Martha HUBBARD

Notes:

Name:
William Clarke, Boston, Mass., in Oct. 1731, wrote the following about her: "My grandmother by the mother's side was Martha Hubbard, of Ipswich Hubbards. The family was very considerable, she being in England brought up at a boarding school, and had always her attendants to wait upon her, and in those days wearing her gold watch, which was worn only by persons of distinction;----and I have often heard my grandmother speak of her living in England and the meanness of her living here, though at the very best rate, but would flatter herself that here she had pure worship which they were deprived of in the land of their nativity."

Family/Spouse: John WHITTINGHAM. John was born in of Sutterton near Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1648 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Simon EYRE in 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 1620; Graduated at Cambridge University, England
• Immigration: 06 Oct 1635, Landed in Boston, Massachusetts in the ship "Defence"
• Will Proved: 19 Aug 1670

Notes:

Excerpt from "One Thousands years of Hubbard History": He was the founder and principal benefactor of the Ipswich Grammar School in 1636,....He was made freeman May 2, 1638, and was Deputy to the General Court for six years, between 1638-1646, and commissioned in 1651 by the General court to "marry people," not then a clergyman's prerogative: was commissioner of Salem Court, 1654-1656; Justice of the Quarterly Court in 1658; and "assistant" in 1659..... In 1659 he was on a committee of complaints "that the ministers suffer for want of support." He removed to Boston in 1652.......

William married Judith KNAPP. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Knapp and Martha Blosse of Ipswich England