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- The key source for this family will be W.L. Lovell, John Decker the Pioneer of Haverhill, Mass. (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1945). I've not need this, yet, but it is cited directly in david Lash, A Transcript of notes to 1958 relating to the American Ancestory of David Chapman Lash.
In this, he says:
"Accordin to W.L. Lovell, John Decker was the first of the Deckers of New England. He bought a lot in Haverhill of Nthaniel Smith in 1672. The vital statistics of Rowley, Mass., record his marriage June 18, 1680, to Mary Scott, daughter of Benjaming and Margaret (Stevenson) Scot.t. John Decker died October 18, 1694 and Mary, his wife, died December 25, 1700."
Helen Decker's articles gives lots of dates which are the source of his information, but unfortunately the article has no citations to its authorities.
John is first noted in Haverhill in 1672 where it is recorded that he bought a piece of land from Nathaniel Smith. (In that same year, the name of a John Decker appears on records in Exeter, N.H.). In 1678, John was in Newbury where he took the oath of allegiance. After his marriage in 1680, he and his wife settled in Haverhill.
See also James True's website, which notes this source: Helen Decker, John Decker Family. [3, 4, 5]
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