ROBERT HUESTIS OR HUSTED & WIVES, "GREAT MIGRATION..."

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DorothyStuartHall1

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ABOUT ROBERT HUESTIS IN OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL SERIES, :THE GREAT MIGRATION....," COMPILED BY ROBERT CHARLES ANDERSON.

Robert Huestis

ORIGIN: Bridgeport [Bridport], Dorsetshire.

MIGRATION: 1635 on the "Marygold" (on 20 March 163[4/]5, "Rob[er]t Huste, husbandman," aged 40, was enrolled at Weymouth, Dorsetshire, as a passenger for New England on the "Marygold" [Hotten 286; GMN 7:9]).

FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston.

REMOVES: Stamford by 1642, Greenwich.

ESTATE: On 27 January 1639/40, "Robert Hewstead hath a Great Lot granted unto him at the Mount [Braintree] for eight heads, 32 acres, paying 3s. an acre" [BTR 1:45].

In 1642 "[Robert Hust]ice" was granted a houselot at Stamford [TAG 10:42, citing Stamford TR 1:6]. On 5 October 1648, "Andreu Messenger of Greenwich" sold to "Robert Heusted of Stanford all my right in land in the same place, all the land that is laid out or that shall hereafter be laid out with all rights belonging thereunto with sixteen acres of upland & five acres of meadow on Myanos Neck ... and ... a homelot & housing on it with ten acres of meadow & upland ... which was John Rockwel's" [Greenwich LR 1:8]. In the Stamford land inventory on 6 March 1650[/1?], "Robert Hustis Senior" held six parcels: "a houselot with the barn and outhousing on it containing an acre & half"; "another homelot by the Ox Pasture, containing one acre and half"; "in the North Field six acres upland"; "in the South Field 8 acres upland more or less, with 7 acres of meadow adjoining to it"; "in the same field 6 acres waste land, upland, more or less at the furthest point of the field"; and "3 acres upland lying within the South Field gate" [Stamford TR 1:34-35]. In his will, dated 8 July 1652 and proved 4 November 1654, "Robert Heusted the elder" bequeathed to "my son Angell all my lands lying in Greenwich with the housing upon it, also ... a third part of my cattle"; to "my son Robert all my lands lying in Stanfford & one-third part of my cattle with all the housing on the land, this only excepted, that my wife is to have being there her lifetime & to be her maintenance ... [and] one-third part of my cattle with all my household stuff"; to "my daughter Ann ten pounds" [GreenwichLR 1:30; Stamford TR 1:109-10; NYGBR 129:199].

In her will, dated 16 October 1654 and proved 20 November 1654, "Elizabeth Hustis (the widow Robert Hustis deceased of Stamford)," bequeathed to "Angell Hustis of Grinwich" livestock; to "my [son?] Robert Hustis" livestock and other moveables; residue to "my daughter Ann, the wife of Richard Hardy of Stamford," she to be executrix [Stamford TR 1:95; NYGBR 129:199-200].BIRTH: About 1595 (aged 40 on 20 March 163[4/]5 [Hotten 286]).

DEATH: Between 8 July 1652 (date of will) and 4 November 1654 (probate of will), and probably closer to the latter date.

MARRIAGE: (1) Bridgeport [Bridport], Dorsetshire., 6 April 1616 Anne Moon [NYGBR 129:196-97]. She was buried at Bridgeport [Bridport] on 1 February 1621/2 [NYGBR 129:196-97].

(2) By an unknown date Elizabeth _____. She died between 16 October 1654 (date of will) and 20 November 1654 (probate of will).

CHILDREN:With first wife

i MORGAN HUESTIS, bp. Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, 10 August 1617 [NYGBR 129:196, 200]; no further record.

ii ANNE HUESTIS, bp. Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, 14 March 1618/9 [NYGBR 129:196, 200]; no further record.

iii DEANES HUESTIS, bp. Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, 23 September 1621 [NYGBR 129:196, 200]; no further record.

With second wife

iv ANGELL HUESTIS, b. say 1624; m. (1) by about 1645 _____ _____; m. (2) after 1673 Rebecca (_____) Reynolds, widow of Jonathan Reynolds [TAG 73:201-6].

v ANN HUESTIS, b. say 1626; m. by about 1644 Richard Hardy [NYGBR 129:200-1].

vi ROBERT HUESTIS, b. say 1628; m. Stamford 7 January 16[55/6] Elizabeth Buxton [Stamford TR 1:67; NYGBR 129:201-6].

COMMENTS: We have given Bridgeport [Bridport] Dorsetshire, as the origin of this immigrant, as this is the last [also earliest?] certain English residence for him, but Gordon L. Remington makes the likely suggestion that he next resided at Pilsdon in the same county [NYGBR 129:197].

On 18 July 1640, "Robert Heusted" witnessed the deed of purchase of Greenwich from the Indians [Greenwich LR 1:455]. He had substantial land holdings in both Greenwich and Stamford and resided at both places [NYGBR 129:199].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1954 George E. McCracken published a brief article on the wife of Angell Huestis [TAG 30:127-28]. In 1998 Gordon L. Remington published a more detailed analysis of the marital career of the same man, correcting McCracken in some places [TAG 129:201-6]. In 1998 and 1999 Gordon L. Remington compiled an extensive and detailed treatment of this immigrant, with special emphasis on his son Robert [NYGBR 129:1-12, 97-108, 191-206, 276-84, 130:54-60, with the information on the immigrant at 129:191-201]. We have relied heavily on Remington's work on this family, especially for the marriages of the children of the immigrant.