Hugh Gunnison (abt. 1612 - 1658)

Hugh Gunnison migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 3, p. 173) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Hugh Gunnison^[1] was born about 1612 (based on estimated date of marriage), origins unknown.

He emigrated in 1635 based on the date of admission to the Boston church. He resided initially in Boston, but removed to Kittery in 1651.

1646 Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

He was an innkeeper and vintner. He was admitted to the Boston church 22 Mar 1635/6 called "servant to our brother Richard Bellingham;" his wife, Sarah was admitted 15 May 1647.

He was one of 58 Boston men disarmed for supporting Anne Hutchinson and Rev. John Wheelwright, but signed the petition 22 Nov 1637 to have his name removed.

He married first by 1637 Elizabeth ____; she died in Boston 25 Jan 1645/6.

• A 2009 Register article makes the case for her being Elizabeth Kilbourne, daughter of Thomas Kilbourne and Francis Moody.^[2]

He married second by 15 May 1647 Sarah (Blower) Lynn, daughter of Thomas Blower and Alice Frost, and widow of Henry Lynn. She married by 1 Jul 1661 John Mitchell, and later Francis Morgan.

He died between 15 Sep 1659 and 31 Mar 1660.

Inventory of his estate was not taken until 4 Nov 1718.

Children

By his first wife:

1. Sarah, b Boston 14 Feb 1637/8
2. Elizabeth, b Boston 25 Apr 1640. Was she the "grand-child Elizabeth Geneson" named in the 1650 will of Francis Moody Kilbourne?
3. Deborah, b Boston Oct 1642

By his second wife:

1. Hester, bp Boston 20 Feb 1647/8
2. Joseph Gunnison, b Boston 31 Mar 1649; named in a deposition 27 Jan 1679/80.
3. Elihu Gunnison, b Boston 12 Feb 1649/50; m1 in Dover 10 Nov 1674 Martha Trickey; m2 by 1690 Elizabeth (Ingersoll) Skillings
4. Sarah, b abt 1653; m1 by 1673 Lewis Tucker

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, Boston, MA: NEHGS, p 173
2. ↑ Ernest H. Helliwell III, "Was Elizabeth² Kilbourne the first wife of Hugh Gunnison of Boston and Kittery," in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) 163 (Jan 2009): 16-18 link for subscribers

See also:

• George W. Gunnison, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Hugh Gunnison of Boston, Mass..., Boston 1880.
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000. Brown - Duncan and associated families : Kittery, Maine : Piscataqua and New Castle, New Hampshire. Page 50.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37056989/hugh-gunnison: accessed November 12, 2024), memorial page for Hugh Gunnison (1612–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #37056989; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703). (No gravestone, burial unknown.)
• Everett Stackpole, Old Kittery and her Families, (1903) pp, 477-481.