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View Tree for Edward ColcordEdward Colcord (b. Abt. 1617, d. 10 Feb 1681/82)

Edward Colcord was born Abt. 1617 in England, and died 10 Feb 1681/82 in Hampton, NH.

 Includes NotesNotes for Edward Colcord:
Edward Colcord was born in 1616 or 1617 and came to this country in 1631. For the next seven years he probably lived somewhere on the Pascataqua, and being an active man and acquainted with the Indians he rendered assistance to Wheelwright in obtaining his land grants from the sagamores, and was a party to one of the deeds.
A religious colony could not have been greatly to his taste, and in 1640 he had removed to Dover, where he was a magistrate to end small causes. But In 1645 he was a resident of Hampton, and the following year saw him back again at Exeter, where he obtained a grant of lands from the town, and the right of an inhabitant, It is doubtful if he availed himself of this, for in 1652 the town again voted to receive him, together with two others, as inhabitants, and invited them to take up their residence in Exeter. Colcord received more than one grant from the town, and was appointed to some minor offices. But he was Incorrigibly litigious and something of a rolling stone, and after a brief sojourn in the town he made himself a. home in Hampton, where he died February 14, 1681-2. He and his wife Ann had ten children, several of whom were married. Their descendants still live in Exeter and the vicinity.
”History of Exeter” by Charles S. Bell P23


In the spring of 1629, Mr. Edward Colcord, purchased of Passaconaway and three other Sagamons, a tract of land from the Piscataqua to the Merrimack, bounded as follows, viz. "beginning at Newichewannock falls in Piscataqua river, aforesaid, and so down said river to the sea, and so along the sea shore to Merrimack river, and so up along said river to the falls of Pautucket aforesaid, and from said Pautucket falls, upon a northwest line, twenty English miles into the woods, and from thence, to run upon a straight line Northeast and Southwest, till it meets with the main rivers that run down to Pautucket falls and Newichewannock falls, and the said rivers to be bounds of said lands, from the thwart line, or head line, to the aforesaid falls, and the main channel of each river, from Pautucket falls and Newichewannock falls to the main sea, to be the side bounds, and the main sea between Piscataqua river and Merrimack river, to be the lower bounds, and the thwart or head line, that runs from river to river, to be the upper bounds; together with all islands within said bounds, as also the Isles of Shoals, so called."3

This purchase was made for the Rev. John Wheelwright and his associates, and a deed for the same was duly executed, at Squamsauke, on the 17th day of May, 1629--by Passaconnaway, and three other Sagamons.4

This purchase includes the southern part of New Hampshire, its northern line passing through Manchester, Hookset, Candia, Deerfield, Northwood, Strafford, and intersecting with the Newichewannock in Rochester.




Children of Edward Colcord are:
  1. +Samuel Colcord, b. 1656, Hampton, NH, d. 05 Oct 1736, Kingston, NH.
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