Person:Henry Curtis (3)

Henry is first of record in America 30 November 1652 at a quarterly count held in Salem. In 1654 Henry Curtis, aged 34, appeared in a list of inhabitants of Essex County, Massachusetts. The court records in Boston show that he went to Virginia in 1655 and returned from a trip to Newfoundland in 1658. He was listed as a seaman among the debtors to the estate of Martin Stebbins about this time.

    On 20 January 1666/1667 Robin Hood, a sagamore of the Cauibas tribe of Indians, deeded 9000 acres of land to Henry Curtiss.  That land is now Boothbay in Maine.  The family lived there until the Indian Wars drove them out.  The land was later subject to litigation from conflicting claims and the Curtis family did not return after 1688. 
    On 22 July 1674 Henry Curtis and Henry Curtis Jr. took the oath of fidelity at Pemaquid. No further reference to Henry Curtis Sr. is found, and he may have been killed by the Indians in 1676 or 1688.

1. ↑ New England Historic Genealogical Society. NEGHR
   1929, Vol. 83, p. 215.
2. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   Curtis family.
3. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   pp. 1263-1264.