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About Hannah Jennings
Not the same as Hannah Gibbs
Hannah (Dickinson) b. Dec. 6, 1648, m. 1st Sept. 23, 1668 to Samuel son of Jonathan Gillett of Hatfield. He b. Jan. 22, 1643, Windsor, Conn. Killed by Indians in Fall's Fight, May 19, 1676. She m. 2nd May 15, 1677 to Stephen Jennings. Removed to Brookfield, Mass. He killed there by the Indians, July 22, 1710.
The date of her death (seen as 1705 at Brookfield) is unknown.
Findagrave MEMORIAL ID 107215654
Hannah’s father and first husband Samuel died in the Turner’s Falls battle of 1676. Four months after her second marriage to Stephen Jennings in 1677, she was captured by the Indians and carried off with two of her Gillett children to Canada. She escaped the next year.
In 1708, her son Joseph Gillet was wounded and her daughter’s husband killed, and in 1710, her husband Samuel was killed by Indians.
Family
She married first, Samuel Gillett who was killed 19 May 1676 in the Falls Fight.
They had four children:
- Hannah,
- Mary,
- Samuel, and
- Hannah (again)
She married second on 15 May 1677 in Northampton, MA to Stephen Jennings.
Indians attacked on 19 Sep 1677, and carried her off, as well as 16 others. Her husband and his riend, Benjamin Waite, set off on a harrowing journey to recover their wives, both of whom were pregnant at the time. Their husbands were able to ransom them and they returned home in May of 1678.
Jennings children with birth dates:
- Captivity (14 May 1678 in Canada),
- Stephen (16 Jun 1680),
- Joseph (23 Aug 1682),
- Sarah (29 Aug 1684)
- , Benjamin (killed with his dad on 20 Jul 1710)
- , John,
- Jonathan (listed below) and
- Ebenezer.
Sources: 167. Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield.
168. L. M. Boltwood, Genealogies of Hadley Families, Metcalf & Co., Northampton, 1862.
[Hannah's father John Dickenson and her first husband Samuel Gillett had been killed by Indians at the Fall's Fight, later her second husband Stephen Jennings would be killed by Indians.] [Hannah had been remarried only a few months when on 19 Sept. 1677 she and her 5-year old daughter Mary and her 4-year old son Samuel were captured during an Indian attack on Hatfield. Hannah was pregnant at the time. When the authorities refused to pursue the Indians in fear of ambush, her husband and Benjamin Wait set out together to recover the captives who were headed for Canada. After a journey that lasted all winter they reached Canada in January and negotiated a ransom with the French. There Hannah had a daughter she named Captivity Jennings on 22 Jan. 1678. Hannah returned home with her children in June 1678.[36] On 22 July 1710 Stephen Jennings while engaged in making hay was ambushed and killed by Indians at Brookfield. Captivity Jennings married Abigah Bartlett. He too was killed by Indians Oct. 1708.(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.an cestry.com/~bart/GILLET.htm)]
THE RAID For a small town, the numbers were staggering: six houses burned, 12 dead, four wounded and 17 kidnapped. Those killed included four women and four children, plus four men who were building a house for an engaged couple. The Captives included one man, three women and 13 children ranging in age from three to eight. Two of the three women —
Martha Waite and Hannah Jennings were pregnant.
The Hatfield Captives
- Abigail Allis, 5½
- Abigail Bartholomew, 8
- child Coleman
- Sarah Coleman, 4
- Obadiah Dickinson, 36
- child Dickinson
- Mary (Merrick) Foote, 30
- Nathaniel Foote, 5
- Mary Foote, 3
- Hannah (Dickinson) Jennings, 28
- child of Hannah Jennings
- child of Hannah Jennings
- Samuel Kellogg, 8
- Martha (Leonard) Waite, 28
- Mary Waite, 5
- Martha Waite, 4
- Sarah Waite, 2
References
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q29L-21VP : 10 February 2018), Samuel Gillit and Hannah Dickinson, 23 Sep 1668; citing Marriage, , Hadley, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 760,648.
- http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I7128&tree=Schirado
- http://larkturnthehearts.blogspot.com/2009/02/captive-wounded-slan-...
- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bart/genealogy/GILLET.htm
- https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hannah_Dickinson_%289%29
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dickinson-314 cites
- Goodwin, Nathaniel, The Foote family: or, The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1849. p. 271–2. Accessed on ancestry.com 26 Fen 2018.
- http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/jennings%20heritage/cornerstone_...
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Hannah Jennings's Timeline
| 1648 |
December 6, 1648
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Wethersfield, (Present Hartford County), Connecticut Colony
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December 6, 1648
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Hadley, Middlesex County (Present Hampshire County), Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1669 |
September 20, 1669
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Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1671 |
December 20, 1671
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Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
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| 1673 |
May 14, 1673
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Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1674 |
September 5, 1674
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Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1678 |
March 4, 1678
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Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA, United States
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| 1680 |
June 16, 1680
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Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
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