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| Name |
Sarah Masterson |
| Gender |
Female |
| Event |
Aft 1699 [4] |
| returned |
| Death |
13 Oct 1703 [2] |
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| Person ID |
I6339 |
Duane's Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
16 Dec 2019 |
| Father |
Nathaniel Masterson, b. 1620, Leyden, Holland  d. 25 Jan 1691/2, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Cogswell, b. 1635, Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England d. 25 Jan 1691/2, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America (Age 57 years) |
| Marriage |
31 Jul 1657 |
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] |
| Family ID |
F2085 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Capt. Arthur Bragdon, b. 1670, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America d. Aft 1746, Scarborough, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America (Age > 77 years) [3, 4] |
| Marriage |
Aft 8 Mar 1690/1 [1, 2, 3] |
| Family ID |
F2086 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Apr 2020 |
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| Notes |
- Notes for Sarah Masterson:
Sarah was the daughter of Nathaniel Masterson and Elizabeth Coggswell. She was captured in 1692 and, as "Sarah Braginton of Yorcke", was, "yett in the Indians Hands in January 1698/1699". Ann Jenkins testified in 1695 that Sarah Bragginton had been
bought by the Indian minister Prince Waxaway and was thus freed from "hard usage." That princely Indian could not have kept her long for she was at home and was killed in 1703 when her daughter Abial was captured. From Pike's Journal we learn that on
13 October 1703, "about sunset the Indians stole in upon Arthur Bragdon's house at York, (hard by the garrison), killed his wife and two children and carried his daughter away.
Penhallow says: "Another Company of Indians, commanded by Sampson fell on York, where they slew Arthur Bragdon's wife and five children, carried Captive with them the widow Parsons and her Daughter."
Abial in on the 1710/1711 list. Her fate is unknown.
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Mrs. Sarah (Masterson) Bragdon, wife of Arthur Bragdon . . . was another woman who had more than one experience with marauding Indians. She was probably living in the home of her parents, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Masterson, on Cider Hill about where the
gravel pit is now, when they were killed and their house burned. She, with her young daughter Abial, was captured and marched to Canada and not redeemed and returned to York until nearly ten years later. Only three years after their return, it was
Arthur Bragdon's fate again to come home to find that Indians had attacked. This time he found his wife Sarah and two of his children killed by tomahawk; and his eldest daughter Abial was again carried off to captivity.
Arthur Bragdon III became a noted Indian fighter, and as a captain led a company in the first raid of Narridgewock in the Fourth Indian War. Later he moved to Scarboro with a new wife and family. His descendants have been notable and prominent
eastward of York ever since.
A new generation of Prebles, Banks, Bragdons, Weares, Donnells, Saywards, and Plaisteds took up where their forefathers had left off.
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| Sources |
- 1. [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 467, 00218.
- 2. [S783] History of York, ME, 1:230, 00779.
- 3. [S783] History of York, ME, 1:295, 00779.
- 4. [S783] History of York, ME, 1:302, 00779.
- 5. [S273] The Cogswells in America, 1, 00506.
- 6. [S590] Descendants of Thomas Farr, 71, 00155.
- 7. [S819] Biographical Dictionary of the Youngs, 243, 00815.
- 8. [S1244] Angel Gabriel, 56, 01089.
- 9. [S576] TGMSP, Richard Masterson, 00516.
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