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270. Anthony* III Fisher, born Abt. 1612 in Syleham, Suffolk, England ⁴²⁶; died 13 Feb 1669/70 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA. He was the son of 540. Anthony* II Fisher and 541. Alice Or Mary*~ Buckingham. He married 271. Joane* Faxon 07 Sep 1647 in Dedham, MA.

271. Joane* Faxon⁴²⁷, born Abt. 1625 in England; died 16 Oct 1694 in of Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA. She was the daughter of 542. Thomas Faxon, Sr*~ and 543. Joane*~.

Notes for Anthony* III Fisher:
NEHGS 'Register'
1894
vol 48, page 459
Abstracts of Early Suffolk Wills

No. 529. ANTHONY FISHER. late of Dorchester deceased. Inventory 7 Apr. 1670, by Joane Fisher, apprized by Peter Woodward and John Gay.

Josiah Fisher's bond as administrator on estate of his father, Anthony Fisher late of Dedham, farmer, unadministered by Joane Fisher, late of Dedham, widow, deceased.

James Fales and Joseph Ellis sureties. 10 June, 1723. Vol. vii. p. 50. (See Dedham Historical Register, Vol. 3, p. 194.)
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More About Anthony* III Fisher:
Church: 20 Jul 1645, Admitted to church, Dedham, MA
Freeman: 06 May 1646, Massachusetts
Immigrant Ancestor: 1637, England, Suffolk, to MA
Migration 1: 1637, Suffolk, England, to MA
Migration 2: 1666, Dedham, MA, to Dorchester, MA
Military: 1644, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Dedham, MA
Political 1: Bet. 1652 - 1654, Chosen surveyor of Dedham, MA
Political 2: 1644, attended town assembly regarding the free school
Political 3: 1666, Selectman at Dorchester, MA
Will: 07 Apr 1670, inventory by Joane Fisher, apprized by Peter Woodward and John Gay.

Notes for Joane* Faxon:
The History of the Faxon Family
GenealogyLibrary.com
Page 39

SECOND GENERATION.

JOANNA FAXON2, dau. of Thomas and Joane Faxon, b. in England about 1626, m. Sept. 7, 1647, Anthony Fisher, Jr., of Dedham, Mass., afterwards called of Dorchester. He was born at Sylesham near Eye in the county of Suffolk, on the border of Norfolk. He arrived in the country in 1637. He was made a freeman in 1646. He died Feb. 13, 1670. She died Oct. 16, 1694. The amount of the inventory of his estate was ś359 5s. 2d. Houses, land, etc., situated in Dedham are mentioned. Inventory taken April 7, 1670. (Suff. Prob. 7 : 50.) He seems to have been a very active business man, had important grants of land, and was associated with Capt. Lusher. On the Mass. Records, they are spoken of as Lusher and Fisher in co-partnership. (Mass. Rec., Vol. IV. Part I, p. 117.) He was joined with Thomas Faxon1 in the administration of estates, and his name appears as witness to deeds of Thomas1. Upon the decease of Thomas1 in 1680, Mrs. Fisher was placed in charge of the estate for the benefit of the grandson, Thomas3. (Suff. Prob. 9: 19.)

Children born in Dedham:

5. Mehitable3, b. June 27, 1648; no subsequent record found.
6. Josiah3, b. May 1, 1654; m. Meletiah Bullen, Jan. 27, 1679. She d. April 23, 1693. He m. Joanna Morse, Sept. 1, 1693. He probably d. April 12, 1736. Meletiah was the dau. of Samuel and Mary (Morse) Bullen.
7. Sarah3, b. Oct. 27, 1658; m. John Guild, May 22, 1677, probably son of John and Elizabeth Guild, b. Nov. 29, 1649.
8. Elizabeth3, b. Sept. 18, 1669; m. John Ellis, March 10, 1686. She probably d. Sept. 14, 1724.
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More About Joane* Faxon:
Forename Variant: Joanna
Immigrant Ancestor: Bef. 1647, England to MA
Migration: Bef. 1647, England to MA

More About Anthony* Fisher and Joane* Faxon:
Marriage: 07 Sep 1647, Dedham, MA

Children of Anthony* Fisher and Joane* Faxon are:

	i.	Mehitable Fisher, born 27 Jun 1648; died Unknown.
	ii.	Experience Fisher, born 11 Aug 1650; died Unknown.
	iii.	Josiah Fisher, born 01 May 1654; died Unknown.
	iv.	Abiah Fisher, born 03 Aug 1656; died Unknown.
135	v.	Sarah Fisher, born 29 Oct 1658 in Dedham, MA; died Unknown in Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA; married Deacon John Guild II 22 May 1677 in Dedham, MA.
	vi.	Deborah Fisher, born 24 Feb 1660/61; died Unknown.
	vii.	Judith Fisher, born 05 Jul 1663; died Unknown.
	viii.	Elizabeth Fisher, born 18 Sep 1669 in Dedham, MA; died Abt. 14 Sep 1724; married John Ellis 10 Mar 1685/86 in Wrentham, Suffolk, MA; born in of Dedham, MA; died Unknown.

More About John Ellis and Elizabeth Fisher:
Marriage: 10 Mar 1685/86, Wrentham, Suffolk, MA

      272. Edward*~ Hawes⁴²⁸, born Abt. 1585 in England; died Aft. 15 Apr 1648 in New England. He married 273. Unknown Wife Of Edward*~ Hawes.

      273. Unknown Wife Of Edward*~ Hawes, born in England; died Abt. 1616 in New Amsterdam.

Notes for Edward*~ Hawes:
FROM "THE EDWARD HAWES HEIRS"
Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996
by Raymond G. Hawes
pp. xv-xvi
pp. 3-7

Generation Number One

EDWARD HAWES, progenitor of his heirs in America, is an enigma to those of us who have followed. He is nowhere to be found in any of the ships' lists of passengers who came to America in the period of 1620 to 1648 when his name first appeared in Dedham, MA. Genealogists, both professional and amateur, have made numerous attempts to determine where Edward originated from in England, all without success.

With virtually no proof, other than family tradition, the best theory advanced is one written by Frederick8 Wilson Hawes (Frederick7, James6, David5, Hezekiah4-3, Daniel2, Edward1). He arrived in Denison, TX in 1892 to clerk for A. G. Mosely, was admitted to the bar in 1894, was appointed assistant District Attorney by Silas Hars in 1896, and left in July 1898 to enlist for Spanish-American War service. In 1940 he wrote as follows:

"In 1893 or 1894, I was reading law in an office in Northern Texas. Across the Red River in the Indian Territory among all the remnants of Indian tribes were the so-called Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, Choctaws and the Chickasaws. For the purpose of handling their business in a more modern manner, these five tribes had changed from hereditary chiefs to governments based on the United States, each tribe having its own government. The law firm I was with were the attorneys for the Choctaws and the Chickasaws.

“A man whose name I no longer remember came to our firm well recommended by somebody. He wanted assistance in locating himself in the Territory where he could study the results these tribes were having with their new form of government. This man was very much of a gentleman, a college man, and I should judge of about 60 years of age. He was what is called a good mixer, got acquainted easily, and no one bore resentment. He was making his study for some college or society, as I remember it. Our firm established him with the Indians in authority. I took him with a team and buggy to Tishomingo, then the capital of the Chickasaws. That was the last I saw of him.

"He made a great point of my name, and asked if by any chance I was related to Mowhawk Ed Hawes: Never heard of him, I replied. "Who was your first ancestor in the country?", he wanted to know. I didn't know. I told him I didn't know our family history, but believed we had been in America a long time for my great-grandfather was in the American Revolution.

"According to this gentleman, one Edward Hawes had come to New Amsterdam, afterwards called New York, the year after the Dutch settled there. He was a stone mason. His partner was a Dutchman. In Holland these two had been working together for some time. They were
employed by the Dutch to come to the New World and assist in construction. (The Dutch West India Company established a fur trading post in New Amsterdam in 1614. At that time there were many Puritans in Holland, driven there from England by religious persecution.)

"Well, according to the story, both of these stone masons brought their wives. After the construction work was done, the Dutchman and his wife returned to Holland. Edward and his wife remained in New York. He accepted employment with the company as a fur trader. He
seems to have understood Indians from the start. "Squitum Waw Waw Ool Kaw", or Indian words somewhat similar, was his Indian name. The words are of some tribe beyond the Mohawks. After all these years I am not sure what the Indian words were, but I am sure of what
they meant -"the man who makes jumping soldiers." He used to make little jumping jacks for the Indian children, and in the forest he would gather a few sticks here and there for later use, or would stop and work a little on one of his toys. The Dutchmen thought Edward strange, the Indians thought him crazy. Edward himself probably thought it a slick way to avoid arrows, war clubs and scalping knives. I know it was, for Indians never injure anyone they believe insane.

"Edward and his wife had one child born in New York, a boy. His wife died from the effects of childbirth, and Edward placed his boy in charge of a squaw, superintended to a considerable extent by a friendly Dutch family. He named the boy Edward. He continued to trade with the Indians and was successful. After the boy was able to get about on his own legs, Edward's trading trips increased in length. On one such trip, he was gone all winter. This time he went as far as the great falls between two great lakes (This would have to be Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and not so long after their discovery by the Frenchman who received renown for it).

"Edward accumulated some money trading for the Dutch. Finally he heard of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth. Later he and his son went to Boston on an English ship which had been blown far off its course to Boston, and which made the port of New York to refit before
proceeding to Boston. They arrived in Boston in the early summer of 1635. (This would compare with the date of June 3, 1635 given in one history, also the year other authorities have given, and it would account for his name not being on any passenger list from England. This stranger to Texas may probably have given me the name of this ship, but I gave no that time.)

"Edward and his son lived in Boston and Dedham until the son made up his mind to marry. A girl named Eliony Lumber was what is called a bound girl. Her people had placed her as security for a debt whick she must work out at small wages, if she lived long enough. Old Edward bought the contract, and left her free to marry his son, which she did at Dedham. Old Edward then outfitted for a trading trip to the Indians. He hoped to reach the Mohawks again...he was never heard from afterwards.

"All of the above is the story of the stranger who came to Texas. It was based on Edward’s report and came down in the annals of the Lumber family. Eliony was related to this stranger’s ancestors. At that time I had no idea the Edward referred to might be connected to us, nor did I know he was our first ancestor in America. After my two lawyer associates ceased having fun by referring to me as "Squitum Waw Waw," I forgot it.

"Sometime later when I visited at home, my father told me about Edward really being our first ancestor in America, and that he was a stone mason. It caused me to wonder a bit. Dad knew nothing of this legend except what I told him. Afterwards, I sometimes thought of the stranger who came to Texas. How could he concoct such a story at the moment of meeting me? He had never heard of me before. Why should he admit his relative was a bound girl when it was the fashion to be free? I had to conclude he at least thought he was telling the truth. But I dismissed the story as too improbable and romantic, and in any event having no connection with us. My father didn’t who Edward had married. Years later when I found an Eliony Lumber actually had married our Edward, I did some more wondering, but then it stopped. It seemed a coincidence, no more.

"But now our distant kinsman, George8 Hawes, Wrentham, Massachusetts, tells me one of his relatives read among the ancient records of Wrentham something about like this:

"In 1638 the town gave a contract to Edward Haws and son to fell some trees on the public common to be used to make cooper's wares for the town use."

It looks to me like a boy old enough to contract with his father to cut wood in 1638 must have been born before 1635. There must have been two Edward Hawses in Massachusetts in the year 1635. Ten years had elapsed sicne the above contract (if there was one) and the time one Edward Hawes married Eliony in Dedham. How did Edward and the other Edward come? I have looked on all the passenger lists from England to Boston from the year 1620 to 1700. Nothing. Is it unreasonable to believe the elder Edward came earlier? And that the younger Edward was born in New York just as the legend says?

"If this was the elder Edward who married Eliony, he was rather old, and what became of the younger Edward?

"I said my father knew nothing of this legend. He did not. But he did know, as did the other Haweses, there was a tradition our first settler had lived with the Indians for a time. How long a time? He didn't know. There was a tradition our first settler was a stone mason. I looked very industriously for something that would indicate that the Edward who married Eliony was a stone mason. I found nothing. Of course that isn't proof that he wasn't a stone mason, but I think there should have been some mention of it somewhere.

"Why should this legend come down in the Lumber family and not in the Hawes family? I believe Edward and his father were honest men, the kind who would come clean when they were bargaining for Eliony. After the marriage Eliony and Edward may have thought it wise not to mention the prefix to Edward's life before he came to Massachusetts. If the elder Edward left an Indian wife in New York, and came to Massachusetts just to get his son started, whose business was it? But as Indians were not well thought of in those days, Edward and Eliony may have thought it wise not to saddle the facts on their children to come. Of course, this is just imagination on my part. What happened to Eliony's family? Maybe the debt against her was for their passage money home. Imagination again? But such things did happen - I have a neighbor who once had an Indian wife. I know it. If his white wife and children know it, they do not advertise.

"I can find no record of the Lumber family. I can not get away from the fact the man who told me this story believed he was telling the truth. I've had many arguments with myself, and they all end in favor of the legend.

(I want to make a correction. I said the Five Civilized Tribes changed their form of government. The Choctaws and Chickasaws did. There was talk of the other three tribes doing likewise .... but I finally went away soldiering. I don't remember whether the other three tribes finally changed or not.)

"You figure this legend out .... but I don't advise you to believe it. Old Edward not only would be in America from 1615, but he would be here five years earlier than the Mayflower, and earlier in America than any other Englishman north of Jamestown, Virginia. His son Edward Jr., would be a native son here in North America four or five years earlier than the Mayflower. Also, as there were no English women in Jamestown until long after [1607], it is quite probable Edward Jr. would be the first child of all English parentage in North America. Wouldn’s that be rich? We are the old settlers, and the Mayflower folks are just recent arrivals. But, it would be dangerous too. Those who make a career of early dates would hate, dislike and chase you around. This makes no difference to me as I live far away. I believe this legend myself.

"Venetians didn't believe Marco Polo, but history vindicated him."

HAWES is an old English name. It started out as HAW; some say that it is derived from the Hawthorne hedge. Other sources cite the Saxon word “haeg” and means a small enclosure near a house. Alen del Hawes is written in the "Hundred Rolls" in 1273 and is the first known recorded use of the name

By a Hawthorne (Haw-thorne) hedge in England,
A tribe of wild men grew,
And they were all related,
To me and you, and you
This is not just poetry
Of sweet melodious sound;
But the Hawes tradition
From the ancient Hawthorne ground.

Romans found them there, and William the Conqueror,
And Danes and Saxons too,
But still they lived by their hedge,
When all the fights were through.
They were not driven from their hedge,
Like history likes to say,
They merely heard of a better land
And simply walked away. Anon.

Robert Hawes was the first known Hawes to settle in New England, arriving from London, England and settling in Salem, MA in 1635. Edmond, a cutler, also from London, arrived in Boston, MA in 1635 on the ship James, and settled in Yarmouth, MA. Richard came from
Buckinghamshire, England in 1635 on the ship Truelove and settled in Dorchester, MA. Thomas settled in Salem in 1635, then moved to Yarmouth in 1639. William settled in Boston in 1652.

Any stated relationship of any of the above to Edward is conjecture. There has been no genealogical evidence presented that would verify any family connection.

According to family tradition, Edward Sr. was an Englishman, a Puritan, a stone mason and a husbandman. It is also said that his family kept a tavern north of London in the place where he was born. In those days a "tavern" was an eating place, a place to spend the night, perhaps a stage stopover as well as a place to take a nip.

It is said that after accumulating some money trading with the Dutch, he heard of the Puritan settlement in Plymouth and decided to sail for New England with his young son Edward. He is said to have arrived in Boston in 1635, some have the date as 03 June 1635, and from there went to Dedham (Frederick A. Virkus, “Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families in America” [Chicago, 1925] :254).

Early settlers in Massachusetts were mostly farmers thus artisans were encouraged to take up residence in town by being offered inducements to stay. In 1638, "Edward Hawes is granted liberty, for his sons, to take two or three trees from the town common to make cooper (barrel) wares for town use" (Frank Smith, "A History of Dedham, Massachusetts" [Dedham, 1936] :45). A facsimile of Edward Haws signature, dated 1673, is clearly legible on page 14 (ibid.).

Edward Hawes [the second] is first noted in Dedham, MA when the valuation of his house was estimated at 2 pounds in 1648 "for the Country (tax) rate" (Don Gleason Hill, Ed., "The Early Records of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1659" [Dedham, 1892] :154). His valuation of 2 pounds, along with 2 others, was the lowest of the 84 property valuations shown. He next appears in the town meeting minutes for "8 of ye 9 mo 48" (08 Nov 1648) when "Tho. Wright is deputed to treat with Ed Hawes about the doeing such daubing worke as is needfull about the meeting house. & vpen viewe to put that worke (if he can, to him to doe in conueanient time. & and to see him pd Out of the Townes account. or in case Ed Hawes canot be attaynd. then to pcure som such other workeman to pforme the same as the case require wth all possible speed (ibid.:155). "10 mo 19 (1648) Ed Hawes requesteth one smale pcell of meadow the vse therof is granted to him till a general deuident be made" (ibid. :156). "I of ye 11 1650. At a genrall Meeteing of the Towne - the request of Edward Hawes, concerning one pcell of Meadowe is left to the care of the select men" (ibid.:134). A valuation of houses taken in 1651 includes Ed Hawes for "4 pounds, 3 shilling and 10 pence" (ibid.:183-4). Edward has been rising in prosperity compared to his compatriots with 15 other of the 77 houses listed of lower valuation. On "ye 7 of ye 1. Mo. 1652, The deuision of the deuident of 500 Acres to the Inhabitants vpon the rule of psons & estats";
Ed Hawes - 5 acres, 2 Roods, 0 Poles" (ibid.:241). (The above refers to the division of 500 acres of common land. A Rood is 1/4 acre).

Edward Hawes was by trade a lather and daber (plasterer). He appears frequently in the records of Dedham's First Church, a compilation by Deacon John Aldis. An account of payments made from the beginning of 1677 to the15th of the 10th month of 1678 includes “it payed by edward haues in fencing stof mackin and carting of it and a days work -1 pound, 17 shilling, 6 pence. Later, “it payed by edward haus 2 cord and a haf of wod - 10 shilling”. During the years 1680-81, "it payed by edward hawes in a pdring tobe- 5 shilling", "it payed by edward hawes in macking and mending fenc - 1 pound, 5 shilling” and “it payed for 10 Rales and tou posts of edward hawes - 2 shilling”. (Robert B. Hansen, ed., “The Deacon’s Book,” [Bowie, MD, 1990] :23, 93, 115). There are numerous mentions that he was the one assigned to keep the younger boys in order during the church services. Edward is last mentioned as “edw haues” in the minister’s salary assessment list for the end of 1686 to the beginning of 1687 (ibid.: 156). There was no payment. The phonetic spelling of Deacon John Aldis was, if nothing else, different. Edward’s will was dated 04 June 1687. He died 28 June 1687, not 1686 as is shown in some records, including ("The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham, MA, 1635-1645", edited by Don G. Hill Dedham, MA, 1885] :v. 1, 20). He was born ca. 1615, thus was about 70 years old when he died.\

Almost nothing is known about Eliony Lumber (Lombard). She is thought to have been born in England about 1625 and to have died in Dedham, MA in 1688-89. She and Edward were maried in Dedham 15 April 1648 (vr.). The date is recorded as “15 2 mo 1648” which, under the Gregorian calendar of that period, was April, not February.---end of excerpt.
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NEHGS REGISTER
vol 97, page 187-188

...Edward1 Hawes, stone mason, born in England about 1585, who it is claimed, moved to Holland, where he and his Dutch partner were engaged to do work in New Amsterdam. On completion of this work Edward1 was employed as a buyer and trader in furs with the Indians. At this time, the wife of Edward1 died, leaving a son Edward2. About 1635 Edward1 and Edward2 moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and settled in Dedham, where Edward1 died about 1655. Edward2 married 15 February 1648 Eliony Lumber.
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More About Edward*~ Hawes:
Died 2: Abt. 1655
AKA (Facts Pg): Mohawk Ed Hawes
Cause of Death: disappeared
Historical 1: Bet. 1615 - 1635, Among the first Europeans to see Niagara Falls after its discovery by the French.
Historical 2: 1615, Perhaps the first Englishman in America north of Virginia (5 years before the Mayflower).
Immigrant Ancestor: 1615, England to Netherlands to New York
Migration 1: Bef. 1615, England to Holland (probably c1607)
Migration 2: 1615, Holland to New Amsterdam
Migration 3: 03 Sep 1635, New Amsterdam to Boston (or 3 June 1635).
Migration 4: Bef. 1648, Boston to Dedham, MA
Occupation 1: Stone mason
Occupation 2: Aft. 1615, fur trader for the Dutch West India Co.
Occupation 3: 1638, Town of Wrentham gave contract to Edward Haws and son to fell trees.
Religion: Puritan
Residence: Bet. 1635 - 1648, Boston and Dedham, MA.

More About Unknown Wife Of Edward*~ Hawes:
Cause of Death: died in childbirth

Child of Edward*~ Hawes and Unknown Hawes is:

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Edward Hawes, born Abt. 1616 in New Amsterdam; died 28 Jun 1687 in Wrentham, MA; married Eliony*~ Lumber 15 Apr 1648 in Dedham, MA.

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