Mary (Unknown) Hubbard (bef. 1606 - 1676)

Born before 1606 in England

Wife of George Hubbard — married about 1624 in England

Descendants

Died 14 Sep 1676 after age 70 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Disputed Origins

Mary, the wife of George Hubbard, has been thought to be the daughter of John Bishop and Ann Stevens.^[1]. However, a 1933 article by renowned researcher D. L. Jacobus in The American Genealogist challenges this:

"The writer has not found any evidence to bear this out, and is convinced that the said Mary was not a daughter of John Bishop."^[2]

He goes on to point out that George Hubbard and John Bishop were contemporaries; therefore a daughter of John's would have been too young to be the Mary that married George Hubbard.

He also demonstrates that the very will that suggested that Mary, wife of George Hubbard, must be daughter of John Bishop, actually proves she could not have been:

"All statements to the effect that Hubbard's wife was daughter of Bishop are apparently based on the will of Mrs. Ann Bishop, made 12 June 1673, in which she gave twenty shillings to her grandchild Elizabeth Hubbard... Mrs Bishop gave her eldest son John Bishop L5 above 'his equal proportion with my Too [2] other children," and she willed that the residue of her estate should be divided 'Betwixt my three children, viz., John and Steuen Bishop and James Steele.' Further, she called James Steele her son-in-law, and the inventory mentioned property in Mr. Steele's hands 'which his wife claimed as given to her by her Mother.'"

Therefore, Ann Bishop had three children alive in 1673-- John, Stephen and Bethia (who married James Steele). No fourth child who might have been Mary Hubbard who did not die until 14 Sep 1676.

Jacobus concludes that the granddaughter Elizabeth Hubbard in the will of Ann Bishop might have been Elizabeth Jordan who married Daniel2 Hubbard (son of George) and was daughter of Mr. John Jordan and his wife Ann who died 1 Jan 1671/2 before Ann Bishop's will was made. This Ann (____) Jordan might have been a Bishop. Jacobus admits this part is still theory, but the information above proves that Mary (_____) wife of George Hubbard could NOT have been the daughter of John Bishop and his wife Ann.

Sources

1. ↑ This claim, origins not known and despite earlier debunking, is repeated in Descendants of John Bishop, by William W. Cone and George A. Root, published by John Guy Bishop, 1951 Nyack, NY
2. ↑ Donald L. Jacobus, "George Hubbard's Wife," in The American Genealogist, 10(1933):17