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Desire (Howes) Hallett (1696 - 1775)

Desire "Desiar" Hallett formerly Howes
Born in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusettsmap
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Daughter of and
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Wife of — married 17 Feb 1719 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusettsmap
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Mother of , , and
Died at age 78 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

Desire Howes was the daughter of Prince Howes and Dorcas Joyce. She was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts on 22 May 1696.[1][2][3] On 17 Feb 1719, she married Jonathan Hallett, son of Jonathan Hallett and Abigail Dexter, in Yarmouth. [2][4][5]Desire and Jonathan had, at least, eleven children. Desire passed away in Yarmouth on 30 April 1775. [6][7]

Children of Desire Howes and Jonathan Hallett

  • Rebecca Hallett (1720-1720) "two daughters stillborn[8]
  • Desire (Hallett) Bacon (1722-1792) married Thomas Bacon in 1746[9]
  • Jonathan Hallett (1723-1814) married Thankful Crowell (1724-1802)
  • Prince Hallett (1725-1728)
  • Abigail Hallett (1727-1728)
  • Prince Hallett (3 June 1732 - 23 June 1732)
  • Jeremiah Hallett (1733-1819) probably married Hannah Grifen in 1759.
  • Joshua Hallett (1736-1821) probably married Dorcas Eldridge in 1761.
  • Sarah Hallett (1737-1794) married Simeon Crowell
  • Mehitable Hallett (1740-????) possibly married William Swift (1719-1809) as his second wife in 1772[10]

Sources

  • Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 01 February 2022), memorial page for Desire Howes Hallet (22 May 1696–30 Apr 1775), Find A Grave: Memorial #50280874, citing Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by happi (contributor 47230744) . (Includes Gravestone Photo)
  1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016) Yarmouth Vrs., V1, pg 23.. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13934/23/251754507
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Howes, Robert Arthur, Genealogy of the Howes Family in America; Descendants of Thomas Howes of Yarmouth, Mass 1637 - 2004, Dennis Historical Society, Inc., 2006, Pg. 9.
  3. ↑ MeLean, Maclean W., John Joyce of Yarmouth, Mass. (ca. 1615-1666), The American Genalogist Vol. 43, 1 (Jan 1967), pg. 9, citing Yarmouth Vital Records and The Mayflower Descendant, 10:242.
  4. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Yarmouth Vrs., V1, pg 141. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/r/251757893
  5. ↑ C. W. Swift, The Hallet Family of Yarmouth, #84 Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy, The "Register" Press, Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, 1912, Pg. 2.
  6. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Yarmouth Vrs., V1, pg. 169. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13934/169/251759079
  7. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Yarmouth Vrs. V2, pg. 806. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13952/806/33466831
  8. ↑ 4899. Otis, Amos (1801-1875), Swift, Charles Francis, Genealogical notes of Barnstable families, F. B. & F. P. Goss, Barnstable, Mass., 1888, 512, https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n521/mode/2up/search/Jonathan+Hallet.
  9. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Yarmouth Vrs., V1, 162. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13934/162/251758761
  10. ↑ Beers, J. H., Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1912, III, 1295, https://books.google.com/books?id=LOYLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1295&dq=Mehitable+(Hallet)+Swift&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNt8iPjtfaAhVwU98KHZDaDWQQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=Mehitable%20(Hallet)%20Swift&f=false.




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