Deliverance Longley

Husband was son of step mother, Joanna Longley Crispe (Goffe)

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Biography

From https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_450.html#P18149

Deliverance Crispe. Born ca 1650 in Watertown, MA.16 Deliverance died in Groton, MA on 27 Jul 1694.

Deliverance, aged 20, testified with Benjamin Crispe in the suit of Cooper vs. Parish in 1670, and it is probable that she was his daughter, unless she was the wife of his son Jonathan, otherwise unknown.44

Ca 1680 Deliverance married William Longley, son of William Longley (ca Jun 1613/4-18 Apr 1697/8) & Joanna Goffe (-18 Apr 1698). Born ca 1637/8 in Lynn, MA. William died in Groton, MA on 27 Jul 1694.

William, his wife, and five of his children were massacred by Indians. Three children taken into captivity.

Check out TAG 62:27.

Their children include:

1. John Longley (ca 1682-25 May 1750)
2. Joseph Longley (Died young) (6 Jan 1685/6-27 Jul 1694)
3. Richard Longley (Died young) (ca 1689-27 Jul 1694)
4. Elizabeth Longley (Died young) (ca 1691-summer 1694)
5. Nathaniel Longley (Died soon) (ca 1693-27 Jul 1694)

44. Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families.

Deliverance Crispe is the second wife of William Longley II. Note Wikitree discussion concerning William Longley III's wives at the bottom.

The book, Who Begot Thee?,' Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903 – Gilbert Oliver Ben states that Deliverance Longley (Crispe) was the 2nd wife of William Longley, Jr, married ca. 1674. William's first wife Lydia (Pease) Longley bore him one child before she died:

Children of William Longley Jr - Lydia (Pease)Longley:

• 1. Lydia Longley, B: 04/14/1674, D: 07/21/1758

Children of William Longley Jr - Deliverence (Crispe) Longley:

• 2. William Longley, III, B: 12/17/1675, D: 07/27/1694
• 3. Betty Longley: ca 1678, D 1694 enroute to Canada
• 4. Jemima Longley; B: ca 1680; D: 07/27/1694
• 5. John Longley, B: May, 1682; D: 05/25/1750
• 6. Joseph Longley; B: 01/6/1686; D: 07/27/1694
• 7. Nathaniel Longley; B: ca.1698; D: 07/27/1694*
• 8. Zechariah Longley: B: ca.1692; D: 07/27/1694*

Note: Several of the names and ages Identified by Helen McCarthy in her book "Lydia Longley, First American Nun" are in error. I have seen her files, and she based her names on a hand-written and lightly researched genealogy. There is no way that William would ever have named a son "Richard"--which is the name given to a great dispute that his father had been subjected to in which he had to sue the town of Lynn to obtain clear title to his land which had been falsely given in title to a Richard Longley. That suit had lasted 20 years, and William eventually won, sold the land and cleared out angrily to start over on Groton. Additionally, the records indicate that Betty was a teenager when she was taken captive by the Indians. The custom of the savages was to kill all those that would have impeded their escape from Groton after the raid, bashing in the skulls of babies and toddlers. Contributed by Peter Longley.

Reference source is: www.angelfire.com/sd2/sandingo20/index3.html for the children info except for the date of death for John Longley. His date of death was read from his grave marker in the Old Town Cemetery, Groton Mass where he is buried. Also from:

Title: "Elijah Longley and his Descendants: A Contribution Towards A Longley Genealogy"

Author: Arthur Willis Standford

Printed By: The Fukuin Printing Co., Ltd, Kobe Branch

Date Published: 1909

Also: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - Longley, Lydia, gives some more family history. www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=1500

Just trying to show that Deliverence was not Williams only wife and that she was the step-mother to four of William Jr's children.

Deliverance Crisp Longley

Birth: 1650

Death: Jul. 27, 1694

Groton

Middlesex County

Massachusetts, USA

Children: Lydia Longley, William Longley III, Betty Longley, Jemima Longley, John Longley, Joseph Longley, and two infant children.

Family links:

Parents:

Benjamin Crisp (1610 - 1683) Bridget Crisp

Children:

1. Lydia Madeleine Longley (1674 - 1758)*
2. John Longley (1682 - 1750)*

Spouse: William Longley (1640 - 1694)*

Point here for an explanation*

Burial: Unknown

Another Reference Source:

Title: "Elijah Longley and his Descendants: A Contribution towards a Longley Genealogy"

Author: Arthur Willis Standford

Printed By: The Fukuin Printing Co., Ltd, Kobe Branch

Date Published: 1909

Reference Source:

Title: "Elijah Longley and his Descendants: A Contribution Towards A Longley Genealogy"

Author: Arthur Willis Standford

Printed By: The Fukuin Printing Co., Ltd, Kobe Branch

Date Published: 1909

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 24 2018, 16:13:57 UTC

From wikitree:

There is confusion about William Longley’s wives. Lydia Madeline Longley, in her testimony for her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church in Montreal on April 24, 1696, gave her parents’ names as John Longley and Deliverance Crispe. Considering the date she was born (April 1674), Deliverance was most likely her step-mother who raised her. We have no marriage record of William and Deliverance; we do have a marriage record of John with Lydia (no surname given, but quite possibly Pease) on May 15 1672 in Groton, MA. Lydia was most likely the mother of William’s older children, but not his younger. We don’t actually have a record of when this Lydia died. As a result some genealogists combine the two wives, calling her Lydia Deliverance.

Adding to the confusion, different genealogies list Deliverance as different people. We have no documentation to prove exactly who this Deliverance Crispe was. The following are the best possibilities.

1. She might have been the daughter of Benjamin Crispe and Mary Bridget or (much less likely) Joanna Goffe. She would then have married William Longley after his first wife Lydia died around 1680.

2. She might have had unknown parentage and married Jonathan Crispe, son of Benjamin Crispe and Mary Bridget. Jonathan was dead in 1680 when his father administered his estate. It's possible his widow married widower William Longley.

3. She might have been Lydia (last name unlisted although many genealogies consider her the daughter of Robert Pease), and Deliverance was a name she went by later on in life. In this case, Lydia wouldn't have died around 1679. We have no documentation of Lydia's death or William's marriage to Deliverance, which makes this a possibility.

Deliverance, her husband and five of their eight children were killed in an Indian raid on Groton July 27, 1694. The other three children were taken into captivity. One daughter died of starvation, one daughter entered a convent in French Canada, and the remaining son, John, was ransomed and returned, reluctantly, in 1699.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crispe-23

Sources

WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-145924 created through the import of DurlingJamesO_AncWithDeathAft1600.ged on Feb 19, 2012 by Sue Durling. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Sue and others.

Source: S00258 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Publication: Name: Release date: November 29, 1995; NOTESource Medium: Family Archive CD CONT CONT Customer pedigree. CONT

The Longley Family Genealogy compiled by Louise Baneck Longley and Janneyne Longley Gnacinski, 1967, FHL Film # 928132 Item 6, pages 1-2.

References

• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_193.html#P18056
• Davis, W. Goodwin. (1958). The ancestry of Sarah Hildreth, 1773-1857: wife of Annis Spear of Litchfield, Maine. Portland, Me.: Anthoensen Press. “Crispe.” Page 55 - 58 Hathitrust

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Deliverance Crisipe' and her husband William Longley and five of his children were massacred by Indians. Three other children were taken into captivity. This occurred in an attack by Abenaki Indians. When Longley's cattle were set loose by the Indians, he rushed out to drive them back, and the slaughter and kidnapping ensued. Of the surviving Longley children, Lydia, John and Betty were those carried off by the Indians and taken to Canada. Lydia was sold to the French and placed in a convent in Montreal, where she became a Catholic. Betty died soon after capture from hunger and exposure. John remained with the Indians more than 4 years when he was ransomed and brought away. He had been on the verge of starvation when one of his captors gave him a dog's foot to gnaw. John adapted to life with the Abenaqui and had feelings for both cultures. In 1736 he deposed that he had spent the last 2 1/2 years of captivity as a servant to Chief Madocando of the Penobscot tribe. Those lands were part of Acadia. It was believed that John would have had the chance of becoming a Sachem (chief) among the Indians, but instead became ultimately a deacon of the church and leading citizen of Groton, MA. It is said that another daughter Jemima was scalped and left for dead during the attack, but survived, married and had children. They were all children of Longley's first wife, and Deliverance was their stepmother, thereby perishing with them.