Ann Hurst

Ann married Robert Breck on 20 Apr 1591 in Prescot, Lancashire, England. Robert (son of Hugh Breck and Alice) was born before 24 May 1563; was christened on 24 May 1563 in Prescot, Lancashire, England; died before 12 Jan 1644; was buried on 12 Jan 1644 in Prescot, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Immigrated to New England prior to 20 Jun 1638, when he bought land at Dorchester.

Edward married Isabel in 1647 in Massachusetts. Isabel died between 20 Sep 1671 and 3 Jul 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1651
• Alternate death: 17 Feb 1691, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

"A tanner in the part of Dorchester known as Squantum, and actively engaged in various kinds of business; was captain and selectman of the town, and was well known as Captain John Breck." [Genealogy of the Breck Family, citation details below.]

John married Susanna before 17 Apr 1672. Susanna was born in 1648; died on 8 Feb 1712 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A cooper, merchant, etc.

John married Ann Patteshall on 21 Oct 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a cooper, an owner of shares in vessels, and extensively involved in the produce of Newfoundland fisheries.

John married Margaret Thomas on 18 Jan 1727. Margaret (daughter of Capt. William Thomas and Abigail Ruck) was born between 1708 and 1709; died in 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married John Lillie on 16 Aug 1754 in Trinity Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. John (son of Theophilus Lillie and Hannah Ruck) was born on 8 Aug 1728 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died before 19 Apr 1765 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Samuel Howard after 3 Apr 1777 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Ebenezer Howard and Martha Goffe) was born about 1752 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1797 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay after 31 Jul 1803 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Jonathan Fay and Lucy Prescott) was born on 10 Jan 1778 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 May 1856 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Rev. Charles Fay, D.D., of Vermont, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard College with honor 1829; in 1832 he became assistant teacher in the school established by Bishop Hopkins at Burlington, Vt., and was ordained Deacon in 1833. He organized St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vt., in 1838; he took charge of St John's, Highgate; in 1841, established a school for young ladies near Macon, Ga.; thence he removed in 1844 to Louisiana, and engaged in missionary work at Bayou Goula, then at New Orleans. In 1848, he was called to St Luke's, at St Albans, Vt. From 1857 to 1870, he was in charge of St. Paul's Church at Marquette, when he returned to Vermont, making his home at Grand Isle. He died in New York on the 6th of November, 1888, at the age of eighty." ["The Report on the Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members", citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Charlotte Emily Hopkins. Charlotte (daughter of Bishop John Henry Hopkins and Melusina Müller) was born on 4 May 1817 in Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; died on 23 Sep 1856 in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Jul 1846, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

Katherine married William Eben Stone on 22 Jun 1871 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. William (son of Dr. Ebenezer Stone and Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes) was born on 27 Nov 1845 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 23 Feb 1921 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Austin Tappan Wright on 14 Nov 1912 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Austin (son of John Henry Wright and Mary Tappan) was born on 20 Aug 1883 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire; died on 19 Sep 1931 in Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a San Francisco newspaper columnist, she coined the word "mondegreen."

"Sylvia Wright, a Writer and Harpers Ex-Editor," in The New York Times, 13 May 1981:

Sylvia Wright, a freelance writer who frequently and humorously commented in national magazines on trends in modern living, died of cancer Saturday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 64 years old.

Miss Wright was also a former editor of Harpers Bazaar. A collection of her magazine articles, ''Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts,'' was published by McGraw-Hill in 1957. She was also the author of a novel, ''A Shark Infested Rice Pudding.''

After her graduation from Bryn Mawr College, Miss Wright edited and prepared for publication ''Islandia,'' a Utopian novel about an imaginary country written by her father, the late Austin Tappen [sic] Wright, who was a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. The novel, which has been a steady seller, was published in 1942, reissued in 1958. It is currently published by Arno Press Inc. and the New American Library.

At her death, Miss Wright was writing a biography of her great-aunt, Melusina Fay Peirce, an early feminist and first wife of the American physicist, mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Miss Wright is survived by her husband, Paul J. Mitarachi; a son, John; a sister, Phyllis King of Manhattan; and two brothers, Benjamin and William Wright.

Notes:

Phyllis Wright and Lowell King were seventh cousins once removed, her being a 6XG-granddaughter of the Rev. James Fitch (1622-1702) and Priscilla Mason (1641-1714), and he being a 7XG-grandson of the same couple.

Phyllis married Lowell King on 27 Sep 1941 in New York, New York. Lowell (son of Clarence Baker King and Alice Darracott Seabrook) was born on 2 May 1920 in New Canaan, Farfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1969 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tappan married Beth Ann Meacham on 13 Oct 1978 in New York City. Beth (daughter of Richard Allen Meacham and Marion Ann Gaunder) was born on 14 Nov 1951 in Newark, Licking, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]