Hovey, Ivory, 1714-1803
Biography
Ivory Hovey, the son of Capt. Ivory Hovey and Anne Pingree, was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts on 3 July 1714, and died on 4 November 1803. The younger Ivory Hovey attended Harvard College with the class of 1735. After graduation, he taught school at Marlborough. He was the minister at the Second (West) Parish of Rochester (later the First Congregational Church of Mattapoisett) from 1740 to 1769. He then became the minister at the Second Church of Plymouth at Manomet in 1770, and remained there until his death. Three of his sons served in the Revolution, and a daughter settled with her husband on the Maine frontier. A second daughter married Abner Bartlett of Manomet, through whom the papers descended to the donor, Col. George G. Bartlett, Jr.
Ivory Hovey married Olive Jordan (1722-1805) in 1739. They had five children who lived to adulthood: Dominicus (1740- ); Olive (1746- ), who married Major Isaac Pope; Ivory (1748-1818); Samuel (1750- ); and Anne (1754-1810, who married Abner Bartlett.