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References
- ↑ Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1905)
p. 271.
DIKE, Jonathan [dup. Dyke] and Hannah Hide [dup. Hyde], Oct. 28, 1742. [Dike, and Hannah Hide, MR]
- ↑ The published Newton records, p. 59, list several children for Jonathan and Hannah, but only daughter Hannah is shown with a date. Further it shows Bethia, who must be the daughter of Jonathan and first wife Mary based on her date of marriage, and Sarah, who must belong to the first wife as well, based on her age at death. How many others really belong to the first wife?
Hannah, the child for whom a birth is given, is the only one that actually seems to be a birth record in the original book p. 49. According to the TAG article on the Dyke family, Vol. 17, p. 164, Hannah is shown as an only child of Jonathan and Hannah.
The list of children found in the published records comes from a copy of the records organized by family, and arranged alphabetically, so obviously a copy. This family is found on p. 37, with only Hannah having a date. Clearly this is a list of children compiled by the town clerk from various sources, after the fact.
The distribution of Jonathan's estate mentions a widow, only son Gideon, and daughters Sarah, Bethiah, Irenah and Hannah, suggesting the unknown children are not his. Help comes from the cited TAG article, which shows Bethiah, Abigail, Priscilla and Benjamin as his siblings, children of his father Jonathan and wife Bethiah Baker. The will of the older Jonathan names daughters Bethiah Hastens, Abigail Brown and Priscilla Stone and two sons Jonathan and Benjamin.
Apparently they were listed as the younger Jonathan's children erroneously by the town clerk.
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