Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Samuel Haight
1647 - 1712 (65 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
1. Samuel Haight was born on 1 May 1647 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (son of Nicholas Hoyt and Susanna); died in Sep 1712. Notes:
Also called Samuel Hoyt, Horght, Hoight, etc.
Savage said that he died young and unmarried, but David W. Hoyt's 1871 A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families (citation details below), makes a convincing case that he was the same Samuel Hoyt/Haight who appears in Eastchester in 1672 and later, then as a leader among the Quakers of Flushing from 1683 until his death in Sep 1712.Samuel married Sarah about 1668. Sarah was born about 1650. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Phoebe Haight was born on 12 Nov 1701 in Flushing, Queens, New York; died on 20 Jan 1731 in Flushing, Queens, New York.
2. Nicholas Hoyt was born before 7 May 1620; was christened on 7 May 1620 in West Hatch, Somerset, England (son of Simon Hoyt and (Unknown first wife of Simon Hoyt)); died on 7 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Notes:
Emigrated 1628.
Nicholas married Susanna on 12 Jun 1646 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Susanna died on 4 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Susanna died on 4 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Notes:
She was previously married to William Joyce.
Children:
- 1. Samuel Haight was born on 1 May 1647 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died in Sep 1712.
Generation: 3
4. Simon Hoyt was born about 1593 in West Hatch, Somerset, England; died on 1 Sep 1657 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Notes:
Emigrated to Charlestown, 1629. In Dorchester by 1633; Scituate 1635; Windsor 1639; Fairfield 1649; Stamford 1657.
Simon Hoyt (~1593-1657) = (unknown wife)
Walter Hoyt/Hayt (1618-~1698) = Rhoda
Zerubbabel Hoyt/Hayt/Haite (~1652-~1738) = Mehitable Keeler
Joseph Hoyt (d. 1731) = Sarah (probably Pickett)
James Hoyt (1708-1774) = Hannah Gould (d. 1778)
Isaac Hoyt (1754-1804) = Mary Raymond (d. >1804)
Mary Hoyt (1787-1852) = Charles Robert Sherman (1788-1829)
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)Simon married (Unknown first wife of Simon Hoyt) before 1618. (Unknown died after 1625 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. (Unknown first wife of Simon Hoyt) died after 1625 in England. Children:
- 2. Nicholas Hoyt was born before 7 May 1620; was christened on 7 May 1620 in West Hatch, Somerset, England; died on 7 Jul 1655 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.