Mary Bishop
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1633
Christening:
Death: 14 Sep 1675 - Guilford, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
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Parents
Father: John Bishop (1590-1661)
Mother: Anne ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *George Hubbard (Abt 1594 - Jan 1683)
Marriage: 1627
Status:
Children:
1. George Hubbard ( -1684)
2. John Hubbard (1630- )
3. Mary Hubbard (Abt 1625-1713)
4. Hannah Hubbard (1637-1717)
5. Elizabeth Hubbard (1638- )
6. Abigail Hubbard (1640- )
7. Sarah Hubbard (1635- )
8. Daniel Hubbard (1655- )
9. William Hubbard (1642- )
Notes
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I also descend through George Bishop (d. 1682/3) and his wife Mary. According to Donald Lines Jacobus, his wife's surname IS NOT BISHOP. Here's the text of the TAG article - see what you think! TAG vol. 10; 1933 - "George Hubbard's wife" by Donald Lines Jacobus The statement is seen in many printed works (a) that Mary wife of George1 Hubbard of Guilford was a daughter of John1 Bishop of Guilford. The writer has not found any evidence to bear this out, and is convinced that the said Mary was not a daughter of John Bishop.
John Bishop came with the original Guilford company in 1639. The history of George Hubbard is different. He came first to Massachusetts, then to Wethersfield by 1636, removed 1643 to Milford, CT and 1650 to Guilford. Bishop brought a wife and young children with him to Guilford; the children, judging by the time they married, were born in the 1630's. Hubbard had several children born before he settled in Milford, the oldest almost certainly born before 1640. The evidence ofthe
dates would lead us to believe that Hubbard and his wife were not much
younger than Bishop and his wife. The question may be asked, how Hubbard came to acquire a daughter of John Bishop for his wife, since Hubbard was a married man while still residing in Wethersfield, and his marriage almost certainly took place prior to the arrival of the Bishops with the Guilford party in 1639.
All statements to the effect that Hubbard's wife was daughter of Bishop are apparently based on the will of Mrs. Ann Bishop, made 12 June 1673, in which she gave twenty shillings to her grandchild Elizabeth Hubbard. (b) Yet this will itself proves that Mrs. Mary Hubbard was not her daughter. Mrs. Bishop gave her eldest son John Bishop 5 pounds above "his equal proportion with my other Too children," and she willed that the residue of her estate should be divided "Betwixt my three children, viz., John and Steuen Bishop and James Steele." Further she called James Steele her son-in-law, and the inventory mentioned property in Mr. Steele's hands "which his wife claims as given to her by her Mother." The terms used in the will prove conclusively that Mrs. Bishop had but three living children in 1673: John, Stephen, and Bethia wife of James Steele. Certainly no sane woman would refer to "my other two children" and again to "my three children" if she had at the time four living children. The joker in the deck is that Mrs. Mary Hubbard was living in 1673, and did not die until 14 Sept. 1676. (c) Therefore, she was not the daughter of Mrs. Ann Bishop. And if Mrs. Mary Hubbard was daughter of John Bishop by a former marriage, then her daughter Elizabeth Hubbard would not have been granddaughter of Mrs. Ann Bishop.
It must not be forgotten that not only did George Hubbard have a daughter Elizabeth, but Daniel2 Hubbard had married (in 1664) Elizabeth Jordan, and that the latter may conceivably have been the Elizabeth Hubbard whom Mrs. Ann Bishop called her granddaughter. Elizabeth Jordan was daughter of Mr. John Jordan, and original Guilford proprietor in 1639, by his wife Ann, and for anything we know to the contrary, Mrs. Ann Jordan may have been the daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Ann Bishop. At any rate, Mrs. Jordan married secondly Thomas Clarke and died at Saybrook 1 Jan. 1671/2. Therefore, she was not living when Mrs. Bishop made her will; and there is no objection to the theory that the Bishops had children who died prior to 12 June 1673 when Mrs. Bishop had but three surviving children.
This Theory, which would make Elizabeth (Jordan) Hubbard the grandchild named in the will, is attractive, and the most serious objection that can be brought against it is that the known ages of the Jordan children necessitate placing the birth of Mrs. Ann Jordan about a decade earlier than the births of the known three Bishop children. That objection is not insuperable. However, this should be considered merely as an unproved theory unless readers can supply documentary evidence of a more compelling character than the bare mention of Elizabeth Hubbard as a grandchild in the will of Mrs. Bishop, which may admit of more than one interpretation. (a)"1000 Years of Hubbard History," pp. 199-200, states that "with thses migrators [from Watertown, MA, to Wethersfield, CT] went George Hubbard, his family , his father-in-law, John Bishop, and his family." No contemporary record has been found to indicate that John Bishop ever resided in Watertown, Mass., or Wethersfield, CT, or that he was the father-in-law of George Hubbard; as stated in the text above, he first appears in 1639 with the Guilford settlers who came direct from England. (b) Manwaring's Digest of Early Conn. Probate Records, vol. 1, pp. 183-184. (c) Guilford Vital Records, vol. A, p. 68. Jacobus reiterates the above in TAG 29, 1953 pp. 127-128. Kathleen Pantano [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>