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��derful escape from Indian massacre in 1689, when Major Waldron was killed. Slie died Xoveinber 30. 1700.

lit). John Heard of Dover, in 1G43, of Heard's Garrison, near Garrison Hill, died January 17, 16S7. {N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., April, 1851.)

120. William Ham, born in England, was of Exeter in 1611. (N. E. H. G. K. 1872.)

121. Mary.

122. Jeremy Tibbets was born in Eng- land in 1631 ; lived at Dover Point, directly across the I'iver from Ichabod KoUins and liis father James. He was constable in 1663.

123. Hannah outlived her husband, and received property by his will.

121. James lioUins, born in England about 1605, came to Ipswich in 1632, and was at Dover in 1631. The liun- dred acre farm on which he settled is still in possession of the family. He owned slaves. He was reprimanded by the governor for harboring (.^{uakers. Mure than tweuty-tive of Ids descendants were under arms in the lievolutionary war, and over fifty in the war of the llebellion — all on the right side.* The family name of KoUins, sometimes spell- ed Itawlins, is common in England. There are many monuments and memo- rial tablets iu Warwickshire, and else- where, and one in the church at Stratford on Avon.

125. Alice Archer was born in Eng- land.

126. Steplien Dummer was born iu England, and was one of the early set- tlers of Newbury, Mass. Because he was there, his nephew, Henrj- Sewall, preterred Newbury to Boston for his new Irome.

127. Alice Hunt of England.

128. Henry Sewall was born in 1576, and lived in Coveutrj-, England. From dislike of the Englisli hierarchy he sent his son to America, in 1634, and soon followed liim. He afterwards returned to England and lived in Warwick.

12*J. Morgan Howell of Kennebunk, Maine, was of a conmnttec, in 1660, to adjust line between Wells and Cape Porpoise.

130. Christopher Jackson of London, England, livetl with his family in the parish of White Chai)el and was buried there, or in the parish of Stei)ney, De- cember 5, 1633.

131. Jeremy Honchin of Boston.

132. Mary Storre, of England, landed in Boston with her husband May 26, 1636. Was admitted with lum to "The First Church," June 12.


 * See Rollins Genealogy by John R. Rollins.

��133. Rev. John Wheelwright, born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1589, was a classmate, at Cambridge UniversitJ^ of Oliver Cromwell, where a friendship was formed which lasted through life. He was Vicar of Bilsby from 1623 to 1632. Being one of the low church ministry, he was silenced by Archbishop Laud, and came to Boston in 1636. There lie preached a fast-day sermon that year, and gave great oflence by stating that " ministers and magistrates walked in sucli a way of salvation as was no better than a covenant of works." and was accordingly banished from the colony. In 1639 he was of the Exeter combina- tion ; afterwards settled in Wells, Maine. Later he preached in Salisburj^, Mass., where he died in 1679, the oldest New England clergyman. He was a remark- able man.

134. Anthony Stanyau was of Hamp- ton, New Hampshire.

135. John Pickering was born in Eng- land, and came to Portsmouth, from Massachusetts, in 1636. He became rich and intluential. To him alone was en- trusted the settlement of the boundary line between Portsmouth and Hampton. He died in 1669.

136. Rebecca Gibbons, only daughter of Ambrose Gibbons, was married No- vember 13, 1637, and died June 3. 1667.

137. Henry Sherburne, born in Eng- land in 1612, settled in Portsmouth in 1631. He was warden of '• The Church of England Chapel," in 1640, which was broken up by the Bay Colony Puri- tans. His descendants have been prom- inent in New Hampshire history. He died in 1681.

138. Alexander Shapleigh, born in 1585, was a merchant and shipowner of Devonshire, England. As agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges he came to America as earl}^ as 1630, and lived and died in Elliot, Maine. His death occurred about 1650. Some of the land he owned still remains in the family. His daughter Catherine, married his supercargo True- worgy (y ) ; her daughter Elizabeth, married Capt. John Gilman of Exeter, an ancestor of Gov. Gilman.

139. Nicholas Frost, born in Tiverton, England, about 1589, came to the Pis- cataqua river in 1635, and settled in Elliot, Maine, at the head of Sturgeon Creek, on the south side of Frost's Hill, where, at his death in 1663, he was hur- ried. His grave is still to be seen on land which has alwaj's remained in the family. He was constable in 1640-41, and selectman in 1652. Through his son Charles (,62) he was an ancestor of Mrs. D. G. Rollins, and through his daughter Catharine (113), of her husband.

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