The SHACKFORD Family of Chester, Rockingham, NH Send comments and corrections to anneb0704@yahoo.co.uk
WILLIAM SHACKFORD of Portsmouth m. Deborah Tricky
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SAMUEL SHACKFORD (c. 1674 - bef. 1731) of Portsmouth and Chester m. Abigail Richards (d. bef. 1716)
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JOHN SHACKFORD (m. 1727) m. Dorcas Lovejoy
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DORCAS SHACKFORD (b. 1742) m. Simon French

Generation 1

WILLIAM SHACKFORD of Portsmouth

Parents: Unknown

William Shackford married Deborah Tricky. [Ref]

William Shackford emigrated to New England, settling at Bloody Point (later Newington) in Dover. [Ref]

William Shackford of Portsmouth was a retailer. [Ref, p. 588]

Children of William Shackford:

  1. John Shackford of Portsmouth was a block maker and a grantee of Chester. [Ref, p. 588] He married Sarah Hudson about 1697 in Portsmouth. [Ref]
  2. Samuel Shackford was born about 1674. He died before Mar 1730/1. [Ref, p. 588]

Generation 2

SAMUEL SHACKFORD (c. 1674 - bef. 1731) of Portsmouth and Chester

Parents: William Shackford [Ref, p. 588]

Samuel Shackford was born about 1674. [Ref] He died before Mar 1730/1, when his will was proved. [Ref, p. 588] He married first Abigail Richards. [Ref] He married second the widow Francis Peabody on 10 May 1716. [Ref] She married first Nathaniel, the son of Francis Peabody. [Ref]

Samuel was a block maker. [Ref, p. 588] He was of Portsmouth. [Ref, p. 588] He was a grantee of Chester. [Ref, p. 588]

Children of Samuel Shackford:

  1. John Shackford married Dorcas Lovejoy.
  2. Abigail Shackford married Samuel, the son of Samuel and Mary Sherburne, on 11 Jun 1719. [Ref] Samuel married second Catherine, the daughter of Henry Sherburne, on 25 Aug 1734. [Ref]
    Samuel was an innkeeper and blacksmith in Portsmouth. [Ref] In a 1740 deed, he refers to his father-in-law Samuel Shackford, deceased. [Ref]
  3. Dea. William Shackford of Portsmouth married Susanna Downing [Ref] of Newington on 5 Oct 1727 in Portsmouth. [Ref, 24;359]

Generation 3

JOHN SHACKFORD

Parents: Samuel Shackford

John Shackford of Portsmouth married Dorcas Lovejoy of Andover on 22 Oct 1727 in Portsmouth. [Ref, 24;359][Ref says 25 Oct]

John Shackford, a shoemaker, first settled at Andover and then at Chester. [Ref, p. 588]

Dr. John Shackford married Dorcas Lovejoy.

  1. Theodore Shackford married Mary Bartlett on 14 Feb 1754. [Ref, p. 588]
  2. John Shackford died before 10 Jun 1779, when his will was probated. [Ref, p. 588] He married Sarah, the daughter of Lieut. Ebenezer Dearborn. [Ref, p. 588][Ref] Sarah was born in 1734 and died in 1814. [Ref] He lived on his father's homestead. [Ref, p. 588]
  3. Dorcas Shackford was born in 1742. She married Simon French.

Generation 4

DORCAS SHACKFORD (b. 1742)

Parents: John Shackford and Dorcas Lovejoy

Dorcas Shackford was born in 1742. [Ref] She married Simon French.

"[Simon French] married a daughter of John Shackford, Sen. of Chester. [Ref, p. 526, "a daughter of John Shackford"] She was a feeble woman, and was mostly confined to her bed for nine years, and they endured severe hardships." [Ref, p. 526]

References

Chase, Benjamin, History of Old Chester: From 1719 to 1869, Auburn, NH, The author, 1869.

Dearborn, E. B., "Genealogy of the Dearborn Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1848, 81-98.

Durrell, Harold Clarke, "Samuel Burnham Shackford, A.B., LL.B.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 88, 1934, 201.

Endicott, C. M., "The Peabody Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1848, 153-161; addition 3, 1849, 359.

Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy Genealogy with Biographies and History, 1460-1930, New York, Lovejoy, 1930.

Pierce, Joshua, "A Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Portsmouth, NH from 1706-1742," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 23, 1869, 392-395; 24, 1870, 357-360; 25, 1871, 117-122.

Sherburne, Edward Raymond, "Henry Sherburne of Portsmouth, N.H. and some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 58, 1904, 227-235.

Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)