Martha _____ b. 1630 Little Compton, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America d. Abt 1691 Rhode Island, British Colonial America: Tangled Roots

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Name	Martha _____
Born	1630	Little Compton, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America [1]
Gender	Female
Name	Martha Hazard
Name	Martha Hues
Name	Martha Sheriff
Died	Abt 1691	Rhode Island, British Colonial America
Person ID	I1374	TangledRoots
Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

Family 1 Thomas Sheriff, b. Abt 1620, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. 29 May 1675, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America (Age 55 years)

Married 1649 Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, British Colonial America [1, 2]

Children

	1. Thomas Sheriff, b. 2 Sep 1649, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown
	2. John Sheriff, b. Abt 1650, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. 14 Oct 1739 (Age 89 years)
	3. Caleb Shreve, b. Abt 1652, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. Between 1740 and 1741, Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America (Age 88 years)
	4. Mary Sheriff, d. Aft 1706
	5. Susannah Sheriff, b. Abt 1657, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. Aft 1719 (Age > 63 years)
	6. Daniel Sheriff, b. Little Compton, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. 8 Jun 1737, Little Compton, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America
	7. Elizabeth Sheriff, b. Abt 1660, Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. 5 Jun 1719 (Age 59 years)
	8. Sarah Sheriff, d. 24 Jun 1732

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F765 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2	Thomas Hazard, b. 1610, d. 1680 (Age 70 years)
Married	Aft 1675 [1]
Last Modified	16 Jan 2022
Family ID	F768	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 3	Lewis Hues, d. Yes, date unknown
Married	Bef 1691 [1]
Last Modified	16 Jan 2022
Family ID	F769	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

...She m. (2) Thomas Hazard and (3) Lewis Hues.
...Plymouth, Mass., Portsmouth, R. I. 1641, Dec. 7. He and William Brown complained against James Laxford in an action of trespass. They attached four goats and a lamb in the hands of Samuel Eddy and Joshua Pratt, amounting to 33 shillings, and several other sums in other persons' hands. 1666, Dec. 10, Portsmouth. he deeded Thomas Hazard a quarter of a share in Misquamicut and also paid him 20 pounds, receiving in exchange therefor 30 acres in Portsmouth, and house, orchard, etc., all to belong to Thomas Hazard for life and at decease of Thomas Hazard to be for Thomas Sheriff and his wife Martha for their lives, and at death of both of them to go to 2nd son John Sheriff and heirs, and for want of issue of John to go to 3rd son Caleb, etc.
...Her second husband, Thomas Hazard, made a declaration (just after her first husband's death in 1675, May 29): "This is to satisfy all men, whom it may anyway concern, whereas there is a promise of matrimony betwixt Thomas Hazard and Martha Sheriff, yet I the foresaid Thomas Hazard do take the said Martha Sheriff for her own person, without having anything to do with her estate or with anything that is hers," etc.
...1691, Mar. 22. Martha Hues, wife of Lewis Hues, made agreement with her son John Sheriff, which she had by former husband. Whereas said Lewis Hues was lawfully married to his above named wife Martha, took an occasion privately to go away within six or seven weeks after he was married, taking away great part of her estate that was hers in her former husband's time. She now surrenders all her estate real and personal to her son John, excepting provisions, bedding, etc., and such things as she formerly gave her daughter Susanna Sheriff. John Sheriff to pay his mother £6, on Dec. 25th yearly for life, and thirty pounds good butter and thirty pounds good cheese and two barrels cider, two barrels apples, firewood, room at north-east end of home she now lives in, east part of garden, and keep of a horse or mare, etc. (Source: L. P. Allen, The Genealogy and History of the Shreve Family from 1641 (Greenfield, Illinois: Privately Printed, 1901), pg. 17-18.)