Family:Whitney, Lucy (c1797-1874)
Lucy Whitney, daughter of an unknown father and Lucy Chester,[1] was born about 10 Apr 1797, Boxborough, MA,[2] and died 17 Mar 1874, Boxborough, MA, aged 76 years 11 months 7 days.[3]
She married firstly, 24 Oct 1817, Boxborough, MA, Tower Hazzard,[4] son of Thomas and Betsey (Boston) Hazard.[5] He was born about 1 Jul 1795, Lunenburg, MA,[6] and died 17 Aug 1863, Boxborough, MA, aged 68 years 1 month 16 days, of cholery morbus, married, farmer, born Luningburgh, son of Thomas and Betsey (Boston) Hazard, father born New London, wife born Littleton.[7]
Administration of the estate of Tower Hazard of Boxborough, MA, was granted in 1863 [Middlesex County Probate Index, File #33979].
She married secondly, 28 May 1866, Boxborough, MA, Sampson Dunbar Talbot, as his third wife, both of Boxborough,[8] son of Abraham and Mary (-----) Talbot.[9] He was born about 1799, Fairfax, ME,[10] and died 1892, Springfield, MA.[11]
At death, she was given as "Mulatto".
Children of Tower and Lucy (Whitney) Hazard, all born Boxborough, MA:
i. Lucy Elizabeth Hazard, b. 12 Aug 1817;[12] m. 10 Oct 1833, Boxborough, MA, Henry G. Lewis.[13] ii. Tower Hazard, b. 6 Aug 1820;[14] m. 28 Apr 1847, Gardner, MA, Catherine Freeman.[15] iii. Martha Ann Hazard, b. 30 Dec 1822;[16] m. 4 Apr 1844, Boxborough, MA, Barzillai B. Williams "of Groton".[17]
Census
- 1820, Boxborough, Middlesex Co., MA: Towar Hazzard, 1 free black male 26-44, 1 free black male 0-13, 1 free black female over 45, 1 free black female 14-25, and 1 free black female 0-13.
- 1830, Boxborough, Middlesex Co., MA: Tower Hazard 2 free black males 24-35, 4 free black males 10-23, 3 free black males 0-9, 1 free black female 24-35, 2 free black females 10-23, 2 free black females 0-9.
- 1840, Boxborough, Middlesex Co., MA: Tower Hazard, 1 colored male 36-54, 1 colored male 10-23, 1 colored male 0-9, 1 colored female 55-99, and 1 colored female 36-54.
- 1850, Boxborough, Middlesex Co., MA:
29 34 Tower Hazard 55 M B Farmer $800 Massachusetts Lucy " 54 F B " Geo. Lewis 15 M B " Attended school
- 1860, Boxborough, Middlesex Co., MA:
38 38 Tower Hazard 65 M - Farmer $1000 $650 Mass. Lucy " 62 F - " Annetta Williams 15 " - "
- 1870, Boxborough, Middlesex Co., MA:
14 17 Talbert, Samson D. 70 M B Farmer $1500 $300 Maine Male citizen over 21 -------, Lucy 73 F B Keeping House Mass. Wentworth, Wm. H. 29 M B Farm Work N.H. Male citizen over 21 ---------, Rhoda M. 38 F B House Work Vt. Decham, Peter 44 M W Work on Farm Canada Parents of foreign birth
Notes
Lucy Chester, daughter of Prince and Cate (-----) Chester, negroes, was born 20 Sep 1774, Boxborough, MA,[18] and "Miss" died 23 Jun 1849, aged 75 years.[19] Apparently her daughter Lucy Whitney was born illegitimately to her and some unknown white Whitney male, since Lucy Whitney was listed as a mulatto at her death. Lucy Whitney's husbands were both negroes.
References
1.^ See death record and second marriage record below.
2.^ See death record below.
3.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 266, page 59: "March 17th; Lucy (Whitney) Talbot; Mulatto Female Married; 76 11 7; Heart Disease; r. Boxborough; b. Boxborough; par. Lucy Chester, b. Boxborough".
4.^ "Lucy [Whitney] and Tower Hazard, [married] Oct. 24, 1817. C.R.," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Boxborough, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1915).
5.^ See death record below.
6.^ See death record below.
7.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 166, page 45: "Aug 17th; Tower Hazard; Male; Married; 68 1 16; Cholery Morbus; res. Boxborough; farming; b. Luningburgh; s. Thomas and Betsey (Boston); b. New London & Littleton".
8.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 190, page 110:
Aug. 26 Sampson Dunbar Talbot r. Boxborough 66 Farmer Fairfax, Me. Abraham & Mary Talbot Third W. W. Colburn pastor 1866 Lucy Whitney Hazard r. Boxborough 69 Boxborough, Mass. Lucy Chester Second of M. E. Church
9.^ See marriage record above.
10.^ See marriage record above.
11.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 427, page 671.
12.^ "Lucy Elizabeth [Hazard], d. of Tower and Lucy, [born] Aug. 12, 1817," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
13.^ "Lucy E. [Hazard] and Henry G. Lewis, [married] Oct. 10, 1833," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
14.^ "Tower [Hazard], s. of Tower and Lucy, [born] Aug. 6, 1820," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
15.^ "Tower [Hazard] Jr. of Boxboro, Mass. (s. Tower and Lucy, a. 26, farmer) and Catherine Freeman, [married] April 28, 1847," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Systematic History Fund, 1907).
16.^ "Martha Ann [Hazard] and Barzillai B. Williams of Groton, Apr. 4, 1844," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
17.^ "Martha Ann [Hazard], d. of Tower and Lucy, [born] Dec. 30, 1822," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
18.^ "Lucy [Chester], d. of Prince and Cate, [born] Sept. 20, 1774," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
19.^ "Lucy [Chester], Miss, [died] June 23, 1849, a. 75," according to Boxborough Vital Records.
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