Anno Domini MMXXVI · A Family Register

The Hyten Family

A Genealogy & Living Archive

A record of where we come from — six hundred and ninety-five souls traced from medieval England and Switzerland to colonial Maryland to the Indiana frontier, joined in the present age by Mother's line from Hongseong, in the province of South Chungcheong, Korea.

Compiled from parish registers, census enumerations, deeds, wills, gravestones, and family memory. Updated as truth emerges.

Of Particular Note

We may yet descend from the Minister of Salem.

Highly Probable · Six of Nine Generations Documented

Reverend Samuel Parris (1653–1720) — born in London, schooled at Harvard, minister of Salem Village — is the man whose daughter Betty and niece Abigail first cried out under the affliction that ignited the witch trials of 1692. He died and was buried in Sudbury, Massachusetts, having lost his pulpit and the trust of his neighbors.

The line between him and us is documented through six generations: his daughter Mary, born at Concord in 1703; her marriage to Peter Bent at Sudbury in 1727; their granddaughter Mary Parris Russell, named for the Reverend's lost daughter, born at Athol, Massachusetts in 1763; and her marriage to a Maine settler. Three generations of Washington County, Maine vital records remain to be examined before this descent may be called Proved.

What This Archive Holds

The Persons

Now browsable

Six hundred and ninety-five souls across eighteen generations, organized by lineage and birth.

Story Arcs

Now readable

From Maryland to the Indiana frontier. The Salem connection. The Mennonite line from Switzerland. Mother's journey from Korea.

The Photograph Cabinet

Now browsable

Photographs gathered, dated, and shelved by face. Three hundred sixty-nine images across three hundred twenty-two ancestors.

Conversations With the Archive

Now answering

Ask any question of the family's history. Every answer is bound to the source that gave it. Look bottom-right.

The Family Tree

Now explorable

A traditional pedigree branching out from the compiler — vertical, horizontal, or radial. Every ancestor a portrait card. Click a card to enter their story.