The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Ames · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Hannah Ames

Born 1641, Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Hannah Ames was a woman of Braintree, in the Massachusetts Bay ColonyW, who was married in 1660 by the colony’s governor, John EndecottW. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Hannah Hayden.

Life

On 6 April 1660, at Braintree, John Hayden married Hannah Ames. The town clerk wrote that “John Hoidon & Hannah Ames were maryed the 2 mo. 6th. 1660 by Mr. Endicote Governor”. Marriage in the colony was a civil contract made before a magistrate, not a minister, and the magistrate at this wedding was the governor himself.

Their children were Hannah, John, Joseph, Josiah, Elizabeth, Lydia and Abigail. Josiah was born at Braintree on 19 June 1669. Hannah married Nathaniel Thayer at Braintree on 27 May 1679. Hannah Ames is said to have been born in 1641 and to have died in 1689.

Her husband died at Braintree on 29 May 1718, aged 83. His will left five shillings each to their sons John and Josiah and to their daughters “Hannah Thayer”, Elizabeth Pray, Lydia Vinton and “Abigail Thayer”, and gave the homestead to their son Joseph.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through her daughter Hannah Hayden and her grandson Hezekiah Thayer, whose son Noah Thayer (born 1745) was the father of Mary Thayer (1770–1827). Two of Mary’s grandchildren, Joseph Knapp Blanchard (1820–1885) and Elizabeth Trueworthy Blanchard (1825–1884), married each other, so their son Wesley Blanchard (1844–1908) descended from Hannah Ames through both parents.

Notes

Her years and her parents

The years 1641 and 1689 come from a compiled index of early New England marriages; the Braintree town records enter no birth or death for her. The same index makes her a daughter of William Ames, who died in 1653/4. No record names her parents, so that link rests on the index alone. The index also records William’s widow, also named Hannah, as the wife of John Niles, and dates that marriage about 1656 or 1657 in one place and 1660 in another.

Her children

The town records enter Josiah’s birth in 1669 to “John Hayden & Hanna his wiffe”. The other children are known from John Hayden’s will of 1718.

Family time line

◉ Hannah Ames 1641–
◉ John Hayden
Married 6 Apr 1660, Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony
○ Josiah Hayden 1669–
◉ Hannah Hayden
○ John Hayden
○ Joseph Hayden
○ Elizabeth Hayden
○ Lydia Hayden
○ Abigail Hayden

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 12 May 1641 Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America on record

Sources

  • 'Some Account of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, the Almanac-Maker, and his Family', New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16 (1862) p.255 - William Ames of Braintree and his six children (archive.org newenglandhistor016wate) — Birth, about this person
  • Bates, Samuel A., ed. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793 (Randolph, Mass., 1886), births and deaths pp. 632-633 and 819 (archive.org recordsoftownofb00brai) — about this person, Marriage (John Hayden)
  • Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - AMES, William and Hannah __ (m/2 John NILES); HAYDEN, John and Hannah AMES — about this person
  • Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records (register copy), vol. 21 pp.42-43 - will of John Hayden of Braintree, dated 25 May 1718, proved 23 Jun 1718, case 4059 — family with John Hayden

Borders as they stood about 1650, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. William Ames –1654
    1. John Ames
    2. Christian Browne 1583–1625
  2. Hannah (surname unknown)

Descendants

  1. Josiah Hayden 1669–
    1. Elisha Hayden 1698–1758
      1. Elias Hayden 1736–1806
        1. Joel Hayden 1754–1842
    2. John Hayden 1703–1763
      1. Elizabeth Hayden 1728–1810
        1. John Hayden Young 1763–1839
  2. Hannah Hayden
    1. Hannah Whitney Thayer 1685–1762
      1. Thomas Vinton 1714–1776
        1. Thomas Vinton 1739–1798
      2. Anna Vinton 1718–1765
        1. Mary Burrell 1741–1820
    2. Zachariah Thayer 1688–
      1. Ruhamah Thayer 1735–1817
        1. Caleb Hayden 1770–1838
    3. Ruth Thayer 1689–
    4. Deborah Thayer 1710–1782
      1. Moses Littlefield 1732–
        1. Hannah Littlefield 1757–1848
    5. Hezekiah Thayer
      1. Hezekiah Thayer 1730–
      2. Thankful Thayer 1732–
      3. Dorcas Thayer 1734–
      4. Silas Thayer 1742–
      5. Noah Thayer 1745– ⚭
        1. Mary Thayer 1770–1827
        2. Obadiah Allen Thayer 1772–
    6. Nathaniel Thayer
      1. Hannah Thayer 1704–1788
        1. Hannah Miller 1748–1826
      2. Mehitable Thayer –1775
        1. Sarah Miller 1746–
  3. John Hayden
  4. Joseph Hayden
  5. Elizabeth Hayden
    1. Elizabeth Pray 1685–1724
      1. Cornelius Stetson 1708–1772
        1. Stephen Stetson 1747–1782
  6. Lydia Hayden
    1. Abigail Vinton 1694–1755
      1. John Pierce 1713–1798
        1. John Pierce 1740–1825
  7. Abigail Hayden