Lt John HAM

1649 - Aft 1727  (> 78 years)

• Name	John HAM  [1]
  Prefix	Lt
  Birth	1649	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  MILF	Y
  MILX	Militia
  _UID	24F4459CC5E44C17B81C6813233F5D8A9DED
  Death	Aft 19 Feb 1727	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Burial	unknown
  Person ID	I3111	main
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary HEARD,   b. 26 Jan 1650, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. 7 Dec 1706, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	6 May 1668	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Children	1. Sarah HAM,   b. Abt 1680, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. Nov 1749, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age ~ 69 years)
  Family ID	F1222	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2025

  
  

• Notes

  s/o William Ham, who was born in England and immigrated to New Hampshire. —— In the Rollins Record of Families of the Rawlins or Rollings of the United States, pg 10, it states "John Ham was the s/o William Ham of Exeter and Portsmouth, ND, who imigrated from England. John Ham's name appears on the tax list at Cocheco (Dover) in 1665. His first homestead was at "Tolend" near the second falls of the Cocheco River in Dover. Later he moved to another farm below Garrison Hill. He as a juryman in 1668, acquired the title of Lt. and was Town Clerk in 1694. —— Saw the Cocheco Massacre, 28 June 1689 , Cocheco (Dover) New Hampshire: "Letter from Richard Waldron Jr., Esq"Portsmouth 28 June 1689; about 8 o'clock, morning."Just now came ashore here from Cocheca John Ham and his wife, who went hence last night homeward [with Mrs. Heard] (they living within a mile of Major Waldron) and about break of day going up the river in a canoe, they heard guns fired but notwithstanding proceeded to land at Major Waldron's landing place, by which time it began to be light, and they saw about twenty Indians near Mr. Coffin's garrison, shouting and shouting, as many more around Richard Otis's and Thomas Pain's, but saw their way to Major Waldron's, where they intended immediately to secure themselves; but coming to the gate and calling and knocking could receive no answer, yet saw a light in one of the chambers and one of them say (looking through a crack in the gate) that he saw sundry Indians within the garrison which supposed had murthered Major Waldron and his family, and thereupon they betook themselves to make an escape, which they did, and met one of Otis's sons who also escaped from his father's garrison informing that his father and the rest of the family were killed. Quickly after they set sundry houses on fire. This is all the account we have at present, and being given in a surprise, may admit of some alterations; but doubtless the most of those at or about Cocheca are destroyed. "The above account was related to me."Richard Waldron Jr" (Provincial and State Papers, New Hampshire, 1868, vol.2, digitized 5 Dec 2007, as found at Google Books 25 October 2008) [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 33:96. [S151] WikiTree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ham-292.