Person:Mary Haite (2)

Possible Misidentification

This record includes birth information for the daughter of John and Mary (Lindall/Lindon) Hoyt and marriage and death information for Mary, the wife of John Benedict, who maybe was a Haite/Hoyt. These might be the same person.

The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America^[2] suggests that John's wife was Mary Haite, but does not identify who she was. Later compilers have "identified her" as the daughter of John and Mary (Lindall) Hoyt, born 1 Sep 1677 - her age would have been 71 ("ae 72", or in her 72d year) on June 5, 1749, when John's wife Mary died, "aged 72 yrs"^[2]. Possibly this identification has been published, with appropriate evidence, but a cursory look at online sources has not located such a publication.

Jacobus, in History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield^[1] suggests that Mary, the daughter of John and Mary (Lindall/Lindon) Hoyt died young, presumably because she is not mentioned in the distribution of John Hoyt's property in 1712. Identifying her as John Benedict's wife assumes that there is another reason she was not mentioned in the distribution of property.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   1:298-99.

   'Children of John and Mary (Lindall) Hoyt] ..., recorded at Norwalk: ...
   Mary, b. 1 Sept. 1677, d. y.'

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   Norwalk Vital Records:67.

   'HOYT, HAITE, HAYT, ...
   Mary, d. John, b. Sept. 1, 1677'

3. ↑ Benedict, Henry Marvin. The genealogy of the Benedicts in America. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1870)
   page 50.

   'John ([son of] John, [son of] Thomas), b. March 3, 1676; ... m. Mary (Haite?); d. Norwalk, Jan. 16, 1766. Wife d. June 5, 1749, aged 72 yrs.'

4. ↑ Find A Grave.

   'Inscription:
   Here lies the
   Body of Mrs Mary
   Benedict Wife of
   Mr John Benedict
   [Who died June ye 5, 1749
   aged 72 years]
   
   Note: Inscription from Benedict history, written in 1755 by Dea. James Benedict, of Ridgefield'

5.   Hoyt, David W. (David Webster). A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families: With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass. (Providence, R. I.: The Author (Printed by The Providence Press Co.), 1871)
   page 324.

   'Mary [daughter of John and Mary (Lindall) Hoyt], b. Sep. 1, 1677, at N.; not named in the agreement of 1712.'