Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Abraham STOCKBRIDGE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Abraham, b. 17 June 1694, liv. in Stratham, appar. d. at Cape Breton. Will, 15 July 1745 - 25 Mar. 1746, names w. Mary (dau. of Israel Smith), s. John, two unmar. daus. Moriah and Comfort; also gr.sons John and Abraham. [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Abraham3 Stockbridge (John2,1) was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, 17 June 1694 (Hampton records 1:551) and died in Louisbourg, Cape Breton (now part of Nova Scotia), in 1745 or 1746. About 1715 or 1716, Abraham married Mary4 Smith, probably in Stratham, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Israel3 (Jonathan2, Robert1) and ___ Smith of Stratham. He settled in Stratham, which was originally called the "Squamscott Patent" and was connected with the town of Hampton. It was annexed to Exeter in 1693 and was incorporated as Stratham on 14 March 1715/6. Abraham Stockbridge of Exeter first purchased land in "Quamescuk" from Ephraim and Martha Leavitt on 19 May 1715 (NH province deeds 10:116). On 1 January 1715/6 he signed a petition with other inhabitants of the Squamscott Patent to set off and incorporate into a township. Abraham was a farmer, stonemason, and carpenter. He purchased and sold land in Stratham from 1715 to 1741, and in 1730 he sold land in Nottingham (NH province deeds 22:398; 24:52). He and wife Mary were assigned pews in the Stratham meetinghouse on 31 December 1718, and Abraham was voted a tithingman at the town meeting of 25 March 1723, and one of the surveyors of highways and fences at the meeting of 25 March 1732 (Stratham records 1:17,19,28,54). Abraham's name is on an undated list (perhaps 1731?) of persons who were taxed for the support of the ministry in Nottingham, and although he owned land in that town, there does not seem to be any evidence that he ever lived there (Nottingham records 4:44). He was a proprietor of Bow Township on 20 May 1727, having there a 500-acre lot in the first division, on the west side of the Merrimack River. The proprietors of Bow voted in Stratham on 5 April 1750 "that the Rights or Shares in sd Bow which originally belonged to . . . & Abraham Stockbridge deceased, are forfeited for Not Paying the charges due upon them." His family apparently paid the arrears, for on 8 May 1751 the Bow proprietors declared that "the charges Due upon Abraham and other . . . having since been paid . . . their Rights in sd Bow Now Stands good to them or to those that own them as if had Never been forfeited according to the Vote of sd Proprs." In 1742, Abraham lost six children and two grandchildren during the epidemic of a mysterious "throat distemper" that plagued the northeast from about 1735 to the 1780s. He was one of several carpenters on 17-days service in Colonel Samuel Moore's Regiment, employed in repairs of the garrison at Louisbourg, 23 September to 12 October 1745. That same year he was in Captain (Tobey?) Harvey's Company at Louisbourg. He was also a private in Captain John Light's Company, Colonel Moore's Regiment at Louisbourg, his name being on a muster roll for 20 November 1745. His nephew, Warren Stockbridge was also in this regiment. On 15 July 1745, Abraham Stockbridge of Stratham, yeoman, made his will, leaving his estate in Stratham to his wife Mary. After her death, it was to go to son John, who was also named executor. Abraham also named his daughters "Moriah" and Comfort Stockbridge and bequeathed to his grandsons John and Abraham Stockbridge his property in Bow Township, John to have 2/5 and Abraham 3/5. The will was allowed 25 March 1746 and the inventory, attested to 27 May 1746, showed an estate of �1435 13 00 (NH province probate #1276). Children, order uncertain 1718-27 or later: John, Abraham, Jacob, Maria, 4 more who died young, Comfort. [ref 87:3-532] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Mary SMITH | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - daughter of Israel SMITH and Hannah PHILBRICK - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Son-in-law Abraham Stockbridge was named in the settlement of Israel Smith's estate, 28 January 1735/6. On 8 May 1736, Abraham and wife Mary Stockbridge of Stratham, together with Reuben, John Israel, and Mehitable Smith, and Joseph and wife Hannah Gosse, all of Exeter, sold to "Our Sister Deborah Wadleigh of Stretham . . . the Dwelling House of our Hond. Father Israel Smith late of Stretham . . . [with] the barn & . . . land" (NH province deeds 36:392-394). After Abraham's death, Mary Stockbridge married (2) Joseph Hill. In his will of 9 January 1755, proved 28 July 1756, Joseph Hill of Greenland directed that his son John Hill "fulfill the oblegation that I Give to my well Beloved wife Mary hill Before our Marrage if She out Lives me." "The widow Hill, mr. Stockbridges mother" died in Stratham, 1 March 1780 (Stratham register 73:64). [ref 87:3-532] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 22 Oct 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |