William Hulbird
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1653 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Christening:
Death: 11 Mar 1734 - Enfield, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
AFN #:
Parents
Father: William Hurlburt (Hulbird, Hurlbut) (Abt 1653-1694)
Mother: Ann (Abt 1608-1687) 1
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Whitaker (14 May 1669 - )
Marriage: After 1709 - prob Windsor or Enfield, Connecticut
Status:
2. Ruth Salmon ( - )
Marriage: Abt 1685 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Baradiah Hulbird (1689-1709)
3. Mary Howard (24 Apr 1672 - 17 Mar 1710)
Marriage: Abt 1693 - Enfield, Connecticut
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Hulbird (1694-After 1715)
2. Ruth Hulbird (1695- )
3. Abigail Hulbird (1697- )
4. William Hulbird (1698-1779)
5. Mary Hulbird (1701- )
6. Obadiah Hulbird (1703-1784)
7. Ebenezer Hulbird (1705- )
8. Anna Hulbird (1707- )
9. Benjamin Hulbird (1710-1757)
Notes
General:
Aged 11 on 20 Nov 1663 and aged 10 on 20 May 1664 (WMJ 521, 557)
Married (1) Ruth Salmon and (2) Mary Howard. According to Great Migration Begins, various secondary sources give this William two wives as noted, but in no case is evidence shown for these identifications A third wife, 'Hannah Whitaker, widow of John Hulit of Concord, Mass.,"has aso been claimed (cites Search for the Passengers of the Mary and John, 1: 42.)
According to Hale House and Related Lines. Setlled in Enfield, removed to New Haven, but returned to Enfield, where he is said to ahve died in 1734. By first wife, Mary, he had children, b at Enfield. (Mary was his second wife.)
According to Passengers of the Mary and John, William died 11 Mar 1734 in Enfield, married Ruth Salmon about 1685, Northampton, dau of Thoams and Mary Salmon of Northampton. Married second Mary Howard, 1693, Enfield, who d 17 Mar 1710, New Haven. married third Hannah Whitaker, widow of John Hulit of Concord, Mas., Resided in Northampton, Enfield, and New Haven. Eight childen by second wife, and one grand child (?)
Sims says that the marriage, without a date, is ergistered in Northampton MA records. I can't confirm this at NEHGS but can't find Northampton records. Not in Springfield's .
There may have been more than one child named Obadiah born.
Gil Hurlbut says that there was a final "lost" child, Rachel, born abt 1709, d 1`2 Aug 1779, aged 70, in Mendham, NJ, marrried John Chambers. Allegedly there had been an unknown sister of William III, after whom his daughter Rachel was named.
William an dhis wife Mary moved from Enfield to New Haven, and had three - four counting Rachel - children there.
"Per Sims, William II also 3rd mc 1710 a Hannah Whittaker, the widow of John Hulet. Gil Hurlbut thinks that William remarried quickly because he was stuck with five children under age 5 including possibly newborn infant Rachel.
Gil Hurlbut thinks that William II returned to Enfield because his Howard inlaws lived there, and because his half brother Samuel Allen had returned there. This Samuel was not his half brother but his half nephew. (Samuel's son Joseph was Wiliam II's half grand nephew, if he married a daughter of his great uncle's third wife.)
Gil Hurlbut cites Sharon Sims and a web page at Gencircles frequently as his source for this and that. I found Sharon Sims' web page at Gencircles, and it has no notes or source information at all. At times it doesn't even include all of the available information; for instance, it does not identify Hannah Whitaker as the widow of John Hulit of Concord. What is more, when I began entering her e-mail address, I learned that this is not my first attempt to contact Sharon Sims, but I have no reply from her.
By 1710 William had just one sibling, John, remaining in Northampton. It is possible that an inheritance from his father enabled him to move to the Hartford and New Haven areas of Connecticut, where his wife's family was well situated. Two of her brothers? lived in Enfleld.
Gil Hulbird, who like another Hulbird researcher remembers reading that Obadiah defended his mother's interests in Howard lands but doesn't have teh source, nor what it was about, speculates on what Obadiah would have been defending his mother's interests in and when this would have occurred. He notices that it was Obadiah who was defending his mother's interests, not his father. The father was either dead (after 1734), or acting against the interests of Obadiah's mother, maybe because he had remarried, though there are other reasons why he might have acted against Obadiah's idea of his mother's interests. More than likely, Obadiah himself had an interest in the property. Gil Hulbird speculates that if Mary Howard had inherited property, it might have gone to her husband on her death. A new wife might even have inherited it upon William's death in 1734.
Gil Hulburt points out that William III should have also had an interest in whatever the matter was and it is most reasonable to think this occurred after he had left for New Jersey. It seems not to be known when he left for New Jersey.
Timing of any legal action to defend his mother's interests in Howard lands; had to have been after 1709/10 when his mother died, Obadiah had to be of age, which would have occurred in 1724/ 1725, and more than likely his father was dead; he died in 1734. If it was Hannah Whitaker the widow of John Hulit of Concord who Obadiah was defending his mother's interests against, then it had to be before 1769 as that woman was born in 1669. William was definitely married to Hannah Somebody in 1717 when they deeded land together. Joseph Allen married Mary Hulet about 1723, and Jonathan Hulet of Reheboth, possible brother of Mary, obtained and sold land nearby in 1730 to 1732.
*** Deed, from History of Enfield Vol 3. 2 Jul 1717 William Hulburd AND HIS WIFE HANNAH to Capt. Samuel Terry. 109 acres near the mountains, commons N, Hwy S, Symons E, John Howard W. William III would have been only 18 on this date. This William Hulbird was apparently a neighbor of Joseph Allen and of the Howards.
See notes on JOnathan Hulet for the deeds of William Hulbird II and his son Obadiah. The Howard family were among the Hulbirds' neighbors.
Gil Hurlbut says, “…A deed listed on pg 2109 in "Early Deeds" is of interest, because it lists William II and Samuel Allen Jr. as landholders in Enfield, with only one plot of land separating them:
William Simons Senr to his son John Simons. (War.) 35 acres in lower part of Enfield - William Hulburd north, Samuel Allen south, street east, Great River west. Witnesses Isaac Kibbe, John Abbee, William Pynchon Junr. 29 March 1723. Recorded 8 April 1724.
It says that the Simon land was between the Hulburd land to the north and the Samuel Allen land to the south. It is important to note that this was not land on the town line on the eastern river; it was land along the Connecticut River (the Great River).