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The Mary Ellen Ricker ancestry indicates he was killed by Indians as he was returning from church on horseback but no date is given. See the notes within the Joseph Ricker, d. 1772 entry.
From the Garland Genealogy: "JABEZ GARLAND, son (probably) of Peter III. Farmer. Killed by Indians in the .summer of 1710, in French and Indian war, returning from church, about one-fourth of a mile from Varuey's Mills; married, 1692. Dorcas Heard, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth Hall [sic] [note: HULL] Heard, of Dover; she died m 1688. He was among the first settlers in Somersworth, N. H., now Dover. Jabez and his wife deeded, July 7, 1694, to Timo. Hanson 30 acres of land at Dover Neck, near Campion's Rocks, which her father gave to her. He, Ja. Garland (by his mark), with others, witnessed a deed of 20 acres of land in Barwick [sic] [note: Berwick], Me., of James Emery to his son James. "Jabez Garland's garrison" at Winter Harbor (Biddeford, Me.) was taken by the French and Indians after it had been manfully defended, Aug. 10, 1703. Belknap's History of New Hampshire says his name was Jacob Garland (not Jabez) who was killed by the Indians in Cocheco, on his return from public worship, in 1710. It is presumed probable that Jabez Garland's name was changed from Jacob. Mass. Hist. Soc'y Coll., page 326, calls this Jabez Jacob. Lived in Dover, N. H."




PETER G ARLAN D1, mariner. Born in England. Married Elizabeth , who died in 1687, aged 88 years. Residence, Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay. He owned vessels and " coasted " between Massachusetts Bay and Virginia and the " Dutch plantations." " He died in the South while on a voyage." Before his death he requested his sons to take his body to the North for burial, where he had sons, and perhaps daughters. While his body was being brought North in one of his vessels, a storm arose and the coffin containing his body was washed overboard. " He was admitted inhabitant to Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay, in 1637, with seventeen others, including John Harvard, founder of Harvard College." He was allotted in 1637, as inhabitant of Charlestown, " five acres of a ten acre lot in' 1st Division Mystic Side, No. 13," and " permitted to purchase Mr. Wainwright's house that he bought of Robt. Molton, and to have a meadow between Whitehead's land and Capt. Sedgwick's, in 1638."

Extract from Thomas Letchford's Note Book, in Massachusetts Bay, 1638-1641, as follows: —

" Thomas Beech, I pray you to pay unto my good ffriend, Mr. Isaac Allerton, the above somme of thirty-three pounds four shillings and six pence. And I further desire you to demand, recover and receive for me the above somme £6 3s 6d of the same partys, who owe the same unto me, and upon payment, give them acquittance, which when you have received, pay over to my said ffriend, Mr. Isaac Allerton, according to my Letter of Attorney to him made the Date hereof in that behalf."

Witness my hand the twenty-nynth of March, Anno Dni., 1639. (Signed) Peter Garland."

"To all whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, Thomas Beech, now remayning att the Dutch Plantations, standeth indebted unto me, Peter Garland, of New England, mariner," &c.

Names of persons whose land " adjoined or was bounded by lands of Peter Garland, in Charlestown, Mass Bay : Ed. Converse, James Pemberton, Thomas Molton, Geo. Hepbourn, Ffrancis WainWright, Robt. Hankness, Abraham Hills, Thomas Caules, Robert Molton, James J. Pemberton."

Their Children (who settled in the North).

2 i. Jo?.x2, b. before 1622 : d. Jan. 4. 1672 ; m. ist. Oct. 26. 1652, Eliz

abeth Chapman ; m. 2d, 1654. wid. Elizabeth Chase.

3 Ii. PETER2, b. before 1615; m. Joan ; res. Boston.

4 in. GEORGE2 (possibly).

Birth	Abt 1660
Marriage	1692	Living
Death	Abt 1710

Spouse	Living ( - )
Child	Elizabeth GARLAND (1701 - 1761)

Father	Peter GARLAND (1615 - )
Mother	Living ( - )