Hannah followed exactly in the footsteps of her mother-in-law. Like Sarah (Ware) Linsley (bef.1629-bef.1698), the mother of Hannah's first husband Isaac Pond (1647-1669), when her first husband died young, she married a man named John Linsley and moved from Windsor to Branford. In Hannah's case, her second husband was John Linsley III (abt.1650-bef.1684), the son of John Linsley II (1620-bef.1698), the second husband of Hannah's mother-in-law.[1] While this suggests that Isaac had stayed in touch with his mother and her second husband, the few records found so far for Isaac and his younger brother Nathaniel Pond (1650-1675) show that they stayed in Windsor and grew up there on their own (with Nathaniel being sexually molested by Nicholas Sension[2] before he was killed at age 25 in King Philip's war[3]) when their mother began her new life in Branford.
↑ Godbeer, Richard, and Douglas L. Winiarski, eds. "The Sodomy Trial of Nicholas Sension, 1677: Documents and Teaching Guide." Early American Studies 12, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 402-43. (https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=religiousstudies-faculty-publications) Witnesses at the trial testified that "Isaac Pond, the elder brother of Nathaniel Pond who lived with Goodman Sension" had reported some years previously that Nathaniel had complained about "his master Sension's grossly lascivious miscarriages towards him." Another witness testified to having observed Sension attempt to have sex with Nathaniel. Another witness had spoken with Sension about this behavior and encouraged Nathaniel to be freed from his indentureship to Sension. Nathanial had replied, however, that he chose not to leave Sension "being the man that brought him up from a child in his orphan's state ..."
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