Individual Details
Dickery Sargent
(Jun 1651 - Bet 1702 and 1704)
(From Hemenay Book -- Bennington, Vermont)
1. DIGORY1 SARGENT--the surname being variously spelled in the family, but for uniformity in this article the present form will be used--was the ancestor of many of the name in south-eastern Vermont, and fist appears on records as a soldier in King Philip's war, in the rolls of Boston men under Capt. Daniel Henchman at Mendon, in Nov., 1675, under Capt. William Turner at the same place, in Mar., 1675-6, and under Lieut. Nathaniel Reynolds at Chelmsford, in June, 1676 (Bodge's King Philip's War, pp. 55, 240, 279). His ancestry is unknown. On 11 Nov., 1678, he took the oath of allegiance in Boston (Boston Rec. Comm. Rept., xxix., 168), where he seems to have been a householder in 1680. His name appears in A list of Persons belonging to the South Company of Boston liable to Watch themselves or by their money to procure Watchmen; as they were marshaled, October 13, 1679. In 1685, or soon after, he removed to Worcester, in the second attempt at settling that place; but whether or not he had a wife at that time does not appear. On 13 Oct., 1693, Digory Sargent of Worcester, and Constance James of Boston, were married in Boston by Rev. Cotton Mather; but when he made his will (Middlesex Co. Probate, vol. 11, pp. 243-4, printed in Lincoln's History of Worcester, Mass., p. 38), dated 17 Mar., 1696, it would seem that she was dead, for in it he only made provision for his daughter Martha, and in the event of her death the estate was to go to George Parmenter of Sudbury, and no wife was mentioned. The he married again in 1696, Mary _____, is shown by subsequent events. She is said to have been a sister of George Parmenter, but that statement cannot be proved. He seems to have persisted in living upon his farm in Worcester when all others had abandoned the settlement on account of Indian hostilities, and there he was killed in an Indian attack, in the winter of 1703-4, and his wife and five children taken captive, before a party of soldiers, sent to remove him and his family to a place of safety, could reach them. In a Roll of English prisoners in the hands of the French and Indians at Canada in 1710, the names of the mother, Mary, and five children appear (Mass. Archives, lxxi., 765): but the petition of the son John for a grant of land, dated 29 Nov., 1738 (Mass. Archives, lxxii., 470), states that the mother and a son were killed at the same time with the father in 1704. Administration of the estate of Digory Sargent was granted 25 Sept., 1707, to George Parmenter of Sudbury (Middlesex Co. Probate, vol. 12, pp. 212-3): and 6 Mar., 1720-1, in a letter appointing George Parmenter of Sudbury, Jonas Rice of Worcester, and James Taylor of Worcester, a committee to divide the estate into six equal parts, it relates that Digery Sergeant ** dyed intestate ** his lands a sixty acre lot in sd town of Wooster, & since then has two dividends, one of 150 acres has been laid out in right of sd deed, & yet there are considerable undivided ** lands in sd township ** the sd deed left five children now surviving, viz. John (oldest son), David, Thomas, Martha, & Mary and that the sd Daniel and Mary are still at Canada ** whither they are carryed captive by the Indians & now are living among the french, & ** the sd John Thomas and Martha (now the wife of Daniel Shattuck) have prayed that the sd lands may be settled among them ** allowing John double the choise, and after him Thomas & then the sd daughter Martha, & so let the other two lots ligh for Daniel & Mary. Under the same date, 6 Mar., 1720-1, Jonas Rice that day took upon himself the Guardianship of Thomas a minor in his twentieth year of age a son of the late Diggery Serjeant late of Worcester ** dec'd (killed by the Indians). In an account of George Parmenter, administrator, dated Apr., 1715 appears the statement: Children Martha & Thomas at Boston--at Canada. Daniel & Mary. As the will of Digory Sargent mentions a sermon book that is at Mrs. Mary Mason's, widow, at Boston, and as the inventory of the estate included books, he was evidently a man of education.
1. DIGORY1 SARGENT--the surname being variously spelled in the family, but for uniformity in this article the present form will be used--was the ancestor of many of the name in south-eastern Vermont, and fist appears on records as a soldier in King Philip's war, in the rolls of Boston men under Capt. Daniel Henchman at Mendon, in Nov., 1675, under Capt. William Turner at the same place, in Mar., 1675-6, and under Lieut. Nathaniel Reynolds at Chelmsford, in June, 1676 (Bodge's King Philip's War, pp. 55, 240, 279). His ancestry is unknown. On 11 Nov., 1678, he took the oath of allegiance in Boston (Boston Rec. Comm. Rept., xxix., 168), where he seems to have been a householder in 1680. His name appears in A list of Persons belonging to the South Company of Boston liable to Watch themselves or by their money to procure Watchmen; as they were marshaled, October 13, 1679. In 1685, or soon after, he removed to Worcester, in the second attempt at settling that place; but whether or not he had a wife at that time does not appear. On 13 Oct., 1693, Digory Sargent of Worcester, and Constance James of Boston, were married in Boston by Rev. Cotton Mather; but when he made his will (Middlesex Co. Probate, vol. 11, pp. 243-4, printed in Lincoln's History of Worcester, Mass., p. 38), dated 17 Mar., 1696, it would seem that she was dead, for in it he only made provision for his daughter Martha, and in the event of her death the estate was to go to George Parmenter of Sudbury, and no wife was mentioned. The he married again in 1696, Mary _____, is shown by subsequent events. She is said to have been a sister of George Parmenter, but that statement cannot be proved. He seems to have persisted in living upon his farm in Worcester when all others had abandoned the settlement on account of Indian hostilities, and there he was killed in an Indian attack, in the winter of 1703-4, and his wife and five children taken captive, before a party of soldiers, sent to remove him and his family to a place of safety, could reach them. In a Roll of English prisoners in the hands of the French and Indians at Canada in 1710, the names of the mother, Mary, and five children appear (Mass. Archives, lxxi., 765): but the petition of the son John for a grant of land, dated 29 Nov., 1738 (Mass. Archives, lxxii., 470), states that the mother and a son were killed at the same time with the father in 1704. Administration of the estate of Digory Sargent was granted 25 Sept., 1707, to George Parmenter of Sudbury (Middlesex Co. Probate, vol. 12, pp. 212-3): and 6 Mar., 1720-1, in a letter appointing George Parmenter of Sudbury, Jonas Rice of Worcester, and James Taylor of Worcester, a committee to divide the estate into six equal parts, it relates that Digery Sergeant ** dyed intestate ** his lands a sixty acre lot in sd town of Wooster, & since then has two dividends, one of 150 acres has been laid out in right of sd deed, & yet there are considerable undivided ** lands in sd township ** the sd deed left five children now surviving, viz. John (oldest son), David, Thomas, Martha, & Mary and that the sd Daniel and Mary are still at Canada ** whither they are carryed captive by the Indians & now are living among the french, & ** the sd John Thomas and Martha (now the wife of Daniel Shattuck) have prayed that the sd lands may be settled among them ** allowing John double the choise, and after him Thomas & then the sd daughter Martha, & so let the other two lots ligh for Daniel & Mary. Under the same date, 6 Mar., 1720-1, Jonas Rice that day took upon himself the Guardianship of Thomas a minor in his twentieth year of age a son of the late Diggery Serjeant late of Worcester ** dec'd (killed by the Indians). In an account of George Parmenter, administrator, dated Apr., 1715 appears the statement: Children Martha & Thomas at Boston--at Canada. Daniel & Mary. As the will of Digory Sargent mentions a sermon book that is at Mrs. Mary Mason's, widow, at Boston, and as the inventory of the estate included books, he was evidently a man of education.
Events
| Birth | Jun 1651 | Cornwall, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Death | Bet 1702 and 1704 | Worcester, Massachusetts, United States | |||
| Reference No | A1596 |
Families
| Child | Martha Sargent (1694 - 1722) |
| Child | John Sargent (1696 - 1727) |
| Child | Louis-Philippe Langlais (1698 - 1728) |
| Child | Mary Sargent (1700 - ) |
| Father | John Sargent (1620 - ) |
| Mother | Martha Axford (1625 - ) |