John Hussey II

  Research Notes:

According to Plumstead to Clear Creek, in 1684 John with John Richardson,
Edward Blake, and Benjamin Swett and other Friends settled near New
Castle, Delaware. In 1705 he purchased a lot of land for the meeting
house.

Kennett (PA) Monthly Meeting:
2- 3-1703 John Hussey and Ann Inskeep announce marriage intentions 2nd
time.

Here is a message copied from Linda Koehler on Prodigy on 9/27/94:
Suzanne, This won't help you with Betty, but I do have an extract of the
deed in which your John Hussey (son of John & Ann (Inskeep) Hussey) sold
the land he had inherited from his father in 1733. I don't know if you
have this already, but I will give the details in case you don't: New
Castle County, Del. Deed Book K:353-354, dated 8 May 1735. John Hussey,
yeoman of New Castle County and Margaret his wife sell to Stephen Lewis,
tanner of the town of New Castle 110 acres of land and marsh, part of a
larger tract commonly called John Hussey's Plantation in New Castle
Hundred for 80 pounds. The deed gives the bounds which include the line
of neighbor John Morton, John McComb, an old Dyke, along Nonesuch Creek,
"Miln" Island in a marsh, and along Christiana Creek. John and Margaret
Hussey appoint Benjamin Swett, tanner of the town of New Castle to
acknowledge the deed in open court, which was done in the May term 1735.
Witnesses were Sylvanus Hussey and Hannah Cox, John and Margaret both
signed the deed with signatures. I believe that the Stephen Lewis
who is buying the land is married to Rebeccah Hussey, daughter of
Jedediah & Esther (Cooper) Hussey, and thus a cousin to John Hussey.
Stephen Lewis had already acquired, 6 months earlier, the estate of his
deceased father-in-law Jedediah Hussey [his brother-in-law Sylvanus
Hussey who had inherited the land sold it to Stephen Lewis, and that deed
gives a glimpse of another interesting story].
So by 1735, Stephen Lewis owns about 300 acres of the original 640 acre
plantation that John & Rebecca (Perkins) Hussey had bought when they came
to New Castle County in 1695. I don't know what or where John &
Margaret Hussey went after 1735, do you? I had heard that they lived in
Chester County for a time before they moved out to York County where most
of John's brothers and sisters had gone. But I find it suggestive that
John & Margeret are selling their land in New Castle County in 1735, when
John's brother Nathan Hussey was also selling off many of his land
holdings to move out beyond the Susquehanna River to what became York
county. Just to follow that 110 acre tract of land that John &
Margaret Hussey sold to Stephen Lewis, it was sold in 1748 by the
administrators of Stephen Lewis's estate. Now, the administrators were
Josiah Lewis and Rebecca, widow of Stephen Lewis who had by now remarried
- to Benjamin Swett. I find this intriguing - this Benjamin Swett could
be a grandson of the Benjamin Swett who married Theodate Hussey; in which
case, it looks like Rebecca has married a first cousin once removed -
although the ages probably work since Theodate Hussey was 18 years older
than her brother Jedediah Hussey. This family likes to keep things
complicated, don't they.
Linda in NY

Source: PA IGI and The Epistle, Vol I No 8, Feb 1975.
According to The Epistle, the 1729 will (probated in 1733) of John Hussey
of Christian's Creek, New Castle Co., Delaware naming his wife, Ann
(Inskeep) Hussey; sons John, Stephen, Nathan, and Christopher; and
daughters Mary Houstown, Anna Hussey, Theodate Hussey, and Content
Hussey. Will mentions land adjoining that of Christopher Hussey,
deceased. Wife Ann & son John executrix & executor of will; witnesses
were Eliakim Garretson, Margaret Willey & Benj. Swett.

The source of much of the specific birth dates and marriage information
of John II's children is Marie Mimbs, 2219 SE 9 St, Pompano Beach, FL
33062, 23 September 1991.

According to Marie Mimbs, the will of John Hussey is as follows:

... a crop my woodland and clear fields from Christopher Hussey dec'd
land or line to Sam Silvers land containing within those bounds eighty
acres as aforesaid and that my son Nathan nor his heirs shall not lay any
claim to any part or parcel of my estate real or personal but what is
here expressed. I do give and bequeath unto my son Nathan five shillings
and do hereby exclude and debar him and his heirs from all and every or
part of the residue of my estate forever,
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Anna Hussey the sume of two
pounds like money above to be paid when she shall arrive at the age of
twenty one years.
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Content Hussey the sum of five
pounds like money above to be paid when she arrives at the age of twenty
one years. Item All the residue of my estate both real and personal of
what kind quantity or quality whatsoever after paying my debts, legacies
and funeral charges I give and bequeath unto my son John Hussey and to
his heirs forever.
Item I confirm and appoint and make and ordain my beloved wife Anne
Hussey and my son John Hussey Executrix and Executor of this my last Will
and Testament, to defray my funeral charges and just debts and dispose of
the rest of my worldly estate as is herein decreed and I make and appoint
my beloved Friend John Richardson of Christiana in the County of New
Castle aforesaid merchant and my beloved brother Garret Garretson my
trustees to see this my last Will and Testament performed according to
the true intent and meaning hereof and I do hereby utterly annul revoke
and make void all and every other former Will and Testament, Legacies and
Bequeaths and Executes by me made, ratifying and confirming this and no
other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness thereof I have here
unto set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of the sixth month
called August in the year of our Lord Anno Domini 1729.
JOHN HUSSEY
Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of Eliakim
Garretson,
Margaret Wiley, Benjamin Swett

New Castle April 12, 1733, attested
Eliakim Garretson
Margaret Wiley

John married Grace Unknown. (Grace Unknown died on 24 Aug 1700.)

John next married Ann Inskeep, daughter of John Inskeep and Sarah Ward, on 6 Mar 1703 in Newark/Kennett Monthly Meeting.¹ (Ann Inskeep was born about 1682 in Staffordshire, England and died about 1733 in Christiana Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, USA.)