1. JOHN-

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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