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b.Bef 1619

d.Bef 5 Feb 1676/77

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m. Bef 1639

Facts and Events

Name^[1]	Unknown Unknown
Alt Name^[1]^[2]	Bathsheba Hallett
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Bef 1619	Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage	Bef 1639	Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child. to Rev Richard Bourne
Death^[1]	Bef 5 Feb 1676/77	Date of husband's first surviving letter to his next wife.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Brownson, Lydia B. Phinney, and Maclean W. McLean. The Rev. Richard¹ Bourne of Sandwich, Mass. (c. 1610-1682). New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr, Jul, Oct 1964; Jan 1965)
118:83-86.

It seems to us remarkable that this man [Richard Bourne] and his first wife, whose identity is not proved … Otis and other early writers state that the first wife was "probably" Bathsheba Hallett, daughter of Andrew Hallett, Sr., although Mrs. Ayer calls her father Andrew Bartlett. Since there was no one named Andrew Bartlett at that period it seems safe to assume that this was a printer's error or slip of the pen. We would like conclusive proof that the first wife was indeed Bathsheba Hallett.
↑ She certainly was not the daughter of Andrew¹ Hallett of Sandwich and Yarmouth since he was baptized at Symondsbury, Dorsetshire in 1607, and she would have to have been born by about 1622 at the latest to be the mother of Richard Bourne's eldest child. It is possible that she was Andrew's sister, but there is no apparent evidence to that effect.