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There are reasons, therefore, to believe that Cranfield spoke correctly, when he said that as early as the life time of Mason a combination was in force. The town meeting must have sprung into being about the same period, so we may not be far wrong, even were we to assign 1635 as the year when our town records were begun.
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Upon Cranfield assuming the office of Governor of the Province in 1682, Captain Elias Stileman delivered up the books and papers on file in the office of secretary to the new incumb- ent, Richard Chamberlain. Among the Province records there appears to have been a book, bearing date 1640, and certain "old records before Capt. Stileman's time." This early book long ago disappeared. We are left to gather most of the history of the first ten years of the union from the Massachusetts colonial records, where reference to events at Strawberry Bank is infrequent, and details are extremely meagre. A few facts are to be got from the court records at Exeter, but they per- tain rather to individuals than to political history. There is nothing to show how the Church of England party fared, or what were their numbers ; but such signs as we have tend to establish the fact that those of the Puritan way of thinking kept themselves in power, and managed affairs pretty much after their own fashion.
It was between 1638 and 1644 that the agents and stewards of Mason took possession of the buildings and improvements belonging to his estate, and divided among themselves his goods and the cattle. The Great House, whose possession was in some sense the insignia of authority passed in 1647 into the hands of Richard Cutt, a strict Puritan, while the extensive lands adjoining (covering what is now the heart of Portsmouth,) were parcelled out among the selectmen of the town, of whom Cutt was a leading spirit. It is a curious fact that the same George Walton, at whose house the spoliation of 1652 was com- mitted, gave his deposition in 1685, at the age of seventy, re- citing, among other seizures, the fate of the Great House; and saying that "to his particular knowledge the servants sent over by Capt. Mason, of which some are living, and those descended from them which are many, have been and are the most violent opposers of the now proprietor, Robert Mason, Esquire."
Whatever some future disclosure may reveal of the methods adopted by the Bay leaders to bring under subjection the
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settlement at Strawberry Bank, it is quite apparent that a sub- mission once had, those wary and resolute magistrates enforced a rigid rule, never for a moment relaxing their efforts to render the lease of power indefinite in duration, by the simple expe- dient of entrusting administration to a few only of the inhabi- tants, selected because they were zealous Puritans. The strug- gle in England, resulting in the ascendancy of Cromwell, was not without its share of influence upon the project of supplant- ing here such as were known to stand by Church and King. It must have been no slight task, however, to imbue with Puritan sentiments a community so hostile to the Massachusetts polity as were the settlers of the lower Pascataqua. In 1642 Richard Gibson, the incumbent of the parsonage for whom the glebe had been granted two years before, fell under the displeasure of the Bay. "He being wholly addicted to the hierachy and discipline of England, did exercise a ministerial function in the same way, and did marry and baptise at the Isle of Shoals, which was now found to be within our jurisdiction." So says Winthrop. (Vol. II., page 79.) The Court charged him with denying their title, and summoned him to Boston, but they forbore to administer punishment upon his submission, "being a stranger and about to depart the country." With such a beginning as this, it be- came a question of time how long it would take to convert the people to new ways of thinking.
The Mason claim, as may well be supposed, played an im- portant part in the course of events that followed the assump- tion by the Bay colony of territorial jurisdiction over the Pas- cataqua. Owing to the civil war in England active measures had ceased for asserting the rights of the Mason estate, until at length in 1650 Robert Tufton Mason, the heir, became of age. The next year found Joseph Mason at Strawberry Bank, sent over by Mistress Ann, the widow and executrix of Captain John Mason. His presence here while taking steps to enforce the title of those whom he represented as agent, must have created something of a stir. The party in power, we may well
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believe, threw every obstacle in his way ; but as he was disposed to enter into some reasonable arrangement with those who had lived upon the land and improved it, there were some, it is likely, who though poor stood ready to recognize the rights of Capt. John Mason's heir, and to make terms for a title.
At least, Champernowne and others who had not abandoned their church, and who chafed under the Puritan rule, could not have been slow to treat the agent of the Masons with courtesy, and to listen to hear what proposals he had brought. For those who had long and patiently endured a government they bitterly disliked, Joseph Mason's arrival in the Pascataqua, it is more than probable, was a signal for venturing upon a scheme of relief. While I know of no proof that Mason was connected with the scheme, it happens that just about this time (in the summer of 1651) the discontent of the planters bore fruit, and certain daring spirits made the attempt to rise and free the settlement from the domination of the Bay. The little we are permitted to know of this outbreak is to be gathered from the urgent language of a letter despatched from Boston, under date of 6th September, 1651, by the Governor to that sturdy helper of the Bay, Captain Thomas Wiggin, " at Swamp- scot, in Piscataqua." The malcontents had gone so far as to call a town meeting " to joyne together in their way to appoynt a governor." This coming to Endicott's ears, he promptly en- joins his alert and ever-trusty Wiggin to find out who are in the design, and who is to be named Governor. The principal actors, says the despatch grimly, must be forthwith sent to prison at Boston, to answer their rebellion at the General Court. (I Pr. P., 195 ; III Col. Rec., 443.) The record is si- lent as to further proceedings ; but we need not question that the strong arm of the Bay government easily quelled the dis- turbance.
To test the right of the heir in the courts, Joseph Mason brought an action of trespass against Richard Leader for en- croaching upon lands at Newichewannock. After delays the
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plaintiff got a verdict ; but the sequel shows it to have been of little avail in settling the question of title. The pendency of this suit, or a knowledge that it was to be instituted, appears to have had the effect of precipitating the action of the Bay colony in regard to the northerly bound of their patent.
Perhaps a single word of explanation is necessary to make this statement intelligible to a reader not familiar with the story of the Mason patent.
The patent to the Massachusetts gave them "all the lands which be within the space of three English miles to the north- ward of the river called Merrymack, or to the northward of any and every part thereof." There seems every reason to believe that this language was intended to be applied to a river run- ning east from west, as does the Merrimack for some dis- tance before falling into the sea; and as it was supposed to run throughout its entire course. So the Massachusetts themselves at first thought, when in 1631 they built a bound-house, three miles north of the Merrimack, in what is now the town of Sea- brook. Such at any rate was the interpretation given by the Lord Chief Justices, and approved by the King and Council, in 1677, in proceedings that led to the establishment of the Prov- ince of New Hampshire, after a determination that Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter and Hampton were out of the bounds of Massa- chusetts. I Belknap, 137.
But the Bay leaders with great ingenuity and equal perti- nacity insisted upon the forced construction that the terms of their patent gave them a right to go three miles north of the source of the Merrimack (Lake Winnepiseogee,) and thence run an east and west line as the northern limit of their territory. This construction they formally voted to adopt 31 May, 1652, and sent commissioners to run the line from that point to the sea, who did their work and reported in October following. The boundary thus marked swept in the Mason patent, and that part of Maine lying south of Clapboard Island in Casco Bay.
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Though they did not scruple to assert a claim to the terri- tory clear to the Pascataqua as early as 1641, and indeed made it a ground for extending their government hither, it is worthy to be noted that the Massachusetts authorities re- frained at that time from pushing the claim. into an undue prominence. The preamble of the order announcing the union simply says " it appeareth that .... the ryver of Pascataquack is within, etc." I Pr. P., 158 ; I Col. R. 319.
Ten years later, it seems to have been suffered to remain as a point not yet settled, if we may judge from the expres- sions found in a petition, bearing date October, 1651, that came up from Strawberry Bank, humbly praying to be laid out as a township. The signers (five in number) were friendly to the Bay, yet they speak as if in doubt as to the jurisdiction : " If soe we are yours by streching of ye Line"; and again, " If by stretching of the Lyne the Lands bee within your juris- diction ; if not then to leave both our persons, lands & all freelye to our selves, as formerly we were before you took us into your Governt." I Pr. P., 192.
It is perhaps not too much to say that the Bay people dis- played great shrewdness in the mode of setting up their claim at the outset, and then in biding their opportunity to enforce it by a formal vote, and by running the line.
This same year the Bay brought under their rule the towns of Kittery and York (Agamenticus) in spite of the vigorous opposition of many under the lead of Edward Godfrey. The year 1652, therefore, marks a new era in the conduct of the Massachusetts towards their neighbors to the eastward. To quote from Robert Mason's Title (drawn up in 1674) which to be sure reads like an indictment: " They did in the yeare 1652, in a hostile manner invade the County of Hampshire, compell- ing the Loyall Inhabitants to a submission, imposing taxes upon them for to supporte their new acquired greatness, etc." Jenn. Doc., 57. See also I Belknap, 304.
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We find too the author of New England's Vindication, printed at London in 1660, writing in the following strain of the ambitious designs of the Boston people: " Let it be observed that if in ten years they came to this height, what in these twenty, having so inriched themselves in Wealth, Strength, and Fortifications, that if they Fortifie Piscataqua River for themselves as they have subjugated it, and now Arm against the Dutch new Neatherland, with their united Collonies, they may be invincible States of America." Page 7.
That a connection exists between this march of events and the spoliation of our town records has no doubt occur- red to the reader. He can scarcely avoid a conviction that it must have been vitally important for our energetic and ag- gressive neighbors to be able, while asserting claim of title beyond their conceded borders, to remove all fear of being confronted by evidence at variance with their pretensions, drawn from the local records. It is by no means unlikely that the pages of the old Strawberry Bank town-book revealed a his- tory that invited its destruction. There are some who think they discern in the general conduct of the Massachusetts to- wards the other settlements, a studied plan of seizing upon ter- ritory and following up the occupation of it by a suppression of every recorded entry that might make against their claim. Such views can hardly be dismissed as distorted or unjust, in face of the fact that as new-comers in distinct localities the ad- vent of the Massachusetts authorities is attended almost im- mediately with a disappearance of early records.
But leaving to future exploration the interesting question how far the spoliation of 1652 is to be attributed to the settled policy of the Massachusetts to fortify their claim of title, let us try to account for it by reasons lying within a somewhat narrower compass. We observe that after ten years the au- thorities had come at last to feel the ground firm under their feet. Everything tends to show that from henceforth nobody is to question. the character of their title to the soil. Certain 9H
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it is that all the signs of the time point to a determination by the rulers of the Bay to begin a new order of things. They were ready to treat the disaffected with a yet firmer hand. Some individuals there doubtless were to whom the town had voted grants, which though entered upon the town-book had not as yet been laid out. These grants should be rendered null. Acres of outlying land awaited the order of the authori- ties to be parcelled out among the townspeople-marsh, meadow and forest as yet uncleared.
Is it not likely that to this critical period much is justly ap- plicable that is complained of thirteen years later to the King at the restoration, complained of by such men as Champer- nowne, Corbet, Sherborn, Sloper, Hunking and Atkinson, not to mention others? For several years past (such is the burden of their petition in 1665) five or six of the richest men have ordered all offices, denying us the benefit of freemen and church privileges ; managing to get into their hands the lands for themselves, so that " honest men who have been here a considerable time have no lands at all given them, and some that have lands given and laid out to them, the said contrary party have disowned the grants and laid it out to others." Jenn. Doc. 48.
Let the reader turn to the entry in the town-book which has furnished the subject of this note, and he will see recorded on the same date a list of " outlots granted to the inhabitants." (Page 20.) Not many months before this (in April 1652,) the selectmen had ordained that all grants previously made should be subject to their power to confirm or not, as they should see fit, an exercise of authority that tells its own story. (Page 16.) By resorting to the early records in the Suffolk registry of deeds, we find at least one instance where a grant by Straw- berry Bank to a settler was made in 1645, yet there is no trace of it in the entries copied into "the new book ;" so we may infer that these entries do not embrace every grant made by the town previous to January, 1652. Nicholas Shapleigh, late of
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Strawberry Bank grants to Thomas Beard, of Dover, by deed acknowledged 22 May, 1645, house and land at Strawberry Bank, to wit, foure Acres enclosed & six score Acres more or less granted by the towne together with the marsh thereto be- longing & all his Right to any lands yet to be divided. (1 Suf- folk Deeds, 60.) Nicholas Shapleigh was a Quaker, and an op- ponent of the Bay people.
Till better explanation be reached, are we not brought to the conclusion that the inroad made upon the town records was designed in part to cut off grants and privileges from certain of the settlers who were out of favor with the party in power? A summary and convenient way was thus presented of throwing into the hands of the selectmen the whole body of outlying land, to be parcelled out in conformity with a new order of things, irrespective of what had been the relative prominence and dignity of the planters, as shown upon the pages of the old town-book. Perhaps, too, there were those who had taken part in the seditious movement of 1651, and who should thus be made to feel how futile it was to attempt to resist the power of the Bay government. In fine, so far as the old town-book spoke of chartered rights belonging to any one who was in disfavor, it should be silenced.
Not that this in many instances affected the title of lands in possession, but the disposition of lands not already occupied was of great moment, and could be used with telling effect. The book was kept in the hands of Puritan selectmen, and it was not in the nature of the times probably to lay it open to such general inspection as would be the case in these later days.
I do not indulge in any reflection upon the character of the motives that may have prompted this act, nor do I forget that it is to be judged, if at all, by a standard far different from that of the present time.
That the book may have contained entries favorable to the Mason title, and that these were suppressed to keep them from
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being used by Mason's agent, is a conjecture unworthy, it seems to me, of even a passing consideration.
P. 32, l. 9. The island granted to Anthony Ellins, between John Wotton's (Muskito Hall) and Clampering (Leach's) Island must have been what is now called Pest Island. The former name of Pest Island appears to have been Anthony- possibly dating back to the ownership of Ellins. There was a pest house on Anthony Island in 1740. v. Pr. P., 60, 124.
P. 36, 1. 26. This confirmation appears to include what is now Noble's Island. There is a record of June, 1650, of a conveyance by Ambrose Lane (who got title from Sampson Lane) to John Jackson, cooper, of "all that house and oute houses Inclosed lands and commons with sixe acers of marsh belonging unto the same lying between the ould doctor's marsh [See page 15, 1. 8] and the Creeke beinge the marsh sometime belonging to the great house comonly called by the name of the plimmoth plantation with the appurtenancies thereunto be- longing beinge the houses and lands wherein on John Crouther lived in and commonly called Crowther's house lyinge and beinge within Strawberry Banke aforesaid except the Iland ly- inge and being on the norther side of the sayd house by esti- mation eight acres or thereabouts." II MS. C. R., 5. John Jackson (and his wife Joan) conveyed the Iland 25 June, 1660, to Thomas Jackson, cooper, and speaks of it as " confermed to the sd John Jackson by the selectmen of Ports in 1656 signed under their hands & annexed to ye said deed of Mr Lane's aforesaid." The grant was "together with all the trees and wood fallen & unfallen." Ib., 37.
The entries at pages 29 and 31 indicate that the island for a while bore the name of other occupants, viz: Thomas Furson, and afterward, Roger Knight.
INDEX
Abbett Richard 38
Abbit Walter 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 37,38,39 Abbite Walter 13
Abbot James 40 John sr 40 jr 40 Peter 40 Reuben 42
Adams 8 John 40 Agamenticus 46, 64 Akerman Bn 41 Allcock Joseph 43 widow 42 Allen Charles 38 Allmery John 42 Robt 42 widow 43 Amenteene John 39
Amos William 40
Anthony Island 68 Armstrong Robert jr 42 Atkins Joseph 38 Atkinson 66 Avery Thomas 38 Ayres Abraham 42 Ed 41 George 43 Thos 42 Bab Peter vede 40 Bacheller Alex 23, 28, 36, 38. 46 Ann 46
Bachelor Allixsander 14, 20 Bachiller Ellixander 13, 21 Ball Peter 40 Sampson 41 Ballech Joseph 40
Banfield Charles 40 George 40 Hugh 40 Barnes Abraham 40 Thomas 40 William 40 Bartton Edward 17 goodman 15, 23, 31, 36, 38
Bay Colony The 55, 58, 63, 64
Beard Thomas 67
Becke Henry 20, 38, 40
Beckman William 40
Beekford Henry 40
Bell Charles H 11
Belling um Thomas 18
Belknap 7, 8, 51, 58, 64
Benmore Philip 39
Bennett John 5 William 43
Berry Joseph 42 William 15, 17. 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 30, 31
Berwick Falls 7 Biddeford 46
Bishop mr 43 Bladen William 40 Blashfield Thomas 42 Boston 1, 14, 56, 61, 62, 65
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Bowle Dr 43 Bracket Anthony 13
Brackit Anthony 17, 21, 22, 23, 26, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38
Brakite Antony 20 Brewster Charles W 2 John 39, 43 jr 43 Samuel 43
Briard Elisha 41
Bridgeman mr 42
Brookin William 13, 20, 23, 28
Broughton Thomas 39
Brown Henry 40 Joshua 41 Nicholas 40 Samuel 42
Browne mr 34, 35, 37
Bufford Marcellus 3, 12
Burdett George 59
Burne Ralph 41
Burnham Edward P 52
Bushbre Robert 39
Buss Joseph 42
Calef Jere 42, 43
Campion Clement 30, 31, 50 mr 20
Campion's Necke 34, 50
Canterbury 59
Carter Jere 43 John 43
Casco Bay 63
Cater Ed 42
Caverley Moshes 43
Center Abraham 43
Chamberlain Richard 60
Champernon Capt 20, 23, 27, 28, 29 33, 35. 37
Francis 30, 37, 62, 66
Chanler old 38
Chaterton goodman 20
Christian Shore 50
Churchill John 42
Clampering Island 15,31, 42, 46, 68 Clapboard Island 53 Clark Josiah 42 Samuel 41
Clarke Edward 38 John 41 Cod James 42
Cole Edward 43
Thomas 42 Colmer Abraham 5 Combination at Strawberry Bank 8,59 Commins Richard 21, 23, 34, 36, 37,39
Commons Richard 20
Corbett Abraham 39, 66
Cotton Benjamin 40 Solomon 40 Thomas 40 William 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29,38, 39, 41, 42
66 jr 40
Court Records 45, 49, 59, 60 Street 46
Cranfield 58, 59, 60
Crocker Thomas 42
Cromwell 61
Cross Richard 42
Crouther John 17, 31, 68
Crowder John 36
Curryer Jeff 39
Cut John 27, 39
Richard 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,29, 33, 37, 38
Cutts John 42 Richard 42, 60
Davis John 40, 42
Robert 13, 31, 38
Timothy 41
Deane Charles 6, 7, 11
Denerson John 41 widow 40
Dennet Elizabeth 41
Ephraim 41
Moses 41 Oliver 43 Dennis Thomas 39
Dent Abraham 40
Ditte Francis 42
Dodge Noah 40
Dover 14, 18, 22, 34, 45, 46, 49, 56 59, 63, 67 Point 6 Downing Joseph 43
Drake Francis 29, 35, 37, 38 goodman 34 Jane 31 Nathaniel 31, 36, 37, 38
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Draper Doctor 43 Drew John 42 Drown Daniel P 5 Thomas P 5 Dunnel Bn 42 Earle William 39 Eburn Eliza 41 Elberdson Elberd 42
Ellins Anthony 15, 20, 23, 31, 32, 37, 38, 68
Richard 42
jr 43
Elliot Robert 38 Ellos John 40
Elwyn John 49, 51, 52
Endicott 62
Euins William 20, 21
Evans John 4
Exeter 56, 60, 63 Records 9, 45, 47, 48, 49, 59
Eyers mr 38
Fairweather William 43
Fanning Joseph 40
Fellows William 42
Felt 57, 58 Fenlayson Walter 43 Fernald Amos 43
Renald 4, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18. 19,20, 21, 22, 23. 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 45, 48, 50,53
Samuel 4 widow 38
Field John 42
The Old Doctor's 16, 31, 48
Fitch Jabez 51, 56
Fletcher John. 4 Folsom 46 Footbridge 48 Ford John 41 Forte Poynt 36 Foss John 38 William 40 Foster Benjamin 50 Fresh Marsh Creek 42 Frethy Elizabeth 46 John 46 Samuel 46 William 13, 46 Fryer Nathaniel 39
Furbur John 40 Furson Thomas 31, 39, 68 Gambling Benjamin 42 Gardner David 42 Gatchel Capt 42 Gearish Nathaniel 40 Georgeana 46 Gerrish Paul 42 Richard 41
Gibbins Ambrose 49, 50
Gibson Richard 61
Gilden John 41
Glebe grant of 8, 17, 29
Gleeden Charles 39
Godfrey Edward 64
Goodrich Mercer 12
Grassam Caleb 42 Stephen 39
Great Bay 14, 29, 35
House 15, 48, 60, 68 Island 7, 15, 16. 17, 19, 46, 47, 49,50 Pond 17, 48
Green street 50
Greene goodman 16 Edmund 39
Greenland 35 Greenleaf Abner 3 Stephen 40
Greley Thomas 40
Griffin Ph 38
Grindall mr 43
Haddon 42
Hains Samuel 21, 27, 29, 33, 37
Hall John 38
Ham John 42 Samuel 43
Hame goodman 24, 25 Mathew 50, 37, 38 William 20, 23, 24, 37, 38
Hamet Thomas 43
Hampshire 64
Hampton 34, 57, 63
Harris Thomas 43
Harrison John 40
Hart John 20 38 Samuel 43 William 43 Harvey Thomas 42
Hatch widow 41
Haynes Samuel 38
Heard's Necke (John) 23
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Hewes Clement 41 Solomon 41 Hill John 42 Valentine 38 Hilton 6 Hinckson Thomas 38
Holmes Joseph 43 Laz 40 Hubbard 5, 7, 59 Humber Huphry 32
Humpkins Arcullus 20, 23, 27, 29 goodman 29 Hercules 32, 33, 38 John 24, 25
Hunking
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Mark 39 Mary 42
Hunkins William 41
Huntress Daniel 3
Hurde John 48
Ingram Moses 42
Ipswich 56 Islington Creek 50 Jackson Daniel 41 Ephraim 39 Joan 68
John 13, 20, 26, 28, 29, 30, 36, 37,38,68
senior 39
junior 43 Nathaniel 41
Richard 38
Sarah 41 Thomas 39, 68
Jaffrey George 41
James Matthew 43
Jaquith Henry 39
Jefferson Hall 2 Jeffries James 41
Jenness John Scribner 6, 45, 57 Johnson Harry 43
James 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 50
John 39 Jonathan The 5 Jones Abram 40 Capt 41 Ellixsander 20, 32, 39 George 39
John 13, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 32, 37, 38, 41
Jos Charles 41 Richard 42 Kate Ed junr 43 Keais Samuel 4
Keese Henry 42 Kennard John 42
Kennestone John 39 Kettle John 39
King Richard 31, 47
Kittery 22, 64 Knigh Anne 30 George 42 John 41 Roger 9, 13, 15, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 68
Knowles William 40
Laconia Company The 7
Landell Thomas 42
Lane Ambrose 15. 18, 20, 24, 47, 68, Sampson 47, 68
Lang John 40 Robert 41
Langdon Capt 43 Tobias 53
junr 42
Toby 38
Lange Stephen 40
Langley Thomas 43
Lavers Jacob 41
Leach James 37, 38, 43 Zach 40 Leach's Island 47, 68 Leader mr 20, 23 Richard 18, 62
Lear John 41
Lechford 58
Letherby Thomas junr 42:
Lewis Jenkin 42 Phillip 22, 37, 38. William 42
Libbey James 41 Jere 42 John 42 Libby Jeremiah 4
Little Harbor 5. 7
Lock John 38, 33 London 65
Loud William 42
Lovell Splan 41 Lovett James 39 Michael 40
Lucey Benjamin 41 Lux William 39
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Mackpheadris Archibald 42 Maine 63 Maine Thomas 40 Man widow 41 Mansfield widow 24 Manson Samuel 43
Marden John 39, 43
Market Street 50
Marshall George 41
Humphrey 42
Martyn Mary 41
Richard 4, 38, 41
Mason Ann 61
Capt John 4, 7, 8, 47, 48, 49,
55, 57, 58,59,60, 61, 62,63
Joseph 61, 62 mr 20, 24, 38
Robert 60, 61, 64, 67, 68
Massachusetts Bay 6, 9, 51, 52,
55, 56, 57, 58, 59,60, 61, 63, 64, 65
Hist'l. Soc. 51
Mastell Robert 23
Mattean Houbert 27
Matthew James 43
Matthews Francis 47, 48 Thomasine 48
Mattoone Robert 38
Maxfield Benjamin 40
Mayn Thomas 42
Meade Joseph 40
Meeting House The 14, 16, 46
Melcher Edward 38 Nathaniel 40
Mendom Nathaniel 42
Merrimack 57, 63
Mill Dam 16 Pond 48, 50
Miller Alexander 40 Benjamin 41 Joseph 40, 43
Mills 47 Molton Joseph 42
Montgomery 43
Moodey Joshua 11 Moor Thomas 43 Moore Thomas 40
Morris William 38 Morse Obadiah 42 Moses James 40
Moss Jos 39 Moulton John 40
Mosses Joseph 43 Moysis John 20, 23, 31.38
Musketto Hall 37. 47, 68
Mussell Robert 20, 26, 38
Moulton John 40
Mustell goodman 33
Neall Walter 23, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38
Nelson Matthew 43 widow 43
Newcastle 7, 47 New Hampshire Council 59 First settlement of 5, 6 Province 63 Provincial Papers 45
New Netherland 65
Newichewannock 7, 49, 62
Nicholson Henry 42
Nick Phi 39
Noble Laza 42 Stephen 40
Noble's Island 68
North burying ground 50 Parish records 11
Northfolk 56 Nowell Increase 14
Odderhorne Nath 40
Odiorne John 38
Odiorne's Point 5, 6, 49
Olliver John 43
Onyun Thomas 38
Packer John 40 Thomas 41
Paine William 16
Palmer William 31
Pannaway 5
Parker James 56 William 41
Parkes John 40
Parsley Richard 41
Partridge John 39, 40 William 41 Pascataqua 5, 6, 9, 49, 51. 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64
Pascataquack 64 Paull Dauiel 38 Peacock Adam 41 .
Pearce George 43 Joshua 41 Thomas 41 Peavee William 40
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Peirce Joshua 4 Pendexter Ed 41
James 39 Pendilton Joseph 19, 20
Pendleton Bryan 13, 16, 17, 18, 19 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27,28, 29, 33, 34, 39, 50, 52
Penhallow James 39
Hunking 2 John 4 mr 55 Samuel 41
Pest Island 68
Peters Hugh 55
Peverly John 43 John jr 43 Nathaniel 43 Peverlly Thomas 13, 20, 21, 23, 26, 38
Pevey William 43 Phillip Edward 40
Phipps Thomas 42
Pickering John 13, 14, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 48, 50, 53, 54, 59
Robert 40
Pickern John jr 39
Pike Doctor 43
Pincomb's Creek 35
Piscataqua 57, 62, 65
Pitman Eliza 39
Ezekiel 43 Jabis 40 James 41 Joseph 41 Samuel 39
Plaisted John 41, 48 Mary 48
Pleasant Street 46
Plimmoth 68
Plymouth 5
Pomeroy Leonard 5
Pomfres Poynt 15, 46
Pomfret William
Portsmouth 1, 2, 5, 6, 45, 52, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63 Annals Of 8 Rambles About 2
Pray John 42
Preston John 39 Province The 49, 60, 63 Puddle Dock 48 Pudington Robert 13, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 38
Quick Daniel 40 Ragge Jaffry 15
Raines Francis 30, 46, 50
Rains mr 29
Rand Francis 13, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 36, 38
Randavou The 18, 49
Raye Francis 40
Raynes 50
Records Court 45
Renals John 17
Riddan Thaddeus 13, 18
Roberts Axwell 41 John 39 Robinson John 43 Nathaniel 42
Rockingham County 45, 47
Roe Anthony senr 40 junr 40
Roger Joseph 39
Rose Stephen 42
Ross William 43
Row Nicholis 20, 24, 26, 36, 38, 49
Russel - 42 Eleazer 43
Rye 5, 47
Rymes Samuel 42
Saco 46, 52 Sagamore Creek 15, 31, 46, 47, 49
Sander's Point 49, 50
Sandy Beach 14, 25, 26, 31, 32, 36
Sargent John 38
Savidg Henry 38
Savidge John jr 40
Saward Richard senr 38 junr 38
Scott Selvenge 40 Seabrook 63 Seavie William 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38
Seaward Joseph 5 Seward goodman 27 Henry 42 Richard 20, 23, 34, 50 William 43 Sevy Samuel 40
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Thomas 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 30, 37. 38 Shackford John 42 Samuel 42 Shannon Nathaniel 43 Shapleigh Nicholas 66, 67 Sherborn James 40
John 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 38, 39, 40, 43
Joseph 41 Samuel 43 Thomas 42 Thomas jr 42 Sherborn's Poynt 18, 49 Sherburn mr 37
Sherburne Edward 40
Henry 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43, 49, 50,52, 66 Henry jr 43
Sherwill Nicholas 5
Shoals Isle of 61
Shores John 40 Robert 39 Shortridge Richard 41 Simpson Thomas 43 Skilton John 42
Sloper- -66
Ambrose 41 Henry 42 Richard 38, 39 Smith George 42 Quince 38 Smyth George 45 Snell George 53 John 40 Snow --- 40 Thos 40 Spinny James 41 Spregg William 40 Square Bar 38 Stears Walter 41 Stewart James 40 Stileman Elias 4, 31, 45, 47, 53, 60 Story Madam 41 Strawberry Bank 7, 14, 15, 17, 18,
19, 20, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 55, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65, 66, 67 Creek 50
Street Joseph 40 Studley James 43 Jonathan 43 Sturgeon Creek 48
Suffolk Registry 1, 47, 66, 67
Swaine Roger 40 Swan Samuel 42 Sweet Joseph 40 Tapley Prudence 40 Thomson David 5, 6, 7
Tobey Richard 42
Toogood Ed 41 Tout Henry 40
Townsend George 43
Treadwell Samuel P 12
Trickee Francis 21, 23
Trike Francis 13, 16, 20
Trimings Oliver 21
Trimmings Oliver 13, 15, 20, 22,
23, 25, 36
Tucker Richard 21, 28, 29, 35, 37, 39,47
Tuckerman Nathaniel 43
Tufton 61
Urin William 29
Usher Dermont 39
Vaughan George 41 William 39, 41, 53, 54
Walden Thomas 41
Waldron Major 56 Richard 43
Walford goodman 26 Jeremy 16, 20, 23, 32, 38 Thomas 13. 20, 23, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 Walker George 39, 41, 42 Joseph 38 widow 42 William 40
Wallis George 39 Walton George 9, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23. 28, 37, 38, 42, 50, 60
Wannerton Thomas 9, 37 Ward Richard 43 Robert 40
Warren Walter 43 William 40 Waterhouse Richard 41, 42 Samuel 40 Timothy 41 Watson William 43
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Webster John 15, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 the younger 31
Wedg Thomas 38
Weeks Leonard 38
Wells Edward 40
Wentworth 49, 50
George 4 Hunking 4 West Edward 39
Westbrook Thomas 43
Westbrous John 41
Weymouth 56
Whedden Michael 41
Whidden Michael jr 43 White William 41
Wibird Richard 41
Wiggin Thomas 56, 62 Wilkinson Thomas 43 Willet mr 42
Williams Francis 17, 58 John 42 Thomas 15, 31, 47
Winacont River 23, 33, 35, 37
Winkley Samuel 41
Winnepiseogee 63
Winthrop 55, 56, 61
Witch Creek 49
Woodhouse Phillip 43
Wotton John 20, 24, 37, 47, 68
Wotton's Neck 16
Wright Thomas 40
Wyal Alexander 43
York 46, 64
Young John 42
CORRECTIONS :
Page 29, line 7 from bottom, for "1663," read "1653." 40, line 4, for "Odderhorme," read "Odderhorne."
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