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400 Years of American Hulburds

 

Authored, Compiled and Edited by D. Michael Iradi 1989 thru 2011,

Co-authored and Co-Compiled by Joanne Hayford 2009 thru 2011.

 

Dedicated to the Memory of Fellow Hulburd Family Researcher, Richard O. Monighetti.

 

 

 

Compiler’s and Editor’s Foreword

I [i.e. D. Michael Iradi of FL - hereafter DMI] am open to any corrections and additions, provided you have either documentation or compelling arguments to back it up.  Any questions or comments may be directed to my email address dmiradi@gmail.com.  Anything that does not have a documented source should not be taken as fact, but rather used as a starting point for your own research.  This is a continuous work in progress, and I will try to update and correct errors as I find them and when time allows.

 

This genealogical study is the intellectual property of the compiler and editor.  While nobody can own the raw historical data itself, this genealogical compilation has protected status, as “value” has been added to the bare facts.  To add this value, the compiler and editor has selected the records to include, filled in missing information, interpreted ambiguous data, arranged the compilation into a unique format, and published the data on the Internet.  Using this work as a reference is allowed under the Fair Use Statute, and encouraged by the compiler and editor, provided the compiler and editor is properly cited as the source.  However copying large portions of this genealogical study without first obtaining express permission from the compiler and editor, particularly for financial gain and/or without properly citing the compiler and editor as the source, is not allowed.

 

The following Hulburd genealogy was first greatly supplemented from 2003-7 with research of the late Richard Monighetti of CA [hereafter ROM], as well as several additions by fellow family researchers, Lois Tiller of VA [hereafter LT], Nick Hoffman of PA [hereafter NH], Tom and Linda Hulbert of WI [hereafter TH and LH], Gil Hurlbut [hereafter GH] and several others as noted throughout.  It was ROM’s enthusiasm for this project, which initially motivated me to organize it.  However, the greatest supplementation of information and research was added thru the research and motivation of fellow researcher Joanne Hayford [hereafter JH], from 2009 until the present time (i.e. 2011).  This Hulburd genealogy would not exist anywhere near its present scope and form without her continued support and tireless research, interest and contributions.

 

With the additional technical support and expertise of Gil Hurlbut, this genealogy – as well as the comparative DNA results for various Hulburd descendants – has appeared on the internet at various times, and in various stages, and is thereby readily available to other researchers.  Although the American Hurlbut family has entirely different ancestral origins from the American Hulburd Family, there has been much confusion between these two lines in America over the past four centuries, both intentional and unintentional, and untangling and assigning the descendants of these two families to their respective lines has become an essential and unavoidable part of publishing the genealogies of either family. 

 

Furthermore, there are examples of both Hurlbut and Hulburd descendants who, over time, have adopted a generic surname spelling of “Hulbert”, which further complicates efforts to distinguish these two genetically unrelated families from one another.  Additionally, Hurlbuts can sometimes appear with the surname spelling of “Hulbert”, and veritable Hulburds can sometimes appear in sources and older records even as “Hurlbut”.

 

This confusion between the two distinct lines has been greatly magnified by the machinations of notorious genealogical fabricator Gustav Anjou, who created a fictitious ancestry connecting in England the American immigrants Thomas Hurlbut(t), William Hulburd I and Walter Holbard as brothers.  This is pure creation, and there is demonstrably no grain of truth in it.  However, the lies of Anjou have crept their way into numerous other historical and modern compilations, which repeat this imagined (and genetically disproved) connection as “fact”.

 

An individual is identified in this genealogical account as “of” a certain township, based upon where they had demonstrably last spent a minimum of 5 uninterrupted years of their life.  Therefore, for example, Amos Hulbert who died in Wyalusing, PA (in the same year he had moved there) is listed as “Amos Hulbert of Hanover, NJ, because the last 5 year long continuous residence known or inferred for him, was at Hanover, NJ.

 

Biographical information on men with the surname “Hulburd” or a variation thereof, is listed in the generation in which they fall from the immigrant.  Biographical information for women born with the surname “Hulburd” (or a variation thereof), is typically listed at the end of the entries for their respective fathers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

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1         Compiler’s and Editor’s Foreword                                                                                                

3       Contents                                                                              

 

 

The Immigrant

 

15       William Hulburd I of Northampton, MA (1604 – 1694) 

           

15     Did William Hulburd I Marry Helen / Ellen Tinker in 1628 in (New) Windsor, England?                                                                        

 

16     Was William Hulburd I Originally from Reading (Berkshire), England? 

 

18     Hulbert Church Records from Reading, England and Surroundings Prior to 1630 

 

20     The Connection of William Hulburd I to Robert Keayne of London, England and Boston, MA                                                                                  

22     Did William Hulburd I Immigrate to MA in 1629 Aboard the Higginson Fleet?  

 

24     The Founding of Dorchester, MA                                                     

29     William Hulburd I, Appears at Dorchester, MA in 1630                            

 

31     Origins of the Belief That the Hulburds Have a Welsh Ancestry

 

33     Origins of the Belief that a William “Hulbird” had Arrived on the Ship Mary and John                                                                                      

34     The Founding of Windsor, CT in the Spring of 1636                                            

 

35     William Hulburd I Removes to Windsor, CT; Likely with the Group of Initial Settlers

 

36     The Location of “Backer Row” in the Early Windsor, CT Settlement

 

38     William Hulburd I’s Movements are Shadowed by the Tinker Family

 

39     Did William Hulburd I Introduce His Sister-in-Law Anne Tinker to Thomas Thornton?

 

40     Did William Hulburd I Marry Secondly an Ann “Amy” [Ames?] in 1643?

 

40     William Hulburd I, et al of Windsor, CT vs. Thomas Marshfield in 1643

 

42     William Hulburd I Removes to Hartford, CT from about 1647 - 1651

 

43     Where was the Palisado at Early Hartford, CT Situated?

 

44     William Hulburd I vs. James Wakeley in 1649 Hartford, CT

 

45     William Hulburd I Returns to Windsor, CT For His Last Marriage to the Widow Ann (née Whitmore) Allen about 1651

 

46     William Hulburd I Removes to Northampton, MA by about 1656

 

49     What was the Occupation/Profession of William Hulburd I?

 

51     The Family of William Hulburd I Listed in Dr. John Winthrop’s Medical Journal from 1663 to 1666/7

 

52     William Hulburd I and His Sons Donate to Harvard College in 1672/3

 

53     The Destructive Ministry of the Reverend Eleazar Mather at Northampton, MA

 

54     The Known Children of William Hulburd I of Northampton, MA

 

 

First Generation

 

56    John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA (1640 – 1713)

 

56     The Intestate Probate of the Estate of John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA

 

59     The Descendants of John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA

 

66     Who Owned “Hulbert’s Mill” in Florence, MA in the First Half of the 1700’s ?

 

68     A Brief Family History by a Descendant of John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA

 

69     Early Land Deeds for Hampshire and Hampden Counties, MA from 1636 to 1787

 

72     Early Hampshire Co. and Hampden Co., MA Hulbert/var.s of Undetermined Origin

 

 

73       William Hulburd II of Enfield, CT (c.1653 – 1734)

 

75     William Hulburd II at Northfield, MA at the Onset of King Philip’s War

 

79     Events During King Philip’s War, in Which William Hulburd II May Have Witnessed and/or Participated

 

80     The Children of William Hulburd II of Enfield, CT

 

82     William Hulburd II Removes to New Haven, CT c.1704

 

83     Where Did William Hulburd II Meet His Third Wife Hannah (née Whitaker) Hulet?

 

85         Establishing the Marriage of William Hulburd II to Hannah Whitaker

 

88     Enfield, CT as Part of Connecticut’s Disputed “Southwick Jog”

 

89     William Hulburd II in Northampton, MA and Enfield, CT Land Deeds

 

94     The Enfield Connection Between Half (or Step) Brothers William Hulburd II and Samuel Allen Jr.

 

 

Second Generation

 

96         Samuel Hulburd of Northampton, MA (1681 – 1748)

 

96     The Will of Samuel Hulburd of Northampton, MA

 

 

101   James Hulburd I of Northampton, MA (1687 – 1767)

 

101   The Will of James Hulburd I of Northampton, MA

 

 

105        Benajah Hulburd of Enfield, CT (1689 - 1708)

 

105   The Death of Benajah (alias Berechiah) Hulburd

 

 

106        Thomas Hulburd of Enfield, CT (1796 – 1715?)

 

106   Thomas Hulburd in Enfield, CT Records

 

 

107       William Hulburd III of Mendham, NJ (1698 – 1779)

 

107   Is William Hulburd III of Mendham, NJ Really the Son of William Hulburd II of Enfield, CT?

 

110   The Changing Jurisdictions of William Hulburd III’s Homestead in Mt. Freedom, NJ

 

113   The Settling of Mendham, NJ

 

114   Speculation on the Early Movements of William Hulburd III from Enfield, CT to Mendham, NJ

 

116   Was William Hulburd III an Early Baptist Settler to Randolph, NJ?

 

118   The Baptist Churches Near Mendham, NJ, Prior to the Founding of the Mt. Freedom Baptist Church

 

121   Was William Hulburd III an Early Quaker Settler to Randolph, NJ?

 

122   Was William Hulburd III an Early Rogerene Settler to Randolph, NJ?

 

127   The Pre-Revolutionary War Records in NJ of William Hulburd III’s Family

 

128   What is the Staten Island (and/or Piscataway / Woodbridge, NJ) Connection to William Hulburd III?

 

132   Did Early Hulburd Records in NJ Go Unrecorded, Due to Incompetent and/or Spiteful Ministers at the Hanover Presbyterian Church?

 

134   Did Early Hulburd Records in NJ Go Unrecorded, Due to Attendance at the Early Roxiticus Meeting House?

 

136   The Roxiticus Meeting House and Its Spin-Off Congregations

 

139   The Probable Site of the Roxiticus Meeting House and Burial Ground

 

142   The Pre-Revolutionary Royal Colony of New Jersey

 

144   Can the Earliest Records in NJ for William Hulburd III and Family be Found in the Archives of Hunterdon County?

 

146   Was the First Wife of William Hulburd III an “Allen”?

 

148   Was One of the Wives of William Hulburd III a “Wilkinson”?

 

151   Was Either William Hulburd III’s First (or Theorized Second) Wife the “Widow Nichol”?

 

152   The First Known Mention of William Hulburd III’s Last Wife Mary

 

156   Was William Hulburd III’s Last Wife Mary the Widow of Ephraim Loree?

 

158   The Confusion Between Ephraim Loree of Southold, NY, and the Ephraim Lore of Cumberland Co., NJ

 

163   William Hulburd III Witnesses the Will of Isaac Pain of Mendham, NJ

 

164   The 1778 Will of William Hulburd III of Mendham, NJ

 

167   The Children of William Hulburd III of Mendham, NJ

 

176   The Unrelated Holberts / Halberts / Halbords of Colonial Burlington Co., NJ

 

181   Who was the Benjamin Hulbert/var. Allegedly Listed in Mendham, NJ between 1740 and 1750?

 

183   The Maternity of William Hulburd III’s Four Youngest Children

 

184   The Source of the Name “Mount Freedom” (alias “Walnut Grove”) for that Section of Randolph, NJ

 

186   The Family of William Hulburd III and the Mt. Freedom Baptist Church and Cemetery

 

189   The Jail Bust-Out of William Tuttle (i.e. a Son-in-Law of William Hulburd III)

 

191   The Confusion Between the Deserter John Chambers, and the Patriot John Channel (i.e. a Son-in-Law of William Hulburd III)

 

193   The Fight of the Widow Rachel Hulburd to Receive Her Deceased Husband’s Military Half-Pay

 

 

195       Obadiah Hulburd I of Enfield, CT (1703 – 1785)

 

195   Obadiah Hulburd I Allegedly Representing his Mother’s Interest in Howard Lands

 

195   The Descendants of Obadiah Hulburd I of Enfield, CT

 

 

223       Ebenezer Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ (1705 – 1770)

 

224   The Apparent Confusion Between Ebenezer “Holbert” (i.e. Hurlbut) of the Norwalk, CT Area, and Ebenezer “Holbert” (i.e. Hulburd) of the Middleton, CT Area

 

225   The Ebenezer “Holiberd / Holbert” (i.e. Hulburd) of 1745 Hanover, NJ, and His Presumed Descendants

 

237   Who was Ebenezer “Halbert”, born in Morristown, NJ in 1781?

 

 

238       Benjamin Hulburd I of Enfield, CT (1709 – 1757)

 

238   Did Benjamin Hulburd I Remove to Bennington, VT Prior to His Death in 1757?

 

240   The Death of Benjamin Hulburd I of Enfield, CT During the French and Indian War of 1757

 

242   The Descendants of Benjamin Hulburd I of Enfield, CT

 

 

Third Generation

 

251   Daniel Hubbard of Pittsfield, MA (1714 – 1777)

 

251   Daniel Hubbard of Pittsfield, MA:  Not a Hulburd Descendant as Has Long Been Claimed

 

 

253       Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ (c.1733 – 1803)

 

253         Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, Living in Staten Island, NY

 

254   The Alleged Bigamous Marriage of  “Benjamin Halbert, Cooper of Morris-town, NJ”

 

255         Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ; “Dis-Fellowshiped” from the Baptist Church for his “Unlawful Marriage”, and a Probable Slave Owner

 

258   The Troubled Marriage of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ to Patience Edwards of Elizabeth, NJ

 

261   The Bequest in Aaron Van Name’s Will to the Children of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ

 

262   The Consequences of Aaron Van Name’s Death

 

264   The Children of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ and Elizabeth Van Name

 

266   Were the Children of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ Named after a Pattern?

 

266   Charles Hulbert, the Son of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ

 

268   The Adult Baptism of Elizabeth (“Holbert”) Hinds, the Daughter of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ

 

268   The Movements of Rachel Hulburd (alias Holbert / Hulbert), the Daughter of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Hanover, NJ

 

269   The Descendants of Rachel Hulburd of Madison, NJ and Orange, NJ

 

 

270       William Hulburd IV of Randolph, NJ (c.1740 – c.1812)

 

270   William Hulburd IV in the Morris County, NJ Court of Common Pleas

 

272   William Hulburd IV in Morris County, NJ Probate Court Abstracts

 

272   Abstract of the Transcription of an 1804 Deed of William Hulburd IV and his 2nd wife Anna, to Peter Till

 

273   Some Other Potential Children of William Hulburd IV of Randolph, NJ

 

275   The Descendants of William Hulburd V of Morristown, NJ, the presumed son of William Hulburd IV of Randolph, NJ and his wife Rebecca Kitchin

 

 

276       Ephraim Hulburd of Ridge, OH (1759 – 1845)

 

276   Abstract of a Transcription of a 1783 Deed of Ephraim Hulburd to Jacob Doty

 

277   How Mendham, NJ Celebrated Independence Day in 1797

 

278   The 1833 Affidavit of Military Service of Ephraim Hulburd (alias Hulbert)

 

281   Ephraim Hulburd in the Pension Roll of 1835

 

283   The Movements of Ephraim Hulburd from Mendham, NJ to Ridge, OH

 

286   The Changing Jurisdictions of Ephraim Hulburd’s NY Homestead

 

287   The Descendants of Ephraim Hulburd of Ridge, OH

 

305   Speculation Regarding Who Were the Parents of Richard Hulbert of Amanda, OH

 

309       Jotham Hulburd Sr. of Randolph, NJ (1766 – c.1840)

 

309   The Road Laid Out Between the Lands of Jotham Hulburd Sr. and Israel Abers

 

310   Jotham Hulburd Sr. and Joshua Hulburd Witness the Will of Gilman Freeman of Randolph, NJ

 

311   Abstract of a Transcription of a 1804 Deed of Jotham Hulburd Sr. to Mendham Township

 

312   Abstract of a Transcription of an 1806 Deed of John and Mary Losey to a Jotham Hulburd (probably Sr.).

 

312   Abstract of a Transcription of an 1814 Deed, of Jotham Hulburd Sr. to Samuel Johnson

 

313   Abstract of a Transcription of an 1814 Deed of Jotham Hulburd Sr. to Bernard Towland

 

314   Condensed Abstracts of 4 Different Deeds of Jotham Hulburd Sr. Between 1823 and 1836

 

316   The Movements of Jotham Hulburd Sr. of Randolph, NJ

 

318   Was Jotham Hulburd Sr.’s Second Wife Jane Negus in Debt Collection?

 

319   Jotham Hulburd Sr.’s Divorce from Jane Negus

 

319   Did Jotham Hulburd Sr. Die in or Before 1824?

 

320   The Descendants of Jotham Hulburd Sr. of Randolph, NJ

 

 

323   Joshua Hulburd of Randolph, NJ (1768 – 1847)

 

323   Abstract of a Transcription of an 1809 Deed of Joshua Hulburd to a Jotham Hulbert (Probably Jr.).

 

324   Abstract of a Transcription of an 1811 Deed of Joshua Hulburd and His Wife Martha, to Daniel Lawrence Jr.

 

324   The Descendants of Joshua Hulburd of Randolph, NJ

 

340   Additional Presumed Descendants of Either Joshua Hulburd and/or of His Brother Jotham Hulburd Sr.

 

 

343   William Hulburd Sr. of Bennington, VT (1731 – 1782)

 

343   William Hulburd Sr. of VT, Counterfeiter

 

 

344       Benjamin Hulburd II of Bennington, VT (1746 - 1810)

 

344   Benjamin Hulburd II of Bennington, VT Sells Land at Castleton, VT

 

 

345   Ambrose Hulburd Sr. of Bennington, VT (1752 – 1781)

 

345   The Guardianship Papers for Ambrose Hulburd Sr.

 

 

 

Fourth Generation

 

348       William Hulburd of Pittsford, NY (c.1763 – c.1825)

 

348   The Revolutionary War Service of William Hulburd of Pittsford, NY

 

349   The NJ Debt Collection Against William Hulburd of Pittsford, NY

 

350   Initial Speculation Regarding the Identities of the Hulburds of Pittsford, NY

 

356   The 1809 Deed of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Mt. Carmel, IL, to His First Cousin William Hulburd of Pittsford, NY

 

357   The Descendants of William Hulburd of Pittsford, NY

 

 

365       Benjamin Hulburd Jr. of Wyalusing, PA (c.1766 – 1813)

 

365   The Confusion Between Benjamin Hulburd of Mt. Carmel, IL, and His First Cousin Benjamin Hulburd Jr. of Wyalusing, PA   

 

367   The Movements of Benjamin Hulburd Jr. of Wyalusing, PA

 

368         Benjamin ulburdHulburd Jr. of Wyalusing, PA; a Soldier in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794

 

370   The Descendants of Benjamin Hulburd Jr., of Wyalusing, PA

 

 

393   Moses Hulburd of Wyalusing, PA (c.1773 – c.1820)

 

393   The Movements of Moses Hulburd of Wyalusing, PA

 

394   The Descendants of Moses Hulburd of Wyalusing, PA

 

406   What was the Possible Cause of Death for Brothers Moses and Benjamin Hulburd Jr. of Wyalusing, PA?

 

407   The Other Moses Hulburds of Steuben Co., NY

 

408   The Obituary of George Washington Hulburd, the Grandson of Moses Hulburd of Wyalusing, PA

 

 

409   Amos Hulburd of Hanover, NJ (1780 – 1803)

 

409   The Murder of Amos Hulburd of Hanover, NJ

 

414   The Descendants of Amos Hulburd of Hanover, NJ

 

 

419         Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Mt. Carmel, IL  (c.1761 – c.1833)

 

419   The Descendants of Benjamin Hulburd Sr. of Mt. Carmel, IL

 

 

427   Rhuben Hulburd of Randolph, NJ (c.1769 – c.1855)

 

427   Who was Rhuben Hulburd of Randolph, NJ?

 

428   The State of NJ vs. Benjamin Hulburd (presumably of Mt. Carmel, IL); Includes the Grand Jury Indictment of Rhuben Hulburd.

 

430   Rhuben Hulburd and the “Lost Check”

 

431   The 1803-4 Imprisonment of Rhuben Hulburd

 

431   Abstract of a Transcription of an 1807 Deed, of Rhuben Hulburd and His Wife Elizabeth to Daniel Aber 

 

432   The Descendants of Rhuben Hulburd of Randolph, NJ

 

 

440   William B. Hulbert of Huron, MI (1790 – c.1865)

 

440   The William B. Hulbert Serves in the War of 1812

 

442   The Bounty Lands Granted to William B. Hulbert for His 1812 War Service, Redistributed

 

 

444  Oliver Hulbert of Madison, OH (c.1800 – c.1853)

 

444  The Movements of Oliver Hulbert

 

 

445   Jotham Hulbert Jr. of Newark, NJ (c.1784 – c.1835)

 

445   Jotham Hulbert Jr. Serves in the War of 1812

 

446   IL Land Grant to Jotham Hulburt Jr. for 1812 War Service 

 

449   The Movements for Jotham Hulbert Jr. of Newark, NJ

 

451   Is Jotham Hulbert Jr. the Father of William Hulbard of 1830 Newark, NJ?

 

452   Were Mary Holbert and Ephraim Holbert of Randolph, NJ the Children of Jotham Hulbert Jr.?

 

453   The Presumed Descendants of Jotham Hulbert Jr. of Newark, NJ

 

454   Was William W. Hulbert of Brooklyn, NY, the Son of Jotham Hulbert Jr. of Newark, NJ?

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

455   The Hulburds in the Mendham, Randolph, Hanover and Morris Twsp, NJ. Tax Rateables from 1778 to 1823

 

467   The Hulburds in the 1793 New Jersey State Militia Census

 

468   Who was Hezekiah “Hurlbut”, Merchant of Morristown, NJ?

 

469   Some Hulberts of Morris County, NJ and Surroundings of Completely Undetermined Ancestry

 

471   Hulberts as Grantors in the Morris Co., NJ Hall of Records Land Deed Index:  Series 1 (1785 – 1906)

 

473   Hulberts as Mortgagees in the Morris Co., NJ Hall of Records Mortgage Index:  Series 1 (1771 – 1909)

 

474   The Transition of Hulbert Homesteads in Morris Co., NJ, as Depicted in the Atlases from 1853 to 1887

 

475   The Hulbert Homesteads Depicted in the 1868 Edition of Beers’ Atlas of Morris Co., NJ

 

476   Which Hulbert Family Perished in the Morris Canal Levy Failure of 1858?

 

477   American Families Whose Surname is Some Variation of “Hulbert”

 

480   The Y-DNA of the Descendants of William Hulburd I of Northampton, MA

 

483   Close Y-DNA Matches with Other Surname

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Immigrant

 

 

WILLIAM HULBURD I of Northampton, MA (1604 – 1694)

Possibly the son of William Hulbert and Anne Bye of Reading (Berkshire), England

 

William Hulburd I was most probably christened (i.e. shortly after being born) on 17 Jun 1604 at St. Giles Parish in Reading, England as William “Hulbert” or “Hulberd”. [Note DMI:  “Hulbert” and “Hulberd” seem to be the spellings used by the Hulburds in Reading, England at that time.  Per most Internet sources (which provide no documentation) William Hulburd I was b. 2 May 1612].  He was listed as “aged above 60” on 13 March 1666/7 (according to the notes of ROM, which cite without page reference, the Medical Journal of John Winthrop Jr., 1657 – 1669, hereafter WMJ). [Note DMI:  The original 1000 pg manuscript is in the archives of the Mass. Hist. Soc]. ) As William “Hulberd” he d. 17 April 1694 in Northampton, MA, per church records there.  [Note JH 6 Oct 2010:  He is (presumably) buried in the Bridge Street Cemetery, with no tombstone surviving (nor for his last wife Ann).  There is no will, or estate inventory, listed for him or his wife Ann in the Northampton civil archives, only intestate records for his son John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton in 1713.  All land deeds for Northampton (Hampshire Co), MA before the year 1787 are filed in Springfield (Hampden Co), MA, even though Hampden Co. was formed out of Hampshire Co. in 1812].

 

 

Did William Hulburd I Marry Helen / Ellen Tinker in 1628 in (New) Windsor, England?

Per information posted on the internet, which was taken from an article originally printed in the New England Historic and Genealogical Register [hereafter NEHGR], Boston. Vol. 149, p. 413 entitled “The English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families of New England - Part Two[Note DMI: said article yet to be read in its entirety by me], Helen (alias Ellen) Tinker (b.c.1604  d.?____) m. 13 Aug 1628 in New Windsor, Berkshire, England [Note DMI: today called simply “Windsor”, England, and referred to simply as “Windsor, England” in the rest of this genealogy] a William “Hubbard”.  The parents of Helen Tinker were Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin.   The author of that article speculates, that this William “Hubbard” may be the same man that James Savage refers to in his Genealogical Dictionary… as the William “Hulburd” who immigrated to Dorchester, MA.

 

Apparently, the reasoning behind this speculation, is because 4 of the Tinker siblings (John, Anne, Mary and Rhoda) and re-widowed mother (Mrs. Mary Collins) of this Helen Tinker ended up immigrating specifically to Dorchester, MA in the 1630’s, and they all removed to Windsor, CT during the 1630’s at roughly the same times that William Hulburd I was also in residence in those places.  Furthermore, a close blood-relative to the Tinkers on their mother’s side (e.g. Miles Merwin) also immigrated specifically to Windsor, CT in the company of John Tinker about 1638.

 

The first known child of William Hulburd I, named John, died on 25 Aug 1639 (age at death undetermined), and the next year he had baptized a second son named John, and the mother of these two sons has never been determined.  Was he named after his maternal uncle John Tinker (who apparently had important connections, including to Gov. Winthrop)? 

 

The surname “Hulburd” has been misspelled by clerks a number of times in early American documents as “Hubbard”, and if that is indeed the way the name is written in the original marriage register of the church at Windsor, England (an is not a modern transcribers error for “Hulburd”, which I have also come across a number of times), then it is probable that this is a reference to William Hulburd I (who would have been about 24 years old at the time). 

 

The founding of a settlement in America with the same name as the town one had resided in back in Great Britain (i.e. “Windsor”), was typical of early British immigrants to New England.  More interesting still, is that the settlement was originally named during its first two years “Dorchester, CT (after the settlement in MA that the first party of settlers had come from), but the name was changed to “Windsor, CT” as soon as some of the Tinker family relocated there. 

 

The date of the 1628 marriage in Windsor, England fits in well with William Hulburd I’s immigration date of 1629 or 1630 (most probably the former, most probably as part of the Higginson Fleet that sailed essentially from London, even though he’s regularly [and wrongly I feel] attributed as a passenger of the Winthrop Fleet – specifically on the Mary and John).  The marriage in Windsor, England also fits in well with William Hulburd relocating from Dorchester, MA to the settlement named “Windsor” when it was established in CT in 1635.  The immigration of the siblings and other family members of Helen Tinker to first Dorchester, MA and then to Windsor, CT is yet another indication that William Hulburd I was likely her spouse.

 

It should also be noted, that while Windsor, England had been a prosperous, Medieval city on the Thames, west of London, which was known for its shops and merchants (due mostly to activities associated with the construction of Windsor Castle there), by the 16th and 17th centuries, Windsor was known for having become impoverished, which provides a reason for why the members of the Tinker and Merwin families (and perhaps William Hulburd I too) would brave settling the wilds of America, for a chance to own land and improve their fortunes.  However, additional research into the Tinkers and various associates of William Hulburd I suggests that the move to MA was actually motivated by the strong religious puritan-separatist beliefs of those individuals.

 

 

Was William Hulburd I Originally from Reading (Berkshire), England?

I emailed 18 Aug 2010 the following to JH:

 

“In the course of that research, I’ve stumbled upon a pretty interesting search engine called ‘Family Search’ provided on line by the Mormons.  In that search engine, I was able to pull up all William Hulbert/var.s in England.

 

Nearly all of the Hulbert/var.s listed are from Wiltshire, and so it’s understandable why past Hulbert genealogists have theorized Wiltshire as a possible origin for our immigrant William Hulburd I.

 

However, using the clue I had stumbled upon several months ago, that our William Hulburd I had likely first married 13 Aug. 1628 as William ‘Hubbard’ to Helen (alias Ellen) Tinker in (New) Windsor, (Berkshire) England, I did a search for any mention of Hulbert/var.s specifically in Berkshire, England before 1635.

 

A William ‘Hulbert’ of Reading (Berkshire), England m. 14 Apr 1600 in St. Mary’s Parish of Reading, England an Anne Bye.  Reading, England is only 20 to 25 miles by road west of Windsor, England (not to mention also being upstream from Windsor, England on the Thames River).  This William would be about the right age to be a father or uncle for our William Hulburd I.  

 

Also, a William “Hulbert’ was christened on 17 Jun 1604 in St. Giles Parish, Reading, England – parents unnamed in the excerpt, but presumably listed on the microfilmed original document.   He is of the right age, to be our William Hulburd I, the immigrant, and is most probably him.  What we do know of our William I’s age to date, is that (per the Winthrop Medical Journal) that William Hulburd I was ‘above age 60’ on 13 Mar 1666, and therefore, born probably just before 1606.

 

Also, there is a marriage of a ‘Willm Hulbert’ on 13 Apr 1611 in Saint Giles Parish, Reading, England to an Elizabeth Burton.  Could this be a 2nd marriage, for the William Hulbert who had married Anne Bye in St. Mary’s Parish in 1600?

 

Finally, in the town of Sandhurst (Berkshire), England, just south of Reading, is the (Latinized) record of a christening of a ‘Gulielmus Hulberd’ (i.e. William Hulberd), son of ‘Thomae Hulberd’ (i.e. Thomas Hulberd) on 2 May 1630.  While this is obviously not our William I or any son of his, I point it out because of the use of the forenames William and Thomas, with the surname ‘Hulberd’, appearing in Berkshire records of the early 1600’s.  Perhaps they were cousins of some sort to William Hulburd I”.

Per Reading History Trail, posted on the website atschool.eduweb.co.uk, which was forwarded to me by JH:

 

“In the middle ages, cloth making became the most important trade in the town of Reading [England].  With wool from the large herds of sheep in Berkshire, Hampshire and the Cotswolds, a ready supply of water for washing and dyeing in the River Kennet, good transport to London along the River Thames and a supply of cheap labour from the continually growing population of the town, Reading was the ideal place for the cloth industry.  The wool was brought to Reading and then made into cloth, a task which involved many different jobs….  The cloth industry was in being by 1220 when there is evidence of a fulling mill and dyeing grounds on the Kennet.  Cloth making was the important industry in the town throughout the Middle Ages and Tudor times.  It was controlled by the Guild, which gained another charter in 1487 from Henry VII”.

 

 

Hulbert Church Records from Reading, England and Surroundings Prior to 1630

Per the above mentioned ‘Family Search’ IGI index records, these are the following records for Hulbert/var.s in Berkshire, England:

 

Various Marriages at St. Mary’s Parish, Reading, England

Henry Hulbert married in St. Mary’s Parish Mary Frese on 18 Jan 1600.

Henry Hulbert married in St. Mary’s Parish Elinor Pummell on 26 Dec 1614.

Elinor Hulberd married in St. Mary’s Parish John Mathew on 7 Jul 1628.

 

Various Christenings at St. Giles Parish, Reading, England

Thomas Hulbard,  30 Sep 1584.

Marye Hulbard,  24 Jun 1589. 

Ellizabeth Hulbard,  9 Apr 1592.

Mary Hulbert,  25 Jan 1600.

Thomas Hulbert,  23 Apr 1602.

Mary Hulberd,  27 May 1603.

William Hulbert,  17 Jun 1604.

Elizab. Hulbert,  9 Jun 1605.

Richard Hulbert,  4 Aug 1605.

Thomas Hulbert,  1 Mar 1606.

Sarah Hulbert,  18 May 1606.

Mathias Hulbert,  21 Feb 1611.

John Hulbert Jr. [son of John Hulbert Sr.],  28 May 1620.

 

Christenings of the Children of Henry Hulbert and Mary Frese in Reading, England

Marie in 1602 (she died 8 Jun 1603).

Anna in St. Mary’s Parish in 1603 (she died 6 Feb 1614).

 

Christenings of the Children of Abraham Hulberd in Reading, England

Anna, 16 Mar 1614 (she died 6 Feb 1615).

Joseph,  26 Nov 1615.

Abraham Jr.,  16 Jan 1618.

Peter in St. Mary’s Parish, 9 Apr 1620.

Thomas,  27 Oct 1622.

Judith in St. Mary’s Parish,  Jul 1624.

Isak,  5 Aug 1628.

 

Christenings of the Children of Thomas (Latinized ‘Thomae’) Hulberd

Daniell in St. Mary’s Parish in Reading (Berkshire), England 6 Mar 1614.

Elizabetha (i.e. Elizabeth) in Sandhurst (Berkshire), England  6 Dec 1618. 

Maria (i.e. Mary) in Sandhurst,  25 Feb 1621.

Susannah in Sandhurst,  11 Apr 1624.

Jana (i.e. Jane) in Sandhurst,  Dec 1627.

Gulielmus (i.e. William) in Sandhurst,  2 May 1630.

 

There are also christening records for “Hulbert/var.s” in St. Lawrence (Berkshire), England starting about the year 1647.  St. Lawrence lies halfway between Windsor and Reading (i.e. about 10 miles by road east of the center of Reading).

 

On 15 Sep 2010, I received the following email response from Ruth King of the Berkshire Record Office for Berkshire County in England:

 

“… We have the parish registers for Reading St Giles and Reading St Mary here at the Berkshire Record Office, as follows:

 

Reading St Mary

baptisms - 1538-1954 

marriages - 1538-1954

burials - 1538-1995

 

Reading St Giles

baptisms - 1564-1990

marriages - 1564-1991

burials - 1564-1990

 

We also have transcripts of the above registers, as follows:

 

T/R77/1 - transcript of Reading St Mary marriages and burials, 1538-1812

T/R77/2 - transcript of Reading St Mary baptisms, 1538-1812

T/433 - transcript of Reading St Giles baptisms, marriages and burials, 1564-1812

 

… As you have found from the baptisms you already have, the very early entries do not give the names of the parents, so it can be difficult to put people into family groups….  I searched our personal names index but could not find any references to the name Hulberd/Hulbert for the period you are interested in.  I also checked our index to Berkshire wills for the period 1508-1652 and found one [estate] administration for Abraham Hulbert of Reading, 1638”.

 

In follow-up email to JH the same day, I noted the following:

 

“We'll probably never know for sure, who were the parents of the William Hulberd who was christened in Reading in 1604, since it’s clear from the listings under the title "various christenings" I've already compiled from IGI, that there were at least two, possibly three, Hulbert men fathering children in Reading at the same time, due to multiple christenings during the same year.  The 7 children that we know for sure from those records who were fathered by Abraham Hulbert, were christened starting 1614,  but that's probably when they started including the parents' names with the child's christening entry.  Abraham could also be the father of children who were christened before 1614, but we can't know for sure.  It's true that estate administrations can sometimes give clues to family connections, but that's not typically the case.

 

In taking a second look at the LDS microfilm catalogue in the link that you provided, there are a couple of films that could possibly yield some info, as a long shot I suppose:

 

The churchwarden’s accounts of the parish of St. Mary’s, Reading, Berks, 1550-1662  Church of England. St. Mary's Church (Reading, Berkshire)

 

Parish chest records, 1550-1907 Church of England. St. Mary's Church (Reading, Berkshire)

 

Parish registers, 1538-1967, and church and civil records, 1250-1990  Church of England. St. Mary's Church (Reading, Berkshire)

 

The last one has subheadings headings for ‘Taxation’, ‘Occupations’, and ‘Poor Houses’.  Interesting that they have tax records back to 1250, apparently”.

 

 

The Connection of William Hulburd I to Robert Keayne of London, England and Boston, MA

Per Heavenly Merchandize…, by Mark Valeri, 2009, pg 14:

 

“He [Keayne] was born in 1595 in Windsor, Berkshire County, England, the son of the butcher John Keayne…in 1605 his father apprenticed him to the London merchant-tailor John Heyfield.  He worked eight years in the Cornhill District of London, secured admission to the freedom of the Merchant Taylor’s Company, a prominent guild, in 1615, and married Anne Mansfield in 1617.  While in London, the young merchant also joined the puritan movement and established connections with dissenting leaders….  He joined the Honourable Artillery Company of London in 1623 and subscribed as an adventurer behind the Plymouth Colony.  Eventually he became acquainted with John Winthrop…he advised Winthrop on procuring armaments for the Massachusetts Bay Company.  In 1634 he invested £100 in the company.  On July 17, 1635, when he was forty years old, he, his wife, and one surviving son out of four, Benjamin, departed England for Boston [MA]”.

 

and per pg 22:

 

“He [Keayne] held separate account books for the poor fund, his shop transactions, debts owed to him (three volumes), credits paid to him, debts he owed others....  He kept in addition, separate papers for debts due from his farmlands and from the ironworks...old debt books from London...Keayne...appeared to pay an unusual amount of attention to his ledgers.  “As a good help hereunto”, he advised his executors, ‘I advise that my shop books, debt books, and all my books of account may carefully be looked [locked?] up, kept together and diligently perused, seeing that almost everything which belongs to my estate is by myself committed to writing in one book or another’. ”

 

So, the question now becomes, where are the account books of Robert Keayne now housed, (since William Hulburd I should be mentioned in them)?  I would presume as part of the collection of the MA Historical Society in Boston, MA – that is if those account books still exist.

 

Per Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. VII, 1885, is a printing of “the Note-Book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641”.  We find on pg 342 the following [Note DMI:  date not specified, but circa 1640]:

 

“Robert Keayne of Boston in N E m; makes a ler of Attorn. unto John Tinker of Windsore upon the river of Connecticott, planter, to receive of Willm Hubberd of Windsore 10s, John Haynes Esqr 2£ 10s, Mr. Robert Saltonstall 50£, Henry Browning 4£ 4s 8d, Thomas Witherle [i.e. Wetherill? / Witherell?] 2£ 14s 2d, Willm Quicke 4£ 7s 10d, Mr. [Rev. John?] Higginson 15s, David Anderson 6£ 6s ”.

 

[Note DMI:  The Rev. John Higginson was son of the Rev. Francis Higginson who died 6 Aug 1630]

 

Per a footnote on pg. 401:

 

 “Robert Saltonstall was at this time at Windsor, Conn.  This agreement probably has some connection with the letter of attorney on p. 189 from Robert Keayne to one Tinker, of Windsor, to collect several debts, and among others £50 from Robert Saltonstall.  Robert was a younger son of the baronet, and was engaged at Windsor in looking out for some property of his own and his brother’s…”.

 

[Note DMI: William Quicke, like the Saltonstalls, also seems to have been from London.  John Haynes was elected Governor of the MA Bay Colony in 1635, and was later elected Governor of the CT Colony, serving in alternating years starting in 1639.  He also owned land at Windsor, CT which he bequeathed to his widow].

 

[Note JH:  Thomas Lechford was a lawyer in Boston, who was apparently the first lawyer in the New England.   He nearly starved for lack of work, and returned to England about August of 1641].

 

Regarding the involvement of the Saltonstalls in the MA Bay Company, A History of Salem, Massachusetts, by Sidney Perley, Vol. I (1626-1637), 1924, states on pg. 89:

 

“Not long after, these [original] grantees [of territory in New England, who resided in and about the counties of Dorset and Somerset, England], through Mr. [Rev. Francis] White, [also] became acquainted with other religious persons of like quality in and about London, - Isaac Johnson, Matthew Craddock, Thomas Goffe and Sir Richard Saltonstall, - who became associated with them, for the purpose of founding a plantation where nonconformists in religion might be received”.

 

And per pg. 125:

 

[Note DMI:  On 17 April 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Company sent along with the ships Talbot and Lion’s Whelp, a letter of instruction to Gov. Endecott, which included]: “Wee recommend vnto yow Sr Richard Saltontall and Mr Iack Johnon, who end over ervants and cattle in thee hipps, deiring yow will take care for their preent accomodacon as aforeaid…”.

 

As regards Rev. Francis Higginson, pg. 110 states:

 

“The Talbot, Thomas Beecher, master, was also a strong ship of three hundred tons, with nineteen pieces of ordnance, and manned by thirty mariners.  It carried about one hundred planters, and as freight six goats, five great pieces of ordnance, with oatmeal, pease and all kinds of munitions and provisions sufficient for plantation for a year.  Several servants of the pilgrims came in this vessel at this time and also Mr. [Rev. Francis] Higginson and his family…”. 

 

 

Did William Hulburd I Immigrate to MA in 1629 Aboard the Higginson Fleet?

In an email of 6 Sep 2010 I wrote to JH:

 

“…there is a possibility that William Hulburd I actually arrived in MA aboard the Higginson Fleet, which arrived at Salem, MA one year before the Mary and John arrived near Dorchester, MA in 1630.

 

There is no proof one way or the other, when William Hulburd I arrived in MA, or upon what ship.  We know he had to arrive sometime after his marriage at Windsor, England to Helen Tinker in the Spring of 1628, and we know he first appears in the American records in Dorchester, MA in 1630 - but, that doesn't tell us whether he arrived as part of the Higginson Fleet, or as part of the Winthrop Fleet.  The assumption had been the latter, only because it was assumed that he must have been part of the Dorchester colonists who had come on the Mary and John, only because he petitions to be a freeman of that settlement early on in 1630.

 

However, Simon Hoyt(e) also petitioned to become a freeman of Dorchester, MA in 1630, and had arrived on either the Lion’s Whelp in 1629 (or possibly the Talbot), which was part of the Higginson Fleet, having helped to found, and resided at, Charlestown, MA during 1629.

 

Even though it has become clear recently, that William Hulburd I wasn't from the western regions of England, and therefore not likely a passenger on the Mary and John, we’ve nonetheless still been stuck on his coming over as part of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630.  However, the Higginson Fleet left from essentially London (i.e. just down-river from London), on the Thames River, only one year before in 1629 (one year after William I's marriage to Helen Tinker within 40 miles of London, in Windsor, England - also a city on the Thames River).

 

The Thames River flows from west to east thru Reading, then Windsor, and then London, England.  It would make a lot of sense, that William Hulburd I had set sail at or near London.  The passenger lists for the six ships of the Higginson Fleet apparently don't exist, but Capt. John Smith in The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith, London, 1630 wrote concerning the Higginson Fleet:

 

‘Now in this year 1629, a great company of people [i.e. The Higginson Fleet] of good rank, zeal, means and quality have made a great stock, and with six good ships in the months of April and May, they set sail from Thames for the Bay of the Massachusetts, otherwise called Charles River.  The fleet consisted of, the George Bonaventure of twenty pieces of ordnance; the Talbot nineteen;  the Lion’s Whelp eight; the Mayflower fourteen [note DMI: not the same Mayflower which had first sailed to Plymouth, MA in 1620]; the Four Sisters fourteen and the Pilgrim four, with 350 men women and children, also 115 head of cattle, as horses, mares, cows and oxen, 41 goats, some conies (rabbits), with all provision for household and apparel, 6 pieces of great ordnance for a fort, with muskets, pikes, corselets, drums, colors, and with all provisions necessary for a plantation for the good of man’. 

 

Per Charlestown Town Records, Vol. 2, ‘Minutes of the Selectmen of Charlestown, entry of 18 April 1664’, Charlestown, MA, 1873:

 

“The inhabitants yet: first settled in this place [Charlestown] and brought it into the denomination of an English Towne, was in Anno 1629 as follows, viz:  Ralph Sprague; Richard Sprague; William Sprague; John Meech; Simon Hoyte; Abraham Palmer; Walter Palmer; Nicholas Stower; John Stickline.  Thomas Walford Smith yet lived here alone before.  Mr. Graves who had charge of some, of the servants of the Company of Patentees with whom he built the great house this year for such of the said Company as are shortly to come over which afterwards became the Meeting house. And Mr. Bright Minister to the Companies Servants”.

 

Remember, Simon Hoyt(e) had become a resident of Dorchester, MA in 1630, and then was a near neighbor of William Hulburd I at Windsor, CT, and he later married Rhoda Tinker as her third husband”.

 

 

The Founding of Dorchester, MA

Per The Memoirs of Capt. Roger Clapp, written c.1680, printed 1731 by B. Green,  reprinted 1844, Boston, pg. 2-51:

 

“…[Those] who came in ye year 1630…[included] preachers of ye word of God, as…Mr. Hubbard,…. 

 

Now coming into this Country, I found it a vacant Wildernes, in repect of Englih.  There were indeed ome Englih at Plymouth and Salem, and ome few at Charletown, who were very detitute when we came ahore [Note DMI:  several men who had come the year before in 1629 as part of the Higginson Fleet, had set up a small settlement called Charlestown, which was right next to a relatively large Indian village.  Simon Hoyte was one of those men, and he applied to be a freeman at Dorchester, MA in 1630, the same year William Hulburd I did].

 

 …we got a Boat of ome old planters [Note DMI:  i.e. men who had established the small trading post at Nantasket/Hull, MA, where the passengers of the Mary and John had been “abandoned”.  “Old” meaning “earlier” as in,  in the countryside before 1630, and not old in “elderly”], and laded her with Goods; and ome able Men well armed, and went in her unto Charletown: where we found ome Wigwams and one [split-rail] Houe…then [we] went up Charles River, until ye River grew narrow and hallow, and there we landed our goods with much Labor and Toil, ye bank being teep.  And Night coming on, we were informed that there were hard by us Three Hundred Indians:  One Englih Man that could peak ye Indian language (an old Planter) went to them and advied them not to come near us in ye Night….  Alas, had they come upon us, how oon might they have detroyed us!  I think We were not above Ten in number [i.e. in that advance scouting party, which was formed out of the c.140 passengers of the “Mary and John”]…. 

 

We had not been there many Days…but we had [an] Order to come away from that place, (which was about [the later site of] Watertown) unto a place called Mattapan (now Dorcheter) becaue there was a Neck of Land [i.e. Columbia Point] fit to keep our Cattle on….  Not long after came our renowned and blesed Governour [Winthrop], and divers of his Asitants with him.  Their Ships came into Charles River, and many Pasengers landed at Charletown, many of whom died ye Winter following…they lived many of them in tents and wigwams at Charletown, their meeting place being abroad under a tree… 

 

In our beginning, many were in great Straits for want of Proviion for themelves and their little Ones…when a hip came laden with Proviions, they [Governor Winthrop and his Assistants] did Order that ye whole Cargo hould be bought for a general Stock; and o accordingly it was, and Ditribution was made to every Town, and to every Peron in each Town, as every Man had need….  [Note DMI: an account of “communism” being practiced at the founding of our nation]  It was not accounted a trange thing in thoe Days to drink Water [i.e. rather than hard cider or ale, which were both safer, and tastier to drink], and to eat Samp [i.e. boiled cracked-corn] or Hominie [i.e. hominy grits] without Butter or Milk.  Indeed it would have been a trange thing to ee a piece of Roat Beef, Mutton or Veal; though it was not long before there was Roat Goat”.

 

Per the Annals of the Town of Dorchester, by James Blake, 1750 (reprinted in Collections of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Vol. II:, Boston, 1846, pg. 7- 9):

 

“When many mot Godly and Religious People that Disented from ye way of Worhip then Etablihed by Law in ye Realm of England, in the Reign of King Charles ye firt, being denied ye free exercie of Religion after ye manner they profesed according to ye light of God’s Word and their own conciences, did under ye Incouragement of a Charter Granted by ye Sd King, Charles, in ye Fourth Year of his Reign A.D. 1628, Remoue themelves & their Families into ye Colony of ye Masachuetts Bay in New-England, that they might Worhip God according to ye light of their own Conciences, without any burthenome Impoitions, which was ye very motive & caue of their coming;  Then it was, that the Firt Inhabitants of Dorcheter came ouer, & were ye firt Company or Church Society that arriued here, next to ye Town of Salem who was one year before them.

 

…This People [i.e. the group assembled at Plymouth, England] being too many in Number to come in one Vesel, they hired one Capt. Squeb to bring them in a large Ship of Four Hundred Tons [i.e. the “Mary and John”];  they et Sail from Plymouth ye 20th of March 1629-30, and arriued at Nantaket (now Hull) ye 30th of May 1630, having a Comfortable tho’ long Pasage, and having Preaching and Expounding of ye Scripture every day of their Pasage, performed by their Miniters.  They agreed with Capt. Squeb to bring them into Charles River, but he was fale to his bargain & would not come any further than Nantaket [Note DMI: where a trading post had already been established by settlers from the Plymouth Colony], where he turned them and their Goods ahore on ye point, leaving them in a forlorn Wildernes detitute of any habitation & mot other comforts of life [Note DMI:  which would have been pretty much the case wherever he left them off in 1630, so I’m not sure what the whining was about…]

 

But it pleaed God, they got a boat of ome that had taid in ye Country (I uppoe for Trade, for there was ome at Noddles Island & at Charles-town that taid in ye Country for Trade with ye Natiues before thee adventurers came over…) and put their goods in ye Boat, and Intead of Sailing up to Charles River in a Ship were forced (as I uppoe) to Row up in a Boat [i.e. the advanced scouting party of ten men]….   They went up ye River until it grew narrow & Shallow, & then put ahore & built a hut to helter their Goods, Intending there to et down [i.e. settle down for good], it being ye place where Watertown now is. 

 

The Indians upon their arrival Mutered thick, they thought about 300, but having with them an Old Planter as they called him, one that had tayed in ye Country & could peak omething of ye Indian Language, (I uppoe they took him from Charlestown that now is, for they called there & aw everal Wigwams, & one Englih Man in an House where they ate boiled Bas, but had no Bread to eat with it) they ent him to ye Indians, who were peruaded to keep at a ditance ye firt night, and ye next morning when the Indians appeared, they offered no violence but ent some of their number holding out a Bas;  our people ent a man with a Biquet, & o they Exchanged,  not only then but often afterwards, a biquet for a Bas, and ye Indians were very friendly to them, which our people acribed to God’s watchful Providence ouer them in their weak beginnings;  for all the Company were not gone up ye River, but about Ten men to eek out ye way for ye Ret.

 

They were now landed upon ye Main Continent in a wild & unknown Wildernes, and they had brought Cattle [i.e. principally goats] with them which if they put them ahore there would likely wander & be lot & themelves likewie in eeking them.  They had not tayed here at Watertown but a few days but ye Ret of their Company below had found out a neck of Land Joyning to a place called by the Indians Mattapan, (now Dorcheter) that was a fit place to turn their Cattle upon to prevent their traying; o they ent to their friends to come away from Watertown, and they ettled at Mattapan, & turned their Cattle upon ye Sd neck then called Mattapannock, now called Dorcheter-Neck [i.e. Columbia Point].  They began their Settlement here at Mattapan ye beginning of June as I uppoe, or thereabout, A.D. 1630, and changed ye name into Dorcheter, calling it Dorcheter Plantation.  Why they called it Dorcheter I never heard, but there was ome of Doret Shire, & ome of ye Town of Dorcheter that ettled here; and it is very likely it might be in Honour of ye aforeaid Revd. Mr. White of Dorcheter”.

 

Per History of the Town of Dorchester, MA, by the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Boston, 1859 pg. 27-31:

 

“Much pains were taken to scrutinize the character and morals of all persons offering for emigration to Massachusetts in England, and such as arrived here without proper testimonials were not received [i.e. per Winthrop’s Journal, pg. 38]….  The principal qualification for this privilege [i.e. to become a freeman of Dorchester, MA] seems to have been church membership….  In November, 1634, it was ordered that ‘no man shall sell his house or lot to any man without [i.e. outside of] the plantation, whom they [i.e. the town council] shall dislike of’.  [Note DMI:  this is essentially the equivalent of an early example of Co-op (Co-operative) living, in what amounts to an HOA (Home Owner’s Association)]

 

The names of the first 24 freemen were… [a list of names, ending with] William Hubbert.  Prince [i.e. Prince’s Annals] mentions that many of the early settlers of Massachusetts returned to England, and this was the case with some of the Dorchester settlers…. Lands allotted to persons who shortly left, appear to have been granted to others by the plantation; all speculation was thus prevented.

 

The first Dorchester Record Book, re-copied a few years since at the expense of the town, commenced January 16, 1632-3,…  The two missing leaves at the beginning, traced, probably, the proceedings from the commencement of the settlement [i.e. 1 Jun 1630 to 15 Jan 1632].  A very large part of this book, containing six hundred and thirty-six pages, is devoted to grants of land, regulations for fences, the care of cattle, laying out of highways, and other kindred maters…. 

 

Frequent allusion is made to a book, containing a plot of the town, with lots, and the names of grantees from the beginning, probably a registry of deeds.  Dr. Harris states it to have been accidentally burnt in 1657.  It is however stated that a copy of this plot and the names of the grantees, made by that excellent draftsman, James Blake, has existed within the memory of the persons now living.  If it should be found, it will be of great interest to the present generation…”.  [Note DMI:  This copy of the Dorchester land deed book, made by James Blake, and still in existence until at least about 1800 per the above account, has never resurfaced to date – i.e. 2010 – and is therefore presumed lost and destroyed sometime probably in the early 1800’s].

 

Per Codman Square…, by William J. Walczak, 2000, pg. 2-3, quotes from a letter written by Deputy-Governor Thomas Dudley in 1630 to a friend in England, which describes how the original plans of the Winthrop Fleet to settle all in one location in MA (presumably at Salem), were changed last minute so that scattered settlements were made:

 

“But… receiving advertisements (by some of the late[ly] arrived ships from London and Amsterdam) of some French preparations [of attack] against us (many of our people brought with us being sick of fevers, and we thereby unable to carry up our ordnance and baggage so far) we were forced to change counsel [i.e. change our original plans], and for our present shelter to plant [ourselves] dispersedly; some at Charlestown, some at Boston, some of upon Mistick [River], which [settlement] we named Meadford, some westward of the Charles River, four miles from Charlestown, which place we named Watertown, others of us two miles from Boston in a place we named Rocksbury; others upon the River Saugus, between Salem and Charlestown, and the western[-English] men [who had arrived on the “Mary and John”] four miles south of Boston at a place we named Dorchester”.

 

Walczak continues on pg 2-3:

 

“The Puritans who settled Dorchester were part of the group which obtained a charter allowing the Massachusetts Bay Company to settle the land between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers. Part of this group sailed on March 20, 1630 aboard the Mary and John and landed on June 6, 1630 at a placed called “Mattapannock” (Columbia Point) by the Indians.  These settlers built houses and a meeting house nearby at a place later called Allen’s Plain (roughly where Pleasant Street is today). 

 

Before leaving for America, the colonists had determined that for purposes of mutual protection they would build closely together.  For this reason all settlers built homes within one-half mile of the meeting house on lots of four to six acres.  [Note DMI:  the original Meeting House at Dorchester, MA, built in 1631, was almost certainly inside of a Palisado, which corresponds roughly to the southern half of the land bounded by East Cottage Street and Pond Street, in the current Uphams Corner region of Boston, MA]. 

 

South of what is now called Meeting House Hill, “Great Lots” (in what is now Central and Southern Dorchester) for general farm purposes were granted.  Thus, the first roads built by the Dorchester settlers centered around the [original] Meeting House (Cottage Street and Settlers’ Lane) [Note DMI:  i.e. near intersection of East Cottage Street and Pond Street, “Settler’s Lane apparently being an alternate name for Pond Street], led to the fortress atop Rock Hill (now Savin Hill) by way of Pleasant Street, to the Cow Pasture (Columbia Point) by way of Pond Street and Crescent Avenue, and to the Burying Ground by way of Burying Place Lane (now Stoughton Street) [Note DMI:  i.e. at the northeast corner of Columbia Road and Stoughton Street]

 

Later, as the danger from the Indians disappeared, homes were erected on the “Great Lots” and the center of town life shifted [southward] to Meeting House Hill.  [Note DMI:  the 2nd Meeting House was built atop Meeting House Hill in 1670].  This resulted in the building of new roads connecting other settlements and parts of Dorchester.  Dudley Street connected Dorchester with the Roxbury settlement, and Boston Street [Note DMI: now partly Columbia Road] connected Dorchester Neck [Note DMI:  now Columbia Point] and Heights (now South Boston) with the main settlement.  When Israel Stoughton set up a grist mill on the Neponset River, a road was built across the “Great Lots” connecting the original settlement with it.  This became known as the Lower Road (now Adams Street)”.

 

Regarding life in the MA Bay Colony in 1629 (specifically at Salem, MA), per New England’s Plantation, by Rev. Francis Higginson, published in London 1630:

 

“It is thought here is good clay to make bricks and tiles and earthen pots as needs to be.  At this instant we are setting up a brick-kiln to make bricks and tiles for the building of houses….  It is scares to be believed how our kine [i.e. archaic plural form of cow] and goats, horses and hogs do thrive and prosper here and like well of this country….  Here are also an abundance of other sweet herbs…and two kinds of herbs that bear two different kinds of flowers very sweet, which they say, are as good to make cordage or cloth as any hemp or flax we have….  Also here are store of sumac trees, which are good for dying and tanning of leather…also here divers roots and berries wherein the Indians dye excellent holiday colors….  And although New England have no tallow to make candles of, yet by the abundance of the fish thereof, it can afford oil for lamps.  Yea, our pine trees that are the most plentiful of all wood, doth allow us plenty of candles, which are very useful in a house; and they are such candles as the Indians commonly use, having no other, and they are nothing else but the wood of the pine tree cloven in two thin slices something thin, which are so full of the moisture of turpentine and pitch that they burn clear as a torch”.

 

 

William Hulburd I Appears at Dorchester, MA in 1630

Per Dorchester Town Records, 1833, pg 1:

 

“16 Jan:  1632.   It is ordered that Edmond Hart, Roger. Clapp, George. Phillips, John Hulls, Bray Wilkeins, William Hulbeard, Stephen ffrench, John Benham, and John Haydon, are to have their great lotts of 16 acres a peece, next to the great lotts, that are all redy layde out towardes [ye River] Naponsett.  signed John Mavericke.  John Warham.  William Gaylard.  Will. Rockwell”. 

[Note DMI:  Per the recreated map of early Dorchester, MA of the 1600’s by Zurawski (perhaps created as part of an Archeological thesis), which was emailed to me in Aug 2010 by Earl Taylor, president of the Dorchester Historical Society, the Great Lots were located on land bordered essentially by Park St. to the north, Gallivan Ave to the south, Neponset Ave to the east, and Washington St. to the west.  The first great lots granted were presumably located towards the north and east of this area, and later great lots being progressively granted towards the west and south of this area].

 

Per pg 9:

 

“December. first. 1634.   It is ordered that Rodger Clapp, John Hulls, Geo: Phillips, William Hulbard, Stephen French, John Haydon shall have 8 acres a piece on Roxbury boundes betwixt the Two markt trees to begin at either end which they shall agree off. to go in 40 rod from the boundes of the fresh marshes are to be excepted from these lotts.  Mr. Hathorne  to have 12 acres on this side of the markt tree.  Thom. Holcomb to have 8 acres...”.

 

[Note DMI:  the lots at “Roxbury Bounds” were apparently those lots which were bounded on their west side by the Roxbury Brook, which corresponding roughly today to the area surrounding the intersection of West Cottage Street and Dudley Street, and bounded on the west side by Brook Ave, and on the east side by Humphreys Street].

 

Per pg 14-15:

 

“The 18th January 1635… It is ordered that Edmond Munnings, Joseph Flood, Thomas Joanes, shall have each of them 8 acres on Squantum Necke as an addition to their great lotts on Roxbury bounds bought of William Hulbert, John Haydon and George Phillips ...”.

 

Per pg 321, a list of assigned lot numbers at Dorchester, MA [Note DMI:  apparently meadow land just south of the Neponset River], and corresponding acreage, contains the following [Note JH: probably meadows for grazing].:

 

(62) Mr. Sention 2 a. [i.e. Mattias Sension]  

(63)  J. Hull 6 a. [i.e. Josiah Hull],  

(64)  T. Dewis 4a. [i.e. Thomas Dewey],  

(65)  T. Holcom 3 a. [i.e. Thomas Holcombe],  

(66)  G. Phillips 5 a. [i.e. George Philips or Phelps],  

(67)  Wm Hulbert 6 a. [i.e. William Hulburd I]  

(68)  J. Heyden 3 a. [i.e. John Hayden],  

(69)  Mathews 3a. [i.e. Roger Matthews]

 

Per History of the Town of Dorchester, MA, by the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Boston, 1859 a list of those in Dorchester, MA before January 1635 on pg. 38-39, includes William Hulbert, Matthew Sension and Thomas Thornton.  More interesting is who is absent from Dorchester, MA before Jan 1635, namely: Thomas Hobbs (1st husband of Rhoda Hobbs) and John Tinker (who apparently first arrived at Dorchester c.1636 presumably with his mother, the widow Mary Collins).  In 1638 Thomas Thornton and John Tinker recorded articles of agreement of factorage [i.e. a Power of Attorney to transact business and financial arrangements on behalf of another]

 

Per A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692 -Volume #2, Huggins – Hunn, by James Savage, Boston, 1862 [hereafter Savage’s GD]:

 

“… HULBERT (sometimes HURLBUT or HULBURD), WILLIAM, Dorchester 1630, prob. came in the Mary and John [Note DMI: sic –prob., on the Higginson Fleet], freem. 3 Apr. 1632, but had req. that benefit 19 Oct. 1630, removed 1636  to Windsor [i.e. CT], thence, 1655, to Northampton, but was some yrs. bef. at Hartford, where he had Sarah, b. 10 July 1647; and Ann, bapt. 17 Mar. 1650.  He had, also, John, and William, prob. b. at Windsor, and two others, whose names are not ment. [Note DMI: i.e. Abigail and Ruth]  Nor can we tell which of these four were by first wife and which were children by the second wife, Ann, [vol. 2, p. 492] widow of Samuel Allen of W. wh. d. 1687; and he d. 1694.   His s. William [Hulburd II] went to Enfield [CT]. …”

 

Per Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1930, pg.[?], a William “Hulbirt” is listed as a passenger of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 [Note DMI: sic, was probably on the Higginson Fleet].  His vessel landed at Boston [Note DMI:  how would he even know this?] with his destination Northampton, MA [Note DMI:  Northampton, MA didn’t even exist until roughly 25 years later].

 

Many other accounts, including Savage’s GD … claim that William I probably came to Dorchester, MA on the Mary and John in 1630 (which embarked from Plymouth, England on 20 Mar 1630).  However, they made these assumptions without realizing the connections between William Hulburd I and the Tinker family of Windsor, England, as well as the connection of Hulburd with those who had origins in and around London, England (like Robert Keayne), rather than the West of England, where the Mary and John passengers all came from.

 

The ship Mary & John had sailed from Plymouth, England with 140 passengers aboard.  The Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorset, recruited all the families. [Note DMI:  However, Rev. White never immigrated, and it was the Rev. Warham who led the congregation in Dorchester, MA and in Windsor, CT].  Nearly all of them came from the West Country of England, which included the counties of Somerset, Dorset and Devon.  The ship landed in New England on 30 May 1630, roughly two weeks before the rest of the Winthrop Fleet began to arrive.

 

Per the dubious A Genealogical History of the Dunlevy Family, by Gwendolyn Kelley Hack, 1901, pg. 317 [Note DMI: her source for this information apparently being James Russell Trumbull’s “History of Northampton, MA”, 1898]

 

“…He [i.e. William Hulburd I] had money, and was called ‘Mr’.  He had £300 when he came to America. …” [Note DMI:  While the dubious Dunlevy Genealogy states this, apparently attributing it to James Trumbull, I have not been able to verify these claims in any other account or source to date].

 

Per The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 – 1633, Vol. III, by Robert Charles Anderson,  2003 [hereafter GMB]:

 

“… William Hulbird [sic] requested 19 Oct 1630 to be a freeman at Dorchester, and was admitted 3 April 1632.  The gap of 1 1/2 year between his request and admission may possibly indicate that he made a return trip to England in the interim.   He was granted a 16 acre ‘Great Lot’ at Dorchester 16 Jan 1632/3 [Note DMI:  i.e. land just north of the Neponset River], and an 8 acre ‘Great Lot’ there on 1 Dec 1634 [Note DMI:  i.e. land just east of the Roxbury Brook].  He received Lot #67, consisting of 6 acres of meadow beyond Naponset [Note DMI:  i.e. just south of the Neponset River], presumably the same year, and by 18 Jan 1635/6 he had sold his 8 acre ‘Great Lot’. ” 

 

 

Origins of the Belief That the Hulburds Have a Welsh Ancestry

On 12 Oct 2010, JH sent me an email containing a link to an online copy of the book The History of The Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, by Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1879, which on pg. 695 states:

 

“Hon. Ebenezer S. Hulbert was born in Burlington, Ostego Co., N.Y., May 27, 1820….  William Hulbert, one of his paternal ancestors, emigrated to this country and landed in Boston in 1626.  He was a native of Wales, and a blacksmith by trade…”.

 

I immediately replied to JH by email:

 

“The part I'm wondering about the veracity of is:  1) The immigrant was from Wales (I'm not so sure there were very many Welsh settlers to America early on, particularly before 1630), and  2) He immigrated in 1626 to Boston (either the year, the town, or both are wrong).  If it's 1626, it must be a reference to Salem, MA, since Boston wasn’t founded until 1630.

 

There were only roughly 300 surviving Englishmen in New England prior to 1630, and they were indeed ethnically ‘English men’ and not ethnically Welsh, or Irish, or Scottish, etc.  Does it sound feasible, that an ethnically Welsh blacksmith immigrated to the MA Bay Colony in 1630 - let alone beforehand?  I would imagine, that in the records of Dorchester, MA,  Windsor, CT, Hartford, CT and Northampton, MA they would have referred to William Hulburd I as, ‘a Welshman’ just about every time his name was mentioned in records - but they never did.

 

Boston as a named place in MA didn't exist until about 1 month after Dorchester, MA was founded in 1630.  Charlestown (today also part of Boston) was founded in 1629.  Salem, MA was founded in 1626.  So, the first thing to do, is see if there is any mention of a Hulbert/var. at Salem, MA between 1626 and 1630 (which I essentially researched recently, and found no mentions).  

 

The William Hulburd I who ended up at Northampton, MA was previously at Hartford, CT, before that at Windsor, CT, and before that at Dorchester, MA as early as 1630.  The shadowing of his movements by members of the Tinker family, almost certainly confirms he was the William ‘Hubbard’ (and you and I need to see images of the original registers of Windsor, England to see if it is indeed spelled ‘Hubbard’ in the original entry, and not merely a transcription error) who married Helen/Ellen Tinker in Windsor in 1628.  This is further supported by the cluster of ‘Hulberds’ found at that time in nearby Reading, England.

 

The fact that William Hulburd I likely spent his entire life in England all along the Thames River, argues that he probably left for MA from the Thames River in 1629 as part of the ‘Higginson Fleet’ (Higginson  - i.e. the son - being a fellow debtor in CT along with William Hulburd I to Robert Keayne of London, Eng. and later Boston, MA). 

 

So, everything points to our William Hulburd I as not being from Wales, but from Berkshire, England…”.

 

Per the article “Emigration from Wales to America” posted on 13 Oct 2010 on the website of Data Wales:

 

“One of the first Welsh settlers [to America] was Howell Powell who left Brecon for Virginia in 1642.  In 1660 Charles II was restored to the English throne and religious intolerance increased.  The Court of Great Sessions in Bala, north Wales had threatened Quakers with burning.  Welsh Quakers bought 40,000 acres in Pennsylvania and left for America in 1682… The bulk of emigrants to America left via the English ports of Bristol and Liverpool”.

 

Per the article “How Green Was My Valley?  The Welsh: Surnames and Migrations”, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG printed in American Genealogy Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3:

 

“The first sizable emigration of the Welsh to America came in 1680-1720 and as early as 1667 a congregation of Baptists from South Wales had founded Swansea on the Plymouth-Rhode Island border.  In 1681 a group of Welsh-Quaker gentlemen obtained a tract of some 40,000 acres in Pennsylvania”.

 

Per the “Pilgrim Ship Lists Early 1600’s” posted on the website listed on the website www.packrat-pro.com on 13 Oct 2010,  there is only one ship on or before 1626 which sailed from Bristol, England with a destination in New England  -i.e. the ship Jacob mastered by Capt. Pierce which disembarked in 1625 from Bristol, England for Plymouth, MA (no manifest surviving).  Subsequently in 1628, the ship Abigail, mastered by Capt. Goding sailed the same course (with a partial passenger list surviving/recreated, containing no Hulbert/var.s).

 

However, we see this same rumor of Welsh origins for the Hulburd family being repeated in the dubious A Genealogical History of the Dunlevy Family…, by Gwendolyn Dunlevy Kelley, Columbus, OH, 1901, which first incorrectly claims on pg. 316 that the immigrant William Hulburd I was baptized on 11 Mar 1608 as the child of John Hulbert of Corsham (Wiltshire Co), England.  However, a paragraph further down on pg 317, the claim is made, that “the Hulburd family is an old and honorable one, probably of Welsh origin”, without any indication of to why this is asserted.  Several more sentences later, it is asserted that “one of the men of this company [i.e. aboard the Mary and John] was William Hulburd, probably a son of Justice George Hulbert of England or Wales”, once more with no supporting evidence whatsoever provided for these multiple assertions.

 

So, based upon all of the above, the Welsh origins attributed to the immigrant William Hulburd I seem to have been in the late 19th Century a popular, “romanticized / exotic” type of family myth, similar to the myths in many Yankee-American families of the 20th century, that there is Native American ancestry “somewhere in their past”.

 

 

Origins of the Belief that a William “Hulbird” Had Arrived on the Ship Mary and John

To date, I have not been able to find any original source documents, which actually list a William “Hulbirt”, or “Hulbird” – with those spellings or otherwise - as having come on either the Mary and John, or on any of the other ships of the Winthrop Fleet. 

 

The earliest such suggestion discovered so far, is by James Savage in his Genealogical Dictionary…, when he speculated in 1862 that William Hulburd probably came on the Mary and John.  This speculation was based upon the assumption, that Hulburd had arrived the same year as the pilgrims on the Mary and John in 1630 (and thus presumably was on the Mary and John), and that Hulburd had quickly aligned himself with that group led by the Rev. Warham, who settled at Dorchester, MA. 

 

58 years after Savage’s speculation, Charles Edwards Bank in Planters of the Commonwealth asserted as fact, that a William “Hulbirt” had been a passenger on a ship which was “part of the Winthrop Fleet that had landed at Boston in 1630” – however without providing any specifics or documentation for those assertions.  In fact, all of the many other ships in the Winthrop Fleet aside from the Mary and John have apparently landed at Salem, MA – not Boston, MA.

 

The rumor that the name William “Hulbird” existed on the manifest of some ship that was part of the Winthrop Fleet, seems to have then been repeated by Burton W. Spear, who in 1986 gave a presentation to the Connecticut Society of Genealogists and the Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor in which he detailed his extensive research into creating a synthetic passenger list for the Mary and John.  The speech was published in the June 1989 Nutmegger.

 

 

The Founding of Windsor, CT in the Spring of 1636

Per information posted in 2010 on Town-USA.Com (posted presumably by the Town of Windsor, CT):

 

“Windsor, Connecticut's first community, was launched in 1633 when settlers sailed from Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts to establish themselves at the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut rivers. The Indians called this place Matianuck.  The Reverend John Warham and 60 members of his congregation, a church organized in England in 1630, arrived two years later [i.e. in 1635], and renamed the settlement Dorchester.  A final name change to ‘Windsor’ was decreed in 1637 by the colony's General Court….  Historically, Windsor’s economy has been dominated by two pursuits: tobacco farming and brick-making (since 1675). In its heyday, there were more than 40 brickyards in Windsor. The last one disappeared in the 1960's. The first tobacco crop was planted in 1640 with seeds brought to Connecticut from the Virginia tobacco plantations”.

Per History of the Town of Dorchester, MA, by the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Boston, 1859, pg. 37:

 

“… In the summer of 1635, some Dorchester [MA] people had already reached the [Connecticut] river and sat down at a place where William Holmes and others, of Plymouth, had erected a trading house two years before (at [what is now called] Windsor), and made preparations for bringing their [Dorchester, MA] families and settling permanently; and in November, sixty persons, with a large number of cattle, traveled from Dorchester and arrived in safety at the river after much tribulation.  During the first winter the sufferings of these persons were intense, and they lost nearly all their cattle.  Some individuals wandered back to Dorchester, and others avoided starvation by dropping down the river and taking refuge in a vessel at anchor at the mouth.  In the Spring of 1636, the settlers, with Mr. Warham, proceeded [onward] to [what’s now called] Windsor….

 

 

William Hulburd I Removes to Windsor, CT;  Likely with the Group of Initial Settlers

Per One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895…, by Edward Warren Day, 1895, pg. 71:

 

“… He lived in Dorchester 1635-6, when he sold out and removed to Windsor, CT.  He there lived on ‘Backer Row’ until the Pequot War of 1637, when he, for consideration of safety, moved into the ‘public palisado’. ”

 

Per A Supplement to the History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn., by Henry R. Stiles, Albany, 1863,  in the second paragraph of a note by the Rev. H. M. Dexter regarding the covenant of the church at Windsor CT, on the bottom of pg 16, Dexter notes the following:

 

“… The Windsor Church was formed at Plymouth, England, in March, 1630…, by people from the counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset [in England]; and [Rev]. Warham and Maverick were ordained its pastor and teacher.  They arrived at Dorchester [sic Hull], Mass., about the 1st of June [1630], where they first settled.  But hearing from the Dutch [traders] of a valuable tract of land on the Connecticut [River], they concluded to remove, and went in a body in the summer of 1635 [sic 1636]; carrying their church organization and Mr. Warham with them….  Warham died in 1670, and Cotton Mather says, he was the first minister in Connecticut who preached ‘with notes’. ”

 

Based upon the above, one might be led to believe that William Hulburd I was also from the region of Dorset, Devon and Somerset, England as has been supposed by many up until the present time.  However, the 4 married Tinker siblings who settled at Dorchester, MA with their families in the early 1630’s (i.e. Mary, Rhoda, Anne and John) are known to be from Windsor (Berkshire), England, and all indications point in the direction of William Hulburd I having married their sister Helen/Ellen in Windsor, England in 1628.

 

The issuance of land within the Palisado (of which only about 18 parcels were made available) to all of the original inhabitants of Backer Row (including William Hulburd I and the 3 Tinker sisters), suggests not only that they were amongst the first to clear and settle the Backer Row area of Windsor, CT, but were also amongst those who had actually constructed the Palisado, and inhabited it by 1637 when the Pequot Wars began.   1637 was also the date that the name of this new settlement was changed from Dorchester, CT to Windsor, CT, which suggests the Tinker family (including Hulburd), and perhaps some others originally from Berkshire, England had become influential there by that point.

 

Per GMB, he is listed in a land inventory at Windsor on 23 Feb 1640/1 as William “Hulberd”, holding seven parcels including:   a home lot of 13 acres; 6 1/2 acres in the Great Meade; five acres in the Great Meade [Note DMI: within the area presently bound by the Milo Peck Community Center to the north, and the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers to the west and east respectively]; 22 acres for planting beyond Rocky Hill; 18 rods in breadth by 2 1/2 miles stretch over the Great River (annotated “sold to Thomas Debl [Note DMI:  i.e. to Thomas Dibble in 1655], Abram Randal eight score by exchange”) [Note DMI:  probably land within the area bounded by the Connecticut River to the west, Ferry Lane to the north, and Strong Road to the south];  2 1/4 acres in Long Meade; and 3/4 of an acre in the palisado.

 

[Note DMI: Hulburd’s lot in the Palisado corresponds roughly today to the two lots that comprise 130 and 136 Palisado Ave.  Both of the present houses on that lot were built in the 1880’s per the Town Assessor’s records (even though 130 is built in a style mimicking houses of the 1600’s)  Hulburd’s 1637 homestead probably would have been in the middle of the road in the present paved triangle area formed by the divergence of North Meadow Lane from Palisado Ave].

 

 

The Location of “Backer Row” in the Early Windsor, CT Settlement

Backer Row corresponded roughly to a straight line drawn between the northern point of the property at 25 Pierson Lane, and the intersection of Old Kennedy Road with Foster Lane.  Hulburd’s property there corresponds roughly to the location containing and surrounding the property presently occupied in 2010 by the Palmer Sheet Metal Co. (which has a street address of 47 Pierson Lane).

 

On 23 Aug 2010 I emailed JH the following:

 

“In the Memorial History of Hartford Co., Vol. II in those biographies starting on pg. 547, I skimmed thru them, to see who were mentioned as the original inhabitants of the ‘Backer Row’ section of Windsor, CT.

 

The 7 names I could find of the presumed ‘original’ inhabitants of Backer Row (i.e. those who owned land there before 1640) as listed include:  William Hubbard (i.e. Hulburd, presumed husband of Helen/Ellen Tinker), John Taylor (2nd husband of Rhoda Tinker), Beggat (i.e. ByGod) Eggleston, Ellias Parkman, Thomas Thornton (husband of Anne Tinker), Matthias Sension (husband of Mary Tinker), and Thomas Staires.  

 

The first four of those 7 original owners as listed in the order above, inhabited Backer Row from northeast to southwest, just north of the Palisado, on the recreated map of Windsor, CT shown on the illustration page which follows pg 122 in The History of Ancient Windsor, CT

 

I have noticed, that many internet genealogies of families who had lived on Backer Row at one time or another (for example Sension, Eggleston, Hoyt, etc.). all falsely attribute Backer Row as having lied within the Palisado.  Not so.

 

It is presumably named “Backer Row” because it is directly in back of the Palisado, which had to be inhabited 2 years later in 1637 because of the onset of the Pequot Wars.  That's why the book 1000 Years of Hubbard History... mentions of William Hulburd I, ‘he there lived on “Backer Row” until the Pequot War of 1637, when he, for consideration of safety, moved into the ‘public palisado’.

 

With limited space inside of the Palisado, it seems that preference was given to those who had been on Backer Row (and who presumably had built the Palisado itself), despite other accounts which claim contrary to common sense and logic, that those living along Backer Row and in the Palisado (at the time of the Pequot Wars) were of “modest means”.  Of the 18 surnames listed as homeowners within the Palisado on recreated maps, all seven of the original landowners at Backer Row are also listed within the Palisado, which further indicates that Hulburd was amongst the original settlers of Windsor, CT in 1635/6.  The significance of this is that by 1637, William Hulburd I and the 3 Tinker sisters were near and/or immediate neighbors both inside the Palisado, and along Backer Row”. 

 

On 4 Oct 2010 I emailed JH the following:

 

“You have pointed out a discrepancy in the amount of land that William Hulburd I had supposedly owned at Backer Row in Windsor, CT, because per The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, Vol. II edited by J. Hammond Trumbull, Boston, 1886, pg 53 states that ‘Hulberd/Hubbard’ sold a lot 12 rods wide to John Youngs in 1641, but on page 560, it says that John Youngs bought a lot 29 rods wide from William ‘Hubbard’, which Youngs resold in 1649 to Walter Hoyte.

 

The most likely scenario seems to be, as you pointed out, that Youngs probably bought a 12 rod wide lot from Hulburd, which Youngs annexed to another 17 rod wide parcel sometime before 1649, which is when he sold a 29 rod wide parcel to Walter Hoyte.

 

You also pointed out that John Brooks had bought the northern part of ‘William Hubbard's Backer Row lot’ (sometime after 1652), but, it doesn't say that he bought directly from Hulburd.  Lots were frequently referred to by the name of their former or original owners, and the account says that after 1652, Brooks bought ‘the northern part of the Hubbard lot’, and not that Brooks ‘bought the northern part of Hubbard’s lot from Hubbard’.

 

The only way to know for sure how much land Hulburd owned and sold on Backer Row in 1641, would be to get a copy of the original land sale deeds to both John Youngs in 1641, and to John Brooks in 1652-56, and see what those two deeds actually say”.

 

 

William Hulburd I’s Movements are Shadowed by the Tinker Family

On 22 Aug 2010 emailed JH the following:

 

“William Hulburd requested to be a freeman of Dorchester, MA in Oct, 1630, but this was not granted until Jan 1632/3, indicating that he had possibly returned to England, possibly to fetch his wife – although this is not a certainty.  So, there’s no proof that he had actually permanently settled in Dorchester, MA until about Jan 1632/33.

 

In 1634, we have the first mention of Anne Tinker and her husband Thomas Thornton at Dorchester, MA.  That same year, there is evidence that a second Tinker sister, Mary Sension / Sention/ St. John, was also at Dorchester, MA.  We know that a third Tinker sister, Rhoda, had come to Dorchester, MA sometime before 1639, when she married her second husband John Taylor.

 

So, it looks as though there were at least 3 Tinker sisters in Dorchester, MA in the mid-1630s, and if William Hulburd I were indeed married to Helen Tinker, that would make it 4 Tinker sisters.  By as early as 1636, the Tinker sisters were joined at Dorchester, MA by their brother John Tinker, and their twice-widowed mother Mrs. Mary (née Merwin) Tinker Collins.  

 

William Hulburd I removed from Dorchester to Windsor, CT probably about the summer of 1636.  Thomas Thornton, Mattias Sension, and Mrs. Mary Collins relocated to Windsor, CT sometime between 1636 and 1637, about the same time the name of that settlement was changed from Dorchester, CT to Windsor, CT.  When John Tinker went on a trip from Dorchester, MA to England in 1636, and returned to America in 1638 with his cousin Miles Merwin, he removed to Windsor, CT to join his sisters and mother who were all already residing there.  The widow Rhoda (née Tinker) Hobbs remarried abt. 1639 to John Taylor, and they removed to Windsor, CT within the year.

 

In the History of Ancient Windsor, CT..., by Henry R. Stiles, NY, 1859, there is a map of the first settlers (i.e. those there before 1654) on the page following page 122.  The map is a ‘recreation’ by Henry R. Stiles done in 1859, and not an ‘original map’, so, he relied on the descriptions of land owners from the town’s records.  If the land owner’s name was misspelled in the original town records, that’s the way it appears on his recreated map.  Remember, that William Hulburd I’s name (in the land sale to Thomas Dibble) was misspelled as ‘Hubbard’, so that’s the way it appears on Stiles’ re-created map of early Windsor land owners before 1654.

 

It is claimed in one account, that by 1643 William Hulburd I re-married to an ‘Anne Amy’, but I haven’t found the documentation yet supporting that assertion.  However, if it is true, then that might explain why it appears as though William Hulburd I and the Tinkers all parted their separate ways about the same time, and why we don’t see them involved with William Hulburd I at Windsor, CT or elsewhere, in any wills or deeds etc. (at least to our knowledge). 

 

The first to leave Windsor were apparently Mrs. Anne Thornton and family in 1647, as well as William Hulburd I and family (whose dau. Sarah was baptized in Hartford, CT in 1647). Next to leave Windsor, CT were John Tinker and family, as well as Mrs. Mary Sension / St. John and family the following year in 1648.  Mrs. Rhoda Taylor remained in Windsor, CT until she remarried to Simon Hoyt in 1659, at which point Mrs. Rhoda Hoyt and family also left Windsor.

 

The point is, that while William Hulburd I and his unnamed wife were at Dorchester, MA, there were likely 3 married Tinker sisters living in that small settlement at the same time, who were shortly joined by their brother and mother.  And when William Hulburd I decided to remove to Windsor, CT, he was followed there shortly afterward by all of those Tinkers who had previously been at Dorchester, MA.  When William Hulburd I decided to relocate to Hartford, CT about 1647, all the Tinkers soon removed from Windsor, CT as well”.

 

 

Did William Hulburd I Introduce His Sister-in-Law Anne Tinker to Thomas Thornton?

In an email of 28 Aug 2010 to JH I speculated the following:

 

“…One trail of speculation I keep thinking about, is that it's said in The History of the Town of Dorchester, 1859, pg 88, ‘Thomas Thornton [i.e. husband of Anne Tinker] was among the earliest settlers [of Dorchester, MA], probably as early as 1630’. 

 

Well, I’m not sure exactly what they’re basing that speculation on, but if true, then William Hulburd I, as well as Thomas Thornton of London, England, were amongst the first settlers of Dorchester, MA in 1630, even though I believe the first mention in that town’s existing records for Thornton is in 1633 or 1634.  William Hulburd I was apparently already married to Helen Tinker in Windsor, Eng. in 1628, and Thomas Thornton was apparently still a single man in 1630.  

 

The History of Dorchester quotes Prince [i.e. Prince’s Annals] as writing, that many of these first settlers at Dorchester, MA went back to England early on before returning to MA.  We possibly see William Hulburd going back to England between 1630 and 1632, because of his absence in MA records, but Thomas Thornton is not made a Freeman of Dorchester until 1634.  Why the two-year delay for Thornton?  Because, Thomas Thornton married Anne Tinker in London, Eng. in 1633, and Anne is listed as residing at the time at Horton, England (i.e. 4 miles outside of Windsor, Eng). during her London wedding.

 

So, it looks like Thomas Thornton of London may have returned to Dorchester, MA only after his marriage in 1633 in St. Margaret Moses Church in London, England to Anne Tinker, which begs the question, ‘How did Thomas Thornton of London meet Anne Tinker of the outskirts of Windsor in order to marry her back in London?’

 

The logical answer is: ‘Thru his acquaintance with William Hulburd I, which he had made either at Dorchester, MA, or at London, England’.

 

It is also interesting to note, that Matthias Sension/Sention, a chandler [i.e. candle/soap maker, but the term is also a general term for “merchant”] of London who m. 1 Nov 1627 Mary Tinker [Note DMI: apparently at (New) Windsor, England, since their first child Matthias Jr. was also born there in 1628], did not emigrate to Dorchester, MA until after 10 June 1633, when he and his wife baptized a son in the Puritan church of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey in London, England, where they were then living.  The next mention in the records of the Sensions is on 3 Sep 1634, when Matthias is admitted as a Freeman at Dorchester, MA.  This was the same day that Thomas Thornton was made a Freeman at Dorchester, MA.   Could Matthias Sension and Thomas Thornton have sailed together to Dorchester, MA in 1633/34?

 

 

Did William Hulburd I Marry Secondly an “Ann Amy” [Ames?] in 1643?

Per Sharon Sims in Clink – Hulbert Prairie State Immigrants (posted in www.gencircles.com), William I 2nd m. 26 Sep. 1643 “Ann Amy” [Note DMI: i.e. Aime(s)?] (b.?____  d.c.1749), however she does not cite the source of this date, or for the alleged name of his wife.  [Note DMI:  I have attempted to email Sharon Sims requesting her sources for this information, but have never received a response].  The birth dates attributed to William I’s two oldest known children, both named John, makes this marriage date to “Ann Amy” unlikely, unless Ann Amy were actually the second of three wives, and mother of only his daughter Sarah [Note DMI: there is a circa 7 year gap between the births of his second son John and his daughter Sarah].

 

 

William Hulburd I et al of Windsor, CT vs. Thomas Marshfield in 1643

Per The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut…, by J. Hammond Trumbull, Hartford, CT, 1850, page 89:

 

“ June the 15th, 1643. [A Prticular Court]. … Will’ Hubbert plt  agt Tho: Marshfield deft, in an ac. of the Case to the damage of 12£”.

 

The Particular Court Records of Hartford, CT during the month of June 1643 list another 16 additional plaintiffs against Thomas Marshfield for debts owed, most of whom were also inhabitants of Windsor, CT.

 

Per A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692 -Volume 3, by James Savage, Boston, 1862, Pg 160:

 

“The first that can positively be learned is by a letter from him…to Samuel Wakeman, 6 May 1641 [Note DMI:  sic, since per JH, Marshfield was first mentioned in the records of Dorchester, MA on 18 Jan 1635]…, and the next year he withdrew from the country, as by Connecticut Records of 14 Oct. 1642, when the Court appointed trustees to manage his estate [Note DMI: i.e. to liquidate his estate in his absence] for use of the creditors.  Perhaps he was lost at sea, but at least no more was ever heard of him.  His widow and family removed to Springfield, MA…”.

 

Despite Savage’s remark that the first mention of Thomas Marshfield was in 1641, JH has apparently discovered, per her examination of Dorchester Town Records, 1833, pg. 14-15, that Thomas Marshfield is first mentioned in Dorchester, MA on 18 Jan 1635 as follows:  “It is ordered that Thomas Marshfield shall have 12 acres of Planting ground on Squantum Necke which was formerly graunted him for his great lott”.

 

 

William Hulburd I Removes to Hartford, CT from about 1647 - 1651

Per Savage’s GD, William Hulburd’s dau.s Sarah and Anna were both baptized in the church at Hartford, CT on 10 Jul 1647 and 17 Mar 1649 respectively.  He is said in one undocumented internet account to have “removed to Hartford, CT where his wife [i.e. “Ann Amy”?] allegedly died”.  

 

Per Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Vol. 14: “Original Distribution of Land in Hartford”, Hartford, CT, 1912, pg 439:

 

“May 1648.  Land in Harttford vp on the Riuer of Coneckticott belonging to william Hullberd & to his hayers for euer.  viz One pell on which his dwelling houe Now Standeth & another Tenymentt & yerdes thare in being & was Sumtyme pell of the Meetting houe yerd Contain- by Etima- Two Roodes be it More or Les Abutting on the hyway Leding fro- the Mill to the Meeting houe on the wet & on Mr Clementt Chaplins Land on the South & on the Meeting houe yerd on the Eat & on the North”.

 

Per pg 180 of the same volume:

 

“One pcell of land containing by etimacion twoe roods (bee it more or les) wth appurtenances thereof together wth all outhoues tanding thereon wch hee [i.e. William Lewis] bought of William Hulberd, abutting upon the land of Thomas Hubbard on the Eat and upon the high way on the Wet & upon the meeting Houe yard on the North, and upon the land of Mr Clement Chaplin on the South”.

 

Per GMB, William “Hullberd” I is recorded in May 1648 in Hartford, CT of land which he later sold to William Lewis on 8 Sep 1655, and in the inventory of land belonging to Richard Lord in Hartford was “one parcel lying next to his houelot containing by etimation twelve perches be it more or les which he bought of William Hullberd”). 

 

William Hulburd I’s property in the very center of Hartford, Ct (i.e. having been taken from the southernmost section of the Meeting House Yard) was a roughly 400 ft long rectangular strip of land of roughly 1/3 of an acre, bounded on either end by Main St. and Prospect St., running parallel to Central Row and starting about 100 feet below that street, and continuing for roughly another 33 feet southward.  The site (located roughly at 750 Main Street) is presently occupied by several buildings, one of which appears to be a glass skyscraper just to the northeastern side of the Traveller’s Insurance Tower.

 

On 14 Jan 2011 I emailed JH the following:

 

“If Hulburd's Plot were outside of the Palisado at Hartford (i.e. with no apparent size restrictions from encompassing stockades), then why did Hulburd have only a sliver of a plot right in the center of town?

 

The only reason I could think of for having such a small sliver of land in the middle of a newly settled town, would be maybe for some sort of commercial / retail reasons (like, a General Store – i.e. grain, tools, etc). rather than for residential reasons, since people depended on their own land, to cultivate and to provide food for their families. 

 

William Hulburd I came presumably from Windsor, England (apparently residing there at least as a young adult), which was known for being a town of merchants, with a large market place.  His presumed London and Windsor connections, were also apparently with people of the merchant class.

 

Porter’s reconstructed map of the original settlers at Hartford, CT (which is reproduced on page 224 of The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Vol. 1 by James Hammond Trumbull) does not depict Hulburd, or his strip of the Meeting House Yard, since Hulburd was not at Hartford until 7 years after its founding.  If Hulburd were poor, and could only afford a small piece of land, would the earlier settler’s at Hartford, CT really allow him to build a poor-man's dwelling on a ‘postage-stamp sized lot’, carved out of the Meeting House yard, right in the middle of their new town? 

 

So the logical question now becomes, ‘Why would the first landholders and resident's of Hartford grant Hulburd, 7 years after its settlement, a strip of the center of their town, taking away from the Meeting House Commons in the process?’  I’m thinking that they must have wanted him there, in that particular location, for some reason, to have made such a concession to him.  

 

And why would a newcomer to that settlement like Hulburd, who previously had fields and meadows of land at Windsor, CT, want only a tiny sliver of a parcel at Hartford, instead of buying multiple acres only a very short walk from the center of town (which for all we know he may have had as well, although there are no existing land deeds in Hartford, CT to support that).  It seems to me, that one possibility is, that Hulburd may have also still held land at Windsor, CT when he was residing at Hartford, CT, since he apparently ‘returned’ to Windsor, CT sometime between 1651 and 1653 to marry the widow Ann Allen.

 

On 24 April 1649 William Hulburd I brought suit against James Wakeley (see additional notes further below).  It seems that by 1650/51 that William Hulburd I is residing back at Windsor, CT, since he married the widow Ann Allen of that place probably about that time, and his son William II was presumably born at Windsor, CT about 1653.  William I sold his land at Windsor, CT to Thomas Dibble in 1655.

 

Per Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, CT Historical Society,1928). Pg. 104-105, a William “Hurlebutt” appears in the records of the Particular Court in Hartford on 21 Oct 1651, as part of a list of 22 men who were owed money by a Thomas “Kircum” (“A noate of Kircums debts owned by him in this Courte”).  The debt owed to William “Hurlebutt” is listed as 6 schillings and 3 pence.

 

 

Where was the Palisado at Early Hartford, CT Situated?

On 18 Dec 2010 I received an email from Diana McCain, Head Researcher of the CT Historical Society in Hartford, CT, which contained the following:

 

“Hartford's Meeting House Yard was not enclosed within the Palisado.  Florence Crofut in her 1937 work Guide to the History and Historic Sites of Connecticut, states that the original state house yard ‘would now be the area between Kinsley and Grove Streets and east to Market Street’.

 

According to the chapter ‘Historic Places in Hartford’, by Arthur Shipman in the 1899 book Hartford in History, the Palisado was ‘on the north side of the Little River, where the northern abutment of the stone bridge stands.  This was built to protect the crossing from Indians and from the Dutch at Good Hope’. Florence Crofut says that ‘The so-called palisado in Suckiaug (Hartford) commanded the Little (Park) River.  It referred probably, not to a fortification but to the high bank of the river before a bridge was built on Main Street’.

 

The site to which these sources refer would today be on Main Street between Wells Street and Sheldon Street.  The stone bridge mentioned was built in 1833 to span the Little (later Park) River, which was put underground in the 1940s.

 

The distance between the Palisado and the original state house yard as described by Crofut could have been as much as 1,000 feet.  Indeed, Shipman says that from the meetinghouse green ‘We might have seen in the distance, perhaps, the beginnings of the stockade, or “Palisado”, on the north side of the Little River’.

 

The Ancient Burying Ground stands on the western side of Main Street about a block from what would have been Meeting House Square, and would not have been within the boundaries of the original Meeting House Yard”.

 

Therefore, we can surmise based upon the above, that the original Palisado at Hartford, CT, which existed for only a relatively short amount of time, was situated in the corner of the Little River, which corresponds today roughly to the course of Well’s Street, where it jogs at Pulaski Circle.  The Palisado most probably would have extended eastward along the Little River to what were apparently the higher bluffs at the site of the present Public Library on Main Street, and would have extended northward from Well’s street, probably not quite as far as Gold St.  Accordingly, the Meeting House (where the present Old State House stands), the Ancient Cemetery, and the center of the settlement (including Hulburd’s parcel) would have all lied just outside of the Palisado.

 

 

William Hulburd I vs. James Wakeley in 1649 Hartford, CT

Per Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, (Hartford, CT Historical Society,1928). p 62:

 

“ A Perticular Courte in Hartford 24th of Aprill 1649:  William Hurlebutt plf Contra Jeames Wakely defendt in an Action of the Cae dammages 39s.  In ye Action of ye Cae betweene William Hurlebutt plf and Jeames Wakely defendt ye plf falling horte of his wittnes is to loos his Sute”.

 

Unfortunately, there is no indication as to why the case for damages was brought by William Hulburd I against James Wakeley, or exactly what those damages were – probably being for slander (but possibly for damages to property or fields – e.g. by foraging livestock – or possibly even for damages allegedly caused by “witchcraft”).  In the same court session, two additional suits were brought against Wakeley by John Willcock for the sums of 6 schillings, and 25 schillings, and the court did rule against James Wakeley. 

 

Additional clues to the character of James Wakeley can be found in Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, by John Putnam Demos, 1982, pg 353-355:

 

“… Another suspected witch who chose flight, in preference to the workings of legal process, was James Wakeley – also of Wethersfield.  Wakeley’s long and tortuous career in New England is worth at least a brief retelling.  His earliest appearances in land records place him at Hartford by, or before, 1643.  He seems to have been a man of considerable wealth and entrepreneurial bent; he was frequently involved in mercantile activities, though later evidence identifies him as a weaver.  Most striking of all was his extensive involvement in litigation.  From 1643 to 1663 James Wakeley went to court no less than thirty-seven times (twenty-one as plaintiff and sixteen as defendant).  This total was matched by few of his Connecticut contemporaries….

 

At about the time he married the widow [Alice] Boosey, James Wakeley moved from Hartford to Wethersfield.  Interestingly, there was a temporary decline in the pace of his activities at court (only three cases in the next seven years); perhaps family life mellowed, or at least distracted, him.  In all, he had approximately a decade of uninterrupted residence in Wethersfield; then, in the latter part of 1662, the witch hunt fetched him up. …

 

Unfortunately, there is but one surviving deposition that reveals any of the substantive allegations against Wakeley.  Dated August 1668 (well after Wakeley’s departure for Rhode Island), it attempts to link Wakeley with Katherine Harrison as confederates in witchcraft.  The deponent, a young man named Thomas Bracey, recalled various misfortunes that befell him following a quarrel with Wakeley.  Indeed, the culmination had been a spectral assault, with Wakely and Harrison appearing at night ‘by the bedside’ and ‘afflicting and pinching [Bracey] as if his flesh had been pulled from his bones’.  It was a familiar – but always frightening – story. …”

 

 

William Hulburd I Returns to Windsor, CT For His Last Marriage to the Widow Ann (née Whitmore) Allen, Probably About 1651

William I’s last known marriage was (allegedly sometime before 26 September 1653) to Ann Whitmore (b.?____  d.1687, bur. in Northampton, MA 13 Nov 1687 as “Ann Allen Hurlburt” [per “History of Enfield, Vol. III”, pg. 2311]), the widow of Samuel Allen Sr. (b.?____  d.1648, Samuel having been buried in Windsor, CT 28 April 1648). 

 

[Note DMI:  In reviewing my notes on 26 April 2009, I was unsure as to the exact justification for why I had written that specific date, 26 Sep 1653, before which William I had 3rd married Ann Whitmore.  In doing further research, this quote also appears in several Hulbert / Hurlbut Genealogies posted on the internet, which are apparently using as a source The Hulbert Family 1305 With The Ancestry of Walter Hulbord, Thomas Hulbert and William Hulbert” by Henry Carlton Hulbert, which in turn is based upon the fraudulent genealogical work of conartist Gustav Anjou.  As a result, this date / quote is dubious at best].

 

William I’s son William Hulburd II was born about 1653, presumably in Windsor, CT.  Per The Memorial History of Hartford, CT, 1633-1884, Vol. II, by J. Hammond Trumbull, Boston, 1886, pg. 548:  “John Brooks…married Susannah Hanmore, 1652; later he bought the north part of the Hubbard [sic Hulburd] lot on Backer Row, and built upon it”.  Per pg. 549: “Thomas Dibble…bought the William Hubbard [sic Hulburd] place in the Palisado, where he was living in 1654”.

 

[Note DMI:  In the first instance, the lot on Backer Row may still have been referred to as the “Hulburd lot”,even though Hulburd may have possibly sold it before his 1647 move to Hartford, CT.  Likewise, in the second instance, it does not specify that Thomas Dibble had bought the Palisado lot from Hulburd in the year 1654, only that Thomas Dibble was living at that site in 1654.  It’s possible that Dibble could have also purchased that Palisado lot from Hulburd before Hulburd 1647 move to Hartford, CT.  If Hulburd returned to Windsor, CT about 1651 to marry the widow Ann Allen, my presumption is, that he and his children would have resided with her and her children in Windsor, CT on the Allen Farm, until they all moved to Northampton, MA about 1656.  However, do note, that both William Hulburd I and his step-son Samuel Allen Jr., retained church membership at Windsor, CT up until 1659, per Windsor church records.  I presume this was  because a congregation wasn’t formally organized at Northampton, MA until 1661].

 

 

William Hulburd I Removes to Northampton, MA by about 1656

Per History of Northampton [Note: hereafter HN], by James R. Trumbull (1898), pgs 31-32:

 

A William “Hulburt” was one of three signers of the Petition to the General Court to confirm Judicial Officers and to establish a Court.  It was signed “From Norwottuck alius Northampton Aprill 10, [16]56”.  [Note DMI:  The petition is a typed transcription, and does not show original signatures of the signers].  

 

Per HN page 37: 

 

“… The lots upon the highways just named having been occupied, settlers began to cluster around Meeting House Hill.  William Hulbert [i.e. Hulburd] is first mentioned as having a home lot in that vicinity.  He had four acres with a boundary near the present line of Gothic Street.  South of him were John Ingersoll and Thomas Salmon. …A highway very nearly coinciding with Gothic Street, gave access to the brickyard, located on the brook, and Hulbert an outlet. …” [Note DMI: The Salmon’s were close neighbors, which is apparently how William II met his first wife Ruth Salmon]. 

 

Per HN pg. 59:

 

On 18 March 1657, the town voted, amongst other matters, to procure a minister and in ‘yt prventing of excese of liquor in comeing to or Towne and of Sider [Note DMI: i.e. hard cider]”.  Those motions were voted in by 25 townsmen, including William Hulburd, Samuel Allen and Thomas Salmon.

 

Per HN pg 77-78: 

 

On 6 Jan 1658, 163.5 acres of meadow land were volunteered by 37 residents of Northampton for the use of the new minister Eleazar Mather, which included 5 acres volunteered for use by William Hulburd I.  [Note DMI:  Eleazar Mather was the son of Richard Mather (immigrant and pastor of the church at Dorchester, MA, where William I had lived), and the uncle of the Rev. Cotton Mather of Boston, MA].

 

[Note DMI:  However, as pointed out by JH in our email conversations of 21 Aug 2010, in “The History of Ancient Windsor, CT…”, by Henry R. Stiles, NY, 1859, pg. 150, that a “William Hubbard” is part of the list of those purchasing various seats in the church of Windsor, CT in 1659.  This is apparently still a reference to our William Hulburd I, even though he seems to have removed to Northampton 3 years earlier, and the only thing I can think of, is that he still maintained church membership (if not an alternate residence) at Windsor, CT until a church was formally organized at Northampton, MA].

 

Per HN pg. 107:

 

William Hulburd I and his wife Ann are both listed amongst the 71 signers of the Northampton church covenant.  Most members signed the covenant on 18 April 1661, but a note indicates that William Hulburd I and his wife (as well as four others) had been “added vnto the Ch. 14th 5 in 61” [i.e. 14 May 1661].

 

Per HN pg. 145:

 

William “Hulburt” is listed as one of the 48 settlers who had arrived at Northampton, MA between 1653 and 1658, and is listed as possessing a 4 acre home lot, and 43 acres of meadow land there.

 

Per a map of early settlers at Northampton, MA created by Trumbull and included in the beginning of his History of Northampton, MA, Hulburd’s property on today’s map was bound on the north by a line running 200 feet south of Trumbull Ave and parallel to it from 71 Gothic Street to 94 State Street, on the west side by a line running southwest from 94 State Street to 57 Center Street,  on the south by a line running northeast from 57 Center Street to 45 Gothic Street, and on the east side by a line connecting 57 Gothic Street to 71 Gothic Street.  The property had no street frontage, and was accessed by a long driveway, which is today the lower portion of Gothic Street.

 

As further regards William Hulburd I at Northampton, MA, the dubious A Genealogical History of the Dunlevy Family, pg. 317  [i.e. which supposedly is quoting from James R. Trumbull’s “History of Northampton”] adds: 

 

“…He was one to organize a church in Windsor and was one of two who gave the land for a church in Northampton and assisted in building.  He was one of the committee to ask the privilege of building a town house and court for public purposes in Northampton.  He had the first brickyard and built and owned the first sawmill in that part of the country [i.e. Northampton, MA], which has been used for manufacturing purposes ever since, and is now ‘Silk Manufacturing Co., Nonoteck’. [Note DMI: sic for Nonotuck Silk Manufacturing, Co., this assertion has not been verified by any other account or source, and is actually contradicted by Trumbull’s “History of Northampton”].  William Hulburd (says Trumbull) had homestead and four acres on Meeting-house hill and forty-three acres of meadowland in Northampton…”.

 

Per GMB:

 

On 5 July 1662 Edward Butler, an Irishman, assaulted Rebecca Allen which resulted in “Anne Hulburd the mother of Rebecca Allen being about 54

years” making a deposition two days later.

 

Per HN, pg. 187:

 

On 10 Feb 1665 William “Hulburd” apparently was assessed by the Constable along with other townsmen, and paid £2 and 2 shillings upon his property there.

 

In an email JH sent to me on 7 Oct 2010 during her research trip to Northampton, MA, she explained the following:

 

“In an earlier email exchange with Julie (the archivist at Forbes Library in Northampton, MA), she had told me that I could find the land deeds for the 1600’s and 1700’s at the Hampshire County Registrar’s Office in Northampton, MA (which is apparently not the case).

 

Upon my arrival at the Hampshire County Registrar's Office in Northampton, MA, the lady there informed me that all deeds prior to 1787 are in fact archived in Springfield, MA (i.e. at the Hampden County Registry of Deeds, 50 State St, 4th flr, Springfield, MA, Tel. 413-755-1722).    Since there was only a limited amount of time left before my appointment with Julie the archivist at Forbes Library (which I had already scheduled), I decided to stay in the Registrar’s Office and instead review the records of the Hampshire Co. Probate Court, which are on the 2nd floor of that building.  There I took pictures of various Hulburd estate documents.  I also saw the names of the unrelated Pelham and Chesterfield, MA Hulberts, along with a few modern MA Hulberts in those files, but I didn't take any photos of those.

 

In said previous email with Julie the Forbes Library archivist, she had also suggested, that if I arrived earlier than our appointment, that I could review the old Hampshire Co. Court Records (on microfilm), which are housed in their Reference Room.  So I did arrive a little early at Forbes Library, and used the extra little time I had before my meeting with Julie to scan the microfilm titled ‘69A-L Probate Records Volume 1:  1660-1690’.  The old style of handwriting proved to be challenging, as well as the poor microfilm quality.  Nothing caught my attention; however, I'm not 100% sure if I had actually missed anything. 

 

I then met with Julie in the Hampshire Room (i.e. their local history section) on the 2nd floor.   I told her what the lady at the Registrar's Office of Hampshire Co. in Northampton, MA had said about pre-1787 land deeds.   The archivist now confirmed (contrary to said earlier email) that the originals are indeed housed in the Springfield, MA Registrar's Office, but the Hampden Co. Registrar’s Office in Springfield, MA would likely send me onward to where the microfilms of those deeds are housed (i.e., for Northampton and Springfield prior to 1787), which is at The Connecticut Valley History Museum on State Street in Springfield, MA.

 

That Museum is open Tues thru Fri from 11 AM to 4 PM, and on first Saturday of each month from 11 AM to 4 PM.  In reply to my query about Northampton, MA tax Rateables, Julie looked at the old tax stubs from 1650 upwards, but there was nothing on the Hulburd family.   She bought out an old leather bound book possibly entitled First Church of Northampton (I forget the exact title).   Inside was the page with ‘Solomon Stoddard - His Book’ written on it.   I copied the following from ‘List of members of First Church that are in full communion:  July 30 1677’ :

 

William Hul[oa?]d                [i.e. William I at age 73]

Ann Hulbert                  [i.e. William I’s 2nd wife]

John Hulbert/Hulbirt        [i.e. John Sr. at age 37]

Mary Hulbert                [i.e. John Sr.’s 2nd wife]

Nehemiah Allen

Samuel Allin

Sarah Allen

Hannah Allen

 

An entry in a separate column, indicated that William Hulbert and Ann Hulbert were admitted to full communion dated 14 May 1661 (Abigail and William were also admitted at that time with their parents).  Another entry dated 5 Nov 1669 states, ‘Abigail Hulbert died’.  A later entry dated 12 Nov1672 states, ‘John Hulbert and Mary wife personally taken the covenant’.

 

Julie also brought over the ‘Index to Historic Deeds’ (part of the Judd Collection of Manuscripts and Copies).   I took pictures of the abstracts of Hulburd deeds which were copied in it.   Most of those details we already have – and there’s no new definitive info on Thomas Hulburd past that one 1715 deed in Enfield, CT.   I asked the archivist if these deeds are duplicates of the ones at the Connecticut Valley History Museum.   She was not sure”.

 

 

What was the Occupation/Profession of William Hulburd I?

“Elder” John Strong had lived at Windsor, CT (buying Thomas Thornton’s Palisado lot in 1647) prior to his removing to Northampton, MA in 1860.  The establishment of John Strong as tanner in Northampton, MA in 1860 (his tan yard being the land just south of the brick yard running to the north of the former Main St. plaza, bordered on the west by Gothic St. and on the east by the King Street Brook), with exclusive rights to tan granted to him by the town elders, should put to rest any speculation that William Hulburd I (who was in Northampton since about 1656) could have been a tanner by trade (based upon Hulburd’s presumed birth at Reading, England where both tanning, and weaving, were the major industries).

 

The dubious Dunlevy Genealogy is the first account which I have come across, which states outright that William Hulburd I actually owned the brick yard in Northampton, MA, which was bordered on the west by his property, and on the east by the King Street Brook.  The positioning of the two properties (i.e. Hulburd’s and the brick yard) which shared a common access road (today Gothic Street), could initially lead one to believe, that William Hulburd I had been the town’s early brick maker.  One might similarly be led to believe, that Hulburd may have previously been a brick maker back at Windsor, CT, by the fact that his Backer Row property was bordered to the north by what was known at that time as “Brick Hill Swamp” (today the Sleepy Hollow section of Windsor, CT).

 

However, on 5 Oct 2010, I emailed JH the following:

 

“Per the link you provided to The History of Northampton Massachusetts…, Vol. 1, by James Russell Trumbull, 1898, pg. 383 identifies Francis Hacklington [sic for Hackleton] as the first brick maker ‘of record’ in Northampton, starting in 1658/9.  Hackleton was from Hartford, CT, and apparently only had one known child named Anna/Joanna, who is listed in various ancestry world tree accounts.

 

William Hulburd I moved to Northampton in 1655/6.  If he were a brick maker, then there would have been a record of him being brick maker before and/or simultaneous with Francis Hackleton in 1658, and thereafter.  So, we can deduce (similar to the situation of John Strong being granted exclusive rights to be the settlement’s tanner, at a point after Hulburd was already in residence for some years), that it is improbable that William Hulburd I would have started out as either a brick maker or tanner at Northampton, only to hand the business over a few years later to newcomers Francis Hackleton and John Strong, respectively.

 

So, I think we can also scratch ‘brick maker’ (along with tanner) off of the list of possible professions for William Hulburd I.  I think if you find any mention of the profession (if any) of John Hulburd Sr. (for example, cooper, weaver, carpenter, blacksmith, etc). when you will be looking thru Northampton, MA records in several weeks time from now, then that will very likely be the same profession that his father William Hulburd I held.  But for now, it seems that the early Hulburds were essentially ‘farmers’. ”

 

The dubious Dunlevy Genealogy is also the first, and only, account that I have been able to find, which names William Hulburd I as the owner of the first saw mill at Northampton, supposedly at the site of the Nonotuck Silk Manufacturing Co. in 1898.  However, not only have I found no independent verification of this claim to date, but, this claim is flat-out contradicted by Trumbull on pg 221 of his aforementioned volume, which states:

 

“For sixteen years Northampton had been without a saw mill, and when the matter was first agitated, in 1667, the town made very generous propositions towards the promotion of such an enterprise, by offering the builders twenty acres of land, if the mill should be completed within three years.  The grantees, John King and Medead Pomeroy, however, failed to carry out their obligation, and in 1670, the same grant was made to Joseph Parsons Sr., with the additional concession that ‘ye mill was to goe rate free, in all ye comon Towne rates due from him and his heirs oe long as he keepe ye mill goeing for ye Townes ve’. 

 

Rev. Mr. Stoddard, who had just begun to preach here, seems to have joined in this venture.  They built the mill, on Mill River, just below ‘Baker’s Meadow’, probably in or near the present ‘Bay State’ village, and received the land offered for it from the town.  Joseph Parsons had ‘the land for his father’s mill’ over Munhan River, and Mr. Stoddard sold his right in the ‘mill place’ in 1689, to John Parsons, but no mill was there at the time.  This was the first saw mill constructed in Northampton.

 

In 1674, David Wilton, Medad Pomeroy , and John Taylor [i.e. Jr., the nephew of William Hulburd I], had liberty to ‘et vp’ a saw mill ‘on ye brooke on ye right hand of ye Cart waye goinge over Munhan river on this id that runs intoe ye river and whilee ye mill is in ve theye haue granted them ten or twilf acors of Land for a pature’.  They were also granted ‘ye Libertie of ye Commons toe fall timber’.  This mill was probably built by the grantees, and was the first one erected within the present limits of the town of Easthampton”.

 

However, per the History of The Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol. II, by Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1879, pg. 695:

 

“Hon. Ebenezer S. Hulbert was born in Burlington, Ostego Co., N.Y., May 27, 1820….  William Hulbert, one of his paternal ancestors, emigrated to this country and landed in Boston in 1626.  He was a native of Wales, and a blacksmith by trade.  It is somewhat remarkable that in every generation of his descendants up to the present time, one or more members of each family have followed that trade”.

 

The biographical sketch continues to discuss how Ebenezer S. Hulbert’s paternal grandfather, Ambrose Hulbert Sr., had been a blacksmith, silversmith and wordsmith for the Continental soldiers in VT during the American Revolution.  Ambrose Hulbert Sr. was in turn the great-grandson of the immigrant William Hulburd I.  While I do not believe that William Hulburd I immigrated in 1626 (certainly not to Boston, which didn’t exist until 1630), and while I do not believe that he was of Welsh extraction whatsoever (for reasons described elsewhere), it is believable that he may have been a blacksmith, which was a useful, and relatively common trade.  Having such a trade could also explain his reason for joining (or possibly being appointed to join) the new settlement at Dorchester, MA in 1630, had he not arrived on the Mary and John with the other Dorchester settlers, which is my belief. 

 

 

The Family of William Hulburd I Listed in Dr. John Winthrop’s Medical Journal from 1663 to 1666/7

Per ROM’s un-sourced notes: per the  WMJ, Dr. John Winthrop Jr. treated the following members of the William Hulburd I family, possibly in the Hartford, CT area – but more likely in the Springfield, MA or Northampton, MA area:

 

20 Nov 1663 - Abigail Hulburd, aged 13;  

20 Nov 1663 - William Hulburd II, aged 10;

20 May 1664 - William Hulburd II, aged 11;

20 May 1664 - John Hulburd, Sr., aged 24;

13 March 1666/7 - William Hulburd I, aged above 60; 

 

Whether the Hulburds were staying in the Hartford, CT area (perhaps William I had sent his wife and children to live with relatives in CT for a time, after the assault on his step-daughter in 1662?), or traveled to see Dr. Winthrop in either Hartford, CT or to Springfield, MA when he was in those places, is still undetermined.  Dr. Winthrop also saw patients at Hadley, MA, which is closer in MA to Northampton than is Springfield.

 

It should also be noted, that William Hulburd is listed paying an assessment on his property in Northampton during Feb of 1665, and dau. Abigail was buried at Northampton, MA in Jan of 1670, so it appears that the family’s principal residence from the time of the 1662 assault case until the 1672/3 Harvard donations, had remained at Northampton, MA.

 

In her article entitled Connecticut Women: Not Completely Hidden from History, Part I, which was posted on the NEHGR’s website (article not dated, but accessed by me on 26 Mar 2010), Joyce S. Pendery writes regarding the WMJ:

 

“… A physician, Winthrop traveled around Connecticut to treat patients, noting dates, locations, names, brief biographical information, symptoms, and prescriptions.  His one thousand-page medical journal begins on March 10, 1656/7 and ends on July 26, 1669, with a gap of two years from 1661 to 1663 when he was in England.

 

Winthrop’s original journal, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, is the subject of a feature article, written by Robert Charles Anderson in the Great Migration Newsletter (vol. 9, no. 1 [Jan.-March 2000]).  At the time the article was written, Anderson was transcribing the journal for future publication.  Until this work is available, researchers can refer to a series of articles prepared by Col. Charles E. Banks and published in The American Genealogist (vol. 9, pp. 54-61, 64; vol. 23, pp. 62-64, 124-128, 231-34; and vol. 24, pp. 41-47, 108-15).  They feature an alphabetical listing of excerpts of journal entries containing genealogical information.

 

Since Winthrop lived in New Haven when he began keeping his journal, many entries refer to patients living near the Connecticut coast and even in Southampton, Long Island.  He moved to Hartford in 1657 and began tending to the residents of that town, as well as the towns of Windsor, Farmington, Wethersfield, Middletown, and even Springfield [i.e. in MA]. …”

 

 

William Hulburd I and His Sons Donate to Harvard College in 1672/3

Per History of Northampton, pgs 571-573:

 

“Among the original papers in the Judd MSS, is the following list of contributions to Harvard College, made in Northampton in 1672/3….  The list copied by Mr. Stoddard contains eighty-five subscribers, but the following has a few additional names, …

 

William Hulburd Sr. [£]0.05.00 [Note DMI:  i.e. 5 schillings]… 

John Hulburd 3lb flaxe [£]0.03.00 … 

William Hulburd pay in wompom seaven shillings [£]0.07.00 ….

 

William Hulburd I, his wife and his children (except for William II) apparently spent the rest of their lives in Northampton, MA.

 

 

The Destructive Ministry of the Reverend Eleazar Mather at Northampton, MA

John Ingersol (the immediate neighbor of William Hulburd I in Northampton) later removed to Westfield, MA, where he gave the following public testimony in the Westfield Presbyterian Church in 1679, which church Ingersol helped to found:

 

“… coming to Northampton, I heard Mr. Mather the first time that, that ‘in the world ye shall have trouble, but in Christ ye may have & shall have peace’, which incouraged me for a while.  But afterwards his preaching did not please me but I thot I would keep my hopes.  And the Lord visiting me with sickness that I was neer death, yet I thot I was well enough prepared for death & was not willing to hear to the Contrary: But the Lord in great mercy was pleased not to take me away in that Condition.  But remaining still Confident of my good Estat, I, as I was on atime into the meadow to work, thot nothing should dash my hopes thereof.  But presently the thought of ________ who murdered himselfe Coming into my mind, I for a while much wondered at it. 

 

But my thots soon running thus, ‘What if God should leave me?  Then I should do so’.  & the temptation came so hard upon me that God would leave me, & I should certainly dy such a death; be guilty of mine own Blood, & be damned irreconcilably, that I was not able to go on to my business; but returning home, the temptation prevaild more, & more upon me, & I was filled with horrour of Conscience, the Lord did so manifest his wrath & displeasure against me: & my Sins were like mountains ready to sink me down into Hell every moment.  & not being able to sleep, was forced to rise up at midnight & Call up my Father-in-law, who hearing how it was with me, & that I feared I had sinned the unpardonable Sin; & that there were no Hopes of mercy, gave me good Counsell, & prayed with me.  & after having some abatement I returned home, & remain’d in that Condition: But the Lord after awile was pleased to abate the temptaion, & his wrath a little.  & I fell to reading & praying in Secret; being incouraged to look to Jesus Christ for mercy.  But Mr. Mather’s Ministry was like daggers in my heart.  For when I was labouring to lay hold on Christ, as I thot, by Faith, it did so rip up my State in such a way as dashed my hopes …”. 

 

 

The Known Children of William Hulburd I of Northampton, MA

Per the Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, edited by Hiram Carelton, 1903, pg. 697:  “…William [i.e. I] and Ann had nine children, of whom one, William, is said to have had no less than 4 wives; his second wife, Mary Howard of Suffield, was the mother of Obediah [sic] …”. 

 

William Hulburd I had at least the following two children by his first wife [Note DMI:  prob. Helen/Ellen Tinker.  It is likely that as many as 6 other children would born between 1628 and 1646, but they had apparently died in infancy due to the hardships encountered in settling the wilderness during that period]:

 

1.   John Hulburd (#1) b.?____  d. 25 Aug 1639 in Windsor, CT – per the Matthew Grant Records 1639 – 1681, Documents of and relating to the township of Windsor, CT, Hartford, 1930;

2.   John Hulburd (#2), Sr.  b.c.1640 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT (aged 24 on 20 May 1664) – per WMJ)  d. 19 Jul 1713 in Northampton, MA as “John Hulberd, an old man”. He is buried at the Bridge Street Cemetery, with no surviving tombstone.  He 1st m. bef. 1668 Ann _______ (b.?____  d.c.1670).  As “John Hulbert”, he 2nd m. 1 Mar 1670/1 in Northampton Mary Baker (b.?____ d. [8 Oct 1707]? in Northampton, MA).  (See below a detailed listing of John Hulburd Sr.’s descendants)  [Note DMI:  it is unclear if the death date for Mary in the Northampton, MA records is for Mary Baker, or a Hulburd child named Mary];

 

William Hulburd I had the following three children either by his first wife [Helen Tinker?], or possibly by a second wife [“Ann Amy”?]:

 

3.   Sarah Hulburd  bap. 10 Jul 1647 in Hartford (Hartford Co), CT  d.?____.  Listed as “Sarah Hulberd, dau. of William Hullberd”.  There are no further records of her;

4.  Anna Hulburd  bap. 17 Mar 1650 in Hartford, CT  d.?____.  Listed as “Anna Hulberd, dau. of William Hullberd” in the baptismal registry.  [Note DMI:  I don’t believe that this dau. would have been the dau. of Ann Whitmore as GMB below supposes, as she was born – depending upon which year of birth you attribute to her – either one month before Samuel Allen Sr. died, or 11 months afterward, which would have necessitated her mother being impregnated by William Hulburd I only 2 months after her first husband’s burial, which to me seems unlikely];

5.   Abigail Hulburd b.c.1651 in CT? (aged 13 on 20 Nov 1663 – WMJ)  d. 5 Jan 1669 in Northampton, MA [per Northampton Church Register] – no issue.  She was admitted into the Northampton, MA church along with her parents and brother William II on 14 May 1661.  [Note DMI:  Abigail’s birth could have been the reason for the death of supposed 2nd wife Abigail Amy (or first wife Helen Tinker), as well as the reason behind the rapid remarriage of William Hulburd I c.1651 to last wife, the widow Ann (née Whitmore) Allen.  Alternately, if Ann Amy (or Helen Tinker) had died giving birth to Anna, then Abigail could actually be the first child of the widow Allen];

 

William Hulburd I 3rd m.c.1650/51 Ann Whitmore(b.c.1608 in England  d. 13 Nov 1687 in Northampton (Hampshire Co), MA), the widow of Samuel Allen Sr. (b.?____  d.1648, buried 28 April 1648 at Windsor, CT).   Ann Whitmore was the dau. of John Whitmore (b.1592  d.?____). [Note DMI: Ann Whitmore’s first husband is misidentified by some as the immigrant George Allen, who was in fact the husband of a Katharine _________, George having died during the latter part of April 1648 at Sandwich, New Plymouth Colony, MA, and he was subsequently buried there on 2 May 1648].

 

The following two known children of William I were likely born to his last wife Ann Whitmore [Note DMI:  William II, almost certainly so]:

 

6.  Ruth Hulburd  b.c.1651? in [Windsor?], CT  d. 12 Jun 1672 in Northampton, MA – apparently unmarried;

7.   William Hulburd II  b.c.1653 in Windsor (Hartford Co), CT  (aged 10 on 20 Nov 1663, and aged 11 on 20 May 1664 – WMJ) d. 11 Mar 1734 in Enfield, CT.  (See below for more info. on him and his descendants);

 

 [Note DMI: Some accounts list two additional unnamed children for William I based upon a misunderstanding of Savage’s remark in his 1862 Genealogical Dictionary, that there were “two other children whose names were not mentioned”.  Accordingly, it should be noted, that Savage in his account does not list the two daughters, Abigail and Ruth, as children of William I].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Generation

 

 

JOHN HULBURD SR. of Northampton, MA (1640 – 1713)

The son of William Hulburd I of Northampton, MA, and his presumed first wife Helen Tinker of Windsor, CT.

 

 

The Intestate Probate of the Estate of John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA

 

1713

ESTATE OF

John Hulbard

Northampton

 

Box No. 75.

No. 47.

 

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

PROBATE COURT.

 

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Jno. & Samel Hulberd

bond

Augt 19th

 

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Know  all  men  by  these  presents    that  Wee  John  Hulbert  &  Samel  Hulbert,  both of  Northampton

Within  the  County  of   Hamphire,  In  her  Majtis  Province  of   the  MaeSch∫etts   Bay   In  Newengland

Granting administration in & for ye County of Hamphire in yeprovince of ye Masachusetsbay,  in  ye full &

just sum of three hundred   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   pounds Currant Mony of  ye province  afforesd to  be well

and truely paid to ye said Samel Partridge or to his Succesor in sd office To ye true payment Whereof if so John

Hulbert or Samel Hulbert   =   =   =

Doe bind & oblige themselves heires Executoe& bonde firmly by these presents: Signed with their hands & seiled

with  their  Sealls  Dated  att  Northampton   =   the  Ninthtenth   =   =   Day  of  Augut   =   =   = ~   in  ye

twelfth   =   ~   Yeare  of our Soveraigne Lady Anne  by ye Grace of God of Greate brittaine  France  &  Ireland

Queen Defender of ye faith ye, Anno of Domini : 1713 =

The Condition of  this  present obligation is Such  that If  ye above  bounden  John Hulbert,  &  Samel  Hulbert

=   =   =   =                                                       Admrs  of  all  & Singular ye Goods  Chattles  Rights  & Credets of

 John  Hulbert  Late of  Northampton  Deceased ( as is said ) intestate doe make  a  true  &  faithfull & perfect

Inventory of  all  & Singular ye  Goods Chattles &  Rights of  Credet of ye sd  Deceased,  that  have  or hall come into ye

Hands  posesion  or  knowledge of  ye sd  Admror  into ye Hands or posesion of any other person or persons for ye sd

 Adminestrator & ye  same soe Made Doe Exhibit into ye Regesters office of ye said County att or before ye firt

 =   =   Day of March next   =   =   =   =  and  of  same Goods Chattles Rights & Credts att ye time of his Death

and  that  att  anytime  after hall  come into ye Hands or posesion of ye said John Hulbert & Samel Hulbert

Adminestrator or  into  ye Hands or  posesion of any other person or persons for sd AdmrsDoe Well &  truely admm=

ester  according  to Law  And  further  Doe  make  a  true  & faithfull  accompt of all ye sd Admmestration all

or before ye Firt day of Sept 1714 = = and all ye Rights & Residue of ye said Goods Chattles Rights & Credets

which hall  be found  remaineing  upon ye said Adminestrators  Recompts ye same being  first Examined and

allowed  of  by  ye sd  Judge or Judges by  his or  their Decree or Sentance  pursuant (to ye Law) hall Limit or

appoint ; And If it hall Hereafter appeare by any Lost Will or testament was made by ye Deceased, and ye Exe=

cutor or  Executors therein Named doe Exhibit ye same into ye Cort of  probate afforesd making request to have

it   allowed  &  approved  accordingly  ye sd  John  Hulbert  & Samel  Hulbert  Adminestrator afforesd  within

Bounded  bein  thereunto  Required :  Doe  Render  &  Deliver  ye said  Letter of  Admmestration (approbation

of  Such Will  & testament being  first had  & Made,  Unto ye  Regesters office of  sd County,  Then this  ~   ~

obligation to  be void  &  of  None  Effect or  Plee  to  remaine  in  full  force Strength  &  Vertue   ~   ~   ~   ~

Signed Sealled & Delivered

In prsents & Witnes of us ~

 

Josph King                                               John  (x)  Hulberd

Thomas Clap                                                his mark      {wax seal}

Eleazar Holton                                                      

                                                         Samel  (x)  Hulberd

                                                         his mark      {wax seal}

 

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It   is    agreed   by    the   children   of    John   &   Mary   Hulburd   decea∫ed

that the ^house  [- - -?] Lands & other Etate belonging to the sd deceaed be devided

to    their    children    viz    that    John    Hulbird    the    Eldet    Son    shall

have four acres of Land formaly Langhtens [i.e. George Langton’s] Land & Six acres of Land

formerly Serlees [i.e. John Searl’s] Land & then all the ret of the sd deceaeds Lands

of     whatfort    oever   or    whereoever   it   is    to    be    Equally    devided

both   for   Quantitie   &   Qualitie   or  full  vallue  thereof  to  John  Hulburd

Samel    Hulburd    &    James    Hulbird    they    to    pay    all    debts    due

from   the   Etate   &  to Receive all dues to the Etate & to pay thirty pounds

money    to    their   two   Sisters   Mary   Ponder   alias   Hulburd   &   Heph=

zebah    Hulburd    ten    pounds    apeice   pEyemts  down   &   twenty   pounds

apeice   within   three   years   of    the   date   of   thee    pEyemts   dated    this

19    day    Augut    1713     In    the   twelfth   year   of    her    Majes    Reigne

Anno   domini   ~

 

[Note: DMI Witness signatures in bottom left corner

are cut out of the original document]

Jno  (X)   Hulburd his

                                                                                     mark                                                                                                                                                                          {wax seal}

      

Samel   (X)   Hulburd

his mark                                 {wax seal}

      

Thomas Ponder

      

James Hulbar{wax seal}

      

Hephzibah  (X)   Hulburd

her mark                                 {wax seal}

 

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Northampton     Augut     14th      1713     these     the     Within

Petitionrs  John Hulbert Samel Hulbert, James Hulbert, Thomas

Ponder  In  Rights  of  his  wife  Mary  Hulbert  alias  Ponder &

Hepzabeth    Hulbert,    all    Personally    appeard    before   mee

Samel   Partridge   Esq.   judge   of   Probate   within  the  County

of    Hamphire   &   did   [c----id of ?]   their   hands   &   seals

                                      Therefore I  do  allow  Ratifie,  Etablih

& Confirm sd agreement, as a full & finall Settelment

of    the    Estat   of    John    Hulbert   deced   =   =   =   =   ~

 

                                                                                     SamelPartridge

 

 

The Descendants of John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA

[Note DMI:  The following info regarding the descendants of John Hulburd I have been gathered June 2006 from the internet genealogy posted on Ancestry.com’s Rootsweb primarily by Fred H. Cowin]

 

A-1  JOHN HULBURD Sr.,  b. 1640 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT  d. 19 Jul 1713 in Northampton, MA listed as “John Hulberd, an old man”. Listed as “John Hulbert” he 1st m.____  Ann ___________ (b.?____  d. bef. 1 Mar 1670/1, presumably in childbirth with John Hulburd Jr. #1), and  2nd m. 1 Mar 1670/1 in Northampton Mary Baker (b. 15 Jun 1649  d. 8 Oct 1707 in Northampton, MA, dau. of Jeffrey Baker and Joan Rockwell).  There are no surviving tombstones at Bridge Street Cemetery for John Hulburd Sr. or his wives; 

 
A-1  John Hulburd Sr.  1st m.  Ann____________

         John Hulburd (#1) Jr.,  b.?____  d.  9 Jan 1669/70 at Northampton, MA.  [Note DMI:  He apparently died as a young child, perhaps at birth, and his birth probably causing the death of his mother Ann, which would explain the apparent quick remarriage of his father to Mary Baker];

 

A-1  John Hulburd Sr.  2nd m.  Mary Baker

         John Hulberd (alias Hulbert) (#2) Jr.,  b. 28 Feb 1676 in Northampton, MA  d. 10 Jan 1737 in same, m.____ Ruth _________ (b.1692  d. 27 Mar. 1720 at Northampton, MA).  There are no surviving tombstones at Bridge Street Cemetery for John Hulburd Jr. or his wife. [Note DMI 22 Oct 2009:  He apparently had no issue, as John’s brother Samuel leaves bequests only to the two sons of their younger brother James Hulberd, which further implies that it was known at the time, that Daniel Hulberd (who later in life changed his name to “Hubbard”), was not John’s son.  John Jr. has been alleged to have been the father of Daniel – who was then raised by John's sister Mary Hulberd and her husband Thomas Ponder (even though John was alive, and at least later in life married), however his paternity has been proven false by DNA testing on a descendant of Daniel Hubbard.  See additional notes further below];

James “Hulberd” (#1),  b. 7 Mar 1679  d. 10 days later; 

Samuel “Hulberd”,  b. 10 Oct 1681 in Northampton, MA  d. 8 Jun 1748 in same, as Samuel “Hulbert”, apparently never married.  Leaves his estate in his will to the two sons of his brother James.  There is no surviving tombstone at Bridge Street Cemetery for Samuel Hulburd; 

Mary “Hirlberd”,  b. 2 Aug 1684  d. bet 1736 and 1759, prob. in Westfield, MA.  As “Mary Hulberd”, she m. 22 Nov 1711 Thomas Ponder (b.?____  d. bet 1736 and 1759, prob. in Westfield, MA).  They had no biological children. [Note DMI:  1759 is the year their only adoptive child, Daniel Hubbard (formerly Daniel Hulberd, and falsely alleged to have been the son of Mary’s brother John Hulberd/Hulbert Jr.), removed to Pittsfield, MA and simultaneously changed the spelling of his surname to “Hubbard”.  He had been granted half of the estate of Thomas Ponder by contract in 1736, and per the terms of said contract, was to receive the other half of Ponder’s estate upon the death of Ponder or his wife, whichever came last.  Therefore, I suppose that the move to Pittsfield, MA and simultaneous surname change in 1759 to have been immediately preceded by the death of either Thomas Ponder, or of his wife Mary, whoever was the last to die]; 

B-1  James “Hulberd” (alias Hulbert) (#2) I,  b. 15 Oct 1687  d. 10 Apr 1767 as James “Hulbert”,  m. 1732 Mary Goslin (b. 1 Oct 1695 in Glastonbury, CT  d. 17 Jun 1760 in Northampton, MA, dau. of Henry Goslin and Mary Fox).  There is no surviving tombstone at Bridge Street Cemetery for James Hulburd I.  His wife Mary’s tombstone in the Bridge Street Cemetery reads “In Memory of Mrs. / Mary the Wife of / Mr. James Hulbert / Who Died June 17 / 1760 In the 63 / Year of her Age”;

         Hepzibah “Hulberd”,  b. 14 Feb 1690 in Northampton, MA  d. Feb 1753 in same), never married.  There is no surviving tombstone at Bridge Street Cemetery for Hepzibah Hulburd; 

 

B-1  James Hulberd (alias Hulbert) (#2) I  m.  Mary Goslin

         Mary Hulbert,  b. 20 Sep 1733 in Northampton, MA  d. Mar. 1775, m.____ Samuel Judd (b.?____  d.?____).  Her tombstone in Bridge Street Cemetery reads “Buried Here the / Body of Mrs. Mary / the Wife of Mr. / Samuel Judd / Who Died March / [?] 1775 In ye 42 / [Year] of her [Age]”;  

C-1  James Hulbert  II,  b. 15 or 20 Sep 1735 in Northampton, MA  d. 9 Jan 1824 in same,  m. 21 Oct 1762 in Northampton, MA Eleanor Pomeroy (b. 22 Apr 1738  d. 21 Apr 1823 in Northampton, MA, dau. of Caleb Pomeroy and Thankful Phelps).  James Hulbert II was a lieutenant in Col. Elisha Porter’s 4th Hampshire Co. Regiment, and fought at the Battle of Saratoga, NY.  There are no surviving tombstones at Bridge Street Cemetery for James Hulburd II and his wife; 

C-2  John Hulbert Sr.,  b. 9 Aug 1737  d. 6 Apr. 1815 in Colrain, MA,  m. 18 Sep 1758 in Northampton, MA Susanna Johnson / McClure (b.?____  d.?____);

Hepzebah Hulbert,  b. 29 Feb 1740  d. aft. 1772;

 

C-1  James Hulbert II m. Eleanor Pomeroy

D-1  Seth Hulbert  Sr.,  b. 8 Jul 1763  d. 17 Aug 1812 in Thompson, OH.  He 1st m.____ Priscilla Pomeroy (b. 15 Jun 1764 in Southampton, MA  d. 24 Feb 1782 in Northampton, MA, dau. of Elisha Pomeroy and Mercy Searle), and 2nd m. 27 Dec 1789 in Northampton, MA Elizabeth Elliot (b.1760  d. 7 May 1836 in Geauga Co., OH).  Priscilla’s tombstone in the Bridge Street Cemetery reads “In Memory of Mrs. / Priscilla Hulbert / Wife of Mr. Seth Hulbert / Who died Febry 24 / 1782 in the 19th year / of her age”; 

Eleanor Hulbert,  b. 25 Nov 1764  d. aft. 1784,  m. 7 Apr 1784 in Northampton Simeon Day (b.?____  d.?____);

Rhoda Hulbert,  b. 20 Apr 1766  d. 23 Feb 1856 in Westhampton, MA.  She 1st m.____  Erastus Bridgman (b.1762  d.1805), and 2nd m.____ Perley Morgan (b.?____ d.?____); 

Rachel Hulbert,  b. 3 Jan 1768 in Northampton, MA  d. 21 Mar 1849 in Wayne Co., NY,  m. 11 Oct 1787 in Northampton Elijah Taylor (b. 3 Oct 1763 in South Hadley, MA  d. 23 Aug 1841 in Lyons, NY).  They had children: Theodosia (b. 8 Jan 1790  d. 16 Mar 1875, m. Calvin L. Palmeter), Rachel (b. 12 Aug 1793  d. 14 Jan 1880 in Hancock, WI, m. Nathaniel Fisher Smith), Sybil (b.1799  d.1883, m. Charles Parsons), Elijah Pomeroy (b. 2 Feb 1805  d. 21 Nov 1881, m. Jerusha Delling), Betsey (m. Marsh), Polly, Ruth, and Pamela (m. Wells); 

Samuel Hulbert (#1),  b. 12 Aug 1770  d. Jul 1772; 

Moses Hulbert,  b. 12 Aug 1770 d.?____ (twin of Samuel #1?),   m.____  _________Harmon (b.?____  d.?____), prob. has issue;

Phebe Hulbert,  b.  11 Jul 1773  d.1845,  m.____ Elisha Parsons (b.1774  d.1843).  They had dau. Electa (b. 31 Oct 1802 in Northampton, MA  d. 27 Apr 1831 in same); 

Achsah Hulbert (female),  b. 4 Jun 1775  d. aft. 1795,  m. 15 Dec 1795 Noah Strong (b.?____  d.?____) of Easthampton, MA; 

Samuel Hulbert (#2),  b. 18 May 1777  d. 26 Mar 1860,  m.____ Lois Birge (b.?____  d.?____), probably has issue; 

Joel Hulbert,  b. Aug 1779  d. 16 Apr 1855, unmarried;

James Hulbert III,  b. 4 Aug 1782  d. 6 May 1863 in West Farms, MA,  1st m. 13 Dec 1804 in Northampton, MA Phebe Bartlett (b.?____  d.?____), and 2nd m.____ Chloe Strong (b.?____  d.?____). No issue mentioned;

 

C-2  John Hulbert Sr.  m.  Susanna Johnson / McClure

Susanna Hulbert,  b. 25 Apr 1765 in Colrain, MA  d. aft. 1805;

John Hulbert Jr.,  b. 10 Feb 1763 in Colrain, MA  d. aft. 1806;

Mary Hulbert,  b. 4 Feb 1761 in Colrain, MA  d. Jan 1843 in Java, NY;

James Hulbert,  b. 9 Aug. 1767 in Colrain, MA  d.?____;

 

D-1  Seth Hulbert Sr.  m.  Elizabeth Elliot

E-1  Seth Hulbert Jr.,  b. 18 Dec 1790  d. 28 Aug 1843 in Thompson, OH,  m. 28 Oct 1811 Theodosia Bartlett (b.?____  d.?____); 

Betsey H. Hulbert,  b. 16 Apr. 1793  d. 1833; 

Sorana A. Hulbert,  b. 29 Nov 1794  d. 22 Nov 1874; 

Achsah Hulbert (female).  b. 16 Dec 1797  d. 1822; 

Fanny Hulbert,  b. 30 Jan 1803  d. 1826;

E-2  Rufus Hulbert,  b. 30 Jan 1803  d. 10 Dec 1847,  m. 7 Apr 1830 Aure L. Smith (b.?____  d.?____);

 

E-1  Seth Hulbert Jr.  m.  Theodosia Bartlett

Almira Hulbert,  b. 19 Jan 1813  d. 16 Jan 1885; 

F-1  Henry Hulbert,  b. 10 Sep 1814  d. 6 Dec 1895,  m. 8 Dec 1836 Martha Ann Warren (b.?____  d.?____); 

Eunice Hulbert,  b. 22 May 1816  d. 1848; 

F-2  Frederick Hulbert,  b. 16 Apr 1818  d. 26 Dec 1901,  m. 8 Sep 1842 in Thompson, OH Charlotte Cibella Talcott (b.?____  d.?____); 

Diana Hulbert,  b. 12 Apr. 1820  d. 29 Oct 1896; 

F-3  Edward Hulbert,  b. 26 Feb 1823  d. 18 Mar 1901,  m. 2 Sep 1848 Emily E. Smith (b.?____  d.?____); 

Rosetta M. Hulbert,  b. 18 Aug 1826  d. 1905;

Fanny Hulbert,  b. 27 Oct 1827  d. 6 Dec 1914;

 

E-2  Rufus Hulbert  m.  Aure L. Smith

Eliza Hulbert,  b.c.1836  d.?____;

F-4  William Hulbert,  b.c.1841  d.?____,  m.____ Martha ________ (b.?____  d.?____);

 

F-1  Henry Hulbert  m.  Martha Ann Warren

G-1  James Hulbert,  b. 14 May 1848  d. 6 Oct 1916,  1st m. 1 Jan 1870 Austa Fitch (b.?____  d.?____),  2nd m. 25 May 1868 Lillian Chase (b.?____  d.?____);

G-2  George Hulbert,  b. 8 Oct 1837  d. 30 Dec 1913,  m. 16 Apr 1871 Melissa Batcheldor (b.?____  d.?____);

G-3  Charles Hulbert,  b. 1841  d. 7 Jun 1918,  m.c.1865 Lucy J. Alderman (b.?____  d.?____);

David Hulbert,  b.c.1843  d.c.1844;

G-4  Rufus H. Hulbert,  b. Mar 1845  d. 10 Jun 1928,  m. 15 Mar 1869 Addie Wolcott (b.?____  d.?____);

Jane Hulbert,  b. 1845  d. 21 Sep 1924;

Jeanette Hulbert,  b. 1851  d. Nov 1911;

 

F-2  Frederick Hulbert  m.  Charlotte Cibella Talcott

Frederick Alonzo Hulbert,  b. 8 Sep 1843  d. 5 Feb 1863 in Germantown, OH, probably no issue; 

G-5  Edgar Seth Hulbert,  b. 24 Jan 1849  d. 29 Dec 1924,  m. 16 Apr 1876 in Thompson, OH Isabelle Pomeroy (b.?____  d.?____);

Esther Charlotte Hulbert,  b. 25 Dec 1850  d. 15 Aug 1918;

Mary Annette Hulbert,  b. 6 Oct 1854  d. 11 May 1940;

G-6  Newel Eugene Hulbert,  b. 12 Feb 1857  d. 23 Feb 1932,  m. 17/27 Sep 1888 Emma Jane Hardy (b.?____  d.?____);

Almira Elizabeth Hulbert,  b. 10 May 1859  d. 20 Oct 1918;

 

F-3  Edward Hulbert  m.  Emily E. Smith

Byron Hulbert,  b. 6 Jan 1850  d. 3 Feb 1850;

Lottie Hulbert,  b. 1861  d. 30 Dec 1934;

Freddie Hulbert,  b.c.1867  d.?____, infant death?;

John George Hulbert,  b.c.1873  d. 1 Apr 1875;

 

F-4  William Hulbert  m.  Martha ________

Sarcie Hulbert,  b.c.1862  d.?____;

Marie Hulbert,  b.c.1867  d.?____;

 

G-1  James Hulbert  1st m.  Austa Fitch

H-1  Ward H. Hulbert,  b. 26 Feb 1871  d. 5 Feb 1940,  m.____ Stella Shepard (b.?____  d.?____);

Stanley M. Hulbert,  b.  4 Jul 1875  d. 8 Jul 1968 in San Antonio, TX, issue not indicated;

 

G-1  James Hulbert  2nd m.  Lillian Chase

H-2  Henry Hulbert,  b. 8 Dec 1888  d. 14 Dec 1947,  m.____  _______________ (b.?____  d.?____);

Vira Hulbert,  b. 26 Apr 1898  d. 6 Oct 1975;

H-3  Reed Owen Hulbert,  b. 9 Sep 1904 in Plymouth, OH  d. 25 May 1991 in Ashtabula, OH,  m. 6 Feb 1932 Zada Elizabeth Hamilton (b.?____  d.?____);

 

G-2  George Hulbert  m.  Melissa Batcheldor

Salina S. Hulbert,  b. 1877  d. 1879;

 

G-3  Charles Hulbert  m.  Lucy J. Alderman

Nellie Hulbert,  b.?____  d. 7 Jul 1896;

Howard H. Hulbert,  b. 1867  d. 1 Apr 1935,  m. 31 May 1893 Clara Belle Strong (b.?____  d.?____), probably has issue;

 

G-4  Rufus H. Hulbert  m.  Addie Wolcott

H-4  Hoyt W. Hulbert,  b. 27 Dec 1870  d. 1945,  m. 4 April 1895 Lucy Caroline Green (b.?____  d.?____); 

H-5  Wade Oakley Hulbert,  b. 13 Oct 1876  d. 12 Jan 1959,  m. 2 Aug 1905 Berta Burgess (b.?____  d.?____);

H-6  John R. Hulbert, Dr.,  b. 1890 in Thompson, OH  d. 6 Sep 1923,  m. 1916 in Thompson, OH Bertha Houston (b.?____  d.?____);

 

G-5  Edgar Seth Hulbert  m.  Isabelle Pomeroy

Ernest N. Hulbert,  b. 23 Jun 1877  d. 26 Jun 1882; 

Leo R. Hulbert,  b. 4 Jun 1884  d. 8 Jan 1886; 

Alice Belle Hulbert,  b. 27 Dec 1885  d. 15 Feb 1974 in Madison, OH; 

H-7  Arthur Newell Hulbert,  b. 25 July 1887  d. 26 Apr 1958 in Cleveland, OH,  m.____  Marian Lane (b. 11 July 1898  d.?____);

Grace Mary Hulbert,  b. 23 Aug 1890  d. 8 Aug 1956;

 

G-6  Newel Eugene Hulbert  m.  Emma Jane Hardy

Jeanette Charlotte Hulbert,  b. 17 Oct 1889  d. 14 Jun 1978; 

H-8  Roy Truman Hulbert,  b. 19 Nov 1891  d. aft. 1937,  m. 23 Sep 1896 Marjorie Lela Wharton (b.?____  d.?____); 

Esther Laura Hulbert,  b. 17 Sep 1894  d. 13 Nov 1993; 

H-9  Frederick Leo Hulbert,  b. 22 Nov 1896  d. 30 Jul 1973,  m. 30 Sep 1926 Olive Golden (b.?____  d.?____);

Howard Hiram Hulbert,  b. 20 May 1900  d. 7 Sep 1932,  m. 10 Mar 1928 Lillian King (b.?____  d.?____),  probably has issue;

 

H-1  Ward H. Hulbert  m.  Stella Shepard

Bertha B. Hulbert,  b.?____  d. 26 Mar 1936;

I-1  Stanley E. Hulbert,  b. 14 Aug 1892  d. 1983 in IL,  m.____ _____________ (b.?____  d.?____);

 

H-2  Henry Hulbert  m.  _______________

         (Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

 

H-3  Reed Owen Hulbert  m.  Zada Elizabeth Hamilton

         James Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue, still living in Boynton Beach, FL.  [Note DMI:  James was DNA tested c.2006];

         (Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue;

         (Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue;

         (Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue;

 

H-4  Hoyt W. Hulbert  m.  Lucy Green

I-2  Rufus Green Hulbert,  b. 11 Oct 1898  d. 18 Feb 1983,  m.____ Catherine Rodner (b.?____  d.?____);

         Nellie Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

         Anna Hulbert,  b. 1895 in Thompson, OH  d. 11 Apr 1935;

         Harriet Hulbert,  b. 1897  d. 15 Nov 1978;

 

H-5  Wade Oakley Hulbert  m.  Berta Burgess

I-3  Edward Wade Hulbert,  b. 1907 in OH  d. 1 May 2003 in Detroit, MI,  m. 9 Aug 1932 in MI  Catherine Grace Swartz (b.?____  d.?____);

I-4  Francis Lossing Hulbert,  b. 25 Mar 1911 in OH  d. 20 Sep 1999 in St. Paul, MN,  m. 12 May 1939 Margaret Rentenbach (b.?____  d.?____);

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  m.____, it was indicated, that this child had three children, who in turn had their own children (2, 3, 2 respectively);

 

H-6  John R. Hulbert  m.  Bertha Houston

I-5  John Houston Hulbert,  b. 6 Feb 1918 in Orangeville, OH  d. 13 Sep 1976 in Little Rock, AR.  He m.____  _________ (b.?____  d.?____);

 

H-7  Arthur Newell Hulbert m.  Marian Lane

Mary Elizabeth Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

Lenore Allegra Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

 

H-8  Roy Truman Hulbert m. Marjorie Lela Wharton

William George Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  probably no issue; 

Emma Elizabeth Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____; 

Lewis Eugene Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  had 3 children?;

Mary Eva Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

Marjorie Jeanette Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

Howard Wharton Hulbert,  b. 19 May 1920 in Barnesville, OH  d. 28 Nov 1942 in Pacific, apparently no issue;

 

H-9  Frederick Leo Hulbert m.  Olive Golden

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue;

 

I-1  Stanley E. Hulbert  m.________________

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

 

I-2  Rufus Green Hulbert  m.  (Catherine Rodner?)

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue;

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____,  has issue;

 

I-3  Edward Wade Hulbert  m.  Catherine Grace Swartz

(Child) Hulbert,  b. ?  d. ?, has issue;

 

I-4  Francis Lossing Hulbert  m.  Margaret Rentenbach

Richard Edward Hulbert,  b. 25 Nov 1941 in Detroit  d. 1941;

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

 

I-5  John Houston Hulbert  m.  _________

(Child) Hulbert,  b.?____  d.?____;

 

 

Who Owned “Hulbert’s Mill” in Florence, MA in the First Half of the 1700’s ?

On 1 Nov 2010 JH had sent me an email, containing a link to The History of Florence, Massachusetts, edited by Charles A. Sheffeld, Florence, MA, 1895, pg. 27:

 

“… Samuel Parsons moved to Durham, Connecticut, in 1708-9, and it is not known whether he sold the mill [at Florence, MA] before he went away, or not.  Near the close of the year 1726…John Stoddard purchases two pieces of land of the town, one of which…’Lyeth chiefly in a Swamp on the Westerly side of Mr. Stoddard’s land, near Hulbert’s Sawmill’.  Soon after 1700 John Hulbert [John Sr.? who d.1713, or John Jr.? who d.1737] owned land in this vicinity, and probably he bought the sawmill [i.e. in 1709] soon after Parsons left town…. 

 

…the Hulberts owned the mill [at Florence, MA] in 1726.  Whether John [Jr.]. was alone, or in company with his brothers, James [I] and Samuel, or whether others of the family, sons of these mentioned [Note DMI: i.e. the sons of James I, as both John Jr. and Samuel had no children], continued the business is not known.  In 1733 the town ‘voted to build a bridge over Mill river above Hulbert’s Sawmill’. 

 

In 1743, [John Jr. having died in 1737] the town marked off a tract of land…one of the boundary lines ran ‘from the front of Long Division at the Bridge by Hulbert’s Sawmill…’.  On the map of 1754 [Samuel having died in 1748], ‘Hulbert’s Sawmill’ is again mentioned.  It seems probable that some of the family owned and operated the mill up to this time.  Four years later, in 1760-1761, [James I still being alive until 1687] the property had passed into the hands of several individuals…of the six owners five were Clarks”.

 

I replied by email on 30 Nov 2010:

 

“I've read the passage in the link you attached, and studied the 1754 Map of Florence, MA as best as I could, although it was very difficult.  Essentially, a 'John Hulbert' owned land in Florence near the mill about 1700.  It is not specified whether this was John Hulburd Sr. at age 60, John Hulbert Jr. at age 24, or both.  I'm going to guess and say 'John Hulburd Sr’.

 

In 1708/9, Samuel Parson, the mill's owner, moved to CT.  It's almost certain that he sold his mill to a 'Hulbert' at this time - but which one, since the owner of the mill is never identified by first name, in all the time the Hulburds owned and operated it.  I'm going to guess, that this was John Hulbert Jr. (at age 33), and possibly Samuel Hulberd (at age  28) who bought the mill, and not James Hulberd I (at age 22) nor their father John Hulburd Sr. at 69 (although John Hulburd Sr. may have very well contributed funds, and bought the mill for his 3 sons to run).

 

In 1717, John Hulburd Sr. died, and his estate division contract which was signed by his children, mentions only that all his lands be equally divided amongst his children - which would have included the sawmill, if John Hulburd Sr. had indeed been its owner.  If so, this would have also presumably included shares in the mill also passing to his daughters Mrs. Mary Ponder (still alive in 1736, and possibly alive up until 1759), and Hepzibah Hulberd.  Perhaps the 3 brothers would have bought out the shares of their two sisters, but I think it more likely that the mill had originally been purchased in 1709 by a 33 year old (childless, and perhaps still single) John Hulbert Jr. and a 28 year old (childless and single) Samuel Hulberd.

 

In 1737, John Hulbert Jr. died, a widower of 17 years.  We do not have a copy of his will - if one had existed, and if not, his intestate estate would have been divided amongst his next of kin - being his two brothers, and perhaps his sister Hepzibah Hulberd, and his sister Mrs. Mary Ponder, if Mary had survived him.  

In 1743, the town of Florence marked off a tract of land, mentioning 'Hulbert's Mill' in the deed.  Brother's Samuel Hulberd (age 62) and James Hulberd I (age 56) were still alive.  It's possible, that James Hulberd I had no ownership share in the mill.  Samuel Hulberd died 5 years later in 1748, leaving all of his estate to his two minor nephews, the sons of James Hulberd I.  Curiously, Samuel Hulberd left nothing to his brother James Hulberd I, not even a small token inheritance.

 

James Hulbert II was only age 13 at the time of this inheritance, and nephew John Hulbert Sr. was only age 11, so the inheritance they had received from their uncle Samuel Hulberd would have likely been assigned to their father James Hulberd I as guardian, until the boys reached the age of 21.  Samuel Hulberd's estate inventory does not specifically mention a mill, but does mention 'the right in buildings' as well as 'lands at the ponds’.

 

Hepzibah Hulberd died in 1753, childless (having never married), and the last mention to wit to her sister, the childless Mrs. Mary Ponder, had been an indirect reference in the life-rights contract signed between her husband Thomas Ponder and their adoptive son Daniel Hulberd (later ‘Hubbard’) in 1736.  Daniel Hulberd had removed to Pittsfield, MA in 1759, and simultaneously changed his surname to ‘Hubbard’, and I suppose that this move and surname change had been immediately preceded by the death at Westfield, MA of either Thomas Ponder, or of his wife Mary, whoever was the last to die.

 

Supposedly, 'Hulbert's Sawmill' is indicated on the map of Florence, MA in 1754, although I could not find it on the bad copy of that map available in the internet.  As Samuel Hulberd had been dead for 6 years already, that leaves only James Hulberd I (age 67) and his still minor sons James Hulbert II (now age 19) and John Hulbert Sr. (now age 17) to run the mill.

 

The mill was sold, apparently out of the possession of the James Hulberd I family, to essentially the Clark family in 1760-1.  I have not established any familial connection between the Hulburds and Clarks of Northampton, MA.  James Hulberd I was 74 years old, and his son James Hulbert II was now age 26 (still single), and his other son John Hulbert Sr. was now age 24 (married for about 2 years).

 

The map of Florence, MA in 1754 was very difficult to read, but I did manage to pick out the property of James Hulberd I, as well as a nearby property to the northeast, that may have contained the name 'Hulbert' ….   If my guesses as to the positioning of the modern roads are correct, then James Hulberd I's property in the 1754 map was right at the center of Florence, MA, specifically on the present location of the 'Miss Florence Diner' (i.e. near the northeast corner of N. Maple and Main Street).

 

I'm guessing that the sawmill would have been situated about 1/3 mile westward, where Meadow St. crosses the Mill River, or more probably, about 3/4 mile southwestward, where Pine Street crosses the Mill River (i.e. where the 1754 map apparently shows that the Clark family had owned land)”.

 

[Note DMI:  see additional notes and speculation about Hulbert’s Mill and the Ponders in the subsequent section discussing Daniel Hubbard].

 

 

A Brief Family History by a Descendant of John Hulburd Sr. of Northampton, MA

The following is from an email Jim Hulbert of Boynton Beach, FL sent to me in June of 2006:

 

“…My father, Reed Hulbert, was the historian of the family in the 1940's and we would have an annual reunion each year in Thompson, Ohio.  One of the highlights was to read the minutes of the reunion of 100 years previous.   Dad and his brother Henry had researched the family from the move to Ohio in 1804(?) through Thomas and William to Liverpool England and before that to Hamburg Germany [Note DMI:  this is a reference to the genealogical forgeries of Gustav Anjou, in which a false European ancestry was attributed to the immigrant William Hulburd I]

 

We still have reunions, however have not had one recently. The last one that I attended was in 1985; about the 150th.  The 1983 reunion was held at our business (Hulbert's Restaurant on the corner of Hulbert Ave. and Bridge St). in Ashtabula, Ohio (the family did not have reunions for 35-50 years in the 1800's due to a dispute among family members).  All the history that Dad had researched was taken back to Iowa (I think) by a Mrs. Tillotson (sp?) who became the historian according to my father, and when she died her family claimed it for themselves.  This happened in the 60's. 

 

With the spreading of families throughout the nation, the interest has waned in family reunions.  We were the only 'Hulberts' to attend the Hulbert reunion for years and since we moved to Florida in 1987, the event has dwindled away.  Dad died in 1991 and my sons don't seem to have any interest. Lynn Klasen in Thompson, Ohio was keeping it going…”.

 

 

 


 

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