Hanah (Unknown) Tewksbury (1661 - 1746)

Born 22 Mar 1661 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Henry (Tukesbury) Tewksbury — married 1693 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 24 Sep 1746 at age 85 in Amesbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Uncertain Origin and surname

At this point there seems to be no proof that the wife of Henry Tewksbury/Tukesbury was Hannah Knight, daughter of Capt. John and Bathsheba (Ingersoll) Knight.

According to Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary", Captain John's first daughter named Hannah was born 22 Mar 1662 (double year not stated) and died young. Savage listed her father John as "of Newbury".^[1] She appears in Newbury Vital Records with a birth transcribed as 22 Mar 1661/62.^[2][3]

When Hannah died 30 Jul 1664 at Newbury^[4] , she was listed as a daughter of John Knight "Jr" since her father was the son of a John Knight. Her older brother John Knight was apparently known as known as "Jr" from his 1672 marriage to Rebecca Noyes until the death of their father John in 1677.

Hannah was followed by another Hannah, daughter of John of Newbury born 30 Aug 1664.^[2]. However, Hannah Knight married James Noyes on 31 Mar 1684 at Newbury per Newbury Vital Records, so the basis for the assertion that the wife of Henry Tukesbury was "Knight" is uncertain. Or if she was "Knight", possibly she was daughter of a different man (although apparently not a daughter of John Knight "Jr", son of the immigrant as John Jr's will listed no daughter Hannah.

Cutter in "New England Families" provides no details about this Henry Tukesbury beyond his birth date^[5] and Hoyt in "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury" says only that her name was Hannah.^[6]

The original bio stated this information without source (other than a link to daughter Naomi Tukesbury which only proves a first name of "Hannah", not a surname):

She married Henry Tukesbury/Tewkesbury/Tewksbury, son of Henry and Martha (Copp) Tewksbury, in 1689 at Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts^{[citation needed]} - parents of Henry, Jonathan, Hannah, Philip, Naomi, Jane, John, Abner and James Tewksbury. Note: no such marriage is found in "New England Marriages to 1700" or in Newbury vital records.

She passed away in 1746 at Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage; Boston, 1860-1862; Volume III, p. 36
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Newbury, Massachusetts vital records 1662 birth of Hannah Knight
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1V-1YPV : 29 November 2018), Hanah Knight, 22 Mar 1662; citing Birth, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009724.
4. ↑ Newbury, Massachusetts vital records 1664 death of Hannah Knight
5. ↑ New England families, genealogical and memorial : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of a nation by 1847-1918, Cutter, William Richard Vol 4. p. 1960
6. ↑ David Webster Hoyt, "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts", 3 vols. (Providence, R.I., 1897-1919) 2:338-339

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch: 10 February 2018), Hanah in entry for Naomy Tukesbury, 06 Aug 1702; citing AMESBURY, ESSEX, MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0599730 IT 3.
• http://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LHLG-TS4/hanah-knight-1661-1746 note that this is an unsourced familysearch profile