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• Baptism: 1687, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA

Notes:

This Richard Harnden is often accredited with being the father of the earliest known North American Harnden family lines.

Richard spent most of his life in Reading, Mass. However, for some years after his marriage, he is believed to have been living in Boston. By 1682 he was certainly back in Reading. According to newspaper articles in Wilmington, Massachusetts. He spent some time in Rhode Island giving greater creedance to the fact that Benjamin Hearnden and John Harndel were close relatives to our lines.

At one time Richard Harnden owned land from the Ipswich River at Jenkin's Bridge running north along Lubbers brook and what is now Woburn Street to Nod. (Jenkin's bridge is over the Ipswich River at Laurens Carter crossing - Woburn St. - Wilmington).

Richard took the Freeman's Oath on 18 April 1691.

This is an interesting source. I don't know where it actually belongs or if it even relates to our family. But, there seems to be a close relationship to the name and dates of our Richard.

The following is from The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire:

Capt. Richard(9), Black Point, Scarboro, the Ind. killer, pilot and military leader. Aged 31 in Aug. 1676. Poss. going to Scarb. when his mo. remar, he began in Philip's War the service which contin. until death 6 Oct. 1703, when he and his men from Black Point garri. were cut off by the Ind. Called Corp. in Aug. 1677, Ensign 1680, com. Lieut. by Andros 2 July 1687, signed as Capt. 24 June 1693. App. a fisherman early, he was at a Marblehead stage from Black Point in 1672, and m. a York girl (Ct. 31 Mar. 1674) Elizabeth Stover (Sylvester), of famous ancestry thru her mo. Elizabeth (Norton). All records of him are at Scarb. until 1690, except witn. Mar. 1680-1 at York, where his w. prob. was liv.; she depos. in June 1737, Â84, bet. 40 and 50 yrs. since liv. with her husb. Hunnewell in a stone ho. of Geo. Norton's; depos. again 8 Aug. 1738, Â85, ab. 64 yrs. past liv. in Scarb. He was contin. as Constable at Scarb. 1680; Gr. j. 1683, 1687-8, 1696; Selectm. 1685, 1686, 1688; Comr. Scarb. 1688. Lists 83, 236, 237ab, 238a, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 96. In 1690 at Saco Riv. he was shot thru the thigh. In 1692, late of Winter Harb. or Black Point, he deeded fa.'s est. to br. John, and ack. deed in Salis., his fam. there in 1693. Of York, a good pilot, ready for service, Aug. 1695; there in Mar. 1696-7 he ptn. for relief, wounded several times in arms and incap. of servile labor. Bet. 5 Sept.Â-14 Oct. 1700 he was at Scarb. witn. possession to Mr. Vaughan; app. liv. there 20 Nov. 1702, and drove cattle eastward by Wells on Sunday in Jan. 1702-3. As wid. Elizabeth H., she was pd. in Mar. 1703-4 for a steer, and for disbursem. by her husb. in bldg. the fort; m. 2d Jeremiah Walford, 3d 1733-34 Capt. John Downing(2). Ch: Roger, b. Â1675, bp. at Salis. with two foll. 15 Oct. 1693. John, pd. July 1703 for 1150 lbs. beef furnished at Casco; served under Capt. Harraden in expdn. to Bay of Fundy Apr.Â-Aug. 1704. Elizabeth, m. by 1702 Capt. Benj. Hammond of Rochester, Mass. In 1730-1 she ptn. as Capt. Rich. H.'s dau. 8 ch., incl. Israel and Roger. Patience, m. 29 Sept. 1696 John Hathaway of Dartmouth. 10 ch. incl. Richard and Hunnewell. Their fa. and mo. Walford deeded to two sons-in-law 1 June 1722. See (4), (8).

It should be noted that this excerpt may actually pertain to a member of the Harraden family, but I'm not sure.

Richard married Andrews, Mary 24 Oct 1666, Reading (Lynn), Middlesex, MA. Mary was born 1649; died , Reading (Lynn), Middlesex, MA. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 4EFF95D3791A044C86D3671987E1B642D195
• Settled: 5 Sep 1729, Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, USA
• Member: 1733, Deacon of the first church in Wilmington, Mass.

Notes:

"John Harnden, who had been one of the earliest movers for the setting off of Wilmington from its parent towns, Lynn and Reading, was the oldest son of the settler Richard Harnden and his wife Mary. He was born in Reading in 1668. He was chosen as one of the first deacons of the very first church and also noted as "cash keeper" for the town. One night in 1706 or 1707, while he was away from home, five Indians of a war party that had been attacking Dunstable, came down to his house, made an entrance through the roof and killed Mrs. Harnden and three of the children. The others hid behind a great rock henceforth known as Indian Rock, but were discovered and carried off though they were rescued later by infuriated pursuers. One of the girl's was struck by an arrow and was thought dead and her body was thrown by marauders into a small pond close by, but the water revived her and she was rescued after the savages had gone, and lived to grow to womanhood.

The Indians were prompted to this deed by a desire for revenge for the death of a drunken squaw of their tribe who was run over and killed by a Harnden, near a small pond on the way to Woburn. This pond, now obliterated by a recent relocation of the highway, is a short distance south of the old Isaac Damon place which stands where Eames St. joins Main Street.

The Indians, however, took their revenge on the wrong family, as the one who ran over the squaw lived in the house at the foot of the hill. The house of the massacre stood almost directly back of the Rev. Joshua Buffuns house of later years on High Street and the site today can be plainly distinguished. The well is still there and recently has been piped to supply a house on Woburn Street with water. The pond was hardly more than a mud hole in later years the children of the neighborhood long used to slide on it in winter. It was back of what used to be the John Morris house on High Street."


From an article in the Town Crier Summer of 2006:

THE HARNDEN MASSACRE

by Larz F. Neilson

A large boulder, known as Indian Rock is the only visible remainder of the Harnden Massacre. It is believed that the massacre took place
exactly 300 years ago, on July 6, 1706, although that date is in question.

The massacre took place during Queen Anne's War, one of the French
and Indian Wars. Many towns in New England were raided in that period. The raiders who struck the Harnden family had split from a group which attacked Dunstable.

Richard Harnden, the first white settler in what is now North
Wilmington, built a home, about 1665, on the site of what is now the home of Stuart Neilson, on 67 High Street. The land at the time was a part of Reading.

Seven years after Harnden built his home, the Boston-Andover Road was
laid out. It included the part of High Street that is closest to Woburn Street. Anyone travelling north out of Boston would have to use that road, as the ford at Jenks Bridge was the only point at which it was possible to cross the Ipswich River.

Richard Harnden had lived in the Ipswich area of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, prior to building the home in what is now North Wilmington. He had two sons, Benjamin and John. Benjamin built a house on the site now occupied by the Reading Co-Operative Bank, next to the Whitefield School.

Their oldest son, John, who was a deacon in the Reading (now Wakefield) Church, built his home near the site now occupied by the Woburn Street School.

West Street was the path that John used when he went to the church on
business, and it became known as "The Deacon's Way", as he cut his
way through the swamps, choosing dry ground as much as possible.

John was one of the earliest to advocate starting a new town. He died
in 1727, three years before Wilmington was incorporated.

Benjamin Harnden accidently killed an Indian squaw, about 1704, near
the Wilmington - Woburn town line on Main Street. At the time, the
road went around a small pond, which became known as Squaw Pond.

A band of Indians, seeking Benjamin Harnden, found the wrong house.
Banjamin was probably living at the home of his father at the time. The Indians tore open the roof of the John Harnden house, entered, and killed Mrs. Susannah Harnden and some of the children. Deacon John Harnden was at church at the time of the attack.

The oldest girl, Abagail, took some of the children and hid behind a
rock, which became known as Indian Rock. The Indians discovered them. The smaller children were kidnapped, and Abagail was thrown into a pond, which later became known as Morris Pond. The pond was at what is now the northerly end of Marcia Road.

The children were recovered the next morning by aroused settlers, led
by Benjamin Harnden.

Abagail grew up to marry Jonathan Nourse, whose mother had been put to death as a witch in Salem. After his death, she married Daniel Eames and lived in the red farm house on Woburn Street opposite Wildwood Street. She had a large family, and anyone named Eames in this country has a good chance of being descended from her.

Her son John, a selectman of Wilmington in the 1750's, inherited the "Massacre House" and put in there a family of French neutrals who
were quartered in Massachusetts by the colonial government.

The diary of Rev. Cotton Mather, the Puritan minister of the Old North Church in Boston, contains an interesting story which would affirm the July 6, 1706 date:

25d, 4m Tuesday (June 25, 1706) Having been much solicited, by the
people of Andover, a town almost thirty miles off, to come and preach a Lecture there, I did this day undertake the journey. His calash was
preserved from upsetting when the bad load brought him into danger. On the following day and on the following day he lectured to a great
assembly, and after the lecture he returned the greater part of the way homewards.

There was a singular providence of Heaven over me in my timing of
this journey, he wrote. For immediately upon it, a descent of
Indians from Canada, on this very part of the country, rendered the road so unsafe that I durst be no means have travelled it. Yea, being desirous to do some good on the road in the woods, I called some children to me which I met there and bestowed some instruction with a little book upon them; which I understood afterwards made no little impression on the family, but it proved a family which in a few days the Indians visited and murdered the mother and several of the children in it.

This reference was found in a notebook. Immediately below it was
written: The Harnden Massacre was on May 12, 1707. There was no information given to substantiate that date.

A story entitled Wilmington by Lemuel C.(Cobb) Eames, a descendant of Abagail Harnden Eames, was published in Drake's History of Middlesex County. In it, he wrote:

In the year 1706, five Indians from a party who had attacked
Dunstable ventured down to this town and attacked the family of John Harnden, who occupied a small cottage in the northwesterly part of Reading, now in the limits of Wilmington. The house stood in a pasture some 60 rods south of the road from Samuel Gowings to the centre of Wilmington. (High Street)

Another date given is August 12, 1707, which is the recorded date of
death for Susannah Harnden.

The Harnden family is planning a large reunion in the Wilmington area
in August of 2007.

The reference to Cotton Mather is found in the following source:

Diary of Cotton Mather (First edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 1911; Reprint, Ungar, 1957). Pages 565 and 566.

Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681-1724.
by Cotton Mather
Language: English Type: Book
Publisher: Boston, The Society, 1911-12.
OCLC: 6359938

A side note from Larz pertaining to diary entry of Mather's:

The Harnden houses in Wilmington were both on the Andover Road, which was laid out in 1672. It is certain that Mather travelled that road, as there was no other road to the north, due to the breadth of the swamps along the Ipswich River. Mather had to have passed the Harnden houses on that journey. And I know of no attack by Indians anywhere along that road in that era.

John married Clinton, Susannah 16 Apr 1690, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Susannah was born Abt 1668, Lynn, Essex, MA, New England; died 12 Aug 1707, Reading, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

John married Hutchinson, Sarah 9 Dec 1707, Reading, Middlesex, MA, New England. Sarah was born , Lynnfield, Essex, MA, New England; died 10 Dec 1748. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 7A47871CDEA6FC4F97330B8BAC5D995E932D
• Elected: 1719; Selectman of Reading. Mass.

Notes:

Benjamin was a Weaver.

Benjamin married Belfloure (Bellflower), Mary Elizabeth 10 Feb 1691, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Mary was born 8 Aug 1668, Reading, Middlesex, MA, New England; died 1706, Reading, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

Benjamin married Holt, Elizabeth 14 Jun 1711, Andover, Essex County, MA, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Holt, Henry and Ballard, Sarah) was born 29 Dec 1670, Andover, Essex, MA, New England; died 21 Dec 1734, Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

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Elizabeth married Abbott, Deacon John II 6 Jan 1702/1703, Andover, Essex, MA, USA. John (son of Abbot, John and Barker, Sarah) was born 2 Nov 1674, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 1 Jan 1754, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried , South Church Cemetery, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 4D93CC30637F3747A828E839AFACFF139A79

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• _UID: B6E29456E9AA9D468DF9AB305F6728B5FCC5
• Will (probated): 1703, Andover, Essex, MA, USA

Notes:

Signed his name as Barachias Harndine on a deed in Andover, Mass. held by the Abbot Family of Andover.

The Medfield Records (home of May) shows his name as Barachias Arnold.

This information is from the following:

Boston Transcript, Genealogical Department 26 Oct 1910.

Barrachius died from small pox.

Here's a little side note. Do you see how Barachias said his last name was Arnold in the Medfield Records? It has often been a family legend that the most famous American traitor Benedict Arnold was a member of the Harnden family. I don't know how true it is, but I thought it was a nice little tidbit to share. Even if Benedict Arnold was not a Harnden some of our family did serve with him.

Some researchers have his death date as 1703.

Barachias married Johnson, Mary 24 Jul 1701, Andover, Essex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

It is believed this William died young.

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Ebenezer married Allen, Rebecca Alice 1700, Malden, Middlesex, MA, New England. Rebecca died 18 Nov 1764. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Mary was the twin of Hephsibah.

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Notes:

Hephsibah was the twin of Mary

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• _UID: 43721EB8B2DAC147AD6F21927D5C97BC1A9C

Notes:

Richard is placed here because he didn't seem to fit anywhere else. And, seemed to fall in nicely given the date of his birth.

Richard is found in the following source:

Volume: 72
Page Number: 497
Biographical Info: d.y.
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.
(The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed)

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• _UID: B33E84FCB8C38545BBABA970E945F33187AB

Notes:

One source (WFT Volume 9 #0602) shows her name as: Hepzibah Harndine another date for her Marriage was listed as 22 March 1710.

Hephsibah married Chandler, Abiel 10 Mar 1711, Andover, Essex, MA, USA. Abiel was born 9 Jan 1686/1687. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Abigail Harnden and the Sons of the Witches:

Note the year of Abigail's birth 1692.

Do you know what happened in 1692?

The Salem Witch Trials were going on.

I just found that ironic considering who Abigail married.

Abigail's first husband was Jonathan Nurse b. 4 Mar 1691/1692 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 26 Nov 1717 Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Jonathan was the Grandson of Rebecca (Towne) Nurse. They married on 27 Jan 1713 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Abigail's second husband was Capt. Daniel Eames b. 10 Jan 1697 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1781 in Haverhill, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Daniel was the Grandson of Rebecca (Blake) Eames. They married on 8 Mar 1720 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Here's the even more ironic part. Both of Abigail's husband's Grandmothers were tried as witches during the Salem Witch Trials. Rebecca (Towne) Nurse was hanged on 19 Jul 1692. Rebecca (Blake) Eames was jailed 1 Aug 1692, condemned on 17 Sep 1692 and reprieved and released in March of 1693.


The story of Rebecca (Towne) Nurse:


Rebecca Nurse: A Tragedy of Injustice

Author: Allan Gilbertson


Rebecca (Towne) Nurse was baptized at Yarmouth, England, on February 21, 1621/22, the daughter of William Towne and Joanna Blessing. She came to Salem with her family in 1640. In about 1645, she married Francis Nurse, who was born in England between 1618 and 1620. Francis was a tray maker who probably also made other wooden household items. He was Salem's constable in 1672.

In 1692, the "black cloud of the witchcraft delusion descended upon Salem Village." Rebecca was a 71-year-old invalid who had raised a family of eight children. The Nurse family had been involved in several land disputes which could have caused ill-feeling among some of the residents of Salem. Nevertheless, most of her contemporaries sympathized with her. The dignity and nobility of her character which she showed throughout the trials undoubtedly helped turn public opinion against the trials. Her story is well-known, and has been written in many historical and fictionalized accounts of the trials, including Arthur Miller's play The Crucible.

Soon after the first of the women had been accused of witchcraft, Rebecca Nurse discovered that her name had also been mentioned as a suspect. She is reported to have said "I am innocent as the child unborn, but surely, what sin hath God found out in me unrepented of that He should lay such an affliction on me in my old age." On March 23 a warrant was issued for her arrest upon the complaint of Edward and John Putnam. (The Putnam family was among those that had been involved in land disputes with Rebecca and her husband.)

As in other cases, Rebecca's examination by judges was accompanied by "great noyses by the afflicted." She repeated her assertion that she was innocent but was committed to the Salem jail. Needless to say, the procedure was a travesty of justice. Belief in witchcraft was widespread in New England at that time, but even in that climate it is surprising that convictions could occur as a result of hearsay, slander and hysteria.

Rebecca was indicted on June 2 and subjected to a physical examination by a jury of women. They found what a majority of them believed to be a mark of the devil -- although two of the women disagreed, saying the mark was due to natural causes. Rebecca asked that others examine her before she was brought to trial, but the request was denied.

Rebecca Nurse was tried on June 29, 1692. Her accusers included the four young girls who initiated the witchcraft hysteria in Salem, Rev. Parris and several members of the Putnam family. Rebecca's son, son-in-law and daughter-in -law spoke in her defense. In addition, some 40 members of Salem Village signed a declaration defending her character.

The jury at first returned a verdict of "not guilty." Some who had been accused confessed to practicing witchcraft in hopes that their death sentences would be dropped. One of these women, Goody Hobbs, had muttered "she is one of us." In light of this the judge asked that the verdict be reconsidered. When Rebecca was asked what Goody Hobbs had meant, she didn't answer. Later she said that she had not heard the question, as she was hard of hearing, and that "one of us" had meant that they were imprisoned together. The Governor granted a reprieve, but when Rebecca's accusers renewed their outcry it was withdrawn.

On July 3, Rebecca Nurse was excommunicated -- "abandoned to the devil and eternally damned." On July 19 she was driven in a cart with four other women to Gallows Hill where she was hung. Tradition says that at midnight Francis Nurse, his sons and sons-in-law found Rebecca's body in the common grave where it had been flung and carried it home for a proper burial.

One of Rebecca's sisters, Mary (Towne) Estey, was also hung on charges of being a witch. The last of the executions in Salem took place in September 1692. In all, 20 people were put to death (including five men), and eight others died in jail. The trials ended perhaps because too many people of good reputation had been accused. By 1703 the General Court made payments to the heirs of the victims and 25 pounds was paid to the heirs of Rebecca Nurse. In 1706, Ann Putnam, one of the original four hysterical young women, made a written statement of remorse. She said that the devil had deceived her into accusing innocent people and mentioned "Goodwife Nurse" in particular. In 1712 the pastor who had cast Rebecca out of the church formally cancelled the excommunication.

Abigail married Nurse, Jonathan 27 Jan 1713, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Jonathan was born 4 Mar 1691/1692, Reading, Middlesex, MA, New England; died 26 Nov 1717, Wakefield, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

Abigail married Eames, Capt. Daniel 8 Mar 1720, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Daniel was born 10 Jan 1697, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, New England; died 1781, Haverhill, Middlesex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Susannah married Kendall, Joseph 1723. [Group Sheet]

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Mary married Dane, Joseph 14 Jul 1720. Joseph was born 1696. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Frye, Joshua 1724. [Group Sheet]

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• Sold Property: 19 Apr 1738, To Joseph Bates, 40 acres in Wilmington

Notes:

John Harnden & Samuel Eames of Goshen headed a petition to the General Court in Boston, asking that the north part of Woburn and the west part of Reading be made a separate precinct. This was denied and the petitioners were joined in a similar appeal on Nov 26 the same year by Daniel Pierce, Benjamin Harnden and Samuel Walker; this also was denied, but a subsequent petition for separate township was received with favor, and on 25 Sep 1730, an act of the general Court incorporating the new town as Wilmington was passed. The condition was imposed that "the inhabitants" be "required" to provide themselves with a minister "within the space of three years," which was done. By 1733 John Harnden became a Deacon of the first church in Wilmington, Mass.

The following is from Jonathan Lance Harnden Jr.:

" John, son of Richard & Mary, b. in Reading Aug 30, 1668 - died in Wilmington Dec. 13, 1727. Married Susannah in Reading 1690.

On the fifth day of Sep. 1729, a petition, headed by Samuel Eames and John Harnden of Reading, was presented to the General Court, praying the north part of Woburn and most of Reading be made a district precinct. This seemed necessary owing to the great distance the inhabitants were forced to travel who lived in the northern part of Woburn, as Woburn covered a great deal of ground. Woburn and Reading were summoned to show cause...

A commission from both towns spent some days in carefully considering, looking over the ground, noting the distance, and estimating the ability of the region for the support of preaching. After five years and eight months of endless talk, the petition was granted.

A bill incorporating the new town under the name of Wilmington was passed to be engrossed Sep. 25, 1730.

The second town meeting was held Dec. 3, 1730 at the school house - John Harnden being moderator. At this meeting it was voted to build a meeting house 46-30120, the body of the house to be all oak, and all to be of oak but the middle principals.

Deacon John Harnden, a member of the Reading Church, and James Thompson, of the Woburn Church, were made a committee for providing preaching until March and Deacon Harnden was appointed "cash keeper."

The records show that he was able and trustworthy. The first settled minister was the Rev. James Varney and the same two men who in 1729 petitioned for a separate town, were also the first two deacons of the church, Samuel Eames and John Harnden."

John married Jaquith, Mary 13 Dec 1727, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. Mary was born 1 Sep 1706, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

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Rachel married Thompson, Joshua 9 Jul 1724, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Joshua was born 14 Jan 1704, Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

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Hephsibah married Farnum, Berechiah (Barachias) 1 Jan 1723, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Berechiah (son of Farnum, Ralph Jr. and Sterling, Sarah) was born 16 Mar 1697, Andover, Essex, MA, New England; died 22 Aug 1767, Haverhill, Essex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: C73501D21A809C46AD65C5714C0F4970A7E6
• Baptism: 21 Jul 1717, Andover, Essex, MA, USA

Sarah married Temple, Jonathan 8 Aug 1734, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Jonathan was born , Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Elizabeth married Preston, Levi 9 Sep 1718, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Levi was born 25 Oct 1696, Andover, Essex, MA, New England; died 6 Dec 1781, Foster, Providence, RI, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Harriet married Wright, Steven 21 Jan 1713, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA. Steven was born , Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Living: 1766, Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, USA
• Baptism: 27 Jan 1771

Benjamin — Harriet. [Group Sheet]

Benjamin married Dale, Joanna 17 Jul 1722, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. Joanna was born , Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: A30E2CEABD07F64295B79C1D829E20161E7D
• Moved To: 1720, Kennebeck, ME
• Marr. Int.: 18 Dec 1723, Boston, Suffolk, MA
• Fr. Indian War: 1725, Under Capt. Heath

Notes:

Samuel was a Corporal in Lieut. Heath's Company, he enrolled 16 May 1721 holding Fort Richmond from May to November of 1721. He was still with Heath in 1725 as a Sergeant.

Samuel first filed his marriage intentions in Boston, Mass. on 18 Dec 1723 under Sam Arndel & Mary Edgar, a cruel entry is appended "Forbidden by his father". This denied union finely took place 16 March 1726 as Saml. Horndell & Mary Edgar.

Samuel was an agent for the Nequasset Petitioners in securing incorporation of the new Town Woolwich and was moderator at the first Town Meeting.

From "History of Woolwich Maine"

As far as we know, the Smith-Hammond property lay vacant for nearly forty years. With new settlements after Dummer's Treaty, purchasers of that tract of land and others merged their rights into a company. It became Nequasset Township. One proprietor was Samuel Harnden, former soldier at Fort Richmond. Upon survey he chose two hundred acres at the end of Long Reach. For defense he built his blockhouse in 1742, the home of the Harndens for nearly fifty years.

During those years of peace, Samuel's daughter, Mary, married Ebenezer Preble. In 1758 they were living with their six children on their farm a mile south of the Harnden garrison at Long Reach. There had been rumors of hostilities with the French and Indians. Settlers were retreating to the safety of the forts. The Prebles were preparing to take the family to the Harnden fort, but they were too late. Mary and Ebenezer were killed, and the children were taken captive. The baby, Benjamin, and a servant boy died on the march to Quebec. In 1759, when the army attacked Quebec, two daughters, Rebecca and Mary, were rescued and returned. Two years later Grandfather Harnden made the long journey to Montreal to rescue his grandsons, Samuel and Ebenezer, and Elenor Noble of Swan Island, a captive for eleven years. The third grand-daughter, Mehitable, was taken to France with her foster family and not heard from again. A boulder with a plaque on the point at Day's Ferry, in sight of the Harnden fort, marks the burial site of Mary and Ebenezer Preble.

In his remaining years he made a journey to Montreal and Quebec for his two grandsons who had been captives there since the breaking up of the family by the Indian assault of 1758 making six children captives after killing their parents. This journey with the time spent in searching and negotiating for the lads extended from August to October 1761. He went by way of Crown Point but returned from Quebec by a vessel to Boston. He obtained along with the boys, Elinor Noble, one of the Swan Island captives of the raid of 1751. His journey detailed incidents and successful quest is preserved in the Massachusetts Archives:


THE LAST TRAGEDY OF THE INDIAN WARS:

THE PREBLE MASSACRE AT THE KENNEBEC

BY REV. HENRY O. THAYER


Read before the Maine Historical Society April 90, 1903

Our historian Bancroft, remarking upon the terrible wars of the red men, prosecuted usually by warrior bands rarely exceeding forty, adds that "parties of six or seven were most to be dreaded, while those of two or three were not uncommon." Stealthy steps upon the enemy's trail to strike them when asleep; the ambush of a village; the dash upon a single foe-man or upon a woman and children; the quick taking of scalps and flight; were characteristic methods.

In the same way later upon the white man did the Indian make; war when his bloodthirsty nature sought victims or his hate and fears would expel the intruding settler.

Our New England history shows instances where war parties of several hundreds assaulted settlements as at Dover and Wells, but in a majority of such cases Frenchmen doubled "the savage horde and French leaders and French tactics aided in a more woeful work as at Deerfield, Berwick, Casco, Pemaquid. But in those same wars the great number of desolations and atrocities came from bands of ten or a score. In the last twenty years of the Indian warfare 1740-60 when settlements had been extended and were stronger, the main work of the harassing foe was done on the outskirts, by ambush of laborers, a fell swoop upon a lonely dwelling. These murderous raids were better executed by wolf-like bands of five or ten.

"War," wrote Edmund Burke, "is the matter which fills all history." Our Maine history is not complete without many pages of deeds over which humanity must weep. The instance I relate was the first of the Kennebec tales of blood which engaged my attention, and had special significance because it occurred a mile from my home for many years and the descendants of the victims were my neighbors and intimate friends. To family traditions I was afterwards able to add documentary evidence from the Massachusetts State papers.

Upon Ebenezer Preble fell the sudden deadly onset of skulking raiders of the Kennebec valley.

He was the son of Jonathan, of Arrowsic, who was grandson of Abraham, the immigrant to Scituate and thence to York, about 1642. Hence he was a second cousin of General Jedediah Preble whom Portland holds in honor. For the times, middle of the eighteenth century, this young man of thirty-four had made a happy beginning in life. A farm, a humble dwelling sheltering a wife and six children, cultivated acres near at hand, a barn partly built, fair prospects for the onward years, were solid foundations for true satisfaction. His home was on a small plateau jutting upon the tides and eddies of the river, and now opposite to the northerly part of the city of Bath.

At work in his corn-plat on a day of early June, the ambushed foe sped their deadly missiles upon him, and he fell under the careful certainty of aim. The report of guns like thunder from a clear sky sent a shock of terror into his dwelling. Did not every wife and mother carry an aching fear of similar peril every day? Mrs. Preble knew full well the meaning of those guns. She hastily barred the door and, unwisely it seems, made such defense as she could against the fierce enemy who at once yelled their joy and defiance about the house. It was a party of four only, ranging from Canada into Maine for scalps and captives.

They preferred captives to scalps because of the higher price in the French markets of the spoils of war. They strove for entrance and demanded surrender, offering "good quarters." Failing of this, they tried bullets. One account told that Mrs. Preble was putting a featherbed against the door for more effective barricade against the guns. Through crevice or aperture by door or window she was shot dead, falling in the midst of her shrieking children, while grievous wounds were inflicted on two more of the household.

Now dire fright and hopelessness compelled to unbar the door. The assailants. took possession, gleeful certainly at success. And the numerous captives which meant much silver in hand at Quebec. They hastily gathered such plunder as they would be able to carry: of it one portion was the mass of dough for the rye-and-Indian loaf, in preparation by Mrs. Preble's hands. This was slipped out of the tray into a blanket, greedily to be devoured later, or divided to the captives. Probably the whole transaction did not occupy an hour from the ambushed shot till the march began. The Indian file-leader led on the distressed company into the great wilderness through which Arnold and his men toiled and suffered six score years later. Now four exultant savages convoyed a company of eight horror-stricken youth and children.

It was fortunate that only nine months previously record of this family was entered at Georgetown by Clerk Samuel Denny. The ages were approximately: Rebecca, twelve and one-half years; Samuel, ten; Mehetabel, eight and one-half;

Ebenezer, six; Mary, three and one-half; also an infant, William, three months. There was also a servant girl, Sarah Fling, seventeen years of age, and an undersized boy nearly fifteen, Simeon Girdey, a lad in the service of Jonathan Preble.

The girl, Sarah Fling, suffered a slight wound; the lad one grievous and mortal. A tradition told that the Indians endeavored to save his life, probing the wound for the bullet. We know that in the end he was knocked on the head.

Family tradition retained few incidents of the dolorous journey. The Indians made hasty departure, taking a detour back from the river into the forest for greater safety if their horrid work should at once be discovered. At the first resting-place but a few miles onward, the oldest daughter was confident she could have escaped, but loyally would not forsake her sisters. The little Mary in fits of crying was threatened into silence by her captors and was also carried on the back of her oldest sister much of the way. The undiscerning Indians, in desire to save the infant's life, assumed that the stout servant girl might nourish it at her breast, and so directed. She could only deny and protest "I am" not it's mother." Then in their disappointment and exasperation the little one was recklessly and viciously brained against the nearest rock or tree. The family tradition holds that this fiendish deed was done before the eyes of the horrified group.

The captives were as kindly treated as life in the wilderness would allow; received the choicest bits of game killed; were watched over with care, for if there was no compassion self-interest so enjoined that the larger revenue of their exploit should be secured by living captives than by scalps.

On the way the captors hailed another party and held aloft on a pole the bunch or scalps, exulting in the trophies of a successful raid: the bereaved girls held long in memory the excruciating view of the long, black hair of their mother, waving as a token of orphanage cruelly thrust upon them "in a moment and their wretched and then hopeless fate as they were driven into the land of the enemy and the stranger.

The situation of the house still used for many years was well known in recent times as it had stood on the south side of the plateau on the border of a little cove. It disappeared, however, by the encroachment of brick-making, which ate away the supporting river bank. The outline of stones forming evidently the foundations of the barn can now be traced.

From that wrecked and blood-stained home the scarred bodies of the murdered parents were taken up river a mile to the block-house of Captain Harnden, who was Mrs. Preble's father, at the present village of West Woolwich, and there close by received sorrowful burial. A slight mound bordered by rough stones amid later graves is now plainly defined, remaining a memorial of the tragic event, and sadly needing some monument in their memory who were the victims of the last raid and massacre of the Kennebec valley.

Too late! often a poignant phrase, must have been a sharp thorn in Captain Harnden's heart if, as was told, he intended in view of peril to take his daughter and family home a day later when planting should be done. It seems desirable in behalf of the accuracy of history to refer to what existing history contains concerning this hostile raid.
Sullivan wrote "the date 1756", but Parson Smith in his Journal showed the correct one, 1758. Williamson, accordingly, felt obliged to accept both, and wrote of two separate events. Sullivan has only the name Preble, as also Smith's Journal, but in the latter the note by Mr. Willis says "Jonathan Preble who was born in York, 1695," thus regarding the father not the son as the real victim. All these writers assign the occurrence to the island of Arrowsic, the location of Jonathan Preble's home, but not of his son the sufferer. His house had been located four miles north, on the east bank of the Kennebec, in a section of Georgetown which by incorporation in the following year became Woolwich. Sullivan knew only of three children captured, yet he had conversed with one or two in after years.

In a historical sketch of Bath and vicinity, by General Joseph Sewall, some errors and apocryphal accretions were attached in the narration of this savage incursion, due to too ready acceptance of floating local traditions unverified by facts then obtainable from one of the captive daughters a few miles away.

He copies Sullivan in the date, the place, the number of captives, and makes Jonathan Preble, the owner of the blockhouse, the victim. He regarded the assailants as a "strong party," which advanced directly upon the Preble garrison, and then upon Harnden's", and also dared a future attack upon a strong fort at the lower end of Arrowsic, where they killed many cattle. He tells of the capture of a Miss Motherwell near Harnden's house. In fact, four Indians, 1ike sly wolves upon a sheep-fold, sprang upon a solitary farm-house, broke in, killed, seized their prey, then fled. The Miss Motherwell capture had only one fact for basis: one captive daughter did become Mrs. Motherwell many years after.

How slight and defective the knowledge of the transaction held by some of the descendants will be perceived by a short notice found in the volume, "The Preble Family."

Documents in the Massachusetts Archives correct and enlarge the family traditions respecting the transaction and the captives. They show the precise number of assailants, the number killed and wounded, a list of the captives, the manner of their detention or "disappearance, or their return home. One paper by the grandfather, Mr. Preble, gives a list of this family, with other names of like sufferers along the Kennebec that year. It assures the accurate date, June 9, 1758. Parson Smith's entry upon the eleventh says "lately," intelligence reaching Falmouth the second day after.

We learn that the second daughter, Mehetabel, entered a family, doubtless of the better class, which soon went to France, and though there was expectation of return, nothing further was ever heard of her. Her two sisters, in the following year when Quebec fell, were discovered by two men, evidently soldiers from the Kennebec in the New England forces. These men in kindness arranged for their ransom which amounted to one hundred dollars, and the girls came home in a transport which arrived at Boston date not known. To little Mary at departure had been given by the foster family a small tablecloth.

In the greetings at Boston by waving flags, hats, handkerchiefs, she had only her tablecloth to use, which in the swinging slipped from her feeble grasp and it was lost in the harbor.

Some facts indicate that in many, perhaps a majority of cases, English captives were kindly and humanely treated by the French in Canada. Officers of government, wealthy families, seem to have taken as many as they could, of course to be in the place of servants. Some captives found better homes than, they had left. One of these Preble boys, in after life of poorly remunerative toil lamented that his prospects for life had been changed for the worse by returning home. Others, many, must have had lives rugged and harsh because of the conditions of the families into which they fell by the chances of sale. Some captives were retained by the Indians, subjected and agreeably accustomed to their mode of life. Still others, a multitude from the border towns of New England, as they were hurried away by the captors toward the northern wilderness, passed into oblivion, for no word came back to reveal their fate. Not only as concerned miserable captives, but the processes of war were changed for the better in the course of years. Parkman holds that their wars in the; eighteenth Century were less cruel and bloodthirsty than in the previous and believes that the teachings and influence of the Jesuits contributed to this result.

In the spring of 1761 the recovery of the remaining Kennebec captives was undertaken. Captain Samuel Harnden, in a petition to the General Court of Massachusetts, detailed the incidents connected with the loss of his grandchildren and sought aid, in his purpose to go to Canada for them and for several others taken in his vicinity. By vote of June 20, a sum of money and letter and credentials were granted to him. He had first proposed to take the Kennebec route, but found reasons to make his journey by way of Crown Point. On the sixteenth of August he reached Montreal and was so speedily successful as to obtain his grandson Samuel on the third day. The boy had fallen into the hands of Major Desney. Five days later he took from a nunnery Elinor, daughter of Lazarus Noble of Swan Island, who had been in captivity eleven years. The girl Sarah Fling he learned was at San Antonio, sixty miles distant. Obtaining the needful passport, he set out and crossed the river, but soon some slight indisposition and probably a loss of ardor in her behalf turned him back. It is hoped that the girl who would have been in a measure homeless had she returned, did fare even better in the land of captivity. Intelligence privately obtained led him to seek the younger grandson at or near Quebec, where he arrived by ship on the twenty-ninth of August. On September 1, the lost boy was delivered to his hands. But here the misfortune of a broken arm befell the older boy, causing, expense and delay. The voyage from Quebec to Boston extended from September 17 to October 4. By further delay in sailing eastward he was unable to give the three homebound children a sight of their native Kennebec till October 20.

The narration can only draw the outlines without finer detail of what befell a household of ten persons. Four met death by the bullet and tomahawk; one in France and one in Canada passed out of all knowledge of family or friends; two daughters, after a year, two sons after three and a half years came back to the place of their birth. The older son Samuel came into possession of the farm from which he had been cruelly torn away, still in memory spotted and sacred by blood of parents. He died in 1806. His brother Ebenezer made his home on an adjacent farm, living till 1790. Rebecca, after twenty years from her captivity, married Thomas Motherwell in 1778 and residing within two miles of her brothers till her death in 1829. With her dwelt her sister Mary remaining unmarried, and in later years in the family of Captain Lincoln Webb at West Woolwich, attaining the age of eighty-nine in 1843.

Rebecca, as also her sister, became a member of the Congregational church and was esteemed a person of ardent piety traced to experiences of childhood. In that despairing hour when she was driven from home and the lifeless mother's side, she took the only good book possible, a small copy of the Psalter, and retained it and its cheer through the weary, homesick year in Canada.

Treasured, in the family is a plain finger-ring, mournful relic, a precious heirloom. It was on their mother's hand as she fell dead, and by the bread dough in which her hands were at the moment of alarm, was so concealed as to escape the eye of the plundering savage eager for the rich and bountiful scalp. It has last been in the possession of a daughter of the late Captain George A. Preble of Bath, a great-great-granddaughter of her who wore it at death. If as assumed a marriage ring, it dates back one hundred and fifty-seven years, and has been worn by four persons bearing the name Mary Preble, while a fifth Mary will have rights in succession. So the past transmits, with but the memory of calamities and sorrows, rich gifts of enjoyment and privilege the inheritance of to-day. This event as detailed may have worth as one instance of many hundreds of similar tragedies enacted throughout New England during eighty years of recurring Indian wars. Far more horrible were many; far more agonizing the terror of the foe's onset and the pain of separation; more dreadful and wearying unto death often the toilsome wilderness journey; more heartbreaking the oblivion which covered the fate of hundreds. Certainly much of woe and loss had been avoided if truth and justice had ruled in all relations with the Indians, and also a half century of conflict had been spared with its desolations and cost in human life, if thirst for dominion and the spirit of war had not so controlled the great nations in their stubborn rivalries nor permitted the grasp upon possessions in America to seem to justify the use of those malign savage allies to achieve the ends desired. This event narrated has special significance because of its place at the close of the "Seven 'Years War," which terminated the period of the "Indian Wars." French instigation ceased and raids on the frontier settlements save a few outbreaks during the War of the Revolution growing out of restless savage natures and greed for spoils. As that band of marauders were trailing through the northern forests and skulking about the Kennebec settlements, the forces of Amherst and Wolfe were massing upon Louisburg, the strong but doomed fortification in which France trusted to defend her eastern territory. The captives were not more than well placed in new homes by the St. Lawrence when the great fortress fell into English hands. The tragedy therefore was contemporary with the first act of the stirring drama of final conquest by Great Britain in North America.

Likewise it was the last known tragedy of the Indian Wars which involved and blotted out a whole family. Indeed it would have for any year distinction in that respect. Subsequently in that summer, records show many persons taken by the enemy. A large portion were captured in the region of Lake George and the northern army and were soldiers evidently. Others were seamen and fishermen on the eastern coast, who were viciously picked off though the Indians were greatly disheartened by the fall of Louisburg. Some dozen names appear of victims of savage incursions in eastern Maine during June, July and August. The price of the ransom was an impelling motive constantly, when French instigation no more set the human wolves upon the prey. But I find only individual captures or two or three at one time. No list of the lost indicates a family, and only two names of females are found among scores of captives. I conclude no whole family was assailed and taken away. No other later capture was reported from the valley of the Kennebec in applications to the State government. No history shows a single name. The war in Maine was virtually ended.

Noticeable likewise is it that this last family tragedy of the last Indian war occurred but one mile distant from the place of the first tragedy of the first Indian war in the valley of the Kennebec, when Richard Hammond's house was vengefully assailed in August, 1676. Not far away, perhaps not a hundred yards from the spot where the bodies of Hammond and companions were cast out stripped and unburied to the winds or the wolves, the murdered parents received loving and as decent burial as the distressing conditions allowed. For that region and all of Maine as well, how many and barbarous, how treacherous and desolating, the deeds of the vengeful enemy which joined those extremes, 1676 and 1758.

After Louisburg a year led on to Quebec's investment and its fall when "England blazed with bonfires, . . . and New England filled the land with jubilation."

Then two captive maidens nom the Kennebec stood on the heights or walls of the strong city and saw the movements of ships and soldiers which promised to them deliverance, and long remembered their share in the joy of England's triumph. There was needed only the further campaign against Montreal and then France lowered its flag and by that capitulation "Canada and all its dependencies passed to the British crown," and as Parkman wrote, "Half the continent had changed hands at the scratch of a pen."

NOTE A.

Obviously required as also conformed to present endeavor in New England to mark historic sites, is some simple monument at the burial-place of the victims of this tragedy. It is regarded very desirable by their descendants, and has been mentioned with approval in historical circles. Sufficient funds however are not at present readily obtainable, but steps have been taken to insure that ownership and legal title to the spot shall be vested in some appropriate corporate body, probably the Maine Historical Society.

NOTE B.

It is suitable in aid of family history present and future to append a brief outline of descendants of these parents who fell under savage assault.

Names are given of four generations which are denoted in their order by the numerals. Those in the fifth generation, now children and young persons, are enumerated but not named. All were or are residents of Woolwich unless otherwise designated.

These records show in the several families twelve or thirteen master mariners of whom two are now living, one retired from the merchant service and one in command of a government transport. Four or five were seamen of whom two were lost at sea and two died in foreign ports.

But Captain Motherwell was in the militia and had service at the Kennebec in the War of 1812.

Sources are as follows:

1 Massachusetts Archives, Vols. 38 A and 79.

2 For prices of captives refer to Collections Maine Historical Society, Series II, Vol. 10, pp. l94, l96 and 100-202.

Samuel married Edgar, Mary 16 Mar 1726, Boston, Suffolk, MA. Mary was born Abt 1702; died 22 Oct 1771, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Richard and Samuel were twins.

As source for Richard's birth and parents is as follows:

Volume: 72
Page Number: 497
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.
(The greatest single source of material for gen. Data
for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800.
Completely indexed in the Index.): 26 Oct 1910, 1405

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• _UID: 07869AC6D4F8954D8B99E48E31E285733C6F
• Baptism: 12 Oct 1712, South Church, Andover, Essex, MA

Notes:

Susanne never married.

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• _UID: DBCFA85AF6F65D4C9C83C5CD697D5C3C701E
• Rev War, Enlist: 12 Sep 1778, CT

Notes:

Because that part of Eastern Mass., where the early Harnden families lived had become thickly populated. Barachias Harnden and his family (sometime after 1735) migrated to the frontier in the vicinity of Hebron and Salem, Connecticut.

The family was at this location during the French and Indian war, when all male members of the family of military age went with the Colonial Troops for the invasion of Canada about 1755.

The women and children were left alone to provide for themselves and had to drive back the hostile Mohegan Indians for more then a year. The family evidently remained together in this location until the close of the Revolution.

When his son Jonathan and his immediate family moved to Granville, New York.

Barrachius was a soldier in the Revolationary War, from the vicinity of Salem, Conn., he served from 2 Aug 1778 to 12 Sep 1778, in Capt. David Cady's Company of Colonel Chapman's Regiment of the Connecticut Militia.

Barachias married Sherman, Sarah 1733, Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, USA. Sarah (daughter of Sherman) was born , Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, USA; died , CT, USA. [Group Sheet]

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John married Fiske, Phebe 28 Sep 1732. [Group Sheet]

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Elizabeth married Foster, Asa 26 Oct 1732. Asa was born 16 Jun 1710, Andover, Essex County, MA, USA; died 17 Jul 1787. [Group Sheet]

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Joseph married Abbott, Hannah 12 Nov 1741, Andover, Essex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Rebecca married Pratt, Richard 9 Jul 1729, Malden, Middlesex, MA, USA. Richard was born Abt 1693, Malden, Middlesex, MA, New England. [Group Sheet]

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Mary married Howard, Jonathan 1 Jun 1726. [Group Sheet]

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• Rev. War: 1776, MA, USA
• Representative: Bef 27 May 1776, Massachusetts General Court

Ebenezer married Wade, Lydia (Lucy) 25 Feb 1733/1734, Medford, Middlesex, MA, USA. Lydia was born Abt 1707, Medford, Middlesex, MA, New England; died 28 Oct 1784. [Group Sheet]

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• Marr. Int.: 15 Sep 1742

Susanna married Gould, John Sep 1742. [Group Sheet]

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• Marr. Int.: 13 Oct 1742

John married Parker, Esther Oct 1742, Malden, Middlesex, MA, USA. Esther was born 8 Aug 1721; died 26 Dec 1801, Malden, Middlesex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 14 Jul 1728, Killingly, New London, CT

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• Baptism: 14 Jul 1728, Killingly, Windham, CT

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• Baptism: 15 Sep 1728, Killingly, Windham, CT

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• Baptism: 2 Apr 1732, Killingly, Windham, CT

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• Baptism: 222 Jan 1738/39, Killingly, Windham, CT
• Baptism: 22 Jan 1739, Killingly, Windham, CT, USA

Notes:

Information from:
David Stiellow
PO Box 10373
Burbank, CA 91510

Othniel — Love, Anna. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 22 Jan 1738/1739, Killingly, Windham, CT

Levi married Mosher, Deliverance 1758. Deliverance was born 12 Mar 1730, Tiverton, Newport, RI, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 7628
• _UID: 35FFC78CA83C0542B590110A6A59FC06D718
• Alt. Birth: 29 Apr 1729, Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, USA; Alt. Birth
• Marr. Int.: 25 Sep 1746
• Marr. Int.: 25 Sep 1746
• Alt. Death: 9 Jan 1756, Arrowsic, ME; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 9 Jun 1758, Woolwich, Lincoln County, ME; Alt. Death

Mary married Preble, Ebenezer 25 Sep 1746, Georgetown, Sagadahoc, ME. Ebenezer was born 23 Sep 1724, York, York County, ME, USA; died 9 Jun 1758, Arrowsic, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Woolwich Vital Records state Boston as his place of Birth.

Samuel married Motherwell, Jane 24 Feb 1758, Georgetown, Essex, MA, USA. Jane was born 29 Jan 1739, Georgetown, Essex, MA, USA; died 10 Oct 1780, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Sargent, Susannah 21 Mar 1805, ME, USA. Susannah was born 11 Jun 1769; died 22 Jun 1818, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Marr. Int.: 12 Nov 1755

Elizabeth married Preble, Jonathan Jr. Nov 1755. Jonathan was born 23 Feb 1725. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Susanna died young.

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William — . Unknown [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Sarah died young.

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Susanna married Hilton, Benjamin 15 Jul 1766, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Sarah married Milton, Benjamin 25 Jun 1768. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Barker, Carr 8 Dec 1774, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

Richard died in his 83rd year according to a Woolwich record.

Richard served in the Army from Portland.

Richard married Wade, Lucy 28 Oct 1779, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. Lucy was born 1753; died 26 Apr 1826, Woolwich, Lincoln, ME, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• DAR: Sgt. New York
• Military: French & Indian War
• Occupation: Granville, Washington, NY, USA; Hotel and Dance Hall Owner
• _UID: 3CFCB69D69838143A87001E937D95940E69F
• Fr. Indian War: 1755, Connecticut to Canada

Notes:

In Lee-Oatman Cemetery, South Granville, Washington, New York, there is an unmarked grave at the side of Jonathan's grave which is thought to be his wife's grave.

As a young man, he moved to the vicinity of Hebron and Salem, Connecticut with his parents and siblings. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War.

He served with the Connecticut Militia that invaded Canada in 1755.
He was in Capt. Isreal Putnam's company in the campaign against the French around Lake George, Fort Edward, Fort Ticonderoga and at Crown Point. He was at Quebec in 1760 under command of Isreal Putnam.

He was also a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He saw active service as Sergeant of his company, on the march to West Chester following the "Lexington Alarm" and in the campaigns around New York City in 1776. In these campaigns he served as Sergeant in the 5th Company, Captain Ephraim Warren, Lieutenant David Waters, 11th Regiment, Colonel Ebinezer Williams of Pomfret, Conn. Lieutenant Colonel Isreal Putnam of Pomfret, 3rd Brigadier General Gordon Saltonstall (Succeeded by Brigadier General John Tyler) Connecticut Militia.
He was a Sergeant in one of the celebrated Connecticut Regiments that won distinction under General Benedict Arnold at the battle of Saratoga in 1777.

After having seen Northeastern New York during the campaigns, both in the French and Indian Wars and in the Revolutionary War, he moved to that locality in 1779, taking advantage of the "Land Grant" to Revolutionary Soldiers.

He was one of the seven original settlers at Granville, Washington Co, (Charlotte Co. first) New York, in 1779. He built conaucted (spelled like it is in letter.) a hotel with a large hall connected with it at Granville. (The hotel burned down in 1930).

Jonathan owned this dance hall in Granville, Washington, New York according to the Harnden/Edgecomb Manuscript.

Originally John S. Harnden, Jonathan's son supposedly died by drowning in the Niagara River according to family legend. This was suppose to have happened about 1812. However, John S. is found in Vermont until 1830. Given the fact that Jonathan died in 1813, I suggest it was probably he who died by drowning.

Jonathan — Phebe. [Group Sheet]

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