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Nathaniel Lovejoy (1667–1752), son of John Lovejoy and Mary Osgood
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.
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: Births recorded in Andover. [1]
i. Dorothy Lovejoy was born on 24 May 1697. 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. 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. She married John Shackford.
iv. Timothy Lovejoy (twin) was born in 1701. He married Mary Curnell on 20 August 1730 in Andover. [7]
v. Deborah Lovejoy was born in 1703(?). 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(?). 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. 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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