My 8x great grandfather Francis Dane Jr's wife was Hannah Poor, daughter of my immigrant ancestor Daniel Poor (Poor). Daniel Poor was married to Mary Farnhan, the eldest child of my 10x great grandfather Ralph Farnham, Sr.. The Poors had a large family, as William Richard Cutter describes in this short biography:
Daniel Poore, the immigrant ancestor, came from England in the ship "Bevis", Captain Robert Batten, master, sailing from Southampton with sixty other passengers in May, 1638, when he was fourteen years of age. He came in the family of Stephen and Alice Dummer. In the same ship came also Samuel Poore, and Alice Poore. who married George Little, of Newbury. Massachusetts. Daniel doubtless lived in Newbury about ten years, and Samuel and Alice settled for life there. John Poore, probably an elder brother, also settled there and another brother, Thomas Poore, settled and died at Andover, leaving neither wife nor children. Daniel Poore married in Boston, October 20, 1650, Mary Farnum, sister of John Farnum, who also settled in Andover, and has many descendants in that section. Daniel Poore died June 8, 1689, aged sixty-five; his wife also died in Andover, February 3, 1714, aged eighty-five years. Their home was on the easterly side of the Shawshine river, not far from its mouth and near the station on the Boston & Maine railroad in North Andover near the Merrimac river, and the street railway from Lawrence to North Andover passes near the site of the old house. The ancient bridge over the Shawshine river is near by and the homestead included land on both sides of the river below the bridge. Children of Daniel and Mary (Farnum) Poore: I. Mary, born in the summer of 1651; married in Newbury, John, son of Deacon Nicholas and Mary (Cutting) Noyes, November 23, 1668, and in Newbury the births of ten children are recorded. 2. Sarah, born December 28, 1652; married, February 13, 1673, Samuel Pettengill, of Newbury, son of Richard Pettengill, and they had eleven children, born in Newbury. 3. Martha, born November 4, 1654; married, February 9, 1679, John Granger, and had seven children in Andover. 4. Daniel, mentioned below. 5. John, born September 5, 1658, died unmarried. December 24, 1690; was a soldier in the Canadian Expedition. 6. Hannah, born May 6, 1660; married, November 16, 1681, Lieutenant Francis Dane, son of Francis Dane, of Andover, where they had nine children. 7. Elizabeth, born April 15, 1662; married, April 7, 1686, Jacob, son of John and Martha Marstone, and they had eleven children at Andover. 8. Deborah, born April 18, 1664; married, May 29, 1689, Timothy Osgood, brother of the wife of her brother, Daniel Poore; she died in 1724; he died in 1748. 9. Ruth, February 16, 1665; married John Stevens. 10. Priscilla, born June 22, 1667. 11. Lucy, born September 28, 1670.-pp2077-8
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4, Lewis historical publishing Company, N.Y., N.Y., 1913
In the entry about Daniel Poor Jr that is mentioned, there is a remark that he and his wife had 18 children but that "she was sorely disappointed because she failed to have twenty."!
Despite that, I think Daniel Poor Sr was probably more than satisfied with 66 grandchildren.
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