Johanna
CORLISS
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1650
- 1734
Father: George CORLISS
Mother: Joanna DAVIS
Family 1 : Joseph
HUTCHINS
1. John HUTCHINS
2. Johanah HUTCHINS
3. Frances HUTCHINS
5. Andrew HUTCHINS
6. Samuel HUTCHINS
7. Joseph HUTCHINS
Family 2 : Stephen DOW
___Thomas CORLISS_____
| (1604 - 1674) m
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___George CORLISS______|
| (1617 - 1686 m 1645 |
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- Johanna CORLISS
| (1650 - 1734) m 1669
| __John DAVIS______
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| (1572 - 1626) m ca1600
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___Thomas DAVIS_____|
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| (1601/2 - 1683) m ca1620 |
| | |___Agnes ?????___
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| (1574 - ....) m ca1600
|____Joanna DAVIS_______|
(1625/8 - 1688) m 1645 | __Nicholas
COFFIN___
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___Peter COFFIN_______|
| | (1580 - ca1628) m
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|__Christian COFFIN____|
(ca1607 -
1668) m ca1620 | ___Robert THEMBER__
|___Joan THEMBER____|
(1593/4
- 1661) m |___Anna ?????______
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Her sister, Mary (Corliss) Neff, was involved in one of the most famous episodes of 17th-century colonial New England. She was employed as a nurse to the pregnant Hannah Dustin when Indians invaded Haverhill. Dustin was in labor so she couldn't flee with the rest of her family and Dustin and Neff were taken prisoner by the Indians. As the Indians led them north, Dustin's new-born baby was murdered by the Indians, who threw it against a tree. When they reached the Indian camp, the Indians intended to make concubines out of the women, but Dustin had other plans. In the middle of the night, she crept through the Indian camp with a club and killed many of them and then escaped with Neff and an English boy (Samuel Lennardson) back to Haverhill. A court officially awarded her money for each of the Indians she killed. Today, there is a monument at the site of the incident (in New Hampshire) where the Indian camp once stood (http://kingsley.locke.net/gen/dustin/hannah.htm).
Robert Piercey Dow, The Book of Dow (1927).
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