

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1628 at an unspecified location.
John Damon came over to Plymouth Colony at about the age of seven sometime before 1628 with his sister, Hannah, who was about five, and his mother's brother William Gilson, and his wife, Frances. Gilson was also John and Hannah's guardian. After Gilson died, a fairly young man, in 1639, his will provided well for both John and Hannah, and dictated that "his nephew John Damon should receive my lot on the third cliff, after the next crop is taken off." John "succeeded to his uncle's residence, on Kent Street." When Frances died ten years later, in 1649, Hannah and John were made sole heirs. All evidence suggests that, as the Plymouth Colony Records state, "although he had no children of his owne, yet that he had two of his sister's children, which he looked upon as his own." Susan Collamore Damon, Davis' sister, in a journal entry on October 1897, quotes Colony Records of 1649: "John and Hannah Damon are allowed by the Court to be lawful heirs of William Gilson, it being proved by divers (diverse) persons that Mr. Gilson had often said that he intended to make these (his sister's children) his heirs."
He was born on November 11, 1621 in Kent, England. In 1633, he arrived in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts as family heir of William Gillson. In 1644, John married Katherine Merritt in in Scituate.
His children were:
John died in January 1677 in Scituate.
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Arrived in America in 1628. Married June 1644, Scituate, MA
member of council of war
commander of a troop of horse
1621 |
November 11, 1621
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Tenterden, Kent, England
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1645 |
April 25, 1645
Age 23
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Scituate, MA
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1647 |
November 3, 1647
Age 25
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Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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1649 |
February 17, 1649
Age 27
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Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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1651 |
February 1651
Age 29
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Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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July 16, 1651
Age 29
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Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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1653 |
February 2, 1653
Age 31
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Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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1662 |
April 17, 1662
Age 40
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Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
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