Alice Daggett

"His marriage to Alice Sessetom, dau. of the Sachem of Sanchacantacket, as already detailed, is one of the romances of our history and serves to mark him as one who ignored the conventionalities of society in choosing an Indian princess for his bride. [*This marriage with an Indian gave rise to the name of "The Bow and Arrow Daggetts" which was given to this branch.] It certainly placed him in an anomalous social position and although his father gave him an equal share by will, evidence is not wanting to indicate that there was little affiliation between the descendants of the two island branches for many years." (Charles Banks, History of Martha's Vineyard)

However, Catherine Merwin Mayhew, Genealogist of the Marthas Vineyard Historical Society, adds:

"The Indian wife of Joseph Daggett was NOT Alice Sessetom.

"There is no record of the name of the Indian girl who married Joseph Daggett. Early deeds indicate that she was the daughter of the sachem Autumsquin (somehow translated to Adommas Queen when Dr. Charles Banks misread the original deed; Autumsquin was a male sachem).

"Alice Sessetom was born a generation later than the Indian girl we are interested in. Alice was born about the time that Joseph Daggett married." http://history.vineyard.net/daggett.htm

The eldest son of Edward Cottle of Salisbury, named for his father, was born in that town Sept. 28, 1666, and followed his father in his various wanderings until he came to the Vineyard. He bought land in this town on the west side of the Lagoon, in 1695, of Ponit the Sachem of Homes Hole, and thereafter added to this until he owned a considerable tract adjoining the Presbury and West lands.[Dukes Deeds, II, 65. His house was in the Edgartown limits.] There he lived with his half-breed wife, Esther Daggett (22) of the 'Bow and Arrow' family, daughter of Joseph and Alice (Sissetom) Daggett. He had wedded her between 1690 and 1698, and one child was born to them, a daughter named Esther, about 1700, who married first a Harding (after 1718), and second (about 1725) Manasseh Kempton. This half-breed wife died before 1702 certainly, and probably sometime earlier.[Descent from the'Vineyard Pocahontas' may be traced through the Hardings.] He remained a widower until about 1701, when he took as a second wife Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Holley) Allen of Dartmouth, Mass.[For proof of this see Bristol Deeds, XIII, 41 and Sup. Jud. Court Mss. No. 29518. Nathaniel Pease testified that he was present at the wedding.] By this union another daughter was born, June 6, 1702, and she was called Abigail. This girl married three times, (I) John Presbury, (2) Benjamin Luce, and (3) Samuel Lambert. Besides these matrimonial ventures his career was an uneventful one. He appears in court but once as a plaintiff (1736) and in 1733 he was a juror, and this constitutes his sole record. [He was an illiterate man evidently, as all documents bearing his name as grantor or deponent are signed with 'his mark.'] He made his will Nov. 2, 1748, 'being grown old & stricken in years,' and it was probated Nov. 2, 1751, the proximate time of his decease, when he was about eighty-five years old. [Dukes Probate, III, 274.] He bequeaths all his property to his daughter Abigail and her second husband. His wife, who was born April 1, 1663, had predeceased him Dec. 25, 1733, aged seventy years. [Holmes' Diary.]

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It is thought by other documents, that Joseph's wife was a native Indian from the Vineyard, but her name goes unrecorded.

Amy (Alice) (Sesseton) (Mantor) Daggett (bef. 1675)

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This bio seems to apply to Alice Sesseton

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She was daughter of Sachem of Sanchacantacket see http://history.vineyard.net/daggett.htm

Patrilineal descent was incredibly important for both Wampanoags and English colonists. Among New England Algonquians, although some land could be transferred through the female line (matrilineal descent), paternal ties were "far more crucial." For example, sachems usually inherited their office through the paternal line, and the office usually went to a male relative (Plane 21). Even women who inherited the position of squa-sachem did so through their fathers or other male relatives. Patrilineal descent was also crucial for colonists: women took their husband's name upon marriage and in the case of a husband's death, the claims of wives to property were subordinate to that of their children. The power of the father was felt in both religious and political spheres: the "family reproduced patriarchal relations of power in which the obedience of wives, daughters, and children, was thought to be religiously proscribed" (O'Brien 23; Ditz 26). Moreover, since only male Puritans could be ministers, the religious legacy of the "missionary Mayhews" was passed along only through male descendents (left). Wills from Martha's Vineyard reveal although both sons and daughters might inherit something, what they inherited was often unequal. Moreover, only children of legitimate marriages tended to inherit property (and status) from their fathers.

For Wampanoags, kinship was an important means of cementing political alliances. Sachems regularly ensured support for their regimes by distributing favors and political power to family members, and the often sought marriages for their children that would help ensure military support during times of trouble. Although polygamy and divorce were both acceptable in Wampanoag society, it appears that in order to inherit the position of the sachem, an individual had to be descended from a royal family both on his mother and father's side (Plane 21-23, 50-51).

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↑ The Eddy Family In America by RUTH STORY DEVEREUX EDDY, A.B., A.M. Publication date 1930; Topics Eddy, genealogy, family; Collection opensource; Language English; Page 28 , 32-34, 46 etc https://archive.org/details/EddyTheEddyFamilyInAmerica ↑ The Eddy Family In America by RUTH STORY DEVEREUX EDDY, A.B., A.M. Publication date 1930; Topics Eddy, genealogy, family; Collection opensource; Language English; Page 28 , 32-34, 46 etc https://archive.org/details/EddyTheEddyFamilyInAmerica "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 September 2017, 02:49), entry for Amy Eddy(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LR4T-XM7); contributed by various users. Acknowledgements

Thank you to Tony Hatch's first hand knowledge on Jul 26, 2014.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mantor-3 Privacy Level: Open (White) Amy Daggett formerly Mantor Born before 1675 [location unknown] Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling%28s%29 unknown] Wife of Joseph Daggett — married 1693 in Tisbury, MAmap DESCENDANTS descendants Mother of John Daggett, Amy (Daggett) Martin, Joseph Daggett, Elizabeth (Daggett) Marchant and Hepsiba (Daggett) Norton Died [date unknown] [location unknown] Profile manager: Theresa Welch private message [send private message] Profile last modified 20 May 2018 | Created 30 May 2011 This page has been accessed 345 times. Biography

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Theresa Lyman, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Theresa and others. ↑ Entered by Theresa Lyman, May 29, 2011