Richard Dolloff

had three daughters that were kidnapped by indians in 1710. i think one was killed, one married to an indian and one married cousin william bean

from internet newspaper. ......My understanding of this episode is that three Dollhof children were captured by Indians on their walk to school. Olga Dolloff who lived in the Dolliff Homestead in the 1990s showed me the spot near a creek where she understood they were taken. As I heard it, the Dolloff family persuaded the colonial legislature to ransom the two boys back but they could not raise enough funds for the girl. She eventually married an Indian and they returned to try to live near Exeter but the cultural divide was too great for them to stay and they moved back to his culture. At this time the Exeter area was on the border with French and Indian controlled Maine and such raids were commonplace until the British and colonial forces broke the back of the French Canada in 1763.

Richard and Catherine had ten children and farmed near his father-in-law, John (MacBean) Bean of Exeter. His first three children, Sarah, Abigail, and Margaret were carried off by Indians, to Quebec Territory, on July 22, 1710.

The Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, in April 1715, state the petition of "Richard Dollar" was read asking for help in redeeming his three children. He went to Canada the summer of 1714 to redeem them, but was only able to bring back one child.

He planned to go again the summer of 1715, but was greatly in debt. He said a French gentleman promised to redeem his children, but he didn't have enough money, so he was given 20 pounds out of the treasury. His children were not redeemed, however, until 1717 when he was given another 10 pounds from the public treasury.

Richard Dolloff was born after 1674 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, the son of Christian Dolloff and Sarah (Scammon) Dolloff. He is the brother of Mary (Dolloff) Gilman [half], John S Dolloff [half], James S Dolloff [half], Samuel Dolloff, Richard married Catherine (Bean) Dolloff about 1700 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He is the father of Sarah Dolloff, Margaret (Dolloff) Bean, Abigail Dolloff, John Dolloff, Jonathan Dolloff and Abner Dolloff. He died about 1750 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Profile last modified 5 Aug 2018 | Created 28 Aug 2014

Sources

Richard's will, in which he mentioned his wife, Catherine Bean Dolloff, was dated April 4, 1744, and is found in the State Papers of NH, published by Metcalf, Probate Records, Vol III, page 198

Clan MacBean in North America, Volume II, Fifth Edition Revised 1993, by Joseph S. Bean pages 20, 21 New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars, Volume I, by Emma Lewis Coleman, 1926, Facimile Published by Heritage Books, Inc., Westminster, MD, 2008, pages 338, and 372