Hannah Challis

  General Notes:

Hannah Challis was a Native American who was brought up Christian.
From the New Hampshire Genealogical Record, 9:100:
"Joseph3 Dow's second wife was HANNAH2 CHALLIS, a sister of his first
wife, and thus the daughter of Lt. Philip1 and Mary (Sargent)
Watson-Challis. She was born in Amesbury 20 September 1675 (Amesbury VR,
48) and is first heard of, after her birth, on 26 June 1700 when Samuel
Shaw of Hampton, Constable, was ordered by Hon. Henry Sherburne and
Nathaniel Weare, Justice of the Peace, to apprehend her, she having been
presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions in Portsmouth "the first of
this instant June for Comintenge of fornication." She was to be brought
before a magistrate by 1 July of that year, but Mr. Shaw reported that he
could not find her. A second order to apprehend her was signed by
Nathaniel Weare, Justice of the Peace, on 16 August 1700, but again Mr.
Shaw could not find her, returning the order saying, "by all provability
shee is out of the provance" (N.H. Province Court record, No. 15253.
Original record, N.H. Division of Records Management and Archives,
Concord). In all probability she had returned to her mother's home in
Amesbury and was probably married to Joseph Dow about this time. Because
the Hampton-Amesbury Monthly Meeting records do not begin until 1701, it
is impossible to say whether they were married by the Friends or not. It
may be that, because of their transgression, Joseph and Hannah were
expelled from Meeting. Indeed, they do not appear in the records from
1703 onward, though some of their children seem to have been consistent
Friends, as were many of the grandchildren. It appears that Elihu and
Bildad were Quakers, while Noah and Jesse may have been, as well. The
others were not, though some of Judah's family lived among the Friends.
The absence of any mention of Joseph and Hannah in the Meeting records is
all the more remarkable because Joseph's father was, until his death, the
clerk of the Meeting and kept the early records which still exist."


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Sources



Title: Hampton Genealogy Database
Author: Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire
Publication: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/genealog/index.htm
Media: Electronic

Title: Early Vital Records of Massachusetts to about 1850
Publication: Search Research Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge CO, 1998, Type II CD
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Amesbury, p. 48

Hannah married Joseph Dow, son of Unknown and Unknown. (Joseph Dow was born on 20 Oct 1663 in Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and died on 5 Feb 1735 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.)