Rev. John Hovey

I. John, born June 12, 1707 and died in 1773 at the age of sixty-six. He was an ordained minister, graduate of Harvard college in 1725 and taught school a number of years in Cambridge. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of John Muzzey of Lexington, about 1727. She died in Cambridge Dec. 17, 1729 at the age of nineteen, after 2 years of marriage. He married, second, Susannah, daughter of Joseph Levett of York, Maine, [SIC: Joseph Swett] in or before 1736. They had 7 children. John died at the home of Col. Richworth Jordan after returning from a visit to Plymouth. His candle not having been extinguished all night, they entered his chambers and found him sitting in his chair, partly undressed, and lifeless.

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“Marriage
3 Apr 1736 • York Co., Maine To John Hovey. Record states "Mrs. Susanna Sweet". Could she have been a widow Sweet, maiden name unknown?”

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• http://sjhovey.tripod.com/histories/john.htm
• page 138 of The Hovey Book: Describing the English Ancestry and American Descendants of ... By Daniel Hovey Association
• oslyn, Roger D. Vital records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984-1995), 1:215. John Hovey, son of John & Abiel Hovey, b. June 12 [altered from illegible?], 1707.
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bswett&id...
• Name: Mr John Hovey Event Type: Marriage Marriage Dat 3 Apr 1736 Marriage Place: York, USA Spouse Name: Mrs Susanna Swett Page Number: 128 Volume Number: 114 Source Information Ancestry.com. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.