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Page 30, Anthony BRACKETT Jun. son of Anthony the emigrant, born in Portsmouth, N.H. about 1638, is known in history as Capt. Anthony, came to Falmouth, now Portland, Me. with his brother Thomas prior to 1662. We first meet with his name here in 1662, as a witness to the delivery of the Bramhall farm to Hope Allen, June 3 of that year. He was twice married. His first wife was Annie MITTON, daughter of Michael MITTON, and they lived on the hundred acres of land at Back Cove, granted her by her grandfather, Geroge Cleves. He subsequently enlarged his farm to four hundred acres. His second wife was Susanna DRAKE. From Drake's Indian Wars, we learn the following facts: Capt. Anthony Brackett was an early settler on Casco Bay, where his posterity yet remain. The family were large land holders in Falmouth between the years 1680 and 1690, under a title of government signed by President Danforth. When Casco, now Portland, was destroyed by the Indians in 1676, Capt. Brackett and his wife and one child were taken by the Indains and landed by them on the north side of the bay. This was on the 11th of August 1676, and the Nov. following they made their escape. They found an old canoe in which they escaped to the other side of the bay, where they got on board a vessel and arrived safe in Pisquatagua, now Portsmouth. Capt. Brackett returned to Falmouth, Maine in 1679. He became a selectman and Capt. of a company and when Gov. Andros erected forts there in 1688, he was put in command. He was killed by the Indians on his farm at Back Cove September 21, 1689.
Capt Anthony BRACKETT and his first wife Annie MITTON had five children all born in Falmouth, Maine:
1. Anthony, killed by the Indians 1689
2. Seth, killed by the Indians 1689
3. Mary, married Nathaniel WITCHER
4. Keziah, married 1st a PATTERSON, 2nd Joseph MAYLEM
5. Eleanor, married 1st James ANDREWS, 2nd Richard PULLEN
By his second wife, Susanna DRAKE, to whom he was married in 1679, Capt. Brackett had six more children:
1. Anthony, married Mary ____ and had Mary, born May 8, 1704 and Anthony born January 5, 1708
2. Zepporah
3. Zachariah, born January 20, 1682, married first Hannah ____, second Mary ROSS
4. Ann
5. Susannah, married Samuel PROCTOR, he was born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 16, 1680.
6. Jane
Capt Brackett's second wife and several of his children escaped to Hampton, New Hampshire where her people lived in 1690, at which time Falmouth was destroyed by the Indians. Her son Anthony finally settled in Boston where he kept a tavern on the present School Street. His son Anthony, born in Hampton, New Hampshire was a rope maker and with others, leased their right in lands in Portland, Maine for 99 years and did not return.142