┌── Samuel Henshaw
                                            │    1723-1778 
                       ┌── Samuel Henshaw ──┤
                       │    1744-1809       │
                       │                    └── Submit Woodward
                       │                        c1726-1788 
Martha Henshaw ────────┤
B: 1783                │                    ┌── John Hunt
D: 1874                │                    │
                       └── Martha Hunt ─────┤
                            1755-1842       │
                                            └── Esther Wells
M: Isaac Chapman Bates

Martha Henshaw     [ID 04577]

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Born Jun 9 1783, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3,4,5,6  

She married Isaac Chapman Bates^1,2,3,4,7,8, Sep 21 1807^1,2,3,4,7,8 [Sep 26 1807^9,10], at her parents home, Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts^1,2,3,4,7,8.  Isaac, son of Jacob Bates & Ruth Robinson, was born Jan 23 1779, Granville, Massachusetts.⁴  

Martha and her sister Sarah were married in a double wedding at their parents' home, the old Hunt House which had been inherited by their mother.¹⁰  

Isaac was Representative at Boston, 1808, 1809, 1813, and became a a member of the Governor's Council.  In 1827 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served until his resignation in 1835.⁴  In 1841 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he was a colleague and close friend of Daniel Webster.^4,11  

Children:³

Martha Henshaw died Nov 9 1874, Northampton, Massachusetts; buried Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton, Massachusetts.^4,5,6  

Sources

1. Contribution from Kristen Wagner-Henshaw.
2. Henshaw genealogical chart, author unknown; Contributed by Donald Craig Henshaw.
3. Wyman, T.B., "The Hunt Family". Garnier & Company, Charleston 1969.
4. "One Branch of the Booth Family", by Charles Edwin Booth; privately printed, New York, 1910.
5. Burials in Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton, Massachusetts;
   posted Oct 15 2014 to QUEBEC-RESEARCH-L by "WFlem" ().
6. Burials in Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton, Massachusetts;
   posted Oct 15 2014 to NYCLINTO-L by "WFlem" ().
7. Contribution from Tom Henshaw.
8. "Northampton, MA Marriages from first record to 1840"; USGenWeb Archives.
9. American Antiquarian Society. "Index to Marriages in Massachusetts Centinel
   and Columbian Centinel, 1784-1840", Vol. 1 A-D. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1961.
10. "The Hunt/Henshaw House: A Memorial to Colonial Life", by Megan Gardner, Smith College, 1997:
    Janice Moulton, Department of Philosophy, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts:
    http://sophia.smith.edu/~jmoulton/sessions/sessionshistory.html.
11. "The Dana Family in America", BY Elizabeth Ellery Dana; Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1956.
12. Day, Edward Warren. "One Thousand Years of Hubbard History".
    Harlan Page Hubbard. New York.
13. Densmore, Lyman Willard, "The Hartwells in America". Hartwell-Lorenzen Inc. Saginaw, Michigan. 1956.

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