David HOYT 2
- Born: 22 Apr 1651, prob Windsor, Connecticut, USA 2
- Marriage (1): Sarah WELLS on 3 Apr 1673 1
- Marriage (2): Mary WILSON
- Marriage (3): Abigail COOKE
- Died: 29 Feb 1703/04, Coos, New Hampshire at age 52 2
 General Notes:
David Hoyt
David was born in 1651 and moved to Deerfield, MA in 1678. On Apr. 3, 1673, he married Mary Wells of Hatfield. They had two childre,n and Mary died sometime before Sept. of 1676. David then married Sarah Wilson in 1678 and had three children with her before she died around 1689. Around 1691, he married Abigail Cook Pomroy, the widow of Joshua Pomroy. David had three more children with her. In the 1704 attack on Deerfield, David, Abigail, and two of their children were captured. Their third child was rumored to have hidden in a grain bin and escaped capture. David died of starvation in May of 1704 in Coos, New Hampshire, while still a captive. Abigail was redeemed and remarried. One captured child never returned, and the other was killed on the journey north to Canada.
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Events in his life were:
• Death Cause: Killed by the Indians, 29 Feb 1703/04, Deerfield, Mass. 2
• Indian & French attack on Deerfield, Mass: account given in The Hoyt and Haight Familys: 3"When the French and Indians attacked Deerfield , Feb. 29, 1703-4, he was taken captive, with his wife and four children. On the way towards Canada, provisions became so scarce that Dea. Hoyt "perished of hunger near the lower Cohos," in the vicinity of what is now Newbury, Vt., May or June, 1704. Some of the descendants say that he was compelled to carry a large bundle, and that he must also carry his youngest child, or see her killed by the Indians; but he fainted under the double burden."
• Museum: Chest owned by David Hoyt, Deerfield, Mass. 4 Memorial Hall Museum, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA
description:
oak chest with carving on top and bottom rails, that is continued on both ends.
notes:
Originally had legs and lid. 1886 and 1920 catalogs, "A carved oak Bridal chest of the Elizabethan period. Long in use in the Old Indian House". Label, "Joined Chest. Windsor, Connecticut, before 1655. By tradition, Nicholas Hoyt (1622-1655), an English West Country immigrant to Windsor, Connecticut, acquired this oak and pine chest and passed it on to his son, David (1651-1704), who brought it to Deerfield in 1682. Although the Hoyt chest is now missing its lid and the bottoms of its stiles, it retains the essential structural and ornamental features that identify it as a product of the Barber shop tradition, possibly by Thomas Barber Sr. (1614-1662). The front stiles are carved with the trefoil motif, the front floor rail is carved with lunettes, and the front top rail is carved with a gouged arcade motif. Gift of Mrs. Catherine Wells Hoyt. CRR.2".
references:
Exhibited in "The Woodworkers of Windsor: A Community of Furniture Craftsmen and their World 1635-1735," Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA 2003 and Windsor Historical Society, 2004. Reproduced in "Gathered and Preserved," PVMA, 1991, p.22. Deerfield Furniture forum tour of Memorial Hall, June 1990, "Probably descended from Nicholas Hoyt (d. 1655) came to Deerfield in 1682. Construction relates to house joinery of same time. Jonathan Hoyt (1688-1779) son of David purchased Old Indian House c. 1740."
provenance:
This chest descended in the Hoyt family, whose earliest known ancestor, Nicholas Hoyt, died in Windsor in 1655. His son, David Hoyt (1651-1704) was probably born in Windsor and migrated to Hatfield, Massachusetts, and then to Deerfield about 1682. It is entirely possible that David Hoyt carried the chest with him when he journeyed north from Windsor. It remained in the Hoyt family until it was given to PVMA sometime before 1886.
David married Sarah WELLS, daughter of Thomas WELLS and Unknown, on 3 Apr 1673.1 (Sarah WELLS died <Sept 1676 3.)
David next married Mary WILSON.
David next married Abigail COOKE, daughter of Nathaniel COOKE and Lydia VORE.
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