In the book "History of the Town of Rye.....", reprint published by Heritage Books, Inc. 1992, the Rand genealogy on page 499 states that :Francis Rand married Christina ----------. He was killed by the Indians at Sandy Beach Sept. 29, 1691. His will was dated 1689, and proved Feb. 19, 1691-92. He came over with Mason's men." ---------- > I also am interested in the Brackett information since it appears that a > number of direct ancestors in my Rand line perished during this attack. > Bill Lander > Cleveland, TN > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > Send messages to the list to the "To" address found above in THIS message. > To send commands (subscribe/unsubscribe), insert -request between the L > and the @ in the address. Send only the command. > **************** > >

Vol 2 of "History of the Town of Tye, NH, From its Discovery and Settlemen to December 31, 1903" by Langdon B Parsons 1905, republished by Heritage Books Inc. 1992, page 473 - 483. These pages have extensive information on the family, beginning with Joseph (1) Parsons (known as Cornet Joseph) who came from England and settle in Springfield MA in 1635. He died 9 Oct. 1683. Joseph (2) b 1 Nov 1647, m.first 17 Mar 1669 Elizabeth Strong; 2nd Elizabeth Thompson. By first wife: Rev. Joseph (3), b. 28 June 1671-72 at Northampton MA, m. Elizabeth Thompson, 1701 (I know it sounds like a repeat of above but that's what the book says). He died in Salisbury, MA 13 Mar 1739. Rev. Samuel (4) Parsons, b. 13 Sept 1707 atg Salisbury, MA, m. 9 Oct 1739 Mary Jones. Dr. Joseph (5) Parsons, b. 14 Dec 1746 m. 31 Jan 1768 Mary Seavey. He died 8 Feb 1832. Col. Amos (6) Seavey Parsons, m. first 3 Aug 1796 Patty Dow, 2nd 3 Mar 1828 Mary Langdon. Joyce Collins Tebbetts Davies in Kingston, NH ---------- > Can anyone tell me anything about Col. Amos PARSONS and his wife Mary > DOW, parents of Martha (1803- ) and Anna S. (1806- ) PARSONS, both > born in Rye, N. H.? I'm looking for all vitals on these folks, together > with parents, grandparents, source(s), etc. Thanks! > -- > Dick Marston, Marston Manor: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1638/ > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rockingham County GenWeb site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > **************** > >

Here is my Cram line... Mariana 1 Benjamin CRAM Abt 1640 - 1711 ...+Argentine CROMWELL 1642 - 2 John CRAM 1665 - 1727/28 ...+Mary WADLEIGH 1672 - 1727 3 Wadleigh CRAM Abt 1720 - ...+Ruth GILMAN Abt 1724 - 4 Elizabeth CRAM 1746 - 1821 ...+Peter LEAVITT 1741 - 1815 5 Peter LEAVITT 1767 - 1851 ...+Mehitable MARDEN 1766 - 1846 6 Elizabeth LEAVITT 1794 - 1854 ...+Isaac HAGAR 1778 - 1850 7 Elizabeth (Betsey) (Bessie) HAGAR 1830 - 1906 ...+John Bunyan Wesley LUCAS 1819 - 1889 8 Harriet Eliza LUCAS 1850 - 1906 ...+Charles Wesley HORNE 1842 - 1928 9 Edna Bessie/Bartlett HORNE 1882 - Abt 1965 ...+Charles Sumner ORDWAY 1875 - 1955 10 Ora Bartlett ORDWAY 1906 - 1976 ...+Willard Frederick BEAN 1907 - 11 Mariana BEAN 1939 - ...+Bertrand Frank RUGGLES 1939 - > > > > Mariana Bean Ruggles pnt@chesapeake.net Listowner Essex-Roots Mail List Rootsweb.com sponsor NH native living in MD

>From History of Rye by L.B. Parsons The Brackett's Lane Massacre. Sandy Beach, in common with many others of the early settlements, suffered terribly from Indian raids, Men, women, and children were slaughtered or carried into captivity, houses and barns destroyed by fire, and cattle killed. The settler and his family, when they laid down for the night, had no assurance that they would not be aroused before morning by the whoop of the savages, to find their dwellings in flames and all chance of escape cut off. How many of the Sandy Beach pioneers perished throught these sudden and deadly attacks is not know, but the number was large. The records of Indian depredations on the settlement are very meagre and incomplete, but the most disastrous raid of which there is authentic record took place Sept, 1691, when a party of savages, variously estimated at from 20 to 40, came from the eastward in canoes and landed at Sandy Beach. They did not attack the garrison house there, but killed some of the defenceless families living on or in near vicinity to Brackett's lane ( now known as Brackett road), took a number of persons captive, and burned several small houses. Anthony Brackett,who, lived near Saltwater brook, was killed, and was buried on the eastern side of the highway: his will proved in 1692. Goodman Rand's family also suffered in this raid. It is said there were 2 of the Brackett children carried off by the Indians. One of them, a girl, finally reached Canada, and after she grew up and was married she came back to Rye and claimed a portion of her father's estate. She took a part of the cattle and a piece of the land was sold to pay her off. It contained about 7 acres: Jonathan Locke lived on it, and perhaps bought it: then Richard Lang, and later Samuel A. Trefethen, One of the Bracketts made up quite a number of verses about the woman coming back after her patrimony, which Thomas J parsons in his youthful days heard repeated. The brains of one or more children, too young to be easily carried into captivity, were dashed out against a large rock which stood on what is now Wallis Rd, near Brackett road. this rock, which tradition says bore the stains of blood for many years, was long ago removed in improving the highway. Thomas Walford was mortally wounded on the hill on Brackett road. After he was shot he crawled on his hands and knees to the house of a family named Foss, whose members had either fled to the woods or been massacred by the savages, and drank from a pail of swill he found on the kitchen floor. The hill was call Walford's hill for many years." Judy cats..dog@worldnet.att.net

Hello to all! I am looking for the parents and siblings of my 5th-great grandmother Eunice HEALD. Eunice married Samuel FELLOWS 16 Jul 1735 in Kingston, Rockingham, NH and died in Massachusetts 17 Jan 1795. She and Samuel had 12 children. My theory, after looking at the naming pattern of their children, is that Eunice's parents' first names may be Joseph and Mary. I also think she may be descended from the Healds who immigrated from Cheshire, England to Middlesex County, MA. Does this information sound familiar to anyone? Any information or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and have a terrific 1999! Elaine Corson elainec@stinger.net http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5637

NHROCKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > NHROCKIN-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 7 > > Today's Topics: > #1 BRACKETT MASSACRE [penny hass <penhass@swbell.net>] > #2 Cemeteries [Dick Marston <dick@marston.net>] > #3 PARSONS, Amos and DOW, Mary: Rye, [Dick Marston <dick@marston.net>] > #4 Bracketts [KLKimball@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > Send messages to the list to the "To" address found above > in THIS message. > To send commands (subscribe/unsubscribe), insert -request > between the D and the @ in the address. Send only the command > and NO other text, including no signature, name, or email > address. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use the word "none" in the subject. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: BRACKETT MASSACRE > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:55:47 -0600 > From: penny hass <penhass@swbell.net> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > This Brackett massacre info is interesting. I would like to hear more > when you all get more answers. I would like to see you post your > findings. If you don't, would it be possible for you to send a copy to > me also? I am connected through the Frosts and Heards. This is > fascinating reading. > Penny > penhass@swbell.net > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Cemeteries > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:18:54 -0800 > From: Dick Marston <dick@marston.net> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > I found the attached on my recent edition of RootsWeb Review, and I > thought it it might be of interest to several of you. Following that is > a smile for today from the same source. > > CEMETERY AND MORTUARY RECORDS (Part 1 of 2) > > by Brian Mavrogeorge, Senior Development Manager > The Learning Company <bmavrogeorge@palladium.net> > > Americans rely heavily on the censuses for family group > information. But when searching for children or women who lived > prior to 1900 in the United States, these records are not > reliable. Infant mortality was high, and children who were born > and died between census enumerations don't appear on the census. > If you are looking for a woman in the U.S. who died before the > 1850 federal census enumeration, the only information you'll find > under her own name might be on her tombstone or in a cemetery > card file. Tombstone inscriptions, cemetery records, or > undertaker records might be the only tangible evidence of these > lives. The Family Tutor for Basic Genealogy Records > <http://www.uftree.com>, by Johni Cerny, offers this advice. > > Start your cemetery search by finding the names and addresses of > churches in areas where your ancestor may have died. The National > Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has a Web site for > locating cemeteries: <http://www.sar.org/geneal/cemtmaps.htm>. > > Churches with affiliated burial grounds usually kept records of > interments in their ecclesiastical registers (sometimes called > "Sexton's Books"). The local minister might be able to tell you > where these registers are now -- in the original meetinghouse, a > central church archive, in the possession of the heirs of the > then-presiding minister, or at the office of the current > minister. Also, thousands of church burial registers have been > microfilmed and can be found in genealogical collections, or at > the LDS Family History Library and Family History Centers. > > * * * * * > > HUMOR. Thanks to Sharon Chappius for sending this tale. > > THE WEDDING > > A little boy was in a relative's wedding. As he was coming down > the aisle he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd, > alternating between bride's side and groom's side. While facing > the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar . .. so > it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR, all the way down the > aisle. As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing > by the time he reached the altar. > > The little boy, however, became distressed at all the laughing > and began to cry. When asked what was the matter, the child > sniffed, "I was just being the Ring Bear." > > **** > > Keep on smiling, and happy hunting! > > Dick Marston, > Rockingham County, NH, Mail List (NHROCKIN) Owner > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: PARSONS, Amos and DOW, Mary: Rye, N.H. > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 09:02:32 -0800 > From: Dick Marston <dick@marston.net> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Can anyone tell me anything about Col. Amos PARSONS and his wife Mary > DOW, parents of Martha (1803- ) and Anna S. (1806- ) PARSONS, both > born in Rye, N. H.? I'm looking for all vitals on these folks, together > with parents, grandparents, source(s), etc. Thanks! > -- > Dick Marston, Marston Manor: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1638/ > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Bracketts > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:09:24 EST > From: KLKimball@aol.com > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi all- > I am extremely interested in this Brackett Massacre business, since I have a > Brackett line that apparently survived the massacre! :) I am looking for > Joshua Brackett who married Mary Weeks. Their daughter Eleanor was born in > 1712. They may have been from Raymond, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'd like to > hear from anyone with information on the Bracketts. > Thanks, > Karen (perhaps I shouldn't mention that it's 80 degrees out here in Southern > California!)I wish to unsubscribe to rootsweb and do npt know how to do so. Please advise...Thank you...

I have Torrey's New England Marriages and I consider it one of the better New England resource materials. Question: Torrey's sources or notes for his entries in this book I understand, have also been published. I would like to buy this book. Does anyone know who published and/or sells Torrey's source book? thanks, Charles

Hi Donna I've got Crams too. My line goes John b. 1-29-1596 + Hester White Benjamin + Argentine Cromwell John + Mary Wadleigh John + Mary Sanborn Tristram + Anna Simpson Sally C b. 3-17-1798+ William E. Page Would love to correspond about Crams Leslie Donna C. Magee wrote: > Hi I am new to the list and think I have found out how to post.Is anyone > else researching Cram? My line starts with Thomas in Bilsby England born > 1563.I have traced his line to the present and am happy to share any info I > have. Donna > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rockingham County GenWeb site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > ****************

Hi I am new to the list and think I have found out how to post.Is anyone else researching Cram? My line starts with Thomas in Bilsby England born 1563.I have traced his line to the present and am happy to share any info I have. Donna

I believe the sources can only be purchased on 7 reels of microfilm from NEHGS for $245. Charles Brack wrote: > Question: Torrey's sources or notes for his entries in this book I > understand, have also been published. I would like to buy this book. > Does anyone know who published and/or sells Torrey's source book?

I also am interested in the Brackett information since it appears that a number of direct ancestors in my Rand line perished during this attack. Bill Lander Cleveland, TN

I am reseraching William PRESTON m. 12 June 1752 Hannah HEALEY, Chester, Rockingham Co., NH. William said aka William PRESSON II, b. 05 August 1728 Beverly, Essex Co., MA. Hannah said dau. of William HEALEY m. Mary SANBORN 12 January 1715/16, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH. I have been told that William and Hannah (Healey) PRESTON subsequently removed (date unknown) to VT. Seek source to obtain Hannah's DOB information, parentage of William PRESSON II and other sources of information about these two Rockingham families. Thank you ---BJ

Hi all- I am extremely interested in this Brackett Massacre business, since I have a Brackett line that apparently survived the massacre! :) I am looking for Joshua Brackett who married Mary Weeks. Their daughter Eleanor was born in 1712. They may have been from Raymond, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'd like to hear from anyone with information on the Bracketts. Thanks, Karen (perhaps I shouldn't mention that it's 80 degrees out here in Southern California!)

Can anyone tell me anything about Col. Amos PARSONS and his wife Mary DOW, parents of Martha (1803- ) and Anna S. (1806- ) PARSONS, both born in Rye, N. H.? I'm looking for all vitals on these folks, together with parents, grandparents, source(s), etc. Thanks! -- Dick Marston, Marston Manor: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1638/

I found the attached on my recent edition of RootsWeb Review, and I thought it it might be of interest to several of you. Following that is a smile for today from the same source. CEMETERY AND MORTUARY RECORDS (Part 1 of 2) by Brian Mavrogeorge, Senior Development Manager The Learning Company <bmavrogeorge@palladium.net> Americans rely heavily on the censuses for family group information. But when searching for children or women who lived prior to 1900 in the United States, these records are not reliable. Infant mortality was high, and children who were born and died between census enumerations don't appear on the census. If you are looking for a woman in the U.S. who died before the 1850 federal census enumeration, the only information you'll find under her own name might be on her tombstone or in a cemetery card file. Tombstone inscriptions, cemetery records, or undertaker records might be the only tangible evidence of these lives. The Family Tutor for Basic Genealogy Records <http://www.uftree.com>, by Johni Cerny, offers this advice. Start your cemetery search by finding the names and addresses of churches in areas where your ancestor may have died. The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has a Web site for locating cemeteries: <http://www.sar.org/geneal/cemtmaps.htm>. Churches with affiliated burial grounds usually kept records of interments in their ecclesiastical registers (sometimes called "Sexton's Books"). The local minister might be able to tell you where these registers are now -- in the original meetinghouse, a central church archive, in the possession of the heirs of the then-presiding minister, or at the office of the current minister. Also, thousands of church burial registers have been microfilmed and can be found in genealogical collections, or at the LDS Family History Library and Family History Centers. * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to Sharon Chappius for sending this tale. THE WEDDING A little boy was in a relative's wedding. As he was coming down the aisle he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd, alternating between bride's side and groom's side. While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar . .. so it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR, all the way down the aisle. As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing by the time he reached the altar. The little boy, however, became distressed at all the laughing and began to cry. When asked what was the matter, the child sniffed, "I was just being the Ring Bear." **** Keep on smiling, and happy hunting! Dick Marston, Rockingham County, NH, Mail List (NHROCKIN) Owner

This Brackett massacre info is interesting. I would like to hear more when you all get more answers. I would like to see you post your findings. If you don't, would it be possible for you to send a copy to me also? I am connected through the Frosts and Heards. This is fascinating reading. Penny penhass@swbell.net

The Brackett Massacre took place in Sept 1691. The Rye book doesn't name the others who died but I'll try other books in the next few days. Joyce ---------- > Vpeverhart@aol.com wrote: > > > > Joyce -- Thanks for the prompt response. I am very interested in any > > available information on the massacre, including a list of the individuals > > killed in that massacre. > > > > Anthony Brackett (the immigrant) was my 7th great-grandfather. According to > > the rather sketchy information which I currently have, there were sixteen > > members of Goodman Brackett's and Goodman Rand's families either killed or > > carried away in an Indian attack in September of 1691. Is there much > > information on the massacre in the description you mentioned in the book on > > the history of Rye? > > > > My Mother and I were in New England in March, and were able to make an all > too > > brief visit to the burial ground as we were traveling through New Hampshire. > > Unfortunately, we did not get a chance to do any research in the area while > we > > were there. > > > > FYI, other family surnames I am researching in New England in that same time > > period include Drake, Libby and Merrill. > > > > Thanks again -- Vickie in Texas > > DRAKE? DRAKE? Did somebody mention the name DRAKE? That woke me up! :-) > On checking the very authoritative "The Drake Family of New Hampshire," > NHHS's publication by Alice Smith Thompson in 1962, at page 35, she > tells us that Captain Anthony BRACKETT, husband of Susannah DRAKE, died > at Falmouth, now Portland, ME, on Sept. 9, 1689, while fighting indians. > No mention, however, about a massacre. > > There is more on that subject at pages 227-228 (Chap. XIII) of Dow's > "History of Hampton." That may be on-line now at Lane Library's web site > - I haven't checked. Some of what you have included above may have come > from Dow's account. Under Anthony's genealogy at pg. 614 it is mentioned > that he, his wife, a negro and 5 of his children were carried away as > prisoners on August 9, 1676. He, his wife, the negro and 1 child managed > to escape the following November. Mrs. BRACKETT died soon thereafter, > and he married Susannah DRAKE on Nov. 9, 1678. > > Hope this helps some. > > -- > Dick Marston > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rockingham County GenWeb site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > **************** > >

Thanks to everyone who answered my question about "Where is Effingham?" Do I have to apologize for posting in the wrong county? - Well, maybe not, since the roots are in Rockingham. Sue Lang Warmer Anchorage, AK

A mail list has been established for research into the name SEAVEY and its variations, SEAVY/SEVY/ZEVIE. To join, please visit the following web site and follow the simple instructions. The list will be activated on 1/8/98. http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/SEAVEY -- _~o _ o -\<, -\<, (_) /---- / (_) tandem@mediaone.net Dick & Barbara Lemieux Concord, NH

Susan, Effingham was where it still is - it hasn't moved. Small town on the Maine border, 'twixt Wakefield, Ossipee, and Freedom [which last place used to be North Effingham]. Parsonsfield, Maine, is on the other side of the state line. Effingham was in Strafford County from 1771 to 1841, then in Carroll County where it still is. Hope this helps. George in NH susan lang wrote: > Anyone know where Effingham, NH was? > > Sue Lang > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rockingham County GenWeb site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > ****************