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Anne (Hannah) LITTLEFIELD.
22246. Edmund LITTLEFIELD (32) was born on 27 Jan 1591/92 in Titchfield, Hants, England. He died on 24 Dec 1661 in Wells, Maine.
"Edmund Littlefield was knighted for bravery on the battle field, and given a coat-of-arms. He first appears in Boston, Massachusetts, 1635. He was a churchman and royalist, and on account of his political and religious opinions was refused permission to settle in any of the plantations of the Massachusetts colony, hence went to Maine and located in the colony at Wells, in that then-sparsely settled region, where he, with John Wheelright, Edward Rishworth, Henry Boade and others, 'entered on the land and began to make it subservient to the uses of man.' His relations with Wheelright leads to the inference of a close friendship, and one authority says he was one of Wheelright's church in Exeter, and one of the combination to each of whom twenty-one acres of land was assigned under the Gorges proprietary. This church was founded by those whose theology was denounced by the dominant church in the Massachusetts colony ... He built a saw and grist mill on the Webhannet river in 1641. He was one of the committee to settle boundary between Wells and Cape Porpoise, and a commission to try small causes, elected by the people for the years 1654-55-58-60-61. A family tradition is that he came over in a ship of his own building, bringing machinery for his mills. ..."
He was married to Annis (Agnes) AUSTIN on 16 Oct 1614 in Titchfield, Hants, England. (18)
22247. Annis (Agnes) AUSTIN was born on 1 Feb 1596/97 in Titchfield, Hants, England. She died about 1677 in Wells, Maine. Children were:
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