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An American Family History |
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Jonathan Stanhope, Sr. and Susannah Ayres |
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
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Ensign Jonathan Stanhope, Sr. and Susannah Ayres were married at Charlestown or Sudbury on April 16, 1656. Their children were born in Sudbury. According to A History of Framington Massachusetts, the Stanhope place was between Mr. Ezekiel How’s home and the How Tavern. Jonathan Stanhope, Jr. was born on February 2, 1657, Sarah Stanhope was born on March 25, 1658. Hannah Stanhope Jennings was born about 1660, Joseph Stanhope was born on September 13, 1662, Jemima Stanhope Rutter was born on June 24, 1665, Mary Stanhope was born on January 29, 1667, and Rebecca Stanhope Hemenway was born on October 29, 1670. On April 21, 1676, Jonathan participated in the Sudbury fight of King Philip's war where a thousand Native American warriors attacked Sudbury. The colonists living west of the Sudbury River fled to garrisons and none of them were captured. The most severe attacks were at the Haynes garrison which was set afire by rolling a wagon full of flax down a hill to it. The colonists were still able to defend it. Eventually soldiers arrived from nearby towns. Susannah died on June 2, 1676 in Sudbury. Jonathan died in 1702. |
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
By George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs
Published by Lewis historical publishing company, 1909 |
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Ensign Jonathan Stanhope, immigrant ancestor, settled early in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he died October 22, 1702, aged seventy years. Therefore he was born in 1632, doubtless in England. He married, at Charlestown, April 16, 1656, Susanna Ayer. He married (second) Abigail , who died at Sudbury, his widow, September 17, 1722. Children, born at Sudbury:
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