Dearborn Surname

Godfrey Dearborn was born circa 1603 in England. He died on February 4, 1685/6 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ^1,2. Godfrey married first Lucy Richardson on June 23, 1629 in Orby, Lincolnshire, England. She died on August 22, 1630 in Orby, Lincolnshire, England.

They had one child:

1	William Dearborn was born in June 1630 in Orby, Lincolnshire, England. He died on August 22, 1630 in Orby, Lincolnshire, England.

They had the following children:

1	Henry Dearborn
2	Thomas Dearborn was born circa 1634 in England 1,2. He died on April 14, 1710 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He married Hannah Colcord on December 28, 1665 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
3	Sarah Dearborn was born circa 1641 in Exeter, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died on August 21, 1714 1. She married Thomas Nudd on December 9, 1659 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
4	Esther Dearborn was born circa 1641 in Exeter, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. She married Richard Shortridge on May 14, 1661.
5	John Dearborn

Henry Dearborn was born circa 1632 in England ². He died on January 18, 1724/5 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ¹.

Father: Godfrey Dearborn
Mother: Ann?

They had the following children:

1	John Dearborn was born on October 10, 1666 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died on November 22, 1750 1. He was married to Abigail Batchelder.
2	Samuel Dearborn
3	Elizabeth Dearborn was born on October 13, 1672 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died circa 1673 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
4	Sarah Dearborn was born on November 9, 1675 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Philemon Blake.
5	Abigail Dearborn was born in 1679 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died on May 19, 1747 1. She married Samuel Palmer.
6	Elizabeth Dearborn was born on November 19, 1681 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married William Sanborn.
7	Henry Dearborn was born on October 28, 1688 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died on April 26, 1756 1. He married Hannah Dow. He married second Mary Robie. He married third Esther.

Father: Godfrey Dearborn
Mother: Ann?

They had the following children:

1	John Dearborn
2	Thomas Dearborn was born on June 22, 1676 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1,2. He died on April 4, 1754. He married Huldah Smith on January 2, 1700/01 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
3	Mary Dearborn was born on May 6, 1678 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1,2. She married Stephen Batchelder on August 25, 1698.

Samuel Dearborn was born on January 27, 1669/70 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ¹. He died after 1746.

Father: Henry Dearborn
Mother: Elizabeth Marrian

They had the following children:

1	Mary Dearborn was born on April 23, 1695 Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married John Blake.
2	Mercy Dearborn was born on February 21, 1696/7 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died between 1697-1702 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
3	Mehetebel Dearborn was born on February 21, 1696/7 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Thomas Berry on January 15, 1718/9 1.
4	Sarah Dearborn was born on June 17, 1699 Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died on January 15, 1756 1. She married Edward Tuck.
5	Mercy Dearborn was born on February 18, 1701/2 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1.
6	Jeremiah Dearborn was born on April 1, 1704 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died in 1751 1. He married Sarah Taylor.
7	Elizabeth Dearborn was born on November 9, 1706 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died on November 30, 1706 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1.
8	Nathaniel Dearborn
9	Henry Dearborn was born on December 27, 1712 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He married Margaret Sherburne on January 19, 1737/8 1.
10	Samuel Dearborn was born on November 1, 1715 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died on February 5, 1735/6 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1.
11	Elizabeth Dearborn was born on October 11, 1717 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Robert Drake on February 22, 1748/9 1.
12	Abigail Dearborn was born on October 10, 1720 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died on July 1, 1811 1. She married Abraham Drake.

Father: John Dearborn
Mother: Mary Ward

They had the following children:

1	Anne Dearborn was born on October 22, 1695 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1,3. She died on August 1, 1718 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1,3. Anne married Joseph Philbrick on December 5, 1717 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
2	Joseph Dearborn was born on April 9, 1699 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1,3. He died on December 8, 1700 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1,3.
3	John Dearborn

Nathaniel Dearborn was born on January 21, 1709/10 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ¹. He died on November 11, 1784 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.

Father: Samuel Dearborn
Mother: Mercy Batchelder

Nathaniel and Mary were first cousins, both grandchildren of Nathaniel and Mary Batchelder.

They had the following children:

1	Mercy Dearborn was born on August 21, 1732.
2	Samuel Dearborn was born on June 18, 1734.
3	Henry Dearborn was born on May 29, 1736.
4	Mary Dearborn was born on March 9, 1739/40.
5	Jeremiah Dearborn
6	Nathan Dearborn was born on December 12, 1746.
7	Elizabeth Dearborn was born on May 19, 1748.
8	Edward Dearborn was born on February 13, 1748/9.
9	Rebecca Dearborn was born on January 23, 1750/1.

Father: John Dearborn
Mother: Hannah Dow

They had the following children:

1	Anne Dearborn was born on December 17, 1725 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She died on February 19, 1786 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. Anne married Joseph Wadleigh on January 11, 1748/9 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1.
2	John Dearborn was baptized on December 22, 1728 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died between 1728-1740 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
3	Hannah Dearborn was born on December 3, 1730 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Thomas Blake on September 1, 1748 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
4	Mary Dearborn
5	Ruth Dearborn was born on June 5, 1734 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Dearborn Blake on May 24, 1755.
6	Elizabeth Dearborn was born on March 5, 1735/6 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Joseph Sanborn on May 9, 1758 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
7	Josiah Dearborn was born on January 11, 1737/8 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. He died on September 15, 1814. He married Sarah Freese on November 17, 1757 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
8	John Dearborn was born on July 21, 1740 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died on October 18, 1794 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He married Zipporah Towle on May 26, 1764.
9	Miriam Dearborn was born on May 5, 1742 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. She married Jeremiah Sanborn on November 8, 1764 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.
10	Paul Dearborn was born on September 29, 1744 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1. He died on September 22, 1746 in Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1.

Jeremiah Dearborn was born on November 30, 1741 ⁴ or August 29, 1743 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. He died on April 18, 1816 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ⁴. He is buried in the Kensington Cemetery, Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.

Father: Nathaniel Dearborn
Mother: Mary Batchelder

They had the following children:

1	Samuel Dearborn was born on January 15, 1767 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. He died on March 8, 1847 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. He married Jemima Brown. (She was born on February 11, 1774 4 and died on February 6, 1848 4.)
2	Hannah Dearborn was born on July 23, 1768 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. She married Enoch Gove on July 28, 1793 4.
3	Asa Dearborn was born on August 12, 1771 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. He married Ruhuma Choate on January 1, 1798 4.
4	Nathaniel Dearborn was born on November 5, 1774 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. He died January 18, 1852 4. She married Lucy Blake on August 28, 1799 4. (She was born on October 17, 1779 4 and died on July 2, 1824 4.) He married second Anne Breede. (She was born on September 8, 1784 4 and died on March 8, 1837 4.)
5	Mary Dearborn was born on July 28, 1776 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. She died on July 4, 1780 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4.
6	Sarah Dearborn
7	Mary Dearborn was born on July 19, 1781 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. She died on April 20, 1851 in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts 4. She married Charles Chase on May 25, 1828 4.
8	Julia Dearborn was born on January 16, 1792 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 4. She died on February 10, 1864 in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts 4. She married Henry B. Mullen on November 19, 1829 4.

Father: John Dearborn
Mother: Anna Sanborn

Mary was raised in the town of Hampton, the fourth of ten children. She married in 1752, at the age of 20, to James Wadleigh from Kensington, New Hampshire. They moved soon after to Epping, New Hampshire, where they remained. Mary was named in her father's will of March 1754. There is no definitive record of her after that date.

Between 1759 and 1778, ten children of James Wadleigh were baptized in Epping, yet the baptism records do not include the mother's name. Then in March 1782, a Mary wife of James Wadleigh was described as being received into the Epping Congregational Church. Then in August 1794, a widow named Mary Wadleigh released her right of dower to a property in Epping that was being sold by Enoch Wadleigh, which had previously been sold to him by his father, James Wadleigh. This person was probably the 45+ year old woman enumerated in the household of Enoch Wadleigh in 1800. This all implies to me that Mary survived her husband and died sometime after 1800. However one published resource suggests that James Wadleigh was married more than once, since it indicates that one of James' sons was a half-brother of the others (which if true - must have been either the oldest, John, or the youngest, Josiah). If Mary Dearborn had died and her husband remarried, then his second wife was also named Mary.

For information on their children, see his page.

Sarah Dearborn was born on July 24, 1778 in Kensington, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ⁴. She died on April 16, 1864 in Deerfield, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ⁴. She is buried in the Tilton Cemetery, Deerfield, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.

Father: Jeremiah Dearborn
Mother: Hannah Locke

Sarah was raised in Kensington, New Hampshire. At some point she had met and married a man from Deerfield. The following narrative was written by Sarah's son Jeremiah D. Tilton:

Josiah Jr.'s first wife, Sarah Dearborn Tilton was born in 1778 in Kensington about 20 miles from Deerfield. She was large, more than medium size, not fleshy but large framed, muscular, active and a hard, smart worker. Her eyes were blue (gray), her hair black, rather coarse while Grandsir's [Josiah Tilton, her husband] was rather fine. Her voice good - an excellent singer - sang counter - powerful voice, high pitch, was broad chested and shouldered and no hips, large hand, medium sized foot, high in instep - (father made her shoes numerous times). She was a woman of great executive ability, physical force, clear, strong mind and naturally high tempered yet pleasant. (M's comment was amiable, easy tempered and lover of home.) She and Josiah Jr. differed in religious belief. She was a congregationalist. Some points in baptism and perhaps in outward form and appearance she different in from Grandsir - he was sometimes disagreeable.

For information on their children, see his page.

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2. Savage, James A. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Boston, MA, 1860-1862.
3. Dow, Robert P. Book of Dow. R.P. Dow, Claremont, NH, 1929.
4. Locke, Arthur H. A history and genealogy of Captain John Locke (1627-1696) of Portsmouth and Rye, N.H., and his descendants : also of Nathaniel. The Rumsford Press, Concord, NH, 1916?.