He was a father of 25 children. It is said he moved about 30 times, and finally settled in Lynn, Massachusetts with most of his family.

Died young.

Came to America aboard the ship "James of London" which sailed from Southampton, 5 April 1635; arriving in Ipswich, Massachusetts 2 June 1635.He spent part of his early childhood in Whiteparish and arrived with his father John G., his brother John, and three sisters: Dorothy, Ann and Israel. His family went first to Ipswich, but soon afterward moved to the newly settled town of Newbury, Massachusetts where he lived until 1639 when he joined the colony which founded Salisbury, Massachusetts.

It has been said that he was a man of much strength and of a robust constitution. Tradition states that on the voyage to this country he asked the captain for an increase of rations. When questioned as to his need for more food to keep up his strength; he took a large iron bar and bent it into a U form. This so surprised the captain that his request was granted. (Pike records 1900-1901, page 10.)

At the age of 21, 17 May 1637, he took the oath as freeman, just before the exciting election at which John Winthrop (1588-1649, q.v.) defeated Sir Henry Vane (1613-1662, q.v.) for governor, and is said to have been of the Winthrop faction.

On 3 April 1641, Robert married Sarah Sanders. Sarah was born in Langford, England ca. 1622, the daughter of Henry Sanders who was the son of Sir Edwin Sanders who died at the time of Henry VIII (1491-1547) of England. Her mother was Alice Coles.

After Sarah's death in 1679, Robert married on 30 October 1684 Martha (Moyce) Goldwire, widow of George Goldwire. No children are recorded by the second marriage.

When the Town of Salisbury was settled in 1638, Robert, then aged 22, was one of 60 odd pioneers who crossed the Merrimac. In the choice of a house lot, fortune seems to have favored him with two acres in the corner of the way to Hampton and the way to the Great Neck (later called the "Beach Road"). Here he built his home and where was born to him a family of three sons and five daughters who reached mature years.

Together with others of the "commoners" he received allotments of land in all of the divisions, the chief of which was his pasture (later referred to as the "Pike Homestead" on the Old Ferry Road), 100 acres at Batt's Hill and a large division at Amesbury. This land he mostly disposed of by deed or gift to his children during his life leaving only a moderate estate at his death. His home and lot of three acres he gave to his grandson Robert, son of Robert, the year prior to his death. Robert the grandson in later years sold the property to his father-in-law, William Hook, Jr. and Robert the grandson moved to Exeter.

To his younger son Moses, he deeded his pasture where he later settled and which remained in the family for many years.

He early took a prominent position in the militia being a Lieutenant at 32, Captain at 37 and Major when 41 years of age. During King Philip's War (q.v.) he was in command of all the forces of Norfolf Co., Massachusetts, and those located in the State of Maine (although Maine did not become a state until 1820 q.v.). As early as 1650 he was what would now be called a trial justice and in 1672 an assoociate judge of the courts of Norfolk Co. In local affairs, a selectman from 1661-1677 and on many responsible committees. In political life, a member of the General Court when 32 and of the Governor's Council from 1682 to 1696, when having reached the age of 80 years he retired to the private life of the farm and was ngaged in giving away to his heirs the property which he had accumulated during his lifetime. The last ten years was passed in the quiet of his town, Salisbury, where he died December 12, 1706, at the age of ninety-one. No stone marks Robert's grave on the Old Beach Road. However, in the center of the City of Salisbury, Massachusetts, has been erected a memorial plaque to Major Robert Pike. The plaque reads:

IN MEMORY OF
MAJOR ROBERT PIKE
(1616-1706)

One of the first settlers of Salisbury, a leader in
civil and military affairs. He stood far in advance
of his time and having the wisdom and courage to
proclaim witchcraft a delusion and to advocate
religious freedom.

Among Robert and Sarah's children, Sarah, who married Wymond Bradbury (son of Mary Bradbury who was accused of witchcraft; convicted but not executed. Robert Pike, Sarah Bradbury's father defended Mary Bradbury).

Took an oath of allegiance in 1677 and is listed as a freeman 18 April 1690. It is noted that he signed a certain petition in 1680 and was admitted to Salisbury Church, 20 May 1688.

A petition dated 25 September 1694 by Major Robert Pike, his father, states that this Robert died leaving a wife; a son, Robert; and a daughter, Sarah.

Robert's grandfather, Major Robert Pike, deeded the homestead in Salisbury to him on 26 October 1705. In the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord there is a deposition, dated 8 June 1720, from one Joseph Hilton concerning a mill in controversy between Jeremiah Gilman and his son-in-law Robert Pike and Edward Hall.

Shortly after this, Robert Pike removed from Salisbury to Exeter, New HAmpshire, where several more children were born. Apparently he disposed of his property while he lived since no will or administration has been found.

Upon the death of his father, Robert, son of Major Robert Pike, young Robert was raised by his grandfather, Major Robert. When MAjor Robert died in 1706, a second cousin, Joseph Pike (1674-1757) was appointed guardian of young Robert who was still a minor, being only seventeen years of age.

This Robert Pike is believed to be the Captain Robert Pike who served in the First Expedition to Rhode Island, 26 June 1777, during the Revolutionary War, in Colonel Joseph Senter's Regiment. Several men who served under Captain Robert Pike are mentioned in the Newmarker Advertiser, Chapter XVI.

Robert Pike's name is listed among the 162 from Newmarket, over twenty-one years of age (he must have just reached 21), who signed the declaration, which is commonly known as the Association Test. (The Association Test was issued by the Continental Congress, 14 March 1776, and later issued in New Hampshire in April, 1776. It amounted virtually to a declaration of independence by all inhabitants showing the standing of each inhabitant as to his loyalty to the cause of liberty.)

Unmarried.

Had eight children, five settled in Rochester, Minn., two at Elk River, Minn. and two lived at Aurura, S.D.

Died unmarried.

He and his family were in Norway during the 1850 census.

He was a member of the Norway Company. He enlisted in Capt. Bailey Benson's company in 1812. Was never married.

He lived during the later part of his life on the old Pike homestead of his grandfather. An estimable and respected citizen.

Was at Lexington on April 19, 1775, and was one of the two from New Hampshire who were killed at Bunker Hill.

Enlisted September 13, 1814 for three months from Unity, N.H. in the War of 1812.

d.y.

Died young.

Died young.

Graduated from high school in Elko, Nevada in 1940. He subsequently attended and graduated from Art Center School in Los Angeles. He entered the military service in 1943 and graduated from the Army Air Force Cadet Flight Training Program as a pilot and 2nd Lieutenant in 1945. After the end of WWII, he moved to Renton, Washington with his wife, Enid and baby son Dale. He owned and operated a portrait studio and photo-finishing plant in Renton until 1948. Then he went to work for Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle, Washington. In 1953, he returned to the Air Force as a career officer. He was sent to England in 1954 for several months, then to Korea for a year. At the end of that tour of duty, his family joined him in Irrumagawa, Japan, where he was stationed at Johnson Air Force Base flying jet aircraft. On July 25, 1958, his plane crashed on a routine training mission and he was killed. His body was returned to Portland, Oregon for burial at the National Military Cemetery outside of Portland.

For a time, he was employed in or about the lumber business at Caribou, but later he became a successful stationary engineer and at one time owned and operated a well driving machine. By this time, he had removed to the Canadian side, and there he married Celina Pelletier, Martin or Pelkey.

Little is known of his children who lived and married on the Canadian side.

Thomas PIKE served as Constable in 1690, Assessor 1695, 1697, 1698, 1700; Deputy to the General Assembly 1700; Town Clerk from 1693 to 1711 and Clerk of the Freeholders from 1707 to 1711.

Thomas PIKE's will was made 10 June 1729 and proved 23 November 1730. He bequeaths to his wife Marcy (3rd wife - note spelling: she is listed as "Mary", "Mercy", and "Marcy"), to his daughter-in-law (i.e. stepdaughter), Hannah Freeman. It is this item that provides the identification of his wife. He bequeaths also to his grandchildren, Thomas, William, Nathaniel and Mary." (The grandchildren are those of Nathaniel PIKE.)

He was instrumental in establishing the first school in Calais, ca. 1810. He was a merchant in Wiscasset. He went to Calais in 1806, engaged in trade; immediately took the rank of a leading citizen, in business, politics, and religious affairs. Their home was near the river bank in the rear of Young's Hotel. From the first, Mr. Pike was one of the most able, active and efficient managers of public affairs. His name is on almost every page of the Town Records, as long as he lived. After his death his three sons, Fred A., James S., and Charles, early left to orphanage and indigence, have done honor to his memory and to the city, as financiers, writers and statesmen.

Attended the University of Wisconsin.

Member of the Donner Party.

Zachariah and Hannah lived in Dunstable and Bedford, New Hampshire and Jay, Maine.

Colonel in Thomas Parker's regiment, War of 1715.

Colonel Zebulon Pike was an officer in the Revolutionary War. His commission of Captain and Major were signed by George Washington and that of Col. by Jefferson or Madison. He was noted for his bravery and the Indians called him the "Great Brave". He always visited their wigwams without any fear in making his treaties with their tribes.

Being a soldier and officer in the army, the family moved according to his assignment. They resided in Bucks and Northumberland Counties, Pennsylvania; Ft. Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio (1790); and Ft. Knox, Vincennes, Indiana.

American explorer and soldier. He was born in Lamberton, New Jersey, and entered the United States Army about 1793. Pike was a lieutenant when in 1805 he was chosen by General James Wilkinson to find the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the winter of 1805 and 1806 he reached Red Cedar Lake (now Cass Lake) and Leech Lake in Minnesota, erroneously believing them to be the Mississippi's source. The actual source, Lake Itasca, was determined in 1832. He also bought land from the Sioux people for the future site of Fort Snelling, which grew into the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In July 1806 Wilkinson sent Pike to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers. Pike traveled up the Arkansas River into South Park, a tableland in the Southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado. He also explored the region south of what is now Leadville, Colorado, and sighted and attempted to climb Pikes Peak. From the Arkansas River he turned south, crossing the Sangre de Cristo Mountains into the Spanish territory of New Mexico. The Spanish arrested Pike and imprisoned him at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, Mexico. He was released in 1807 and returned to the United States with valuable information about the geography of the Southwest. His report stimulated great interest in the settlement and trade of that region.

Pike was commissioned a brigadier general at the beginning of the War of 1812. He was killed by the explosion of a powder magazine, April 27, 1813, while leading American forces in an assault on the capital of Upper Canada, York (now Toronto, Ontario).

During his trips supplying the forts on the Ohio River, Zebulon had time to visit some of the planters whose estates lay on the river's banks. He never failed to stop at one plantation - Sugar Grove - which was fifteen miles below Cincinnati and owned by Captain John Brown. There was a good social reason for the stops here, for Captain Brown was the brother of Zebulon's mother (Isabella Brown Pike). But another reason presented itself in Captain Brown's dark-haired and pretty daughter Clarissa. She was his partner at dances held in the plantation house. Sometimes they walked by the river together, slipping away from the rest of the party. It was not long before they were deeply in love, but Captain Brown opposed the match.

"A soldier for my daughter's husband, sir?" he said when Zeb asked for Clarissa's hand. "I cannot agree to it. What is your future? Garrison duty on the frontier, small pay and a few promotions. I want more than that for my daughter."

Clarissa had anticipated her father's reaction. Now she showed that she had just as much spirit as he. She and Zebulon eloped to Cincinnati and were married over her father's protests. The marriage brought about a breach between the Brown and Pike families and Zebulon was not welcome at his father-in-law's or uncle's estate afterward. Although there may have been a breach in the relationship: Clarissa "Clara" is buried in the Sugar Grove Cemetery next to her father, Capt. John Brown, along with her daughter Clarissa Brown Pike Harrison and her husband John C.S. Harrison. Clarissa Brown Pike's husband, General Zebulon M. Pike, killed at the Battle of York (Toronto) Canada, is buried in the Military Cemetery, Sacketts Harbor, New York.

Was commissioned at age 20 a first lieutenant and served for several years with the frontier army. The young lieutenant was then dispatched on a long and important expedition, setting out from St. Louis on July 15, 1806. He was instructed to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers and to reconnoitre the Spanish settlements of New Mexico, being warned to "move with great circumspection...and to prevent any alarm or offence". After visiting the Pawnee villages on the Republican River, Pike (whose promotion to a captaincy occurred by routine on Aug. 12, 1806) moved up the Arkansas to the site of the present Pueblo, Colorado. Here, on a side trip, he made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of the peak that bears his name.

When the attack on York (now Toronto), Canada, was launched in April 1813, the immediate command of the troops was entrusted to then Brigadier General Pike. He led his men to victory, but was killed in the assault (April 27) when the enemy's powder magazine exploded. A distinguished officer who was at the Battle of York states that as he passed the general, after he was wounded, he cried, "Push on, my brave fellows, and avenge your general."

As the general was breathing his last and the British standard was brought to him and placed under his head, he replied, "I die content."

None of his sons survived to manhood. Several children were born to he and his wife but only one Clarissa reached maturity. In later years, Zebulon wrote to a relative that he had been the father of five children, but that all had died except Clarissa.

Of Portsmouth.