Individual Details

Birth

was a prosperous Farmer
George Sisson was the eldest child of Richard and Mary Sisson.
George Sisson may have been born in England, perhaps in Burton, Latimer, Northam, England, or in Portsmouth, RI, or in Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony. According to a letter from Dorothy Dey reprinted in the Sisson Newsletter, v.2 no.2, Charles Edward Banks, in his "Topical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620 to 1650," "George Sisson came from Burton, Latimer parish, in Northamptonshire, England, clear up on the Scottish border...."

Marriage

In 1667 George went with his father to Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony, but later he returned to Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Sarah's half-brother Isaac married Mary Sisson, Sarah's sister-in-law, her husband George's sister. Mary died in childbirth.

Juror

He was grand juror in 1671, and
at the same time was appointed, with others, to view the damage done to the
Indians' crops by the settlers' horses and swine.

Event

George was admitted as a freeman at Portsmouth.

Property

On 7 April 1677, he traded his sister Anne's husband Peleg Tripp 32 acres in Portsmouth including houses, orchards, fencing, &c., for 3/8 share of some property in Dartmouth, Mass.

Event

Carol Sisson Regehr quotes Carl Bridenbaugh's "Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690" (published by Brown University Press, 1974): about 1681, George Sisson, a Portsmouth farmer, was paid in land by John Cooke for "the makeing of forty seven Rods of good Suffitient Stone wall."

Property

On 19 May 1683, he sold to Isaac Lawton, for L100, a quarter share in some Dartmouth property.

Juror

On 16 August (or November) 1684, George was on a jury investigating the death of an Indian who "died at the walnut tree." The verdict was that the Indian had "murdered himself."

Occupation

deputy to the general court in 1690, 1702, 1705, 1707

Death

He was a slaveholder and willed old negro man Abraham and Wife, Lucy, to his son James.

Will

WILL: Dated Aug 20, 1718; proved Oct 20, 1718. Portsmouth Probate Vol 2
1697-1725 p. 165-66. Sons: Richard eldest, George 2nd, Thomas 3rd, John
& James; daus: Elizabeth Clarke, Anne Weeden, Hope Sanford, Ruth Tew &
Abigail Tew; gdau Jane Sisson dau of son John; gdau Sarah Clark.
[RIGR Apr 1981, p. 364]

His will, made August 20, proved September 20, 1718, gave
ninety-seven acres in Portsmouth and all his lands in Warwick to his eldest son
Richard; to his son George he gave a farm in Swansea, Massachusetts; to Thomas
land in Newport; to John land and housing in Tiverton, Rhode Island, on condition
that he pay seventy pounds to his sisters; to Richard and James his grindstone for
their common use; to his five daughters silver money and plate, and to each a
feather bed.