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Baker-Rouse Genealogy
Theodore Atkinson 1, 2, 3 died . He was buried 4 on 16 Aug 1701. He married Mary Wheelwright.
Other marriages:, First Wife
Mary Wheelwright [Parents] 1 was born 2 about 1637/1638 in New England. She was christened 3, 4 on 25 Jun 1637 in Boston, Massashusetts/Alford, Lincolnshire, England. She died . She was buried 5 on 4 Jan 1711 in New-burying place, Massachusetts. She married Theodore Atkinson.
Other marriages:Lyde, Edward
Joseph Plaisted [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5 about 1700. He died 6, 7 before 1752. He married 8, 9 Abigail Mary Preble in Aug 1724 in York, York, Maine.
NEGHS Register. 1960. Vol. 114. Page 46.
"York, July 23, 1724. There is a Purpose of Marriage between Mr. Joseph Plaisted & Mrs. Mary Craige both of this Town. They were married Aug. ult. 1724."
Abigail Mary Preble [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7, 8 on 17 Feb 1695/1697 in York, York Co, Maine. She died 9, 10 about 1752 in York, York, Maine. She married 11, 12 Joseph Plaisted in Aug 1724 in York, York, Maine.
Other marriages:Bray, Samuel
Craige, William
Ancestry.com. Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1887.
Source Page: Probate Office, 8, 229. Name: Mary Plaisted Junr Will Text: The last Will and Testament of Mary Plaisted junr of York in the County of York Widow made this the tenth Day of November Annoq Domini 1752. As to that part of Worldly Estate which I have I give it all to my beloved Son John Plaisted for his Use forever that is to Say my Interest in the Thirds of the Estate of my late Husband Ioseph Plaisted Esqr late of York Decd. Also my Necklace great looking Glass and great Table, Pepper Box, Rings, and also three Quarters of my wearing Apparel, and everything doth or may belong to me except One Quarter of my Wearing Apparel which I give to my Daughter Sarah Swett.Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared in presence of (ye Estate of) interlined before Signed, as also Junr in the first Line and Box interlined.Eleonor Clement, Mary Moulton, Paul Nowell.Mary Plaisted junr (Seal)Probated 15 May 1753. Inventory returned 28 June 1753, at 19: 19: 10, by Thos Bragdon, Abel Moulton and Joseph Simpson Junr., appraisers.
They had the following children:
M i John Plaisted F ii Sarah Plaisted M iii James Plaisted 1 was born 2, 3 on 7 Mar 1727/1728 in York, York, Maine. He died 4 on 10 Aug 1728. M iv Joseph Plaisted Jr. 1, 2 died 3 about 1757.
Paul Nowell [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1714 in York, York Co, Maine. He died 3 before 24 Feb 1754 in York, York, Maine. The cause of death was Before 24 Feb 1754. He married 4, 5 Mary Nutting on 25 Jun 1734 in Newbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts. He was related to his parents by adoption.
of York, ME
Mary Nutting [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1718 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts. She died 3 on 6 Aug 1802 in York, York Co, Maine. She married 4, 5 Paul Nowell on 25 Jun 1734 in Newbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
F i Mary Nowell M ii Paul Nowell was born in 1733 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died .
Joseph Nutting 1 was born 2 on 17 Aug 1668 in Groton, Essex Co, England. He died 3 on 9 Jun 1735 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth.
Elizabeth 1 was born 2 before 1696 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She died . She married Joseph Nutting.
They had the following children:
F i Mary Nutting
Captain James Plaisted [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 was born 8 about 1656 in Berwick, York Co, Maine. He died 9, 10, 11 about 18 Oct 1710. He married 12, 13, 14 Mary Rishworth in 1691.
Other marriages:Hitchcock, Lydia
Wallingford, Margaret
Town clerk of York, 1699
James Plaisted,---Captain, Town Clerk of York and Representative. He was
twice married, first with Lydia Hitchcock, dau. of Richard and Lucretia
(Williams) Hitchcock of Saco,who died before 1690, leaving two or more
children. He was taken prisoner at Salmon Falls, and sent by the Indians
to demand the surrender of Holmes Garrison, thereby escaping.
He married 2nd about 1690, Mrs. Mary Sayward, widow of John and dau.
b. 1660, of Edward and Susanna (Wheelwright) Rishworth of York. She with
some of her children were taken prisoners, Feb. 1691/2, when York was
sacked by the iIndians and her infant child, then but a few days old was
killed. The mid-winter tramp through the wilderness to Montreal was
attended with unspeakable suffering, many of the captives perishing by
the way, but we have no report of their illtreatment by the French after
theier arrival. Mrs. Plaisted and those of her children who were with
her, were baptized at Montreal, Dec. 8, 1692 and were ransomed in Oct.
1695.Died around 18 Oct 1710 when Admin of Estate was granted to widow Mary (from "Simon and Thompson...")
James Plaisted, Jr. by right of his wife Lydia claims a certain tract of land situated and lying in Saco, butting upon Winter Harbor being part of the house. Lot of Thomas Williams of said Saco: being 20 acres, being a just third part of said House lot in the middle part of said lot to be the whole length of said lot from Winter Harbor into the woods and one half of the marsh being in the said Harbor about 4 acres more or less as deed from said Thomas Williams. Dated 12th of Oct, 1680, acknowledged the 12th October:1680. Recorded in the 3rd book of Records for Province of Maine. May 27:1681 (from Maine Historical and Geneological Register)
Mary Rishworth [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 was born 10, 11, 12 on 8 Jan 1660 in York, York, Maine. She died 13 in 1756 in York, York, Maine. She married 14, 15, 16 Captain James Plaisted in 1691.
Other marriages:White, John
Sayward, John
Hull, Phineas
captured by Indians Feb. 1692
"She with some of her chidren were taken prisoners, Feb 1691/2, when
York was sacked by Indians and her infant child, then but a few days old
was killed. The mid-winter tramp through the wilderness to Montreal was
attended with unspeakable suffering, many of the captives perishing by
the way, but we have no report of their ill-treatment by the French
after thier arrival. Mrs. Plaisted and those of her children who were
with her, were baptized at Montreal, Dec. 8,1692 and were ransomed in
Oct. 1695." Several of these children remained in Canada. (from "Lieut. Roger Plaisted...")
"Mary Plaisted, the wife of Mr. James Plaisted, was made a captive by the Indians about three weeks after her delivery of a male child.* They then took her with her infant off her bed and forced her to travel in this her weakness the best part of a day without any respect of pity. At night the cold ground in the open was her lodging, and for many a day she had no nourishment but a little water with a little bearflesh, which rendered her so feeble that she with her infant were not far from totally starved. Upon her cries to God there was at length some supply sent in by her master's taking a moose, the broth whereof recovered her. But she must now travel many days through woods and swamps and rocks, and over mountains and frost and snow, until she could stir no farther. Sitting down to rest, she was not able to rise until her diabolical master helped her up, which when he did, he took her child from her and carried it unto a river where, stripping it of the few rags it had, he took it by the heels and against a tree dashed out its brains and then flung it into the river. So he returned to the miserable mother, telling her she was now eased of her burden and must walk faster than she did before.*Mary Rishworth Plaisted, daughter of Rev. John Plaisted of Wells, Maine. Although she was only thirty-two at the time of her capture, James Plaisted was her fourth husband; at least two of his predecessors had died quite young. In 1692 Mary Plaisted and two daughters by a previous marriage, eleven-year-old Mary Sayward and seven-year-old Esther Sayward, were captured at York, Maine, by Acadian Indians. Mary Plaisted was baptized by French Catholics at Montreal in 1693 but was redeemed in 1695; she returned to her family and the Congregational church. The two daughters, however, remained in Canada. The elder became a nun and was eventually the head of a mission school for girls; the younger married a Canadian merchant."
from "New Assaults from the Indians" and "The Condition of the Captives" by Cotton Mather in Puritans Among the Indians:Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676 - 1724, edited Alden T. Vaughan and Edward W. Clark (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 140 - 142
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
p304-305
"Plaisted, Mrs. Mary (Rishworth)
Wife of James, of Kittery, and daughter of Edward Rishworth. At the time of her capture she was living with him (as her fourth husband) and in her family were two Sayward children by a former marriage. She was only thrity-two years old at this date and resided on Cider Hill. She was taken to Montreal and baptized there December 8, 1693, under the names of Marie Madeline. Her godfather at this event was Monsieur Juchereau, Lieutenant-General of the "Royal bailiwich of Monreal" while his wife acted as godmother. At that date she was living in the service of Madame Catherine Gauchet, widow of the predecessor of her godfater in the bailiwich. Cotton Mather relates, and family tradition confirms, that she had only three weeks prior to capture given birth to a son and he describes her sufferrings on the march because of her recent confinement, lack of food, and the extremity of the weather. Constantly falling behind on account of weakness, the Indians attributed it to the burden of the child and they relieved her of this encumberance by dashing the child's head against a rock and throwing it into the river. Then they told her she had no excuse to lag behind. She was redeemed in 1695 and probably outlived most of her companions in captivity, as in 1754 she was still on the tax list.
it is interesting to note that on October 6, 1696, she was presented by the Grand Jury "for not attneding the public worship of God upon the Lord's day." he husband, James Plaisted, answered for her in court the following April, and, affered as an excuse that she was "Under some bodily infirmity hindering her appearance (and) for her offence was fined for the fees 4s:6d and to be admonished (Deeds v, p2, fol. 94, 103). It would be illuminating to know whether her neglect to attend the religious services at the Purtain meeting house was due to "bodily infimity" or to the fact that she could not forget that she had recently be baptized with her children in the Catholic faith three years before. "
They had the following children:
F i Lydia Plaisted 1 was born 2 on 4 Jan 1696. She died . F ii Olive Plaisted M iii Joseph Plaisted
Samuel Bray 1, 2 died . He married 3 Abigail Mary Preble on 23 Jul 1724.
Abigail Mary Preble [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7, 8 on 17 Feb 1695/1697 in York, York Co, Maine. She died 9, 10 about 1752 in York, York, Maine. She married 11 Samuel Bray on 23 Jul 1724.
Other marriages:Craige, William
Plaisted, Joseph
Ancestry.com. Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1887.
Source Page: Probate Office, 8, 229. Name: Mary Plaisted Junr Will Text: The last Will and Testament of Mary Plaisted junr of York in the County of York Widow made this the tenth Day of November Annoq Domini 1752. As to that part of Worldly Estate which I have I give it all to my beloved Son John Plaisted for his Use forever that is to Say my Interest in the Thirds of the Estate of my late Husband Ioseph Plaisted Esqr late of York Decd. Also my Necklace great looking Glass and great Table, Pepper Box, Rings, and also three Quarters of my wearing Apparel, and everything doth or may belong to me except One Quarter of my Wearing Apparel which I give to my Daughter Sarah Swett.Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared in presence of (ye Estate of) interlined before Signed, as also Junr in the first Line and Box interlined.Eleonor Clement, Mary Moulton, Paul Nowell.Mary Plaisted junr (Seal)Probated 15 May 1753. Inventory returned 28 June 1753, at 19: 19: 10, by Thos Bragdon, Abel Moulton and Joseph Simpson Junr., appraisers.
William Craige 1, 2 died . He married Abigail Mary Preble.
Abigail Mary Preble [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7, 8 on 17 Feb 1695/1697 in York, York Co, Maine. She died 9, 10 about 1752 in York, York, Maine. She married William Craige.
Other marriages:Bray, Samuel
Plaisted, Joseph
Ancestry.com. Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1887.
Source Page: Probate Office, 8, 229. Name: Mary Plaisted Junr Will Text: The last Will and Testament of Mary Plaisted junr of York in the County of York Widow made this the tenth Day of November Annoq Domini 1752. As to that part of Worldly Estate which I have I give it all to my beloved Son John Plaisted for his Use forever that is to Say my Interest in the Thirds of the Estate of my late Husband Ioseph Plaisted Esqr late of York Decd. Also my Necklace great looking Glass and great Table, Pepper Box, Rings, and also three Quarters of my wearing Apparel, and everything doth or may belong to me except One Quarter of my Wearing Apparel which I give to my Daughter Sarah Swett.Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared in presence of (ye Estate of) interlined before Signed, as also Junr in the first Line and Box interlined.Eleonor Clement, Mary Moulton, Paul Nowell.Mary Plaisted junr (Seal)Probated 15 May 1753. Inventory returned 28 June 1753, at 19: 19: 10, by Thos Bragdon, Abel Moulton and Joseph Simpson Junr., appraisers.
Abraham Preble Sr. [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 was born 7 in 1673 in York, York Co, Maine. He died 8, 9, 10, 11 on 17 Mar 1723/1724 in York, York Co, Maine. The cause of death was suddenly @ age 50. He was buried 12, 13 in York, York Co, Maine. He married 14, 15, 16 Mary Bragdon on 9 Aug 1694.
Other marriages:, Hannah
Sayward, Susanna
Preble, Mary
"'Captain Preble was buried. The bearers were Col. Wheelwright, Major Hammond, Justice Hill, and Captain Leighton'
Death was an extremely disruptive event for the community. Complicated relationships of property, inheritance and family tradition which had taken shape over generations were put in disarray and might remain unsettled dor many years afterwards.
The sudden death of Captain Preble at age fifty, in March 1724, is illustative of this disruption. Preble was a York selectman and militia officer, a justice of the peace and county treasurer. And Indian was was at its height when all of these offices had become vacant with his death.
Fifty pounds in money collected by the constables as a tax assessment could not be accounted for. A committee appointed to examine his reports submitted their report: 'We met at the house of Abraham Preble Esq. late
Treasurer of the county of York and proceeded to examine the accounts of the deceased relating to the Treasury...we cannot find by any of his books or papers where he has recieved the money or what constables hands it was in...' The captain was apparently not a very organized man. Joseph Moody acknowledged privately he was 'glad rather than sorry that Preble's records and proceedings were badly confused' The debts of the
estate were so large that the widow was forced to sell portions of land and even a section of her house in July 1727. The deed in which she transferred sixty acres of land to Richard Milberry for one-hundred thirty-one pounds indicates that the money was '...to be applied for & towards the discharging of the just debts of the deceased...'" (from "Overtaken By Death": Dying, Death, and Burying in Early York, written
by James E. Kences, published by the Old York Historical Society, p 3)Ancestry.com. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, Inc., 1998. Original data: Libby, Charles Thornton. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928.
Capt. *Abraham(7), Esq., York, d. 14 Mar. 1723-4 in 50th yr., Capt. of the town, Judge for the Co. of York, and at time of death sustained no less than nine offices of honor and pub. trust. Grants 1697-1714. Town clerk 1699-1723; selectm. 1700; Rep. 12 times 1702-1719. Lic. out of doors 1704-6, 1709. List 38. His 1st w. Mary (Bragdon 5, m. 9 Aug. 1694) d. 1697; a 2d w. Hannah d. s.p. bef. Apr. 1699; the 3d was Susanna Sayward (John); the 4th, m. 1704-1711, was Mary Preble(2) who m. 2d Peter Nowell, His est. was div. in 7ths to s. Edward and 5 daus.; in 1728 the s. gave bond to pay £180 to John Kent to Newb. and to pay his sisters. Ch., by 1st w: Mary (orig. name Abigail), b. 17 Feb. 1695-6; m. 1st Samuel Bray (7); m. 2d William Craige; m. 3d Joseph Plaisted(3). Hannah (orig. name Humility), b. 13 May 1697, m. Richard King(12 jr.). Their names changed when bp. in 1699 to bear up the names of a mo. and a mo.-in-law, both dead. By 3d w: Capt. Edward, b. 23 Aug. 1702; accus. by Sarah Burrill(3) 1721; m. Hannah Simpson (Lt. Daniel). List 279. 6 ch. rec. 1724-1738. Nathaniel, b. 8 Apr. 1704, scalded to death. By 4th w., 3 named in mo.'s will, 18 Jan. 175320 May 1755: Humility, m. 24 Nov. 1736 Abraham Nowell; Miriam, m. 8 July 1739 Thos. Donnell; Susanna, liv. with mo. 1753; and seven d.y.Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
Page 318
"In 1711 Capt. Abraham Preble's fishing sloop was taken out of York Harbor on the night of Novembr 7-8 and the loss was not discovered until early the next morning. Preble called for volunteers from the townsmen, and Captain Heath in charge of the garrison detailed a sergeant and eight men to aid in its recapture. Ensign William Hilton, Edward Beale, Job Averill, George Jacobs and Thomas More of the local militia joined the troops and the whole party, numbering thirty-two men, went in two sloops in chase. After several hours they descried Preble's boat and, outsailing her, found her manned by a Frenchman and three Indians. They made them prisoners and put back to the harbor where they arrived about ten o'clock that night. A summary court martial was held by Captains Heath and Preble, at the house of Samuel Donnell, and Hilton was ordered to execute the Indians. In accordance with this they were put to death immediately that same night and their bodies thrown into the sea. Hilton took their scalps to Boston to claim bounty.
It is quite probable that this mercenary performance accounts for the renewal of activities by the enemy against York, which followed in a few months. In previous wars bounties had been offered for scalps, and in this conflict the prize was forty pounds each for the scalps of Indians of any age, and it was customary for volunteers to make up parties to scout for Indians, in hope of this reward. Captain Preble was reported in February 1712 as going out with such a company, but after a week's absence he came back without booty."
Mary Bragdon [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 24 Nov 1675 in York, York Co, Maine. She died 5, 6 in 1697 in York, York Co, Maine. She married 7, 8, 9 Abraham Preble Sr. on 9 Aug 1694.
of York, ME
They had the following children:
F i Abigail Mary Preble F ii Humility Hannah Preble
Doctor John Swett 1, 2, 3 died . He married 4 Sarah Plaisted on 15 Nov 1747.
Sarah Plaisted [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 26 Dec 1725 in York, York, Maine. She died . She married 5 Doctor John Swett on 15 Nov 1747.
They had the following children:
M i John Swett F ii Mary Swett F iii Hannah Swett 1 died .
Josiah Bragdon 1 died . He married Mary Swett.
Mary Swett [Parents] 1 died . She married Josiah Bragdon.
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