Name origin: A term applied in Eng., to a tract of poor, sandy hill land, used only for pasturing sheep.
b.Feb. 2, 1611/2; parents ukn
d.Jan. 21, 1698/9 in Dover N.H.
m.bef. 1635 Catherine ______
b.bef.1615 prob. Boston, MA
d.Dec. 23, 1702 in Dover, N.H.
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NOTE: From Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire 1623-1660 by POPE page 58: DOWNS, Thomas, Dover, fined in 1657 for going in his boat on the Sabbath. Wife Katherine; ch. Elizabeth b.17 Nov. 1663. [Dover Hist. Coll.]
Thomas was a shoemaker. He immigrated on the Defiance in 1650.
From Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: THOMAS, b.Eng., 1610, came to Boston, Mass., 1635, was at Dover, N.H., 1657.
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b. Mar. 17, 1654 in Boston, MA son of Thomas Downs and Catherine _______
d.Apr. 13, 1711 Kittery, ME
m.(1)bef. 1681 Martha ______ d.bef. 1681
m.(2)1691 Mary Lord d.Jul. 26, 1691 in Dover, N.H.
m.(3)Oct. 24, 1698 Abigail Roberts
CHILD of Thomas and Martha:
CHILDREN of Thomas and Mary:
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b.1685 son of Thomas Downs and Mary Lord
d.aft.1755
m.1715 Elizabeth Hanson
b.Jan. 9, 1687 dau. of Thomas Hanson and Mary Kitchen
d.1755
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Ebenezer was a Quaker, taken by Indians 1724. Grossly insulted and abused for refusing to dance. "Boston Newsletter" 1725 says returned from captivity, had wife and 5 children at Piscataqua.
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