New Hampshire State Papers, V33 Table of Contents

New Hampshire State Papers

PROBATE RECORDS

OF THE

PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

VOL. 3
1741-1749

STATE PAPERS SERIES

VOL. 33

HENRY HARRISON METCALF
Editor of State Papers

OTIS GRANT HAMMOND
Assistant

CONCORD, N. H.
THE RUMFORD PRESS
1915

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, with the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person — and fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated — to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire as the Governor may deem proper; and that eight hundred copies of each volume of the same be printed by the state printer, and distributed as follows: namely, one copy to each city and town in the state, one copy to such of the public libraries in the state as the Governor may designate, fifty copies to the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the state librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications by other States.

Approved August 4, 1881.

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Albert S. Batchellor, Editor of State Papers:

You are hereby authorized to arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such abstracts of the early records of wills and probates of persons and estates relating to the provincial period of New Hampshire as are available, the material being so prepared as to avoid the transcription and publication of merely formal and immaterial parts of documents, and arranged in a chronological order, beginning with the earliest accessible papers and records.

You will also cause such explanatory notes, citations, tables of contents, and indexes as you may deem useful to be prepared and made a part of this work.

This I deem proper to be done, and these directions are given in accordance with the authority vested in me as Governor by the provisions of the joint resolution relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire approved August 4, 1881.

Given under my hand at Concord this 2nd day of January, 1897.

CHARLES A. BUSIEL, Governor.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

To Henry H. Metcalf, Esquire, Greeting:

KNOW YOU, That we, reposing especial trust and confidence in your Fidelity and Ability, have constituted and appointed you Editor and Compiler of Early Province and State Papers, Hereby giving and granting unto you, the said Henry H. Metcalf, all the power and authority given and granted by the Constitution and Laws of our State to an Editor and Compiler of said Papers, To HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAID OFFICE, With all the powers, privileges, and immunities to the same belonging, for the term of ——— years, from and after July 11, 1913, provided you are of good behavior during said term.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused our seal to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS, Samuel D. Felker, Governor of our State, at Concord, this 11th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty eighth.

By his Excellency the Governor, with advice of the Council.

EDWARD N. PEARSON, Secretary of State.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

MERRIMACK SS. July 14, 1913.

Then the said Henry H. Metcalf took and subscribed the Oath of Office as Editor and Compiler as prescribed by law.

Before us.

EDWARD N. PEARSON, ARTHUR L. WILLIS,

Justices of the Peace.

Quorum Unus.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

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Volume I of this series of New Hampshire State Papers, presenting, in abstract, the Probate Records of the Provincial Period, from the earliest days up to the time of the division of the Province into counties (after which the several counties had separate courts of Probate established, whose records have been independently kept at the respective county seats, and are, therefore, more readily available to interested parties), covered a period of more than eighty years — from 1635 to 1717. Naturally enough, from the increase in population and the corresponding increase in Probate business, the period covered by Volume II, issued in 1913, seven years after Volume I was published, was only twenty three years, from 1718 to 1740, inclusive; while this third volume, of substantially the same size (each volume approximating eight hundred pages of text) includes abstracts of the record for nine years, only, from 1741 to 1749, inclusive, making it evident that not less than three more volumes, or six in all, will be required to present the record of wills and probates for the entire Provincial Period, or up to the time when the county courts went into operation.

It will be noted that the period covered by this volume (Volume III) was included in the incumbency of Judges Richard Waldron (Jr.) and Benjamin Gambling, with William Parker serving as Register. In the Introduction to the last volume — Volume II — of Probate Records, the succession of the Judges of Probate for the colony was traced, as fully as possible, and brief sketches of the individual judges presented. It was remarked, also, that further investigation might, perhaps, determine the succession of Registers and their approximate terms of service.

Quite an effort has been made, involving close and extended examination of the records; but, while the succession has been

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ascertained with practical accuracy, so far as the names of incumbents are concerned, the precise dates of the beginning and close of terms cannot be stated; nor can definite biographical data be given in all, or even in a majority of cases.

The first person whose name appears in the records, in the capacity of a Register, was Renald Fernald, who signed as "Recorder" when the will of one Daniel Maud, recorded in Volume I, page 1, of Probate Records, and presented in the first volume of this series, pages 27-29, was proved, January 26, 1655-6. This is the only instance in which his signature is found in this capacity, nor is there any available record establishing the identity of the man himself, so far as the writer has been able to ascertain. The only Renald Fernald of whom any account can be found, and that a very brief one, came from England in 1630 or 1631, having been sent out by Capt. John Mason, and settled on the island which is the site of the present Navy Yard, and is reputed to have been the first surgeon among the New Hampshire settlers. He is mentioned by Dr. John R. Ham in his "Dover Physicians," as undoubtedly the physician to the Dover settlement in its early days, living, as he did, only five miles from Hilton's (now Dover) Point. There is also reference to him in "Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati" as an ancestor (great-grandfather) of Tobias Fernald who was a captain in Colonel Scammon's regiment at the siege of Boston, and, later, a lieutenant-colonel. He is said to have had seven children — four sons and three daughters — but the name of only one son (William, the grandfather of Tobias) is given. It is manifest that either the Doctor, himself, who died in the same year in which the record spoken of was made, or a son of the same name, was the "Recorder" in question.

The first man to hold the office of Register for any considerable period of time, was Elias Stileman, whose name appeared in this connection at a date as early as 1661 and continuously up to 1686, and probably later. He was a native of England, born about 1617, and came to America with his father, of the

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same name, about 1629, and settled at Salem, Mass. He removed to Piscataqua, or Portsmouth, some time before 1658, as in October of that year he was made a commissioner for the trial of small causes there. He was a man of no small importance in the community, holding the office of selectman of Portsmouth most of the time from 1659 to 1666, and of "clerk of the writs" from 1659 to 1663. He was chosen town clerk in 1667, continuing many years, and was again selectman for an extended term. He served several terms in the Provincial assembly, between 1667 and 1690, and was an associate judge of the county court many years from 1666. He was also a captain in the militia, and at one time commanded the fort on Great Island. Upon the establishment of the provisional government, under President John Cutt, in 1680, he was made a Councilor and Secretary of the Province, and on the death of President Cutt was made Deputy President by his successor, Major Waldron, holding the position till his removal by Cranfield, in 1683. Later, in 1692-3, he was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was one of the nine founders of the First Congregational Church in Portsmouth. He died December 19, 1695, at the age of seventy-eight years.

Between the time of Elias Stileman, and Charles Story, who served from about 1700 to 1715, the signatures of three men, who served as Register, appear in the records. That of Thomas Davis, the first of these, appears but once or twice, in 1792-3, and of him nothing can be said, nor is there any available information concerning William Redford who served as early as 1694, or earlier, and up to 1697, or Francis Tucker, who was Register from 1697 to 1699, though the latter was probably a descendant of that Richard Tucker who, with George Cleeves, made the first attempt at the settlement of Portland, Maine, in 1633. and removed to Portsmouth about 1653, where he died in 1659, leaving six sons.

Referring to William Redford, it may be said that Brewster in his Portsmouth "Rambles," Volume 2, page 66, mentioning

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Elizabeth Wibird, says "she was the Widow Elizabeth Redford when married to Richard Wibird Sr., July 10, 1701" and queries thus: "Was her first husband William Redford who was Register of Deeds at Portsmouth, 1693 to 1697?" It is safe to say that if so well informed a historian as Mr. Brewster, writing two generations ago, could tell nothing definite about William Redford, it would be idle to attempt to ascertain anything about him now.

Charles Story, previously mentioned, who served as a Register for fifteen years, was a lawyer of much ability, born and educated in England who came to this country in 1697, bringing a commission as Judge of Admiralty for the Province, and located at Great Island, now Newcastle, then regarded as a part of Portsmouth, and died there in March, 1716. He held his position as Judge of the Court of Admiralty for some time; was made Secretary of the Province and clerk of the Council in 1699, and continued in the former office, with the exception of about one year, in 1703-4, till the time of his death. He served as Register of Probate, also, as has been stated, from 1700 to 1715, inclusive, besides being engaged in many important causes, as a legal practitioner. His case illustrates the fact that in the early days it was not unusual for one man to hold two or more important public offices at the same time. A more striking illustration is furnished in the case of Meshech Weare, who was President of the Council and the executive head of the government, under the temporary constitution from 1776 to 1784, and at the same time, or until 1782, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature.

From 1715 to 1717 the name of Richard Gerrish appears as Register. Whether this Richard Gerrish was the one who was a member and Speaker of the Assembly from 1710 to 1715, promoted to the Council in 1716 and died a year later, or whether his son, Richard, was the Register is a question. However, Quint, in his "Historical Memoranda of Ancient Dover," page 311, speaks of Richard Gerrish as a son of John Gerrish of

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Dover, who "lived in Portsmouth," and "was a Councilor and Register of Probate." John Gerrish, the father, is said to have married Elizabeth, daughter of the famous Major Richard Waldron and to have been a representative in 1684, and a member of the Convention of 1689. He had five sons, of whom Richard was the eldest. This Richard, the senior, made a will in October, 1617, just before he died, which appears in Volume I, page 808, in which he disinherited his son, Richard, because he carried himself "very undutyfull & Disobedient," in that, as it was said, he intended "to marry Elizabeth Cutt, the widdow of John Cutt late of Portsmo Marriner Deceas'd; which is utterly against my will." Shortly before his death the senior Richard Gerrish had been appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In Brewster's "Rambles About Portsmouth," Volume 2, page 66, in a list of names of those occupying seats in the old Town Meeting House in Portsmouth, in 1693, that of Mr. Richard Gerrish appears among those occupying a seat in the "Men's Gallery fronting the Pulpit," that of John Cutt also appearing among them.

From 1718 to 1728, inclusive, Benjamin Gambling, subsequently for many years Judge of Probate, filled the office of Register, and therein so familiarized himself with the methods of procedure in probate affairs as to qualify him to an unusual degree for the higher office in which he became distinguished. Further reference to Judge Gambling may be found in the Introduction to Volume 2, p. VIII, Probate Records.

For a brief period, in 1729, Richard Waldron, Jr., served as Register. Mr. Waldron, who was succeeded in 1700 by John Penhallow, was himself made Judge of Probate immediately following the death of Judge Gambling in September, 1737, and is also mentioned on the same page with the latter, in the Introduction above referred to.

From 1730 to 1735, John Penhallow of Portsmouth was the incumbent of the Register's office. This John Penhallow seems to have been the second son of Samuel Penhallow, a native of

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Cornwall, England, born July 2, 1665, who came to Boston in 1686, and removed to Portsmouth the following year, where he became prominent in public affairs and was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature from 1717 to 1726. He married Mary, daughter of John Cutt, first President of the Council and acting Governor.

John was born January 13, 1693. He was prominent and successful in mercantile life and extensively engaged in the West India trade. He married Elizabeth (Butler) widow of John Watts, who had been his partner in business. They had two sons — Samuel, a church deacon, and John, who was also a reputable citizen. The Penhallow name is still a familiar one in Portsmouth, and is borne by one of the city's streets.

The last of the Provincial Registers, and the one holding the office for by far the longest term, and whose name is most familiar to those who have had occasion to make extended examination of the early records, was William Parker, incumbent from 1735 to 1771. He was a native of Portsmouth, born December 9, 1703, the son of William and Zerviah (Stanley) Parker. He was educated privately, taught school in youth, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1732. He received his appointment as Register from Governor Belcher. He was for a time Surrogate Judge of the Admiralty, and was for many years the only notary public in the province. He was clerk of the commission to settle the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1737; was a Representative in the Assembly from 1765 to 1774, and was a Justice of the Superior Court from 1771 to the end of the Province Period. As a lawyer he stood at the head of his profession and his counsel was widely sought in legal matters. He was a great reader and a close student of classical literature. Harvard College, in 1763, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He married Elizabeth Grafton in 1728, and had eleven children. John P. Hale was one of his grand-children. He died April 21, 1781.

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Judge Parker was a remarkably fine penman, his hand-writing almost rivalling the finest copper plate, and the records of the Probate Court, as kept by him during the many years of his service, are admired to the present day by those having occasion to examine the same, for the clearness, smoothness and fairness of hand with which they are distinguished.

As in case of the former volumes of this series, the compilation of Volume III has been in charge of Capt. Otis G. Hammond, long the capable assistant in this department.

HENRY H. METCALF,

Editor of State Papers.

August 30, 1915.

LIST OF ESTATES

Abbott, Reuben, Portsmouth, 1744/5 257

Adams, James, Londonderry, 1742/3 148

Addison, Jonas, Exeter, 1749 721

Aiken, William, Londonderry, 1745 301

Alcock, Elizabeth, Portsmouth, 1743 169

Samuel, Portsmouth, 1747 466

Almary, John, Portsmouth, 1749 736

Ambrose, Henry, Chester, 1746 379

Nathaniel, Chester, 1745 268

Annis, Charles, Exeter, 1741 75

Atkinson, Joseph, Exeter, 1749 689

Austin, Nathaniel, Dover, 1749 718

Banfield, John, Portsmouth, 1745 271

Thomas, Portsmouth, 1742 104

Barker, Noah, Stratham, 1748 624

William, Concord, 1742 127

Barr, John, Londonderry, 1748 629

Bartlett, Christopher, Haverhill District, 1747 470

Thomas, Newbury, Mass., 1744 213

Batchelder, John, Kensington, 1748/9 649

Stephen, North Hampton, 1748/9 655

Bean, Richard, Exeter, 1749 718

Beard, Robert, Nottingham, 1747 490

Bell, James, Windham, 1744 205

John, Londonderry, 1743 159

Beverland, Joseph, Nottingham, 1748 592

Bickford, John, Dover, 1744 202

Peircy, Portsmouth, 1745 297

xiv LIST OF ESTATES

Bishop, James, Portsmouth, 1742/3 147

Joseph, Boscawen, 1749 722

Bixby, John, Amherst, 1745/6 336

Blair, James, Londonderry, 1745 303

William, Boston, Mass., 1747/8 534

Blake, Hezekiah, Kensington, 1746 349

Moses, Kensington, 1746/7 429

Philemon, Hampton Falls, 1741 48

Blodgett, Caleb, Woburn, Mass., 1746/7 431

Jacob, Litchfield, 1742/3 144

Blunt, John, Newcastle, 1748 586

Boyes, James, Londonderry, 1747 510

Brackett, Joshua, Greenland, 1749 685

Bradley, Jonathan, Exeter, 1746 408

Brewster, John. Portsmouth, 1743 180

Brooks, Edward, Portsmouth, 1746/7 426

Brown, John, Hampton Falls, 1747/8 548

Burbank, Samuel, Hopkinton, 1747/8 549

Burnham, John, Durham, 1749 698

Butler, Abigail, Nottingham, 1746 365

Calfe, John, Chester, 1747/8 542

Cameron, Mary, Portsmouth, 1743 152

Campbell, Alexander, Amesbury District, 1749 723

Cass, Jonathan, Kingston, 1745 312

Caswell, John, Chester, 1749 717

Cate, John, Greenland, 1740/1 16

Chambers, William, Londonderry, 1747 485

Chase, Jonathan, Stratham, 1744 218

Jonathan, Stratham, 1749 693

Cilley, Benoni, South Hampton, 1745 309

Clark, John, Portsmouth, 1744/5 242

Samuel, Portsmouth, 1742 105

Clay, Jonas, Chester, 1747 495

Clements, Job, Dover, 1749 725

LIST OF ESTATES xv

Clifford, Isaac, Kingston, 1745 298

Clough, Ichabod, Kingston, 1745 321

Rebecca, Kingston, 1749 736

Cochran, Andrew, Londonderry, 1743 157

John, Londonderry. 1746/7 438

Colby, Philip, Kingston, 1746 412

Compton, John, Boston, Mass., 1747 487

Converse, Joshua, Litchfield, 1746 355

Cook, Thomas, Boscawen, 1748 563

Coombs, William, Portsmouth, 1745 314

Cotton, Thomas, Portsmouth, 1745 306

Cowen, Thomas, Dunstable, 1748 615

Craige, David, Londonderry, 1747 487

Cummings, Alexander, Concord, Mass., 1744/5 243

Jerahmeel, Hollis, 1748 561

Currier, Reuben, South Hampton, 1744/5 252

Cutt, Richard, Portsmouth, 1749 721

Danforth, Jonathan, Hollis, 1748 561

Davidson, John, 1748 612

Davis, Eleazer, Dover, 1745 258

James, Durham, 1748 608

John, Portsmouth, 1741/2 96

Dearborn, Edward, Greenland, 1746/7 425

Dearborn, John, North Hampton, 1746 367

Dennett, Ephraim, Portsmouth, 1741 50

Joseph, Portsmouth, 1747 473

Moses, Portsmouth, 1748/9 639

Dickey, Adam, Londonderry, 1746 398

Dinsmoore, Thomas, Hollis, 1747/8 544

Doe, John, Durham, 1742 100

Sampson, Newmarket, 1748 554

Dolbear, Sarah, Boston, Mass., 1745 301

Dolloff, Richard, Exeter, 1744 198

Samuel, Exeter, 1741 33

xvi LIST OF ESTATES

Doran, William, Exeter, 1745 278

Dow, Amasa, Hampton, 1747 496

Benjamin, Hampton Falls, 1747/8 547

Jabez, Hampton, 1749 757

Stephen, Haverhill District, 1743 161

Dowen, Mary, 1745 259

Downing, John, Newington, 1743/4 196

Joshua, Newington, 1747 478

Richard, Newington, 1747 447

Downs, Ambrose, Gosport, 1748 550

Thomas, Somersworth, 1749 742

Drew, Francis, Portsmouth, 1746 386

John, Somersworth, 1747 497

Dudley, James, Exeter, 1746 369

Trueworthy, Exeter, 1749 733

Durgin, Eleanor, Stratham, 1747/8 537

Eastman, Ebenezer, Concord, 1744/5 250

Ebenezer, Kingston, 1746 352

Jonathan, Haverhill District, 1747/8 538

Edmunds, Jonathan, Portsmouth, 1748 551

Thomas, Portsmouth, 1744 201

Elkins, Jonathan, Hampton, 1746 381

Emerson, Mary, Portsmouth, 1745 403

Robert, Haverhill District, 1742 137

Emery, Edward, Boscawen, 1743 167

Fabyan, John, Newington, 1748 587

Fellows, Ebenezer, Kingston, 1742 105

Samuel, Salisbury, Mass., 1741 60

Fernald, John, Portsmouth, 1740/1 7

Fogg, Simon, Hampton Falls, 1749 737

Follett, Benjamin, Stratham, 1746 397

Folsom, Edward, Newmarket, 1743 194

James, Exeter, 1748 582

LIST OF ESTATES xvii

Folsom, Jeremiah, Newmarket, 1746/7 432

Jonathan, Damariscotta, Me., 1745 324

Jonathan, Exeter, 1740/1 18

Joseph, Newmarket, 1741 69

Ford, John, Portsmouth, 1746 363

Foss, John, Chester, 1745 315

John, Dover, 1746 411

Freese, Jonathan, Hampton, 1748 555

Friend, Peter, Margate, Eng., 1748 513

French, Ebenezer, South Hampton, 1747 482

Jacob, South Hampton, 1742 124

John, Londonderry, 1747 495

Nathaniel, Kingston, 1746/7 434

Frost, Benjamin, Hudson, 1748/9 657

Mary, Newcastle, 1745 278

Furber, Thomas, Portsmouth, 1744 228

William, Newington, 1741 81

Gains, John, Portsmouth, 1743 177

Gambling, Benjamin, Portsmouth, 1743 190

Garland, Joseph, Hampton Falls, 1746 363

Nathaniel, Dover, 1742 104

Gee, Joshua, Boston, Mass., 1746 396

Gerrish, Paul, Dover, 1743 164

Gilchrist, Robert, Chester, 1746 356

Gilman, Edward, Exeter, 1748/9 645

Joseph, Newmarket, 1748/9 643

Judith, Exeter, 1749 732

Moses, Exeter, 1741 43

Nathaniel, Exeter, 1741 44

Nicholas, Durham, 1748 570

Nicholas, Exeter, 1749 663

Nicholas, Jr., Exeter, 1745/6 327

Gilmore, James, Londonderry, 1745 264

Glenn, Thomas, Chester, 1744 198

xviii LIST OF ESTATES

Godfrey, William, Hampton, 1741 52

Goffe, John, Cohass, 1748 580

Gordon, James, Exeter, 1741 64

Nicholas, Exeter, 1747 444

Gould, Daniel, Kingston, 1745 320

Nathan, South Hampton, 1747 473

Gove, Ebenezer, Hampton Falls, 1745/6 334

Graham, Robert, Chester, 1747/8 521

William, Chester, 1747 497

Graves, Joseph, Exeter, 1745 259

Samuel, Haverhill, Mass., 1747 500

William, Exeter, 1744 210

Greeley, Peter, Portsmouth, 1741/2 97

Green, Benjamin, Hampton Falls, 1749 729

Joseph, Keene, 1746 377

Robert, Portsmouth, 1748 618

Samuel, Stratham, 1743 154

Greenleaf, Stephen, Portsmouth, 1749 698

Greenwood, Samuel, Boston, Mass., 1741/2 100

Haines, Matthias, Greenland, 1741 56

Hall, Joseph, Dover, 1743 181

Ham, Clement, Dover, 1748 608

Elizabeth, Portsmouth, 1745 316

Samuel, Dover, 1743 153

Hanson, Joseph, Dover, 1749 722

Nathaniel, Dover, 1748 621

Tobias, Dover, 1742 118

Hardy, John, Hampton Falls, 1744 205

Harvey, John, Nottingham, 1748/9 643

Heard, James, Dover, 1749 657

Joseph, Rochester, 1746 395

Heath, James, Haverhill District, 1744 229

Joseph, Haverhill District, 1749 737

Hill, Nathaniel, Durham, 1741/2 91

LIST OF ESTATES xix

Hilliard, Timothy, Hampton Halls, 1745 288

Hills, Nathaniel, Hudson, 1748 560

Hilton, Matthew, Portsmouth, 1741/2 99

Samuel, Hampton, 1748 556

Hodgdon, Israel, Dover, 1739/40 1

Hogg, Thomas, Londonderry, 1747/8 541

Homer, Thomas, Londonderry, 1749 727

Hoyt, Joseph, Stratham, 1748 558

Thomas, Amesbury, Mass., 1748 593

Huntress, John, Newington, 1746 387

Ingalls, Samuel, Chester, 1747 500

Jackson, Ebenezer, Portsmouth, 1745 286

Ephraim, Portsmouth, 1748 598

Ephraim, Jr., Portsmouth, 1746 388

Joseph, Newcastle, 1741 34

Jaffrey, George, Portsmouth, 1749 701

James, Benjamin, Hampton, 1744 208

Kinsley, Exeter, 1745 306

Jameson, John, Londonderry, 1741 85

Jenness, Elizabeth, 1748/9 644

Hezekiah, Rye, 1745 263

John, Rye, 1744 220

Joce, Richard, Portsmouth, 1746 389

Johnson, Ebenezer, Greenland, 1748 617

James, Haverhill District, 1742 136

John, Portsmouth, 1749 688

Michael, Haverhill District, 1749 723

Nathan, Greenland, 1745 324

Jones, John, Stratham, 1744 232

Joseph, Durham, 1744 221

Joseph, Stratham, 1747 482

Stephen, Durham, 1743 172

William, Newcastle, 1748 583

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Judkins, Benjamin, Kingston, 1744/5 246

Samuel, Kingston, 1741/2 93

Kelly, Abiel, Methuen, Mass., 1746/7 436

Kelsey, Hugh, Nottingham, 1746 370

Kendall, Jacob, Litchfield, 1741/2 89

Kennard, Atkins, Portsmouth, 1747 451

Kent, Robert, Durham, 1748 581

Kezar, George, Haverhill District, 1745/6 330

Kidder, Benjamin, Bedford, 1746 370

Kimball, Benjamin, Haverhill District, 1741 65

David, Concord, 1745/6 342

King, Samuel, Greenland, 1745 320

William, Portsmouth, 1745 286

Knight, Temple, Portsmouth, 1741 52

Knipe, William, Portsmouth, 1749 732

Knowles, Amos, Hampton, 1746 343

Lang, Benjamin, Portsmouth, 1746 388

John, Portsmouth, 1748 613

Langdon, Joseph, Portsmouth, 1749 747

Larey, Samuel, Exeter, 1743/4 198

Thomas, Exeter, 1746 380

Leavitt, James, Exeter, 1746 414

Moses, Hampton, 1745 316

Seeley, Exeter, 1748 579

Stephen, Stratham, 1749 715

Leighton, Thomas, Newington, 1744 209

Linkfield, Edward, Haverhill District, 1748 617

Little, Joseph, Boston, Mass., 1747 505

Loggin, John, Portsmouth, 1747 451

Long, Pierse, Portsmouth, 1746 398

Loud, William, Portsmouth, 1742/3 151

Lovewell, John, Dunstable, 1742/3 147

Lowe, Nathaniel, Boston, Mass., 1742/3 143

LIST OF ESTATES xxi

Marsh, James, Hudson, 1748/9 652

Marshall, Nathaniel, Portsmouth, 1748 597

Obadiah, Portsmouth, 1746 396

Samuel, Portsmouth, 1749 753

Marston, Caleb, Hampton, 1746 361

Jeremiah, Hampton, 1741 39

Thomas, Greenland, 1745 282

William, Hampton, 1749 689

Martyn, Sarah, Portsmouth, 1744/5 239

Mathes, Francis, Jr., Durham, 1742 118

Maxfield, Nathaniel, South Hampton, 1745 287

Maybury, William, Kittery, Me., 1745 323

McClary, John, Londonderry, 1741 89

McClellan, Hugh, Chester, 1746 398

McCoy, Alexander, Londonderry, 1741 70

McMaster, Hugh, Londonderry, 1746 361

McPherson, William, Londonderry, 1743 170

McQuaid, James, Bedford, 1747 487

James, Londonderry, 1747 495

McVicker, John, Somersworth, 1748 558

Melcher, Samuel, Hampton Falls, 1745 260

Merrill, Joseph, Stratham, 1747 468

Nathaniel, Haverhill District, 1742/3 147

Thomas, South Hampton, 1748/9 635

Meserve, Daniel, Dover, 1747 463

Miller, Benjamin, Portsmouth, 1746/7 423

Mitchell, John, Hudson, 1748 619

Moore, James, Londonderry, 1749 751

John, Chester, 1747 480

John, Londonderry, 1741 58

Samuel, Portsmouth, 1744/5 243

William, Stratham, 1747 448

Morrison, Ezekiel, Londonderry, 1742 116

Moulton, David, North Hampton, 1745/6 336

Mudgett, John, Brentwood, 1746 359

xxii LIST OF ESTATES

Mudgett, Thomas, Brentwood, 1744/5 247

William, Haverhill District, 1742 136

William, Londonderry, 1745/6 331

Nason, Jonathan, Hampton Falls, 1741 82

William, Falmouth, Me., 1748 571

Neal, Richard, Newcastle, 1748 551

Newmarch, Mark, Portsmouth, 1744 219

Noyes, Timothy, Haverhill District, 1745 303

Nudd, Samuel, Hampton, 1746 392

Nutter, Hatevil, Newington, 1745 310

John, Newington, 1746 393

Odiorne, Ebenezer, Portsmouth, 1746/7 437

Odlin, Dudley, Exeter, 1747 506

Ox, Robert, Boston, Mass., 1748 562

Page, Christopher, Hampton, 1740 2

Samuel, Hampton, 1747 459

Paine, Philip, Rye, 1746 380

Pattee, Peter, Haverhill District, 1748 565

Peacock, John, Portsmouth, 1744 211

Pease, Nathaniel, Newmarket, 1749 678

Peirce, George, Portsmouth, 1747/8 531

Joseph, Portsmouth, 1748 555

Joshua, Portsmouth, 1742 131

Perkins, Nathaniel, Somersworth, 1748 552

William, Newmarket, 1740/1 25

Philbrick, Ephraim, Exeter, 1747 451

John, Hampton Falls, 1747/8 534

Joseph, Exeter, 1749 723

Nathan, Hampton, 1749 683

Thomas, Hampton, 1747 442

Philpot, James, Dover, 1747 491

LIST OF ESTATES xxiii

Pickering, Samuel, Portsmouth, 1748 597

Sarah, Portsmouth, 1749 748

Thomas, Portsmouth, 1744/5 254

Pike, Solomon, Portsmouth, 1741 54

Pinkham, James, Dover, 1749 740

Piper, John, Stratham, 1743 189

Plaisted, Sarah, Portsmouth, 1749 732

Plummer, Richard, Dover, 1745 270

Pray, John, Portsmouth, 1742 142

Prescott, Jonathan, Kensington, 1745 272

Rand, Nathaniel, Rye, 1740 5

Randall, Nathaniel, Durham, 1749 659

Reed, Hugh, Newcastle, 1747 450

Reid, James, Londonderry, 1743 187

Richardson, Hugh, Pelham, 1748 628

Robbins, William, Portsmouth, 1748 583

Roberts, Ephraim, Dover, 1748 589

John, Brentwood, 1746 413

John, Somersworth, 1749 680

Jonathan, Haverhill District, 1746 371

Joseph, Dover, 1744 200

Nathaniel, Dover, 1745/6 336

Thomas, Dover, 1745/6 338

Robinson, John, Exeter, 1749 719

Thomas, Epping, 1745 275

Rogers, Nathaniel, Portsmouth, 1746 347

Rollins, James, Newington, 1743 191

Joseph, Newington, 1748/9 641

Joseph, Stratham, 1746/7 438

Rundlett, James, Exeter, 1742 118

James, Exeter, 1749 721

Satchwell, Stratham, 1744/5 248

Russ, John, Concord, 1743/4 195

Rust, Henry, Stratham, 1748/9 653

Rymes, Christopher, Portsmouth, 1741 28

xxiv LIST OF ESTATES

Sanborn, Benjamin, Hampton Falls, 1747/8 516

Benjamin, Newmarket, 1744 206

Ebenezer, Hampton, 1744/5 249

Ephraim, Epping, 1749 697

Jonathan, Kingston, 1740/1 8

Sargent, Jacob, Chester, 1749 717

Savage, John, Portsmouth, 1742 115

Sawyer, Joseph, Kingston, 1748 563

Scales, Matthew, Durham, 1741 84

Scammon, William, Stratham, 1743 180

Seavey, Hannah, Rye, 1741 71

Stephen, 1743 143

William, Rye, 1745 244

Senter, John, Londonderry, 1742 111

Shaw, John, Hampton, 1746 365

Joseph, Kensington, 1743 178

Sherburne, Job, Portsmouth, 1748 615

John, Newcastle, 1743 181

John, Newcastle, 1748 552

Joseph, Portsmouth, 1744/5 239

Mary, Portsmouth, 1745 285

Paul, Portsmouth, 1748 578

Shurtleff, William, Portsmouth, 1747 494

Simpson, John, Portsmouth, 1747 473

Sinclair, John, Exeter, 1747 490

John, Stratham, 1745 306

Samuel, Exeter, 1748/9 651

Slade, Arthur, Newmarket, 1746/7 425

Sleeper, Thomas, Kingston, 1746/7 422

Smith, David, Brentwood, 1747 484

Elisha, Hampton, 1748 623

Jacob, Exeter, 1741 73

John, Durham, 1748 571

Jonathan, Exeter, 1741 62

Josiah, Stratham, 1748/9 631

LIST OF ESTATES xxv

Smith, Samuel, Haverhill District, 1746/7 427

Samuel, Newbury, Mass., 1748 555

Snow, Joseph, Hudson, 1747 490

Spaulding, Phineas, Nottingham, 1746 411

Spriggs, William, Portsmouth, 1748 613

Stanyan, James, Hampton, 1742 121

John, Hampton Falls, 1748 620

Stevens, Daniel, Salisbury and Amesbury District, 1746 371

Ebenezer, Kingston, 1746 405

Ephraim, Hampton Falls, 1746 389

John, Haverhill District, 1749 738

Nathaniel, Haverhill District, 1746 395

Nathaniel, Stratham, 1740/1 10

Samuel, Haverhill District, 1748 590

Stewart, Charles, Hampton Falls, 1748 576

John, Londonderry, 1741 41

Stockbridge, Abraham, Stratham, 1745 276

Stockman, Robert, Kingston, 1741/2 95

Swett, John, Kingston, 1748 568

John, Jr., Kingston, 1748 577

Taylor, Abraham, Dunstable, 1743 176

Anthony, Hampton, 1743 177

Thing, Samuel, Exeter, 1748 599

Thomas, James, Nottingham, 1746 421

Thompson, Alexander, Portsmouth, 1744 233

William, Londonderry, 1745 295

Tibbetts, ——— , 1748 555

Ichabod, Dover, 1746 419

John, Somersworth, 1742/3 145

John, 3d, Somersworth, 1745 326

Joseph, Dover, 1745/6 332

Paul, Rochester, 1743 158

Thomas, Dover, 1748 584

Tilton, Daniel, Hampton, 1745/6 331

xxvi LIST OF ESTATES

Tilton, Joseph, Hampton, 1742 129

Titcomb, James, Portsmouth, 1743 153

Todd, Samuel, Londonderry, 1741 87

Townsend, George, Portsmouth, 1742/3 149

Treadwell, Sarah, Hampton Falls, 1743 192

Triggs, Robert, Portsmouth, 1743/4 195

Tripe, Samuel, Portsmouth, 1742 142

Trull, John, Manchester, 1746 351

Tuckerman, Nathaniel, Portsmouth, 1744/5 236

Twombly, Daniel, Dover, 1748 612

John, Dover, 1747 508

Sarah, Dover, 1747 508

Vance, David. Londonderry, 1745 291

Vaughan, Margaret, Portsmouth, 1747 489

Vincent, John, Newington, 1743 174

Wadleigh, Jonathan, Exeter, 1747/8 515

Wallis, Samuel, Rye, 1741 55

William, Portsmouth, 1747 441

Ward, Shadrach, Kensington, 1746 399

Thomas, Hampton Falls, 1747 441

Waterhouse, Arthur, Portsmouth, 1746 390

Samuel, Portsmouth, 1744 234

Timothy, Portsmouth, 1748 564

Watson, William, Portsmouth, 1743 178

Weare, Ebenezer, Hampton Falls, 1741/2 99

Peter, Hampton Falls, 1746/7 437

Robert, Londonderry, 1741 65

Webster, Nathan, Chester, 1745/6 339

Nathaniel, Exeter, 1744/5 237

Weeks, Jonathan, Greenland, 1746 400

Samuel, Greenland, 1745 293

LIST OF ESTATES xxvii

Wentworth, Daniel, Portsmouth, 1747 479

David, Portsmouth, 1741 68

George, Portsmouth, 1741 88

Paul, Somersworth, 1747/8 523

Sarah, Portsmouth, 1740/1 26

White, Nathan, Newcastle, 1747 466

Samuel, Portsmouth, 1744/5 244

Whitehouse, Thomas, Dover, 1744 228

Wiggin, Henry, Stratham, 1748/9 644

Joseph, Newmarket, 1749 678

Wight, Ebenezer, Litchfield, 1746 365

Willey, John, Salem, Mass., 1743 158

Williams, Edward, Hampton Falls, 1746 394

Wills, John, Portsmouth, 1740/1 15

Wilmot, James, Dover, 1746 348

Wilson, Mary, Greenland, 1749 729

William, Londonderry, 1745/6 332

Wooden, John, Portsmouth, 1744 218

Wormwood, William, Durham, 1743 153

Worthen, John, South Hampton, 1741 75

Wright, Ebenezer, Litchfield, 1746 463

Yeaton, John, Somersworth, 1747 505

Young, John, Dover, 1741 47