General Notes

Arrived Boston, Mass. June 5, 1632 in the ship " William and Francis" .One of the purchasers of Nantucket Island from the Indians in 1659. Membr. of the Royal Council of N.H.

Source:
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 1988.
Hampton, original settler 6 Sep 1638 with his mother and father-in-law
Rev Stephen Batchelder whose footsteps he followed after marriage to his
daughter, Theodate, meeting her by family tradition in Holland; coming on
the same William and Francis which arrived 5 Jun 1632; settled first at
Saugus (Lynn, MA); freeman 14 May 1634; Newbury, proprietor 1637; Hampton
Commissioner, t. e. s. c. 22 May 1639, the first of many times; lot layer 31
Oct; called present Deacon 30 Jun 1640; Moderator 1641 1663-4, 1672; Town Clerk
1650-3; Selectman 1650, 1658, 1664, 1669.  Often tr. and Gr. j., and
foreman.  Confirmed Lieut. 14 Jun 1653, Captain 11 Oct 1664.  Rep. 1658,
1659, 1660, 1672; Councillor 1679 until Cranfield came in.  Nantucket
proprietor Jul 1659, sold there to his sons in 1671 and 1681.  In Apr
1674 he and son John were admonished for breach of the law called Quakers
meeting.  Colcord depos. that her father gave them all his cattle, goods
and debts on going back to England, indicating his will liv. beyond that
time.

LDS Microfilm 029,883 part 3/  has a seven page Hussey genealogy based on
Austin and 160 Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, 1893, History of
Nantucket by Alexander Starbuck, 1924, and History of Lynn, Mass., by
Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.

It tells of Christopher Hussey, his wife, mother, and father-in-law first
coming to New England.  It tells of Christopher holding many offices and
being a substantial land owner.

An interesting entry is that 1659, 7, 2, Christopher was one of the nine
purchasers of Nantucket, Mass., from Thomas Mayhew, for 30 pounds
sterling and two beaver hats; "one for myself and one for my wife", as
the deed says.  It is not known that he ever went to that island; he
certainly never lived there for any considerable time.
1671, 10, 23.  Captain Christopher Hussey of Hampton, deeded to his sons
Stephen and John of same place, for 80 pounds, all his interest on the
Island of Nantucket, "that is to say all my lands, arable land, pasture,
meadows, woodland, all commonage, rights and privileges due unto me
according to the purchase made by me; with all my cattle, neat cattle,
goats or horses, all my stock that is on the island of Nantucket of what
kind or quality or ever it be".
For the next fifteen years of his life, he held many important offices
after the King determined to erect New Hampshire into a separate
government, under jurisdiction of a President and Council to be appointed
by himself.

Christopher held the office of Councillor, next to  the president and
deputy, for three years.
1684, 2, 8, will.  Codicil, 1685, 10, 28.  Proved 1686, 10, 7.
Executors, son John Hussey and son-in-law John Smith.  Witnesses Stephen
Torry, Robert Pike, Martha Pike.  He gives to his tow sons, Stephen and
John, his farm of about 150 acres and also about 50 acres marsh land.  To
daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Page, 7 acres medow, 2 shares in Ox Common,
2 shares in Cow Commons, and 30 pounds to be paid her by Stephen and John
Hussey.  To daughter Huldah all the rest of land and housing in the town
of Hampton, and goods and stock, also the planting lot, 3 acre meadow lot
2 shares Ox Commons, 2 shares Cow Commons, and 30 pounts to be paid her
by John Smith, the husband of my daughter Huldah.
Inventory, upwards 600 pounds including the following items:  House,
orchard and land adjoining, 42 pounds.  Upland on the farm, 200 pounds.
Five acres meadow, 100 pounds.  40 acres marsh, 60 pounds.  15 acres
marsh, 24 pounds. Planting land, 28 pounds.  Spring medow, 30 pounds.  7
acre meadow, 14 pounds. Medow, 6 pounds.  Spring medow, 30 pounds.  7
acres meadow, 14 pounds.  Meadow, 6 pounds.  Land at North Division, 6
pounds.  4 shares Ox Common, 24 pounds.  4 shares Cow Commons, 30 pounds.
12 acres pasture, 20 pounds.  3 cows, 1 ox and 1 year old beast, 12
pounds.  Beds, boulsters, blankets, rugs, and curtains, 12 pounds.  Table
and linen, sheets, etc., 10 pounds.
1686, 3, 8.  He was buried on this date at Hampton, so, the town record
declare.  (History of Lynn)

Christopher Hussey's will is copied from LDS microfilm 1561672:
WiL OF CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Last Will and Testament of Chrisopher Hussey was made the 28th day of
February 1684.

I, Christopher Husy, being through the mercy of God in health of body and
I a sound memory and disposing capacity for wch (which) I bles the Lord
and God being strickn in years, not knowing the time of my departure
desiring according to rulle to set my house in order before I dy, revoke
alll former Wills by me made, to make and ordain this my last Will and
Testament in wch I do first resigns my soule unto the hands of the Lord
Jesus Christ my blessed Savior and Redeemer and my body to the dust from
whence it was taken in hope of a blessed resurrection among the just when
my soule and body being again reunited and clothed over with the
righteonsness of Christ to remaine with the Lord forever and as for my
outward estate that God hath graciously lent me my just debts being payd
and funeral charges discharged, I dispose of as followeth.
Imprimis:  I give my two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy my farm with all
the privileges thereof namely the one hundred and fifty ackers of meadows
upland as granted taken also fifty ackers more of marsh which I bought
adjacent to it I say I give it by equal parts that is to say one full
half to my son Steeven his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple and
the other half to my son John in like manner only that paying to my
dafter Mary as hereafter in my Will is expressed.
Item:  I give to my dafter Mary Husy now wife of Thomas Page my 7 acres
of medow lying near Bejamin Shaws and that peec of medow through which
the highway lyeth and also 2 shares in the ox common and also too shars
of cows common and also I do order that my son John Smith shall pay her
thirty pounds and my two sons John and Steeven shall pay her forty pounds
apiece in good pay.
Item:  I give and bequeath to my dafter Huldah the like manner all the
rest of my lands and housing and comon rights in the town of Hampton and
all the houshold stuff and goods and stck then remaining that is to say
my house with all in it or with it with all the land adjacent and the
planting lots and 3 ackers medow lot toward the sprint, 2 shars in the ox
coman and 2 shars in the cow coman and do order and appoint that he shall
pay to my dafter Mary thirty pounds toward her porsion.
Item:  My will is that the legases that I have bequethed to my dafter
Mary that part of it wch is in land that shee shall enjoy it imediately
after my deasease and the thirty pounds that shee shall have of my son
John Smith the husband of my dafter Huldah i do will it to be payd her in
two years after my desease that it to say the one half the first year and
the other half the second year as good pay of country.
Item:  My will is also that the forty pounds apeece that I have willed my
two sons Steeven Husy and John Husy to pay her that it be payd her allso
within or by the end of two years next after my desease in som good pay
of the country.
Item:  My will is also that the forty pounds and in case of fayler shee
my sd. dafter shall have in low thereof thirty ackers of the farm part
whereof shall be the old field lying on the other side of the way on end
whearof buts upon my old house and the other end toward the mill River by
the bridge the rest to be made up of the farms wch ad. lands shall be
ingadged hearby and shall be responsible for the payment of the aforesayd
som ten or twelve ackers whearof shall be medow.
Item:  My will is that the sd. (said) som being payd my sayd sons Steven
and John shall have the farm first bequeathed by evene and equal porsion
(portion) only my son John shall not be molested or hindered of what he
have built on nor his building ncrompltd(?) in the valving of the farm
because they are his owne the land on wch. that stan be rakend or valued.
I do upon further consideration will and declare that it shall be in my
sd dafter Mary 's choifc whether shee will bave the land foremensioned in
the farme or the 80 pounds of my 2 sons Steeven and John Husy.
Lastly, I make and ordaine my son John Husy and my son John Smith to be
joint Executors of this my will and in case they should both dy before as
above sd. then I do appoint my dafter Mary and in case shee should also
in like manor fayle then I apoint my son Steephen to be my Executor in
their stead and my trusty friends Mr. Richard Waldron and Mr. Robert Pike
to be overseers of this my will.  In witness of all wch I have hearunto
sett my hand and seal the day and year aforemensioned.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL) Signed, sealed
nd declared to be his last Will and Testament before us:
Moses Pike
Robert Pike
His
Steeven Tong
Mark
Salisbry October ye 28 - 1685 upon a considering of som dubiausness in
the expression of some things in this my Will respecting coman rights or
privaleges I do by these present for the avoyding of any contraversy or
mistakes about it in time to come declare that by the privileges
mensioned belonging to my farm by it I do plainly intent whatsoever
woods, woodland or feeding rights or coman lands to be divided that do
belong to ye sd. farm it shall remaine and be to ye sd. farme and so ----
porsionably to be divided to my two sons that have the farm and lands
adjacent or lands not yet pofost (possessed) that ly in coman and in like
manner the coman rights that do belong to the lands that is given to my
two dafters Mary and Huldah in the Towne it shall belong to each of them
attending to thayr severall portions of land I meane any coman rights
thereto belonging devided or undevided and this I do declare to by my
plane intent and meaning in that case as wwitness my hand and seale, day
and year above written.
Christopher Hussey (SEAL)
Signed, sealed and declared in ye presence of us
Steeven Tong (his mark)
Robert Pike
Martha Pike
New Hampshire in New England Moses Pike, Robert Pike and steeven Tong
appeared the 7th of 8th month 1686 before Richard Waldron, Jr. and made
oath that they saw Christopher Hussey signe, seal and heard him declare
this Instrumit contained in the two former pages as his last will and
then saw him signe and seal the above menconed codicill being of a
disposing mind.
Attests Elisa Stileman Clery

In September, 1993, at the Sutro Library, an original handwritten
manuscript was found  resulting from a computer search under the Hussey Family.
It is Sutro F 72 N2 G36 1874 [Genealogy of several families who settled in
the Nantucket region]. -- [1874?]. [92] p. ; 32 cm.
There is a section on the Hussey family.  I will quote the beginning of
that section.  The manuscript was written in about 1874.
Capt. Christopher Hussey, the father of Stephen was born in the town of
Dorking in the Co. of Surry England about six miles SSW from London.  He
made suit to a young woman by the name of Bachelor in Holland whos father
had removed there sometime befor from England & was a clergyman and was
then about removing with his family to America.  He would not give his
concent for the said Hussey to marry his dauter on any other terms than
that he should remove with him to America, which he did and settled in
the town of Lynn Co. of Essex a Province of Massachusetts Bay N. England where
the said Bachelr was minister of the town and in so early a time of the
Settlement that the said Stephen Hussey was the second child born in the
town, and the one that was born before him was born in the same week.
When on the following Sabbath they were both carried to church to be
christened the eldest was first presented to the Minister he put it by
and reached for the other saying I will christen my own first.  Hence
arose that saying that has so offent been made use of.
The said Christopher Hussey the father of Stephen was cast away on the
coast of Florida, and was devoured by Cannibals who were at that time
inhabitants of that coast.  He was a man that bore the name of a
gentleman equal to any one that lived at that day.  Christopher's wife's
name was Theodate.  Hence the name of Theodate Gardner wife of Ruben and
several others in the Co of Barnstable, in Stephen Gorham's family.
... the manuscript goes on to describe each of Christopher's and
Theodates children which includes the following about John:
John Hussey son of old Christopher married Mary Perkins of Hampton & move
to Newcastle, Deleware and died in 1711 leaving fourteen daughers.
... Some of the handwritten notes in the folder are dated as early as 1824.
The latest one was a list of people weho celebrated the 85th birthday of
E. F. Gard, December 21, 1874.