Zedekiah Drury (1716 - aft. 1790)

Born 30 Apr 1716 in Framingham, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Axtell) Drury — married 20 Jul 1738 in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Hannah (Woolley) Drury — married 2 Apr 1741 in Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Birth

30 APR 1716

Framingham

MA

USA

{geni:county} Middlesex

Removals

By 1738, Zedekiah had removed westward and was living in Sutton when he first married. Then they moved back to Bedford.

Marriages and Children

Zedekiah Drury of Sutton married Hannah Axtell of Grafton in Grafton on 20 July 1738.^[1][2][3]

Gershom/Garshom was born to Zedekiah and Hannah on 31 Dec 1739.^[4]

Hannah Drury, wife of Zedekiah, died in Bedford on 11 Jan 1739-40. ^[5], 11 days after the birth of Gershom.

Zedekiah Drury married Hannah Woolley in Bedford on 2 Apr 1741, as his second wife.^[6] It seems likely that she was Hannah Woolley, born in the nearby town of Concord on 29 Mar 1722 to Thomas and Mary Chamberlain Woolley.

Zedekiah was born to Zedekiah and his second wife Hannah Drury in Bedford on 1 Mar 1741-2.^[4]

Zedekiah and Hannah (Woolley) Drury removed to Hollis, Massachusetts, where most of their children were born, then to Temple, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

A series of land transactions traces the moves of Zedekiah Drury, Sr. from Bedford to Dunstable, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (from which Hollis was formed), then to Temple. By 25 March 1743, Zedekiah Drury had moved to Dunstable, New Hampshire. On that date, Zedekiah Drury, blacksmith, “of a place called Dunstable in the Province of New Hampshire” sold his Bedford land holdings.^[7] Dunstable was dissolved into several towns in New Hampshire, including Hollis, which received it’s charter in 1746.^[8] By 1745, Zedekiah Drury referred to himself as “of Hollis” in his land sales, and continued to do so until 1769, when he began to refer to himself as “of Temple.”^[9] The 1775 census of Temple lists Captain Zedekiah Drury, Zedekiah Drury, Jr., and Gershom Drury - confirming the residence of the Bedford Zedekiah Drury and his family in Temple.^[10]

His death date is often given as 1776 or 1777, but this seems to be a confusion with the death date of his son, Zedekiah Drury, Jr, who also lived in Temple. Zedekiah, Jr. died just before 27 Nov 1776, when his father and his widow were appointed administrators of his estate.^[11]

Zedekiah, Sr. was alive on 13 Sep 1790 when he and his wife Hannah signed a deed in which Zedekiah Drury "of Temple" and his wife Hannah sold all their "right title interest and claim" to a parcel of land in Temple.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Sutton, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, (Worcester, Systematic History Fund), Marriages, p. 247
2. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Grafron, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, (Worcester, Systematic History Fund), Marriages, p. 161
3. ↑ Axtell, Carson A. (Compiler) Axtell Genealogy p. 20. Fairhaven, Mass.: 1945
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Middlesex, Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, (Boston, 1903, New England Historic Genealogical Society), Births, p. 21
5. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, (Boston, 1903, New England Historic Genealogical Society), Deaths, p. 119
6. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, (Boston, 1903, New England Historic Genealogical Society), Marriages, pp. 72 and 109
7. ↑ Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deeds 47:149, dated 25 March 1743, Zedekiah Drury, of Dunstable, New Hampshire, to Amos Lawrence, image 263 at FamilySearch.org.
8. ↑ Hollis Historical Society, http://www.hollishistoricalsociety.org/history-of-hollis-new-hampshire.html
9. ↑ Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deeds, 58:102, image 337, dated 12 November 1745, Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, blacksmith, to Enoch Hunt of Hollis, tract of land in Narragansett township 6, also 54:587, image 302, dated 4 April 1757, Peter Fassett to Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, blacksmith, two tracts of land in Bedford, also 57:91, image 49, dated 4 May 1757, Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, blacksmith, and wife Hannah, to Joseph Brown, two tracts of land in Bedford; Worcester County, Massachusetts, Deeds, 76:117, image 323, dated 8 December 1761, Ephraim Blood of Hollis to Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, gentleman, tract of land in Narragansett township 6, also 78:302, image 160, dated 24 December 1761, Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, gentleman, to William Fletcher, tract of land in Narragansett township 6; Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Deeds, 5:94, image 52, dated 29 November 1765, James Foster of Hollis to Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, tract of land in Peterborough Slip (now Temple), also 1:527, image 281, dated 17 June 1766, Zedekiah Drury of Hollis, gentleman, to Samuel Hobart, pew in Hollis meeting house, also 3:604, image 306, dated 13 Mar 1769, Zedekiah Drury of Temple, gentleman, to Town of Temple, 2 1/2 acres in Temple.
10. ↑ Henry Ames Blood, The History of Temple, N.H. (Boston : Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1869), p. 101-2; database with images, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/historyoftemplen00bloo/page/100/mode/2up : accessed 15 Jan 2020).
11. ↑ “New Hampshire County Probate Records, 1660-1973, Hillsborough County, 1771-1777, Vol 1-2,” database with images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9WH-LQBQ : accessed 25 January 2020), Zedekiah Drury administration of estate, vol. 2, pg. 473 and 509, 27 Nov 1776; Hillsborough County, New Hampshire deeds, Nashua.
12. ↑ Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, deed book 23, p. 369, Zedekiah Drury (with wife Hannah), of Temple, to Thomas Perkins, deed signed 13 Sep 1790, Registry of Deeds, Nashua, New Hampshire; "Hillsborough County, Register of Deeds," database with images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRH-X3W9-D : accessed 22 Jan 2020).

• Marsha Johnson, firsthand knowledge.

Acknowledgments

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