Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Thomas SPINNEY | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas, m. (int. 28 Aug. 1731) Tamsen Ham (Joseph), who d. 21 May 1799, ag. 90 (newspaper rec.) [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THOMAS m. Tamsen Ham. Pub. 28 Aug. 1731. [ref 33:741] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas Spinney married Tamsen, dau. of Joseph and Tamsen (Meserve) Ham of Dover, N. H., who was born 19 July 1708. Hon. Mark Dennett left the following record: "A girl named Tamsen Ham was taken captive by the Indians and was held captive by them some years, but was at length redeemed or given up by the Indians and was afterwards married to Thomas Spinney, who lived where the late John Rogers, who married their daughter Dorothy, lived, near the road opposite the Martin house in Eliot. Mrs. Tamsen Spinney lived to great age and the writer was at her funeral some time between 1801 and 1805." In a deed dated 1769 and published in Old Eliot Vol. II. p. 85, this Thomas Spinney mentions land received of his father Thomas and names children John, Mercy, Eleanor and Dorothy. Children 1733-40: John, Robert, Mercy, Eleanor, Dorothy, Christian. [ref 33:742] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Notes for Tamsen HAM | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tamsen, daughter of Joseph Ham and Tamsen Meserve; with sister Ann, carried away by Indians when their father was killed in 1723. [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tamsen Ham was captured, probably in Dover. She remained several years with the Indians. After her ransom or the end of the war she married Thomas Spinney of Kittery and lived to great age. [ref 33:178] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Hams "were taken by the indians about four years since 7 remained in their hands till very lately they obtained ther release at the expense of several hundreds of pounds & being reduced to very necessitour circumstances, Therefore Praying etc, The Resolve" gave sixty pounds to Sarah Felt. The Hams were not of Massachusetts but of New Hampshire, and in its records we find their mother' appeal. She had married again and it is the "Humble Petition of John Tibbets & Tamsen Tibbets his wife that was sent to his Excell William Burnet, Esq Cap Gen & Commander in Chief over his Maj Providence of New Providence in New England" It related that the Petitioners "hath been at a verry great Expense besides their trouble 7 travel in ging to Canada for the redemption of two of the children of the petitioner Tamsen Tibbets (formerly Tamsen Ham) That were taken Captive in the late was and sold to the french, and wereas your petitioners did formerly petitiont eh honerable Governor Wentworth for a brief and there was a ginec one hundred and eleven pounds or very near it, yet so is it that your petitioners being very poor and remains yet to be paid for the ransom of their children the som of two hundred and fifty pounds this money, which they are unable to pay, if they should sell all they have in the world, therefore they beg for relief dated 30 April 1729." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
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