Isabella BLAND

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Note that Isabella may, in some records, be listed with the surname "Smith" as in Jones' book on Philip Towle (p. 65). This comes from the fact that her father referred to himself as Smith, though he was born with the surname of Bland.

When her first husband died in 1642, she married Thomas Leavitt.

Birth:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabell Bland
Father: John Bland
Mother: Isabella Isabel Drake
Birth Date: 1602
City: Colchester
County: Essex
Country: England

Died:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Deaths database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabella Bland
Death Date: 19 Feb 1699
City: Hampton
County: Rockingham
State: NH

Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988. I. Thomas Leavitt - p.810.

Isabella married Francis AUSTIN 2 Oct 1632, Colchester, Essex, England. Francis was born Abt 1607, England; died Bef 13 Jul 1642, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH. [Group Sheet]

Isabella married Thomas LEAVITT ca 1644, Hampton, NH. [Group Sheet]

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Isabella was persecuted for witchcraft. She and Rachel Fuller were accused in the summer of 1680 after the death of a child of John Godfrey. Rachel confessed and accused Isabella. both were committed to prison where they remained until the sitting of the Hampton Court, September 7, 1680. The court ordered that they continue in prison until bond be given for their good behavior of 100 pounds each. John Fuller became a bondsman for his wife, and Isaac Marston and John Redman for Isabella (it is likely that husband Philip was not able to raise the required bond). They were discharged at the Dover court in 1681. She was united with the church on July 2, 1699.

A second person was charged as a witch that summer at Hampton [1680]. Isabella Towle by name, she was a woman in her late forties, married, and the mother of nine children.(107) Her husband, Philip, was first a seaman," and later a "yeoman" of average position in the community. Beyond this the record does not speak. Particularly unfortunate is the lack of any material on the substantive charges against Goodwife Towle. All that survives is a court order, from September 1680, that "Rachel Fuller and Isabel Towle, being apprehended and committed upon suspicion of witchcraft . . . still continue in prison till bond be given for their good behavior of £100 apiece, during the Court's pleasure. Both defendants were discharged in the following year.

(107) This woman was born Isabella Austin, dau. of Francis and Isabella [Bland] Austin, in about the year 1633. Her father, an early resident of Hampton, died in 1642, and her mother was remarried thereafter to Thomas Leavitt. The Bland connection, on the mother's side, was a distinguished one: "Mr." John Bland was an early and prominent settler of Martha's Vineyard. Moreover, Thomas Leavitt was a man of considerable stature within Hampton itself. Isabella Austin married Philip Towle November 19, 1657. Towle's origins are not known, though local tradition makes him out an Irishman. He arrived in Hampton just a short while before his marriage. Philip and Isabella [Austin] Towle had children: Philip (born 1659), Caleb (born 1661, killed by Indians 1677), Joshua (born 1663), Mary (born 1665), Joseph and Benjamin (twins, born 1669). Francis (born 1672), John (born 1674), Caleb (born 1678). Philip Towle died in 1696, aged about eighty; his widow died in 1719. See Noyes, et al., Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 68-69, 95-96, 425, 689; and the Town Book of Hampton, passim.

The details of Isabella's ordeal are compelling as related in JOSEPH DOW'S HISTORY OF HAMPTON [NH]
Chapter 3 -- Part 23 MORE WITCHES

In July, 1680, a little child of John Godfrey died, and the old cry of witchcraft was raised again. An inquest was held, with twelve solid men of Hampton for jurors, and a verdict rendered: "We find grounds of suspicion that the said child was murdered by witchcraft."

Godfrey's wife and daughter, Sarah, deposed that Rachel Fuller came in with her face daubed with molasses, and sat down by Goody Godfrey, who had a sick child in her lap, and took his hand; when the mother, in fear, drew the hand away and wrapped it in her apron. Then Rachel Fuller "turned her about and smote the back of her hands together sundry times and spat in the fire." Then she strewed herbs on the hearth and sat down again and said: "Woman, the child will be well;" and then went out, beat herself thrice with her arms, as men do in winter, to heat their hands, picked something off the ground, and went home. The next day, the children told their mother that Goody Fuller had said if they did lay sweet bays under the threshold, it would keep a witch from coming in. So they laid bays under the threshold of the back door all the way, and half way of the breadth of the fore door; and soon after, Rachel Fuller came about to the fore door, though she had always formerly come in at the back door, which is next her house; and she crowded in on that side where the bays lay not, and rubbed her back against the post so that she rubbed off her hat, and sat down and made ugly faces and nestled about and would have looked on the child, but not being allowed to do so, went out as she had come in, after having looked under the door where the bays lay; and she had not been in the house since.

John Godrey, Nathaniel Smith and Hezron Leavitt made depositions, equally damaging.

Elizabeth Denham (wife of Alexander), deposed that Rachel Fuller told her "Witches did so go abroad at night, they did lay their husbands and children asleep;" and she said there were eight women and two men in the town, who were witches and wizards.

The men's names were not given, but the women Goody Fuller reckoned as witches were: Eunice Cole, Benjamin Evans' wife and two (?) daughters, Grace (Swaine) Boulter, Mary (Boulter) Prescott, Isabella (Austin) Towle, "and one that is now dead. " Goody Towle, was, in fact, arraigned about the same time, on a different charge, and both she and Rachel Fuller were committed to prison till the sitting of the Hampton Court, September 7. Then, "The Court having heard ye case of Rachel Fuller and Isabel Towle being apprehended and committed upon suspition of witchcraft doe ordr yt they still continue in prisson till bond be given for their good behavior of £100 a piece during the Courts pleasure."

John Fuller became bondsman for his wife; and Isaac Marston and John Redman, for Goody Towle. They were discharged at the Dover Court the next year.

It brings the perils of that time nearer home to recall the fact that she was at one time the victim of the persecution of witchcraft. Both she and a friend were at first accused and the friend,incidently hoping to gain immunity, confessed and put the blame on Isabella Towle. They were both arrested and placed in prison, remaining there from the summer til the 7th of September, when Hampton Court heard their case and released them on bail of one hundred pounds each, and finally, in the following year, discharged the case.

Maine: A History. The American Historical Society. New York. 191

Entertaining Satan:Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By John Putnam Demos
Oxford University Press - 1982Chapter 10

http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/HAMPTON/biog/goodydemos.htm

Birth:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabella Austin
Father: Francis Austin
Mother: Isabella Bland
Birth Date: 1633
City: Colchester
County: Essexshire
Country: England

Christened:
England and Wales Christening Records 1530-1906, Ancestry.com

Buried:
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98895384

Died:
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Sybil Noyes, Charles Libby and Walter Davis, Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939,p. 689.

Vital Records of Hampton New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1992, Vol 1, p. 126.

Isabella married Philip TOWLE 19 Nov 1657, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. Philip (son of Philip Towle and Margaret Whyte) was born Abt 1616, Crediton, Devonshire, England; died 11 Dec 1696, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988., p. 586.

Jemima married John Knowles 10 Jul 1660, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. John was born , England; died 05 Dec 1705, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p. 586.

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Philip signed the Oath of Allegiance April 25, 1678 at Hampton.

History of Rockingham County, NH, Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1915, p 444.

"In 1697, Philip Towle fined one shilling for profane swearing by Henry Dow, justice of the peace."

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Philip married Martha JACKSON 30 Sep 1714. [Group Sheet]

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killed by Indians

"On the 16th of April, 1677, the house of John Kenniston was burned, and himself killed within the limits of the present town of Greeland, which borders on North Hampton, then part of Hampton. About two months later the enemy appeared in Hampton and killed four men in that part of the town called North Hill (now North Hampton). These were: Edward Colcord, Jr., Abraham Perkins, Jr., Benjamin Hilliard and Caleb Towle. Perkins had a wife and three daughters. The others were unmarried. Colcord's age was 25; Perkins' 37; Hilliard's 24; Towle's 16." The Hampton VRs recorded "slaine by ye Barborus Heathen..." p.221

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New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers; Author: Albert Stillman Batchellor; Probate Place: New Hampshire

Name: Joshua Towl
Probate Date: 8 Dec 1715
Probate Place: New Hampshire
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1715
Inferred Death Place: New Hampshire
Item Description: Vol 31

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98902729

Died:
New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records. "Death Records, 1654-1947." Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire.

Name: Joshua Towle
Birth Date: abt 1663
Death Date: 25 Jul 1715
Death Age: 52
Clerk Locality: Hampton, New Hampshire
Event Type: Death
FHL Film Number: 1001112

Joshua married Sarah REED 2 Dec 1686, Rockingham Co., NH. Sarah was born , Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH; died Aft Nov 1714. [Group Sheet]

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Mary married Neimiah Hunt 01 Jun 1683, Concord, Middlesex Co. MA. [Group Sheet]

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Joseph married Mary Ward. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Mehitabel Hobbs 14 Dec 1693, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. Mehitabel was born 28 Dec 1673, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; died 20 Jan 1707, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Sarah Hobbs. [Group Sheet]

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Benjamin married Sarah Borden 07 Nov 1693, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. Sarah was born 1671; died June 29 1759. [Group Sheet]

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Caleb married Zefforah Bracket 29 Apr 1698, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. Zefforah was born 1680, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; died 1757, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

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Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

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Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

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Died:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

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Birth:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=drake&GSiman=1&GScid=1961636&GRid=70540290&

"Here Lyes The Body Of Mrs Sarah Drake ye Wife of Mr Robert Drake Died June ye 8th 1742 in ye 66 Year of Her Age"

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Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

Sarah married Robert Drake. Robert was born 27 Sep 1664; died 06 Feb 1743, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

Hannah married William Locke 23 Nov 1699, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. William was born 17 Apr 1677, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; died 22 Jan 1768, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH. [Group Sheet]

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Some of the descendants of Philip Towle of Hampton, N H, Mrs. A.E.T. Lindsay, p.6
Name: Joshua Towle
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1692
Birth Place: Hampton
First Marriage Date: 6 Feb 1713
Death Date: 24 Nov 1752
Father: Joshua Towle
Mother: Sarah Reed
Spouse: Sarah Brown

Died:
New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Name: Joshua Towl
Event Type: Death
Death Date: 23 Nov 1752
Death Place: Hampton, New Hampshire

Joshua married Sarah BROWN 6 Feb 1712/13, Hampton, Rockingham, NH. Sarah was born 3 Apr 1691, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH; died 8 Aug 1767, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH. [Group Sheet]

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Sarah married James SANBORN 25 Oct 1727, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Hannah married Cartee GILMAN. [Group Sheet]

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Vital Records of Hampton, NH p. 28
"Jonathan the Son of Joseph Towle by Mehetable His wife was born 5 Aprill 1703"

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Jonathan married Anne Norton 12 Dec 1728, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. Anne was born 20 Mar 1708, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; died 1790, Rye, Rockingham Co. NH; was buried , Rye Central Cemetery, Rye, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Amos married Hannah Drake. [Group Sheet]

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Philip married Lydia Dow. [Group Sheet]

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Caleb married Rebecca Prescott 18 Jan 1726, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Anthony married Sarah Hobbs 07 Nov 1734, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Zechariah married Anne Godrey. Anne was born 1707, New Hampshire; died 16 Feb 1766, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Mathias married Hannah Jennes. [Group Sheet]

Mathias married Hannah Healey. [Group Sheet]

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Jeremiah married Hannah Dearborn. [Group Sheet]

Jeremiah married Sarah Sanborn. [Group Sheet]

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Francis married Judith Sargent 04 Jun 1738, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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Nathaniel married Lydia Tilton 17 Sep 1803, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. [Group Sheet]

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7376045