Tenth Generation

768. Joseph DOW was born on October 20, 1663 in Hampton, NH. He died on February 6, 1734/35 in Seabrook, NH. As a young man, Joseph was sgt. of militia and saw considerable Indian fighting. He made a rather brilliant marriage to one of the 12 children of Lieut. Philip Challis of Amesbury, MA. This dau., Mary, joined the Friends. Joseph continued a Quaker after his second marriage, although laxly. This second marriage was to Hannah, a child of Indian parents, who was taken, with full permission of her parents, and reared by a Seabrook Quaker family as a Christian. This marriage is the only recorded mixed marriage in Seabrook.

It is now known that Joseph lived in his Seabrook home until his death in 1734. His farm was near those of his brothers Jeremiah and Henry, the three being parts of a single property owned by their father. It was Joseph who first spied the Indians in the great raid of 17 AUG 1703, and ran to give the alarm to the nearest blockhouse. While this raid was engineered by the French Government of Canada, it is worthy of note that Joseph's family did not suffer from it. Perhaps this was due to Joseph's Indian wife.

In BOD - ada, p.97 Joseph DOW and Mary CHALLIS were married on May 25, 1687 in Amesbury, MA.⁷⁶

769. Mary CHALLIS was born on August 27, 1668 in Salisbury, MA. She died on May 14, 1697 in Seabrook, NH. She was christened. Mary was the dau. of Lt. Phillip and Mary (Sargent) Challis of Amesbury, MA.

Phillip, b. abt. 1617 in England, came to Ipswich in 1637; he was in Salisbury in 1640, and later lived in Amesbury where he d. abt. 1681.

Phillip (sometimes referred to as Phillip Watson Challis) and Mary (Sargent) Challis had 12 children, of which the first four died young. Mary was the eighth child. Details of their family are recorded in OLD FAMILIES OF SALISBURY AND AMESBURY by Hoyt. Children were:

	i.	Joseph DOW was born on February 6, 1688. He died in 1738 in Salisbury, MA. In BOD - adaa, p. 98
384	ii.	John DOW.
	iii.	James DOW was born on October 8, 1693.
	iv.	Philip DOW was born on April 26, 1695.
	v.	Mary DOW was born on May 11, 1697.