Hannah Fox was born on 25 September 1648 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony[1][2]. Her parents were Thomas Fox and Hannah Brooks.
Hannah (Brooks) was Thomas Fox's second wife. His first wife Rebecca died in 1647, leaving two young children. Thomas died on 14 April 1658, in Concord. Hannah soon removed to New London, New London, Connecticut Colony, where about 1661 she married, second, Andrew Lester, as his third wife[3][4].
Hannah Fox married her step-sibling Daniel Lester, son of his mother's second husband Andrew by his first wife Barbara (Unknown), on 1 October 1668, in New London[5][6]. (Note that the birth date of their first child Daniel is often used as their marriage date).
Hannah and Daniel had children, all born in New London[7]:
No death record has been found for Hannah. She is given a death year of 1711 or 1712, probably based on a probate index card for a Hannah Lester, who was a minor when she died[10].
John Lester, son of Daniel and Hannah, married Hannah Carpenter and had three children with her: John, David, and Hannah. Hannah (Carpenter) died in 1708. John married, second, Abigail Munsel, in 1711, but he died a few months later. The probate cards are likely for John's children, who are not mentioned in his probate, and so probably also died[11]. There may well have been a fatal sickness epidemic in New London in 1711, and Hannah may have succumbed to the same disease as did her sons John and David, and probably also John's children.
Hannah Fox's brother Samuel married, first, Daniel Lester's sister Mary.
Hannah's son Daniel married Mary Wells, and they had a daughter Mary. Hannah had a brother John Fox, and for his fourth marriage in 1719, John married Mary, his sister's granddaughter and more than fifty years his junior.
The birth of son David Lester does not appear in New London vital records. The probate for David Lester, deceased in late 1711, was administered by Daniel Lester, brother of the deceased. Legatees were Daniel Lester (clothes and half an orchard, land, and shop); the heirs of John Lester (clothing and land bought of Jonathan Beebe); Ann wife of Thomas Way (clothing and the other half of orchard, land, shop given to Daniel Jr.); heirs of Hannah Chapman, former wife of William (clothing and land bought of Jonathan Beebe). Sgt. Daniel Lester, father of the deceased, was later given twenty pounds as repayment of support that he had given David.[12]
John Lester died shortly before his brother David, as David's probate has the heirs of John as legatees. Both of their deaths were in late 1711 or early 1712.
FamilySearch has Daniel's 1677 baptism assigned to David, due no doubt to the difficulty of deciphering the record's script.
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