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Moses Hoyt
(1707-Abt 1784)
Mary Carr
(Cir 1710-)
Daniel Blaisdell
(1724-1793)
Rachel Edwards
(1721-1813)
George Hoyt
(1748-1842)
Rhoda Blaisdell
(1753-1828)

Betsey Hoyt
(1774-1876)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Jonathan Straw Jr
2. James Joslyn

Betsey Hoyt

  • Born: 10 Oct 1774, Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
  • Marriage (1): Jonathan Straw Jr on 3 Aug 1815 in Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
  • Marriage (2): James Joslyn on 11 Mar 1794
  • Died: 2 Apr 1876, Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire at age 101
  • Buried: Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

bullet   Cause of her death was "Lung Fever" (pneumonia).

bullet   Other names for Betsey were Betty Hoyt and Betsey Joslyn.

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bullet  General Notes:

Research of: William H Hoit 615 Oakland Avenue Centralia, WA 98531

DOB POB per S. Phaneuf; source: Hoyt's. .Betty Hoyt married James Joslyn first [according to the book on Hoyts] on 11 March 1794; sometime later she married a Jonathan Straw and lived in Henniker, NH....the Hoyt book says she was born in Weare, NH.... DOD aged 101 years, 2 months, and 22 days; POD per S. Phaneuf

Betty may have been born in Henniker, NH

1860 census Henniker, Merrimack County, NH Betsey STRAN (sic) age 85

Fitchburg Sentinel, The | Fitchburg, Massachusetts | Wednesday, December 03, 1873 Mrs. Betsey Straw of Waruer N. H. enjoyed last Thursday her one-hundredth Thanksgiving. Mrs. Straw was born October 20 1774, aud is consequently in her one hundredth year. Fitchburg Sentinel, The | Fitchburg, Massachusetts | Thursday, August 26, 1875 Mrs. Betsey Straw of Warner, who after only two mouths of being 101 years old, is knitting a pair of stockings for Dr. Lambert of New York, and another, pair for A. T. Stewart.

FARMERS CABINET 30 Jan 1877
Apr 2, Mrs Betsey Straw, Warner, 100y 5m 22d. Her maiden name was Hoyt and she was born at Weare, NH 10th Oct 1774. One of a family of eleven children of whom she was the last survivor. Married at the age of 24 to James Joslyn by whom she had four children three of whom died at an early age. At the age of 28 she was left a widow but subsequently married Jonathan Straw of Warner. After the death of Mr. Straw she resided for more than twenty years with friends and relatives in Henniker but the last three and a half years of her life were passed in the family of Mrs Ruth W. Sargent of Warner. She was a member of the Methodist church in Henniker and was buried in that town the Sunday following her decease.

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PORTSMOUTH JOURNAL OF LITERTURE AND POLITICS
Death of a centenarian in Warner
"Mrs Betsey Straw, the oldest inhabitant of Warner, if not the oldest person in New Hampshire, died on Monday of lung fever, after a short illness, aged 100years, 5 months, 22 days, having been born Oct 10, 1774 at Salisbury, Mass, to which place her grandfather, John Hoyt emigrated from England in 1631. Her father George Hoyt died an accidental death, aged 93 years. The new science of biology finds in the history of Mrs Straw and her ancestry much to establish the truth of its theories. She was the second of eleven children, all of whom have "crossed over," some a half century ago. she was first married when twenty-three years of age to James Joselyn of Henniker, NH by whom she had seven children, all of whom, including Mr. Joselyn and all their descendants, which is singular are now deceased. Her second husband was Jonathan Straw of Warner with whom she lived a third of a century and whom she has survived that period of time. She was a woman of very vivacious temperament, of strong and vital mental faculties, which she retained to an unusual degree, until the last sands of life had run out and death - a welcome guest to her - came at last to end her long honored respected Christian days on earth."

CINCINATTI DAILY GAZETTE -1876
" she was a relative of ex-governor Straw...."

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Betsey married Jonathan Straw Jr, son of Rev. Richard Straw and Jane Danforth, on 3 Aug 1815 in Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA. (Jonathan Straw Jr was born on 7 May 1777 in Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 27 Apr 1844 in Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and was buried in Parade Ground Cemetery in Warner, New Hampshire.)


bullet  Marriage Notes:

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Betsey next married James Joslyn, son of James Joselyn and Sarah, on 11 Mar 1794. (James Joslyn was born on 1 Apr 1778 in Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA and died on 26 Nov 1802 in Henniker Cemetery Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA.)




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