Sarah Hues

Daughter of Thomas Hungerford of Hartford and his first wife, whose name is not known. Sarah lived with her Aunt Anne Leigh and later married Lewis Hughes of Lyme. Was Sarah the 1st, 2nd or 3rd wife of Lewis Hues?

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Loving Sister:

After my Love and obliged Repects to you selfe and your good husband though as yet unknowne there are to Lett you understand I have received now two Letters from you wherein I understand you desire and I cannot but acknowledge your Love to me and my child. We are remott and fare distant in regard of our outward residents and therefore my Loving sister I cannot doe as I would though the things I would doe may much endure to ye good of myself and myne. I have formerly inclined to send my daughter to you it is only want of convenient opertunity to come with my daughter see that I might give you a visit. I am full of season and find it hard so to dispose of my business as that I may find time to come to you and soe to bring my daughter alonge with me. I had some thoughts of coming now befor winter but upon further consideration being winter at hand an my occasion & hay would sufer in my absents. I conclude God willing if that I and my daughter Live to come and see you in ye spring and for my daughter to continue with. I do not question your Love to me and my child at all. I have heard well of you and I love you and my respects are to you with many thanks to you for you Love and care of my child I shall not Right much more intending to see you in ye spring and then we shall I hope understand one anothers minds fully. I shall not trouble you any further at present but comiting you and yrs to ye protection of Almighty God I remayne

Your Loving Brother, Thomas Hungerford

Pequott, November 2, 1657

That the plan suggested in the letter was carried out may be inferred from the will of John Leigh of Ipswich, Mass., dated June 12, probated Sept. 16, 1671, and recorded at Salem, which contains a provision to Sarah Hungerford:

Item, I give unto Sarah Hungerford, besides what I have given her already, Twenty pounds to be payed her by my two sons, ten pounds apiece at her marriage, Provided that she proceeds orderly therein, and shall continue to live with my wife till that time in ye same way as hitherto she hath done." ("John Leigh of Agawam" pp.75)

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Notes

Hungerford, Thomas, New London, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
1:211.
"Probate Records. Vol. III, 1663 to 1677. Page 2.

Hungerford, Thomas, New London. Invt. £100-05-06. Taken 1st May, 1663, by Obadiah Breuen, Samuel Smith, Robert Royse. The children: Thomas, age 15 years, Sarah 9, Hannah 4 years.

Court Record, Page 6—9 July, 1663: Invt. Exhibited. Isaac Willey and Peter Blatchford to care for the estate.

Page 15—10 May, 1664: Order to Dist. the whole of the estate to the Relict, she to pay to Thomas Hungerford £7; to Sarah £4, to Hannah £4, at (Legal) age."

Conflicting published histories regarding his marriage; no original sources are cited. Using majority.

Three statements that Sarah married Lewis Hugh or Hughes

1. Mack Genealogy : The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Conn
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/878156:61157

2. Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors
http://Ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/23597/images/dvm_GenMon...

3. Additions and corrections for Thomas Hungerford of Hartford and New London, Conn.
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/16388/images/dvm_G...

This history states only that he married a daughter of Thomas Hungerford I

Lieutenant Joshua Hewes : A New England pioneer and some of his descendants states only that he married a daughter of Thomas Hungerford I
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155...

This source states that Sarah's sister Hannah married Lewis Hughes.
John Leigh of Agawam
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/11984/images/dvm_G...

References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ76-GPP
2. Sarah Hungerford was age 9 when father's will taken 1 May 1663
3. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/collaborate/KCZ6-MDC
4. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Page 672. < AncestrySharing > SHERIVE/SHERIFF Thomas (-1675) & (Martha) _?_) (-1691+), m/2 Thomas HAZARD 1675, m/3 Lewis HUES; b. 1649; Plymouth.
5. The genealogy and history of the Shreve family from 1641; by Allen, L. P. (Luther Prentice), 1853-. Page 17-18. < Archive.Org >
6. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Sarah_Hungerford_(4)
   1. Leach, F. Phelps. Additions and Corrections for Thomas Hungerford: of Hartford and New London, Conn. and His Descendants in America. (East Highgate, Vermont: F.P. Leach, 1932) 3. "Sarah (Hungerford), b. about 1654. After her mother's death she went to live with Aunt Anne Leigh, at Ipswich, Mass. She later m. Lewis Hugh (Hughes), of Lyme, Conn."