Martha Brackett

Martha wife of John Brackett, son of Anthony the Immigrant, was the dau of John and Ann (Palmer)Philbrick. Source: Brackett Genealogy, H. I. Brackett, 1907, page 122.

John Brackett Married (1st) Martha Philbrick, b. Sep- tember 26, 1651, daughter of John (son of Thomas, the immigrant, and wife, Elizabeth) and wife Ann Palmer of Hampton. John Phil- brick and wife, Ann, parents of Martha, were lost at sea, October 20, 1657, with one child and five other persons, while sailing from Hamp- ton to Boston.

John Brackett married (2nd) November 24, 1698, Dinah Marston, widow of James (d. 1693) of Hampton, and daugh- ter of John Sanborn. Estate administered in 1726; widow survived him several years.

Issue, not in order of birth:

• 1. Abigail, was captured by the Indians 28 Sept., 1691, and car- ried to Canada where she married a Frenchman. Upon her father's death in 1727, she returned to New Hampshire and claimed her share of his estate, a portion of which was land, seven acres. Jonathan I, <uke lived on it; then Richard Dang and later Samuel H. Tre- fethen. One of the Bracketts made several verses of poetry upon the subject of the return of the Frenchwoman and her claiming her property. In list of taxpayers of Portsmouth, year 1727, appears the name "Frenchman Brackett." Nothing further is known concern- ing her; probably she returned to Canada.
• 2. Keziah, was captured by the Indians 28 Sept., 1691. Among the captives redeemed at Quebec in 1695 was "Cisia Brackett of Oyster river." With the Indians quite every person captured in New Hampshire belonged to Oyster river settlement (New Durham). No further record concerning her.
• 3. Samuel. See family 2.
• 4. Thomas. With Samuel and John Brackett, he petitioned in the year 1721 for a new church district in the town; no further record concerning him.

References

• Brackett Genealogy, H. I. Brackett, 1907. Page 122. < Archive.Org >
• http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/ps02/ps02_048.htm
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=selvage1&...