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Samuel Adams, Founding Father

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Samuel Adams, Founding Father 

4th Cousin, 8 times removed

 

 

Bissell 3G Generation

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Joyce, Meredith, George, Gwen, Roger, Arthur, Eleanor, Chip, Carolyn, Betsy Clyde

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    Adelaide Lyon Boutelle -- Richard Meredith Bissell

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             Myrtie Ella Bisbee -- Herbert Hunt Bissell

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            Julie Ann Richardson -- John Hatch Bissell

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         Mercy Ann Searle, 1815 -- Benoni Bliss Bissell

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         Damaris Pomeroy, 1793 -- Arunah Searle, 1788

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                                                                                                             Lovisa Loomis, 1766 -- Gideon Searle, Jr., 1764

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          Samuel Adams, Jr., 1722                                                              Anna Pomeroy, 1736 -- Gideon Searle, 1731

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          Samuel Adams, Sr., 1689                                                            Priscilla Webb, 1695 -- Nathaniel Searle, 1686

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           Hannah Webb, 1665                                                                  Jeremiah Webb, 1668 -- Priscilla McClaflin, 1672

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          Christopher Webb, Jr., 1630                                                            John Webb, 1615 -- Elizabeth Swift, 1640

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          Christopher Webb, Sr., 1599                                                            Richard Webb, Sr., 1580 -- Grace Wilson

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                             [------------------------Alexander Webb, Jr., 1559 -- Mary Wilson-------------------------]

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The Hatfield Attack

 

Robert and Editha also had a daughter Sarah (Thomas’ sister) who married Samuel Kellogg.  Sarah and her infant son Joseph were killed by Indians Sept. 19, 1677 in the attack on Hatfield.  Her son Samuel was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried to Canada; he eventually returned to Colchester, CT., bought land from his brother Nathaniel and married Hannah Dickinson.  

 

While men were out working in the fields, the Indians attacked, burning houses, killing 12 people and capturing 21.  It is likely that Samuel was returned from Canada by Benjamin Waite and Stephen Jennings, two Hatfield men whose wives and children were taken captive.  

 

Waite, an accomlished Indian scout, and Jennings got approved as agents to bargain for the captives, built a canoe and went up Lake George and Lake Champlain in the winter to Quebec City, Canada.  They may have been the first English colonists on Lake Champlain.  They were able to secure the release of 17 captives and returned to New England in May 1678.  A quarter century later, Waite was killed in the Deerfield Massacre that was part of Queen Anne’s War. 

 

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