THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GENEALOGICAL RECORD. An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine DEVOTED TO GENEALOGY, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Official Organ of the New Hampshire Genealogical Society. The publication of an exact transcript of the Genealogical Records of New Hampshire is the special province of the magazine. yol. i. July 1903—April 1904. DOVER, N. H. CHARLES W. TIBBETTS, Editor and Publisher. 1904. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. July 1903—April 1904. Book Notices 32, Devon and Cornwall Record Society Donations Dover Tax Rate, 1648 Durham Genealogical Records Births, Marriages and Deaths Friends Records, Dover, N. EL, Monthly Meeting. Marriages .... Index of Persons New Castle Genealogical Records Town Tax 1720 (Island Side List) Births, Marriages and Deaths New Hampshire Genealogical Society, The Act of Incorporation List of Officers, 1903 By-Laws Donations New Jersey's Indebtedness to New Hampshire. O. B. Leonard 145 Notes and Queries 32, 80, 110, 180 Notice .... .... 109 Portsmouth Genealogical Records 1 Strawberry Bank Landgrants and Deeds 1 Subscription Lists, 1658 and 1666 9 Subscription List, 1671 11 Gravestone Inscriptions in Point of Graves Cemetery 13 Rye Genealogical Records 33, 81, 129 Births, Marriages and Deaths 33, 81, 129 Strath am Genealogical Records 183 Births, Marriages and Deaths 183 G X INTRODUCTION. New Hampshire was settled in 1623, and in genealogical and historical records is one of the richest states in America. There has been for many years a growing interest in genea- logical research. The New Hampshire Genealogical Society was incorporated by special act of the legislature, approved February 24, 1903, and was organized on the ninth day of the following month. With the advent of the new society, the need of a magazine, devoted to New Hampshire gene- alogy and the interests of the society, was felt at once. The by-laws provide for such a magazine and fix its name. An arrangement has been entered into whereby the editor as- sumes its support and conduct, and though under private management, it is the official organ of the society. The chief object of this magazine is to preserve, by pub- lication therein, the genealogical records of New Hampshire. There are many town histories having a large space devoted to genealogies, which, as published, are often incorrect and incomplete, depending upon the extent of the research of the author, but the publication, in full, of the original records from which these genealogies are compiled, is seldom or never attempted. In publishing the original records, an exact transcript, verbatim et literatim, will be given, which in every case will be verified with the utmost care and pains, and a reference to the original record, book and page, will follow or precede each record. The records will be printed each town or city by itself, under running titles, and these divided into sub- titles. The records include births, marriages, deaths, inten- tions of marriage, gravestone inscriptions, baptisms, admis- sions and dismissions from the churches, tax lists, subscription lists, landgrants, town meeting records, probate records and original wills, deeds, civil and criminal court records, proprietors records, Bible records, diaries, journals, letters, obituary notices, parish records, colonial, provincial and state records, Revolutionary and other soldiers' muster and pay rolls, only a part of which have as yet been pub- lished, genealogical records from England and other places INTRODUCTION pertaining to New Hampshire families, old newspaper news- items, &c. Nine-tenths of the public records are not in- dexed, and none of them have an index of names. There will be printed at the end of each volume a complete index of names. Genealogical sketches of the families of the early settlers will occasionally be inserted, together with biographical notices of persons prominent in New Hampshire history, or descended from New Hampshire ancestors, also the Pro- ceedings of The New Hampshire Genealogical Society. The Editor. EXPLANATION. The following abbreviations will sometimes be used. Ref- erences to records by giving the initial letter, the number of in volume in Roman numerals, and page figures thus : (P. T. R., I: 10.) would be the abbreviation for Portsmouth Town Records, Volume 1, page 10. All words that are un- intelligible or torn off are represented by leaders .... : for b. for born m. In the genealogies bapt. baptized ; ; : d. for died dau. for for married ; daughter. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GENEALOGICAL RECORD. Vol. I. Dover, N. H., July, 1903. No. 1. GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF PORTSMOUTH . STRAWBERRY BANK LANDGRANTS AND DEEDS. [Volume I of the Town Records of Strawberry Bank has been lost, and Volume II beginning in 1652, has a record of but few of the grants made prior to the beginning of the book, only those that for some reason were re-recorded or had never been recorded. Volume II is now known as Volume I of Portsmouth Town Records. Strawberry Bank was settled in 1623, and its name was changed to Portsmouth, May 28, 1653. The lirst record is that of the grant of the Glebe land, made May 25, 1640.] Whereas diuers & Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Lower end of Pascataquack whose names are hereunder written, of theire ffree & volluntary mind good wills & as- sents without constraint or compulsion of any maner of person or persons, haue granted giuen & contributed, e diuers & seuerall sums of moneys toward y building erect- th ing and founding of a parsonage house, w achappell thereto ch united as alsoe fiftie acres of Glebe land w is anexed & e d giuen to y s parsonage. That is to say twelue Acres e d thereof adjoyneth to y s parsonadge house & Layd out al- ready by meetes & bounds, the South part abbutteth upon e the edg of y salt creeke marsh & soe trendeth along beyond e Roger Knights field, on y North part it Extends towards e e Strabery banke creeke on y North East toward y Riuer e Pascattaquack ending at the great pyne by the house, & y west stretcheth up into the mayn land, whereof there is three th acres or thereaboutes already inclosed w a pale for a Corne- e feild and a garden thereto belonging the Residue of y 50 e Acres being 38 is thus to be taken, that is to say y full e e tenth part of y fresh marish lying at y head of Strawbery 2 GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF PORTSMOUTH. banke Creeke, & y* being meeted & bounded to take the Re- e e d mainder of y 38 acres next adjoyning to y s marsh soe ch d e e Layd out, w s ground at y time of y building thereon e d d was desolate & void, Now y s Inhabitants aforesay by theire e comon assent & consent toward y furtherance & Aduance- e nient of y honor & Glory of God, doe giue Grant alieue & Sett ouer unto Thomas Walford & Henry Sherburne church Wardens of this parish to them & theire successors all the d s parsonage house Chappell Corne Held, Garden Glebe lauds th e th 1 w y Appurtinances, w all o right title Interest in & to e r y sayd p misses, to remane endure, & continue in perpetuitie e e e d for Euer, to y use of y aforesd parish. And that y s church wardens Their successors & either of them wch are e d yeerly to be chosen by y s parishoners, be deemed & ad- e judged only as ffeeofees in trust to y use & behoofe of the d e s parish, & y* during y continuation of this Combination, The Gouernor & Assistants for the year being, as alsoe after e d y desolution of the s Combination by his majestie Two of e d ch y principall men of the s parish w shall Likewis yearly be d chosen by the s parishoners, who joyntly with the church e d wardens shall haue the ruleing, ordering & Gouerning y s parsonage house, chapell Glebe land for matters of building reparations or ornaments thereto belonging. e d r Prouided alwayes y* neither y s Gouern Assistants ouer- seers or church wardens theire successor or either of them shall not alienate, giue, grant, bargaine, sell or conuert to e d any other vse y s parsonadge house, chapell, feild, Garden, e Glebe Land or any y premisses, to any maner of person or e e d persons without y comon assent and consent of all y s parishoners. And w*soeuer act or Conueyance they shall e make contrary to y true intent and meaning aforesd shal be utterly voyd & of none effect. e d And for as much as y s parishoners haue founded & e th e built y sayd parsonadge house, chaple w y Appurtinances at theire owne proper costs & charges & haue made choyse r e e d of m Richard Gibson to be y first parson of y s parsonadge, d soe likewise whensoeuer the s parsonage happen to be e voyd by death of y Incumbent or his time agreed upon Ex- r pired, That then the patronadge p sently & Nomynation of e e e y parson to be vested & remane in y power & election of y d e s parishoners or y greater part of them for euer : Giuen r e under o hands & Seales this 25 of May 1640 in y Sixteenth STRAWBERRY BANK LANDGRANTS. 3 e r e year of y Reign of o Souern Lord Charles by y Grace of God King of England : &c. ffrancis Williams Gouern r Henry Sherburne Ambros: Gibbins assistant John Lander m W Jones. Henry Taler Renald ffernald : Jn° Jones Jn° m Crowther W Berry [Seal] Anthony Bracket Jn° Pickering Michaell Chatterton Jn° Billing [Seal] Jn° Wall : Jn° Wotten Robert Puddington Nicholas Row Mathew: Coe Wm Palmer (P.