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Margaret Otis

Female 1689 - 1773  (83 years)


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  • Name Margaret Otis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    Baptism 1689  Montréal, Qc. (as Christine) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Born 15 Mar 1689  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    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 
    Occupation 30 Oct 1706 
    Petition to Vaudreuil (Governor-General) and Raudot (Intendant) for naturalization (dated at Québec) 
    Occupation 20 Nov 1708 
    Naissance de son fils Louis Lebeau à Montréal (décédé le 25 janvier 1709 à Montréal) 
    Naturalization May 1710  Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France (lettres de naturalité) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 14 Jun 1710 
    Naissance de sa fille Marie-Anne-Christine à Montréal (décédée à Québec le 17 décembre 1726) 
    Occupation 20 May 1712 
    Naissance de sa fille Marie-Madeleine à Montréal (décédée à Château-Richer le 2 mars 1722) 
    Baptism 1714  Northampton, Massachusetts, New England (as Margaret) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 24 Jul 1714 
    Set sail for Boston with the delegation sent to free English captives in Canada 
    Occupation 21 Sep 1714 
    Arrived in Boston with Captain Thomas Baker 
    Property 9 Dec 1714 
    Granted 40 acres of upland and 20 acres of meadow at Brookfield, provided she marries Capt. Thomas Baker 
    Property 9 Dec 1714 
    Granted 40 acres of upland and 20 acres of meadow at Brookfield, provided she returns not again to live Canada, but tarries in this Province 
    Occupation 5 Jun 1716 
    Birth of her son (Christian Baker) in Northampton, Massachusetts, New England 
    Residence 1731  Brookfield, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1732  Mendon, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1733  Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 8 May 1735 
    Owned a House of Entertainment (tavern) in Dover (south-east corner of Silver and Pleasant Streets) 
    Occupation 11 May 1735 
    Admitted to the church of Dover 
    Died 23 Feb 1773  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 15 Mar 1773 
    Her obituary appears in the Boston Evening Post 
    Buried Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5145  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 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 
    Family ID F2631  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Louis Lebeau,   b. Abt 1678, Boucherville, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1713, Montréal, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Marriage Contract 13 Jun 1707  Notaire Antoine Adhémar Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 14 Jun 1707  Notre-Dame de Montréal, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Info. 14 Jun 1707  Témoin: Marie-Josèphe Sayer (née Esther Sayward) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2632  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Thomas Baker,   b. 14 May 1682, Northampton, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1753, Roxbury, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 1715  Northampton, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2633  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S31] True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada during the Old French and Indian Wars, Charlotte Alice Baker, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1897), 19, 23-34, 132, 152-153, 201, 207, 262 & 333-335.

    2. [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. 126 & 149-154.

    3. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 144 & 189.

    4. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 2 (1848), pp. 283-284; Vol. 5 (1851), pp. 179-195 & Vol. 6 (1852), p. 87.
      First group of New England captives taken to Canada during the Indian wars.

    5. [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.

    6. [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)

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

    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), 521.

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

    10. [S3] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, Cyprien Tanguay, (Éditions Eusèbe Sénécal, Montréal, 1871-1890), none., Volume 1, p. 9 & Vol. 4, p. 513.

    11. [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.