With 6x great grandmother Hannah Houghton we reach a point where some of her ancestors have already been discussed Her parents were Thomas Houghton and Meriah Moore.They were 1st cousins 1x removed through their mutual descent from Thomas Sawyer and Mary Prescott.
Ellery Bicknell Crane wrote the following about Thomas:
IV) Thomas Houghton, son of James Houghton (3). born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, about 1690-1700; married Maria or Moriah Moor and settled on the homestead in Harvard. He was a farmer. Children were: 1. Hanah, born December 16, 1728-9. 2. Thomas, born October 9, 1731. 3. Moriah (as Maria was then spelled by the family), born September 5, 1736. 4. Elijah (see forward).-p264
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1 Lewis Publishing Company, New York, New York 1907
Thomas Houghton died 9Mar 1764 in Harvard, Ma. By then Hannah and Eljiah were the only of his children left alive along with two grandchildren. I've found the probate file and will be transcribing it,
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