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Noyes/Libby/Davis, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and NewHampshire," (1939), p. 202. This work incorrectly identifies Hannah asan Indian raised by the Friends. This myth was exposed and put to restby NEHGS's George F. Sanborn, Jr. See his article for a great dealmore about this family. Sanborn, George F., Jr., "Joseph Dow's SecondWife, and the Byfield Crew, "N.H. Genealogical Record," July 1990, pp.97-107. Hannah Challis was a Native American who was brought up Christianafter she had been taken away from her parents. From the New Hampshire Genealogical Record, 9:100: "Joseph3 Dow's second wife was HANNAH2 CHALLIS, a sister of his firstwife, and thus the daughter of Lt. Philip1 and Mary (Sargent) Watson-Challis. She was born in Amesbury 20 September 1675 (AmesburyVR, 48) and is first heard of, after her birth, on 26 June 1700 whenSamuel Shaw of Hampton, Constable, was ordered by Hon. Henry Sherburneand Nathaniel Weare, Justice of the Peace, to apprehend her, shehaving been presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions in Portsmouth"the first of this instant June for Comintenge of fornication." Shewas to be brought before a magistrate by 1 July of that year, but Mr.Shaw reported that he could not find her. A second order to apprehendher was signed by Nathaniel Weare, Justice of the Peace, on 16 August1700, but again Mr. Shaw could not find her, returning the ordersaying, "by all provability shee is out of the provance" (N.H.Province Court record, No. 15253. Original record, N.H. Division ofRecords Management and Archives, Concord). In all probability she hadreturned to her mother's home in Amesbury and was probably married toJoseph Dow about this time. Because the Hampton-Amesbury MonthlyMeeting records do not begin until 1701, it is impossible to saywhether they were married by the Friends or not. It may be that,because of their transgression, Joseph and Hannah were expelled fromMeeting. Indeed, they do not appear in the records from 1703 onward,though some of their children seem to have been consistent Friends, aswere many of the grandchildren. It appears that Elihu and Bildad wereQuakers, while Noah and Jesse may have been, as well. The others werenot, though some of Judah's family lived among the Friends. The absence of any mention of Joseph and Hannah in the Meeting recordsis all the more remarkable because Joseph's father was, until hisdeath, the clerk of the Meeting and kept the early records which stillexist." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - Sources Title: Hampton Genealogy Database Author: Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire Publication: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/index.htm Media: Electronic Title: Early Vital Records of Massachusetts to about 1850 Publication: Search Research Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge CO,1998, Type II CD Media: Family Archive CD Page: Amesbury, p. 48
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