Mary (French) Hyde (abt. 1632 - 1672)

Born about 1632 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Hyde Sr. — married about 1650 (to 27 May 1672) in Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 27 May 1672 at about age 40 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Mary (French) Hyde immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Birth

Mary French was born about 1632 in England, a daughter of William French Jr. (abt.1606-1681). The identity of her mother, currently profiled as Elizabeth (Unknown) French (1604-1668), is not certain.

Immigration

Listed as "Maria French," she immigrated in 1635 on the Defence at age 2 1/2 to Boston, Massachusetts, with her parents and siblings. ^[1]

Marriage and Children

Mary French married by 1651 to Jonathan Hyde.^[2]

They had 15 children, the first of which, Jonathan, was born 1 Apr 1651^[3] and the last child, Joseph, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[4]

1. Jonathan Hyde. Born on 1 April 1651. Probably died young.
2. Joshua Hyde (twin). Born on 23 May 1653. Probably died in infancy.
3. Samuel Hyde (twin). Born on 23 May 1653.
4. Elizabeth Hyde (twin). Born on 4 April 1654. Probably died in infancy.
5. Joshua Hyde (twin). Born on 4 April 1654.
6. Jonathan Hyde. Born on 1 April 1655.
7. John Hyde. Born on 6 April 1656.
8. Abraham Hyde. Baptized on 2 March 1657/8. He died 22 February 1658/9.
9. Elizabeth Hyde. Born on 4 September 1659.
10. Daniel Hyde. Born on 2 August 1661. He died 3 October 1661.
11. William Hyde. Born on 12 September 1662.
12. Eleazer Hyde. Born on 11 March 1663/4.
13. Daniel Hyde. Born in January 1665/6
14. Ichabod Hyde. Born on 22 September 1668.
15. Joseph Hyde. Born on 27 May 1672.

Death

Mary (French) Hyde passed away on 27 May 1672.^[5]

Research Notes

This profile was initially created to describe Mary French who became the wife of Nathaniel Hammond, thus the parents of Sarah Hammond as noted by Wheeler (1900) in his History of Stonington, p. 663. Recent research centered upon the relevant Sarah Hammond has demonstrated that the Wheeler reference is in error on that relationship (Sarah Hammond was a daughter of Mary Griffin), hence Mary French is now detached as the spouse of Nathaniel Hammond.

Sources

1. ↑ John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) image of p. 99 available InternetArchive.org.
2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008), Vol II, C-F, p. 591; image of p. 591 by subscription AmericanAncestors.org].
3. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008), Vol II, C-F, p. 591; image of p. 591 by subscription AmericanAncestors.org].
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTQ-5FQ : 10 November 2020), Mary in entry for Joseph Hyde, 26 May 1672; citing Birth, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009513.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," Mary Hyde, 27 Mar 1672; citing Death, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009513; image 155 of 292, p. 232 (handwritten top left corner) by subscription FamilySearch.org.

See also:

• Stowell, William Henry Harrison. Four Generations of Descendants of Jonathan Hyde of Newton, Mass., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1917) Vol. 71, Page 257