Family:David Ensign and Mehitabel Gunn (2)

Mehitable married twice, to David Ensign, and then to Isaac Sheldon. She had 5 children with David Ensign. She divorced him "for his ill conduct" and in 1686 married Isaac Sheldon of Northampton and had another child. Married to David Ensign on 22 OCT 1663 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.

The charges against David Ensign are recorded in “Connecticut Court Assistants,” page 34 (as related to me by Matt Lipsey). Three charges were made. First he was charged with spreading false reports concerning the death of the King, the flight of the Duke of York, and the Duke of Monmouth being made Protector, and second it was charged that he “continually and unlawfully accompanied the wife of Thomas Long to the great dishonor of God, scandal of religion, and breach of the laws of the colony whereby he hath forfeited his bond made to Hartford County Sept. 18, 1679." The third charge was that he committed adultery with Thomas Long's wife, “or at least is suspiciously guilty thereof."

1. ↑ Hartford Vital Records (NEHGS), in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   106.

   Dauid (Ensign), s. James, m. Mahatebell Gunn, d. Thomas, Oct. 22, 1663 [Book of Distributions, 25]
   David (Ensign), s. James, m. Mehetabell Gunn, d. Thomas, Oct. 22, 1663 [Frank Farnsworth Starr manuscript, 28].

2. ↑ Colony of Connecticut: Minutes of the Connecticut Court of Assistants, 1669–1711
   24, 2009.

   Transcribed and Indexed by Helen Schatvet Ullmann. Colony of Connecticut: Minutes of the Connecticut Court of Assistants, 1669–1711 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, August 2009)

3.   Nelson, Martha Eunice Ensign. Record of the Descendants of James Ensign and His Wife Sarah Elson, 1634-1939-1960. (United States: The Compiler, 1960)
   8.

   Mehitable divorced David in Oct 1682 for "ill conduct on his part." She married again in 1685, Isaac Sheldon of Windsor [Northampton], a widower with thirteen children.