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Lee, Massachusetts, occupies land which was originally territory of the Mahican Indians. The first non-native settlement in the area was known as Dodgetown as early as 1760. Dodgetown was named after its founding settler, Asahel Dodge, who immigrated to the area from Cape Cod. Lee was incorporated in 1777 from parts of Great Barrington and Washington. It is named after American Revolutionary War General Charles Lee. Lee is a former mill town.
- GIVN: Mary "Polly"
- SURN: Lewis
- Sex: F
- Born: 3 Apr 1763 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts
- Died: 6 Mar 1835 in , Clay, Missouri, USA
- AFN: 8KKQ-8L
- Baptised LDS: 19 Feb 1878
- TEMP: SGEOR - St. George Utah 1 May 1930 6 Apr 1995
- TEMP: PROVO - Provo Utah
- Record last updated: 8 Nov 2008
- TIME: 18:07
- Notes:
In his book "Before and After Mt. Pisgah", Clare B. Christensen, on pages 29 and 30, tells an interesting background of Mary Lewis, as does also Howard R. Driggs in his book "Pitch Pine Tales" (dated 1955).
Quoting from Clare B. Christensen: "Running Deer was a lovely Indian girl living with her tribe in an Indian Village in the western part of Massachusetts or along the Mohawk River in New York, which runs from Lake Oneida on the west to near Schenectady, north of Albany, into the Hudson river. White men came exploring. Some of them married Indian women. So it was, that Running Deer married a white man. They had children. Then, one of Running Deer's daughters married a man by the name of Lewis, who had a daughter, Mary Lewis.
When the dark haired, dark eyed Mary was a girl, her even darker mother took Mary to an Indian village. One of the Indian women gave Mary an Indian dress, another gave her moccasins, others gave gifts. Mary never forgot her visit with her kindred."
On those same pages, Clare B. Christensen claims (from stories told by Emeline Whiting) Mary Lewis died 1835 at Clay County, Missouri, and that Mary Lewis was daughter of Francis Lewis b.abt 1737 and Jane or Tryphena (the darker mother) who was the daughter of Squawman (perhaps Charles) and Running Deer b.abt 1715.
Mary Lewis and Sylvanus Hulet's daughter, Sally Hulet visited with her Mohawk Indian relatives about 1814, while on her way from Massachusetts to Ohio, in New York state.
Mary Lewis SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED with the Mary Lewis who married Elijah Noyes. Both were having children at the same time but lived many miles apart.
Following is the WRONG Mary Lewis for us:
TIB 1,263,172 SL 8441 6R p 383 gives following: Birth 3 Apr 1761, Parents:
Jonathan Lewis (1731)/Persis Crosby /Elijah Noyes (marriage 16 Sep 1785 Sylvanus Hulet); TIB LA507357.
Alt Birth: 3 Apr 1761
Alt Birth: 1763 Of, Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts
1765 Of, Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Other death: Mary Lewis died Aug 1827 , Nelson, Portage, Ohio
Alt Baptism: 5 Feb 1940 Salt Lake
Alt Baptism: 3 Dec 1965
Alt Endowment: 11 Mar 1940
Alt Endowment: 26 Jan 1966 Los Angeles
Alt Seal to Parents: 22 Aug 1951 IFALL - Idaho Falls Idaho
Alt Seal to Parents: 19 Jan 1953
Alt Seal to Parents: 26 Jan 1968 IFALL - Idaho Falls Idaho
Alt Seal to Parents: 11 Apr 1995 ALBER - Cardston Alberta
Alt Seal to Spouse: 18 Nov 1947
Alt Seal to Spouse: 22 Aug 1951 IFALL - Idaho Falls Idaho
Alt Seal to Spouse: 19 Jan 1953
Alt Seal to Spouse: 26 Jan 1968 IFALL - Idaho Falls Idaho
Arch Rec of Naoma M. Harker; Rec of O.C. Day
BIRTH: Utah Gen & Hist Mag v.XXV p.77;1
MARRIAGE: Church Records of Thompson, Conn; Vital Records of Lee, Mass.
BAPTISM: Baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo 1841;
ENDOWED: TIB 1,263,172 SL 8441 6R
Father: Francis Lewis, b. Abt 1737 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Mother: Jane or Tryphena (the Darker Mother) , b. Abt 1740 in Of, Mohawk River Valley, Albany, New York
Family 1: Sylvanus Hulet, b. 7 Nov 1758 in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut
- Married: 1786-1787 in , , Connecticut, USA
- Notes:
Alt Marriage: Sylvanus HULET Date: 18 Nov 1947
Alt Marriage: Sylvanus HULET Date: 22 Aug 1951 Location: Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho
Alt Marriage: Sylvanus HULET Date: 19 Jan 1953
Alt Seal to Spouse: Sylvanus HULET Seal Date: 22 Aug 1951 Seal Temple: IFALL - Idaho Falls Idaho 19 Jan 1953 8 Nov 2008
- Sally Hulet, b. 29 Oct 1787 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Charles Hulet, b. 3 Mar 1790 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Charlotte HuletHulett, b. 7 Nov 1792 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Rhoda Hulet, b. 8 Nov 1795 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Tryphena Hulet, b. 8 Aug 1797 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Jonathan Hulet, b. Abt 1798 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Sylvester Hulet, b. 2 Mar 1800 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Francis Hulet, b. 3 Mar 1803 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
- Mary Smith Hulet, b. 15 Dec 1805 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
Family 2: Prest. Brigham Young
- Married: 15 Mar 2006
who married Sylvester Hulet
Mary Lewis was born about 1762 (possibly in New York, Mohawk land) and later lived at Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
She was the granddaughter of Josnorum Scoenonti (Running Deer) and Squawman (perhaps Charles). Mary’s parents were Francis Lewis and Darker Mother, Jane or Tryphena.
Mary Lewis married Sylvanus Hulet about 1786. He was perhaps 28 years of age and Mary about 24 years of age.
Sylvanus Hulet was a Revolutionary War Veteran of two campaigns, against Bourgogne in 1777 and Arnold, who burned his home town in South Connecticut in 1780. According to his Military Record, at age 20, Sylvanus was 5 feet 10 inches tall and of a dark complexion.
In June 1782, Sylvanus' father, John Hulet transferred land to him. After the war was settled, Sylvanus, with his two brothers John and Samuel, moved and set up a blacksmith and wagon-making shop and a mill in the edge of Lee township, against Tyringham township, Berkshire, Massachusetts.
Of note, at the close of an earlier war, known as King Phillip's War, around 1676, the whites in New England enslaved many Native American women and children. Few records were kept of their descendants.
In his book "Before and After Mt. Pisgah", Clare B. Christensen, on pages 29 and 30, tells an interesting background of Mary Lewis, as does also Howard R. Driggs in his book "Pitch Pine Tales" (dated 1955).
Quoting from Clare B. Christensen: "Running Deer was a lovely Indian girl living with her tribe in an Indian Village in the western part of Massachusetts or along the Mohawk River in New York, which runs from Lake Oneida on the west to near Schenectady, north of Albany, into the Hudson river. White men came exploring. Some of them married Indian women. So it was, that Running Deer married a white man. They had children. Then, one of Running Deer's daughters married a man by the name of Lewis, who had a daughter, Mary Lewis.
When the dark haired, dark eyed Mary was a girl, her even darker mother took Mary to an Indian village. One of the Indian women gave Mary an Indian dress, another gave her moccasins, others gave gifts. Mary never forgot her visit with her kindred."
Orville Cox Day saw the grandmother of MARY LEWIS in a dream
AMary Lewis and Sylvester Hulet=s daughter, Sally Hulet visited with her Mohawk Indian relatives about 1814 in New York state, while on her way from Massachusetts to Ohio.
On July 16, 1966, at 4:30 AM, she, Running Deer (Josnorum Scoenonti), grandmother of Mary Lewis, visited me. I was awake. She said that she was appearing as she looked at age 18, just before she married a white man. She was tall and athletic, beautiful, very appealing. She wore yellowish brown buckskin beaded moccasins and leggings which covered her above her ankles. The dress she wore reached from her shoulders almost to her knees.
She said that she was converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that she wanted her temple work to be done, then she would go to happy paradise and learn the gospel thoroughly and return to her people who are 'helled and damned from progress'. She had been a choice spirit in heaven and had asked permission to be born to the family of Lehi that she might bring salvation to them. On October 16th, permission from the Church was given for her temple work to be done. I suppose she will try to convert her own family first and then they will help us to find their genealogy."
NOTE: Orville Cox Day, in correspondence with Evelyn Baird in 1967 and also at about the same time in person with Iris Whiting Brown, Lovell and Beverly Killpack, related the above to us. (Recorded by Lovell Killpack, who personally heard Orville Cox Day in 1967, tell the above.)
In 1814, the Hulets' moved from Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts to Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. Sylvanus died there ten years later, on November 10, 1824.
The remaining Hulet family members were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October, 1831. At that time they moved to Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.
October 31, 1833 they were driven north across the Missouri River into Clay County by mobs. In 1836 they moved north into Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. Early spring 1839 they moved to Melrose in Lima township, Illinois, about 30 miles south of Nauvoo and in the fall of 1845 mobs drove them into Nauvoo. In 1846 they were driven into Iowa, finally coming to the Salt Lake Valley with the Saints.
Mary Lewis died March 6, 1835 in Clay County, Missouri, at about 73 years of age, during the time of heavy persecution. She is buried at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio.
NOTE: Death date: "The Hulet Quarterly" Volume 5, No. 1, June 1972: (page 2) "I have been trying to locate the date and place of Mary Lewis' death and just could not seem to find any trace as to where she was and also tried the recorders in Nelson, Portage County, Ohio and in Jackson and Clay Counties in Missouri, but found no trace of her. In one of the sketches of Sylvester Hulet's biographies by O.C. Day, he mentioned that there was an "old lady" living with Sylvester Hulet and also one of his sisters and two of her daughters and the son of Sylvester's brother, Francis. So I just took a chance that this old lady was our Mary Lewis. Then I found where Eldred A. Johnson of Orem had found in Grandfather Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet, Sr., in his temple work that Mary Lewis had died in 1835. So that showed her as being in the Hulet settlement near Nauvoo, Illinois. I then started to check the reference given by a distant cousin with the name like the third child of our Mary and Sylvanus Hulet. It was Charlotte Cox of Shelley, Idaho. She gave the date of death as being 6 March, 1835. So, evidently Mary Lewis is buried in the cemetery at the Hulet settlement near Nauvoo.
(Editor's note: I wonder if the year 1835 is the right date, or if Nauvoo is the right place. The saints did not settle around Nauvoo until 1839, except for members who were converted locally in the Nauvoo area previous to the saints going to Illinois as a group from Missouri. If Mary Lewis died in 1835, it would probably have been in Missouri, in Clay, Daviess or Caldwell Counties.)"
On April 6th, 1829, her 5th child, Tryphena (married to Daniel Tillotson) at age 31, had died. At age 38, her 3rd child, Charlotte (married to Robert Hubbard) died in 1830. At age 41, her 4th child, Rhoda (married to Robert F Mills) died August 1, 1837 in Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. Another daughter, her 1st child, Sally (married to Elisha Whiting Jr.), died at age 58 while in Mt. Pisgah, Union, Iowa, August of 1846.
Some researchers have mistakenly confused her with another Mary Lewis, daughter of Jonathan Lewis and Persis Crosby. That Mary Lewis married Elijah Noyes and sealing work has been done, linking Sylvanus Hulet to the wrong Mary Lewis.
The two Marys' were having children at the same time but lived many miles apart.
Mary Lewis and Sylvanus Hulet had 9 children:
Sally Hulet, born 29 Oct 1787 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Elisha Whiting Jr. 18 Sep 1805 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, died Aug 1846 at Mt. Pisgah, Union, Iowa.
Charles Hulet, born 3 Mar 1790 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married:
Anna Taylor 22 Jun 1814 at Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts.
Margaret Ann Noah 10 Oct 1816 at Ravenna, Portage, Ohio.
Cynthia Davis Clyde 24 Jan 1852 (divorced).
Eleanor Jenkins 23 Mar 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Mary Lawson Kirkman 23 Mar 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
He died 9 May 1863 at Springville, Utah, Utah.
Charlotte Hulet born 7 Nov 1792 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Robert Hubbard 13 Jun 1814, died 1838 at Far West, Caldwell, Missouri.
Rhoda Hulet born 8 Nov 1795 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Robert F Mills 28 Feb 1819, died 1 Aug 1837 at Far West, Caldwell, Missouri.
Tryphena Hulet born 8 Aug 1797 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Daniel Tillotson 8 Apr 1817 at Nelson, Portage, Ohio, died 6 Apr 1829, probably at Nelson, Portage, Ohio.
Jonathan Hulet born about 1798 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts.
Sylvester Hulet, Jr. born 2 Mar 1800 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Christian Anna Schott Whitmer, (widow of Christian Whitmer who died about 1835) at Clay County, Missouri. Sylvester died 7 Nov 1883 at Fairview, Sanpete, Utah.
Note: According to Carl T. Cox (March 2007) Anna did not come west with Sylvester.
Francis Hulet (male) born 3 Mar 1802 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Persis Barber 12 Jun 1834. Francis died 17 Mar 1882.
Mary Hulet born 15 Dec 1804 at Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married Nathan Ayers West 11 Oct 1828. She died 5 Sep 1831 at Jackson, Missouri.