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- Also spelled Hasediah, Hesediah, Kesediah, etc.
The 7 Feb 1804 Raynham record of her and Daniel White's marriage intentions calls her "of this town". An Eliab Knapp or Knap "of Raynham" is recorded as having married Lois (or Loes) Tomson in Halifax, about eight miles east of Raynham, on 12 Mar 1781, just seven years before the birth year given on Hassadiah's Find a Grave page. Lois Tomson was a great-great granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, and a greatX3-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins.
Given the relative rarity of Knapp or Knap as a surname in 18th-century New England, and the plausible chronological and geographical "fit" entailed in making Hassadiah a daughter of Eliab and Lois, it's not surprising that many online trees make that assumption. Unfortunately, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 12, Francis Cooke of the Mayflower by Ralph V. Wood, Jr. (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996; revised edition, 1999), page 615, lists only one child for Lois Tompson and Eliab Knapp: an unnamed child born in Raynham who died 5 Aug 1788. As this information is sourced to Raynham vital records, it seems unlikely that those records (which we have not seen) contain other children for Eliab and Lois.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
1788 - 1841 (53 years)
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