Person:Ephraim Hewett (1)

Rev. Ephraim Hewett
b.Bef 1603
m. Bef 1628
  1. Lydia HuittEst 1638 - 1712
  2. Mary Hewitt1640 - 1671
  3. Susanna Hewitt
Facts and Events
Name[1] Rev. Ephraim Hewett
Alt Name[2] Rev. Ephraim Huet
Alt Name Rev Ephraim Huit
Gender Male
Birth[2] Bef 1603 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1628 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Isabel Unknown
Emigration[1] 1639
Will[3] Bef 4 Sep 1644 Not dated.
Death[2] 4 Sep 1644 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[3] 9 Nov 1644 £633-19-01. Taken by Will Gaylord, Will Hill, Henry Clarke.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Ephraim Hewett, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    161.

    Hewett, Ephraim: [Origin} Wroxhall, Warwickshire; [Emigration] 1639; [Resided] Hingham, Windsor [NEHGR 121:11; CCCR 1:46; SLR 1:90; Cotton 266; Grant 79; Manwaring 1:19-20, 60; WP 4:151; SPR 7:120; Windsor Hist 2:415; Morison 383]."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ephraim Huet, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:490.

    "Ephraim (Huet), Windsor, had been a min. of Wraxall, near Kenilworth, in Warwicksh. was proceed. against by Archbp. Laud 1638, for neglect of ceremonies, came next yr. with w. and ch. Susanna, Nathaniel, Sarah, Mercy, and Lydia; went from Boston, and reached W. 17 Aug where he bec. collea. with Warham; had Mary, bapt. 2 Aug. 1640; and he d. 4 Sept. 1644. Sarah, and Nathaniel had d. 1642. The other four are nam. in his will, wh. is print. by Trumbull in Col. Rec. 1. 458. His wid. Isabel long outliv. him, and as admor. of his est. sold, 1647, to Richard Saltonstall his sh. in Swampscot and Dover patents, N. H. and d. 8 Mar. 1661. Of the ch. Susanna d. the yr. after her f. Lydia m. 10 or 20 Apr. 1656, Joseph Smith of Hartford; Mary m. 5 Dec. 1660, Thomas Strong, of Northampton, and d. 1671. The fam. name in this branch failing, both Smith and Strong used it as name of bapt."

  3. 3.0 3.1 Ephraim Huit, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:19-20.

    "Probate Records. Vol. 1, [297] Page 458.

    Huit, Ephraim, Wyndsor. Invt. £633-19-01. Taken 9 November, 1644, by Will Gaylord, Will Hill, Henry Clarke.

    I give to my wife my dwelling house and home lott down to the Swamp, with all the howseing thereon; My meadow lott of 14 acres more or less, my lott of 15 acres with the swampe adjoyneing thereto; also I give unto her Tho. Stairs, his house, and the square plot of gardens lying beyond the Swamp to the highway. I give to my daughter Susanna & dau. Mercy my great lott lying behind the hogpen, adjoyning to Daniel Clarke & Humphrey Hide. I give to my two younger daughters, Lydea & Mary, my great lott at the Falls, containing fower score and two rodde in breadth, to make them two lotts together. I give to my daughters, Susanna & Mercy, my right and Interest in the Grant of the towne made me of 15 acres of meadow when yt shall com. first into their hands, about Pequanucke. My great Island at the Falls I give to the Court at Hartford for the use of the Country, my debts to be paid out of my personal estate; and all the rest, both wth in dores and wth out, I give to my wife, whether Lands or Goods. I appoint David Wilton and Daniel Clarke to be Executors, only they shall not meddle wth anything wth in dores; and the Overseers of this my will I intreat the Deacons of our Church to be.

    EP. HUIT"