Christopher Hussey

M, #13867, b. 18 February 1598, d. 1686
Father*John Hussey1
Mother*Marie Wood1
ChartsBentley (maternal side) - Phoebe Meredith Frey
Note*  Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY ORIGIN: Dorking, Surrey MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn REMOVES: Newbury by 1638, Hampton 1639 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 14 May 1634 impliedby freemanship. He certainly remained a member of Bachiler's church as itmoved about, and in Hampton became deacon [Hampton Hist 760]. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 EDUCATION: He signed his deeds and his will. His inventory included 'oneBible' valued at 5s. and 'one book' valued at 5s. OFFICES: Deputy for Hampton to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 19 May1658, 11 May 1659, 30 May 1660, 19 December 1660, 15 May 1672. Empoweredto marry at Hampton, 18 October 1659. Magistrate, 7 September 1680, 7June 1681, 6 December 1681, 5 September 1682. Empowered to end smallcauses for Hampton, 22 May 1639, 2 June 1641, 13 October 1663, 10 October1665, 13 April 1669, 12 October 1669. Highway committee, April 1665 . As'Lt. Hussie,' committee to lay out colony land, 12 November 1659, 16October 1660. He was lieutenant and then captain of the train band in Hampton. ESTATE: A copy of the book of abatements for Hampton was brought to courtin November 1679, indicating that Christopher Hussey of Hampton had beengranted one hundred and fifty acres of upland, meadow and marsh, for afarm. On 2 April 1681 Christopher Hussey of Hampton granted to his son JohnHussey of Hampton one half acre of land of 'my farm in Hampton' in aplace convenient for the setting up of a grist mill. On 8 April 1673,Edward Colcord, aged about fifty-six and William Fifield deposed that'when Mr. Steven Batcheller of Hampton was upon his voyage to Englandthey heard him say to his son-in-law Mr. Christopher Hussey that asHussey had no dowry with Batcheller's daughter when he married her, andthat he had given to said Hussey all his estate' [Essex Ant 5:173, citingOld Norfolk County Records]. He was one of the eight purchasers of Nantucket in 1659, and in 1671sold his land to his sons John and Stephen [Nantucket Land 53, 69]. On 6December 1681 Christopher Hussey confirmed a deed of 23 October 1671 inwhich he had sold all his lands and rights on the island of Nantucket tohis sons Stephen Hussey and John Hussey [NHPLR 3:168a]. In his will, dated 28 February 1684/5 and proved 7 October 1686,'Christopher Husy ... in health of body ... & yet being stricken inyears' bequeathed to 'my two sons Steeven Husy & John Husy my farm ...the hundred & fifty acres of meadow & upland granted me by the town asalso fifty acres more of marsh which I bought adjacent to it' in equalparts 'only they paying to my daughter Mary' as follows: to 'my daughterMary Husy now wife of Thomas Page my seven acres of meadow ... & thatpiece of meadow through which the highway lieth, and also two shares inthe ox common and also two shares of cows common ... also ... my son JohnSmith shall pay her Ð30 and my two sons John & Steeven shall pay her Ð40apiece'; to 'my daughter Hulda in the like manner all the rest of mylands and housing & common rights in the town of Hampton and all thehousehold stuff ... remaining ... my house & all in it or with it withall the land adjacent and the planting lot & three acres meadow lottoward the spring, two shares in the ox common & two shares in the cowcommon & do order & appoint that he [John Smith] shall pay to my daughterMary Ð30 toward her pension'; 'my daughter Mary' to have her part of theland immediately after 'my decease' and the Ð30 from 'my son John Smiththe husband of my daughter Hulda' to be paid two years after 'my death'and the other two sons to pay her within the end of two years next; 'incase of failure she my said daughter shall have in lieu thereof thirtyacres of the farm'; 'my said sons Steven and John' having paid Mary thesaid sum, to have the farm in equal portions, 'only my son John shall notbe ... hindered of what have built on nor his building accounted in thevaluing of the farm'; 'upon further consideration ... my said daughterMary's choice whether she will have the land aforementioned in the farmor the Ð80 of my two sons Steeven & John Husy'; 'my son John Husy & myson John Smith' joint executors, and if they die 'my daughter Mary' andif she die, then 'my son Steephen'; 'my trusty friends Major RichardWaldron & Major Robt. Pike' overseers [NHPP 31:287-89]. In a codicildated 28 October 1685 (at Salisbury) 'upon a considering of somedubiousness in the expression of some things in this my will' the commonrights to go proportionally to the inheritors with the inherited land[NHPP 31:289]. The inventory of the estate of Capt. Christopher Hussey, taken 25March 1686, totalled Ð651 13s., including Ð589 in real estate: 'house,orchard & land adjoining,' Ð42; '12 acres of pasture land,' Ð20;'planting land,' Ð28; 'Spring Meadows,' Ð30; '7 acres of meadow,' Ð14;'meadow towards Boulter's,' Ð6; '4 shares at the ox commons,' Ð24; '4shares cow pasture,' Ð30; 'land at the new plantation,' Ð15; 'land in thenorth division,' Ð6; 'the upland in the farm,' Ð200; '50 acres of meadowbelonging to the farm,' Ð100; 'a lot of marsh, 40 acres,' Ð60; and 'a lotof marsh, 15 acres,' Ð24. BIRTH: Baptized Dorking, Surrey, 18 February 1598/9, son of John and Mary(Wood) Hussey. DEATH: Hampton [7?] March 1685/6 'being about 90 years of age' [HampVR9]. MARRIAGE: (1) By 1635 Theodate Bachiler, born say 1610, daughter ofSTEPHEN BACHILER; 'Theodata Husse the wife of Christopher Husse died inthe 8th mo[nth] 1649' at Hampton [HampVR 557]. (2) Hampton 9 December 1658 Ann (Capon) Mingay [HampVR 74, 556]. Shehad married first Denton, Norfolk, 30 September 1630 Jeffrey Mingay [NHGR8:148]. She died at Hampton 24 June 1680 [HampVR 117]. CHILDREN: With first wife i JOHN, bp. Lynn 29 February 1635[/6?] [HampVR 3; 'the last day ofthe last month' - the day of the month depends on the interpretation ofthe double-date, since 1636 was a leap year; note that the year chosenhere would result in a two-year gap before the birth of the next child];m. Hampton 21 September 1659 Rebecca Perkins [HampVR 74, 556]. ii MARY, bp. Newbury 2 April 1638 [HampVR 3]; m. (1) Hampton 21January 1664[/5] Thomas Page [HampVR 75, 556]; m. (2) Hampton 10 March1690/1 Henry Green [HampVR 1:78]; m. (3) Hampton 10 November 1704 HenryDow [HampVR 1:58]. (On 23 April 1706 'Mary Dow of Hampton ... with theconsent of my now husband Henry Dow of Hampton' sold to Hezekiah Jenningstwo shares of land in the north division, fifty acres, 'given to me by myhonored father Christopher Hussey of Hampton aforesaid late deceased'[NHPLR 5:197].) iii THEODATA, bp. Hampton 23 August 1640 [HampVR 3]; d. Hampton 20October 1649 'Theodata the daughter of Christopher Husse died the 20th ofOctober 1649' [HampVR 557]. iv STEPHEN, b. say 1643; m. Nantucket 8 October 1676 Martha Bunker. v HULDA, b. say 1646; m. Hampton 26 February 1666[/7] John Smith[HampVR 75, 556]. [GDMNH absentmindedly calls this child 'Hannah.'] ASSOCIATIONS: The widow Mary Hussey who appears in early Hampton recordsis almost certainly mother of Christopher [GDMNH 364-65]. COMMENTS: In 1686 'Captain Henry Dow wrote in cipher in his diary forMonday, Mar. 8, that he was `at Captain Hussey's burial.' It is thereforecertain that he died in Hampton and was not, as stated by Savage, castaway off the coast of Florida' [Hampton Hist 760]. All sources give Stephen as the eldest child of Christopher andTheodate (Bachiler) Hussey, and claim that this couple had married inEngland prior to 1632 and came to New England with Reverend STEPHENBACHILER. There is no evidence, however, for placing Stephen as theeldest child, and his marriage date of 1676, and other records, argue fora date of birth in the 1640s, and so he has been placed here as thefourth of five children. Thus John becomes the eldest child, which isconsistent with the page of baptisms, apparently kept by Stephen Bachileras he travelled from Lynn to Newbury to Hampton, where John is the firstchild baptized, at Lynn in 1636. (This also puts the lie to the myth thatin the first week he was at Lynn Bachiler had baptized his own grandsonStephen Hussey before the child of another couple.) If John was the eldest child, then his parents need not have marriedearlier than 1635, and Hussey may not have met his wife until both werein New England. This would remove any evidence that Bachiler and Husseywould have been associated in England, and so any evidence that theymight have sailed together in 1632. Since the earliest record of Husseyin New England is his admission to freemanship on 14 May 1634, we neednot assume that he had arrived any earlier than 1633. If Theodate Bachiler did not marry until about 1635, then she need nothave been born until about 1615, although her birth could have beenearlier (but certainly not so early as 1588, as claimed by GDMNH andothers). Her given name is a Greek construct meaning 'gift of God,' whichwould be appropriate for a child born to a woman at the end of herchild-bearing period, long after all her other children had been born.Aside from Theodate, the youngest known Bachiler child was Ann, who wasborn about 1601. We argue here that Theodate was born several years afterAnn, and have chosen somewhat arbitrarily 1610 as her year of birth. Savage and Dow have included a son Joseph, but this derives from anerror in Dow's list of representatives from Hampton to the General Court,which gives a Joseph Hussey in 1672, a misreading for Christopher Hussey[Hampton Hist 566]. On 11 October 1664 'Mr.' Christopher Hussey was bound to pay Jno.Mason, his apprentice, Ð4 at the end of his apprenticeship [EQC 3:202]. Maine Pioneers, 1623-60 Viewing records 1-1 of 1 Matches Name Comment Christopher Hussey yeoman, resident of Saugus (afterward called Lynn),Mass., 1632; frm. May 14, 1634. Rem. to Newbury; proprietor, 1637. Rem.to Hampton, of which he was one of the first planters Sept. 6, 1638.Commissioner to end all business under 20 shillings, May 22, 1639;lot-layer Oct. 31, 1639. Signed petition in Howard case in 1643. Captain,deacon, deputy, etc. He m. 1, Theodate, dau. of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, who gave to them allhis cattle, goods and debts on his return to England; [deposition ofColcord;] she d. (8) 1649. He m. 2, 9 (10) 1658, Ann [widow of Jeffrey]Mingay; she d. June 24, 1680. Children, Stephen, Mary bapt. at NewburyApril 2, 1638, Theodate bapt. at Hamp. Aug. 23, 1640, d. (8) 1649, John,Huldah. He was one of the early proprietors of the island of Nantucket; he, 'nowresident in Hampton,' deeded all his lands and rights in the island of N.to sons Stephen and John 23 Oct. 1671 and 6 Dec. 1681. He died 6 March, 1685-6, ae. about 90; buried 8 March. Will signed 28Feb. 1684, codicil dated at Salisbury Oct. 28, 1685, was proved 7 (8)1686; beq. to his '2 sons' Stephen and John Hussey; daughter Mary, nowwife of Thomas Page; son John Smith and daughter Huldah, his wife. Maine Pioneers, 1623-60 Christopher Hussey yeoman, resident of Saugus (afterward called Lynn),Mass., 1632; frm. May 14, 1634. Rem. to Newbury; proprietor, 1637. Rem.to Hampton, of which he was one of the first planters Sept. 6, 1638.Commissioner to end all business under 20 shillings, May 22, 1639;lot-layer Oct. 31, 1639. Signed petition in Howard case in 1643. Captain,deacon, deputy, etc. He m. 1, Theodate, dau. of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, who gave to them allhis cattle, goods and debts on his return to England; [deposition ofColcord;] she d. 1649. He m. 1658, Ann [widow of Jeffrey] Mingay; she d.June 24, 1680. Children, Stephen, Mary bapt. at Newbury April 2, 1638,Theodate bapt. at Hamp. Aug. 23, 1640, d. 1649, John, Huldah. He was one of the early proprietors of the island of Nantucket; he, 'nowresident in Hampton,' deeded all his lands and rights in the island of N.to sons Stephen and John 23 Oct. 1671 and 6 Dec. 1681. He died 6 March, 1685-6, ae. about 90; buried 8 March. Will signed 28Feb. 1684, codicil dated at Salisbury Oct. 28, 1685, was proved 7 1686;beq. to his '2 sons' Stephen and John Hussey; daughter Mary, now wife ofThomas Page; son John Smith and daughter Huldah, his wife.1 
Birth*18 February 1598 Christopher Hussey was born on 18 February 1598 at Dorking, Surrey, England.1 
Marriage*1629 He married Theodate Batchelor, daughter of Stephen (Batchelder) Batchelor and Ann Bates, in 1629 at Holland.1 
Death*1686 Christopher Hussey died in 1686 at Hampton, Massachusetts.1 

Family

Theodate Batchelor b. 1596, d. 20 Oct 1649
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Last Edited14 Jan 2004

Citations

  1. [S170] Gedcom file by Debora J Krauss Franklin (see her record for more).