Nathaniel Dresser and Elizabeth Wentworth

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WENTWORTH, Elizabeth
b. 27 AUG 1682 Rowley, Mass.
d. 30 AUG 1772 Scarborough, Cumberland, ME.
Family: Marriage: 13 NOV 1707 Rowley, Mass.
Spouse: DRESSER, Nathaniel
b. 27 AUG 1681 Rowley, Mass.
d. 16 MAY 1749 Scarborough, Cumberland, ME.
Parents:Father: DRESSER, John
Mother: THORLEY, Martha

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He married (first), July 9, 1879, Alice M. Dresser, born at Portland, Maine, September 12, 1857, died August 24, 1896. Edward K. Dresser, her father, married Mary L. Whiting and had: Fannie E. Dresser, married Robert A. Hancock; and Alice Dresser, married Mr. Holt. Robert Dresser, father of Edward K. Dresser, was born in Scarborough, Maine, December 3, 1799. Wentworth Dresser, father of Robert Dresser, and wife Sophia resided in Scarborough; children: i. John, born March 27, 1795; ii. Israel, October 14, 1796; iii. Robert, December 3, 1799, mentioned; iv. Daniel. August 31. 1802; v. Lydia. February \2. 1805: vi. Asa, April 27, 1807; vii. Joseph, October 27, 1811. Jonathan Dresser, doubtless the father of Wentworth Dresser, was a member of the First Church of Scarborough, Maine, July 17, 1743. Nathaniel Dresser, father of Jonathan Dresser, according to the best evidence at hand, and certainly grandfather of Wentworth Dresser, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, August 27. 1681: married there November !3- I/O/- Elizabeth Wentworth, born August 27, 1689. He received a gift of land from his father in Rowley in 1711-12. She was the daughter of Sylvanus and Elizabeth (Stewart) Wentworth, and granddaughter of Elder William Wentworth (See Wentworth sketch) and Duncan Stewart, of Rowley. Sylvanus Wentworth resided in Rowley and in Dover, New Hatnpshirc. Lieutenant John Dresser, father of Nathaniel Dresser, born about 1640; married, November 27, 1662, Martha, probably daughter of Richard Thorley. She died June 29, 1700; he married (second), January 7, 1701-02, Rebecca Dickinson, widow of James Dickinson, and she died April 2, 1718. Lieutenant Dresser died March 14. 1723-24, Newbury or Rowley (records at both places). John Dresser (i), father of Lieutenant John Dresser, was one of the pioneers of Rowley, Massachusetts, where he had a house lot as early as 1643: his wife Mary came with him; he died 1672, leaving a will, mentioning his children and others.