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Myrtie Bisbee Chart 2.2 -- Priscilla Merritt

 

[------- Henry Merritt, b. 10 Jan 1663, Scituate, MA

[          SEE Bisbee Chart 2.2.2

[

[------- James Merritt

[          b. 14 Nov 1691, Scituate, MA

[                   [

[                   [                    [-------- Lt. Isaac Buck [GMD] , b. Hingham, Norfolk, Eng.

[                   [                    [           See note below.

[                   [                    [

[                   [------- Deborah Buck, b. 17 Jul 1665, Scituate, MA

[                                        [

[                                        [-------- Frances Marsh, b. 1614, Padbury, Eng.

[

[--------- Elisha Merritt

[            b. 14 Jul 1720, Scituate, MA

[                             [

[                             [-------- Ruth Wade, b. 3 Aug 1692

[                                         SEE Bisbee Chart 2.2.3

[

Priscilla Merritt, 5th Great-grandmother

b. 7 Jun 1744, Chesterfield, MA

[

[

[                                                 [------- Samuel Holbrook, Sr. (information from Stephen M. Lawson Notable Cousins website)

[                                                 [          b. 24 Jan 1641

[                                                 [          SEE Bisbee Chart 2.2.1

[                                                 [

[                             [------- Samuel Holbrook, Jr.

[                             [          b. 9 Feb 1683, Scituate, MA

[                             [                   [

[                             [                   [                    [-------- Captain Michael Pierce (not listed in GMD, thus not to New England

[                             [                   [                    [                    between 1620-1640).

[                             [                   [                    [

[                             [                   [------- Mary Pierce, b. 1654, Scituate, MA

[                             [                              d. 26 Apr 1735.  Sister of Capt. Benjamin Pierce b. 1646

[                             [                              SEE Bisbee Chart 2.3.1 for Capt. Benjamin's (and Mary's) family tree.

[                             [

[--------- Priscilla Holbrook (married to Elisha Merritt 17 Sept 1741, First Parish Church, Scituate).

             b. 18 Apr 1724, Scituate, MA

[

[------- Jane Clapp

           SEE Bisbee Chart 2.2.4

 

 

Note that Isaac Buck's father James came from Hingham, Eng. to Hingham, MA in 1638 and was granted a house lot. Isaac’s brother was Cornet John Buck, Cornet of the Troopers before King Philip’s War.  Frances Marsh's father John was in Charlestown, MA in 1638 and died there 1 Jan 1666.

 

Note that Priscilla Merritt first married Luther Wade.  He died sometime before 23 Mar 1769, the date on which Priscilla married Benjamin Pierce, born 1746.  

"Kin of Kin" connection.  Samuel Holbrook, Jr.'s sister Mary married Jacob Lincoln, b. 23 May 1708 in Hingham.  Jacob's father Mordecai Lincoln, b. 14 Jun 1657 in Hingham, MA was the direct ancestor of President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, through Jacob's brother John (b. 3 May 1716 in Freehold, N.J.  John Lincoln had Abraham Lincoln, b. 1744 in Pennsylvania; Abraham had Thomas Lincoln, b. 1778 in Virginia; Thomas had ABRAHAM LINCOLN, b. 12 Feb 1809 in Sinking Spring, Kentucky.  So Mary, who is a 7th Great-Aunt to the Bissell 3G generation, was also Great-Aunt by marriage to ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

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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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