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Family of John Scriven

Generation No. 1

         1.  John¹¹ SCRIVEN  (Thomas¹⁰, Edward⁹, Thomas⁸, Thomas⁷, Robert⁶, John⁵, John⁴, Reginald³, Richard², David [Edward]¹) was born October 27, 1623 in Wem, Shropshire, England¹, and died October 02, 1675 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire^2,3,4,5.  He married Mary [???] Abt. 1655 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire^6,7.  She was born 1635 in England⁸, and died 1695 in New Hampshire⁸.

 Notes for John SCRIVEN:

John Scriven was the progenitor of the New Hampshire and Maine Scribner Family, from which we are descended.  John Scriven came into this world at a time when his homeland--England--was undergoing enormous social and political upheaval.  To begin with, that small group of religious Separatists (better known as Pilgrims) had left for the New World and had, in 1620, landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts Colony. Many more English families would soon follow, taking from England many of its citizens and future leaders.  At the same time, England was about to endure its first-ever Civil War, a war that would change the way of life in England forever, and affect the Scriven family in a very personal way.

 The birth of John Scriven is recorded on page 51 of Part 1 of the Parish Register for Wem, Shropshire County, England. The original entry reads : "1623, Oct. 27. John, s. of Thomas [Skeinen?], sawyer bap." The question about Thomas' last name is answered on page xvi. of Part 2 (one of the pages where corrections are noted), where it is stated: "Page 51, Line 18. For 'Skeinen,' read 'Skriven.'"  In that Wem Register, the mothers' names are not listed, so we do not know the name of John's mother, which is one important but unanswered question about John.   John's mother was most likely Margaret Corbett; however, for reasons unknown to us, John did not follow his father to the Lordship of Frodesley.  Instead, his younger half-brother, Richard did.

 Less than two years after John's birth, James I, King of England, died in March 1625. James' last years as ruler had been marked by continual dissension, and quarreling over many issues with the elected Parliament. Also, England was on the brink of war with Spain, and the kingdom's finances were shattered. It was hoped that the new king, James' son, Charles I (who was 25 when he became king), would ease the tensions and turn England toward better and brighter days.  But, it was not to be.  Within two years of his ascending to the throne, Charles was on very bad terms with Parliament (continually quarreling over the questions of who held the authority to raise taxes and muster armies, etc.), the kingdom was in serious financial trouble, and England was at war with both Spain and France!  Charles dissolved one Parliament after another (1625, 1627, 1628, 1629) and ruled on his own authority.  The making of peace with France in 1629, and with Spain in 1630, provided but a brief respite from armed conflict. In 1641, quarrels with Scotland and uprisings in Ireland led England to again prepare for military action.

 Leaders of the so-called Long Parliament (assembled in 1640) said that troops could only be raised under officers approved by Parliament. King Charles vehemently disagreed, and set about to raise his own army. As sides began to form in this dispute, the king was generally supported by the nobility, the landed gentry (such as the Scrivens of Frodesley and the newly-knighted Thomas Scriven, who was given the rank of colonel), and the Catholics. The Parliament was supported by merchants, the middle classes and the lower order of the great towns. Thus, the struggle for power began, pitting the Parliament and their army against the king and his army, in a Civil War that would last until 26 April 1646, when the defeated Charles left England and was imprisoned in Scotland. However, it wasn't long before Charles returned to England, where he was essentially under house arrest. He escaped to the Isle of Wight. Then, a much shorter Civil War was waged throughout 1648. After that, the English leaders and their armies came to the conclusion that permanent peace would be impossible as long as Charles was alive. On 30 January 1649 Charles I, King of England, was executed.

 It was at about this time that John Scriven--The Immigrant--came to the Colonies.  He was among those early settlers who traveled from England to New Hampshire, not necessarily to escape England but to be a part of England's "colonization project." For many of the first colonists, England provided for their passage, and granted them land in the New World (of course, on the condition that they would remain loyal to the English authorities).  We don't know when, or on which ship, he made that historic journey across the Atlantic Ocean (Existing records list hundreds of persons who, for one reason or another, left England for the Colonies. However, there are other hundreds [John among them] who made that trip but for whom no record of passage exists).  Wurt's MAGNA CHARTA, 7 indicates that John traveled "from Kent, England, to Hampton, Massachusetts, 1652 (page 2072). It's also possible that he came by way of Barbados. Several persons did, for the reason suggested by the following quote:

 "In those days emigrants to New England and Virginia from England had to take an oath of allegiance and [religious] conformity, before they were allowed to leave. In going to Barbadoes or Bermuda, these oaths were not required, consequently many emigrants shipped to Bermuda and Barbadoes and from there came to Virginia and New England" (Frederick Sylvester Stevens [comp.], "Genealogy of the Stevens Family From 1635 To 1891" [Bridgeport, CT: J.H. Coggswell, Printer, 1891], 7).  One John Scriven was noted as an early inhabitant of Barbados in the mid-1630s.  Briggs, Sam, Esq. (contr.), "Early Inhabitants of Barbadoes," NEHGR 39:132, 139 (1885).

 In 1644, England was in the midst of its Civil War and John, at age 21, was of age to be a soldier.  It is possible, therefore, that John left England in order to avoid having to fight in the War.  We know that John had a sword in his possession in the colonies [see the account of the inventory of his property taken at his death].  This sword was rather unusual (an average citizen would have a musket [as John had], but not usually A sword).  The sword possession supports the claim that John was the son of a knight and colonel in the King's Army, namely, Sir Thomas Scriven.  Although we cannot conclusively prove our claim, we believe that John Scriven -- the founder of our Scribner family in America -- was born in Wem in October 1623 and was the son of Sir Thomas Scriven. 

 What we do know is that John was accepted as an inhabitant of Dover on 5 April 1662. He settled in an area just to the northeast of Dover Town known as "Cocheco," where he had a small farm of 20 acres, "said land being at Cochecha near the east side of the plantation of Richard Otis" (from the deed to John's land, when it was sold by his son, John, to Peter Coffin of Dover in 1685, see PROVINCE DEEDS 20:334). It was in September of 1662 that he paid his first taxes (John Scales, COLONIAL ERA HISTORY OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE [1923. Reprint. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1977], 242).  According to the Inventory of his possessions following his death, John owned a hay barn with 20 acres of land, a few animals (2 oxen, 4 cows, 1 calf, 3 sheep, 1 lamb, 1 mare, a yearling colt and 6 hogs), farm implements and household goods (Inventory of John Scriven's Property, dated 8 October 1675).  Interestingly, the inventory also listed 1 musket and sword.  If our theory that John is the son of Sir Thomas Scriven is correct, these probably belonged to John's father, Sir Thomas Scriven, and were brought by John to the Colonies.  In 1685 John's eldest son John Scribner, Sr., sold the plantation on which he had lived.

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 Notes for Mary [???]:

We have no record of Mary's maiden name.  It had been commonly believed that Mary was a daughter of Edward Hilton of Dover. However, that assumption has been shown to be incorrect.  Edward Hilton had two daughters, neither of whom was named Mary. One of the daughters, Susannah, married Christopher Palmer. The other daughter, Sobriety, married Henry Moulton.   See Noyes, Libby & Davis, Genealogical Dictionary Of Maine and New Hampshire, at 332.  One historian, Rev. J. Woodbury Scribner, states that "[t]he Widow Mary lived on for 25 years after the death of her husband."   See Sinnett, The History Of The Scribner Families In America: With A Careful History of Maine Scribner Families & Allied Families, at 18.  Wurt's MAGNA CHARTA, 7 indicates that Mary died in 1695 (page 2072).  One of their sons, Edward, was impressed into the English Navy in 1679 (Noyes, 615). No further information about Edward is known. Their other children were John (b. 1657), Elizabeth (b. 1668), and Thomas (b. 25 December 1672).       

Children of John SCRIVEN and Mary [???] are:

        2                 i.    John¹² SCRIBNER, Sr., born 1657 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire¹⁹; died January 07, 1737/38 in Exeter, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire^20,21.  He married Elizabeth CLOYES Abt. 1688 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire^22,23; born Abt. 1665 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts²⁴; died Abt. March 02, 1735/36 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire²⁵. 

Notes for John SCRIBNER, Sr.:

John and his siblings grew up during the time of one of the most costly struggles the early Colonies ever faced, King Philip's War (1675-1676). Native American Indian tribes had formed a confederation under the leadership of King Philip (also known as Pometacon), chief of the Wapanoags. During this war, one-half of the towns in New England were attacked, and 12 of those towns were completely destroyed. The Colonists banded together and organized a common army (the very earliest predecessor of the U.S. Army) to defend against the Indian attacks. In that force were 527 men from Massachusetts, 315 from Connecticut, and 158 from Plymouth Colony. One of every 16 men was killed, making this the most costly war, percentage-wise, ever fought on American soil.

 According to MacKenzie, Colonial Families of the United States of America at 4:449, John was:  "b. circa 1656, Exeter 1689; was on Jury at Portsmouth, 1693-96; where his name appears both as 'Scribner' and 'Scrivener;' his name appears upon the Muster Roll of Captain Gilman in 1710; in Hampton Church, records of 1698, he is marked as dismissed to Church at Exeter; as to his wife, Henry Wadleigh of Exeter gave deed reciting "for the parental love and affection which I have unto my well beloved son and daughter John Scribner, Junr. of Exeter, blacksmith and Sarah his now wife my well beloved daughter."  In 1701, he calls himself of Dover and conveys to Peter Coffin the "Plantation" whereon his father "jno Scribner" lived in Dover.  But, in 1717, he was both a creditor of Estate of Edward Sewall of Exeter and named in the will of Francis Stelle as owning land there."

 Apart from these notations, information about the Scribners who lived in Exeter is sketchy and incomplete,owing to the fact that the Exeter Town Hall burned in 1870, destroying most of the Vital Records of the town. What few records remain are bound in a single volume, which is kept at the Exeter Town Office.

 We do know that John Scribner was a blacksmith.  In 1685, John Scribner, Sr. sold the Dover plantation on which his father John Scriven had lived.  John and his wife Elizabeth moved from Dover to Exeter in the early months of 1689, after selling the Dover holdings inherited from his father.  The John Scribner who petitioned, along with others, the "Governor and Council of Mass in England for protection by soldiers on 2/20/1689" [see Petition of N.H. Settlers, Massachusetts Archives, Book 35, p. 229; Reprinted in NEHGR 8 (1854) 233] was identified to be the John Scribner discussed in Vol. 8 of the "Webster Family" in the Burton Library, Detroit, Michigan.  This John is also discussed in Sinnett, Scribner Families, at pages 20-144.  He moved their family from Dover to Exeter, New Hampshire after selling all of John's Dover holdings inherited from his father.  In 1698 -- the same year he moved to Exeter -- John united with the newly-formed Congregational Church at Exeter. He is listed among those who, according to Hampton Church Records, on 11 September 1698, were dismissed from that church "in order to their being incorporated into a church state, in Exeter." Another record lists John as an original member of the Exeter Church. According to that record, Exeter's newly-called Pastor, Rev. John Clark, was to be ordained 21 September 1698. "On the Sunday preceding the ordination a confession of faith and covenant, which had been previously agreed upon, were signed by the following named persons, who were the first members of the first church in Exeter, the organization of which has ever since been maintained" (MEN AND THINGS OF EXETER, SKETCHES FROM THE HISTORY OF AN OLD NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN [Exeter: The News-Letter Press, 1871], 57).  In 1698 John received 60 acres of land from the Town of Exeter.   In 1709, John purchased land in Exeter from the estate of John Glidden, and land in Kingston from William Long. In 1723, he and seven others (including his son, John, Jr.) purchased land in Exeter from Clement Moody, Jr., which land the seven buyers divided between themselves in 1725 (SCRIBNER NOTES [op. cit.], 5). Then, in 1725, he received another 50 acres of land from the Town (Bell, HISTORY OF EXETER [op. cit.], 141-143). At the same time (12 April 1725), his sons John, Jr., Joseph, Edward and Samuel received grants of land from the Town. As a result of these land purchases, John owned about 200 acres in Kingston, and another large holding of land (which, in his will, he called "My Swamp or Meadow Ground Laying upon the South Side of Exeter River").

 John and his son John Jr. are mentioned as part-purchasers of King's Falls Saw Mill in Exeter on 7 August 1723, along with Nathaniel Glidden, Henry Wadleigh, Daniel Ladd and others (N. H. Provincial Deeds, 14:179, quoted by G. W. Chamberlain in his book, THE DESCENDANTS OF CHARLES GLIDDEN OF PORTSMOUTH AND EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE [op. cit.], 77).

 We learn the names of John and Elizabeth's children who were living on March 2, 1735/36 from John's will.  In the will he speaks of sons John, Edward, Samuel (already deceased; Samuel's children inherited in his stead) and Joseph (who he named as Executor, supporting a suspicion that Joseph was the oldest), and daughters Elizabeth Moody, Mary Gadon (Gordon), Abigail Young, Susanna Mudget and Sarah Moody. 

 Of much interest is the fact that John, Sr. and his siblings chose to change their name from Scriven to Scribner. While we have no recorded explanation of this name-change, some possible reasons follow:

 -->One possibility is that, by continuing to be known as Scrivens, they would forever be linked to the legacy of the disgraced King Charles I, to whom their grandfather, Thomas, had given his loyalty and for whom he had given his life. Add to this the hatred they must have felt toward King Charles' son, Charles II, who was ruler of England when their brother, Edward, was taken from them and impressed into the English Navy, never to be heard from again.

 ->Another possibility is that they did not want to be mistaken for the family of the Rev. William Scriven (1629-1713). Rev. Scriven (of no relation to John) was a well-known Baptist minister in New England, especially Boston and Kittery, Maine. The prominent (indeed, state-sponsored) form of religion was Congregationalism (of which John and family were adherents). Rev. Scriven and his followers left New England and moved to South Carolina, where they exercised an incredible formative influence upon Southern Baptists (Noyes, et al, "Genealogical Dictonary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 615).

 ->Yet another possibility is that they strongly felt the need to establish a new identity in this new land of Colonial America.

 ->Another possibility is that the change was accomplished by an official who simply misspelled the name phonetically as he heard it, as "Scribner" because he was familiar with that name, which was close in sound to "Scriven."

 TIMELINE OF EVENTS AT EXETER, New Hampshire:

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         3                ii.    Edward SCRIBNER, born Abt. 1662 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire³⁴; died Abt. 1679³⁵.

Notes for Edward SCRIBNER: No further information about Edward is known.

More About Edward SCRIBNER: Military service: 1679, Involuntarily pressed into service for the English Navy^36,37

         4               iii.    Elizabeth SCRIBNER, born 1668 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire³⁸; died Bef. December 03, 1724 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire³⁹.  She married Samuel EASTMAN November 04, 1686 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts^40,41; born September 20, 1657 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts^42,43,44; died February 27, 1724/25 in Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire^45,46. 

Notes for Elizabeth SCRIBNER:

The confusion over Elizabeth's last name stems from a variety of erroneous assumed phonetic translations of the last name.  The surname was variously spelled in official records, for example, as "Scrieuen" [see Quint, Alonzo Hall (contr.) "Extracts From Dover Town Records," 4 NEHGR 246, 249 (1850)] and "Soreuen" [see Brown, Asa W. (contr.),  "Early Settlers of Salisbury, Mass.," 8 NEHGR 80 (1854) ["Soreuen as I take it, probably Severance"]] which was sometimes thought to be translated to "Severence" rather than "Scriven."  See also, the James Savage treatment of the issue in Section IV, Chapter 3, Savage, Volume 2, "First Settlers of Northeast" --  "SAMUEL, Salisbury, son of the preceding [Roger Eastman] married 1686, Elizabeth Severance, or Screven."  Consequently, several lineage compilations erroneously list this Elizabeth as an additional daughter "Elizabeth Severance" of John Severance and his wife Abigail [Kimball], residents of Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.  This Elizabeth is, however, correctly grouped with her father John "Scrieuen" [Scriven] who was accepted as an inhabitant of Dover on April 5, 1662, and who specifically named her in his Will dated 27 Nov 1674 as one of four minor children.

 It appears likely that Elizabeth died prior to 3 December 1724, which is when Samuel prepared his will. There is no mention of Elizabeth in it.  A question exists as to whether Samuel re-married following the death of Elizabeth. Even the chronicler of the Eastman Family, Guy S. Rix of Concord, New Hampshire, states (in his HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE EASTMAN FAMILY IN AMERICA [Concord: The author, 1901],13) that Samuel's second marriage, on 17 September 1719, was to Sarah Fifield, who died in Kingston, NH, 3 August 1726. However, there are compelling reasons as to the inaccuracy of that assumption. First, Rix is confusing Shuah Fifield (the woman in question) with her mother, Sarah. Second, Samuel was born in 1657. Shuah Fifield was born in Kingston on 13 March 1702/03, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Sherburne) Fifield (Kingston Town Records, quoted by Kathleen Hosier in KINGSTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY FAMILIES, PATRIOTS & SOLDIERS [op. cit.], 65). That makes Samuel 46 years older than Shuah. Third, Kingston Town Records record the marriage on 17 September 1719 of Shuah Fifield (who died 3 August 1726) and Samuel's son, Samuel Eastman, Jr. This is corroborated by David W. Hoyt in THE OLD FAMILIES OF SALISBURY AND AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS,1[op. cit.], 146. A fourth reason would be that, in his will, Samuel makes no mention of Shuah.

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         5               iv.    Thomas B. SCRIBNER, born October 30, 1673 in Dover,  Strafford County, New Hampshire⁴⁷; died March 30, 1718 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire⁴⁸.  He married (1) Sarah CLIFFORD December 25, 1702 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire^{49,50,51,52,53}; born October 30, 1673 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire^{54,55,56,57,58}; died January 05, 1705/06 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire^58,59,60.  He married (2) Hannah WELCH February 04, 1707/08 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire^{61,62,63,64,65,66}; born 1680 in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts^67,68,69; died Aft. 1730 in (near) Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

 Notes for Thomas B. SCRIBNER:

Thomas was a land owner, churchman and civil official who was highly regarded in each town where they lived.  They were among the first settlers of Kingston.   Excerpts of pages 450, 451, 452 -- Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 4):

 "THOMAS SCRIBNER was probably b. in Hampton, circa 1664; d. 1718, in Kingston; after the death of his father, he was in Exeter; later he removed to Kingston, becoming one of its first and foremost settlers; he was a landowner, churchman and civil official; he m. (1st) 25th December, 1702, Sarah CLIFFORD, b. 30th October, 1673, d. 5th January, 1707-08, dau. of John and Sarah (GODFREY) CLIFFORD; m. (2d) 4th February, 1708-09, Hannah WELCH, b. 1680, dau. of Philip WELCH of [p.450] Ipswich, Massachusetts; the latter came from Ireland in 1654 in ship Goodfellow, ae. 16; lived in Topsfield but his children went to Kingston, New Hampshire; served as a soldier in King Philip's War; m. 20th February, 1666, Hannah HAGGETT, dau. of Henry HAGGETT of Salem and Wenham. "

 See also "Webster Family", vol 9, p. 160.  According to Noyes et al. (page 615), in Jan. 1700-1 he went a stranger to Joshua Weeks' in Greenland, New Hampshire, asking the way.  Thomas' will, refers to his residence "of Kingston" and names his wife Hannah; sons, John, Edward, and Samuel; daughters, Deborah, and Elizabeth; and appoints as his executors, Joseph Clifford, and Samuel Eastman. (Holman, Scribner Notes, citing N.H. Province Probate).  The marriages of Strafford County, New Hampshire book lists a Mary Scribner daughter of Thomas marrying a Benjamin Hoag, son of Joseph, in the years 1707 to 1734.  Kingston Records list the year as 1738.  This is the only known father Thomas Scribner of that era and that place, so there may be an additional daughter of this Thomas by either an earlier unknown marriage or illegitimately;  this surviving mary was not mentioned in the will nor other historical Scribner records.  The descendants of Thomas Scribner generally spelled the name as "Scrivener."

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 Notes for Hannah WELCH:

Following Thomas' death, Hannah married Charles Hunt of Kingston in 1729 (Noyes, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE [op. cit.], 363).

Endnotes

1.  Wem Parish Register, SHROPSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS, DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD, 9, pt. 1,  (Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society, 1908), Page 51, (See correction of the misspelling of John's name in Vol. 10, xvi.).

2.  "Genealogical Items Relating to Dover, N.H.," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 8:9 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogical Sockety, 1854) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 65.

3.  Savage, James; 4 vols., A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692,  (1860-1862. Reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965  [Available Online at Genealogy Library.Com]), 41, (citing Quint, in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 65).

4.  Cutter, William Richard (Comp.), NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES, Genealogical and Memorial [2nd Series],  ((New York: 1915; Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co.: Baltimore, MD, 1996, 1997) [Available Online at Genealogy Library.Com]), 320 (web paginated).

5.  Batchellor, Albert Stillman (ed.), PROBATE RECORDS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1, 1635-1717 (State Papers Series, Vol. 31),  (Concord, NH: Rumford Printing Co., 1907), 157.

6.  Canney, Robert Sayward, THE EARLY MARRIAGES OF STRAFFORD COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE 1630-1860, Part II-M to Z,  (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995), Page 851.

7.  Torrey, Clarence Almon, NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700,  (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.,Inc., 1985), Page 658.

8.  Wurts, John S., MAGNA CHARTA, Part 7 of 9,  (Philadelphia, PA: Brookfield Publishing Company, 1954), Part 7, Page 2072.

9.  Cutter, William Richard (Comp.), NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES, Genealogical and Memorial [2nd Series],  ((New York: 1915; Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co.: Baltimore, MD, 1996, 1997) [Available Online at Genealogy Library.Com]), 320 (web paginated).

10.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 615.

11.  Quint, Alonzo Hall [contrib.], "Extracts From Dover Town Records," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 4:246 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogical Sockety, 1850) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 249.

12.  "Genealogical Items Relating to Dover, N.H.," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 8:9 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogical Sockety, 1854) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 65.

13.  Scales, John, COLONIAL ERA HISTORY OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE,  ([1923. Reprint. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1977]), 242.

14.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 615.

15.  "Genealogical Items Relating to Dover, N.H.," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 8:9 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogical Sockety, 1854) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 65.

16.  Savage, James; 4 vols., A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692,  (1860-1862. Reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965  [Available Online at Genealogy Library.Com]), 41.

17.  "Genealogical Items Relating to Dover, N.H.," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 8:9 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogical Sockety, 1854) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 65.

18.  Savage, James; 4 vols., A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692,  (1860-1862. Reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965  [Available Online at Genealogy Library.Com]), 41.

19.  Sinnett, Charles N. (comp.), THE HISTORY OF THE SCRIBNER FAMILIES IN AMERICA:  WITH A CAREFUL HISTORY OF MAINE SCRIBNER FAMILIES & ALLIED FAMILIES,  (Fertile, MN: The author, undated), Pages 18-19.

20.  Metcalf, Henry Harrison (ed.), PROBATE RECORDS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, 2, 1718-1740 (State Papers Series, Vol. 32),  (Bristol, NH: R.W. Musgrove, 1914), 556.

21.  Holman, Winifred Lovering, SCRIBNER NOTES,  (Boston, MA: Albert Boyden, 1927), Page 4.

22.  Holman, Winifred Lovering, SCRIBNER NOTES,  (Boston, MA: Albert Boyden, 1927), 4.

23.  Torrey, Clarence Almon, NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700,  (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.,Inc., 1985), 658 [note 4].

24.  Savage, James, A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, 4,  (1860-1862. Reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965  [Available Online at Genealogy Library.Com]), 41.

25.  Holman, Winifred Lovering, SCRIBNER NOTES,  (Boston, MA: Albert Boyden, 1927), 4.

26.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972).

27.  Chamberlain, George Walter, THE DESCENDANTS OF CHARLES GLIDDEN OF PORTSMOUTH AND EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (Boston, MA: The author, 1925), 77, [citing N.H. Provincial Deeds, 14:179].

28.  Metcalf, Henry Harrison (ed.), PROBATE RECORDS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, 2, 1718-1740 (State Papers Series, Vol. 32),  (Bristol, NH: R.W. Musgrove, 1914), 556.

29.  Holman, Winifred Lovering, SCRIBNER NOTES,  (Boston, MA: Albert Boyden, 1927), 4.

30.  French, Rev. Jonathan (contrib.), "Congregational Churches and Ministers in Rockingham County," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 40:165 (1847) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org].

31.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 615.

32.  "Petition of New Hampshire Settlers," Massachusetts Archives, Book 35, P. 229; Reprinted in THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 8:233 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealoical Society, 1854) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org].

33.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 615.

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35.  Inferred; he was involuntarily impressed into service this year, and never heard from again.

36.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 615, [citing Essex Q. Ct. Rec. 7: 289] [name used was Edward "Screven"].

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39.  Estimated date [see Notes).

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44.  VITAL RECORDS OF SALISBURY, MASSACHUSETTS TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1849,  (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 77.

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46.  Nason, Rev. Elias (contr.), "Daniel Webster," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 21 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1867) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 2.

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50.  Davis, Walter Goodwin, THE ANCESTRY OF NICHOLAS DAVIS 1753-1832,  (The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine 1956), 80.

51.  Holman, Winifred Lovering, SCRIBNER NOTES,  (Boston, MA: Albert Boyden, 1927), 7.

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54.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 151.

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59.  Prescott, William, "Philip Welch of Ipswich, and His Descendents," THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 23 (Boston, MA: The New England Historic Genealogic Society, 1869) [Available Online at New England Ancestors.org]: 419.

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66.  Hosier, Kathleen E., KINGSTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY FAMILIES, PATRIOTS &  SOLDIERS,  (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993), 164.

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70.  Sinnett, Charles N. (comp.), THE HISTORY OF THE SCRIBNER FAMILIES IN AMERICA:  WITH A CAREFUL HISTORY OF MAINE SCRIBNER FAMILIES & ALLIED FAMILIES,  (Fertile, MN: The author, undated), 18-19, 145.

71.  Noyes, Sybil;  Libbey, Charles Thornton;  & Davis, Walter Goodwin (comp.), GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,  (1928-1939. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 615.

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