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- John Daggett Biography:
John Daggett must have had a rather remarkable impact on the community of Attleborough, through his son Ebenezer he was the father of a number of influential and important Daggetts in the history of Massachusetts and Connecticut, including a president of Yale University, Napthali Daggett, who led a contingent of students against the British when they invaded New Haven during the American Revolution. Another ancestor, bearing his ancestor's name John, wrote a historical sketch of Attleborough in 1849.
Deacon John was born and raised in Edgartown before moving to Chilmark to try his hand at tanning. In 1711 he sold his land there and moved to the mainland near the homelands of his uncle with the purchase of 200 acres of land on the main highway between Providence and Boston. That purchase also must have included the 'Old Garrison House' - an inn and tavern that had been garrisoned with troops during King Phillips War and was a familiar stopping point on that well travelled road. Deacon John sold the inn in 1722 and the building continued to stand until 1806 - 136 years from the time it was built about 1670. He died two years after retiring as it's innkeeper. He was 62.
Wife Sarah Pease Biography:
A young girl of 13 or 14 when her father rebelled against the autocracy of Governor Mayhew, she evidently remained on the island, if indeed her father left at that point. She eventually married into the very family that her father had had so much trouble wilth, marrying the Governor's grandson, the second son of the Governor's 'favorite daughter, Hannah. The marriage has never been confirmed, however, and is considered very probble. See Family Group Sheets in LUNDELL for her parents and ancestors.
She married John Daggett, Deacon, son of Thomas Daggett and Hannah Mayhew, 1685. He was b.7 Sep 1662 in Edgartown, Dukes, Mass, She died 7 Sep 1724 in Attleborough, Bristol, Mass. He was buried in Attleborough Old "Hatch Burying Ground". Occupation Tanner (Vineyard) / Innkeeper (Attlebrough).
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1662 - 1724 (62 years)