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Ancestors of Joan Eleanor Hersey

1062. Walter Harris, born Bet. 1590 - 1600⁸⁰¹; died Nov 06, 1654 in New London, Connecticut ⁸⁰². Walter married 1063. Mary Fry⁸⁰³.

1063. Mary Fry, died Jan 24, 1655/56 in New London, Connecticut ⁸⁰⁴.

Notes for Walter Harris:
NEHGS Register, Vol. 156; April 2002

Walter and Mary had seven children baptized at Honiton, Devonshire, England, "at regular intervals from 1621 to 1636." This fact verifies that he was the Walter Harris on the Speedwell, sailing from Weymouth, England, on 22 April 1637 with "his wife, six children, and three servants."

Notes for Mary Fry:
Perhaps born Axminster, Devonshire, England.
NEHGS Register; Vol. 156, April 2002; p. 145

Children of Walter Harris and Mary Fry are:

531	i.	Sarah Harris, born Bef. Mar 1624/25; died Mar 27, 1695 in Hingham, MA; married George Lane Bef. 1638 in Hingham, Weymouth, MA.
	ii.	Mary Harris, born Abt. Nov 1621 ⁸⁰⁵; died in young⁸⁰⁵
	iii.	Thomas Harris, born WFT Est. 1611-1650⁸⁰⁵; died WFT Est. 1622-1731 in Eng⁸⁰⁵
	iv.	Gabriel Harris, born WFT Est. 1611-1650⁸⁰⁵; died Abt. 1684⁸⁰⁵
	v.	Elizabeth Harris, born Abt. 1634⁸⁰⁵; died Apr 10, 1723⁸⁰⁵

1084. John Beal, born 1588 in Wramplingham, Norfolk, England; died Apr 01, 1688 in Hingham, Mass.. He was the son of 2168. Edward Beales. He married 1085. Nazareth Hobart Jul 13, 1630 in Hingham, Norfolk, Englan.

1085. Nazareth Hobart, born Jun 07, 1601 in Hingham, England ⁸⁰⁶; died Sep 23, 1658 in Hingham, Mass.⁸⁰⁶. She was the daughter of 2170. Edmund Hobart and 2171. Margaret Dewey.

Notes for John Beal:
BEAL, John-ex from England to America

Descendants of John Beal (1568 - 1987); Resident of Hingham, England and later Hingham, America; Includes many family stories; Written by Mary Naomi Clark

Hingham Genealogies, George Lincoln; p. 53: John, came from the parish of hingham, County of Norfolk, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts Bay, in 1638; and on the 18th of September of that year received a grant of land containing six acres on what is now South Street, at or near the corner of hersey Street. Daniel Cushing, the fourth town clerk of our Hingham, made the following record concerning the arrival of John Beal, Sen., and his family, viz.: "1638. John Beal, shoemaker, with his wife and five sons and three daughters and two servants, came from Old Hingham and settled in New Hingham." He was admitted a freeman in 1639, and in 1649 and 1659 was chosen to represent the town at the General Court of the Colony, His first wife, Nazareth Hobart, who was the mother of his children, was a daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. She was born in England about 1600, and died in Hingham September 23, 1658. For his second wife he married March 10, 1659, Mrs. Mary Jacob, the widow of Nicholas Jacob. She died in Hingham June 15, 1681. John died April 1, 1688. In noticing the death of the latter, David Hobart (son of Rev. Peter), made the following record: "April 1, 1688, my Uncle John Beal died suddenly." Judge Sewall also wrote under the same date: "Father Beal of Hingham dies, aged 100 years." In his will of September 27, 1687, names children and grandchildren, leaving legacies to each. [ The children of John and Nazareth, with the exception of the two youngest, were born in England.]
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BEAL, John-ex from England to America

Descendants of John Beal (1568 - 1987); Resident of Hingham, England and later Hingham, America; Includes many family stories; Written by Mary Naomi Clark
A Mormon seeking his ancestry in Norfolk County, England, for
inclusion in his Church records, found the baptismal date for JOHN BEAL
in a small parish adjacent to Wymondham. The parish register included
two marriages and the first name of the third wife and the baptismal
date of his father's 19 children. These records were included in the
1976 LDS Computer File Index where I found them.
"Clarence Almon Torrey listed extracts from the parish records of
Wymondham in the American Genealogist (volume number not known). He
showed the marriage of JOHN BEALES to Frances Ripley in Wymondham on
11 June 1616. His article was titled 'JOHN BEAL'S First Wife'.
"Mr. Torrey also listed the marriage.of JOHN BEAL to NAZARETH
TURNER in Hingham on 13 July 1630. NAZARETH (HOBART) TURNER was the
widow of Robert Turner who was buried 7 April 1627 after a marriage of a
few months. (Deaths were not recorded in parish registers but burials
were as the latter was the responsibility of a clergyman).

JOHN BEAL (l), the ancestor and progenitor of all those of the name
of BEAL dwelling in Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, Weymouth, Abington and
other towns in the vicinity, was born in 1588, and came from the Parish
of Hingham in Forehoe Hundred in the County of Norfolk, England, which
is situated about 14 miles west-southwest of Norwich, the shire town,
and about 98 miles northeast of London. He and his family came to
America in the vessel called the "Diligent" of Ipswich, of which Mr.
John Martin was Master, arriving at Boston 10 August 1638. There were
133 passengers on the "Diligent".
Daniel Cushing, one of the early town clerks of Hingham and who
also came to New England in the above named vessel states in a preserved
manuscript list of the early settlers of Hingham, that "John Beale, shoe-
maker, with his wife and five sons and three daughters and two servants,
came from old Hingham and settled in new Hingham". It is assumed that
one of the servants was a woman to help care for the children and the
other was a nephew, John Beal, Jr., son of Edmund Beal who was a younger
brother of JOHN BEAL (l), the shoemaker. John Beal, Jr., was probably an
apprentice in the art of shoemaking. It was a common practice in England
in the 1600's to apprentice sons and daughters to relatives to learn a
trade or profession. Shoemaking was a paying profession in the 1600's
and 1700's and John may well have chosen it. (There has been some con-
fusion among genealogists and family historians about the John Beal who
died in Hingham, Mass. in 1657. In his will hich was probated on 28
July 1658, he infers that he was unmarried and made bequests to his father,
who never came over to this country, and to his cousins, the children of
JOHN BEAL (l). His father was Edmund Beal who is shown in the Parish Reg-
ister of Hingham Norfolk County, England, as marrying Susan Wright on
14 December 1619.
Perhaps the inducement that led JOHN BEAL (l) to select Hingham,
America. as a place of abode was the fact that his second wife, NAZARETH,
was the daughter of EDMUND HOBART who had settled in America in 1633.
Also her brother Reverend Peter Hobart had sailed to America and landed
in September 1635.
In 1638, not long after his settlement at Hingham, JOHN BEAL (l) be-
came a land holder, as may be inferred from the following entry taken
from the town's book of grants of land: "Given unto JOHN BEAL for a
house lot six acres of land butting upon the Town Street northward,
and upon the Common southward, bounded with the land of Jonas Austin,
(another record says Farrar Austin), eastward and with the land of
Thomas Hobart westward.' The site of this home lot can easily be
pointed out on the south side of the present South Street (which was the
ancient Town Street) and west of Hersey Street, which was laid out
through Mr. Austin's original lot.
On 13 March 1639 JOHN BEAL (l) was admitted a freeman of the
Massachusetts Colony by taking the customary freeman's oath. He did
this at the same time as several of his fellow townsmen. In 1649 in
company with Mr. Nicholas Jacob, he represented the Town of Hingham in
the General Court of the Colony. He was also a Representative in 1659.
His Wife NAZARETH died 23 September 1658 at Hingham, Massachusetts.
On 10 March 1659, he married Mary the widow of his old friend, Nicholas
Jacob, who had died on 5 June 1657. By this wife he had no children.
She died 15 May 1681. David Hobart, NAZARETH'S nephew, continued his
father's diary and recorded the event, although the town records state
that, "Mary Beal, wife of JOHN BEAL, SR. (l), died on 15 June 1681."
JOHN BEAL (l) lived to a good old age for under date of 1 April 1688,
one Judge Sewall noted in his diary, "Father Beal of Hingham died at age
100" and David Hobart wrote under the same date, "My Uncle John Beal
died suddenly". (LDS records show JOHN BEAL to be 95 years of age as
his documented date of christening was registered 8 May 1593).

Notes for Nazareth Hobart:
From Great Migration Begins:
i NAZARETH, bp. 7 June 1601; m. (1) Hingham, Norfolk, 9 November 1626 Robert
Turner; m. (2) Hingham, Norfolk, 13 July 1630 as his second wife John Beal. John Beal m. (3)
Hingham 10 March 1658/9 Mary (Gilman) Jacob [NEHGR 2:253], widow of NICHOLAS
JACOB.
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BEAL, John-ex from England to America

"The HOBART entries were: NAZARETH (HUBBEPTE), (HUBBARD), HOBART, christened 7 June 1601, was the daughter of EDMUND HOBART and Wife MARGARET DEWE, who were married 7 September 1600. NAZARETH first married Robert Turner on 9 November 1626. He was buried 7 April 1627. On 13 July 1630, NAZARETH (HOBART) TURNER married JOHN BEAL, a second marriage for both.
"Other entries for DEWE copied from the Hingham Parish Register in
the Library of the Society of Genealogists, London, were:
Robert Dewe and Margaret Stasye married 15 February 1601
Margaret Dewe daughter of Robert baptized 24 August 1606
Robert Dewe son of Robert baptized 25 September 1608
"Other children of EDMUND HOBART and MARGARET (DEWE) HOBART were Joshua, Peter, Edmund, Jr., Thomas, Rebecca and Sarah.

Children of John Beal and Nazareth Hobart are:

	i.	Mary Beal, born 1622.
	ii.	Sarah Beal, born 1624.
542	iii.	Nathaniel Beal, born 1629 in England; died Dec 20, 1708 in Hingham, Mass; married Martha.
	iv.	Jeremiah Beal, born 1631.
	v.	Joshua Beal, born Abt. 1633.
	vi.	Caleb Beal, born 1636.
	vii.	Rebecca Beal, born 1641.
	viii.	Jacob Beal, born Oct 03, 1642.

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