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DUSTON Thomas (I409) [Male] b. ABT 1652 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Colonial America - d. BEF 17 NOV 1732 Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Historical note: Thomas Duston b.1652 served in King Phillip's War in Lt. Benjamin Sweet's company Aug 24 1767 (N.E. Reg. 43 p.98 & 275). Freeman at Haverhill Nov 28 1677 (N.E. Reg Vol 6 p.203). On the York county (Maine) Probate records June 8 1703 (N.E. Reg. Vol 31p.221)"Administration granted to Thomas Duston of Haverhill on the estate of his father Thomas Duston of Kittery deceased intestate."
Thomas was a brick maker and he had a saw mill. He built a new brick house and it became a garrison house which was, under his command, to be repaired and guarded by five men. This garrison house has been maintained and is periodically open for tourists.
The problem he faced when the Abnaike Indians descended on Haverhill is described by Jane James, p. 21: "On the morning of March 15, 1697 about 20 Abinake Indians in war dress descended on the outlying homes of Haverhill. Thomas Dustin, constable of Haverhill at the time, was working outdoors and saw them approaching. He hurried to warn his family. He sent their seven children aged 17 to 2 to the nearest garrisoned house (probably Onisephorus Marsh's) telling them to run as quickly as possible. He then urged his wife Hannah to come with him on the one horse. But six days earlier Hannah had given birth to their 12th child, Martha. Although they certainly would have taken the baby with them there was a neighbor who had been nursing Hannah, Mary (Corliss) Neff, a widow, to consider. One can imagine the awful confusion of those few moments with the Indians approaching. Hannah urged Thomas to go with the children and protect them and he did. He was resolved to save at least one of the fleeing children--"the dearest one" according to [Cotton] Mather who later personally interviewed Hannah. He intended to swing that one on the horse with him and ride on. However, he could not make such a painful choice and so, dismounting and keeping the horse between the fleeing band and the two or three Indians who followed, they all arrived at the place of safety. He had a musket and Chase debates as to whether he fired at the pur- suers as some accounts suggest."
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Early Vital Records of Massachusetts to about 1850 Haverhill
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: U.S. Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
He had an estate probated on Mar 31 1767. He was buried in Near Buttonwoods. In 1747 and 1748, Thomas Duston bought land amounting to about 300 acres in that part of Haverhill which had been set off to New Hampshire by the running of the new Province Line in 1741. This section was called the Haverhill District, and later a part of it was made Salem, N. H. This land he deeded in 1752 to three of his sons, Thomas, Obadiah, and Caleb B., all of whom settled in Salem, N. H. Thomas Duston made his will on Sept. 12, 1755, and gave his daughter "Abigail Webster, 2 Spanish Mill Dollars." His will was probated Mar. 31, 1767. His estate, real and personal, as per inventory was valued at 505 pounds, 4 shillings, 1/2 pence. (L505, 4s, 1/2d)
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-197
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Title: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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A substantial farmer
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Martha was killed by Indians during the attack on Haverhill on March 15, 1697. They bashed her against a tree.
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Title: Heroism of Hannah Dustin and Indian Wars of New England
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
This is what the Duston/Dustin Family Genealogy Booklet on the Second Generation put out by the Dustin/Dustin Family Association says about Lydia Duston:
"xiii. Lydia3, b. Oct. 4, 1698; m. Nov. 15, 1721, Haverhill, Mass., John Saunders, Jr., b. Aug. 25, 1696. His will was dated Feb. 22, 1764, and the inventory of his estate was filed Oct. 31, 1677. He was one of the Proprietors of Penscook, now Concord, N. H., 1727. He was on the list of taxpayers in Haverhill "east of the West Parish line", 1741.
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Title: U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-197
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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From "The Emersons of Haverhill"
Michael EMERSON, (son of Thomas, son of Alexander, son of George, son of
John) was baptised 19-APR-1627 in Cadney parish, Lincolnshire, England
and came to America on or before March 1, 1651 (when he was named as a
possible witness to the Grand Jury of Essex County court.)
The following is quoted from Jane Emerson James, The Haverhill Emersons: Revised and Extended, (Jane Emerson James, Lake Winnebago, MO, 1983), p. 10, 11:
"Michael Emerson...came to America on or before March 1, 1651 when he was named as a possible witness to the Grand Jury of Essex County court. His place of residence is not mentioned then but on 3 Mar 1655 he received from Haverhill one of the allotments of land which were made to inhabitants in the form of two cow commons and four acres of meadow "to be laid out after the second division of meadow is all laid out." On 17 Jan 1658 in the third division of meadow he was given a quarter acre to add to his four acres already given. On 28 Feb 1661 he had 6 portion in the fourth division of meadow. Also in 1661 he exchanged his two cow commons for two ox commons with the grant showing that he owned two cows at that date.
On 6 Jan 1662 he purchased with his brother Robert a farm of six acres in the southwestern part of the town. The price was eighty five pounds and the deed had the condition that they should "pay for two acres and a half of accomodations upon ye sd land." Afterward at an unknown date the town gave him a tract adjoining his farm and on 14 Dec 1663 permitted him to exchange some land. Transcripts of these documents follow: Laid out to Michael Emerson, Forty and four acres of upland adjoining to his other land which he had of Robert Swan, bounded with a white oak between Thomas Lillford and him and with a black oak at the pond. One acre of Meadow in that land is laid out to Mr. Ward, bounded with upland...Michael Emerson was a man of decision and ability. He was elected constable in 1659 and a sample of his handwriting has been preserved in the files of the Essex County court in which he endorsed the back of a warrant...Besides the work of the court a constable had to collect "rates" or taxes and keep close personal accounts with the town. Michael Emerson filled other positions of responsibility. He had learned the trade of "cordwainer" or shoe- maker, which then included a knowledge and skill covering all materials and work entered into the trade. Thus he was chosen "sealer of leather", the officer who had authority to see that all sales of leather were made honestly as to quality and quantity. He was the first to hold this office and was elected to it every year from 1675 until 1702. In 1677 he was appointed a helper, Andrew Greeley, after he "complained." He was appointed to join with Newbury men to "lay out and state the way between us" 19 Nov 1662 and was the surveyor of highways in 1695, his portion being between the Saw Mill river and the Great Plain." At the same town meeting he was elected "one of the tithing men", appointed to keep order in the place of worship--very good evidence that he was a church member.
Two shadows are cast over the good name of Michael Emerson in the copious records kept. In his 88 years he was seemingly disliked by a neighbor named White and he was once fined for mistreating one of his 15 children. In his History of Haverhill Chase quoted the town record thus: "This year 1666 Michael Emerson moved into town and settled near the White-house-on Mill Street. The grantees offered that if he would 'go back to the woods' they would give him a tract of land. He accepted the offer, and settled not far from the corner of Primrose and Winter streets. The 'Emerson Estate' on the south side of the latter street is part of the original tract of Michael Emerson." And in his Haverhill (an unpublished manuscript held in the Haverhill, Mass. Library) Chase quotes from the 1674 Records of the County Court, "Michael Emerson was fined 5s for his cruel and excessive beating of his daughter with a flayle swingel and kicking of her." He was under bonds in Hampton Court 16 May 1676 and it was abated in Nov 1676. Chase says that the daughter was Elizabeth who would have been 9 years old at the time.
FROM THE BOOK:
McCall-Tidwell and Allied Families by: Ettie Tidwell McCall 1931
MICHAEL EMERSON OF MASSACHUSETTS
MICHAEL EMERSON1 from Sereby, County of Lincoln, England, born about 1625 is mentioned first in this country on March 31, 1651, in a "Presentment as a witness who might be called in a case reported by the Grand Jury of Essex County Court, Massachusetts." From the records of the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 3, 1655, he received from the town an allotment of land. (His brother, Robert Emerson, was granted land at the same time; he married Anne Grant (dau. of Thomas and Jane Grant of Rowley, Massachusetts)).
Michael Emerson was Constable, 1659; chosen "sealer of leather", an officer who had authority to see that all sales of leather were made honestly as to quality and quantity. He was appointed from Haverhill "to join with the Newbury men to lay out and state the way between them and us." He was elected one of the "tithing men," appointed to keep order in the house of worship. He married on April 1, 1657, Hannah Webster (dau. of John and Mary (Shatswell) Webster). He died, 1715; his wife died later.
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Title: New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011
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Title: Genealogy of Beverly Myers Starnes Family Tree
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Title: 1910 United States Federal Census
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Title: 1860 United States Federal Census
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Title: Minnesota, Cemetery Inscription Index, Select Counties
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Title: U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-197
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Thomas, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and as early as 1640 was in Dover, NH. He owned land in Charlestown, MA, adjoining land of Ralph Hall, in 1648. He was admitted a freeman in Kittery, ME, in 1652. His name is variably spelled Durstan, Dustan, Dustin and Duston.
Historical note: Thomas Durston came from Devon County Eng. with the Trelawney party which settled at Cape Elizabeth and Black Point (now Maine). He was here in July 1632 (see Trelawney Papers) but evidently returned to England before 1635 and came out again in 1639 as he was here in 1640. ["He received a grant of 20 acres of land on Jun 19 1654 reaching from Crooked Lane to Spruce Creek. He signed the Dover Combination in 1640. In Nov.1652 his name was 12th in the list appended to the following: "We whose names are written under do acknowledge ourselves subject to the government of Massachusetts Bay."] Quotes taken from "Old Kittery" p.79 p.142-147; Haverhill Towns Records Vol.ll p.51 and p.368.
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Title: California, Death Index, 1940-1997
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Title: California, Death Index, 1940-1997
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
Title: Stephen R. Myers
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