Person:Robert Husted (1)

Origins

Robert Husted may be the Robert "Hewste" who lived at Pilsden, listed in 1628 in the Dorset Subsidy Roll, a copy of which is in the Banks MSS in the Rare Book Room, Library of Congress.

1623 Visitation records " for Dorset, or Somerset, do not seem to list Robert Husted, other Husted's, or imaginable variations of the Husted name that will connect to Robert Husted.

These records show an Elizabeth Miller being the daughter of Lawrence Miller and his wife Joane Smith. Joane was the daughter and sole heir of Angell Smith of Stratton, Dorset, and apparently Joane was married first to a George Graye. Robert Husted's possible second wife, Elizabeth Miller, was christened in Stratton, Dorset, and their children, who were born in Dorset, England were Angell, Ann, and Robert jr. In 1628, from tax records, Robert Husted had a home in or around the town of Pilsden, in Dorset, England.

1625-6 m County Dorset, Eng.

Around March 20,1635, Robert was a member of the Weymouth Parish, and left England with the Crewkerne Parish Leader Reverend Joseph Hull, sailing from the Port of Weymouth, England, on a ship [Unknown], also possibly registered as the MARYGOULD, [Marygold]. They landed in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

It is [possible], just to get on the voyage, Robert could have also signed on as the servant of Richard Wade of Symondsbury, Dorset, England, working for Richard Wade in the Weymouth, Massachusetts area until his debt was paid and finally, Robert Husted himself was a land owner.

Life in New England

Robert lived somewhere in the area near Weymouth, Massachusetts, and on January 27,1640, Robert and his family were offered a grant of land in Mount Woolaston [Braintree] of 32 acres of land, 4 acres for each family member, at a price of 3 shillings an acre. There must have been 8 members of the Robert Husted family to be eligible for the 32 acres of land.

"Names of those who came here to reside, and are to be found on the Braintree town and parish records: Each member of a family received four acres."

Heads - Acres

1638. Feb, 19th., Hawkins, James 4, 16

1638. Feb, 19th., Hawkins, Thomas 4, 16

1640. Jan. 27th. Hewstead, Robert 8, 32

1640. Mar, 30th., Haven Robert 4, 16

1640. Mar, 30th., Hathaway, Nicholas 9, 36

Would Robert and his family have had to "indenture themselves", "live and work on this land for someone", until the debt was paid, then be declared "freeman"?

On July 18, 1640, Robert Husted and his son Angell Husted, and others, signed as witnesses, a document for Daniel Patrick and Robert Feakes to purchase land from the Native American Indians in the area now known as Greenwich, Connecticut.

Robert, by October,1642, was granted 7 acres of land in Stamford, Connecticut.

The words in (parenthese) are not readable in the original document. Recorded in Stamford,Connecticut:

"As of [Oc]tober,1642,in a general town meeting was given these,foll[owing],these lots as other men,marsh & woodland,viz: ( )ine, Jo.Underhill,eight acres; to Robert Hustice seven acres; ( ) acres; Jo.Miller,five acres, to Jo. Finch,six acres; ( )ree acres; & to every of them woodland after the same proportion, & to William Newman two acres marsh and three acres woodland land".

Robert had a home in Stamford, Connecticut and lived there until 1645, when he purchased land in Greenwich Connecticut from Robert Feakes, and built another home.

Legacy

Copies of the wills for Robert Husted and his wife Elizabeth are available, Robert Husted names his wife as Elizabeth. Land purchase deeds that Robert and his son Angell were witnesses for can be found. Wills and Deeds of land ect., are available from Robert Hustis Jr., and Angell Huested Sr.

His will of July 8, 1652, leaves his land in Stamford to his son Robert [Robert Hustis], his land in Greenwich to his son Angell [Heusted].

1. ↑ 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)
   v2/p490.

   ROBERT, Boston 1640, had gr. for eight heads that yr. at Mount Wollaston, now Braintree, rem. soon after to Stamford, had w. Elizabeth and ch. Robert, Angel, and Ann. He made his will 8 July 1652, and his wid. two yrs. after, made hers, nam. the same ch. calls Ann, w. of Richard Hardy.

2.   Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   Vol 3 pp 448-450.
3.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   Vol 1.

   (ISBN 0-8063-0719-6)
   Robert Hustead of Boston, 1640, & joined the Braintree settlers that year, removed soon to Stamford, where he died 1652. His will was dated/proved July 8, 1652. Robert was a servant to Richard Wade. Name appears as Eustace, Hustis, Huested.
   
   Robert Huested Sex: MBirth: C 1595 in Pilsden, County of Dorset, England 1 Death: 8 JUL 1652 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut 1 Burial: Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut
   Robert Hustead of Boston, 1640, & joined the Braintree settlers that year, removed soon to Stamford, where he died 1652. His will was dated/proved July 8, 1652. Robert was a servant to Richard Wade. Name appears as Eustace, Hustis, Huested.

4.   TAG, in Rebecca, Wife of Angel2 Husted, of Greenwich. McCracken, George E
   v10/127-8, 1924.

   Robert Husted, the ancestor of the Husted family in America, is said to be a son of Lawrence Husted of Dorchester, County Dorset, England, and a grandson of one John Husted who is said to have been a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603). Robert Husted was born about 1595 and died 1652 at Stamford, CT. He came to America in 1635, leaving England by way of Weymouth, England, on March 20, 1635. The rest of his family probably came on a later boat. No evidence has been found of their voyage, but that is not unusual as not all ships and their passengers were recorded. It is believed that Robert Husted was the Robert Hewste who was listed fr Pilson on the 1628 subsidy roll for Dorset.

5.   Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
   399, 1985.

   revised with introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts

6.   Reynolds, Cuyler. Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs: a record of achievements of the people of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys in New York state included within the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub., c1911)
   3/985, 1911.
7.   Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874): Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600- 1700. with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. (London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1874).

   Robert Huste, age 40, Husbandman, is on a manifest as #104 of 106 passengers. Andrew Halle, aged 28, is on the same list as #102, a servant to Richard Wade of Simstuly. In Banks' Manuscripts in the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress are the following items : " Robert Husted and Andrew Hallett sailed to New England from Weymouth, Dorsetshire, 20March 1635/6 with Richard Wade of Simsbury. Hallett was baptised in Simsbury,18 May 1607, son of Andrew Hallett and Beatrice Knote... Robert Hewste lived at Pilsden, less than 5 miles north of Simsbury, and is listed in Dorset Subsidyrolls of 1628."