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I'm sorry, you're right. I seem to be developing dementia; one just never knows what important words are going to get left out of anything I write.
Joseph is Joseph Allen. He was a neighbor of the Hulbird's. He married Mary Hulet. Question is who was Mary Hulet. There's a somewhat obscure rumor that William Hulbird II married "Hannah Whitaker, widow of John Hulit of Concord". I've now found a couple of secondary citations on that, but clue where it came from. One guy online speculated that possibly it had something to do with William II's son Obadiah defending his mother's Howard interests in something or other, but neither of the people who said it can remember where they got it or what they are talking about.
Now, there were no Hulit's whatever in that area, and no evidence that Joseph Allen ever travelled anywhere outside of the upper Connecticut River valley.
Whatever else is true, the identity of Joseph Allen's wife is a mystery. It is pretty clear that Mary Hulit's family was from Massachusetts, because Jonathan Hulit bought land from Obadiah Hulbird allegedly right next to that of Joseph Allen (though I've not been able to confirm that it was adjacent to the land of Joseph Allen). The deeds stated he was of Wheresit in southeastern Massachusetts east of the Connecticut border, and after two or three years he returned to Wheresit, married and had children. Living in Wheresit were two groups; a Hulit/ Howlett family from two towns over from Concord, and some of the Whitaker family from Concord. John Hulit of Concord had married Hannah Whitaker. The Whitakers were the original wild and troubled family, and at a later date, Hannah (Whitaker) Hulit's brother had another brother "of Connecticut" living with him, and the town thought he was some sort of trouble and warned him out. Where in Connecticut there is no clue. No strong evidence of any link between John Hulit and the family two towns over, but some things about that family are really vague. It's hard to tell if he could have been a John Hulit of that family or not. It appears to be John Hulit II from two towns over who died in Wheresit, but Jonathan was not that man's son. At a later time both families moved into eastern Connecticut, and some as far east as central Connecticut, but this was way too late to explain a marriage of this family to Joseph Allen in Windsor or Enfield.
Yours,
Dora Smith
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