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Stephen Otis

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  • Name Stephen Otis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Born 1675  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 28 Jun 1689 
    Captured by the Abenaki led by Kankamagus with Madokawando's Penobscots during the "Cochecho Massacre" at Dover (NH) and brought to Canada 
    Baptism Aft 1689  St-François-de-Sales, Neuville, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Property 1 Oct 1710 
    Conveyed Dover property to his brother Nathaniel (Paul) 
    Residence 1 Oct 1710  Québec Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 22 Sep 1728 
    Witness at his brother's (Paul) marriage with Anne Caron 
    Died Québec Indéterminé Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5142  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father 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) 
    Mother 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 
    Family ID F2630  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Louise Weber,   b. Aft 1686, Falmouth, Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Québec Indéterminé Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1712  Québec Indéterminé Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2635  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.

    2. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 5 (1851), pp. 185-186 & Vol. 6 (1852), p. 87.

    3. [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), 521.
      Later lived in Lorette where his descendants became Huron tribesmen.

    4. [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, p. 158.
      M. Gérard Malchelosse, author of 'La Famille Otis,' is quite sure that he and his brother Paul were baptized at the Mission of St-François de Sales, and from certain notes given him by Mgr. David Gosselin (collected by the abbé Charles Beaumont concerning families of Charlesbourg, of which Lorette was part) he is sure that Joseph-Marie lived at Lorette.

    5. [S669] The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763, Douglas Edward Leach, (Holt Reinhart & Winston, New York, 1966), 110.
      The Penacooks attacked Dover (on 28 June 1689) killing some two dozen people and taking 29 others captive (in retaliation for the 1688 attack by Sir Edmund Andros on Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin's Bagaduce River dwelling at Pentagouët)

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