Ref:

(1) Felt's Massachusetts Currency- as quoted by Rollins p.2
(2) History of Dover- John Scales
(3) Mass. Colony Records- as quoted by Rollins p.2
(4) Belknap's History of New Hampshire- as quoted by Rollins, p.4
(5) Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire- Otis Hammond, Ed., New Hampshire State Papers, 1933- Vol. XXXI, pp. 293-5
(6) Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire- Nathaniel Bouton, Ed., New Hampshire State Papers, Concord, 1867- Vol. I, pp. 212-4
(7) Ibid- Vol. X, pp. 700-1

Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England- Savage, Vol. III, p. 509
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire- p. 595
Records of Families of the Names of Rawlins or Rollins in the United States- John R. Rollins, pp.1-4
Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire- Pope, p.169
NEHGR- Vol. 8, p. 257

2VIII. THOMAS (JAMES 1)

b. between 1641 & 1651
m. RACHEL (2) COX
Adm. 19 Oct. 1706

Thomas was taxed in Dover between 1662 and 1665. "A rate maed ye 19th of 9 Month 1662 for Mr. Raynes Provition... Thomas Rallines 0-2-6." Thomas of Cochecho was again taxed in 1663 for 2/6.(1)

In 1670 he had a 30 acre grant in Exeter and was admitted in 1673/4. He received another grant in 1698. His farm was located on the old road leading from Exeter to Hampton.

Thomas was one of the Company of Edward Gove, a member of the dissolved Assembly of New Hampshire in 1683 who were found armed and trying to start an insurrection for the overthrow of the arbitrary government of the Royal Governor Edward Cranfield.

After the death of Capt. John Mason in 1635 (one of the original proprietors of New Hampshire), his widow, weary of the great expense and inadequate returns of the Portsmouth plantation informed her servants that they must provide for themselves. Some left with their goods and cattle and others remained, keeping possession of the buildings and improvements which they claimed as their own. The houses at Newichwannoch were consumed by fire and nothing was left of Mason's estate but a doubtful interest in the soil. The people, left without a government, formed their own, after the example of the people of Exeter, and those of Dover did the same. By a written instrument dated 1640 and signed by forty-one persons, they agreed to submit to the laws of England, and such other laws as should be enacted by a majority of their number, until the royal pleasure should be known.

Things continued this way until 14 Apr. 1641 when New Hampshire came under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts and the history of the two plantations for a period of thirty years became blended together. In 1680 a royal commission was brought to Portsmouth declaring New Hampshire a royal Province. This was brought about through the influence of Robert Tufton Mason with the design of recovering the possessions of his ancestor. The first President under the new Commission (John Cutts) and a majority of the council were in the interest of the people and opposed to Mason's plans. As their continuance in office would not further Mason's views, he obtained in 1682 the appointment of Edward Cranfield. Arbitrary, needy, and rapacious, Cranfield made no secret of his object in accepting the office and openly sought to reciprocate the liberality of Mason by a devotion to his claim.

By his commission he was vested with extraordinary powers: he could adjourn and dissolve General Courts; had a negative voice on all acts of government; could suspend any of the Council; appoint Judges, and all subordinate offices; and in short, exercise the powers of Vice-Admiral.

Within six days after the publication of his Commission he suspended the popular leaders- Waldron and Martyn. This was one step towards rendering him odious to the people. Either from shame or more probably to quiet the popular clamor he restored them to their places on 14 Nov.

The Assembly met the same day and hoping to detach the Governor from the interests of Mason they voted him £250. This put him in good humor for a time but the opposition of the Assembly to his measures was so irritating that he adjourned it. At the next session the Assembly refused to pass a bill raising money for the support of the government and he dissolved it.

The dissolution of the Assembly aggravated popular discontent and kindled the resentment of some in Hampton and who, headed by Edward Gove a member of the dissolved Assembly, declared by sound of trumpet for liberty and reformation.

Gove went from town to town declaring that the Governor was a traitor and had exceeded his Commission and that he would not lay down his arms until matters were set right. He tried to incite the principal men of the Province to join in a confederacy to overthrow the government.

His project appeared so wild and dangerous that they not only disapproved it, but informed against him and assisted in apprehending him. Hearing of their design he collected his Company and appeared in arms, but on the persuasion of some of his friends surrendered. A special Court was immediately commissioned for his trial of which Major Waldron sat as Judge with William Vaughn and Thomas Daniel as assistants. The grand jury presented a bill in which Edward Gove his son John Gove and William Healy of Hampton, Joseph, John and Robert Wadleigh (three brothers), Thomas Rawlins, Mark Baker and John Sleeper of Exeter were charged with high treason.

Gove who behaved with great insolence before the Court, and pretended to justify his conduct was convicted and received a sentence of death in the usual hideous form:

"That the prisoner be carried back to the place whence he came, and from thence be drawn to the place of execution, to be there hanged by the neck: be cut down alive: that his entrails be taken out, and burned before his face: that his head be cut off, and his body be divided into four quarters, and that his head and quarters be disposed of, at the King's pleasure."(2)

The Judge who loved Cranfield no better than did the prisoner is said to have wept while pronouncing the sentence.

Gove's estate was also seized and forfeited to the Crown. His companions were convicted of being accomplices. They were all pardoned except Gove who was sent to the Tower of London and imprisoned about three years his sentence having been commuted.

"A letter from Edward Gove, in prison, to the Justices of the Court of Sessions.

From the Great Island in Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, 29 January, 1682-3.

To the much hon'd Justices of the Peace, as you call yourselves by your indictment, in which eleven men's names subscribed: namely, Ed. Gove, John Gove, Jo. Wadly, John Wadly, Rob. Wadly, Ed. Smith, Will. Ely, Tho. Rawlins, John Sleeper, Mark Baker, John Young. Gentlemen, excuse me. I cannot petision you as persons in authority, by the name of Justises of the peace, for now I am upon a serious account for my Life and the Life of those that are with me. Therefore pray consider well and take good advice of persons in Government, from whence you came. I pray God that made the Heavens, the earth, the sease, and all that in them is, to give you wisdom and courage in your places, to discharge such duty as God requires of you; and secondly, I heartily pray God to direct you to do that which our grasious king Charls the Second, of blessed memory, requires of you. Gentlemen, it may be I may be upon a mistake, but, according to what I know and believe, I am falsely indited, and I am abused notwithstanding by another Inditement, by being in irons, by Capt. Barefoot's order, which irons are called bilbose, exceeding large. Pray consider we are men like yourselves, made of the same earth, and I know who made the difference.

And I verily believe that the holy righteous just God will have an account of you for your justis in this matter. Pray consider. When this last change was, I writ to one man in this Province. I tould him we were a happy people, if all was right in the Bottom. Time was that I said all was right in the bottom. I believed it, but now I see otherwise. Who knows what shall be on the morrow? Though it bee appointed a solemn day of fasting, I know that when it was appointed there was not the election of cries and tears that will appear when the day comes. If ever New-England had need of a Solomon, or David, or Moses, Caleb or Joshua, it is now. My tears are in my eyes. I can hardly see.

Yet will I say I do believe how it will com. You and they with siths and groanes, must outdo the ministry. The Ministry must endeavor to outdo you, but if you and they do any thing in hipocrisy, God will find you out, and deliverance will com some other way.

We have a hard prison, a good keeper, a hard Captain, irons an inch over, five foot and several inches long, two men locked together; yet I had, I think God for it, a very good night's lodging; better than I had fourteene or fifteene nights before. I pray God direct you and let me hear from you by a messenger that your Honors shall imploy, and consider I am your Honors' humbly servant, in all duty to be commanded.

On his repeated petitions to the King and by the interest of Randolph with the Earl of Clarendon, then Lord Chamberlain he obtained his pardon and returned home in 1686 with an order to the President and Council to restore his estate.

Mason for some time after endeavored to enforce his claim and wearied the patience of the colonists by vexatious lawsuits, but with very indifferent success until such representations were made to the home government as to draw down the royal censure and secure the removal of Cranfield. To one of the petitions for his removal we find attached the name of Thomas Rawlins:

"To the king's most excellent Majesty:

The humble address and petition of sundry of your Majesty's loyal subjects, the freeholders and inhabitants of your Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, in New-England, most humbly sheweth, That your petitioners' predecessors, having, under the encouragement of your Majesty's royal ancestors, by their letters patent to the Great Council of Plymouth, removed themselves and some of us into this remote and howling wilderness, in pursuance of the glorious end proposed: namely, the glory of God, the enlarging his Majesty's dominions, and spreading the gospel among the heathen; and, in order thereunto, either found the lands we now possess vacuum domicilium, or purchased them of the heathen, the native proprietors of the same- or at least by their allowance, approbation or consent- have sat down in the peaceable possession of the same for the space of above fifty years; hoping that, as we had attained the ends, so we should have shared in the privileges, of these royal patents above mentioned, and thereupon did the more patiently bear and cheerfully grapple with those innumerable evils and difficulties that must necessarily accompany the settlers of new plantations, especially in such climates as these, besides the calamities of the late Indian war, to the loss of many of our lives and the great impoverishment of the survivors. We were also further encouraged, from your Majesty's princely care in taking us, by your late commission, under your Majesty's immediate government, and appointing some among ourselves to govern us according to those methods there prescribed, being particularly bound to discountenance vice and promote virtue and good living, and to keep us in a due obedience to your Majesty's authority and continuance of our just liberties and properties, together with liberties of conscience in matters of worship, and all in order to our living in all godliness and honesty, fearing God and honoring the king, which we profess to be our desire to do.

But contrariwise, partly by the unreasonable demands of our pretended proprietor, Robert Mason, Esq., and partly from sundry other reasons, that are either effects of concomitants thereof, we are in a far worse condition than any other your Majesty's plantations, and reduced to such confusions and extremities that necessitate our humble application to your Majesty, upon whose clemency and justice only, under God, we depend for our relief.

Your poor, distressed and oppressed petitioners do therefore most humbly supplicate your most gracious Majesty that you will vouchsafe to give leave unto one of ourselves, Mr. Nathaniel Weare, whom we have sent for that end, to spread before you sacred Majesty, and your most honorable Privy Council, our deplorable estate, the beholding of which we doubt not will move compassion towards, and your Majesty's propensity to justice will incline to, the using such means as to hyour wisdom shall seem best, that the oppressed may be relieved, wronged ones righted, and we, your Majesty's almost undone subjects, now prostrate at your feet, may, upon the tasting of your equity and goodness, be raise and further engaged in all humility and thankfulness, as in duty bound evermore heartily to pray, &c."(5)

To the Honorable, the Governor and Council of their Majesties' Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England:

Humbly showeth, that whereas, since the late revolution in your colony, you have exerted a power of government over their Majesties' subjects and inhabitants therein, which we are given to understand their Majesties have been graciously pleased to approve of, and impowered you to continue the same till further order; and we, who were under your government, having been for some time destitute of power sufficient to put ourselves into a capacity of defence against the common enemy; and having, with great expectation, awaited their Majesties' order for a settlement amongst us, which, not yet arriving, considering how liable also we are to destruction by the enemy, which of ourselves we cannot prevent, we are therefore necessitated at present to supplicate your Honors for governement and protection, as formerly, until their Majesties' pleasure shall be known concerning us: hereby obliging ourselves to a due submission thereto, and payment of our equal proportion (according to our capacity), of the charge that shall arise for the defence of the country against the common enemy; praying also that such persons may be commissionated to command the militia as have already been or shall be chosen by the trained soldiers in the respective towns, desiring your Honors to grant us this our request, and your petitioners shall ever pray.... Tho. Rawlins, his X mark... Ichabod J. Rawlins..."(6)

The administration of Thomas' estate was granted to Rachel on 19 Oct. 1706. A warrant was issued on 22 Oct. authorizing Capt. Robert Coffin and Lt. Jonathan Wadleigh of Exeter to receive claims against the estate. Guardianship of Samuel Rollins, age 16, was granted to his mother, Rachel Rollins on 5 Nov. The inventory was done by Robert Coffin and Jonathan Wadleigh 7 Nov. and amounted to �419/18/2. On the back is a list of "The Childrens Names- Thomas Rawlins, Moses Rawlins, Joseph Rawlins, Benja Rawlins, John Rawlins, Aaron Rawlins, Samll Rawlins Mary the wife of Steph: page, Alice the wife of Rogr Shaw, Rachel Rawlins". Coffin and Wadleigh submitted a list of claims against the estate on 28 Jan. 1706/7 which amounted to �72/4/4.

"Augt 28th 1707: An Agreement made and Concluded upon between Rachel Rawlins of Exeter Administratrix to the Estate of Thomas Rawlins Senr deceased which she hath now made with her sonns and daughters in divideing of the Lands and Orchards as ffolloweth.

ffirst I Rachel Rawlins have took my third part of the Land adjoyneing to the House on the North Side of a Lane which Runns into my Land and the Orchard on the North Side of the House.

And Thomas Rawling his Land Sixteen Rodd wide and soe to Runn from the High way which is agreed upon between all my brothers into the Woods to the Extent of the aforesaid Land

And Joseph Rawlings Nine Rodd wide and Soe to Runn to the Extent of the aforesaid Land; And Aaron Rawlins Nine Rodd wide and soe to Runn the wedth to the Extent of the aforesaid Land

And Mary page tenn Rodds wide, and Soe to Runn to the Extent of the aforesaid Land

And Alice Shaw tenn Rodd wide and Soe to Runn to the Extent of the aforesaid Land.

And Rachel Rawlins Tenn Rodds wide and Soe to Runn to the Extent of the aforesaid Land

And Benjamin Rawlins beginning at Hampton Road tenn Rodds wide and soe to Runn to the Extent of the aforesaid Land

And John Rawlins adjoyneing to Hampton Rode Eleaven Rodds wide and soe to Runn to the Extent of the aforesaid Land the Division of another little ffeild, adjoyneing to Lieut Lorrances Land and an Orchard as followeth divided accordingly and agreed upon by us all whose Names are hereunder written.

Rachel Rawlings appeared before me Joseph Smith Esqr. Judge of probates &c. and prayed that above Agreement might be Allowed and Recorded & Thomas Joseph and Aaron Rawlings desired the same on behalfe of the rest of the subscribers and themselves and that all debts due from the Estate be paid in Equal proportion by the Children of Said decd according to their Dividens." Included are various accounts, notes, bills, receipts, etc. containing the signatures of Thomas Rollins, James Sinclair, Richard Dolloff, George Jeffers, Richard King, Daniel Bean, Benjamin Rollins, John Badger, Humphrey Wilson, John Dole, Joseph Smith, George Jaffrey, Christopher Pottle, Peter Coffin, Nathaniel Ladd, Thomas Webster, Benjamin Dole, Samuel Fellows, Nathaniel Weare, Robert Coffin, Jonathan Wadleigh, John Pickering, Thomas Phipps, and James Dudley! (3)

Ref:

(1) History of Dover, NH- John Scales
(2) New Historical Collections- Vol.II, p.44
(3) Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire- Otis Hammond, Ed., New Hampshire State Papers, 1933- Vol. XXXI, pp. 564-7
(4) Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire- Nathaniel Bouton, Ed., New Hampshire State Papers, Concord, 1867- Vol. I, pp. 459-61
(5) Ibid- pp. 557-9
(6) Ibid- Vol. II (1868), pp. 34-6

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- p.596
Records of Families of the Names of Rawlins or Rollins in the United States- John R. Rollins, pp.5-9

3I. THOMAS (JAMES 1, THOMAS 2)

b. 14 July 1671 Stratham, NH
m.1. 29 Nov. 1696 Hampton, PHEBE (2) LAWRENCE
2. 1731 Sarah Philbrick (m.1. 8 Aug. 1701 John Sanborn (d. 3 Sept. 1727), d. 30 May 1761 Hampton)
will 8 Mar.- 24 May 1753

"May it please your Excellency,-

Wee, whose names are under written, living within the petitioned Bounds of Quamscott, doth earnestly desire that your Excellency and Honours would be pleased to deny the request of those petitioners for a township in Quamscott; as for the generality of the said petitioners are poor people, and several of them according to the best of our knowledge, instead of defraying any town charge, are rather likely to be a town charge themselves- yor earnest desirers. Quamscot desember ye fifth 1709... Joseph Rolins... Moses Rolins... Tho. Rolins..." It's interesting to note that their brother Benjamin signed the petition to make Squamscott [Stratham] a town... perhaps he was one of the "poor people" who was likely to be "a town charge"? (5)

"To his Honour George Vahan Esqr Lieut Governour and commander in cheif in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England, & to his Majesties honoured Counsell for sd Province:

We the Inhabitance of Quamescuk patent, humbly sheweth: - The very bad circumstances we lay under by reason of our great distance from the publick Worship of God and haveing no benifitt of any School, notwithstanding we have ever paid our proportion to the School of Exeter, and are now by the Providence of God increased to shuch a number as we hope we are able of ourselves to maintain a Minister & a school & other town charges as shall nessesarily fall upon us, with our proportion of publick assessments: Therefore we your petitioners does humbly pray that your Honours would pleas to set us off from all other Towns and Parishes and grant us a Township by ourselves & bound us as followeth... which will be greatly to the joy & sattisfaction of your petitioners whose names are under writen.

We your Petitioners does further humbly beg leave to inform yours honors of our ill convenences, being laid some times to one town & some times to another & all wayes a great distance from the Publick worship of God; with submission we would pray your honors to consider which is most reason- Whether those men which lay near Greenland should joyn with us your petitioners, or all we availl to them: We submitt to your honors pleasure.

So it seems like the brothers changed sides, for instead of against forming a new town by 1716.

At the town meeting 18 Sept. 1717 Thomas Veasey, Thomas Rollins, and Jonathan Wiggin were selected to assign the seats in the meeting house in Stratham.(1)

"To his Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esqr Captain Generall Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire; To the Honble his Majesty's Councill and house of Representatives convened in General Assembly.

That your Petitioners having for some years past been under very Difficult circumstances both as to their Church and Town affairs occasioned by the unhappy and unscriptural separation of a great number of the Principal members of the Church who by their example have influenced others of the Church and Congregation to follow them into the same separation and thereby have made themselves the major parte and have for some time past carry'd on the Publick worship in a separate house and are got to such a height as to call a Town meeting to choose a Committee to Apply to Mr. Joseph Adams their present minister to take on him the pastoral care & charge of a Church in said Town, and to cast himself on the Lord and Depend on him for what he shall Incline the People to give him for his support, which your Petitioners expect will be liberall enough inasmuch as we must bear our part of it unless releived herein by your Excellency & Honrs: And inasmuch as their separations and proceedings thereon is so unjust and unwarrantable and we have just reason to fear willfull, and our circumstances will not admit us without impoverishing our Estates to maintain more than Mr. Rust our present ordained Minister (with whose doctrime and conduct we are well satisfi'd) who was principally call'd and settled by the Principal Gentlemen in the present separation, who then made a great show of Respect for him and his Ministry; and inasmuch as this unhappy separation and proceeding thereon greatly tends to an unnatural Behaviour towards each other, and to root out our Holy Religion, and also to Destroy that Love, Peace and Unity that ought to be kept and maintained amongst us as the Professors of Christ, as also to the Destruction or wasting of our Estates: Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly Pray that your Excellency and honrs will take our Deplorable case under your wise consideration, and redress our present Grievances in such way as to your Excellency and Honrs shall seem most for the glory of God and Real wellfare of this Place. And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall every pray &c.

"Thursday, Nov. 2, 1752- Thomas Rawlins of Stratham in the Province of New Hampshire, came into the house and declared upon oath that he had lately had his dwelling house destroyed by fire; that in it he had burnt to the best of his judgment, eight pounds, eight shillings old tenor bills of Public Credit of this Province, and prayed that he might be allowed that sumby the Government. Therefore, Voted that he be paid the sum of eight pounds, eight shillings old tenor bills of Public Credit of this Province, out of the bills now to be burnt to ashes, and that the said sum be accounted part of what shall now be burnt, and the Speaker of the House be empowered and desired to take said bills and pay the same to said Rawlins, taking his receipt therefor."(2)

"In the name of God Amen the twenty Eight Day of March anno Dominie 1753 I Thomas Rawlings of Stratham in the province of new Hampshire in New England Husbandman being weak of body...

Imprimis I Give and bequeath to Sarah my beloved wife one Hundred pounds in money or passable Bills of Credit old tener and all the personal Estate she brought with her and that is one hors two cows two sheep and the household goods she brought with her and a Cuit of Cloaths for mourning and ten bushels of indian Corn and one Hundred and fifty weight of pork and a Bed that she made since She lived with me and the wool that is on my sheeps Backs at my Decease and all my flax and all my English grain that is in my house at my Decease and all above mentioned to be paid & Delivered to my said wife at my Decease by my Executor hereafter named With this proviso that she may said wife Does quit and give up her thirds of my Estate to my Daughters and my will is that my wife shall have the privelidg of my part of my Dwelling house to Live in so long as she Remans my widdow and if my Said wife Shold marry again then the Said hous is to be my Sons Caleb Rallings to he his and his Heirs and assings for ever and allso my part of the Barn to be my said son Calebs but my wife Shall have the priveleg of my part of my Barn So Long as She Remains my widdow and my said wife Shall have the priveleg of parstern two Cowes one hors and two sheep and Six Cord of good wood & to be brought to the house Cut fit for the fier So Long as She Remains my Widdo wich Shall be Dun by my Executor hereafter named out of my Daughters Estate that I give them in this my Will-

Itim I Give to my Grand Son Thomas Rallings my propriortirs sheare of the town of pemisewaset and allso my Wearing Cloaths

Itim I Give to my Six Daughters that is Dorcas Glidden Tabbitha piper Kathrine Samborn Phebe Chase Mary Coffin & Rachel Smith all my Land and meddo ground in Stratham to be Equally Divided amungst my Said Daughters to be theirs and their Heirs and assigns for Ever and it is my will that my honest Debts and funrell Chargs shall be paid out of my Estat of Lands that I have Given to my Said Daughters by my Executor hear after named and all other Nesarary Chargis to be paid out of the Land that I give to my Daughters by my Executor hear after named and my will is that my wife shall have Wintren for her Creters above named as well as parstring oute of said Estate- and it is my will that my son Caleb Rallings Shall have my part of the Dwelling hous at my wife's Decease-

Lastly I Constitute and apoint my son in law Daniel Samborn my sole Executor of this my Last will and testement I Do hearby Revoke all other wills and testements by me heretofore made in witness whear of I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Twenty Eighth Day of march one thousen seven Hunddard and fifty three and in the twenty six year of his majesties Rain.

Thomas Veasey, Joseph Fifield, Jonathan Dearborn" [proved 29 Dec. 1756]

Jonathan Dearbonr and Abraham Tilton of Stratham were authorized to appraise the estate. The inventory was submitted on 23 Feb. 1757 and amounted to �6690/10.(4)

On 19 Apr. 1757 Caleb Rollins of Stratham three lots in Stratham which had been owned by his father, Thomas Rollins, to Dorcas Glidden and Joseph her husband of Durham, Tabitha Piper and Thomas her husband of Exeter, Katherine Sanborn and Daniel her husband of North Hampton, Phebe Chase and William her husband of Stratham, Mary Coffin and Abner her husband of Durham and Rachel Smith and Oliver, her husband of Exeter. On 22 Nov. of that year Joseph Glidden of Durham and Dorcas his wife sold to William Chase of Stratham, taylor, 13 acres in Stratham, being one-sixth part of the land which their father Thomas Rollins, late of Stratham, deceased, gave in his last will to his six daughters Dorcas, Tabitha, Katherine, Phebe, Mary and Rachel. On 10 Jan. 1759 Joseph sold to Walter Bryant of New Market, Esq. all his right of his father-in-law, Thomas Rollins, gent., late of Stratham, had in the town of Bow.(3)

Ref:

(1) History of Stratham, NH- Charles B. Nelson, pp. 114, 117
(2) Journal of the House of Representatives- as quoted by Rollins, p.11
(3) New Hampshire Provincial Deeds- Vol. 55, p. 80, Vol. 67, pp. 209, 357
(4) Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire- Otis Hammond, Ed., New Hampshire State Papers, 1933- Vol. XXXIV, pp. 339-41
(5) Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire- Nathaniel Bouton, Ed., New Hampshire State Papers, Concord, 1869- Vol. III, p. 407
(6) Ibid- Vol. IX, pp. 778-9
(7) Ibid- pp. 782-3

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire- p.596
Records of Families of the Names of Rawlins or Rollins in the United States- John R. Rollins, pp.11-2