Person:Nathaniel Hasey (2)

There are records of two Nathaniel Hasey's.

• Nathaniel Hasey, the uncle, b. 1692, to William and Judith. Lived in Boston, occupation heelmaker.
• Nathaniel Hasey, the nephew, b. 1705, to William and Elizabeth. Lived in Chelsea, at least as of 1750, occupation tailor.

There are records of four marriages:

1. Boston, 1713: Nathaniel Hasie & Mary Emmons
2. Boston (int.), 1728: Nathaniel Hassey & Joannah Tompson
3. Boston, 1730: Nathanll. Hassey & Mary Bridges
4. Chelsa (int.), 1750: Nathanael Hasey & Elizabeth Chamberlain

Source:Shurtleff, Benjamin. History of the Town of Revere has pretty good coverage of this family and gives the uncle marriage 1, gives the nephew marriage 4, and doesn't mention the other two marriages. This attribution of marriages 1 and 4 seems confirmed by various sources including deeds and considerations of age.

Source:Thwing, Annie Haven. Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800, and the Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630-1822 shows marriages 1, 2, and 3, and assigns different refcodes to each husband (37416 to husband of Mary Emmons, 37418 to husband of Mary Bridges, 37419 to Husband of Joannah Tompson), indicating no knowledge of any connection of those three. But records are only found for two Nathaniel Haseys.

Source:Chamberlain, Mellen. Documentary History of Chelsea : Including the Boston Precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824 shows the nephew marrying Elizabeth Chamberlain, mentions the uncle regarding land transactions, but gives no genealogical information for him.

Deeds show the uncle and wife Mary selling estate of Benjamin Emmons in 1713. In 1748 Nathaniel of Boston Gentleman has wife Mary.

Deeds show the nephew in Chelsea with wife Elizabeth at various time from 1757 to 1770.

No probate is found for either Nathaniel.

In Boston, there are baptisms in the Brattle Street Church for the following children of Nathaniel: in 1734 Elizabeth and Nathaniel, in 1736 Joseph.

In Chelsea, children are born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth: Elizabeth 1750, William 1755, Jacob 1756, Nathaniel 1761, Thomas 1763.

There is no definitive answer. The following explains the assumptions made.

The overlap in children's names suggests both men had children. The Boston children would belong to the uncle, the Chelsea children to the nephew. The nephew is old enough to be a father when the Boston children are born, but it would require at least 2 (Nathaniel and Elizabeth) of them to have died so the names could be reused with wife Elizabeth in Chelsea, and there is no evidence that he had a son Joseph. So the simplest answer is they belong to the uncle.

Since the uncle did not have children that we know of prior to 1730, i.e., in over 15 years of marriage, it is assumed the children in Boston were a result of the marriage to a different wife, viz. Mary Bridges, who presumably was his wife in 1748 when he signed a deed with wife Mary. There is no death record of his first wife, however.

The marriage to Joannah Tompson is difficult. As it stands it could go to either Nathaniel. It is difficult to believe that the nephew, born in 1705, did not marry until he was 45, so one would suspect this marriage would be his if it did occur (see following), and that the marriage produced no children. But there is nothing that rules out the uncle, and the location in Boston may suggest that is a better answer. However, since the record is only an intention to marriage, and no actual marriage is found, the validity of this is unclear. (On 29 Sep 1729 Joannah Tompson m. Samuel Stride, but on 16 Sep 1730 Samuel Stride married Amy Anderson, and left a widow Amy, so the records are confusing to say the least.) Joannah Thompson hasn't been identified, and an in-depth study would be needed to figure this out, so for now, the assumption is that the marriage did not occur.

1. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Boston Births from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800: Twenty-fourth report of the Commission. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894)
   p. 35.

   Nathaniel Son of William hasie and Eliza. his Wife, Born 14 October 1705.

2. ↑ "Second Church", in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
   p. 93.

   Hassey, Nathaniel, of ---, bp. Oct. 21, 1705.

3. ↑ Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelsea, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1916)
   p. 491.

   HASEY, Nathaniel, bur. Jan. 25, 1782, a. 77 y. CR1