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Ruth's mark on Nathaniel's administration bond

Children of Ruth Pickworth and Nathaniel Masters:1

i. Nathaniel
ii. John
iii. Abraham
iv. Ruth, m. Jeremiah Storer
v. Lydia, m. Josiah Littlefield of Wells, 1698
vi. Samuel, m. Ann Kilham, 1698
vii. Rebecca, m. Samuel Lee

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Nathaniel and Ruth’s children haven’t been found published with explanations or sources for their parentage. They lived in Wells, Maine, before settling in Manchester, and this was the only Masters family of their generations in either place. An apprentice record for John of Wells names father “Nathall Masters” (York Deeds, vol. 2 (Portland, ME: 1887), 159). The baptism of Josiah and Lydia Littlefield’s son Nathaniel says Nathaniel Marsters of Manchester was Lydia’s father (Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1905), 118). A Nathaniel Masters served from Wells in King Philip’s War (The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 8 (Boston: 1892), 635; George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (Boston: 1911), 107, 109). He may have been the child that was evidence of Nathaniel and Ruth “fornication.” “Nathanill Maisters Senior” was fined for cursing in November 1676, inferring a younger one. (Province and Court Records of Maine: York County, 1653-1679 (Portland, ME: 1928), 511). Abraham had a land grant in Wells (Edward Emerson Bourne, The History of Wells and Kennebunk (Portland, ME: 1875), 187; York Deeds, vol. 18 (Bethel, ME: 1910), 26) at the same time as John and eventually settled in Manchester with children Nathaniel and Ruth (Vital Records of Manchester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 91).