John Record (1650 - 1713)

Husband of Hannah (Burr) Record — married 26 Aug 1677 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 23 Jan 1713 at about age 63 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

NOTE: John Record and John Rickard, the son of John Rickard and Hester Barnes, are NOT the same person, although they are often confused with each other.

John Record was of Weymouth and served in King Philip's War in 1676. He moved to Hingham. He is called "of Weymouth" when he married Hannah Hobart, the daughter of Simon and Hester Burr at Hingham on 26 Aug 1677.^[1][2] First Settlers of Hingham gives Hannah's marriage date to John Hobart as 02 April 1674 and the marriage to John Record as July 1677.^[3] She was baptized at Hingham on 25 Feb 1654/55 and was the widow of John Hobart, who died on 15 May 1675.

John and Hannah had the following children:

• John, b. 30 April 1678
• Simon, b. 2 [or 9] April 1680
• Johnathan, b. 3 Feb 1681/2 at Hingham; m. 28 Feb 1705 Mary Wilbore; d. 2 June 1742 Little Compton, Rhode Island

Hannah died at Hingham on 12 Oct 1683.

John remarried to Grace ---. They were married sometime before December 1688, as, at a Plymouth County Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas in December 1688, John Reckard and wife Grace ("late of Sittuate") were fined £5 for premarital fornication.^[4] (A year after John's death, Grace remarried at Pembroke to Thomas Parris as his second wife.) The exact order of the children is not certain.

• Thomas, b. 16 June 1692 in (now) Pembroke^[5]; m. 5 Oct 1715 Mary Dawes; d. between 30 Oct 1770 and 4 Feb 1771 at Pembroke
• Isaac, b. Jan 1693/4^[5]; d. after 1720
• Joseph, b. ca. 1700 at Pembroke; m. Lydia --
• Elisha Record, d. between 9 Feb and 19 May 1736
• Daughter, m. Theophilus Witherell, d. after 1736
• Ruth, b. 31 May 1702 at Pembroke^[5]; m. Elisha Bonney^[5]
• Hannah, m. at Pembroke 16 Oct 1728 John Franklin widower
• Grace, m. William Gould; d. after 1736
• Desire, single in 1736; d. after 1736
• Ebenezer, b. 7 Oct 1712 at Pembroke^[5]; m. 7 Mar 1744 Joanna Bowls at Pembroke^[5]; d. Pembroke bef. 1797

John Record died 23 Jan 1713/14 at Pembroke.^[5] His Will is dated 9 Nov 1713 and was probated on 22 Feb 1713/14.^[6] His widow, Grace, married Thomas Parris on 31 Jan 1714/15 at Pembroke.^[5] His inventory was taken on 5 March 1713/14.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): Vol III, p.124
2. ↑ Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 2, p.1258, 767
3. ↑ First Settlers of Hingham The New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England historical and genealogical register, NEGHR 2 (July,1848):254. Accessed on 10 MAy 2019 at HathiTrust.org Page 254
4. ↑ Plymouth County, MA: Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859. CD-ROM. Boston, MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. Copyright, 2002, Pilgrim Society. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Link to record at americanancestors.com.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7} Pembroke Vital Records
6. ↑ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Link to probate file papers at americanancestor.com.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-ZF3J?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-WWL%3A337883501 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1708-1717 and 1817-1861 vol 3-3P > image 148-149 of 710; State Archives, Boston.

• "The Record Family," Arthur Hitchcock Radasch and Katherine Warner Radasch, Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) NEHGR 122 (Jan 1968):20ff.

The Radasches posited in their article that the John Record of Hingham, of Weymouth, of Marshfield and of Pembroke were the same individual. They present a good argument, which has been followed in this profile. Unless otherwise indicated, the information is from the Radasch article .

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