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Daniel Furbush
Daniel Furbush
by Michael Forbush dr_forbush@mad.scientist.com
From: "Forbes and Forbush Genealogy The Descendants of Daniel Forbush" by Frederick Clifton Pierce
Daniel Furbush (Daniel)
Born in Cambridge, Mass March 20, 1664, married Dorthy Pray of Braintree, born 1668. Mrs. Furbush was captured by the Indians, but returned and had children. In 1722 the house of Daniel Furbush at Kittery, Maine was made defensible. That is, being on the fontier, it was made a garison.
May 10, 1734, Daniel Furbush Senior is one of the persons not allowed to remain in Kittery, Maine by the selectmen, he having embrassed the Quaker faith, to which at that time there was great opposition.
The first meeting house set up by the friends, or Quakers, was built in that portion of Kittery, Maine, afterwards incorporated as Eliot, in 1730.
In 1696 Daniel Ffarbish was fined 5s for fishing on Sunday, in the river at Kittery, Maine. The fine and 1s for fees was given to the poor.
Daniel Furbush, of Kittery, Maine married Dorothy Pray, daughter of John Pray, of Braintree, Mass., who died in July 1699. He died February 1745. Resided in Kittery, Maine.
He had the following children:
i. Daniel b. March 6, 1690, married Anna Lord
ii. Rebecca, born April 19, 1694; married February 9, 1715, Benjamin Gould
iii. John, born April 19, 1699. He married and lived in Kittery, Maine where he died in 1720, leaving amoung other children, Daniel who was administrator of his estate.
iv. Joanna, born July 14, 1701
v. William, born March 19, 1703. William resided in Kittery, Maine and had a son Samuel. William Furbush and Daniel Furbush Jr. were impressed into guarding the stores up the Kennebuck River to Fort Halifax, in the French and Indian War in 1755. In 1745 John Furbish and William Furbush, of Maine were in the expedition against Louisburg.
vi. Dorothy, born 1704; married Joseph Hartford, born April 9, 1703. Children: Dorothy, born 1736, married Ebenezer Wentworth, born Aug 14, 1735, She died 1822 res. Rochester, New Hampshire,
