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Myrtie Bisbee Chart 2.3.6 -- Sarah Dean

 

 

[------- John Deane [GMD]

[          b. Abt 1602 in Chard, Somersetshire, Eng.

[

[------- John Dean

[          b. 1639/40, Taunton, MA

[                   [

[                   [------- Alice Eleanor Deane (she was also apparently the sister of Elder John Strong).

[

Sarah Dean, 8th Great-grandmother

b. 9 Nov 1668, Taunton, MA

[

[                                        [------- Thomas Edson

[                                        [          b. 1572

[                                        [

[                   [------- Samuel Edson [GMD]; 

[                   [          b. 5 Sep 1613, Fillongley, County Oxford, Eng.; d. 20 Jul 1692

[                   [                    [

[                   [                    [------- Elizabeth Copson

[                   [

[------- Sarah Edson, 9th Great-grandmother.  

 b. Abt 1641, Salem, MA; m. 7 November 1663 John Dean at Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA; d. 12/8/1717, Taunton, MA

 [

 [------- Susannah Bickley

            b. 1618; d. 20 Feb 1699          

 

 

 

Notes.

 

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There has been some confusion over the exact identity of Samuel Edson's wife.  Previously documented by Naum Mitchell is Samuel Edson's marriage to a Susannah Orcutt who was thought to be born around 1618 in England. New facts are documented in the following points by Joel Thomas Orcutt.  First, there has never been any person named Susannah Orcutt ever recorded to have married Samuel Edson. The record of marriage Mar 1, 1638, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England, states Samuel Edson married Susannah BICKLEY.  Second, Susannah Bickley was the sister of Margaret BICKLEY who married William Awcotte,(Orcott), May 1635, Over Whitacre, Warwickshire, England. Their son, William Awcotte/Orcott, born 1639 Mancetter, Warwickshire, England and settled in Plymouth, Mass, was the nephew of Susannah [Bickley] Edson, and not the brother, as for these many years previous supposed to have been.  Finally, there has never been a birth record uncovered for a Susannah Orcutt born 1618 in Massachusettes or England.  That as it is, Samuel Edson and his wife Susannah migrated to Salem, Essex County Massachusetts sometime before 1639 and then moved toBridgewater, Plymouth County Massachusetts around the year 1650.

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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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