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THOMAS HYLAND (bp. 1629–1706), son of Thomas Hyland and Deborah Maynard
ELIZABETH STOCKBRIDGE (pr. c. 1638–aft. 1708), daughter of John Stockbridge and Anne Kendall
Thomas Hyland, the son of Thomas Hyland, was baptized on 15 November 1629 in St. Mildred's Church, in Tenterden, Kent. [1] He died in 1706. [2] He married Elizabeth Stockbridge on 1 January 1661 in Scituate. [3]
Elizabeth Stockbridge, referred to as under-aged in her fathers will of 4 (7) 1657, was probably born about 1638. She was baptized on 10 July 1642 in Boston. [4] She died after 13 April 1708.
While later generations spelled their name "Hyland," Thomas and his father are usually referred to as Thomas Hiland.
Thomas Hyland, Jr., is on a 26 February 1673 list of people in Scituate with rights to divisions and Commons. [5: 61]
Thomas (or his father) is on list of those who took the oath of fidelity in Scituate between 1633 and 1668. [6]
Thomas lived on his father's homestead. [6: 290]
Moses Crocker was found guilty of stealing from Edward Williams and put into servitude with John Williams, Sr. On 7 June 1665 the court ordered that Moses could serve out the rest of his time with Thomas Hyland, Jr. [7, 4:93]
Thomas and his father Thomas are on a 1673 list of "allowed and approved" inhabitants of Scituate. [6, 155–6]
Thomas was fined five pounds for "furnishing an Indian called Jonas with rum sometime in May [1687?] last." [8]
Captain John Williams sued Thomas Hyland of Scituate, claiming that Thomas's son John killed William's horse. Thomas pleaded not guilty but in in September 1687 the court found for the plaintiff and Thomas was fined 50 shillings and taxed costs of £3 - 90 -00. [8]
Thomas has seven acres laid out to him on 26 February 1690/1. [4: 102] He sold John Bryant seven acres of upland for four pounds the same day. [5: 191]
Thomas was granted administration on his son Thomas's estate and posted bond on 17 March 1690/1. [9]
In September 1691 Henry Joslin was fined three shillings, 4 d. for breach of peace; making "threatning speeches and abusive carriages at the house of Thomas Hyland in Scituate. [8]
On 6 January 1693/4 Thomas Hiland, Jr. as heir of his father Thomas Hiland, Sr., sold ten acres to Thomas Stockbridge for five pounds. [5: 195]
Thomas conveyed two parcels of upland in Conihasset to his son John on 20 April 1694 and John's mother Elizabeth signed a quitclaim. [2]
On 17 November 1696 Thomas Hiland sold ten acres of swamp to Samuel Clapp for 40 shillings. [5]
On 13 April 1708, Elizabeth gave her only (living) son John her upland and meadow at the Fourth Cliff in Scituate that she got from her father Stockbridge. [2]
Children of Thomas Hyland and Elizabeth Stockbridge: Births and baptisms recorded in Scituate. [3]
i. Thomas Hyland was born on 25 January 1662/3. He died in the Quebec Expedition of 1690. [2]
ii. Elizabeth Hyland was born on 15 August 1665. She was baptized on 24 September 1665. She died on 13 April 1746 in Scituate. [10] She married John Merritt in 1686. [10] John, the son of John (Henry) and Elizabeth (Wyborne) Merritt, was born on 27 February 1661/2, probably in Scituate. [10]
i. Mary Hyland was born on 15 May 1667. She was baptized on 21 June 1666. She died on 5 November 1729. She married Colonel Amos Turner.
i. John Hyland was born on 17 March 1670. He died on 15 December 1753. [2] He married Elizabeth James on 3 January 1694/5 in Scituate. [3] She was probably born in 1673 and she died after 8 December 1748. [2]
Myers argues that there is compelling circumstantial evidence that Elizabeth was the daughter of the Quaker William James of Boston and Scituate and his wife Mehitable. [2]
John Hyland, yeoman of Scituate, made his will on 8 December 1748. He named his wife Elizabeth; his sons James, John, Thomas, Benjamin and William Hyland; his daughters Ruth and Mehitable Hyland, Sarah Jones and Anna Cahill. [2]
i. Ruth Hyland was born on 15 June 1673.
References:
1. "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 66 (1912): 64.
2. Marya C. Myers, "John and Elizabeth (James) Hyland of Scituate, Massachusetts, and some of their Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 157 (2002): 209–20.
3. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), vol. 1: 181 (Hiland births and baptisms); vol. 2: 148–9 (Hiland marriages).
4. "Great Migration 1634–1635, R–S," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VI, R–S (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), 534–40.
5. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), vol. 1: 61. (Hathi Trust)
6. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate (Boston: James Loring, 1831).
7. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1856).
8. "Plymouth County, MA: Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > vol. 1, pages 4, 6, 20.
9. "Plymouth County, MA: Probate Papers, 1686–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > case 11143.
10. Roger D. Joslyn, "The Descendants of John Stockbridge," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 133 (1979): 100.
Photo: St. Mildred's Church, Wikimedia Commons.
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