Elihu Gunnison, II

i'Jiluu the son of Hugh, \v;is born in Boston,

probably al King's Arms Tavern, N. W. corner of

Slate and Exchange Streets. After the sale of

their Ilostnn jiroperty in 1651, he probably accom-

jxmicd his parents to Kittery, Me. T/ie gap from

1658 to 1674 / amnotfll. In the latter year, Eli-j

hii finds liis wife at Do\er, where, tradition says, \

lie continued to reside until the settlement was

destroyed In- the Indians, and the inhabitants

were driven down the river. The onslaught was

so impetuous and unexpected, that the settlers

barely escaped with their li\es, and an infant of

our name was inadvertently left behind, and the

agonized parents saw their child siezed by an

Indian, by the feet, and its brains dashed out 1

against a rock. This tradition comes in a shape

to imply one or more other children in the family. (

The settlers fled to Kittery, the oldest and most \

populous of all the settlements, which at no time

was abandoned.

His wife died before Xov. 23, 1685, for on that

day he made a Deed to John Hubbard of Boston,

and no wife is mentioned in it. His second wife's

name was Elizabeth, and by her he had the two

voungest children.

In 1680, Elihu Gunnison joined with other resi-

dents of York, Kitter}^ and Wells in an address to

Charles H., to relieve them from the Puritan gov-

ernment of Boston.

One child killed by Indians

Elihu Gunnersen was the son of Hugh Gunnersen and Sarah Tilley.