Robert Husted Jr. (abt. 1628 - 1704)

Born about 1628 in Dorset, England [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (Buxton) Husted — married 9 Jan 1655 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 23 Nov 1704 at about age 76 in Westchester, New York

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Biography

Robert Husted Jr. immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Robert Husted Note: Huestis is the spelling used by Robert C. Anderson in the Great Migration series^[1] Doherty reports the spellings: Husted, Hustis, and Huestas.^[2] Savage reports sometimes Heustis.^[3]

Various other spellings are also seen: Huestis, Huested, Heusted, Huestas, Huste, Hustead, Hewstead, Hustice, Hustis

Origin

Robert Husted^[4] was christened about 1626 in Dorset, England. According to Doherty, "Robert Hustis... was probably born ca. 1628 in England."^[5] Anderson agrees; Robert was the son of Robert Husted and Elizabeth Unknown.^[1]

The Husted Newsletter is in error in reporting that the Husted family all immigrated to the United States in 1635. Robert's father seems to have arrived in 1635,^[1] but the rest of the family probably followed at an unknown date. The Newsletter also reports that the family settled first at Weymouth Massachusetts and then removed to Connecticut.^[4] Robert Husted's place of birth was not Weymouth; the Marygould did not arrive at Weymouth, Massachusetts, nor did Robert Husted/Huestis ever live at Weymouth, Massachusetts. The only connection to a place called Weymouth is that passengers aboard the Marygould were enrolled at Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England.

Early Settler of Westchester

Robert was made freeman of Connecticut in 1663, and next year, 1664, he was living at Westchester County, New York.^[3] Doherty places him at Westchester a little earlier, by 1662, "when he was recorded as a Magistrate."^[6] He and his sons: Robert, John, Samuel, and David were recorded in the 1698 Westchester County census."^[7]

"By February of 1662 he was living at Eat Towne (Oost-dorp), now Westchester, when he, with five others, was one of the town's nominees for magistrate presented to Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherland, for approval. His nomination was evidently accepted as he was serving as a magistrate with William Betts and Edward Watters over the town court in September of 1662, 'by order and power of the Governor Generall Peeter Stefensant...' East Towne/Westchester was disputed between Connecticut and New Netherland in this time period and Stuyvesant had forced the inhabitants of Westchester to choose magistrates in order to establish the Dutch system in that town. The Connecticut authorities, however, countered by demanding the Westchester inhabitants swear allegiance to England. On 8 October 1663, Robert 'Huested' and six other Westchester men were made freemen in the Colony of Connecticut... Robert Huestis must have been one of the first in Westchester to embrace Quakerism... when the Dutch re-occupied New York from 1673 to 1674 and renamed it New Orange, Robert Huestis and seven other Quakers in Westchester pledged on 28 September 1673 that they would not take up arms against the Dutch government." Robert was a commissioner and then trustee of Westchester beginning in 1686, later serving as president of the trustees, and "among the first common councilmen".^[8]

Family

Robert married at Stamford, Connecticut on 9 January 1655 to Elizabeth Buxton, the daughter of Clement and Eunice (___) Buxton.^[9]

Children:

1. Moses; died 1694 in Salem, NJ, probably unm.
2. Jonathan; he was a carpenter of Westchester Co. and married 9th day April 1709 Mary, dau. of Timothy Brandreth of New Jersey at Flushing Meeting. They died before 1768.
3. Samuel; m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Pell. He was dec'd by about 1742.
4. Elizabeth; m. Horseman, son of Thomas Mollineaux 30th day 9th month 1692.
5. Sarah; m. John Betts.
6. Mary; m. Edward Collier.
7. Abigail; m. Josiah Hunt Jr. with license of 24 Dec. 1695
8. Robert; d. 1718, the terms of his will imply he was not then married and without issue.
9. John; d. 1737.
10. David, b. ca. 1683-4; m. Mary Haight 1711."^[10]

Death and Legacy

"Robert Huestis, Senr of ye Borrough and Town of Westchester in the Province of New Yorke" wrote "his will on 19 Nov 1704--four days before he died"^[11] His will leaves all movable estate to wife Elizabeth, land at Stony Brook including pasture and meadow to son Robert Jr.; to son Samuel part of the meadow at the head of the neck; to son John, meadow at the ditches and 40 acres in the Long Reach [of Eastchester]; to son Jonathan the remainder of the meadow at the head of the neck, and commonage; to son David one (1) shilling; to son Robert a £25 privilege of Commonage. He left legacies to daughters Elizabeth, Mollineux, Sarah Betts, and Mary Colier.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Anderson, Robert Charles, Robert Huestis," Featured Name (Vol G-H, Page 448) Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database accessed April 13, 2015. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)
2. ↑ Doherty, Frank J., "The Husted/Hustis Family." (Vol 7, Page 28) The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, V.1-8 (Online database accessed April 14, 2015: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. (Vol 2, Pages 489-90) Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1860, Archive.org accessed April 15, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Husted Newsletter accessed online 3/1/2014
5. ↑ Doherty Vol. 7 Page 28-29
6. ↑ Doherty Vol. 7 Page 28-29
7. ↑ Doherty Vol. 7 Page 28-29
8. ↑ Remington, pages 201-202
9. ↑ Doherty Vol. 7 Page 28-29
10. ↑ Doherty Vol. 7 Page 29
11. ↑ Remington, page 204; entire will available in article
12. ↑ William S. Pelletreau, Early Wills of Westchester County, New York from 1664 to 1784: a careful abstract of all almost 800 wills recorded by the Surrogate Office (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898), Will # 25, pages 18-19.

Doherty, Frank J. The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (1990)

See also:

• Remington, Gordon. "ROBERT(2) HUESTIS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY: HIS ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS." (1998, July). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 129(3), 191-197.