Ann Hill (Nichols) - Wife of Eliphet Hill, mother of Mary Hill Morehouse, who are her parents?

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Hill_%28319%29

See The American Genealogist (TAG) Vol 27 pp 95-97 where it is shown that the birth record of Mary Hill born 1 Apr 1670 to Eliphalet and Ann Hill is a clerk's entry error. The correct entry should have been Mary Hitt born 1 Apr 1670 to Eliphalet and Ann Hitt. The wife of Thomas Morehouse was Mary Hill who was not born 1 Apr 1670 and who was not the daughter of Eliphalet and Ann Hitt. The parentage of Mary Hill remains unknown. She died in 1746 at the age of 77 according to her gravestone, which would be a birth year of about 1669.

Mary Morehouse therefore should be detached from the parents. She was not born 1 Apr 1670.

And Eliphet Hitt married Ann and had Mary Hitt born 1 Apr 1670.

Eliphalet Hill, 308

Anne Hett

Eliphalet Hett

Anne Hett

Mary Fitch

Erica Howton -- see TAG Vol 27 (1952) page 96. It looks to me to be certain that Eliphalet Hitt and Ann --- of Boston, parents of Mary Hitt, born 1 Apr 1670, are your Eliphalet Hett and his wife, Ann Douglas.

In various records having to do with bonds, widow Ann Hett is mentioned with children Hannah, Samuel, John, Thomas AND Mary.

I’m not sure I follow. Who are we looking for? This is a little ambiguous:

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Eliphalet_Hett_%281%29

See The American Genealogist (TAG) Vol 27 p95-97 where it is shown that the birth record of Mary Hill born 1 Apr 1670 to Eliphalet and Ann Hill is a clerk's entry error. The correct entry should have been Mary Hitt born 1 Apr 1670 to Eliphalet and Ann Hitt. The wife of Thomas Morehouse was Mary Hill who was not born 1 Apr 1670 and who was not the daughter of Eliphalet and Ann Hitt. The parentage of Mary Hill remains unknown. She died in 1746 at the age of 77 according to her gravestone, which would be a birth year of about 1769.

There is no Eliphalet Hill, this person is an error.

▼References
↑ Thomas Hett, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
ii ELIPHALET, bp. Boston 26 May 1639 [BChR 284]

I was working on Nichols and it led me to Eliphalet Hill and Ann (sic Nichols) parents of Mary Morehouse on the Geni tree, at least until I detached Mary Morehouse from them and changed their surname to "Hitt".

There is no Eliphalet Hill, you are correct. There's a Mary Hill Morehouse, parents were assumed to be an Eliphalet Hill and Ann of Boston. The surname "Hill" should have been Hitt, and I believe in addition that this couple, parents of a Mary Hitt, born 1 Apr 1670 in Boston, are your Eliphalet Hett and Ann Douglas. The TAG article, page 96, Vol 27 (1951, not 1952) is the important discussion.

Joseph Sturgis Wife Mary Hill needs to be looked at also, was she perhaps Mary Hett widow of Benjamin Finch?

No name for 1st wife here http://gsmall.us/Family/Small/getperson.php?personID=I02005&tre...

Jan. 1636, above. "Anne Hett, wife of Thomas I [ett, a Hingham cooper, was whipped and imprisoned (RCA, 2:126) for attempting to kill her son Eliphalet, ...”

Journals of John Winthrop. https://books.google.com/books?id=mHNorpMOvWkC&pg=PA785&lpg...

TGM has his wife as Ann Douglas daughter of Henry so it’s safe to merge.

Joseph Sturgis was one of the two husbands of Mary Hill, parents unknown, who was Mary Hill Morehouse. She's the one who was assumed to be Mary Hill born to Eliphalet Hill and Ann in Boston, but since they were actually Hitt, she's left without parents.

Eliphalet was also a cooper acc. to that TAG article I cited.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_Dictionary_of_t...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Historical_and...

marriage of Benjamin Fitch and Mary Hett

Mary Hett Fitch named one of her children Eliphalet, so that's that. She is indeed the daughter of Eliphalet and Ann.

Okay, merged the two Eliphalet and Ann profiles and connected the husband of their daughter, Mary, namely Benjamin Fitch with his father Rev. Joseph Fitch, Sr. and existing Fitch tree on Geni.

His surname was "Fitch" not "Finch".

Okay, merged the two Eliphalet and Ann profiles and connected the husband of their daughter, Mary, namely Benjamin Fitch with his father Rev. Joseph Fitch, Sr. and existing Fitch tree on Geni.

His surname was "Fitch" not "Finch".

What I find amazing is that I stumbled into the Hett and Fitch families from an error in the Nichols family and lo and behold, I am of course related to Rev. Joseph Fitch, Sr..

https://www.geni.com/path/Hatte-Blejer+is+related+to+Rev-Joseph-Fit...

Does the TAG article give the complete family of Elphalet Hett? Because some trees seem to have sons Hercules Archelaus Hewitt & Hercules Archelaus Hewitt

I can’t find anything solid on them yet.

Found proven daughter Hannah Parkman she inherited a Boston tavern!

The TAG article does not have Hercules. And there are a bunch of bond and deeds documents cited which list the children and widow.

Samuel 13 May 1662
Hannah 13 Feb 1663 (? 1664)
John 9 Feb 1665 (?1666)
Thomas 16 March 1666 (? 1667)

Mary 1 Apr 1670 per another source

I think the Hett boys may not have survived?

Disconnected Hercules Archelaus Hewitt as child of Eliphalet & Ann.

Hannah and Mary were both mentioned in 1694, but not the boys. Hannah Parkman. Mary Fitch.

So Parkman (Nathaniel Parkman, husband of Hannah Hett), Sturgis and others were Boston elite, it sounds like.

Elias Parkman, father of Nathaniel, founded Dorcester.

This is a fun site about all things Parkman:
https://parkmangenealogy.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/page/10/

I'm thinking that the Hett family had assets since Hannah married Nathaniel Parkman and Mary married a Fitch.

From the Parkman site (see last paragraph)

Parkman is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Samuel Parkman, a proprietor.

Samuel purchased 40,000 acres in Maine and 40,000 acres in Ohio both having the towns as Parkman Ohio and Maine as the centers.

Samuel also commissioned an oil portrait by Gilbert Stuart of George Washington that is on display @ The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The US $1 Dollar portrait of George Washington is taken from a 1796 Gilbert Stuart portrait.

Samuel gifted an 1801 Paul Revere bell to his Dad the Reverend Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough, Mass. The same bell now rings in the Old South Meeting House in Boston where the Tea Party started.

Samuel Parkman (August 22, 1751 – June 11, 1824) and Sarah Rogers had five children: Elizabeth (1785), Francis (1788), George (1790), Samuel (1791), and Daniel (1794). Samuel Parkman had also had six children by his previous marriage to Sarah Shaw.[2] Samuel Parkman, George’s father and family patriarch, had bought up low-lying lands and income properties in Boston’s West End.[3] He also founded and was part owner of the towns of Parkman, Ohio and Parkman, Maine.[4][5] His sons from his first marriage oversaw theOhio properties, while his second set of boys were responsible for the Maineparcel. Samuel’s daughters inherited wealth as well. The most notable was George’s sister Elizabeth Willard Parkman, whose spouse Robert Gould Shaw (1776 – 1853), grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863, Union Army colonel during the American Civil War), grew his wife’s share of the fortune to become the senior partner in the most powerful commercial house in a city glutted with the proceeds of the China Trade.[6]

The eleven Parkman scions united in marriage with the Beacon Hill families of Blake, Cabot, Mason, Sturgis, Tilden, and Tuckerman. Of his eleven offspring, Samuel chose George as the one to administer the Parkman estate.[7]

I wonder what happened here:

Land at Cape Fear to gr. ch. Samuel Het [Reg. XVI, 227]

That’s land from Henry Douglas.

Pretty heady descent from a woman tried to drown her children.

https://books.google.com/books?id=VgkXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103&lpg...

So later Parkman property in Boston was owned by William Douglas In 1648.

A brother of Henry Douglas?

textsBook of possessions of the town of Boston, ca. 1644-1652 [manuscript]
by Boston (Mass.). Town Clerk; McCleary, Samuel Foster, 1780-1855, Author of introduction, etc. page 141

https://archive.org/details/bookofpossession00bost/page/n143/mode/1up

This is about the “Book of Possessions”

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:m900r167m

William Douglas of Boston was also a cooper. Selling land in 1648.

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Volumes 1-3
edited by Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. Page 45. https://books.google.com/books?id=tbrpsru87NQC&lpg=RA27-PA45&am...

Now, that property transaction seems to refer to Dea. William Douglas

“There he remained for about four years,returning to Boston in 1645. He was a cooper by trade and on 1st May,1646, there is record of his purchasing from Walter MERRY and Thomas ANCHOR, a dwelling house, shop and land. Later he went to New London, Connecticut, and obtained considerable property through purchase and grants from the town. ...”

So how is it a possession of this William Douglas (the Globe Tavern site) gets to the Parkmans through Henry Douglas?