Deborah (Hunt) Belcher (1711 - 1753)

Born 8 Mar 1711 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Belcher — married 20 Apr 1732 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died Feb 1753 at age 41 in Easton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Deborah Hunt, the daughter of Samuel Hunt and Hannah (Pope) Hunt], was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on March 8, 1710/11.^[1][2]

Deborah married Rev. Joseph Belcher on April 20, 1732 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.^[3][4]

Deborah and Joseph had nine or ten children, all born in Easton, Massachusetts:

1. Hannah, b. January 23, 1732/3,^[5][4] m. December 14, 1759 Moses Curtis in Bridgewater^[4]
2. Rebecca, b. April 1, 1735,^[5][4] m. January 5, 1764 Jesse Edson in Bridgewater^[4]
3. Joseph, b. May 27, 1737^[5] (The Belcher Families in New England says he was born April 1, 1735,^[4] but that is inconsistent with the Easton town records), m. March 2, 1762 Abial Hollis,^[4] d. April 20, 1803^[4]
4. Gregory, b. January 26, 1739,^[5][4] m. 1st Deborah _______,^[4] m. 2d June 29, 1775 Elizabeth Pratt^[4]
5. Deborah, b. March 31, 1741,^[5][4] m. December 3, 1761 Seth Dunbar in Bridgewater^[4]
6. Samuel, b. February 4, 1742/3,^[5][4] d. January 29, 1755^[5][4]
7. Eleazer, b. September 1, 1745^[5]
8. William, b. January 29, 1748,^[5][4] said to have been killed or captured in the Revolution in September 1776^[4]
9. Jonathan, b. February 1753^[5][4] about three days before his mother's death,^[5] m. January 4, 1778 Abigail Corthrell^[4]

The Belcher Families in New England states Deborah and Joseph also had a son named Gregory, born about 1737, based on (1) the fact that a Benjamin Belcher appears on the roll of Capt. Simeon Cary's Company in 1758, on a Crown Point expedition and (2) the fact that the author was unable to find another Belcher family that Benjamin could have belonged to.^[4] However, he is not included in the list of Deborah and Joseph's children in the Easton town records^[5] and a 1737 date of birth would conflict with the date of birth of son Joseph in those records.^[5]

Deborah died in Easton, Massachusetts on February 1753, about three days after the birth of her son Jonathan.^[5] (The Belcher Families in New England states that she died on March 31, 1753,^[4] but that date is inconsistent with the Easton town records.)

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume I-Birth. The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1930. p. 135. Link to page at hathitrust.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-TC16 : 10 November 2020), Deborah Hunt, 8 Mar 1711; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume II-Marriages. The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1930. p. 59. Link to page at hathitrust.org.
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21} Bartlett, Joseph Gardner Bartlett. The Belcher Families in New England. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1906. pp. 16-17. Link to pages at archive.org.
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-WH93?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DH-92Q%3A353350701%2C353580801%2C353580802 : 22 October 2020), Bristol > Easton > Births, marriages, deaths 1697-1847 > image 33 of 222; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.