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- [S00097] Ancestry Trees, Jones Family Tree, SJonesIV, 10/4/2013.
""Thomas Sleeper, Birth 1590;
m Joanna Shaw, Birth 1594, Death 1652;
c Thomas Sleeper, Birth 1616, Death 1696 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. m Joanna Lee Knight, Birth 1623, England, Death 1703, Hampton, New Hampshire;
.. c Aaron Sleeper, Birth 1661, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 1732, Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. .. m Elizabeth Shaw, Birth 1664, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 1708, Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. .. c Ebenezer Sleeper, Birth 1702, Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death abt 1769, Brentwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. .. .. m Sarah Ward, Birth 1702, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 1769 in Kingston, New Hampshire;
.. .. .. c Stephen Sleeper, Birth 1729, Brentwood, New Hampshrie, Death 1801;
.. .. .. .. m Elizabeth French, Birth 1731, Death 1809;
.. .. .. .. c Samuel Sleeper, Birth 19 Feb 1752, East Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 4 May 1801 in Loudon, Merrimack, New Hampshire;
.. .. .. .. .. m Hannah, Birth abt 1750, Death 8 Jan 1840;
.. .. .. .. .. c Stephen Sleeper, Birth 29 Jun 1785, Loudon, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Death 13 Aug 1834;
.. .. .. .. .. m Susanna Dudley, Birth abt 1786, Fremont, New Hampshire, Death 20 Feb 1870, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. .. .. .. .. .. c Nancy A Sleeper, Birth 10 Sep 1826, Brentwood, New Hampshire, Death 27 Jun 1851 in Brentwood, New Hampshire;
"Davidson Dudley, Birth 1723, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 1787 in Brentwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
m Anna Ladd, Birth 25 Jun 1718, Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 18 Jun 1728 in Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire; [Death date wrong]
c Peter Coffin Dudley, Birth 1761, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 26 Mar 1808, York, York, Maine;
.. m Mary Polly Perry, Birth 30 Nov 1764, Death 12 Dec 1839;
.. c Susanna Dudley 1786 – 1870; ==>
David Knight, Birth abt 1600;
c Joanna Lee Knight 1623 – 1703; ==>
William Partridge, Birth 1615, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Death 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts;
m Ann Spigon, Birth 1618, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Death 1689, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts;
c Elizabeth Partridge 1643 – 1678; ==>
Roger Shaw, Birth 1584, London, Middlesex, England, Death 1661 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
m Anne, Birth 1610, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 1661, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
c Joseph Shaw, Birth 1635, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 1720, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. m Elizabeth Partridge, Birth 1643, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Death 1678, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. c Elizabeth Shaw 1664 – 1708; ==>"
- [S00124] US and International Marriage Records 1560-1900.
"Thomas Sleeper
Gender: Male
Birth Year: 1616
Spouse Name: Joanna
Spouse Birth Place: of NH
Marriage State: of NH
Number Pages: 58"
- [S00165] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
"Sleeper, Aron (1661-) and (Elizabeth SHAW] (1664-1708); b 1686, b 1684, 23 May 1682; Salisbury/Hampton, NH"
"Sleeper, Thomas (1616?-1696) and [Joanna] [LEE?] (1623-1703, Kingston, NH); b 1648, b 1658; Haverhill/Hampton, NH"
- [S00071] Publications, The Sleeper Family of New Jersey and New York, Ethel Sleeper Gross, 1931, Press of Mount Holly Herald, Mount Holly, New Jersey, Chapter I, page 1.
"Chapter I
Our People in New England
I. Thomas Sleeper, who was born in England about 1616, was in Hampton, New Hampshire, then a part of Massachusetts, soon after the settlement of that town by a colony of Puritans from Norfolk in England. land was granted to him in 1646. His first home was near the Jesse Lamprey place but he later moved to the section now known as Shaw's Hill, on the road to Little River.
Thomas Sleeper married Joanna ----, marriage date unknown, and their children were Elizabeth, Mary, Ruth, John, Naomi, Moses, Aaron and Luther."
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- [S00172] England and Wales Christening Records 1530-1906, England and Wales Christening Records 1530-1906, UNCERTAIN.
"Joane Knight
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 18 Dec 1623 Christening Place: Kingsclere, Hampshire, England
Father's Name: Nic Knight"
- [S00097] Ancestry Trees, Sleeper/Saage Family, sleeps4, 10/13/2013.
"Robert Knight, Birth 1585, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, Death 24 Aug 1676, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts;
m Margaret Grimley, Birth 1587, London, Middlesex, England, Death 1651 in York, York, Maine; m 1608;
c Joanna Lee Knight, Birth 1623, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States or England, Death 05 Feb 1703 in Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire;
.. m Thomas Sleeper, Birth 1616, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Death 30 Jul 1696, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; m Sep 1656;
- [S00166] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Page 637-638.
"SLEEPER
1. Aaron(3), m 1st 23 May 1682 Elizabeth Shaw(10) w d 27 Oct 1708. He lived on Shaw's Hil in Hampton, afterward in Kingston. was head of a Kingst. farm in 1725 and d there 9 May 1732. The aged Mrs Sleeper d of a fever 3 Jan 1736. Ch: Evenezer, b 1697, d 1698. Ebenezer, b 24 Apr 1702, bot in Kingston, 1723, head of a fam in 1725. Will 1761-1768 names wife Sarah, 1 son 2 daus."
"3 Thomas, weaver, Hampton. In June 1657 he bot in Haverh. and moved there, selling out in Hampton. Sold Haverh in 1659 and bot again in hampton again in 1660. His wife Joanna (33 in Sept 1656) d 4 Feb 1702-3 (Kingston rec). Ch: Aaron b at Hampton 20 Feb 1660-61."
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- [S00036] Small Research, No immigration information known so far.
Person assumed to be an immigrant, date after foreign birth, or before American death, or 1600 if birth unknown. Provided to allow indentifying the top of the American tree, and searching on the web site.
- [S00168] Maine Pioneers 1623-60, Maine Pioneers, 1623-60.
"Thomas Sleeper
Comment: weaver, Hampton, proprietor, June, 1640. Bought land in Boston 15 (5) 1645; sold land in Hamp. 10 (8) 1657, his wife Joannah consenting; bought house and land in Haverhill, Mass. 27 June, 1657, and removed thither. Returned to Hamp. Bought land in Hamp. of N. Bachiler 20 June, 1660.
First wife Jemina, second wife Joannah; children, Elizabeth (m. Abraham Perkins), Mary, Ralf b. 1 (4) 1650, John b. 10 (7) 1652, Naomi b. 15 (2) 1655, Moses b. at Hav. 13 (1) 1657-8, Aaron b. 20 (12) 1660, at Hamp. Luther b. Nov. 14, 1668, d. 19 (3) 1670.
He died 30 July, 1696"
- [S00071] Publications, Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire: ... Volume 2 By Lewis Publishing company, Chicago, page 811.
"SLEEPER
(I) Thomas Sleeper was born about 1616 and was a resident of Hampton New Hampshire, soon after the settlement of that town in 1638. Land was granted to him as early as 1646. In the latter part of his life he lived on what is now known as Haverhill?. His was a frontier house, no other family living so remote from the main settlement. From him and his descendants that part of town was called "Sleepertown," since corrupted to "Sleepytown". He died on July 30, 1696, and his family afterwards removed to the newly incorporated town of Kingston. His wife Joanna died there Febuary 5, 1703, at the age of eighty years. She was buried in Hampton. their children were Elizabeth, Mary, Ruth, John, Moses, Aaron and Luther.
(II) Aaron, third son and sixth child of Thomas and Joanna Sleeper, was born February 20, 1661, in Hampton, and died in Kingston, May 9, 1732, aged seventy-one years. H was married May 23, 1682 to Elixabeth, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Partridge) Shaw, and grandfather of Roger Shaw (See Shaw, I), and had a second wife Sarah, who bore him two children. They included Moses, Thomas, Aaron, Joseph and John (twins), Samuel, Elisha, Hezekiah, Ebenezer, Jonathan and Abigail."
- [S00164] New Hampshire Death and Disinternment Records 1754-1947.
"Johannah Sleeper
Death Date: 4 Feb 1702/3 Death Place: Kingston, New Hampshire
- [S00128] New Hampshire Births and Christenings Index 1714-1904.
"Aaron Sleeper
Birth Date: 20 Dec 1660 Birth Place: Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Thomas Sleeper
Mother's Name: Johanna
FHL Film Number: 1001039"
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