for the house and the palisade that enclosed the yard. The Indians never disturbed Mr. Burnham; they saw it was useless to try to capture or burn this garrison. The house long ago disappeared, but the cellar with its stone wall is per- fect, showing that Mr. Burnham was not only a good carpenter, but also a good stone mason ; he knew how to build a stone wall that would stand against the frosts of untold winters. There is a smaller cellar entirely sep- arate, but near the house cellar, which may have been used for storage purposes, especially for powder in time of war. The Burnham records of the 18th cen- tury speak of the "Cellar"-and the "Cellarhouse." At one end of the garrison-cellar is a depression where stood the barn and other out-buildings. In their old records, the "little barn" is mentioned. The house was capacious; built of large, white oak timbers, covered with wide boards and clapboarded, so that it was very strong and warm to withstand the weather. When it was taken down in the 19th century, the woodwork was perfectly sound, and much of it was used in build- ing the present farm buildings of the Burnham family, which are located by the roadside, on the level ground west of the hill. Near the foot of the hill is a never- failing spring of water.
From the early records, it seems quite certain that Ambrose Gibbons was settled on that land as early as 1640 ; of course he had a house and out-buildings, but it is not reasonable to suppose that he built the house that Mr. Burnham had for his dwelling in Indian war times.
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The only child of Mr. Gibbons married Henry Sher- burne of Portmouth. It is an interesting point in the ancient history of New Hampshire, that traces of the work of Gibbons, the leader or foreman of Capt. John Mason's company, at Great Works, South Berwick, may still be seen on Burnham hill, for he undoubtedly con- structed the cellar to the Burnham house, if he did not build the house in which Burnham lived, and passed down to several generations of the Burnham family. Mr. Burnham's wife's name was Frances.
Children: (1) Robert, b. 25 July 1647 ; d. 25 Feb. 1663 .- (2) Samuel, b. 1649; m. -. (3) Jeremiah, b. 1653; m. Temperance Bickford .- (4) Sarah, b. 1654; m. James Huckins, about 1673; (2) m. Captain John Woodman 17 Oct. 1700 .- (5) Robert, b. 1664; d. young. Descendants: Mrs. Florence Adelaide Crane, John Scales.
CANNEY, THOMAS, 1600-1678. He was born in England and came to New England in 1631. He was a member of Capt. John Mason's company that commenced the settlement of Strawberry Bank. He came to Dover in 1634, having land in what is now Newington, then called Bloody Point-in-Dover. His farm was on the bank of the Pascataqua River, at the cove called Canney's Cove, the cove taking its name from its ownership of the surrounding land. He sold this land to John Seeley, and Seeley sold it to James Rawlins in 1661. Canney removed to Dover Neck be- fore 1650, and resided there the remainder of his life. The present shipyard in Newington is located on part of Thomas Canney's farm. Probably he never antici- pated such a use of his shore line. Mr. Canney was a very active man in business affairs, also he was a stanch supporter of the First Church in the time when the Quaker women gave the Church so much trouble, after 1662. He was a firm friend of Rev. John Reyner, then
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