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- Mary Corliss, Deborah's older sister, married William Neff, in January 1665, who went into the army, and was killed by the Indians in Rhode Island, in an uprising there in 1688-89. Mary was taken prisoner with Hannah Duston, by the Indians in March 1697, in the famous 'Duston Massacre' at Haverhill, Mass., during which Thomas Eastman's oldest daughter Sarah, below, was also killed by the Indians.
Direct References: Vital Records of Haverhill Volume 1: Published By The Topsfield Historical Society Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1910 This edition published by Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, Salem, Massachusetts; Explanation: The following records of births, marriages and deaths include allentriesto be found in the books of record kept by the town clerks; inthe churchrecords; in the returns made to the Salem Quarterly Court;in thecemetery inscriptions; and in private records found in familyBibles,etc. These records are printed in a condensed form in whicheveryessential particular has been preserved. All duplication of thetownclerks' record has been eliminated, but differences in entry andotherexplanatory matter appear in brackets. Parentheses are used whentheyoccur in the original record; also to indicate the maiden name ofamarried woman. [Excerpt from book] Page 76; Mary, and William Neff [of Newbury. CT. R.], Jan. 23, 1665.
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