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Hannah Emerson's "middle name" [17 July 2011]
Wondering what the source is for giving her a middle name. I've never seen it in a credible source, and middle names were virtually nonexistent in New England for another century. It may have crept in to some of the literature since her mother was one Hannah Webster.--jaques1724 12:48, 17 July 2011 (EDT) (7th great-grandson of said Hannah Emerson).
- Of course, as soon as I hit the save button, I look at the second pamphlet in the Duston/Dustin Family Genealogy which says that Thomas(2) Duston "m. Dec. 3, 1677, Hannah Webster, dau. of Michael(1) and Hannah (Webster) Emerson …." However, it should be noted that the middle name was not included in the 2009 draft of Dustons & Dustins in America, a much more rigorous work, which is still in preparation for publication.--jaques1724 13:02, 17 July 2011 (EDT)
What is the supposed middle name of Hannah? Just curious.--Sheri 13:19, 17 July 2011 (EDT)
Butting in here. Middle names before the Revolution unless documented by a primary document are almost always traceable back to some genealogist embellishing the name. There were a few, but it was so rare, it even generates comments like "whether this was actually two names or just written that way..." I am guessing that people add them to help them distinguish between like named persons in their writing, and either forget, or it gets misinterpreted by a reader. As neither the birth record, nor the wedding record, actually give a middle name, I have removed "Webster". --Jrich 13:43, 17 July 2011 (EDT)
- (You're definitely not butting in) - As I alluded to above, the Duston/Dustin family genealogists, in 1937 and 1938, called her "Hannah Webster Emerson." The immediate past family genealogist, while preparing the virtually completely rewritten update, of which I have an August 2009 draft of some 1879 pages (in Microsoft Word), deleted any reference to "Hannah Webster Emerson" when referring to my illustrious (or infamous depending on your point of view) ancestor. John Quincy Adams (born 1767) is one of the earliest with a middle name that I'm aware of.--jaques1724 14:36, 17 July 2011 (EDT)
- Robert Treat Paine b. 1730/1731 has birth recorded in Boston as "Robert Treat Son of Thomas and Eunice Paine". A book by Nathaniel Bowditch, "Suffolk Surnames" says only 6 graduates of the first 100 years of Harvard (to mid 1740's) had two Christian names. One of the earliest is Ammi Ruhamah Corlet, graduated 1670, and I believe in writing about him, Benjamin Cutter might have been the one I alluded to who was wondering if it was actually two separate names. Whether or not it was meant to be, it was used that way, and then others were named after him especially in the Cutter family. --Jrich 18:45, 17 July 2011 (EDT)
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