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John signed with a mark 16 February 1678/79, deed says he was a seaman of Weymouth Redding's, now Redin, Island, off Cape Porpoise, Kennebunkport Mare Point, Brunswick canoe found off Cape Porpoise shoreline opposite the northwest side of Redin Island. "There’s an Algonquin fishing weir complex off Cape Porpoise’s Redin Island. Spahr, who has written a paper about the weir complex, believes the dugout canoe is likely of Algonquin origin, used in the community’s fishing and trading activities." https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/55433 "(archaeologist Tim) Spahr said artifacts like the canoe show that there were communities with activities such as fishing, farms and trading thousands of years ago. As part of his ongoing research he published a paper on an Algonquin fishing weir complex off Cape Porpoise’s Redin Island and believes those who used the canoe may have been from the Algonquin tribe." httpss://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/york-star/2023/06/06/a-fascinating-discovery/4972072007/ John deposed in Boston on 17 November 1683 that he was about 30, formerly of Casco Bay and that he had been a fisherman with his father at "Mair Point" in Gloucester before the war.2 Thomas Redding, the presumed father of John, was named as a former owner of a piece of land at "Mair Point Neck" in Gloucester in an Essex County deed.3 John's first wife Mary died and he married a woman named Jane. No details about her have been found other than her remarriage to Richard Babson of Gloucester. John died there on 17 November 1716.4 No evidence was found to support the statement in that he was in Ipswich in 1698.      

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vital records sources: Vital records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, vol. 3 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1924), 254, confirmed in "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," ancestry.com database online (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Gloucester, Births, Marriages and Death, image 202.

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