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Notes for Mary
The next record found of a Hybart in America is the following advertisement which appeared on 15 May 1807 in the "North Carolina Intelligencer", a newspaper published at Fayetteville, North Carolina.
MRS. HYBART
Formerly Midwife to the Middlesex Hospital, London... Respectfully begs leave to inform
the Ladies, that she is just arrived in Fayetteville (and taken a house near to Mr.
Leod' [McLeod]) where she intends following her profession. Therefore humbly solicits the
attention of those that may require one in her line. She farther begs to say, that she has,
scientifically, studied midwifery: consequently acquainted with the various operations
necessary to be known in that art: as her different Diplomas will sufficiently evince.
Middlesex Hospital, founded in London in 1745, became England's first maternity hospital in 1747. At first women were prohibited from acting as midwives, but on 26 September 1752 the first female students were introduced into the hospital for the purpose of following the practice of midwifery.
On 10 March 1810, in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, Mary Hybart was appointed
administrator of the estate of John Hybart. Since she was the head of her own household in the 1810 census, it appears that she was the widow of John Hybart. She was also appointed Guardian of the following minor children: Sophia Williams Hybart, Jane Hybart, John Hybart, Thomas Hybart, and Eliza Hybart. The names appear to be in order of birth as was customary. The facsimile shown of her
signature taken from the Guardian's bond appears to be that of an educated person and her diplomas indicate a degree of education unusual for a woman in those days.
Mary Hybart was listed as head of a household in both the 1810 and 1820 censuses for Cumberland County, North Carolina. On 3 November 1820 a newspaper, "The Raleigh Register," carried a notice of the death of Mrs. Mary Hybart. She had died on 24 October 1820 in the 57th year of her age. She was born in Wales, but had been an inhabitant of Fayetteville [North Carolina] for a number of
years.
The family must have achieved some prominence in times past in Fayetteville. St. Thomas' Episcopal Church is located on Hybart Hill and a stream known as Hybart's Creek flows from the Seventy-first Township into the southern part of Fayetteville where it changes name first to Branson's Creek and then to Blount's Creek before joining Cross Creek.
It seems likely that the Hybart family moved from Canada first to South Carolina about 1805 and then to
Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1807.
William C. Stapleton, Jr. Hybart Family History.
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