Ann Hunking

Little is known about Ann. As a widow she was known as Dame Hunking. She paid taxes on Great Island & Sandy Beach. Ann along with 7 other women in 1693 was assigned the first seat in the Portsmouth Meeting House, a high honor.

Maiden name seen as Jefferie.

Family

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mainegenie/HUNKING.htm

In 1660-61 Mark Hunking was granted a"whole neck of land" (Little Harbor, NH). He was trained as a shipwright but became owner of a fishing boat and employed a master to operate it. He might have owned the fishing industries on his island.

Children of Mark Hunking and his wife Ann:

• 4I. MARGARET- b.c.1640, m.c.1663 CHRISTOPHER ADAMS (will 21 Sept. 1687 Kittery), d. 9 Dec. 1722 Kittery
• II. Mark- b.c.1642, m.c.1671, Sarah Sherburne (b. 10 Jan. 1651 Portsmouth, d after 1720 Portsmouth), d. before 7 Jan. 1731/2. Mark lived at Little Harbor on the property that later became the Wentworth estate.
• III. Archelaus- b.c.1645, d. after 1667
• IV. Temperance- m. Thomas Fernald (b.c.1633, inv. 25 Aug. 1697 Portsmouth), d. after 1714
• V. Mary- m. Thomas Wakeham (b.c.1640, will 27 Sept. 1698- 15 Dec. 1709 Portsmouth), d. after 1714

Ref: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- pp. 359-60