Nicholas Lissen d. 8 December 1714

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birth, Lochabar, Scotland, United Kingdom

marriage, ♀ ? Alice [Alice]

1635 child birth, Fallis, Dayiot Parish, Lochabar, Scotland, ♀ Hannah Lissen [Lissen] b. 1635 d. 1714

1640 child birth, Follis, Dayiot Parish, Lochabar, Scotland, ♀ Margaret Lissen [Lissen] b. 1640 d. 1714

1644 child birth, ♀ Mary Lissen [Lissen] b. 1644

8 December 1714 death, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

Notes

This early pioneer to Salem was a Scottish Presbyterian who had fled from the persecution the family suffered in his homeland, during a brief period when the Catholic Party was in control. He moved to northern Ireland and lived there for a time and then came to America in 1637. They first resided at Salem and he was in the lumber business. In 1646 he applied to the Court for permission to operate a business in Marblehead but was denied. The following year, Oct. 10th, 1648, he purchased two houses of George Barlow in Exeter, and moved there. Their three daughters were all born in Scotland. - - From the book History of New Hampshire, by Everett S. Stackpole, worth quoting in full: - - "An item of some importance in the early history of New Hampshire has been overlooked by historians. This was the bringing in, as servants, of some Scotchmen, who had been taken prisoners by Oliver Cromwell in the Battle of Dunbar, September 3, 1650, and the Battle of Worcester, just one year later. One hundred and fifty from Dunbar were sent to Boston in the ship Unity and there sold to pay their passage money of twenty pounds apiece. They were forced to work as apprentices from six to eight years, after which they had their liberty and received grants of land in towns where they chose to settle. Two hundred and seventy-two more prisoners came over from the Battle of Worcester in the ship John and Sara. A score or more of these Scots were employed in the sawmills at Oyster River and Exeter, that then included Newmarket, and some became permanent settlers in those places. Among them were Walter Jackson and William Thompson's son John at Oyster River, John Hudson of Bloody Point, and John Sinclair, John Bean, Alexander Gordon and John Barber of Exeter. The descendants of these include some of the leading men in the state." (p. 76) - - Stackpole's statement is corroborated by information contained in an article published in the October 1927 issue of The Journal of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The article states - - "The tax lists and other sources of information show that Exeter also profited by this chattel slavery, as Nicholas Lissen of the latter place is credited with being master of some of the Worcester prisoners." (p. 28) - [Editor's note: According to Mr. Greubel, the material by Mr. Bean on his ancestor John Bean is available in the Mormon family history library in Salt Lake City but so far as is known, has not been published elsewhere.] Bean states that an expatriate Scotsman by the name of Nicholas Lissen "was operating two lumber mills near Exeter, N.H." in 1651 (Bean 1977:5). Following Stackpole, he states that "the seven men who were indentured to Nicholas Lissen were: John Bean, John Barber, Alexander Gordon, John Sinclair, John Hudson, John Thompson, and Walter Jackson. All were to be lifetime friends of John Bean." (Bean 1977:6)</ext>

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1. ↑ http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=samspage&id=I25327&ti=5538

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