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Stephen Otis

Male 1652 - 1689  (37 years)


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  • Name Stephen Otis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Born 1652  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1686 
    His farm in Dover was located just above his father's fortified house 
    Occupation 28 Jun 1689 
    Dover is attacked by the Abenaki led by Kankamagus with Madokawando's Penobscots ("Cochecho Massacre") 
    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 I5140  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Richard Otis,   b. 27 Feb 1626, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, 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 63 years) 
    Mother 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 
    Family ID F2629  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Abigail Pitman,   b. 15 Nov 1657, Oyster River (Piscataquis, now Durham), New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Dec 1738, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married 16 Apr 1674  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Stephen Otis,   b. 1675, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Québec Indéterminé Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Nathaniel Otis,   b. 1677, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Dec 1730, Montréal, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)
     3. Françoise Rose Otis,   b. 1678, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1729, Charlesbourg, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2630  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 143 & 157.

    2. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Vol. 2 (1848), p. 284; Vol. 5 (1851), pp. 181, 184-185 & Vol. 28 (1874), p. 160.
      Also: Torrey's New England marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1119.

    3. [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.

    4. [S659] History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes, Everett S. Stackpole, Col. Lucien Thompson and Winthrop Smith Meserve, (Published by the vote of the town, Durham, New Hampshire, 1913), Volume 2, p. 307.

    5. [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. 158 & 255.

    6. [S205] The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, John Wentworth, LL. D., (Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1878), Volume 1, p. 397.

    7. [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.

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

    9. [S3] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, Cyprien Tanguay, (Éditions Eusèbe Sénécal, Montréal, 1871-1890), none., Volume 4, p. 513.