52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 1: FRANCIS DANE JR. OF ANDOVER, MA.

I'm starting off the 2018 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge with my 8x great grandfather Francis Dane Jr.. Charlotte Helen Abbott wrote about the Danes n Early Records of the Dane Family. on the Memorial Hall Library of Andover, Ma. website. You'll notice several familiar family names of those people the children married:

Francis (3) Dane's first farm was on the old stage road from Andover
Centre to Lowell, past South Church and between Hartwell Abbott's and the
place where Ora Baker lives-past Indian Ridge Reservation to E. Holt and
so on across land to the Jameson place.

His second home was built on the Stratton place- the house long since
gone. The one built by Franklin Heald stands near the site. Philemon (6) lived
there last before Straaton took it up. Capt. Franklin bought the land
from Dane and sold to Stratton.

Francis (3) Dane (Francis (2) John (1) ) and wife Hannah Poore, had:

Francis (4), b.  April 22, 1683; d. Oct. 27.

Abel (4), b. Sept. 27. 1684; d. y.

Hannah (4),b.Oct. 6, 1687; m. Samuel Phelps, June 30, 1708; called Sgt.; d.Apr.
26, 1745; she d. May 26, 1746.

Francis (4) 2nd., b.  ; d. Dec.9, 1689

Francis (4) 3rd.; b. Aug.19, 1690; d. Dec. 15, 1716; m. Hannah Turner, March 18,
1714; she m. 2nd., Ebenezer Abbott, April 5, 1720. She was dau. of
James Turner of Charlestown and w.Hannah Dalzell, who, as a widow, m.
Sgt. Wm. Johnson of Andover , neighbor of the Dane family, 1707. Ch.-
Francis (5),  b. March 31, 1715; d. Dec 15, 1716.

John (4), b. Sept. 18, 1692; d. Jan.10, 1763; m. Sarah (4) Chandler, Nov.15, 1713,
b. March 13, 1693, dau. Wm. Chandler and w. Sarah Buckmaster; she d.
June 17, 1747; he m. 2nd., Sarah Cromby, Aug. 1, 1749, widow of
Thos. Hurd of Billerica and widow of Eph. Abbott of Andover; she d.
Aug. 5, 1780 at home of her dau. Eliz. Abbott, wife of Asa Abbott,
The Abbott family kept her papers and the annuity paid annually on
her acct. by her Dane stepson was charged up to Hurd on back of the dowry
claim or will. This she had,- up to 1773. A descendent of James Dane, old
Elizabeth Dane, said that the second wife lived outside with other
children for a while but came back to the homestead and died there.

Joseph (4), b. April 5. 1696; d. Dec. 27, 1721 of small pox. He m. 1st, Feb. 4.
1718, Lydia Johnson, dau. of John Johnson and . Elinor Ballard; she d.
Nov. 16, 1718; he m. 2nd., July 14, 1720, Mary Harndon; she m. 2nd. Joshua
Frye (4) July 14, 1724. She d. 1729, age 31.

David (4), b. April 24, 1698.

Mary (4), b. April 22, 1699; m. Dec 29, 1721, Jeremiah Ballard, son of Joseph
Ballard and w. Rebecca Orne, b. March 29, 1697. Jeremiah and Mary sold
the Ballard estate on the site of  Memorial Hall Library to Capt.
Gibson and left for Lunenberg, by Church letter, Nov. 23, 1736; d. there.
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 Early Records of the Dane Family.