Apr 28 1721 Att a Chh meeting att my [The Reverend Theophilus Cotton] house. The Chh concluded that Eighteen pence per annum. for each communicant would be Sufficient to myntayning the continuance off the Lords Supper amongst us annually--and ther being considerable behind for 6 years past. They chose Philemon Blake in lieu of Banjamin Batchelder Decsd. to be assistant to Deacon Weare, & Benjamin Sanborn In stirring up the Communicants to bring in ye Respective sums to Deacon Shaw for his defraying the charge of the holy ordinance.
There is no will of administration of his estate on record, but the compiler found in the possession of Mrs. Ira Blake of Kensington, among several quite ancient documents, which she very kindly submitted to his inspection, an original will, which appranetly was never presented for probate: likeiwse several unrecorded deeds....This will was made Sept 16, 1742, in which he gives his wife Sarah during her widowhood, one half of his dwelling house, and all the movables and utensils in the house; all his stock of creatures; one half of his land between the road that leads from deacon Sanborn to Samuel Blake's and the road that leads to Caleb Swain:- the house and land at his wife's decease to go to son Joshua.
To son Joshua, the other half of the house and buildings where he now lives and all his right in the town of Chester.
To son Philemon, one half the land where he (Philemon) now livesm and the other half after his mother's decease, and part of the land at Burnt Swamp, reserving nine acres for son Elisha on the west side; all the rest of his land at said Burnt Swamp he gives to sonm Philemon, and his land in Chester he bought of Nathaniel and John Ambrose, and one half of a lot at Grassy Swamp.
To son Elisha all the lands he had in Kingston, and three half shares in the first west division in Hampton, and nine acres in Burnt Swamp.
To two daughters, Elizabeth Lane and Dorothy Veasy, he gives 10 pounds each.
To daughters Sarah Bean, 10 pounds, to be paid by son Philemon who is appointed executor.
King William's War (1690-1697) is what the North American theatre of the War of the Grand Alliance is referred to as. Beside the expansion of French interests along the Rhine in Europe, the French were intent upon reinstating the royal line of the Catholic James II to the throne of England. The English, not too keen on James and his imposition of Catholicism on them, sided with William, Prince of Orange (son-in-law of James), and his wife Mary, who had invaded and took over the crown in 1688. James fled to France.
In the Colonies, the French garnered the aid of the Indians and laid waste to several British frontier towns in New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. The British promptly took Port Royal, Acadia (Nova Scotia) but botched an invasion of Quebec. Eventually a treaty was negotiated on Ryswick, near The Hague in 1897, essentially restoring the colonies to the state they were in before the War.
For the English colonists, the most terrifying aspect of this war was not the prospect of conflict with their French neighbors, but the "skulking rogues," as historian Joseph Dow remembered the natives. Certainly no less professional than other mercenaries employed throughout history, the natives seemed to have taken whole-heartedly to the task assigned to them by their French comrades. In fact, their reputation for scalping, burning, and taking settlers captive made it necessary for the colonists to take defensive action.
In Hampton in 1689, the Meeting House was fortified and later the fortification was enlarged. A local militia was raised who were employed as soldiers, scouts or messengers. A list of these volunteers was assembled by Hampton historian Joseph Dow, which included Batchelder, Moultons, Dows, Sanborns, Tilton, and our own Philemon Blake and Timothy Blake.
Sources:
History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, From It's Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892, Joseph Dow, Salem Press, Publishing and Printing Co, Salem, 1893.
History of the United States of America, by Henry William Elson, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1904.
"King William's War," Funk & Wagnalls Standard Reference Encyclopedia, Standard Reference Works Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1966.
Note: Philemon and Sarah had 8 children including the 7 listed here. Additional sources: Noyes/Libby/Davis, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire," (1939), pg. 95, #1; Blake, Carlton E., "Descendants of Jasper Blake: Emigrant from England to hampton, N.H., ca. 1643, 1649-1979," (Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 1980), pg. 303.
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Source: S338 Author: Dick Marston Title: Lane Library Database Abbreviation: Lane Library Database Publication: 2000 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Source: S341 Author: Metcalf, Henry Harrison, edit Title: Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire 1741-1749 Abbreviation: Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire 1741-1749 Publication: The Rumford Press, 1915 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Source: S342 Author: E. B. Dearborn Title: Genealogy of the Dearborn Family Abbreviation: Genealogy of the Dearborn Family Publication: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1848, Volume 2 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Source: S344 Author: Brown, Warren Title: History of Hampton Falls, NH Abbreviation: History of Hampton Falls, NH Publication: John B Clarke, 1900, Rpt. Higginson, Of late Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Source: S356 Author: Carlton E Blake Title: Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, NH, ca 1643, 1640-1979 Abbreviation: Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, NH, ca 1643, 1640-1979 Publication: Rpt. 1980, Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Source: S357 Author: Perley Derby Title: Descendants of Jasper Blake of Hampton, NH Abbreviation: Descendants of Jasper Blake of Hampton, NH Publication: 1879 (Transcribed by Carlton Blake) Repository: #R2 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Repository: R2 Name: Essex Institute Address: Salem, MA
Source: S851 Author: George F Sanborn Jr, Melinde Lutz Sanborn Title: The Dalton Cluster: Timothy Dalton, Philemon Dalton, Richard Everard, and Deborah Everard Blake Abbreviation: The Dalton Cluster: Timothy Dalton, Philemon Dalton, Richard Everard, and Deborah Everard Blake Publication: The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, Vol 154, July 2000 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
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