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Ancestors of Margaret May Harvey

582. John Hawkes, Sr*, born 1617 in Hingham, Norfolk, England; died Bef. 30 Jun 1662 in Hadley, Hampshire County, MA. He was the son of 1164. John~ Hawke. He married 583. Elizabeth Browne 1642 in probably Windsor, CT.

583. Elizabeth Browne, born Abt. 1620 in probably Suffolk, England; died 29 Sep 1685 in Windsor, Hartford County, CT. She was the daughter of 1166. William* Browne and 1167. Lydia* Warde.

Notes for John Hawkes, Sr*:

BROTHERS

Matthew Hawke and John Hawkes are sometimes reported to be brothers of Adam Hawkes, however, there is no known documentation of this. ----Adam Hawkes Family Association
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THE HISTORY OF HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS

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The Agreement or Engagement of those who intended to remove from Connecticut to Massachusetts, is dated at Hartford, April 18, 1659, and is recorded on the first book of Hadley records. The following is a copy of that Agreement and of some proceedings of a later date recorded with the other:

"At a meeting at Goodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April 18th, 1659, the company there met engaged themselves under their own hands, or by their deputies, whom they had chosen, to remove themselves and their families out of the jurisdiction of Connecticut into the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts, as may appear in a paper dated the day and year abovesaid. The names of the engagers are these:--

From Hartford, CT:

John Webster<<<<<<<<<<
William Goodwin
John Crow
Nathaniel Ward<<<<<<<<<<
John White
John Barnard
Andrew Bacon
William Lewis
William Westwood
Richard Goodman
John Arnold*
William Partrigg
Gregory Wilterton*
Thomas Standley<<<<<<<<<<
Samuel Porter (from Windsor, CT)
Richard Church
Ozias Goodwin*
Francis Barnard
James Ensign*
George Steele*
John Marsh
Robert Webster*<<<<<<<<<<
William Lewis Jr.
Nathaniel Standley<<<<<<<<<<
Samuel Church
William Markum
Samuel Moody
Zechariah Field<<<<<<<<<<
Widow Westly*
Widow Watson*
Andrew Warner

From Wethersfield:

Mr. John Russell Junior
Nathaniel Dickinson
Samuel Smith
Thomas Coleman
John Russell, senior
John Dickinson
Philip Smith
John Coleman
Thomas Wells<<<<<<<<<<
James Northam
Samuel Gardner
Thomas Edwards*
John Hubbard
Thomas Dickinson
Robert Boltwood
Samuel Smith Jr*
William Gull
Luke Hitchcock*
Richard Montague
John Latimer*

From Windsor, CT:

Peter Tilton
John Hawkes<<<<<<<<<<

Also from Hartford, CT:

Richard Billings
Benj. Harbert*
Edward Benton*
John Catling*
Mr. Samuel Hooker*
Capt. John Cullick*
not fully engaged
Daniel Warner

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1st. We whose names are above written do engage ourselves mutually one to another, that we will if God permit, transplant ourselves and families to the plantation purchased, on the east side of the river of Connecticut, beside Northampton, therein to inhabit and dwell by the 29th of September come twelve months, which will be in the year 1660. [Meaning Sept. 29th, 1660.]

2d. That each of us shall pay the charges of the land purchased according to his proportion, as also for the purchase of Hockanum.

3d. That we will raise all common charges, of what sort soever, for the present, upon the land that men take up: mow, plow land and house lot, according to the proportion of land that each man takes of all sorts; and all charges shall be paid as they shall arise and be due, from the date hereof.

4th. That if any persons so engaging be not inhabiting there by the time aforesaid, then, notwithstanding their payment of charges, their lands and what is laid out in rates shall return to the town: and yet this article doth not free men from their promise of going and inhabiting.

5th. That no man shall have liberty to sell any of his land till he shall inhabit and dwell in the town three years; and also to sell it to no person, but such as the town shall approve on.

Agreed that all those persons that will go up within three weeks shall give in their names by this day fortnight, and then those that are so agreed shall take up a quarter together, and so those that follow shall take up another quarter, so they do it together, or so far as their numbers run.

Agreed also that no persons shall fell any trees upon any lot of ground lotted out, or to be lotted out, but upon his own ground or lot, or against his own lot within ten rods of the same in the highway. The land to be lotted is either what is for the homelots, or between the homelots and the meadow.

It is agreed also by the said company, upon the 25th of April 1659, that they will purchase the lands on the west side of the great river, above Napanset, if it can be bought, and that each of the said engagers will pay their several proportions to the said purchase, according to what they have put in to take up lands by, at the time of their said engagement: witness their hands, dated April the 18th 1659.

At the said meeting William Westwood, Richard Goodman, William Lewis, John White and Nathaniel Dickinson were chosen by the whole company, to go up to the foresaid plantation, on the east side of Northampton, and to lay out the number 59 homelots, and to allow eight acres for every homelot, and to leave a street 20 rods broad betwixt the two westermost rows of homelots; and to divide the said rows of homelots into quarters by highways. Those men, being willing to answer the desire of the said company, did undertake the work. They desiring to make some beginning there for themselves, the company granted them liberty, according to a former agreement, that they might choose in any of the quarters to lay out their own homelots, provided they took them together at one side of any of the said quarters.

The plantation being begun by them and some other of the engagers, the rest of the engagers that remained at Hartford and Wethersfield, with those that were come up to inhabit at the said plantation, did upon the ninth of November (1659) at Hartford, and about the said time at Wethersfield, and at the said plantation, choose by vote, William Westwood, Nathaniel Dickinson, Samuel Smith, Thomas Standley, John White, Richard Goodman, and Nathaniel Ward, to order all public occasions, that concern the good of that plantation for the year ensuing.

The said Townsmen made a rate upon the 22d of November, 1659, for the paying of the purchase of the said plantation, and for the minister's maintenance, levying it at 50 shillings the 100 pounds, which in the whole sum came to 180 pounds; for the speedy gathering of this rate, we sent the rate down to the two towns Hartford and Wethersfield, that the charges might be truly paid and satisfied, by every man according to his engagement, as is visible in the engagement itself, that is dated the 18th of April 1659.

There are 59 names to the Agreement, and one not fully engaged. Of these, -'II first named, from John Webster to Andrew Warner, inclusive, belonged to Hartford, except Samuel Porter, who was from Windsor, but may have resided in Hartford in 1659. The next 20, from Mr. John Russell, Jr. to John Latimer, inclusive, belonged to Wethersfield; the next two, Peter Tilton and John Hawks, were of Windsor, and 5 or 6 of the 7 below Hawks, were of Hartford. Those with this mark, * 18 in number, did not remove to Hadley, or remained there but a short time.
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1. HAWKES, JOHN, came abt. 1660, from Windsor, Ct., and was buried June 30, 1662. He m. Elizabeth (???). She m. (2) Robert Hinsdale; (3) June 25, 1683, Thomas Dibble of Windsor, Ct. Children--John, bapt. Aug. 13, 1643; Nathaniel, bapt. Feb. 16, 1645, d. young; Elizabeth, bapt. Jan. 10, 1647, m. Nov. 24, 1664, Joseph Gillett; Anna, bapt. Oct. 1, 1648, m. (1) Oct. 10, 1672, Thomas Hastings, and d. Oct. 25, 1705; Isaac, b. Aug. 11, 1650, drowned in Conn. river, June 22, 1659; Mary, b. May 23, 1652, m. (1) Oct. 10, 1672, Experience Hinsdale; (2) July, 1677, John Evans; Joanna, b. Feb. 8, 1654, m. William Arms of Deerfield, and d. Nov. 22, 1729; Eliezer, b. Dec. 20, 1655; Sarah, b. Sept. 29, 1657, m. (1) 1677, Philip Mattoon of Deerfield; (2) Daniel Belden, and d. Dec. 17, 1751; Gershom, b. Aug. 12, 1659, d. young.

2. JOHN, s. of John, (1) settled in Hat., whence he rem. to Deerfield, and subsequently to Waterbury, Ct., where he d. He m. (1) Dec. 26, 1667, Martha, (probably Baldwin,) who d. Jan. 7, 1676; (2) Nov. 20, 1696, Alice, wid. of Samuel Allis of Hat. She was slain by French and Indians, Feb. 29, 1704. Children--John, b. June 26, 1671, d. young; John, m. Thankful (???), and was slain, Feb. 29, 1704; Hannah, m. 1694, Jonathan Scott of Waterbury, Ct., and d. April 7, 1744; Elizabeth, b. 1697, taken captive in 1704, and was slain on the way to Canada.

3. ELIEZER, s. of John, (1) was deacon in Deerfield, where he d. March 22, 1727. He m. April 30, 1689, Judith, dau. of William Smead of Nh. Children--Thankful, b. 1690, m. (1) Thomas Taylor; (2) Daniel Ashley of Westfield; Eliezer, b. 1693; Mary, b. 1695, m. Jonathan Pattison; Elizabeth, b. 1697, m. Hezekiah Stratton; Nathaniel, b. 1699; Sarah, b. 1701, m. 1726, Thomas Wells; Hannah, b. 1703, m. 1727, Samuel Allen; John, b. 1707.

Source: "The History of Hadley, Massachusetts"
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BIOGRAPHY FROM THE HAWKES FAMILY GENEALOGY

John Hawks came to Dorchester, MA, 1630 in Winthrop's fleet and then moved to Windsor, CT, in 1640 as one of the founders. Ecclesiastical orthodoxy led him, along with his wife Elizabeth Browne, to move to Hadley, MA, in 1659 again as one of the founders. Adam Hawkes of Saugus was apparently a brother and the two came to New England together. John Hawks/Hawkes was born in England and died 30 Jun 1662 in Hadley, MA.

John's wife, Elizabeth Browne, was a niece of Nathaniel Ward, an original settler of Hartford, CT. Nathaniel Ward was the son of Edward Ward of Little Wrathing, Suffolk Co., England. On 9 Jan 1620, Edward made his will, proved at Ipswich 7 Mar 1620. He provided for his wife Judith and his children Nathaniel, Edward, Lydia, Mary, Rebecca and Susan.

Susan Browne, widow of Robert Browne of Ipswich, made her will 22 Mar 1626, proved 24 April 1627. She remembered her mother Judith and both of her sisters, Rebecca Ward and Mary Cutting, as well as "Elizabeth Browne, daughter of my borther-in-aw William Browne." As Lydia Ward was the fourth sister, it was she who married William Browne and their daughter Elizabeth was the niece of Nathaniel Ward (of Hartford). Elizabeth Browne married John Hawks in about 1642.

John & Elizabeth's children were all born in Windsor. At a meeting held at Nathaniel Ward's house in Hartford, 18 Apr 1659, John was among those present who signed the agreement to remove from Connecticut to Massachusetts. They moved to Hadley, MA, around 1660. John died suddenly and was buried 30 June 1662 in the Hadley Cemetery. Elizabeth married Robert Hinsdale as his second wife about 1668.

The marriage was an unhappy one and they soon parted, and she returned to her home in Hadley. At a court held 30 Mar 1674 they were "presented for living assunder contrary to law," also charged "with lacivious and wanton carrage." On examination Elizabeth refused to answer, and it appears that she was cleared of any wrongdoing. Robert Hinsdale said he "did it as being her head and having the rule of her in the pointe and that he did it for her correction of her disorder towards him." Although he was a respected man in the community, the court held he had "broken the perfect rule of divine law and the law of the Colony in the intent if not in the letter in the first livinig assunder," and ordered him "whipped ten stripes on the naked body;" and imposed a fine for which his sons became responsible and which the court refused to remit after his tragic death. They moved to Pocumtuck (Deerfield), MA, where descendents of both were already living. Robert was killed, along with three of his sons, with Captain Thomas Lathrop, on 18 September 1675 in the ambush at Bloody Brook, MA.

Elizabeth married Thomas Dibble of Windsor, CT, on 25 June 1683 and she died in Windsor on 20 Sept 1689. ---www.geocities.com/Reartlnd/Acres/1150/hawkes.html
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FROM THE WINTHROP SOCIETY WEBSITE, www.winthropsociety.org

The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to be made free.

I, A B, etc., being, by the Almighty’s most wise disposition, become a member of this body, consisting of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Assistants and a commonalty of the Massachusets in New England do freely and sincerely acknowledge that I am justly and lawfully subject to the government of the same, and do accordingly submit my person and estate to be protected, ordered and governed by the laws and constitutions thereof and do faithfully promise to be from time to time obedient and conformable thereunto, and to the authority of the said Governor and Assistants and their successors, and to all such laws, orders, sentences, and decrees as shall be lawfully made and published by them or their successors; and I will always endeavor (as in duty I am bound) to advance the peace and welfare of this body or commonwealth to my utmost skill and ability; and I will to my best power and means, seek to divert and prevent whatsoever may tend to the ruin or damage thereof or of any the said Governor, Deputy Governor, or Assistants, or any of them or their successors, and will give speedy notice to them, or some of them, of any sedition, violence, treachery, or other hurt or evil which I shall know, hear, or vehemently suspect to be plotted or intended against the said commonwealth, or the said government established; and I will not at any time suffer or give consent to any counsel or attempt that shall be done, given, or attempted for the impeachment of the said government, or making any change alteration of the same, contrary to the laws and ordinances thereof but shall do my utmost endeavor to discover, oppose, and hinder all and every such counsel and attempt. So help me God.
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Notes for John Hawkes:

John Hawks arrived in New England in June 1630 with John Winthrop's fleet and settled first at Dorchester, MA. He was made a freeman there on Sept. 3, 1634. In about 1636 he moved to Windsor, CN. He married Elizabeth Browne, a niece of Nathaniel Ward, one of the earlier settlers of Hartford, in about 1642. John and Elizabeth's children were all born in Windsor. In the late 1650's lands to the north in Massachusetts along the Connecticut River were being opened up for settlement. John was in disagreement with the ecclesiastical authorities of Connecticut over the manner of baptism and church membership so he decided to leave Windsor and at a meeting in Nathaniel Ward's house in April 1659 he signed the agreement to leave Connecticut for Massachusetts. When the lands of the new settlement Hadley were divided, John Hawks receive 6 acres of meadow lands, a lot on the west side of Main Street. He died in June 1662 and was buried in the Hadley Cemetery on June 30, 1662.
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FROM SAVAGE, VOL 2

HAWKE, more com.

HAWKES, ADAM, Lynn 1638, may have come in the fleet with Winthrop and been first at Charlestown. His w. Ann, prob. mo. of all but one of his ch. d. 4 Dec. 1669; and he m. June 1670, Sarah Hooper, had Sarah, b. 1 June 1671. Other ch. were Adam; John, a. 1633; Moses; Benjamin; Thomas, and Susanna, descend. of wh. cont. in the place. He d. 13 Mar. 1672, aged 64. See Lewis, 65.

ELIEZER, Hadley, 1679, s. of John of the same, m. 1689, Judith, d. of William Smead of Northampton, and, was deac. d. at Deerfield, 27 Mar. 1727, leav. Eliezer, b. 1693; Nathaniel, 1699; John, 1707; and five ds. This branch has num. descend.

GERSHOM, Malden, m. Elizabeth d. of Richard Pratt of the same.

JAMES, Hingham, s. of Matthew, freem. 1680, m. 9 July 1678, Sarah, d. of John Jacob, had Sarah, b.
1679; Margaret, 1681; James, 1683; Mary, 1685; Matthew, 1688 , d. soon; Elizabeth 1689; and Deborah, 1692. He was a capt. His will of [[381]] 21 Nov. 1715, pro. 10 Jan. foll. names eldest d. Sarah, w. of Joshua Hersey, Margaret, w. of John Fearing, Mary, w. of James Hersey, Elizabeth of Rev. Daniel
Lewis; and Deborah, then unm. wh. in the will of her br. James, 8 July 1716, pro. 9 days after, is call. w. of John Lewis.

JOHN, freem. 3 Sept. 1634, may have then been of Lynn, as Lewis claims, but more prob. of Dorchester, and next that inhab. of Windsor, 1640 wh. there had John, b. 13 Aug. 1643; Nathaniel, 16 Feb. 1645; Elizabeth 10 Jan. 1647; Ann, 1 Oct. 1648; Isaac, 11 Aug. 1650; Mary, 23 May 1652; Joanna, 8 Feb. 1654; Eliezer, 20 Dec. 1655, bef. ment.; Sarah, 29 Sept. 1657; Gershom, 12 Aug. 1659; beside two that d. young; rem. to Hadley a. 1660, there was bur. 30 June 1662. His wid. Elizabeth m. Robert Hinsdale, and 3d Thomas Dibble. Of the ds. Elizabeth m. 1664, Joseph Gillet; Ann m. 10 Oct. 1672, Dr. Thomas Hastings of Hatfield; Mary m. 1670, Experience Hinsdale, and in 1677 m. John Evans; Joanna. m. William Arms; and Sarah m. 1677, Philip Mattoon, was third w. of Daniel Belden, and d. 17 Dec. 1751. All the ch. named were liv. at his d. but Gershom d. young.

JOHN, Lynn, perhaps s. of Adam, m. 3 June 1658, Rebecca, d. of Moses Maverick, had Moses, b. Nov. 1659, and his w. then d. He m. 11 Apr. 1661, Sarah Cushman, d. of Thomas of the Mayflower, had Susanna, b. 29 Nov. 1662; Adam, 12 May 1664; Ann, 3 May 1666; John, 25 Apr. 1668; Rebecca, 18 Oct. 1670; Thomas, 18 May 1673; and Mary, 14 Nov. 1675. Susanna, Ann, and Rebecca, all d. in few days after Mary was b. He was freem. 1690, then call. sen. and d. 5 Aug. 1694. Lewis assigns this date to the freem. of 1631, wh. appears improb. JOHN, Hatfield, s. of John of Windsor, rem. to Deerfield, where, in the assault by the Fr. and Ind. 29 Feb. 1704, his w. (a sec. one, Alice, wh. had been wid. of Samuel Allis of H.) with s. John, and his w. with three young ch. were k.; also his d. Elizabeth tak. and k. on the way to Canada, so that of ch. or gr.ch. was left to him only d. Hannah, w. of John Scott of Waterbury to wh. town he went for residue of his life.

MATTHEW, Hingham, came in the Diligent of Ipswich, 1638, embark. at London, arr. 10 Aug. with w. Margaret, and serv. John Fearing, was from Cambridge; Eng. freem. 18 May 1642, was town clk. and d. 11 Dec. 1684, aged 74 yrs. says his gr.stone, leav. only s. James, b. May 1649. To he gave notes of the sermons of Rev. Mr. Norton and others, said to be yet preserv. His other ch. were Elizabeth b. July 1639, m. Feb. 1660, Stephen Lincoln, d. 4 Nov. 1713; Sarah, bapt. 1 Aug. 1641, m. 1657, John Cushing of Scituate, d. 1679; Bethia, 1643, m. 15 Aug. 1665, Benjamin Stetson; Mary, bapt. 2 Aug. 1646, m. Dec. 1670, Benjamin Loring, d. 1714; Deborah, Mar. 1655 wh. m. prob. John Briggs; and Hannah, bapt. 22 July 1655, m. June 1685, Peter Cushing, d. 4 Apr. 1737.

MOSES, Lynn, prob. s. of Adam, was freem. 1691. THOMAS, Salem 1648. [[382]] Canda, a slave of Mrs. Margaret H. of Salem, possib. his wid. was in the disastrous, or diabolic. infatua. of 1692, charg. as a witch, and wisely confessing, that she learned all she knew from her mistress, not only saved her own life but caused her mistress to be charged with the same preposterous guilt. She was as successful as the slave by confession of a falsehood.
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JOHN HAWKES
ORIGIN: Unknown.

MIGRATION: 1634 (based on date of freemanship).

FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester.

REMOVES: Windsor 1635, Hadley by 1660.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 3 September 1634 implied by freemanship.

John Hawkes or his wife (and probably both) had apparently been admitted to Windsor church by 13 August 1643, if that be the date of baptism of their son John. On 18 January 1659/60, "John Hakes" was listed among those who had been placed in the long seats in Windsor meetinghouse [Windsor Hist 1:178, citing "Book of Rates"].

FREEMAN: 3 September 1634 (third in a sequence of three Dorchester men) [MBCR 1:369].

OFFICES: Connecticut petit jury, 1 March 1648/9 [CCCR 1:176]. Tax collector, 6 February 1649/50 [CCCR 1:204].

ESTATE: In the Windsor land inventory on 4 February 1640[/1], "John Hawkes hath granted from the plantation" four parcels: "an homelot with the addition eight acres" (annotated "sold to Joseph Gylitt"); "in the Great Meadow two acres" (annotated "sold to Nathan[ie]ll Winchel"); "over the Great River ten rod in breadth, more or less, the length from the river back to the east three miles" (annotated "sold to John Osband"); and "also at Paquanick, on the north side of the river, in meadow four acres, besides allowance for swamp, & adjoining to it twenty acres of upland" (annotated "sold to David Williams [16]62 October 13") [WiLR 1:107r, 1A:99].

On 31 March 1663, "John Hawkes of Hadley dying intestate the inventory of his estate was presented to this Court & is in [illegible], and in reference to settlement of the said estate the Court ordered with the advice of friends & the widow's free consent & desire that her son John shall when he comes to the age of 22 years have a third part of her homelot, her housing only excepted & a third part of all her lands in Hadley & a young horse, and that her daughter Elizabeth shall have the sum of twenty pounds at her day of marriage in such pay as the estate will afford, and that her son Elezur shall have twenty pounds when he attains the age of one & twenty years in such pay as the estate will afford, and that her son Gerson shall have the sum of twenty pounds at the age of one & twenty years in such pay as the estate will afford, and that the next four daughters shall have the sum of fifteen pounds apiece to be paid to each of them as they shall attain the age of one & twenty years, and power of administration is granted to said widow Hawkes in reference to the said estate" [HamCCR 1:25].

On 28 September 1669, "John Hawkes late of Hadley deceased, dying intestate, there was an order of the Court at Northampton in March 1663 settling the estate in respect of the widow Hawkes & portions for the children, but there being no security ordered for payment of the children's portions, this Court ordereth upon the desire of Robert Hensdall & his wife the mother of the said children that the housing & lands at Hadley which were the estate of John Hawkes shall stand as security for the children's portions excepting those lands that young John Hawkes hath received as his portion by the former Court order" [HamCCR 1:113].

On 27 September 1681, "the widow Elizabeth Hindsdall administratrix to the estate of her former husband John Hawks, as by the Court act March 31: 63 appears presenting a petition to this Court wherein she shews how she would dispose of her remaining estate by her former husband Hawks in Hadley which by God's Providence she is again come to live upon, that is to say that her sons Eliezur & Gershom Hawks who are yet unmarried & have their portions to receive should have the said portions paid them out of some of her husband Hawks lands, she declaring that the other children's portions are paid them according to the Court's settlement, and signifying that she with her two sons Eliezer and Gershom Hawks have come to this agreement, that they shall improve the whole remainder of estate or lands as abovesaid in Hadly together with their own shares for the yearly maintenance of their mother while she shall live & so have conditioned mutually that the said Eliezer & Gershom shall have the whole betwixt them at her decease, as by writings drawn & signed & sealed between them appears, and the widow mother signifying her desires that the said lands may be confirmed to them as aforesaid by this Court they performing the agreement to her this Court likes well of the petition and appoint the lands to her said sons after her decease" [HamCCR 1:127].

BIRTH: By 1613 (based on date of freemanship).

DEATH: Buried Hadley 30 June 1662 [Pynchon VR 237].

MARRIAGE: By 1643 Elizabeth _____. She married (2) ROBERT HINSDALE 1637, Dedham and (3) Thomas Dibble, son of ROBERT DIBBLE 1634, Dorchester [GM 2:2:345-47]. She died at Windsor on 29 September 1685 [WiLR Barbour 71, citing "1:43"].\\\\

CHILDREN:

i JOHN HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 13 August 1643 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. (1) Hadley 26 December 1667 Martha Baldwin [Pynchon VR 223]; m. (2) Deerfield 20 November 1696 Alice Allis.

ii NATHANIEL HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 16 February 1644[/5] [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; no further record.

iii ELIZABETH HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 10 January 1646[/7] [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. (1) Hadley 24 November 1663 Joseph Gillett [Pynchon VR 223]; m. (2) Hatfield 16 December 1680 Nathaniel Dickinson [NEHGR 152:170-71].

iv ANNA HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 1 October 1648 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. Hadley 10 November 1672 Thomas Hastings [Pynchon VR 224], son of THOMAS HASTINGS 1634, Watertown [GM 2:3:235-40].\\

v ISAAC HAWKES, b. Windsor 11 August 1650 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; "drowned in the Great River June 22d 1659 by voluntarily going in to swim, and on the day following was found (by an Indian) driven far down, and was brought up and buried" [Loomis Rec 45].

vi MARY HAWKES, b. Windsor 23 May 1652 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. (1) Hadley 10 October 1672 Experience Hinsdale [Pynchon VR 224], son of ROBERT HINSDALE 1637, Dedham; m. (2) Hatfield [blank] July 1677 John Evans [HadVR 105].\\

vii JOANNA HAWKES, b. Windsor 8 February 1653[/4] [Grant 46 (annotated "dead"); CTVR 40, 45]; m. Hatfield 21 November 1677 William Arms [HadVR 105].

viii ELEAZER HAWKES, b. Windsor 20 December 1655 [Grant 46; CTVR 45]; m. Deerfield 30 April 1689 Judith Smead.

ix SARAH HAWKES, b. Windsor 29 September 1657 [Grant 46; CTVR 44]; m. (1) Springfield 10 September 1677 Philip Mattoon [Pynchon VR 59]; m. (2) in 1704 or later Daniel Belden [John Hawks Gen 20].

x GERSHOM HAWKES, b. Windsor 12 April 1659 [Grant 46]; m. by 1691 Elizabeth Pratt, daughter of Richard Pratt (in his will of 8 May 1691, "Richard Pratt Senior of Malden" included a bequest to "my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Gershom Hawkes" [MPR Case #17925]).

xi Child HAWKES, b. Windsor on an unknown date [Grant 92]; no further record.

COMMENTS: Imogene Hawks Lane claimed that John Hawkes came to New England in 1630, based on an entry in the Winthrop Papers [John Hawks Gen 1, citing WP 2:276], but this is only a guess, and misreads the record.

No record of John Hawkes has been found between his freemanship in 1634 and his record of landholding in Windsor in 1640. He would have been at least twenty-one years old in 1634, but did not marry until about late 1642, when he would have been nearly thirty. These circumstances raise the question whether the John Hawkes of Dorchester in 1634 was the same as the Windsor man.

If John Hawkes was one of the early migrants from Dorchester to Windsor in 1635, we would have an explanation for the lack of further records in Massachusetts Bay, and the records for Windsor in the later 1630s are few. We then need only to assume that he married about five years later than average for men of his time. Some doubt remains, but we assume here that all these records pertain to one man named John Hawkes.

In his 17 August 1677 list of "what children has been born in Windsor from our beginning," Matthew Grant included "John Haks," crediting him with eleven children [Grant 92]. Only ten of these children are accounted for in other records. Grant states that the daughter Joanna was dead, but a daughter of that name married not long after Grant compiled his record, so there may have been two daughters of this name. The correct chronological placement of a second daughter Joanna is not clear.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1989 Imogene Hawks Lane published a comprehensive account of this immigrant and his agnate descendants [John Hawks, A Founder of Hadley, Massachusetts, After a Sojourn of Twenty-Four Years at Windsor, Connecticut: Thirteen Generations in America] (cited above as John Hawks Gen).
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More About John Hawkes, Sr*:
Date born 2: 1590, Hingham, Norfolk, England or Massachusetts?⁸⁷
Burial: 30 Jun 1662, Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, MA
Founder: 08 Oct 1660, Hadley, Hampshire County, MA ⁸⁸
Freeman: 03 Sep 1634, Took the Oath of Freemen.⁸⁹
Great Migration: 1634, vol 12
Historical: Great Migration
Migration 1: 1630, England to Charlestown, MA, a passenger on the Winthrop Fleet
Migration 2: Bet. 1630 - 1643, Massachusetts to Hartford/Windsor, CT
Migration 3: Abt. 1660, Windsor/Hartford, CT, to Hadley, MA ⁹⁰
Property: Mar 1662/63, oe150, lot #14, 6 acres, 2 qrs, 29 rods, Hockanum Meadow
Residence: Lynn, MA?
Signer 1: 18 Apr 1659, Hartford Agreement ⁹¹
Signer 2: 18 Apr 1659, at the home of Nathaniel Ward--agreement to remove to Massachusetts
Surname Variant: Hawks

Notes for Elizabeth Browne:
HAWKES FAMILY GENEALOGY PAGE

Hawkes Family Genealogy Page

John Hawks came to Dorchester, MA 1630 in Winthrop's fleet, and then to Windsor, CT in 1640 as one of the founders. Ecclesiastical orthodoxy led him, along with his wife Elizabeth Browne, to move to Hadley, MA in 1659 again as one of the founders. Adam Hawkes of Saugus was apparently a brother, and the two came to New England together. John Hawks/Hawkes was born in England and died 30 Jun 1662 in Hadley, MA.

John's wife, Elizabeth Browne, was a niece of Nathaniel Ward, an original settler of Hartford, CT. Nathaniel Ward was the son of Edward Ward of Little Wrathing, Suffolk Co., England. On 9 Jan 1620, Edward made his will, proved at Ipswich 7 Mar 1620. He provided for his wife Judith and his children Nathaniel, Edward, Lydia, Mary, Rebecca and Susan.

Susan Browne, widow of Robert Browne of Ipswich, made her will 22 Mar 1626, proved 24 April 1627. She remembered her mother Judith and both of her sisters, Rebecca Ward and Mary Cutting, as well as "Elizabeth Browne, daughter of my borther-in-law William Browne." As Lydia Ward was the fourth sister, it was she who married William Browne and their daughter Elizabeth was the niece of Nathaniel Ward (of Hartford). Elizabeth Browne married John Hawks in about 1642.

John & Elizabeth's children were all born in Windsor. At a meeting held at Nathaniel Ward's house in Hartford, 18 Apr 1659, John was among those present who signed the agreement to remove from Connecticut to Massachusetts. They moved to Hadley, MA around 1660. John died suddenly and was buried 30 June 1662 in the Hadley Cemetery. Elizabeth married (2) Robert Hinsdale as his second wife about 1668.

Elizabeth married Robert Hinsdale, the second spouse for each, about 1668.

The marriage was an unhappy one and they soon parted, and she returned to her home in Hadley. At a court held 30 Mar 1674 they were "presented for living assunder contrary to law," also charged "with lacivious and wanton carrage." On examination Elizabeth refused to answer, and it appears that she was cleared of any wrongdoing. Robert Hinsdale said he "did it as being her head and having the rule of her in the pointe and that he did it for her correction of her disorder towards him." Although he was a respected man in the community, the court held he had "broken the perfect rule of divine law and the law of the Colony in the intent if not in the letter in the first livinig assunder," and ordered him "whipped ten stripes on the naked body;" and imposed a fine for which his sons became responsible and which the court refused to remit after his tragic death. They moved to Pocumtuck (Deerfield), MA, where descendents of both were already living. Robert was killed, along with three of his sons, with Captain Thomas Lathrop, on 18 September 1675 in the ambush at Bloody Brook, MA.

Note: Nathaniel Ward is also shown to be the son of John Ward?---RCM
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Elizabeth married Thomas Dibble of Windsor, CT, on 25 June 1683 and she died in Windsor on 20 Sept 1689. ---www.geocities.com/Heartlnd/Acres/1150/hawkes.html

The Bishop/Brogan Home Page
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Notes for Elizabeth Browne:
When her husband John Hawkes died suddenly in 1662, Elizabeth Browne Hawkes was left with nine living children, the oldest 19 and the youngest was 3. She cared for her children in Hadley until about 1668 when she married Robert Hinsdale as his second wife. The marriage between Elizabeth Browne Hawkes and Robert Hinsdale was not a happy one. He had been married previously to a timid and sensitive woman, while Elizabeth was of a different temperament, and they soon parted. Elizabeth returned to her home in Hadley. At a court held 30 Mar 1674 they were "presented for living asunder contrary to the law" and charged with "lacivious and wantan carrage." Elizabeth was cleared of any wrong doing but Robert Hinsdall was ordered whipped and to pay a fine. He and three of his sons were slain at the battle of Bloody Brook, along with Joseph Gillet, husband of Elizabeth Hawks' daughter Elizabeth.
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NEHGS REGISTER
vol 101, page 44
Jonathan and Nathan Gillett Descendants

Stiles states that John Hawkes' widow sold Windsor lands to their son in law Joseph Gillett in 1666, "who probably resided on the Hawkes lands until about 1673 when he removed to Deerfield"...

...Robert [Hinsdell or Hinsdale] had married (2) Widow Elizabeth Hawkes and his son had married her daughter Mary Hawkes in 1672 and gone at once to Deerfield with her...
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The History of Hadley, Massachusetts
p 437

1. HINSDALE, ROBERT, Dedham, 1638, freeman March 13, 1639, rem. to Medfield, thence as early as 1672 to Had., and later to Deerfield, where together with his sons Barnabas, John and Samuel, he was slain by Indians. He m. (1) Ann; (2) ELIZABETH, WID. OF JOHN HAWKES. SHE M. [3] 1683, THOMAS DIBBLE OF WINDSOR, CT. Children--Elizabeth, m. July 7, 1657, James Rising; Barnabas, b. Nov. 13, 1639; Gamaliel, perhaps mistake for Samuel, b. March 5, 1642; Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1644; Experience, b. Jan. 23, 1646; John, b. Jan. 27, 1648, slain by Indians, Sept. 18, 1675; Ephraim, b. Sept. 26, 1650.

2. BARNABAS, s. of Robert, (1) rem. from Hat. to Deerfield, and was slain Sept. 18, 1675, at Bloody brook, being one of Capt. Lathrop's Co. He m. Oct. 15, 1666, Sarah, wid. of Stephen Taylor, and dau. of John White. She m. (3) Feb. 1679, Walter Hickson, and d. Aug. 10, 1702. Children--Barnabas, b. Feb. 20, 1668, m. Nov. 9, 1693, Martha Smith, settled in Hartford, Ct., and d. Jan. 25, 1725; Sarah, m. Jan. 8, 1691, Samuel Hall of Middletown, Ct.; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 29, 1671, d. March 8, 1672; Isaac, b. Sept. 15, 1673, m. Jan. 6, 1715, Lydia Loomis, settled in Hartford, Ct., and d. abt. March 1, 1739; Mary, b. March 27, 1677.
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HAWKS, BROWNE 2/8/97 Roy Nagy HAWKS and BROWNE. Elizabeth Browne married John Hawks in 1642 and the following children were born in Windsor CT: Joanna b. Feb 1654, John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Anna, and Isaac. Elizabeth Browne died in Windsor on 29 Sep 1689. Any information on this family is sought.

More About Elizabeth Browne:
Date born 2: 1621, Hadley, MA
Died 2: 29 Sep 1685, Hadley, MA?
Died 3: 29 Sep 1689
Property: 1666, Sold lands in Windsor to her son in law Joseph Gillett

More About John Hawkes and Elizabeth Browne:
Marriage 1: 1642, probably Windsor, CT
Marriage 2: 27 Jan 1611/12, Norfolk, Hingham, England?⁹²
Marriage 3: 1642, Hadley, MA

Children of John Hawkes and Elizabeth Browne are:

John Hawkes, Jr, born 13 Aug 1643 in Windsor, CT; died Unknown in Waterbury, CT; married (1) Martha Baldwin 26 Dec 1667 in Hadley, MA; died 07 Jan 1675/76; married (2) Alice Allis 20 Nov 1696 in Deerfield, MA; died 29 Feb 1703/04.

More About John Hawkes, Jr:
Migration 1: Hatfield, MA, to Deerfield, MA
Migration 2: Deerfield, MA, to Waterbury, CT

More About John Hawkes and Martha Baldwin:
Marriage: 26 Dec 1667, Hadley, MA

ii.

Nathaniel Hawkes, born 16 Feb 1644/45 in Windsor, Hartford County, CT; died 1645 in Windsor, Hartford County, CT.

Notes for Nathaniel Hawkes:

Died young.

iii.

Elizabeth Hawkes, born 10 Jan 1646/47 in Windsor, CT; died 25 Oct 1705; married (1) Joseph Gillette 24 Nov 1663 in Hadley, MA; died Unknown; married (2) Thomas Hastings 10 Oct 1672; died Unknown; married (3) Nathaniel Dickinson 16 Dec 1680 in Hatfield, MA; died Unknown.

More About Joseph Gillette and Elizabeth Hawkes:
Marriage: 24 Nov 1663, Hadley, MA

iv.

Anna Hawkes, born 01 Oct 1648 in Windsor, CT; died Unknown; married Dr Thomas Hastings II 10 Nov 1672 in Hadley, MA; born 01 Jul 1652 in Watertown, MA; died Unknown.

More About Thomas Hastings and Anna Hawkes:
Marriage: 10 Nov 1672, Hadley, MA

Isaac Hawkes, born 11 Aug 1650 in Windsor, Hartford County, CT⁹³; died 22 Jun 1659 in Windsor, Hartford County, CT.

Notes for Isaac Hawkes:
from The Great Migration
vol 12

v ISAAC HAWKES, b. Windsor 11 August 1650 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; "drowned in the Great River June 22d 1659 by voluntarily going in to swim, and on the day following was found (by an Indian) driven far down, and was brought up and buried" [Loomis Rec 45].

More About Isaac Hawkes:
Cause of Death: drowned in Connecticut River⁹⁴

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Mary Hawkes, born 23 May 1652 in Windsor, CT; died Unknown; married (1) Experience Hinsdale 10 Oct 1672 in Hadley, MA; born 23 Jan 1645/46 in of Dedham, MA; died Unknown; married (2) John Evans Jul 1677; died Unknown.

More About Experience Hinsdale and Mary Hawkes:
Marriage: 10 Oct 1672, Hadley, MA

vii.

Joanna Hawkes, born 08 Feb 1653/54 in Windsor, CT; died 22 Nov 1729 in Deerfield, MA; married William Arms 21 Nov 1677 in Hadley, MA, or Hatfield, MA; born 1654 in Deerfield, MA; died 25 Aug 1731 in Deerfield, MA.

Notes for William Arms:
ARMS, (Ames), William (1654-1731), from Island
of Jersey (Eng.), to Hatfield, Mass., 1674; moved
to Sunderland; settled at Deerfield, Mass., sol-
dier King Philip's War; m Joanna Hawks.

---Virkus

More About William Arms:
Date born 2: 1654, Jersey, England⁹⁵

More About William Arms and Joanna Hawkes:
Marriage: 21 Nov 1677, Hadley, MA, or Hatfield, MA

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Deacon Eleazor Hawkes, born 20 Dec 1655 in Windsor, CT; died 22 Mar 1726/27 in Deerfield, MA; married Judith Smead 30 Apr 1689 in Deerfield, MA; born 18 Feb 1664/65 in Northampton, MA; died 27 Jan 1718/19 in Deerfield, Franklin County, MA.

More About Deacon Eleazor Hawkes:
Military 1: 19 May 1676, Hadley Militia ⁹⁶
Military 2: 19 May 1676, served at the Turner Falls Fight

More About Eleazor Hawkes and Judith Smead:
Marriage: 30 Apr 1689, Deerfield, MA

	291	ix.		Sarah H. Hawkes, born 29 Sep 1657 in Windsor, CT; died 17 Dec 1751 in Deerfield, MA; married (1) Philip Mattoon, Sr 10 Sep 1677 in Deerfield, MA, or Springfield, MA; married (2) Daniel Belden Abt. 1704.
		x.		Gershom Hawkes, born 12 Aug 1659 in Windsor, CT; died Unknown; married Elizabeth Pratt Bef. 1691; died Unknown.

Notes for Gershom Hawkes:

Died young.

More About Gershom Hawkes:
Forename Variant: Gershom?

More About Gershom Hawkes and Elizabeth Pratt:
Marriage: Bef. 1691

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