Henry Axtell and Hannah Merriam

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Husband Henry Axtell

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           Born: 
     Christened: 13 Oct 1641 - Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
           Died: 20 Apr 1676 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Axtell (1619-1646)
         Mother: Mary (      -      )

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       Marriage: 14 Jun 1665 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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   Other Spouse: Jemima Leonards (      -      ) - 14 Jun 1665 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Wife Hannah Merriam

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           Born: 14 Jul 1645 - Concord, Massachusetts
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Children

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General Notes (Husband)

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Thomas's son, Henry moved to another new town to try his luck.

Henry, Thomas's only son, was among the unhappy second generation who did not get free grants of land in Sudbury. The system for distribution of land developed by the original settlers had been short-sighted. The conflict began in 1655 and Marlborough, to the west, was incorporated in 1660. Henry was one of the first grantees. The new town discarded all remnants of the cooperative, open-field farm system. Land was granted as house lots and farm land all in one piece.

Had land in Marlboro in 1660, married in 1665, and had several children. He was killed by Indians, April 21, 1676. His descendants were early settlers of Grafton. (The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts - Hudson)

3. Henry AXTELL was born about 15 Oct 1641 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. Died about Mar 1676 in MA. b. in England and christened in Berkhamstead on October 15, 1641. He was a boy of five when his father died. In 1660 a tract of land lying west of Sudbury was incorporated as a town by th name of Marlboro. Edmond Rice, before mentioned, was a prime mover in the formation of the new town. Henry Axtell, then only nineteen, became one of the proprietors and received fifteen acres of land in the central part of the town as his portion for what was called "a house lot." Besides this, he probably had a portion of meadow and other out-lying land. On June 14, 1665, he married Hannah, the daughter of George and Susan Merriam who came from Kent, England, in the ship "Castle" in 1638. She was born in Concord, Massachusetts, July 14, 1645. In the spring of 1676 the Indians, led by King Phillip of Mount Hope, Rhode Island, made a general war on the white settlements. They attacked several of the smaller places in the interior of Massachusetts and killed many of the settlers; among those from Marlboro was Henry Axtell. The inventory of his property is dated April 1, 1676. The famous Sudbury fight, when the captain and his men were caught in ambush by the Indians and many of them were slain, took place three weeks after the death of Henry Axtell. His widow married Will Taylor July 16, 1677.

Axtell family society (axtellfamily.org) says he married Hannah Merriam.

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