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From: "Pembroke Collies" <>
Subject: Re: [GM-L] James Fisk, b. Haverhill, 1649
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:58:45 -0600
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Do you by chance have any information about a Caroline Fiske who was married
to a Peter Harrington. I do not have a birth date but do have a death date
of August 5, 1872. Peter was born on Dec 8, 1799 (died January 11, 1890)

Thanks JUDIE


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Subject: Re: [GM-L] James Fisk, b. Haverhill, 1649


> They were married by Gershom Hobart (see below)
> p. 401
> Marriage, Births & Deaths
> History of Groton, Mass by Caleb Butler, 1848
>
> James Fiske and wife, Tabitha
> Children:
> Mary Fiske b. Sept 11, 1690
> James Fiske b. Feb 11, 1694/5
> Samuel Fiske b. July 10, 1696
> John Fiske b. Dec 10, 1699
> Ann Fiske b. April 16, 1702
> Jonathan Fiske b. Sept 10, 1704
>
> Subject: James Fiske
> Source: Bond's Watertown
>
> p.819
> In December, 1662, "meet men were found amongst the
> inhabitants of Groton when Deacon James Parker, John
> Lawrence, William Martin, Richard Blood and James Fiske
> were chosen Selectman [see Butler p.17] - verified in Butler's
> 1848 book. jn
>
>
>
> Subject: James Fiske
> Source: Groton Historical Series by Dr. Samuel A. Green
> Vol. III
> p.188
>
> The Clerk of Writs who was "nominated by each town and allowed by each
Shire
> Court, to grant summons and attachments in all civil actions, at the
liberty
> of the
> plaintiff, and summons for witnesses" and "to grant
> replevins, and to take bond with sufficient security
> of the party to prosecute the suite." For twelve years
> before the town of Groton was destroyed by the Indians
> in the spring of 1676, James Fiske was Clerk of the Writs and, as such
made
> returns of the Births, Deaths
> and Marriages to the County Court at Cambridge.
>
> Subject: James Fisk/Fiske
> Source: Groton Historical Series by Dr. Samuel A. Green
> Vol. I, Chapter XIII
>
> Introduction
> At a very early period in the history of the Colony of
> Massachusetts Bay, the registration of births, deaths
> and marriages was required by law.
>
> In accordance with this requirement the births, deaths
> and marriages occuring at Groton were duly recorded in
> the Middlesex County Records; and, as many of them do not appear in the
town
> records they are now printed for
> the convenience of geanealogical students. It will be
> noticed that the earlier ones were sent to the recorder
> by James Fiske, "clerk" which stands for clerk of writs
> as he was not the town clerk during all of the period
> when he so signs himself though he was for the year 1665.
>
> p. 3
> Register of Births, Deaths and Marriage in Groton
>
> Entries recorded by Thomas Danforth, Aug 8, 1664
>
> p.4
> Entries recorded by James Fiske & Entered by Thomas
> Danforth Sept. 9, 1666.
>
> p.5
> Entries recorded by James Fiske & Entered by Thomas
> Danfort July, 1667
>
> p.6
> Entries recorded by James Fiske & Entered by Thomas
> Danforth, November 16, 1668.
>
> p. 8
> Entries by James Fiske, Clerk for April 1668.
>
> p.9
> Entries thru Oct 11, 1674 made by "James FFisk, Clerk
> of ye Writts & Entd by T. D. R.
>
> p.24
> James Fisk & Tabitha Butterick both of Groton were
> joyned in Marriage February 2d, 1684.
> By Gersham Hubert, Minister of Groton [Gershom Hobart].
>
> Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Internet Source below:
>
> SGT. JAMES FFISKE - Born in England about 1620, married firstly Anna ?,
> secondly Hannah Pike at Haverhill, MA in about 1648. He emigrated in 1637,
> joined Salem Church in 1641 and was made a freeman the following year.
> Shortly afterwards he moved to Haverhill, MA, by way of Newbury, MA and
> Wenham (mentioned there in 1644). At Haverhill he had several grants of
land,
> the first in 1646. In Nov 1659 he sold, for £100, a dwelling-house and
house
> lot of nine acres in Haverhill to Rev. John Ward. It was bounded by land
of
> Richard Littlehale on the west, by Mr Ward's to the east and south, by
> Michael Emerson on the north. Also included were five acres of planting
land
> in the Playne, bounded on the south by the Merrimack River and north by
the
> common; two acres of east meadow, bounded on the east by a river, and two
> acres of west meadow, with commonages.
>
> He did not feature in the general grants of land in Haverhill in 1661, so
had
> probably already moved to Groton. In 1669 he was one of a committee
appointed
> "to lay the land northerly of Groton".
>
> From the Groton records is the entry: Due to James ffiske & Joh. Nuttin
> twenty shillings for laying out the hie-way to Chelmsford when they have
> perfeted the work wh. they promise to doe as soone as they can. His will
was
> dated June 14, 1689 and was proved at Cambridge, MA. He died on July 14,
1689.
>
> His offspring were:
>
> JAMES FFISKE, born Aug 8, 1649, married Tabitha Butterick.
>
> JOHN FFISKE, born Dec 10, 1651, there is a tradition that he was killed in
> the Indian wars.
>
> ANN FFISKE, born May 31, 1654, died as an infant.
>
> THOMAS FFISKE, born Jan 23, 1655, probably killed in the Indian wars.
>
> ANN FFISKE, born Feb 11, 1656, not mentioned in her father's will.
>
> SAMUEL FFISKE, born Nov 1, 1658, married Susanna ?
>
> HANNAH FFISKE, given her father's new house in his will in 1689 (may have
> been daughter Ann, mis-spelled)
>
> James junr. and Samuel were both shown in Groton records as heads of
family,
> in 1690 and 1704 respectively.
>
> Descendants of Samuel included Hon. Levi Fiske of Jaffrey, a State Senator
> 1835-6, and Hon. Thomas Fiske of Dublin, New Hampshire, State Senator
1859-60.
>
>
>
>
>
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