William Longfellow was ensign of the Newbury Company that went with Sir William Phips against Quebec, and was drowned with nine others off Anticosta in a violent storm on their return trip. The following is an extract from the report by William Phips of the expedition against Quebec: "I set sails from New England, March 1690, with seaven hundred men and seaven saile of ships, and we reduced Arcaddy. With 2300 men and with 30 saile of ships, I sailed August 10, 1690, for Quebeck. Contrary winds delayed our arrival till October. I brought the ships within Musquett shot, we fired and dismounted severall of their best cannon, so that the city must have been taken in two or three daies but small pox and the feavour broke out, and the weather grew so extream cold that no further progress could be made therein, so I returned to New England. (signed William Phips.)"

William and his wife Anne (Sewall) Longfellow had six children, all born in Newbury:

• William, b. 25 Nov. 1679.
• Stephen, b. 10 Jan. 1681; d. 13 Nov. 1683.
• Anne, b. 3 Oct. 1683; m. Abraham Adams, son of Abraham Adams.
• Stephen, b. 22 Sept. 1685; m. Abigail Thompson, daughter of Rev. Edward Thompson. Stephen and Abigail were the great great grandparents of Henry Wadsorth Longfellow.
• Elizabeth, b. 3 July 1688; m. Benjamin Woodman, son of Joshua Woodman.
• Nathan, b. 5 Feb. 1690; m. Mary Green, daughter of Capt. Jacob and Sarah Green.

Anne (Sewall) Longfellow and her second husband, Henry Short, had six children:

• Jane, b. 4 March 1693.
• Samuel, b. 18 Nov. 1694; died young.
• Mehitable, b. 12 Jan. 1696.
• Samuel, b. 22 Feb. 1699.
• Hannah, b. 2 March 1701.
• Joseph, b. 8 April 1702.

Nathan and his wife Mary (Green) Longfellow had eight children, all born in Hampton Falls, NH:

• Jonathan, b. 23 May 1714; m. Mercy Clarke, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Clarke.
• Samuel, b. 8 May 1716; d. 22 May 1716.
• Anne, b. 2 Aug. 1719; m. Nehemiah Brown, son of William Brown.
• Jacob, b. 20 July 1722.
• Sewall, b. 6 Oct. 1724; d. 1734.
• Abigail, b. 5 Feb. 1726/7; m. Benjamin Brown, son of Benjamin Brown.
• Nathan, b. 8 June 1729; m. Susan Eli.
• Green, b. 3 April 1731; m. Abigail Prescott, daughter of Benjamin Prescott.

Jonathan was a soldier engaged in fighting the Indians. He was appointed the first Justice of the Peace east of the Penobscot River. After 1741, this family moved to Nottingham, NH (the part that became Deerfield, NH in 1766) where Jonathan built a Garrison house. Here he bought and sold much land, and, it is thought, some slaves. He moved to Rye, NH, in 1761; to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia in 1763; and to Machias, ME in 1765. In Machias, in 1766, he built a house which was his homestead and a tavern. Records show that his married children, Mary Batchelder, Jacob Longfellow, and Sarah Cilley, remained in New Hampshire.

Jonathan and his wife Mercy (Clarke) Longfellow had twelve children:

• Stephen, b. in Hampton Falls, NH 19 July 1733.
• Mary, b. in Hampton Falls, NH 15 June 1735; m. Nathaniel Batchelder, son of Stephen Batchelder.
• Jacob, b. in Hampton Falls, NH 6 Nov. 1737; m. Mercy Page, daughter of Capt. Samuel Page, Jr.
• Sarah, b. in Hampton Falls, NH 15 Nov. 1739; m. Gen. Joseph Cilley, son of Joseph Cilley.
• Elizabeth, b. in Hampton Falls, NH in 1741; m. John Whidden.
• Nathan, b. in Nottingham, NH 30 Dec. 1743; m. Margaret Bigelow, daughter of Isaac Bigelow.
• Anna, b. in Nottingham, NH 15 Oct. 1745; died young.
• Hannah, b. in Nottingham, NH 1 Dec. 1747; m. John English.
• Daniel, b. in Nottingham, NH 16 Dec. 1749; died young by drowning.
• David, b. in Nottingham, NH 16 Dec. 1751; m. Olive Gooch.
• Enoch, b. in Nottingham, NH 14 Aug. 1753; died young.
• Jonathan, b. in Nottingham, NH 28 April 1756; died in 1765.

Jacob was a soldier engaged in fighting the Indians and became a Captain in the town (Deerfield?) Militia. He bought land from his father in Deerfield, NH, on 6 February 1759. After his marriage, he bought more land there in 1760 and 1762. He was moderator at the first town meeting of Deerfield, NH, 17 March 1767; helped to build the first church and to hire the minister; and was selectman several times. His principal occupation was surveyor of timber lands and lots in Deerfield, NH, and the laying out of highways in the new town. In 1776, Jacob signed the Association Test in Deerfield, NH.

He may have lived in Kensington, NH, for awhile as he and his wife owned property there and their daughter, Betty, was baptized in the Congregational Church there on 30 June 1776.

By 1777, Jacob was of Newmarket, NH, where he bought and sold more land and he and his wife were proprietors of a tavern. This family of Newmarket, NH, seems to have been the only one named Longfellow in Southern New Hampshire during the Revolutionary period. Jacob had died before 17 December 1781 when the selectmen of Newmarket, NH, adjourned for refreshment at the tavern of Widow Longfellow. Mercy Longfellow, widow and spinster, bought buildings and land from Thomas Perkins in 1783. Later, their daughter and her husband, Polly and William White, who were married in 1784, helped run the tavern. It is probable that Mercy (Page) Longfellow was dead by or during 1784, for in that year, the selectmen of Newmarket were indebted one pound for "vittles and drink" to William and Mary White for expenses incurred at the tavern.

There are no New Hampshire vital records listing the children of Jacob and Mercy (Page) Longfellow. However, land evidences and printed family records seem to furnish conclusive data regarding this Longfellow family of Deerfield and Newmarket, NH.

Probable children of Jacob and his wife Mercy (Page) Longfellow, all born probably in Deerfield, NH:

• Mary (Polly), m. in Newmarket, NH, 5 Oct. 1784, William White.
• Elizabeth, b. 15 Oct. 1763, bpt. in Kensington, NH, 30 June 1776; died in Vienna, ME, 2 Jan. 1838; m. in Readfield, ME, 1790, Joshua Johnson, son of Deacon Joseph Johnson.
• Jonathan, died in Gardiner, ME, 6 April 1812; m. Eunice Hill, daughter of Gen. James Hill of Newfields, NH, a town adjacent to Newmarket, NH. In 1791, they bought property from Mary and William White, Jonathan's sister and her husband. In 1795 and 1797, Jonathan was approved as innholder in Newmarket, NH. By 1803, he and his wife had moved to Hallowell, ME, where at least two of their children, each named Jonathan, died: one in 1803 and the other in 1807, age 2.
• Mercy, b. about 1770; joined the church in Stratham, NH, a town adjacent to Newmarket, NH, in 1791; m. in Readfield, ME, 19 Sept. 1793, Levi Johnson, son of Deacon Joseph Johnson.
• Abigail, m. in Hollowell, ME, 24 Oct. 1808, Sylvester Rourstone of Newmarket, NH.