Wives of William Hulbird Jr of Windsor CT
I am looking for source information for the notion that William Hulbird of Windsor Connecticut, son of William Hurlburt who was a founding settler in Windsor, married three times, and his third wife was Hannah (Whitaker) Hulet, the widow of John Hulet of Concord.
I've seen references to two articles in the Search for the Passengers of the Mary and John, but I haven't found any citation of the source of the notion, which almost certainly was not the Search for the Passengers of the Mary and John, nor for any proof of this notion.
The second article I saw cite this idea claims that tehre is no proof of any of his marriages (except I suppose the christening records of his children).If the whole thing is true, then Joseph married his great uncle's stepdaughter.Never mind if it was coincidence; is it likely to have happened?
Does anyone have more information?
One other thing.Anne, the widow of Samuel Allen of Windsor, an early or founding settler, married William Hurlburt of Windsor, a founding settler.William Hurlburt than moved to Northampton, taking Anne and her children by Samuel with her.Her son settled in Deerfield which had serious Indian troubles and was killed in a battle with the Indians, and two of his sons, Samuel and Joseph, went to Enfield, settling near the Windsor town line.Apparently William Hurlburt's son William by Samuel's and Joseph's great grandmother headed in that direction too - if this isn't confusing enough already.It wasn't like Allen's customarily married and had children at age 15.Joseph married Mary Hulet, who may have been Mary Hulet born in 1703 in Concord, Massachusetts, to John Hulet and Mary Whittaker, who married there.They also had a son named John who, allegedly of Rehoboth at the other end of Massachusetts at the time, showed up, bought land next to that of the Allen family, then after two years returned to Rehoboth.I've found no further record of John and Hannah, the parents, and no idea what their daughter would ahve been doing in the middle of Connecticut in the back woods.I have found several references, one of them in Great Migration Begins, to the notion that William Hurlburt Jr married, apparently in Windsor (or Enfield), as his third wife, after the alleged death of wife #2 in March of 1709 or 1710, "Hannah Whitaker the widow of John Hulit of Concord".Mind, I could use any documentation on the death of that second wife, since according to the Great Migration database, there is no evidence of any of William's marriages.(She apparently died in New Haven.)Marriage of Joseph Allen and Mary Hulit did not take place until around 1723.The marriage occurred in whatever genealogical black hole William Hulbird married in and the Hulit's lived in if they were there, because as far as I've been able to learn, no record exists, nor of Joseph and Mary's first child.
OK, now the question - what sort of relationship existed between William Hulbird, and Joseph Allen, and did they live near each other in Connecticut?For the Hulit marriages to have happened a story would have had to have happened to make it possible.
Yours,
Dora Smith