Lieut. John Stackpole1

Lieut. John Stackpole||p9981.htm|James Stackpole|||Margaret Warren|||||||||||||||
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Lieut. John Stackpole was the son of James Stackpole and Margaret Warren.1 He married Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Lieut. Andrew Brown and Anne Allison.1
     
     While serving as a soldier at Winter Harbor he was captured by the Indians, after vainly attempting to escape by wading across Biddeford Pool, and was taken to Canada where he remained nineteen months, being exchanged in 1712. He and Elizabeth lived in York, Maine, until 1717 when they settled in Biddeford where he was constable that year.1,2 He was selectman of Biddeford in 1729, 1730, 1737-40. His house on the Pool road was a garrison, four soldiers being posted there in 1723. He was living in 1759.1

Children of Lieut. John Stackpole and Elizabeth Brown

Citations

  1. [S903] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Brown [Michael], of Scarborough and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 232, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Miller (1939).
  2. [S903] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Brown [Michael], of Scarborough and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1, citing "New England Captives Carried to Canada." Coleman, II: 21, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Miller (1939).
  3. [S903] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Brown [Michael], of Scarborough and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1, 233, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Miller (1939).