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Ancestors of Margaret May Harvey

578. Thomas* Gilbert III, born 16 Feb 1610/11 in Berry, Pomeroy, Devonshire, England; died 05 Jun 1662 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA ⁷⁹. He was the son of 1156. Thomas* Gilbert II and 1157. Lydia*~. He married 579. Catherine* Chapin 17 Sep 1639 in All Saints, W. Bromich, Staffordshire, England.

579. Catherine* Chapin, born Abt. 1626 in Berry, Pomeroy, Devonshire, England ⁸⁰; died 04 Feb 1711/12 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA. She was the daughter of 1158. Deacon Samuel* Chapin and 1159. Cecily* Penney.

Notes for Thomas* Gilbert III:
GILBERT, Jonathan (1618-82), from Eng. with
his brothers, Thomas, Obadiah and Josiah, to
Boston, 1635; was at Hartford, Conn., 1640 later
at New Haven; innkeeper; was marshal Gen.
Assembly; collector of customs; dep. Gen. Ct.;
commr. United Colonies; m 1646, Mary. dau. of
Elder John White (or Whight); m 2d, 1650, Mary,
sister of Thomas Welles. of Hadley.

---Virkus

More About Thomas* Gilbert III:
Burial: Jun 1662
Immigrant Ancestor: Bet. 1639 - 1655, England, Devonshire, to MA
Migration 1: Bet. 1639 - 1655, England to Windsor, CT?
Migration 2: Abt. 1655, Windsor, CT, to Springfield, MA ⁸¹

Notes for Catherine* Chapin:

(*)Hon. Oliver B. Morris, Ex. Judge of Probate, is one of Catharine’s descendants.

Catherine is a direct ancestor of President William Howard Taft.

More About Catherine* Chapin:
Burial: Feb 1711/12
Immigrant Ancestor: Bet. 1639 - 1655, England, Devonshire, to MA
Title or Name: Widow Bliss ⁸²

More About Thomas* Gilbert and Catherine* Chapin:
Marriage 1: 17 Sep 1639, All Saints, W. Bromich, Staffordshire, England
Marriage 2: 30 Jun 1655, ? Wethersfield, Windsor County, CT ^83,⁸⁴

Children of Thomas* Gilbert and Catherine* Chapin are:

289	i.	Sarah Gilbert, born 19 Dec 1655 in Springfield, MA; died 04 Feb 1711/12 in Boston, Suffolk County, MA; married (1) Sgt. Samuel Field, Sr 09 Aug 1676 in Springfield, MA; married (2) Ebenezer Chapin 17 Oct 1702.
	ii.	John Gilbert, born 18 Oct 1657 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA; died Aug 1709 in Stratford, CT.
	iii.	Thomas Gilbert IV, born 15 Mar 1658/59 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA; died 14 May 1698 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA; married (1) Abilene Marshfield 04 Aug 1680; died 26 Nov 1689; married (2) Anna Bancroft 09 Apr 1690; died Unknown.

More About Thomas Gilbert and Abilene Marshfield:
Marriage: 04 Aug 1680

iv.

Henry Gilbert, born 01 Mar 1660/61 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA; died 17 Aug 1740 in Brookfield, Worcester County, MA; married (1) Elizabeth Unknown Abt. 1683; died Unknown; married (2) Mary Wheat 24 Dec 1735; died Unknown.

More About Henry Gilbert and Elizabeth Unknown:
Marriage: Abt. 1683

      580. Hubertus~* Mattoon, born Abt. 1629 in possibly Holland ⁸⁵; died Abt. 1712 in Plymouth, NH. He married 581. Margaret~ Washington.

      581. Margaret~ Washington, born Abt. 1629; died Bef. Jun 1673.

Notes for Hubertus~* Mattoon:
FROM SAVAGE, VOL 3

MATTOON, HUBERTUS, or HERBERT, Kittery 1652, when he submit. to jurisdict. of Mass. prob. rem. to Saco bef. 1683. Folsom, 174. [[178]]

PHILIP, a soldier from the E. part of the Col. in the spring of 1676, was in Turners comp. and took part in the Falls fight, then sett. at Springfield, m. Sarah, d. of John Hawkes of Hadley, had Margaret, b. 1678; Philip, 1680; John, 1682; Isaac, 1684; Sarah, 1687; rem. to Deerfield, there had Eleazer, 1689; Gershom, 1690; Nathaniel, 1693; Ebenezer, 1695; and Mary, posthum. 1697. He d. 30 Dec. 1696, and his wid. m. Daniel Belden, as third w. and d. 17 Dec. 17O1, in 95th yr. Of his s. Philip, with w. Rebecca, d. of Godfrey Nims, and only ch. were k. at the sec. destruct. of D. by the Ind. and Fr. 29 Feb. 1704; John sett. at Wallingford; Isaac and Nathaniel at Northfield; Eleazer at Amherst, but was first at N.; and Gershom at Lebanon; Ebenezer d. at 21 yrs. The late Hon. Ebenezer, Dart. Coll. 1776, was gr.s. of Eleazer.

RICHARD, or ROBERT, Exeter, prob. s. of Hubertus, sw. fidel. 14 July 1657, m. Jane, d. of Edward Hilton junr. was k. by the Ind. 23 July 1706, with his s. Hubertus. Belkn. I. 172.

Possibly a Huguenot.
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The Huguenot Emigration to America
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NOTES FROM THE WALLOON RECORDS OF LEYDEN.

MATON. Philippe Maton, a native of Fourcoin, was married to Philippotte Caron, January 10, 1599.
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NEHGS
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850

Year---Family Name---Record---Orig.---Rec.---Record Type---Town

1705---ALLICKSANDER Margreet Matun, May 28, 1705.* Marriage Deerfield
MATTOON (see Matun), Sam[ue]ll, Dr., of Northfield, and Marriage Deerfield

1702---MATUN Philip and Rebekah Nimes, Jan. 15, 1702-3.* Marriage Deerfield

1705---MATUN (see Mattoon), Margreet & Joseph Allicksander, May 28, 1705.* Marriage Deerfield

1702---NIMES Rebekah and Philip Matun, Jan, 15, 1702-3.* Marriage Deerfield

Mass. soldiers
Maton, John Deerfield Co. 2/28/04 2
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VARIOUS EXCERPTS FROM 'BREWSTER'S RAMBLES'

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Brewster's Rambles about Portsmouth #4
By Charles W. Brewster [Editors Note: C.W. Brewster was a Portsmouth columnist in the mid-1800's. This article includes his opinions and may not reflect current research or current values.]

Dividing up the Town (1660)

Fines for cutting Timber--the Distribution of Town Lands--Names of Inhabitants in 1657--Portion assigned to each.

ALTHOUGH in 1631 eighty emigrants came into the colony, yet twenty-six years after, the citizens of Portsmouth over twenty-one years of age, and females unmarried over eighteen, numbered scarcely a hundred.

At a town meeting held by the Selectmen January 13, 1660, a penalty of five shillings for every tree was imposed upon any inhabitant, for cutting timber or any other wood from off the town common, except for their own building, fencing or firewood.

Robert Elliot, John Lewis, Mr. Fryer and Goodman Mussell were fined L10 each for building on or appropriating portions of the town commons to their own use, without orders, license, or town grant, in general, or Selectmen in particular. Subsequently the fine of Goodman Mussell was remitted, and the lands illegally taken conveyed to him by the Selectmen.

"At a general town meeting, held February 3, 1660, those gentlemen the town had chosen to consider of the plans and proportions unto whom land ought to be given, presenting the town with what they had done therein, the which when the town had considered and debated, there were some of the old planters made a motion to have 600 acres of land distributed among them, and others of a shorter standing to have a lesser proportion of land added over and above to them, gave occasion to the following votes:

Voted, That the old planters should have six hundred acres of land distributed among them, three hundred acres whereof is rendered up by Capt. Pendleton, Mr. John and Richard Cutt, out of their proportion of three hundred acres, to make the sum aforesaid to be out of the town's land. And furthermore it was voted that the above six hundred acres should be to relieve those that stand in need, together with the old planters.

Voted, That they are to distribute the six hundred acres mentioned in the former vote, shall not exceed above fifty acres to any man. William Seavey and John Pickering were added to the committee to distribute the land among the inhabitants."

The Selectmen were prohibited from granting any more of the town's lands, until the lands are distributed and a vote of the town again renews their power of making grants, and it was voted that all owners of lands be at equal charge for defending the same, according to their proportions.

The following is the report of the committee appointed to proportion the land among the inhabitants.

"Whereas, at a general towne meeting held by the inhabitants of Portsmouth the 22d of January, 1660, it was agreed upon for the distribution of their lands undisposed and not yet granted, that there should be a distribution thereof, be made up to such of the inhabitants as hitherto have had little or none given them in some proportion to those that have already lands granted to them. And for an equal proceeding therein did then and there choose us whose names are underwritten, for to consider the persons and proportions unto whom the said lands should be divided and distributed, which said persons then chosen have considered accordingly with reference unto both, and for a more just and equal way of proceeding, according to the premises, have drawn up and concluded upon these propositions following:

1st. That all such as were reputed inhabitants and free comyuers unto the year 1657, (when at a town meeting held the 24th of February, the town looked at and respected after-comers under another consideration,) are the persons unto whom right of land belongs in this distribution.

2d. That all sons as are of the age of 21 years and upwards have right to land in this distribution, and further that all sons that are married, although under the age of 21 years, as like right as those aforesaid.

3d. That all daughters of those mentioned in the first proposition, whether married or unmarried at the age of 18 years and upwards, are capable of and ought to have a proportion in this distribution.

THE PERSONS TO HAVE LAND AND PROPORTIONS

Thomas Ornyon 20
Agnus Turpin 13
William Earle 37
Robert Puddington 19 6
Antho. Brackett, jr. 13
Wm. Ham 35 35
JNO. JACKSON 86<<<<<<<<<<
Ellinor Brackett 13
RICH. JACKSON 50<<<<<<<<<<
Jno. Lock 16
JNO. BERRY 13<<<<<<<<<<
Rich. Seaward, sr.13
Jno. Jones 19 31
JOS. BERRY 13<<<<<<<<<<
Rich. Seaward jr. 13
James Cate 13
JNO. FOSS 19<<<<<<<<<<
Rich. Martin 62
Rich. Comings 91
Fran. Rann 50 30
ROBT. MATTOONE 15 10<<<<<<<<<<
Walter Abbott 100
Antho. Brackett, sr.100
Math. Ham 25
Jno. Webster 26 14
Edward Clark 25
John Pickering 101 50
Jno. Hunkins 56
Jno. Partridge 13
Tho. Walford 68 42
Wm. Cotten 38 35
Jos. Atkeson 13
Jno. Sherburne 101
Geo. Walton 120
Rich. Sloper 78
Tho. Peverly 40 35
Robert Mussell 15 10
Christ'r Jose 13
Tho. Hincson 28
Alex. Jones 19
Elias Stileman 31
Jos. Walker 18
Capt. Pendleton 350
Hen. Sherburne 151
John Moses 42 43
James Pendleton 31
THO. JACKSON 37<<<<<<<<<<
Hen. Beck 17 43
Caleb Pendleton 19
Ortho Tuckerman 13
Jno. Heart 13
Wm. Lux 13
James Drew 13
Anthony Ellens 50
Robt. Taprill 13
Sarah Fernald 13
Wm. Brookin 33 7
James Leach 25 10
Sam'l Haines 101
Hen. Seavey 28
William Seavey 161
Walter Neale 39 31
Robert Davis 13
Tobey Langdon 38
Leon Weeks 34 10
Tho. Furzin 13 12
Tho. Seavey 38
Charles Allen 25 10
Roger Knight 13 37
James Johnson & Tho. Avery 13 10
Martha Walton 13
Mr. Wallis 112
Phil. Lewis 105
George Row 13
John Odiborne 43
John Cutt 350
John Pottle 13
Mr. Mason 35
Rich. Cutt 410
Caleb Becke 13
Nath. Drake 50 20
Mr. Moody 100
Mary Pickering 13
Tho. Fernald 13
Wid. Mary Walford 13
John Jackson, jr.13
Peter Abbut 13
MARGARET WASHINGTON 13<<<<<<<<<<
Edw. Melcher 13
Francis Drake 37 13
Fran. Jones 13

The proportions abovesaid are made to every inhabitant as if noe land had been given them at all, and all such as have received above the proportions aforesaid by former town grant, such are to possess the same still, and must not expect further enlargement, as none is to be taken from them, and all those that have not yet had the abovesaid proportions such are to have the proportions aforesaid.

The 2d column contains the addition of acres given to every one against whose names they be sett, according to the discretion of those appointed for the distribution of the 600 acres of land as per the town's order.

Capt. Pendleton, Mr. John Cutt and Mr. Richard Cutt's full proportions are entered above as they were before they rendered back 100 acres apiece to be distributed, which are to be taken when the land is laid out to them."

Signed by Brian Pendleton, Richard Cutt, Nath'l Drake, Philip Lewis, Elias Stillman, Wm. Seavey, John Pickering.

The above distribution covers not quite five thousand acres. The land was in the limits of what now makes up Portsmouth, Great Island, Rye, Newington and Greenland.
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[HUBERTUS MATTOON is mentioned in the will of Richard Cutting.]

The Cutt Family

AMONG the settlers in this vicinity previous to 1646, were three brothers from Wales, John, Robert and Richard Cutt. (Their descendants bear the name of Cutts.) John settled at the Bank, and acquired much wealth from mercantile pursuits. Richard at first carried on the fisheries at the Shoals, and then removed to this place. Robert, after a short residence at Barbadoes, located on Great Island. He afterwards went to Kittery, where he carried on ship building.

In 1679, when New-Hampshire was separated from Massachusetts, the king appointed John Cutt as President. The royal charter then given was the only one ever granted to New-Hampshire. The first general assembly held in the State was convened by President Cutt in Portsmouth, on the 16th of March the next year. Portsmouth, Dover and Hampton sent each three representatives, and Exeter two. These were all the towns in the State. The whole number of voters in the four towns was 209.

On Green street, a few rods south of the railroad track, is an enclosure of fifty feet square, walled with brick, where repose the remains of John Cutt, the first President of New Hampshire, and his family. It will be seen by the last ramble that he and his brother Richard were the largest landholders in Portsmouth in 1660. They owned the principal portion of what is now the compact part of Portsmouth. At that time, the inhabitants principally resided in the vicinity of the "Great House," on Water street. In all other parts between the ponds were only about a dozen dwellings, and as many warehouses, half of which belonged to these two brothers. Richard Cutt's residence was at the "Great House." President John Cutt's mansion was situated on the spot near the C. & P. Railroad wharf, now occupied by the stone store of Joshua Brooks & Co. That of Capt. Samuel Cutts (whose son Edward had his mansion in the large house on Christian Shore, now James W. Emery's) was next south of the family seat of the late Alexander Ladd, on Market street. A well discovered beneath the street in that vicinity in 1858, probably belonged to his house before the street was made public.

The following last Will of Richard Cutt, made 1675, the year before his death, and the accompanying Will of President John Cutt, made in 1680, exhibit the way in which a large portion of the compact part of Portsmouth was parcelled out a century before the Revolution:

Will of Richard Cutt: "I, Richard Cutt, of Portsmouth, in Piscataqua, being in perfect memory and good health, yet considering that man's life is short and his end oftentimes sudden, and not knowing how the Lord may deal with me, I thought meet, as becomes a Christian man, to set my house in order before my death, and do therefore make and appoint this my last will and testament, thereby revoking all wills by [me] formally made.

Imp.--I commit my soul into the hands of God that gave it through Christ Jesus, who I hope hath redeemed it, and believe that he is able to keep what I have committed to him untill that day. I allso committ my body to a decent buriall in the earth, in hope of a joyful resurrection. My worldly estate I dispose of as followeth:

First.--I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Elenor Cutt, my now dwelling house, with the bake house, brew house, barn, and all houseing thereunto belonging; with the log ware house and wharfing, my stone ware house only excepted; together with my garden, orchard, and all the land in fence in the home field, adjoining to my house; as allso my corn mill, with my house and barn up at the creek, with all the upland and meadow thereunto belonging, so far as home, unto the land which I bought of

HUGHBERTUS MATTONE,

excepting the tanyard and building thereunto belonging and the land on that side of the floom. All which premises before mentioned, except what is excepted, I will shall be in the hands and to the use and behoof of my dearly beloved wife, aforesaid, during her natural life. And, after her death, I give and bequeath my whole estate, aforesaid, unto my grandson, Cutt Vaughan, with all the privileges and appurtanances thereunto belonging, to be to him and his heirs forever; and it shall come into his hands att the age of twenty-one years. But if he die before that age, then I give it to the next heir, male; and if there be no heirs, male, then to the next heir that shall survive. Furthermore, I give unto my said wife, all my plate, brass, pewter, iron, beding utensils belonging to the house, together with all my stock of cattle, to be absolutely at her disposal, when and to whome and where she pleases--and the five Negro servants.

2d. I give to my daughter Margaret Vaughan, my stone ware house, and that part of the woodfield joining unto that which was John Pickrins, and reaching home to Wm. Hart's on the west, with my brother, Jno. Cutt, on the west, the way that goes to the Creek on the north, and Christopher Jose on the east, together with the tanyard, houseing and the stock therein, and the little field on the south of the floom; always excepting and reserving the highway as it is now to the farm and to the other mill, which is to be kept free for the use of the mill and the house by it. All which I give to my daughter Margaret and her children. If they fail, then to my daughter Bridget and heirs after the decease of my said daughter Margaret.

3d. Unto my beloved daughter Bridget and her heirs for ever, I give the remainder of the field commonly called the grate field, to say all besides what is already given to her and her husband, and already sould to several persons, to be to her and her heirs for ever, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging. I give allso unto my daughter Bridget, that part of the wood field on the south of the highway up to the Creek, as it is now fenced. The other part, between the highway and the Creek, her mother shall have the liberty to use during her natural life, and that part allso shall be Bridget's after her mother's decease. Likewise I give Bridget, my land in the long reach, next to that which was Capt. Pendleton's, being thirty-three pole broad front on the river, and so back the whole depth; which land afore said shall be Bridget's and her heirs for ever. If she die without heirs, then it shall fall to the heirs of her sister Margaret, after the decease of my said daughter Bridget.

4th. I give my son, William Vaughan, my land on the Grate Island, bought of Mr. Mason, and that acre given me by the town, which was laid out with an acre of Mr. Fryers. I allso give him two hundred pounds out of my estate, and all my houseing at the Isle of Shoals, on Star Island; together with that estate both in stock and debts that is in partnership with him there, provided he rest satisfied therewith upon the account of partnership in trading, betwixt us there. If he be not satisfied so, then, that the Island to be sould and the estate there valued and the balance to be given him out of my other estate, when our accounts are made up. And I do by these presents oblige my son, William Vaughan, not to expect any more out of my estate, for salary or anything done for me, at home or abroad, besides what he hath already received and is above expressed.

5th. I give my well beloved son, Thomas Daniel, two hundred pounds out of my estate.

6th. Furthermore, I give to my grandson Cutt Vaughan one hundred pound.

7th. I give to my grandchild, Elenor Vaughan, that house and land I bought of

MR. MATTOON,

with that part of my land that comes from the Pulpit, the whole breadth of

MATTOON'S

land, till it comes to my brother, John Cutt's land on the north, together with two hundred pounds, the legacies to be paid in money or equivalent.

8th. I give to my grandchild, Mary Vaughan, two hundred pounds in money, and the hundred and fifty acres of land and the meadow belonging to it, as I bought of Edward Hilton, as appears by bill of sale of Jno. Wegewood.

9th. Further, I will that what remains of my twenty pounds per annum subscribed to the college for myself and sons, be carefully discharged by my executors.

10th. I give to my brother Jno. Cutt ten pound to bie him mourning and ten pound to his wife and five pound to each of his children.

11th. I give to my sister Ann Shipway ten pound to bie mourning and five pound to my brother Shipway and five pound to his son Jno. Shipway.

12th. I give to my brother Robert Cutt's wid'r five pounds, and to each of his children five pound, as allso do I forgive the debt due on the book.

13th. I give Mr. Joshua Moody thirty pound and to his five children to say forty shillings to each of them.

14th. I give to my coz, Jno. Hale and his wife, five pound each of them.

15th. I give to the church of Portsmouth ten pound, to bie a piece of plate for the use of the church.

16th. I make my wife Elenor and my two daughters Margaret and Bridget my executors to whom I give the rest of my estate as well shipping or what else due to me in any part of the world, my debts and legacies paid and what remains to be divided in equal thirds between my wife and daughters. I make my brother Jno. Cutt, Mr. Joshua Moody, my son William Vaughan, and my son Thomas Daniel, my overseers, to see this my will performed. To the truth or this I have hereunto set my hand seal this tenth of May, 1675, Portsmo' in Piscataqua.

Per mee, RICH'D CUTT.[L.S.]

We whose names are under written do attest that Richard Cutt did own this to be his volentary act and deed. JNO. WINCALL, JNO. FLETCHER."

Richard Cutt died in 1676, within one year after making his will. President John Cutt died in 1681. The place in his orchard where he was buried is the spot above referred to on Green street. This family burying ground is substantially enclosed by a wall of masonry, as directed.
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Old Pannaway: First New Hampshire Settlement

Odiorne's Point should be respected as our Plymouth Rock. Here, in 1623, the little band landed, who were commissioned by the Laconia company in England to found a plantation. In a ramble to the Point a week or two since, we found enough of tradition in the occupant, and visible remains left, to locate the spot where the first house, called Mason's Hall or the Manor House, was erected, - to designate also the locality of the first smith's shop. The well of the Manor House is yet to be seen in the field - and the cool, fresh water running from beneath the ledge on the shore, scarcely above the tide water, flows as freely now as when Tomson, the Hiltons and their companions quenched their thirst at it two hundred and forty-six years ago. Perhaps this inviting spring decided to them the site of their habitation.
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First Houses in Rye and Portsmouth

Odiorne's point was the spot selected by the Laconia Company for the site of the first building erected on the grant. The first settlers were sent from England by the company in 1623, "to found a plantation on Piscataqua river, to cultivate the vine, discover mines, carry on the fisheries, and trade with the natives." The month in which they arrived is supposed to be May, and under the direction of David Thompson, the Manor house, or Mason's Hall as afterwards called, was erected for the Company. There is no record of the vessel by which they came, or any sketch left to give us an idea of what sort of house was built. As the materials of many of the early houses were brought from England, it is probable that in the liberal provision made for the plantation, those of this house were also. The Manor house was a little north of the hillock, which was between it and the ocean, - and on that elevation there was a small fort built, to protect it from savage incursions. Fishing being one of the objects of the settlement, salt works were early erected in connection with the establishment...

The most interested and active men of the Laconia Company were Fernando Gorges and John Mason. In 1634, these gentlemen became owners of the grant, and Gorges disposed of his right in New Hampshire to Mason, also his right to the saw-mills at Newichewannock (the Berwick lower falls). Gorges held his possession in Maine, and founded there the first city in New England, called Gorgiana. The city form of government was observed for only two years, when the Mayor, Thomas Gorges, returned to England. A laxity of morals being manifest, and the citizens being few, there being no clergymen nor schools, the city form of government was abandoned, and its place the quiet town of York has ever since supplied.

Although Mason never visited his possessions, he took a deep interest in his Manor, and in 1631 sent about eighty emigrants to locate here and act as stewards, agents, workmen and servants. Among the men were many whose surnames are yet familiar with us. Neal, Gibbons, Camocks, Raymond, Williams, Vaughan, Warnerton, Jocelyn, Norton and Lane were his stewards; Renald Fernald was the surgeon; there were forty-eight others of various occupations, and twenty-two women. Among the forty-eight men were the following names; Goe, Cooper, Chadborn, Matthews, Rand, Johnson, Ellins, Baldwin, Spencer, Furrel, Herd, Chatherton, Crowther, Williams, Knight, Sherborn, Goddard, Withers, Canney, Symonds, Peverly, Seavey, Langstaff, Berry, Wall, Walford, Brakin, Moore, Beal, James, Jones, Ault, Newt, and Bracket.

Site Of Modern Strawbery Banke

In 1631, the "Great House" was built by Humphrey Chadborn, about three miles up the Piscataqua from Mason's Hall. Its location was on our present Water street, on the south-east corner of Court street. It was from this point, over Church hill and further north, that there was a large growth of strawberries near the bank of the river, which circumstance, for thirty years from the first settlement up to 1658, gave what is now the compact part of Portsmouth, the name of Strawberry Bank.

The Great House, which was also a part of Mason's property, was the second house reported to have been built here, although the circumstance that a fort was early erected on the eastern part of Great Island goes to show that probably there were some fishermen's cots on that island at the time.

To the Great House there were attached about a thousand acres of land, consisting of marsh, meadow, planting and pasture grounds, and much of it under improvement. The bounds of this farm cannot now be accurately defined; it probably extended over a large portion of the present compact part of the city, taking in the whole peninsula between the ponds, and extending west and north of them. An old document shows that Strawberry Bank was the planting ground and pasture of the Great House.

In 1632, Mason imported a large breed of yellow cattle from Denmark. We find that in 1635, there were twenty-four cows and thirty-four other meat cattle, ninety-two sheep, twenty-seven goats, sixty-four hogs, and twenty-one horses and colts on the plantation. The imported cattle increased so well that, thirteen years after, one of Mason's unfaithful stewards drove a hundred of them to Boston and the vicinity, where he sold them on his own account for about twenty pounds a head. Some of this stock is yet to be found in this vicinity.

The Great House was occupied up to 1644 by Thomas Warnerton, who was an assistant to Gov. Williams, (officers appointed by Mason.) In 1644, Warnerton seized upon some of the arms and ammunition of which we have just given an account, as well as on some other goods belonging to the estate of Mason, shipped them to Port Royal and accompanied them. Soon after he had disposed of his cargo, he fell in a rencontre with some of the inhabitants. Sampson Lane then became the occupant of the Great House, and continued there until 1646, when it passed into the possession and occupancy of Richard Cutt, who occupied it till his death, in 1676. The Great House then went into the possession of his brother President John Cutt, (if not before owned by him,) for we find in 1680 the President, by his will, gives the house to his son Samuel. The house was then probably in a dilapidated condition, for in 1685 it is recorded that the house had fallen down, and the ruins were then visible.

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>>>>>CONTINUED AT MARRIAGE NOTES FOR HUBERTUS MATTOON & MARGARET WASHINGTON>>>>>

More About Hubertus~* Mattoon:
AKA (Facts Pg): possibly Hubrecht Mattoon
Ethnicity: Walloon? Dutch?
Freeman: 16 Nov 1652, Kittery, ME
Immigrant Ancestor: Bef. 1652, Holland to ME
Migration: Bef. 1683, Kittery, ME, to Saco, ME
Occupation: Tailor
Property: Sold land to Richard Cutt of Portsmouth, NH.
Record: 10 May 1675, mentioned in the will of Richard Cutt of Portsmouth, NH, as having sold land to Cutt.
Religion: possibly a Heugenot
Residence: 1652, Kittery, ME ⁸⁶

Marriage Notes for Hubertus~* Mattoon and Margaret~ Washington:
>>>>>CONTINUED FROM NOTES OF HUBERTUS MATTOON>>>>>

ISLES OF SHOALS, MAINE

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Six miles off the coast and straddling the border of Maine and New Hampshire, the nine small islands known as the Isles of Shoals comprise one of New England's most remarkable maritime treasures.

APPLEDORE (ME)

Originally Hog Island, the largest of the Isles. This was the most populated European settlement in the 1600s due to a freshwater spring. Appledore became a township in 1661 and named for a town in Devonshire. When Maine taxes were assessed, the population of 40 families dismantled their homes and moved to Star Island in the province of New Hampshire. The township was dissolved in 1682 and the island uninhabited until the mid 1800s when the Laightons established their tourist hotel. That hotel is gone and tourists currently stay on Star, also owned by the Star Island Corporation. Appledore is the site of poet Celia Thaxter's cottage, her garden (still maintained, and the cemetery of her family. It is currently the operating station of the Marine Shoals Laboratory of Cornell University in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire. Thanks to the writings of Celia, there are dozens of points of interest, also the site of 17th century boys academy and the first new world home of Sir William Pepperrell. Half a mile long by a half mile wide.

The Isles may not be named, as many assume, for shallow water shoals. In fact, the little islands are the result of a great glacier that scraped out an especially deep pocket of water. The alternate dictionary meaning, shoals or "schools" of fish may apply instead. The first European owners of the region were very aware of both fish schools and the nearby fishing shoals. Historians still disagree on the derivation.

Rich land speculators Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason were granted royal title to all the key colonies from Virginia to Maine. When the Piscataqua area failed to yield gold, copper, or precious spices, they had to settle for fish -- lots of fish. In fact, the potential profits were so great that the investors surgically divided their property down the center. Half the Isles of Shoals ended up in the royal province of New Hampshire, the other half in Maine.

The hardy new breed of "Shoalers" quickly grew in number and independence. Trees imported from the mainland became homes to as many as 600 residents by 1645, most living on Hog (now Appledore) and Smuttynose Islands in Maine. Some suggest the population may have risen to 1,000 residents. When Massachusetts annexed Maine and presumed to tax the Shoalers, most of the population emigrated to nearby Star Island in New Hampshire -- early evidence of the Granite State"s quirky "live free or die" attitude. There, after much petitioning, they formed the town of Gosport which remained largely ungoverned.

When Harvard educated Rev. John Tucke of Hampton arrived on the Isles in 1732, he found a hard drinking, hard working population isolated from mainland laws, manners, mores and religion. His missionary efforts to "civilize" the islanders continued until his death in 1773, just before the American Revolution. Unable to protect the Isles from British naval forces, the province of NH ordered the Shoalers to the mainland. Many came, dismantling and floating their homes to shore. Many of these homes reportedly still exist, scattered from York. Maine to Ipswich, Massachusetts.

The great fishing industry at the Shoals never recovered its pre-Revolutionary status. Those who remained, legend has it, became so isolated that by the turn of the century, even their language was unintelligible on the mainland. Photographs of the Shoalers on Star around the time of the Civil War show the last images of a fading culture. Unlike most American towns, Gosport has steadily declined from its colonial boom, heading quietly and peacefully toward the 21st century.
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Children of Hubertus~* Mattoon and Margaret~ Washington are:

290	i.	Philip Mattoon, Sr, born 1652 in Springfield, Hampton County, MA; died 30 Dec 1696 in Deerfield, Franklin County, MA; married Sarah H. Hawkes 10 Sep 1677 in Deerfield, MA, or Springfield, MA.
	ii.	John Mattoon, born Bef. 1655; died Unknown.
	iii.	Eleanor Mattoon, born Abt. 1657; died Unknown.
	iv.	Richard Mattoon, born Abt. 1659; died 23 Jul 1706; married Jane Hilton; born Bet. 1662 - 1665; died Abt. 1737.
	v.	Grace Mattoon, born Aft. 1670; died Unknown.

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