46. NATHANIEL LOVEJOY (1667–1752), son of John Lovejoy and Mary Osgood
47. DOROTHY HOYT (1674–1714), daughter of John Hoyt and Mary Barnes
Nathaniel Lovejoy was born on 29 May 1667 in Andover. [1] He died on 7 March 1752, age 84, in Andover. [Ref] He married Dorothy Hoyt on 21 March 1693/4 in Andover. [Ref] Nathaniel married second Elizabeth Wilson, possibly the widow of William Wilson. [3] This Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Andrews (link to Cummings Family website).
Dorothy Hoyt was born on 29 January 1673/[4?] in Amesbury. [4] Dorothy, the wife of Nathaniel, died on 17 May 1714, age about 40, in Andover. [Ref]
Children of Nathaniel Lovejoy and Dorothy Hoyt:
i. Dorothy Lovejoy was born on 24 May 1697 in Andover. [Ref] She married Solomon Martin on 25 December 1722 in Andover. [5] Solomon, the son of Samuel and Abigail (Norton) Martin, died on 4 April 1754. [6]
ii. Ensign Nathaniel Lovejoy was born on 7 February 1698/9 in Andover. [Ref] He died "in an apoplectic fit" on 25 August 1769, age 69 and six months, in Andover. [2] He married Elizabeth Swan of Hampton at Hampton. [7] She was born in 1709/10 in Haverhill and died on 21 June 1770. [7]
iii. Dorcas Lovejoy (twin) was born in 1701 in Andover. She married John Shackford.
iv. Timothy Lovejoy (twin) was born in 1701 in Andover. [Ref] He married Mary Curnell on 20 August 1730 in Andover. [7]
v. Deborah Lovejoy was born in 1703? in Andover. [Ref] She married John Bailey on 13 December 1732. [8] John, the son of Joseph and Abigail Bailey, was born on 26 November 1691 in Bradford and died about 1750 in Metheun. [8]
vi. Ezekiel Lovejoy was born in 1705? in Andover. [Ref] He died on 13 April 1742 in Andover. [2] He married Elizabeth Wilson on 9 January 1727/8 in Andover. [5]
vii. Daniel Lovejoy was born in 1710 in Andover. [Ref] He married Mary Holt on 29 October 1745. [7] She was born on 4 July 1722. [7]
References:
1. Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 1:248–56. Many of the birth records are torn.
2. Vital Records of Andover, 2:492–6.
3. Joseph Dow, History of Hampton, vol. 2 (Salem: Salem Press, 1893), 1044.
4. Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), 129–37.
5. Vital Records of Andover, 2:220–4.
6. "Research in Progress: The Trials of the Wilson Family," Essex Genealogist 34 (2014): 155–64, specifically 162–3.
7. Clarence Earle Lovejoy, Lovejoy Genealogy (n.p.: n.p., 1930), 68–69.
8. Lovejoy, Lovejoy Genealogy, 60.
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