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Miriam Harcourt (Hoyt)

Also Known As: "Firman", "Foreman"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Probably Scituate, Plymouth Colony
Death: May 02, 1696 (52-61)
Queens County, New York
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Simon Hoyt, of Somerset & Stamford and Susannah Bates
Wife of Samuel Foreman and Richard Harcourt
Mother of Susannah Townsend; Sarah Harcourt and Mercy Birdsall
Sister of Mary Eliza Lyon; Joshua Hoyt; Deacon Samuel Hoyt; Benjamin Hoyt; Infant Hoyt and 3 others
Half sister of Christopher Hoyt; Walter Hoyt, of Norwalk; Nicholas Hoyt; Alexander Hoyt, of West Hatch; Agnes Hoyt and 1 other

Managed by: James Hutchison
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About Miriam Harcourt

children of Simon Hoyt (d 1657) and Susannah:

ix. Miriam, b. ca. 1639 (Scituate?), m. Samuel Firman (perhaps Forman) 25 March 1662, Fairfield, CT (date and place not confirmed by author)


Miriam Hoyt. Born about 1650. She married Samuel Forman, born in England in 1637, died in April 1682, son of Robert and Johanna (---) Forman. (This is from the Forman Genealogy, by Anne S. Dandridge, Cleveland, Ohio, 1903.) They lived in Flushing, L.I.

After Samuel's death, she married, about 1683, Richard Harcourt, born 1623, died 1696, who had married, 1st, in 1651, Elizabeth Potter, born 1635-6, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Anthony) Potter.

Issue:-

2/1. Mercy Forman. She married Benjamin Birdsall, whose will was dated 1719, son of Nathan and Temperance (Baldwin) Birdsall, who lived in Oyster Bay, L.I. in 1684-5


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Miriam Harcourt's Timeline

1639
1639
Probably Scituate, Plymouth Colony
1659
1659
Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, United States
1663
1663
Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, US
1696
May 2, 1696
Age 57
Queens County, New York
1996
1996
Age 57
1996
Age 57
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