Surname Saturday ~ ROLLINS of Dover (Newington), New Hampshire

ROLLINS / RAWLINGS / RAWLINS

My 9th great grandfather, James Rollins (about 1613 - about 1687) first lived in Newbury, Massachusetts and then removed to Dover, New Hampshire where he was made a freeman on 14 May 1634.  He was granted six acres at Dover on 18 March 1648.  His occupation is unknown, but sometime around 1661 he returned to London where "he received cloth to be delivered to Mr. Cogswell of Ipswich and Mr. Raynes of York" [Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, page 595].  This is interesting to me because John Cogswell (1650 - 1724) of Ipswich is my 8th great grandfather.  James Rollins was back in New Hampshire again in 1663.

Around 16 December 1685 James Rollins made his will which mentioned his wife Hannah; sons Benjamin, Ichabod, and Joseph; and his sons-in-law Obadiah Morse and Phillip Chesley.  He must have died sometime between writing this will and 13 September 1689 when his son had a deed written that mentioned him as "Benjamin Rawlings son of James Rawlings deceased".  His will was not proven until 25 July 1691.

Very little is known of James Rollins' life, but he did sign the Dover Combination on 22 October 1640, and the May 1654 petition.  The Dover Combination was the document that established the town government, and a copy was found in the Public Record Office in London with the names of the men who signed (including my ancestors James Rollins, Thomas Leighton, John Heard, Anthony Emery, and Peter Garland).

I descend from James Rollins' daughter Sarah who married Phillip Chesley about 1678.  They lived at Oyster River (Durham), New Hampshire.

Some ROLLINS resources:

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume III, pages 1552 - 1555.

Records of Families of the Name Rawlins or Rollins in the United States, by John R. Rollins, 1874 [errors in the children of James Rollins in generation 1]

Granite Monthly: The New Hampshire Magazine, Volume 1 (September 1877), pages 129 - 134

My ROLLINS genealogy:

Generation 1: James Rollins, born about 1613, died between 16 December 1685 and 13 August 1687 at Bloody Point (now the town of Newington), Dover, New Hampshire; married about 1638 to Hannah Unknown; seven children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Rollins, born about 1658; married about 1678 to Phillip Chesley, son of Phillip Chesley and Elizabeth Leighton.  He was born about 1646 at Oyster River, New Hampshire, and died 18 December 1695 at Oyster River.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Jonathan Chesley m. Mary Weeks
Generation 4: Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins
Generation 5:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder
Generation 6:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation 8:  George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson
Generation 9:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 10:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ ROLLINS of Dover (Newington), New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 5, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/surname-saturday-rollins-of-dover.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ ALLEN of Salisbury, Massachusetts

There are a lot of ALLENs in my family tree!  I have posted two other ALLEN lines from my family tree.  William Allen (1602 – 1678) of Manchester, Massachusetts (three lineages, two on my maternal side, and one on my paternal side), and also a post about Samuel Allen (1598 – 1669) of Braintree, Massachusetts.  My mother’s maiden name is ALLEN.  I recently discovered a link to William Allen (1611 – 1686) of Salisbury, the subject of this post.  I had already researched quite a bit about this particular William Allen because he is often confused with William Allen of Manchester.  They have the same names, lived during the same time periods, lived in contiguous towns, and name their children the same names.  Phew!

William Allen was granted 4 acres of land on Deer Island on 19 June 1638.  This island is in the Merrimack River near Newbury.  He then settled in that part of Salisbury, Massachusetts that is now the town of Amesbury as early as 1639.  He was a housewright.  

William Allen married first to Ann Goodale, mother of eleven children, and then married second to Alice, the widow of both John Roper and John Dickinson.  William Allen died in 1686 and left a lengthy will that showed he was a very wealthy man.  The inventory of his estate was worth more than 280 pounds.

I descend from his fourth child, and third daughter, Martha Allen (1646 – 1718) who married Richard Hubbard.  Both Richard and Martha signed the Bradbury Petition on 22 July 1692, in support of Marry Bradbury of Salisbury and professing her innocence in the midst of the Salem witch trials.  Because of this and other ongoing petitions and protests her execution was delayed until after the hysteria had passed.  Mary Bradbury was never hanged, and she died of natural causes in 1700.  They had ten children and I descend from their daughter Comfort Hubbard who married Joshua Weeks. 

Some ALLEN resources:

The History of Gloucester by John James Babson, 1860 (some of his sketch on William Allen of Salisbury is mixed up with the William Allen of Manchester, particularly the bit about the early Dorchester Company)

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1996, Volume I, pages 6 – 12.

Essex Antiquarian, Volume II, pages 17 - 25 for the article "Descendants of William Allen of Salisbury" [note that descendant #107 Jeremiah Allen married Abigail Allen of Manchester, intermarriage between the two Cape Ann Allen families!]

Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, by David W. Hoyt, 1897, page 31

My Hubbard Surname Saturday post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-hubbard-of-salisbury.html   

My ALLEN genealogy:

Generation 1:   William Allen, born 1611 probably in England, died 18 June 1686 on Deer Island, Newbury, Massachusetts; married first to Ann Goodale, daughter of Richard Goodale and Dorothy Whiterent.  She was born about 1622 in England and died 31 May 1678 in Salisbury, Massachusetts (eleven children); married second to Alice Unknown, the widow of John Roper and John Dickinson.

Generation 2:  Martha Allen, born about 1646 in Salisbury, died 4 October 1718 in Salisbury, married about 1666 to Richard Hubbard, the son of Richard Hubbard and Hannah Parker.  He was born about 1645 in Salisbury, and died 26 June 1719 in Salisbury.  Ten children.

Generation 3: Comfort Hubbard m. Joshua Weeks

Generation 4: Mary Weeks m. Jonathan Chesley

Generation 5: Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 6:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Batchelder

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ ALLEN of Salisbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 22, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/surname-saturday-allen-of-salisbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ REDMAN of Hampton, New Hampshire

Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

REDMAN / REDMANN / REDMOND / READMAN / RODMAN

My 10^th great grandfather, John Redman (about 1620 – 1700), is of unknown origins and his birthdate is unknown, too.  He was a blacksmith who settled in Hampton, New Hampshire.  He first appeared in the records around 1642.  He also testified in the witchcraft trial of Eunice Cole on 4 September 1656, along with Abraham Perkins  (my 1^st cousin 12 generations removed). 

John married Margaret Knight as his first wife.  She was the daughter of Robert Knight and Margaret Grimsley early settlers at York, Maine.  She died in 1658 after giving him four children, and he remarried to Sabina Page, the widow of Captain William Marston.  I descend from their only daughter, Mary, who married immigrant Leonard Weeks, and had eight children.  They lived in Greenland, New Hampshire.

The REDMOND Family DNA project   https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/redmond/about  

My REDMAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Redman, born about 1620, died 16 February 1700 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married first about 1647 to Margaret Knight, daughter of Robert Knight and Margaret Grimsley.  She was born about 1622 and died 30 May 1658 in Dover, New Hampshire (four children); married second to Sabina Page, widow of William Marston.  She married Nathaniel Locke as her third husband. 

Generation 2: Mary Redman, born 15 December 1649 in Hampton, died about 1694, married Leonard Weeks about 1667 as his first wife.  Eight children.

Generation 3: Joshua Weeks m. Comfort Hubbard

Generation 4: Mary Weeks m. Jonathan Chesley

Generation 5: Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 6:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 7:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9:  George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ REDMAN of Hampton, New Hampshire”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 15, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/surname-saturday-redman-of-hampton-new.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ PICKWORTH of Plymouth and Manchester, Massachusetts

PICKWORTH / PECKWORTH / PIKWORTH / PICKWORD

My 10^th great grandfather, John Pickworth (about 1606 – 1663) arrived in New England about 1631, and lived briefly in Plymouth before settling in Salem, Massachusetts.  He eventually lived in that part of Salem known as “Jeffrie’s Creek” which is now the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.  On 6 February 1631/2 [Winthrop Papers, 1498 – 1654, Volume 3, page 65] the Governor of Plymouth, William Bradford, wrote to John Winthrop, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that  “John Pickworth, he came but as a sojourner to work for a few weeks, in which time he got a wife, and so is long since returned double, and hath no cause to complain, except he hath got a bad wife”.  There is no description of why the Governor thought Pickworth’s wife was “bad”.  She is known in records as Anne, but her maiden name is a mystery.

John Pickworth was a very active citizen of Manchester.  He was elected to several town positions, including selectman and constable.  He owned many parcels of land, and a share of the town sawmill.  He was also in court a few times, and the records show him being fined for drunkenness, and for fighting with John Norman (also my 9^th great grandfather from Manchester, Massachusetts).  He was a member of the church in Salem, and had eight of his nine children baptized there.

John Pickworth died in 1663, and he left a will which names his wife, sons, and daughters.  The inventory of his estate included his land, house, meadows, and his share of the sawmill.  His wife died in 1682, named as “the widow Ane Pickworth Of Manchester” who left items to her daughters and to granddaughters “Ane Pickworth” (daughter of son Joseph), “Ane Killem” (daughter of John Kilham), and “Ane Sibblie” (daughter of her daughter Rachel Sibley).  All three granddaughters who were listed in the will were all named Anne. 

I descend from John and Anne’s daughter, Ruth Pickworth (1633 – 1716) who married Nathaniel Masters about 1653 and had seven children.  Her husband was presented at court in Salem for “his wife being with child by him before they were married, the act having been committed in Pequott Harbor.”  The case was sent to Connecticut for trial (Pequot Harbor is the mouth of the Pequot River (now the Thames River and the city of Groton, Connecticut).  I have not seen a record of the trial in Connecticut.

Some PICKWORTH resources:

For this blog post I used the sketch about John Pickworth in The Great Migration Begins, Volume III, pages 1462 – 1464.  I also researched in the Essex Quarterly Court records, the Winthrop Papers (see above), the Salem Town Records, and the book History of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1645 – 1895 by Rev. Darius Francis Lamson, 1895.  See Alicia Crane Williams’ blog post “Human Nature Writ Large” at the Vita Brevis blog of NEHGS 2 January 2014 for another account of John Pickworth’s brawl with John Norman https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2014/01/human-nature-writ-large/   

My PICKWORTH genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Pickworth, born about 1606 probably in England, and died between 27 June 1663 and 25 August 1663 in Manchester, Massachusetts; married about 1631 to Anne Unknown.  Nine children.

Generation 2:  Ruth Pickworth, baptized in Salem, Massachusetts on 14 October 1638, died on 5 April 1716; married about 1653 to Nathaniel Masters, son of John Masters and Joan Unknown.  He was born about 1613 and died 1 July 1708 in Manchester.  Seven children.

Generation 3: Lydia Masters m. Josiah Littlefield

Generation 4: Anna Littlefield m. Jacob Perkins

Generation 5: Stephen Perkins m. Comfort Chesley

Generation 6: Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ PICKWORTH of Plymouth and Manchester, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 8, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-pickworth-of-plymouth.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HUBBARD of Salisbury, Massachusetts

HUBBARD / HOBART / HUBBURD

I have already blogged about another HUBBARD ancestral family – the descendants of Hugh Hubbard (about 1640 – 1685) of New London, Connecticut at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/surname-saturday-hubbard-of-new-london.html  

This second HUBBARD lineage descends from Richard Hubbard (1645 – 1719) of Salisbury, Massachusetts.  He doesn’t seem to be related to any of the Ipswich or Boston Hubbard families, even though James Savage (Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England) implies he might be the son of Richard Hubbard of Ipswich. 

Richard Hubbard, my 9^th great grandfather, was a blacksmith in Salisbury.  He was known as “Cornet Richard Hubbard”, which is an archaic term referring to the lowest ranked officer in a British troop, lower than captain or lieutenant (now equivalent to a second lieutenant).  In 1692 both Richard and his wife Martha (Allen) signed the Bradbury Petition.  On 22 July 1692 over 100 friends and neighbors of Mary (Perkins) Bradbury in Salisbury signed a petition protesting her innocence when she was arrested during the Salem witch trials.  She was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, but the ongoing petitions and protests caused her execution to be delayed until after the hysteria had passed. 

In 1700 Richard and Martha Hubbard also bought land in Boston on Fort Hill, in the district of Roxbury.  The deeds name him as Richard Hubbard the blacksmith.  He deeded this land and the dwelling to his son Joseph Hubbard, who was also a blacksmith, and to Abigail Wheeler, the widow of Henry Wheeler. Although he briefly owned this land in Boston, he stayed as a resident of Salisbury.

Richard’s epitaph at the Colonial Burying Ground in Salisbury reads “Cornet Richard Hubburd / Died June ye 16 1719 / aged 88 years / Faith and Love Are laid in ye dust / waiting for ye resorrection in ye just.”

Richard Hubbard and Martha Allen are the ancestors of Governor John Langdon of New Hampshire, signer of the U.S. Constitution.

Some HUBBARD resources:

Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, by David W. Hoyt, 1919 (See Volume 1, pages 31 and 210).

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Noyes, Libby, and Davis, 1928, page 354

The Suffolk County Deeds

My HUBBARD genealogy:

Generation 1:  Richard Hubbard, born about 1645, and died 26 June 1719 in Salisbury, Massachusetts; married about 1666 in Salisbury to Martha Allen, daughter of William Allen and Ann Goodale.  She was born about 1646 in Salisbury and died 4 October 1718 in Salisbury.  Ten children.

Generation 2:  Comfort Hubbard, born 17 January 1682 in Salisbury, and died 20 March 1756; married on 7 November 1699 in Boston to Joshua Weeks.  He was a son of Leonard Weeks and Mary Redman.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Mary Weeks m. Jonathan Chesley

Generation 4: Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 5:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 6:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 8:  George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 9:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~  HUBBARD of Salisbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 24, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-hubbard-of-salisbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WEEKS of Greenland, New Hampshire

The Weeks Brick House
built circa 1710 by Samuel Weeks, my 9th great uncle

WEEKS / WEEKES /  WICKES

Much of the information about my 9^th great grandfather, Leonard Weeks (1633 – 1707) is from an 1889 book.  Not many people realize that this information has been researched, updated, and published at the journal of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists.  See below for the information on this book and the journal article. There is also an active Weeks family association that maintains updates on the family genealogy (see below for links to the family association webpage.)

Leonard Weeks is of unknown origins, but he was born about 1633, probably in England, and first appears a Maine record as a witness in 1655.  By 29 June 1656 he received his first grant of land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  In 1660 he received more acreage, and by February 1660/61 he had settled in what is now the town of Greenland, on the Winnicut River

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My ancestor married three times.  First to a daughter of Deacon Samuel Haines, then to Mary Redman, the daughter of John Redman, and third to a woman known only as “Elizabeth”.  He had eight children with Mary Redman, my 9^th great grandmother. 

In 1655 the court found Leonard Weeks guilty of swearing and fined him 10 shillings plus court fees of 3 shillings.  However, he must have been respected in the community because the very next year he was elected selectman, and later as the constable and as the sheriff.  His seat in the church at Portsmouth was “No. 4 in front of the pulpit”. 

I descend from his son Joshua Weeks (1674 – 1758) who married Comfort Hubbard.  My 8^th great grandparents had nine children and lived in Greenland.  Comfort was the sister of Thomas Hubbard, a wealthy resident of Boston and treasurer of Harvard College.  They lived on the “Bay Side” of Greenland. Joshua was the colonel of the local militia, and was also a justice of the peace.  

In the next generation I descend from the eldest daughter, Mary Weeks (about 1700 – 1765) who married Jonathan Chesley, and they resided in nearby Durham, New Hampshire.

The Weeks Brick House was built by Samuel Weeks, son of Leonard Weeks and brother of Joshua, in 1710 in Greenland, New Hampshire is operated by the Weeks family association, as a organizational member of Historic New England.  This is one of the earliest brick homes build in New England.  It is open for tours by appointment 603-436-8147. See the website www.weeksbrickhouse.org    The family association has an annual family reunion every September.  The WEEKS DNA project is at this link:  https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/weeks-weekes-wicks/about  

Some WEEKS resources:

Leonard Weeks, of Greenland, N. H. & Descendants, 1639 – 1888, by Jacob Chapman, 1889 (available online at HathiTrust, Archive.org, and at Ancestry).

“New Thoughts on the Family of Leonard Weeks”, by Janet Ireland Delorey and Melinda Lutz Sanborn, New Hampshire Genealogical Record,  Vol. 19, Numbers 2 and 3, April and August 2002.

The Leonard Weeks and Descendants in America, a family association  www.weeksbrickhouse.org  and their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WeeksBrickHouse/  

My WEEKS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Leonard Weeks, born about 1633 in England; died about 1707 in Greenland, New Hampshire; married about 1667 to Mary Redman, his second wife, daughter of John Redman and Margaret Knight.  She was born 15 December 1649 and died about 1694.  Eight children. 

Generation 2: Joshua Weeks, born 30 June 1674 in Greenland, and died 13 June 1758 in Greenland; married on 7 November 1699 in Boston, Massachusetts to Comfort Hubbard, daughter of Richard Hubbard and Martha Allen.  She was born 17 January 1682 and died 20 March 1756.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Mary Weeks, born about 1700 in Greenland, died about July 1765; married on 17 November 1720 in Greenland to Jonathan Chesley, son of Phillip Chesley and Sarah Rollins.  Three children.

Generation 4:  Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 5:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 6:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 8:  George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 9:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WEEKS of Greenland, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 17, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-weeks-of-greenland-new.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ CHESLEY of Oyster River (Dover), New Hampshire

CHESLEY / CHESSLEY / CHESLIE

The first record I can find of my 9^th great grandfather, Phillip Chesley, is when he witnessed a deed from Rev. Thomas Larkahm to William Waldron on 13 September 1642.  There are some online sources that say he arrived at the Oyster River Plantation at age 15 in 1633, but I have not found any source for that.  There are also some who say he was from the Isle of Jersey, son of Thomas Chesley and Margaret Rogers, but I have not seen any proof of his origins.

Phillip Chesley’s first wife was Elizabeth Leighton, with whom he had two sons.  Elizabeth and Phillip signed a deed for a house lot on Dover Neck.  Some time after this he remarried to a woman named Joan or Joanna.  On 12 August 1663 he and Joan deed his land and house to his sons, keeping only one room in the house for himself.  He had three daughters with his second wife.

Life was difficult on the New Hampshire seacoast. It was on the border of the frontier with French Canada.  Most of the settlers were involved with logging and lumber which was dangerous work.  In 1657 he was on the jury that investigated a drowning of a logger.   In 1660 he was the local constable when Thomas Canyda was killed by a falling tree.   He was present at the coroner’s inquest of an Alexander McDaniel who drowned in the Piscataqua River in 1663.  Chelsley was chosen to lay out the road from Oyster River to Cochecho with Patrick Jamison in 1664.

My ancestor appears to have been a drunk and a belligerent neighbor.  He was also the Oyster River constable for a time, which seems incongruous. Because of his behavior, the court records are full of mentions of Phillip Chesley.  Otherwise, I wouldn’t know much about his life in early New Hampshire. He appeared in court with Stephen Jones in 1668 “upon suspicion of having a hand in ye untimely death of Edmond Green blacksmith” [NH Provincial Deeds, 2: 150b, 151a].  In April 1661 there was a bond issued to Phillip Chesley to keep the peace, especially towards his wife, and to appear in court in Dover to answer the complaint of his wife, Joan. 

In June of the same year two witnesses claimed Chesley called Edward Colcord “Rogue & Rascall, & that he deserved to be sold to the Berbadoes or Virginia, & he would doe it if he Could.”   In another slander case Mr. Samuel Hall claimed that Chelsey was “Cozening and cheating saying yt he was a Knave & yt he had Cozened & cheated him the sd Chesley of 10 pounds or more wch was a Just debt whereby the sd Hall is damnified in his Credit 500 pounds.”  The jury found him guilty but only chared him 50 shillings in damages and 21 shillings court costs.  [New Hampshire Court Records 1640 – 1692, Court Papers 1652 – 1668, in the New Hampshire State Papers Series, 40 (State of New Hampshire, 1943), 172, 474 – 7, and Court Papers, 1: 69, 89, 93, 95, 115 – 123.]  This case is explained in great detail in Diane Rapapport’s 2007 book The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England, on pages 83 – 88 in a sketch she calls “Chesley and the Cheating Knave”. 

In the second generation I descend from his son, Phillip Chesley, Jr.  His older brother, Thomas Chesley, was killed in an Indian massacre near Johnson’s Creek on 15 November 1697, leaving seven children and a widow.  Phillip, Jr. married Sarah Rollins and had six children.

In the third generation I descend from Philip’s youngest son, Jonathan.  He lived in Greenland, and was a representative to the General Court in 1745.  He married Mary Weeks and had three children.  I descend from their daughter Comfort Chesley, my 7^th great grandfather, who married Stephen Perkins of Wells, Maine, and they had twelve children born in Wells and in the part of Canterbury, New Hampshire that became the town of Loudon.  

Some other Chesley resources:

History of Durham, New Hampshire, Volume 1, by Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, 1913.

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Charles Thornton Libby, Walter Goodwin Davis and Sybil Noyes, 1928.

Batchelder Genealogy, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1898

My CHESLEY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Phillip Chesley, born about 1606 and died after 30 April 1685 at Oyster River, New Hampshire; married first to Elizabeth Leighton, daughter of Thomas Leighton and Joanna Sisbee.  She was born about 1625 in Dover, New Hampshire; married second to Joan Unknown.  Two sons with the first wife, three daughters with the second wife.

Generation 2:  Phillip Chesley, born about 1646 in Oyster River, and died 18 December 1695 at Oyster River; married about 1675 to Sarah Rollins, daughter of James Rollins and Hannah Fry.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Jonathan Chesley, died about 1785; married on 17 November 1720 in Greenland to Mary Weeks, daughter of Joshua Weeks and Comfort Hubbard.  She was born about 1700 in Greenland and died about 1755. Three children.

Generation 4:  Comfort Chesley, born about 1735 and died 12 February 1818; married to Stephen Perkins, son of Jacob Perkins and Anna Littlefield.  He was born about 1736 in Wells, Maine and died 13 May 1818 in Loudon, New Hampshire.  Twelve children.

Generation 5:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 6:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “CHESLEY of Oyster River (Dover), New Hampshire”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 10, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-chesley-of-oyster.html: accessed [access date]).