High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Lucretia Gill Hobart

6 May 1729 – 9 Mar 1805 · about 76 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Lucretia Gill Hobart lived from 6 May 1729 to 9 Mar 1805, a span of about 76 years.

Born a Gill, and known here by the name Hobart. Theirs is one of 19 markers bearing the name Hobart in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 8relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Thomas Gill1707–1761Sarah Hawkes Gill1708–1775
Lucretia Gill Hobartm.Deacon Peter Hobart1727–1798 (m. 1747)also here
Dr Peter Hubbart1750–1793Joshua Hobart1759–1845Elijah Hobart Sr1763–1847

SiblingsSarah Gill1734–1737 · Sarah Gill Lincoln1735–1802

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

A 1893 History of Hingham entry, likely this person uncertain match

The 1893 genealogies repeat many names; this is matched exact birth date, found in the Hobart family genealogy (read as a lead), corroborated by a relative's name and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.

The entry, as printed
Oct. 19, 1727. m. Lucretia Gill, dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Hawke) Gill. She was b. in Hing. May 6, 1729, and d. 9 March, 1805, aet. 76th yr. He d. 8 Oct. 1798, a?t. 71st yr. " Farmer." Constable 1756, and deacon of the church at So. Hing. Resided at the foot of " Great Hill." Ch., all b. in Hing., were — i. Lucretia, Nov. 14, 1748. m. Dec. 7, 1775, Samuel Low. ii. Peter,

1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗

Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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