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minister of the Church. His name is frequently men- tioned in the old town records, in matters of business. He was twice married. The name of his second wife was Jane.
Children: (1) Thomas, b. -; m. -; had 3 children .- (2) Joseph, b. -; m. Mary Clement, daughter of Hon. Job Clement .- (3) A daughter who m. Henry Hobbs .- (4) Mary, b. -; m. Jeremy Tibbetts.
The following was obtained from the Registry of Deeds-Thomas Canney, Sen., "for natural affection, etc., gives with slight reservations, all of his property to his son Joseph, for an annuity of 18 pounds." Thomas made his mark, 3 December, 1669. William Pomfrett and Job Clement were witnesses.
In 1670 Thomas Canney renewed his deed of prop- erty to son Joseph; "My late dwelling house and land, bounded E. by Fore River ; N. by a cove ; W. by ye Great Streete on Dover Neck; S. by land of Joseph Austin. Also a lot on Dover Neck, bounded N. by John Roberts ; W. by a cove; S. by land lately Richard Pinkham's. Also 4 acres on Dover Neck, bounded N. by common. Also 30 acres west of Great Bay, except 3 acres of marsh already laid out to son Thomas. Also 80 acres on the north side of Cochecho Marsh. Also one-eighth of Cochecho Point, bounded (undivided) by Cochecho River, Newichawannoch River and Nechewannick Path from Fresh Creek to St. Albans Cove." Acknowledged 6 October, 1670. Jabez Foye, Hatevil Nutter, Job Clement, Sen., were witnesses.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie Wentworth (Stack- pole) Baer, Miss Annie Katharine Seavey, Lorenzo E. Baer, George W. Seavey.
CHASE, REV. JOSIAH, 1713-1778. He was the first ordained minister of the Middle Parish of Old Kit- tery, and was installed 9 September, 1750. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1738. He followed
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teaching for several years, and during the time he stud- ied for the ministry, and preached as occasion opened for him to try his gifts in ministerial work, but he was not regularly admitted to the ministry until he came to Kittery ; he remained there as minister for nearly forty years, an able, faithful and devout pastor and useful citizen of the town. He met with an untimely death 26 December, 1778, as he was on his way home from a wedding, in the parish. During the wedding ceremo- nies, a blinding snow storm set in; the host urged him to remain over night, but he thought it better for him to go home. On the journey he lost his way and fell into a creek, when near his home, and was drowned. His body was recovered the next day, or soon after, and the parish was in great distress over the loss of their beloved pastor.
Descendant: Miss Theodora Chase.
CHESLEY, PHILIP, 1612-1690. He was born in England and emigrated to New England before 1642, as in that year he was such a well-established citizen that the town of Dover gave him a grant of land, which later was followed by other grants. He bought a lot on Dover Neck and had his residence on it for several years. About 1651 he removed to a grant of land at Oyster River, and that was his home the rest of his life. His house stood on the north side of the road that leads from Durham village to the Old Pascataqua Bridge, so called. In war times it was a garrison, standing be- tween Beard's on the west, and Jones's on the east. In official documents he is called "husbandman." He is often mentioned in the town records in connection with business affairs.
Mr. Chesley was twice married; (1) Elizabeth .- (2) Joan.
Children: (1) Thomas, b. 1644; m. Elizabeth Thomas .- (2) Philip, b. 1646 ; m. Sarah -. (3) Han- nah, m. Thomas Ash. Children probably by second mar-
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riage .- (4) Mary, m. 28 May 1701, Ralph Hall; (2) John Foy .- (5) Esther, m. 9 August 1705, John Hall.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie Wentworth (Stackpole) Baer, Col. Daniel Hall, Mrs. Mary E. P. Cowen, Herald Durrell, Charles Wells Hall, Albert Harrison Hall, Eri Melvin Hall.
CLEMENT, HON. JOB, 1615-1682. He was son of Robert Clement, who came from England and was in Haverhill in 1642, and was Deputy in the General Court, 1647-53. The son, Job, was born in England about 1620 and came over with his father. He is sup- posed to have settled in Ipswich, at first. He came to Haverhill in 1640. He was the first tanner in that town. He was made freeman in 1647. In 1649 he was offered a freehold in Newbury if he would settle in that town and carry on the tanning business. Dover made him a better offer to come there to engage in tanning and currying business; he accepted the Dover offer. Just what year he came here is not known, but he was here before 1655, and had his tannery in operation that year; it was near where the present Riverview Hall stands. He used the spring that is still pouring forth water the year round.
At Dover, he at once became one of the leading citizens, and was much engaged in business affairs, aside from his tannery, from which he served all the country around with various kinds of leather. He was Councillor in 1682, at the time of his death. He was thrice married; (1) 25 December, 1644, to Margaret Dummer, daughter of Thomas; (2) before 1658, Lydia -; (3) 16 July, 1673, Joanna Leighton, widow of Thomas Leighton of Dover Neck. He made his will 4 September 1682; proved 9 November 1683.
Children: (1) Job, b. 17 April 1648, at Haverhill. His will is in the first volume of New Hampshire Pro- bate records, and bears date of 8 Oct. and 3 Dec. 1716. He mentions his wife, Abigail, children, Job, (4), eldest
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son, James, John, Daniel and Margaret .- (2) Mary (3), b. 12 Dec. 1651; m. 25 Dec. 1670, Joseph Canney (Thomas). The Will of Job (2) Clement mentions grandchild, Jane Kerney.
Descendant: Miss Annie Katharine Seavey.
CHADBOURNE, HUMPHREY, came over in 1631 and built the Great House at Strawberry Bank. He settled at South Berwick and bought a large tract of land of Sagamore Rowles in 1643. He was Deputy to the General Court in 1657 and 1659, and Associate Judge in 1662. Had grants of 300 acres in 1651 and 1652. He married Lucy, daughter of James and Kath- erine (Shapleigh) Treworgy and died between 25 May and 13 September 1667. His widow married Thomas Wills of Kittery in 1669, and later Hon. Elias Stileman of Portsmouth. She died in 1708.
Children: (1) Humphrey, b. 1653; m. Sarah Bolles .- (2) Alice, m. after 5 Nov. 1677, Samuel Don- nell; (2) Jeremiah Moulton, both of York .- (3) Cath- arine, m. Edward Lydstone, (2) James Waymouth .- (4) James, m. Elizabeth Heard .- (5) William, d. ab. 1674, unm .- (6) Elizabeth, b. 1667 ; m. Samuel Alcock. -(7) Lucy, m. Peter Lewis, Jr.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
COUES, PETER. He was a native of the Isle of Jersey, in the English Channel, but came to Ports- mouth, N. H., before 1735. In his old home the name appears to have been spelled-PIERRE LE CAUX. The town clerk of Portsmouth did not understand this spelling and wrote the name, in the anglicised form of PETER COW. That spelling also appears in the New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 25, page 122; also in the N. H. State Papers, Vol. 13, pages
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257-258. The name assumed the form of-COUES as early as 1768, and so appears in vol. 13 above men- tioned, on pages 35, 300, 303.
In the record of marriages in Portsmouth, is the statement that-"PETER COUES, of St. Peters, in the Isle of Jersey, and Mary Long were marryd ye 4th of Novr. 1735." This is proof positive that he was in that town at that time, and he continued to live there. Their residence was in a large two-story house at the southwest corner of what is now State street and At- kinson street, Portsmouth; it fronts on Atkinson street ; it is believed to have been built before 1736. He died in that house about 1783, at an advanced age. His son Peter lived there at the time of the father's death, and many years following. He was a successful merchant and ship,owner.
Children: (1) George Crane Coues, b. -; he is supposed to have died young. - (2) Peter Coues, b. --; m. (1) Mary -; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of John Jackson of Portsmouth; (3) Rebecca Eliot of Ports- mouth.
Descendant: Joseph Foster, Pay Director (Rear Admiral) U. S. Navy, (retired).
CURTIS, JOSEPH, was son of Thomas Curtis who bought land of Ferdinando Gorges in York in 1645. Later he removed to Scituate, Mass., but returned to York in 1663, where his son Joseph was born, date not known.
Joseph Curtis married Sarah Foxwell, daughter of Richard, September, 1678. They resided in Kittery, where he had grants of land, and bought more. His home was at the head of Spruce Creek, and stood near the Middle Parish meeting house. During the Indian wars his house was one of the garrisons to which the dwellers around fled in time of danger; it had a stock- ade around it, and was called a "house of refuge." He was High Sheriff several years.
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Children: (1) Joseph, b. June 1678; m. (1) Sarah Potwain at Boston 25 May 1703; (2) 7 May 1719, Sarah, widow of Jonathan Mendum, dau. of Joshua and Patience Downing .- (2) Sarah, b. 10 Aug. 1781; m. Tobias Lear, Jan. 1702; d. 20 Nov. 1703 .- (3) Elizabeth, b. 16 July 1680; m. Diamond Sargent .- (4) Foxwell, b. 16 July 1692; m. Elizabeth Goodrich in Bos- ton, 30 July 1724 .- (5) Lois, b. 13 May 1695 ; m. James Sterrett of York 29 Oct. 1723 .- (6) Eunice, b. 23 Dec. 1698; m. Richard Cutt, 20 Oct 1720; d. 30 March 1795.
Descendants: Samuel F. Walcott, Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
COLCORD, EDWARD, 1615-1682. He was born in England. It is stated that he came over when he was 16 years old ; perhaps he did ; if so, he was drift- ing round the settlements, from Maine to Massachu- setts. The first record of him is when he was at Exeter with Rev. John Wheelwright, where he wit- nessed, if he did not participate in, the founding of that town. In his various rambles, he had been at Dover, and perhaps knew something about the head waters of the Squamscott River, and by that acquired knowledge may have assisted Mr. Wheelwright in se- lecting a place for his proposed town. It is not known where Wheelwright first met Colcord.
He was at Exeter and witnessed the signing of the deed, 3 April, 1638, given to Wheelwright by- "WEHANOWNOWITT, SAGAMORE OF PUSCHAT- AQUAKE"-by which the Exeter territory was ac- quired from the Indians. Colcord did not sign the Exeter Combination agreement for good government, made 4 July, 1639; neither did he help organize the Church. But in October, 1640, he was at Dover and signed the Combination agreement, then drawn up and signed by the inhabitants. He appears to have resided in Dover for several years following.
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He was then a young man of twenty-five, and in some way had become acquainted with the laws, and law methods of that period, so that he was really the first practicing lawyer in the town of Dover. He had cases in other parts of Old Norfolk County. He re- mained in Dover until 1645, and was one of the active business men of the town. In 1642 the town gave him one of the 20-acre lots on the west side of Back River. He received other grants of land, which shows he was in good favor with the town. For a year or two he was a magistrate for the settlement of small cases.
In 1645 Mr. Colcord appears in the history of Hampton as a resident of that town, and there was his home nearly all the rest of his turbulent life, engaged in conducting lawsuits for others, or in defending him- self against attacks from others. He died at his home there, 10 February, 1681-2. A part of the time be- tween 1645 and 1652 he was at Exeter where he ob- tained a grant of land from that town, and they made him a freeman there, but after 1652 he left Exeter and became a permanent resident at Hampton, where he held some minor offices from time to time.
From this time on his energies were chiefly de- voted to practice of law. His name appears many times in the old Norfolk County Court records. When the heirs of Capt. John Mason began their law suits against New Hampshire farmers, to establish the claim that the land was granted to Capt. Mason, and that they must pay rent to him, Colcord became one of their at- torneys, and in that way became very unpopular with the land owners. He married about 1640, Ann -.
Children: (1) Hannah, b. about 1643 ; m. Thomas Dearborn (3); d. 17 July 1720 .- (2) Sarah, b. about 1646; m. John Hobbs (2) .- (3) Mary, b. 4 Oct. 1649; m. Benjamin Fifield (3) ; d. at Hampton Falls, 1741 .- (4) Edward, b. 2 Feb. 1652; killed by Indians 13 June 1677 .- (5) Samuel, b. about 1655 ; m. Mary -.- (6) Mehitable, b. about 1658; m. Nathaniel Stevens of
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Dover .- (7) Shuah, b. 12 June 1660 .- (8) Deborah, b. 21 May 1664; m. Tristram Coffin .- (9) Abigail, b. 23 July 1667.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney, John Mark Moses, Mrs. Flor- ence Adelaide Crane, John Scales.
CUTT, RICHARD, 1651-1743. He was born in Kittery and lived there all his life. He was son of Robert Cutt, who is supposed to have come from Eng- land to Barbadoes prior to 1646, then a young man of about twenty years. Soon after that he emigrated to Kittery. After getting settled there, he received a grant of land from the town on what was called Crooked Lane, on which he constructed a shipyard and engaged in ship building, on the shore of Broad Cove. He con- tinued in the business there many years, constructing ships and boats of all kinds that were then in use.
ROBERT CUTT was brother of Richard Cutt of Newcastle and President John Cutt of Portsmouth, then among the most noted men of the province. He died in Kittery 18 June, 1674; his widow, second wife, married Francis Champernowne, and they resided on what is now Cutt's Island, separated from Gerrish's Island by a small creek. Champernowne was one of the distinguished Englishmen of that time at Ports- mouth and Kittery.
Robert Cutt's son Richard, had learned the trade of ship building by working with his father; he con- tinued in the business after his father died, and was a famous ship constructor and boat-builder. He also built a dam across Long Creek, and had a tide water mill there in which he did a thriving business many years, grinding corn and other kinds of grain. The millstones and other machinery were brought from England, and the stones, probably, are now somewhere
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in that vicinity, having long ago passed out of use. His house was near the mill and was one of the garrison houses that was designated as a "house of refuge" in the time of the Indian wars. The Indians never cap- tured it, or made any serious attempt to do so.
Descendants: Samuel F. Wolcott, Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
DAM, DEACON JOHN, 1610-1694. He was born in England and came over with Captain Thomas Wiggin in 1633. He selected a lot on Low street, on Dover Neck. His house was the one next north of the log meeting-house. He lived there the rest of his life, dying in the winter of 1694. He was one of the active business men of the town. He held various minor offices, but his chief distinction in that line was that of being the second Deacon of the First Church, John Hall being the first. . This office was conferred on him in 1675. In signing his name to the earliest business transactions he has it-JOHN DAMME-so that was the original spelling of the name; in common usage in the old records it is generally written-DAM. Dea. Dam is mentioned many times in the old town records, showing he was a busy man in public affairs. He re- ceived various grants of land. On 23 August, 1649, the town granted to him, with his father-in-law, William Pomfrett, and Thomas Leighton the privilege at the Bellamy Bank Falls (now Sawyer lower mill), for erecting a saw-mill, which they did. The town also granted them 1500 trees, oak and pine, to be cut in the swamp above the falls. They were also granted the privilege of cutting trees anywhere along the river that were not on land already granted. They did a big business in manufacturing lumber. One of his grants of land was on the Newington shore of Little Bay. He gave it to his son, John Dam, who went there to live; from him it came to be called "Dame's Point."
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John Dam married, date not known, Elizabeth Pomfrett, daughter of William Pomfrett, for many years town clerk of Dover.
Children: (1) John, b. at Dover 8 Jan. 1636-7; m. (1) Sarah Hall, dau. of Sergt. John Hall of Dover; (2) 9 Nov. 1663, Elizabeth Furber, dau. of Lt. William Furber of Bloody Point in Dover; d. 8 Jan. 1706 .- (2) Elizabeth, b. 1 May 1649; m. Thomas Whitehouse .- (3) Mary, b. 1651 .- (4) William, b. 14 Oct. 1653; m. Martha Nute, dau. of James Nute, about 1680. Lived at Back River and built the garrison house, which is now in the Woodman Institute; d. 20 Mar. 1718 .- (5) Susannah, b. 14 Dec. 1661 .- (6) Judith, b. 15 Nov. 1666 ; m. 6 July 1684, Thomas Tibbetts ; d. 22 Oct. 1728.
Descendants: Seth E. Dame, Mrs. Ella Weeks Lamson, Albert H. Lamson, Alvah H. Place, John Scales.
DEARBORN, GODFREY, 16-1686. He is said to have been born in Exeter, in the County of Devon, England. After his emigration to America, he settled at Exeter, N. H., and was one of the thirty- five men that signed the Combination for the govern- ment of the town, in 1639. Between 1648 and 1650 he removed to Hampton, and settled where John Dear- born, one of his descendants of the eighth generation, lived, and where his widow lived until her death in 1692. Godfrey Dearborn had a wife living in the early part of 1651 as appears from the Town Records. The time of her death is not known; but in 1662 he was a widower; and in the latter part of that year he married again. He died 4 February, 1686.
Godfrey Dearborn married, (1) in England δΈ€, (2) 25 Nov. 1662, Dorothy, widow of Philemon Dalton. The date of her death is not known. By his first mar- riage he had :
Children: (1) Henry, b. ab. 1633; m. Elizabeth Marrian ; d. 18 Jan. 1725 .- (2) Thomas, b. ab. 1634; m.
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Hannah Colcord; d. 14 April 1710 .- (3) Esther, m. Richard Shortridge of Portsmouth .- (4) Sarah, b. ab. 1641; m. Thomas Nudd ; d. 21 August 1714 .- (5) John, b. ab. 1642 ; m. Mary Ward ; d. 14 Nov. 1731.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
DOWNING, DENNIS. The date of his birth and death, and his parentage is not known, nor what con- nection, if any, he had with the Downings of Newing- ton. We know that he was a blacksmith and owned and lived on a lot of land, in Old Kittery (Eliot), on the bank of the Pascataqua River, a little above the island known as Franks Fort. He was living there in 1652 and signed the submission to Massachusetts in Novem- ber that year. He was living as late as 1690, as appears by various records. The name of his wife is not known.
Children: (1) Dennis, b. ab. 1650; he was with Major Charles Frost and others as they were returning from Church, at Great Works, 4 July 1697, and he and Frost were shot by the Indians on Frost's hill; Phebe, wife of John Heard, also was shot. Nothing more is known of this Dennis Downing .- (2) Joshua, b. ab. 1644, as shown by a deposition; m. ab. 1675; (1) Pa- tience, dau. of Patience and Philip Hatch; (2) Rebecca, widow of Joseph Trickey and dau. of William and Re- becca (Mackworth) Rogers. See Coll. of Maine Hist. So., Vol 1., p. 208. He died in 1717, leaving widow, Rebecca.
Children: (1) Joshua, m. Sarah Hatch .- (2) Elizabeth, m. ab. 1698 Jonathan Woodman of Oyster River; d. 17 April 1729, aged 60 years; he d. in 1750, aged 85 .- (3) Sarah, m. Jonathan Mendum before 1702 .- (4) Alice, m. 24 April 1709, Richard Downing, of Bloody Point, Dover, now Newington.
Descendants: Mrs. Annie (Blake) Mckinney, Walter Blake Mckinney.
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DUDLEY, REV. SAMUEL, 1610-1683. He was son of Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colo- ny. He was son-in-law of Gov. John Winthrop of the same colony. He was born in England and passed the first twenty years of his life in his native land, and came to New England with his father. He did not re- ceive a. University education, but was well educated by his father and by mingling in the society of people of intelligence. He was fond of books and easily acquired knowledge by much reading, so that as early as 1637 he was regarded as qualified for the clerical profession, and preached from time to time as occasion demanded, while engaged in other occupations. Among other places he is said to have preached for a while at Ports- mouth in 1649, but was not a settled minister there.
During the twelve years preceding his coming to Exeter, as minister of the Church there, he was at Salis- bury, Mass., of which town he was one of the founders. He was one of the first Representatives from that town in the General Court, and served several years. He was also assistant to the Governor. He was one of the leading men of the town in various other ways, and received grants of land. He had been a successful business man many years, when, at the age of forty, he became the minister of the Church at Exeter. In 1650 he removed from Salisbury to Exeter, and that was his home till his death 10 February 1682-3, serving as min- ister of the town thirty-three years. He had been a successful business man, and he became a good minis- ter, at the same time greatly assisting the town's people in business affairs. His previous experience enabled him to assist his parishioners in many ways to promote good living.
Mr. Dudley received a grant from the town of Exe- ter of 600 acres of land, now in Brentwood, which fell to his heirs. It was divided crosswise into twelve 50- acre lots. There is no record of the division, but by about three days' work, Mr. Charles Thornton Libby of
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Portland, Me., picked out the whole of them, and traced them back to the twelve children, that outlived their father or left heirs; the result is as follows: Lot No. 1-Stephen; 2-Ann; 3-Mary; 4-Timothy; 5- Elizabeth; 6-Dorothy ; 7-Theophilus ; 8-James ; 9- Rebecca ; 10-Samuel ; 11-Thomas ; 12-Byles.
Mr. Libby says the way the Dudley name got into the Watson family, of Dover, is that Samuel Dudley, youngest son of Rev. Samuel Dudley, had a daughter Mary who married David Watson, of Dover, son of the first Jonathan Watson.
Mr. Dudley was thrice married; (1) in 1632 or 1633 to Mary Winthrop, dau. of Gov. John Winthrop. (2) 1643 or 4, to Mary Biley of Salisbury ; (3) ab. 1652 to Elizabeth - ---. He had children by each marriage.
Children: (1) Thomas, b. 9 March 1634; grad. Harvard College 1651; d. unm .- (2) John, b. 28 June 1635; d. young .- (3) Margaret, bp. at Cambridge; d. young .- (4) Samuel, b. 2 Aug. 1639 ; d. 1743 .- (5) Ann b. 16 Oct. 1641 (all by first wife). She married Edward Hilton of Exeter, N. H .- (6) Theophilus, b. 31 Oct. 1644 (by 2nd wife) ; a judge; d. unm. 1713. A man of distinction .- (7) Mary, b. 21 April 1646; d. Dec. 1646 .- (8) Biley, b. 27 Sept. 1647; m. 25 Oct 1682 Elizabeth Gilman of Exeter .- (9) Mary, b. Jan. 1649 : m. 24 Jan. 1675-6, Samuel Hardy, at Beverly .- (10) Thomas, b .- (by 2nd wife) ; m. Mary .- (11) Eliza- beth, b. 1652, (by 3rd. wife) ; m. 25 Sept. 1674, Judge Kinsley Hall .- (12) Stephen, b .- at Exeter ; m. (1) 24 Dec. 1684, Sarah Gilman; (2) Mary Thing .- (13) James, b. 1663; m. Elizabeth Leavitt. He was ship- master and merchant .- (14) Timothy, b. -; d. before 1702 .- (15) Abigail, b. -; m. Jonathan Watson of Dover .- (16) Dorothy, b .-; m. 26 Oct. 1681, Moses Leavitt at Exeter .- (17) Rebecca, b. -; m. 21 Nov. 1681, Francis Lyford .- (18) Samuel, b. -; m. Hannah Thyng ; d. 1732, at Exeter.
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Descendants : Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Place, Charles Thornton Libby.
DIAMOND, JOHN, born -; died 1667. John Diamond and wife, Grace, were living in Kittery in 1651. He was a constable in 1659; clerk of writs in 1662. He was a ship-builder and lived on Crooked Lane. John Diamond, Jr., was made administrator of his father's estate in 1667. John Diamond signed the admission to Massachusetts in 1652. The Diamond shipyard was in use for more than a century, in ship- building by the family.
Children: (1) John, b. -; m. dau. of Francis Raynes .- (2) Andrew, b. 1640; m. Mrs. Elizabeth El- liott in 1705; d. s. p. 1707. He was a taverner and magistrate at the Isles of Shoals several years ; later he was at Ipswich, where he died .- (3) William, b. -; m. Joan -; d. ab. 1667 .- (4) Thomas, b. -; m. (1) Mary, widow of James Weymouth, Sr .; (2) Jane Gains of Ipswich .- (5) Grace, b. -; m. Peter Lewis.
Descendant: Joseph Foster, Pay Director (Rear Admiral), U. S. Navy, (retired).
DIXON, PETER. He was son of Peter Dixon who had a grant of land, 36 acres, in Kittery, 26 March, 1679 ; about that time he married Mary Remick, daugh- ter of Christian Remick. He built his house on that lot, at a spot a short distance below Boiling Rock, and that locality has ever since been called "Dixon's Point." The house of the late F. A. Dixon stands on the spot where Peter built the first house that stood on the land. He was a ship-carpenter ; he did not have a yard of his own, but worked in the Diamond shipyard many years.
Children: (1) Mary, b. 23 Sept. 1679; m. John Staples .- (2) Hannah, b. 3 Feb. 1684; m. 16 Dec. 1701, John Morrell .- (3) Ann, b. 17 July 1689; m. 14 Sept. 1708, Thomas Jenkins ; d. May 1749 .- (4) Peter, b. 29 Feb. 1692 ; m. Abigail Flanders.
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