Mary Hoyt

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Biography

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fesschequy/genealogy/Brundage.html

4. MARY BRUNDAGE, daughter of John and Rachel Brundage, baptised 10 Dec. 1628 in St. Mary-at-the-Elm, Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, died after 1710 in Rye, Westchester County, Connecticut (New York).

Mary came to Massachusetts from England with her parents and siblings probably in 1633. They first lived at Watertown and Salem, Massachusetts, but later were among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Some time after her mother Rachel's remarriage on 5 Aug. 1642, but by 1645, Mary married in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, Mary to FRANCIS PURDY, born 1587 in Brundall, County Norfolk, England, died 20 Oct. 1658 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, son of John and Alice (Tayler) Purdy. Francis and Mary had four sons and one daughter.

Mary remarried circa 1659 in Fairfield, Connecticut, to JOHN HOYT, born in West Hatch, Somersetshire, England, perhaps circa 1625, died in late August or early September of 1684 in Rye, Westchester County, Connecticut (now New York), son of Simon and Jane Hoyt. Mary and John had at least two children, or perhaps four or more.

The known children of Mary (Brundage) (Purdy) Hoyt are:

• -- JOHN PURDY, born circa 1646 in Fairfield, Connecticut, died 1678 in Fairfield, Connecticut, married Elizabeth Brown.
• -- DANIEL PURDY, born 1648 in Fairfield, Connecticut, died 1678 in Rye, New York.
• -- FRANCIS PURDY JR., born 1650 in Fairfield, Connecticut, died 1723 in Rye, New York, married Mary Lane.
• -- JOSEPH PURDY, born 1653 in Fairfield, Connecticut, died 29 Oct. 1709 in Rye, New York, married Elizabeth H. Ogden.
• -- MARY PURDY
• -- JOHN HOYT (John Haight), born 1664 or 1665.
• -- SIMON HOYT, born 1669.

Notes

Mary may have been John's second wife, since it is unlikely (though not impossible, of course) that he had remained unmarried until he was in his 30s, and some genealogists think it is probable that John's daughters MARY HOYT and RACHEL HOYT were born of John's putative first wife. For example, Donald Lines Jacobus in his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield ," 1930-1932, vol I., p.294, says John "Married (2) at Fairfield abt. 1659, Mary, widow of Francis Purdy, and dau. of John Brundish." Again, Martha J. Burke in her Townsends: Dutchess County, New York, Part II, iv, says (emphasis added):

JOHN, b. say 1625; m. (1) by about 1650 _____ _____; m. (2) about 1659 Mary (Brundish) Purdy, widow of Francis Purdy. (John Hoyt's daughters, Mary, who probably married Hachaliah Brown, and Rachel, who married John Horton [not Norton], were apparently born in the early 1650s, as they married men born in the 1640s; we know that the widow of Francis Purdy had married John Hoyt because her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth (Brown) Purdy, in 1678 asked that "my father John Hoit and my brother Thomas Browne might stand overseers, or my brother Hacaliah Browne," but Francis Purdy died in 1658 [FOOF 1:495-96].).

It does seem more probable that John's daughters Mary and Rachel were born at least a few years before John's marriage to Mary Brundage Purdy. Besides the two daughters, John is also known to have had two sons, JOHN HOYT and SIMON HOYT, who judging from their apparent ages must have been born of John's marriage with Mary Brundage Purdy.

It is perhaps unsurprising that there are conflicting accounts of the number and names of John Hoyt's children. Some of that conflict stems from earlier genealogists' confusion of our John Hoyt, of Fairfield, Connecticut, who died in 1684 in Rye, Westchester County, Connecticut (now New York), with Sgt. John Hoyt of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who died 28 Feb. 1688 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. These same-named colonists lived and died around the same time, but lived in different places, married different women, and had different children. (In addition, DNA testing has established that Sgt. John Hoyt of Sailsbury was not related to the Simon Hoyt family of which John Hoyt of Fairfield was a member.)

Thus, in the Historical and Genealogical Record, Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, 1912 - Part 2, pp.452-453, it says, "John Haight married Mary, daughter of John Budd (sic), and their children were: Samuel, Mary, Rachel, John and Simon." Again, in Donald Lines Jacobus' History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 1930-1932, vol I., p.294, John's children are listed as Samuel, Mary, m. [Hachaliah?] Brown, Rachel, m.

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Norton, John, and Simon. This enumeration of John's children is derived from John's will, which explicitly names Mary, Rachel, John, and Simon as John's children. His will also appoints a SAMUEL HOYT as one of the overseers of his estate, and it seems that some earlier writers presumed that Samuel was another son of John. However, the will does not describe Samuel as one of John's children, nor was Samuel given any portion of John's estate, so almost certainly he was not John's son, but rather was a close relative.

In comparison, the Faella/McKiel Family Tree database names but four children, Rachel (born 1662), John (born 1665), Walter, and Simon (born 1669) -- omitting John's daughter Mary and including a son named Walter. Presumably that Walter is the WALTER HOYT who witnessed John's will, but of course that was John's older brother, not one of his sons. Lorraine Luke's Ulster County, New York Genealogies database names just two children, a daughter Mary (born circa 1645 -- a speculative date that is almost certainly too early) and a son John (born circa 1664). The now-defunct Martine's Genealogy website mixed in a few of the children of Sgt. John Hoyt of Salisbury, naming six children of John and Mary: Rachel (born 1662), Thomas (born 1662), Sarah (born 1663), Frances (born 1664), John (born 1665), and Simon (born 1669). "The Pumpkin's Roots" website lists four children: Samuel, Rachel, John, and Simon. Susan's Family Genealogy lists the same four children in a slightly different order and with these dates of birth: Rachel (born circa 1660), Samuel (born before 1663), John Jr. (born 1664), and Simon (born between 1665 and 1680). Finally, in an email of 15 July 2001, Judith Herbert says John and Mary had only a daughter, Rachel, and two sons, John (born circa 1664) and Simon. Rachel, John, and Simon were undoubtedly children of John Hoyt, who also had a daughter named Mary, but it is at best uncertain that any of the other children named in these various sources were really theirs (and certainly Thomas, Sarah, and Frances were not).

John made his will on 29 August 1684 at Rye, Westchester County, New York. In the will, John wrote,

I will and bequeathe unto my Loveing wife Mary Hoit On third parte of all my moveables she to have Her choice of them and my house and orchard and four acres of Land Lyeing below the Orchard and on acre of Salt Meadow Iyeing by the bridge this abovemenconed house orchard & lands I give to my wife dureing her life and then to Returne to my two youngest sons John Hoitt and Simon Hoit and if my wife Remain a widdow and need Require I Give her full power to sell some of this said Land for her Comfort ALSOE, I doe will and bequeath unto my two sons John Hoit and Simon Hoit all my Lands and Right In Lands In Rye their mothers Right only Excepted ALSOE I doe will and bequeath Unto my two daughters Mary Brown and Rachell Norton the two thirds of all my moveables Each of them One third Only the abovesaid Rachell Norton hath Receaved Six pownds which six pounds Is to bee discounted of of her third part and an Equall distribution to bee made between them and for my depts I order to bee paid out of the moveables FURTHERMORE It is my will if Either of my two youngest sons John or Simon should dye In their nonage the surviveing to have all the Lands. * I appoynt my Loveing wife to be my sole Executrix of this my will and Joshua Hoit and Sam'. Hoitt and John Bondig overseers. John Hoit [seal] * Signed and sealed In the presence of Us. Walter Hoitt, Thomas Betts senr.

It should be noted that, as mentioned above, John's daughter Rachel was married to a man named Horton, not Norton. John's will misspells his son-in-law's surname.

John died not many days after making his will, as his will inventory is dated 15 Sept. 1684. The inventory of John's estate lists about 80 items, including articles of clothing, household goods, tools, furniture, eight books (including a "Commentary on the Revelation" and "Christian's Watchfulness"), as well as horses and cattle. His brother, "Moses Hoyett" was a witness to the signing of the bond by his wife, Mary Hoyt.

Brundage-Brundish Genealogy Resources:

• John Brundish [Brundage] of Wethersfield, Connecticut, by Perry Streeter, copyright 1999 Perry Streeter, updated 16 Sept. 2009.
• Brundish: A Small Village in Rural High Suffolk
• Brundish: GEN-UK-I Webpage

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Alt birth location: Rattlesden, Suffolk, England Alt birth years: 1628, 1618

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Daughter of John Brundish; married about 1659 in Fairfield, Connecticut; widow of Francis Purdy.

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After the death of Francis Purdy, Mary married John Hoyt and moved to Westchester County, NY.

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Conflicting with the research (above):

According to Mary Brundish's baptismal record that was uncovered fairly recently, it showed that she was baptized on December 10, 1628 at the St Mary Church on Elm Street in Ipswich in Suffolk County, England, and if we assume that this is the same Mary Brundish who later married Francis Purdy, it means that Mary would have been only 12 or 13 years old when she married Francis in 1642. Considering that Mary's mother Rachel Hubbard Brundish had just lost her husband, Mary's father, a few years earlier it was probably not that usual in early Puritan New England for her mother to support, perhaps even arrange, for her young daughter's "marriage of convenience" especially if the new husband was an older and well established individual in a viable position to lookout for his new and very young thirteen year old bride. If we accept this logic it then supports the case that Francis Purdy might have been much older than his new wife although commonly accepted birth dates for Francis as early as 1587 seem highly unlikely since he would have been 55 years old when he married. The other qualification that the new husband be well established does not seem to hold true in the case of Francis Purdy. There are no surviving records of his becoming a "freeman," requiring his being at least twenty-one years old and a member of the Puritan Church, after he arrived in America nor are there any records showing that he owned land in either the Boston area, Wethersfield, or in Fairfield. In fact, after the marriage of Francis Purdy and Mary Brundish they lived on land that she had inherited from her father. This seems to contradict any suggestion that Francis Purdy had been a well established individual prior to his marriage. This being the case, we find it easy to support the suggestion authored by Alec Purdy, a Purdy descendant and family historian, who suggests that Francis Purdy may very well have been a friend of the Purdy family and perhaps even an orphan who had traveled with the family from England. He most likely was only a few years older than Mary and he possibly worked for Mary's father, John Brundish, in the tanning business. If this was true, Francis Purdy clearly was not yet a well established individual. He was likely a young man that Mary's mother trusted, young Mary liked, perhaps loved, and having them get married solved a minor problem for Rachel Brundish who had lost her husband John and was trying to care for four young children in addition to Mary.

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References

1. Research of the late Private, Geni curator.
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   1. "Note: This profile previously reported a middle name, Elizabeth. Note the source given covers Joseph Purdy (d c. 1709) and his wife, Elizabeth.[4] Possibly the two, Francis and Joseph have been confounded. (It is more likely that the Elizabeth comes from the "Allied Families of Purdy..." book. See the profile of Francis Purdy I for comments on that book)."
   2. Anderson, Robert C., 1995 "Simon Hoyt, Featured name Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1630, Vols. I-III, Boston, MA: NEHGS , Vol I-III, Page 1030 (AmericanAncestors.org accessed online 7 June 2016).
   3. Anderson, Robert Charles, 1999 "John Brundish," Featured name. Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. NEHGS, (Volume 1, A-B, ) Page 447 (AmericanAncestors.org. accessed 7 June 2016).
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   6. A Brundage Family Genealogy, An Account of Some of the American Descendants of John Brundish (1593-1639), Who Came from England to Massachusetts in 1635 by Thomas William Brundage, 1989. The following web site appears to contain 13 pages of Chapter 2, and a couple pages of Chapter 3, that is, 3-33 and 3-34. There appears to be a total of 54 pages in Chapter 2 that is not in this web site. So, apparently there are only 13 pages out of 54 pages. See: View on FamilySearch
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   8. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. TEXT: PURDY, Francis1 (-1658) & Mary [BRUNDISH/BRUNDAGE?], m/2 John HOYT ca 1659; by 1644?; Fairfield, CT {Briggs-DeGroff 389; Frame-Dana 248; Mead-Clark 70; Fairfield Fam. 1:108, 495; Fairfield Prob. 4; Lyon 3:73; Strang 139; French Anc. 59; Purdy 15; Hart Anc 140}; page 1239
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   15. Buckeley Family Genealogy page 26 or 260 says that John and Rachel Hubbard had the following children: 1) James Brundage, 2) Mary Brundage, 3) Ann Brundage, 4) John Brundage, 5) Bethia Brundage and 6) Unknown Brundage; that Mary, b. 12/10/1628, d. after 1710; and that Mary's first husband was Francis Purdy and that her second husband was John Haight (not Hoyt).
   16. John Brundish (Brundage) of Wethersfield, CT and The Colonial Ancestry by Perry Streeter - www.perrystreeter.com/brundage.pdf. Perry Streeter says in this document: "My great aunt Janette (Steeter) Cornell, introduced me to these Brundage family records when I was still a teenager. I soon began corresponding with William "Bill" W. Brundage, one of my first mentors in genealogy." ...For the details of Bill's subsequent research [related to Solomon] please visit www.perry. streeter.com.
   17. Thomas Taylor, From Bulkeley to Bulkley to Buckley: The Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812), 2008; in particularly, see chapter: The Brundidge Family Connection.
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4. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LB8Q-C7W
5. Perrin, Anna Falconer, 1842-; Meeker, Mary Falconer Perrin, 1848- . Allied families of Purdy, Fauconnier, Archer, Perrin (1911). Page 15. < Archive.Org > (has errors) " His wife,whom he married in England, was Mary Elizabeth ." [Francis married in New England, not in England; and his wife was Mary Brundage, not Mary Elizabeth (unknown).]
6. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. TEXT: PURDY, Francis1 (-1658) & Mary [BRUNDISH/BRUNDAGE?], m/2 John HOYT ca 1659; by 1644?; Fairfield, CT {Briggs-DeGroff 389; Frame-Dana 248; Mead-Clark 70; Fairfield Fam. 1:108, 495; Fairfield Prob. 4; Lyon 3:73; Strang 139; French Anc. 59; Purdy 15; Hart Anc 140}; page 1239. < digital image >