. The ancestry of Moses Leavitt and Lydia Ann Joy Norris . iled by Norris19 16 <-S7 I THE ANCESTRY OF MOSES LEAVITT NOERIS AND LYDIA ANN (JOY) NORRIS The children of this pair may well boast of a thorogoing, typical, pre-revolutionary. New England ancestry. Each main and contributing line to the familystock can be traced back to the early settlers of New England of the early seven-teenth century, or in a few cases, only to the early part of the eighteenth County, , was the locality where the ancestral stock found lodgmentand development. The early settlers of New
. The ancestry of Moses Leavitt and Lydia Ann Joy Norris . iled by Norris19 16 <-S7 I THE ANCESTRY OF MOSES LEAVITT NOERIS AND LYDIA ANN (JOY) NORRIS The children of this pair may well boast of a thorogoing, typical, pre-revolutionary. New England ancestry. Each main and contributing line to the familystock can be traced back to the early settlers of New England of the early seven-teenth century, or in a few cases, only to the early part of the eighteenth County, , was the locality where the ancestral stock found lodgmentand development. The early settlers of New Hampshire came mostly fran the southeast counties ofEngland. A comparison of place names in southeast New Hampshire with those in south-east England shows many correspondences: Portsmouth, Hampton, North Ifeunpton, Rye,Brentwood, Barrington, Strafford (Stratford), Deny, Dover, Rochester, Kingston,Chichester, Epping, NewMarket, etc. Then, too, the actual history of many of these early settlers shows that theycame from various points in southeast Moses Leavitt and Lydia Ann Joy Norris (1861) In 1603 the SPEEDWELL and DISCOVERER commanded by Martin Pring entered Pis-cataqua river. Probably English fishing vessels visited the coast earlier. OnJuly 15, 1605, De Champlain visited Piscataqua Bay, and discovered the Isles ofShoals, landing at what is probably Odiomes Point in Rye. It is believed that in1606 one of Chan^slains vessels anchored in Rye Harbor. In 1614 Captain John Smithentered Piscataqua River and made the first map of the coast. He may be said tohave discovered the New Hampshire coast. In 1620 James I, granted to the Council of Plymouth a charter embracing theterritory from the St. Lawrence river to the region of Philadelphia, and the con-tinent ocean to ocean. The Council granted Aug. 10, 1620, to Sir Ferdinand Gorgesand Capt. William Mason all lands between the Kennebec and Merrimac Rivers, reachingsixty miles inland, with all islands within five leagues of
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