m. ELIZABETH CATER d. of Richard Cater of Bloody Point
d. after 1685
John lived at Bloody Point (Newington) and was on the grand jury in 1664
John Bickford of Oyster River Point, according to two depositions made in 1669, was then sixty years of age. There are depositions of a John Bickford which make him to have been born in 1609, 1612, and 1615. There may have been several John Bickfords, and perhaps John, or the clerk, did not know just how old John was. Old depositions show that many persons varied in age from time to time. John Bickford bought of Darby Field, 16 July 1645, house and lot between Little Bay and Oyster River (except the breadth of a lot in the possession of Thomas Willey) and a piece of marsh at Long Point in the Great Bay, containing seven or eight acres, with a point of land adjoining. The first lot was already in the occupation of John Bickford. The second lot was at Fox Point, in what is now Newington. Thirty acres more were granted to John Bickford senior at Fox Point in 1653, showing that there was another John Bickford in Dover at that time, perhaps the Bickford who married a daughter of Richard Cator of Bloody Point. John Bickford of Oyster River was freed from training in 1671 by reason of age. According to the first deposition he would then be 62 years old. He had wife, Temperance, and I think she was daughter of the Rev. Joseph Hull, born 1626. John Bickford's will, dated 12 Feb. 1685, names only wife, Temperance, and daughter, Joanna. His wife, Temperance, died before 7 Oct. 1697. In the settlement of Temperance Bickford's affairs allusion is made by Thomas Bickford to "brother Smith," to "brother Burnham" and to "brother Bickford."
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b. 20 Oct. 1672 Newington, NH
m. SARAH BASSUM
will 4 Apr. 1724- 2 June 1725 Bloody Point (Newington, NH)
Benjamin was living at Bloody Point when he witnessed a deed in 1680. He was also constable for the town.
Benjamin Bickford, in 1694, had a grant of thirty acres next to his house on the highway leading from Bloody Point to Greenland, over against John Hudson's house. He was constable about this time. Dec. 7, 1702, he and wife Sarah, deeded to John Knight sixteen acres now in his actual possession, formerly the land of the said Benjamin Bickford's father, lying betwixt Pine Point and Bloody Point, bounded by the river on the east, by road on the west, on the north by land of Henry Langstaff and on the south by land of said Knight, formerly of Richard Cator, with one fourth of a sawmill between Knight's and the land now sold.
July 15, 1713 A petition to the Governor and council from the inhabitants of Bloody Point.with some from the outskirts of Portsmouth, asked incorperation as a parish. They had of late erected a meeting-house and obtained a tract of sixty acres of land for the Accommodation of a minister amoong them The petition was signed by... Benjamin Bickford.
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3III. THOMAS (JOHN 1, BENJAMIN 2)
m. 26 July 1711 Greenland, SARAH SIMPSON
will 3 Jan. 1770- 22 Feb. 1775 Newington, NH
He was baptized and admitted to church at Newington 12 Dec. 1736.
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Ref:
History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire- Everett S. Stackpole, Lucien Thompson, Winthrop S. Meserve, New Hampshire Publishing Co., Somersworth, 1973- pp. 16-29