Martha Hues

Martha (---) Sheffield Hazard

• Born: bet: 1635 and 1654
• Died: Aft 1691 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States Age 58 years

Marriage

1. Before 1648 Husband: Thomas Sheriffe

Children:

• John Sheriff Birth: circa February 9, 1648, Portsmouth, RI;
• Thomas Shreve, Birth: October 2, 1649, Plymouth, Massachusetts;
• Mary Sheffield, Birth: circa 1654, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island;
• Daniel (Sheriff), Birth: circa 1658, Little Compton, Rhode Island;
• Susannah Thomas, Birth: 1656, Portsmouth, Newport, RI;
• Elizabeth Carter, Birth: 1660, Portsmouth, Newport, RI
• Sarah Moon, Birth: 1665, Portsmouth, Newport, RI

Marriage [2] 1675, Portsmouth, Newport, RI

Husband: Thomas Hazard, Jr., b. 1608, of, Orset, Nottinghamshire, England; d. 1680, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Martha’s second husband, Thomas Hazard made a declaration (just after her first husband’s death 1675, May 29): this is to satisfy all men, whom it may anyway concern, whereas there is a promise of matrimony betwixt Thomas Hazard and Martha Sheriff, yet I the foresaid Thomas Hazard do take the said Martha Sheriff for her own person, without having anything to do with her estate or with anything that is hers, &c (GDRI, 177).

Marriage [3]

Husband: Lewis Hues

According to Allen, Lewis Hues: Absconded within seven weeks of their marriage, taking with him much property belonging to his wife, which occasioned her to transfer her remaining property subject to certain provisions for her maintenance during her lifetime to her son John.

Austin provides further information: Martha Hues, wife of Lewis Hues, made agreement with her son John Shrieff, which she had by her former husband. Whereas said Lewis Hues was lawfully married to his above named wife Martha, took an occasion privately to go away within six or seven weeks after he was married, taking away great part of her estate that was hers in her former husband’s time. She now surrenders all her estate real and personal to her son John, excepting provisions, bedding, &c, and such things as she formerly gave her daughter Susanna Sheriff, John Sheriff to pay his mother ,6, on Dec. 25th yearly for life, and thirty pounds good cheese and two barrels cider, to barrels apples, firewood, foom at north east end of house she now lives in, east part of garden, and keep of a horse or mare, &c (GDRI, 178).

Sources:

http://shrevehistory.com/ThomasSheriff.xml

Willoughby & associated Families - http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

Allen, Luther P., History and Genealogy of the Shreve Family p. 27;

Austin, John Osborne, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island,

Joel Munsell’s Sons, Albany, New York, 1937, p. 177; Wilroth, Benjamin Franklin,

Little Compton Families, Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, Rhode Island, 1967, p. 568.

Title: New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV, Page: 1684

SOURCE: Robinson, Caroline Elizabeth (1895). The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635 - 1894. Boston.

Thomas Hazard first married a woman named Martha, about whom little is known. Based on the probable birth dates of his children, his wife and at least two children likely sailed with him from England to New England.

Hazard had a friendly relationship with Thomas Sheriff of Portsmouth, and when the latter died, Hazard married, as his second wife, Sheriff's widow, also named Martha. In his first will in 1669, Hazard made his son executor, and named all three daughters, but in his later will, his son and daughters were disinherited, with all of his estate going to his "beloved yoakfellow Martha Hassard now living. Following Hazard's death, his widow then married Lewis Hues, who abandoned her within a few weeks, apparently "taking away great part of her estate, that was hers in her former husband's time."

Seen as Christened 1611 at St Bride London.