Jimson, Patrick

Battle:Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Ship/Arrival:John & Sara, May 1652
Prisoner and List:
Name Variations:
Residences:
Other SPOW Associations:
Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data.

Published: 04 Mar 2020
Researcher: Teresa Rust
Editor: Teresa Rust and Ray Dusek


Jimson, Patrick. NEHGR, SD

Name Variations: Jimson, Timson, Jemeson


First Generation in the New World

1. A, PATRICK¹ JIMSON, 1 was born presumably in Scotland and died possibly in New Hampshire?

Biographical Notes:
On the Suffolk Deeds list his name is spelled, Patricke Timson.2
“Patriarch Jemeson” was received into the Oyster River, New Hampshire community on 15 Feb 1658, along with at least seven other SPOW.3

  1. /battle-of-worcester-documents/ []
  2. https://archive.org/stream/suffolkdeedslib07hassgoog#page/n60/mode/1up []
  3. Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21068/248/45649272 []

Dulen, Edward

Battle:Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Ship/Arrival:John & Sara, May 1652
Prisoner and List:
Name Variations:
Residences:
Other SPOW Associations:
Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data.

Published: 03 Oct 2018
Updated: 04 Mar 2020
Researchers: Ray Dusek, Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust, B. Craig Stinson
Editors: Teresa Rust


Edward Dulen is probably the same man listed as:
Edward Irwin, #41. on George S. Stewart’s Captured at Dunbar list

Name Variations: Irwin, Erwin, Urin, Dulen, Duren, During, Dowreing , Eurin, Errin, Evrin, Arrin, Dowereing


IMPORTANT UPDATE! (July 2018)
According to, Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, and Anwen Caffell, in, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018), on page 255, Edward is categorized as:

Doubtful [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity]

Irwin/Erwin/Urin/Dulen/Duren/During/Dowreing/Eurin/Errin/Evrin, Edward. Residences: Oyster River, Dover NH. Appears: 1658. D.1666. Probably the Edward Dulen of the John & Sara list. One of Valentine Hill’s Seven Scots. [Exiles; DR; BCS; SPOWS; Ch.7 & 8]

For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices.


First Generation in the New World

1. EDWARD DULEN, was born, presumably, in Scotland, and died at Exeter, New Hampshire on 09 Nov 1667. He never married.

Biographical Notes:
1. A “Edward Erwin” was received into the Oyster River community on 15 Feb 1658 along with at least seven other Scots.1

2. “I set out to prove whether or not William Furbish was one of Valentine Hill’s original “Seven Scots.” I can’t prove that fact either way. However, I have traced 18 Scots who were first taxed at Oyster River (Dover, N.H.) between 1657-1659. Most of these are either on “The Dunbar Prisoners” list or on the John & Sara list. A good bit of this information will be new, I believe. And I can correct (and in some cases corroborate) some of the speculations that have been made about these 18. I have tried to be careful to document, in hope these will be of use to you and to other researchers.” ~ B. Craig Stinson


History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire. Contributed by Ray Dusek.
History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire. Contributed by Ray Dusek.

NOTES:

From Ray Dusek:
John Roy
1630–1710
Birth 1630 • ,,,Scotland
Death 24 JUN 1710 • Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Spouse: Elizabeth Phipps 1643
Children
Mary Roy 1662
Elizabeth Roy 1664-1669
John Roy 1666-1669
Samuel Roy 11668-1669
Elizabeth Roy 1670-1671
Solomon Ray 1672
Marcie “Mercy” Roy 1675-1716
Daniel Roy 1678-1679
Mary Roy 1680
Please note that John Roy was the Heir to to the estate of Edward Dulen (see the attachment on Edward Dulen)
  1. Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21068/248/45649272 []

Jimson, Patrick

Battle:Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Ship/Arrival:John & Sara, May 1652
Prisoner and List:
Name Variations:
Residences:
Other SPOW Associations:
Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data.

Published on: 24 August 2016
Updated: 24 May 2018

No known descendants.

“Patrick Jimson” is a name found on, A list of the passengers aboard the John and Sarah of London John Greene Mr. bound for New England, dated 11 Nov 1651. ~ Suffolk Deeds, LIBER I., Massachusetts, 1880. Google Books Online

Name Variations:
Patrick Jameson, aka Gimison, Jemison, Jennison, Gynnison, “Patrick the Scott”

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Scots at Oyster River

Patrick Jameson (d. 1678)
by B. Craig Stinson
17 August 2016

Patrick Jameson, was a Scottish prisoner of war whose darker story is mostly untold in the history books of the last century. Perhaps he is harder to track because his name is rendered so many different ways: Gimison, Jennison, Gynnison, or simply “Patrick the Scott”. He was probably the “Patrick Jimson” who was prisoner #91 on the John & Sara. He originally belonged to Valentine Hill and was one of the first Scots at Oyster River to earn his freedom. Mr. Hill trusted him enough that he wanted Jameson to live on his land (1659); the town of Oyster River valued his work and judgment such that they essentially offered Jameson and Philip Chesley a blank check to lay out a highway from Oyster River to Cochecho that was “fitt for horse and foot” (1664).

But in 1669 he perpetrated an ugly crime. Abetted by her older brother, “a simple-minded youth”, Patrick “Jenyson” raped a seven-year-old girl named Grace Roberts. Jameson was at least in his late 30’s and unmarried. The assailants were jailed and bound over for trial in Boston. The crime exposed a loophole in the law; rape of a child over the age of ten was punishable by death, but no one had thought to include younger children in the prohibition. It took only a month for the courts to close this loophole, and prosecutors argued for the death of Jameson in spite of the technicality.

Very little about the verdict can be found so far; a year after the crime was first brought to court Grace’s older brother William was publicly whipped. Jameson was to have received “some grievous punishment”; one source claims he was executed. But most histories seem to think Jameson may have escaped punishment. To be sure, we find him quite alive in Saco, Maine, and in trouble for being drunk on July 5, 1670; Major Pendleton even paid part of his fine. In 1674 he was at Yarmouth Falls with sawmill owner Henry Sayward; in 1675 he was in court at Wells for being absent from meeting. It appears that he died childless in 1678. But the legacy of pain he brought to Grace Roberts continued to echo through several more generations.

Patrick Jameson, aka Gimison, Jemison, Jennison, Gynnison, “Patrick the Scott”

John & Sara #91

1657 – taxed Oyster River as “Patrick the Scott”
11 May 1659 – Mr. Valentine Hill sold land on the north side of Oyster River to him [as Patrick “Gimison”] and told that he had been a useful servant about his mill.
John Meador testified in 1710: “the westerly bounds of that land Mr. Valentine Hill sold to Patrick Jemison begins at the salt river between a fence and a Littell Hill wher plume trees grow and soe running upon a straight Line to Stony Brook to an elm standing near Capt. Woodman Decesd orchard… I asked Mr. Valentine Hill why hee would sell that land to Patrick Jemison, Hee answered mee because hee was A usefull man to mee aboutte my mills hee was my Servt and I would have him settled by mee and further saith not.” [HTDNH 69]
1663 – town grant
1664 – he and Philip Chesley were chosen “to lay out the heigways from Oyster River to Cochechae and make the heigways fitt for horse and foot and bring thear a Compt of thear charges to the Townsmen.” [HTDNH 219]
HTDNH 80 is discreet or uninformed about the nature of his 1669 crime.
29 June 1669 – William Randle, Patrick Jenyson and William Roberts Jr. were bound over upon suspicion of raping seven-year-old Grace Roberts [NHCR 246-248]
07 Sept 1669 – under indictment in Boston for “mistreatment” of Grace Roberts, under age 8, of Oyster River [GDMNH 374]
New Hampshire Court Records 1640-1692, vol. 40, pp. 247-248:
Wm Randle Junr Patrick Jenyson & Wm Roberts Junr
being bound over to this Court by Capt Waldren upon suspition of a Rape done to ye body of Grace Roberts a Girle of aboute seaven yeares old,
This Court having Examyned all Parties that they Could receive Light from, ffind ye Case soe as that they order that they be at present secured in ye prison at Dover, and be transmitted to ye prison at Boston there to be Kept to yr further triall & that the witnesses be som’oned to reappear then & ye evedences Concerning the case sent in season.

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New Hampshire Court Records 1640-1692, pages 246-247.

New Hampshire Court Records 1640-1692, pp 246-247
13 Oct 1669 – enactment of death penalty for rape of child under age of ten
28 June 1670 – court determines a punishment for William Roberts Jr. of being “whipt forthwith to ye number of 10 Stripes upon ye bare back & ffees”. [NHCR 261]
Brother “a simple-minded youth” [HTDNH 85] was ruled complicit and was whipped
5 July 1670 – Jameson in court for being drunk in Saco, Maine; Major Pendleton paid part of his fine.
1674 – at Yarmouth Falls with Henry Sayward
1675 – at Wells absent from meeting
1677 – estate of Patrick Gynnison, deceased, granted to Samuel Austin of York, according to Alfred, Maine, court records. [HTDNH 80]
2 Oct 1678 – estate administered to Samuel Austin [of Wells]
No children.

What became of Grace?
Grace Roberts was born about 1662, the youngest child of William and Dorothy Roberts. Her father William had come to Oyster River by 1643; he rented a home on the north bank of Oyster River from William Follett. William Roberts became a strong Quaker and was in constant trouble with the authorities.

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Grace Roberts’ childhood home, Oyster River, New Hampshire

Grace was only about seven years old when she was raped by Patrick Jameson. Her older brother William Jr. was also indicted, alongside William Randle Jr. The courts eventually ruled that her brother was to be publicly whipped with 10 stripes. The actual perpetrator may have escaped serious punishment.

When Grace was nine, her father purchased the home he had been renting. Two years later, William Roberts and William Jr. were killed in an Indian attack. Grace was 13. Added to the horror of all the violence they had been subjected to, the family now faced a financial crisis as well. Grace went to work for Mrs. Follett; it appears that Grace was now a servant in the very house in which she had grown up.

Two years later, in 1677, fifteen-year-old Grace gave birth to a baby. The father was another of the Follett household servants, John Muchemore (Michelmore). Since birthing a bastard child was not only socially unacceptable but also illegal, a warrant was issued for her arrest. It was Grace that bore the brunt of the law. History does not seem to show what became of this child.

Five years later, February 13, 1682, twenty-year-old Grace Roberts was summoned before the grand jury in Portsmouth for committing the crime of “ffornication”. The evidence? Another illegitimate child. Grace claimed that a childless married man named Ezekiel Pitman was the father; he denied the charge and apparently was exonerated. This child, too, seems to be lost to history so far.

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New Hampshire Court Records, February 13, 1682.

New Hampshire Court Records, February 13, 1682

About this time Grace’s life finally took a less turbulent turn. Grace married Philip Duley, a sailor in the service of Captain John Cutts. They were married for 35 years. There is not much documentation about them during these years, except for the five Duley children that Grace bore: Philip Jr., William, Hannah, Sarah, and Mary. Grace’s two older children are, so far, lost to the record. Grace’s husband Philip died in 1717, and two years later she was baptized, “an ancient widow”. She was 57 years old. Some time after that she married Timothy Moses and lived another two decades or so. But the drama in her life was not at an end.

Her children and her children’s children
Grace Roberts Duley’s three daughters all provided fodder for the gossipers of the day. Middle daughter Sarah died shortly after marrying Thomas Harris. Harris took up with Sarah’s younger sister Mary. By law they could not marry, so when they had a child together in 1721 in Maine, Mary was indicted for the crime of bastardy. The couple were undeterred; they relocated back across the river to New Hampshire and had a second child. But neither did the relocation deter the law; Mary was brought up on charges in that state as well. And while both partners were guilty under the law, the woman who gave birth was always easier to indict than the man who fathered the child. Undaunted, the couple continued to live as husband and wife, contrary to the law prohibiting in-laws from marrying. Over the years Thomas Harris and Mary Roberts had several more children together.

Grace’s older daughter Hannah may have lived unmarried. Hannah built a house for herself at Portsmouth in 1728. In 1736 she too was in court for bastardy, apparently bearing a child out of wedlock.

Grace lived to see all this, and probably also lived to witness the terrible tragedy that befell her oldest granddaughter. Sarah Duley was born in 1713, the oldest child of Grace’s son Philip Duley Jr. Sarah likely was named for her aunt, Sarah Duley Harris. Sarah Duley’s mother Elizabeth died when she was 8; she was probably not yet a teenager when her father Philip died. So it seems likely that went to live with her grandmother Grace, although she might instead have gone to live with her aunt Mary or possibly with her aunt Hannah. In 1733 Sarah married Peter Simpson; within the year they had a baby boy named Nicholas. Young Peter Simpson apparently died in 1739, leaving a young widow and probably a young son.

The mystery
On Tuesday, August 11, 1739, the body of a female newborn was found floating in a well in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Suspicion was cast upon every woman who was known or suspected to have been pregnant in recent weeks, especially those who were unmarried. The young widow Sarah Simpson was accused and a warrant was issued for her arrest. Sarah admitted having recently given birth but claimed that the child was stillborn. She led authorities to a very shallow grave by the river. But this was not the child in the well.

The investigation widened. Soon another young woman was accused, a 20-year-old Irish servant named Penelope Kenny. Penelope lied at first, but then confessed that she had given birth to a boy on a Wednesday morning and had put him alive into a tub in her master’s cellar, and on the following Friday night, threw the body into the river.

This sensational revelation apparently shifted the focus from the mother of the child in the well, whose identity was still unrevealed. But the incensed community apparently had enough of what they sought. Both Sarah Simpson and Penelope Kenny were jailed. On August 31, 1739, after a long and difficult trial, a jury of “twelve good and lawful men” found both women guilty of “feloniously concealing the death of a… infant bastard child.” The penalty was for both to be “hanged up by the Neck until her body be dead”. This sentence was appealed to Governor Belcher, who granted a postponement for about six weeks.

A pastor was assigned to each imprisoned woman. Sarah Simpson repented of her lack of church attendance during her marriage, which the pastor noted, very often leads to the committing of capital crimes. On December 27, 1739, the delay of execution ran out. Rev. William Shurtleff preached what appears to be almost an hour-long sermon on the mile-long walk from the prison to the gallows. His sermon, “The Faith and Prayer of a Dying Malefactor”, can be found here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N03751.0001.001?view=toc

Sarah Simpson and Penelope Kenny were hanged in the public square at Portsmouth in front of a large crowd, the first executions in New Hampshire. Apparently neither Sarah nor Penelope ever named the man who fathered her child.

Christopher Benedetto’s carefully researched and wonderfully told account of this sad affair can be found in his 2006 monograph, “A Warning to All Others,” which was published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Here is a link to his piece:

http://www.seacoastnh.com/Places-and-Events/NH-History/first-women-executed-in-nh/?showall=1

An echo across generations
Whether Patrick Jameson’s heinous act in 1669 in some way played a part in the tragedy that unfolded seventy years later we cannot know. But Grace Roberts’ daughters and granddaughter most likely knew of their loved one’s rape as a little girl and of the two children she bore outside of wedlock while she was yet in her teens. Two of her daughters and one of her granddaughters also gave birth to children out of wedlock. For Grace’s daughters Hannah and Mary, this probably caused trouble for them and their children at the hands of moral society. For Grace’s granddaughter Sarah Simpson, it cost her life.

Sources:
GDMNH Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Noyes, Libby, and Davis, Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939, pp. 210, 274, 313, 374, 501, 557, 589.
HTDNH History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire, vol. 1, Everett S. Stackpole and Lucien Thompson, 1913, pp. 48, 68-69, 80, 85-86, 171, 219.
NHCR New Hampshire Court Records 1640-1692, vol. 40, Ed. Otis G. Hammond, The State of New Hampshire, 1943, pp. 246-248, 261, 390-391.
“The Faith and Prayer of a Dying Malefactor”, William Shurtleff, December 27, 1739. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N03751.0001.001?view=toc
“A Warning to All Others”, Christopher Benedetto. http://www.seacoastnh.com/Places-and-Events/NH-History/first-women-executed-in-nh/?showall=1

B. Craig Stinson
August 17, 2016
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Curmuckhell, John

Battle:Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Ship/Arrival:John & Sara, May 1652
Prisoner and List:
Name Variations:Carmicle, Cernicle, Carnicle, Chirmihill, Cyrmihill
Residences:
Other SPOW Associations:
Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data.

Published on: 23 August 2016
Updated: 24 May 2018
Researchers: B. Craig Stinson
Editors: Teresa Rust


John Curmuckhell had no known children. [GDMNH 129]

John Curmuckhell is a name found on, A list of the passengers aboard the John and Sarah of London John Greene Mr. bound for New England, dated 11 Nov 1651. ~ Suffolk Deeds, LIBER I., Massachusetts, 1880. Google Books Online


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Scots at Oyster River

John Curmuckhell (d. 1677) and Alexander Mackaneer (d. abt. 1670)
by B. Craig Stinson
23 July 2016

John Curmuckhell married the daughter of a fisherman from York County, John Pearce. He was killed by Indians on April 7, 1677. Fellow Scot Andrew Rankin and five other residents of the Brixham section of York County were also slain that day as they were clearing land for the spring planting. Curmuckhell’s small estate was administered by his brother-in-law, fellow Scot Micum McIntire. Some histories claim in error that McIntire then married Curmuckhell’s widow; McIntire was actually married to Dorothy, a sister of Curmuckhell’s widow Anne.

Alexander Mackaneer was probably not one of Valentine Hill’s Scots, but he was one of the Dunbar prisoners. He married Dorothy, the younger daughter of fisherman John Pearce of York. When we see him as a free man, probably in his mid-30’s, he is suffering from lameness and weakness; he died about 1670, leaving no children. His widow Dorothy married fellow Scot Micum McIntire.

John Curmuckhell, aka Carmicle, Cernicle, Carnicle, Chirmihill, Cyrmihill

1657 – taxed at Oyster River [HTDNH 77]
26 Dec 1660 – purchased land from John Pearce (aka Pierce), a fisherman from York County
married Pearce’s older daughter Anne [HTDNH p77]
6 July 1675 – Anne Pearce Curmuckhell was taken to court for not frequenting the public worship of God on the Lord’s Day [HTDNH 77]
7 April 1677 – John Curmuckhell was killed by Indians [GDMNH 129]. The victims included Andrew Rankin, Lewis Bean, John Frost, John Palmer, William Roans, and Isaac Smith, who was visiting from Chelsea, in addition to Curmuckhell.
11 Sep 1677 – Curmuckhell’s brother-in-law Micum McIntire administered his small estate. [GDMNH 129]
Ann Pearce Curmuckhell remarried later that year. Her second husband was John Bracy. [GDMNH 129, 553] He was an interesting character whose story is worth following. [HYM 267-270]
[Note: HTDNH p77 is the source that claims erroneously that his widow married Micuim McIntyre of York]
John Curmuckhell had no known children. [GDMNH 129]

Alexander Mackaneer
John Pearce’s younger daughter Dorothy Pearce first married Scot Alexander Mackaneer (unknown date).
[Note: Stinson suspects he is the “Alexander M’Nair” who is #77 on “The Dunbar Prisoners” list.] [see also GDMNH 451]
In 1666 he and his wife were excused for their 5-week absence from church due to his lameness and weakness.
Mackaneer died about 1670; he had no children [GDMNH 451]

Before 4 Sep 1671 Dorothy Pearce Mackaneer married Micum McIntire (#61 on the Dunbar Prisoners list) [GDMNH 451, 553, 472]

*More on Micum McIntire in his section

Sources:
GDMNH Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Noyes, Libby, and Davis, Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939, pp. 129, 451, 472, 553.
HTDNH History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire, vol. 1, Everett S. Stackpole and Lucien Thompson, 1913, p. 77.
History of York, Maine, vol. 1, Charles Edward Banks, Boston: Society for the Preservation of Historical Landmarks in York County, 1931-1935, pp. 267-270, 282
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thurtle-walker&id=I317

B. Craig Stinson
July 23, 2016
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Jackson, Walter

Battle:Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Ship/Arrival:John & Sara, May 1652
Prisoner and List:
Name Variations:
Residences:
Other SPOW Associations:
Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data.

Published on: 04 Dec 2014 Updated: 24 May 2018
Page contributors: Wayne Mitchell, Teresa Rust, B. Craig Stinson

List of his Descendants and Researchers

“Walter Jackson” is a name found on, A list of the passengers aboard the John and Sarah of London John Greene Mr. bound for New England, dated 11 Nov 1651. ~ Suffolk Deeds, LIBER I., Massachusetts, 1880. Google Books Online

First Generation in the New World

1. WALTER JACKSON, was born presumably in Scotland and died at Durham, New Hampshire in 1683. He married before 1663, JANE (_____). Jane married, second, Henry Rice.

Biographical Notes:
1. From Wayne Mitchell at on 19 Oct 2016:
“The dates-of-birth and birth order of Walter’s children are uncertain.
It is possible that either William or Elizabeth is the child conceived
by Jane before she married Walter, for which she accused Andrew Wiggin
in 1667.” ~ Wayne, Susan, and Craig
2. Submitted by B. Craig Stinson, “Walter Jackson, a prisoner from the Battle of Worcester, was probably purchased originally by Valentine Hill. Unlike most of his peers Jackson may have remained at Oyster River after his indenture was complete. He married a woman named Jane who was a live-in “servant maid” of our ancestor in-law Andrew Wiggin. In 1667 Jane bore a child that she claimed was fathered by her master Andrew Wiggin. The baby was evidence of the indiscretion; Jane Jackson was found guilty and offered ten “stripes” or a fine of £4 plus court costs, which fine Walter Jackson paid. Andrew Wiggin was acquitted. They had five children together. Walter died in 1683. His widow remarried.” SEE: Sources and Notes below.
3. “Assuming we are right about there only being one wife, then yes, it has
to be Jane who was killed in the Indian raid in 1694. In the report,
she is styled “Mrs. Jackson,” although she had married a second time and
was by then the widow of Henry Rice (whose daughter from a previous
marriage later married her son James).” ~ Wayne

Children of Walter and Jane (_____) Jackson:
2. i. WILLIAM JACKSON, b. about 1669.
2. ii. ELIZABETH JACKSON,
2. iii. MARY JACKSON,
2. iv. JANE JACKSON,
2. v. JAMES JACKSON, born about 1681.

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Scots at Oyster River
Walter Jackson (d. 1683)

Walter Jackson, a prisoner from the Battle of Worcester, was probably purchased originally by Valentine Hill. Unlike most of his peers Jackson may have remained at Oyster River after his indenture was complete. He married a woman named Jane who was a live-in “servant maid” of our ancestor in-law Andrew Wiggin. In 1667 Jane bore a child that she claimed was fathered by her master Andrew Wiggin. The baby was evidence of the indiscretion; Jane Jackson was found guilty and offered ten “stripes” or a fine of £4 plus court costs, which fine Walter Jackson paid. Andrew Wiggin was acquitted. They had five children together. Walter died in 1683. His widow remarried. Walter Jackson

John & Sara #82
A Scotch prisoner and probably first there in service at the mills [GDMNH 373]
Homestead on north side of Oyster River between William Beard and Philip Chesley [GDMNH 373]
10 January 1658-9 – received as an inhabitant of Oyster River [GDMNH 373]
early 1663 – was an appraiser of Alexander Mackdouel’s estate in ???
[Stinson note: along with William Furbish]
1663 – had a wife Jane in 1663 [HTDNH 80]
1666 – was granted 20 acres “at the head of his one [own] lot betwixt the Cow path and the swamp.” [HTDNH 66]
[Stinson note: this land was on Beard’s Creek on the north side of the Oyster River; see map p48 HTDNH]
25 June 1667 – “Sd Wiggin then to answer ye charge Lade to him in begetting Walter Jacksons wife with child while she Lived with him” [NHCR 225] [Jane was Andrew Wiggin’s indentured maid.]
WJ 1st Para 2 25 June 1667 – Jane Jackson found guilty of fornication and fined 10 stripes or £4 plus court costs, which Walter Jackson paid.

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17 September 1667 – Walter Jackson in court “concerning ye wrong Mr. Andrew Wiggins had done to his wife in begetting her with child while she Lived with said Wiggin as his servant made”. Wiggin was acquitted. [NHCR 227-228]
1683 – Walter Jackson died
18 March 1697-8 – his will administered to son William [GDMNH 373]
Five children listed [GDMNH 373]

W. J. Map 2

Sources:
HTDNH History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire, vol. 1, Everett S. Stackpole and Lucien Thompson, 1913, pp. 48, 66, 80.
GDMNH Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Noyes, Libby, and Davis, Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939, p373.
NHCR New Hampshire Court Records 1640-1692, vol. 40, Ed. Otis G. Hammond, The State of New Hampshire, 1943, pp. 224, 225, 227-228.

B.Craig Stinson
August 16, 2016

SOURCES AND NOTES:
Written and submitted by Susan Grady:
Descendant and Researcher: Ms. Susan Marjorie Jackson Sinclair Green Grady Bowen, Falls Church, Virginia
“Walter Jackson was born in Scotland, possibly in Lanarkshire, in the village of Westburn, a region of Scotland southeast of Glasgow. He could read and write. For someone to have been able to read and write during the period was an indication that he came from a wealthy family. He had a brother James. His mother may have been named Elizabeth. Walter Jackson defied Oliver Cromwell (born 1599, died 1658, Lord Protector of Great Britain (1653-1658) and a Protestant Puritan.). Walter Jackson wanted to help Charles II (a Catholic and the son of King Charles I of Great Britain, who was beheaded by his English subjects in 1649) to become king of Great Britain. Charles II gathered an army and Walter Jackson joined his army. Walter Jackson was in the unit commanded by the Duke of Hamilton. The army and Charles II fought against Oliver Cromwell and Cromwell’s army at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651 in Worcester, England. Cromwell defeated Charles II, who fled back to France, where he had been living. Three thousand Scots were taken prisoner by the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Worcester. Oliver Cromwell punished Walter Jackson. Cromwell sent Walter Jackson to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony on the ship John and Sara. It left England on November 8 or 11, 1651 and arrived in Boston on February 24, 1652. After the ship landed, a person bought the prisoners and paid the ship’s captain twenty pounds British sterling for each prisoner. This was the cost of the ship’s passage for one prisoner. The prisoner then had to work for this man from six to eight years as an indentured servant. After this time, the indentured servant was given his freedom and a grant of land. Walter Jackson and the other prisoners from the John and Sara were marched from Boston to Lynn, Massachusetts, a two-day trip, and kept in the Saugus House. Walter Jackson went to work for a Scots Presbyterian lowlander, who first went to Ireland and then to New Hampshire, who was named Mr. Nicholas Lissen. He worked in one of two of Mr. Lissen’s lumber mills in Exeter, New Hampshire. Walter Jackson then went to work for Mr. Valentine Hill. Born about 1603, in London, Mr. Hill was living in Boston in 1635. In 1649 he moved to Oyster River (now Durham), New Hampshire. At the end of his term of indenture Walter Jackson probably worked in Mr. Valentine Hill’s sawmill at the Falls on the Oyster River and married Jane (maiden name?) in 1663. Walter Jackson lived on the north side of the Oyster River in Durham. In 1683, Walter Jackson died in Durham. Walter Jackson had two sons by his first wife: William Jackson, who was captured by the Indians in the above-mentioned raid and managed to escape, and James Jackson. Ms. Susan M. Jackson Sinclair Green Grady of Falls Church, Virginia is descended from William Jackson. Mr. Thomas A. McKay of Arlington, Virginia is descended from James Jackson. In 1998 he self-published a book, Jacksons Descent from Walter Jackson of Oyster River (Durham), New Hampshire in the 1650’s. It is in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. I own a copy of Mr. Thomas Mckay’s book about Walter Jackson. My 91-year-old mother, lives with me in Falls Church, Virginia. While doing research, we discovered that Walter Jackson was a very good friend of the prisoner Salamon Sinclare (Solomon Sinclair), who went to New Hampshire. In the 1980’s we met one of his descendants, Mr. Pete Sinclair Cummings, who lived in Worcester, Massachusetts.
– Submitted by Ms. Susan Marjorie Jackson Sinclair Green Grady Bowen, Falls Church, Virginia