Hepzibah (Doggett) Eddy (bef. 1643 - 1726)

Born before 1643 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 3 May 1726 after age 83 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Hepzibah Doggett was born c. 1642-1643 to John Doggett and Alice Brotherton in Massachusetts.^[1] Circa 1658, she married John Eddy, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Eddy of Swansea^{[2] [3]} She passed away on 3 May 1726, and is buried in the West Tisbury Cemetery, West Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts^[4]

Research Notes

Family Search Profile

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTWZ-19D

Date of Birth

DOB is unknown, 1842 or 1843 based on gravestone inscription.

Gravestone

Inscription:

Here lyes Buried y^e

Body of M^rs Hephzibah

Eddey, Relict of M^r

John Eddey who Dec^d

May 3^d 1726 Aged

About 83 Years

Find a Grave Image URL: https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2004/176/5845218_108822750520.jpg
Image source: Beverley Audrey “Bev” Hill Gillihan

Sources

1. ↑ The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 126 - 145 ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III See listing for Samuel Eddy, which starts on page 614. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
   URL: http://history.vineyard.net/daggett.htm
2. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III] See listing for Samuel Eddy, which starts on page 614. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
   URL: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/616/1415512386
3. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700] (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. See Volume 1, page 496, which suggests references for further reading, as follows EDDY, John (1637-) & Hepzibah [DAGGETT]; ca 1658; Martha's Vineyard {Martha's Vineyard 3:127; Plymouth (Davis) 101; Eddy 32; Doggett 79, 85; McIntire Anc. 330}
   URL: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21174/496/426922104
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #5845218

See also:

• Charles Lathrop Pack, Thomas Hatch of Barnstable & Some of His Descendants; the Descent of Alice Gertrude Hatch and Her Husband, Charles Lathrop Pack, from Thomas Hatch and Allied Families (Newark, NJ: The Society o f Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, 1930) page 222