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Richard Otis

Male 1626 - 1689  (63 years)


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  • Name Richard Otis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] 
    Born 27 Feb 1626  Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1650  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Blacksmith 
    Occupation 28 May 1655 
    Moved his family from Boston to Cochecho (Dover, New Hampshire) 
    Property 26 Sep 1655 
    Received a 10 acre land grant from the town of Dover 
    Property 1656 
    Received 100 acres on the west side of the "cart way" where he built his garrison on the southern end 
    Occupation 1660 
    Selectman at Dover 
    Occupation 30 Jun 1663 
    Fined by the Grand Jury for not attending 13 meetings 
    Occupation 3 Jul 1666 
    Authorized "to cut all the grass about the pond by Oyster river, which was known by the name of Mr. Wheelwright's marsh" 
    Occupation 29 Nov 1676 
    Administrator of William Roberts' estate (from Oyster River and killed by the Red man in 1675) 
    Occupation 13 Mar 1684 
    Ordered to fortify his house by the New Hampshire government ("by-garrisons" of Cochecho for the security of the neighboring inhabitants) 
    Property 13 Mar 1684 
    Garrison located half-way between Heard's and Waldron's on the west side of what is now Central Avenue near Milk St. 
    Occupation 28 Jun 1689 
    Dover is attacked by the Abenaki led by Kankamagus with Madokawando's Penobscots ("Cochecho Massacre") 
    Property Son of Richard Otis (or his brother John), grandson of Richard Otis from Glastonbury 
    Died 28 Jun 1689  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Killed by Abenaki warriors during the "Cochecho Massacre" 
    Person ID I5091  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Family 1 Rose Stoughton,   b. Nov 1629, Stoughton, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1672, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Married 1651  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Stephen Otis,   b. 1652, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1689, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
     2. Experience Otis,   b. 7 Nov 1666, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1699, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 32 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2629  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Susanna Shuah Starbuck,   b. Abt 1640, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1683, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Married Bef 5 Nov 1677  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Otis,   b. 1683, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Sep 1760, Baie-St-Paul, Charlevoix, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2603  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Grizel Warren,   b. 24 Feb 1662, Berwick, York, Maine, New England (old style, Julian calendar) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Oct 1750, Montréal, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married Abt 1685  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Margaret Otis,   b. 15 Mar 1689, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1773, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2631  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S208] Journal of the Rev. John Pike. A memorandum of personal occurrences, Otis Grant Hammond, Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, (Jacob B. Moore, Concord, New Hampshire, 1832), Volume III, p. 43.
      28 June 1689: The Eastern Indians, joining with those of Penacook, through the instigation of Hogkins, a sagamore, suddenly seized on Cochecho, about the break of day, when all things were silent and secure. Killed 23 persons, principal of whom were Major Waldron, Mr. Leigh, [Abraham Lee, see Belknap, i. 126,] Mr. Evans, Richard Otis, Joseph Dug, Joseph Duncan, Daniel Lunt, Joseph Sanders, Stephen Otis, Jos. Buss, Wm. Buss, Wm. Arin, Wm. Horn, and old widow Hanson. Carried captive 29, whereof the chief were Joseph Chase, Mrs. Leigh, [wife of Abraham, and daughter of Maj. Waldron,] Tobias Hanson's wife, Otis's wife, Sarah Gerrish, &c. August following, James Huggins of Oyster River was killed, his garrison taken, and 18 killed and carried away.

    2. [S31] True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada during the Old French and Indian Wars, Charlotte Alice Baker, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1897), 17, 19 & 132.

    3. [S32] New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760 during the French and Indian Wars, Emma Lewis Coleman, (The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine, 1925), Volume 1, pp. 146-147 & 156.

    4. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 98, 142 & 189.

    5. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 5 (1851), pp. 177-179 & Vol. 28 (1874), p. 160.
      Also: Torrey's New England marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1119.

    6. [S101] The History of New Hampshire, edited by John Farmer, Jeremy Belknap, (S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, Dover, N.H., 8 February 1831; George Wadleigh, 1862), 125-130.

    7. [S220] Old Kittery and Her Families, Everett S. Stackpole, (Press of Lewiston Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 1903), 511.

    8. [S25] The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, (Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1972), 321, 520, 656-657 & 721.

    9. [S205] The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, John Wentworth, LL. D., (Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1878), Volume 1, pp. 160-161 & 396-398.

    10. [S759] Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire, Complete Edition, Mary P. Thompson, (Durham, N. H., 26 May 1892, printed by the Republican Press Association, Concord, N. H.), 63 & 270-271.

    11. [S5] Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH), Université de Montréal.

    12. [S3] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, Cyprien Tanguay, (Éditions Eusèbe Sénécal, Montréal, 1871-1890), none., Volume 1, pp. 10 & 524.

    13. [S16] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec - des origines à 1730, René Jetté, (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, 1983 & l'édition PRDH, Gaëtan Morin éditeur, 2003), none., 858.


  

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