Ann Moore (1666-1760) is number 577 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #576 Ephraim Hildreth (1655-1731) in 1686 in Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son #288 James Hildreth (1698-1761) who married #289 Dorothy Prescott (1702-1774) in 1721.
* their son #144 Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784) who married #145 Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812) in 1753.
* their son #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) who married #73 Elizabth Ketyes (1759-1793) in 1777.
* their son #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
* their son #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) 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: Ann Moore[1,3–5]
* Alternate Name: Anna Moore Hildreth[6]
* Alternate Name: Anna Moor[9–11]
* Alternate Name: Anne Hildreth[2,7-8]
* Sex: Female
* Father: John Moore (1628-1703)
* Mother: Anne Smith (1627-1671)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 17 July 1666, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[1,3–6]
* Distribution: 12 April 1731 (age 64) husband's will proved; Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]
* Death: about 8 April 1760 (about age 93) Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6–8]
* Burial: about 8 April 1760 (about age 93) unknown cemetery, Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6–8]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Ephraim Hildreth (1655-1731)
* Marriage 1: 8 October 1686 (age 20), Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,9-11]
* Child 1: Ephraim Hildreth (1687-????)
* Child 2: Joseph Hildreth (1689-1764)
* Child 3: Richard Hildreth (1691-????)
* Child 4: James Hildreth (1692-1696)
* Child 5: Ebenezer Hildreth (1696-1762)
* Child 6: James Hildreth (1698-1761)
* Child 7: Jonathan Hildreth (1701-1752)
* Child 8: Anna Hildreth (1705-1784)
* Child 9: Thomas Hildreth (1707-1707)
* Child 10: Jacob Hildreth (1709-1754)
* Child 11: David Hildreth (1711-????)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Ann Moore was born "17 5mo 1666" (17 July 1666) in Lancaster, Massachusetts, the daughter of John and Ann (Smith) Moore[1,3-6].
Anna Moore married, at age 20, Ephraim Hildreth,as his second wife, on 8 October 1686 in Stow, Massachusetts[9-11]. Ephraim was the son of Richard and Elizabeth (--?--) Hildreth of Cambridge and Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Ephraim and Anna had eleven children, all recorded in the Chelmsford town records[1]:
* Ephraim Hildreth (1687-????)
* Joseph Hildreth (1689-1764), married 1708 Deliverance Barrett (1690-1776).
* Richard Hildreth (1691-????).
* James Hildreth (1692-????).
* Ebenezer Hildreth (1696-1762), married 1719 Sarah Swallow (1698-1762).
* James Hildreth (1698-1761), married 1721 Dorothy Prescott (1702-1774).
* Jonathan Hildreth (1701-1752), married 1738 Hannah Spaulding (1709-1758).
* Anna Hildreth (1705-1784), married 1721 John Butterfield (1698-1766).
* Thomas Hildreth (1707-1707).
* Jacob Hildreth (1709-1754), married 1730 Abigail Harwood (1710-1761).
* David Hildreth (1711-????).
They lived in the part of Chelmsford that became Westford in about 1729.
Ephraim Hildreth died testate on 5 April 1731 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, having written a will on 5 March 1730/1, which was proved on 12 April 1731[2]. His probate records are in Middlesex County Probate Records, Packet #11,316. The will includes:
"Item I give and bequeath to Anne my dearly beloved Wife all my houshold moveables and stuff and one cow during her natural life and after her decease to Return and Remain to my daughter Anna Butterfield as by a deed I signed to her."Item I give and bequeath to my Wife all my money and Bonds which is due or owing or will becom due: and also all my Estate that I have not deeded away all Ready and two cows and four swine to her and her dispose for ever and all so one heffer two years olde to be at her dispose for ever and allso one calf to her and her dispose for ever."
On 5 February 1735, Jonathan Hildreth of Chelmsford and Nathaniel Russell of Littleton posted bond of 250 pounds to support Anna Hildreth, widow of Ephraim. In 1752, Anna Hildreth conveyed land to Ephraim Hildreth which formerly belonged to Ephraim Hildreth Sr[1].
Anne (Moore) Hildreth died about 8 April 1760 at age 93, perhaps in Chelmsford, Westford or Littleton, and was buried in one of the old cemeteries in Littleton, according to several family history books[1,6-8].
5) SOURCES
1. John Lyman Porter, Second Publication of the Hildreth Family Associaton, Genealogical and Historical Data Relating to Richard Hildreth (1605-1693), Freeman, 1643, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Mass.; Thomas Hildreth (died 1657), of Long Island, Southampton, N.Y., Including the History of the Second Generation of Hildreths in America (Hildreth Family Association, n.p., 1922)., pages 57-68, Ephraim Hildreth family sketch.
2. "Middlesex County, Mass.: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital images, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org), Middlesex Cases 10000-11999, Probate estate file 11316 (7 images), Ephraim Hildreth estate, 1731.
3. John Plummer, "The English Origin of John Moore of Sudbury, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, Volume 66, Number 2 (April 1991).
4. Henry S. Nourse (editor), The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850 (Clinton, Mass. : W.J. Coulter, Printer, 1890), page 11, "Middlesex County Records," Ann Moore birth entry, 17 5th month 1666.
5. Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part II: The Ancestry of Amanda Spiller, 1823-1873 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008), page 184, Ephraim Hildreth family sketch.
6. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), unknown location, Littleton, Mass., Anna Moore Hildreth memorial #205115805.
7. Nora Emma Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (Hillburn, N.Y.: Snow, 1939), Volume 1, page 76, #6. Ephraim Hildreth sketch, Anna Hildreth burial entry, 8 April 1760.
8. Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth, 1773-1857, wife of Annis Spear of Litchfield Maine (Portland Me. :, Anthoensen Press, 1958), page 8, Ephraim Hildreth sketch, Anna Hildreth burial entry, 8 April 1760.
9. Vital records of Stow, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), Marriages, page 163, Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor entry, 8 October 1686.
10. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com, accessed 22 February 2014), "Stow, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 218 (image 113 of 962), Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor marriage entry, 8 October 1686.
11. Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part II: The Ancestry of Amanda Spiller, 1823-1873, page 184, Ephraim Hildreth family sketch, Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moor marriage entry, 1686.
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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.
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