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JOHN HALLETT (d. 1673)
ANNE UNKNOWN (d. aft. 1675)
John Hallett died on 12 December 1673. [1] He married Anne Unknown, who died after 12 May 1675.
John Hallett was granted a portion of swampland in Scituate on 15 February 1642/3. [2: 1:83]
He is in the Scituate section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony.
He was one of the Conihassett Partners of Scituate.
He was the constable in Scituate in 1646. [4] He was a grand juryman there in 1664. [4]
John Hallett and James Cudworth took the inventory of Richard Sillis's estate on 26 March 1656 in Scituate. [5]
John Hallett of Scituate made his will on 30 August 1669. He left bequests to his wife Anne, his granddaughters Hannah, Mary Martha, Elizabeth, Deborah, and Sarah Curtis, his grandsons John and Thomas Curtis, his son-in-law Richard Curtis. He named Richard his sole executor. Inventory was taken on 7 January 1674 and his relict, Anne, took oath on 12 May 1675. [1]
On 16 June 1694 John Curtis of Scituate signed a deed that said that whereas a 1 June 1692 public record of Scituate said that John Hallett, deceased, had been granted part of a marsh in Scituate called Little March, and that after his decease Thomas Wood of Scituate claimed that he had bought the marsh for John Hallett for 28 shillings, he John Curtis, resigned all right to it. [2: 1:434]
It is unclear if or how John Hallett was related to Andrew Hallett.
Children of John Hallett and (presumably) Anne Unknown.
i. Ann Hallett married Richard Curtis.
References:
1. "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," Mayflower Descendant 34 (1937): 113–4.
2. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001).
3. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 255–259.
4. Ebenezer Pierce, Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995).
5. "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills at Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5 (1851): 335.
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