On 22 Aug 2019 Helen (Coleman) Ford wrote on Hurst-1217:
It appears that Henry did not go to America. He became a patten maker in London. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hurstpage/genealogy/henryhurst.htm
( 28 Dec 2019)
I had no reply but I would now like to unlink both the wife Anne Beeler and the son James John from Henry's profile and add his wife and children born in England .* Evidence for these is listed below . I don't know when and where he died but I do not think that there is any evidence that he went to America, certainly not at the date suggested (I'm interested in getting this profile 'correct' as I descend from a sibling Quite often the connection finder traces a path across the pond through Henry which I feel is incorrect )
I have checked the info on the rootsweb page.
Henry Hurst of Leckhampstead, son of William became an apprentice Patten maker in London, in 1696
"Hurst Henry, son of William, Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire, farrier, to Robert Willis, 2 Jan 1695/6, Pattenmakers' Company " London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850 available on Find My Past (subs needed)
He married Sarah Sapsford in Felmersham Bedfordshire in 1701
" Marriages 1701 SE19 Hen Hurst (of Leckhamsted [Leckhampstead Bucks] yeoman Sarah Sapsford"
F G Emmison, (edt) Bedfordshire Parish Registers, Bedford County Record Office, England, 1931 p A22
https://archive.org/details/bedfordshirepari09bedf/page/n35
He lived in Wapping, Middlesex London, his children were baptised at St Dunstan's Church Stepney, His second son was named Sapsford which surely confirms that the marriage is correct.
Parish Register, St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex (I've included sharing links for the first and last child's baptisms)
1702 Christening May 24 Anne dau'r of Henry Hurst of Wapping Patting maker & Sarah (days old 17)
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/260
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/18557773?h=c4db791703
1703 Christening November 21 Wm son of Henry & Sarah Hurst Wapp' Patten maker (days old 2)
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/260
1703(1703/4)Burial February 22 William son of Henry Hurst Wapping, Patene maker
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/128
1704/5 Christening March 11 Sapsford son of Henry & Sarah Hurst, Wapping, Patten maker (image 530 of 627)
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/260
1704/5 Burial March 10 Sapsford son of Henry Hurst Wapping Patten maker (image 121 of 409) (register incorrect on exact dates of Christening and burial, probably baptised and buried on same or subsequent days)
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/128
1706 Christening Dec 9 Margaret dau'r of Henry and Sarah Hurst, Wap' Patten maker image 563 of 627
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/260
1709 Christening November 11 Sarah dautr of Henry and Sarah Hurst Rate; Highway, Pattenmaker (image 597 of 627)
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/260
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/18558229?h=48280c
(note a Sarah Hurst married a Uriah Painter (FWK possibly framework Knitter in 1725 at St Dunstans)
Henry Hurst cannot have married Anne Beeler in America in about 1702 ( The rootspage account suggests that this marriage was that of Hendrick Hurst who married Mary Bill 31 Aug 1704, Suffolk Boston. (IGI)
He certainly did not arrive in America in 1705 and there is no evidence that he had a son called John James https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hurst-842
I can't check the DNA evidence mentioned on the Rootsweb page "Recent DNA testing of several English Hursts from the direct line of Henry & various American Hursts have proven absolutely that there is no relationship between Henry & any of the American Hurst lines. " Edit see http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wrhurst/genealogy/dna/hurstdnasuccessstories.htm and https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/hurst/about/results Seems to show that descendants of the Leckhampstead Hursts (English Hursts) have a very different Haplogroup to those descended from the American immigrants
*An alternative to unlinking wife Anne Beeler and Child James John would be to create a new profile for Henry Hurst son of William Hurst of Letchhampstead and unlink this Henry as son of William. (removing birthplace and date at the same time)