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Note: Robert Husted 1595 - 1654
Possible birthplace: The Pilsdon area of Dorsetshire,England.
In 1628, a Robert Hewste of Pilsdon was listed on the Subsidy Roll [tax list], for Dorset.
Banks Dictionary of English Immigrants To America, has Robert Husted of Weymouth Parish,Dorset. He is listed as a "husbandman".
Founders of First American Families, lists Robert Husted [ Hewstead] of Pilsdon, Dorset.
Robert was married to Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Lawrence Miller and Joanne Smith,of Stratton,Dorset. A relative of Joanne Smith, Angell Smith, [father or grandfather ?] was a " General of Stratton". The County Records Office in Dorchester has a record of the christening of Elizabeth Miller on February 4, 1614. Pilsdon is within five or six miles of Stratton.
According to Banks Dictionary, on March 20,1635, Robert Husted sailed with a party under the Reverend Joseph Hull from the port of Weymouth, Dorset, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America. Rev.Joseph Hull is listed with the Crewkerne Parish, Somerset. [no mention is made of Robert's wife Elizabeth, or any children making the voyage with him]. After a voyage of about 46 days, the ship landed at Dorchester (Massachusetts Bay Colony) on 7 May 1635 and stayed there ?a fortnight? before removing to Wessaguscus.[3] On July 8, 1635, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an order permitting Rev. Joseph Hull's company of twenty-one families to settle at Wessaguscus, which was then incorporated under the name of Weymouth on 2 September 1635. The party settled in Weymouth,Massachusetts. This ship was possibly the Mary Gould [ Marigold ].
In Boston, as of Jan.27,1639, Robert owned 32 acres of land and in 1640, joined the Mount Wollaston, [later Braintree], Massachusetts settelers, with a land grant of 40 acres.
"Also Robert Hewstead hath a great Lott granted unto him att the Mount for eight heads, 32 Acrs, paying 3s. an Acr, to the Use of the Towne Upon the Entrance of the bounders thereof, after the Surveying of it."[1] It was made by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (MBC) on 27 January 1640 (the actual recorded date is, "The 27th of the 11th moneth, called January, 1639", but the New Year back then was in March...so by our calandar the year was 1640). The 3 shillings per acre was a tax and that specific amount means that the land was a mile or more distant from the water. If it had been within a mile of the bay, the tax would have been 6s.[2]
[1]Lamb, George, Plans of Boston showing Exiting Ways and Owners of Property 1630-1635-1640-1645; Boston Municipal Printing Office, 1905, Page 45.
[2]Lunt, William P., Two Discourses, Delivered September 29, 1839, on occasion of The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Gathering of the First Congregational Church, Quincy: with an Appendix, James Monroe and Company, Boston, 1840, Page 68.
" [ In Stamford, Connecticut], October 1642, in a general town meeting was given these following, these lots as other men, marsh & woodland,viz: [ ?? ]ine, Jo. Underhill,eight acres, To Robert Hustice seven acres." At the end of 1642, the list of pioneers of Stamford, Connecticut were listed at fifty--one, including Robert Hustis. Stamford was under British rule as a part of the New Haven colony,the western boundary was a creek on the western edge of Stamford. The area west of this was under Dutch rule as New Amsterdam, until the boundary was changed to west of Greenwich in 1649 or 1650. Early in 1640, Daniel Patrick, Robert Feakes and his wife Elizabeth negotiated with the Siwanoy indians for a tract of land on the west side of the boundary creek. Extending out from the mainland, a parcel of land a mile long and one-half mile wide, known to the indians as Monakewaygo, was sold to Elizabeth personally and was known as Elizabeth's Neck. A large tract of land along the coast and extending unlimited to the north, was sold to Robert Feakes and Daniel Patrick for twenty-five english coats, eleven down and fourteen later. [ a copy of the treaty exists ] Jeffery Ferris, who had moved away some time before, returned to purchase some of Robert Feake's land. Witnesses to the signing of the indian deed on July 18, 1640 were; Robert and Angell Husted, Andrew Messenger, and Richard Williams. This was the beginning of Greenwich, Connecticut, and one of the first " buy now and pay later " installment purchases from the indians.
Early in 1645, historians claim that five-hundred, to nearly one-thousand indians were killed and villages burned on the Strictland Plain, near Greenwich. Apparently, Dutch soldiers were guided by Tobias Feakes, brother of Robert Feakes. Nothing indicates that Robert or Angell Husted were involved in the massacre.
In 1646, six years after the establishment of Greenwich, the families living there were; Robert Feakes, Richard Crab, John Coe, Thomas Sherwood, Robert Husted, and Angell Husted. Elizabeth Feakes had divorced Robert Feakes, and was living with William Hallet, [ without the benefit of marriage ]. When the area changed to British rule, William and Elizabeth were subject to arrest, so they sold their land and moved to the eastern point on Long Island, called Hell Gate.
In October of 1648, Robert Husted purchased 31 acres of land in Greenwich.
In 1649, with the fear of the indians still widespread, Robert Husted and Jeffrey Ferris argued that James Steward, who had been placed in charge of the town oxen, had allowed the cattle to "du damadge to ye indians and their corne". Six witnesses supported their charge and the judges ordered Steward to pay the indians twelve and a-half bushels of indian corn and two and one-half bushels of "pease" and to bear the cost.
In a complicated affair in 1653, Robert Usher, sued Edward Jessup to secure fourty shillings for the care of a mare. With testimony from many including Angell Husted, all of Stamford or Greenwich, Robert Usher won.
Robert Husted had built a home in Stamford, and stayed there until 1645, when he purchased land from Robert Feakes, and built a home in Greenwich. Roberts will, dated July, 08, 1652, makes bequests to his son Angell, all of his lands in Greenwich, with housings; to his son Robert all his lands in Stamford, with cattle and housings; to his wife a maintenance and other bequests; and to his daughter Ann, ten pounds. In 1654, his widow Elizabeth, by will makes bequests to her son Angell of Greenwich; to Robert of Stamford, and to her daughter Ann , the wife of Richard Hardy. Some records have Robert's death in 1652, others in 1654, his will was proven in October of 1654. His wife Elizabeth's will was proven in November of 1654, and both lived in Greenwich at the time of their death.
"In the will of Robert the name is Husted, and in that of the widow the name is written Hustis and both are equally distinct, and that they refer to the same family, is also, as clear as the form of the name. The names of the children are also changed from Husted to Hustis, though in the second will the name is spelled both Hustes and Hustis."
7 May 1635
Robert Sr., Robert Jr., and Angell Husted (and most likely Deannes) immigrated to America with the Rev. Joseph Hull Company and is listed as passenger number 104 on the ship`s list.[1][2] Their ship left Weymouth on 20 March 1635 and the ship`s list indicated that there were 106 passengers "Bound for New England".[2] After a voyage of about 46 days, the ship landed at Dorchester (Massachusetts Bay Colony) on 7 May 1635 and stayed there a fortnight before removing to Wessaguscus.[3] On July 8, 1635, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an order permitting Rev. Joseph Hull's company of twenty-one families to settle at Wessaguscus, which was then incorporated under the name of Weymouth on 2 September 1635.[4] Not only was Robert Husted part of the Hull Company, he also settled with the same group. Robert Husted and his family of eight were granted land at Mount Wollaston in 1640.[5]
Two other members of the Hull Company were Zachary and Agnes Bicknell of Weymouth, the immigrant ancestors of the American Bicknells.[6] They were passengers 41 and 42 respectively on the Hull Company`s ship`s list.[7] The ship they came over on was the Assurance from Gravesend, Kent, England.[8] These facts, including the name of the Hull Company`s vessel the Assurance are also asserted by the Chairman of the Weymouth Historical Commission, Theodore Clarke, on the official webpage of the town of Weymouth, MA. [9]
13 December 1636
This means that on 13 December 1636, Robert Sr., Robert Jr., and Angell Husted (and most likely Deanes) were all living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. That is important because on that date the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had ordered that the Colony's scattered militia companies be organized into three regiments, the North, South and East Regiments in response to increasing conflicts with the Pequot Indian tribe. By law, all white males between the ages of 16 and 60 were obligated to provide their own arms and to play a part in the defense of their communities by serving in nightly guard details and participating in weekly drills.
The current US Army 101st Field Artillery traces its lineage back to the South Regiment, organized on December 13, 1636 [10], from new and existing train bands in Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, Weymouth and Hingham.[11] Weymouth (formerly Wessagusset Colony) was where the Rev. Robert Hull Company - with Robert Husted as passenger #104 - settled in 1635. This means that BY LAW Robert Husted was a member of the South Regiment of the Massachussetts Bay Colony. (I'm not certain of Angell's age, but it is likely that Robert Jr. and Angell were both also members).
The Pequot War and the Great Swamp Fight occurred in 1637.
What that means is Robert Husted Sr. (age 41) and his sons were all part of the militia and bore arms in defense of the Colony.[12] This military service may explain why Robert Husted was in the company of two military men, Captain Daniel Patrick (North Regiment) and Lieutenant Robert Feake (the latter was on the committee to arbitrate "difference betwixt Boston & Waymothe at Mount Woollaston," 25 October 1636 [MBCR 1:181] which is where the Husted Family settled initially), on July 18, 1640 signing as witness to the deed of purchase for Greenwhich from the Siwanoy Tribe for the New Haven Colony.
As a side note, Capt. Daniel Patrick and his Lt. Robert Feake had left the Massachusetts Bay Colony at about the same time Ann Hutchinson, a religious dissenter, was banished. Capt. Patrick was said to have been a follower of Mrs. Hutchinson. She later settled just west of Greenwich and was murdered in an indian attack in 1643 (the year after Greenwich left English rule and came under the Dutch at New Netherlands). It is interesting that Robert Husted was with them in 1640 and had left 32 acres of land in Massachusetts to travel across the then wilderness of Connecticut Colony to settle on the outskirts of English controlled territory bordering their Dutch enemies and surrounded by hostile indians. At age 45, Robert Husted was a hardy pioneer, military veteran, explorer and world traveler. He was a survivor of the first order and he was also by all appearances a devoted Christian that loved his family.
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[1] Sainsbury, W. Noel, ed., Calender of State Papers, Colonial Series (Volume 9), America and West Indies, 1675-1676, also Addenda, 1574-1674, Preserved in the Public Record Office (Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1964) First Published London: HMSO, 1893. pp. 79-80.
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:fk8QpGjLR8wJ:www.genealo
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http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/weymouth.html
[Note: Item in above link appears highlighted as Robt. Huste, husbandmen. This is Robert Husted, Farmer, our immigrant ancestor.]
[2] Weymouth Historical Society, History of Weymouth Massachusetts in four volumes, Wright and Potter Printing Company, Boston. [1923] Vol. I, PAGE 72 74.
[3] Suffolk Court Files, Microfilm reel #4, Vol. 8, file 815, page 38
[4] Weygant, Charles H., The Hull family in America: Hull Family Assoc., 1913, Pg. 72.
[5] Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692. Volume #2 Hubbard - Huff http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk2/hubb
ard-huff.htm
[6] Hobbs, William Herbert, Kimball-Weston Memorial : the American ancestry and descendants of Alonzo and Sarah (Weston) Kimball of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Priv. print. Madison, Wis. 1902. Pg.15.
[7] Weymouth Historical Society, History of Weymouth Massachusetts in four volumes, Wright and Potter Printing Company, Boston. [1923] Vol. I, Pg. 73.
[8] Hobbs.
[9] Clarke, Ted, Weymouth- The First Hundred Years, Part II Weymouth Becomes A Town, Weymouth Historical Commission, Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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[The information is quite a way down the page, but still in the first paragraph under the heading "Weymouth Becomes a Town".]
[Note: The item of immediate interest in the above citatation is found 3/4 of the way down the page, in Part II, in the first paragraph under the heading, "WEYMOUTH BECOMES A TOWN". One may speed the process of finding this by 1)clicking on the link 2) select "edit" at the top left of your web-browser page 3) selecting "find" 4) typing the word "assurance" and clicking "Find Next".]
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[Note: The item of immediate interest in the above citatation is found 1/3 of the way down the page, in the first paragraph under the heading, "WEYMOUTH BECOMES A TOWN". One may speed the process of finding this by 1)clicking on the link 2) select "edit" at the top left of your web-browser page 3) selecting "find" 4) typing the word "assurance" and clicking "Find Next".]
[10] http://www.ng.mil/features/birth_2009/index.html
[11] http://www.ngaus.org/content.asp?bid=15003
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Field_Artillery_Regiment
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