Hannah (Terry) Bement (1684 - 1759)

Born 18 Nov 1684 in Freshwater Plantation, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of William Bement — married 3 Mar 1707 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1759 at age 74 in Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Hannah Terry was born on 18 Nov 1684, in the recently established Freshwater Plantation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the daughter of Samuel Terry and Hannah Morgan.^{[1] [2]}

Hannah married William Beman (Bement) on March 3, 1706/7 at Enfield, Hartford, CT. William died in 1728. William was the son of John Bement ^[2] & Martha (Dennis).

"William bement and hanah Tery was joyned in merrag the third day of march: 1707".

They had seven children, born in Enfield, Connecticut: ^[3]

1. William, b Dec 26 1708, m Phebe Markham
2. John, b Feb 14 1710-11
3. Hannah, b Apr 9 1713, m 1731 Israel, son of Israel and Mary (Pease) Phelps
4. Joseph, b Jan 21 1715-16
5. Sarah, b Mar 6 1717-18
6. Samuel, b Sep 26 1720
7. Ebenezer, b Jan 4 1722-23

Research Notes

This is not the same Hannah Terry who married John Bliss

The Freshwater Plantation was a daughter settlement of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. After about 1700, it became the town of Enfield. In 1749, it seceeded from the Province of Massachusetts Bay and became part of Hartford County in the Connecticut Colony.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77T-WFW : 3 December 2014), Hannah Terry, 18 Nov 1684; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Terry, Stephen, "Notes on the Terry Families in the United States of America", Hartford, CT: Self published, 1887, page 9, Second Generation
3. ↑ "Notes on Terry Families", pg 14, Third Generation William and Hannah (7) (Terry) Bement
4. ↑ "Enfield, Connecticut," Wikipedia.org (accessed 17 Jun 2020).

• CT Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• CT Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• CT Death & Burials Index
• "Sammuel Terrey, the Immigrant Ancestor to the Colonies", Chap. 2
• "Pynchon Marriage Book"
• "The History of Enfield Connecticut: Compiled from all the Public Records Known to Exist, Covering from the Beginning to 1850...", by Francis Olcott Allen, (Lancaster, PA, Wickersham Printing, 1900), Vol 2, p 1766