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Mercy Ann Searle Chart 3.2 -- Hepzibah Baker

 

[------- William Rockwell, b. 1543, Fitzhead, Somerset, eng.

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[------- John Rockwell, Sr., b. 1563; d. 1636

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[                   [-------Mary (Marion) Wyke (or Pyke)

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[------- Deacon William Rockwell [GMD], b. before 1591, Derby, Dorset, Eng.

[          d. 15 May 1640, Windsor, CT

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[                   [                   [------- Lawrence Newton, b. Abt 1519

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[                   [------- Honor Newton, b. 1564

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[                                       [------- Peland, b. Abt 1520

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[------- Joan Rockwell, b. 25 Apr 1625, Dorchester, Dorset, Eng.

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[                   [                                                           [------- Oliver Purchase, Sr., b. 1522

[                   [                                                           [

[                   [                                       [------- Oliver Purchase, Jr., b. 1552

[                   [                                       [

[                   [                   [------- Joan Purchase, b. 25 Mar 1578; d. 26 Mar 1653, Dorchester, MA

[                   [                   [                   [

[                   [                   [                   [------- Thomazine Harris, b. 1556

[                   [                   [

[                   [------- Susanna Capen, b. 5 Apr 1602, Dorchester, Dorset; d. 30 Nov 1666

[                                       [

[                                       [------- Bernard Capen [GMD], b. 1562; d. 8 Nov 1638, Boston, MA (See also Searle 3.5 & Searle 2.3)

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Hepzibah Baker, b. 10 May 1646, Windsor, CT; married to Caleb Pomeroy 8 Mar 1665; died 1711, Westfield, MA.

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          [------- Jeffrey Baker, b. 1623, England [Not confirmed in GMD]

 

 

Notes.

 

Deacon William Rockwell's brother John Rockwell, Jr., b. 1588, was the earliest American ancestor of the American artist Norman Rockwell. Thus, Norman Rockwell's common ancestors with the Bissells are John Rockwell, Sr. born 1563, and Honor Newton.  In the generation after William and John Rockwell, Jr., William and his wife Susanna Capen had a daughter Joan (born 1625) and a son John (born 1627).  That son John married Deliverance Hawes, the mother of 7th Great-grandmother Ruth Warner.  John Rockwell, Jr. is not a Bissell direct ancestor, but is the brother of ancestor Joan Rockwell and thus a Bissell Great-uncle.  SEE Ruth Warner Chart 1.0 for more information on Deliverance Hawes.

 

Susanna Capen is the sister of Honor Capen, another ancestor of Mercy Ann Searle, SEE Searle Chart 3.5 John Hannum.

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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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