Deep Bottom

Jemima Job was the daughter of Eliakim Job and Abiah Keamuoo of Tisbury, Massachusetts.  She married three times --  to John Saunders on January 24, 1811, to Samuel S. Henry in 1829, and to Isaac Easton in 1848.  Jemima had at least one daughter, Priscilla.  In 1851, 1852 and 1855, she and some relatives petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature to recover some land at Deep Bottom. As a result of an Act passed in May 1856, the land at Deep Bottom was equally divided to Jemima, her daughter Priscilla Freeman and others.

Priscilla Saunders was the daughter of John Saunders and Jemima Job Easton of the Deep Bottom Indian community.  On March 9, 1837, she married John L. Jackson on Nantucket and had one child, John.  John either died or left by 1854 and she married Tristram Freeman, a mariner from Edgartown, on January 25, 1854.  The couple had sons  David and Frank.

Born in Middletown or Newport, R.I., circa 1790, Isaac Easton was the son of Somerset Easton.  He was on a "list of American prisoners paroled at Bermuda" having been taken by the Britich ship Goree from the merchant ship Ranger of Nantucket, October 2, 1812. He was released October 24, 1812 from the Brig Diamond and served on the Lima of Nantucket 1818-1820. He first married Sophia Bottles Wamsley, widow of Samuel Wamsley on June 28, 1821.  He married his second wife Jemima (Job) (Saunders) Henry on June 14, 1848.  Easton appears in the 1850 Tisbury census as a mariner.