Longley William b. ABT 1640 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 27 JUL 1694

1640 - 1694

Home Search Search Print Print Login - User: anonymous Login Add Bookmark

Personal Information | Notes | Sources | All | PDF

Birth Abt 1640 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [1]

Gender Male

_UPD 15 AUG 2009 10:54:04 GMT-5

Died 27 Jul 1694 [1, 2]

Person ID I1709 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father Longley William, b. 1614, Frisbie, Lincoln county, England, U.K. , d. 29 Nov 1680, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Mother Goffe Joanna, d. 18 Apr 1698, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Married England, U.K.

Family ID F772 Group Sheet

Family 1 Pease Deliverance

Married 15 May 1672 [1]

Children

1. Longley John, b. 1683, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

, d. 25 May 1750, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Family ID F774 Group Sheet

Family 2 Lydia

Married 15 May 1672 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA [1, 2]

Family ID F778 Group Sheet

Notes	(III) William Longley, Jr., son of William Longley (2), was born about 1640, at Lynn, Massachusetts, and removed with his father to Croton in 1661, or earlier. He was well educated, and stood well among his townsmen. He was town clerk from 1666 to the time of his death in 1694, when he and his family were victims of an Indian raid. All were slain except three of the children, who were carried into captivity. The house was rifled and burned. Near where it stood the mutilated bodies were buried by the neighbors and the spot marked by a small stone. A few years ago a more suitable monument was erected to mark the site of the massacre and locate the graves of the victims. It is said in Butler's History that the daughter Jemima, who had been tomahawked and scalped with the others, was found alive sitting upon a rock, that she recovered, married and raised a family. Those who were captured were : Betty, Lydia and John. Betty died of starvation. Lydia was sold to the French in Canada, becamea Catholic, entered a convent and became very zealous and bigoted. She wrote letters to her brother John, expressing her sorrow that he should remain under the influence of a heretical faith through which none could attain salvation. John, who was about twelve years old when he was captured, told the Indians that his father's sheep were shut up in a barn and would starve unless they would permit him to go back and let them out. He promised to return if they would let him go back; they consented and he kept his word and apparently won their admiration and confidence at the same time. He made the best of his predicament and often said in after years that he liked the wild life he led among them and hoped he should never have to return to civilization. And when the government finally ransomed him after five years, he had to be taken with force. But soon after his return to Groton he entered upon his duties as a citizen with interest and zeal. He was well educated and a man of uncommon ability. William Longley, Jr., married Lydia _________. He married (second), May 15, 1672, Deliverance Pease. His children: Betty, died in captivity; Jemima, scalped, but lived; Lydia, the nun; William, born February 17, 1675 ; John, mentioned above and also below ; Joseph, born January 6, 1687. William Longley. d. 1694. Son of William. Probably born at Lynn and removed with his father to Groton in 1663. He married (I) at Groton, May 15, 1672, Lydia. He married (2) previous to 1686, Deliverance Crispe, probably the widow of Jonathan Crispe, who died at Groton in 1680. Was a large owner of lands in Groton. He was town clerk of Groton in 1687 and from 1692 until his death, July 27, 1694, when he and his family, with the exception of three of the children, were slain by Indians. Ou Feb. 20, 1880, a monument at the place in Groton where stood William Longley's house, and where the first William Longley had also lived, was dedicated. The inscription reads : Here Dwelt WILLIAM AND DELIVERANCE LONGLEY WITH THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN. On The 27TH Of July, 1694, The Indians Killed The Father And Mother And Five Of The Children And Carried Into Captivity The Other Three. Of the three children, Betty, Lydia and John, who were taken captive by the Indians, Betty died of starvation and Lydia was sold to the French in Canada. She became a Roman Catholic and a sister of the Congregation de Notre Dame in Montreal. In that institution is preserved the French record of the baptism of Lydia Longley. A copy of it was procured by Dr. Samuel A. Green, a native of Groton and an ex-mayor of Boston, who gives the following translation in his historical sketch of Groton : On Tuesday, April 24, 1696, the ceremony of baptism was performed on an English girl, named Lydia Longley, who was born April 14, 1674, at Groton, a few miles from Boston in New England. She was the daughter of William Longley and Deliverance Crisp,* both Protestants. She was captured in the month of July, 1694, by the Abe"naqui Indians, and has lived for the past month in the house of the Sisters of the Congregation de N6tre Dame. The godfather was M. Jacques Leber, merchant; the godmother was Madame Marie Madeleine Dupont, wife of M. de Maricort, Ecuyer, Captain of a company of Marines: shenamed this English girl Lydia Madeleine. Signed " Lydia Madeleine Longley "madeleine Dupont "Leber "M. Caille, acting curate." Sister Madeleine died at the house of the Sisters of the Congregation de Notre Dame, July 20, 1758, at the age of 84 years. Her remains and those of Sister Marguerite (who was her relative, Sarah Tarbell, of Groton) lie buried in the little cemetery connected with the convent. The Longleys and their relatives and connections at Groton suffered severely in the various Indian raids—in killed, wounded and missing. Among those captured by the Indians were three Tarbell boys, who were taken June 20, 1707. They married Indian women, became chiefs and founded the Indian settlement of St. Regis in Canada, which is said not to contain a pure-blooded Indian. A part of the village of St. Regis comes within the limits of Franklin county in the state of New York. More than once treaties have been made between the governor of that state and the chiefs of the Indians, among whom were the descendants of these Tarbell lads. On Sept. 23, 1825, a treaty was signed by eleven chiefs and trustees of the tribe, including Peter Tarbell, Thomas Tarbell, Mitchell Tarbell, Louis Tarbell and Battice* Tarbell. These were all descendants of the Tarbells of Groton, Mass.f Several efforts were made by the Massachusetts government to induce these wandering Tarbells and others to return to the New England fold, but without avail. They remained with the red men, and their children forgot the tongue which the fathers spoke. Among others taken captive from Groton was Matthias Farnsworth (born 1690). He was taken in August 1704. He remained in Canada, took a French wife, and the name is now found in French Canada written Farnet, Phaneuf, etc. Matthias Farnsworth was long supposed to be dead. He was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church at Montreal as Matthias Claude Farnet, his godfather being Claude de Ramezay. Among the Canadian branches of Farnsworths—descendants of Matthias Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, who was born in 1612 in Lancaster, Eng.—are those of Annapolis co., N. S. Several of his descendants went to Nova Scotia in the emigration of 1760 and settled in Granville. * Deliverance Crispe was probably her stepmother. t In a Dictionnaire Gtmalogique, by the Abbe Tanguay, published in the Province of Quebec, in 1871, there is a list of" Anglais " who were taken " in the wars of the seventeenth century between NewFrance and New-England," including the name of " Lydia Madeleine Longly."

Sources

[S59] Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of, Ellery Bicknell Crane, (Name: 1907;), 536 (Reliability: 3).
[S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 31 (Reliability: 3).