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Descendants of Nathaniel Piper


36. ELIZABETH5 KNIGHT (SARAH4 GREENLEAF, MARGARET3 PIPER, NATHANIEL2, JOSIAS1) was born January 15, 1723/24 in Newbury, Massachusetts, and died Unknown. She married RICHARD CURRIER May 05, 1743 in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was born November 13, 1718 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and died October 09, 1795 in Methuen, Massachusettss.
     
Child of ELIZABETH KNIGHT and RICHARD CURRIER is:
92. i.   STEPHEN6 CURRIER, b. August 01, 1745, Newbury, MA; d. Unknown.


37. JONATHAN5 PIPER (SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, NATHANIEL2, JOSIAS1) was born July 31, 1742 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died July 28, 1818 in Stratham, New Hampshire. He married OLIVE LIGHT October 17, 1769 in Stratham, New Hampshire, daughter of CAPT. LIGHT and DEBORAH SMITH. She was born April 12, 1752, and died Unknown in Stratham, New Hampshire.

More About JONATHAN PIPER:
MILATARY: October 12, 1767, Stratham, New Hampshire, private with the Nineth Foot Company, First Regiment, New Hampshire
     
Children of JONATHAN PIPER and OLIVE LIGHT are:
93. i.   JOHN LIGHT6 PIPER, b. March 23, 1771, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. June 27, 1821, Wolfboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
  ii.   DEBORAH PIPER, b. February 07, 1773; d. Unknown; m. JEWELT WIGGIN; d. Unknown.
  iii.   OLIVER PIPER, b. March 10, 1775, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  iv.   JANE PIPER, b. February 01, 1777, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown; m. BENJAMIN STARTT, April 19, 1795; d. Unknown.
  v.   SAMUEL PIPER, b. March 08, 1779, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  vi.   JONATHAN PIPER, b. January 21, 1781, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. July 27, 1859, Stratham, New Hampshire.
94. vii.   NOAH ELDER PIPER, b. September 13, 1782, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. March 25, 1865, Stratham, New Hampshire.
  viii.   SALLY PARKER PIPER, b. September 02, 1784, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. April 04, 1864, Stratham, New Hampshire.
  ix.   ABIGAIL PIPER, b. March 05, 1786, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  x.   BETSY PIPER, b. January 15, 1788, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown; m. (1) SAMUEL HOITT; d. Unknown; m. (2) ABRAHAM BATDELDER; d. Unknown.
  xi.   JOANNA PIPER, b. January 13, 1790, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  xii.   POLLY PIPER, b. May 16, 1792, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  xiii.   MARK WALTON PIPER, b. March 18, 1794, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  xiv.   EBENEZER SMITH PIPER, b. May 06, 1796, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.


38. ABIGAIL5 PIPER (SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, NATHANIEL2, JOSIAS1) was born Abt. 1743 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died Unknown. She married CAPT JONATHAN ROBINSON Abt. 1760 in Stratham, New Hampshire, son of JONATHAN ROBINSON and MARY CHASE. He was born October 22, 1741 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, and died October 17, 1798 in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
     
Children of ABIGAIL PIPER and JONATHAN ROBINSON are:
  i.   MARCY6 ROBINSON, b. June 20, 1762, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. December 22, 1794, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; m. THOMAS BORDMAN; d. Unknown.
95. ii.   SHADRACH ROBINSON I, b. February 21, 1764, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; d. May 27, 1835, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
  iii.   MESHACH ROBINSON, b. April 03, 1765, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
96. iv.   ABEDNEGO ROBINSON, b. January 07, 1767, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; d. January 26, 1853, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
97. v.   EBENEZER CATE ROBINSON, b. January 04, 1768, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. November 1849, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
  vi.   ABIGAIL ROBINSON, b. May 22, 1770, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  vii.   MARY ROBINSON, b. August 18, 1771, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  viii.   JANE ROBINSON, b. October 13, 1772, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  ix.   JONATHAN ROBINSON, b. December 25, 1773, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. 1869, Stratham, New Hampshire; m. MARY ROLLINS; b. Abt. 1771, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  x.   BRADBURY ROBINSON, b. March 22, 1775, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  xi.   NOAH ROBINSON, b. June 07, 1776, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hamsphire; d. Unknown.
  xii.   BETTY ROBINSON, b. October 12, 1778, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hamsphire; d. Unknown.


39. ELISHA5 PIPER (SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, NATHANIEL2, JOSIAS1) was born June 17, 1746 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died March 10, 1836 in Parsonsfield, Maine. He married (1) SARAH BARKER 1766, daughter of EBENEZER BARKER and SARAH STEVENS. She was born 1748 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died November 13, 1798 in Parsonsfield, Maine. He married (2) OLIVE DYER December 08, 1799, daughter of THOMAS DYER and ELIZABETH MELCHER. She was born March 23, 1758 in Biddeford, Maine, and died April 20, 1808 in Parsonsfield, Maine. He married (3) ROSANNAH DYER October 01, 1808, daughter of THOMAS DYER and ELIZABETH MELCHER. She was born July 15, 1767 in Biddeford, Maine, and died April 23, 1839 in Parsonsfield, Maine.

Notes for ELISHA PIPER:
      Elisha Piper, born June 17, 1746, in Stratham; married, 1st, Sarah Barker, daughter of Ebenezer Barker, of Stratham, born in 1748, in Stratham; died November 13, 1798, in Parsonsfield, Me. aged 50 years; 2nd, Oliver Dyer, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Melcher)Dyer, of Biddeford, Me., born in 1758, in Biddeford; died April 20, 1808, in Parsonsfield, aged 50 years; 3rd, Rosannah Dyer, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Melcher) Dyer, of Biddeford, October 1, 1808, born July 15, 1767, in Biddeford; ;died April 23, 1839, in Parsonsfield.
      After he married his first wife he lived about five years in Stratham, and then purchased a farm in Wakefield, New Hampshire, located not far from Province Pond. He removed there in the spring of 1772, and remained nearly nine years. The farm proving frosty and his prospects for supporting his family on such land being very discouraging, he resolved to sell, and find a home in a more favorable locality. He directed his course to Parsonsfield, then called Parsonstown, in the province of Maine, at that time belonging to Massachusetts. He first purchased lot No. 25, in the second range, of Benjamin Hilton, of Parsonsfield, for one hundred and twenty-five pounds, the deed being dated November 5, 1778, and on this lot he settled. He subsequently purchased five other lots,-lot No. 171, in the tenth range of Alpheus Spring, of Kittery, Me., for five pounds, deed dated November 28, 1785, lot No. 51, in the third range, of John Brown, of Parsonsfield, for five hundred dollars, deed dated May 13, 1790; lot No. 13, in the first range, which was a tax sale, for six shillings and two pence, deed dated June 27, 1791; lot No. 88, in the fifth range, of Chase Wiggin, of Stratham, NEW HAMPSHIRE, for forty-five pounds, deed dated February 15, 1793; lot No. 50, in third range, which I do not find recorded in the County Registry of Deeds, although it is probably there. (The value of a pound at that time was about three dollars, thirty-three and one-third cents.) It now forms a large part of the old homestead.
      In June 1779, the next year after his first purchase, he went from Wakefield to Parsonsfield built him a log camp, covered with hemlock bark, felled several acres of trees, and then returned to his family in Wakefield. In March of the next year, 1780, he went back to Parsonsfield. As there were no roads passable for teams at that season of the year, he hauled his camp furniture, consisting of a bed and some cooking utensils, on a hand-sled, over Ricker's Mountain, on the crust. This was a great hardship, and he was obliged to get some assistance in his passage over the mountain. Before the time arrived for burning the trees, felled the preceding season, he was employed in preparing materials for building a log-house for his family. He burned the trees in May, and planted the ground with corn and such other crops as would be needed for the support of his family the next winter. His planting was all completed before the nineteenth of May, which was the famous DARK DAY of 1780, of which I have heard him speak with much earnestness, as being a very wonderful phenomenon. (The darkness began about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and continued about fourteen hours. It was so great that candles had to be lighted, common print could not be read, fowls retired to their roost, and cattle returned to the barn. Its cause has never been satisfactorily explained. It was not an eclipse. Meteorologists think it was caused by a very dense vapor, charged perhaps with foreign matter. The theory that smoke, in connection with vapor, was the Cause has been more favorable received than any other. See an interesting account of it in a work entitled, "Our First Century".) On that day he was helping his neighbor, George Bickford, finish planting his corn. After his crops had been harvested and his log-house completed, he returned to Wakefield to remove his family, consisting of his wife and six small children. He moved with an ox-team on the snow, late in the year 1780- probably in December, as the day is represented as having been bitter cold-the coldest that winter. The suffering of the little children must have been severe, but such exposures often occur in pioneer life.
      He had now settled down in a permanent home, and was about to enter upon a career of prosperity unknown to him before. He was thirty-two years of age when he purchased his farm in 1778, and his wife about two years younger, both being full of energy and hope, and ambitious of success. Farming was a business in which he delighted, and he pursued it successfully and scientifically, although he had never received any instruction in scientific farming. His land was fertile, and free from frost; and his crops were abundant. The log-house was succeeded, in a few years, by a neat one-story frame-house, and finally about 1812 a story was added to this, and the whole neatly finished and painted. It is still standing, and is occupied by his great-grandson, Samuel Fullerton-(7) Piper. The lower story is nearly or quite a hundred years old.
      To each of two of his sons he gave a farm, and assisted the others in purchasing farms for themselves. To each of his daughters he gave the usual sum, at that time, of one hundred dollars, as her marriage portion. He always kept money by him, usually not less than one hundred dollars; and sometimes I have know him to have five hundred, derived from the sale of stock and farm products. He did not permit any of his neighbors to be in advance of him in his farm work, or surpass him in their farm products. His farm stock was of the best breeds and carefully selected; and having a good pasturage, and being fed in winter on hay of the best quality, it was unsurpassed, in size and beauty, by any in the town. It therefore sold for the highest market prices. He kept one hired man through the year, and in the haying season, one additional, and sometimes two, if needed to secure the crop at the best time for cutting it; so that his haying was generally finished by the end of July or the first week in August; and his hay was of the choicest kind. In 1796 he paid the largest tax of any man in the town, and was always among the largest tax-payers.
      His first wife was a large woman, with dark hair and black eyes. She was the mother of ten children, five sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to be married, and have families; and three of them lived to be over eighty years of age. His other two wives were also large women, and all of them managed their household affairs with economy and ability. In person he was of medium size, quick and active, and of the pure Anglo-Saxon type. He was prompt in all his business transactions and private duties, and never omitted to as a blessing at the table. To the needy he was kind and benevolent, and none ever went away from his house hungry. He died of old age March 10, 1836, in Parsonsfield where he had always lived after leaving Wakefield, NEW HAMPSHIRE
     


More About ELISHA PIPER:
Fact: Piper family Cemetery, Parsonsfield, Maine

More About SARAH BARKER:
Age at death (Facts Pg): 50 years
Fact: Piper family Cemetery, Parsonsfield, Maine

More About OLIVE DYER:
Age at death (Facts Pg): 50 years
     
Children of ELISHA PIPER and SARAH BARKER are:
98. i.   SUSANNA6 PIPER, b. February 15, 1767, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. February 28, 1791, Parsonsfield, Maine.
99. ii.   BENJAMIN PIPER, b. August 19, 1769, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. April 15, 1803, Parsonsfield, Maine.
100. iii.   DAVID PIPER, b. December 24, 1771, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. December 10, 1861, Amelia, Clermont County, Ohio.
101. iv.   SARAH PIPER, b. March 17, 1774, Wakefield, New Hampshire; d. February 28, 1808, Limerick, Maine.
102. v.   DANIEL PIPER, b. March 04, 1776, Wakefield, New Hampshire; d. August 10, 1842, Newburgh, Maine.
103. vi.   MARY PIPER, b. April 14, 1778, Wakefield, New Hampshire; d. December 1822, Ohio.
104. vii.   ELISHA PIPER, b. May 01, 1781, Parsonsfield, Maine; d. October 1812, Newburgh, Maine.
105. viii.   JANE PIPER, b. May 01, 1783, Parsonsfield, Maine; d. October 02, 1863, Limerick, Maine.
106. ix.   BETSEY PIPER, b. April 11, 1786, Parsonsfield, Maine; d. October 03, 1841, Gorham, Maine.
107. x.   JONATHAN PIPER, b. December 30, 1788, Parsonsfield, Maine; d. July 11, 1873, Parsonsfield, Maine.


40. SAMUEL5 PIPER (SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, NATHANIEL2, JOSIAS1) was born September 24, 1753 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died 1813 in Loudon, New Hampshire. He married SARAH NORRIS February 15, 1781 in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, daughter of BENJAMIN NORRIS and SARAH WIGGIN. She was born May 28, 1756 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died May 03, 1843 in Loudon, New Hampshire.

Notes for SAMUEL PIPER:
      Samuel Piper born Sept, 24,1753 in Stratham; married Sally Norris February, 15,1781, who was born May 28,1756, in Stratham. Soon after his marriage he sold the homestead farm in Stratham, and removed with his father to Loudon, N.H. He was there a hotel keeper, town clerk, and selectman eight years, from 1787 to 1794. He died about 1813, in Loudon. She died May 3, 1843 in Loudon, New Hampshire.
      Notes taken from History done by Horace Piper.

More About SAMUEL PIPER:
Occupation: hotel keeper, town clerk, selectman
Residence: Loudon, New Hampshire
     
Children of SAMUEL PIPER and SARAH NORRIS are:
108. i.   JONATHAN6 PIPER, b. May 22, 1784, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. March 1861.
  ii.   BENJAMIN PIPER, b. April 01, 1786, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. Bet. 1786 - 1886.
109. iii.   SALLY PIPER, b. March 09, 1788, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. 1843.
  iv.   JANE PIPER, b. September 21, 1789; d. Unknown; m. NATHANIEL SHERBURNE, March 04, 1813; b. Abt. 1789; d. Unknown.
  v.   BETSY PIPER, b. March 08, 1791, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. March 31, 1877, Readfield, Maine; m. LEWIS FLANDERS, February 06, 1812; d. Unknown.
110. vi.   SAMUEL PIPER, b. March 22, 1792, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. January 29, 1874, Loudon, New Hampshire.
111. vii.   DAVID NORRIS PIPER, b. August 26, 1794, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. June 27, 1869, Thomaston, Maine.
  viii.   ELISHA PIPER, b. November 22, 1796, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. May 1862.
  ix.   ENOCH WOOD PIPER, b. August 23, 1799, Loudon, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.


41. COMFORT5 PIPER (SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, NATHANIEL2, JOSIAS1) was born July 10, 1756 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died Aft. 1792 in Stratham, New Hampshire. She married JOSEPH NORRIS 1774, son of BENJAMIN NORRIS and MEHITABLE STEVENS. He was born January 31, 1753 in Stratham, New Hampshire, and died December 16, 1797 in Stratham, New Hampshire.
     
Children of COMFORT PIPER and JOSEPH NORRIS are:
  i.   MEHITABLE6 NORRIS, b. February 21, 1775, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  ii.   JAMES NORRIS, b. January 31, 1778, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  iii.   JOSEPH NORRIS, b. November 05, 1779, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  iv.   BENJAMIN NORRIS, b. August 31, 1781, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  v.   MARY NORRIS, b. November 11, 1784, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  vi.   CHARLES NORRIS, b. June 22, 1786, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  vii.   NANCY NORRIS, b. July 30, 1788, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  viii.   NATHANIEL NORRIS, b. April 14, 1791, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.
  ix.   CALEB NORRIS, b. November 08, 1792, Stratham, New Hampshire; d. Unknown.

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