Generation 1

JOHN BLAND

Parents: Unknown

John Bland was sometimes called "Smith". [Ref, 2;586]

Nathaniel and Abraham Drake deposed on 27 Apr 1691 in Hampton. They said that they knew John Bland, who was "sometime a liver" on Matthew's Vineyard [an old name for Martha's Vineyard] and was formerly of Colchester, England. They said that they had both known Isabell Bland, the wife of Thomas Leavitt, and John Bland since they were children; that Isabell was "always accounted to be the daughter of ... John Bland" and that they had heard John Bland "own ... Isabell to be his daughter"; that John was sometimes called John Smith, but his and his ancestors' name was Bland. [Ref]

Children of John Bland and Joanna Unknown:

1. Isabella Bland married Francis Asten.

Generation 2

ISABELLA BLAND

Parents: John Bland [Ref, 2;586] and Joanna Unknown [Ref]

Isabella Bland married first Francis Asten. [Ref, 2;586] She married second Thomas Leavitt, previously of Exeter. [Ref, 2;586]

References

Dow, Joseph, History of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From its settlement in 1638, to the autumn of 1892, unknown, L.E. Dow, 1893.

Editors, "English Localities of American Emigrants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 21, 1867, 316.

Lindsay, A. E. T., "Some Descendants of Philip Towle of Hampton, NH," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 43, 1889, 364.