Hannah Winter

Not the same as Hannah Collier

Disputed Origins

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Profile last modified 23 Jun 2023 | Created 26 May 2012

Hannah King was born about 1644 to Thomas and Mary (unknown) King.[1], who married James Cutler second.

Her step sister, Hannah Cutler (Born 26 Jul 1638 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts), daughter of James Cutler and his 1st wife Anna, married John Collier.

Family

Hannah King married John Winter by 1663 and had at least the following children:[1]

1. Sarah c1663
2. Hannah 1665

John Winter of Cambridge Farms (Lexington) left a will in 1690 naming the following children:[2]

1. John
2. Thomas
3. Samuel
4. Sarah
5. Hannah
6. Mary

Origins

Children of Mary and Thomas KING, b. Watertown:

• Thomas, b. 16:1mo:1640 (16 March 1639/40), d. Watertown 28:10mo:1644 (28 Dec 1644).
• Mary, b. 2:12mo:1641 (2 Feb 1641/2), m. Watertown 19 Oct 1659 John JOHNSON.
• Hannah, b. c. 1644, m. c. 1662 John WINTER. Hannah King is the daughter of Mary, (second wife of James Cutler), by her first husband, Thomas King.

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https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hannah_Cutler_%286%29

Sanborn, “Great Migration Diary,” NEXUS 15:202-203 (1998). Sanborn uses the will of James Cutler and other contemporary documents to support a convincing analysis that shows that Hannah Winter was the posthumous daughter of Thomas King and the stepdaughter of James Cutler, and not—as had been long accepted, based on incomplete analysis of his will—Cutler’s daughter. Cited by Stuart Bloom

In NEHGS Nexus, Vol. 15, p. 203, Melinde Lutz Sanborn suggests that John Coller married Hannah Cutler, and John Winter married Hannah King, the step-daughter. The evidence is very circumstantial and it is based on the process of elimination where some facts are surmised, but not known: Mary Johnson and Hannah Winter are never actually called "my daughter" and based on age, etc., they must be the two King step-daughters.

Hannah King is the daughter of Mary King (second wife of James Cutler), by her first husband, Thomas King. Hannah Cutler, born July 26, 1638, is the daughter of James Cutler, by his first wife, Anna. Hannah Cutler married John Winter about 1660 in Watertown. Both were born about 3 months apart. The will of James Cutler mentions daughter, Hannah, not stepdaughter or daughter of my wife, Mary. The Stuart Bloom assessment of the will of James Cutler appears to be in error. Biography

Birth

Hannah, daughter of James Cutler and his wife Anna, was born 26 July 1638 (26th of 5m 1638, OS, 5m is July) in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and grew up in the home of James Cutler. [1]

Confusion with step-sister Hannah King

Seven years after the birth of Hannah Cutler, Hannah's mother Anna having died, James Cutler married Mary Bernard, widow of Thomas King. Thomas and Mary had a daughter Hannah King, also born in 1638. The two sisters then grew up in the same household, creating confusion along the way!

Stuart Bloom [2] conflated the two Hannahs, assumed that the merged Hannah was a posthumous daughter of Thomas King, thus born in 1644 or 1645, and grew up in the household with the name Hannah Cutler. Bloom bases this reasoning on Sanborn [3] who uses the will of James Cutler and other contemporary documents to support a convincing analysis that shows that Hannah Winter was the posthumous daughter of Thomas King and the stepdaughter of James Cutler, and not—as had been long accepted -- Cutler’s daughter.

In fact, however, two girls named Hannah grew up in the same household.

References

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Winter_%282%29
• Sanborn, “Great Migration Diary,” NEXUS 15:202-203 (1998). Sanborn uses the will of James Cutler and other contemporary documents to support a convincing analysis that shows that Hannah Winter was the posthumous daughter of Thomas King and the stepdaughter of James Cutler, and not—as had been long accepted, based on incomplete analysis of his will—Cutler’s daughter. Cited by Stuart Bloom
• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 2005, p 168-170, available here < americanancestors >
• Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town. 1860, p 656, image at Bond
• Bloom, Stuart. Winter Family. Earlville, IL, 2005. Accessed April 25, 2015 at www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/Fam_Winter.pdf. Accessed April 25, 2015. Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20170131140013/https://earlvillepost.co... on 31 January 2017.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Winter-461
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZ2D-9Y6/hannah-cutler-1638-1689
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hannah_Cutler_%286%29 For family