Martha Post HYDE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Jedediah Hyde and Elizabeth (Brown) (Parker)

Martha married William WESTGATE in 1801 in Plainfield, New Hampshire. William (son of John WESTGATE and Grace CHURCH) was born on 4 Jul 1776 in Plainfield, New Hamphire; died in 1805 in Vincennes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Eleazer CALKINS in 1808 in Marietta, Ohio. Eleazer died in 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. Francis SMALLEY. Francis was born on 25 Nov 1785 in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut; died after 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jedediah married Elizabeth BROWN in 1781. Elizabeth was born in 1751 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Nov 1825 in Hyde Park, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Hyde Genealogy": After the death of his first wife, he m. in 1781, the widow Elizabeth (Brown) Parker, b. in 1751, at Stonington, relict of David Parker, and daughter of Humphrey Brown and Mary Fanning of Stonington. The tradition in the family, in relation to this marriage is, that soon after the marriage of David Parker and Elizabeth Brown, he enlisted in the company of Capt. Hyde; and that she applied to the captain to release her husband. that he declined doing so: but told her, jocosely that if her husband should be killed and his own wife should die before his return from the war, he would himself become her husband. That her husband was killed in battle; and that the first wife of Capt. Hyde having died, he kept his promise, by marrying the widow of Parker. They removed to the then new township of Hyde Park, VT., named for him, and of which he was one of the original proprietors; where he died 29 May 1822. She survived him and d. 28 Nov. 1825. He was a farmer.