A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire. Historic and genealogic sketches. Proceedings of the centennial celebration, July 4th, 1849. Proceedings of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, July 4th, 1899 (Volume 2) online
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A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire. Historic and genealogic sketches. Proceedings of the centennial celebration, July 4th, 1849. Proceedings of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, July 4th, 1899 (Volume 2) online:
Starting page 348:
Edmund Eastman, b. in Salisbury, Mass., May 21, 1715, a son of Edmund and Susanna Singletaiy, who married, for
a second husband, Richard Bartlett, Dec. 8, 1720. She had three children by Mr. Eastman, of whom Edmund was the
second child. He married widow Hannah Hills (No. 67), and removed to Hampstead soon after, to the '' old Eastman
residence " at West Hampstead, where he died, Oct. 21, 1804, and was buried in the hill cemetery at West Hampstead. He was admitted a member of the church June 3, 1752. (See p. 543, VoL 1.)
67. Hannah Hunt, b. in Amesbury, Mass., July 7, 1716, a daughter of John and Hannah (Clough) Hunt of Amesbury, " a shoe man " there. She m., first, Joshua, son of Joshua and Priscilla (Chase) Hills, who was b. in Newbury, Mass., March 2, 1718 ; m. Nov. 27, 1739. He d. in Newbury, Nov. 13, 1744. She m., second, Edmund Eastman Mar. 10, 1746. She had children, b. in Hampstead : —
I. .Jemima, mar. Parker Stevens (So. 22).
11. Edmund, b. April 3, 1752; mar. Mary Davis, b. Mar. 21, 1752, in Hampstead, a daughter of Josiah and Dorothy (Colby) Davis, and who d. in Corinth, Vt., Aug. 30, 1836, aged 85 years. He was a farmer of Corinth, and had nine children born there.
III. Joshua; mar. Sarah Tucker (Xos. 109 and 170).
IV. Susannah, b. Oct. 13, 1763; d. unmarried.
Hannah d. in Hampstead, Aug. 21, 1806, and was buried in the hill cemetery at West Hampstead. She was adm. to
the church June 3, 1752. The Eastman Genealogy and also Vol. 1 records the fact that widow Hannah Hill was the grandmother of Governor Hill of New Hampshire, which is pronounced now (1902), by Guy S. Rix of Concord, author of Eastman Genealogy, as an error, made by the compiler of the family and so recorded in the New England Gen. Reg. of 1869. Hannah (Hunt) Hills had children, b. in Newbury: —
I. Lydia, b. Oct, 13, 1740; m. Levi Stevens, and had children b. in
Hampstead. (See p. 428, Vol. 1.)
II. Hannah, b. May 5, 1742; m. Daniel Stevens. (See also above.)
Both of the above owned the Covenant. (See list.)
Her father, John liunt, was son of Edward and Ann
(Weed) Hunt of Amesbur}-, freeman, 167 T, possiljle son of
Edward of Duxbury, Mass., 1635.
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