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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Pope, Charles Henry. The Cheney Genealogy. (Boston, Mass.: Charles H. Pope, 1897)
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Children of Peter Cheney and Hannah Noyes: 4) Huldah, b. 1669, m. 20 Jan 1690-91 Timothy Worcester.
[Pope does not explain where the birth date comes from. Huldah's birth is not recorded in Newbury, but she is mentioned in several deeds as a daughter of Peter and 1669 is the only obvious gap in the sequence of Peter's childrens' births that would allow her to be 18 by the time she married.]
- Note: several sources say that the widow of Timothy Cheney m. 1718 Simon Dakin of Concord (for example, Source:Worcester, Jonathan Fox. Descendants of Rev. William Worcester with a Brief Notice of the Connecticut Wooster Family, p. 8; Source:Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, p. 3:1152). This seems unlikely. All the sources, if they give a date, merely say 1718, indicating a marriage record has not been found, and it is not known why it is thought that Simon's wife was a Huldah Worcester?
The death record, Source:Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, p. 419, says "Mrs. [Huldah] Dakin, widow, aged 90, [wid. of Simon,] November 28, 1789", and other records make it clear that Simon Dakin married a woman named Huldah. But the age at death implies a birth in 1699 which is too young to be the widow of Timothy Worcester, who was born 30 years earlier, and who married Timothy in 1690/91, before her alleged birth!
This Simon Dakin was born 1694 and would be too young to marry this Huldah. His father, also Simon Dakin, was of an more appropriate age, but had a wife named Elizbeth who survived him. So neither one is a good match.
There are only a couple of known children of Timothy and Huldah Worcester (Samuel 1691, Lydia 1706). So it is likely there are unknown children from this family. It is possible that the Huldah who married Simon Dakin is one of them.
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