Family of John + DAMON and Katherine + MERRITT
Husband: John + DAMON
Wife: Katherine + MERRITT
| Name: |
Katherine + MERRITT |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Father: |
- |
| Mother: |
- |
| Birth |
1621 |
Scituate, Plymouth, MA, US |
| Death |
8 Dec 1655 (age 33-34) |
Scituate, Plymouth, MA, US |
| Name: |
Deborah DAMON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Birth |
25 Apr 1645 |
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| Name: |
John DAMON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
3 Nov 1647 |
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| Name: |
Zacharian DAMON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
1649 |
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| Name: |
Mary DAMON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Birth |
Jul 1651 |
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| Name: |
Zachariah DAMON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
2 Feb 1654 |
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Note on Husband: John + DAMON
John Damon Sr and Hannah Gilson sent their children John Damon Jr and Hannah Damon to America with his brother and sister in laws (William and Frances Gilson ) in the year of 1630. They were part of the migration under Winthrop and may or may not have been in the first fleet of boats. The name of the boat itself cannot be confirmed but there is some information according to an 1896 genealogy by Brazil Damon Monroe that it might have been the Fortune. In the rolls office in London, it is noted that William and Frances, their son Joseph,born April 17, 1610, and the 2 Damon children sailed from England with Winthrop's fleet to New England. Another relative, Daniel Rumball, may have been with the family. There is no know record in Scituate of either Daniel Rumball or of a Joseph Gilson. It is thought that the family originated from in or near Feering in County Kent since Uncle William Gilson was born in Feering on May 10 1572. The last reference to Hannah Damon was in 1649 when there is a reference to Hannah when Frances ,Williams wife, died. It was then that John Damon Jr and Hannah Damon were declared by the court to be the lawful heirs to William Gilson, since he had no living children. It is assumed that the infant son Joseph born April 17, 1610 died on the trip from england.
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JOHN DAMAN, with his sister Hannah, came into Scituate before 1633. They were then minors, and under the guardianship of Mr William Gillson, their uncle. We understand that they were very young at that time, firom the circumstance, that having been made the heirs of Mr Gillson, they were not established in their inher- itance by the Court until 1649. "John and Hannah Daman are allowed by the Court to be lawful heirs of William Gillson, it being proved by diverse persons that Gillson had often said that he intended to make these (his sister's children) his heirs." (Colony Records, 1649). John Daman succeeded to the residence of his uncle, on Kent street, the second lot from Satuit brook, (Edward Foster's being the first). He mar- ried Katharine, daughter of Henry Merritt, 1644, whose children were Deborah born 1645, John 1647, Zachary 1649, (died early), Mary 1651, Daniel 1652, Zachary 1654: and, by a second wife, Slartha Howland of Plymouth, married 1659, his children were Experience (a son) born 1662, Silence 1663, Ebenezer 1665, Ichabod 1668, Margaret 1670, Han- nah 1672. John Daman died in 1677. His widow Martha executrix. In the division of his estate John, Experience and Ichabod are named, and also Ebenezer, " a weake childe," (whose land was ordered to be improved by Peter and Martha, nis mother and father-in-law), also Silence, Martha, Hannah and Margaret — also Daniel. These were living 1679. Martha, the widow, had married Peter Bjicon of Taunton : We notice also in the Town records of 1680, that "they instructed their deputies to move the Court for a rehearing touching the land of Ebenezer Daman being ordered to be improved by Peter Bacon, lest the child be outed of his inheritance." The Court, however, did not order a rehearing. Of these sons, John was a soldier in Philip's war, and re- ceived a grant of land for his services, 1676: but we find no record of a family. Lieut. Zachary was also an oflficer in Philip's war, and received lands. He married Martha Wood- worth 1679, and left a numerous family. He died 1730, aged seventy-six. His son Zachary settled on the lands granted to Lieut. Zachary for services in the war, north of Symon's hill. His house was near the spot now occupied by that of Deacon Joshua Jacob. He married Mehilabel Chittenden 1711. Daniel, his brother, married Jemima Stetson 1721, and settled near him on the same side of the way. Daniel, his son, born 1716, (by a first wife), was a man of distinction, often employed in the business of the Town, and also a representative. The posterity of this family remain in that neighborhood. That of Zachaiy, 3d. (whose wife was the daughter of Rev. MrEells), are also in the Town, viz. the families of Edward and Galen, late deceased.
Sources
| 1 | William M. Clemens, "American Marriages before 1699" (Pompton Lakes, NJ Biblio Co, 1926). |
| 2 | "MA Marriages 1633-1850" (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Film # 1761394 and 0859998). |
| 3 | "US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT). |
| 4 | "US New England Marriages prior to 1700". |
