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Jane Damon
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Bap. 15 Aug 1624 Dover, Kent, England |
 Jane Daman, Dover, Kent, England father Henry Daman christening 15 Aug 1624 |
 Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry baptisms Jane, daughter of Henry Daman enlargement below showing the name Damon with a tilde over the m |
| Married: 13 Mar 1644 Dedham, Norfolk, MA | 1644 "John Plimpton & Jane Dummin were married the 13 of the 1 m." |
 Massachusetts Town Records, Dedham, MA |
| Married 16 Mar 1679 Medfield, Norfolk, MA | Nicholas Hide and Jane Plimpton were married March 16, 1679 before Ralph Wheelock | |
FATHER
MOTHER
HUSBAND
CHILDREN
1.
Hannah Plympton
Born: 1 Mar 1645 Dedham, Norfolk, MA
Married: 1st 31 Jan 1665 to Nathaniel Sutcliff,
Medfield, MA
Married: 2nd 24 Jan 1676/7 to Samuel Harrington,
Hatfield, MA
Died: Bef. 1693 Branford, New Haven, CT
2. John Plympton
b. 21 Mar 1646 Dedham, Norfolk, MA
d. 26 Apr 1646 Dedham, Norfolk, MA
3. Mary Plympton
b. 9 Apr 1648 Dedham, Norfolk, MA
m. 16 Nov 1671 Nathaniel Johnson
d. 27 Nov 1736 Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
4. John Plympton
b. 16 Jun 1649 Dedham, Norfolk, MA
m. 2 Jan 1677/8 Elizabeth Fisher
d. 30 Jan 1704 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
5. Peter Plympton
bap 7 Mar 1652 Dedham, Norfolk, MA
m. 2 Jul 1677 Mary Mundan, Hatfield, MA
d. 27 Mar 1717 Marlboro, Middlesex, MA
6. Joseph Plympton
b. 7 Oct 1653 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
m. 3 Nov 1675 Marie Morse
d. 22 Jun 1702 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
7. Mehitable Plympton
b. 15 Sep 1655 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
m. 1676 Ephraim Hinsdale
m. 1691 Joseph Cheney
m. 1717 Jonathan Adams
d. 8 Aug 1725 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
8. Jonathan Plympton
b. 23 Nov 1657 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
d. 18 Sep 1675 Deerfield, Franklin, MA
9. Eleazer Plympton
b. 20 Feb 1659/60 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
d. 15 Jul 1660 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
10. Eleazer Plympton
b. 7 May1661 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
d. 1661 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
11. Leida Plympton
b. 2 Feb 1663 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
d. 14 Feb 1663 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
12. Jane Plympton
b. 3 Jun 1664 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
d. 12 Jun 1664 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
13. Henry Plympton
b. 9 Jun 1666 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
d. 4 Jan 1668/9 Medfield, Norfolk, MA
Biography of Jane Daman
by Susan Brooke
April 2020
As can be seen from the photo above, Jane Daman christened 15 Aug, 1624, had
her name spelled with a tilde over the m possibly meaning in todays terms we
would use a double m. Her father Henry Damon died when she was one year old
and her mother Abigail remarried to John Eaton when Jane was
five. In 1635 the family sailed for the New World on The Elizabeth and Ann. The passenger list
names Abigail Eaton aged 35, Jane Damman aged 9, Marie Eaton, aged 4, Thomas Eaton,
aged 1. When they reached the Massachusetts Bay Colony the family name was
spelled: Damman, Dammin, Dummin, Da'mat, Damon, etc. Jane "Da'mat"
of Watertown was received into the Dedham church on the 10th mo 1640. Her
brother, John "Damat" was received into fellowship at Dedham on 9, 1st mo, 1645.
When she was nineteen, Jane married John Plimpton in Dedham, MA. Together they
had thirteen children, but only seven of them reached adulthood. From Feb
1659/60 to Jan 1668/9 ( a nine year period) she had five pregnancies.
Three of those infant children died before they were two weeks old, but Eleazer
lived for 5 months and the last child, Henry, lived for 3 years. To add to all
that grief, Jane's step-father, John Eaton, died in 1658. He left £5 to
her husband, John Plimpton "of Meadfeild." Her mother probably died
shortly thereafter.
The Plympton family had moved to Medfield in 1652. This was about 10 miles
from Dedham. Jane, at that time, had only four children. Peter, the
youngest, was just an infant. While they were in Medfield Jane had
the rest of her children. Her oldest daughter, Hannah, married there in
1665 and remained local. Her home with Nathaniel Sutcliffe was about 100 rods
from the Plympton homestead. Mary married in 1671 and moved to
Marlborough, and John moved to Boston to be a tailor.
They had thirteen acres of land in Medfield, but the soil was poor. In the
spring of 1673 they had four children still living with them. Together
with their daughter Hannah and her husband Nathaniel Sutcliffe they moved over
100 miles west to Deerfield where the soil was richer and the farming would be
better. They were now on the frontier and unfortunately, it was also the
beginning of King Philip's War. In 1675 the harvest had been good, but because
of a couple of incidents with the Indians, the townspeople decided to move their
bumper crops with an army escort. On September 18, 1675 their son
Jonathan, age seventeen, was driving one of the carts. The Indians
attacked, killing eight. Among the dead was their son. C. Alice
Baker, an historian of the 1890's wrote "And vainly did brave Sergeant Plympton
strive to hush the wailing of his old wife Jane, for Jonathan, the staff of
their declining years, now lost forever."(1)
Deerfield was pretty much destroyed after that so they moved to Hatfield for two
years while Deerfield was being rebuilt.
While they were in Hatfield their son Joseph married back in Medfield in Nov.
1775 and Mehitable also married in Medfield in Sep 1676. Then their
daughter Hannah's husband was killed by the Indians in May of 1676. She
and her three children were in Hatfield near her parents. Mehitable, as stated above, was married and living in Marlborough. That left
only Peter and possibly their son John living at home. Peter married there
in Hatfield on July 2, 1677. John was still single. (He married in
Medfield the next Jan.)
Jane's husband was rebuilding their home in Deerfield. They had
thirty acres and a good house. As recorded, "The Plimptons were the first family
to resettle in Deerfield and in that first year, harvested the only crop of corn
and built the only house – a small 18 foot shelter. By the fall, at least 5
other families had returned and fashioned lean-to shelters.
Just as calm seemed to return to their lives, it was shattered by a band of
Nashaway Indians from Canada, who broke into the house where Sgt John was
resting alone. They knocked him unconscious, bound him and dragged him away."
(2) Jane's husband John was dragged of to Canada where he was eventually
burned at the stake September 19, 1677.
Jane's son, son-in-law, and husband had been killed by the Indians in the course
of just two years. She could not farm by herself. It's hard to
imagine all her profound grief. Most of her children lived far away.
Hannah had remarried but was probably still living close by. Her son Peter
and his new bride were also nearby. Later he came into possession of all the
real estate there that had been his father's. (1) However, he was in Hatfield by
1681 and moved to Marlborough in 1705. John was still single. He
also may have been near.
However, many of her children were back in Medfield. Hannah and her new
husband left for Branford, CT about 1679/80. Mary was in Marlborough.
Joseph and Mehitable were in Medfield and her son John married in Medfield
in Jan 1677/8. "He succeeded his father on the original homestead in Medford."
(1) Sometime after the death of her husband, Jane travelled back to Medfield.
Two years after the marriage of her son John to Elizabeth Fisher in Medfield,
"Nicholas Hide and Jane Plimpton were married March 16, 1679 before Ralph
Wheelock" in Medfield. Jane was fifty-five years old. Nicholas Hyde, aged
fifty-nine, was a widower. His wife, Martha Bliss, had died in Nov 1676
leaving him with young children. After Nicholas Hyde married Jane they
probably returned to his home in Rehoboth, MA which was thirty-one miles from
Medfield. He and Jane were married for ten years. He died in
Rehoboth in Oct 1690. Jane was again a widow at the age of sixty-six.
A little less than six months later she married George Kendrick in Rehoboth on
April 1, 1691. He was a sixty-nine year old widower. His wife, Ruth
Bowen, had died in Oct 1688. Jane died in 1694 at the age of seventy. Her third
husband seems to have outlived Jane. There is a record in Rehoboth
reading. “Jane, wife of George Kendrick buried May 12, 1694”.
However, there is also a FindAGrave memorial stating "Catalog of Graves in the
Old Section of Vine Lake Cemetery - Medfield, MA (Compiled in 1976), 42. Lot
247, Plimpton, Jane Damon, his wife, date of birth ___ , date of death ____."
She cannot be buried in both Rehoboth and Medfield.
Sources
(1) A Genealogical and Historical Notices on the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America and Plumpton in England by Levi B Chase
(2) write up for John Plimpton