Jeremiah Hodsdon, bapt. in Hingham, Mass., Sept. 6, 1643; moved with his father to Boston, Mass., and later to Kittery, Me., where he had grant of land laid out to him in 1666, being about twenty acres which he afterwards sold to his brother Israel, as five years later James Emery and Richard Nason testified that they laid out to Jeremiah Hodgson the land that Israel's house now stands on dated 1671.
Kittery town records.
Jeremiah Hodsdon was taxed in Cocheco, (now Dover, N.H..,) 1666. He m. about 1666-7, Anne, dau, of Alexander and Anne Thwaits, who came in the Hopewell from London, in 1635, aged 20, he was first at Concord, leaving there in 1640, and we find him afterward in Maine owning land at the head of Casco Bay and then on the Kennebec River near Bath. His children were Elizabeth, Anne, John, Rebecca, Alexander, Lydia, Jonathan, Mary and Margaret Thwaits.
Jeremiah settled in Portsmouth, N.H., and later at Great Island (now Newcastle); he died before 1716, and his widow afterward lived in Boston where she joined the Brattle Street Chirch, June 7, 1719. She and her sister Mary, wife of Edward Gilling, sell land once bleonging to their father lying in Maine on the Kennebec river Mar. 5, 1724; and in said deed it is stated that five of her father's children are dead leaving no heirs.