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Experience Otis

Female 1666 - 1699  (32 years)


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  • Name Experience Otis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Born 7 Nov 1666  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Occupation 28 Jun 1689 
    Abducted during the "Cochecho Massacre" (later rescued by soldiers at Conway, NH) 
    Occupation 26 Jul 1696 
    Again abducted by Indians (with two others) and scalped while returning from public worship but later recovered 
    Died 8 Feb 1699  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Never fully recovered from her injuries 
    Person ID I5149  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 Samuel Heard,   b. 4 Aug 1663, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1697, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Married 20 Mar 1686  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2634  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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. 147.

    2. [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 & 144.

    3. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Vol. 2, p. 284; Vol. 5, pp. 181, 184, 187-188, 197 & Vol. 53, p. 96.
      Also Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 737.

    4. [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, pp. 47 & 50.
      26 July 1696: Being sacrament-day. An ambush of Indians laid between Capt. Gove's field and Tobias Hanson's orchard - shot upon the people returning from meeting - killed Nicho. Otis, Mary Downs and Mary Jones ; wounded Rich. Otis, Anthony Lowden and Exp. Heard ; took John Tucker, Nic. Otis, jr. and Judith Ricker. 31 January 1699: Experience Heard, alias Jenkins, who was scalped by the Indians July 26, 1696, recovered and lived to have one child, died chiefly of her wounds bleeding.

    5. [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), 321-322, 377 & 521.

    6. [S205] The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, John Wentworth, LL. D., (Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1878), Volume 1, p. 161.

    7. [S198] Dover New Hampshire Marriages 1623-1823, John R. Ham, (Dover, NH, 1880-1902, 1904 edition), 99.