Richard Thorn (abt. 1722 - bef. 1751)

Born about 10 Jun 1722 in Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York Province

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Hyatt) Thorn — married 10 Jun 1738 in St George's Hempstead, New York

Died before 30 Jul 1751 before about age 29 in Cow Neck, Hempstead, Nassau, New York Province

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Biography

Richard Thorn was born around 1720 in Hempstead, Nassau Co., Long Island, Province of New York NY .

Richard Thorne married Mary Hyatt 10 June 1738 at St Georges, Hempstead, Long Island. They had received their marriage license on 8 June 1738.^[1] Mary was born abt. 1722 in or near Hempstead, Nassau Co., Long Island, NY Colony? ^[2][3]

One source suggests that Mary Hyatt probably was of the Westchester County Hyatt family.^[4] It appears likely that she was Mary Hyatt, daughter of Abraham and Hannah Tompkins Hyatt, who was born perhaps 1715 in Eastchester, New York, just a few miles away by boat from Hempstead. Other Mary Hyatts were in Westchester around then, but they are documented to have married other men. Pending further research to provide more evidence for that identification, she is on Wikitree as Mary Hyatt.

The will of Richard Thorne of Cow Neck, proved 30 July 1751, leaves 1/3 of his estate to wife Mary, and the balance to daughter Catherine, apparently the only surviving, possibly the only, child of their marriage.^[4]

Catherine Thorn, their daughter, might be the woman who was licensed to marry Richard Robertson in New York on 5 June 1777.^[5] Or not, as the name Catherine recurs in the Thorn family.

Sources

1. ↑ Names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued by the secretary of the province of New York, previous to 1784, p. 198.
2. ↑ St George's Hempstead http://longislandgenealogy.com/StGeorge/marriages/M1738.html
3. ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=05gyAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA83&lpg=RA1-PA83&dq=John+Smith+AND+Elizabeth+Gildersleeve&source=bl&ots=1bWTR4dDP1&sig=_W4HP6X_YU-Jzij27TfWwAGvT6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBmoVChMI386t4P_LxwIVATuICh3NKw6x#v=onepage&q=John%20Smith%20AND%20Elizabeth%20Gildersleeve&f=false
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Early History of the Thorne Family of Long Island", in New York Genealogical and Biographical Register, 1961, Vol. 92, p. 236.
5. ↑ [https://archive.org/details/namesofpersonsfo00newyuoft/page/390/mode/2up Names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued by the secretary of the province of New York, previous to 1784, p. 390

• Note This source gives Mary as nee Wyatt but the published entries lists Hyatt.

• Submitter Info Unavailable, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #6090, Date of Import: May 26, 1999. "Electronic," Date of Import: Jul 6, 1999.