Hephzibah Clark (1699-1791) is #275 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #274 Timothy Hamant (1699-1774) in 1727 in Boston, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their daughter, #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780), who married #136 Moses Smith (1732-1806) in 1762.
* their son, #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.
* their son, #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840), who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.
* their daughter #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884)who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.
* their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Hephzibah Clark[1]
* Alternate Name: Hephzibah Hammant[2]
* Alternate Name: Hepsibah Hamant[3]
* Alternate Name: Hepzibah Clark[4]
* Sex: Female
* Father: Joseph Clark (1664-1731)
* Mother: Mary Wight (1667-1705)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 2 February 1698/9, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1]
* Distribution: 19 August 1774 (age 75), will of husband, Timothy Hamant; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]
* Death: August 1791 (about age 92), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]
* Burial: August 1791 (about age 92), probably Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Timothy Hamant (1699-1774)
* Marriage 1: 19 October 1727 (age 28), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]
* Child 1: Mehitable Hamant (1728-1814)
* Child 2: Elias Hamant (1730-1730)
* Child 3: Timothy Hamant (1731-1731)
* Child 4: Seth Hamant (1733-1771)
* Child 5: Patience Hamant (1735-1780)
* Child 6: Capt. Timothy Hamant (1736-1813)
* Child 7: Basmath Hamant (1738-1812)
* Child 8: Dinah Hamant (1739-1813)
* Child 9: Francis Hamant (1741-1808)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Hephzibah Clark was born on 2 February 1698/9 in Medfield, Massachusetts, the 6th child (of seven) born to Joseph and Mary (Wight) Clark[1].
She married Timothy Hamant on 19 October 1727 in Boston, Massachusetts by Justice of the Peace Samuel Sewall[4]. They were both noted as being from Medfield.
Timothy and Hepzibah had nine children between 1729 and 1741, all registered in the Medfield town records.
In Timothy Hamant's 1771 will, proved in Suffolk County Probate Court on 19 August 1774, he bequeathed to his wife Hephzibah[2]:
" I give & bequeath unto my beloved Wife Hephzibah Hammant the Improvement of the one third part of my Real Estate during her natural life, the one third part of such Money as may remain after my Debts & funeral Charges shall be paid, if any there should be; as also the one third part of such Debts as may be due to me at my decease, and the whole of the within door Moveables to be at her entire use & dispose forever; as also the Improvement of the one third part of all my Buildings during her natural Life, & the one third part of my Stock, to be at her dispose forever."
Hepsibah Hamant died in August 1791 in Medfield, Massachusetts[3]. The Medfield vital records book says:
"[HAMANT] Hepsibah, wid. Timothy, Aug --, 1791."
Hephzibah is probably buried at Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, but there is no gravestone or burial record available.
There are no probate records for Hepzibah (Clark) Hamant in the Suffolk county, Massachusetts Probate Court.
5) SOURCES
1. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 35, Hephzibah Clark entry.
2. "Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), citing Suffolk County [Mass.] Probate Records, 1636-1899, "Probate Records, Vol. 74-75, 1774-1776," Volume 74, pages 70-72, Timothy Hammant will written 8 May 1771, proved 19 August 1774.
3. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page 214, Hepsibah Hamant entry, 1791.
4. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Boston > Boston Marriages, 1721-1751, Vol. II, page 69 (image 36 of 127), Timothy Hamant and Hepzibah Clark entry.
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