Walkershire - Person Sheet
Walkershire - Person Sheet
NameCaptian Christopher Yeoman Hussey Deacon 
Birth Date18 Feb 1598/1599
Birth PlaceDorking, Surrey, England
Chr Date18 Feb 1599
Chr PlaceDorking, Surry, England
Death Date6 Mar 1685/1686
Death PlaceHampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Burial Date8 Mar 1686
Burial PlaceHampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
FatherJohn Hussey Sr. (1570-<1632)
MotherMary Wood (1570-1660)
Spouses
Birth Date1596
Birth PlaceWherwell, Hampshire, England
Death Date20 Oct 1649
Death PlaceHampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Residences15 JAN 1924
Religion14 MAR 1924
FatherRev. Stephen Bachiler (~1561-1656)
MotherAnna Bates (~1570-<1622)
Marr Date1629/1631
Marr PlaceHolland or 1627/8 South Stoneham, Berkshire, Eng
Notes for Captian Christopher Yeoman Hussey Deacon
From internet Ancestors of Ciara Jade Reiner
5832. Christopher Hussey, born February 18, 1596/97 in Dorking, England; died March 06, 1685/86 in Hampton, NH. He was the son of 11664. John Hussey and 11665. Mary Wood. He married 5833. Theodate Bachilor 1631 in Holland.
5833. Theodate Bachilor, born 1603 in England; died October 20, 1649 in Hampton, NH. She was the daughter of 11666.
Stephen Bachiler and 11667. Anna Bates.
Children of Christopher Hussey and Theodate Bachilor are:
i. Joseph Hussey, born Abt 1635.
ii. John Hussey, born February 29, 1635/36 in Hampton, NH; married Rebecca Perkins Abt 1680 in Hampton, NH.
iii. Mary Hussey, born April 02, 1638 in Newbury, MA; died January 21, 1732/33; married Thomas Page 1664.
iv. Theodate Hussey, born August 23, 1640.
v. Huldah Hussey, born 1643; married John Smith February 26, 1664/65.
2916 vi. Stephan Hussey, born Abt 1649; died April 02, 1718 in Nantucket, MA; married Martha Bunker October 08, 1676.
Full Context of Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers
Volume 2
page 508
Hussey, or Huzzey ‡ * Christopher, Newbury, was first of Lynn, to wh. he perhaps came 1632 with Rev. Stephen Batchilor, whose d. Theodata he had m. in Eng. wh. d. 20 Oct. 1649. He was, says Coffin, of Dorking, in Co. Surrey, and was prob. a passeg. in the William and Francis, arr. at Boston 5 June 1632; removed. 1639 to Hampton, was rep. 1658, 9, and 60, and couns. of the Prov.; engag. in sett. of Haverhill; and d. 6 Mar. 1686 by shipwr. on the Florida coast, says Lewis, aged 87; nearly 90, says Cofin. His w. d. Oct. 1646, had Stephen, b. in Eng. perhaps 1630; John, bapt. at L. 28 Feb. 1636; Joseph; Huldah; Mary, bapt. at Newbury, 2 Apr. 1637; and Theodata, bapt. 23 Aug. 1640. After 1658 he m. wid. Ann Mingay, wh. d. 24 June 1680, and he d. 1685. He is thot. but not justly, to be ancest. of all the thousands in our land bear. this name. His d. Huldah m. John Smith, and liv. to 97 yrs. says tradit.
A Mary H., says Belkn. I. 21, was a wid. at Hampton 1638, and she may have been his mo. JOHN, Hampton, s.of the preced. m. 2 Sept. 1659, Rebecca, d. of Isaac Perkins of the same, had two s. and fourteen ds. after 1688, rem. to Newcastle, Del. and was a
preach. to the Quakers. * JOSEPH, Hampton, br. of the preced. was a capt. rep. in 1672. ROBERT, Duxbury 1643-55, in this latter yr. was [p.508] witness to the will of Rev. Ralph Partridge; and he prob. d. twelve yrs. after. ROBERT, Dover, in the tax list of 1659.
ROBERT, Boston, freem. 1690. STEPHEN, Nantucket, prob. eldest s. of Christopher, so gr.s. of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, b. in Eng. m. 8 Oct. 1676, Martha, d. of George Bunker, had Puella, if the rec. is good, b. 10 Oct. 1677; Abigail, 22 Dec. 1679; Silvanus, 13 May 1682; Bachiler, 18 Feb. 1685; Daniel, 20 Oct. 1687; Mary, 24 Mar. 1690; George, 21 June 1694; and Theodate, 15 Sept. 1700.
He had good est. and d. 2 Apr. 1718; and his wid. Martha d. 21 Nov. 1744, aged near 88. WILLIAM, one of the early sett. at Reading, acc. the list of Mr. Eaton.
5832. Christopher Hussey, born February 18, 1596/97 in Dorking, England; died March 06, 1685/86 in Hampton, NH. He was the son of 11664. John Hussey and 11665. Mary Wood. He married 5833. Theodate Bachilor 1631 in Holland.
5833. Theodate Bachilor, born 1603 in England; died October 20, 1649 in Hampton, NH. She was the daughter of 11666.
Stephen Bachiler and 11667. Anna Bates.
Children of Christopher Hussey and Theodate Bachilor are:
i. Joseph Hussey, born Abt 1635.
ii. John Hussey, born February 29, 1635/36 in Hampton, NH; married Rebecca Perkins Abt 1680 in Hampton, NH.
iii. Mary Hussey, born April 02, 1638 in Newbury, MA; died January 21, 1732/33; married Thomas Page 1664.
iv. Theodate Hussey, born August 23, 1640.
v. Huldah Hussey, born 1643; married John Smith February 26, 1664/65.
2916 vi. Stephan Hussey, born Abt 1649; died April 02, 1718 in Nantucket, MA; married Martha Bunker October 08, 1676.
Full Context of Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers
Volume 2
page 508
Hussey, or Huzzey ‡ * Christopher, Newbury, was first of Lynn, to wh. he perhaps came 1632 with Rev. Stephen Batchilor, whose d. Theodata he had m. in Eng. wh. d. 20 Oct. 1649. He was, says Coffin, of Dorking, in Co. Surrey, and was prob. a passeg. in the William and Francis, arr. at Boston 5 June 1632; removed. 1639 to Hampton, was rep. 1658, 9, and 60, and couns. of the Prov.; engag. in sett. of Haverhill; and d. 6 Mar. 1686 by shipwr. on the Florida coast, says Lewis, aged 87; nearly 90, says Cofin. His w. d. Oct. 1646, had Stephen, b. in Eng. perhaps 1630; John, bapt. at L. 28 Feb. 1636; Joseph; Huldah; Mary, bapt. at Newbury, 2 Apr. 1637; and Theodata, bapt. 23 Aug. 1640. After 1658 he m. wid. Ann Mingay, wh. d. 24 June 1680, and he d. 1685. He is thot. but not justly, to be ancest. of all the thousands in our land bear. this name. His d. Huldah m. John Smith, and liv. to 97 yrs. says tradit.
A Mary H., says Belkn. I. 21, was a wid. at Hampton 1638, and she may have been his mo. JOHN, Hampton, s.of the preced. m. 2 Sept. 1659, Rebecca, d. of Isaac Perkins of the same, had two s. and fourteen ds. after 1688, rem. to Newcastle, Del. and was a
preach. to the Quakers. * JOSEPH, Hampton, br. of the preced. was a capt. rep. in 1672. ROBERT, Duxbury 1643-55, in this latter yr. was [p.508] witness to the will of Rev. Ralph Partridge; and he prob. d. twelve yrs. after. ROBERT, Dover, in the tax list of 1659.
ROBERT, Boston, freem. 1690. STEPHEN, Nantucket, prob. eldest s. of Christopher, so gr.s. of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, b. in Eng. m. 8 Oct. 1676, Martha, d. of George Bunker, had Puella, if the rec. is good, b. 10 Oct. 1677; Abigail, 22 Dec. 1679; Silvanus, 13 May 1682; Bachiler, 18 Feb. 1685; Daniel, 20 Oct. 1687; Mary, 24 Mar. 1690; George, 21 June 1694; and Theodate, 15 Sept. 1700.
He had good est. and d. 2 Apr. 1718; and his wid. Martha d. 21 Nov. 1744, aged near 88. WILLIAM, one of the early sett. at Reading, acc. the list of Mr. Eaton.
Remarks notes for Captian Christopher Yeoman Hussey Deacon
!Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins"; NEHGS; 1995; pp 1048-1052
Education notes for Captian Christopher Yeoman Hussey Deacon
Source: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 1988.
Hampton, original settler 6 Sep 1638 with his mother and father-in-law Rev Stephen Batchelder whose footsteps he followed after marriage to his daughter, Theodate, meeting her by family tradition in Holland; coming on the same William and Francis which arrived 5 Jun 1632; settled first at Saugus (Lynn, MA); freeman 14 May 1634; Newbury, proprietor 1637; Hampton Commissioner, t. e. s. c. 22 May 1639, the first of many times; lot layer 31 Oct; called present Deacon 30 Jun 1640; Moderator 1641 1663-4, 1672; Town Clerk 1650-3; Selectman 1650, 1658, 1664, 1669. Often tr. and Gr. j., and foreman. Confirmed Lieut. 14 Jun 1653, Captain 11 Oct 1664. Rep. 1658, 1659, 1660, 1672; Councillor 1679 until Cranfield came in. Nantucket proprietor Jul 1659, sold there to his sons in 1671 and 1681. In Apr 1674 he and son John were admonished for breach of the law called Quakers meeting. Colcord depos. that her father gave them all his cattle, goods and debts on going back to England, indicating his will liv. beyond that time.
LDS Microfilm 029,883 part 3 has a seven page Hussey genealogy based on Austin and 160 Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, 1893, History of Nantucket by Alexander Starbuck, 1924, and History of Lynn, Mass., by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.
It tells of Christopher Hussey, his wife, mother, and father-in-law first coming to New England. It tells of Christopher holding many offices and being a substantial land owner.
An interesting entry is that 1659, 7, 2, Christopher was one of the nine purchasers of Nantucket, Mass., from Thomas Mayhew, for 30 pounds sterling and two beaver hats; "one for myself and one for my wife", as the deed says. It is not known that he ever went to that island; he certainly never lived there for any considerable time.
1671, 10, 23. Captain Christopher Hussey of Hampton, deeded to his sons Stephen and John of same place, for 80 pounds, all his interest on the Island of Nantucket, "that is to say all my lands, arable land, pasture, meadows, woodland, all commonage, rights and privileges due unto me according to the purchase made by me; with all my cattle, neat cattle, goats or horses, all my stock that is on the island of Nantucket of what kind or quality or ever it be".
For the next fifteen years of his life, he held many important offices after the King determined to erect New Hampshire into a separate government, under jurisdiction of a President and Council to be appointed by himself. Christopher held the office of Councillor, next to the president and deputy, for three years.
1684, 2, 8, will. Codicil, 1685, 10, 28. Proved 1686, 10, 7. Executors, son John Hussey and son-in-law John Smith. Witnesses Stephen Torry, Robert Pike, Martha Pike. He gives to his tow sons, Stephen and John, his farm of about 150 acres and also about 50 acres marsh land. To daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Page, 7 acres medow, 2 shares in Ox Common, 2 shares in Cow Commons, and 30 pounds to be paid her by Stephen and John Hussey. To daughter Huldah all the rest of land and housing in the town of Hampton, and goods and stock, also the planting lot, 3 acre meadow lot 2 shares Ox Commons, 2 shares Cow Commons, and 30 pounts to be paid her by John Smith, the husband of my daughter Huldah.
Inventory, upwards 600 pounds including the following items: House, orchard and land adjoining, 42 pounds. Upland on the farm, 200 pounds. Five acres meadow, 100 pounds. 40 acres marsh, 60 pounds. 15 acres marsh, 24 pounds. Planting land, 28 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acre meadow, 14 pounds. Medow, 6 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acres meadow, 14 pounds. Meadow, 6 pounds. Land at North Division, 6 pounds. 4 shares Ox Common, 24 pounds. 4 shares Cow Commons, 30 pounds. 12 acres pasture, 20 pounds. 3 cows, 1 ox and 1 year old beast, 12 pounds. Beds, boulsters, blankets, rugs, and curtains, 12 pounds. Table and linen, sheets, etc., 10 pounds.
1686, 3, 8. He was buried on this date at Hampton, so, the town record declare. (History of Lynn)
Christopher Hussey's will is copied from LDS microfilm 1561672:
WILL OF CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Last Will and Testament of Chrisopher Hussey was made the 28th day of February 1684.
I, Christopher Husy, being through the mercy of God in health of body and of a sound memory and disposing capacity for wch (which) I bles the Lord and God being strickn in years, not knowing the time of my departure desiring according to rulle to set my house in order before I dy, revoke alll former Wills by me made, to make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in wch I do first resigns my soule unto the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ my blessed Savior and Redeemer and my body to the dust from whence it was taken in hope of a blessed resurrection among the just when my soule and body being again reunited and clothed over with the righteonsness of Christ to remaine with the Lord forever and as for my outward estate that God hath graciously lent me my just debts being payd and funeral charges discharged, I dispose of as followeth.
Imprimis: I give my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy my farm with all the privileges thereof namely the one hundred and fifty ackers of meadows upland as granted taken also fifty ackers more of marsh which I bought adjacent to it I say I give it by equal parts that is to say one full half to my son Steeven his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple and the other half to my son John in like manner only that paying to my dafter Mary as hereafter in my Will is expressed.
Item: I give to my dafter Mary Husy now wife of Thomas Page my 7 acres of medow lying near Bejamin Shaws and that peec of medow through which the highway lyeth and also 2 shares in the ox common and also too shars of cows common and also I do order that my son John Smith shall pay her thirty pounds and my two sons John and Steeven shall pay her forty pounds apiece in good pay.
Item: I give and bequeath to my dafter Huldah the like manner all the rest of my lands and housing and comon rights in the town of Hampton and all the houshold stuff and goods and stck then remaining that is to say my house with all in it or with it with all the land adjacent and the planting lots and 3 ackers medow lot toward the sprint, 2 shars in the ox coman and 2 shars in the cow coman and do order and appoint that he shall pay to my dafter Mary thirty pounds toward her porsion.
Item: My will is that the legases that I have bequethed to my dafter Mary that part of it wch is in land that shee shall enjoy it imediately after my deasease and the thirty pounds that shee shall have of my son John Smith the husband of my dafter Huldah i do will it to be payd her in two years after my desease that it to say the one half the first year and the other half the second year as good pay of country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds apeece that I have willed my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy to pay her that it be payd her allso within or by the end of two years next after my desease in som good pay of the country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds and in case of fayler shee my sd. dafter shall have in low thereof thirty ackers of the farm part whereof shall be the old field lying on the other side of the way on end whearof buts upon my old house and the other end toward the mill River by the bridge the rest to be made up of the farms wch ad. lands shall be ingadged hearby and shall be responsible for the payment of the aforesayd som ten or twelve ackers whearof shall be medow.
Item: My will is that the sd. (said) som being payd my sayd sons Steven and John shall have the farm first bequeathed by evene and equal porsion (portion) only my son John shall not be molested or hindered of what he have built on nor his building ncrompltd(?) in the valving of the farm because they are his owne the land on wch. that stan be rakend or valued.
I do upon further consideration will and declare that it shall be in my sd dafter Mary 's choifc whether shee will bave the land foremensioned in the farme or the 80 pounds of my 2 sons Steeven and John Husy.
Lastly, I make and ordaine my son John Husy and my son John Smith to be joint Executors of this my will and in case they should both dy before as above sd. then I do appoint my dafter Mary and in case shee should also in like manor fayle then I apoint my son Steephen to be my Executor in their stead and my trusty friends Mr. Richard Waldron and Mr. Robert Pike to be overseers of this my will. In witness of all wch I have hearunto sett my hand and seal the day and year aforemensioned.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL) Signed, sealed and declared to be his last Will and Testament before us:
Moses Pike Robert Pike His Steeven Tong Mark
Salisbry October ye 28 - 1685 upon a considering of som dubiausness in the expression of some things in this my Will respecting coman rights or privaleges I do by these present for the avoyding of any contraversy or mistakes about it in time to come declare that by the privileges mensioned belonging to my farm by it I do plainly intent whatsoever woods, woodland or feeding rights or coman lands to be divided that do belong to ye sd. farm it shall remaine and be to ye sd. farme and so ---- porsionably to be divided to my two sons that have the farm and lands adjacent or lands not yet pofost (possessed) that ly in coman and in like manner the coman rights that do belong to the lands that is given to my two dafters Mary and Huldah in the Towne it shall belong to each of them attending to thayr severall portions of land I meane any coman rights thereto belonging devided or undevided and this I do declare to by my plane intent and meaning in that case as wwitness my hand and seale, day and year above written.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL)
Signed, sealed and declared in ye presence of us
Steeven Tong (his mark) Robert Pike Martha Pike
New Hampshire in New England Moses Pike, Robert Pike and steeven Tong appeared the 7th of 8th month 1686 before Richard Waldron, Jr. and made oath that they saw Christopher Hussey signe, seal and heard him declare this Instrumit contained in the two former pages as his last will and then saw him signe and seal the above menconed codicill being of a disposing mind.
Attests Elisa Stileman Clery
In September, 1993, at the Sutro Library, I found an original handwritten manuscript resulting from a computer search under the Hussey Family. It is Sutro F 72 N2 G36 1874 [Genealogy of several families who settled in the Nantucket region]. -- [1874?]. [92] p. ; 32 cm.
There is a section on the Hussey family. I will quote the beginning of that section. The manuscript was written in about 1874.
Capt. Christopher Hussey, the father of Stephen was born in the town of Dorking in the Co. of Surry England about six miles SSW from London. He made suit to a young woman by the name of Bachelor in Holland whos father had removed there sometime befor from England & was a clergyman and wwas then about removing with his family to America. He would not give his concent for the saidHussey to marry his dauter on any other terms than that he should remove with him to America, which he did and settled in the town of Lynn Co. of Essex a Province of Massachusetts Bay N. England where the said Bachelor was minister of the town and in so early a time of the Settlement that the said Stephen Hussey was the second child born in the town, and the one that was born before him was born in the same week. When on the following Sabbath they were both carried to church to be christened the eldest was first presented to the Minister he put it by and reached for the other saying I will christen my own first. Hence arose that saying that has so offent been made use of.
The said Christopher Hussey the father of Stephen was cast away on the coast of Florida, and was devoured by Cannibals who were at that time inhabitants of that coast. He was a man that bore the name of a gentleman equal to any one that lived at that day. Christopher's wife's name was Theodate. Hence the name of Theodate Gardner wife of Ruben and several others in the Co of Barnstable, in Stephen Gorham's family.
... the manuscript goes on to describe each of Christopher's and Theodates children which includes the following about John:
John Hussey son of old Christopher married Mary Perkins of Hampton & move to Newcastle, Deleware and died in 1711 leaving fourteen daughers.
... Some of the handwritten notes in the folder are dated as early as 1824. The latest one was a list of people weho celebrated the 85th birthday of E. F. Gard, December 21, 1874.
Hampton, original settler 6 Sep 1638 with his mother and father-in-law Rev Stephen Batchelder whose footsteps he followed after marriage to his daughter, Theodate, meeting her by family tradition in Holland; coming on the same William and Francis which arrived 5 Jun 1632; settled first at Saugus (Lynn, MA); freeman 14 May 1634; Newbury, proprietor 1637; Hampton Commissioner, t. e. s. c. 22 May 1639, the first of many times; lot layer 31 Oct; called present Deacon 30 Jun 1640; Moderator 1641 1663-4, 1672; Town Clerk 1650-3; Selectman 1650, 1658, 1664, 1669. Often tr. and Gr. j., and foreman. Confirmed Lieut. 14 Jun 1653, Captain 11 Oct 1664. Rep. 1658, 1659, 1660, 1672; Councillor 1679 until Cranfield came in. Nantucket proprietor Jul 1659, sold there to his sons in 1671 and 1681. In Apr 1674 he and son John were admonished for breach of the law called Quakers meeting. Colcord depos. that her father gave them all his cattle, goods and debts on going back to England, indicating his will liv. beyond that time.
LDS Microfilm 029,883 part 3 has a seven page Hussey genealogy based on Austin and 160 Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, 1893, History of Nantucket by Alexander Starbuck, 1924, and History of Lynn, Mass., by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.
It tells of Christopher Hussey, his wife, mother, and father-in-law first coming to New England. It tells of Christopher holding many offices and being a substantial land owner.
An interesting entry is that 1659, 7, 2, Christopher was one of the nine purchasers of Nantucket, Mass., from Thomas Mayhew, for 30 pounds sterling and two beaver hats; "one for myself and one for my wife", as the deed says. It is not known that he ever went to that island; he certainly never lived there for any considerable time.
1671, 10, 23. Captain Christopher Hussey of Hampton, deeded to his sons Stephen and John of same place, for 80 pounds, all his interest on the Island of Nantucket, "that is to say all my lands, arable land, pasture, meadows, woodland, all commonage, rights and privileges due unto me according to the purchase made by me; with all my cattle, neat cattle, goats or horses, all my stock that is on the island of Nantucket of what kind or quality or ever it be".
For the next fifteen years of his life, he held many important offices after the King determined to erect New Hampshire into a separate government, under jurisdiction of a President and Council to be appointed by himself. Christopher held the office of Councillor, next to the president and deputy, for three years.
1684, 2, 8, will. Codicil, 1685, 10, 28. Proved 1686, 10, 7. Executors, son John Hussey and son-in-law John Smith. Witnesses Stephen Torry, Robert Pike, Martha Pike. He gives to his tow sons, Stephen and John, his farm of about 150 acres and also about 50 acres marsh land. To daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Page, 7 acres medow, 2 shares in Ox Common, 2 shares in Cow Commons, and 30 pounds to be paid her by Stephen and John Hussey. To daughter Huldah all the rest of land and housing in the town of Hampton, and goods and stock, also the planting lot, 3 acre meadow lot 2 shares Ox Commons, 2 shares Cow Commons, and 30 pounts to be paid her by John Smith, the husband of my daughter Huldah.
Inventory, upwards 600 pounds including the following items: House, orchard and land adjoining, 42 pounds. Upland on the farm, 200 pounds. Five acres meadow, 100 pounds. 40 acres marsh, 60 pounds. 15 acres marsh, 24 pounds. Planting land, 28 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acre meadow, 14 pounds. Medow, 6 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acres meadow, 14 pounds. Meadow, 6 pounds. Land at North Division, 6 pounds. 4 shares Ox Common, 24 pounds. 4 shares Cow Commons, 30 pounds. 12 acres pasture, 20 pounds. 3 cows, 1 ox and 1 year old beast, 12 pounds. Beds, boulsters, blankets, rugs, and curtains, 12 pounds. Table and linen, sheets, etc., 10 pounds.
1686, 3, 8. He was buried on this date at Hampton, so, the town record declare. (History of Lynn)
Christopher Hussey's will is copied from LDS microfilm 1561672:
WILL OF CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Last Will and Testament of Chrisopher Hussey was made the 28th day of February 1684.
I, Christopher Husy, being through the mercy of God in health of body and of a sound memory and disposing capacity for wch (which) I bles the Lord and God being strickn in years, not knowing the time of my departure desiring according to rulle to set my house in order before I dy, revoke alll former Wills by me made, to make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in wch I do first resigns my soule unto the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ my blessed Savior and Redeemer and my body to the dust from whence it was taken in hope of a blessed resurrection among the just when my soule and body being again reunited and clothed over with the righteonsness of Christ to remaine with the Lord forever and as for my outward estate that God hath graciously lent me my just debts being payd and funeral charges discharged, I dispose of as followeth.
Imprimis: I give my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy my farm with all the privileges thereof namely the one hundred and fifty ackers of meadows upland as granted taken also fifty ackers more of marsh which I bought adjacent to it I say I give it by equal parts that is to say one full half to my son Steeven his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple and the other half to my son John in like manner only that paying to my dafter Mary as hereafter in my Will is expressed.
Item: I give to my dafter Mary Husy now wife of Thomas Page my 7 acres of medow lying near Bejamin Shaws and that peec of medow through which the highway lyeth and also 2 shares in the ox common and also too shars of cows common and also I do order that my son John Smith shall pay her thirty pounds and my two sons John and Steeven shall pay her forty pounds apiece in good pay.
Item: I give and bequeath to my dafter Huldah the like manner all the rest of my lands and housing and comon rights in the town of Hampton and all the houshold stuff and goods and stck then remaining that is to say my house with all in it or with it with all the land adjacent and the planting lots and 3 ackers medow lot toward the sprint, 2 shars in the ox coman and 2 shars in the cow coman and do order and appoint that he shall pay to my dafter Mary thirty pounds toward her porsion.
Item: My will is that the legases that I have bequethed to my dafter Mary that part of it wch is in land that shee shall enjoy it imediately after my deasease and the thirty pounds that shee shall have of my son John Smith the husband of my dafter Huldah i do will it to be payd her in two years after my desease that it to say the one half the first year and the other half the second year as good pay of country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds apeece that I have willed my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy to pay her that it be payd her allso within or by the end of two years next after my desease in som good pay of the country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds and in case of fayler shee my sd. dafter shall have in low thereof thirty ackers of the farm part whereof shall be the old field lying on the other side of the way on end whearof buts upon my old house and the other end toward the mill River by the bridge the rest to be made up of the farms wch ad. lands shall be ingadged hearby and shall be responsible for the payment of the aforesayd som ten or twelve ackers whearof shall be medow.
Item: My will is that the sd. (said) som being payd my sayd sons Steven and John shall have the farm first bequeathed by evene and equal porsion (portion) only my son John shall not be molested or hindered of what he have built on nor his building ncrompltd(?) in the valving of the farm because they are his owne the land on wch. that stan be rakend or valued.
I do upon further consideration will and declare that it shall be in my sd dafter Mary 's choifc whether shee will bave the land foremensioned in the farme or the 80 pounds of my 2 sons Steeven and John Husy.
Lastly, I make and ordaine my son John Husy and my son John Smith to be joint Executors of this my will and in case they should both dy before as above sd. then I do appoint my dafter Mary and in case shee should also in like manor fayle then I apoint my son Steephen to be my Executor in their stead and my trusty friends Mr. Richard Waldron and Mr. Robert Pike to be overseers of this my will. In witness of all wch I have hearunto sett my hand and seal the day and year aforemensioned.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL) Signed, sealed and declared to be his last Will and Testament before us:
Moses Pike Robert Pike His Steeven Tong Mark
Salisbry October ye 28 - 1685 upon a considering of som dubiausness in the expression of some things in this my Will respecting coman rights or privaleges I do by these present for the avoyding of any contraversy or mistakes about it in time to come declare that by the privileges mensioned belonging to my farm by it I do plainly intent whatsoever woods, woodland or feeding rights or coman lands to be divided that do belong to ye sd. farm it shall remaine and be to ye sd. farme and so ---- porsionably to be divided to my two sons that have the farm and lands adjacent or lands not yet pofost (possessed) that ly in coman and in like manner the coman rights that do belong to the lands that is given to my two dafters Mary and Huldah in the Towne it shall belong to each of them attending to thayr severall portions of land I meane any coman rights thereto belonging devided or undevided and this I do declare to by my plane intent and meaning in that case as wwitness my hand and seale, day and year above written.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL)
Signed, sealed and declared in ye presence of us
Steeven Tong (his mark) Robert Pike Martha Pike
New Hampshire in New England Moses Pike, Robert Pike and steeven Tong appeared the 7th of 8th month 1686 before Richard Waldron, Jr. and made oath that they saw Christopher Hussey signe, seal and heard him declare this Instrumit contained in the two former pages as his last will and then saw him signe and seal the above menconed codicill being of a disposing mind.
Attests Elisa Stileman Clery
In September, 1993, at the Sutro Library, I found an original handwritten manuscript resulting from a computer search under the Hussey Family. It is Sutro F 72 N2 G36 1874 [Genealogy of several families who settled in the Nantucket region]. -- [1874?]. [92] p. ; 32 cm.
There is a section on the Hussey family. I will quote the beginning of that section. The manuscript was written in about 1874.
Capt. Christopher Hussey, the father of Stephen was born in the town of Dorking in the Co. of Surry England about six miles SSW from London. He made suit to a young woman by the name of Bachelor in Holland whos father had removed there sometime befor from England & was a clergyman and wwas then about removing with his family to America. He would not give his concent for the saidHussey to marry his dauter on any other terms than that he should remove with him to America, which he did and settled in the town of Lynn Co. of Essex a Province of Massachusetts Bay N. England where the said Bachelor was minister of the town and in so early a time of the Settlement that the said Stephen Hussey was the second child born in the town, and the one that was born before him was born in the same week. When on the following Sabbath they were both carried to church to be christened the eldest was first presented to the Minister he put it by and reached for the other saying I will christen my own first. Hence arose that saying that has so offent been made use of.
The said Christopher Hussey the father of Stephen was cast away on the coast of Florida, and was devoured by Cannibals who were at that time inhabitants of that coast. He was a man that bore the name of a gentleman equal to any one that lived at that day. Christopher's wife's name was Theodate. Hence the name of Theodate Gardner wife of Ruben and several others in the Co of Barnstable, in Stephen Gorham's family.
... the manuscript goes on to describe each of Christopher's and Theodates children which includes the following about John:
John Hussey son of old Christopher married Mary Perkins of Hampton & move to Newcastle, Deleware and died in 1711 leaving fourteen daughers.
... Some of the handwritten notes in the folder are dated as early as 1824. The latest one was a list of people weho celebrated the 85th birthday of E. F. Gard, December 21, 1874.
To Do notes for Captian Christopher Yeoman Hussey Deacon
!Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins"; NEHGS; 1995; pp 1048-1052
To Do notes for Captian Christopher Yeoman Hussey Deacon
Source: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 1988.
Hampton, original settler 6 Sep 1638 with his mother and father-in-law Rev Stephen Batchelder whose footsteps he followed after marriage to his daughter, Theodate, meeting her by family tradition in Holland; coming on the same William and Francis which arrived 5 Jun 1632; settled first at Saugus (Lynn, MA); freeman 14 May 1634; Newbury, proprietor 1637; Hampton Commissioner, t. e. s. c. 22 May 1639, the first of many times; lot layer 31 Oct; called present Deacon 30 Jun 1640; Moderator 1641 1663-4, 1672; Town Clerk 1650-3; Selectman 1650, 1658, 1664, 1669. Often tr. and Gr. j., and foreman. Confirmed Lieut. 14 Jun 1653, Captain 11 Oct 1664. Rep. 1658, 1659, 1660, 1672; Councillor 1679 until Cranfield came in. Nantucket proprietor Jul 1659, sold there to his sons in 1671 and 1681. In Apr 1674 he and son John were admonished for breach of the law called Quakers meeting. Colcord depos. that her father gave them all his cattle, goods and debts on going back to England, indicating his will liv. beyond that time.
LDS Microfilm 029,883 part 3 has a seven page Hussey genealogy based on Austin and 160 Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, 1893, History of Nantucket by Alexander Starbuck, 1924, and History of Lynn, Mass., by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.
It tells of Christopher Hussey, his wife, mother, and father-in-law first coming to New England. It tells of Christopher holding many offices and being a substantial land owner.
An interesting entry is that 1659, 7, 2, Christopher was one of the nine purchasers of Nantucket, Mass., from Thomas Mayhew, for 30 pounds sterling and two beaver hats; "one for myself and one for my wife", as the deed says. It is not known that he ever went to that island; he certainly never lived there for any considerable time.
1671, 10, 23. Captain Christopher Hussey of Hampton, deeded to his sons Stephen and John of same place, for 80 pounds, all his interest on the Island of Nantucket, "that is to say all my lands, arable land, pasture, meadows, woodland, all commonage, rights and privileges due unto me according to the purchase made by me; with all my cattle, neat cattle, goats or horses, all my stock that is on the island of Nantucket of what kind or quality or ever it be".
For the next fifteen years of his life, he held many important offices after the King determined to erect New Hampshire into a separate government, under jurisdiction of a President and Council to be appointed by himself. Christopher held the office of Councillor, next to the president and deputy, for three years.
1684, 2, 8, will. Codicil, 1685, 10, 28. Proved 1686, 10, 7. Executors, son John Hussey and son-in-law John Smith. Witnesses Stephen Torry, Robert Pike, Martha Pike. He gives to his tow sons, Stephen and John, his farm of about 150 acres and also about 50 acres marsh land. To daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Page, 7 acres medow, 2 shares in Ox Common, 2 shares in Cow Commons, and 30 pounds to be paid her by Stephen and John Hussey. To daughter Huldah all the rest of land and housing in the town of Hampton, and goods and stock, also the planting lot, 3 acre meadow lot 2 shares Ox Commons, 2 shares Cow Commons, and 30 pounts to be paid her by John Smith, the husband of my daughter Huldah.
Inventory, upwards 600 pounds including the following items: House, orchard and land adjoining, 42 pounds. Upland on the farm, 200 pounds. Five acres meadow, 100 pounds. 40 acres marsh, 60 pounds. 15 acres marsh, 24 pounds. Planting land, 28 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acre meadow, 14 pounds. Medow, 6 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acres meadow, 14 pounds. Meadow, 6 pounds. Land at North Division, 6 pounds. 4 shares Ox Common, 24 pounds. 4 shares Cow Commons, 30 pounds. 12 acres pasture, 20 pounds. 3 cows, 1 ox and 1 year old beast, 12 pounds. Beds, boulsters, blankets, rugs, and curtains, 12 pounds. Table and linen, sheets, etc., 10 pounds.
1686, 3, 8. He was buried on this date at Hampton, so, the town record declare. (History of Lynn)
Christopher Hussey's will is copied from LDS microfilm 1561672:
WILL OF CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Last Will and Testament of Chrisopher Hussey was made the 28th day of February 1684.
I, Christopher Husy, being through the mercy of God in health of body and of a sound memory and disposing capacity for wch (which) I bles the Lord and God being strickn in years, not knowing the time of my departure desiring according to rulle to set my house in order before I dy, revoke alll former Wills by me made, to make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in wch I do first resigns my soule unto the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ my blessed Savior and Redeemer and my body to the dust from whence it was taken in hope of a blessed resurrection among the just when my soule and body being again reunited and clothed over with the righteonsness of Christ to remaine with the Lord forever and as for my outward estate that God hath graciously lent me my just debts being payd and funeral charges discharged, I dispose of as followeth.
Imprimis: I give my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy my farm with all the privileges thereof namely the one hundred and fifty ackers of meadows upland as granted taken also fifty ackers more of marsh which I bought adjacent to it I say I give it by equal parts that is to say one full half to my son Steeven his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple and the other half to my son John in like manner only that paying to my dafter Mary as hereafter in my Will is expressed.
Item: I give to my dafter Mary Husy now wife of Thomas Page my 7 acres of medow lying near Bejamin Shaws and that peec of medow through which the highway lyeth and also 2 shares in the ox common and also too shars of cows common and also I do order that my son John Smith shall pay her thirty pounds and my two sons John and Steeven shall pay her forty pounds apiece in good pay.
Item: I give and bequeath to my dafter Huldah the like manner all the rest of my lands and housing and comon rights in the town of Hampton and all the houshold stuff and goods and stck then remaining that is to say my house with all in it or with it with all the land adjacent and the planting lots and 3 ackers medow lot toward the sprint, 2 shars in the ox coman and 2 shars in the cow coman and do order and appoint that he shall pay to my dafter Mary thirty pounds toward her porsion.
Item: My will is that the legases that I have bequethed to my dafter Mary that part of it wch is in land that shee shall enjoy it imediately after my deasease and the thirty pounds that shee shall have of my son John Smith the husband of my dafter Huldah i do will it to be payd her in two years after my desease that it to say the one half the first year and the other half the second year as good pay of country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds apeece that I have willed my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy to pay her that it be payd her allso within or by the end of two years next after my desease in som good pay of the country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds and in case of fayler shee my sd. dafter shall have in low thereof thirty ackers of the farm part whereof shall be the old field lying on the other side of the way on end whearof buts upon my old house and the other end toward the mill River by the bridge the rest to be made up of the farms wch ad. lands shall be ingadged hearby and shall be responsible for the payment of the aforesayd som ten or twelve ackers whearof shall be medow.
Item: My will is that the sd. (said) som being payd my sayd sons Steven and John shall have the farm first bequeathed by evene and equal porsion (portion) only my son John shall not be molested or hindered of what he have built on nor his building ncrompltd(?) in the valving of the farm because they are his owne the land on wch. that stan be rakend or valued.
I do upon further consideration will and declare that it shall be in my sd dafter Mary 's choifc whether shee will bave the land foremensioned in the farme or the 80 pounds of my 2 sons Steeven and John Husy.
Lastly, I make and ordaine my son John Husy and my son John Smith to be joint Executors of this my will and in case they should both dy before as above sd. then I do appoint my dafter Mary and in case shee should also in like manor fayle then I apoint my son Steephen to be my Executor in their stead and my trusty friends Mr. Richard Waldron and Mr. Robert Pike to be overseers of this my will. In witness of all wch I have hearunto sett my hand and seal the day and year aforemensioned.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL) Signed, sealed and declared to be his last Will and Testament before us:
Moses Pike Robert Pike His Steeven Tong Mark
Salisbry October ye 28 - 1685 upon a considering of som dubiausness in the expression of some things in this my Will respecting coman rights or privaleges I do by these present for the avoyding of any contraversy or mistakes about it in time to come declare that by the privileges mensioned belonging to my farm by it I do plainly intent whatsoever woods, woodland or feeding rights or coman lands to be divided that do belong to ye sd. farm it shall remaine and be to ye sd. farme and so ---- porsionably to be divided to my two sons that have the farm and lands adjacent or lands not yet pofost (possessed) that ly in coman and in like manner the coman rights that do belong to the lands that is given to my two dafters Mary and Huldah in the Towne it shall belong to each of them attending to thayr severall portions of land I meane any coman rights thereto belonging devided or undevided and this I do declare to by my plane intent and meaning in that case as wwitness my hand and seale, day and year above written.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL)
Signed, sealed and declared in ye presence of us
Steeven Tong (his mark) Robert Pike Martha Pike
New Hampshire in New England Moses Pike, Robert Pike and steeven Tong appeared the 7th of 8th month 1686 before Richard Waldron, Jr. and made oath that they saw Christopher Hussey signe, seal and heard him declare this Instrumit contained in the two former pages as his last will and then saw him signe and seal the above menconed codicill being of a disposing mind.
Attests Elisa Stileman Clery
In September, 1993, at the Sutro Library, I found an original handwritten manuscript resulting from a computer search under the Hussey Family. It is Sutro F 72 N2 G36 1874 [Genealogy of several families who settled in the Nantucket region]. -- [1874?]. [92] p. ; 32 cm.
There is a section on the Hussey family. I will quote the beginning of that section. The manuscript was written in about 1874.
Capt. Christopher Hussey, the father of Stephen was born in the town of Dorking in the Co. of Surry England about six miles SSW from London. He made suit to a young woman by the name of Bachelor in Holland whos father had removed there sometime befor from England & was a clergyman and wwas then about removing with his family to America. He would not give his concent for the saidHussey to marry his dauter on any other terms than that he should remove with him to America, which he did and settled in the town of Lynn Co. of Essex a Province of Massachusetts Bay N. England where the said Bachelor was minister of the town and in so early a time of the Settlement that the said Stephen Hussey was the second child born in the town, and the one that was born before him was born in the same week. When on the following Sabbath they were both carried to church to be christened the eldest was first presented to the Minister he put it by and reached for the other saying I will christen my own first. Hence arose that saying that has so offent been made use of.
The said Christopher Hussey the father of Stephen was cast away on the coast of Florida, and was devoured by Cannibals who were at that time inhabitants of that coast. He was a man that bore the name of a gentleman equal to any one that lived at that day. Christopher's wife's name was Theodate. Hence the name of Theodate Gardner wife of Ruben and several others in the Co of Barnstable, in Stephen Gorham's family.
... the manuscript goes on to describe each of Christopher's and Theodates children which includes the following about John:
John Hussey son of old Christopher married Mary Perkins of Hampton & move to Newcastle, Deleware and died in 1711 leaving fourteen daughers.
... Some of the handwritten notes in the folder are dated as early as 1824. The latest one was a list of people weho celebrated the 85th birthday of E. F. Gard, December 21, 1874.
Hampton, original settler 6 Sep 1638 with his mother and father-in-law Rev Stephen Batchelder whose footsteps he followed after marriage to his daughter, Theodate, meeting her by family tradition in Holland; coming on the same William and Francis which arrived 5 Jun 1632; settled first at Saugus (Lynn, MA); freeman 14 May 1634; Newbury, proprietor 1637; Hampton Commissioner, t. e. s. c. 22 May 1639, the first of many times; lot layer 31 Oct; called present Deacon 30 Jun 1640; Moderator 1641 1663-4, 1672; Town Clerk 1650-3; Selectman 1650, 1658, 1664, 1669. Often tr. and Gr. j., and foreman. Confirmed Lieut. 14 Jun 1653, Captain 11 Oct 1664. Rep. 1658, 1659, 1660, 1672; Councillor 1679 until Cranfield came in. Nantucket proprietor Jul 1659, sold there to his sons in 1671 and 1681. In Apr 1674 he and son John were admonished for breach of the law called Quakers meeting. Colcord depos. that her father gave them all his cattle, goods and debts on going back to England, indicating his will liv. beyond that time.
LDS Microfilm 029,883 part 3 has a seven page Hussey genealogy based on Austin and 160 Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, 1893, History of Nantucket by Alexander Starbuck, 1924, and History of Lynn, Mass., by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.
It tells of Christopher Hussey, his wife, mother, and father-in-law first coming to New England. It tells of Christopher holding many offices and being a substantial land owner.
An interesting entry is that 1659, 7, 2, Christopher was one of the nine purchasers of Nantucket, Mass., from Thomas Mayhew, for 30 pounds sterling and two beaver hats; "one for myself and one for my wife", as the deed says. It is not known that he ever went to that island; he certainly never lived there for any considerable time.
1671, 10, 23. Captain Christopher Hussey of Hampton, deeded to his sons Stephen and John of same place, for 80 pounds, all his interest on the Island of Nantucket, "that is to say all my lands, arable land, pasture, meadows, woodland, all commonage, rights and privileges due unto me according to the purchase made by me; with all my cattle, neat cattle, goats or horses, all my stock that is on the island of Nantucket of what kind or quality or ever it be".
For the next fifteen years of his life, he held many important offices after the King determined to erect New Hampshire into a separate government, under jurisdiction of a President and Council to be appointed by himself. Christopher held the office of Councillor, next to the president and deputy, for three years.
1684, 2, 8, will. Codicil, 1685, 10, 28. Proved 1686, 10, 7. Executors, son John Hussey and son-in-law John Smith. Witnesses Stephen Torry, Robert Pike, Martha Pike. He gives to his tow sons, Stephen and John, his farm of about 150 acres and also about 50 acres marsh land. To daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Page, 7 acres medow, 2 shares in Ox Common, 2 shares in Cow Commons, and 30 pounds to be paid her by Stephen and John Hussey. To daughter Huldah all the rest of land and housing in the town of Hampton, and goods and stock, also the planting lot, 3 acre meadow lot 2 shares Ox Commons, 2 shares Cow Commons, and 30 pounts to be paid her by John Smith, the husband of my daughter Huldah.
Inventory, upwards 600 pounds including the following items: House, orchard and land adjoining, 42 pounds. Upland on the farm, 200 pounds. Five acres meadow, 100 pounds. 40 acres marsh, 60 pounds. 15 acres marsh, 24 pounds. Planting land, 28 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acre meadow, 14 pounds. Medow, 6 pounds. Spring medow, 30 pounds. 7 acres meadow, 14 pounds. Meadow, 6 pounds. Land at North Division, 6 pounds. 4 shares Ox Common, 24 pounds. 4 shares Cow Commons, 30 pounds. 12 acres pasture, 20 pounds. 3 cows, 1 ox and 1 year old beast, 12 pounds. Beds, boulsters, blankets, rugs, and curtains, 12 pounds. Table and linen, sheets, etc., 10 pounds.
1686, 3, 8. He was buried on this date at Hampton, so, the town record declare. (History of Lynn)
Christopher Hussey's will is copied from LDS microfilm 1561672:
WILL OF CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Last Will and Testament of Chrisopher Hussey was made the 28th day of February 1684.
I, Christopher Husy, being through the mercy of God in health of body and of a sound memory and disposing capacity for wch (which) I bles the Lord and God being strickn in years, not knowing the time of my departure desiring according to rulle to set my house in order before I dy, revoke alll former Wills by me made, to make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in wch I do first resigns my soule unto the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ my blessed Savior and Redeemer and my body to the dust from whence it was taken in hope of a blessed resurrection among the just when my soule and body being again reunited and clothed over with the righteonsness of Christ to remaine with the Lord forever and as for my outward estate that God hath graciously lent me my just debts being payd and funeral charges discharged, I dispose of as followeth.
Imprimis: I give my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy my farm with all the privileges thereof namely the one hundred and fifty ackers of meadows upland as granted taken also fifty ackers more of marsh which I bought adjacent to it I say I give it by equal parts that is to say one full half to my son Steeven his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple and the other half to my son John in like manner only that paying to my dafter Mary as hereafter in my Will is expressed.
Item: I give to my dafter Mary Husy now wife of Thomas Page my 7 acres of medow lying near Bejamin Shaws and that peec of medow through which the highway lyeth and also 2 shares in the ox common and also too shars of cows common and also I do order that my son John Smith shall pay her thirty pounds and my two sons John and Steeven shall pay her forty pounds apiece in good pay.
Item: I give and bequeath to my dafter Huldah the like manner all the rest of my lands and housing and comon rights in the town of Hampton and all the houshold stuff and goods and stck then remaining that is to say my house with all in it or with it with all the land adjacent and the planting lots and 3 ackers medow lot toward the sprint, 2 shars in the ox coman and 2 shars in the cow coman and do order and appoint that he shall pay to my dafter Mary thirty pounds toward her porsion.
Item: My will is that the legases that I have bequethed to my dafter Mary that part of it wch is in land that shee shall enjoy it imediately after my deasease and the thirty pounds that shee shall have of my son John Smith the husband of my dafter Huldah i do will it to be payd her in two years after my desease that it to say the one half the first year and the other half the second year as good pay of country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds apeece that I have willed my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy to pay her that it be payd her allso within or by the end of two years next after my desease in som good pay of the country.
Item: My will is also that the forty pounds and in case of fayler shee my sd. dafter shall have in low thereof thirty ackers of the farm part whereof shall be the old field lying on the other side of the way on end whearof buts upon my old house and the other end toward the mill River by the bridge the rest to be made up of the farms wch ad. lands shall be ingadged hearby and shall be responsible for the payment of the aforesayd som ten or twelve ackers whearof shall be medow.
Item: My will is that the sd. (said) som being payd my sayd sons Steven and John shall have the farm first bequeathed by evene and equal porsion (portion) only my son John shall not be molested or hindered of what he have built on nor his building ncrompltd(?) in the valving of the farm because they are his owne the land on wch. that stan be rakend or valued.
I do upon further consideration will and declare that it shall be in my sd dafter Mary 's choifc whether shee will bave the land foremensioned in the farme or the 80 pounds of my 2 sons Steeven and John Husy.
Lastly, I make and ordaine my son John Husy and my son John Smith to be joint Executors of this my will and in case they should both dy before as above sd. then I do appoint my dafter Mary and in case shee should also in like manor fayle then I apoint my son Steephen to be my Executor in their stead and my trusty friends Mr. Richard Waldron and Mr. Robert Pike to be overseers of this my will. In witness of all wch I have hearunto sett my hand and seal the day and year aforemensioned.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL) Signed, sealed and declared to be his last Will and Testament before us:
Moses Pike Robert Pike His Steeven Tong Mark
Salisbry October ye 28 - 1685 upon a considering of som dubiausness in the expression of some things in this my Will respecting coman rights or privaleges I do by these present for the avoyding of any contraversy or mistakes about it in time to come declare that by the privileges mensioned belonging to my farm by it I do plainly intent whatsoever woods, woodland or feeding rights or coman lands to be divided that do belong to ye sd. farm it shall remaine and be to ye sd. farme and so ---- porsionably to be divided to my two sons that have the farm and lands adjacent or lands not yet pofost (possessed) that ly in coman and in like manner the coman rights that do belong to the lands that is given to my two dafters Mary and Huldah in the Towne it shall belong to each of them attending to thayr severall portions of land I meane any coman rights thereto belonging devided or undevided and this I do declare to by my plane intent and meaning in that case as wwitness my hand and seale, day and year above written.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL)
Signed, sealed and declared in ye presence of us
Steeven Tong (his mark) Robert Pike Martha Pike
New Hampshire in New England Moses Pike, Robert Pike and steeven Tong appeared the 7th of 8th month 1686 before Richard Waldron, Jr. and made oath that they saw Christopher Hussey signe, seal and heard him declare this Instrumit contained in the two former pages as his last will and then saw him signe and seal the above menconed codicill being of a disposing mind.
Attests Elisa Stileman Clery
In September, 1993, at the Sutro Library, I found an original handwritten manuscript resulting from a computer search under the Hussey Family. It is Sutro F 72 N2 G36 1874 [Genealogy of several families who settled in the Nantucket region]. -- [1874?]. [92] p. ; 32 cm.
There is a section on the Hussey family. I will quote the beginning of that section. The manuscript was written in about 1874.
Capt. Christopher Hussey, the father of Stephen was born in the town of Dorking in the Co. of Surry England about six miles SSW from London. He made suit to a young woman by the name of Bachelor in Holland whos father had removed there sometime befor from England & was a clergyman and wwas then about removing with his family to America. He would not give his concent for the saidHussey to marry his dauter on any other terms than that he should remove with him to America, which he did and settled in the town of Lynn Co. of Essex a Province of Massachusetts Bay N. England where the said Bachelor was minister of the town and in so early a time of the Settlement that the said Stephen Hussey was the second child born in the town, and the one that was born before him was born in the same week. When on the following Sabbath they were both carried to church to be christened the eldest was first presented to the Minister he put it by and reached for the other saying I will christen my own first. Hence arose that saying that has so offent been made use of.
The said Christopher Hussey the father of Stephen was cast away on the coast of Florida, and was devoured by Cannibals who were at that time inhabitants of that coast. He was a man that bore the name of a gentleman equal to any one that lived at that day. Christopher's wife's name was Theodate. Hence the name of Theodate Gardner wife of Ruben and several others in the Co of Barnstable, in Stephen Gorham's family.
... the manuscript goes on to describe each of Christopher's and Theodates children which includes the following about John:
John Hussey son of old Christopher married Mary Perkins of Hampton & move to Newcastle, Deleware and died in 1711 leaving fourteen daughers.
... Some of the handwritten notes in the folder are dated as early as 1824. The latest one was a list of people weho celebrated the 85th birthday of E. F. Gard, December 21, 1874.
