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THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS 
OF EDMOND HAWES. 



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EDMOND HAWES 

OF YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, 

AN EMIGRANT TO AMERICA IN 1685, 

HIS ANCESTORS, 



INCHIDING THE ALLIED FAMILIES OF 
BEOME, COLLES, GRESWOLD, PORTER 
RODY, SHIRLEY AND WHITFIELD; 
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS 



JAMES WILLIAM HAWES, A. M. 



THE LYONS GENEALOGICAL COMPANY 
NEW YORK MCMXIV 









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PREFACE 

In 1882 the writer published a genealogy of his ancestor, 
Edmond^ Hawes of Yarmouth, and his Chatham descendants to 
the sixth generation, in the li^t of the information he then 
possessed.^ Subsequent investigations in England discovered 
the birthplace and the ancestors of Edmond, and in 1911 the 
writer published in The New England Historical and G^ea- 
logical Register^ a short account of the English family. The 
present work gives a fuller history, correcting errors and em- 
bodying the results of the latest investigations, and contains 
genealogies of the Brome, CoUes, Porter and other families 
with which the ancestors of the writer in England were allied 
by marriage. The Hawes and other English ancestors were 
arms-bearing gentlemen. In this country the marriages were 
with the families of Plymouth Colony, and the writer is a 
descendant of John Howland, Elizabeth Tillie, John Tillie 
and his wife, Stephen and Gyles Hopkins, Elder William Brew- 
ster and his wife, Mary Brewster, Mayflower passengers; of 
Capt. John GUirham and John Taylor, who served in King 
Philip's War ; and of John^ and John^ Hawes of Revolutionary 
record. Three others of the name of Hawes came to New En^ 
land at about the same time as Edmond, viz. : Robert Hawes, 
who landed in 1685 and resided in Salem, Wenham and Rox- 
bury ; Richard Hawes, who came also in 1685 and lived in Dor^ 
Chester; and Edward Hawes, who was in Dedham as early as 
1648. There is no evidence that these uiree were of kin to 
each other, and it is certain that they were not nearly related 
to Edmond. Acknowledgment should be made that Messrs. 
William T. Wardwell (now deceased) and James Anderson 

oChatham (Mass.) Monitor, June S, 1889. 
»Yol. 85, pp. 160, 386; V. 66, p. 185. 

V 



vi Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Hawes of New York City contributed to the expense of the 
English investigations. Invaluable aid in these investigations 
was freely given by Mr. Philip E. Martineau, of Birmingham, 
England, a learned antiquary, and by the Rev. Robert Pem- 
berton, of Sutton Coldfield, England, author of ^^Solihull and 
its Church." The writer has also had the ungrudging assist- 
ance of his nephew William C. Smith, Esq., of Chatham, Mass., 
author of a history of that town, and of Mr. Frank M. Hawes, 
of Somerville, Mass., a descendant of Richard, who has long 
been engaged upon the history of the four branches of the 

Hawes name. 

James W. Hawes 



CONTENTS 

PAGES 

Pbbfacb y 

Contents vii 

Infobmation ix 

Hawes (Engush) 8 

-Gbeswold 66 

-Bbomb 69 

-«ODY 98 

'^Shibi.et 98 

'Catbsbt 98 

^XiOJaJ^ES 104 

^POBTEB 108 

-WniTFIEIiD 116 

Hawes (Amebican) ISl 



1 



INFORMATION 

Am. CycL The American Cyclopaedia. 

An. Deeds Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the 

Public Record Office, published 
under direction of the Master of 
the Rolls. (5 vols, issued.) 

Archer, Sir Symon. . . .Lord of the Manor of Solihull and an 

antiquary (1581-1662). 

Austin, John O The genealogical Dictionary of Rhode 

Isknd, 1887. 

b Bom. 

Baker, George History and Antiquities of the County 

of Northampton, 1822. 

Bam. Co Barnstable County. 

Bam. Prob. Recs Barnstable Probate Records. 

Berry, Wm County Grenealogies. Pedigrees of the 

Families in the county of Kent, 
1880 ; also, same date, in the county 
of Sussex. 

Bridges, John History and Antiquities of Northamp- 
tonshire, edited by Rev. Peter 
Whalley in 1791. The materials 
had been assembled by Bridges 
during a few years before his death 
in 1724. 

CaL of Inqs Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem 

and other Analogous Documents 
preserved in the Public Record Of- 
fice, published by authority of the 
Home Secretary. 8 vols, issued, 
1904-191S. 

Chat Chatham. 

Close Rolls Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved 

in the Public Record Office, pub- 
lished by authority of the Home 

Secretary. (Several Volumes.) 

« 



X Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Clutterbuck, Robert • . .History and Antiquities of the County 

of Hertford, 8 vols., 1816, 1821, 
1827. 

Col. Top. & Greneal. . . .Collectanea Topographica et Grenea- 

logica. 

d Died. 

Deyo, Simeon L History of Barnstable County, Mas- 
sachusetts, 1890. 

Diet, of Nat. Biog Dictionary of National Biography. 

Doc. Hist, of N. Y The Documentary History of the 

State of New York. 

Dugdale, Sir Wm The Antiquities of Warwickshire. 

1st ed. 1666, in one volume. A 2nd 
ed. in 2 volumes by the Rev. Dr. 
Wm. Wood was published in 1780, 
revised from Dugdale's own cor- 
rected copy, the editor continuing 
the work to his own time. The cita- 
tions are from the 2nd ed. 

Early Prov. Recs Early Providence Records. 

Encycl. Brit The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th 

ed. 

Piles Files of the Superior Court of Judi- 
cature, a provincial tribunal, whose 
files and records are now in the cus- 
tody of the clerk of the Supreme 
Judicial Court, Boston. 

Freeman, Frederick . . .History of Cape Cod, 1860, 1869. 

gr. st Gravestone. 

Grazebrook, H. Sydney The Heraldry of Worcestershire, 

1878. 

Habington, Thomas ... A Survey of Worcestershire from 

about 1686 to after 1600. Pub- 
Ushed (vol. I) 1894, land (vol. U) 
1899. 

Hamper, William An Antiquary of Birmingham (1776- 

1881), whose interleaved copy of 
Dugdale's Warwickshire is in the 
British Museum. His MS notes 
are based on the collections of Sir 



Information xi 

Symon Archer, including Dugdale's 
MS notes, on papers in his own pos- 
session, etc. He was editor of Dug- 
dale's autobiography, diary and 
correspondence. 

Hannett, John The Forest of Arden, 1st edition, 

1868; 2nd ed., 1894. The cita- 
tions are from the Snd ed. 

Har Harwich. 

Harl. Soc. Pubs Harleian Society Publications. 

ib., id. The same book or authority. 

int Declaration of intention of marriage. 

Inqs. p. m Inquisitions post mortem. 

m Married. 

Mass. Hist. Colls Massachusetts Historical Society Col- 
lections. 

Mf The Mayflower Descendant. 

Misc. Gren. et Her Miscellanea Grenealogica et Heraldica. 

Nash, Treadway R. . . .Collections for the History of Wor- 
cestershire. He lived from 17C5 to 
1811. 

N. E. Reg. The New England Historical and 

Grenealogical Register. 

Norris, Rev. Henry. . . .Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church 

and Hall, 1897. Mr. Norris was a 
Roman Catholic priest of Tam- 
worth. (The writer intends to 
place a copy in the New York Pub- 
lic Library.) 

Orcutt, Rev. Samuel. ... A History of the Old Town of Strat- 
ford and the city of Bridgeport, 
Connecticut, 1886. 

Otis, Amos • • • .Genealogioal Notes of Barnstable 

Families, edited by Charles F. 
Swift, 1888. 

Palfrey, John O History of New England, 6 vols., 

1869, ei $eq. 

Par. Reg. Soc The Parish Register Society. 

P. C. C Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 

Peirce's Colonial Lists. .Civil, Military and Professional Lists 



xii Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

of Plymouth and Rhode Island Col- 
onies by Ebenezer W. Peirce, 1881. 

Pelletreau, Wm. S History of Putnam County, New 

York, 1886. 

Pemberton, Rev. Robert . Solihull and its Church, 1906. Mr. 

Pemberton was Assistant Curate in 
Solihull Church in 1903 and some 
time after. (The writer intends to 
place a copy in the New York Pub- 
lic Library.) 

Plym Co Pljrmouth County. 

Plym. Col. Recs Pljrmouth Colony Records, printed, 

including the 1st volume of Deeds 
and the Laws. Other Deeds and 
the wills are in MS. 

Pope, Charles Henry. . .The Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1900. 

Prov. Recs Providence Records. The citations 

are chiefly from the printed vol- 
umes. 

Savage, James A Grenealogical Dictionary of the 

First Settlers of New England, 
1860-1868. 

Ser Series. 

Smith, Wm. C A History of Chatham, Massachu- 
setts, 1909, et seq. 

Swift, Charles F History of Old Yarmouth, 1884. 

Thomas Doane Papers. . Deeds and other papers collected by 

Thomas Doane of Chatham, Mass., 
who died in 1766. They are now 
in the possession of Benjamin H. 
Doane, Esq., of New York City. 

Timmins, Samuel History of Warwickshire, 1889. 

Vict. Hist, of Warsh. . .The Victoria History of the county 

Warwick. 

Visit Visitation. 

Waters, Henry F Grenealogical Gleanings in England, 

1901. 

Winsor, Justin History of the Town of Duxbury, 

Mass., 1849. 

Yar Yarmouth. 



Information xiii 

DATES 

In early times in England and America the beginning of the 
year was March S5. In 1752, Sept. 8 was made Sept. 14 (to 
equalize the calendar and the sun time) and the beginning of 
the year was made January 1. Prior to that March was the 
first month, April the second and so on, and dates between 
January 1 and March S6 were a year behind what would be the 
case under the new style. To indicate this fact, dates in the 
interval mentioned are given as of both years; for example, 
February 7, 1781-2. 

AMERICAN LOCALITIES 

American localities, when not otherwise stated or indicated 
by the context, are in Massachusetts. 

WILLS 

At the times herein considered English wills were proved in the 
Diocesan (or Bishop's) Courts. Wills of the inhabitants of 
Solihull are on file in the District Registry at Lichfield and of 
the inhabitants of many other localities in Warwickshire, in 
the District Registry at Worcester. But when a decedent hcul 
property in more than one county, his will was proved and 
registered (or recorded) in the Prerogative Court of Canter- 
bury and the record is now at Somerset House, London. 



PARTI 
IN ENGLAND 



4 

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HAWES 

THE SEAT 

Edmond^ Hawes was bom in the parish of Solihull (some- 
times called also Silhill), Warwickshire, England, where his 
ancestors had been prominent for at least three centuries. War- 
wickshire lies near the centre of England, and is bounded N. W. 
by Staffordshire and N. E. by Leicestershire (nearly touching 
Derbyshire between those two), E. and S. E. by Northampton 
and Qxfordshires, S. W. by Gloucestershire and W. by Wor- 
cestershire. Before the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England, the 
region was thinly occupied by a Celtic (Welsh) people, who had 
been considerably affected by Roman civilization.^ Between the 
years 660 and 600 the Saxons moved in from the south, followed 
by the Angles from the north, the two nations meeting at the 
wooded plateau called the Forest of Arden, of which the greater 
part, including the district now Solihull, was occupied by the 
Angles. The Welsh had maintained themselves in this forest 
after they had been driven from the lower open ground, but soon 
after 600 they were compelled to abandon their position and 
flee west to their compatriots.^ Between about 636 and 920 the 
region shared the fortunes of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of 
Mercia.^ About 878, 948 and 1016 the Danes mcule inroads, 
but they do not appear to have formed any settlement here.' 
Upon the Norman conquesit, in 1066, Warwickshire, with the 
rest of England, became subject to William. 

Solihull is in the N. W. part of the county, bordering on the 
N. E. projection of Worcestershire, 7 m. S. E. of Birmingham. 
It is 18 m. N. W. of the town of Warwick, 18 m. N. of Strat- 
ford on Avon and SO m. S. of Lichfield in Staffordshire. Until 
1886 the parish formed part of the diocese of Lichfield.^ It was 

alVkt Hist of Warsh., 996 et seq.; d id. 4fll et seq. 
bPemberton, XI-XIII, corrected by P. £. Martineau. 
elH Encyd. Brit. 151, 159; 98 id. 349, 343. 
d9Vict. Hist of Warsh. 499. 
tfPemberton, XIII. 

3 



4 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

composed of the manor (or lordship) of Ulverley, or Solihull, 
embracing the westerly and larger portion of the parish, and 
the manor (or lordship) of Longdon, embracing the easterly 
portion. The former included the sub-manors of Olton and 
Forshaw. The latter included the sub-manor of Widney. Ul- 
verley is mentioned in Domesday Book, the register of land 
ordered by William the Conqueror in 1086, and had then about 
150 inhabitants. Before the conquest it had belonged to Ed- 
win, Earl of Mercia. In 1086 it belonged to Cristina, grand- 
daughter of King Edmund Ironside and grandniece of Edward 
the Confessor, who, with the exception of Harold, was the last 
Saxon King. About this time she retired to Romsey Abbey, 
where she ended her days. The manor then came into the 
possession of Ralph de Limesi, said to be a nephew of William 
the Conqueror. In 1218, through the marriage of an heiress 
of this family, it came into the possession of Hugh de Oding- 
sells, a Flemish soldier, one of the military adventurers of the 
period. His son and grandson, William, both active in the 
wars of their time, succeeded him. The latter married Ela, 
granddaughter of a natural son of Henry II, and died in 1S95, 
when the manor passed out of the Odingsells name.^ The 
first settlement was at Olton, about a mile N. of Solihull 
village, or town, and the inhabitants early in the 13th century 
migrated to the present site.^ The earliest mention of the vil- 
lage by its name was between 1199 and 1216.^ In 1S42 the 
King granted to the lord of the manor and his heirs a weekly 
market on Wednesday and an annual fair in April.^ The manor 
of Longdon is also mentioned in Domesday Book, and had then 
about 60 inhabitants. Before the conquest it was hdd by one 
Amull. In 1086 it belonged to Turchil of Warwick, under 
whom it was held by one Almar.^ The parish of Solihull forms 
part of the Hundred of Hemlingford. Prior to 1886 the parish 
was divided into four districts for the purposes of taxation, 
to-wit: "The Borough'* (which included Olton), Shirley, and 
Forshaw, which formed the manor of Solihull, and Longdon, 

/Id., 1-97. 

^Id., XVIII. 

hid. 9; 9 Dngdale, 939. 

<Pemberton, 4. 

nd. 18-83. 



The Family in England 5 

embracing the manor of that name. Smaller divisions, called 
^^Ends," existed from ancient times for the maintenance of high- 
ways, to-wit: Borough End, Olton End, Longdon End, For- 
shaw End, Whitlox End, Shirley End (also called Shirley 
Street), and Widney End. The last two and Olton became 
subdivided into North and South, and Lyndon End was added. 
These were all abolished in 1886. Borough End, or the 
Borough, embraced the western part of the old village, or chief 
settlement, of Solihull, but did not include the church, which 
was in Widney End near the boundary between the manors of 
Solihull and Longdon.'^ The village contains many old houses* 
Pemberton (p. 1) says: "Both village and Church tell of a 
remote past." "Perhaps no one but a stranger seeing Solihull 
for the first time realizes how much of its old-world €tspect it 
still retains." Hannett (p. 186) says: "The town of Solihull, 
with its several hamlets, rich in historical associations and 
architectural interest. . • • The approach to this place, from 
Knowle, is of a highly sylvan character. Overhanging trees, 
with a beautiful and fertile country stretching beyond, will 
here richly recompense. . . . These, indeed, are the prevail- 
ing characteristics of Solihull, from whatever point of view the 
tourist may reach it." The parish, for civil purposes, embraces 
substantially the same territory as in ancient days, but for 
church purposes it was divided in 1848, Forshaw being added 
to an adjoining parish and the new parish of Shirley being 
erected.' The civil parish in 1086 had about COO inhabitants ; 
in 1568, about 800; in 1676, about 1860; in 1780, about 
1696;*^ in 1801, 8478; in 1861, 8877; in 1901, 588«. As it 
stood in 1801, it comprised about 11,296 acres.^ The Enj^h 
census gives the area as 1C,468 acres and the population of 
that area as 7,617 in 1901 and 10,28C in 1911. The relative 
importance of Solihull has been dwarfed in modem times by 
the growth of Birmingham, of which it is now in considerable 

lElcL, 39-31, 31 n. 1. 

lid. 38. 

m3 Dugdale, 953, where the number of families about 1730 is given as 
319, including 98 in the Borough 48 in Shirley End, and 64 in Widney Bnd. 

MPemberton, 38 n. 3, as modified by 3 Viet Hist of Wardu, 187. He gives 
the householders belonging to Non-Conformist bodies in 1676 as 36, to the 
Church of Rome 73, and to the Church of England, 733» but he writes that 
the last fiffure is probably a misprint for 173, making the whole number 
of househcuders 373 and iiie population about 1360. 



6 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

part a suburb. It no longer has a market or a fair. Pern- 
berton (p. 29) says: "It is not difficult to picture to our- 
selves the village life of early days. Cut off for the most 
part from the outside world, the villagers doubtless lived a 
happy, contented life, and homey-handed smiths sent forth 
from village anvils the weapons of war,° while doubtless some 
of Solihull's manhood would attend William and Sir William de 
Odingsells on their expeditions to Wales and Ireland. So long 
as there was a resident Squire, local government was probably 
for the most part in his hands, and the manorial courts would 
administer justice and regulate local finances. But after the 
year 1819, we seldom had a Lord of the Manor living on the 
spot, and consequently the power of the courts was increased. 
In practice this meant that village affairs were managed by a 
committee of local gentlemen and farmers, who appear now 
in one capacity, now in another. Especially is this the case 
after 1660, when, on the dissolution of the Chantry of S. Al- 
phege, and the other chapels, the funds which had been devoted 
to their maintenance were vested" in a body of ten Feoffees, who, 
with the Parish Bailiff at their head, became from that time 
forward a kind of local Parliament. In fact Solihull was a 
diminutive Republic, though always very loyal to the Crown.'* 
Solihull was thus a good nursery for one who was to take a 
prominent part in the founding of New England. This form of 
local government has disappeared in England under the legis- 
lation of the last quarter of a century .'^ 

CHURCH AND SCHOOI« 

The parish church is one of the finest buildings in that part 
of Warwickshire, ^^and for the grandeur of its proportions, the 
unique character of some of its details, its historical interest, 
and its picturesque situation deserves a place in the front rank 
of Parish Churches.*** It was dedicated to St. Alphege, Anglo- 
Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, who was put to death by the 

oWorking in iron was a prominent industry in early times. High Street 
was originally called Smith Street. There were also formerly many wheel- 
wrights producing agricultural carts and wagons. (Pemberton, 1. P. E. 
Martineau.) 

pPemberton, 31. 

qld., 55. 



The Familt in England 7 

heathen Danes in 1012/ We find a priest referred to in Domes- 
day Book in 1086, and therefore may safely infer that at that 
time there was a church at Ulverley, though no remains of it 
exist/ The earliest portions of the present church date from 
about the year 1220. The present chancel was built about 
1277. ^^There is a small Priest's door on the south side of the 
Chancel which is of the same date as the rest of the work and 
still retains its old ^Sanctuary ring/ which afforded temporary 
inmiunity to fugitives from justice or vengeance."^ The south 
transept was completed before ISSl and the north transept 
about 1S50. About 1470 the tower was raised to its present 
height and a stone spire erected (in place of the old wooden 
one) 22 feet hi^er than the present one. The reconstruction 
and enlargement of the nave were completed in 1535, and at 
that period the South Aisle was built. The North Aisle was 
rebuilt between 1S60 and 1S70. **At its eastern end the North 
Aisle butts up against the Transept Wall, which is not pierced 
as usual, and the enclosure formed by the two walls and the deep 
respond pier was dedicated to S. Thomas k Becket, the Martyr- 
Archbishop of Canterbury. This was probably done when the 
Aisle was enlarged (1 860-1370), but possibly there was a 
Chapel on this site even before that, as the majority of the 
Chapels dedicated to this Saint are of the thirteenth century. 
There are no remains of the Altar, but there is a trefoil- 
headed piscina, sadly mutilated, in the respond pier, and one 
fragment of the wooden reredos, which rests on the ledge be- 
hind the more modem woodwork which once formed the front 
of the family pew into which the Chapel was converted for the 
use of the occupants of Hillfield Hall."^ This chapel was no 
doubt taken possession of by the Hawes family soon after the 
chapels were closed as such, and was occupied by subsequent 
proprietors of Hillfield Hall.* There were several other chap- 
els in the Church, dedicated to various saints and fitted up with 
altars and the other requisites of worship. These were mostly 
endowed with land, the rent from which paid the respective 

rid. 60, 61. 

9% Dngdale, 940; 1 Vict Hist of Warsh., S40, 341; Pemberton, XVI. 

tPemberton, 1112. 

«Id., 55-59, 94, 95. 

vid. 95, n. 12. 



8 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawss 

chaplains, who may have seired more than one chapel. All the 
chapels were closed in 1659-60, if not before.* A chantry,^ 
called the '^Chantry of Haliwell" (Holy Well), was founded in 
or before 1277 by William de Odingsells the younger, then lord 
of the manor, **for one Priest to celebrate Divine Service for 
ever in this [Solihull] church" for the souls of the founder, 
his ancestors and children, *^and all the Faithful deceased." 
This was the origin of the Chapel of St. Alphege, called the 
Chantry Chapel, the upper of the two chapels on the north 
side of the chanceL*' The chantries were suppressed in 1647.*^ 
'*The font belongs to the fourteenth century, but unfortunately 
has had all marks of antiquity removed."^ The wall of the 
South Aisle fell in 1761, and the spire in 1767. These were 
rebuilt, and much reconstruction has been carried out in mod- 
em times.* 

**There is no mention of any school before the year 1660, 
but from that time forward we find a Schoolmaster being regu- 
larly paid out of the rents accruing from certain houses and 
lands which had formerly provided for the maintenance of the 
ChapeU of S. Katherine and S. Mary in the Parish Church, 
while the revenue of the old Chantry of S. Alphege was applied 
to the same purpose a few years later (1566)."* A hundred 
years or more later the agreement with the master required 
him **to teach and instruct all ye sons of any of ye inhabitants 
of ye sd Parish or orphan children thereof which shalbe sent 
to ye said school both the Church Catechism (sic) and in good 
maners, and to read and write and understand English, Latine 
and Greek, and to cast accompt ye best he can."*' No doubt 
this had been the aim of the school from the beginning. The 
school was long known as the "Free School," or "Public 
School," but is now the "Grammar School." The poet Shen- 

irld. 103 n. 2, 

^A chantry was an endowment to provide for the chanting, or singing of 
mass. The word was also used for the small building or room used for 
that purpose. 

yPemberton 80. 

fi^Id.83. 

zzld. 94. 

old., 59, 98, 113. 

bid., 149 

cid. 15a 



The Family in England 9 

stone was educated in this school. It is now an important and 
flourishing institution.** "In very early days the Feoffees 
had established a second or ^English' department, under an 
Usher, or assistant Master,'* for the smaller children.* 

THE NAME 

Hawes is a local name and was common in many parts of Eng- 
land. It is derived from "haw,*' a hedge or an enclosure. Be- 
fore the common use of surnames, someone who had an enclo- 
sure when his neighbors had none or who had a larger enclosure 
than they, was called, for instance, John at the Haw, or John 
of the Haw.^ 

In process of time the local association was lost si^t of 
and the word became a true surname. John Hawe^ was the 
result, and the name was so written in the earliest records, but 
the ancestors of the emigrant Edmond early wrote the name 
Hawes.* This may have been due to the fact that they owned 
several "haws" or enclosures, or may have been simply the re- 
sult of natural causes operating on the evolution of words. 
Thomas, the great-great-grandfather of the emigrant, married 
about 1600, who died in 1558, wrote his name Hawes, and was 

n Vict. Hist of Warsh., 367-360. 

ePemberton 157. Dugdale*s account of Solihull may be found at vol. 2, 
pp. 939-952. See also Hannett, 185-203, and Smith's History of the 
County of Warwick (1830), between pages 374 and 375, for a picture of 
High Street, showing a distant view of the church. 

/Hayes and similar names have a like origin. Bardsley in his ''Diction- 
ary of English and Welsh Surnames" (1901) has the following: 

"Hawe, Hawes (1), Haws. — Ix>cal, *at the haw,' i. e., garth, gard, enclo- 
sure. . . . *And eke ther was a polkat in his hawe.' Chaucer, C. T. 12789 . . . ." 
He gives samples of del Hawes (Cambridge 1273), de la Hawe (Hants), 
in le Hawe (Kent), atte Hawe (Norfolk 134S & 1362), dcJ Hawe 
(Yorkdi. 1379) and in London (p. 366). 5 Murray's "New English Dic- 
tionary/' 129, defines "haw" as a hedge and a field enclosed by a hedge, 
and quotes the above passage from Chaucer. 

/The branch of the family living at Walsall continued to use the name 
Hawe. 

^An early instance of this form is John Hawes in Norfolk in 1382 
(2 An. Deeds, 385). William de Hawes is found in Berkshire in 1275- 
1276 (1 Rotuli Hundredorum, 15). Geoffrey Hawys is mentioned in 1326 
(Cal. of Close RoUs, Ed. 2, 1323-1327, p. 621) and Walter Hawys in Bed- 
fordshire in 1336 (Id., Kd. 3, 1333-1337, p. 606). In "Abstracts of Deeds 
of Alcester Abbey," etc (MS in Birmingham Free Library), 53, Thomas 
Hawys appears as witness in 1389 to a deed dated Alcester, Warwick- 
shire, conveying lands in Alcester and elsewhere, and at p. 63 John Hawes 
appears as witness in 1513 to a deed of land in Alcester. 



10 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

followed by all of hk descendants. Another theory is that the 
name Hawes was a patronymic, being a shortened form of 
Haweson. The eldest son used it in the early days when the 
others of the family used Hawe.^ 

THE FAMIIiT 

Perhaps the earliest mentions of the name in the vicinity of 
Warwickshire are of Richard de Hawe of Littleover, Derby- 
shire, in 1284/ and of William de Haw, who about the same 
time or a little earlier held under William Daubeny one thirtieth 
of a knight's fee in Bottesford, Leicestershire.* The Warwick- 
shire family may be of the same lineage as these. 

The first mention found of the Solihull family, which was 
probably of Angle origin, with intermixture of Saxon and per- 
haps of Norman blood, is in a deed of ISIS in which Robert 
Hawe of Solihull agrees with his brother Richard to dig, en- 
close and maintain two hedges and ditches in the manor of Soli- 
hull, and in which mention is made of land there which Richard 
had bought of Dame Ela de Odingsells, widow of Sir William 
de Odingsells, Lord of the Manor.^ In 1S22 mention is made 
of two pence yearly rent which William Hawe used to pay 
Nicholas Smith for a plot of land in Solihull.*^ In 1323 Rich- 
ard Hawe of Solihull grants to William atte Birches of the same 
place three fields in Solihull.*^ In 1326 the same Richard Hawe 
releases to the same person all his right in those three fields, 
with livery of seisin.** In 1827 William Hawe of Solihull was 
taxed on the lay subsidy roll the sum of three shillings. Only 
three persons in Solihull were taxed a larger sum, viz. : William 
atte Birches, five shillings; John atte Birches, three shillings 
six pence; and another, three shillings two pence.^ In 1S40 

ilnfra, p. 18. ^ 

/Cal. of Close Rolls, Ed. I, 1279-1988, p. 980. 

fcTesta de Nevill, 91. 

n An. Deeds, 509. Sir William died in 1995 (Pemberton, 6). 

ml An. Deeds, 599. 

nid. 459. 

old. 448. 

pPemberton, 49. The subsidy in 1397 was for the defense of the Kingdom 
against the Scotch. The tax was one-twentieth of the movable goods of those 
subjects whose goods were valued at more than ten shillings. There were 
exempted "armour, mounture, jewels, and robes of Knights and gentlemen 
and of their wives, and their vessels of gold and silver and brass." ("In- 
habitants of Birmingham," etc. in 1397, by W. B. Bickley, published in 
1885). 



The FAMII.T in Engu^nd 11 

John, son of Richard Hawe of Solihull, granted to John Jaime 
two plots of land and moor in Solihull, one adjoining the hi^- 
road from Shirley to Solihull and the other at Olton near 
Olton Hall.^ Certain kni^ts, the parson of Hochecote (Edge- 
cott) Church and others, including John, son of William 
Hawe, had committed a trespass in Warwickshire on premises 
belonging to Ranulph de Lecroft. Upon his petition the mat- 
ter had been referred to Ralph Basset of Drayton and 
others as special justices, but upon representation that 
the oiFence was not of sufficient enormity to warrant such 
action, in 1S40 it was ordered that the case be tried in the regu- 
lar course at conunon law/ The character of the leading par- 
ticipants and the fact that Lecroft's cattle were driven oiF, 
houses broken into, and goods and chattels to the value of £100 
and deeds and other muniments carried oiF, indicate that the 
affair was one of those raids of a factional nature not uncom- 
mon at that period, and the reversal of the order for a special 
tribunal shows that the actors had powerful friends at court. 
''Adam de Haw is witness to a deed 23 Edw. HI (1349-50) 
in the Archer Collection."* In 1356 Master John atte Birches, 
carpenter, gave a letter of attorney to John, son of William 
Hawe, authorizing him to deliver seisin to Richard atte Wode 
of Solihull, the elder, and Avice his wife, of three fields in Soli- 
hull.' These are doubtless the three fields conveyed in 1323 and 
1326 to William atte Birches. In 1366 and 1367 John Hawe 
is a witness to deeds of land in Tanworth, Solihull and Knowle.^ 
In 1368 John, son of William Hawe of Solihull, granted to 
John le Cook of the same place a plot of land in the borough 
of Solihull.'' In 1373 John, son of William Hawe, of Solihull, 
granted to Thomas Pee of the same place a piece of land with 
houses on Smith Street (now High Street), Solihull, paying 
a customary rent out of part of the premises to the Wardens 
of the goods of the Blessed Mary of Solihull.*^ Customary rent 
for the houses in High Street is still paid to the Governors of 

^ An. Deeds, 394; P. E. Martineau. 

rCal. of Close Rolls, Ed. Ill, 1339-41, p. 451. 

•Hamper on Dugdale. 

*9 An. Deeds, 451. 

«5 id., 556 & 557. 

t« id., 479. 

»1 id, 441. 



12 Ancestoes ahd Descendants of EIdmond Hawes 

Solihull United Charities, who hold *Hhe goods of the Blessed 
Mary of Solihull,'^ that is, of one of the chapels endowed in 
Solihull Church.' Between 1S99 and 1412 WiUiam Hawe and 
others gave to the Chantry in Solihull Church one messuage 
and 40 acres of land lying in Solihull, called Caldeford's tene- 
ment, but the grant, having been made without Royal license, 
was forfeited to the King in 1412.1' In 1420-1421 William 
Hawe was a witness to the release by Thomas Burdet, Kni^t, 
to William de Bishopdon, Kni^t, of his right in the manor of 
Lapworth Hall/ In 141S royal license was given to Walter 
Cook, a priest, William Wynnewik, William Hawe and others 
to form the Guild of Knowle, and William Hawe and Margaret, 
his wife, were among the original members, being named next 
after Walter Cook, Adam Cook and William Wynnewike.* In 
1460 Thomas Hawe and Margaret, his wife, and in 1461 John 
Hawe, *Srheler,'' and Johanna, his wife, were members.* In 1459 
the same John Hawe, described as of Solihull, had been a witness 
to a deed of John Greswold, son and heir of John Greswold of 
Rowington, to Richard his brother, rector of Tanworth, and 
others, of lands in Olton.^ In 1468 John Hawe of Solihull 
entered himself as a member of the Guild for his own benefit 
**and for the soul of Elizabeth, his wife,"** and the same year 
appear John Haw of Solihull, **bocher,'' and Johanna, his wife.* 
In 1469 Thomas Hawe and Catherine, his wife, appear as mem- 
bers "and for the souls of Richard and Isabel.**^ In 1486 John 



«P. B. Martineau. 

y9 Dugdale, 947; Pemberton, 83. Caldeford's tenement was at or near 
Eastcote about 3% °^ £• of Solihull church (Pemberton 45 n. 5, 86 n. 9). 

z4 An. Deeds, 313. 

aRegister of the Guild of Knowle, edited by W. B. Bickley (1894), pp. 1 
& 10. The Introduction (p. I) defines a guild of this sort as an association 
of persons for mutual aid, benefit and protection. Among the objects 
were religious worship, sick aid, charitable aid, burying the dead, masses 
for souls, &c. This guild had at one time over 3000 members from the 
neighborboring region in Warwickshire (p. XIV). It was dissolved in 
1535. 

Md. 37 & 40. 

cRecords of Rowington, by J. W. Ryland (1896), appendix, p. 137, No. 
34; 2 An. Deeds, 397. 

<2Reg. of Guild of Knowle, 64. 

eld. 61. 

/Id. 66. 



The Family in England 13 

Hawe, son of Thomas Hawe of Shelly, was a member.^ Robert 
Hawe and Alice his wife of Solihull were members in 1498^ and 
Richard Hawe and Elizabeth of the same place, in 1500.^ In 
1520, Thomas Hawe of Solihull was a member,^ and in 1526 
Richard Hawe, gent/ An inquisition post mortem was taken 
Aug. 10th, 1486, in the case of John Hugford, Esq., who had 
died the previous winter, from which it appears that he had 
enfeoiFed Thomas Hawe and others of lands in Warwickshire 
to the use of his will.* The following may be of the Solihull 
Hawes family: In 1469 members of the Guild of Knowle were 
Thomas Hauos and Katrina, his wife, and for the souls of Rich- 
ard and Isabelle, and for the souls of Nicholas and Joan, par- 
ents;*^ in 1496 Thomas Hawe and Agnes of Killingworth, 
Northamptonshire;** in 1511 Richard Hawe and Joan, his wife, 
and for the soul of Agnes f in 1488 William Hawce (the editor 
says perhaps Hawte) and Agnes his wife;^ in 1486 Robert 
Hawys and Johanna, his wife, of Kington,* and for the soul of 
William. 

In 1479 Thomas Beynam of Henley gave power of attorney 
to John Hawe, "son of Thomas de Gerardes," and William 
Hawe, barber, to deliver seisin of land, etc., in Olton to Robert 
Greswold of Solihull. Thomas de Gerardes indicates Thomas, 
son of Grerard. Gerard was not a common name in Solihull, 
but occurs in the de Limesi and de Odingsells families.** Graze- 
brook's Heraldry of Worcestershire (vol. 1, p. 266) gives the 
Hawes arms in Yardley Church quartered by Greswolde. The 

gld, 93. 

Wd. 197. 

<Id. 143. 

/Id. 250. 

*Id. 256. 

{Calendar of Inquisitions, Henry 7th, v. 1, p. 54. Hugford had been for 
A time steward of the Earl of Warwick (Norris, 19). 

mReg. of Guild of Knoiwle, 66. 

»Id. 119. 

old. 195. 

Pid., 89. 

^Id. 96. Kington (usually called Kingsford) was an ancient place partly 
in Solihull. (2 Dugdale, 976.) 

rQ An. Deeds, 397; Pemberton, 8. 



14 Ajrczrroms akb DzscBKBAim of Edmokb Hawss 

Worcester probate records shofw the death m Tardley in 
1568/4 of a Hawes. 

HILLFIELD HALL FAMILY 

The Visitatioii of Warwickshire* carries the family back 
througji two Thomases prior to Thomas who married Ann Gres- 
wold in 1405, and who woold ha^e been bom about 1440, his 
father aboat 1415, and the first Thomas named in the Visita- 
tion about 1890. The Bridges liS.' gives the arms of Jotm 
Hawe of Shdly (the same as those of later monbers of the fam- 
ily) as in HilifeM Hall and assigns him the date of 1871. Per- 
haps it was to him that the arms were granted. He was a man 
of consequence, since Dugdale in a MS copied by Hamper says 
that he was a commissioner for collecting a subsidy in War- 
wickshire in 6 Henry 4 (1404/5). Dugdale in this MS says 
the famfly had existed there from 82 Ed. 8 (1858/9), but the 
regpml jcat may be a clerical error for 28 Ed. 8 (1849/50), 
iriien according to Hamper, Adam de Hawe was witness to a 
deed in the Archer collection.* As seen above (p. 10), the fam- 
ily is mentioned still earlier, in 1818, when Robert Hawe and his 
brother Richard execute a deed. It seems probable that the first 
ThomaS'was the son of John. The latter may have been the son 
of William Hawe, who is mentioned in 1822 and is on the lay 
subsidy roll of 1827, or of Richard. In 1840 John, son of 
Richard Hawe of Solihull, is mentioned, and about the same 
time John, son of William Hawe. John, son of William Hawe, 
is also mentioned in 1856 and at later dates. In 1460 Thomas 
Hawe and his wife, Margaret, are mentioned, and in 1469 Thom- 
as Hawe and his wife, Catharine. These may have been the first 
and second Thomias and their respective wives or the first 
Thomas and his two wives. It seems probable that the wife of 

<There were Visitatioos of Warwickshire made by tlie Herald's Orflege in 
15S3 and 1619, to determine the right of families to bear arms, in wfaidi 
the pedigrees of the arms-bearing families are given. A copy of the 
Hawes pedigree of 1563 and tlie original of that of 1619 (signed hj Bdmcmd 
Hawes) are in the Herald's College, London. Copies of these arc given 
imfra, pp. 44-46. In the Briti^ Musemn are several MSS giving copies of 
these Visitations combined. One of them (Harleian MS 1167) is printed 
in y<^ 12 of tlie Harleian Society Publications, tlie Hawes pedigree appear- 
ing at pp. 404 and 405. 

tinfra, p. 48%. 

uSupra, p. 11. 



The Family in England 15 

the second Thomas was Joan.^ We may construct the line 
thus: 

1 Richard Hawes (ISIS) or WiUiam Hawes (1S22). 

2 John Hawes (1S71). 

S Thomas Hawes (b. about 1S90) ; perhaps married first 
Margaret and second Catharine. 

4 Thomas Hawes (b. about 1415) ; probably married Joan. 

5 Thomas Hawes (b. about 1440) ; married Ann Gres- 
wold in 1465. 

6 Thomas Hawes (b. after 1465) ; married Johanna Rains- 
ford about 1500. 

7 Thomas Hawes (b. about 1500) ; married Elizabeth 
Brome in 1527. 

8 William Hawes (b. 15S1); married Ursula Colles in 
1562. 

9 Edmond Hawes (b. after 1562) ; married Jane Porter be- 
fore 1600. 

10 Edmond Hawes, the emigrant ; b. 1612. 

Numbers 1 and 2 are conjectural as ancestors. They were 
undoubtedly members of the family. As already stated, John 
was probably the son of either Richard or William, while the 
first Thomas was probably the son of John, but it is possible 
that John died without issue and his property passed to a 
brother or nephew. With the first Thomas the line becomes 
established, only the wives of the first two being conjectural. 
Some special account will now be given of these men, beginning 
with number 5. 

5 Thomas Hawes, married Ann, dau^ter of John Gres- 
wold of Solihull, in 1465.*^ In 1486 he was one of the feoiFees 
of John Hugford, Esq., to the use of his will respecting land 

vDugdale (Rawl, MS D 806, in Bodleian Library, Oxford, folios 38 
and 40) says that Thomas Haw of Solihull, sentleman, living in 1467, mar- 
ried Joan , and had John Hawe of Souhull, living in 1467, who mar- 
ried Joan, daughter and coheir of Thomas Haxall of Solihull, removed to 
Walsall and was the ancestor of the Walsall branch. It seems probable 
that this Thomas was also the father of Thomas (being his oldest son) 
who married Ann Greswold. 

toBridges MS, infra, p. 431^; Hannett, 199, 900; Pemberton, 38, 89, 
49. The date of the marriage (1311) given' by Pemberton, is erroneous 
as shown infra, p. 31 n. s., and the statement by him that Ann was the 
daughter of John Greswold of Kenllworth is also erroneous (infra, p. 66). 
Her father was 4th in descent from him. 



16 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

in Warwickshire/ In the suit of Margaret Hawe against Rob- 
ert Coleman and John Hikker, ascribed to the period between 
1486 and 1493 or between 1504 and 1515, it appears that she 
was the daughter of Thomas Hawe, late of Solihull, gentle- 
man,^ who had purchased lands and tenements there of John 
Trussell, Esq., called "Prattes Farme," to the value of £8 4s., 
and had conveyed them in trust to John Smyth, late of Coven- 
try, gentleman, and Robert Coleman, and by his will had di- 
rected the grantees, out of the profits, to pay the plaintiff £20 
4s. on her marriage ; that Thomas Hawe and John Smyth had 
died; that Robert Coleman outlived them and that the deeds, 
land and rents were demised to Hikker, who had had in his 
hands for three years past the £20 4s. after Smyth died; that 
Margaret was of the age of 23 years and had demanded the 
money, but payment had been refused.*' Margaret appears 
clearly to be the daughter of the Thomas Hawes we are now 
considering. ^'Prattes Farme" remained in the family and was 
owned by Edmond Hawes, father of the emigrant, in 1627.* In 
1486 Thomas Hawes is described as of Shelly, when his son 
John is named as a member of the Guild of Knowle.* Hannett 
and Pemberton say that he died in 1540, but give no authority. 
His burial does not appear in the Solihull Parish Register, and 
it is thought they may have been misled by the will of Sir 
Thomas Hawes filed at Lichfield, April 6, 1640, who, however, 
was Vicar of Weston, Northamptonshire, and as a priest of 
that date would not have been married. The vicar's will men- 
tions a brother John and a brother Harrie. If Thomas (No. 



Calendar of Inquisitions, Henry VII, vol. I, pp. 54 and 55, No. 136. 

If At this period the term gentlemen included those below the grade of 
noblemen and above that of yeomen (small farmers). Knights and 
esquires were gentlemen of the higher order. Country gentlemen had 
considerable estates and were free from the necessity of physical labor. 
Gentlemen were entitled to and usually had coats of arms. The younger 
sons of noblemen, the eldest sons of knights, justices of the peace, barris- 
ters, etc., were esquires. (See the terms ''gentleman," ''esquire,** and 
"yeoman'* in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Murray's New English Dictionary 
and Century Dictionary.) 

<(£arly Chancery Proceedings, voL HI, Bundle 139, No. 63, Public Record 
Office, London. 

ainfra, p. 38. 

bReg. of Guild of Knowle, 93. 



/ 



X 



The Family in England 17 

5) had lived till 1540, he would have nearly reached, if he had 
not completed, a century/ 

Children: 
6 Thomas, m. Johanna Rainsford. 
RiCHAED,'^ m. Elizabeth 
John. 
Margabet. 

Probably others. 

6 Thomas Hawes, married Johanna Rainsford^ about 
1500; buried Aug. 26, 1658. The entry in the parish records 
is: "The six and twentithe day of Auguste, Thoms Hawe, 
gent." She was no doubt the **Mrs. Jone Hawes" who was 
buried Oct. 10, 1559. Nov. 10, 1501, Thomas Spencer of 
Kenilworth granted to Thomas Hawe and others, gentlemen, 
four crofts in Solihull, in trust for charitable purposes. The 
deed described the second of these as lying ^4n breadth between 
land of said Hawe on one side and of the rector of Solihull on 
the other, and in length between the rector's land on one side and 
the royal road from Solihull to Warwick on the other." Among 
the witnesses to this deed were "John Greswolde, arm," and 
"Roger Greswold of Kenilworth, gent."^ In 1585-6, Thomas 
Hawes, with Agnes Lyttle, late prioress, and John Hall of 
Hatton, was collector of rents of the dissolved Abbey of Wrox- 

eHannett (infra, p. 31) says he was a lawyer, no doubt a solicitor 
and not a barrister. It is probable that his grandson Thomas and 
the latter's son William were also lawyers. 

<IThe will of Richard Hawe of Warwick, gentleman, dated Feb. 30, 1546-7, 
was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury the last day of March, 
1547 (31 Alen). He mentions his deceased wife Elisabeth, his brother 
Thomas Hawe, to whom he gives *^y best ring and my night gowne of 
white,** and his nephew Thomas Hawe, to whom he gives a furred gown. 
He gives legacies to various servants and others, including '*to Richard 
Bowkley n^ servant 8s. a year for twenty years next ensuing after my 
decease." The residue of his estate he leaves for the saying of masses for 
his soul, his wife's soul and all Christian souls. He mentions no children. 
The will directs his burial in the Churdi of St. Mary, Warwick. He names 
as his executors Thomas Oken of Warwick, mercer, and Richard Hawe of 
Solihull, **my kinsman.'* In 1500 he and his wife, described as of Solihull, 
were members of the Guild of Knowle (Reg. of Guild of Knowle, 143) 
and in 1596 he is again named as a member and styled ''gentleman** (Id. 
256). In 1545-6 he was auditor of a religious guild in Warwick (1 Dug- 
dale, 463.) 

eThe name is also written Raynford and Ra3msford. 

fHamper on Dugdale. 



18 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

all.^ His appointment was perhaps due to the fact that his 
son in 1527 had married Elizabeth Brome, niece of Jocosa 
Brome, a former prioress of the Abbey. In 1520 he was a 
member of the Guild of Enowle.^ The lineage of Johanna 
Rainsford has not been traced. There was a family of Great 
Tew (Tew Magna) in Oxfordshire, descended from John Rains- 
ford of Rainsford Hall, Lancashire to which she may have be- 
longed. The arms were: Argent, a cross sable. In Lan- 
cashire the family is found as early as the time of Henry 4 
(1399-1418). The probate records of the sixteenth century 
(Lichfield, Worcester and Somerset House) show Rainsfords 
of the town of Warwick and of the counties of Worcester and 
Gloucester, but they do not disclose Johanna or Joane.^ 

Children: 
7 Thomas, m. Elizabeth Brome. 

RiCHAED,^ m. Margery (probably Hall). 

Welliam/ m. , and had Thomas. 

Elizabeth, m. , and had Anne. 

^Records of Wroxall Abbey and Manor, with those of the Parish added, 
by J. W. Ryland (1903), 103. The name is here written Hawes. 

hReg. of Guild of Knowle, 250. 

♦Visitation of Oxfordshire, 6 HarL Soc Pubs. 165, 166; Visit of War- 
wickshire, 12 HarL Soc. Pubs. 48-50; Visit of Gloucestershire, 21 HarL 
Soc. Pubs. 227; Burke's General Armory, 848. 

iThe will of Richard Hawe of Pillerton Hersey (in the will called 
Pillardington and Nether Pillardington), Co. Warwick, dated May SO, 
1559, was filed at Lichfield, Jan. 17, 1564-5, but he must have died soon 
after its date, since the inventory of his personal estate, amounting to 
£113 15s. 4d., was taken Sept 5, 1559. He mentions his wife Margery, 
son Thomas (under 16 years of age), cousin (that is nephew) William 
Hawes (to whom he gives a colt ''now goyng" in Wedgnock Park), brother 
William and the latter's son Thomas, ''Jane Rob3ms my base daughter," 
daughters "Jose" and "Johanne" (under 21 years of age), his deceased 
father (not named), and his daughter "Joyse." He speaks of silver spoons 
remaining in the hands of his mother (not named) and his brother Thomas. 
The will contains the following clauses: "Also I geve & bequeathe to my 
cosyn Elizabeth Hawse doughter of my seyd brother Thomas foure pounds 
in recompense of the xxvis. viiid. which I had of hers to be imployed in 
malte to her pferment abute iiii vers past Itm I wyll my sevd wyfe shall 
pay yerely unto Rychard Bowkeley of Tonworth hys annuitie seven unto 
hym by my uncle Rychard Hawe decessed dur3mg the time fymited by 
my seyd uncles wyll." He speaks in his will of holding the unexpired 
term in a lease of the parsonage of Pillerton and provides that if before 
the en>iration of the term his wife shall have died and his children shall 
have deceased unmarried, "soe that non of theym remayn alyve," then the 
unexpired term of the lease and all his goods and chattels that shall 
remain shall be "equally devyded amongs the chyldren of my seyd brother 
Thomas and my seyd brother Wyllm & amonges the breUiem & diyldren of 



Thb Family in England 19 

Catherine, m. William Smallwood, Nov. 28, 1589.** 

Ann, m. Gibbons. 

Perhaps others. 

7 Thomas Hawes, married first in 1627 Elizabeth Brome, 
daughter of Nicholas Brome, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Bad- 

desley Clinton, and second, Elinor . In 1688/4 he (or 

perhaps his father) was among those who gave carriage of 
timber for the repair of the church.* In 1586 he, called Thomas 
Hawes the Younger, received 40s. for collecting the farms, and 
rents of tenants by the year, of the dissolved Abbey of Wroxall.' 
March 6, 1548/9, he (styled gentleman) and others were made 
trustees of ten pounds given by John Howman, alias Feckman 
or Feckenham, late Vicar of Solihull, to be loaned to the poor of 
the parish. This amount was increased by subsequent benefac- 
tions to £45.*^ In 1566 he agreed to supplement the available 
income of the free school, then or shortly before established 
in Solihull, by the sum of 10 shillings. Five others agreed to 
give similar sums, his name being second on the list of sub- 

my syster in lawe Joyse hall." He made his wife executrix. The will 
further declares: **! make & ordaine ov'seers of thys my last Wyll & 
Testament my brother Thomas Hawes & Ryehard Haull of Ilaecote 
[Idlicote] my brother in lawe." This will had been proved at Worcester 
hi 1559. Pillerton Hersey is not far from Stratford-on-Avon and Idlicote 
is near it. (Bartholomew's GaMtteer; 1 Duffdale, 606-614.) Wedgnock 
Park was near Warwick (1 Dugdale, 979, 379). 

Murray's New English Dictionary, voL 9 (C), p. 1097, gives the following 
definition: ^'Cousin." — ^^fl* A collateral relative more distant than 
a brother or sister; a kinsman or kinswoman, a relative; formerly very 
frequently applkd to a nephew or niece. Obs." **ih. In legal language 
formerly often applied to the next of kin, or the person to whom one is 
next of kin, indu^g direct ancestors and descendants more remote than 
parents and children." 

In vol. 7 (O), p. 399, is the following definition: "Overseer."— "1. fh. 
A person (formerly) appointed by a testator to supervise or assist the 
executor or executors of the will. Obs." The overseer had no title to the 
estate. The title was in the executor. But he might call the court's 
attention to delinquencies of the executor, and the latter felt at liberty 
to call upon him for advice or assistance. Overseers were sometimes given 
legacies In the will to compensate them for their trouble. In Murray the 
following illustration is given from Sir Thomas Elyot, who wrote in the 
first half of the 16th Century: <*The Busshope [bishop] * * is in the case 
that overseers of testimentes be in England, for he shall have leve to looke, 
so that he meddle not." 

tt^Infra, p. 63. 

APemberton, 59. 

{Records of Wroxall Abbey, p. 110. 

mPemberton, 68, 68 n. 1, 900, 903. 



ftO Ancestoss and Descendants of Eh>MOND Hawss 

sciibers.* He was no doubt one of the ^feoflFees,'' or trustees^ 
of the school fiinds.^ Money at that time was more than ten 
times its present value/ He was buried June 12, 1674, the 
entry in tiie parish records being '^The XHth daye of June 
Thomas Hawe, gent." He left a wiU dated May 20, and proved 
and filed at Lichfield Oct. 27, 1574. The inventory of his per- 
sonal estate, amounting to £128 17s. 4d.,* was taken June 15, 
1574. His will directs that he be buried in the Chapel of St. 
Clement'' within the parish church of Solihull. It recites that 
by a deed dated in 1571 or 1572 he had given *Ho my welbe- 
loved cosyn Thomas Greswolde' gentleman to my trusty f rends 
Thomas Waryng gentleman and Bamaby Holbache yoman" 
certain lands in Solihull, in trust to distribute yearly forever 
to the poor people of Solihull the rents and profits thereof 
(the chief rent and 16 pence yearly excepted), beginning on 
'Hhat day twelmoneth that shall fortune my buryall, to be the 
saide pore people beyng then present in the said churche 
knelyng & saying the lords pyer for my sole my wyffs sole or my 
chyldrens soles & all christen soles."' In case the grantees should 
fail to carry out the trust, he directs his executors to do so. 
He also recites that by an ^^inventore," or deed, dated Sept. 1, 
1562, between himself on the one part and Margaret CoUes, 
widow, and Edmund CoUes, Esq., her son, on the other, it was 
stipulated that certain real estate should be held to such uses 
and intents as to the remainder thereof (that is, after a life 
estate) as he should appoint and limit by his last wiU. This 
was no doubt the marriage settlement of his son William and 
Ursula CoUes, daughter of Margaret, and the life estate was 

•Id. 150. 

oPages 7-0, $upra. 

951 Diet of Nat. Biog. 371, where money is said to have had in 1600 
ten times its present value. In 1630 money is said in the Introduction to 
Winthrop's Journal (Hosmer's edition), 15, to have eight times its present 
yalue. 

flThis is the sum of the items. The amount given in the inventory is 
£li», 19s. 8d. 

rPeriiaps the same now called the Chapel of St. Thomas ft Becket 

«They were second cousins. Pemberton, 49, 170; infra, p. 67. 

IThis seems to indicate that he continued to hold the beliefs of the Roman 
Catholic Church, in whidi his childhood and youth had passed, but he 
evidently dung to the parish church, which became Protestant, although 
two of the rectors, John Howman (154p4r54) and John Bavand (1560-70), 
failed to conform, or secretly retained the old faith. (Pemberton, 68-70^ 
71). His son WiUlam was a sincere Protestant. 



The Family in Enguind 21 

for their benefit. He then fltates that with the consent of his 
son and heir William, he had previously conveyed certain of 
those lands to his daughter Elizabeth and Thomas Jackson, her 
husband. As to the rest of the lands covered by the said **in- 
ventore," or deed, he states that lately some ambiguity and 
doubt had arisen between him, his wife and his son William 
concerning the right and title of the jointure and dower of his 
wife in all his lands in the parish of Solihull, and that they had 
submitted the matter to the arbitration of the said Thomas 
Greswold, who had made a written award dated Dec. 16, 1579, 
providing that his son William should pay to his wife during 
her natural life an annuity of five pounds in recompense for 
her jointure and dower. The lands no doubt descended to his 
son and heir William, subject to the terms of the award. As 
regards his goods and chattels^ he gave to the poor money box 
of Solihull twelve pence, to his son William certain household 
furniture, etc., to his godson Thomas Hawes, ^^sonne of the 
sayd Wyllm Hawes my yongest amblyng mare fole and to ev'y 
of thyr other chyldem an ewe shyppe or Y s. in money," to each 
of his dau^ter Hatley's children a ewe sheep or five shillings 
in money; to his daughter Margaret a cow and a pair of 
hempen sheets and to each of her children a ewe or five shil- 
lings in money, in case his said daughter and her husband 
Walter Chamber did not vex or trouble his executors about any 
of his goods or chattels, and on the same condition as to his 
daughter Elizabeth and her hubsband Thomas Jackson, he gave 
to Elizabeth a cow, the worst feather bed, and a pair of 
hempen sheets, to her son Thomas a weaning calf and to each 
of his brothers and sisters a ewe sheep or five shillings in money. 
He gave to his sifter Elizabeth a two-year-old heifer and to her 
daughter Anne a year-old heifer calf, to his sister Catharine 
Smallwood a heifer calf or a steer calf of one year of age, and 
to his sister Anne Gibbons a yearling calf. He gave to Isa- 
bell Whetnall a weaning calf, to each of his other servants 40 
pence, and to Christopher Milward's wife 20 pence. The rest 
of his goods and chattels not bequeathed, after payment of his 
debts, legacies and funeral expenses, he gave to his wife Elinor, 
whom he made sole executrix. He appointed Thomas Waring 
and Roger "Eyewyt,'* gentleman, stewards of the City of Coven- 
try, overseers, and gave each of them 40 shillings to see his will 



SS Ancestoss and Dbscsndants of Edmond Hawss 



and testament perf onned. The will is signed ^^Th<mias Hawes,** 
but has no witnesses. The Clerk of the Lichfield Probate Reg- 
istry writes: **It is possible that the will may be holograph 
as it appears to be in the same hand as the signature." This 
inference is strengthened by the absence of witnesses. That 
£linor was his second wife and not the mother of his son Wil- 
liam appears from the fact that there was a controversy be- 
tween them as to the dower or jointure of Elinor, as well as 
from the Visitation. The printed Visitation describes the first 
and last Thomas as of Edlicot, and Pemberton (p. 42) makes 
three of them of that place, but from the copy in the Herald's 
College, it appears that only the last Thomas was so described. 
If the description is not an error, it may be that he had an 
estate at IdUcote (near Pillerton Hersey where his brother 
Richard resided) and was described as of that estate instead 
of his principal one at Solihull. The Visitation says that 
Edlicot was in Hemlingford hundred, but no similar name is 
found in that hundred. Dugdale, in a copy made by him of the 
Visitation of Warwickshire of 1563, states that Thomas Hawes 
was of Idlicote.* 

Children by his first wife^ in order of Visitation of 
Warwickshire: 
8 Welliam, son and heir, bom 1581 ; m. 1562, Ursula CoUes, 
bom 1545. 
Constance, Ist daughter, m. before 1568 Thomas Shep- 
herd,* yeoman ; not mentioned in her father's will ; prob- 
ably died before him. 
EuzABETH, 2nd daughter, m. Thomas Jackson'*', and had 
Thomas and other children. 

tfRawlinsmt MS. D. 806, folio 39, Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

«The Visit, of Warwickshire (19 Harl. Soc. Pubs. 405) gives the name 
Spefaerd, but this is evidently an error. 

tffin 1699 Tliomas Jackson held of the Lord of the Manor of Solihull 
one house and backside by suit of court and the yearly rent of 3s. 6d. 
(Add MS 17, 770 in Br. Museum). From manuscript notes of Sir Simon 
Archer made Aug. 98, 1638, it appears that Thomas Jadcson had held by 
copy of Court Roll a tenement and five parcels of land within the Borough 
of Solihull for the term of 51 years from Oct. 19, 1609, at the yearly rent of 
5s. 9d., but that they had passed into the possession of John Fifield (MS 
97, 979 in Br. Museum, folio 99). From the same notes it appears that 
Thomas Jackson of Solihull and his son Thomas held by lease from Thomas 
Throckmorton, Esq., for the term of their lives, a small parcel of roug^ 
or marsh ground enclosed by the waste at the yearly rent of 19d. (Id. foL 
99b). In 1699 and 1639 the Rev. Luke Smith, rector of Solihull, held and 
occupied a house and backside in the Borough that had been Thomas 



I 
i 



ir. 



The FAMII.T in England 28 

Makoabet, Srd daughter, m. Walter Chamber, and had 
issue. 

A DAUGHTEE, m. Hatlej and had issue. 

The MS of the 1563 Visitation of Warwickshire (which is 
a copy) and other copies of documents erroneously give the 
name of Thomas Hawes's first wife as Browne, or Broune. Dug^ 
dale (v. 2, p. 971) says he found the name so erroneously writ- 
ten in public records. He gives the correct name as Brome, and 
so does the printed Visitation of Warwickshire* when giving the 
pedigree of the family. The arms of the family contain three 
sprigs of broom.^ Among arms in the windows of Solihull Church 
in the time of Dugdale were those of Hawes impaling Brome.' 
Whenever the name is found used by members of the family, 
it is written Brome. Norris in his book on Baddesley Clinton, 
written with access to the extant family papers, gives the 
name as Brome (pp. 28, 48-68, and passim) 9 stating that 
Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Brome, became the wife of 
Thomas Hawes of Solihull, and furnishing copies of inscrip- 
tions in the Baddesley Clinton Church. The will of Rauffe 
Brome of Woodlow, Esquire, dated March 18, 1667, and 
proved and filed at Worcester, May — , 1667, who was a son 
of Nicholas Brome, mentions his brother-in-law Thomas Hawes 
of Solihull, and makes him and his cousin (that is, nephew) 
William Hawes, gentleman, two of his executors.* The will 
of William Hawes mentions his cousin Reginald Brome. It 
seems extremely probable that Elizabeth, the first wife of 
Thomas Hawes, had died before the date of her brother's 
will, since he does not mention her, but does mention her sister, 

Jackson's, at a rental of one shilling and 9 pence half-yearlv (Id. fols. 4k5, 
97b). In 1644 Mr. Smith paid 13d. half yearly for them (Id. foL 131b^. 
In 1637 Thomas Jackson paid for his house in the Borough did. half yearly 
(Id. foL 76b). In the parish outside of the Borough he paid 6d. half yearly 
for a hopyard (Id. fol. 80). Thomas Jackson held, probably hi 1639 or 
1638, of the Lord of the Manor a dose l3ing near Dresselltree by indenture, 
at a rental of 6s. per year, the term of which began after the death of 
Katherine Bowater, Sept. 19, 1586 (Id. foL 113). 

d'HarL Soc Pubs^ voL 13, pp. 90-98. 

vDugdale, in a copy made by him of the Visitation of Warwickshire of 
1563, gives her name as Broome, and her residence as Woodlows (which 
her father had owned and her brother obtained) instead of Woodhouse 
or Wodhosse in the Visitation, a name not existii^i^ in tiie County. (Raw- 
linson MS D 806, folio 39, in Bodleian library, Oxford). 

«3 Dugdale, 944. 

oFage 44, infra. 



24 Ance8tos8 and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 



(( 



Joyes" Brome. Indeed, it is probable that she had died be- 
fore Aug. 26, 1551, the date of the will of her sister Constance 
Ferrers, who does not mention her but does mention her sister, 
"Joyes."* Dugdale (v. 2, p. 974) on the authority of Henry 
Ferrers,^ who had observed in Queen Elizabeth's time monu- 
ments and monumental inscriptions defaced in Dugdale's time, 
says that Nicholas Brome was buried within the Church door 
at Baddesley Clinton at the very entrance, and that ^^under 
the next stone lyeth Elizabeth, one of his daughters, wife to 
Thomas Hawe of Solihull.'*^ Hamper adds : "Her portraiture 
in brasse is likewise gone."^ The genealogies generally describe 

tNorris, 137-0. This wiU was proTed in P. C. C. Oct. 17, 1561 (Buck 
99). 
cA learned antiquary, great-great-grandson of Nicholas Brome, who 

faTe much aid to Dugdale. He was bom 1549 and died 1633 (Diet of 
Fat. Biog. V. 18, p. 385; Norris, 130-123). He was for 70 years Lord of 
the Manor of Baddesley Clinton. 
dSee also Norris, 49. 

eThe same arms were borne by the Haweses of Warwickshire, Stafford- 
shire (chiefly Walsall) and Weston and Stoke Albany in Northhampton- 
shire (Burke's General Armory, 468), and similar arms by some Hayes 
families (Id. 472). The Warwickshire family had no crest, but the Walsall 
family adopted a crest: — ^A griffin's head erased, or, bested (or armed) 
gules (Wilhnore's History of Walsall, 288; VisiUtion of SUffordshire hi 
1663 and 1664; HarL MS 6104, foL 16; 63 HarL Soc. Pubs. 122). The 
common arms seem to imply a conmion origin for these families. The 
Walsall branch evidently sprang from SolihuU, but the pedigree in Will- 
more is certainly erroneous. He states that Thomas Hawes of Solihull 
who married Elizabeth Brome, was the father of George Hawe of 
Caldmore (Walsall), whom, together with his brother Nicholas, he makes 
prominent in 1540, but Thomas Hawes and Elizabeth Brome were not 
married till 1527. He was buried in SolihulL His will (infra, p. 47) 
mentions no sons George, Nicholas, John or Richard, attributed to him 
by Willmore. The wills of Thomas Hawe and George Hawe, of Walsall, 
filed at Lichfield, respectively July 11, 1553, and Dec. 14, 1558, do not give 
the name of their father, but state that he was buried in Walsall. This 
George is evidently the one who, according to Willmore, was son of Thomas 
Hawes of Solihull and Elizabeth Brome, Ms wife. In his will George Hawe 
speaks of lands in Warwickshire which he had by his father's will. These 
li^ gave to his mother for life and after her death to George, son of his 
brother Thomas. He mentions no children. Tlie connection with SolihuU 
was evidently earlier than the Thomas of Solihull mentioned in this note. 
This connection appears in a pedigree in the handwriting of Sir Wm. 
Dugdale, preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (Rawlinson MS D 
806, folios 38 & 40). It is dated June 30, 1663, when he was head of the 
Herald's College, and was proved, he says, partly by some old deeds and 
partly by the testimony oi Simon Montford (whose wife was a Hawe) 
and others. Dugdale states that Thomas Haw of SolihuU, gentleman, 

married Joan , and had John Hawe of SolihuU, who married Joan, 

daughter and coheir of Thomas HaxaU of SoUhuU. Dugdale gives the date 
1467 to both Thomas and John, probably the date of a deed in which 
the father and son were mentioned. John Hawe and Joan had three sons: 
Nicholas, a barrister of the Inner Temple, who died without issue; Thomas, 



The Famii^y in Enoulnd 25 

Nicholas Brome as of Woodhouse. This is an error. He had 
no estate of that name, but one of Woodlow or Woodloes. 

8 WcLUAM Hawes, married Ursula, dau^ter of William 
CoUes of Leigh, Worcestershire, in 1562. He was buried Oct. 

who married Joyce (or Jeys), daughter of Gosway, of Walsall; 

and Georse, a barrister of the Inner Temple, who died without issue, and 
whose will dated in 1555 was filed in 1558 as above stated. Thomas Hawe 
(will 1553) and Joyce had, beddes other children, George Hawe of Blox- 
wich (near Walsall), gentleman, who married Elizabeth, daughter of 
William Hunt of Sme&wick, Co. Stafford. From this last mentioned 
George the Walsall line proceeded. Dugdale is corroborated by the will 
of Joan Hawe, of Walsall, widow, dated Sept 20 and proved at Lichfield 
Dec 14, 1558. She requests to be buried in the Church of Allhallows, 
Walsall, in St. John's Chapel, near to John Hawe her late husband, but 
if there be no room there, then in St. Clements Chapel near to her 
father and mother. She cives her dwelling house and certain lands to her 
son Nidiolas Hawe and a nouse to George Hawe (doubtless her grandson), 
and she makes gifts to Joan Wollaston and Agnes Curtis, her daughters, 
to ** Joys'* Hawe, widow of her son Thomas Hawe, to Thomas Wollaston and 
John Curtis (doubtless her sons-in-law), and to George Wollaston and 
George Curtis (probably her grandsons). She provided that if her son 
Nidiolas should have no heirs, then the land given to him should go to 
the heirs of her two daughters. She made Nicholas Hawe, Thomas Wollas- 
ton and Ames Curtis her executors. The inventory of her personal estate 
was dated Dec. 8, 1558, and amounted to £84 6s. The will of John Haw of 
Walsall was proved at Lichfield Nov. S8, 1541, but it no longer exists on the 
files. Thomas Wollaston of Walsall married Joan, daughter of John 
Hawe of the same place, June 13, 1541 T Visitations of Staffordshire, p. 
390, edited by H. S. Grazebrook). It also seems (unless possibly the 
defendant and the testator of 1541 were the same person) that other 
members of the Hawe ffunily, sprung from Solihull, resided in Walsall 
in early times, for in the suit of Laurence Robenson and Elyn, his wife, 
against John Hawe, organ player, of Walsall, ascribed to the period 
between 1515 and 1539, the plaintiffs alleged that they were seised of 
two closes in Solihull, one containing by estimation 30 acres of pasture 
and the other 10 acres of arable ground, called "Whitiokks Feld" and 
'^alcroft," and had for 17 years and more peaceably taken the 
profits thereof, but that the defendant was claiming the said lands. 
The defendant in his answer says that his grandfather John Hawe 
was seised of "Whitiokks Feld" and conveyed it to Thomas Hutton, 
Justice of the Conunon Pleas, John Smith and others to the use and 
behoof of the grantor and his heirs; that John Hawe, the grandfather, 
by his will directed the grantees to stand seised of the premises 
to the use of himself and his wife "Johane" and John, their son; 
that John and Johane died and afterwards their son John died, where- 
upon the said lands and tenements fell to the defendant, his son. The 
defendant also says that his mother Elizabeth Hawe was seised of 
"walcroft" and as her son and heir he was then seised. (Early Chancery 
Proceedings, voL 1, Bundle 561, No. 79). In the suit of John Hawe of 
Walsall against Richard Averrey and Richard, Robert and John Wilkys the 
plaintiff alleges ownership of lands in Solihull and Walsall in the counties 
of Warwick and Stafford and demands the deeds, but the papers are 
badly mutilated. (Early Chancery Proceedings, vol. 1, Bundle 415, No. 
48, 1515-1518.) According to 4 Foss's **Judges of England," 489, 
Thomas Hutton was a Master in Chancery in 1483-4. He does not appear 
as Justice of the Common Pleas. 



S6 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

81, 1611, aged 80 years/ The entry in the parish records 
is: "The XXX jth daie of October, Mr. William Hawes, 
gent, de Hill Fieldes." She was buried Oct. S6, 1616, aged 
70 years. The entry in the parish records is : "The six and 
twentie daie of October, Mrs. Ursula Hawes, Shellie.'' He 
is named and his arms are given in a catalogue of residents 
of Warwickshire made in 1677-8 by Henry Ferrers.^ At an 
uncertain date, he was one of those who certified to the list 
of those who had given to the Howman Charitable Fund.* 
He left a will dated April 1, 1609,* and a codicil dated Aug. 
89, 1611, which were proved at Lichfield Jan. 14, 1611-12. 
Only an unsigned copy is on file, the original having been kept 
by the executrix. The inventory of his personal estate 
amounted to £378 lis. lOd., and included among other articles 
"certeine books,'* "certeine mapps," a virginal, chessboard and 
clock. His will was written with his own hand. It directed 
that his body should be buried in the parish church of Solihull 
in that chapel where his father, one of his sons and one of 
his son's children were already buried, and that upon the day 
of his burial his executrix should pay to the church wardens 
five marks^ "to be distributed by them amongest the poorest 
inhabitants within the seid parish of Solihull.'* He recites in 
his will that he had assured his real estate to his son Edmond 
Hawes, reserving only to himself an estate for life and his 
wife's jointure or dower in part thereof during her life, but 
he directs (and trusts that his son will agree to it) that his 
wife, Ursula, so long as she remains his widow, shall continue 
to dwell in his mansion house called Hillfield Hall, with the use 
of certain rooms, household implements and adjacent grounds.^ 
As to his goods and chattels, he gives to his youngest daughter 
Constance £300, to be paid £100 upon her marriage or reach- 
ing the age of 24 years, and the whole sum apparently within 

/The Visitation of Warwickshire in 1619 states erroneously that he 
was then alive. Dugdale corrects this statement at folio 38 of Rawlinson 
MS D 806 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

ffS Ck>l. Top. & Geneal., 305. 
APemberton, dOO, B05. 

Hi was apparently written then, but, from the final clause, appears 
not to have been signed and sealed till Sept. 15, 1611. 

/The mark was reckoned at 13s. 4d. 

*She apparently preferred to live in his other house called Shelly, 
where she died. 



The FAMII.T in England 27 

three yean after his decease. He recites that his son Edmond 
had received £160 of the amount, which he had secured to his 
sister by an obligation dated Jan. 12, 1604-6, and that he 
had agreed to pay her a further sum of £60 upon her marriage 
or reaching the age of 24 years. In consideration of this 
action on Edmond's part, and for other considerations, the 
testator agreed to leave him standing timber and other trees 
to the value of £200 which he mig^t have cut down, and for 
the same considerations he bequeathed to him divers houbse- 
hold goods and other articles named, including his books and 
maps, and ^'the boxes evidences & papers now in my Studie & 
gallerie or els where (except all such english books as my wief 
shall like best to have for her owne use)." He provided that 
if the articles so bequeathed to Edmond did not amount in 
value to £60, then his wife was to supply the lacking amount 
in bedding, houbsehold stuff, &c. If he failed to pay without 
suit the sums so due to his sister Constance, and to discharge 
all bonds, bills and obligations by which the testator stood 
bound jointly and severally with his son Edmond to divers 
persons in divers sums, then the gift to him of the said articles 
was to be void. To each of his daughters Elizabeth and 
Ursula, he directed his executrix to give some parcel of linen, 
household stuff or money as witness of his remembrance of 
them. (He evidently had endowed them upon their marriage.) 
He appears also to have given a remembrance to each of their 
children and of his son's children, not naming them. The resi- 
due of his goods and chattels, after payment of his debts and 
legacies, he bequeathed to his wife, whom he made his sole exe- 
cutrix. He requested his ^el beloved cosins & approved good 
freinds'' Mr. Reginald Brome,^ Mr. Michael CoUes (his brother- 
in-law), the latter's son Humphrey CoUes (his nephew) and 
Mr. William Sheldon (his son-in-law) to act as overseers of his 
will *^& to be freindlie meanes to see the same quietlie and f aith- 
fullie executed & performed according to my true intent & 
meaninge." To each of his overseers, for a kind remembrance, 
he gave 10 shillings in gold or gold rings to that value. The 
witnesses were Thomas Brockhurst, Richard Blunt, John Miles 
and Henry Newey. The last three made their marks, and 

IFirst cousiii of Wm. Hawes, being son of Rauff Brome and grandson 
of Nidiolas Brome (3 Dugdale, 971; 19 HarL Soc. Pubs. 98). 



28 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

were quite likely servants of the testator. The codicil gave five 
pounds to William Hawes, Edmond's son, and to Jane, Ed- 
mond's daughter, the best of his yearling cow calves. To tes- 
tator's daughter Constance, by the codicil, he gave a three- 
year-old heifer, and as to the £800 which his wife and son 
were to pay to the said Constance, he directed that the first 
payment should be made within six months after his death, 
the second a year later, and the third a year after that, his 
son paying 100 marks and his wife £88, 6s. 8d. on each occa- 
sion. He also directed that if Edmond should pay the said 
sums as directed in the codicil, Constance should take no advan- 
tage of the forfeiture of the bond mentioned in the will as given 
by him. His widow, Ursula, left a will dated March S6, 1614, 
with a memorandum dated October 2, 1615, which were proved 
and filed at Lichfield Nov. 8, 1615. The will was executed 
with a mark, but it does not follow that she could not write. 
The failure to sign it may have been due to bodily infirmity. 
It would not have been surprising if a lady at that time could 
not write, but it is reasonably certain that she could. The fact 
that her husband left his English books for her personal use 
shows that she could read. The fact that he specifies among 
his books those in English shows that he had others in some 
other tongue, no doubt Latin, with which he must have been 
familiar. Ursula Hawes in her will directs that her body be 
buried near that of her late husband. She gave 40 shillings 
to the poor of Solihull. She gave to Jane, daughter of her 
son Edmond, several articles of bedding and other household 
stuff, and directed that her son deliver to the said Jane a cow 
with her increase which her grandfather gave her. To her 
son Edmond's wife she gave *^my damaske gowne and the two 
flaundere candlesticke that stand in the hall" ; to her daughter 
Sheldon her wedding ring; to her daughter Hunt a little sil- 
ver spoon; to William, her son Edmond's son, five pounds and 
his grandfather's ^eal ring; "to all the rest of my somie Ed- 
monds children tenn shillings a peese (excepting the sayd Will- 
iam & Jane Hawes)"; to her son Edmond's daughter Ursula 
Hawes 20 shillings and a pair of sheets ; to her god-daughter, 
Jane Huggef ord, 20 shillings and a pair of sheets ; to her god- 
daughter, daughter of Mr. Noel, 20 shillings ; to her brother, 
Mr. Michael Colles, three silver spoons; to her said brother's 



The Family in England 29 

wife, her silver pin; to her nephew, Mr. Humphrey Colles, 20 
shillings, to her son Edmond she gave her English books, her 
wagons, plows and the rest of her iron stuff out of doors, 
and also a truckle bedstead, and the rest of her goods, chattels 
and houbsehold stuff she gave to her daughter Constance Hawes, 
whom she made her executrix. She appointed her son Sheldon 
and her son Edmond Hawes overseers, and to each she gave a 
silver goblet for his pains. The witnesses to the will were Hum- 
phrey Colles and Thomas Aylesbury. John Keelinge witnessed 
the memorandum. The inventory of her personal estate 
amounted to £165, 2s. 8d., and included 87 books without 
giving their titles. 

The seat of William Hawes was Hillfield HaU, % mile S. 
of Solihull church. It was sometimes called Highfield. A 
quarter of a mile S. of Hillfield HaU is a residence called ^^Lib- 
bard's House.'' This no doubt belonged to the family since 
^^libbard" is an old form of leopard, and the Hawes arms car- 
ried three leopards' faces. % mile S. of Hillfield Hall is 
Shelly, a farmhouse which long was a part of the Hawes estate. 
Hillfield Hall was built** by William Hawes in 1576, two years 
after the death of his father. It had in all probability had a 
predecessor on lower ground, and the remains of a moat not 
far from Libbard's House seem to indicate the site. The back 
part was injured by a fire about 1867, and has been restored 
with some changes.* The front remains substantially in its 
original state. Over the front door is the following inscrip- 
tion, containing the initials of William Hawes and his wife 
Ursula, with a motto: 

"H. 
W. V. 
1576. 

Hie hospites, in Coelo cives."® 

The writer visited this mansion in August, 1911. The earliest 
mention of the house found appears in a MS in the British 
Museum, written by the Rev. Thps. Ward of Leamington 

Mlhe house was dearly built and not merely rebuilt by him. No member 
of the family before him is described as of HUlfteld Halt 

MPemberton, 40. 

oHere sojourners, in Heaven dtiiens. This might be used as a motto for 
the coat of arms. 



so Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

in 18S0, or perhaps 1848:^ ''Hillfield Hall an ancient Man- 
sion, having until of late years a considerable quantity of very 
curious stained glass, which was taken out by a Tenant: who 
glazed the windows^ with plain glass : unknown to Mr. Lewis to 
whom the house & estate belon^d, who was much displeased at 
its removal. The farm belonging to this old House is 187 acres 
of arable & Pasture Land. It belonged to Sir Ralph Bovey 
who was High Sheriff of this county in 1668 & was created a 
Bart in 1660 Aug. 80." Hannett in 1863 described the man- 
sion, after referring to the architecture of the region: **The 
sixteenth century was a time of progression in England ; more 
land was taken into cultivation, and the material prosperity 
of the people promoted. The greater security afforded by 
the laws rendered the defensive appliances of the moat and 
drawbridge no longer necessary, or such situations desirable. 
Many of the old halls were abandoned, and other buildings 
erected, in more beautiful and healthy situations. Hence, a new 
class of lords' or manor houses arose on hillsides or slopes."^ 
Li a note he adds : ^^Hillfield Hall, Solihull, a residence of the 
Hawes and Greswoldes, is a specimen of this class." ^^HiUfield 
Hall is an interesting relic of a mansion of the sixteenth century, 
to which reference has been already made in the introductory 
chapter. The engraving [appearing in the book] represents 
the oldest part of the structure, viz. the northern front, which, 
before its restoration by the present owner, T. E. Williams, 
Esq., was defaced by several unsightly lean-tos and obliterated 
windows. This part of the building is wholly of brick and of 
the castellated order, a style of edifice which did not go out 
of fashion for many years after such defenses were no longer 
required. This part presents two crenelated towers, with a 
gabled centre, and two wings right and left of the towers. 
The southern front is of later date, and is of the Italian order, 
with brick pillars having stone capitals [supposed to have been 
built by the Fieldings, owners in the Stuart times] ♦ ♦ ♦ 
When Belchier visited the neighborhood, he found here five 

pAdd. MS 99, 965, p. 118. The MS itself is dated 1830, but the cata- 
logue of the Br. Museum g^ves the date 1848. 

ffit was no doubt in these stained glass windows that the coats of anns 
referred to by Belchier were found. (See p. 43%, infra,) 

rForest of Arden, 17. He gives illustrations of Solihull Church and 
Hillfield HaU (pp. 188, 189, 199). 



/ 



The Family in Engulnd 81 

coats of arms (most probably in the windows). ♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
This last [William Hawes] appears to have rebuilt, or en- 
larged the house, as may be inferred from the following in- 
scription over the doorway of the eastern tower. ♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
The interior has undergone considerable alterations. The 
spacious old hall has been converted into rooms more suitable 
to the requirements of modem times. A long chamber still 
remains at the top of the house, under which was formerly 
a corridor or passage running the whole length of the build- 
ing. In the western tower is an ancient oak spiral staircase, 
winding round a straight oak extending from the basement to 
the summit. Hillfield, according to family documents was first 
purchased 5th Edward II,' (1465,) by Thomas Hawes of 
Shirley, ^skilled in the law.' But the first member of the fam- 
ily resident at the place, as appears by the pedigree, was Wil- 
liam Hawes, of ^Hilfield in Solihull, living in 1663.' His father 
was Thomas Hawes of Edlicott, a descendant in the fourth 
generation, of the same name and of the same place, one of 
whom, as above stated, married a daughter of John Greswolde. 
William Hawes, who lies buried in Solihull Church, was a bene- 
factor of the Chantry of St. Alphege there.^ He was suc- 
ceeded by his son Edward,^ living in 1619, whose posterity at 
that time included William, his son and heir, aged 14, three 
other sons, and eight dau^ters. This Edward^ Hawes pur- 
chased the Manor of Solihull, 2nd James I, but afterwards 
sold it to Samuel Marrow, Esq., of Berkswell. Since then Hill- 
field has come to the Greswoldes"^ In 1878 W. Nivens de- 
scribes the mansion and gives an etching:' ^^Hillfield. Within 
a mile to the south of the village of Solihull is a picturesque 

«An error for Edward IV. By reason of this error Pemberton (pp. 38 
and 4S) erroneously gives the date A.D. 1311. 

^Erroneous. It was a mudi earlier William. Supra, p. Id. 

^Should be Edmond. The same correction should be made at p. 187. 

toForest of Arden, 198-SOO. In speakii^ of Belchier, Hannett refers 
in his notes to the Bridges papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He 
incorrectly states that they are partly undecipherable and gives an im- 
perfect and incorrect copy of them. A correct copy appears tn/ro, p. 
43V^. Hannett states that the family of Hawes was in his time represented 
by the Hon. Swynfen Parker-Jervis, of Little Aston, Co. Stafford. He was 
not a representative of the Hillfield Haweses, but a descendent of the 
IValsali family. 

tflUustrations of Old Warwickshire Houses, p. 6. 



8S Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

and interesting house of the Elizabethan period. The princi- 
pal front, which is shown in the etching, is broken by two em- 
battled hexagonal towers, in one of which is placed the en- 
trance doorway, between them a small stepped gable, all of 
brick. The gables at each end of the front are ornamented 
in the same way. The part seen to the left has been a good 
deal modernized. The southern front is of a later date — ^more 
Italian in style, with brick pilasters, having stone capitals. 
Over a bay window which lights the dining-room is the shield 
of the Fielding family, who were living here in the time of the 
Stuarts, displayed by a spread eagle within a garter, inscribed 
with the words *Mon espoir est en Dieu.' A stone panel over 
the entrance doorway in the eastern tower bears the following 
inscription, *Hic hospites: in Coelo Gives,' the initials W H V 
(William and Ursula Hawes) and the date, 1576. The in- 
terior has been a good deal altered in adapting it to the re- 
quirements of modem times. In the western tower is an old 
spiral staircase of oak, winding round a central shaft, extend- 
ing from the basement to the summit.'* He then copies Han- 
nett as to the purchase and erection of the house. Pemberton,*' 
in 1906, says: "At the beginning of the last century Hill- 
field was merely a farm house, but after a serious fire (c. 1867) 
had destroyed a considerable portion of the back part, it was 
restored to its former dignity, and is now one of the finest 
houses in the neighborhood." He gives an illustration of the 
mansion. The S. part of Hillfield Hall was rebuilt by the 
Fieldings prior to or about 1670 on a design supposed to be 
that of Inigo Jones.*^ At present F. W. Greswolde- Williams, 
Esq., of Bredenbury Court, Bromyard, Worcestershire, is the 
owner, while the occupant under a long lease is Samuel Bod- 
dington, Esq., a Birmingham merchant. Hannett (p. 198), 
from the circumstance of the armorial bearings of the Gres- 
wold family being carried on the stables, thinks it more than 
probable that some branch of that family had once resided 
at Hillfield Hall. This may be due merely to the marriage of 
Thomas Hawes with Ann Greswold, or it may be that he ob- 



ySolihull and its Church, 40. 
sfld. 39. 



The Famtlt in Enoulkd 3S 

tained the estate by that marriage and not by purchase. 
Later, a family of Greswoldes owned Hillfield. The respond 
piers at the east end of the nave of the church are pierced 
by snmll windows, the northern of which is filled with stained 
glass taken from a window in Hillfield Hall, which contained 
the arms of the Aston (intermarried with Greswold), Fielding 
and Greswold families.'* ^^On the respond pier [in the Becket 
Chapel] is an interesting tablet containing the figures of Wil- 
liam Hawes (the builder of Hillfield Hall) and Ursula (Colles) 
his wife, together with those of their four sons and four daugh- 
ters, all kneeling on either side of what looks like a marble 
tomb, on which rests an open book. Above them is a circle en- 
closing the words, ^Jehovah God.' " Below is this inscription :* 

"1610. leio.*. 

WiD'm Hawes. Ursula Colles. 

aetatis 80. aetatis 70. 

Here Willm Hawes & Ursula his wife. 
Ther bodies lie, ther soules wth Christ in life ; 
Whose Holy Spirit did so direct ther wayes 
That in his f eare they lived to aged dayes. 
In endless joye they now wth Christ remaine, 
By Whose Blood all salvation doe obtaine." 

"Beneath the tablet, on a roughly painted board, is a curious 
Latin acrostic and an English epitaph," preceded by a Latin 
inscription f 

^^In obitum egregii et generosi viri magistri Gulielmi Hawes 
epitaphum piae memoriae ergo editum obiit XXIX^ die Octo- 

bris leii.** 



aid., 39, 96. 

(Pemberton, 95, 164, gives the age of Ursula erroneously as 76. 9 
Dugdale (p. 947) gives the inscription with some errors. Hamper gives 
it correctly. The tablet was repaired at the expense of the church wardens 
in 1667. (Pemberton, 95 n. 3.) The writer visited the church in August, 
1911. 

ePemberton, 95, 164-166. 

<rrhis may be rendered in English thus: An epitaph to the pious memory 
of the distinguished gentleman Mr. William Hawes, who died Oct. ^, 1611. 



84 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

6. Gaudia maerorem superent, revirescere rursus 

U. Vera solet pietas, etiam post fata superstes. 

L. Lugendum fateor, quia saeva est morte peremptus 

I. Insignis verae fidei, et pietatis amator, 

£• Egregius Christi miles, virtutibus amplus. 

L. Laetandum tamen est potius, quia sidera scandit 

M. Mortem conculcans, Christo duce et auspice Christo, 

U. Vivit in aetemum, pretiosaque balsama secum 

S. Scilicet, aetemae fert haustus pramia vitae. 

H. Huius quam sincera f uit devotio, quantum 

A. Alma fides, seu fax duxit, religio quanta, 

v. Vita fuit testis, conctisque imitanda reliquit, 

v. Ut mortis, sic sancta piae vestigia vitae. 

E. Estne aliquid ma jus tibi quod dare numina possent, 

8. Sic Justus vitam positus sic morte beata." 

^^If death coulde answere them that passe 
Who lieth heere, or what he was, 
Then he that lieth here within 
Woulde answere make and thus begin : 
William Hawes men caulde my name 
(As you, weere once) now nothinge am; 
And you likewise in tyme shall be 
Even duste, as I am now you see. 
But he that did ingrave, above. 
These lines as token of his love, 
Can justly say that heere doth lye 
Virtue, Fayth and Honestye, 
Truth, Godlynes, a trustye friende 
Just and Faythfull to the ende. 
He was of sounde religion. 
In God he put his trust alone. 
On whom his surest trust relyde. 
Whose servant he both livMe and dy'de. 
What goodnes els you well can crave 
Is heere inclosed in this grave. 
What foe can say he did him wronge ; 
What friend but f ounde his f riendshippe strong ; 
What's he that knewe him and did heare 
Of this his death, but shed a teare? 



The Family in England 85 

But teares alas ! cannot obtayne 
His life, whom f atall death hath slayne. 
Though dead, he lives with Grod on high ; 
(Grood reader) then, prepare to dye; 
In death the way of all fleshe is, 
And all by death muste passe to bliss." 

Pemberton (p. 166) gives the following free translation* of 
the Latin acrostic, the first lettjers of whose lines spell (in 
Latin form) the name William Hawes : 

**W. With thoughts of joy dispel your grief. Though dead 
the body lies 
I. Lmnortal still the soul lives on ; true virtue never dies. 
L. Lament I must ; for he in whom the Faith a champion had 
L. Lies prone in death, Christ's soldier true, in virtue's ar- 
mor clad. 
I. I yet rejoice; for, by Christ's strength and life, on death 

he treads 
A. And mounts to higher spheres where life Divine its fra- 
grance sheds 
M. Man to reward, when he has kept the faith and fought the 

fight. 
H. His life bears witness how sincere his love, his faith how 

bright 
A. And strong, what ties did bind him to his God ; a pattern 

sure 
W. Which shows how man may live, and die, and live for 

evermore. 
E. Eternal God can grant to thee no higher gift than this, 
S. So to employ thy life that thou mayst pass by death to 
bUss." 

eA prose translation, more literal, is the following: Let joy overcome 
grief. True piety is wont to revive again, survivor even of death. I con- 
fess that we ought to mourn, because a man distinguished for true faith, 
a lover of pietr, a renowned soldier of Christ, of many virtues, has been 
carried away bv cruel death. Yet we oug^t rather to rejoice because 
he ascends to the stars, treading down death, under the leadership and 
auspices of Christ; he lives forever, and having drunk the precious 
balsam, he carries with him the reward of eternal ufe. His life was wit- 
ness how sincere was his devotion, to what extent his benign faith, like a 
torch, led the way, how sreat was his religion, and he has left, to be 
imitated by all, the sacred example as well of his death as of his pious 
life. Is there anything greater that the deity can give you than to 
lay down so just a life in so happy a death? 



86 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Children/ in order given in the Visitation of War- 
wick shire: 

Thomas, son and heir ; died without issue before his father. 
William, 2nd son; died without issue before his father. 
9 Edmond, third son and heir. 

iU&suLA ; died young, before her father. 

Elizabeth; married Oct. 16, 1588, WiUiam Sheldon,^ of 

Bromsgrove, County Worcester, and had issue. 
U&suLA, m. Nov. 8, 1595, Raphael Hunt,^ of Stoke Green, 

Parish of Hambury, Co. Worcester, and had issue. 
Constance; m. between 1615 and 1619, George Dalby* of 

Milcombe, Parish of Bloxham, Co. Oxford. 
Thomas, 4th son ; died without issue before his father. 



/In Dugdale's ^d edition (index) under Dabridge-Court, it is stated 

that William Hawes of Langdon Hall (ob. 1610) m. Ursula, d. of 

Coles, and had Alice, who m. Henry Bromlev. It will appear from the 
text that this is entirely erroneous. The Visitation of Warwickshire 
(HarL Soc Pubs., vol. IS, p. 61) states, no doubt correctly, that Henry 

Broml^ married Alice, dau^ter of Hawes, and that his ancestor 

married the daughter and heiress of William Hawes, who was perhaps the 
William of 13S7 (supra, p. 10). Henry Bromley's daughter Margaret, it is 
stated in the Visitation, married John Greswold of Solihull, who according 
to Pemberton (p. 42) flourished about 1480. 

oln the parish record of the marriase they are sMed "Mr. William 
Sheldon and Mr$. Elisabeth Hawes." *^r. William Sheldon, son of Mr. 
William Sheldon of Bromsgrove** was baptieed in Solihull Apr. 30, 1586. 

hThey had a daughter Ursula, baptlBed at Solihull Aug. ^ 1587, who 
married Richard Kenwridc, son of Robert, of King's Sutton, Northamp- 
tonshire. (The Genealogist, N. S., vol. 94, p. 103.) In the parish record 
of the marriage they are styled ^Mr, Raphael Hunte and Mrs, Ursula 
Hawes." See also 1 Baker's Northamptonshire, 694. 

fThe printed Visitation of Warwickshire gives the name erroneously as 
Bally (19 HarL Soc. Pubs. 405). On a surv^ of Solihull in 1699, the 
jury reported tiiat ^George Dalby gent, and Constance his wife, or one 
of them: holdeth of the L^rd, by lease five parcels of land by estimacion 
one acre and a half or thereabouts; by the yerelie rent of 48. but how many 
yeres are yet unexpired: they doe not Imowe." (Add: MS in Br. Museum 
17, 700; Pemberton, 51). Another MS places this land in tiie Borough 
of Solihull, gives the half yearly chief rent at 9s. 4%d., and states that the 
lease had in 1699 14 or 15 years to run. (MS 97, 979, fol. 99.) At a later 
date, probably 1638, it appears that this land was thai in the occupation 
of John Fifield; rent 9s. lOd. (MS 97, 979, foL 55.) Mr. Dalby's land 
in the Borough paying one penny rent half yearly is referred to, probably 
under date of 1699 (Id. fol. 118b). In 1645 there was due from *^e 
executors of George Dalby, gent. & Constance his wife" 9s. lO^d. as a 
half year's rent for five parcels of land in the Borough, estimated to con- 
tain an acre and a half or above, in the occupation of John Fifield, the 
lease having about 9 or 10 years to run (Id. foL 194b). It thus appears 
that Mr. Dalby had died before Sept 99, 1645. Whether his wife was 
still living is uncertain. 



The Famtlt in England 87 

9 Edmond Ha WES, married/ before 1600, Jane, daugh- 
ter of Richard Porter of Bayham, Sussex. In 1605 Edmond 
Hawes became one of the lords of the manor of Solihull in 
conjunction with his cousin Humphrey Colles,* by "an inden- 
ture made the 16th day of May, « James I, between Thomas 
Throckmorton of Coughton, Co. Warwick, esquire, and Mar- 
garet his wife, of the one part, & Edmond Hawes of Sollyhull 
in the said county, gent., & Humfrey Colles of the Middle Tem- 
ple London, gent., of the other part,*' by which Throckmorton 
and wife, in consideration of £1080, sold "to Edmond Hawes 
& Humfrey Colles all that Manor or Lordship of Sollyhull 
with all lands, woods, courts, leetes, views of franck pledge, 
wards, marriages, releifes, rents, escheats, herriotts, fines & 
amercements etc. And also the advowson of Sollyhull & of 
anie free Chappell or Chauntery appendant & belonging to the 
said Manor.''' Humphrey CoUes and Edmond Hawes gave a 
lease of an acre of land in the Borough to William Holberg, 
dated March 4, 1607-8, for the term of SOOO years, at the 
yearly rent of one pepper com.** They had given a lease 
dated Dec. SO, 1605, to William Hawes for 44 years, at the 
yearly rent of one half penny, of "certeyn parcel, parcels or 
pools taken out of the wast behind his dwelling house."* The 
yearly value of the chief rents due the lord of the manor (prob- 
ably in 1638) was for the borough three pounds four shillings 
seven and a half pence, and for the other parts, called the 
^^f oreign," eighteen pounds two shillings six and a half pence ; 
total £21, 7s. Sd.^ Hawes and Colles sold the manor and ad- 
vowson by deed dated March 18, 1607, to Samuel Marrow, for 
£1020.^ The difference of £60 between the buying and selling 

/Visit of Warwickshire, infra, p. 46; Berry's Kent Pedigrees, 391; 
Sussex & Kent Visits. 

hHlB will, dated Feb. 9 and March 18, 1639-40, was proved in P. C. C. 
June 11, 1640 (94 Coventry). 

IClose Rolls in Public Record Office, 9 James I, pt 90; 9 Dugdale, p. 
948; Hannett, p. 900, erroneously giving Edward Hawes as the name of the 
purchaser. 

mMS 97, 979 in Br. Museum, foL 93b. 

ftBr. Mus. MS 97, 979, fol. 93b. 

old. fol. 96. 

pHamper on Dugdale, where it is also sUted that Marrow sold May 
8, 1608, to Sir Richard Greves, and the latter Aug. 90, 1638, to Sir Simon 
Archer for £1190. In 1631 Greves had confirmation of the market and 
fair at Solihull (9 Dugdale, 943 n. c). 



38 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

price may perhaps be accounted for by the sums which Hawes 
and Colles probably received for the two leases mentioned 
above and perhaps others made by them. In 1607 and 1616 
Edmond Hawes was "Collector,*' or Parish Bailiff, an officer 
elected annually from among the feoffees.* The duty of the 
parish bailiff ^Sras to collect the rents accruing from the par- 
ish property and trusts, and generally to control all the 
finances."*" In or about 1566 the chantries and chapels were 
dissolved and "the funds which had been devoted to their main- 
tenance were vested in a body of ten Feoffees [later called 
trustees], who, with the Parish Bailiff at their head, became 
from that time forward a kind of local Parliament.*' "The 
Parish Bailiff was elected annually from among the Feoffees" 
in rotation.' In 1627 from Edmond Hawes, gent., to the lord 
of the manor of Solihull, 13d. was a half year's rent of a house 
and garden in the borough, 13 shillings 6^d. a half year's rent 
"for lands called Shelley," 5 shillings and 3d. "for lands called 
Pratt's Farme," and one shilling "for a fish poole upon ye 
lords wast."* A presentation relating to the manor of Soli- 
hull, made April 14, 1630, by a jury presided over by Thomas 
Holbecke, of Meriden Hall, Co. Warwick, gent., reported as fol- 
lows: "Edmond Hawes gent, holdeth of the Lorde one house 
one backside, which parte of the backside is called the Maiors 
garden; but whose Land the Maiors garden is they knowe 
not ; by the yerelie rent of 2s. 2d."** He was not without activity 
in the courts. On the last of November 1624, he filed a bill 
in Chancery against WiUiam Hopkins, in which he is styled 
gentleman, alleging that he became bound with Richard 
Baldwin to Sampson Hopkins in the penal sum of £410 for 
the payment of 200 pounds or thereabout and interest; that 
after many delays Hopkins put the bond in suit and Baldwin 
answered without notice to Hawes. Judgment passed for 
£405, Hopkins died and his executor, William Hopkins, took 
out writ to enforce the judgment against Hawes, who was then 
detained in the common jail at Warwick until he should pay 
the £405. He was only a surety and had no part in the orig- 

aPemberton, 141. 

rid. SO. 

«Id., 29, 30, 149, 146 n. 3. 

<Br. Mus. Add. MS 27, 972, fols. 76, 78b. 

KPemberton, 50, 51 ; Br. Mus. Add. Roll, 17, 770. 



The Family in Engulnd 89 

inal loan; he had often entreated Hopkins to recover his 
debt when Baldwin could have paid, but he gave further time. 
Hawes states that he cannot pay, and asks consideration and 
that Hopkins may be summoned before the court to answer 
the truth of his allegations and to receive such orders as the 
court may deem just.^ On Nov. 27, 1626, he filed a bill in 
Chancery against Andrew Archer, alleging that about Feb., 
1618-14, and later, William Brome*^ of Woodlow in Warwick- 
shire borrowed sums of money, including £40 from Andrew 
Archer, for which Brome and Hawes as his surety beccune 
bound in the penalty of £80 for the payment of said £40 on 
the 14th of the next May. In June, 1614, and at other times 
Brome and Hawes borrowed £80 more from said Archer and 
became bound for £240, conditioned for the payment of £120 
on Sept. 6, 1614. About April, 1616, Brome and Hawes and 
another as his sureties, for so much of said £120 as remained 
unpaid and for such money as they borrowed, became bound 
to Archer in the sum of £200, conditioned for the payment of 
£100 on Oct. 22, 1616. About August, 1617, Brome and 
Hawes as his surety became bound to Archer in the sum of 
£100, conditioned for the payment of £60 on Feb. 18, 1617-18. 
About May, 1619, Brome and Hawes and another surety re- 
newed the above bond, conditioned that the £50 should be paid 
on Aug. 11, 1619. The three last mentioned bonds were sub- 
sequently sued, the debt then paid and the bonds delivered up. 
The two former bonds were forgotten and not demanded, being 
included in the last, or had been previously paid. The bill 
alleges that Archer has lately put these two bonds in suit 
against Hawes, Brome being dead, and demands that Archer 
be summoned before the court and compelled to state what sums 
he has lent, what received in discharge, etc' On the same 
27th of November Hawes filed a bill in Chancery against John 
Mayne of fUmdon, Warwickshire, alleging that in 1619 Mayne, 
being greatly indebted to divers persons, he became surety 
for him upon his faithful agreement to make over to him some 
good estate of lands and tenements in Elmdon to save him 

^Chancery Proceeds., Series II, CSiarles I, Bundle 358, No. 41. 
tcln the Chancery Proceedings the name is erroneously written Brown. 
^Chancery Proceeds., Charles I, H. 75, No. 14, in Public Record Office, 
London. 



40 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

harmless. On June 84, 1618, Mayne had given a written lease 
for 500 years of the manor of Elmdon and all its appurte- 
nances to Humphrey Colles and John Hercy, and on June 18, 
1614, they had sold the lease to James Mayne and Simon 
Mayne, brothers of John. Simon Mayne had died not long 
after. On Oct. 9, 1619, James Mayne with the consent of 
John Mayne had sold his rights to Hawes to be used or sold 
towards the payment of John Mayne's debts. On April 26, 
1626, the latter signed a writing declaring the debts to be his 
own proper debts and agreeing to continue the lease of Elmdon 
to Hawes for their payment. The bill continues that about 
four years last past John Mayne possessed himself of the orig- 
inal lease for 500 years, that he has now entered into posses- 
sion of the manor and taken the rents, etc., to his own use to 
the yearly value of £400, will not pay his debts, has permitted 
Hawes to be arrested on the bonds, will not appear and defend 
the suits, nor will he surrender the lease nor pay Hawes the 
rents. Relief is prayed that Mayne be forced to give an 
account of his debts and to surrender the manor of Elmdon 
to Hawes and restore the rents, etc., due. The answer of 
Mayne, which is on file, admits that Hawes became his surety, 
but alleges that prior to that time he was indebted to Colles, 
Hercy and others. That the sale to Colles and Hercy was to 
be void on stated conditions, which were fulfilled. The demise 
to Hawes was in trust for the payment of Mayne's debts. On 
July 20, 1620, he subscribed a note detailing the debts for 
which Hawes stood surety. He alleges that many debts had 
since been paid by him (none by Hawes) and others incurred, 
that the latter refused to part with the manor or any portion 
of it, though sufficient was promised him to cover his risk, and 
that Mayne was hindered by Hawes in paying his debts.*' A 
further answer was filed in which Mayne asserts that the as- 
signment to Hawes was made voluntarily, that there was no 
reason why he should be bound to it as he was surety for him 
in greater sums than Hawes was for him, and that he signed 
a note of his proper debts, but did not agree that the lease of 
Elmdon should continue with Hawes.* Robert Baker of Bay- 

yChancery Proceeds., Series I, Charles I, H. 67, No. 56. 
«?Chancery Proceeds., Charles I, H. 65, No. 9. 



J 



The Family in England 41 

ham, Sussex, gentleman, married Elizabeth, daughter of Rich- 
ard Porter, and sister of Jane who married Edmond Hawes. 
His will dated May 20, 1604, mentions brother and sister 
Hawes. Edmond Hawes was one of the witnesses.'* Robert's 
son, John Baker, described as of Rotherfield, Sussex, gentle- 
man, by his will dated Oct. 16, 1628, and proved Feb. 16, 1624, 
gives to his uncle Hawes 20s. to buy a ring and to his aunt 
Hawes 40s.* The will of Edward Quimby (2nd husband of 
Richard Porter's widow) of Allington, Co. of Southampton, 
Esq., dated Feb. 8, 1612-18, and proved the last day of the 
following February, gives his son-in-law Edmund Hawes "a 
green Satten dublett with Jerkin & hose of Flanders seardge.'** 
His widow, Jane Quimby, described as of Titchfield, made a 
will dated Aug. 6, 1618, and a codicH, describing herself as of 
Lamberhurst, dated June 26, 1621, which were proved June 
17, 1624. In the will she leaves £20 to her daughter Jane 
Hawes, and in the codicU the same sum to her granddaughter 
Jane Hawes.** John Porter, Esq., of Lamberhurst, Kentt, 
brother-in-law of Edmond Hawes, left a will dated Oct. 24, 
1648, and proved Feb. 11, 1644-6.* It provides the follow- 
ing legacies: **I give unto my loving brother Edmond 
Hawes" £20; "to my nephew William Hawes," £20, "to 
my nephew John Hawes" £10, "to the daughters of my brother 
Hawes as foUoweth Unto Mary Hawes thirty poundes Unto 
Ursula Hawes twentie poimds and unto Ruth Hawes 
twenty pounds, all the legacies given unto my brother 
Hawes and his children to be paid soe soone as con- 
veniently may be after the legacies given unto my children." 
To the will is added the following: ^^Memor^ndum that my 
intent is that the aforesaid legacy of twenty pounds given 
to my brother Edmond Hawes shall be void unless he pro- 
cure a discharge from his children to my Executors for twenty 
pounds which I have paid him for his children in the presence 
of John Porter and William Chanon." The witnesses to the 



aa Waters, 1345-6; P. C. C. Harte, 61. 
MA, 1846-7; P. C. C. Qarke, 12. 
old., 1436; P. C. C. Lawc, 18. 
did.; P. C. C. Bryde, 115. 
«P. C. C, Rivers, 41. 



42 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

will were John Porter, Thomas Baker, William Chanon and 
Henry Porter. From this will it may be inferred that Edmond 
Hawes was in 1643 living at or near Lamberhurst and that 
his wife, Jane, was then dead. Indeed she may have died be- 
tween Aug. 6, 1618, when her mother, Jane Quimby, provided 
for her in her will a legacy of £20, and June 26, 1621, when 
in her codicil Jane Quimby provided a legacy of the same 
amount for her granddaughter Jane Hawes. It is clear that 
Edmond Hawes had removed from Solihull by about 1647, and 
that he had parted with Hillfield Hall, and probably his other 
lands, not later than 1663.^ Pemberton (p. 39) says he was 
living in 1653, but gives no authority.^ Hamper gives the fol- 
lowing from Dugdale's MS notes: "Hawes. This familye is 
now extinct, or gone from Solihull of late time; but from 32** 
E. 3 [1368-9] I iSnde that they have had a being here, 
and that of them John Hawe was a commissioner for collect- 
ing a Subsidye in this county in 6** H. 4 [1404-5]. Their 
Armes is Sable a chevron Argent betwixt 3 Leopards heads 
or."^ Hamper subjoins: "Sir Simon Archer adds — *Mr. Half 
Bovy the now High Sheriff is now owner of Mr. Hawes his 
lands.' "* 

Children, in the order given in the Visitation of 
Warwickshire, but not in all cases in the order 
of birth: 

William, son and heir, 14 years old in 1619, baptized 
Dec. 30, 1604. 

John, second son, baptized Apr. 28, 1611. 

fit appears that Sir Ralph Bovy had possessed HiUfleld HaU before 
1669, from Pemberton, p. 40, n. L From RoU 194/314 (Subsidy, Co. War- 
wide, Hundred of Hemblingforde) in the PubUe Record Ofllce, London, it 
appears that Bovy and Hawes were jointiy interested in lands in Solihull 
in 1637 and 1628. They were assessed £3 13 shillings for the fourth of five 
entire sub-sidies in lands granted In 3 and 4 Charles I. 

fflt is possible the authority was the will of John Porter and that 1653 
is a misprint for 1643. 

^Hamper sUtes that Dugdale's notes relative to the monuments, etc., in 
SolihuU Church were made Apr. 17, 1647, and it is likely that the observa- 
tion about the Hawes family was made at or about the same time. Pember- 
ton (p. 99 n. 3) says Dugdale visited the parish for information in 1640. 

ARalph Bovy, Esq., was High Sheriflf of Warwickshire in 1653 (3 Dug- 
dale, 1153; supra, p. 30). 






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10 Edmond (the emigrant), third son, baptized Oct. 15, 
1612. 

Jane, baptized Oct. 5, 1600. 

Lucy, baptized Jan. 12, 1608/8. 

Ursula, baptized Jan. 19, 1601/2; buried Apr. 16, 1602. 

Ma&y, baptized Oct. 25, 1607; unmarried in 1643. 

Ann, baptized Sept. 5, 1609. 

Elizabeth, baptized Aug. 18, 1616. 

Ruth, baptized June 18 (or 28), 1618; unmarried in 
1643. 

Ursula, baptized Oct. 26, 1606; unmarried in 1643. 

Thomas, died without issue. 
In the parish record of baptisms these are described as Mr. 
or Mrs., as the case may be, and as son or daughter of Mr. 
Edmond Hawes, Shelly being given as his residence in 1607, 
1609 and 1611, and Hillfield at the other dates. It is prob- 
able that William Hawes, the eldest son of Edmond, became a 
resident of London and that he is the William Hawes, gent., of 
St. Dunstan in the West, whose will dated Sept. 11, 1652, was 
proved June 8, 1653.^ He left his brother Mr. Edmond Hawes 
£40, his three sisters, Mrs. Mary Best, Mrs. Elizabeth Nich- 
olas, and Mrs. Ruth Hawes, £20 each, his sister-in-law, Mrs. 
Damaris Hawes, £6 to buy a piece of plate, the three children 
of his brother Mr. John Hawes and Mrs. Damaris Hawes, viz., 
John £20, Damaris £10 and Thomas £10. He gave to his 
brother-in-law Mr. Prosper Nicholas £10, to his brother-in- 
law Mr. John Best^ £6, to his laundress £5, and the residue of 
his estate to his brother Mr. John Hawes, whom he made his 
executor. Feb. 8, 1664/5, letters of administration on the 
estate of Ursula Hawes, late of the parish of St. Mary Alder- 
manbury, London, were granted to her brother John Hawes.* 
She perhaps was the daughter of Edmond Hawes. The Visita- 

iP. C. C, Brent 160. Besides the identity of names is the fact that he 
calls himself, '"gent," and his brothers and sisters, ''Mr." and "Mrs." 

/At the end of Roll 259/9 (Lay Subsidy Rolls, Warwickshire, 18 Charles 
II) in the Public Record Office, London, appears a note that John Best, 
gent., of London, took oath on Lady Day, 1666, that he had returned a true 
account of the hearths and stoves in Warwickshire for the duty due the 
Khig. 

IConunissary of London, 139. 



44 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

tion of Sussex (p. 196) states (probably in 1638/4) that John 
Elffred of Hoo married , daughter of Haws of War- 
wickshire. This may mean our Edmond Hawes/ 

ABSTRACT OF WILL OF RAUFFE BROME AT PRO- 
BATE REGISTRY, WORCESTER 

WiU of Rauffe Brome of Wodlowe in the County of War- 
wick Esquire — ^Dated 18th March 1567 — ^To be buried in the 
Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Warwick near unto his 
Mothers Grave or where his Executors should consider most 
convenient — Gives to the Church wardens of St. Nicholas 
aforesaid thirteen shillings and four pence — ^To the poor people 
there Forty shillings in Bread or otherwise as his Executors 
think good — ^To the Churchwardens of the High Church of 
Warwick six shillings and eight pence. To the Churchwar- 
dens Leake Wooten Six shillings and eight pence. To the Poor 
there Twenty shillings — Gives some land and tenements [name 
and description gone] to Son Thomas Brome — ^Third Son Wil- 
liam Brome — ^Eldest Daughter Anne Brome — Second Daugh- 
ter Gertrude Brome — Mentions third Daughter but name 
gone — ^Later on a Daughter Katheren is mentioned. Sister Joyes 
Brome — ^Brother in law Thomas Hawes of Solyhull — ^Mar^ 
gery Prince sometime his Servant — ^Residue of Estate to Reg- 
nolde Brome Son and Heir — Cousin Richard Aygelenbye — 
Makes Brother in law Ambrose Digbye Gentleman Cousin 
William (sic) Hawse Gentleman, Son Regnolde and Son 
Thomas Executors and Cousins Kenelme Digbye Esquire An- 
thonye Digbye Gentleman and John Hunt Esquire Overseers. 

Signed — Rauf — The rest of signature has gone and the 
Witnesses' names have also gone. 

Proved [Day of the month gone] May 1667. 

COPY OF HERALD'S VISITATION OF WARWICK- 
SHIRE IN 1663 

The descent of Thomas Hawes of Edlicot in the Countie of 
Warwicke and in the hundreth of Hymlinfforde. 

Thomas Hawes maryed the daughter of and had 

issu Thomas. 

153 HarL Soc. Pubs., 196. 



The Family in Engulnd 45 

Thomas Hawes marled the daughter of and had 

issu 

Thomas Hawes sunn of Thomas maried the daughter of 

and had issu 

Thomas Hawes sun of Thomas maried Johanna daughter of 
Rensford and had issu 

Thomas Hawes of Edlicott in the countie of Warwick Lyveth 
in A^ D^ 156S and married Elizabeth daughter of Nycholas 
Browne of Wodhosse in the said Countie of Warwicke and hath 
issu 

Wtllm Hawes sunn and heir of Thomas and Elizabeth 

Ck>NSTANCE ffyrst daug^tr of Thomas & sister of WyUm was 
maried to Thomas Speherd Yeman. 

EuzABETH S daughtor of Thomas Hawes. 

Marga&et 8 daughter of Thomas Hawes. 

Aems: Sable^ a chevron argent, between 8 leopards faces or 
(no crest or motto given). 

From 6 XI., folio 74, being Cook, Charter Herald's Vuita- 
tion of Warwick, made in the year 1568, & copied by me. 

EvERA&D Green, 
Rouge Dragon. 
Herald's College, London, 
81 July 1911. 




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COPY OF WIUL OF THOMAS HAWES AT LICHFIELD 

PROBATE REGISTRY 

In the name of god amen the xx^^ day of Maye in the yere 
of o' lorde god m^clxxiiij and in the xvj yere of the Reyne of o"" 
Sov'ayne lady Elizabeth (by the grc of god) of Englande 
France & Irelande quene defender of the fayth &c I Thomas 
Hawe al Hawes of the pische of Solyhiill in Countie of War- 
wycke gentylman (beying whoU of body & of pfett memory 
thanks be to god) remembrynge the unstabilite & uncertentie 
of thys fraile and trancetorie worlde And most specially the 
afuall & sudayne death that dayly apperith and wyllying ther- 
fore to ppare & make in redynesse myselfe as in that behalfe 
apprteyneth do make & ordeyne thys my p'sent last Wyll & 
testamt in mane^ & forme folowying And first I utterly 
rennce & forsake thys trancetory worlde and all the veyne 
joyes & pleasures therin holly betakyng & comyttyng my sole 
to allmyghty god my maker Savyor & redem'' besechynge hys 
gre that I may be ptaker w*^ the elect of the fruicon of the 
incomperable yoie & felicitie as he hath p'pared for me & all 
mankynde And I beseche o' blesseyd lady Virgyn Mary the 
mother of o*" Savyor Jhu Christ, and all the holy copny of 
hevyn to pray for me wretched synner And I wyll my symple 
carkes to be buryed in the chappell of Saynt Clement w*^yn 
the pishe churche of SolyhuU aforesayd in suche order of funer- 
alle as shalbe thought good by myne executors & ov'seers un- 
dernamed Furthermore where I have gevyn by my dede in- 
dentyd beryng date the day of in the xiiiij 

yere of the Reyne of o' sayd sov'aigne lady the quene to my 
welbeloved cosyn Thomas Greswolde gentylman to my trusty 
frends Thomas Waryng gentylman and Bamaby Holbache yo- 
man all that my tenement or burgage w*^ the garden & or- 
chard therto belongyng sett lyng & beyng in the myll lane 
w**^yn the borowe of SolyhuU aforesaid nowe in the tenewre 
& occupaion of Thomas Heyford And also one lytell croft 
of land lying to the bame yarde of Anne Pole Wydw on the 
south syde to the prsonage grounde on the north syde And to 
the lane ledyng from lewde heyth unto tenters grene on the 
west syde of the borowe of SolyhuU aforesaid all whyche tene- 
ment & croft the sayd Thomas Heyford assign of John Blake- 



48 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

nail gent hath a lease for t'me of yerys yet endewryng yeldg... 
& paying therfore yerely to me the said Thomas & to my hers 
xiiii" of lawfuU money of Englond to have & to holde all the 
said tenement or burgage & croft w*^ their apptenncs unto 
the said Thomas Gryswolde Thomas Waryng & Bamaby Hol- 
bache their heirs & assignes for ev' to these intents uses & con- 
dicones hereafter folowyng (that ys to wytt) that the said 
Thomas Gryswold Thomas Waryng & Bamaby Holbache & 
their heirs shall fromhensforth stonde & be seased of & in the 
said tenement & other the p'miss to thejrm & to their heirs for 
ev^ yeldyng paying & distributyng yerely to the pore people 
inhabityng we^^in the said pische of Solyhull for ev^ all the 
yerely rent & rents yssues & pfetts growyng made & answeryd 
for the said tenement garden orchard & croft w*^ their ap- 
p'tenncs (the cheif rent therof and xvj^ yerely excepted & to 
be deducted the same payments & distribucon of all the same 
rents & pfetts (except before excepted) to be made dealt & 
gevyn amonge the said pore people by the said Thomas Grys- 
wold Thomas Warying & Bamaby Holbache their heirs or 
assignes yerely for ev** in & uppon that day twelmoneth that 
shall fortune my buryall to be the saide pore people beyng then 
psent in the said churche knelyng & saying the lords pyer for 
my sole my wyffs sole or my chyldem soles & all christen soles 
and that the said Thomas Gryswold Thomas Waryng & Bar- 
naby Holbache & their heirs shall have yerely xij^ pcell of the 
said xvj^ (before excepted) for and towards their paynes viz 
each of theym iiij^ to se the sa . . . my yerely almes gevyn & dis- 
tributed in man'' & forme above expressed and also that the 
psone of the sayd churche or hys deputy for the tyme beyng 
shall have yerely for ev** iiij^ (residew of the said xvj^) to have 
my said symple almes to be remembred in the polpett in the 
sayd churche yerely for ev' on the Sunday next before my said 
obsegnell As in the said dede indented wherof one pt doeth 
remayne w*^ the said Thomas Gryswolde and the other pt re- 
mayneth w*** more plainly doth appere 

trustyng that my said feoffers & their heirs ivyU trewly exe- 
cute the sayd dede accordyng to my trew meanyng thereof yf 
not (as god forbyde) then I wyll my executors & their assignes 
shall see the yssues & pfetts of the sayd tenement & land w^ 
thapptenncs to be trewly distributed yerely for eve^ in man** 



The Family in England 49 

& forme before speciiSed &c And where by one inventore ber- 
yng date the first daye of September in the iiij^^ yere of the 
reyne of o^ sayd sov'aign lady the quene made betwene me 
the fiaid Thomas Hawes on the one prtie and Margarett Colles 
wydowe and Edmunde Colles Esquire her sonne on the other 
pte doth assuere that one howse lying in the borowe of SolyhuU 
afforesaid & certen closses in the f oren ther then in the tenewre 
of Rychard Weale one tenement one orchard one lytell closse 
a wynde myll & a horse myll sett lying & beyng in the said picbe 
of Solyhull then in the tenewre of Roger Smalwod And also 
three closses called Blakefylds brounde gowse croft & rownd 
aboute crofte lying in the said pishe of Solyhull now or late 
in the sev'all tenewrys & occupacon of me the said Thomas 
Hawes Thomas Jeckeson & Thomas Acton & John Johnson 
shalbe to such uses and intents as I the sayd Thomas Hawes 
shall appoynt & lymytt the same by my last wyll the remayn- 
der thereof as in the same indenture more playnly may appere 
therfore I have gevyn & granted (by the assent of Wyllm 
Hawes my sonne & heir) to the sayd Thomas Jackeson & Eliza- 
beth hys wyf my daughter the sayd howse & a lytell medowe 
& tew closses w*^ thapprtennes somtyme in the tenewre of the 
seyd Richard Weale bothe by dede indentyd in tayle & by 
fyne late knowleged at the last aff accordyng to the sayd 
dede intayle the remaynder to my right heirs for ev** Also as 
for the distribucon & appoyntment of the rest of the said lands 
& tents (that ys to wytt) the sayd tenement orchard close 
wyndmyll horsemyll & the three closses called blakfylde 
wrounde hole croft & rounde aboute croft for appeasyng 
resolucion & determinacon of some ambiguitie & dowte lately 
had betwene me my wyff & the said Wyllm Hawes cons'nyng 
the right & tytle of the joynter & dowre of my sayd wyflp in 
all my lands & tents in the pishe of Solyhull afforesayd And for 
dyy's other matters I the sayd Thomas Hawes & my said wyff 
and my sayd Sonne Wyllm dyd submytt or selffs to stonde to 
& abyde the awarde order & jugement of the sayd Thomas 
Grryswold who by our mutuall assents dyd make and awarde 
indentyd beryng date the xvj day of December last past 
before the date hereof aswell suf'uyng one annuytie of fyve 
pounds to be payed by my sayd sonne Wylhn hys heyrs or 
executors to my sayd Wyff duryng her naturall lyff in reco- 



50 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

pence of her joynter & dower of & in all my sayd lands & 
tents in Solyhull afForesayd do for the sume of xxx^* to be 
payed by my sayd sonne Wyllm to my executors toward 
the pformance of thys my last Wyll & testament & for 
other maters in the sayd awarde conteyned and speciiSed may 
playnly appere wherof one pt remayneth in the custody of the 
sayd Thomas Waryng to the use of my sayd wyfe yf yt for- 
tune at any tyme hereafter that yf my sayd sonne Wyllm 
hys heirs or executors or any of theym do not stonde to p'forme 
fulfyll & kepe all & eny suche articles grunts & agrements 
of hys or their pt to be p'formed fulfylled & kept conteyned 
& specified in the sayd awarde (as god forbyde) that then I 
wyll my sayd wyff & her assignes shall have receyve & take 
yerely the yssues rents & pfetts of all the sayd lands 
& tents & other the p'mysses w^^ their appurtenncs last be- 
fore resyted duryng her naturall lyfF to the entent that she 
shall paye all my detts & legacs and all suche annuities or 
gyfts conteyned & specified in the sayd awarde whyche of the 
p'rt of my sayd sonne Wyllm ar to be p'formed fulfyllyd & 
kept moreover as cons'nyng my testament in the distribu- 
cion of my goods & catells made the day & yere fyrst above 
wrytten I the said Thomas Hawe al Hawes do wyll to the 
pore mennys box of Solyhull afforesayd xij^ Itme I geve & 
bequethe to my said sonne Wyllm Hawes the standyng bedd- 
sted w^^ the koveryng of syrvyn tree in my nether pier and 
the worcer of the two newe fetherbedds the secunde bolster of 
fethers one pyllowe of fethers one payre of the secunde blan- 
ketts one of the woven cov'letts one payre of shets of the 
tere of hempe the greatest chest & a lytell coffer w*^ obydence 
in the great chamber the hangyngs of tappystre in the hall 
w*^ the benches in the same the greatest brasse pott the great- 
est broche ten wyte leads and one yoke of sterys of iij yers 
of age And I geve to my godson Thomas Hawes sonne of 
the sayd Wyllm Hawes my yongest amblyng mare fole And 
to ev'y of thyr other chyldern an ewe shyppe or v® in money 
Itm I geve to evry of my daughter hatleys chyldern an ewe 
shippe or v® in money Itm yf water Chambu^ my sonne in 
lawe or hys wyff do not vex troble or shewe my executrice of 
& for any of my goods or catells then I wyll to my daughter 
Margarett his wyff a cowe & a peire of hempton shets And 



The Family in England 51 

to evry of her cheldem an ewe or v* in money Itm yf Thomas 
Jackson my sonne in lawe or hys wyff do not vex molest or 
troble my executrice for any of my goods or cattells then I 
wyll and geve to my doughter Elizabeth hys wyff one cowe 
the worst fether bedd & a peare of hempen shets And to my 
cosyn Thomas her sonne a wenyng calf e and to evry of hys 
brethem & syster a ewe shyppe or v" in monney Itm I geve 
to my syster Elizabeth an heyfer of ij yers of age And to 
my cosyn Anne her doughter one heyfer calfe of one yere of 
age And the same to be kept by myne executr untill the 
same have a calfe And I geve to my syster Katyn Smalwood 
an heyfer calfe or a styere calfe of one yere of age And to 
my syster Anne Gebons an yerelynge calfe Itm I geve to 
Isabell Whetnall a weynyng calfe And to evry other of my 
s'vnts xl* And to Chrystofer mylwardes wyff xx* The 
rest of all my goods & catells not bequeathed (my detts legacs 
& funeralle payed I geve & bequethe to my welbeloved wyff 
Elyner whome I make & ordeyn my sole executrice of thys my 
last Wyll & testament And I ordeyn Thomas Waryng gentyl- 
man & Roger Eyewyt gentylman Stewards of the citie of 
Coventre my ov'seers and I geve to ether of theym to se this 
my wyll & testament pformed xl". In wytnesse wherof I have 
to thys my psent wyll & testament sette my seale the day & 
yere fyrst above wrytten 

L S by me Thomas Hawes 

Signature of Thomas Hawes to will, 1574. 



fft Ancxstoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 



COPY OF INVENTORY OF PERSONAL ESTATE OP 
THOMAS HAWES AT LICHFIELD PROBATE 

REGISTRY 

The Inventorye of all the goods & 
cattells of M**. Thorns Hawes late 
of SolyhuU in the Countye of Warr 
gent decessed taken the xv^ of June 
Ano 1574 & p'syd by Robt Higgin- 
son John brockdiurste Thorns 
Sannders Bamabe HoU)ache k 
Wilhn Cotterell 



In the hall 



In the OY* pier 



In the gret 
chamber 



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tables on rounde table iiij formes on \....a 
cupborde ij cheres ij joyned stoles J "^ 

Item ij oarpetts yiij quyshynes 
certayne hinginges 



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Item on framed table on cupbord 
on forme ij cheres on great chest & 
ij setles 

Ite on standinge bedd on f etherbed 
one flockebedd ij blanketts one red 
saye, on keverlett of Arras on boul- 
str ij pyUowes iij curtaynes jx quy- 
shins one carpett & certeyne hing- 
yngs of saye 



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cupbord one chere ij lytell formes 
certayne old hanginges of saye ij 
wyndowe quyshings 

Ite on standinge bedd on truclebed 
one fetherbed ij blanketts ij blew 
hillings one boulster ij pyllowes & iij 
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In the chamber 
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greate chamber 



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chamber 



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chamber 



In y* butteryes 



Ite on standmge bed on trudebedd 
one fetherbed one matteress one cov- 
erlett one bhtnkett one pyllowe one 
boulsf & on litle forme 



Ite one «tandinge bedd on trade- 
bed on fetherbed ij flockebeddes ij 
payre of blanketts on hillinge two 
boulsters & two pyUowes 

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j litle forme certeyne hangings k }xyj' 
harnes 



Ite one bedsted on matteres one 
blankett on boulstr on twyUye on old }tj* 
cupbord one forme 



Ite one cupbord on save "iJ )__•••« 
shylves xj barrells vj sylver sponnes. J-"^*^J 



54 AnCXSTOES AlTD DXSCENDAKTS OF EdMOND HaWSS 



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In the bultinge 
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In y* yelinge 
house 



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neU ij powderinge tubbes on bord iij 
shylves & certayne old wodden Tessels 

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certayne mylke vessels 



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tinge tubbe & certayne trynnen ves- 
seU 

Item ij pannes one great potte iiij 
potts a posnett ij dabnetts iiij cal- 
doms on old choffrone on skellet a 
cullender a skimmer ij gredyams ij 
chaffingdishes ij great broches ij 
small broches A payre of Rackes 
a payre of cobbardes iij payre of 
potthockes on potthingles ij payre of 
tonges on fyrsholve on fyrforke iij 
landyams on bronderde on spyce 
morter 



Ite ij drippinge pannes on fryinge j ...^ 
pane iiij candlestickes a lattenbason j 

Ite on bason & a ewer ij handba- 
sons & platters viij pewter dishes vj 
porrengers xij sawsers on butter- (xxxiij^ 



••••u 
Tvny 



dyshe one cremdishe iiij saults one 
pewter cupp xviij spones ij chamber 
potts 



mj' 



Ite on steping fatt on brewinge 
fatte iij old barrells iij old lomes on 
old coffer 



vuj" 



\ 



The FAMII.T in England 



55 



Inlynens 



lie V payre & a h&lfe of flaxen 
shetes ix payre of hempton shetes 
ix payre of noggen shetes iij flaxen 
table clothes & on dyaper table 
clothe ix hempton table clothes iiij 
dossine & a halfe of table napkyns xi 
towels viij flaxen pyllowbewers viij 
hempton pillobeweres iiij cupbord 
clothes 

Item in apparrell 



vuj 



u 



Item ix kyne & on bull 



Ite ij threyere old steres 



Ite yii j oxen & steres 
Item viij two yere olds 

Item viij yerlinges 

Ite ix weynings 

Ite xii j shepe 

Ite iij mares one fyllye on 
linge colte ij suckinge colts 



yere- 



Item viij store swyne 



xvj" 

XUJ* 

xuj" 

••• 'A 

} xviij" 
}yiij" 

•• 'A 

•my 

}lvj' iiij* 
}liij" iiij« 
▼j" xnj* 

xxxuj* 

••• *A 
UIJ* 



Item come on the grounde 

Ite on wane on tombrell one plowe 
one ox harrow i j smale harrowes w^ 
yokes & twoes to 'the same bdonginge 



XVI J " 

• • • M 

xuj* 

••• *A 
UIJ* 



66 ANCXSToms and Descendants of Edmond Hawks 

lie on mattocke on ax on hjU on 
yron wedge on sawe ij nagers one 
spade on sholve ij shef pickes ij 
diuckpyckes on sadle ij brdles 
Some totalis wj" iij^ aij* vUj^ 

Proved at Lichfield on the V1^ October 1674 by the Execu- 
trix. 

COPY OF THE WILL AND CGDICH. OF WHXIAM 
HAWES AT LICHFIELD PROBATE REGISTRY 

In the name of god so be it: The first daye of Aprill in 
the yeare of our Lord god 1609 I William Hawe als Hawes 
of Hillfieldes Hall in the parishe of Solihull in the countie of 
Warr: gent, with perfect mynde consideringe the frailtie of 
all fleshe inummerable wayes everie hower beholdinge death the 
due rewarde of sinne: As also that I must leave unto the worlde 
all such landes goodes & cattails whereof it bathe pleased god 
to give me the use in this worlde: doe ordaine constitute and 
make this my last Will & testament as foUowethe. vz. First 
I comend & render againe my soule into the handes of that 
most mercifuU god from whom I received it, which althoughe 
it hath bene here defiled with all kinde of sinnes & iniquities 
whereunto fleshe & bloude through the fall of our first parents 
is naturally inclined: yet I doe beleeve & hope assuredlye that 
thorow the love & mercie of god (who by his holie Spirit hath 
wrought true & unfeigned repentannce in my hart with a sted- 
fast faith in his promisses) I shall by that bloudie sacrifice 
death & resurrection of Jesus Christ his sonne my onelye 
Redeemer Saviour & mediator to be purged & made pertaker 
of his heavenlie Kingdome, & that my Soule after it ys de- 
parted out of this prison of the bodie, shall passe from hense 
into a place of rest & blessednesse present w^ Christ beholdinge 
the face of god in the fellowship of all gods elect with happie 
joye expecting the full pfectio^ and consumation of the prom- 
ised glorie both of soule & bodie at the coming againe of Christ 
my Redeemer and Judge at the last daye. And in the meane 
time my will & desire ys that my bodie when my Soule hath 
lefte it be retoumed againe to the earth from whence it came 
And that it be decentlie buried in the parish church of Solihull 



The Family in England 57 

aforeseid in that chappell where my father, one of my sonnes, 
and one of my sonnes children are alreadie buried. And after 
the buriall of my corps in that place, then my will is that my 
executrix shall that daye deliver unto the Churchwardens for 
that time beinge v markes to be distributed by them amongest 
the poorest inhabitants within the seid parish of Solihull: And 
as conceminge my landes tefits & hereditam^" Albeit I have 
assured them unto my sonne Edmond Hawes reservinge onelie 
to myself an estate for tearme of my lief without impechm^ 
of waste, and my wives jointure or dower of parte thereof 
duringe her lief accordinge to the lawes of this lande : yet my 
will ys (and I trust my sonne in regard of his dutie towards 
me & his mother will yeld thereimto) (And hereby I doe de- 
vise) that Ursula my welbeloved wief & his loving moth*^ so longe 
as shee doth remaine sole & unmarried shall continue & abide 
still in my seid mansion hawse called HilliSelds Hall & there to 
have & hold the chamber where shee lyeth, the middle chamber, 
and the maides chamber adioyninge with free libertie of the 
use of other necessarie romes & implem'^ of howshold now 
within the seid howse outhowses gardens and orchards and yf 
she shalbe minded to make her doue provision for howsekeep- 
inge there, that then shee may have such grounds nere 
adioyninge as by the overseers of this my last Will & testam*^ 
hereunder named sbalbe thought requisite, and my sonn to have 
to the like valew in such other groundes as are shalbe aUotted for 
her jointure or dower elswhere: And as touchinge the dispos- 
inge of my goodes and cattails my will ys and I doe hereby will 
& dispose give & bequeath unto Constance Hawes my daugh- 
ter youngest daughter three hundred poundes to be payed to 
her in maner & forme foUowinge vz. one hundred poundes the 
daye of her marriage or when she shall accomplish the age of 
xxiiij yeares or severalhe within three yeares next after my de- 
ceasse as in a codicile hereunto annexed apeareth Towards the 
paym^ of which three hundred pounds my seid sonne Edmond 
Hawes hath received one hundred & fiftie pounds as by his 
obligation made to me & my seid dau^ter bearinge date xij*^ 
Januarie 1604 apeareth. And fiftie poundes more he hath 
promised to give unto his seid sister the daye of her mariage or 
when she shall accomplishe the seid age of xxiiij yeares In con- 
sideracon whereof & other consideracons me movinge besides 



58 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawss 

the performance now of my promise to him to leave unto him 
standinge & uncutt downe timber trees and other trees to the 
value of two hundred poundes which I might have fallen & were 
to spared besides others sufficient for necessarie uses. I do 
hereby will & dispose give & bequeath unto him upon condicons 
herein hereafter mencioned these percells of howshold stuff & 
implem^" of howshold goods & cattails following vz. The table 
borde with the frame & two square tables in the hall in my seid 
mansion howse the table bord with the frame the lose cubbords 
in the parler there, the best standinge bedsteed in the chamber 
over the pier & the cubbord there, the two bedsteeds & cubbord 
in the chamber called the Servinge mens chamber, also the 
brewinge lead the malt mill the Irons in the kitchin chimney, 
the ewtinge fatt & the gamers in the outhowses Allso all my 
bookes mappes & deske after my wief hath taken out of my 
deske all therein conteyned the boxes evidences & papers now in 
my Stiidie & gallerie or els where (except all such english 
bookes as my wief shall like best to have for her owne use. 
And moreover my will ys that all these aforeseid percells here 
given & bequeathed unto my sonne shalbe praysed by my seid 
overseers or other indifferent friendes, and what they shall 
want of the full valew of threscore poundes the same to be 
made out by my wief to that value in beddinge lynnen brasse 
pewter or other howshold stuff & cattails such as my wief shall 
think my sonne shall have most need of & be most requisite for 
him, provided alwaies & my will ys that yf my sonne doe not 
paye the somes of money above named due to be payed by him 
by his bonde without suite in lawe and the iSf tie poundes prom- 
ised to be payed as af oreseid towards his sister Constance por- 
con & preferm^ that then my seid gifte unto him of all or anie 
the foreseid percells of howshold stuffe goods & cattails to be 
voide & my executrix to have them for the better performance 
of this my last will and testam*^ anie thing herein conteined to 
the contrarie notwithstandinge. And likewise my will is that 
yf my sonne do not clearlye acquit discharge & save harm- 
lesse my executrix of & from all maner of bondes billes & obli- 
gacons wherein & wherby I do stande bounde ioyntlie & sev- 
erallie with my seide sonne to divers persons in divers sommes 
of money as by the seid bills and obligacons doth apeare, & for 
the payml^ whereof by him & acquitinge of me I have his severall 



^ 



The Family in England 59 

bonds and obligations under his owne hand & seale before divers 
wittnesses, that then my seid gift unto him of all or anie the 
seid pcells of howshold stuffe goods or cattails or anie thinge 
els wherebye he ys to have anie beneiSt by or from me be ut- 
terlye voide. And as conceminge the rest of my children vz my 
dau^ter Elizabeth & my daughter Ursula my will ys that my 
executrix do give to eitii'* of them some pcell of linnen hows- 
hold stuffe or money as witness of my remembrance of them, as 
she shall think best And . . • everie one of their children 
& my sonnes children. The residue of all my goodes & cattails 
not here given & bequeathed in maner & forme aforeseid my 
debts & legaces payed I give & bequeth unto Ursula my wief to 
her owne use & beneiSt whom I do ordaine constitute & make my 
sole executrix of this my last Will & testamf^. Also I do re- 
quest my welbeloved cosins & approved good f reinds M'. Rigi- 
nold Browne esquier my loving broth' in law M'*. Michaell 
CoUes, my cosen Humf rey CoUes his sonne & my beloved Sonne 
in law M'. William Sheldon to overseers of this my last Will & 
testam^ & to be freindlie meanes to see the same quietlie and 
faitiifullie executed & performed accordinge to my true intent 
& meaninge the judgm^ & discussinge whereof I whoUie refere 
to their wisdomes. And unto everie of them for a kinde remem- 
brance I give x^ in gold or severall ringes of gold to that 
valewe In witnesse herof I have to this my last Will & testam*^ 
writtin with my owne hande subscribed my name to both the 
leaves therof the same filed together have sealed with my seale 
ringe the day & yeare first above written Signed sealed & 
dd the xv^ daye of Septemb' 1611 in the presence of 
Thomas Brockhurst 
Richard Blunte 
John Miles 
Henrie Newey 
W°^ three last menconed 
have put to their marke 

A Schedule or codicile made xxjx of August 1611 the 
same to be annexed unto my last will & testam^ as per- 
cell therof 
I give & bequeth will & dispose unto William Hawes my 
sonnes sonne fyve poundes in money 



60 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

It unto Jane Hawes my sonnes daughter the best of my 
yearlinge cow calves. 

It unto Constannce Hawes my daughter my threeyeare old 
heifure w^^ calves this present moneth of August. 

Itme my last will & testam^ ys now that whereas my wief & 
my Sonne are to paye unto my daughter Constance three hun- 
dred poundes that the first pay thereof do beginne within one 
half yeare next after my deatii And then my sonne to paye 
one hundred marks & my wief xxxiij^ vj* viij* yf my seid 
daughter be then living. And likewise by them so much that 
day twelve moneth next foUowinge yf she be then living. And 
likewise by them so much that day two yeares yf she be then 
livinge. And that my daughter Constance yf her broth' do 
well & orderlie paye the seid sommes by him to be payde shall 
not take anie advantage of the forfeiture of his bond men- 
cioned in my Will but the sonne uppon true paym^ of the seid 
somes of money he ys to paye my seid daughter shall have his 
seid bonds. 

Proved by the sole Executrix on the 14*^ January 1611/12. 
Amount of Inventory of personal property, £878 11 10. 

COPY OF WILL OF URSULA HAWES AT LICHFIELD 

PROBATE REGISTRY 

In the name of God Amen the Five and twentiethe day of 
Marche in the yeare of o^ Lord God one thousand sixe hundreth 
and fourteene I Ursula Hawes of Solyhull in the Countie of 
Warwicke Widdowe Late wife of William deceased consideringe 
the certaintie of death & the uncertayntye when it shall please 
god to call me doe therefore in good remembrance & pfecte 
health to thende that noe controversie may be amonge my chil- 
dren declare this to be my last Will & Testament in manner & 
forme hearafter followinge. First I comende my Soule to al- 
mightie god who gave me & to Jesus Christ my redeemer trust- 
inge to be Saved onelie by his death and passion and not by any 
other meanes and my bodie to the earth to be buried near the 
bodie of my sayd late husbande at the oversight and discretion 
of my executrix and overseers of this my last will. And touch- 
inge my worldlie goods my minde is that they be bestowed to 
these purposes hereafter menconed. Itm I give to the poore 



The Fauxly in England 61 

of Solihull Fortie Shillings. Item I give and bequeathe to my 
daughter Jane my sonne Edmunds daughter a bedstead a 
Featherbedde a boulster a flochbed two pillowes three blanketts 
a payre of Flaxen Sheets a payre of hempen sheets two payre 
of pillowbeares one of them flaxen two table cloathes one of 
them flaxen two cupberd clothes two dozen of napkinnes one of 
them flaxen two towells one of them flaxen. Item my will is 
that my sonne Edmunde Hawes shall deliver to the sayd Jane 
his daughter a cow with her encreafe w^h her grandfather gave 
her & I doe akoe give her my Second coverlett. Itm I give & 
bequeath to my daughter my sonne Edmunds wife my damaske 
gowne and the two flaundere Candlesticke that Stand in the hall. 
Itm I give to my daughter Sheldon my weddinge Ringe. Item 
I give to my Daughter Hunte a little silver Spoone. Item I 
give & bequeath to my sonne William Hawes my sonne Ed- 
munds Sonne five Pounds & his grandfathers sealing Ringe 
prajring his father to see it delivered wHn on yeare after my 
decease. Item I give to all the rest of my sonne Edmonds Chil- 
dren tenn shillinge a pcese (excepting the sayd William & Jane 
Hawes. Item I give to my sonne Edmunds daughter Ursula 
Hawes twentie shillings & a payr of sheetes. Item I give to 
Jane Huggeford my goddaughter twentie shillings & a payre of 
sheetes. Item I give unto M^*. Noells Daughter my goddaugh- 
ter twentie shillings. Itm I give & bequeath unto my brother 
M'. Michaell CoUes three silver spoones. Item I give & be- 
queath to my sister Colles my brother Michaells wife my silver 
sunne. Itm I give and bequeath to my Cosen M'*. Humphrye 
Colles twentie shillings. Itm I give & bequeath to my sonne 
Edmunde Hawes all my Englishe bookes waynes harrowes 
plowes ladders & chaynes with all things thereunto apptayninge 
and all the rest of my Iron stuffe without the Dores. And also 
a truckle bedstead. And the residue of all my goods & chat- 
telles & housholde stufi^e (my Debtes Legacies & funerall charges 
payd & discharged) I give & bequeath to Constance Hawes my 
daughter whome I doe constitute & appoynte to be my Exec- 
utrixe of this my last WiU & testament. And I doe appoynte 
my Sonne Sheldon & my sonne Edmunde Hawes to be my over- 
seers of this my last Will & Testamente to see it be pformed. 
And I give to my sonne Sheldon a silver goblett for his pajmes. 
& I give to my sonne Edmonde Hawes a silver goblett for his 



0S Ancestou avb Descekdakts of Edmokd Hawes 

paynes. In wittneu irtiereof I have hereonto put my hande & 
seale the day & yeare first above written* 

Ursula Hawes, her marke 
VH 

Signed sealed puUished & declared to be her last Will in the 
p'sence of — ^Humphrey CoUes — ^Thomas Aylesburye. 

Memorand™ that the seconde day of Octob'* Ann^ Dni 1616 
the within named Ursula Hawes did raze out of the within 
written WiU these things or words foUowinge yid my bedstead 
w% I now Lye in my cubborde in the hall k a little square 
boarde & my cubborde in the parlour k my chayre k two stooles 
in the parlour w^h she sayd she would give to her daught^ Con- 
stance the rest of the Legacies within contajmed she did the 
same day confirme. In the p^'sence of me Jo : Heelinge. 

Proved the 8*"* day of November 1616 by the Executrix 
Constance Hawes. 

HAWESES IN SOLIHULL PARISH REGISTER 

Solihull (Warwickshire) Parish Register, vol. 68 of the Par- 
ish Register Society. 



BAPTISMS 



19 Apr. 11 155S Thomas Hawe 

14 Aug. 90 1558 Thomas Hawe 

15 June 96 1550 Jane Hawe 

15 Feb. 96 1550 Georce Hawse 

16 Apr. 7 1560 Blfeabeth Hawse 

16 Jan. 19 1560 Frances Hawe 

17 Oct 19 1561 John Hawe 

17 May SO 1569 William Hawe 

19 Mar. 93 1567 John Hawe 

90 Apr. 95 1568 Katherine Hawe 

91 June 97 1569 Yewen Hawe 
91 Sept. 94 1570 Anne Hawe 
91 Oct 17 1570 Ellen Hawe 
99 Apr. 13 1571 Mary Hawe 

93 Dec. 90 1573 Edward Hawe 

94 Mar. 4 1574 Jmie Hawe 

95 No7. 5 1576 Margerie Hawe 
95 Dec 93 1576 Robert Hawe 
97 Jan. 7 1578 Wenefrite Hawe 
S3 Last day of July 1586 Alice Hawes 

SS Nov. 9 1586 Thomas Hawes 



The Family in England 6S 

Baftumi — Continued 



34 


Dec 


9 1588 


37 


Nov. 


SO 1599 


37 


Feb. 


8 1593 


38 


Aug. 


9 1595 


39 


Feb. 


90 1596 


40 


Dec 


97 1598 


43 


Oct 


5 1600 


43 


Jan. 


91 1600 


44 


Jan. 


19 1601 


46 


Jan. 


19 1609 


46 


Feb. 


99 1609 


40 


Dec 


30 1604 



PAOS nixs 

Humphry Hawe 

Marie Hawe 

Edmund Bawes [sic] 

Arthur Hawe 

John & Ellen Hawe 

WiUiam Hawe 

Mrs. Jane Hawe, dau. of Mr. Edmund Hawe, 

gent, of HillfeUd 
Richard Hawe, Widneiende 
Mrs. Ursula Hawes, dau. of Mr. Edmund 

Hawes, HillfeUd 
Mrs. Lude Hawe, HillfeUd 
John Hawe, Widneyende 
Mr. William, son of Mr. Edmond Hawe, HU- 

feeld 
50 Apr. 13 1605 Thomas Hawe, Widneiende, son of John 

Hawe 
53 Oct. 96 1606 Mrs. Ursula, dau. of Mr. Edmund Hawes, 

HUfeUd 
55 Oct 95 1607 Mrs. Marie, dau. of Mr. Edmond Hawes, of 

SheUie 
Sara, dau. of Thomas Hawe, of Shirlie Street 
Mrs. Ann, dau. of Mr. Edmond Hawes, 

SheUie 
George, son of John Hawe, Widneiende 
Mr. John, son of Mr. Edmond Hawes, SheUie 
ktober, Mr. Edmonde, sonne of Mr. Edmonde 

Hawes, de HUlfeeldes" (1619) 
Elicabetl^ dau. of Edmond Hawes, sent. 
Mrs. Ruth, dau of Mr. Edmund Hawes, 

HUlfeUd 
Agnes, dau. of John Hawe 
Thomas, son of John Hawe 
John, son of John Hawes 
Elizabeth, dau. of John Hawe 
Sarah, dau. of John Hawe 
WiUiam, son of John Hawe, of SherUe 
George, son of John Hawe 
John, son of John Hawe 
Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Haw 
WiUiam, son of Thomas Hawe 
Mary, dau. of Thomas Hawe 
Jcrfm, son of Thomas Hawe 



MARRIAGES 

WiUiam SmaUwood and Katherine Hawe 
John Savage and Anne Hawse 
Humphrey Botte and Anne Hawe 
John Hawe and EUen CottereU 
Edward Hawe & Elizabeth RasteU 
Wm. Shawe and Joane Hawe 
Richard Westcote and Margarette Hawe 
Richard Hewes [sic] and Marie Marsson 
136 Nov. 30 1587 Humphrey Pinninge and Joane Hawes 



57 


Oct 98 1608 


59 


Sept 5 1609 


61 


Nov. 16 1610 


69 


Apr. 93 1611 
*'The fifteenthe dale of 


66 


79 


Aug. 18 1616 


73 


June 18 (or 98) 1618 


87 


Dec. 16 1699 


89 


Mar. 90 1630 


91 


Sept 30 1639 


94 


Oct 5 1634 


96 


Sept 95 1636 


98 


June 10 1638 


100 


Mar. 15 1639 


116 


Dec 99 1657 


117 


June 99 1659 


119 


Apr. 93 1661 


190 


Nov. 30 1669 


199 


Oct 99 1665 



196 


Nov. 


93 1539 


197 


Nov. 


15 1544 


198 


Feb. 


10 1548 


199 


Nov. 


94 1551 


130 


May 


17 1557 


139 


Apr. 


94 1570 


133 


Nov. 


97 1579 


136 


Jan. 


31 1584 



64 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edhond Hawss 



yUaKUME»—0imHmM4d 



PAOI 


DATE 


187 


Oct 


16 1588 


138 


Nov. 


8 1585 


145 


Nov. 


9 1694 


146 


Nov. 


99 1698 


146 


Feb. 


9 1699 


147 


Feb. 


91 1639 


150 


Nov. 


6 1649 


158 


June 


9 1658 



Mr. WflUam Sheldon and Mrs. BUssbetli 

Hawes 
Mr. Raphaell Hunte and Mrs. Ursula Hawes 
Arthur Hawe and Alice Welles 
Thomas Blun and Anne Hawe 
John Hawe and Elisabeth Tandie 
George Lynes and Elisabeth Hawe 
Wm. Hawes and Ann London 
Thomas Haw and Mary Broddiivst 



156 Sept97 
156 Oct 1 
164 Mar. 9 
164 Mar. 15 
164 Apr. 3 
166 Aug. 91 
166 ''The six 



580 
540 
556 
556 
557 
558 



167 Dec 16 

168 July 11 
168 Oct 10 
170 Mar. 9 

170 Dec 99 

171 Oct 15 
179 Aug. 99 
173 Jan. 13 

173 June 11 

174 "The xijth 

174 Feb. 90 

175 May 

176 Oct. 
178 Jan. 
181 Mar. 
184 Jan. 
184 Feb. 
188 Nov. 18 

188 Mar. 11 

189 Apr. 16 
189 Aug. 13 
193 Apr. 91 
197 Aug. 
900 Dec 



19 

1 

99 

1 
99 

97 



8 
96 



BURIALS 

Robarte Hawe 
Jane Hawe 
John Hawe 
Joane Sawe [sic] 
Ellen Hawe 
John Hawe 



and twentitlie of Auguste, Thorns Hawe, gent^ (1^^) 

558 Agnes Hawe 

559 Jane Hawe 
.559 Mrs. Jone Hawe 

566 Alice Hawe 
1565 Wm. Hawan 

567 Joane Hawe 
569 Margerie Hawe 
571 Richard Hawe 
579 Mary Haw 

dale of June, Thomas Hawe, gents" (June 19, 1574) 



909 ''The 



906 July 

907 Oct 
909 Oct 
909 June 99 
919 Apr. 30 1696 
919 Jan. 6 1696 
919 Jan. 3 



Edward Hawe 

Elisabeth Hawe 

Robert Hawe 

Edward Hawe 

John Hawe 

Richard Hawes, infant 

John & Ellen Hawe, infants 

Christian Hawe, pauper 

John Hawe, Sldriie 

Mrs. Ursula Hawes, Hilfdld 

Anne Hawe, pauper 

Thomas Hawe, infantulus 

Margerie Hawe, widow, ^hirlie 

Edward Turner, servant of Thome Hawe, 
Shirlie 
:jth dale of October, Mr. WiUiam Hawes, gent, dcvJHill 

Fieldes" (Oct 31, 1611) 
1614 Wm. Hawe, Burgagv>« pauper 

96 1615 Mrs. Ursula Hawes, SOidlie ^ 

19 1616 Maria Hawe , 

1617 Sara, dau. of Thome Haw 

Arthur Hawe 

Thomas Hawe 
1696 Richard Hewes [sic] 



574 
576 
577 
589 
589 
596 
596 
600 
600 
609 
609 
605 
608 
610 



i 

i 



991 Aug. 13 1698 
oaThe borough, or town. 



Mary Haw 



/ 



The Family in England 66 



BumiALi— ■Co» < i mi# d 

WAOB BAR VAMS 

997 June 6 10S5 Anne Hawe, wicL 

981 Jan. 1 1640 Oeorffe, son of John Haws 

999 Aug. 10 1659 BlissBeth, daughter of Thomas Hawe 

940 July 99 1660 Sara, dan. of John Hawe 

940 July 98 1661 Wm^ son of Thomas Hawe 

941 Feb. 96 1669 John Hawe, the elder 
941 Mar. 1 1669 John Hawe, the joonger 



V 
N 



GRESWOLD 

The Greswolds were an old family of Warwickshire, origin- 
ating apparently in Kenilworth, and afterward extending into 
Solihull and Rowington, the Solihull branch being the richest 
and most distinguished.^ The pedigree is as follows :^ 

1 John Greswold, of Kenilworth, who married a daughter 
of William Hugf ord of Ulverley Hall, Solihull. His son was 

5 Ralph Greswold, who married Margaret Dadly. His 
son was 

8 RiCHABD Greswold, of Solihull, who married the daugh- 
ter and heiress of William Grome, of KimenhalL He died be- 
fore 141S. Sons : 

4 William Greswold, of Solihull. 

Thomas Greswold, of Solihull, who married Christiana*^ ^ 

and was mentioned as one of the persons of quality in the county 
in 1483-4,** where he was justice of the peace, 1442-1468. 
From 1487 to 1448 he had custody of the manors of Solihull 
and Sheldon for the King, and in 1460 of the forfeited estate 
of Robert de Arden. In 1487-8 he gave to the chantry £3 
yearly for the priest to say Ynass daily for the King and for 
himself and for their souls after death and the souls of his 
parents.* 

4 William Greswold, of Solihull, married Isabel, daughter 
and heiress of John Grange. His son was 

6 John Greswold, of Solihull, married Margaret^ 
daughter and heiress of Henry Bromley, of Longdon Hall. 

Her mother was Alice, daughter and heiress of Hawes and 

one of her ancestors married the daughter and heiress of Wil- 

aForgotten Shrines, by Dom Bede Camm (1910), 380. It was a later 
branch of the family that spelled the name with a flnid e. 

bid HarL Soc. Pubs. 60, 61; Pemberton, 49; Chancery Proceedings 
quoted. 

02 Dugdale, 951. 

tiPemberton, 54. 

eld., 13, 83. Hannett (197) gives an account of the Greswolds in some 
respects different. 

rPemberton, 49; 19 HarL Soc. Pubs., 60, 61. 

66 



The Family in England 67 

liam Hawes. In June, 1456, styled John Greswold, Esq., he 
is witness to a deed in Solihull.^ Not. 25, 1481, described as 
John Greswold, of Solihull, the elder, Esq., he conveyed a croft 
in that parish to Robert Greswold of the same place.^ In 1493 
the entry of John Greswold and Margeria, his wife, and for 
the soul of Margeria, is made in the list of members in the 
Guild of Knowle.^ These may be the John and Margaret we 
are writing about here. He had the following children and 
perhaps others: 

John Greswold, of Longdon Hall, who married Elizabeth 

and died June 20, 1515. An inquisition post mortem on 

his estate was held at Warwick Feb. 26, 1516-1517. He left 
Richard^ Greswold, his son and heir, aged SO years; two un- 
married daughters, Anne and Margaret, and five other sons, 
Thomas, John, Edwin, Roger and Robert at the date of his will 
Dec. 9, 1511. He had large holdings of land in Solihull and 
vicinity. He is styled esquire in the inquisition.* 

Cheistian, married John West. 

6 Ann, married Thomas Hawes in 1465.^ 

The arms of the Greswolds were: Argent, a fess gules be- 
tween two greyhounds courant sable.** In Yardley, Worces- 
tershire, later generations were living. In the church of that 
Parish the Greswold arms quarter Groome, Grange, Hawes, 
and others.** Edward and Mathew Griswold, of Kenilworth, 
brothers, came to Connecticut in 1689 and left issue.^ 

In two suits by John Greswold, of Solihull, esquire, against 
William West, ascribed to the period between 1475 and 1485, 
it appears that Thomas Greswold, late of Solihull, was the 
brother of William Greswold, who was father of John Gres- 
wold and grandfather of the plaintifi^; that said Thomas con- 

t^Hamper on Dugdale. 

h9 An. Deeds, 397. 

<Reg. of Guild of Knowle, 108. 

/He was buried in Solihull Church in 1537, where he had an inscription 
(Dugdale; Pemberton, 170.) 

ii^Inquisitions post Mortem, Chancery, 9 Henry VIII, Ser. 2, vol. 39, No. 
66, in Public B^cord Office, London. 
ISee Hannett, 199, 900; Belchier, supra, p. 43^. 
mg CoL Top. & Gen., 304; 19 HarL Soc. Pubs., 60. 
ftl Grazebrooke, 938 & 939. 
oNotes and Queries, 6th series, VoL 19, p. 397; 9 Savage, 316, 317. 



68 Ancestors and Descendantjs of Edhond Hawes 

veyed in trust to John Greswold, the younger, and John West 
and to others whom they survived, all his lands and tenements 
in Solihull, Moseley and Yardley, and made his will that they 
should hold a tenement in Solihull called Lancers Lands (a part 
of which formed a tenement called the Crown) and all his 
other lands and tenements in Solihull ^^ying within a mile about 
a ten*^, late William Hawes," to the use of said Thomas Gres- 
wold and his wife during their lives, with remainder to John 
Greswold, son of William Greswold and father of the plaintiff, 
for his life and after his decease to his eldest son and heirs of 
his body and in default of such issue to his next son and his 
issue and so on till the said lands and tenements were vested in 
the plaintiff, younger son of John son of William Greswold; 
that the said John West contended contrary to the wiU that all 
the lands and tenements in Yardley and Moseley and the tene- 
ment called the Crown fell to his wife Christian, daughter of 
John Greswold, son of William; and that, John West having 
died, she in her widowhood had enfeoffed William West, her 
son, whereby the plaintiff was likely to be disinherited.^ Li the 
suit of John Plummer and Margaret, his wife, against John 
Greswold and Thomas Greswold, ascribed to the period between 
1480 and 1483, it appears that the defendants held or had held 
lands in Yardley and Solihull of Johanna Hoore.^ Li the suit 
of Dame Anne Arundell against John Greswold, Esquire, 
ascribed to the period between 1504 and 1616, it is alleged 
that Thomas Greswold at one time held a third of the manor of 
Solihull, but that it was then in the possession of the plaintiff, 
and demand was made that the defendant, son of John Gres- 
wold, executor and next heir of said Thomas Greswold, should 
give up the deeds/ 

pEarly Chancery Proceedings, vol. II, Bundle 57, No. 96, and Bundle 
58, No. 175. 

aEarly Chancery Proceedings, vol. II, Bundle 61, No. 78. 

rEarly Chancery Proceedings, voL IV, Bundle 976, No. 1. 



V 



BROME 

THE SEAT 

The seat of Nicholas Brome and his father John was Bad- 
desley Clinton,* a parish of Warwickshire about 7 m. N. W- 
of the town of Warwick and about 6 m. S. E. of Solihull. The 
parish embraces 1366 acres, and its population was 180 in 
1801, 168 in 1861, 146 in 1901, and 140 in 1911.* About 
1780 the parish had 18 houses, of which four kept teams. Its 
population would have been about 66.* There is now in Bad- 
desley Clinton a Roman Catholic chapel, school and convent 
of Poor Clares (Colettines).^ Baddesley Clinton was origin- 
ally included in Henley-in-Arden. It received its surname 
from Sir Thomas de Clinton of Coleshill, Co. Warwick, who 
obtained the manor by marriage in the middle of the 18th Cen- 
tury.^ In 1484 Nicholas Metley became possessed of it, who, 
dying in 1487, made Margaret Metley, his mother, Johanna, 
his wife, and Robert Catesby, his executors, and directed them 
to sell the manor of Baddesley Clinton and other property 
and employ the proceeds in masses for his soul and the souls 
of his ancestors. Soon thereafter Catesby purchased the 
manor of his co-executors.' The legality of this purchase 
seems to have been questioned. At any rate, the ownership 
of the manor was in controversy for many years. Dugdale 
(v. 2, p. 970) says that Catesby enjoyed his purchase "accord- 
ingly till after the battail of Northampton^ (which was about 
XX years) but then did John Hugford of Emscote, in right 
of Margaret his wife, daughter and heir to the before speci- 

«Thi8 must be disttnguished from Baddesley Elisor in the same county. 

t9 Vic. Hist, of Warsh., 186; English Censiis of 1911. 

u9 Dugdale, 974. 

vNorris, 89. Poor Clares are nuns of the sisterhood instituted at Assist 
about 1313 by St. Clare. Tliey have the Franciscan rule and habit. 
(Murray's New Eng. Diet.) Colettines are Poor Clares reformed by St. 
CoUette (1381-1447). See the Catholic Encyclopaedia, p. 99, voL 4. 

irNorris, 3; 2 Dugdale, 970. 

^Norris, 16-19; 3 Dugdale, 970. 

yl460. 

69 



70 Ancestou and Descendants of Edhond Hawes 

fied Nicholas Metley, enter upon it, and by the countenance 
of Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick, whose Steward he was, 
kept possession thereof during the whole life of the said 
Robert :* Howbeit, before the death of the same John Hug- 
ford,** Nich. Catesby, son and heir of Robert, made his entry 
upon it again, and from that time enjoyed it during the whole 
life of Hugford, and eleven years after, that the daughters and 
heirs of the said John . . . disseised him: whereupon the 
before mentioned Nich. Catesby, discerning the title to be so 
disputable, past it away unto John Brome,^ a lawyer ; by which 
means it came to the family of Ferrers."* Baddesley Clinton 
Hall is one of the most celebrated specimens remaining of the 
defensive architecture (with moat and drawbridge) of the 16th 
century. In most, if not all, other cases, where the structure 
remains, the moat has been fiUed up and obliterated. Timmins^ 
remarks (p. 77) : "The military architectural remains in 
Warwickshire are more numerous and remarkable as to anti- 
quity and interest than is generally supposed. Not only cas- 
tles of great size and importance, but fortified houses are 
numerous, and deserve some record." He divides (p. 78) cas- 
tles into four classes, including: "(4) Castellated mansions, 
in which more peaceful times allowed the residence to predom- 
inate over the fortress, and yet to be ready for defence in case 
of need." Again he says (p. 86) : "Fortified manor houses 
became, in more peaceful times, houses for residence, in which 
the moat was the principal feature which remained of the old 
troublous times. The buildings became more decorative in 
style, and more like modem mansions." "Baddesley Clinton 

has almost an equal interest with Compton 

Wynyates as an ^old moated grange.' It lies near Knowle and 
Kingswood, in a large secluded and thickly timbered park, and 
has, happily, had no great alterations, internal or external, 
for several centuries. It is an old stone house, surrounded by 
a moat, over which a bridge has replaced an ancient drawbridge, 
and leads to a fine embattled gateway and a small but charming 
court, with beds of flowers, old half timber gables, and one side 

«He died in 1467 (mfra, p. 100). 

oHe died in 1485-6 (I Dugdale, 980). 

We was then dead. It must have been his son Nicholas Brome. 

cScc also Norris, 19, 30, 26, 97. 

^iHlstory of Warwickshire, by Samuel Timmins (1880). 



The Family in England 71 

of the quadrangle open to the moat. The interior of the hall 
has a delightful old-world look. Panelled walls and ceilings, 
old furniture, quaint old glass and china, tapestry hangings, 
old oak stairs, low long galleries, pleasant peeps through pretty 
windows, heraldic arms emblazoned in colours on the glass, or 
painted on the panels, all conspire to revive the life and sur- 
roundings of centuries ago. The general structure is of the 
latter half of the fifteenth century, and some of the gables, 
seen only from the inner court on one side of the moat, are 
of later date, perhaps the middle of the sixteenth century, 
while the latest portions* of the rooms, as to the furniture, 
is* probably two centuries old. In the reign of Henry IV 
(1399-1412) the manor was bought by John Brome (and the 
house is possibly as old as that date), and afterwards, in 1517, 
passed by marriage to the Ferrars (or Ferrers) family, with 
whom it remains. The hall is a most interesting relic of the 
old moated house period as to its external appearance, and as 
it has been held so long by one family, and had so few inter- 
nal changes as to structure or furniture, it is famous as one 
of the sights of Warwickshire by all who have the good for- 
tune to enter its fortalice gate."^ "Among the fortified manor 
houses which followed the military castles in more (or less) 
peaceful times, Warwickshire has several examples of excep- 
tional interest. Baddesley Clinton, near Knowle, is the finest 
example, but is comparatively unknown, as it lies in a remote 
park distant from road or rail. It is charmingly picturesque, 
for it has a fine ancient moat surrounding its gray walls, and 
quaint gables and chimneys, and its pretty garden parterres 
surrounded on three sides by the rooms of the house, most of 
which belongs to the end of the fifteenth century, with some ad- 
ditions of later date, which, however, are so venerable and har- 
monious with the older parts that it is really an old-world, even 
to the rooms and furniture. Early in the fifteenth century 
it was the property of the Bromes, but soon afterwards it 
passed to the Ferrers family, with whom it now remains — an 
unbroken line of thirteen generations. It is beyond all doubt 
one of the two most interesting old houses in the county, per- 
fect as a mere picture of old life and times, picturesque to an 

eSic. 
/Timmins, 88. 



72 Anc£8toe8 and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

unsurpassed degree, and historically memorable as the home of 
one of the early antiquaries of Warwickshire — ^Henry Ferrers, 
of Baddesley, the friend and fellow-worker of Sir William Dug- 
dale and of Sir Symon Archer, to whom, as has been noted in 
an earlier chapter, the lovers of Warwickshire are eternally in- 
debted for materials of history .''^ Dom Bede Camm gives an 
illustration of Baddesley Clinton hall. He claims, as does 
Norris, that the hall has always been in the possession of Ro- 
man Catholics.^ It has a private chapel. The parish church 
(Protestant) is a small and ancient structure. An article on 
Church Chests of the 12th and 18th Centuries in volume 14 
of the Archaeological Journal, 2d Series, p. 295, speaking of 
Baddesley Clinton, says : ''There is a chest here made of mas- 
sive oak slabs, bound together with iron straps having foliated 
ends, whole of thirteenth century character." The manor of 
Baddesley Clinton, beginning with Sir Edward Ferrers, was 
held in the male line through IS generations of that name, the 
last being Marmion Edward Ferrers, bom in 1818, who died 
in 1884. In 1867 he had married Rebecca Dulcibella, daughter 
of Abraham Orpen, Esq.* "In 1869 Mr. and Mrs. Ferrers 
came to reside in the old house at Baddesley Clinton, but the 
estate *had suffered so much for the faith, partly in fines and 
confiscations, partly in the fact that many properties were left 
away from its owners, out of the right line, because of religion,' 
that it became impossible for them to retain it. In those days 
of anxiety Edward Heneage Dering^ came happily to the res- 
cue, and by reason of the regard and affection he had for 
Marmion Ferrers, and for the sake of a beautiful old place and 
the welfare of the Catholic faith he joyfully sacrificed a nota- 
ble portion of his income to redeem it, and thus rendered the 
estate free from all embarrassment. And throughout his life 
he continued to restore and perfect it, and ultimately he re- 
entailed it on the nephew and heir of his beloved friend £nHJL 
associate.'''^ His wife having died, Mr. Dering in 1885 married ^ J 

aid., 936. "imm^ 

J^Forgotten Shrines (1910), 319, 331. The writer visited the HaU and 
Church in August, 1911. 

iNorris, 1S9. 

iHis wife's first husband was the uncle of Mrs. Ferrers. (Norris, 94.) 

A^Norris, 94. 



The Family in England 



78 



Mrs. Ferrers and died in 1892/ His widow still occupies the 
Hall. The heir to the estate is Henry Ferrers Ferrers,** of 
Oswestry, Shropshire, whose mother was Constance Charlotte, 
sister of Marmion £. Ferrers.** 



\ 



THE FAMILY 

The Brome*^ family, of Baddesley Clinton, were from War- 
wick and originally probably from Lapworth. In 1450 John 
Brome (father of Nicholas) stated that John Brome, his father, 
and all his ancestors ^'of tyme that no mynde remembereth'' 
had been peaceably possessed among other things in Warwick 
of a place called Bromesplace.'' The family first appears under 
the designation of de Brome. Hudson, in his book^ on Lap- 
worth (p. 274), among names appearing in early deeds, gives 
Roger de Brome between 1272 and 1307, Faulinus de Brome 
between 1346 and 1360, John de Brome** between 1361 and 
1370, and John Brome** between 1388 and 1408. The same 
author, in his Calendar* of Lapworth Deeds (pp. 6, 6a, and 7), 
states that Roger de Brome was witness to a deed about 1280, 
and that this is the first mention of the family that left its 
name to Brome Hall. In 1366-7 John Brome and three others 
received from Philip de Aylesbury and Agnes, his wife, a grant 
of all their lands in Lapworth, Solihull and elsewhere in War- 
wickshire, no doubt in trust.* The Brome Arms were in the 

ild., 95, 97. 

mName changed from Croxon. (Norrls, 89, 140.) 

fiHistoiy of Warwick & Leamington (1815), 367-370; Smith's ^^His- 
tory of the County of Warwick" (1830), 374 & 375; Hannett's "Forest 
of Arden" (1863), 14, 140-157; Niven's ''Illustrations of old Warwick- 
shire Houses" (1878), 7 & 8; Norris's Baddesley Clinton; Burgess's 
''Historic Warwickshire," (3d Ed. 1893), 64-68; 9 Latham's "In English 
Homes" (3d Ed. 1908), 151-163; Tristram's "Moated Houses" (1910), 
190; and 19 "House and Garden" (New York, 1911), 348 and 349, contain 
descriptions and illustrations of Baddesley Clinton HalL Hannett and 
Norris also describe and illustrate the parish church. 

o4 Burke's Commoners (1838), 605, erroneously no doubt, connects this 
family with the Bromes of Kent, who were sprung from Shropshire and 
are claimed to be of Norman origin. 

pNorris, 30; Warwickshire Antiquarian Magazine, part IV., 179; History 
of Warwickshire and its People, by Thomas Kemp (1905), 15-18, 314. 

^Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish (1904), by Rev. Robert Hudson. 

rProbably the same person. 

<MS in Birmingham Free Library. 

tS An. Deeds, 63. 



74 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Lapworth Church^ and in the windows of the Knowle Chapel.^ 
In Hannett's^ time there was a farmhouse called Brome Hall, 
or Brome's Place, near Lapworth and presumably in that 
parish. ^^That a considerable mansion, surrounded by a moat, 
stood here in ancient times, is indicated by the remains of fish 
ponds of three falls and pleasure groimds around.'' He con- 
siders that this was the seat of the Bromes before John Brome 
acquired Baddesley Clinton, but while John Brome resided there 
about and prior to 1400, he was probably not the ancestor 
(though of the same family) of the Warwick and Baddesley 
Bromes. A window in Lapworth Church was called Brome Hall 
window.* Dugdale,^ under Baddesley Clinton, says: "Of this 
John Brome the Lawyer, who had first to do here, I find, that 
he did descend from a Familie of that name, which for several 
Descents were Tanners, and resided in that suburb of Warwick, 
South of the Bridge; the House still retaining the name of 
Brome's place : and that Robert, his grandfather, was a Law- 
yer, as also Steward of the Courts to Thomas de Beauchamp 
Earl of Warwick, for his lands in this Coimtie: and that John, 
his Father, served in the Parliament of 8 H. 4. [1406-7] as 
one of the Burgesses for the town of Warwick; and Likewise 
that they were owners of Brome Hall, or Brome's Place in Lap- 
worth, whence 'tis believed they originally came. Which John, 
before he so acquired Catesbye's title to this Lordship, had cer- 
tain lands within the precincts thereof, in right of his mother 
(scil. Joane daughter and heir unto Thomas Rodie) and for a 
great part of King Henry the sixt's reign, bore much sway in 
these parts, being under Treasurer in the Exchequer: but in 
your publique Records his name is mistaken, and written 
Brown, as appeareth in the Commission for assessing of a sub- 
sidie in 14 H. 6 [1436-6] and for treating with the people 
about a Loan, of money to the King. From 30 H. 6. [1461] 
till the end of that King's reign I find him in Commission for 
conservation of the Peace in this Countie; and in 38 H. 6. 
[1469-60] one of the Commissioners of Array: howbeit, after 
the beginning of E. 4 [1461] reign, he was set side as to any 

u2 Dugdale, 791. 

vid. 961. 

irForest of Arden, 109. 

»Id. 138-141. 

yV. 2, pp. 970-2. 



Th£ Famely in England 75 

publique employment, and at length had the hard fate to be 
slain by John HerthiU Steward to Rich. Nevill, the great Earl 
of Warwick; who sending for him out of the White Friers 
church in London, where he was then at Mass, upon some words 
which hapned betwixt them, kil*d him in the Porch, the occa- 
sion of their quarrell, being (in short) this. Herthill, having 
mortgaged the Mannour of Woodlow to this John, would have 
redeemed it again for the money borrowed; but Brome, lying 
upon advantage, resolved to keep the land: whereupon, grow- 
ing into height of words in disputing the business, Herthill 
mortally wounded him. Before he departed the world, hav- 
ing time to make his Will, he used this expression, scil. that he 
forgave his son Thomas, who smiled when he saw him run 
through by Herthill in the White Friers Church-Porch. In 
which Church (for there he was buried) he had this epitaph 
upon his tombe-stone. 

*Nobilis & docti sic Regni jure periti, 
Subjicit ut Pulvis Brome corpus ceme Johannis : 
Ingenii natus testis Warwic comitatus, 
Hujus in Ecclesia facta qui Corruit ense ; 
Pravonun manibus sub Missae tempore caesus, 
Sarcophago Nonis sepelitur mensis^ Novembris, 
Sexaginta Centum quarter octo jungito Mille, 
Alme pater requiem sibi pnestat habere perennem.' 



99a 



The following, though the names of the earlier ones are 
spelled differently,^ were with little doubt Bromes who were 
members of Parliament for the Borough of Warwick: William 

^Corrected from Norrls, 33. 

oln English: "Lol Here lies as dust the body of John Brome, a noble 
and learned man, skilled in the law of the Realm, a child of genius, witness 
the County of Warwick, who fell by the sword in this church, slain at 
.the time of the mass by the hands of wicked men. He was buried in 
the tomb November 5, 1468. Kindly father, it is better for him to have 
eternal rest." The Latin is very irregular, especially in the fourth line, 
and difficult to translate, but the above gives the sense correctly. The 
White Friars (or Carmelites) priory or church was founded in 1^1 and 
stood on the southside of Fleet Street east of the Temple in the ward 
of Farringdon Extra (or Without). It was twice rebuilt and was surren- 
dered to the King Nov. 10, 1538. Before 1000 the site was built over. 
It is possible that John Brome had repaired the church and that the word 
**facta" in the fourth line of the epitaph refers to that act (Stow's 
Survey of London, edition by Henry Morley, 364 and 365; Dugdale's 
Monasticon Anglicanum, edited by John Cayley, vol. 6, pt. Ill, 15712.) 

(For the erroneous spelling of the name, see supra, pp. 33, 94. 



76 AKCxrroms akp Desckkdaitts or Edmoitd Hawxs 

(Bron), 18S7-8; Jeffry (Broun), 1M5-6; Robert (Broun), 
1866, 1868, and 1884-5; JfAm (Broun) 1897-8 and 1401-S; 
John (Breme), 1406-7; John Brome, 1415-16, 14C0-1, 14S5-6, 
14S7-8, 1480-81 and 1482-8/ The Brome arms were ^— Sable, 
on a chevron, argent, three broom sprigs, vert.' The Visita- 
tion of Warwickshire^ gi^es the Brome pedigree (which con- 
tains some inaccuracies in the families of Nicholas Brome and 
his father John), commencing with Wh.tjam Brome of War- 
wickshire, idio had a son Denys Brome of Bnunes in Lapworth 
and a son of John of Brome, no doubt in Warwick. This John 
had RoBEBT, who married Pamell, dau^ter and heiress of 
Robert Stereton, and had Wiluam, idio married Havis, dau^- 
ter of William Halwis, and had Robebt of Brome, who married 
Margery, daughter of William Brooke. Robert and Margery 
had RoBBBT of Brome in Warwick, a lawyer, idio married the 
dau^ter and heiress of William Stonley, and is the first of the 
family named by Dugdale. He is first mentioned in the records 
in 1896-7. He had two sons John and William of Ebdton, Ox- 
fordshire. The following is the Dugdale^ Pedigree : 

1 John Bbome of Warwick, married Johanna, daughter 
and heiress of Thomas Rody of Baddesley Clinton, and he thus 
came into possession of lands there formerly held by her grand- 
father William Rody, which he is recorded as holding as early 
as Dec. 6, 1484. In 1406 he was one of the members of Par- 
liament for the Borough of Warwick.' In 1419 John Brome 
of Warwick released to John de Catesby, of Ashby St. Ledgers, 
Northamptonshire, his right in a moiety of Lapworth manor.* 

Children:* 
i John. 

WiixiAM, m. and had Robert.' 

Perhaps others. 



c9 Dugdale, 1146, 1147. 

dNorris, 53; 19 HarL Soc. Pubs. 96. 

el9 HarL Soc Pubs. 97. 

fVol 3, pp. 970-973. 

^Norris, 17, 30, 31; Warwickshire Antiquarian Magadne, part IV., 179. 

M An. Deeds, 36. 

iNorris, 30, 33. 

ys An. Deeds, 73. 



The Family in England 77 

"s, ■ 
i John Beome, a lawyer, married Beatrice Shirley, daugh- 
ter of Sir Ralph Shirley, of Eatington.* In 1489 he became "^ 
possessed of the manor of Baddesley Clinton, and in 1440 a 
claim to the advowson of the church there was released to him.' 
As early as Dec. 6, 14S4, he is recorded as holding lands there, 
and from about 14S7 he was recognized as the lord of the 
manor, but whether he ever resided at Baddesley Clinton Hall, 
or continued to reside at Bromesplace is uncertain.*" This is 
the view of Norris, but as he is styled of Warwick in 1486 
and of Baddesley Clinton in 1454-5 and after, it seems that 
he must have resided in Baddesley for at least SO or 40 years. 
John Brome of Warwick, the younger, held a tenement in 
Henley in Arden in 1426-7, when he granted it to John 
Catesby, Esq.* In 1428 he had some right to a moiety in the 
manor of Lapworth, which he then released to John de 
Catesby.® Jan. 18, 1428-9, he bought the estate of Woodlow 
near Warwick.^ April 27, 14S6, Thomas Cokkes (one of 
the feoffees of John some time Duke of Bedford) demised to 
John Brome of Warwick, the younger, and Ralph, Lord of 
Cromwell, all his lands in Lapworth, etc., formerly belonging 
to John Brome of Lapworth.' There had been a John Brome 
of Lapworth (doubtless a relative of John Brome of War- 
wick), who died before Dec. 10, 1410,** when his daughter and 
heiress, Elizabeth, and her husband, Thomas Audeley, con- 
veyed his lands and tenements to Robert Waturton and others.' 
Faulinus Brome had held land in Lapworth which he had con- 
veyed about 1315.' John Brome of Lapworth and Margaret, 
his wife, granted all their lands there March 24, 9 H. 4 
< 1408-9).** In 15 Henry 6 (1486-7) Ralph Lord of Crom- 
well, Knight, released to John Brome of Warwick, the younger, 
all his right in the lands, rents, etc., in Lapworth, Kingswood, 

^Norris, 92. 

lid. 18, 19, 22. 

mid. 17, 20. 

M4 An. Deeds, 117, 178; 3 id. 81. 

04, Id. 36. 

PNorris, 219; 1 Dugdale, 469. 

«3 An. Deeds, 72; 6 id. 99. 

rHe had granted land there in 1398 and 1399 (3 id. 45, 49.) 

•Id. 77. 

^ id. 2S9. 

«3 id. 49. 



78 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Packwood and elsewhere which had been demised to said Ralph 
and John by Thomas Cokkes by deed dated 27 April, 1436.^ 
In 1487 John Brome, the younger, of Warwick, released cer- 
tain land in Lapworth, etc.^ The mansion at Lapworth be- 
came, or was already, known as Brome Hall.^ Apr. 8, 1448, 
John Brome was witness to a deed by Wm. Catesby, Esq., son 
and heir of John and Margaret Catesby, to Robert Catesby, 
the elder, Esq., and others.^ In 1454-5 Thomas Palmer, Esq., 
delivered to William Catesby, Knight, seven deeds concerning 
certain lands and tenements in Lapworth, called ^^Brome's 
thinge,*' then occupied by John Brome of Baddesley, to be 
kept till the claim to said premises of Catesby and Palmer 
and the latter's wife, Elizabeth, should have been determined.' 
Sept. 29, 1464, John Brome of Baddesley Clinton held land 
in Leicestershire, which he then demised.^ June 2, 1467, Rich- 
ard Waterton, Chaplain, and John Bothe conveyed all their 
lands and tenements in Lapworth, Kingswood and Henley, for- 
merly belonging to John Brome of Lapworth, to John Brome 
alias Broun, of Baddesley, and Beatrice, his wife, for their lives, 
with remainder in tail to Thomas Brome, Nicholas Brome, and 
John Brome, and to Elizabeth, Agnes and Jocosa, the children 
of the grantees, to Robert Brome, son of William Brome, and 
to Richard Hall, and to the King in fee.^ May 6, 1468, John 
Brome conveyed his estates in trust to Thomas Burdet and 
others, who on Nov. 2, 1469, conveyed the manor of Woodlow 
and more than 20 tenements and parcels of land in Warwick 
to his eldest son, Thomas Brome, and his heirs, with remainder 
to his second son, Nicholas Brome.^ John Brome was assas- 
sinated about Nov. 5, 1468.^ An inquisition post mortem was 
held upon the estate of John Brome, of Baddesley Clinton, Sept. 
7, 1486. The report of the jury was that he was seised in 
his demesne as of fee of four messuages with 300 acres of land, 
i^IcL 46. 

«>Id. 46. 
^Norris, 21. 
V4t An. Deeds, 548. 
«Id. 74. 
al id. ISO. 
63 id. 73. 
oNorris, 23, 24. 

did, 22, 23. This event and the offices held by him appear at pp. 8i»pra, 
74, 75. 



The Family in England 79 

and also of 200 acres of pasture, 40 of meadow and 100 of 
wood in Lapworth, called Bromes lands ; that Nicholas Brome 
was his son and heir; that William Catesby, Esq., had dis- 
possessed him of his said lands and was found guilty of trea- 
son; and that the lands were at the time of the inquisition 
in the hands of Nicholas Brome.^ In January, 1478-4, Bea- 
trice Brome, by agreement with her son Nicholas, became pos- 
sessed of a life estate in the manor of Baddesley Clinton, which 
was to revert to him on her death. Feb. 10, 1474-6, after his 
marriage, she conveyed the manor to him for an annual rent 
of £20. How long she had resided there and where she resided 
thereafter are not known.' Beatrice, the widow of John Brome, 
died July 10, 1488, and was buried in the Chancel of Bad- 
desley Clinton Church. Upon a raised monument there was 
the following Latin epitaph, now gone, but preserved by Dug- 
dale (v. 2, p. 974) : "Hie jacet Beatrix Brome, vidua, filia 
Radulfi Shirley, militis, quondam uxor Johannis Brome de 
Badsley-Clinton armigeri; que obiit X^ die mensis Julii anno 
Domini MCCCCLXXXIII, cujus anime propitietur Deus. 
Amen."^ 

Children :* 
Thomas, who obtained the manor of Woodlow and various 
lands in Warwick in 1469, m. Jane (or Joan) Middel- 
more, of Edgbaston, and died before his father's inquisi- 
tion, without issue. The grant was to him and his heirs, 
with remainder to his brother Nicholas. 
S Nicholas. 

John, who became possessed of Packington Parva. He 
died Dec. 29, 1512. He had a wife, Elizabeth, son and 
heir Eustace, son Nicholas and daughters.^ 
Elizabeth.^ 
Agnes.^ 

eChanceiy inquisitions P. M., 2 Henry VII, vol. 33, membrane 48 V. O., 
Pnb. Rec. Office, London. 

/Norris, 25, 26. 

oSee also Norris, 48. This epitaph in English reads thus: '*Here lies 
Beatrice Brome, a widow, daughter of Ralph Shirley, Knight, formerly wife 
of John Brome, Esq., of Baddesley Clinton, who died Jmy 10, 1483. May 
God have mercy on her souL Amen." 

fcNorrls, 33, 34. 

<His inquisition Post Mortem May 9, 1513. (Exch. Inq. 4-5 HV VIII, 
FUe 1130, No. 8). 
fS An. Deeds, 73. 



80 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

JocosA, who became prioress of the Abbey of Wroxall and 
died June 21, 15S8. She was prioress apparently from 
1507) resigned in 1524 and was succeeded by Agnes Lit- 
tle, the choice of whom was confirmed Nov. 20, 1525. 
She wrote a letter as prioress Sept. 28, 1515, and was 
prioress on the Monday before the feast of St. Michael, 
1524, which feast occurred on Sept. 29. Upon her 
resignation provision was made for ^^Jocosa Brome to 
have a chamber within the precinct of the said priory, 
utensils and food for one woman, and one boy, and her 
own table with the prioress, also a yearly pension of £S.'' 
She was buried in the abbey. In the church upon a 
gravestone of marble was this inscription: ^^Domina 
Jocosa Brome filia Johanis Brome et Priorissa de Wrox- 
hall, obiit XXI Junii anno MV^XXVIII."* 

Isabella, who married, 1st, Philip Purefey,^ Esq., of Shir- 
ford,*^ and after his death in 1466, 2d, John Denton, by 
whom she had a daughter, who married Sir Edward Gre- 
ville. Knight. 

3 Nicholas Bbome, Esquire, born about 1450, married 
1st between Sept. 20, 1473 (date of marriage settlement), and 
Nov. 1, 1473 (limit fixed in the settlement for the marriage), 
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Renfred (or Rawfre) Arundell, of 
Egloshayle, Cornwall, and widow of W. Whittington, of Paunt- 
ley, Gloucestershire;** 2d before Jan., 1506-7 ,° Katherine Lam- 
peck; and 3d Lettice, daughter of Nicholas Catesby, of Newn- 

*Records of WroxaU Abbey, XXI-XXIII, LVI, 92, 93, 99; 2 Dugdale, 
649, 650. The inscription in English is: **Madam Jocosa Brome, daughter 
of John Brome and Prioress of Wroxall, died June 31, 1598." 

IHe was buried in the chancel of Baddesley Clinton Church. (Norris» 
49. At p. 24, he erroneously says in 1468.) See also 2 Dugdale, 974. 

mAn old manor in Warwidkshire (Dugdale). 

nNicholas Brome was probably her fourth husband, Edward Stradling her 
first, William Ligon her second and Whittington her third. The settlement 
was between Master John Arundel, clerk, and William Ligon, of one part, 
and Beatrice Brome and Nicholas, her son, of the other. John Arundel 
was the brother of Elizabeth. He became bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 
in 1496 and of Exeter in 1502. William Ligon was probably her son by 
her second husband. (Norris, 25, 26 with note, 51). Hamper also states 
that Elizabeth was a widow Whittington. See also a confused account 
of the Arundell family from a MS of about 1505, in 1 Collectanea Topo- 
graphica et Genealogica, 306, 307 and 409. 

oNorris, 27, 57. 



The Famelt in England 81 

ham, Northamptonshire/ The Visitation of Warwickshire* 
gives Lettice as the 2d wife and presents no Sd. Dugdale, 
however, on the authority of Henry Ferrers, who was 18 years 
old on the death of Ralph Brome, son of Nicholas, and must 
have known and conversed with him, gives the foUowing inscrip- 
tion as in the church in the time of Ferrers : *^nder another 
(stone), near thereto (the door), lyeth Edward Brome, son 
of the said Nicholas, by Katherine Lampeck, his second wife ; 
which Edward married Margery, the daughter to John Beauf o, 
of Emscote, in this coimty. Esquire, and died Anno 15S1, 28 
H. 8.'' Katherine, wife of Nicholas, was living as late as Jan- 
uary, 1506-7, when she was one of the witnesses to his grant 
of the manor of Baddesley Clinton and certain lands in War- 
wick and elsewhere to the use of Sir Edward Ferrers and Con- 
stance, his wife/ Dugdale,' in his article on Baddesley Clinton, 
speaking first of John Brome, says: ^^By Beatrice, his wife, 
daughter to Sir Raphe Shirley, Knight, he left issue divers 
children; of which Nicholas succeeded him, as Lord of this 
Mannour; who from S H. 7 till 9 H. 8' was Justice of the 
Peace in this Shire; as also for divers years a Commissioner 
for the Goal-deliverie at Warwick, and of the Array; and in 
20 H. ff* Sheriff of this County and Leicestershire. This Nich. 
resenting the death of his Father very much, about three years 
after, way-layd the before mentioned John Herthill in Long^ 
bridgfield,^ in his pasage towards Barford to keep the Earl 

pDugdale, vol II» 970-974. 

Ql2 Harl Soc. Pubs., 97. " 

rNorris, 97, 57 n. As appears by the suit of Middlemore against Brome 
(infra, p. 85), Jane Mitton died in the lifetime of Katharine Brome. 
The date of Mrs. Mitton's death is uncertain. In the 1623 Visitation of 
Shropshire (99 HarL Soc Pubs. 360) she is once said to have died in 1465 
and hi another place in 1475. Both these dates are erroneous. PhilUmore 
(The FamUy of Middlemore, 1900, by W. P. W. PhilUmore and W. F. 
Carter) says she probably married Mitton in 1496 and died in 1515 or 1535 
(pp. 99-41). As the suit shows that she died in the lifetime of Nicholas 
Brome, she could not have died after 1516. She may have died as late as 
1515, and so Katherine Brome may have been living then. Phillimore cites 
a ti^le following page 164 of Sampson Erdeswicke's Survey of Stafford- 
shire, written before 1600 and printed in 1844. 

»v. 9, p. 979. 

<1487 till 1517, but should be 8 H. 8 (1516). 

MThis is an error. It should be 90 H. 7, which would be 1504-5, (9 
Dugdale, 1151). 

f^In Warwick (Kemp's Hist of Warwick, 18). 



82 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

of Warwick's Court; and there after a short encounter, slew 
him,*^ whereupon Elizabeth, Herthill's widow, began to stir 
against him, by way of Appeal, for killing her husband: but 
by mediation of friends. Arbitrators were chosen to accord the 
busines, who awarded that she should release imto the same 
Nicholas all Actions personall, and Appeales, and that he the 
said Nich. should pay C". sterling in S. Maries Church at 
Warwick, for the maintenance of a Priest, for one whole year, 
to sing Masse and pray for the souls, of John Brome and John 
Herthill, so slain as hath been expressed, she the said Eliz. 
finding to the Priest, Bread, Wine, and Wax, as oft as he 
should so say Mass: And moreover that the same Nich. 
should at his own proper costs, by the space of two years, find 
a Priest to sing Masse, in the Church of Badsley-Clinton, for 
the souls above said: which Award bears date at Coventre 18® 
Martii 12 E. 4 [1472-8]. Of this Nich. I have further, that 
coming on a time into his Parlour here at Badsley, he found 
the Parish-Priest chocking his wife under the chin, whereat 
he was so enraged that he presently kil'd him; For which of- 
fence, obtaining the King's Pardon, and the Popes, he was 
enjoin'd to do something towards the expiation thereof; where- 
upon he new built the Towre-steeple here at Badsley, from 
the ground, and bought three Bells for it ; and raised the body 
of the Church ten foot higher: all which was exprest in his 
Epitaph, now torn away: And likewise built the Steeple of 
Packwood; in which Church windows was this Inscription, 
Orate pro anima Nicholai Brome qui Campanile de Packwood 

«>In wreaking private vengeance, Nicholas Brome did nothing contrary 
to the habits of the time. During the Anglo-Saxon period and for a 
century or more under the Normans, private vengeance was recognized as 
a legal right, and the injury done by a homicide could be compounded by 
payment of money (wergild). Human life had not the same sacredness 
as in modem England or the eastern United States. From 1337 to 1463 the 
"Hundred Years' War" with France raged and from 1455 to 1485 the "Wars 
of the Roses" followed, ^'marked by a ferocity and brutality which are 
practically unknown in the history of English wars before and since." 
At the close of the "Hundred Years' War" '*many thousands of ruffians, 
whose occupation had gone, had been let loose m England." (Encyclo- 
paedia Britannica, voL ^ p. 735.) Trevelyan (Garibaldi's Defense of the 
Roman Republic, 89) says that about 1630 "the 'killing afFray* was only 
just in process of djdng out." Herthill, who slew John Brome, was stew- 
ard to the powerful Earl of Warwick, known as tiie "Kingmaker," and 
could rely on his protection. It was after the Earl's death in 1471 that 
Nicholas Brome ventured to attack HerthilL 



Th£ Family in England 88 

fieri fecit."* In 1608 he was commissioner for Warwickshire 
for the levying of a tax.^ Jan. 16, 1497-8, he bought Eangs- 
wood, an estate on the border of Baddesley Clinton, partly in 
Lapworth and partly in Rowington parish. It came into the 
possession of his daughter, Isabella Marrow.' John Hugford, 
Esq., whose inquisition post mortem was held Aug. 10, 1486, 
held land in Baddesley Clinton of Nicholas Brome, Esq., by 
knight service.* Nov. 29, 1478, Nicholas Brome, Esq., ap- 
pointed William Foster parson of the church, who resigned.^ 
The bishop, through lapse, appointed Alex. Awen May 23, 1498. 
Nov. 14, 1499, Nicholas Brome appointed William Snelston, 
who was removed and he then apointed Robert Banke Oct. 8, 
1501, who continued for some years, perhaps till 1534, when 
Sir Edward Ferrers appointed Thomas Jackson.^ In the south 
window of the chapel of the Guild of Knowle were the arms 
of Nicholas Brome and the words : Orate pro animabus Nich- 
olai Brome ar: et Elizabethe uxoris eius.^ In Baddesley Clin- 
ton ^^Under a large marble lying within the Church dore, at the 
very entrance, whereupon hath been a faire portraiture in 
brasse, of a man in armour, lyeth buried Nicholai Brome some- 
time lord of this Mannour. And under the next stone, lyeth 
Elizabeth^ one of his daughters, wife to Thomai Hawe of Soli- 
hull.'*^ In the lower part of the east window of the Chancel' 
"is the picture of the same Sir Edward [Ferrers], and the 
Lady Constance his wife, with Nicholas Brome Esquire her 
Father, all kneeling in their surcoats of Armes, before a Cru- 
cifix; the scroul from the lips of the said Sir Edward, having 
this written therein, scil. Amor mens Crucifixus est."^ In the 
same window towards the bottom is this inscription of later 

«Pray for the soul oi Nicholas Brome, who caused the bell-tower of 
Padcwood to be built. 

If6 Rolls of Parliament, 541. 

t^ Dugdale, 793; Norris, 98, 30. Dugdale says it went to Ferrers. 

«Cal. of Inqs., H. 7, v. 1, p. 54. 

n Dugdale, 973. 

eld. and Norris, 57. The lapse was doubtless owing to Nicholas Brome's 
being out of relations with the Church for killing the priest until he had 
received the Pope's pardon about 1496 (Norris, 46). 

d^ Dugdale, 959, 961. In English the words are: Pray for the souls of 
Nicholas Brome, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife. 

eld. 974; Norris, 49. 

/S Dugdale, 973; Norris, 51. 

ifMy loye was crucified. 



84 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

date: ^Nicholas Brome, Esquier, Lord and owner of Bads- 
ley married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Rawfre Arundell of 
Eggleshole in the Countie of Cornwall Knight, Anno Dom. 
1478. and died the Xth of October 1517. leaving issue Isabell 
and Constance, his two daughters, and lieth buried at this 
Church-dore."^ In 1465-6 John Brome, of Baddesley, and 
Sir William Catesby, Knight, had an arbitration in London 
over certain Lapworth lands. John Brome, of Lapworth, 
former owner, had sold them to Dame Rose Mountford and 
others, but Brome of Baddesley showed a deed of reconvey- 
ance executed in 1406-7.^ Tliis arbitration evidently fell 
through, for a new agreement was made the following year, 
John Brome, of Baddesley Clinton, the elder, giving a bond, 
Sept. 17, 1467, to William Catesby, Knight, to accept the 
award of arbitrators touching the title of lands in Lapworth 
late belonging to John Brome of that place, in dispute be- 
tween Catesby and himself, and Catesby giving a counterbond 
to Brome.^ This arbitration again proved ineffective, for, Jan. 
S8, 1496-7, Nicholas Brome, Esq., son and heir of John Brome, 
gave a bond to Greorge Catesby, Esq., son and heir of William 
Catesby, Esq., to abide the award of arbitrators as to the title 
to lands in Lapworth formerly belonging to John Brome of 
that place. This bond was executed by Thomas Marrow by 
authority of Brome.'' In the suit of Nicholas Brome, Esquire, 
against George Catesby, Esquire, ascribed to the period be- 
tween 1498 and 1500, Brome alleges that the manor of Brome 
had continued in the possession of the ancestors of his father, 
John, as owners for over 200 years and that the said John and 
Beatrice, his wife, had for 80 years peacefully taken the issues 
and profits of said manor and the appurtenances, and that he, 
Nicholas, had taken them since their death, but that several 
deeds, etc., relating to the manor had got into the possession 
of Catesby, who kept them.' At length the controversy was 
settled by the sale of Brome's rights to Catesby. July 10, 
1501, Nicholas Brome, Esq., acknowledged the receipt of £66 

h2 Dugdale, 973; Norris, 51, 59. 
<8 An. Deeds, 958; 4 id. 383. 
M id. 304, 441. 
»Id. 469. 

lEarly Chancery Proceedings, yoL III, Bundle 185, No. S4, Public Record 
Office, London. 



The Family ik England 86 

from George Catesby, Esq., for his interest in lands and tene- 
ments in Lapworth and Packwood, called the manor of Bro- 
mon, otherwise Bromes Manor."* In the suit of Nicholas Brome» 
Esquire, against John Mitton and Johan (Jane), his wife, 
formerly wife of Thomas, brother of Nicholas, ascribed to the 
period between 1486 and 149S, he claims rent for the manor 
of Woodlow.* In the suit of Dame Margery Middlemore, 
widow, against Nicholas Brome, ascribed to the period between 
1504 and 1515, it is alleged that Dame Jane Mytton (Mitton), 
widow, by her will made Mrs. Middlemore and Kathrine Brome, 
wife of Nicholas Brome, her executrixes, and that a contro- 
versy about money matters had arisen in connection with the 
will.^ Dame Mitton was the widow of John Mitton and had 
been widow of Thomas Brome, brother of Nicholas. In the 
suit of Nicholas Brome, Esquire, against John Middlemore, 
ascribed to the period between 1504 and 1515, he complains 
of the detention of deeds relating to the manor of Woodlow.^ 
Nicholas Brome died Oct. 10, 1516. An inquisition post mor- 
tem on the estate of Nicholas Brome, Esq., was held at War- 
wick May 81, 1517,* before Thomas Purefey, Eisq., escheator 
for the county, and a jury. The jury reported that Robert 
Throckmorton, Robert Brudnett, Edward Belknap and ten 
others were seised of the manor of Baddesley Clinton and of the 
advowson of the Church there and of seven acres of meadow, 
S8 acres of pasture and four acres of woodland there, in their 
demesne as of fee, to the use of said Nicholas Brome and his 
heirs, and that said Brome and the said parties at his request 
conveyed the same to John Ferrers, Knight, and others, to 
hold to the use of said Nicholas Brome during his life and 

«n3 An. Deeds, 48. 

nBarly Chancery Proceedings, voL III, Bundle 85. No. 57, Public Reoord 
Qflloe, London. 

oEarly Chancery Proceedings, yoL IV, Bundle 3S9, No. 57, Public 
Record Office, London. 

pEarly Chancery Proceedings, yoL IV, Bundle 980, No. 99, Public Record 
Office, London. 

^The report is dated at the end May 97 and at the beginninff May SI. 
The former may be the date of the hearing and the latter the date of the 
drawing up of the formal report The year should be 1517, although 
Norris giYcs it as 1518 (p. 98). The inquisition was taken in the ninth 
year of the reign of Henry the Bifl^th, whose reign began Apr. 99, 1500. 
Therefore May of tiie first year of his reign was May, 1509, May of the 
second year was 1510, and so on till we come to May of the ninth year, 
which was in 1517. 



86 Ancsstoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

after his decease to the use of the heirs of the body of the 
said Nicholas and Elizabeth, late his wife, lawfully begotten, 
and in default of such heirs to the right heirs of said Nicholas. 
That thereafter said John Ferrers died, but his surviving co- 
grantees remained seised of the said premises at the time of 
the death of Nicholas Brome and of the inquisition. That said 
manor, advowson and other premises were held of Thomas Lord 
of Clinton by fealty and the rent of one penny a year if de- 
manded, and were worth at the last appraisal £20 per annum. 
That Lady Constance Ferrers and Dorothy Marrow were the 
lawful heirs of the body of said Nicholas and Elizabeth Brome, 
Constance being the daughter and Dorothy the granddaughter 
(daughter of Isabell Marrow, who was the daughter of Nich- 
olas and Elizabeth Brome). That Constance was SS years 
and Dorothy 20 years old. That said Nicholas Brome a little 
before his death, being weak in body, but of sound memory, 
made his last will and testament, which contained these words : 
^^I will that all those psons that stand enfeoffed in the maner 
of Baddesley Clynton stand feoff ed and seasid unto thuse of 
Sir Edward fferrers Knyght and Dame Constance his wif and 
to their heires for ever if the said Edward or his assignez gif 
and make sure to the said Dorethe Marrowe or to hir heirez 
for ever in lande rente or tente to the yearly value of xij^^'* 
Further the jury declared that Richard Higham, Thomas 
Frowyk, Robert Throckmorton and others were seised of the 
manor of Woodlow with a hundred acres of land, and of three 
hundred acres of pasture, 11 acres of meadow, and 20 acres 
of woodland in Woodlow, and of a large quantity of land, 
with messuages, etc. in Over Woodcote,*" Nether Woodcote,** 
Norton,* Offchurch* and Eathorpe** in Warwickshire, in their 
demesne as of fee, to the use of said Nicholas and his heirs. 
That thereafter some of said parties died, but the others re- 
mained seised at the time of the death of Nicholas Brome and 
of the inquisition, subject to an agreement between the said 

rWoodcote was in Knig^tlow Hundred, which contains also Coventry 
(1 Dugdale, 971). 

•Lower Norton is a hamlet in Budhrooke parish near Warwick (Bartliolo- 
mew's Gazetteer; 9 Dugdale, 660). 

tOffchurdi is a parish near Warwick (Bartholomew; 1 Dugdale, 361). 

««Bathorpe is a township in Wappenbury parish, S. Warwidkshire (Bar- 
tholomew; 1 Dugdale, 396). 



The Familt in England 87 

Nicholas Brome of the first part, Henry Ferrers, Knight, and 
Edward Ferrers, Knight, son and heir of Henry, of the second 
part, and Thomas Marrow of the third part, upon the mar- 
riage of said Edward Ferrers and Lady Constance, one of the 
daughters of said Nicholas Brome, which, among other things, 
provided: ^^Yt is also covenanted and agreed betwene all and 
ev'y of the said parties that if the said Nicholas Brome die 
without heir male of his body lawfully begotten that then the 
said Richard Higham and Thomas Frowik S'iannte at the lawe 
and all their cofeoffees aforesaid shall stand seasid of the man- 
ers of Wodlowe and Overwodcott and Netherwodcot with thapp- 
tennce and of a ten't with c'teyn medows lieng thereto in £y- 
thorp whiche oon William Westley nowe occupieth and of xiiij* 
of chief rent of the gilde of Warrewyk to thuse of the said 
Constance the yoimgest daughter of the said Nicholas and the 
heires of hir foodie begoten And for defaute of suche issue to 
thuse of said the Isabell and the heires of hir bodie lawfully be- 
goten And for defaute of suche issue to the right heires of the 
said Nicholas for ev'more.'' That later Nicholas Brome in his 
said will declared his purpose respecting said premises in the 
following words : ^^I wSl that thoes psons that stond f eofid in 
my maners of Wodlowe Overwodcott and Netherwodcott and all 
thoes psons that stondith enfeoffed in all such landys as I 
purchasid in Norton Offchurche Eythrop' within the C<mntie of 
Warr' stand seasid in all those maners landys and tente dur- 
yng the nonage of Edward my son unto thuse of myn execu- 
tours that they may take the pfitts therof toward the manage 
of my thre daughters over the reasonable exhibicions^ of my 
children in the meane tyme to be had of the said landys and if 
my said son die afore thage of xxj yeres than I will my said 
feoffees stand seasid unto suche use and intent as af oreseid unto 
the tyme my son Rauff cum to his full age of xxj yeres And 
then to remayne unto hym and to his heires males of his body 
lawfully begoten.*' The jury further said that Edward Gre- 
vell, Knight, Thomas Denton, Esq., and Robert Bankes, Cler- 
gyman, were at the time of the death of Nicholas Brome and 
of the inquisition seised in their demesne as of fee, among other 
things, of a messuage and four acres of pasture in Solihull and 

^Allowances for living expenses. 



88 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

of two acres of pasture in Nether Norton, also of a messuage, 
80 acres of pasture, four acres of meadow, and one acre of 
marsh, with their appurtenances, in Lyndon,*^ "ad opus et 
usum'' of said Nicholas Brome for his life and after his decease 
to the use of Elizabeth Brome, one of his daughters, and the 
heirs of her body lawfully begotten, and if she should die without 
such heirs, then to the use of Katrine, then wife of said Nich- 
olas, for her life, and after her death to the use of Constance 
Ferrers, another daughter of the said Nicholas, and her heirs, 
as more fully appeared by a certain deed in evidence on the 
inquisition. That the messuage and pasture in Solihull were 
held of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, by fealty and the rent of 
two pence, in lieu of all services, and that at the last appraisal 
they were worth 12 shillings a year. That the pasture in 
Nether Norton, was held of the Dean and Chapter of the 
Church of St. Mary in Warwick, but by what service the jury 
were entirely ignorant, and that the annual value at the last 
appraisal was two shillings. That the messuage and other prem- 
ises in Lyndon were held of the Prior' of St. John of Jerusalem 
in England and of the heirs of the Coimt of Soldare by fealty 
in lieu of all services, and that the annual value at the last ap- 
praisal was 20 shillings. They further found that Nicholas 
Brome died on the tenth of October last past (1516), and that 
Edward Brome was his first bom son and heir, and was eight 
years old and over at the time of his father's death.^ 

Children,'^ 

By fint wife: 
Isabella, m. Thomas Marrow, of London (son of William), 
in 1491, who became a Serjeant at law and died April 5, 

ivLindon was a hamlet wholly or partiy in Bickenhill parish adjoining 
or near to Solihull (9 Dugdale, 97^ 977). 

«Thi8 Prior w^ the head of the Knights Hospitallers in England, whose 
diief establishment was near Smithfleld in the suburbs of London. After 
the suppression in 1312 of the Knights Templars, the Hospitallers came into 
possession of their lands. The Templars had had a '^receptory," or branch, 
at Balsall about 3 m. N. of Baddesley, to which certain lands in the 
vicinity belonged (9 Dugdale, 969-969). 

yChancery Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series 9, vol. 39, No. 49, and a better 
preserved copy. Exchequer Inquisitions Post Mortem, File 1193, No. 7, 
both on file in the Public Record Office, London. 

^^Norris, 98. 



The Familt in England 89 

1606.* His wife died before him. He left a daughter, 
Dorothy, b. about 1497.* 

Constance, b. about 1484, m. Sir Edward Ferrers, Knight, 
of East Peckham, Co. Kent, son of Sir Henry, between 
Dec. 1, 1497, and the 2d of February following.^ He 
d. Aug. 29, 1686;^ she d. Sept. 80, 1661, leaving is- 
sue. She left a will, dated Aug. 26, 1661, and proved 
in the Prerogative court of Canterbury Oct. 17, 1661.* 
By his second wife: 

Elizabeth,^ who m. in 1627 Thomas Hawes of Solihull. 

Edwabd, b. in 1607 or 1608, who married Margery, daugh- 
ter of John Beaufo, Esq., of Emscote, Warwickshire, 
and d. in 1681, without issue.^ 

By his third wife, probably: 

Ralph (Radolphus, Rauffe), m. 1st Anne, dau^ter of 
Reginald Digby, of Coleshill, Esquire, and 2nd a dau^- 
ter of William Newport. He d. in 1667. His children 
by his first wife were Reginald, Thomas, Anne, Gertrude 

• and Catharine, and by his 2nd wife, William and Alice 
(not named in his will).^ 



aid. 98,43. 

»Hi8 wiU dated March 31, 1505, was prored April 10, 1505 (98 Holgrare, 
P. C. C). He left 90 pence to the reparation of the Church of our Lady in 
Baddesley, Warwickshire, and to the ornaments thereof. He owned lands 
in London, Warwickshire and other counties. He left to his sister a 
crimson gown that had been his wife's. His daughter married first, Francis 
Cokeyn of Pooley (a village in the parish of Poleswortli, Warwickshire), 
who was living Jan. 7, 153^1. They had a son. Sir Thomas Cok^rn. Her 
first husband having died, she married second in 1540, Sir Humphrey 
Ferrers of Tamworth Castle. (Norris, 98, 99, 33.) She was buried in 
Baddesley Clinton Church. (Norris, 49; 9 Dugdale, 973, 974.) 

oNorris, 98. 

dHe left a will proved Nov. 18, 1535 (see abstract, Norris, 133). 

099 Buck; Norris, 98, 30, 50, 59, 137 (abstract of her will). 

^Norris, 97, 98, 49, 57; 9 Dugdale, 970-974; supra, p. 83. The inquisi- 
tion of Nicholas Brome, (supra, p. 87) makes Robert Bankes, clergyman, 
one of those at its date seised of lands to the use of Nicholas Brome for 
Ufe and then to the use of his daughter Elisabeth and her issue, and if she 
died without issue, then to Katherine, the then wife of Nicholas, for her 
life, and after her death to the use of Constance Ferrers and her heirs. 
It seems more tiian probable that he had no other children unprovided for 
at the time of the grant to Bankes and his associates, which was made 
after Oct. 8, 1501, men he was appointed to Baddesley Clinton Church, 
and very likely in January, 1506-7, when Bankes was witness to a grant to 
Constance and her husband. 

^Norris, 98, 49; 9 Dugdale, 970-974; supra, p. 81. 

^ Dugdale, 970-974; 19 HarL Soc Pubs., 97; supra, p. 44. 



90 Akcestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Jocosa' (Joyce), mentioned in 1551 as unmarried in the 
will of her sister, Constance Ferrers, who leaves her 20 
marks,^ and in the wiU of her brother, RaujBTe Brome, in 

1567.* 
A DAUOHTEE,^ who was perhaps Dorothy Brome, who 

joined the Enowle Guild in 1526, and Nov. 21, 1525, had 

been one of the witnesses of the profession of Agnes 

Little, the new prioress of Wroxall.** 
Hamper on Dugdale and Norris** both make Lettice Catesby, 
the 2nd wife, and Catharine Lampeck, the 8rd wife, of Nicholas 
Brome. But from the inquisition (which Norris had evidently 
not read) and from Dugdale, it seems clear that Catharine was 
the 2nd and Lettice the drd. If Lettice was in fact the 2nd, 
she may have been the mother of Elizabeth.**** It is not known 
who Catharine Lampeck was. There was, however, a family 
of Lampetts in Warwickshire to which she may have belonged.^ 
In the reign of Edward IV. (1461-1488) Nicholas Brome, of 
Baddesley, and Elizabeth, his wife, were members of the Guild 
of Enowle, with their children, Johanna, Elizabeth, Johanna, 

<Norri8 (p. 53) refers to a female figure in the prirate chapel in Baddes- 
ley Clinton Hall, and says: ''There is some probability that this small 
effigy is a memoral of Jovse (Jocosa), a younger daughter of Nicholas 
Brome and his wife EliKabeth Arundell." But Norris himself elsewhere, 
Dugdale, and the inquisition of Nicholas Brome, with the memorials in the 
Church, all declare that Elizabeth and Constance were the only heirs of 
Nicholas and Elizabeth. 

/Norns, 139. 

hSupra, p. 44. 

IHis will (supra, p. 87) speaks of three unmarried daughters without 
naming them. 

mRecords of Wroxall Abbey and Manor, XXII, 93, 323; Register of Guild 
of Knowle, 256* Jocosa and the unnamed daughter may have been children 
of the second wife. 

MPages 15, 97, 28. 

nnln the text the writer has giren heed to the authorities that give Nich- 
olas Brome three wives and make Lettice Catesby one of them, but in 
reality he very much questions whether Brome ever married her. Her 
marriage is stated by Dugdale in connection with an alleged controversy 
over Baddesley Clinton. "Ancient Deeds'* do not give evidence of this 
controversy, but show a controversy between Bromes and Catesbys over 
Brome Hall in Lapworth. It is noticeable that Ralph Brome has a daugh- 
ter Catharine, wMch would have been natural if his mother had been 
Catharine Lampeck. 

oThe will of Thomas Lampett was proved in P. C. C. May 8, 1501 
(22 Moone), and the will of John Lampett July 16, 1502 (9 Blamyr). 
These were both of Stratford on Avon. John had land in Staffordshire. 
Neither Will names Catharine. 






Thx Famelt IK England 91 

Cecilia, Maria, Anna, Richard, and Isabell (Reg. of Guild of 
Knowle, dO). The name is here written Browne, but it was 
undoubtedly Brome and is so regarded by Norris (p. 74). 
Some of the above eight children may have been Elizabeth's 
by former husbands. If not, with the exception of Isabell, 
they died young. Isabell was married in 1491 and must have 
been bom not later than 1477. 



RODY 

The Rodys were originally settled in Warwick.*' The earlir 
est of whom mention has been found was : 

1 JoHK LE RoDT, whose son and heir was 

2 WiLUAM RoDT, of Warwick, who had two sons, John and 

(8) WiUiam. 
9 Welmam Rodt (or William de Rody) of Warwick. In 
1860 and 1861 he became possessed of SI acres of land 
and a messuage with fields and pastures in Baddesley 
Clinton. He had three sons and one dau^ter. 

Children : 
WiUiiAM, who came into possession of the Baddesley din- 
ton property in 1869, with remainder to his brothers and 
sister and their heirs ; d. without issue. 
John, d. without issue. 
4 Thomas, who had (5) Johanna. 

Maboebia. 
6 Johanna, who, as heiress of Thomas, came into possession 
of the Baddesley Clinton property and m. John Brome, 
of Warwick. 
The following, who were members of Parliament for the Bor- 
ough of Warwick, were no doubt of this family: Michael 
Rody, 1418-14; Nicholas Rody, 1421-5, 1486-7; John Rody, 
1480-8, 1488-8, 1484-6, 1486-7.« Dugdale** states that Nicho- 
las Rody was secretary of the Earl of Warwick in 1489. The 
will of this Nicholas, dated in 1458 and proved Oct. 85 of that 
year, described him as of Warwick and formerly steward of 
that town. It makes bequests and devises, but names no rela- 
tives.' The Rody arms were: Gules, a cross moline, voided, 
between four fishes, hauriant, or,* 

pNorris, 8, 9, 91; S Dugdale, 970. 
«i Dngdale, 1146, 1147. 
rVoL 1, p. 412. 
«3 An. Deeds, 91. 
tNorris, 53. 

92 



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'mm 



SHIRLEY* 

Dugdale says that at the time of the Domesday Survey 
(1086) Nether-Eatendon^ was held by Henry de Feriers, ances- 
tor of the Earls of Derby, *^and of whom did one Saswalo hold 
it, at which time there was a Church and a MiU ; to whose pos- 
terity in the male line it hath continued even to this day, being 
the only place in this County that glories in an uninterrupted 
succession of its owners for so long a tract of time; and till 
the reign of King Henry^ HI was their principall seat (though 
their possessions in other counties were very large) whence 
also they were denominated ; but afterwards fixing at Shirley in 
Derbyshire, they assumed their simame of that place, which 
has ever since been appropriated to this antient Family/' The 
Shirley arms were in the church at Newton/ They are: Paly 
of six, or and azure, a quarter (or canton) ermine. Crest: 
The head of a Saracen proper couped at the neck, wreathed 
round the temples, or and azure.^ 

PEDIOBEE 

1 Saswalo. Dugdale thinks he may have been a Saxon 
thane. He gave certain tithes to the monks of Abington, 
Northamptonshire, and founded the church at Eatington. He 
owned estates in Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Derby- 
shire as well as Warwickshire. His son Henry was a witness to 
the foundation charter of Merevale Abbey in King Stephen's 
time,' and a benefactor to the Canons of Kenilworth, to whom 
he gave the Eatington Church, with all the glebe and tithes 

«1 Dugdale, 618-6126. The Visitatioii (in 1619) of Leicestershire, 9 
HarL Soc. Pubs., 95, also gives a Shirley pedigree. I have taken a few items 
from it, but have followed Dugdale, who is later and gives details and 
authorities. See also 1 Dugdale, 697, and 9 Dugdale, 1003, 1004. 

«Now called Eating^n, Warwickshire. 

101916-1979. 

a>2 Dugdale, 1194-1196. 

yBurke's General Armory, 993; Norris, 70. 

«1135-1154. 

93 



y 



94 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

belonging to it. He died without issue, and Henry, son of his 
brother Fulcher, succeeded him. 

2 FuLCHEB, son of Saswalo. Fulcher's son Henry had a 
son Fulcher, who was set aside, and this Henry's younger 
brother Sewall was made his heir. Henry gave land to the 
monks of Bildwas. 

S Sib Sewall,^ of Eatington, a knight, son of Fulcher 
(No. 2), married Matilda Ridel, and in 1192-d was made heir 
of his father's and uncle Henry's lands, which comprised nine 
knight's fees. He released to the Canons of Kenilworth all his 
interest in the patronage of Eatington Church, and for the 
health of his soul and the souls of his two wives, gave to those 
Canons dl acres of land. To the Canons of Darley in Derby- 
shire he gave lands and also to the monks of Tutbury in that 
county. His son, 

4 Henbt, of Eatington, who attended William Earl Fer- 
rers in the King's army when he sailed into Poitou in 1202-d. 
In 1205-6 he had livery made to him of the manor of Edne- 
soure, Derbyshire, of which he seems to have been disseised 
while on the voyage. He erected an altar dedicated to St. Nich- 
olas in Eatington Church, and gave divers parcels of land to 
it for the maintenance of a priest "to celebrate divine service 
thereat, for the health of his own soul, and the soules of his 
wives, as also of his childrens souls every day except on Thurs- 
dayes, and the Feast of S. Nicholas, on which day the said 
Priest was particularly to celebrate to that Saint." He also, 
in augmentation of the maintenance of the priest, gave the 
tithe of the toll of his mill in Eatington and an annuity of five 
shillings, four for the personal use of the priest and one for the 
lamp in the church. He reserved power to himself and his 
heirs to present to the chantry whenever the priest should die. 
His son, 

5 Sewall, of Eatington, who married Isabell, daughter 
and coheiress of Robert Meisnill, confirmed in 1242-d his 
father's gift to the chantry and died before 1259-60, leaving 
his son and heir, 

6 Sib James, Knight, who married Agnes de Walton, ^^the 
first of this family that assumed the simame of Shirley; for 

oHe was called in Latin both Sawaldus and Sewallus. 



The Familt in England 95 

by that appellation he had Free-warren granted to hun in all 
his demesne, as well at Shirley in Derbyshire SI H. S [1246-7] 
as in S9 of the same Song's reign [1254-5], here at Eatendon 
in this County/' His son and heir, 

7 Ralph Shiblet, married Margaret, dau^ter and one of 
the coheiresses of Walter de Waldeshof, of Boylstone, Derby- 
shire, cupbearer to King Edward 2.^ He was sheriff of Not- 
tingham and Derby shires in 1278-9. In 1280-81 he was pre- 
sented for not being a knight, though qualified, and was by the 
King's letters patent respited for five years. In 1298-4 he was 
one of the commissioners in Warwickshire for assessing and 
collecting the grant made to the King for his wars. **In 28 E. 
1 [1299-1300] he had the custody of the Counties of Salop and 
Stafford, with the castle of Shrewsbury committed to his 
charge." In 1800-1301, he had summons, with other great 
men, to attend the King at Berwick on Tweed, *Vell appointed 
with Horse and Armes to march against the Scots." In 1309- 
10, he was made one of the two justices for the jail delivery at 
Warwick, and in 1311-12 served for Warwickshire as member 
in two parliaments. "Being one of the Coroners in this County 
(an office of great note in those days . . .) he had, through 
want of health, a discharge from that employment in 6 E. 2 
[1812-18], but in 8 E. 2 [1814-15] was Gouvemour of Hores- 
ton Castle in Derbyshire; and in 16 E. 2 [1822-8] one of the 
Commissioners in this County for levying a XVth." He died in 
1826-7. His son and heir, 

8 Ralph Shielet, who 1827-8 was a commissioner for the 
assessing and collecting of a 15th and a 10th, and in 1828-9 
was appointed to assess and collect the scutage then due the 
King for the Scotch expedition in the first year of his reign. 
In 1840-41 he was a member of Parliament for Warwickshire. 
His son, 

9 SiK Thomas Shielet, Knight, who married Isabell, 
daughter of Ralph Lord Basset,^ of Drayton. He died be- 
fore 1862-8. His son, 

10 SiE Hugh Shiblet, Knight, who married Beatrix, sis- 
ter and heiress of Sir John de Brews, Knight, of West Newton 

Wis reign was 1307-1397. 

cThe Basset arms were — Or, three piles meeting in base gules, a canton 
vair (9 HarL Soc, Pubs., 19, 60). 



96 Ancestoeb and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

in Sussex. In the first year of his reign, he was made master of 
the hawks to King Henry 4.^ He was killed in 14f08 in the 
battle of Shrewsbury, in which year he had received a grant 
of the manor of Sheldon/ In 1400-1401 he was a justice of 
the peace in Warwickshire, and in the following year was ap- 
pointed **one of the Commissioners to enquire of such persons 
as were disturbers of the Laws and spreaders of false reports." 
Jan. 16, 1889-90, the last Lord Basset of Drayton, his ma- 
ternal uncle, entailed on him all his fee-simple lands, provided 
he should bear the name and arms of Basset. A contro- 
versy arose over this grant between him and the Earl of Staf- 
ford, which was not ended until Henry 6^ decided that Hugh's 
son, Sir Ralph Shirley, Knight, should enjoy them. Hugh 
was made Chief Warder of Higham-Ferrers Park, Northamp- 
tonshire, by John of Gaunt,^ and in 1898-9 constable of Don- 
ington Castle, Leicestershire, by the Duke of Lancaster, who 
later became Henry 4. His widow in 1421-S furnished the 
Sang with an esquire and 18 archers to serve on horseback with 
him in the King's wars beyond the seas, for three-fourths of a 
year. His son and heir, 

11 SiE Ralph Shiblet, Knight, bom about 1890, who 
married first Jocosa (Joyse), daughter and heiress of Thomas 
Basset, Esquire, of Brailsford, Derbyshire, and second, Alice, 
daughter of Sir John Cokain, of Ashbome, Derbyshire, Knight, 
and **in 8 H. 5 [1416-16] being retained to serve the King 
then in person with his Army . • . with six men at Armes 
and XVin Archers (the famous Battail of Agincourt then 
hapning;) and the next year following with VIII men at Armes 
and XVI Archers, was honoured with the dignity of Knight- 
hood about that time; for in 8 H. 5 [1420-21] being then 
Shiriff of the Counties of Nottingham and Derby, I find him so 
stiled." In 1428-4 the feojBTees of Ralph Lord Basset, of Dray- 
ton, released to him their interest in the manors of Colston- 
Basset and Ratcliff super Soar in Nottinghamshire, Rakdale, 
Willows, Ratcliff super Wreak, Barrow super Soar, Dunton 
and Watton in Leicestershire, and Westhall and Easthall in 

tfHis reign was 1399-1413. 
e2 Dugdale, 1003-1004. 
/His reign was 1409-71. 
91340-99. 



Thk Famelt in England 97 

Sheldon in Warwickshire. In 1481-2 he had his residence at 
Ratcliff super Soar. He was IS years old in 1402-8. By his 
first wife he had: 
13 Beatrix, who m. John Brome, of Baddesley Clinton. 

Ralph SHniiasT, Esq., who was thrice married and had 
issue. 



CATESBY 

The Catesbys were a prominent family of «> Warwickshire and 
Northamptonshire, being especially interested in Lapworth 
and Ashby St. Ledgers. William Catesby was sheriff of War- 
wickshire in 1871-2.^ He was member of parliament for the 
county of Warwick in 1889-40, 1858-4 and 1860-61. John 
Catesby was member of parliament for the county in 187C-8 
and in 1892-8. In 1449-50 William Catesby, was member forthe 
county.' The Catesby arms with various empalings and quar- 
terings were displayed in Lapworth Church.^ in Wolfhamcote 
Church,* in Trinity Church' (Coventry), in Ladbrooke 
Church,** and in Barford Church.* The Catesby arms were: 
Argent, two lions passant in pale sable, crowned or. Differ- 
ent branches of the family had different crests.^ Dugdale,^ in 
his account of Lapworth, gives the history of the Catesbys and 
says : ^I have seen an antient Pedegree, which makes Will, de 
Catesby (the first that assumed this simame in E. 1. time,^ as 
k there expressed) to be son of John de Esseby, Brother to 
Will, de Esseby, of Esseby, now commonly caUed Ashby 

in com. Northampt That 

they sprung from the Family of Esseby is not improbable, con- 
sidering . . . that the two lions passant, which for many 
ages they have bom for their Arms, is the same Coat which 
Esseby gave, by their Seals appeareth. But the antientest 
Lordship that any of them had in Warwicksh. is that of Lod- 
broke, which Will, de Catesby obtained in E. 8 time.'*^ Bridges 

^ Dugdale, 1150. 
<Id. 1145. 
/3 Dugdale, 791. 
»1 id. 306. 
lid. 177. 
mid. 335. 
MDugdale. 

oBurke's General Armory, 177; 12 HarL Soc. Pubs. 134; 8 CoL Top. & 
Gen., 303. 
Pv. 3, p. 791. 
fll373-1307. 
rl337-77. 

98 



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im 



The Family in England 99 

(pp. 17 and 18) shows that several descendants of John and 
Emma Catesby were buried and had mscriptions in the Church 
of Ashby St. Ledgers. On p. 18 he says : "At the upper end of 
both the iles are two places parted off from the rest, which seem 
to have been antiently appropriated to the use of particular 
families. In one of them, which was called St. Mary's Chapel, 
several of the Catesby es were buried, though the Inscriptions 
on their monuments are now effaced. Amongst the rest, there 
lay John de Catesby, the first of the family who possessed this 
Lordship, with Emma, his wife, as may be gathered from two 
escutcheons remaining over their heads, the one of Lodbroke 
quartering Catesby, and the other of Catesby impaling Cran- 
ford.'' The pedigree here given is made after comparison with 
Dugdale (v. 2, pp. 791 and elswehere). Bridges' Northamp- 
tonshire (v. 1, pp. 16-18 and 23), Baker's Northamptonshire 
(v. 1, pp. 116, 246), Visitations of Northamptonshire 
(142, 172), Visitation of Warwickshire (12 Harl. Soc. Pubs. 
124, 126), vols. 3 and 4 Ancient Deeds, passim, and other 
authorities. The result reached is believed to be accurate. 
Discrepancies have been adjusted and inaccuracies corrected. 
It will be noted that 12 Harl. Soc. Pubs, erroneously makes 
Roger and not Robert heir of Nicholas Catesby, while the Vis- 
itations of Northamptonshire (172) erroneously makes Rob- 
ert Catesby marry the daughter of Sir John Peche, Knight. 

The Visitation of Warwickshire* gives the early pedigree 
thus: Philip de Catesby, whose son was William de Catesby, 
Knight. The latter's son was Simon de Catesby, steward of 
Randolph Gemon, Earl of Chester and Lord of Coventry, be^ 
tween 1100 and 11 64, and the son of this Simon was Randolph de 
Catesby', steward of Hugo, Earl of Chester and Lord of Coven- 
try, between 1164 and 1189. Then followed Simon de Catesby, 
who had lands in Coventry, and his son Reginald Catesby and 
his grandson Simon Catesby, both of Coventry. This is a rec- 
ord of seven generations. The son of the last named Simon was 

1 John Catesbt of Flecknoe, who married Isabell, daugh- 
ter and heiress of Henry of Ladbrooke. His son was 

2 WiUAM Catesbt of Ladbrooke and Coventry, married 
Joane, daughter and heiress of William Radboume alias Ar* 
den, of Radboume. His son and heir was 

«1S HarL Soc. Pubs. 1S5. 



100 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

8 John Catesbt of Ladbrooke, who before 1894 mar- 
ried Emma, dau^ter and heiress of Robert Cranford of Ashbj 
St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, and widow of John Swinford 
(who died after 1S74). She died before 1417. He is mentioned 
as early as 1S62 and died before 1408. 

Sons: 

William, married Alice, daughter of Robert Mexington, and 
died in 1407-8 without issue. 

John, married before 1425 Margaret, daughter and co- 
heiress of William de Montford of Lapworth. She died before 
1465. He is mentioned as early as 1408, and died July 4, 1436. 
His son, Sir William Catesby, Knight, who died in 1470, mar- 
ried 1st Philippa, daughter and heiress of William de Bishops- 
don, Knight, who in 1420-21 received the release of the manor 
of Lapworth Hall from Thomas Burdet, Knight.* 

4 RoBEBT Catesbt,^ married Lettice, daughter of Thomas 
Thorpe of Newnham, Northamptonshire, and widow of Thomas 
Newnham. He is mentioned as early as 1405. He died Dec. 
14, 1467, and with his wife was buried in the Church of Newn- 
ham. Bridges (v. 1, p. 28) gives the inscription in the church 
as follows: — ^'^Orate pro anima Ricardi Catesby Armigeri, qui 
obiit XrV die mensis Decembris, anno domini MCCCCLXVII. 
et Leticiae consortis suae, quae ob . . . quorum animabus pro- 
picietur Deus."^ This a note says was obtained from the Bel- 
chier collection and was no longer, about 1720, extant in the 
Church. There is no doubt but that the name should be "Rob- 
erti" and not ^^Ricardi," although Baker gives the name as Rich- 
ard on p. 115, and on p. 245, while giving it as Robert, queries 
whether it should not be Richard. The quotations from An- 
cient Deeds given under Nicholas Catesby settle the question, 
not speaking of Dugdale, Norris and the Visitations. The 
Chancery suit of Robert Catesby, son and heir of Nicholas, 
son of Robert Catesby , against Gerard Dan and Nich- 

«4 An. Deeds, 313. 

^Hamper on Dugdale, in the Catesby Genealogy under Lapworth, makes 
Robert Catesby marry and have Nicholas who sold Baddesley Clinton, and 
erroneously William, Knight in 1453-53, who died in 1470. See also Norris, 
15. 

vlnEnglish: Pray for the souls of Richard [Robert] Catesby, Esq., who 
died Dec 14, 1467, and of Lettice his wife, who died . . . and may 
God have mercy on their souls. The inscription is also given in 1 Baker, 
860. « 



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The Famdly in England 101 

olas Browne (Brome) recites that Nicholas Metley was 
seised of lands in Warwickshire and Leicestershire, which by 
his will he directed should be sold and the proceeds employed 
in works of charity, that his mother, Margaret Metley, and his 
wife, Johanna, his executrixes, sold them to Robert Catesby, 
father of Nicholas, who occupied them for 80 years until his 
death, and then they descended to Nicholas Catesby, his son 
and heir, that at the time of the suit cousins (probably de- 
scendants) of Nicholas Metley claimed the lands, and that Nich- 
olas Brome was guardian of one of them.*^ April 8, 1448, 
Robert Catesby, the elder, Esq., with others, had received a 
deed of land from William Catesby, Esq., son and heir of John 
and Margaret Catesby,' and in 1457-8 he and John Wattson 
received a deed from the same William Catesby of half the 
manor of Lapworth and other lands.^ These conveyances were 
probably to the grantees as trustees. Robert Catesby was one 
of the executors of Nicholas Metley, Lord of the Manor of 
Baddesley Clinton, who died Nov. 12, 1487, and in his wiU 
directed his manor of Baddesley to be sold. He ^4s said to 
have purchased the Manor and to have resided at the Hall till 
1460, but it is impossible without further evidence to say who 
were the residents there for some years after Johanna Burdet 
vacated it, or whether indeed it ever came legally ipto the hands 
of Catesby as one of Metley's executors. l!lie uncertainty con- 
cerning the history of Baddesley at this period may perhaps 
be somewhat explained by the fact that the manor-lands and the 
Hall or manor-place were undoubtedly for some time separated 
and held apart from each other. Johanna Burdet gave the 
Manor to her nephew [Nicholas Metley] in 1484, but retained 
the Hall as her residence for the term of her life, and since she 
was living in 1442, it may well be presumed that even if Metley 
was in a position to dispose of the lands he had no right what- 
ever in the disposition of the Hall. And herein probably lies 
the key to many apparent discrepancies." John Hugford, 
steward of Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, had married Mar- 
garet, daughter of Nicholas Metley. He is said to have ousted 

ioEarly Chancery ProceedinffS, vol. IV, Bundle 960, No. 1 (ascribed 
to the year 1509-3), in the Public Record Office, London. 

«4 An. Deeds, 548. 

IfHannett, 993. 



102 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Catesby in 1460, and entered upon the manor, but his patron 
was slain in battle in 1471 and Robert Catesby 's *%eir Nicholas 
Catesby is said to have obtained possession of Baddesley and 
resided there till 1496. This is according to the statement of 
Sir William Dugdale, who had opportunities of perusing docu- 
ments that are no longer in existence."'^ 

Sons: 
6 Nicholas. 

Wluam, of Oxford, who married and had Elizabeth, who 
married William Woodhull alicus Odell. 

5 Nicholas Catesbt, who is mentioned in 1458-9 and died 
between 1498 and 1506. He married and had 

RoBEBT, heir. 
Nicholas perhaps. Nicholas the elder is mentioned in 1494. 

6 Lettice, who married Nicholas Brome.^ 

Jan. 15, 1464-5, John Catesby, sergeant at law, Nicholas 
Catesby and others were grantees of land in Lapworth and 
Kingswood, and March 17, 1465-6, the granddaughter and 
heiress of John Brome of Lapworth released the same premises 
to them.^ Pages 46 and 47 of d An. Deeds show several deeds in 
which Edmund Newnham is associated with Nicholas 
Catesby as one of the grantees. Jan. 15, 1464-5, there 
was a feoffment to John Catesby, sergeant-at-law, Nicholas 
Catesby, and others of lands etc., in Lapworth, Kingswood and 
Bellesdesert*^ formerly belonging to John Brome of Lapworth 
and Margaret, his wife.^ Dec. 9, 1495, Nicholas Catesby 
deeded to William Woodhull and Elizabeth, his wife,^dau^ter 
of William Catesby, his lands in certain parts of the counties 
of Leicester and Northampton formerly belonging to said Wil- 
liam Catesby.^ Dec. 2, 1497, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress 
of William Catesby, late of Oxford, gent., deceased, through 
her husband, released to Nicholas Catesby, the elder brother of 
said William, all actions and debts against said Nicholas.' 
Sept. 30, 1498, Nicholas Catesby, son and heir of Robert 

0Norri8, 16-20; 2 Dugdale, 970. 

aNonis, 15. 

^ An. Deeds, 46, 47. 

oNear Rowington (Dugdale). 

<I4 An. Deeds, 305. 

eld. 163. 

/3 id. 45. 






The Familt in England 



108 



Catesby, Esq., acknowledged the receipt of an annuity from 
Dame Margery Bellingham, formerly wife of Thomas Ryton 
alias Draper.^ Dec. 20, 1506, Robert Catesby, gentleman, 
son and heir of Nicholas Catesby, Esq., deeded lands in War- 
wickshire, which he inherited on his father's death, to Elizabeth 
Catesby, widow, and Richard Catesby, her son.* 

04i id. 179. 
Aid. 186. 



COLLES. 

The family of Colles^ was an ancient one of Worcestershire 
and probably was descended from the family of Cole or CoUes 
of Somerset and Devonshires. They dwelt in Powick, Suckley, 
and Leigh near the city of Worcester. They owned estates in 
many parts of Worcester and other shires. Habington (vol. I, 
pp. S99, 542) says the Colles name had appeared since 1400 
and was of 400 years continuance in the county. He had seen 
Colles deeds with their arms from about 1400 to his own time. 
Nash/ under Suckley, says: ^^ Another capital farm in this 
hamlet [perhaps the manor of Lulsley] is named Colles Place, 
which is mentioned in a leger of the priory of Malvern, in the 
reign of Henry HI [1216-1272], as belonging to the family 
of Colles.'* The arms* were : — Gules, on a chevron argent pel- 
let^e four barrulets sable between three lions' heads erased or. 
Crest :^ A sea pie with wings endorsed sable plat^e, preying 
on a dolphin lying on its back proper. 

The pedigree** follows : — 

1 Richard Colles, of Powick,** married Margaret, daugh- 
ter of Thomas Hall, Esq., of Suckley. He was buried in the 
Church of Powick in 1440.** His son was 

2 William Colles, of Bransford in Leigh, who married 
first Isabell, daughter of Richard Turberville, and second Alice, 
daughter of William^ Romney. By his first wife he had Wil- 
liam (3). He died in 1506 and was buried at Powick. 

i2 Misc. Gen. et Her., 334-940, gives a pedigree from William Cole, of 
Devonshire, who was living in 1343. The arms are quite different and it is 
not clear that Richard CoUes of Powick was of this line. The name in the 
old records is written also Ck>ll3rs and CoUis. It was doi^tless pronomiced 
in two syllables. 

/History of Worcestershire (1799), v. 3, p. 400. 

*13 Harl. Soc. Pubs. 346. Other authorities differ somewhat, but not 
essentially. 

137 HarL Soc Pubs. 40. 

ml3 Harl. Soc. Pubs. 347; 37 id. 40 & 41; 3 Misc. Gen. et Her., old series, 
334-340; 1 Grasebrook, 134. 

n3 Misc. Gen. et Her. 334 makes him of Alfrick in Sudcley. 

o37 Harl Soc Pubs. 41 makes him living in 1447-8. 

p37 HarL Soc. Pubs. 113. 3 Misc Gen. et Her. 334 makes the name 
Thomas Romney. 

104 



The Family in England 106 

S William Colles of Leigh, bom about 1495, who married 
Margaret, sister and coheiress of John Hitch* of Gloucestershire, 
Habington (vol. I, p. S32) gives the following inscription as in 
the church of Leigh : "In the southe He, beeinge our Ladye's 
Channcell, on a playne stone, with the Armes of Colles this 
Inscription. Hie jacet Gulielmus Colles de Leigh in Com. 
Wigom. Grenerosus qui obijt. . . . mensis Auguste, An. Do. 
1558, aetatis suae 68.'*^ The stone is now built over by a modem 
organ. He left a will, dated May 21, 1558, and proved Sept. 
80, 1558, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.* He left 
to his wife, Margaret, during her widowhood, his house called 
the Rock, with the pastures belonging to it, which he bought 
of Thomas Rock, and an adjoining pasture which he 
bought of Richard Cave, with the tithes of Bransford, then in 
the occupation of William Lynton. If she married, she was 
to have £100 in ready money and no more. To his son Michael 
he gave his lease and interest in the house or parsonage of 
Chocknell,^ with all the glebe lands, meadows and pastures be- 
longing to it, in as ample a manner as Richard Harts had of 
late held and occupied them; also his lease and term of years 
of a certain pasture in Grimley, Worcestershire, which he had 
of the demise and grant of the Bishop of Worcester; and his 
lease and term of years of the tithes within the parish of 
Claines, which he had of the grant of Roger Crump. To his 
son William he gave a lease of certain houses in London, which 
he lately had bought of Edmond Blacknell; also 100 marks 
^^when he shall set up his occupation, or at the age of 21 years, 
as he will." To* his son John he gave all the leases that he had 
of the Prior and Convent of Much Malvern;** his lease and 
terms of years of the parsonage of Tewksbury, Gloucester- 
shire, which he had of the grant of the late King Edward VI f 

^Probably the John Hitch mentioned oirp. 131 of 37 Harl. Soc Pubs. 
Grazebrook (384) gives the arms as: Per fess or and sable, three 
estoiles counterchanged. 97 HarL Soc. Pubs. 40 says: Per fess or and 
argent three estoiles sable. 

fin English the inscription is: Here lies William Colles of Leigh in the 
county of Worcester, a gentleman, who died August — , 1558, in his 
6Srd year. 3 Nash, 76, gives the inscription in substantially the same form. 

«48 Woodes, Somerset House, London. 

<A hamlet in Leigh. 

KThat is. Great Malvern. 

©1547-53. 



106 Akcestoss and Descxnbakts of Edmond Hawes 

and certain lands in Herefordshire, which he purchased of Rob- 
ert Winter. "I will my executors shall take all the profits & 
rents of the above lands during the minority of my son John, 
towards his bringing up, & render account thereof & the 
overplus to the said John/' To his daughters Ursula and Eliz- 
abeth he gave £100 each, to be paid on their respective mar- 
riages. To Eleanor Hitch, William Pytcher (son of Richard 
Pytcher), and Alice Rudding (daughter of Jane Rudding) he 
gave £5 each, to be paid on the day of their respective mar- 
riages. To Mistress Anne Wythey he gave ten shillings yearly 
during her life, with meat and drink at the charge of his execu- 
tors, to pray for his soul and all Christian souls ; to each of 
his men servants, a black coat ; to each of his women servants, 
a black gown ; and to every poor man and woman dwelling in 
Leigh, a bushel of grain. To his son Edmond he willed all his 
lands, tenements, leases and ^^akes," not before disposed of. 
The residue of his goods he gave to his wife and his son Ed- 
mond, whom he made his executors, with power to his wife to 
require his son Michael to act as executor also. He bequeathed 
to ^^Maister Shelldon Esquire" his best gelding or three of his 
best mares, on condition that he act as one of his overseers, 
and to Richard Pitchard 40 shillings and a black gown, to be 
his other overseer. He gave to all his sons present at his burial 
black gowns ; to his daughter Jane, £5 ; to his servant William 
Same, SO shillings ; to Andrew Smyth, the lease of certain lands 
called Grales in the occupation of William Rumney ; to the par- 
son of Leigh, SO shillings, to pray for him, his mother and his 
wife and aU Christian souls, and to say every month a mass 
and a dirge for them; to his daughter Anne, 40 shilling; and 
to William Home, 40 shillings and a black coat. June S9, 
1607, a commission was granted to William Colles, next of kin 
to said deceased, to administer his unadministered goods. 

Children: 
Edmond, who was a man of wealth and great distinction, 
having been justice of the peace, a deputy lieutenant and 
thrice sheriff of the County, and "a Justyce in the Coun- 
sell of the Marches of Wales." He purchased the in- 
heritance of the manor of Leigh. He d. in 1606, aged 
76, and was buried in Leigh Church.*^ 

irHabingtoii, voL I, SS9, 400; 1 Grasebrook, 1^ 



The FAMiiiY in Englani) 107 

Michael, of Bradwell, Buckmghamshire, and Hampton in 
Arden, Warwickshire. His son Humphrey became a bar- 
rister, entering the Middle Temple in London August 6, 
1692,* 

WiiiUAM, a London merchant.^ 

John, of Hatfield Court, county of Hereford ; m. widow of 
Wm. Dally.' 

AucE, who m. first Ralph Odell, of Northamptonshire, and 
second Foulk WodhuU, second son of Nicholas, Baron of 
Wodhull.* 

EuzABETH, m. Lawrence Rompney (Romney), of Knight- 
wick, Worcestershire.*' ^ 

Jane, m. Edmund Ruding, of Worcestershire.** ^ 
4 Ursula, m. William Hawes, of Solihull, Warwickshire, in 
1562. 

Anne, m. Richard Pychard (or Pitcher), of Cradley, Here- 
fordshire.^ 
Mabt, m. Raffe Underbill, of Stoneleigh, Co. Warwick.*'^ 

»1 Middle Temple Records, 330. 

yGrasebrook says he was of Parkbury, Hertfordshire. He may have 
retired to that place. 92 HarL Soc. Pubs. 43 erroneously makes him the 
son of Edmond C!olles. 

^Inscription in the church of the parish of Ombersley, Worcestershire: 
*^eere lyethe the body of Dorothy C!olles of Southall in the parishe of 
Doyerdale, daughter to John Nashe of Tapei^all, first the wife of William 
Dally, and after wife of John CJolles, of Hatftdd, Com. Heref., Esquire. 
She departed this Ufe 17 July, 1630, aetatis suae 109." (Habington, voL 
9, p. 999.) 

ol Misc. Gen. et Her., 9d Series, 74, 75. 

(^'Pedigree of C!olles, of Leye, Co. Worcester," printed in 1867 by Sir 
Thomas Phillips, Bart. In Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

oVisitation of Herefordshire, edited by F. W. Weaver in 1886, p. 59. 

<I97 HarL Soc. Pubs. 115 gives the names somewhat differently. 



PORTER 

The Porters originated in Nottinghamshire. Their arms 
were: Sable, three church-bells argent, a canton ermine. 
Crest: A portcullis argent, chained or.* 

1 Weluam Poetee, of Markham, Co. Nottingham, m. . 

Sons: 
WnxiAM, Knight, d. without issue. 
John, of Markham, had issue. 
2 Stephen. 

Heney, a monk at Peterborough. 
RoBEET, Dean of Lincoln. 

2 Stephen Poeter, m. and d. in Sussex. EQs son and 

heir was: 

S RiCHAEB PoETEE, who married Joane, daughter of John 
Wildegose. Her father married the daughter and coheir of 
John Adams, of Crowhurst, Sussex. Her grandfather was Wil- 
liam Wildegose/ The Wildegoses probably lived at Salehurst. 

Children: 
4 John. 
Geoege. 

ROBEET. 

Stephen. 
Perhaps others. 

4 John Poetee, of Bayham in Sussex, yeoman, who mar- 
ried first Anna, daughter of Richard Isted, of Moat House in 
Mayfield, Sussex,^ and second Agnes* ^ who survived him. 

eVisitatioii of Kent (1619), 42 HarL Soc Pubs. 165; Berry's Pedigrees of 
Kent, 331 ; Berry's Pedigrees of Sussex, 316. 

rVisit of Sussex, 53 HarL Soc. Pubs. 308; Berry's Sussex, 10. 

^Berry's Sussex, 101, shows John Baker marrjring Elisabetii, a daughter 
of this Richard Isted, at about the same date. See also p. 115. The 
Isted arms are given in this volume at p. 315. Berry's Kent, 353, says 
Jolm or Richard Isted, of Morehouse, in Mayfield. Barkers General 
Armo^ (p. 533) gives the Isted arms as: Gules, a chevron vaire, between 
three talbots' heacb, erased, or. Crest: A buck's head, erased, proper, at- 
tired and ducaUy gorged, or. 

^Unless Anna should be Agnes. 

108 



The Famelt in England 109 

He died between April 30, 1574 (date of his will), and June S6, 
1674 (date of probate). She was living Dec. 21, 1686. 

Children, hy first wife: 
5 Richard. 

Mabia, who m. Thomas Aynscombe,^ of Mayfield, Sussex, 
was probably by his first wife. She was living Dec. 21, 
1685. 

Children, by second wife, all minors at the date of 
his will: 
John, living Dec. 21, 1585. 

Stephen, d. between March 26, 1581 (date of will),^ and 

May 6, 1681 (date of probate), unmarried and without 

issue. He mentions two sisters. 

George, d. between Dec. 21, 1686 (date of his will),^ and 

Feb. 8, 1585-6 (date of probate), unmarried and without 

/ issue. 

Robert, living August 22, 1584. 

Thomas, living Dec. 21, 1686. 

A DAUGHTER, Hving March 26, 1581. 

5 Richard Porter, of Bayham, married Jane, daughter 
of Robert Whitfield, of Wadhurst in Sussex. He died between 
Aug. 22, 1684 (date of his will), and Sept. 6, 1684 (date of 
probate). His widow married Edward Quimby, Esq., of Ailing- 
ton, Hampshire, who died in 1618 or 1614.' Her will, describ- 
ing her as of Titchfield, Hampshire, was dated Aug. 6, 1618, 
and is signed by her. A codicil, signed with a mark, is dated 
June 25, 1621, and describes her as of Lamberhurst, where she 
was evidently living with her son John. The will and codicil 
were proved June 5, 1624.** 

Children,** all minors at the date of his wUl: 
Thomas, of Goudhurst, Kent, who m. Dionisia, daughter 

of Freebody, of Udimore, Sussex. 

Richard, citizen of London, living Oct. 24, 164S. 

«53 Harl. Soc. Pubs. 198. 

AT Darcy. 

*7 Windsor. 

13 Waters, 1436. 

«»115 Byrde, Somerset House, London; 9 Waters 1436, 1437. 

«»See also 9 Hasted's Kent, 376, 377. 



110 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

John, of Lamberhurst, Kent, who m. Anne, daughter of 
Josiah Cahnadj, of Wembury, Co. Devon. He is styled 
esquire in the probate record. His will^ is dated Oct. 
84, 1643, and was proved Feb. 11, 1644-5. 

Makt, who m. Thomas Groodman of Sussex. 
6 Jane, who m. Edmond Hawes, of Solihull, Co. Warwick. 

Maktha, d. before May SO, 1604, and who was buried in 
the Chancel of Frant Church. 

Elizabeth, who m. first Robert Baker, of Withyham, Sus- 
sex, who died after May SO, 1604 (date of his wiU)^ and 
second Anthony Fowle. She was living Oct. 24, 164S. 

Susanna, b. after the date of his will. Mentioned as living 

unmarried Oct. 24, 1648 (will of her brother John) and 

Feb. 7, 1662-8 (wiU« of John's son Richard). 

Their uncle Stephen Porter gave in his will 20 shillings to 

Jane and 10 shilling each to Mary, John, Thomas, and Martha. 

ABSTRACT OF THE WHX OF JOHN PORTER OF 
BATELL IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, YEO- 
MAN, 80TH APRIL, 1674 

I John Porter of Batell in the county of Sussex, do make my 
last will & testament. 

I will my body be buried in the parish church of Batell. 

I give to the same church box for my burial 10s. 

To the poor man's box of the same church 8s 4d. 

To the poor people of Battell 26s 8d, to be bestowed imme- 
diately after my burial. 

To the poor people of the parish of Frant 18s 4d. 

To the poor people of Battell 18s 4d yearly for the space 
of five years after my death, to be paid by my executors weekly 
during Lent every year. 

I give to Agnes my wife five kyne, one gelding, colour rone, 
4 quarters of wheat, 4 quarters of malt, one seam of oats. 

My will & mind is that all my household stuff at or in my 
house at Battell I give unto Agnes my wife. 

041 Rivers, Somerset House, London. 
P61 Harte; 2 Waters, 1S45, 134S. 
9119 Brent 



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The Family in England 111 

I will my plate be equally divided between Agnes my wife & 
Richard my son immediately after my decease. 

All my household stuff now remaining at Beygham I give to 
Richard Porter my son. 

I give to Thomas A3aiscombe in consideration of the mar- 
riage of Maria my daughter £100 to be paid to him or his as- 
signs within one years after my decease. Also I will to the 
same Thomas Aynescombe my black gelding. 

To Thomas Aynscombe my dau^ter's son, £10, to be paid 
within one years after my death & the same to be put out to the 
child's best advantage, until he come to the age of 21 years, & 
if he die before that age I give to to my daughter Aynescombe 
& her heirs. 

I give to Marie Alchome my servant £3 6 8. 

To John Palmer, John Hayward my servants, to each 6s 8d. 

And all my other, cattel & horse, beasts, come in the field, 
elsewhere not bequeathed, & ^^munition & armure belonging to 
the wars," & all my other goods, debts, chattels & leases not 
bequeathed, I give to my son Richard whom I ordain & make my 
sole executor of this my last will & testament. 

I appoint my brothers, John Baker, George Porter, John 
Berham, Robert Porter & Thomas Aynscombe overseers & I 
give to each of them 40s over & above their reasonable ex- 
penses. 

And if the said Richard my son refuse to prove this my will 
then I will my said overseers shall have full power and author- 
ity to enter into my leases, debts, cattels, com, &c, & the woods 
« which I have bought of the said Lord Montague, & take all the 
profits therefrom for the just payment of my debts. 

I give to every one of my own brothers & sisters children 58 
each, to be paid within one year of my decease. 

This is the last will & testament of me John Porter made & 
declared the year above written, for the disposition of all my 
tenements, watermills, waters, lands, meadows, pastures, woods, 
rents, reversions, & services with all & singular the appurte- 
nances to them belonging, lying & being in the counties of Kent 
& Sussex as well within liberties as without. 

I will & give to Richard Porter my son & his heirs male of 
his body lawfully begotten all those my tenements, watermills, 
waters, lands, meadows, pastures, woodlands, rents with appur- 



112 AnC£8TOS8 and DESCENDANTS OF EdHOND HaWES 

tenances lying & being in the parishes of Brenchlye & Lamber- 
hurst in the county of Kent, and for want of heirs to remain to 
John Porter & the heirs male &c. for ever & lacking such issue to 
the next heir male of me the said John Porter, 

I give to John Porter my son & his heirs male all my tene- 
ments, watermiUs, waters, lands, rents & all appur^^ thereto 
lying in the parish of Marden in the County of Kent, to him & 
his heirs male forever, & lacking such heirs, to remain to my 
son Richard & his heirs male, & lacking such heirs to the next 
heir male of me John Porter. 

I give to Stephen Porter my son & his heirs male &c for ever 
all my marshlands, tenements & heredit°^^' & all appurtenances 
thereto belonging, lying in the Parish of Hoo, in the county of 
Sussex, and lacking such heirs, to remain to Thomas Porter my 
son & his heirs male for ever, & lacking such to the next heir 
male of me John Porter. 

I give to Greorge Porter my son & his heirs male for ever all 
my marsh lands within the Myle & Liberty of Pevensey, in the 
County of Sussex, & lacking such heirs, to remain to Robert 
Porter my son & his heirs male & lacking heirs, to the next heir 
male of me John Porter. 

I give to Agnes my wife the house I dwell in for the term of 
her life & all my copyhold land called Ford Land, Tassarst, 
Loxspyche, & the house & garden in the borow of Mongaye, & 
all that my freehold land & gardens that lie at the side of the 
King's High way in the borow of Mongaye, which said lands 
free & copy lie in the borow of Mongay & Owkham, to remain 
to Thomas Porter my son & his heirs male & lacking such heirs 
to Stephen Porter my son & his heirs male for ever. 

I give to Robert Porter my son & his heirs male, &c, my 
lands & tenements with all appurtenances on the south west 
of Bradysell Greene in the parishes of Battell & HoUyngton in J 

Sussex, also an annuity of £4 descended to me by the death of . ' 

Stephen Porter of Hoo my brother, and for lack of heirs male 
the annuity to remain to George Porter my son & then to the 
next heir male of me John Porter. I give to my son Thomas 
Porter and his heirs male for ever all those my lands in Staple- 
hurst, in Kent, to remain to my son Richard Porter & his heirs * 
male, for ever. 



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The Family in England 113 

I give to Stephen Porter my son & his heirs male for ever my 
tenement In Battell that I bought of one Nicholas Bennett, 
within the borough of Mongaye, to remayne to Greorge Porter 
my son & his heirs male forever. 

I will my wife Agnes be paid £10 yearly out of the manors of 
Brencheley & Lamberhurst ; £8 6 8 from my lands in Marden ; 
£8 6 8 out of my lands in Hoo to be paid half yearly at 
Michaelmas & Lady Day. 

I will my overseers receive the profits of such lands before 
bequeathed to my five younger sons, until they come to the age 
of 21 years, for their bringing up, and when they attain that 
age, I will account should be rendered to them of all profits 
from such land. 

Witnesses : Thomas Woodlbt 

Thomas Berwick 
William Robekth 
Thomas Isted 

Proved 26th day of June, 1674, by Richard Porter, executor 
nominated in the said will. 

Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 26 Martin. 

ABSTRACT OP THE WILL OF RICHARDE PORTER OP 
BE6HAM IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, 22ND 

AUGUST, 1684 

I Richarde Porter do make my last will & testament. 

I give to Jane my wife half my household stuff, cattle & 
com, and £200 to be paid within three months after my decease. 

I give to Mary my daughter £200 to be set aside as soon as 
convenient to her use, to be delivered when she attain the age 
of 21 years, or on her day of marriage, with the overplus of the 
profits thereof over & above her keeping & education which my 
overseers & executors have first paid out of such profits, & their 
necessary expenses sustained in this behalf. 

To Jane my daughter the like sum of £200 to be paid in 
like sort as afore appointed for Mary my daughter. 

To Martha my daughter £200 as above. 

To Elizabeth my daughter £200 as above. 

To the child yet unborn (if it be a maid) the sum of £200. 
And if any such child die before her portion be payable, then 



114 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

her part shall remain to the residue of my daughters. And if 
the said child yet unborn be a man child I give him fSOO, to be 
used in like sort to the portion of my said daughters. 

I give to Richard my son £S00 to be paid in like sort. 

To Thomas my son £S00 to be paid in like sort. 

And if any of my said sons die I will such portion shall remain 
to the residue of my sons then living (John my son only ex- 
cepted.) 

I will my children be well & virtuously brought up in learn- 
ing & other good nurture & education. 

I will to Thomas my son all my lands in Brenchelye which I 
bought of Paule Kynotts and if he die before the age of 21 
years, without issue lawfully begotten, then I will the same shall 
remayne to Richard my son & heis heirs, and my will is my exec- 
utors shall receive the rents & profits thereof until the first of 
them come to age of 21 years & therewith shall pay such yearly 
portion as shall be necessary for his education, & of the rem- 
nant to make an account. 

I will to Thomas & Richard my sons my lease of the parson- 
age of Goutherst when they or any of them come to the age of 
SI years, & if both of them shall die before that time, without 
issue, then I will the same my lease to my child unbome if it be 
a son, & the profits of the said parsonage shall be used by my 
executors until my said sons attain the age of SI years, for 
their education & bringing up. 

Moreover all my leases in Brencheley & all my leases of Beg- 
ham & the lands, woods & works there & all other my goods & 
chattels not bequeathed in this will (my debts & legacies first 
paid & all other due & necessary charges paid) I give unto John 
my son, if he shall live to the age of SI years, & otherwise I 
give the same to Thomas my son on like condition, & if the said 
Thomas die before the age of SI years then I give the same to 
Richard my son. 

And I make my brother Thomas Aynscombe & my brother 
John Porter my executors of this my last will and testament, 
until one of the same my sons be of the age of SI years, & then 
I will that such son be my executor, & then I will that my said 
executors first named & my overseers do make a true account 
to my said son of all receipts of stock & all other things belong- 
ing, & of all charges incurred in the execution of this my will. 



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The Family in England 116 

My will 18 that Thomas Porter my brother shall yearly dur- 
ing four or five years, if he will, be as a clerk or bailiff of my 
iron works, & make an account at every year's end to my execu- 
tors & overseers of all the same charge committed unto him. 

I will my brother Thomas Whitefielde & my uncle Isted be 
overseers of this my will. 

I will that the children of John Gillett deceased shall have a 
lease of such parcels of ground as the said John held of me, in 
fforme according to an Indenture of Lease thereby already 
made but not sealed, and for such rents and covenants as lire 
therein contained. 

I give to my brother John Porter £40. 

To my (brother) Robert Porter £80. 

To the children of my brother Aynscombe £40. 

To every of my maidservants 20s each. 

To Henry my man 40s. 

To the rest of my menservants SOs. each. 

To my overseers £10 each. 

To my brothers Thomas Porter & Greorge 20s each to buy a 
ring. 

To my mother 20s to buy a ring. 

To both the Pullens my "ffyners" 20s each. 

To Mr. Harris & my cosen Ballard 20s each. 

To John Angerfield & Terman my hammermen 20s each. 

To "Baylis the Nayler'' at Wadherst 20s. 

Witnesses: Thomas Harris 
Richard Ballard 
Thomas Porter 
George Porter 

Proved the 6th day of the month of September 1584, by 
Laurence Swinbome, notary public, & lawful proctor for 
Thomas Aynscombe & John Porter, executors nominated in the 
above will. 

Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 24 Watson. 



WHITFIELD 

The Whitfields of Sussex were sprung from the county of 
Cumberland. Their arms were: Argent, a bend plain between 
two cottises engrailed Sable. Crest: Out of a crown vallary 
a stag's head and neck with antlers expanded or.^ 

Waters* gives the following pedigree: 

1 WiLUAM Whitfield, of Whitfield Hall, Cumberland, 

married , daughter and heiress of Richard Holme, of the 

Manor of Alstonmore, Cumberland. Hia son and heir was : 

2 WiLUAM, who married Maud, daughter and coheiress of 
John Wheatley. His son was 

8 John. Hia son 
4 WiixiAM. His son 
6 Richard. His son 

6 Richabd, of Whitfield Hall. His son and heir 

7 Myites, of Newton Berry' in Alstonmore, Cumberland, 
married Matilda . His son was 

8 Robert Whitfield, who came out of the North "80 
years since"^ and dwelt at Wadhurst, Sussex. He married 
Katharine, widow of Wenboume, of Wenboume, in Wad- 
hurst, and second, Agnes, daughter and heiress of John Giles, 
of Bidendon, Kent, and died before March S, 154S-3, when his 
will,^ dated in 1541, was proved. He directed that lie be buried 
in the churchyard at Wadhurst. He mentions his wife Agnes, 
and his children John, Elizabeth, Robert and Thomas. 

rl dutterbuck's History and Antiquities of the county of Hertford 
(1815), 189. 

•9 Gleanings in England, 1353, 1354. He copied Harleian MS 616i in 
the British Museum, with corrections from some otlier MSS. See also 
7 Hasted's Kent, 0Oi. 1 Clutterbuck, 189, gives a pedigree which traces 
the famUy to Northumberland and gives 13 generations previous to my 
number four, from which it is the same. It appears not to include my num- 
ber 3 and transposes the orders of my Nos. 1 and 3. I have made a few 
additions from Clutterbuck. 

<Clutterbuck says Newbury in Alston Moor. 

iiPerhaps about the year 1535. 

ol6 Spert; 9 Waters, 1344. 

116 



The Family in Enoland 117 

Children: 
John, who d. between May 14, 1586 (date of this will),^ 

and June 15, 1686 (date of probate). 
Elizabeth, who m. John Edwards, of Mayfield, Sussex. 

9 ROBEET. 

Thomas. 

9 Robert Whitpield, bom 9 Henry 8 (1517-18); mar- 
ried first Ann, daughter of Greorge Roberts, of Brenchley, 
Kent, and second, Agnes, daughter of William Atwood, of 
Kent. He died before Feb. 16, 1697-8, when his wiU"" (dated 
Dec. 6, 1691) was proved. He is described as gentleman and 
as of Worth, Sussex. He mentions his dau^ters Joan Baker, 
Margaret, Sarah, Jane and Frances, his son T >mas and the 
latter's wife Mildred and his son William's^ wife, Mary. He was 
buried in the Chancel of Emmington Church, near Thame, Ox- 
fordshire. 

Children: 
Thomas Whitfield, of Mortlake in Surrey, who m. Mil- 
dred, daughter of Henry Manning, of Greenwich. His 
son, the Rev. Henry Whitfield, came to Guilford, Conn., 
in 1639, but returned to England in 1660. Some of his 
daughters married and remained in Connecticut.^ 
William, a clergyman, who d. between Oct. 16, 1610 (date 

of his will), and March, 1610-11 (date of probate).' 
Mabgabet. 
Fbances. 
10 Jake, who m. Richard Porter. 
Sabah. 
Joan, who m. Robert Baker. 

«31 Bnidenell; 9 Waters, 1344. 
4^18 Lewyn; 9 Waters, 1845. 
y9 Waters, 1384. 
49 Waters, 1346. 



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1 Edmond^ Hawes* was bom in Solihull, Warwickshire, 
England, and was baptized in the parish church Oct. 15, 
1612.** He was the third and youngest surviving son of Ed- 
mond Hawes, gentleman, of Solihull, and Jane (daughter of 
Richard Porter of Bayham, Sussex), his wife. A school existed 
in Solihull as early as 1560, when the endowment of certain 
chantry chapels in the parish church was devoted to the salary 
of a schoolmaster.^ Mr. Home, a graduate of Oxford Univer- 
sity, was master during the boyhood of Edmond Hawes, the 
emigrant, who was no doubt educated in this school, where 
Latin would have been a principal element in the curriculum.^ 
Francis Hawes,^ a relative (degree not known), of Belchamp 
St. Paul, Essex, by his will^ dated Nov. 7, 16S1, and proved 
in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, April 2, 16SS, de- 
vised to him all his freehold and copyhold estates, subject to 
an annuity of five pounds a year to Anne Morris, the testator's 

^Different families of the name in this country and public officials have 
spelled the name Haws, Hawse, Hause, and in similar ways, but the family 
here described has always used the form Hawes. 

&He wrote his name Edmond, not Edmund, and the early records follow 
him. The printed Plymouth Colony records in a few instances and 
Pope (p. S4S) have the name erroneously Edmond Howes. The books 
exhibit some confusion in the use of the names Hawes and Howes, Savage 
(voL 9, pp. 379 & 380), for instance, having Jeremiah and Thomas Hawes, 
when the name should be Howes. Baylies Ui his History of New Plymouth 
has in several places Edward Hawes erroneously for Edmond, and Jeremiah 
and Thomas Hawes erroneously for Howes. Deyo's Barnstable County 
(p. 477) says erroneously that Edward Howes succeeded Anthony Thacher 
as treasurer of Yarmouth. 5 Plymouth Col. Recs. (p. 914) speaks of 
^Capt." Hawes. The name should be Howes. 

<fParish Register Society, v. 53, p. 65. Under baptisms in 1612 the entry 
is: *The fifteenthe dale of October, Mr. Edmonde, sonne of Mr. Edmonde 
Hawes, de Hillfeeldes." 

eSupra, p. 8. 

«The Vict Hist, of Warwickshire, vol. 3, pp. 357-60. 

fHe was probably the ^ffraunces Hawe" who was baptised in Solihull 
Jan. 19, 1560-1. (Par. Reg. Soc. 53, p. 16.) 

^Abstract, p. 133, infra. 

121 






122 Ancestoes and Descendants op Edmond Hawes 

sister. Mrs. Morris and WiUiam Rastall, an executor of the 
will, having entered upon the lands devised and attempted to 
suppress the will, Edmond Hawes the younger, bj Edmond 
Hawes the elder, his father and guardian, brought a suit in 
Chancery May 16, 1622, to establish his right.* The record 
shows that on Oct. 27, 162S, the court decided that the case 
should be tried at the conunon law and not in chancery. A 
compromise seems to have been arranged since by deed dated 
Feb. 12, 168S-4, he sold to Sir Leventhorpe Franche, Knight, 
for the consideration of 250 pounds, his interest (stated to be 
one half) in these estates.* He had on Feb. 14, 1626-7, bound 
himself to Edmond Warnett,^ citizen and cutler of London, for 
the term of eight years from Feb. 2 preceding. He completed 
his apprenticeship, and was sworn free cutler Dec. 9, 1684.* 
His grandfather, Richard Porter, had iron works and the fam- 
ily was thus probably brought into relations with the Cutlers' 
Company.' The city of London during the period of his resi- 
dence there numbered about 130,000 inhabitants, and with its 
suburbs, including the city of Westminster, about 800,000.** 
He had evidently for some time contemplated emigra- 
tion to America, and having sold his estates and com- 
pleted his appraiticeship, he proceeded to carry his pur- 
pose into effect. He must have been among the well-to-do 
of the early settlers. On and about April 6th, 1685, 68 
men, youths and boys, besides the wives and children of 
divers of these, shipped as passengers at Southampton on 
the ship James of London, 800 tons, Wm. Cooper, master. 
Among them was Edmond Hawes, described as a cutler, late of 
London.** He had relatives near Southampton, and this may have 
determined him in his choice of a point of departure. It appears 

^Abstract, p. 134, infra. 

^Abstract, p. 135, infra. 

/Probably a connection of the family by marriage. Robert Baker of 
Bayham married Elizabeth Porter, sicfter of Jane, mother of Edmond^ 
Hawes. In his will (Harte, 61), dated May 20, 1604, he mentions brother 
and sister Hawes and also brother and sister Wamett. His son John 
Baker in bis wiU (Clarke, 19) dated Oct. 16, 1693, mentions amit and uncle 
Hawes and also aunt and uncle Wamett. 

I^Records of Cutlers' Company of London, p. 136, infra. 

IRichard Porter's will, supra, p. 115. 

ml6 Encyd. Brit, 965. 

iiDrake's Founders of New England, 55 & 56; 14 N. E. Reg. 399, 339-334. 



The Familt in Amebica 1S3 

from the above (pp. 87, 109) that his mother's family lived 
at or near Bayham in Sussex, who could readily be visited on 
his way from London to Southampton, and that his maternal 
grandmother after her marriage with Edward Quimby had re- 
sided very near that port. Winthrop, in his History (Journal) 
vol. 1, page 15S, Hosmer's edition, says, under date of June 3, 
1635, that on this date two Dutch ships arrived, coming from 
the Texel in five weeks three days, and then says: "Here ar- 
rived also, the same day, the James a ship of three hundred 
tons, with cattle and passengers, which came all safe from 
Southampton within the same time. * Mr. Graves was master, 
who had come every year for these seven years." In the Lon- 
don office the Master's name is Cooper. Savage thinks Graves 
might be owner.^ It has been said that the "James" arrived 
at Newbury,^ and perhaps other towns have been claimed as 
the landing place. There is, however, no doubt that she arrived 
at Boston. Gov. Winthrop states that she arrived **here." 
When any other port than Boston is intended, he names it. 
Between his^ arrival in Boston, June 3, 1636, and Oct. 2, 1637, 
when he was granted land in Duxbury, it is not known where 
he was nor what he was doing. Many of his feUow passengers 
on the "James" went to Newbury, several to Salem and a few 
remained in Boston. Of his fellow passengers, William Paddy, 
who like himself was from London, went to Plymouth, where he 
was granted land March 14, 1635-6,^ and Hawes may have 
been in Plymouth some time before the Duxbury grant was 
made to him, but Pope** is wrong in making him a proprietor 
in Plymouth. He later owned land in Marshfield. After he 
sold the land first granted to him in Duxbury, he is described 
as of that town, and no ground appears for the statement of 
Winsor that he removed to Marshfield.' His fellow passenger, 
William Kemp, seems to have followed him to Duxbury, where 
he was granted land Jan. 7, 1638-9.^ Hawes was not on the 

oSavage's edition of Winthrop, vol. 1, p. 199. 

9Swift'8 Old Yarmouth, 45, 64, 55; Deyo's Barnstable County, 456. In 
tliese works it is also said that the James sailed on or about April 6. 
This was about the date of shipment of Edmond Hawes and others. 
Winthrop's statement would show that she did not $a%l earlier than April 96. 

fVHawes's. 

«1 Plym. CoL Recs. 40. 
rPioneers, 991. 
•History of Duxbury, 966. 
n Plym. CoL Recs. 109. 



124 Ancestobs and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

list of those between 16 and 60 years of age able to bear arms 
in August, 164S, in the Plymouth Colony. The omission may 
have been due to lameness or some other physical disability that 
rendered him incapable of bearing arms, or it is possible that 
in the interval between leaving Duxbury and taking up his res- 
idence in Yarmouth, he visited England for family or other 
reasons. His removal to Yarmouth may be assumed to have 
been due to the presence there of his fellow passenger on the 
James, Anthony^ Thacher, who was one of the original grantees 
of the town. Thacher was the older and was the leading man 
of Yarmouth and Hawes was the next in position until the 
former's death in 1667, when Hawes took his place and kept 
it till his death in 1693. They held office together, dwelt side 
by side and were evidently close friends. Hawes is first men- 
tioned in the Plymouth Colony Records Oct. 2, 1687, when ten 
acres of upland were granted to him in Duxbury, ^^lyinge crosse 
Greens Harbor Path, next to Wilm Mullens on the south 
side.'*^ Aug. 7, 1688, he became sui^ety for Thomas Boardman 
of Sandwich, who had come from London, on a bond of 80 
pounds for Boardman's good behavior. Edmond Hawes is here 
styled "yeoman" and described as of Duxbury. The bond was 
released four days later .^ April 1, 1689, he is among those 
who requested of the Court of Assistants upland and meadow.' 
April 6, 1640, his lands above described are referred to.^ Nov. 
S, 1640, he was "graunted thirty acres next Daniel Coles lands, 
beyond the South River, wth meddow land to it, if it be there 
to be had."^ This tract was within the bounds afterward fixed 
for Marshfield. Sept. 10, 1641, he sold to Robert Carver, 
sawyer, of Duxbury, his ten acres of upland above described, 
"wth all his labours in & aboute the same," the consideration 
being SOOO feet of sawn boards. A marginal note states that 
"this bargain is reversed by consent of both partis in June 
the 7th, 1648."** March 1, 1641-2, he is mentioned as con- 
stable of Duxbury. He was sworn as such June 7, 1642. The 

KThis is the modem spelling. Thacher himself wrote his name Antony. 

«1 Plym. CoL Recs. 66, 

«&Ib. 94. 

•lb. 130. 

ylb. 146. 

«Ib. 165. 

al Plym CoL Deeds, 75. 



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The Family in Ameeica 1S5 

same year he was surveyor of highways for that town.* June 
7, 164S, he was on a jury.^ June 5, 1644, he was admitted a 
freeman and was on the grand jury.** He appears not to have 
been sworn as a freeman at that court, since in the proceedings 
of the Court of March 8, 1644-6, there is this entry: "Ed- 
mond Hawes, of Yarmouth, admitted freeman this Court and 
swome."* He had removed to Yarmouth before the end of 
1644 according to modem reckoning, for on Jan. 7, 1644-5, he 
was a witness with Anthony Thacher to a deed by Nicholas 
Simpkins of Yarmouth to Andrew Hallett of the same place 
conveying land in that town.^ He seems to have taken the oath 
of fidelity at Duxbury before his removal to Yarmouth.^ June 
2, 1646, a committee of one from each town, including Edmond 
Hawes, was appointed to ^^consider of a way for the defraying 
the charges of the ma*'**®" table, by way of excise upon wyne 
& other thinges."* July 7, 1646, he was among the "men nom- 
inated and appoynted in every Towne to recover the Excise & 
gather it." June 1, 1647, June 7, 1648, June 8, 1664, and 
Oct. 3, 1665, he was again appointed receiver of excise for 
x^rmouth. On the last occasion two others were joined with 
him.* On July 7, 1646, he was fined 12 pence for non-attend- 
ance as committee or deputy for Yarmouth at the court of 
that date. At the same time his colleague Anthony Thacher 
and the two deputies for Barnstable were fined 6 pence each 
for non-attendance. It is probable there was some common 
cause for the non-attendance from Barnstable and Yarmouth. 
Why Hawes was fined double the others does not appear.^ June 
7, 1648, he begins to be styled **Mr." in the records. In the 
proceedings of the Greneral Court of that date appears this 
entry: "Mr. Edmond Haws presenting a parssell of waights 
to the Court, to bee the standerd for the waights of Yarmouth, 

^9 Plym. Ck>l. Recs. 34, 40; Winsor's Duxbury 92; Peirce's Colonial Lists, 
53. 

07 Plym. Col. Recs. 31. 
d9 ib. 71. 

elb. 80. 

m Plym. CoL Deeds, 173; 10 Mf. 141, 149. 

08 Plym. CoL Recs. 189. 
h9 ib. 101. 

<Ib. 105, 116, 195; 4 ib. 67, 105; Plym. CoL Laws, 187. 
f9 Plym. CoL Recs. 106. 



126 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

the Court doe alow them so to bee."^ Differences having arisen 
among the inhabitants of Yarmouth respecting the division of 
the lands there, the Court March 7, 1647-8, appointed Captain 
Myles Standish to settle them. On May 14, 1648, he ordered 
among other things that ^^Mr. Hawes shall enjoy 8 acars of 
upland or thereabouts, in the west feild,' which hee bought of 
Goodman Chase," and that ^^Mr. Hawes shall relinquish eight 
acares of land granted to him [by the town or its committee] 
in the weste feild, and take it up in som other convenient 
place." He also ordered that Robert Dennis should enjoy ten 
acres which he bought of Mr. Hawes. Edmond Hawes was one 
of the representatives of the town in these negotiations.*" 
June 8, 1649, Mr. Hawes conveyed to Thomas Bourne of 
Marshfield about SO acres of upland in Marshfield, lying on the 
N. side of the South River between the lands of Daniel Cole and 
John Alden, with the meadow belonging thereto." June 6, 
1650, he was on a jury.** Oct. 2, 1660, he with others had a 
suit against John Crow, William Nickerson and Lt. William 
Palmer, but the grounds of it do not appear.^ He was one of 
the witnesses to a deed by an Indian to trustees for the town 
of Scituate, which was recorded in 1668.* The inventory of the 
estate of Thomas Chillingworth of Marshfield, sworn to June 
7, 165S, contains an item of ^^S tractes of land with meddow 
belonging to them bought of late of Mr. Edmond ffreeman and 
Edmond hawes," appraised at 65 pounds.'' Mr. Hawes gave 
full power to John Washburn, Sr., to sell his meadow lying 
next to Andrew Ring's at Bluefish River, in Duxbury, and 
Washburn conveyed the same to William Tubbs. These instru- 
ments were recorded in 1654 immediately after a deed by 
Tubbs to Experience Mitchell, dated Nov. 89, 1668, conveying, 
besides other land, ^^an acre of meddow and two acres of mersh 

ftlb. 12S, 196. 

l"The West Field was an open tract, cultivated by the Indians, bounded 
southerly by Dennis Pond, westerly by the bounds of Barastable, north- 
erly it extended nearly to the present county road, and easterly to Hawes' 
Lane" (1 Otis's BamsUble Families, 469 n.). 

mQ Plym. CoL Recs. 198, 130; Swift, 48, 54, 55. 

m Plym. CoL Deeds, 174. 

o7 Plym. CoL Recs. 40. 

Pib. 50. 

fld Plym. CoL Deeds, 99; 6 Mf. 100. 

rl Plym. CoL WiUs, 120; 11 Mf. 157, 158. 



The Famtlt in Amebica 127 

meddow formerly bought of Edmond hawes."* Feb. 2S, 
1655-6, he was one of those who took the inventory of John 
Darby of Yarmouth.* In 1655-6 he represented both Yar- 
mouth and Barnstable in the letting of the trade ^^att Kenne- 
becke."^ In 1658 he represented Yarmouth in a controversy 
between the town and Anthony Thacher, Thomas Howes and 
John Crow, the committee charged with disposing of the com- 
mon lands, respecting certain Indian lands, which contro- 
versy was adjusted by John Alden and Capt. Josias Winslow 
as arbitrators.^ June 10, 1658, June 16, 1664, June 9, 1665, 
and June 7, 1674, he was one of the auditors of the Colonial 
Treasurer's accounts.^ Sept. 14, 1659, he was one of those 
who took the inventory of William Chase of Yarmouth.' June 
7 and Oct. 6, 1659, he is mentioned as constable of Yarmouth.^ 
In that year he again represented Yarmouth respecting the 
Kennebeck trade, which had been interrupted by Indian trou- 
bles.' In 166S with Anthony Thacher he appraised the books 
left by the Rev. John Miller.* June 7, 1665, he was one of 
nine men to whom were granted the lands (except 100 acres al- 
lowed to William Nickerson) at "Mannamoiett" (Chatham) 
which said Nickerson had illegally purchased of the Indians.^ 
July 8, 1672, these lands were conveyed to Nickerson by the 
grantees for a consideration of 90 pounds.^ Nov. SO, 1666, 
he was named as overseer in the will of John Joyce of Yar- 
mouth.** April 2, 1667, Mr. Anthony Thacher, Mr. Edmond 
Hawes and Thomas Howes, together with the commissioned 
officers in the town, were appointed the Council of War for Yar- 
mouth by the Council of War for the Colony.* Mr. Hawes 
was again appointed on the town Council of War Feb. 89, 

<9 Plym. CoL Deeds, 19S; 8 Mf. 73. 

«6 N. E. Reg. 335; 14 Mf. 119. 

kS Plym. CoL Recs. 96. 

«Ib. 146. 

ws ib. 9% 110, 113, 141. 

«5 N. £. Reg. 388. 

¥3 Plym. CoL Recs. 163, 173. 

«Ib. 170, 171. 

al Pope, 314. 

H Plym. CoL Recs. 96, lOd. 

«3 Plym. Col. Deeds, 359. 

de N. E. Reg. 188. 

e4 Plym. CoL Recs. 145, 146. 



128 Ancestobs and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

1675-6, this time at its head/ June 30, 1667, he with others 
(his name standing second on the list) signed a paper to the 
Grovemor and Assistants in favor of the Rev. Thomas Thornton 
against lan attack by Nicholas Nickerson, of which a reduced 
facsimile appears in Swift's Old Yarmouth (p. 90) and of 
which a copy is appended hereto (p. 188 infra) J' Sept. 18, 
1667, he was one of those who took the inventory of Anthony 
Thacher.^ Dec. 11, 1668, he was one of those who took the 
inventory of William Clarke/ The will of William Lumpkin, 
of Yarmouth, dated July S8, 1668, contained this clause: ^^I 
Doe Nominate and appoint my beloved frinds Mr. Edmond 
hawes and John Thacher; as frinds in trust; To see this my 
last will and Testament truely p^'formed." Mr. Hawes was 
a witness and deposed to the will June S4, 1671, before Thomas 
Hinckley, Assistant,^ June 80, 1670, he was one of the over- 
seers of the will of William Hedge, of Yarmouth.* In 1678 
Edmond Hawes was appointed chairman of the committee 
charged with disposing of the common lands of Yarmouth.' In 
1674 his house was burned' and with it the town records. A 
new house was erected on the same site.*" In 1674 he was one of 
the appraisers of part of the estate of Thomas Phillips.** June 
1, 1676, he was one of the appraisers of the estate of the Rev. 
John Mayo of Yarmouth.^ The same year he was one of the rate 
makers for Yarmouth. His tax was four pounds nine shil- 
lings and five pence, the highest, that of Joseph Severance, be- 
ing 16 pounds and three shillings and the total S97 pounds.^ 
Nov. 20, 1679, he witnessed the will of Samuel Ryder, of Yar- 
mouth, and deposed to it Feb. S5, 1679-80. He was one of those 
who took the inventory Dec. 9, 1679. The will contains this 

f& ib. 186. 

^See 4 ib. 158. In the Swift photograph appear the signatures of 
Bdmond Hawes, James Matthews, John Crow, Richard Taylor, Jeremiah 

Howes and Richard Sears, ancestors of the writer. 

*7 N. E. Reg. 177. 

*Plym. Col. Wills m Bam. Prob. Office, 298. 

iS Plym. Col. Wills (pt 1) 30; 12 Mf. 140. 

»Plym. Col. Wills in Bam. Prob. Office, 300. 

ISwift, 124. 

wilb. 95. 

»Plym. Col. Wills in Bam. Prob. Office, 313. 

03 Plym. CoL Wills (pt. 1) 165; 9 Mf. 120. 

pSwift, 105; 2 Freeman, 195. 



The Family in Ameeica 129 

clause: ^^I Doe alsoe Request my trusty and welbeloved f rinds 
Mr. Edmond Hawes, and John lliacher to be helpfull to my Ex- 
ecutors, as Need may require. Concerning this my Last will."^ 
Jan. SI, 1679-80, with John Thacher he fixed the bounds of the 
land of Richard Taylor, Sr., near Nobscusset in Yarmouth.'' 
He was one of the executors named in the will of Thomas Fol- 
land, Sr., of Yarmouth, dated Oct. 1, 1686, and proved May 
81, 1687.' Thomas Boardman, of Yarmouth, in his will dated 
Aug. 9, 1689, requested Mr. Edmond Hawes and John Thacher 
to be helpfull to his executrix.* Hawes was deputy for Yar- 
mouth to the General Court at Plymouth in 1646 and fifteen 
terms thereafter until and including 1675. He was one of the 
selectmen of the town in 1666, when selectmen were first chosen 
in the Colony, and continuously thereafter until and including 
1688, S3 years in all. With one or two exceptions, his name 
headed the list during all these years.^ He was town clerk and 
treasurer from 1667 till his death, 87 years, succeeding An- 
thony Thacher, the first incumbent, upon the latter's death.^ 
The duties of the selectmen were important and largely of a 
judicial character.^ Mr. Hawes had other lands than those 
mentioned above, as appears by the following extract from 
page 17 of the Book of Grants of Yiarmouth, commenced in 
1672 and referring to some earlier grants : ^^Given and granted 
to Mr. Edmond Hawes formerly his heirs and assigns forever 
twelve acers of land at ye South Sea which is now in ye tene- 
ment and poscescion of John Hathaway and eight acers of 
Meddow to acers of it being an iland lying and being in ye lone 
tree creek and is ye biggest iland and the other six acres lying 
and being in ye meddows at ye dockters Wares, 1669." The 
South Sea was on the south side of Cape Cod on Vineyard 
Sound opposite Yarmouthport. The "iland" is surrounded 
by salt meadow and lies N. of Yarmouthport between it and the 
bay about % m. from the Barnstable line. "Dockters wares" 
lay on the South Sea. Among the first settlers of Yarmouth 

«4 Plym. CoL WiUs (pt. 1) 45, 46; 11 Mf. 51. 

rl Plym. CoL Deeds, 149, 148. 

•1 Barn. Prob. Recs. 5; 3 Mf. 176. 

n Barn. Prob. Recs. 97; 10 Mf. 109. y 

KPlym. Col. Recs. pasHm, 

vSwift, 938; Peirce, 16. 

foPlym. Col. Laws, 913, 917-919, 938. 



ISO Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

was Thomas Starr, a physician, who in 1645 was granted lands 
by the Colony Court, including four acres of meadow on the 
S. side of the town toward the South Sea.' It is probable that 
he erected fishweirs here and thus gave a name to the locality. 
The house of Mr. Hawes stood in the N. W. part of the town, 
now Yarmouthport, between those of Anthony Thacher and An- 
drew Hallett. Next to Thacher was John Miller.^ An inscribed 
stone near the salt marsh now marks the site of the Thacher 
house. The residence of Edmond Hawes was about a quarter of 
a mile S. of the Thacher tablet. It is also said (1890) that Ed- 
mond Hawes lived on the lot in the rear of the store of J. Knowles 
& Co.' Otis says that the Hawes farm was where Edward 
W. Crocker resided about I860." "The house of Edmund 
Hawes is supposed to have stood near the Lyceum Hall in the 
N. W. part of the town. In about 1675 his house burnt and 
all the town records with it. A new house was built on or 
near the same spot."^ The conflagration doubtless took place 
in 1674, since the new records date from that year.® The Yar- 
mouth records mention the death of the wife of Edmond Hawes 
on July 19, 1689, but do not give her name. Winsor in his 
History of Duxbury (p. 266) states that her name was Lucy, 
but gives no authority. It is noticeable that none of his 
grandchildren had that name, and it is possible that Winsor, 
seeing in the Colony records Lucy, wife of Thomas Boardman, 
in connection with Edmond Hawes's suretyship for Boardman, 
may inadvertently have taken her to be the wife of Hawes. 
His first grandson is named Eklmond for him and it may be 
that his first granddaughter, Elizabeth, was named for his wife. 
On the other hand, perhaps Lucy is a name not likely to be 
continued at that period of Colonial history, and Winsor may * i 

have seen some deed acknowledged by her. Acknowledgments by 

»Swift, 55, 80; 2 Plym. Col. Recs. 81, 82. ^ 

y9 Plym. CoL Recs. 198, ISO; Swift, 45, 54, 55. f 

«Deyo'8 Bam. Ck>. 457. \ 

aVoL 1, p. 486. 

5W. P. Davis (1883), for many years town derk and an authority on 
Yarmouth liistory. 

o9 Mf. 307. Lyceum Hall and the Knowles store are near together. 
Hawes Lane is still a thoroughfare. '^Clark's Neck is in the northerly part 
of Yarmouth, west of the Alms House. It was successively called Gor- 
ham's Matthews', and Hawes' Neck." (1 Otis, 415n.). 



The Family in Amebic a 181 

the wife were required by a law passed Oct. 25, 1645,^ but seem 
frequently not to have been recorded in early times. It is not 
certain that the wife who died in 1689 was his first wife and 
so the mother of his son John,^ nor is it certain whether he was 
married in England or America nor whether he had other chil- 
dren who died young. He died June 9, 169S, and was buried 
the next day.** He left a will dated May 5, 1692, with a codicil 
dated March 31, 1693, which were proved July 20, 1693.* 
The will states that he was "aged and under much bodily decay 
and weakness." It mentions his son John and the latter's wife 
Desire, grandsons Edlnond, John, Joseph (then under age), 
Jabez, Ebenezer, Isaac and Benjamin, and granddaughters 
Elizabeth Dogged (Dogget), Mary Bacon, Desire Hawes and 
Experience Hawes. He gives a legacy to his great-grandchil- 
dren without naming them, and makes his son John executor. 
The codicil shows his land to be bounded on the E. by John 
Thacher's and on the W. by John Hallett's. The inventory^ 
of his estate taken Aug. 1, and sworn to Aug. 29, 1693, in- 
cluding debts due him, amounted to 132 pounds and nine shil- 
lings, of which 100 pounds represented real estate. Against 
this there was due to his son John "for diat and tendance" 
the sum of 29 pounds and three shillings. It is likely that he 
had made gifts to his son on the latter's marriage and that the 
destruction of his house, carrying with it the loss of personal 
property including books, had further reduced his estate. The 
following extract from Swift's Old Yarmouth (pp. 64 & 66) 
is inserted, though containing some inaccuracies: "Edmund 
Hawes came passenger in ship James, of London, which sailed 
from Southampton, England, about the sixth of April, 1636.^ 
He was described as a ^cutler,' doubtless to avoid being de- 
tained by the authorities, as other emigrants were for similar 
reasons.^ He was also set down as late of London. Mr. 
Hawes resided for some years at Duxbury before he came to 
this town. In 1646 he was an inhabitant of Yarmouth and a 



«« Plym. Ck>L Recs. 93. 

dYar, Recs.; Swift, 55. 

el Barn. Prob. Recs. 83, 84; infra, p. 139. 

fib. 85; a copy, p. infra, 14d. 

l^This was about the date of shipment, not of sailing. 

^He was in fact a cutler. 



13S Ancestobs and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Deputy to the Court. He was appointed in 1672 chairman of 
the Land Committee, and for many years was one of the board 
of selectmen and Assessors. He held the position of Town 
Clerk, succeeding Anthony Thacher, at the time of his death. 
His lands were situated between the lands of the Hallets and 
the Thachers, at the eastern part of what is now called Hallet 
Street, and the highway running to the easterly side of Dennis 
Pond was long known as *Hawes's Lane.' He survived nearly 
all the first settlers in Yarmouth. His death is recorded with 
great formality in the old records : ^Mr. Edmund Hawes died 
upon the 9th day of June, and was buried the tenth day of 
June one thousand six hundred and ninety three, 169S.' His 
age at the time of his death is not given, but he must have been 
about eighty years old.^ He was a man of education and good 
parts, and was a leading character of the town and colony. 
He had one son, John, who was also a man of influence and 
high character, and from whom the families in Chatham and 
other places in the county descended. None of his male de- 
scendants of the name are now [1884] resident in Yarmouth." 
Respecting Edmond Hawes, it may be observed that Winsor, in 
his History of Duxbury (p. 81), says the office of constable 
was one ^^of high trust and responsibility, and none were elected 
to it but men of good standing." In fact, in early times, con- 
stables instead of being mere peace officers, as now, had various 
other functions, such as acting as collectors of taxes, as coro- 
ners in summoning juries of inquest, and when a call was made 
for military duty, they impressed men for the service.^ Swift 
in "Old Yarmouth" (p. 79), speaking of the early settlers, 
says : ^^ Anthony Thacher, Edmond Hawes, and Richard Sears 
were certainly men of education and social standing in Eng- 
land"; and (p. 81) : "Lawyers were not tolerated in the Col- 
ony, but conveyances, wills and other legal writings were exe- 
cuted by Anthony Thacher, Edmund Hawes and John Miller, 
according to the formulas of English practice." Swift also 
(p. SSI) says: "Edmund Hawes, Anthony Thacher, Andrew 
Hallet, senior, and others of the first settlers of this town, were 
men of good acquirements ; and, with the first ministers, kept 
up the standard of education, better than it was reasonable to 

<He was 81. 

/See 11 N. E. Reg. 114 n. and 36 N. E. Reg. 174 and 955, at p. 966. 



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expect," In a primitive community. Edmond Hawes was bom 
four years after the poet Milton and four years before the 
death of Shakespeare, whose birthplace at Stratford-on-Ayon 
was in the same county as Solihull and only about 18 miles 
distant from it in a southerly direction. It is quite possiUe 
that the emigrant's father may have had a personal acquaint- 
anceship with the great dramatist. Quebec was founded by the 
French but four years before Edmond Hawes was bom, and the 
English settlement at Jamestown had its beginning only five 
years before. He was 8 years old when the Mayflower first 
reached Plymouth. With the exception of twelve years at the 
beginning and seven years at the close, he lived throu^ the 
entire 17th century, his life covering much of the reign of James 
I, the reign of Charles I, the supremacy of Cromwell, the reigns 
of Charles II and James II, and the beginning of the reign of 
William and Mary. He was thus a contemporary of the mo- 
«mentous events of those periods, which meant so much to the 
civil and religious liberty of the mother country and the col- 
onies. His life covered the entire separate existence of the 
Plymouth colony, and for over 50 years he was a prominent 
actor in its affairs. When he reached Boston, its settlement 
was less than five years old. The population of the Massachu- 
setts Colony was perhaps 4000 and of Plymouth Colony 000.* 
When he died, the united colonies numbered about 47,000 
(Massachusetts 40,000 and Plymouth 7000).' 

ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF FRANCIS HAWES OP 

BELCHAMPE ST. PAULE IN THE COUNTY OP 

ESSEX, NOVEMBER 7TH, 1681 

I Francis Hawes do make my last will & testament. I 
will my body be buried in the Church or Churchyard of Bd- 
champe. 

I give and bequeathe all & singular my lands, houses, & tene- 
ments "al [sic] well coppie as free" unto Edmond Hawe ab 
Hawes, being the youngest son of Edmond Hawe als Hawes of 

*1 Palfrey's New England, 331, 339, 9S5, 371. 
Ill Appletons' Am. CycL 959. 



1S4 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Solihull in the County of Warwick, gent., & to his heirs for 
ever, Provided that out of these lands £6 a year be allowed to 
my Sister Anne Morrice to be paid to her or her assigns at 
her lawful request being made at my now dwelling house called 
Coles situated in Belchamp St. Faule, at the Feast of Annun- 
ciation & the Feast of St. Michael. 

And after the death of my Sister An Morrice I will & be- 
queathe the said £6 to Arthur Hawe alias Hawes of Solihull 
aforesaid & to his heirs for ever, to be paid at the said feasts. 

I give to An & Mary Fining, daughters of my late sister 
Joane Fining, £6 each. 

Executors: Henry Rastell of Stanford in the County of 
Lincoln, gent., & William Rastell, his brother. 

The rest of my goods I give & bequeathe to Ann Morrice 
my sister and her six children: — Grolding Morrice, Thomas 
Morrice, William Morrice, An Morrice, Ursula Morrice & 
Joan Morrice, to be divided amongst them. 

Signed: Feancs Hawes. 

Witnesses : William Nelson 

Christopher Browne 
Nicholas Morrice 

Froved 2nd April 1622 by William Rastell, one of the Exec- 
utors nominated in the above will, power being reserved to the 
other Executor Henry Rastell. 

(F. C. C, Savile 80.) 

ABSTRACT OF BttL IN CHANCERY 

HAWES V. MORRIS. 

16 May, 1622. Orator Edmond Hawes the younger, 
gent., an infant within the age of 14 years, by Edmond Hawes 
of Solihull, CO. Warwick, the elder, his father and guardian. 
Whereas Fmncis Hawe, als Hawes, late of Bdchampe St. Faul, 
CO. Essex, dec, was seized of and in one house and bam with 
two gardens, 1*0 acres of land, being freehold & worth £20 
per ann., and of copyhold holden of tiie Manor of Belchampe 
si. Faul. 



The Famelt in Ame&ica 1S5 

Francis having no issue & jour Orator being of his name 
& blood & one whom he much loved & affected & desired to 
p'ferre & advance as himself often affirmed. The 7 Novr last 
Francis made his will & devised all his houses, lands, both free 
& Copyhold, to your Orator, but did declare his sister Ann 
Morrice should have yearly for life £5 to be paid at the then 
dwelling house of Francis called Coles in Belchampe St. Paul 
and after the death of Ann Morrice the £6 to Arthur Hawes 
for ever. A surrender to the use of the will was made 24 Feby 
last. Testator died 86 or 26 Feby last past, immediately 
after whose death the said Ann Morrice & Wm Rastall pos- 
sessed themselves of the aforesaid will & of all the deeds. Last 
Lady Day your Orator paid Ann Morrice £6 — . according to 
the aforesaid will. 

Ann & William have entered the lands, which may tend to 
the disinheritance of your said Orator & is contrary to all 
equity, so a writ is asked for against Anne Morrice & William 
Rastall. 

The answer of Ann Morris was that the land came to this 
deft, as sister and next heir of the entire blood of Francis 
Hawes, and she does not know that Francis made such will. 

(Chancery Proceedings James I, H 8-28; Public Record 
Office, London.) 

ABSTRACT OF DEED. 

This mdenture made the 12 of Feby, 9 Charles I, 1688-4, 
between Edmund Hawe, alias Hawes, sonne of Edmund Hawe, 
alias Hawes, of SoUyhull in the County of Warwick, gent., of 
the one part, & Sir Leventhorpe Franche of Hattefield Bro- 
docke, Essex, knight, of the other part, Witnesseth that Ed- 
mond in consideration of £250 hath sold unto Sir Leventhorpe 
all the one half which Edmond hath in these freehold lands, 
that is to say, one messuage called Cuftes, otherwise Coles, 
with a pasture, in Belchamp S. Paul, Essex, between the high- 
way leading from Ovington toward Sudbury & a yard called 
Leapers & a crofte sometimes John Freer's & John Neale's, 
one moiety of two other peeces of land in Belchamp S. Paul 
between Luckins Lane & the said Highway, & the land called 
Whitedache, a moiety of Walpooles peece, Whiteditch, Pound- 
feild als Whiteditch Field, Bremble Croft, one grove now 



186 Akcsstoes and Descendants op Edmond Hawes 

called Hawkes Wood, sometime Longcroft, etc., with all other 
lands which Edmond Hawe the younger has in co Essex* 

17 Feby., 9 Car. I, EUlmond Hawe came into Cihancery ft 
acknowledged this deed. 

aose Rolls in P. R. O., 10 Oar. I, Pt. 1, roll 8997, p. ««.) 

EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE WORSHIP- 
FUL COMPANY OF CUTLERS OF THE CITY OF 
LONDON, TOGETHER WITH SOME AC- 
COUNT OF THE COMPANY. 

By Chaeles Welch, 
Past Master, Now Engaged Upon a History of It. 

Book of Apprentices' Bmdings, 1576-1626, p. 106. 

^^Edmond Hawes filu Edmondi Hawes de Solchull in com. . . . 
. . . Gent Posuit Eklmonde Wamett cs. et Cultelar' London A 
f es . . . . Purificationis vltimo vsq. Octo Annoru' Dat' xiii j^ 
ffebruarij ....*' 

The above entry was made by a scribe who had a very poor 
knowledge of the official Latin of the early 17th c«itury. Duly 
extended in its abbreviations, and with some necessary correc- 
tions, it should read as follows: — 

Edmond Hawes filius Edmondi Hawes de Solihull in comi- 
tatu Warwicensi generosi posuit se Edmonde Wamett civi 
et Cultellario London, a festo Purificationis Beate Marie Vir- 
ginis vltimo vsque ad terminum octo annorum. Dat. xiiij ffeb- 
ruarij 1626. 

The following is a translation : — 

Edmond Hawes son of Edmond Hawes of Solihull in the 
County of Warwick, gentleman, binds himself to Edmond War- 
nett citizen and Cutler of London, from the feast of the Puri- 
fication of the Blessed Virgin Mary last past to the end of the 
term of eight years. Dated the 14th of February, 1626. 

N. B. The Feast of the Purification is 2 February. Soli- 
hull is a town in Warwickshire on the Great Western Rail- 
way, 18 miles N. W. of Warwick, 7 miles S. W. of Birming- 
ham, and 122^ miles distant from London. It is pleasantly 
situated and well built. 



The Family in America 187 

The above original entry is taken from a book which was 
damaged seemingly, i.e. at first sight, beyond repair. It is 
only a fragment of the original, and at present consists of 
loose leaves awaiting binding. The page (106) given to the 
entry belongs to a pencil numeration which will probably how- 
ever be permanently adopted. The arrangement of the book 
is chronological, and the entry occurs in its due order among 
those of the year 1626. The fourth letter in the name of the 
town — Solihull — certainly looks like a "c,*' but is evidently 
meant for an "i.'' There is no such place as Solchull. 

. 

Minute Book of the Court of Assistants, 1602-1667, folio 
285a: 

^^A Court Tewesdaye the 9 of December 16S4 Annoq. RR. 
Caroli Anglie &c. decimo Mr. ffrauncis Cob Master, 
Joseph Rogers and William Foulton Wardens, Mr. William 
Davis, Mr. Thomas Tuck, Mr. Henry Withers, Mr. Robert 
South, Mr. Edmund Hutchenson, Mr. Adam Ward, Mr. ffraun- 
cis ffulwell, Thomas Tayler, George Moore, Edward Hynson, 
Thomas Eyewater, William Caue, Thomas Harte, Gabriell Par- 
teridge, Thomas Beedham, John Miller, Robt. ffowlzer 

ffreemen swome 
Edmund Hawes the apprentice of Edmund Wamet sworne free 
Cutler'' 

THE CUTLERS' COMPANY 

The corporate title of the Company, under its charters, is 
"The Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the Mistery of Cut- 
lers of London," but their usual designation at the present day 
is "The Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants of the 
Worshipful Company of Cutlers of the City of London." The 
Company existed by prescription from a remote period, but 
they obtained their first charter from King Henry V in the 
year 1417 (two years after the victory of Agincourt). 

Cutlers' Hall, built in the 15th century, was situated in 
Cloak Lane, Dowgate Hill. Here it remained for centuries, 
until it was removed about twenty years ago to Warwick Lane, 
Newgate Street, the site of the old Hall in Cloak Lane, having 
been required for the District Railway. The Arms of the Com- 



1S8 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

pany date from the 15th century, or perhaps earlier." The 
present members number about 110, and the niunber in the 17th 
century might have been 150, or perhaps more. The wealthi- 
est members of the trade were the bladesmiths or makers of 
sword blades. But the Company included many other classes, 
such as the knife-makers, razor-makers, edgetool-makers, grind- 
ers, &c., besides the shopkeepers. The Company has no School, 
but has several Exhibitions to the Universities, and apprentices 
a large number of boys to the surgical instrument trade. The 
privileges of a Freeman in this, as in all the City Companies, 
were of high value in former times (say before 1750) ; none 
but Freemen could set up in business in the City of London, the 
Freemen had the protection of the Company in their trade (all 
Freemen were also subject to its discipline), and they had a 
claim upon the Company's charity if they fell into poor circum- 
stances. The privileges of the Liverymen (a higher grade in the 
Company) were still higher ; from them were chosen the Court 
of Assistants, i.e., the governing body of the Company, and 
they (the Liverymen) were privileged, with the Liverymen of 
the other Companies, to elect the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, 
and the Members of Parliament for the City of London. The 
Livery still have these privileges, and after finishing this note 
for you I am going today [June S7, 1910] up to Guildhall as 
a Citizen and Cutler of London to record my vote in a con- 
tested election for Sheriffs, a poll having been demanded at the 
election on Friday last, being Midsummer Day.^ 



m 



LETTER TO GOVERNOR AND ASSISTANTS 

To the much honord the Govenor and Assistants now as- 
sembled in Court att Plimouth. 

Wee the brethren of the Church of Christ in Yarmouth whose 
names are hereunto affixed understanding that Nicolas Nicker- 
son of our towne hath upon occation of a sermon (as we 

irrhe arms are: Gules, three pairs of swords in saltire argent, hilts and 
pommels or, two pairs in chief and one in base. Crest: An elephant's 
head coiiped gules, armed or. (There is also another crest carrying ele- 
phants.) Motto: Pour parvenir k bonne foy, that is. To reach good faith. 
(Burke's General Armory, 355.) 

mThe writer visited the hall and inspected the records in the summer 
of 1911. 



The Familt in America 189 

gather) that Mr. Thornton preacht from the second comandmt 
hath spoken certaine words tending to the defammacon & sclan- 
der of Mr. Thornton and the doctrinall truthes he hath thence 
taught thereby discouraging him from taking office amongst 
us : doe signifie that we nor know nor heard any thing delivered 
by him in that sermon or any other that was not according to 
the truth — ^taken in the sence he laid it downe in ; according to 
our best judgment and measure of discerning God hath given 
us. thus much we have thought it our duty to witnese by our 
messengers, whom we have desired to speake further unto as 
occation may be ministred humbly intreating your worships 
to minde that if men may go on in such waies & callumniate the 
ministers & dispensers of the word & the doctrine they deliver 
in these declining times without discountenance the consequence 
will prove sad. 

We remain your worships to be comanded. 
Yarmouth 30. 4. 67. 

Antony Thacher 
Edmond Hawes 
WiLiJAM Lumpkin 
James Mathewes 
James Bubsta (Bubsell)** 
John Crow 
Richard Taylor 

WlIilJAM EliDRED 

Joseph Howes 
Tho. Howes 
Jeremiah Howes 
John Thacher 
Richard Sares (Sears) 
John MiLiiER 
Henry Whelding 

WILL OF EDMOND^ HAWES 

In ye Name of God. Amen this 5th day of May 1692 : I 
Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth in y® County of Bamestable in 
New England being aged and under much bodily decay and 
weakness b ut of sound memory and disposing mind, praise be 

^Signature uncertain. 



140 Ancestoes and Descendants op Edmond Hawes 

given to God for* ye same, knowing y® uncertainety of this Life 
on earth and being desireous to settle things in order : do make 
this my Last will and testament in manner and forme following 
(that is to say) first I committ my soul to god Almighty hope- 
fully believing that I shall Receive full pardon and free Re- 
mission of all my sins and be saved by y* pretious death and 
merrits of my Beloved Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ; 
and my Body to y® earth from whence it was taken to be buried 
in such decent and Christian manner as to my executor here- 
after named shall be thought meet and convenient and as 
tuching such worldly estate as ye Lord hath been pleased 
hetherto : to Lend me my will and meaning ye same shall be Im- 
ployed and bestowed as hereafter by this my will is expressed ; 
and first I do revoke Renounce and make void all wills by me 
formerly made and declared and appoint this my Last will and 
Testament. 

Sly I do give and bequeath to my Grandson Joseph 
Hawes six acres of of my Land (to be laid forth to him at mar- 
riage or full age which shall first happen) so as it may Liy next 
to Capt. Thachers or John Hallets Land and Abut up on y® 
highway and also y® one halfe of my Island of Sedg or crick 
thatch Land which Lyies in y® Lone tree crick the which sd 
Island being divided in too equal devitions my son John Hawes 
to have his choice first: And also I do give to ye sd Joseph 
priviledg to driy thatch upon that meadow at Lone tree ; And 
also I do give to ye sd Joseph one acre of my meadow where 
his father shall see cause to lay it forth to him; all which sd 
six acres of Land and half of sd Island priviledg of drying 
thatch and one acre of meadow I do give to him y® sd Joseph 
Hawes his heirs and assignes for ever. 

Sly I do give and bequeath unto my Natural^ son John 
Hawes all my uplands & meadows and broken marshes or creek 
thatch Land wheresoever within y® Township of Yarmouth or 
else where to have and to hold to him his heirs and assignes for 
ever. 



oAt the date of this will the word 'Natural,'* used of a child, did not 
mean illegitimate. It meant a child by nature, an own child, opposed to 
an adopted child, a son or daughter in law, etc. The sense of illegitimacy 
came into use later. (Century Dictionary; Murray's New English Diction- 
ary, p. 37 of letter ^'N'*; legal documents of the period both in England 
and America.) 



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Hy I do give and bequeath to my Loving Daughter Desire 
Hawee y* wife of my s* son John Hawes one cow and calf and 
my great Brass kettle and my Brass morter and pestle with 
all my houshold stuff ; only my Bed with all thereto belonging 
I do give to my grand Daughter Desire Hawes and one ewe 

sheep. 

Sly I do give to my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Dogged one 

cow. 

61y. I do give to my Grand Daughter Mary Bacon on cow. 

71y. I do give to my Grand son Jabez Hawes one cow and 
to my Grand son John Hawes I do give and bequeath one two 
year old and one young horse if his Brother Edmond dont 
comagaine; but if Edmond his Brother do come againe I do 
give sd young horse to him and to my .Grand son Ebenezer 
Hawes I do give one yearling; and to my two grand children 
Isaac and Benjamin I do give to each of them one calf; and to 
my Grandchild Experience I do give one sheep; and ye Rest 
of my sheep my will is that my executor do devide them to my 
great grand children in such proportions as he shall think fitt ; 
And I do give and bequeath to John Hathaway of Yarmouth 
thirty shillings wich he oweth to me by a bill I have of his 
hand. 

And lastly I do make ordaine costitute and appointe my 
well Beloved son John Hawes to be sole executor to this my 
Last will and Testament : In Witness whereof I y® sd Edmond 
Hawes have hereunto sett my hand and seal y® day and year 
first above written. 

Edmond Hawes [Seal] 

Signed sealed and declared 
in presence of 

John Thachee 
Lydia Thachee 

John Thacher and Lydia Thacher whose Names are sett as 
witnesses to this will made oath that they did see the above sd 
Edmond Hawes deceased signe and seal and heard him declare 
this to be his Last will and Testament before Barnabas Loth- 
rop Esq"". Judg of y® probate of Wills and granting Adminis- 
tration July y® 20th 1698. 

Attest Joseph Lotheop Register. 



142 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Be it knowne that I the sd Edmond Hawes on the other side 
mentioned upon my further consideration do order and declare 
and my will is that y® within on y® other side mentioned six 
acres of Land given and bequeathed unto my Grand son Joseph 
Hawes there mentioned to Ly next adjoyning to John Hallets 
on y® west side of my Land or next to John Thacher on y® east 
side be Determined and settled on which side his ffather pleas- 
eth; and further my will is that in case his ffather my son 
John Hawes in Leue of this sd six acres of Land do give him y® 
sd Joseph six acres of Land in som other place to ye sd Jos- 
sephs Liking that then this sd six acres in my will given to 
Joseph shall be my son Johns and his heirs forever as ye Rest 
of my Land is ; by my will on y® other side is given. 

In witness to this codicil I y® sd Edmond Hawes being yet of 
disposing mind Blessed be God have sett to my hand and seal 
y® 31 : day of March 1693.^ 

Edmond Hawes [Seal] 
This above written was signed sealed 

and declared before us 

John Thachee 
Lydia Thachee 

INVENTORY OF EDMOND^ HAWES 

An Inventory of ye Lands Chattels goods credits and debts 
of Mr. Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth in y® County of Bame- 
stable deceased taken and apprized this first day of August 
1693 by us whose Names are under writen 
To house Lands and meadowss att 100-00-00 

To five cowes 008-00-00 

one 8 year old heifer one 2 year old heifer 002-06-00 

twayearlings and one Bull and 2 calves 002-06-00 

five sheep and one Lamb 001-06-00 

one young horse 001—00-00 

pArticle on Provincial Seals in Mass., 37 N. E. Reg., 349-858, at pp. 
356 & 357 (Barnstable County): ''AH the court and probate files of this 
county were lost in the fire which consumed the court house at Barnstable 
on the night of October 22, 1827. Fortunately, however, most of the 
books of probate records were saved, and in tiie first volume of these, 
Barnabas Lothrop, the first Judge of Probate for this county, not only 
made the first record of a letter testamentary (will of Edmond Hawes, 
Sept. 3, 1693), but affixed his seal thereto in wax. This impression is 
shown in No. 22." 



The Family in America 148 

To bed bolster Blankets sheets and coverlids and 

bedstead 005-00-00 

To wearing apparil wollin and Linnin and money 004—10-00 
To a Bible and other books 000-10-00 

To fire slice and Tonges 2 chaires and one chest 

all att 000-16-00 

To a Brass kittle morter and pestle and 3 pewter 

dishes OOS-07-00 

To an Iron Trammil S Iron wedges Augurs and 

old chests 000-09-00 

To old share and Coulter chaine and other small 

things * 001-00-00 



180-07-00 
Debts due from y® estate upon y® Ballance of Accounts to 
his son John Hawes for diat and tendance S9-Od-00. 
Debts due to ye estate from several persons 02-02. 

John Thacher 
John MrLiiEB 
Ensigne John Hawes made oath to y® truth of this Inven- 
tory before Barnabas Lothrop Esq. Judg of y® probate of 
Wills and granting Administration August y® 2d, 1698. 

Attest: Joseph Lothbof, Register. 
VERSES that appeared in the Birmingham (England) 
Weekly Post of March 9, 1912, doubtless suggested by the 
compiler's article on The English Ancestors of Edmond Hawes 
in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (vol. 
65, p. 160). 

THE DEPARTURE OF EDMOND HAWES FROM 

SOLIHULL 

"Here sojourners from days of old. 
In heaven citizens.*' Unfold 

The memories of dear youth. Recall 
The words upon the Hillfield Hall, 

The silver chevron set between 
the leopards' faces golden sheen. 



144 Ancestors and Descendants ow Eiimond Hawes 

Not lord, as all thy fathers were, 

That Brome and Greswolde mated there. 

But younger son, apprentice bound, 
A cutler in the daily round ; 

A sojourner that seeks to find 
The City in the heavens reclined. 

In England, land beloved, men have 
No leave to worship God. The wave 

That bounds, doth bear o'er seas afar 
Its sons who must serve God. The star 

Of faith doth lead, and down the west 

Thou go'st whom God hath called and blest. 

Now speeds the good ship "James.'* The roar 
Of breakers on New England shore, 

Is song most sweet, and o'er the strand 
Thou walkest as on holy land. 

E. M. RUDLAND. 

From ^^Ballads of Old Birmingham," second series. 



/ 



SECOND GENERATION 

2 John* (Edmond*) Hawes, b. ; m. Oct. 7, 1661, at 

Barnstable, Desire Gorham (b. at Plymouth Apr. 8, 1644). « 
She was the eldest child of Capt. John Gorham of fame in King 
Philip's War and Desire (Rowland) his wife, and grand- 
daughter of John Rowland and Elizabeth (Tilley) his wife, 
both passengers on the Mayflower. He was married in 1661 
and doubtless not before he was of age, and so must have been 
bom not later than 1640. He is not treated as a minor in the 
trial mentioned below and so was no doubt of age March 5, 
1660-1. Joseph Rogers, Jr., of Eastham, who had lived in Dux- 
bury and had no doubt been his playmate there, and with whom 
he had a friendly scuffle in Eastham in December, 1660, was 
bom July 19, 1685.** They could not have differed much in 
age. We may, therefore, place the birth of John^ Hawes be- 
tween 16S6 and 1640, possibly in England, but probably in 
America and most likely in Duxbury. The scuffle referred to 
was probably a wrestling match,' and in it Hawes had the mis- 
fortune of injuring Rogers so that he died. He was tried and 
acquitted for causing his death, as we shall see. That he suf- 
fered no discredit on account of the sad affair is shown not 
only by his subsequent career, but by the fact that seven 
months after his trial he married a daughter of Capt. John 
Gorham, of Barnstable. On March 6, 1660-1, a court was con- 
vened at Pljrmouth 

^^'Before Thomas Prence, Gou', Thomas Southworth, 

William CoUyare, William Bradford, and 

John Aldin, Thomas Hinckley, 

Josias Winslow, Assistants, etc." 

In the proceedings the following entry appears : "Att this 
Court, John Hawes, of Yarmouth, was indited for violently 
and by force of armes takeing away the life of Josepth Rogers, 

«Bam. Rec8.; 5 Mf. 72; 1 Otis, 413, 414. 

f3 Savage, 564. 

«47 N. £. Reg. 341; Swift, 88, 89. 

145 



146 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmoi^d Hawes 



swome. 



of Eastham, by giveing him a most deadly f&U, on the S6 of 
December, 1660, in the towne of Eastham, whereof and where- 
upon hee did most vehemently complaine, and about 48 houres 
after died. The said John Hawes did put himself upon tryall 
by God and the Countrey. The grand jury found the bill of 
inditement a true bill. The names of the petty jury, or jury 
of life and death, that had the tryall of this case, as followeth : 

Mr. Joaias Winslow, Seni"^, 
Leiftenant James Torrey, 
Robert Finney, 
Cornett Robert Studson, 
Ephraim Morton, 
Samuell Hickes, 
William Paybody, 
Samuell Sturtevant, 
Ephraim Tinkham, 
Steven Bryant, 
John Sutton, 
Ben j amine Bartlett. 

These brought in a verdict wherin they expressed that they 
found that the said John Hawes was not guilty, and soe ac- 
cording to law hee was cleared in the open Court and re- 
leased."* The jurymen were nearly all from Plymouth or the 
region north of it. Mr. Winslow, who was a brother of Gov. 
Edward Winslow, was from Marshfield. March 4, 1661-2, 
^^John Hawes for relateing a scandulous report, for which hee 
hath not produced sufficient ground for it, is fined ten shil- 
lings.'*" June 3, 1668, he was appointed by the General Court 
of the Colony receiver of excise for Yarmouth.^ June 1, 1669, 
he was on the grand jury.*^ May 29, 1670, he was one of 
the freeman of Yarmouth.* March 8, 1670-1, John Gray was 
fined three shillings and four pence ^^for breaking the Kinges 
peace in striking of John Hawes."^ In 1676 his tax was three 
pounds 10 shillings and 6 pence out of the total for the town 

<3 Plym. CoL Recs., 905. 

U4, ib. 11. 

V4, ib. 183. 

w5 ib. 18. 

»Ib. 976. 

ylb. 63. 



The Famelt in America 147 

of 297 pounds.' June 5, 1677, he is mentioned as constable of 
Yarmouth,^ and June 1, 1680, as one of the surveyors of high- 
ways for that town.* July 10, 1677, he was one of the two 
appointed for Yarmouth ^Ho see the orders about and against 
the abuse of drinke and liquors put in execution.'*^ July 25, 
1678, he was a witness to the will of Capt. Matthew Fuller, of 
Barnstable.* Oct. 89, 1678, Oct. 27, 1680, and April 5, 
1692, he was on a jury.^ In 1680 he was one of four men who 
for four or five pounds a whale (according to circumstances), 
to be paid in blubber or oil, were "to look out for and secure 
the town all such whales as by God's providence shall be cast 
up in their several bounds," his territory being the western 
part of the town.^ Oct. 31, 1682, he was appointed ensign of 
the military Company of Yarmouth.^ About 1700 he became 
captain of the Company and the town records then style him 
"Capt." In 1688 he was indebted to the estate of his mother- 
in-law, Desire Gorham, for five poimds silver money borrowed 
of her.^ March 22, 1685-6, he was a witness to a deed of 
Elisha Hedge, of Yarmouth, to Nicholas Eldredge, of Mono- 
moy, conveying land in the latter place.* Aug. 9, 1689, he 
was a witness to the will of Thomas Boardman of Yarmouth.^ 
The town records of Yarmouth show that in 169S he was one 
of a committee to choose a schoolmaster. In 1698 his tax was 
4 pounds 9 shillings and 5 pence.^ In 1698 and 1696 he with 
others was appointed to settle and run the boimdary line be- 
tween Yarmouth and Barnstable. In 1698, 1694 and 1696 
he was chosen to serve on the jury. In 1698 he and two others 
were elected tithingmen. March 12, 1700-1, he was chosen to 
serve as grand luryman, and March 19 the same year he was 
appointed with two others to draw up a list of proprietors 

«Swift, 104; 9 Freeman 195. 

o5 Plym. Col. Recs., 831. 

66 ib. 42. 

cPIym. Col. Laws, 344, 345. 

dlS Mf. 9. 

e7 Plym. CoL Recs., 314, 331, 333, 313. 

/Swift, 109, 110. 

ff6 Plym. Col. Recs., 97. 

M Plym. Col. Wills (pt. 3) 63; 4 Mf. 330. 

<Thos. Doane papers. 

fl Bam. Prob. Recs. 37; 10 Mf. 103. 

kFiits 4600; Rec. Book, 1686-1700, p. 397. 



I 



148 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

of the common lands in Yarmouth. He was chosen a repre- 
sentative in the Legislature at Boston in 1697 and 1698.' 
From the published edition of the Province Laws (vol. 7» 
pp. 149, 181) it appears that in the latter year he did not 
take or subscribe the qualifying oaths and so probably did 
not serve. He served in 1697. Swift's Old Yarmouth (p. 
2S6), 2 Freeman's Cape Ck>d (p. 2S9) and Deyo's Barnstable 
Coimty (p. 476) erroneously make him a representative in 
1696. In that year Thomas Sturgis was chosen (7 Frov. 
Laws, 105, and town records). The Book of Grants of Yar- 
mouth (p. 20) shows that the town granted to him Feb. 26, 
1672-8, the "broken marsh" on the W. side of the mouth of 
Lone Tree Creek near land already owned by him and the land 
of Edmond Hawes and John Miller, and (p. 101) that Feb. 23, 
1684-5, he was granted 10 acres on the N. side of Dennis 
pond near Hallett's land. From the same book (pp. 164 & 
165) it appears that the boimds of "about 16 acres or more" 
of his land were fixed by John Thacher, Jeremiah Howes and 
John Miller March 22, 1693-4, and that all but a small por- 
tion of it "for aboute thirty years now past has been in the 
possession of the said John Hawes." This tract was thus 
granted to him, probably by the town, shortly after his mar- 
riage. After his father died and probably before, he occupied 
the former's house. His wife died June 30, 1700. He died Nov. 
11, 1701, from the effect of having his leg amputated.*" Whether 
amputation was occasioned by accident or disease is not known. 
The fact is referred to in these words in the preamble to his 
will: "Being by the hand of god brought very low and weake 
in body." His death from the amputation is not to be won- 
dered at, considering the state of surgery at the time and in- 
deed the probable lack of medical assistance of any kind. He 
left a will, dated Oct. 15 and proved Nov. 19, 1701,** in which 
he mentions his sons John, Joseph, Ebenezer, Isaac and Ben- 
jamin, and his daughters Elizabeth Dogget, Mary Bacon, De- 

nfar. Town Recs. 

wYar. Recs.; 1 Otis, 413, 414; 2 Freeman, 306; 5 Mf. 177, entry in a 
memorandum book by Col. John Gorham, grandnephew ot' Desire (Gor- 
ham) Hawes. Referring to the children of Capt. John Gorham, one item 
is: "Desire— Gorham — maryed a Capt. Hawes Yarmouth— having his Leg 
Cut of Dyed with It." 

n2 Bam. Prob. Recs., 135; copy, p. 151, infra. 



The Family in America 149 

sire and Experience Hawes. He named his sons Joseph and 
Isaac as executors and requested his "loving brothers Major 
John Goreham** and John Thacher^ Esqr. to be overseers to see 
the true execution of this my Will." The inventory of his 
estate, taken Nov. 28, 1701,^ deducting "desperate debts" and 
debts due from the estate, amounted to 575 pounds and 11 
pence, including 300 pounds for real estate, 41 pounds for **2 
negro girls" and 5 pounds for an "Indian boy." 

Children^ all horn m Yarmouth:*' 
Elizabeth, b. Oct. 5, 1662 ; m.* Jan. 22, 1683-4, at Bristol 
(now in R. I.), Thomas Doggett (or Daggett) ; removed 
to Edgartown; d. between Dec. 25, 1732, and Feb. 15, 
1732-3. He d. Aug. 23, 1726. They had issue.* 
Maey, b. June 10, 1664; m. June 17, 1686, John^ (Nathan- 
iel^) Bacon, of Barnstable; d. March 5, 1726-6.** For 
their children, see 2 Mf. 215, and 1 Otis, 31-87. John^ 
Bacon was a lawyer. He became judge of the Court of 
Common Fleas and held other offices. He m. 2d Sept. 
29, 1726, Mrs. Sarah Warren, of Plymouth, and d. Aug. 
^0, 1731.^ 
8 Edmond, b. May 2, 1669. 
4 John, b. May 14, 1671. 
6 Joseph, b. July 16, 1678. 

6 Jabez, b. May 20, 1675; mentioned in his grandfather's 
will and not stated to be deceased in his codicil, but not 
mentioned in his fathers will; therefore, no doubt died 
between March 81, 1698, and Oct. 16, 1701, and prob- 
ably unmarried. He probably died before Sept. 18, 
1700, when his brother Ebenezer named his first child 
Jabez. 



oHis wife's brother. 

pMarried his wife's sister Lydia. 

^ Barn. Prob. Recs., 135; copy, p. 153, infra, 

^Yarmouth Recs.; 2 Mf. S07. The record states that Elizabeth was 13 
years old Oct. 5, 1674. This would make her birth come in 1661 before 
the marriage of her parents. The original records had been burned and 
the present record was an attempt to supply the loss from memory. Her 
birth must have been in 1662 and is so given by the late Wm. P. Davis and 
by Austin hi his "AUied Families," p. 106. 

96 Vital Recs. of R. I., 17, 26. 

«See Doggett-Daggett Family, by S. B. Doggett, 87, 88. 

«Barn. Recs.; 1 Otis 33. 



ISO ANCS8TOB8 AND DESCENDANTS OF EdMOND EUwES 

7 Ebenezeb, b. March 24, 1678-9. 

8 Isaac, b. March 9, 1679-80. 

Desiee, b. last of February, 1681-2; m.^ Feb. 24, 1701-2, 
Josiah^ (Samuel,' Walter,* William^) Hatch, of Scituate. 
For their children, see will of Samuel' Hatch (6 Mf. 112). 
He died in Rochester Jan. 12, 1714-16, aged 84 years.*^ 
She was appointed administratrix March 80, 1716,' She 
m. 2d John Cowing*' "of the precinct of Cape Cod'** 
after April 29, 1718, as of which date she is mentioned 
as widow of Hatch, and before May 12, 1721, when she 
is described as Desire Cowing in a deed of land in Roches- 
ter in which John Cowing joined.** She died before May 
1, 1724, when he was appointed administrator de bonis 
non of Josiah Hatch's estate.^ 

9 Benjamin, b. March 20, 1682-8. 

ExPEEiENCE, b. Sept. 24, 1686 ; m.^ March 1, 1708-4, Eben- 
ezer^ (Robert^) Sprout,^ of Scituate, who later removed 
to Middleborough.* He dJ Sept. 28, 1726, leaving a 
wife, two sons and three daughters.^ She m. 2d before 
Sept. 28, 1782, Francis Miller, who was then appointed 
guardian of her two sons.* He d. between Oct. 29, 1746, 
and April 6, 1747, leaving a will naming his wife. Ex- 
perience, and three brothers.* She d. Nov. 19, 1768.^ 
One of her sons, James Sprout, graduated at Yale Col- 
lege in 1741 and was a clergyman.^ Her son, Ebenezer 
Sprout, was a prominent man in Middleborough, and the 
latter's son, Col. Ebenezer Sprout, fought in the Revolu- 

«Yar. Recs. 

irHatch Geneal. by Bent 

•Plym. Co. Prob. Recs. 

vThe name was also written ''Cowen." 

^Afterward Provincetown (2 Freeman, 617, 698). 

«38 Plym. Co. Deeds. 129. 

H Plym. Co. Prob. Recs., 398. She d. Feb. 8, 1723-4, (Provincetown, 
Gr. St.). 

cYar. Recs. 

dAlso written "Sproat." 

tfDeane's Scituate, 340; will of Robert Sprout, 3 Plym. Co. Wills, 299. 

/First Church of Middleborough, 54, 85, 90. 

05 Plym. Co. Wills, 274, 275. 

ft6 ib. 232, 233. 

no ib. 440. 



The Family in Ame&ica 151 

tionary War, m. in Providence, R. I., and was later one 

of the first and leading settlers in Ohio.^ 
Taken as a whole the family of John^ and Desire (Gorham) 
Hawes, consisting of eleven children, seven sons and four 
daughters (nine of whom are accounted for in later life), not 
because of number merely, but for activity and prominence in 
life, must be regarded as one of the most remarkable in the 
early history of the region that had formed the Plymouth col- 
ony. Among their children Joseph attained the greatest age, 
79, and Experience lived farthest into the 18th century, 1758. 
As a family they did not attain to a great age. 

WILL OF JOHN^ HAWES. 

In the name of Grod Amen the fifteenth day of October 1701 
In the thirteenth year of the Reign of William the third by 
the Grace of God King of England &c. I, John Hawes of the 
Town of Yarmouth In the County of Bamestable In New Eng- 
land being by the hand of god brought very low and weake 
in body but of good and perfect memory thanks be to god 
and knowing the uncertainty of this Life on earth do make this 
my Last will and Testament In maner and forme following 
Revoaking anulling and by these presents making void all Wills 
by me formerly made and declare and appoint this my last Will 
and Testament and first I comitt my soule to god hoping for 
the full and free pardon of all my sins by the death and merits 
of Jesus Christ my only Redeemer and my body to the earth 
from whence it was taken to be buryed in such decent and 
Christian maner as to my executors hereafter named shall be 
thought meet and convenient and for the settleing of my tem- 
porall estate and all such Lands goods chattels and debts as 
it hath pleased god to bestow upon me I do order give & dis- 
pose In maner and form following that is to say first I will 
that €dl these debts and dutys as I owe in Right or consience 
to any person whatsoever shall be will and truly paid by my 
executors hereafter named 

Itm I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac all my dwelling 
house and bam together with one acre of Land where & upon 

AVeston's Hist of Middleborough, 889-335; 5 Appletons' CycL of Am. 
Biog., 640. 



15S Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

which the sd houseing stand and so to be sett forth as may be 
most convenient thereto To have and to hold unto him the sd 
Isaac his heires and assigns forever Excepting and Reserving 
to my two unmarried daughters desire and experience lyberty 
to dwell in the eastmost end of my dwelling house and to have 
the benifitt of the chimney for firing so much as is needful! 
for them and to enjoy it so long as they have need att the 
discression of my overseers hereafter named and it is my will 
that my sd son Isaac do peaceably allow them to enjoy the 
same. 

It I do give and bequeath unto my son Ebenezer eight 
acres of my land at the west side next to John Hallets foure 
acres thereof to be laid forth below the highway and it shall ex- 
tend from the fences next the highway north to the creek yt 
bounds my meadow next to Major Thachers and the other 
foure acres he shall have laid out to him of my land above 
the sd highway and that shall Run from the fence next the sd 
waye to ye head of my land and also that peioe of creek thatch 
land of myn lying on the north side of the lone tree creek and 
he shall and may drye and make the f other he cutts off the same 
upon the drying ground on the knowles so that he use or 
make use of but one third part thereof all which sd land meadow 
and premises shall be to him my sd son Ebenezer his heires and 
assigns To have and To hold forever 

It I give and bequeath unto my two sons Joseph and Isaac 
all the Rest of my land and meadow to be equally divided 
betwixt them that is to say Joseph shall have one halfe of my 
land and meadow except what is disposed as above sd. To have 
and to hold to him his heires and assigns forever and Isaac 
shall have the other halfe of my land and meadow except as 
aforesd To have and To hold to him his heires and assigns 
forever. 

It I do give and bequeath unto my daughter Desire my sec- 
ond best bed bolster and all other furniture thereto belonging 

It I do give and bequeath unto my Daughter Experience 
one good cow 

It I give to my son Joseph my long gun or fowling peice 
and my other two guns I give one to my son Ebenezer and the 
other to my son Isaac and my gold Ring I do give to my sd 
son Joseph and my cane 



y 



The Family in America 15d 

It I do give to my daughter Mary Badon my small gold 
Ring 

It I give and bequeath unto my two sons John and Benja- 
min and my foure daughters Elizabeth Dogget and Mary Ba- 
con Desire and Experience all the Rest of my moveable estate 
all my Debts & funerall charges being first paid out of it both 
within doors and without of what nature kinde or quallity 
soever it is to be equally divided to each one of them a like 
share or part thereof thereof, as also all such debts as are due 
and owing to me from any pson whatsoever shall also be divided 
as above sd 

Lastly I do nominate ordaine and appoint my two sons Jos- 
eph and Isaac joynt executors to this my last Will and Testa- 
ment I also Request my loving brothers Major John Goreham 
and John Thatcher Esq^. to be overseers to see the true execu- 
tion of this my Will. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett 
my hand and seale the day & year above written. 
Signed sealed and Declared John Hawes (seale) 

In presence of us Witnesses 

John Thacher 

Peter Thacher 

Josiah Thacher 

INVENTORY OF JOHN* HAWES 

A true Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels 
Lands and Credits of Capt. John Hawes Deseazed praized the 
the S8th day of November 1701 by John Thacher Esq"" and 
Josiah Thacher as f olloweth : 

Imp® his apparel money plate Gold rings and Cane Sl-16-11 

Arms and amunition 06-01-02 

His wives Apparill 09-16-06 

5 Long tables formes stools Chears looking glasses 

& purses 06-03-08 

6 beds bolsters pillows bedsteds and furniture to 

them belonging 27-11-00 
Sheets, table lining pillow coats 04-17-06 
Lumber in the kitchen Chamber and parlour cham- 
ber 00-19-06 



154 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 



0«-16-06 

00-11-00 

08-01-04. 

00-11-06 
10-06-06 



2 small tables Chest boxes Cubbert glass bottles 
and Knives 

In the Liento Chamber and celler old Caske & other 
Lumber at 

boxes lO** : 1^ : cross cutt saw hand saw and other 
tools & 7 beUs all 

Razour hone and box 4** a hatt brush 1** meale sives 
& Rundlett 

Com in the house and Creebs indian and English 

pewter 6:19:2 brass 6:8:8: Iron ware 8:14:8: all 16-08-01 

tin ware 6*:9^ earthen ware 4*:10^ Lanthoms 6* 00-16-07 

More Iron ware £1:11" :6^ spinning wheels & 
herds 16^ 

In the liento trays pailes and trenchers 

In the buttery trays tubbs chume and tallow 

More puter 5° : money Skales box & waights 5" and 
bags 4* 

819 pound of porke 4:8:11 Sadies bridles horse- 
gears &c 

Draft chains chapes and pins and other Iron tackl- 
ing and old Iron 

Sythes Sneads and rings axes siccles and well 
bucket and rope 

pitchforks and Rakes 7" : cart and wheels yoaks and 
Irons belonging to them 

plows and Iron 1-18 flax 10* chees press 7® a can- 
dlestick 

A Canoo 18° : a Lader and grinestone 

Shingles boards and boults 

8 negro girls £41 : Indian boy £5 

6 oxen 15 cows and 89 young cattle & halfe a year- 
ling 

8 horses one mare £8: 16* 8 swine £1: 18* 

A paire of fetters broad ax and spade att 



08-06-06 
00-09-06 
01-07-06 

00-14-00 

06-00-06 

01-16-11 

01-08-00 

08-10-00 

08-15-06 
00-16-00 
08-14-01 
46-00-00 

90-18-06 
06-18-00 
00-18-06 



Debts due to the estate 

Desporate Debts 

Housing Lands and meadows att 



874-07-08 

47-06-08 

07-16-00 

800-00-00 

689-08-04 



The Family in America 



165 



Debts due from the estate 
More Debts due from the estate 
More to be deducted from the estate 
More due from the estate 
More due to the estate 



84-06-01 
07-00-00 
05-08-10 
00-06-00 
00-09-06 

John Thachee 
JosiAH Thachee. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

8 Edmond' (John,* Edmond^) Hawes, b. May 8, 1669. 
It is not known whether he married nor when nor where he 
died. He was absent when his grandfather's will was made, 
May 5, 1692, and was given a legacy in case he returned: ^^to 
my grandson John Hawes I do give and bequeath one two 
year old and one young horse if his Brother Edmond dont 
comagaine; but if Edmond his Brother do come againe I do 
give sd young horse to him." He is not mentioned in the will 
of his father Oct. 16, 1701. It is thought he may have gone 
to England. On the other hand March 18, 1706-7, the Chat- 
ham records (vol. 1, p. 188) say that "edmen base*' was chosen 
one of the selectmen with Thomas Atkins and Daniel Ham- 
ilton. The name of his brother Isaac is sometimes written 
**Hase'' in the Chatham records. There was no one in the 
town of the name of Hayes, and it has been thought that this 
was Edmond' Hawes.^ If so, he again disappears and 
is not heard from further. Freeman, v. 2, p. 614, makes the 
selectman Edmund Howes , and so does Deyo (p. 592), but 
there was no Edmond Howes at the time.' The town clerk, 
however, at this time was William^ Nickerson, who had 
known Edmond^ Hawes in Yarmouth, and upon meeting 
his grandson, who no doubt was commonly called ^^Eben," may 
have mistaken the name for Edmond. The two following years, 
with a different clerk, the names are entered as Thomas Atkins, 
Daniel Hamilton and Ebenezer Hawes, and there can be no 
doubt that it was Ebenezer and not Edmond who was chosen 
on the first mentioned occasion.^ 

4 John' ( John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. May 14, 1671 ; m. 
first, Mary , before March 14, 1708-9, when she acknowl- 

i^Smith's Chatham, 159. 

IHowes GeneaL by Joshua C. Howes, 904. 

mMr. Smith, after further examination of the record, reaches this 
conclusion. 

156 



The Family in America 167 

edged a deed executed by him,** and second Mary Mason of Re- 
hoboth, Nov. 26, 1728 f d. in Providence, R. I., Dec. 87, 1788.*' 
His widow m., as his second wife, John Dexter, of Providence, 
Oct. 17, 1788, and d. Feb., 1764, leaving no children.** Johnf 
Hawes was in Providence before May 80, 1700, when he (de- 
scribed as of Providence) sued Thomas Field, Jr., for expenses 
incurred in defending a suit brought against him by Field.^ He 
had bought 86 acres of land in Providence of John Corp, which 
he conveyed by deed, dated Feb. 16, 1708-9, to John Wheaton 
for the consideration of 64 pounds lOs. current silver money. 
He is here described as shoemaker.** His dwelling is mentioned 
June 4, 1708, in the division of the land of Thomas Relph.* 
He later became an innkeeper, being licensed to keep a tavern 
or ale house and paying annually for the privilege from one 
pound to one pound ten shillings. In 1718 or 1718 he paid 
10s. to the executors of Jabez Howland, of Bristol.^ He was 
on a coroner's jury Dec. 80, 1718, and is styled Mr.** Jime 
7, 1714, he was chosen one of the "way wardens.'**' There are 
sundry other, mentions of him in the Providence records. 
Joshua Hempstead, of New London, on a journey to Boston 
stopped at his inn the night of Oct. 11, 1717, at the expense 
of about 8s. 6d.*^ His younger son John was appointed his 
administrator Jan. 8, 1788-4, his widow, Mary, and his eldest 
son, Edmond, having declined. The inventory of his estate 
filed on the same date amounted to 684 pounds IS shillings 
and 8 pence.* 

nQ Prov. Deeds, 131. In the acknowledgment she is described as his 
**now wife,** which would seem to imply that she was his second wife. 
On the other hand, in his inventory certein undisposed of wearing apparel 
is stated to have been his first wife's, and this could hardly have belonged 
to a wife who died before March 14, 1708-9. 

oGeneaL of Sampson Mason Fam., 17; Rehoboth Vital Recs., 197, 947, 
447, 459, 464, where the name is erroneously House; 1 Prov. Births, etc., 90. 

Pl6 Early Recs. of Prov., 306, 319. 

«17 ib. 178. 

r9 Prov. Deeds, 131. 

•7 Early Recs. of Prov., 198. 

n Mf. 909. 

«9 Early Rec of Prov., 1, 9. 

vU ib., 174. 

irDiary of Joshua Hempstead, 09. 

#16 Early Prov. Recs., 306, 308, 319, 313; 19 ib. 74. 



168 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

(JhUdren^ probably b. in Providence: 
Edmond, b. 
John, b. 

Perhaps others. 

Edmond^ (John,* John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. ; 

m. first, May 8, 1788, Mary* (Edward,^ Wmiam^) Hawkins of 
Providence.^ She was the daughter of Anne , Edward's 

second wife, and was fo. Dec. 11, 1690. Edward Hawkins 
d. between Apr. 16 (date of will) and July 7 (date of probate), 
1786. He mentions his daughter, Mary Hawes, and makes 
his son-in-law, Edmond Hawes, executor.^ Mary Hawes prob- 
ably d. between March 6, 1788-8, when she joined with her hus- 
band in a deed,** and Sept. 14, 1788, when he made the convey- 
ance to her mother noted below. Edmond^ Hawes probably 
married a seed-time, as stated below (p. 161). With John 
Dexter, Jr., and Richard Waterman, Jr., he witnessed the will 
of Jonathan Whipple, of Providence, Sept. 6, 1781.* Feb. 
88, 1784-5, Edmond Hawes and his wife, for a consideration 
of 107 pounds, conveyed land in Providence to John Hawes, 
described as joiner and as his brother, part of which had be- 
longed to their father John, deceased.^ By deed dated Oct. 
88, 1786, Edmond Hawes, of Providence, blacksmith, conveyed 
land in that town to his brother John Hawes, of the same 
place, innholder, for a consideration of 18 pounds current 
money.* By deed dated Nov. 16, 1788, he conveyed land in 
Providence to John Hawkins, Jr., carpenter, of the same place.^ 
Dec. 18, 1788, describing himself as of Providence, he con- 
veyed 10 acres there to John Page, of the same place, husband- 
man.^ Soon after this he removed to Smithfield. Dec. 86, 
1781, Edmond Hawes and Edward Evans, both of Smithfield, 
conveyed land in Providence to Peter Aldrich, of Smithfield, 
for the consideration of 84 pounds.^ March 6, 1788-3, Ed- 

Vl Prov. Births, etc, SI. 

«Proy. Prob. Recs.; Austin's GeneaL Diet of R. I., 318, 319. 

al Smithfield Deeds, 10^. 

hie Early Recs. of Prov., 188. 

06 Prov. Deeds, 488. 

dib. 440. 

eS ib. 48. 

/4 Smithfield Deeds, 194. 

09 Prov. Deeds, 374. 



The Family in Ameeica 169 

mond Hawesy blacksmith, of Smithfield, for the consideration 
of 700 pounds current money of New England, conveyed the 
homestead farm on which he then dwelt in Smithfield, contain- 
ing about 100 acres, to Elisha Smith, of the same place, yeo- 
man. Mary, his wife, released her dower.* Sept. 14, 1738, 
describing himself as of Smithfield, he conveyed to his mother- 
in-law, Anne Hawkins, widow, in consideration of love and 
good-will to her and for her comfortable support and main- 
tenance, all his goods and chattels except his tools for smith 
work, including three cows, three horses, five swine and liis 
household goods.^ At some time after this and before the 
date of the next following deed, he removed to Stratford, 
Conn., where Joseph Gorham, his father's cousin, had preceded 
him.^ By deed dated Dec. 18, and recorded Dec. 17, 1789, 
Samuel Wheeler, of Stratford, for the consideration of 18 
pounds and 10 shillings, conveyed to Edmond Hawes, of the 
same place, three-fourths of an acre of land bounded E. on 
Wheeler's land, in which it is said: "ye said Edmund Haws 
his dwelling house is in the S. E. corner of sd. land."* "In 
1742 he sold the property bought of Wheeler to Samuel Haw- 
ley, who owned it until his death in 1746. The Inventory of 
Samuel Hawley's estate gives under personal property, *one 
mortgage deed from Edmund Hays for his blacksmith's tools' ; 
also gives under real estate % acre and a small house pur- 
chased of Edm'd Hawes. In a mutual distribution of said 
Hawley's estate, his daughter, Ann Blackleach, wife of Joseph, 
gets two certain mortgages from Edmund Hause; but in a 
quit claim from the other heirs to said Ann and Joseph in 
Jan'y. 1747-8, it is explained that it should have been one 
mortgage deed from Edmimd Hawes for Blacksmith's tools 
and also one absolute deed of warrantee of aforesaid % acre. 
There is no mortgage on record to Samuel Hawley from Ed- 
mimd Hawes of his blacksmith's tools. In August 1749 Jo- 
seph and Ann Blackleach gave Edmund Hawes a quit claim 
deed of all their right in all lands, buildings, etc., which de- 
scended to them from their father, Samuel Hawley, and on the 

^Smithfield Records of Deeds, No. 1, p. 109. 

i2 ib. 353. 

B Orcutt's Stratford, 1208, 1351. 

Jc7 Stratford Deeds, 919. 



160 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

same day Edmund Hawes gave Daniel Hede a warrantee deed 
of said % of an acre in Ripton parish, Stratford, with the 
blacksmith's shop thereon. In all references to Edmund 
Hawes his residence is given as Stratford."' Ripton parish is 
now the town of Huntington. Dec. 26, 1740, describing him- 
self as formerly of Smithfield, now of Stratford, Conn., Ed- 
mond Hawes quitclaimed to Robert Staples, yeoman of Smith- 
field, about two acres of land lying on the S. E. side of said 
Staples's house, formerly in suit between said Hawes and 
Joshua Winsor, and recovered by the former.** No wife joins 
in the deed. Edmund Hawes was one of the grantees from 
the New Hampshire authorities of the town of Brunswick west 
of the Connecticut River, Oct. 18, 1761." This region was 
claimed by New York, and an Order in Council was passed in 
England July 20, 1764, fixing the Connecticut River as the 
boundary of the two colonies.** Certain fees and charges were 
thereupon imposed beyond those contained in the N. H. grant, 
and the grantees of Brunswick and other towns in November, 
1766, petitioned the King for relief.** Among those who signed 
petition No. 17 was Edmund Hawes.* Owing to this contro- 
versy the grantees did not take possession, and Brimswick was 
not settled till 1780.'' It seems clear that the above named 
grantee and petitioner was Edmond Hawes of Stratford, Conn. 
Some of those who signed petition No. 17 and other petitions 
were of Stratford or the neighboring region of Connecticut.* 
The petitioners employed Samuel Robinson to carry their peti- 
tion to England and joined with him Wm. S. Johnson, of . 
Connecticut, who was going to England as agent of that col- 
ony.* Johnson was a resident of Stratford.** A comparison 
of the names of the co-grantees and co-petitioners of Edmond 
Hawes with Orcutt's History of Stratford shows that many 

IReport from the Bridgeport Land & Title Co., Nov. 11, 1909. 

ml Smithfield Deeds, 601. ^ 

n26 N. H. State Papers (vol. 3 of Town Charters), 71, 73. 

04 Doc. Hist, of N. Y., 355. 

p26 N. H. State Papers, 592, 593. 

flflb. 602. 

rib. 638, 639. 

«4 Doc. Hist, of N. Y., 103«. 

Wall's Early Hist, of Vt. 85. 

1*1 Orcutt's Stratford, 420. 



The Family in Ameeica 161 

of them were inhabitants of that town. Edmond^ Hawes had 
a daughter, Anne, bom in Rhode Island, who m.^ in Smith- 
field June 11 or 12, 1750, Obediah Herendeen (or Hemdeen). 
Her grandmother, Anne Hawkins, made her will Dec. 22, 1784, 
and d. Sept. 25, 1745. She left all her valuables to her grand- 
daughter, Anne Hawes, when 18 years of age or upon her mar- 
riage, and in case of her death before that event, then to 
her son-in-law, Edmond Hawes.^ Obediah Herendeen is de- 
scribed in deeds as husbandman and yeoman. He was grantee 
of lands in Smithfield in deeds dated Oct. 7, 1742, March 26, 
1747, and June 18, 1760.* By deed dated March 8, 1778, he 
conveyed to Jonathan Newell, of Smithfield, about seven acres 
in that town, part of his homestead farm, for the considera- 
tion of 25 pounds and 16 shillings.^ Oct. 22, 1774, for the 
consideration of three pounds he conveyed about half an acre 
to Jesse Jenckes, of Smithfield.* By deed dated May 29, 1781, 
describing himself as husbandman of Smithfield, he conveyed 
all his lands in that town, two lots of about 12 acres, including 
his dwelling house, to Jesse Jenckes, for the consideration of 
162 pounds silver.* In all these deeds his wife, Anne, joined. 
The 1774 census of R. I. gives Obediah Hemdeen as head of 
a family in Smithfield consisting of two males over 16, three 
males under 16, and two females over 16 (p. 106). He d. 
Oct. 26, 1789.* It is likely that Edmond* Hawes m. second, Su- 
sanna and had in Stratford Edmond, b. July , 1740. 2 

Orcutt, 1212, gives this birth as Edward, son of Edward and 
Susanna, but it is believed that he is in error. There was an 
Edmund Hawes, of Sherman, Conn., b. according to family 
records in possession of his grandson Daniel Pinckney Hawes, 
of Decorah, Iowa, Jan. 1, 1741 (meaning probably 1740-1), 
who, it is believed, was the child referred to by Orcutt. This 
Edmund of Sherman also has a grandson Edmund Vinson 
Hawes, of Bridgeport. Mr. Hawes, of Decorah, thinks the 

viNaragansett Hist. Reg^ 301, 959, 963; 1 Smithf. Marriages, 53. 

irSmithfield Council, Book No. 1, p. 977, in Of. of City Qerk, Central 
Falls, R. I. 

a9 Smithfield Deeds, 86 and 561; 5 ib. 9. 

Vt ib. 100. 

«6 ib. 430. 

a7 ib. 390. 

»Vital Recs. of R. I., Smithfield; 1 Smithf. Births & Deaths, 971. 



162 Ancestoes and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

name of Pinckney an ancient one in the family. It is a south- 
ern name and it is possible that Edmond^ may have gone to 
North Carolina to visit his brother John and there m. Susanna 
Pinckney. Sarah Hawes, who m. Richard HubbeU, in Hunt- 
ington, Conn., Sept. 9, 1798, may have been the grand-daugh- 
ter^ of Edmond.^ It is proper to say, however, that Orcutt 
does not give his authority and that the Stratford and Ripton 
records do not show the birth of Edmond or Edward Hawes in 
or about 1740. 

John* (John,* John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. ; m. Mary 

, at North Kingstown, Jan. 81, 1722-8.** He was accepted 

freeman of the town and returned to the Greneral Assembly to 
be accepted freeman of the colony Jan. 27, 1728-4.* He was 
made a freeman of the colony the third Tuesday of February, 
1728-4.^ June 8, 1728, he was chosen constable.^ There are 
various mentions of him in the Providence records. By trade 
he was a carpenter or joiner, but for a number of years after 
his father's death he was an innkeeper in Providence. By deed 
dated Dec. 28, 1780, John Hawes, of Providence, carpenter, 
conveyed land there to Benjamin Tillinghast of the same place, 
mariner, for the consideration of 880 pounds current money 
of New England. His wife Mary joined.* Feb. 24, 1729-80, 
describing himself as innholder, he had conveyed land to Joseph 
Angel by deed in which his wife did not join.* About 1731 he 
removed to North Carolina. By deed dated March 24, 1781-2, 
and acknowledged the same day in Providence, John Hawes, 

oBailey's Early Conn. Marriages, 92, 

dThe following is a correct extract from 1 Providence Births, Marriages 
and Deaths, page 60: *'It appeared bv a Cetifecate that John Hause was 
married in Norfi Kingstown the last aay of January-lT^d: by William Hall 
Justice. John Hause the son of John Hause and of Mary his wife was 
bom in Providence the 30th day of August, anno Domini-1725— Mary 
Hause the daughter of John Hause and of Mary his wife — ^was bom in 
Providence on tiie Last day of august anno Dom: 1727." The above three 
extracts follow consecutively on the page and close together, the first 
one appearing to be in a different handwriting from the other two. The 
corresponding printed item in the vital statistics of Rhode Island relative 
to the marriage is not a copy but an inference. The original leaves no 
doubt that the marriage refers to the parents of the two children. 

el3 Early Prov. Recs., 40. 

/4 R. I. Col. Recs., 337. 

^13 Early Prov. Recs., 61. 

*8 Prov. Deeds, 407. 

i9 ib. 167. 



The Family in America 168 

joiner of Cape Fear, N. C, conveyed land in Providence to 
Robert Gibbs, merchant of that town, for the consideration of 
24 pounds.^ On July 6, 1747, describing himself as of Onslow 
County, N. C, he conveyed land in Rhode Island to Henry 
Sweeting, of Providence, innholder, for the consideration of 50 
pounds of N. C. currency.* His wife did not join in these last 
two deeds* He was doubtless the John Hawes who petitioned 
the Governor and Council of N. C, Sept. 8, 1737, for a grant 
of 100 acres of land in New Hanover County/ His children, b. 
in Providence were: John, b. Aug. 30, 1725, and Mary, b. 
Aug. 81, 1727. The printed U. S. Census of 1790 for North 
Carolina (p. 97) shows, in Onslow County, John Hawes, Sr.,** 
owning one slave, who was no doubt the one bom in Provi- 
dence Aug. 30, 1726, and John Hawes, Jr.," doubtless his son. 
John Hawes, Sr., had in his family one male over 16, one male 
under 16 and 2 females ; John, Jr., 1 adult male and 1 female. 
This census also shows (p. 195) in the same county Joseph 
"Haus," with a family consisting of one male over 16, one male 
under 16, and one female. He also may have been a son of 
John, Sr. In 1909 Edmund A. Hawes, Jr., of Atkinson, Pen- 
der Co., N. C, wrote that his father's name was Edmund A. 
Hawes, his grandfather was John R. Hawes, his great grand- 
father Edmund A. Hawes, and his great-great grandfather 
John Hawes. The last named not improbably was the John 
Hawes, Jr., of the Census of 1790. 

5 Joseph* (John,^ Edmond*) Hawes, b. July 16, 1678; 
m.** first Mary* (Jeremiah,^ Thomas^) Howes, about 1695, who 
d.** Jan. 10, 1728-9, in her fifty-eighth year ; m.^ second, March 
21, 1729-30, Bethiah Winslow (daughter of Gershom Hall and 
widow of Kenelm* Winslow of Harwich), who d.^ Sept. 8, 1746, 

ill ib. 139. 

*19 ib. 370. 

14, N. C. Colonial & State Recs., 977. 

fnHe would appear to be the John Hawes who was No. 66 on the 
muster roll of forces in Onslow Co. to serve as militia in a regiment of 
foot, taken Oct. 95, 1754 (99 N. C. Col. & SUte Recs., 340). 

«He may have been the John Hawes who was sergeant in the 10th N. C. 
Jan. 1789— Jan. 1783 (16 N. C. CoL & State Recs., 1084). 

oGravestone Recs. Yar. Mass., 91. This printed record calls her Mercy, 
but the writer on personal inspection found the name clearly Mary, 
and it is Mary in the town records. (69 N. E. Reg. 909.) 

Pint Mch. 19, 1799-30, Har. Recs.; 11 Mf. 948. 



164 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

in her seventy-third year; m.* third July 8, 1746, Sarah Hop- 
kins (daughter of Thomas^ Howes and widow of Stephen^ Hop- 
kins), who survived him. Joseph' Hawes d. Nov. 16, 1752.^ 
That his first wife was Mary Howes, daughter of Jeremiah 
Howes and grand-daughter of Governor Thomas Prence, 
appears from a deed (recorded in Plymouth County Reg- 
istry of Deeds, vol. 89, p. 181), dated Sept. 87, 1784, 
in which he, described as gentleman, with his wife Bethiah 
and his children, conveys to Cornelius Bennett all the right of 
his late wife Mary in and to lands and meadow in Bridgewater 
and Middleborough that had belonged to Grov. Prence.** He 
was a deacon of the church, representative in the legislature in 
1718 and 1714 and town clerk and treasurer for 7 years from 
1789.' At the division of the common lands in 1718 he received 
88 shares out of a total of 8118 distributed among 150 or 160 
individuals or interests.^ He left a will dated May 85, 1758 
(9 Bam. Prob. Recs. 84). The inventory of his estate 
amounted to £878 18s. 4^d., including lands and houses to 
the value of £884 (lb. 88). 

Children^ all by his first wife and all b. in Yar- 
mouth:^ 

Sabah, b. Apr. 1, 1696. 

Elizabeth, b. Nov. 6, 1697. 

Edmund, b. June 18, 1699. 

Thomas, b. May 16, 1701. 

Joseph, b. Jan. 18, 1708-8. 

Maey, b. March 88, 1708-4. 

Tempe&ace, b. Dec. 81, 1705. 

David, b. Oct. 10, 1707. 

Peince, b. Dec. 89, 1709. 

Thankpul, b. Apr, 16, 1718. 

Desibe, b. ; d. March, 1715.^ 

His son Prince Hawes graduated at Harvard College in 
1788. He was one of the selectmen of Yarmouth for 11 years 

«Har. Recs. 
r60 N. £. Reg. 2(B. 

«Swift 236, 338. His mention of Joseph Hawes in 1665 (p. 237) is a 
misprint for Howes. 

<lb. 126. 

MYar. Recs.; 5 Mf. 169. 

«The late Wm. P. Davis. 









The Family in America 165 

from 1756 and town clerk and treasurer for five years from 
1765.^ He also served as school master of the town. He died 
in 1771. A gHmpse of him in his old age is given by his grand- 
son Deacon Joseph Hawes about 18869 when speaking of the 
educational facilities in Yarmouth a little before the Revolu- 
tionary War : "At this time I lived with my aged grandfather, 
who had a liberal education, but in low circumstances. I could 
learn more in his comer with my pine candle, in one evening, 
than I could at school in a week."* Isaac Hawes, great-grand- 
son of Joseph,^ removed to Vassalboro', Me., and his grandson, 
the late Granville P. Hawes, who graduated at Bowdoin Col- 
lege in 1860, and served in the Civil War, was a Justice of the 
Marine Court of the City of New York. Granville attained the 
rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel. He was b. July 8, 1838, 
and d. Dec. 28, 1898. His son, James Anderson Hawes (Yale, 
1894), is a lawyer in New York City. The line is James® An- 
derson, Granville® P., Joshua,*^ Isaac,^, Thomas,^ Thomas,* 
Joseph,^ John,^ Edmond.-^ Granville's wife was Euphemia^ 
Anderson Vose, of New York City. She d. Sept. 18, 1907. 

7 Ebenezee^ (John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. March 24, 
1678-9; m.^ in Edgartown, Feb. v28, 1699-1700, Sarah Norton 
(daughter of Isaac Norton, Jr.), who d.® Jan. 9, 1741-8, in 
her sixty-fifth year ; he d.® Oct. 7, 1787. He became a captain 
in the militia. About 1706 he removed to Monomoy (after- 
ward Chatham). He was chosen one of the selectmen there in 
1707, and ten times thereafter, the last time in 1719. He 
is fityled captain in the records of March 18, 1715-16, when 
he was chosen moderator. In 1709 he was one of two appointed 
"to make preparation for a minister."^ In 1710 and 1715 
he was coroner for Barnstable Co.** In 1716 he was appointed 
town agent to demand, sue for and recover from the Rev. Mr. 
Hugh Adams ^Vhat the said Adams oweth to the town of 

ipSwift, 237, 238. 

•lb. 224. 

ySee New England Family Histoiy, vol. 2, No. 8, p. 307. 

«£dgartown Vital Recs., 131. Although the record calls her father 
''Jr.,** it has been doubted if the statement is correct. 

oGravestone Recs. Yar. Mass. 21. 

(See Smith 154, 155, 159-162, 167, 176, 180. 

<iMass. Civil List, 158. 



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166 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Chatham" with power to employ attorneys. He was also chosen 
to procure a suitable minister for the town.* July 81, 1717, 
he purchased half of a brick dwelling in Boston and Aug. 24, 
17SS, sold the same for 160 pounds.^ He kept the tavern in 
Chatham. The Rev. Hugh Adams, minister of the town, 
charged him with uttering at the tavern slanderous statements 
about him in February, 1713-14, and repeating them in May, 
1714, and accordingly brought suit against him in the court of 
Common Pleas. The case was tried at Barnstable on the third 
Tuesday of January, 1715-16, and resulted in judgment for the 
defendant. Thereupon Adams appealed to the Superior Court of 
Judicature, and the appeal was heard at Plymouth March 27- 
81, 1716, Judge Samuel Sewall presiding, when the judgment 
below was reversed and Adams obtained judgment for 10 shil- 
lings damages and 8 pounds and 5 shillings costs. Among the 
papers now on file are letters from the ministers of Eastham, 
Harwich and Yarmouth commendatory of Capt. JIawes, and a 
paper in support of him signed by most of the adiQt male in- 
habitants of Chatham.^ This paper, with photographic sig- 
natures, will be found in Smith's History of Chatham.* He 
resided in Chatham N. of Emery's pond, where Cyrus Emery 
afterward lived.^ By deed dated March 16, 1707-8, he bought 
of Nathaniel, William, Joseph and Ephraim Covell one-fifth of 
their one- third interest in the common lands .^ By deed dated 
March 11, 1711-12, he sold one-half of his interest to Seth 
Taylor of Yarmouth,* who afterwards sold it to Thomas 
Doane.** Upon the drawing of lots in the division of these 
lands in 1714, lot 7, a tract N. W. of the Goose Pond, fell to 
him.^ He was also entitled to a share as a "privileged man,'* 
and in that capacity drew lot 16, S. of the Goose Pond.*" Apr. 

0Chat. Recs. 
tS6 Suffolk Deeds 135. 

^Files 10819; Record Book of the court; Judge Sewall's Diary, Mass. 
Hist. Colls., Ser. 5, v. 7, p. 76. 



APages 189_and 190. It contains the signatures of Daniel Sears, Isaac 
lylor, Joseph Eldredge, Wiflia 
and Samuel Taylor, ancestors of the writer. 



Hawes, John Taylor, Joseph Eldredge, WiUiam Eldredge, Jr., John Ryder, 



iSmith, 188. 

/lb. 189, 193; Files 7374. 

*Smith, 194. 

X^X^Thomas Doane papers. 

ISmith, 198. 

mlb. 900, 901. 



The Family in America 167 

* 

28, 1718, the proprietors of the common lands chose Mr. 
Hawes as their clerk and he recorded in a book the proceedings 
relative to the division both of the proprietors' and the "privi- 
leged men's" rights.** 2 Freeman, 614, and Deyo, 592, give his 
name as Howes in the list of selectmen of Chatham, but this is an 
error.** About 1720 he returned to Yarmouth. After his re- 
turn, according to the Province Laws, he was chosen the town's 
representative in the legislature in 1723, 1724, 1725 and 1726. 
The inventory of his estate amounted to £1506 5 shillings and 
9 pence in personal property and £1083 and 15 shillings in real 
estate,^ a large amount for the time and place. 

Children f 

Jabez, b. Yarmouth, Sept. 18, 1700; d. young.* 

John, b. Yarmouth, May 8, 1702. 

Desiee, b. Yarmouth, March 28, 1708-4.* 

Ebenezeb, b. Yarmouth, July 15, 1705. 

Isaac, b. Manamoiet or Mondmoy (Indian name of Chat- 
ham), Aug. 10, 1707. 

Ruth, b. Monomoy, Feb. 8, 1708-9. 

Benjamin, b. Chatham," Oct. 13, 1710. 

Solomon, b. Chatham, July 6, 1712; not mentioned in 
settlement of his father's estate and probably d. young. 

Bays" (Bayes), b. probably in Chatham. 

Jacob," b. probably in Chatham ; probably d. before Dec. 
29, 1741, the date of his mother's will, which does not 
mention him.^ 

8 IsAAc,^ (John,2 Edmond^) Hawes, b. March 9, 1679-80; 
m.*^ Jan. 8, 1700-1, Bethiah^ (Jeremiah,^ Thomas^) Howes; d. 

nib. 196, SOI. As to the common lands, see pp. 191-SI09.' 

oThis sufficiently appears from the public records, and is also shown in 
the Howes Geneal., p. 904. 

«4 Barn. Prob. Recs., 401. 
rYar. Recs.; 11 Mf. 111. 

«John ccJled eldest son in settlement of his father's estate. 
fThis must be the year considering the date of birth of the next child. 
^So in the record, but should be Monomoy. Chatham was not incorpor- 
ated till 1719. 

i^Named in settlement of their father's estate; 5 Bam. Prob. Recs., 145, 
146; 6 ib. 14a 149. 

<?6 Bam. Prob. Recs., 114, proved Feb. 11, 1741-9. 

trYar. Recs. The record says Jan. 8, 1701. In view of the date of birth 
of the first child it must have been 1700-1, and not 1701-9. 



168 Ancestoss and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

before March 18, ITSO-l, when letters of admmistration were 
granted on his estate. His wife's mother was Sarah Prence, 
daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence by his second wife, Mary 
Collier,* said to be the daughter of William Collier, of Dux- 
bury. The original will of Jeremiah^ Howes is lost. The rec- 
ord gives the names of his daughters Bethiah and Mary at 
least once as Hawes.^ Bethiah (Howes) Hawes m.^ second 
(int. April 11, 1741), as his second wife, John* ( John,^ Ralph^) 
Smith,^ of Eastham, and third, Nov. 16, 1743, as his second 
wife, the Rev. Joseph Lord, of Chatham.^ She d. before July 
7, 1748, when letters of administration were granted on her 
thirds as widow of Isaac' Hawes, and perhaps between March 7, 
1746-7, when she was named in Mr. Lord's will as one of his three 
executors, and June 30, 1748, when the will was proved and 
the other two only were appointed.*^ With his brother Joseph, 
Isaac' Hawes was named as executor in his father's will. He 
was given in the will his father's dwelling house and bam with 
an acre of ground surrounding them, and with his brother 
Joseph was equal devisee of the rest of his father's land and 
meadow, except eight acres given to his brother Ebenezer.** 
In the division of the common lands of Yarmouth in 171S he 
received 24^ shares out of a total of 3118, distributed among 
150 or 160 individuals or interests, the largest allotment to 
any individual being 70 shares to Jonathan Hallet.* He re- 
moved to Chatham about 1712. He is first mentioned in the 
town records March 25, 1713, when he was chosen fence viewer 
and surveyor of highways. He served in that capacity several 
terms down to and including 1721. In 1720 he began to be 
styled ensign. He later became lieutenant of the military com- 
pany and is so styled in the probate records. March 18, 1716- 
16, he with others signed a paper in behalf of his brother Eben- 

w59 N. E. Reg., 217. 

VS Barn. Prob. Recs., 174; 61 N. E. Reg., 300, S22. 

z2 Eastham Recs. 

aHe d. between Dec. 1, 1743 (date of will) and Jan. 21, 1743-3 (date of 
probate). His wiU (6 Barn. Prob. Recs., 350) mentions his wife Bethiah. 

63 Otis, 36, 37. 

08 Barn. Prob. Recs., 413, 414. Madam Lord's wearing apparel, buckles 
and buttons were appraised at 46 pounds 3 shillings (lb. 415, 416.) Per- 
haps his first wife's. 

dWiU. of John Hawes, p. 151, Mwpra, 

eSwift, 136. 



The Family in America 169 

ezer in the suit of Hugh Adams against the latter/ In Chat- 
ham he resided N. W. of and some distance from the old bury- 
ing ground. In 1712 he owned one-thirtieth of the common 
lands of Chatham and received a lot adjoining his other lands 
in Mrs. CovePs right. Feb. 17, 1718-14, he was one of the wit- 
nesses to the award of arbitrators respecting the rights of the 
"privileged men" in the common lands.^ The Proprietor's 
Book of Chatham also shows that he owned marsh W. of Cockle 
Cove. 

Children^ 6. in Yarmouth:^ 
Bethiah, b. July, 1701 ; perhaps m. Maziah Harding, 

whose wife was Bethiah and who had among his children, 

Bethiah, Desire and Prence.* 

10 Isaac, b. April, 1708. 

Thankful, b. March, 1705; m. Moses Young, of East- 
ham (int. March 6, 1724/5).^ 

11 John, b. Jan. 22, 1706-7. 
Desibe, b. Jan. 14, 1708-9. 

12 Jebemiah, b. April 5, 1711. 

Probably the following were children of Isaac and Bethiah 
Hawes bom in Chatham: 

Hannah, b. ; m. Feb. 81, 1749-50, John Slater.* 

She appears to have married a second time James Ry- 
der (int. Nov. 15, 1760).' If so, she died before May 
5, 1768, when he made his will not mentioning a surviv- 
ing wife.*" 

Patience, b. ; m. Hunt and had a son. Her 

husband died and she married again and moved away.** 

Saeah, b. May 81, 1719; m.**^ Sept. 29, 1748, Cornelius 
Higgins, of Eastham; d. in Haddam, Conn., April 7, 

/FUes 10812. 

fl^Smith, 193, 194, 199, SOO, map at p. 139. 

ftYar. Recs.; 9 Mf. 951, 252; 61 N. E. Reg., 900, 399, where the birth of 
John is omitted. 

*2 Freeman, 599. Bethiah m. Ephraim Atwood of Eastham and had a son 
Hawes Atwood, b. Aug. 30, 1768, who d. Dec 1770. (5 Mf. 191, 7 ib. 149, 

13 ib. 30; Eastham Recs.) 
/Eastham Recs. 

Klhat Recs.; 7 Mf. 138, 139. 
IChatham Recs.; 15 Mf. 139. 
mBam. Prob. Recs. 

ninformation obtained in 1881 from Miss Polly Taylor, an aged lady 
very well informed on the family history of the town. 
n^Eastham Records show their intention Feb. 19, 1749/3. 



170 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

1788, leaving issue. From a "Paper read at a family 
meeting*' of the Hurlbut family, at Racine, Wis., in 
1860, by Henry H. Hurlbut, I extract the following 
from pages 10 et seq. : "Cornelius Higgins is said to 
have been bom at Eastham, July S2, 17SS, and he mar- 
ried Sarah Hawes, of Chatham, Cape Cod, Sept. 29, 
1748. Who Sarah Hawes' father was I have not yet 
ascertained; nothing appears on the town or church 
records of Chatham of her birth, baptism or marriage 
which might reveal it. Her mother's maiden name was 
Sarah Prince, it is said." In this he is in error. Her 
grandmother was Sarah Prence. About 1750 or just 
prior thereto, Cornelius Higgins went to Haddam, 
Conn. He had nine children, one or more of whom, Hurl- 
but thinks, were bom on the Cape. He died Oct., 180S; 
his wife died Apr. 7, 1788. One of their children died in 
1857, aged over ninety-three years. From page 14 it 
appears that one of their sons was named Hawes Higgins. 
The so-called "Higgins-Hurlbut Chart" is annexed to this 
paper, which is to be found in the library of the New 
England Historic Grenealogical Society, in Boston. 
This chart states that Sarah Hawes was born May 31, 
1719. The Chatham church records commenced only 
with the ministry of the Rev. Joseph Lord in 1720. The 
family Bible of Gideon Higgins (son of Hawes Higgins 
and grandson of Cornelius and Sarah), born in 1782, 
recently in the possession of H. B. Welch, of Lynn, 
Mass., contains the following: "Cornelius Higgins 
{Son of Ebenezer Higgins) was bom in Eastham, 
Mass., July 22, 1722, and died Oct. 14, 1803. Sarah 
Hawes, his wife, was bom in Chatham, Mass., May 31, 
1719, and died April 7, 1788. They were married Sept. 
29, 1743, and moved to Haddam, Conn., and had four 
sons and five daughters." The Society of Mayflower 
Descendants has accepted Sarah Higgins a^ daughter 
of Isaac^ Hawes. See also Hurlbut G^neal. (1888), p. 
82.^ 



©The Howes GeneaL by J. C. Howes (p. 12) makes the erroneous state- 
ment that Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah Howes, married Cornelius Higgins. 



The Family in America 171 

Letters of administration on the estate of Isaac^ Hawes 
were granted to his widow.** The inventory of his estate, taken 
March 28, 1780-1, by Jojin Collins, Daniel Sears and Paul 
Crowell, and sworn to by the widow April 21, 1781, amounted 
to 226 pounds and 8 shillings, including 191 pounds for real 
estate. March 24, 1780-1, the widow was allowed all the per- 
sonal property.* July 6, 1788, John Collins, Thomas Atkins, 
Daniel Sears, Joseph Covell and Samuel Tucker were ap- 
pointed to set off the widow's dower. They made and swore to 
their return Sept. 8, 1788.*' The following is a copy: "In 
Pursuance of the Within written we the subscribors met To- 
gether the Third day of this Instant September and did lay 
out to the widow Mrs. Bethiah Hawse out of the Lands or Real 
estate of Mr. Isaac Haws of Chatham Deceased the bounds are 
as followeth for her thirds. We laid out to sd. widow the 
Dwelling house with all the Lands adjoyning thereto — ^Laid to 
said widow a piece of woodland Lying between the land of John 
Young & Paul Crowel his land that he bought of sd. Mr. Isaac 
Haws deceased Buting on a pond and from sd. pond by sd 
Youngs range about Twenty five rods to a red oak tree marked 
on the four sides. Thence on a streight line to Paul Crowes 
northwest bounds thence by sd Crowels line to the first speci- 
fied bound with a Privilige and Liberty to cart out her wood 
and on other occasion as she has need of Through sd deceaseds 
other land Through gate or bars by sd Crowell range to y® 
road : laid out to sd widow a piece of meadow & Land being the 
wester end of sd deceaseds meadow adjoyning to Joseph Crow- 
ell** meadow & by the River southerly to a stake by the river 
thence streight to the upland to a white oak marked on y® four 
sides Thence streight to ye fence Thence to the first specified 
boimds." It appears that Lt. Hawes had been unfortimate in 
his business transactions, and it was reported Nov. 29, 1788, 
that after deducting preferred claims, only 96 pounds 6 shillings 
and 2 pence of assets remained to pay 109 pounds and 2 shil- 
lings of debts. The court accordingly ordered payment of 17 
shillings and 8 pence on the pound.*" After the death of the 

p4 Barn. Prob. Recs., 591. 
95 ib. 95. 

wPerbaps should be Covell. 
rib. 144, 145. 



17S ANCE8TOK8 AND DESCENDANTS OF EdMOND HaWES 

widow, letters of administration on the estate of Isaac Hawes 
were granted July 7, 1748, to his son John to administer the 
widow's thirds/ On the same date Jonathan Grodfrey, Nehe- 
miah Harding and William Nickerson, 8d, were appointed ap- 
praisers. The inventory, dated Oct. 7, 1748, amounted to 18S 
pounds old tenor. It included one piece of land where his 
dwelling house stood, one piece of land and meadow adjoining 
the dwelling house of Paul Crowell, Jr., one piece of land ad- 
joining the east side of the land or homestead of John Youn^ 
and one piece of meadow and upland adjoining that of John 
Collins at or near a place called Seconsett. The final account 
of the administrator verified July 2, 1751, reported that he 
had sold the land for 13 pounds one shilling and four pence ; 
expenses five pounds and five shillings ; to be divided among the 
creditors, seven pounds 16 shillings and four pence.' He had 
been authorized to make the sale by act of the Legislature of 
Jan. 17, 1749-50 (chap. 801).** The homestead lot was sold to 
Ebenezer Paine, who had removed from Harwich (now Brew- 
ster) to Chatham about 1730.^ "On the 80th of July 
1750, for the sum of five pounds and seventeen shillings 
and four pence, John Hawes, of Chatham, administrator 
of the estate of Isaac Hawes, sold to Ebenezar Paine of the 
same town a certain tract where the dwelling house of the late 
Isaac Hawes last stood, containing six acres more or less; 
bounded; Vesterly on the said Ebenezar Paine; southerly on 
the way until it comes to the land that James CoveU bought of 
Simeon CoveU, then northerly to the Pond, and westerly by the 
pond to James Covell's land where the fence stands, and by the 
fence land James Covell's land to said Paines land.^ Acknowl- 
edged Feb. 8, 1760-1, and recorded at Barnstable Feb. 18, 
1750-1, in Book 24, foKos 80." 

9 Benjamin^ (John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. Mch. SO, 
1682-8 ; m.^ in Edgartown July 84, 1705, Dorcas Smith (daugh- 

«7 Bam. Prob. Recs., 337. 

tS lb., 4,72. 

uActs & Resolves of the Gen. Court of Mass. Bay, 1747-1753, voL 14, 
p. 344. 

vJosiah Paine; 63 N. E. Reg., 303-304. 

K^Taken by Mr. Paine from the original deed. 

'Edgartown Vital Recs., 131. 



Btf 



The Family in Amebic a 178 

ter of Benjamin Smith) ; d. between Oct. 15 and Nov. S8, 17S2. 
His widow m.* Dec. 28, 1724, John Worth. Benjamin^ Hawes 
resided in Edgartown and was a man of prominence. In the town 
records he is styled esquire in 1717. In 1719 he was attorney 
for the Honorable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
among the Indians.^ He was coroner for Dukes County in 
1718 and appointed' Justice of the Peace for that County 
July 8, 1722.^ According to Banks (Hist, of Martha's Vine- 
yard, vol. 1, 507) he was treasurer of Dukes County in 1712 
and coroner in 1716. The same authority, vol. 2 (Edgartown, 
205, 206), states that the Sachem of Chappaquiddick in 1718 
sold to Benjamin Hawes "one eighth of all the herbage on 
Chappaquiddick that shall ever hereafter grow from the 20th 
of October till the 25th of March every year forever" (4 
Dukes County Deeds, 44). Judge Sewall's Diary, speaking of 
a Court held on Martha's Vineyard Oct. 8, 1712, says: 
"Sachem Chappaquiddick appeared before us and Mr. Hawes 
was attorney for him.'*® In Nov., 1716, he was one of a com- 
mittee appointed by the Legislature "to go to Nantucket & 
Inquire into the Grievances there'* of the Indians.^ It seems 
that Hawes as attorney for the Sachem of Chappaquiddick had 
not accounted for seven years, as claimed, for the rents, profits, 
etc., of said island, and Dec. 4, 1722, a committee was ap- 
pointed to call to B,n accoimt his heirs, executors and admin- 
istrators annually.*' He was a leading man of Dukes County, 
and Judge Sewall in his Diary speaks of being accompanied 
by him on a visit to the Vineyard in April, 1714.** The will* 
of Benjamin Hawes, of Edgartown, dated Oct. 15, 1722, and 
proved Nov. 28, 1722, mentions wife Dorcas, eldest son Ben- 
jamin (to whom, among other things, he gives his silver headed 
cane and seal ring) ; daughter Experience (to whom, among 
other things, he gives the great Bible that was his mother's) ; 
son Samuel; daughter Jedidah, and child his wife goes with, 
Shubael. His wife is made executrix and his friends, Benjamin 

VS Dukes Co. Deeds, 379. 

i^Mass. Civil List, 160, 149. 

al8 N. E. Reg., 72. 

b9 Province Laws, 494. See also voL 10, p. 38. 

clO ib. 212, 913, 229, 977. See also vol. 9, p. 318. 

dMM8. Hist. Colls., ser. 5, voL 6, pp. 439-438. 

el Dukes Co. Prob. Recs., 39. 



174 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

Smith, Thomas Smith and Benjamin Peas, overseers. Wit- 
nesses, Daniel Greenleaf, Shubael Gorum, Ebenezer Hawes, 
Desire Hawes. The inventory of his estate, dated Nov. 1, 17S8, 
amounted to £1013 17s. Sd., as follows: Housing and lands, 
£492 ; "Cretures," £97 8s. ; Debts due estate, £281 9s. 7d. ; 
Amount of desperate debts, £25 19s. 9d. ; Wearing apparel, £13 
4s.; Household goods, £153 Os. lOd. 

Children, all horn in Edgartown:^ 

Experience, b. Nov. 14, 1706. 

Jedidah, b. July 80, 1709. 

Benjamin, b. April 25, 171^. 

Samuel, b. Feb. 25, 1717-18. 

Shubael, b. August, 1721 ; d. March 12, 1722-8.^ 

Shubael, b. Dec. 22, 1722, after the death of his father. 
A descendant of Benjamin' Hawes, William'^ T. Hawes 
(John,* Shubael,^ Samuel*) graduated at Brown University 
in 1825. He married Maria, a daughter of Gov. Marcus Mor- 
ton of Massachusetts. His son, Marcus Morton Hawes, grad- 
uated at Harvard College in 1858, and served through the Civil 
War, attaining the rank of Captain and acting as Brigade 
quartermaster. John® A. Hawes (John'' A., John^) graduated 
there in 1845. He served in the Civil War and several terms 
in the Massachusetts Senate. Mary'' (John*) Hawes married 
William T. Wardwell, of Bristol, R. I. Their son, William T. 
Wardwell, who d. Jan. 8, 1911, aged over 80 years, was for 
many years treasurer of the Standard Oil Co. of New York. 
He was active in the Prohibition movement and in charitable 
work in New York City. John* (Shubael,*^ Samuel,* Benja- 
min,^ John,^ Edmond^) Hawes was a sea-captain and later a jus- 
tice of the peace and collector of customs for the port of New 
Bedford.'^ 



/Edgartown Vital Recs., 38. 

alb. 930; 51 N. E. Reg., 197. The gravestone inscription quoted gives 
his age ais 1 yr. and 7 mos., which would be erroneous if it referred to the 
Shubael b. Dec. 99, 1799. On the other hand the will does not mention a 
Shubael. The suggestion of a first Shubael, b. Aug., 1791, is made for what 
it may be worth. 

T^An account of him by his grand-daughter, Rebecca W. Hawes, was read 
before the Old Dartmouth Historical Society in New Bedford in 1908. 
(Old Dartmouth Sketches, No. 99.) 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

10 Isaac* (Isaac,^ John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. April, 
1708 ; m. Hannah,^ who d. Feb. 2, 1792 ;^ he d.* Dec, 1785. 
The identification of Isaac* with the Isaac who thus died and 
was buried in 1785 is not absolute, but there can be little doubt 
of their identity. The age given on the gravestone does not 
exactly correspond with the date of birth appearing on the 
Yarmouth records, but the discrepancy is only such as might 
readily occur from error in the record or mistake on the part 
of those who directed the inscription. That he had a son 
Prince points to descent from Gov. Prence. The Land Records 
of Kent,' Conn., show the purchase by Isaac Hawes, of Phil- 
lipse Patent, from Luke Sweetland of a piece of land in Kent 
April 3, 1769. About the same time Joseph Taylor, of the 
same place, purchased land in Kent of Zadock Bostwick. Phil- 
lipse Patent was in the part of Dutchess County, New York, 
now Putnam county, and adjoined Kent. The neighboring 
region was known as the "Oblong," and to it about 1750 there 
was a large emigration from Chatham and other towns on Cape 
Cod. As the Isaac Hawes who died in Kent is found there in 
company with Joseph Taylor, and came thither in his company 
from that part of Dutchess Co., N. Y., now included in Put- 
nam Co., and as Joseph Taylor is known to have gone from 
Chatham to what is now the town of Southeast, Putnam Co., 
and thence to what is now Warren," there would seem to be but 

iShe may have been a Ryder and it is possible that she was not his first 
wife. Wm. C. Smith is strongly of the opinion that she was the daughter 
of Samuel Tucker of Chatham, Mass., and his wife Hannah (Mayo), b. in 
September, 1714, who had a sister Eunice. (4 Mf. 184.) 

iThe gravestone inscription in the Warren Centre (Conn.) buryins 
ground reads: *'In Memory of Mrs. Hannah Hawes Who died Feb. 2na 
1793 AE 75 wife to Mr. Isaac Hawes.** The Warren town records give her 
age as 77. 

l^The following is the gravestone inscription in the same burjring ground: 
""In Memory of Mr. Isaac Hawes Who died Dec. 1785 AE 84." 

IKent included the present town of Warren. 

^information obtained in 1883 from Rev. John L. Taylor of Andover, 
Mass., and his brother. 

176 



176 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

little doubt that this Isaac and No. 10 are the same person. 
Among the tenants of Phillipse Patent were others of Cape Cod 
origin. Among the tenants in possession of farms on the Phil- 
lipse Patent May 1, 1768, was a Hawes. The first name is not 
given, but it was no doubt Isaac, las no other Hawes was in 
the region at the time.** Hawes and Taylor no doubt left 
New York because they could obtain only leasehold rights 
there, while in Connecticut estates in fee could be obtained. 
Isaac^ Hawes left surviving him his widow Hannah, two sons, 
Isaac and Samuel (who continued to live in Connecticut), and 
three daughters, Eunice (wife of Josiah Webb), Susannah (wife 
of Asher Green) and Zibiah*" (wife of Joseph Brown). Letters 
of administration on his estate were granted to his son Samuel 
May S, 1786.*^ A son. Prince, described as storekeeper, had 
died in Hempstead, L. I., between Apr. S2, 1782 (date of his 
will), and Nov. 11, 1782 (date of probate). His will describes 
him as late of Redding, Conn., and mentions brothers Isaac 
and Samuel and sisters Eunice, Zurviah,*^ and Susannah, ^^all 
now or late of Kent, Conn.'*^ It appears that Prince Hawes, 
of Redding, was a member of the ^^Reading Loyalist Associa- 
tion," and with over 100 of that vicinage signed a loyalist 
declaration which was printed Feb. 25, 1775, in James Riving^ 
ton's "Gazetteer," published in New York City. Thereupon 
the signers were made at least very uncomfortable, and Prince 
Hawes "fled to Long Island in 1776, and -the fact was com- 
municated to General Washington.'**' Isaac^ Hawes removed 
from Warren to Danby, Tompkins Co., N. Y., and had a 
numerous family, among his grandsons being the late Horace 
Hawes, a wealthy and prominent citizen of San Francisco, son 
of Newton* Hawes. A grandson of Isaac^ Hawes and son of 
Isaac,^ the Rev. Prince Hawes, graduated at Williams Col- 
lege in 1805. The Rev. Josiah Hawes, brother of the Rev. 
Prince, also graduated at Williams, in 1800. Lowman Hawes, 
another son of Isaac,^ graduated at Yale College in 1814, 

mPelletreau's Hist of Putnam Co., 418, 419. The tenancy was a joint 
one, the entry being "Haws & Wm. Judd." 
fiLitchfield (Conn.) Prob. Recs. 
MuThe same person. 
oL. 85 of Wills, 123, N. Y. Surrogate's (Mice. 

PGrumman's "Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Conn.," pp. 14 et seq., 
and 188. 



The Family in America 177 

and settled as a lawyer at Maysville, Ky. Welles^ Hawes, a 
son of the Rev. Prince^ Hawes, graduated at Yale College in 
1884. 

11 John* (Isaac,^ John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. in Yar- 
mouth Jan. 28, 1706-7; m. in Chatham about 1786 Abigail* 
(Thomas,^ Ephraim,^ John^) Doane, b. Eastham March 28, 
1708.* She d. in the smallpox epidemic January 22, 1766.*" 
He d. about Feb. 8, 1779, when his son John is charged three 
pounds and 14 shillings for making his coffin.' He was prob- 
ably buried, with his wife and other persons, a little southwest 
of the house now owned by Ebenezer Hawes, where graves are 
still visible, which locality seems to be referred to in the divi- 
sion of property with James Ryder May 80, 1766.* He was 
brought to Chatham by his parents and continued to reside 
there. He was one of the selectmen for fourteen years from 
1765.** He is mentioned in the town records Oct. 4, 1789 (cat- 
tle mark recorded). Mar. 7, 1748-4, he was elected tithing- 
man. In 1752 he was chosen as juryman and at various times 
thereafter was on the grand and petit jury. In 1759 he was 
chosen constable and also in 1762, 1768, 1778, and 1775. In 
1759 he was appointed one of the agents ^Ho care and see that 
Rev. Stephen Emery has his wood and hay from the town 
this year in season." In 1762 he was appointed to hire a 
schoolmaster. In 1765 he was made agent to petition the 
Greneral Court for an abatement of taxes because of the re- 
moval of so great a number from the town. He owned land 
in partnership with James Ryder in 1766.^ April 18, 1766, 
he was appointed to receive and with others distribute among 
poor families the money contributed by other towns in con- 
sequence of the smallpox in Chatham. With Samuel Taylor 
he was appointed in 1768 to arrange for a school in the S. W. 
quarter of the town. In 1768 he signed as one of the select- 

ffWill of Thos. Doane (9 Barn. Prob. Recs.. 937) $ Doane Family, by 
Alfred A. Doane, p. 59. The will, dated March 17, and proved Sept. 99, 
1756, names his daughter Abigail, wife of John Hawes. 

r87 Mass. Archives, 370. 

'Account book of Charles Atkins^ carpenter, in the possession of J. Wil- 
liam Atkins, of Berkeley, CaL 
<13 Bam. Prob. Recs., 958. 
«9 Freeman 614. 
«13 Bam. Prob. Recs., 958. 



178 Ancestoks and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

men the town's appreciative reply to the letter of the town of 
Boston recommending a Provincial convention. Feb. 1, 177S, he 
was one of those appointed to divide the estate of James Ryder's 
wife.^ April 6, 17712) he was one of those who set off the dower 
of Thankful Collins, widow of John Collins.* Dec. 17, 1778, he 
was appointed one of the committee of nine ^Ho consider of 
ye greavences Laid before us from Town of Boston, and to 
report" at an adjourned meeting. The report was made Dec. 
29, "and then red said report two or three times d^berately 
and after som debate and amendaments the Town with a full 
meeting voted their acceptance of ye comittess report and then 
voted that the Town Clerk should exhibit a copy of said report 
and transmit ye same to ye Town Clerk of Boston.'**' Jan. SS, 
1773, he was appointed agent to get Rev. Mr. Emery's wood 
and hay for the year. Nov. SO of the same year he was made 
member of a committee to contract with carpenters to enlarge 
the meeting house. January 26, 1775, it was voted by the 
town that Mr. John Hawes (probably then constable) should 
not pay the Province money to Mr. Harrison Gray^ till further 
order from the town, and that they would defend Mr. Hawes 
in so doing. In 1749 he petitioned the General Court for leave 
to sell his father's real estate that had been set off to his 
mother as her dower. The petition is written in a plain, neat 
hand, well spelled, and, apparently by the petitioner himself, 
as foUows: "To the Honble Spencer Phips Esq. Lt. Govr. 
and Commander in Chief in and over His Majst. Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in New England, and to the Honble. the 
Councill & House of Representatives in Greneral Court assem^ 
bled the 22 Nov. 1749. Humbly Sheweth John Hawes of Chat- 
ham in ye county of Barnstable, admr. etc., yt he fully purpos- 
ing to have put in his Petition at his Majesties Supr. Court 
of Judicature, holden at Barnstable in July last, for license to 
sell a parceU of Land being the remaining part of the insolvent 
Estate of Mr. Isaac Hawes Deceased, in order to pay sd De- 
ceased Debts, but so it was that sd Court was adjourned with- 
out day the second day of the sd setting, and that notwith- 

IP17 ib., 49. 

«Ib. 113. 

yCopy, infra, p. 181. 

tfHe was the Provincial Treasurer and a loyalist. (Mass. Civil List, 45.) 



The Family in America 179 

standing ye Petitioner dwelling more than twenty miles from 
ye place of setting of sd Court, he came there a few minutes 
after said Court was adjourned as aforsd, but too late and in- 
asmuch as the Supr. Court sets in sd County but once in a year. 
Your Petitioner is like to be much exposed by the creditors 
demands before he can at ye Supr. Court obtain Licence to 
sell sd land apprised at no more than one hundred and eighty 
three pounds old Tennor, wherefore ye Petitioner prays that 
this Honble. Court will be pleased to Grant his Licence to sell 
sd. land for the purpose aforesd and your petitioner as in duty 
bound shall ever pray. John Hawes.'*** He resided in West 

Signature of John Hawes 
to petition, 1749. 

Chatham, his house being S. of the main road a little E. of 
where the road to East Harwich branches off. His homestead 
land extended easterly to a point about opposite the road that 
runs northerly to the old burying ground, where it met the 
land of Samuel Taylor. It stretched southerly to the "Cove" 
(sometimes called Cockle Cove), and included certain islands 
of salt meadow, called "flats," in the Cove. In 1766 he had 
also owned land in common with James Ryder near Ebenezer 
Paine's in the northern part of the town. June 10, 1779, 
letters of administration on his estate were granted to his son 
John.* The inventory was taken June 24, 1779, by James 
Covell, Bamabcus Eldredge and Sylvanus Harding. It 
amounted to 1094 pound and 10 shillings paper, including 689 
pounds for the homestead farm and buildings. The assets also 
included real estate in partnership with his son John (the 
homestead farm and buildings), a woodlot in Harwich and 
three parcels of meadow in Chatham. The inventory was al- 
lowed Sept. 9, 1779.** The administrator's account, dated 
Dec. 21, 1780, states that the personal property was appraised 
at 455 pounds 10 shillings paper, equal to 34 pounds silver, 

ol8 Mass. Archives, 505. 
M6 Barn. Prob. Recs., 155. 
ell ib. 139, 130. 



180 Ancestobs and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

by act of the legislature 1842 paper dollars being worth 100 
dollars in silver.^ James CoveU, Joseph Doane and Richard 
Sears were the appraisers. Dec. 24, 1780, Nathan Bassett was 
appointed to represent the heirs of his son Thomas Hawes, who 
had died since his father's death. The settlement of the estate 
was dated Oct. 9, 1781, the real estate being assigned to the son 
John Hawes, he being required to pay the other heirs for their 
shares. Besides John, those specified as entitled were the heirs 
and legal representatives (not named) of Thomas Hawes, de- 
ceased, Anna Hunter of Chatham, Patience Hawes, Bethiah 
Taylor, widow, and Ruhamah Hawes. The lands were ap- 
praised at 90 pounds and 10 shillings silver, including 46 
pounds for the house and land upon which it stood.^ 

Children^ all horn in Chatham: 

Samuel, b. Feb. 7, 1786-7 ; d. Sept. 14, 1789. 

Annah, b. Aug. 6, 1788 ; m. Joseph Hunter, of Nantucket 
(int. Feb. 20, 1766) / living and described as of Chat- 
ham, Oct. 9, 1781. 

Patience, b. Nov. 26, 1740 ; d. unmarried. 

Bethiah, b. Sept. 7, 1742. She m. first Elisha Howes Dec. 
9, 1762.^ He d. May 8, 1772,* in his 88rd year. She 
was appointed his administratrix Sept. 22, 1772,^ and 
was made guardian of her children, David and Priscilla, 
Nov. 29, 1774.^ She married second, Barnabas Taylor 
and had a daughter, Rhodia. He d. between May 25, 
1776 (date of his will),* and July 9, 1776 (date of its 
probate). He gave to his wife, Bethiah, 1/8 of his 
personal property and the use of 1/8 of his real estate, 
to his daughter Rhodia 20s., to his sister Abigail, wife 
of Joshua Ellis, 2/8 of his real estate and made her 
his residuary devisee and legatee. To John Taylor, son 
of his cousin, Seth Taylor, he gave £18 6s. 8d., and 

dlO ib. 97-100. 
631 ib. 134-137. 

/Chat. Recs. ; 10 Mf . 196, 197. 
^Chat. Recs.; int Oct. 30, 1763, 15 Mf. 132. 
Mjravestone; 8 Mf. 338. 
<16 Barn. Pro. Recs., 38. 

il5 ib. 303 & 306. According to the Howes Genealogy (pp. 30 & 33), 
there were two other sons, Stephen and Elisha. 
*17 Bam. Prob. Recs., 349. 



The Family in America 181 

he made his cousin, Seth Taylor, executor. His inven- 
tory, taken Aug. 18, 1776, amounted: to £491 lis., more 
than half in real estate.^ She was living and described 
as Bethiah Taylor, widow, Oct. 9, 1781, 

18 Thomas, b. April 10, 1744. 

RuHAMAH, b. Nov. 2, 1747 ; unmarried Oct. 9, 1781. 
The writer's Aunt Patience (Hawes) Howes informed him 
that her Aunt Hamy (Ruhamah) married late in life John Fish 
of Sandwich, that while a girl she went with her father. Dea- 
con John** Hawes, to Barnstable on business and that when the 
business was finished they went to "Great Marshes'* and visited 
her Aunt Hamy, who received them with great affection. No 
satisfactory record of her marriage has been revealed and 
nothing further found except that she was childless.** 
14 John, b. in 1752 or 1768. 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE. 

"The Committy of corrispondence appointed by ye Inhab- 
itants of the Town of Chatham in their Town meeting the 
seventeenth day of December 1772 at their meeting House to 
make answer to a committies leter of Correspondence and ye 
votes and proceedings of ye Inhabitants of ye Town of Boston 
beg leave to report. Gentlemen we carefully perrused your 
votes and proceedings and letter of corraspondence and cannot 
but agree with you in opinion that our rights are fairly and 
properly stated and also the grievinces under which we La- 
bour and we hope such measures will be taken in a constitu- 
tional way as shall affectually redress the same and also pre- 
vent those which further threaten us ; We are greatly alarmed 

lib. 379. 

mThe Sandwich records give: John Fish of Sandwich and Anna HaWes 
of Fahnouth, m. May 92, 1791. The Falmouth records say: John Fish of 
Sandwich and Anna Hawes of Fahnouth, pub. May 3, 1800, and later m. 
by David Nye, Esq., giving no date of marriage. These records tnay be 
a confusion of the same transaction, and Anna may be a mistake for 
Hama. The Chatham records give the intention of marriage of Stephen 
Morten of Dartmouth and Ruhama Howes of Chatham Dec. 31, 177S. It 
is possible these two names may be Marten and Hawes. The Dartmouth 
records give the intention of Stephen Morton and Ruhamah Hawes, Dec. 
31, 177$. The Elisha Leonard Papers, being copies of the Dartmouth 
records, read, Stephen Martin and Lurany Haws, Chatham, publ. Jan. 3, 
1773. It is probable that the name here is really Ruhamah Howes, but if 
it is Hawes, then the intended marriage did not take place. 



182 AHCSSTOlf AND DSSCSNDAKTS OF EdMOND HaWES 

att the GoTemors being made Independent of ye grants of this 
province and at the prerelent report of ye Leftenant GtoTenors 
and judges of ye supearor Court of Judicature as also the 
Kings atumey and Silistor Greneral being soon on ye same foot- 
ing which if it should take affect (what will come next we know 
not but may safely gess) we cannot but think it hath a direct 
tendancy soon to compress our slaveres but what measures to 
advise to for redress we know not should there be a Greneral 
assembly soon we should submit to them willingly but as we 
imagine there will be none soon and when we know not and 
when we compair the Govemers answer to your petition No. 8 
in your pamplet what measures to take we are at a Loss. 
But as you are ye Metrophilus and have all ye acts of ye Grov- 
emment and of ye British parliment and the bills of rights 
with you we hope you will use your joint endeavors in a Con- 
stitutional way to save from impending ruin this distressed 
people and as we are willing to use our best endeavors to sup- 
port Government so on ye other hand we are most concern for 
our Charter rights and Privilidges and as we look on our Sevil 
and Religous priveledges the sweetest and assentiel part of our 
Lives so we think when these are torn from us the remainder is 
scarce worth presarving therefor resolved to stand fermly as 
one man by our Charter priviledges in a Lawful constitu- 
tional way to all intents and purposes and we cannot but think 
that if we by any means could Exhibit a Pertition to ye Ears 
of our most Greatious Soveraign who is Equel the father of 
his american subjects as of his British subjects setting forth 
our unanamous complaints but that he would lend his Royal 
Ear to our humble prayer and redress our greevances so we 
his Majestyes dutiful and Loyal subjects conclude with our 
harty thanks to you for your letter of correspondence to our 
Selectmen and idso to our representitive. Grentlemen your 
Humble Servants James Covel. Paul Sears Seth Smith Samuel 
Collins Joseph Atwood John Hawes Barnabas Eldredge 
Thomas Hamilton Richard Sears." (Chatham Town Records, 
vol. 2, p. 208.) 

12 Jeremiah^ (Isaac,' John,' Edmond^) Hawes, b. April 
6, 1711 ; m. Phebe Young, of Eastham, Aug. 8, 1784.* After 

nEastham Recs. 



The FAMiiiY in America 188 

his marriage he resided in the part of £a8tham» now WeOfleet, 
and died before Feb. S, 1756, when Jonathan Young was ap- 
pointed guardian for his minor son Jeremiah,^ who was the 
ancestor of the Hawes family in Wellfleet. The younger Jere- 
miah served in the Coast Guards in the ReTolutionary War.^ 

07 Barn. Prob. Recs., 411. 

p7 Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in War of Rev., 559. 



FIFTH GENERATION 

18 Thomas^ ( John,^ Isaac,' John,^ Edmond^) Hawbs, b. 
April 10, 1744; m. ; d. after Feb. 8, 1779, 

and before Dec. S4, 1780. He was a sea-captain, running 
South, where, according to the family tradition,^ he married 
and died, but no record of his marriage or death has been 
found. He probably left issue, since a guardian for his heirs 
was appointed upon the settlement of his father's estate. He 
was on the payroll of the military forces of the Province in 
1762 or 1768, but did not take active service.** Some of the 
entries under the name of Thomas Hawes (Haws) in vol. 7 of 
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolu* 
tion probably refer to him. March 14, 1774, he was chosen 
one of the tithingmen of Chatham. 

14 JoHN*^ (John,* Isaac,' John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. be- 
tween Oct. 6, 1752, and Oct. 6, 1758 ; m.* Jan. 5, 1777, Mercy® 
(Samuel,*^ Nathaniel,* Stephen,^ Giles,^* Stephen,^*) Hopkins; 
d. Oct. 6, 1824, in his 72nd year.^ She was baptized in the 
Harwich (now Brewster) church June 8, 1769,^ and died Jan. 
27, 1884.* Early in life he was seafaring man, but later set- 
tled down to cultivating his farm, with incidental public and 
private business. He was deacon of the church for over 20 
years. One of the selectmen seven years, from 1790, and town 
clerk and treasurer 20 years from 1808. He drew deeds and 
wills for his fellow townsmen and attended to the settlement 
of estates. He also taught school. A memorandum by him in 
the possession of the writer shows that he commenced school 
Dec. 14, 1797, in Thomas Taylor's house; Dec. 81, 1798, in 
Sylvanus Harding's house ; and Dec. 26, 1795, at Amos Hard- 

alnformation given the writer by his aunt. Patience (Hawes) Howes. 

f^ Mass. Archives, 2S4. 

<Chat. Recs. 

^Mayflower passengers. 

iKxravestone inscription in Old Burying Ground, Chatham; 13 Mf. 176. 

«10 Mf. 95S; Church Recs. 

184 



The Family in Amebica 185 

lug's. In 17889 he was one of the appraisers of the estate of 
Samuel Taylor, the inventory being taken Feb. 8.** In 1781 
he was tithingman. In 1788 and on other occasions he was 
on a committee to settle with the town treasurer and con- 
stable, and in 1789 on a committee to "direct" the representa- 
tive to the Greneral Court. He was moderator of the town 
meeting in 1790, and at other times thereafter. In 1798 he 
was constable and tax collector, and the same year agent to 
procure the Rev. Mr. Roby's wood and hay. In 1794 he was 
on a committee to fence the old burying ground. Sept. 28, 
1795, he was appointed on a committee to consult the Rev. 



ymn^diui^ 



Signature of Deacon John Hawes 
to appraisal, 1788. 

Mr. Roby respecting a dismissal and on another committee to 
dismiss him. On the same date he was appointed on a com- 
mittee to invite five ministers to come from other towns to hold 
a day of fasting and prayer on Nov. 12 and to provide for their 
entertainment at the town's expense. In 1796 he was on a 
committee to agree with the Rev. Mr. Briggs. In 1798 he is 
styled Deacon, and is on a committee to keep order in the 
meeting house. He assisted in throwing up the intrenchments 
on Dorchester Heights in March, 1776, which brought about 
the evacuation of Boston. Many men went from Cape Cod at 
about that time to aid in driving the British from Boston, and 
returned after the evacuation. As a privateer he was one of 
the crew of a sloop commanded by a Captain Freeman of Har- 
wich (the part now included in the town of Brewster), whose 
lieutenant was Joseph Doane, of Chatham, which sailed in 1777. 
She was soon captured by a British man-of-war, disguised as a 
merchantman, and the crew were carried to New York and 
thrown into the prison hulks there.* The Massachusetts Ar- 
chives show that Nathaniel Freeman was given a commission as 

«o96 Bam. Prob. Recs., 45S. 

«The foregoing information as to the Revolutionary activily of John' 
Hawes was received from his son, James Hawes, the writer's fatiier. 



186 Ancestoes and Dsscendakts of Edmond Hawes 

oommander of the privateer sloop ^WolP by order in Councfl 
of Sept. 18, 1776.' John Hawes, seaman of Cape Cod, was on 
the list of prisoners exchanged in R. I., dated Newport, Feb. 11, 
1777.' John Hawes, Jr., was a private in Captain Thomas Ham- 
ilton's company stationed in Barnstable County for defense of 
the seacoast, serving from July 7 to Dec. 31, 1775.' Hamilton 
was of Chatham. It is likely that some other references in 
vol. 7 of Mass. Soldiers and Sailors refer to John*^ Hawes. 
The published U. S. census of 1790 names John Hawes as head 
of a family in Chatham, consisting of one adult male, 4 male 
children and 5 females. Letters of administration on his estate 
were granted to his son Samuel Jan. 11, 18S5.^ The widow's 
share was assigned Nov. 2S, 18S5.^ The inventory March 5, 
18S5, mentions one half of his dwelling house, etc., in partner- 
ship with his son Samuel, $S63 ; all his lands $1860 ; personal 
property, $294.41."^ The division, March S6, 18S6, of the real 
estate of Deacon John Hawes mentions Ansel A. Kendrick.^ 
Deacon Hawes had resided in his father's house until about 
1805, when with his son Samuel, he built a double house (now 
standing) N. of the main road nearly opposite the old one. 

Children, bom in Chatham:^ 
A CHILD that d. about Dec. SI, 1778, when he is charged 
one pound and 14 shillings for making its coffin.^ 

15 Samuel, b. March 17, 1780. 

16 John, b. May 10, 1788. 

Thomas, b. Aug. S9, 1784 ; d. Dec. 5, 1800.* 
Abigail, b. March 6, 1787 ; m. Ansel A. Kendrick, of Har- 
wich ; lived in Dartmouth and died there Dec. 80, 1858, 
a widow.* She had a son Levi, who became captain of a 

fS Mass. Soldiers & SaUors in War of Rev., 47. 
s7 lb. 5T1. 
alb. 55S. 

H9 Barn. Prob. Recs., ISO. 
e46 lb. 978. 
dib. 99. 
•lb. 90*. 

/Chat. Recs. and Deacon John Hawes's Familj Rec. in posseision of 
writer. 
^Account book of Charles Atkins. 
Kj^ravestone; 13 Mf. 176. 
IDartmouth Recs. 



■*^. 



The FAMiiiY in America 187 

whale ship and died at sea without issue, and a daugh- 
ter, Mercy Hawes, who m. David Gifford and had Levi 
K., David Lewis and Amie A. Gifford. Mercy H. Gif-^ 
ford d. in 1899, aged 86.** 
David, b. April SI, 1789; frozen to death* on Nauset 
Beach Jan. 18, 1809; unmarried. 

17 Joseph, b. July 86, 1791. 

18 James, b. Oct. 12, 1795. 

Patience, b. July S3, 1799 ; m. 18S3 Seth Howes, of Chat- 
ham; d. March 10, 1881, a widow, the last survivor of 
Deacon Hawes's children.^ 

Bethiah, b. Oct. 16, 180S; d. in Dartmouth unmarried, 
Sept. 7, I860.* 

i^Levi K. Gifford m. Fannie Reynolds and moved to Kansas. His two 
children were recently living in Colorado. David L. Gifford became cap- 
tain of a whale ship. He served in tiie Civil War both in the army and 
navy» and received a medal for bravery. He also received a medal and 
other testimonials for rescui^ shipwrecked people. He died without 
issue. His widow, Eleanor J. Gifford, is living at South Dartmouth, Mass. 

/Howes Genealogy by J. C. Howes (p. Ill) erroneously makes her 
maiden name Howes. lb. (p. 166) gives two of the three children of her 
son, Seth C. Howes. She had two daughters, Asubah, who m. Freeman 
Chase and Bethiah, who m. Jabez Crowell, of East Harwich. Her hus- 
band d. in 1838 (Bam. Prob. Recs.). 



SIXTH GENERATION 

15 Samuel* (John/ John,^ Isaac,' John,^ EdmcHid^) 
Hawes, b. March 17, 1780; m. Oct. 27, 1804, MoUy^ (Samuel,« 
Nehemiah,^ Thomas,^ Thomas,' Ephraun,^ John^) Doane; cL 
Oct. 1, 1861. She d. Dec. 2, 1860. 

Children^ all born in Chatluim: 

Betsey, b. Oct. 8, 1805 ; m. first Ebenezer Nickerson and 
second. Bangs Eldredge, of Harwich ; no issue. 

Thomas, b. Jan. 22, 1808; m. Miriam Smith. He was a 
seafaring man, went away in 18S8 and never returned. 
Two sons, Nathaniel and Thomas, lived and died in 
Chatham, leaving issue. 

DiDAMT, b. April 6, 1810; m. Zelotus Wixon, of Dennis. 

Samuel, b. July 31, 1811 ; m. Betsey, daughter of Daniel^ 
Harding, of Chatham, by his first wife; d. at Nassau, 
Bcdiama Islands, Dec, 1864. His son. Sergeant Samuel 
Hawes, who served in the Civil War, resides in Chatham. 

Edwabd, b. July 22, 1818 ; m. Jan. 81, 1887, Polly, daugh- 
ter of Nehemiah Kelley, of Dennis; d. July 12, 1888. 
His son Ebenezer resides in Chatham. 

Tabitha, b. Aug. 2, 1815 ; d. Aug. 18, 1816. 

TABrrHA DoANE, b. July 14, 1817 ; m. Jonathan Kelley, of 
Dennis. 

Zenas, b. Aug. 20, 1819; m. Polly, daughter of Samuel 
Kelley, of Dennis ; d. April 18, 1865, without issue. 

Mabt, b. May 25, 1823 ; m. first Joseph Kelley, of Dennis, 
and second Braddock Allen, of Harwich; no issue. 

John, b. July 20, 1825 ; m. Eliza Ann, daughter of David 
Kelley, of Dennis ; d. Nov. 2, 1858, of yellow fever at 
Savannah, 6a., while mate of a vessel of which his cou- 
sin Reuben C. Hawes was master. His son John re- 
sides in Barnstable and his son Zenas in Chatham. 

Esther Doane, b. March 6, 1829 ; m. Charles B. Babcock, 
of Mansfield, Conn., no issue — ^All the children of Sam- 
uel* Hawes are deceased. The authority relied on is 

188 



The Familt in America 189 

chiefly his family record in the possession of his grand- 
son Ebenezer Hawes. The town record differs in some 
particulars. 

16 John® ( John,*^ John,* Isaac,^ John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, 
b. May 10, 1782 ; m. Experience Ryder, int. Feb. 18, 1808 ;* 
d. of yellow fever at Port-au-Prince in 1826.^ 

Children^ all horn m Chatham:^ 
David, b. Aug. 27, 1808 ; d. unmarried. 
John, b. Aug. 17, 1811 ; d. young. 
PoLLEY (Mary), b. Dec. 16, 1818; m. Henry Pitman, of 

Bristol, R. I. 
Macy (Mercy) Ryder, b. Aug. 8, 1817; d. young. 
John, b. Nov. 12, 1819 ; d. young. 
Experience, b. Jan. 7, 1822 ; d. young. 

17 Joseph^ (John,^ John,* Isaac,^ John,^ Edmond^) 
Hawes, b. July 25, 1791 ; m.** Dec. 81, 1818, Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Edward Kent, of Chatham, who d. Nov. 26, 1864. He 
d. 1826.*^ 

Children,^ horn in Chatham: 
Patia, b. Aug. 22, 1819; d. March 8, 1820. 
Joseph, b. June 19, 1821 ; m. Susan, daughter of Amos 

Harding, of Chatham; drowned at sea Oct. 5, 1868,^ 

leaving issue. 
Reuben, birth recorded Apr. 2, 1822 ; d. young. 

18 James* (John,*^ John,* Isaac,' John,^ Edmond^) 
Hawes, bom Oct. 12, 1795 ; married^ first Susannah*^ (Reuben*^ 
Collins, Samuel,* Samuel,' John,^ Richard^) Taylor, Dec. 18, 
1821 (int. Nov. 24, 1821), and second Desire Smith (daugh- 
ter of Lemuel Hunt, who had married first Zoeth Ryder and 

ipChat. Recs. 

140 Barn. Prob. Recs., $93. 

mChat. Recs. and family information. 

fiCliat. Recs. 

o4& Bam. Prob. Recs., 153. 

P911 State House Recs., 6. 

flChat Recs. and his family rec 

rHer mother was Sally" (Sarah), daughter of William^ (William,' Jos- 
eph,* Robert^) and Susannah or Susan (Atkins) Eldredge. 



190 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

second Enoch Smith) Sept. 11, 1859; died Dec. 18, 186«. His 
first wife was born March S5, 1798, and died March 17, 1856. 
His second wife died March 28, 1878. His will, dated Dec. 4, 




Signature of Reuben C. Taylor, 1786. 

1868, was proved Feb. 10, 1868.* His inventory, taken March 
5, 1863, amounted to $8,111.96, of which $1490 represented 
real estate and $681.96 personal property.' He went to sea 
for a livelihood during the earlier portion of his life. His sea- 
faring life was limited to fishing and coasting voyages, with the 
exception of a voyage he made just after the close of the War 
of 1818 to Amsterdam, Holland. His first voyage was made 
in the spring of 1818 to the Banks, on which occasion the ves- 
sel in which he sailed was totally wrecked on Sable Island. 
On his fishing voyages he went also to the Strait of Belle Isle. 
When he returned from his first voyage war with England had 
been declared. He spent the greater part of the time during 
that war in Rhode Island on a farm, most of the time in the 
service of a Quaker. He was captain some years, and in that 
capacity was in Charleston, S. C, during the time of Nullifica- 
tion. He left the sea before he was forty and spent the rest 
of his life in farming, except that he engaged for a time in 
the ownership and fitting out of fishing vessels with his brother- 
in-law, Samuel Taylor. He was a member of the Congrega- 
tional Church, but soon after 1860 separated and became a 
leader of the "Come-outers," who thought the Church too 
formal and worldly, who did not believe in a special ministry 
and who resembled the ^^Separatists" of a century before. They 
built a meeting house on his land, and the site was conveyed 
to trustees by deed' dated March 10, 1858. The movement 
was one of the ever recurring ones which emphasize the rela- 
tions of the individual to the deity against the traditions and 
formalities of the church as an organization. The members, 
who exemplified their faith in their lives, died, and the meeting 

<96 Barn. Prob. Recs., 150; No. 4599. 
<68 Bam. Deeds, S. 



The Family in America 191 

house has long been removed. Mr. Hawes on different occa- 
sions acted as agent for his school district. After his first 
marriage he built a house on land south of the Cove which his 
wife's father had given her, and here his first child was bom. 
After his father's death he sold this house to Edmund Young, 
and purchased the house and homestead of his father. The 
deeds were passed in 1826.** 





Signature of James Hawes and his wife, 
Susannah, to a deed in 1847. 

Children^ all by his first wife and aU bom in Chat- 
ham: 
19 Reubbn Collins, b. July 4, 1822. 

Sally (Sarah) Taylor, b. July 16, 1826; m. Christopher® 
(Christopher,^ Richard,^ George,^ Stephen,* John,* 
Samuel,^ Ralph^) Smith, Jan. 1, 1846. She d. July 21, 
1898. He was b. Dec. 23, 1821, was a sea captain and 
then in business in Chatham, and d. Feb. 29, 1908. 
Their children, b. in Chatham, were Lucas, March 11, 
1860, and WiUiam Christopher, Sept. 16, 1861, Lucas 
Smith m. Emma Frances Howes (daughter of Jonathan 
and Fanny, of Dennis), April 2, 1878. Child, WiUi- 
etta Frances, b. Jan. 26, 1877. He has been in business 
in Boston. They live in Wakefield. William C. Smith m. 
in Chelsea Florence Ilsley, daughter of William R. and 
Bethiah Crocker (Ryder) Ilsley, Oct. 81, 1889. Chil- 
dren: Christopher Ilsley, b. at Melrose, March 1, 
1898, and Marjorie Culbertson, b. at Chelsea, Nov. 80, 
1897. Mr. Smith graduated at Harvard in 1886, prac- 
' ticed law for a time in Boston and at present resides in 

Chatham. He is the author of a history of Chatham. 
Meecy, b. June 6, 1829 ; m. Ephraim* Smith (brother of 
Christopher® above), Feb. 6, 1849. She d. April 2, 

ul Chatham Deeds, 12, and 2 lb. 18, in Bam. Registry of Deeds. 



192 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

191S. He was b. Oct. S9, 18S4, and resides in Chat- 
ham. He was a sea captain and afterwards in business 
in Chatham and Boston. Their children, all bom in 
Chatham, were Mercena, b. Nov. 11, 1849; Susan Tay- 
lor, b. June S9, 1861 ; Henry Osborne, b. Aug. 16, 1853, 
and d. April 81, 1876; Sarah Ann, b. April 11, 1866; 
Ephraim, b. June 8, 1868, and d. March 26, 1869. 
Susan T. Smith m. Horatio Danforth Perkins Newton 
(son of Dr. Adin Hubbard and Susan Anjennette 
[Hatch] Newton), Dec. 4, 1879. He d. while principal 
of the Franklin (grammar) school in Boston, Jan. 14, 
1902. Their children: Mercy Osborne, b. Province- 
town, March 13, 1881, and graduated at Boston Uni- 
versity in 1904; Anjennette, b. Provincetown, Nov. 4, 
1882, and graduated at Radcliffe College in 1906 ; Henry 
Sabin, b. in Taunton, Nov. 30, 1886, and d. Jan. 28, 
1887 ; Adin Gerould, b. in East Boston, April 9, 1890. 
Sarah A. Smith graduated at Lasell Seminary and m. 
Fieldmg Schofield, April 25, 1883. 

Susannah, b. Feb. 27, 1833; m. Franklin® (George*^ W., 
Joshua,® Isaac,*^ Joseph,* Thomas,* Joseph,^ Thomas*) 
Howes, a sea captain, Feb. 19, 1864. She d. Nov. 26, 
1866. They had one child, Annah M., who d. Dec. 21, 
1861, aged 6 years and 10 days. Capt. Howes after- 
wards m. Mercy B. Small, of Harwich, and d. May 7, 
1886, leaving a numerous issue, the sons of which are 
in successful business in Boston.^ 

Mehitable, b. April 9, 1837 ; d. April 2, 1869. 
20 Jambs'^ William, b. July 9, 1844. 

vSee Howes GeneaL by J. C. Howes, 168. 



■J 



SEVENTH GENERATION 

19 Reuben*^ Coluns (James,® John,*^ John,* Isaac,^ 
John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. in Chatham, July 4, 1822; m. 
SallyS Ryder^ (Daniel,'^ Seth,« Sylvanus,*^ Maziah,* Joseph,* 
Joseph,^ Joseph^) Harding, Jan. 13, 1847. He was a sea 
captain and died of yellow fever in Savannah, Ga., Nov. 8, 
1868. She d. July 27, 1864. 

Children, all bom in Chatham: 

21 Reuben Collins, b. May 29, 1849. 

Eunice Habding, b. Nov. 3, 1861 ; m. Alvin Zenas, son of 
Zenas and Rhoda (Crowell) Atkins, Jan. 26, 1872. 
Their children, all born in Chatham: Ellen Erdine, b. 
Feb. 18, 1873, and d. June 16, 1878; Susie Clark, b. 
Feb. 23, 1876, and d. June 16, 1878; Zenas, b. Nov. 2, 
1877, and d. June 12, 1878; Sadie Webster, b. Oct. 20, 
1882, and d. Aug. 29, 1883 ; Gladys Perry, b. March 
23, 1893. 

22 Daniel Websteb, b. Jan. 14, 1864. 

23 Andeew, b. Nov. 22, 1866. 

20 Jambs'^ William ( James,® John,*^ John,* Isaac,* John,^ 
Edmond^) Hawes, b. July 9, 1844; m. in Lowell, Amelia Ap- 
pleton, daughter of John W. and Nancy "^ Dyson^ (Applet on) 
Prendergast, Oct. 14, 1873. In the summer of 1858 and 1869 
he made two codfishing voyages to the Banks and in the spring 
of 1860 sailed from Boston to Charleston, S. C, and Savannah, 
Ga., with a view to a voyage to Beirut, Syria, but, having de- 
termined to go to college, he returned home from Savannah. 
He was in Charleston during the session of the Democratic 
National Convention. He received his early education in the 
district school of his native district, which was followed by 
preparation for college in the Chatham High School, which was 
established in 1858. He entered Harvard College in 1862 and 
graduated in 1866. After a year teaching in a preparatory 
school in Boston and a year in the Harvard Law School, he 

toHer mother, Eunice Ryder, was her father's second wife. His first 
wife was Molly Eldredge. 

sfShe was the daughter of Isaac,* (Samuel,* Isaac,^ Isaac,* Samuel,* Sam- 
ueP) Appleton and Nancy (Dyson) his wife. 

193 



194 Ancestors and Descendants of Edmond Hawes 

was admitted to the bar in New York City in the autumn of 
1868 and practiced law there until 1910, when he retired. He 
has continued to reside there, but has spent considerable time 
in European travel. He was an alderman in 1881 and 1882, 
president of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York in 1881, 
and of The Republican Club of the city of New York in 1882. 
1888, and 1884. He was the Republican candidate for Justice 
of The City Court of New York in 1886 and the Anti-Tammany 
candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen (Vice- 
Mayor) in 1890. He was long active in political and reform 
movements in the city. He has also had considerable literary 
activity.*' 

ySketdies of him may be found in History of the Bendi and Bar of 
N. Y. (1897), vol. 9, p. 191; LesUe's History of the Greater N. Y. (1898, 
et seq.), voL 3, p. 984» and Bi(Mp*aphical VoL, p. 307; Universities and Their 
Sons (1900), voL 5, p. 404; mo's Who in New York City and State; Men 
of America (1908) ; and Who's Who in America. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 

21 Reuben® Collins (Reuben*^ Collins, James,* John,*^ 
John,* Isaac,^ John,* Edmond^) Hawes, b. May 29, 1849; m. 
iSrst in Winchester, Mary Frances Blaisdell Lowe, daughter of 
William Warren and Ruth Ann (Blaisdell) Lowe, of Charles- 
town, June 11, ISTd. She d. June 9, 1882. He m. second in 
Winchester, Rachel, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth 
(Hughes) Patterson, of Inyemess, Quebec, Nov. 4, 1885. He 
is engaged in business in Winchester. 

Children by firsf tvife, born in Winchester: 
Grace Flobece, b. Aug. 26, 1874; m. Nov. 21, 1906, 

James Smith Gray ; d. Dec. 29, 1907. 
Mabel Sallie, b. Feb. 16, 1877 ; m. Sept. 24, 1907, Harry 
Edgar Carter ; resides in West Medf ord. 
24 Elmee® Collins, b. March 8, 1880 ; d. April 20, 1881. 

22 Daniel® Webstee (Reuben'' Collins, James,^ John,*^ 
John,^ Isaac,® John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. Jan. 14, 1854; m. 
Minnie Morton, daughter of Marshall and Hulda Frances 
(Fogg) Gibbs, of Bridgton, Me., June 9, 1881. He is in busi- 
ness in Winchester. 

Children^ bom in Winchester: 
26 James® Dana, b. July 8, 1882 ; died Sept. 18, 1882. 
Edna Frances, b. July 27, 1889. 

26 Austin® Webstee, b. Dec. 26, 1885; m. in Winchester, 

Marion Eilbum Carter, Jan. 29, 1911. He resides and 
is in business in South Framingham. 
Jessie Stanton, b. Sept. 26, 1889; d. Dec. 9, 1889. 

27 Lobing® Gibbs, b. Sept. 4, 1892. 

29 Andeew® (Reuben'' Collins, James,® John,*^ John,^ 
Isaac,* John,^ Edmond^) Hawes, b. Nov. 22, 1866 ;,m. first, 
Clara Denham, daughter of Noah and Louisiana Swett, of 
Wellfleet, in May, 1886. She d. Sept. 6, 1891. He m. second, 

195 



196 Akckstoes akd Dsscsndakts of Edmond Hawks 

Lena Frances, daughter of Horace Washbume and Harriet 
Frances OUs, of Watertown, Oct. 24, 1894. He resides and is 
in business in Watertown* 

C%sU» bjf second wife: 
98 Ons* IiAwmxHCx, b. March tS, 1897. 



INDEX 



Abinoton, 93 
Aix^HOEXE, Marie, 111 
AcTOK^ Thomas, 49 
AiiAiu^ John, 108 

Rey. Hugh, 165, 166, 169 
AoiKCOumT, 96, 137 
AiJ»K, John, llM, 197, 145 
AuMucH, Peter, 158 
Ai^tacK, 104 
Allbk^ Braddock, 188 

Maiy, 188 
AixufOTOK, 41, 109 
Almab, 4 

A1.PHS0B, Saint, 6, 8» 
AurroKMOis, 116 
Ax0TOK Moor, 116 
Amreboam, Holland, 190 
AumavEk, Mass^ 175 
AiroEL^ Joseph, 169 
Akoerfibld^ John, 115 
Akoli, Angles, 3, 10 
Akolo-Saxon, 3, 6, 88 
Applbtok, Isaac, 193 

Nancy, 193 

Nancy D^ 193 

Samnel, 193 
Archbe, Andrew, 39 

Sir Symon (Simon), 9d, 37, 4d, 79 
Abuk^ Forest of, 3 
Ajunsr, Joane, 99 

Robert de, 66 

William, 99 
Aekull, 4 
Arukdell, Anne, 68 

Elisabeth, 80, 84, 90 

John, 80 

Rawfre, 80, 84 

Renfred, 80 

ASHBOBNE^ 96 

AsHBT St. Ledgers, 76, 98» 99, 100 
Atkins^ Alvin Z^ 193 

Charles, 177, 186 

EUen E., 198 

Eunice H., 193 

Gladys P., 193 

J. WiUiam, 177 

Rhoda, 193 



ATKiirs, Sadie W., 193 

Susan, 189 

Susannah, 189 

Susie C 193 

Thomas, 156, 171 

Zenas, 193 
Atkiksok, N. C, 163 
Atwood^ Agnes, 117 

Bethiah, 169 

Ephraim, 169 

Hawesi, 169 

Joseph, 188 

William, 117 
AuDBUET^ EUsabeth, 77 

Thomas, 77 
AvBBBBT, Richard, 95 
AwBK, Rey. Alexander, 83 
Atobibkbtb^ Ridiard, 44 
Atlesbubt^ Agnes de, 73 

Philip de, 73 

Thomas, S9, 69 
Atxsoombe, Maria, 109, 111 

Thomas, 109, 111, 114, 115 

Baboock^ Charles B., 188 

Esther D., 188 
Baook, John, 149 

Mary, 131, 141, 148, 149, 153 

Nathaniel, 149 

Sarah, 149 
BAmnsLET Clinton, 19, 93, 94, 69, 71, 
79, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 83, 
84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 99, 97, 100, 
101 

Clinton Church, 79, 79, 80, 89, 89 

Ointon Hall, 70, 79, 77, 90 

Ensor, 69 
Bakeb, Elisabeth, 41, 108, 110, 199 

George, 99, 100 

Joan, 117 

John, 41, 108, 111, 199 

Robert, 40, 110, 117, 199 

Thomas, 49 
Bauiwin^ Richard, 38 
Baulabd, Richard, 115 
Baixt, Constance, 36 

George, 36 



197 



198 



Index 



B 

Bamb, WillUm, 106 
Bamke, Rey. Robert, 8S 
Bavkbs, Rev. Robert, 87, 80 
Baxkm, Chartef B^ 173 
Babfoid, 81, 08 

Babvitablb, Mast^ 105, 106, 107, 
140, 145, 147, 140, 166, 170, 
178» 181, 188 

County, 103, 130, 140, 148, 151, 186 
Babbow Super Soar, 06 
Babtlbtt, Benjamin, 146 
Bahbt Arms, 05 

Lord, 05, 06 

Isabell, 05 

Jocosa, 06 

Joyse, 06 

Ralph, 11, 05, 06 

Thomas, 06 
Baisbtt, Nathan, 180 
Bateix, 110, 110, 113 
Batavb, Rev. John, 00 
Bawbs, Edmund, 63 
Batham, 37, 40, 46, 108, 100, 111, 

113, 114, 101, 100, 103 
Batubs, Francis, 101 
Bbauchamp, Thomas de, 74 
Bbauio^ John, 81, 80 

Margery, 81, 80 
Bbckbt, Thomas ft, 7 
BBOfOBn^ Duke of, 77 
Bbbdham, Thomas, 137 
Bbibut, Syria, 103 
Belchamp St. Paul, 101, 133, 134, 135 
Bblchibb, William, 43^ 
Bblkitap, Edward, 85 
Bbixbobsebt, 100 
Bbllb Islb, Strait of, 100 
Bbixikgham, Margery, 103 
Bmnrvm, C!omelius, 164 

Nicholas, 113 
Bebham, John, 111 
Bbbkbibt^ CaL, 177 
Bbbkswbix, 31 
Bbbbt, William, 108 
Bbbwick on Tweed, 05 

Thomas, 113 
Bbst, John, 43 

Mary, 43 
Bbtvam^ Thomas, 13 

BiCKBKHILL, 88 



BiCKLBT, W. B., 10, 19 
BiDBVOOK, 116 
BiLDWAS, 04 

BiBOHBs, John atte, 10^ 11 

William atte, 10, 11 
BmMiKOHAM, 3, 5, 10, SO, 136, 148 
BuHOPDOK, William de, 19 
BifHOPtooir, PhiUippa de, 100 
BiSHOPtDOir, William de, 100 
Blacklbach, Ann, 150 

Joseph, 150 
Blackitbll, Edmond, 105 
Blaisdbll, Ruth A^ 105 
Blakbfields (or Blackflelds), 40 
Blakbkall, John, 47 
Bix>xHAM, 36, 46 
Bix>xwiCH, 05 
Bluit, Anne, 64 

Thomas, 64 
Bhum, Ridiard, 07, 50 
BoABPMATf, Lucy, 130 

Thomas, 104, 100, 130, 147 
BooDiiroTOir, Samuel, 30 
BoBOUGH^ The, 4^ 5 

BosTOM^ 103, 133, 148» 157, 166, 170^ 
178, 181, 185, 101, 100, 103 

University, 100 
BotTwiCK, Zadock, 175 
BoTHB, John, 78 
BoTTE^ Anne, 63 

Humphrey, 63 

BOTTESFOBD, 10 

BouBiTB, Thomas, 106 
BwTY, Sir Ralpl^ 30, 40 
BowATBB, Katherine, 03 
BowDour College, 165 
BowKLBT, Richard, 17, 18 

BOTLBSTOITB, 05 

Bbadtobd, William, 145 
Bbadwbll, 107 
Bbadtsell Greene, 110 
Bbailsiobd, 06 
Bbaksiobd, 104, 105 
Bbbdekbubt Ck>urt, 30 
Bbbkb, John, 76 
Bbbkchlbt, 110, 113, 114, 117 
Bbbws, Beatrix De, 05 

Sir John de, 05 
Bbbwsteb, Mas&^ 170, 184, 185 
BBmoBPOBT^ Ck>nn., 161 
BamoBs, John, 08, 00, 100 



n 



Index 



199 



Bridgewateb^ Mass., 164 
Bridoton, Me., 195 
Brioos^ Rev. Mr., 185 
Bristol, R. I., 14d, 157, 174, 189 
Brockhurst, John, 69 

Mary, 64 

Thomas, ^, 59 
Brome, (Bromes), 76, 84 , 

Arms, 73, 76 

Epitaphs or Inscriptions, 75, 79, 

80, 81, 89, 83, 84 
Family, 73 

Hall, 73, 74, 78, 90 

Inquisitions, 78, 85 

Place, 73, 74, 77 

Wills, 44, 86, 87 

Agnes, 78, 79 

AHce, 89 

Anna, Ann, or Anne, 44, 89, 91 

Beatrice (Beatrix), 77, 79, 80, 

81, 84, 97 
Catharine, 89, 90 
CeciUa, 91 

Constance, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90 
Dorothy, 90 , 

Denys, 76 

Edward, 81, 87, 88, 89 
Elizabeth, 15, 18, 19, 23, 24, 43ya 

77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, 86, 88, 

89, 90 
Eustace, 79 
Gertrude, 44, 89 
Havis, 76 

Isabella, 80, 84, 86, 87, 88, 91 
Jane, 79, 85 
Johan, 85 

Jocosa, 18, 78, 80, 90 
Johanna or Joan, 74, 79, 90, 92 
John, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 

77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 92, 

97, 102 
John de, 73 
Joyce, 24, 44, 90 
Katheren (Katherine), 44, 80, 

81, 85, 88, 89 
Lettice, 80, 81, 90 
Margery or Margaret, 76, 77, 81, 

89, 102 
Maria, 91 
Nicholas, 19, 23, 24, 25, 27, 43y«, 

69, 73, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 

100, 101 



Brome, Pamell, 76 

Paulinus de, 73^ 77 

Ralph or Rauffe, 23, 27, 44, 81, 87, 
89,90 

Reginald, 23, 27, 44, 89 

Richard, 91 

Robert, 74, 76, 78 

Roger de, 73 

Thomas, 44, 75, 78, 79, 85, 89 

William, 39, 44, 76, 78, 89 
Bromes Manor, 85 
Bromley, Alice, 36, 66 

Henry, 36, 66 

Margaret, 36, 66 
Bromsorove, 36, 46 
Bromtarh, 32 
Brok, William, 75 
Brooke, Margery, 76 

William, 76 
Brouk, Beatrice, 78 

JefFry, 76 

John, 76, 78 

Robert, 76 
Brown University, 174 

John, 74 

Joseph, 176 

Zibiah, 176 
Browke (Brome), Elisabeth, 45 

Christopher, 134 

(Brome), Nicholas, 45, 100 

(Brome), Reginald 59 
Brudkett, Robert, 85 
Brunswick (N. H., Vt.), 160 
Bryant, Stephen, 146 

BuCKINGHAMSHOtE, 107 
BUDBROOKE, 86 

Burdet. Johanna, 101 
Thonfas, 12, 78, 100 
Bttrsell, James, 139 
BuRSTA, James, 139 
Byewater, Thomas, 137 

Cauieford's Tenement, 12 
Caldmore, 24 
Calmady, Anne, 110 

Josiah, 110 
Camm, Dom Bede, 66 
Canterbury, 6, 7, 17, 89, 105, 113, 115, 

121 
Cape Cod, Mass., 129, 148^ 150, 170, 
175, 185, 186 

Fear, N. C, 163 



too 



Indxx 



/ 



CAEMBum, 75 
Camtmm, Hsny E^ 195 

Mabel S^ 195 

Marion K^ 195 
Cabvbb, Robert, IM 
Catsibt Amiiy 98 

Epitaph, 100 

AUce, 100 

Elisabeth, 109, lOS 

Emma, 99, 100 

Emma de, 99 

George, 84, 85 

Joane, 99 

John, 77, 78, 98, 99, 100, 101, 108 

John de, 76, 77, 99 

LetUce, 80, 90, 100, 109 

Margaret, 78, 100, 101 

Nicholas, 70, 80, 99, 100, 101, 
109, 108 

PhiUppa, 100 

Philip de, 99 

Randolph de, 99 

Reginald, 99 

Richard, 100, lOS 

Robert, 69, 70, 78, 99, 100, 101, 
109, 103 

Roger, 99 

Simon, 99 

Simon de, 99 

WiUiam, 78, 79, 84, 98, 99, 100, 
101, 109 

WiUiam de, 98, 99 
Cave, Richard, 105 

WiUiam, 137 
Celtic, 3 
Chamber, Margaret, 91, 93, 50 

Walter, 91, 93, 50 
Chakok, Wmiam, 41, 49 
Chappaquiddick Island, Mass^ 173 
Chaeles I., 133, 135, 136, 137 

11^ 133 
Chaelestost, S. C^ 190, 193 
Chaelestowk, Mass., 195 
Chase, Azubah, 187 

Freeman, 187 

Goodman, 196 

WiUiam, 197 
Chatham, Mass., 197, 139, 156, 165, 
166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 179, 
175, 177, 179, 180, 181, 189, 184, 
185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191, 199, 
193 



Chbuba, Mast., 191 
Chestbe, Earl of, 99 
Chillixgwoeth, Thomas^ IM 
Chockkbll, 105 
Claikes, 105 
Claexb, WUliam, 198 
Cluttoit, Lord of, 86 

Thomas de, 69 
Clutteebuck, Robert, 116 
CoE, Frands, 137 
Cockle Cove (Chatham, Mass.), 10O» 

179, 191 
CoKAiK, AUce, 96 

Dorothy, 89 

Francis, 89 

Sir John, 96 

Sir Thomas, 89 
CoKKEs, Thomas, 77, 78 
Cole, Daniel, 194, 196 

wmiam, 104 
CoLEMAX, Robert, 16 
Coles, 134, 135 
coleshill, 69 
CoLLEs Arms, 104 

Epitaphs, 105, 107 

Place, 104 

WUl, 105 

AUce, 104, 107 

Anne, 106, 107 

Dorothy, 107 

Edmund (Edmond), 90, 49, 106, 107 

EUzabeth, 106, 107 

Hmnphrey, 97, 99, 37, 40, 59, 61, 
69, 107 

Isabel, 104 

Jane, 106, 107 

John, 105, 106, 107 

Margaret, 90, 49, 104, 105 

Mary, 107 

Michael, 97, 98, 59, 61, 105, 106, 107 

Richard 104 

Ursula, 15, 90, 99, 95, 33, 36, 43^* 
46, 106, 107 

WiUiam, 95, 43y2, 46, 104, 105, 106, 
107 
CoLLiEE, Mary, 168 

WUUam, 168 
CoLUKs, John, 171, 179, 178 

Samuel, 189 

Thankful, 178 
CoLLYAEE, WiUiam, 145 

COLOEADO, 187 



Index 



SOI 



Colstok-Bahit, 96 

COME-OUTEBS, 190 

CoMPTOK Wynyatea, 70 
CoKKBcncuT, 67, 117, 160, 176 
CoNKBcncuT Riyer, 160 
Cook, Adam, 19 

John le, 11 

Waiter, 19 
CoopBR, William, 19d 
CcmTKWALL, 80, 84 
CoEP, John, 157 
CoTTERBLL, EUen, 63 

WilUam, 69 

COUGHTOK, 37 

CovELL, Ephraim, 166 

James, 179, 179, 180, 188 

Joseph, 166, 171 

Nathaniel, 166 

Sarah, 169 

Simeon, 179 

William, 166 
CovEKTRT, 91, 51, 80, 89, 86, 98» 99 

Lord of, 99 
CovEKTRT, Lord of, 99 
CowsK, Desire, 150 

John, 150 
CowiKG, Desire, 150 

John, 150 
Cbaoixt, 107 
CaAKFoan, Emma, 100 

Robert, 100 

ClISTIKA, 4 

Ckockeb, Edward W^ 130 
CmoMwsix, Lord of, 77 

Oliver, 133 
Caow, John, 196, 197, 198, 139 
Croweix, Bethiah, 187 

Jabez, 187 

Joseph, 171 

Paul, 171, 179 

Rhoda, 193 
Crowhubst, 108 
CaoxoK^ Constance C, 73 

Henry Ferrers, 73 
Crump, Roger, 105 

CUFTES, 135 
CuMBERLAin>, 116 

Curtis, Agnes, 95 

George, 95 

John, 95 
Cutlers' Comfakt, 199, 136, 137 

Arms, 138 



Daoly, Margaret, 66 
Daooett, Elisabeth, 149 

Thomas, 149 
Dalby, Constance, 36, 46 

George, 36, 46 
Daixt, Dorothy, 107 

WiUiam, 107 
Dan, Gerard, 100 
Dakbt, N. Y^ 176 
Dakes, 3, 7 
Dabbt, Jdbn, 197 
Dabley, 94 

Dabtmouth, Mass^ 174, 181, 186, 187 
Davbeky, William, 10 
Davis, WiUiam, 137 

W. P^ 130, 140, 164 
Deoobah, Iowa, 161 
Denkis, Mass., 188, 191 

Pond (Yarmouth, Mass.). 196, 139, 
148 

Robert, 196 
Dektok, Isabella, 80 

John, 80 

Thomas, 87 
Debby, 96 

Earls of, 93 
Debbyshibe, 3, 10, 93, 94, 95, 96 
Debiitg, Edward H., 79 

Rebecca D., 73 
Dbvok, 110 

DEVdNSHIBE, 104 

Dexteb, John, 157, 158 

Mary, 157 
Deyo, Simeon L., 191, 193, 130, 148, 

156, 167 
DiOBY, Ambrose, 44 

Anne, 89 

Anthony, 44 

Kenelm, 44 

Reginald, 89 
DoANE, Abigail, 177 

Alfred A., 177 

Ephraim, 177, 188 

John, 177, 188 

Joseph, 180, 185 

MoUy, 188 

Nehemiah, 188 

Samuel, 188 

Thomas, 166, 177, 188 
*'DocKTEB8 Wares" (Yarmouth, 
Mass.), 199 



^ 



SOS 



Indsx 



DoooiTT, Bliiabeth* 1S1» 141, 148, 
149, 158 

Thomas, 149 
DoMKSDAT Book OF SuTvey, 4, 7, 93 
DoNHiHOTOK Castle, 96 
DoBCHBtna Heights, Idass^ 185 
DoviaoALB, 107 
DaAKK, Samuel G^ 199 
DaAPKa, Margeiy, 108 

Thomas, 108 
Dbattoit, 11, 95, 96 

DaKSSELLTBBX, 93 

Dvghalb, Sir William, 4, 5, 7, 9, 
19, 13, 14, 99, 93, 94, 96, 49, 
66, 69, 79, 74, 76, 79, 80, 81, 
83, 84, 89, 99, 93^ 96, 98, 99, 
100, 109, 

Dukes County, Mass^ 173 

DuvTOK, 96 

Dutchess County, N. Y^ 175 

DuxBUET, Mass^ 193, 194, 195, 130, 
131, 139, 145, 168 

Dtson, Nancy, 193 

Edmund Ironside, 4 

Edkesoube, 94 

Edwabd the Confessor, 4 

I., 95, 98 

II., 31, 95 

III^ 11, 14, 49, 98 

IV., 31, 74, 89, 90 

VI., 105 
East Boston, 199 
Eastcote, 19 
Easthaix, 96 
Eastham, Mass., 145, 146, 166, 169, 

170, 177, 189, 183 
East Harwich, Mass., 179, 187 

Peckham, 89 
Eatekdok, 95 
Eathobpe, 86, 87 
Eatikoton, 77, 93, 94 
Edoabtowk, Mass,, 149, 165, 179, 173 
Edobaston, 79 
Edoecoit, 11 
Educot, 99, 31, 44, 45 
Edwards, Elizabeth, 117 

John, 117 
Edwin, 4 

EgijOshatxe (Eggleshole), 80, 84 
Ela, 4 

Eldeed, William, 139 
Eldeedge, Bangs, 188 



EuDBiDGB, Barnabas, 179, l&S 

Betsey, 188 

Joseph, 166, 189 

MoUy, 193 

Nicholas, 147 

Robert, 189 

SaUy, 189 

Sarah, 189 

Susan, 189 

Susannah, 189 

WilUam, 166, 189 
Elfibed, John, 44 
Elizabeth, Queen, 94, 47 
Ellis, Abigail, 180 

Joshua, 180 
Elmdok, 39, 40 
Eltot^ Sir Thomas, 19 
Emebt, Cyrus, 166 

Rev. Stephen, 177, 178 
Emebt*s Pond (Chatham, Mass.), 166 
Emmikgton Church, 117 
Emsgote, 69, 81, 89 
EssEBY, John de, 98 

William de, 98 
Essex, 191, 133, 134, 135, 136 
Evans, Edward, 158 
Exeteb, 80 
Etewtt, Roger, 91, 51 

Falmouth, Mass., 181 
Feckenham, John, 19 
Feckman, John, 19 
Febiebs, Henry de, 93 
Febbebs, Earl, 94 

Constance, 94, 81, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89 
90 

Constance C, 73 

Dorothy, 89 

Edward, 79, 81, 83, 86, 87, 89 

Henry, 94, 96, 79, 81, 87, 89 

Henry Ferrers, 73 

Sir Humphrey, 89 

John, 85, 86 

Mannion E., 79, 73 

Rebecca D., 79, 73 
Field, Thomas, 157 
FiFiELD, John, ^, 36 
Finney, Robert, 146 
Fish, John, 181 

Ruhamah, 181 
Flecknde, 99 

Fl^MISH, 4 



Index 



SOS 



Fooo, Huldah F^ 195 
FoLLAND, Thomas, 1S9 
FoBO Land, 119 
Forest of Arden, 3 

FOBSHAW, 4, 5, 

Foster, Rev. William, 88 
FowLE, Anthony, 110 

Blicaheth, 110 
FowLZER, Robert, 137 
Franche, Sir Leventhorpe, 199, 135 
Frakt, 110 

Church, 110 
Freebodt, Dionisia, 109 
Freeman, Edmond, 196 

Frederick, 198, 147, 148, 156, 167 

Nathaniel, 185 
Freer, John, 135 
Frowtk, Thomas, 86, 87 
Fulcher (Shirley), 94 
Fuller, Matthew, 147 
Fulwell, Francis, 137 

Gales, 106 
Gaunt, John of, 96 
Gerardes, Thomas de, 13 
Gernon, Hugo, 99 

Randolph, 99 
Gibbons, Ann (Anne), 19, 91, 51 
GiBBs, Hulda F., 195 

Marshall, 195 

Minnie M;, 195 

Robert, 163 
GiFFORD, Amie A., 187 

David, 187 

David L., 187 

Eleanor J., 187 

Fannie, 187 

Levi K., 187 

Mercy H., 187 
Giles, Agnes, 116 

Jolm, 116 
Gillett, John, 115 
Gloucester, 18 

Gloucestershire, 3, 18, 80, 105 
Godfrey, Jonathan, 179 
Goodman, Mary, 110 

Thomas, 110 
Goose Pond (Chatham, Mass.)» 166 
GoRHAM, Desire, 145, 147, 148, 151 

Capt. John, 145, 148 

Col. John, 148 

Major John, 149, 153 



GoRHAM, Joseph, 159 

Lydia, 149 
GoRUM, Shubael, 174 
GoswAT, Joyce (Jeys), 95 

GOUDHURST, 109, 114 
Grange, Isabel, 66 

John, 66 
Graves, Mr^ 193 
Gray, Grace F^ 195 

Harrison, 178 

James S^ 195 

John, 146 
Grazebrook, H. Sydney, 13, 67, 104, 

106, 107 
Great Malvern, 105 

Marshes, Mass^ 181 

Tew, 18 
Green, Asher, 176 

Everard, 45, 46 

Susannah, 176 
Greenwich, 117 
Greswold Arms, 67 

Ann, 14, 15, 39, 431/2, 67 

Anne, 67 

Christian, 67, 68 

Christiana, 66 

Edwin, 67 

Elizabeth, 67 

Isabel, 66 

John, 19, 17, 31, 36, 43ys, 66, 67, 68 

Margaret, 36, 66, 67 

Margeria, 67 

Ralph, 66 

Richard, 19, 66, 67 

Robert, IS, 17, 67 

Roger, 67 

Thomas, 90, 91, 47, 48, 49, 66, 67, 68 

WiUiam, 66, 67, 68 
Greswolde-Williams, F. W., 39 
Greville, Edward, 80, 87 
Grevbs, Sir Richard, 37 
Grimley, 105 
Griswold, Edward, 67 

Mathew, 67 
Grome, William, 66 
Grumman, William E., 176 
Guilford, Conn., 117 

GUILSBORO/ 43% 

Habington, Thomas, 104, 105, 106, 

107 
Haddam, Conn., 169, 170 



S04 



Indsx 



Hall, Bethiah, 163 

Gershom, 16S 

John, 17 

Joyse, 19 

Margaret, 104 

Margery, 18 

Riduurd, 78 

Thomas, 104 

WilUam, 169 
Haixht, Andrew, 195, 190, 139 

John, 131, 140, 169 
Halubt, Jonathan, 168 
Haltoh, 76 
Halwis, Havifl, 76 

WiUiam, 76 
Hambuet, 36, 46 
Hakiltok, Daniel, 166 

Thomas, 189, 186 
Hampbb, WiUiam, 14, 94, 49, 67, 90 
Hampshibx, 109 
Hakptok in Arden, 107 
HAirinETT, John, 6, 9, 16, 16, 17, 30, 

39, 66, 67, 74, 101 
Habdiito, Amos, 184, 189 

Bethiah, 169 

Betsey, 188 

Daniel, 188, 193 

Desire, 169 

Eunice, 193 

Joseph, 193 

Masiah, 169, 193 

MoUy, 193 

Nehemiah, 179 

Prence, 169 

SaUy R^ 193 

Seth, 193 

Susan, 189 

Sylvanus, 179, 184, 193 
Harou), 4 

Habris, Thomas, 116 
Harte, Thomas, 137 
Habts, Richard, 106 
Habvabd College, 164, 174, 191, 193 
Habwich, Mass., 163, 166, 179, 179, 

184, 186, 186, 188, 199 
Hasted, Edward, 109, 116 
Hatch, Desire, 160 

Josiah, 160 

Samuel, 160 

Susan A., 199 

Walter, 150 

William, 160 



HATmuD Court, 107 
Hathaway, John, 199, 141 
Hatlbt, 93, 4314, 60 
Hattbfield Brodocke, 136 
Hattok, 17 
Hauix, Richard, 19 
Hauos, Agnes, 13 

Isahelle, 13 

Joan, 13 

Katrina, 13 

Nicholas, 13 

Richard, 13 

Thomas, 13 
Haw, Adam de, 11, 14 

Elizabeth, 43ys, 63 

Joan, 16 

Johanna, 19 

John, 19, 96 

Mary, 64 

Sara, 64 

Thomas, 16, 94, 43y„ 63» 64 

William de, 10 
Hawak, William, 64 
Hawcb, Agnes, 13, 64 

William, 13 
Haws, Agnes, 13, 63 

Alice, 13, 64 

Anne (Ann), 43%, 69, 63» 64, 65 

Arthur, 63, 64, 134 

Catherine, 19, 14 

Christian, 64 

Edmund, 63, 133, 136, 136 

Edward, 69, 63, 64 

Elisabeth, 19, 13, 17, 94, 96, 63, 64^ 
66, 83 

EUen, 69, 63, 64 

Frances, 69, 191 

George, 94, 96, 63 

Humphry, 63 

Isabel, 19 

Jane, 69, 63, 64 

(Haw) Jeys, 96 

Joan, 13, 94, 96, 69, 63, 64 

Johanna, 19 

Johanne, 18 

John, 11, 19, 13, 14, 94, 96, 49, 43y„ 
62, 63, 64, 66 

Jose, 18 

Joyce, 25 

Joyse (Joys), 18, 96 

Katherine, 69, 63 

Lucy, 63 



Index 



SOS 



Hawk, Margaret, Id, 14, l6, 63 
Margery, 18, 69, 64 
Maria, 64 
Mary, 69, 63 
Nicholas, 94, 95 
Richard, 10, 11, 19, 13, 14, 17, 18» 

99, 63, 64 
Richard de, 10 
Robert, 10, 13, 14, 69, 64 
Sara, eS, 65 
Thomas, 19, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 90, 

94, 95, 43%, 47, 69, 63, 64, 65, 88 
Ursula, 43% 
William, 10, 11, 19, 13, 14, 18, iSy^, 

56, 62, 63, 64, 65 
Winifred, 69 
Yewen, 69 
Hawes Arms, 13, 49, 45, 46 
Deed, 135 
Family, 7 

Inscription, 99, 33-35 
Inventories, 90, 26, 99, 59, 60, 131, 

149, 14d, 153 
Lane (Yarmouth, Mass.), 196, ISO, 

139 
Motto, 99 
Name, 9 

Nedc (Yarmouth, Mass.), 130 
Pedigree, 14, 44, 46 
Wills, 16, 17, 18, 90, 96, 98, 47, 56, 

60, 131, 133, 139, 148, 151 
Abigail, 176 
Alice, 36, 69, 66 
Amelia A., 193 
Andrew, 193, 195 
Ann, 15, 19, 39, 43, 63, 64, 67 
Anna, 46, 181 
Annah, 180 
Anne, 63, 161 
Arthur, 134, 135 
Austin W., 195 
Bays, 167 
Benjamin, 131, 141, 148, 150, 153, 

167, 179, 173, 174 
Bethiah, 163, 164, 167, 168, 169, 171, 

180, 187 
Betsey, 188 
Catherine, 15, 19 
Clara D., 195 
Constance, 99, 26, 97, 98, 99, 36, 45, 

46, 57, 60, 61, 69 
Damaris, 43 



Hawbs, Daniel P., 191 

Daniel W., 193, 195 

David, 164, 187, 189 

Desire, 131, 141, 145, 148, 150, 151, 
159, 153, 164, 167, 169, 174, 189 

Didamy, 188 

Dorcas, 179, 173 

Ebenexer, 131, 141, 148, 149, 150, 
159, 156, 165, 167, 168, 174, 177, 
188, 189 

Bdmond, 3, 14, 15, 16, 96, 97, 98, 
99, 31, 36, 37, 38, 41, 49, 43, 43%, 
44, 45, 46, 57, 61, 63, 110, 191, 
199, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 
199, 130, 131, 139, 133, 134, 135, 
136, 137, 139, 141, 149, 143, 145, 
148, 14d, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 
161, 169, 163, 164, 165, 167, 179, 
175, 177, 189, 184, 188^ 189, 193, 
195 

Edmund A., 163 

Edmund V., 161 

Edna P., 195 

Edward, 31, 43%, 191, 161, 188 

EUnor, 19, 91, 99, 51 

Elisabeth, 15, 17, 18, 19, 90, 99, 36, 
43, 43%, 45, 46, 69, 63, 64, 89, 130, 
131, 141, 148, 149, 153, 164, 189 

Elmer C, 195 

Esther D., 188 

Eunice, 176 

Eunice H., 193 

Euphemia A., 165 

Experience, 131, 141, 14d, 150, 151, 
159, 153, 173, 174, 189 

Prands, 191, 133, 134, 135 

George, 94, 69, 65 

Grace P., 195 

Granville P., 165 

Hannah, 169, 175, 176 

Harrie, 16 

Horace, 176 

Isaac, 131, 141, 148, 149, 150, 151, 
159, 153, 156, 165, 166, 167, 168, 
169, 170, 171, 179, 175, 176, 177, 
178, 189, 184, 188^ 189, 193, 195 

Jabez, 131, 141, 149, 167 

Jacob, 167 

James, 185, 187, 189, 191, 193, 195 

James A., 165 

James D., 195 

James W., 199, 193 



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Index 



Hawbs, Jane, 15, 38, 37, 41, 49, 48, )Hawb8, Rachel, 195 



) 



46, 60, 61, 110, 191 

Jedidah, 173, 174 

Jeremiah, 191, 169, 189, 183 

Jessie S^ 195 

Joan, 15, 63 

Johanna, 15, 17, 45 

John, 15, 16, 17, 94, 41, 49, 43, 46, 
63, 65, 131, 139, 140, 141, 149, 143, 
145, 146, 148, 14d, 151, 153, 156, 
157, 158, 169, 163, 165, 167, 168, 
169, 179, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 
180, 181, 189, 184, 185, 186, 187, 
188, 189, 193, 195 

John A., 174 

John R^ 163 

Joseph, 131, 140, 149, 148, 14d, 151, 
159, 153, 163, 164, 165, 168, 187, 
189 

Joshua, 165 

Rev. Josiah, 176 

Lena F., 196 

Loring G., 195 

Lowman, 176 

Lucy, 43, 46, 130 

Lurany, 181 

Mabel S., 195 

Macy R., 189 

Marcus M., 174 

Margaret, 15, 17, 93, 45 

Margery, 18 

Maria, 174 

Marion K., 195 

Mary, 41, 43, 46, 63, 131, 141, 148, 
149, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 169, 
163, 164, 168, 174, 188, 189 

Mary F. B., 195 

Mehitable, 199 

Mercy, 184, 187, 191 

Mercy R., 189 

Minnie M., 195 

Miriam, 188 

Molly, 188 

Nathaniel, 188 

Newton, 176 

Nicholas, 94 

Otis L., 196 

Patia, 189 

Polly, 188, 189 

Patience, 169, 180, 181, 184, 187 

Phebe, 189 

Prince, 164, 175, 176, 177 



Rebecca W., 174 

Reuben, 189 

Reuben C, 188, 191, 193, 195 

Ridiard, 15, 17, 18, 94, 64 

Ruhamah, 180, 181 

Ruth, 41, 43, 46, 63, 167 

Sally It, 193 

SaUy T., 191 

Samuel, 173, 174, 176, 180, 186, 188 

Sarah, 169, 164, 165, 169, 170 

Sarah T., 191 

Shubael, 173, 174 

S<^omon, 167 

Susan, 189 

Susanna, 161 

Susannah, 176, 18^, 191, 199 

Tabitha, 188 

Tabitha D., 188 

Temperance, 164 

Thankful, 164, 169 

Thomas, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 91, 
02, 93, 31, 39, 36, 43, 431/,, 44, 45, 
46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 59, 69, 67, 89, 
191, 164, 165, 180, 181, 184, 186, 
188 

Ursula, 15, 90, 32, 95, 96, 98, 39, 33, 
36, 41, 43, 46, 57, 59, 60, 61, 69, 63, 
64, 107 

WeUes, 177 

William, 15, 17, 18, 90, 91, 99, 93, 
95, 26, 97, 98, 99, 31, 39, 33, 35, 
36, 37, 41, 49, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 
50, 56, 59, 60, 61, 64, 66, 68, 107 

William T., 174 

Zenas, 188 

Zibiah, 176 

Zurvi^ 176 
Hawkists, Anne, 158, 159, 161 

Edward, 158 

John, 158 

Mary, 158 

William, 158 
Hawley, Ann, 159 

Samuel, 159 
Hawts, Johanna, 13 

Robert, 13 

William, 13 
Haxaix, Joan, 15 

Thomas, 15, 94 
Hats, Edmund, 159 
Hatwabd, John, 111 



Index 



207 



Him, Daniel, 160 
Hedge, Elisha, 147 

Wmiam, 1^ 
Heelikoe, Joseph, 62 
Hemlinofosd, 4, 39, 49, 44 
Hempstead, N. Y^ 176 

Joshua, 157 
Heklet, 13, 78 

in Arden, 69, 77 
Hbkkt II., 4 

III., 93, 95, 104 

IV., 14, 18, 49, 71, 74, 77, 96 

v., 96, 137 

VI., 74, 77, 96 

VII., 81 

VIII., 81, 85, 117 

(Shirley), 93, 94 
Hescy, John, 40 
Hebeford^ 107 
Herefordshire, 106, 107 
Herekdeen, Anne, 161 

Obediah, 161 
Herndeek, Anne, 161 

Obediah, 161 
Hertford, 116 

HERTFORDSHmE, 107 

Herthill, Elizabeth, 89 

John, 75, 81, 89 
Hbwes, Mary, 63 

Richard, 63, 64 
Hbtford, Thomas, 47 
HiCKBs, Samuel, 146 
HiooiKs, Cornelius, 169, 170 

Ebeneser, 170 

Gideon, 170 

Hawes, 170 

Sarah, 169, 170 
HiooiKsoK, Robert, 59 
HioHAM, Richard, 86, 87 
Hioham-Ferrbrs Parle, 96 
HiKKBR, John, 16 
HnxFnu) Hall, 7, 14, 96, 99, 30, 
39, 33, 49, 43, 43y2, 46, 56, 
63, 64, 191, 143 
HiKCKLBT, Thomas, 198, 145 
Hitch Arms, 105 

Eleanor, 106 

John, 105 

Margaret, 105 
HocHECon, 11 

HoLBACHE, Bamaby, 90, 47, 48, 59 
HoLBBCKE, Thomas, 38 



HoLBERo, William, 37 

HOLLTKGTON, 119 

Holme, Richard, 116 

Home, William, 106 

HooE (Hoo), 44, 119, 113 

HooRE, Johanna, 68 

Hopkins, Gyles (or Giles), 184 

Mercy, 184 

Nathaniel, 184 

Sampson, 38 

Samuel, 184 

Sarah, 164 

Stephen, 164, 184 

William, 38 
HoRESTONB Castle, 95 
HoRNE, Mr., 191 
HosMEB, James K., 193 
Howes, Annah M., 199 

Azubah, 187 

Bethiah, 167, 168, 180, 187 

David, 180 

Ebeneser, 167 

Edmond, 191, 156 

Edward, 191 

Elisha, 180 

Emma P., 191 

Fanny, 191 

Franklin, 199 

George W., 199 

Isaac, 199 

J. C 170, 187, 199 

Jeremiah, 198, 139, 148, 163, 164, 
167, 168, 170 

Jonatiian, 191 

Joseph, 139, 164, 199 

Joshua, 199 

Mary, 163, 164, 168 

Mercy B., 199 

Patience, 181, 184, 187 

Priscilla, 180 

Ruhamah, 181 
SI, Sarah, 164, 170 
57, Seth, 187 

Seth C, 187 

Stephen, 180 

Susannah, 199 

Thomas, 197, 139, 163, 164, 167, 191 
HowLAVD, Desire, 145 

Elisabeth, 145 

Jabes, 157 

John, 145 
HowMAK, Rev. John, 19, 90 



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Index 



HuBBBLL, Richard, 199 

Sarah, 162 
HuDflOK, Robert, 73 
HuoFOBs, Jane, 98, 61 

John, 13, 15, 69, 70, 95, 101 

Margaret, 69, 101 

William, 66 
Hughes, Elisabeth, 195 
HuvT, Desire, 180 

Elisabeth, 96 

John, 44 

Lemuel, 180 

Patience, 169 

Raphael, 36, 46, 64 

Ursula, 27, 98, 36, 46, 59, 61, 64 

William, 95 
Huirm, Anna, 180 

Joseph, 180 
HuKTiKOTOK, ComL, 160, 169 
HuBLBUT, Henry H^ 170 
HuTCHiKsoK, Eidmmid, 137 
HuiTOK, Thomas, 95 
Htkbok, Edward, 137 

Iduootb, 19, 99 
Ilslbt, Bethiah C^ 191 

Florence, 191 

WiUiam R^ 191 
Ikykekkss, Q., 195 
iBBuiin)^ 6 
IsTED Arms, 108 

Anna, 108 

Elisabeth, 108 

John, 108 

Richard, 108 

Thomas, 113 

Jacksok, Elisabeth, 91, 99, 49, 51 

Thomas, 91, 99, 93, 49, 51 

Rev. Thomas, 83 
Jaimb, John, 11 
Jambs I., 31, 37, 133 

II., 133 

The, 199, 193, 194^ 131, 144 
Jambstowk, Va., 133 
Jbkckbs, Jesse, 161 
JoHKSOK, John, 49 

William S., 160 
JoKBs, Inigo, 39 
JoTGB^ John, 197 
Jimn, William, 176 



Kaksas, 187 

Kathbbiitb, Saint, 8 
Kbbuitob, John, 99 
Kbixbt, David, 188 

Elisa Ann, 188 

Jonathan, 188 

Joseph, 188 

Mary, 188 

Nehemiah, 188 

Polly, 188 

Samuel, 188 

Tabitha D., 188 
Kbmp, William, 193 
Kbkdbick, Abigail, 186 

Ansel A., 186 

Levi, 186 

Mercy H., 187 
Kbkilwobth, 15, 17, 66, 67, 93, 94 
Kbkitbbbck, Me., 197 
Kbvt, 41, 89, 109, 110, 111, 116, 117 

Conn., 175, 176 

Edward, 189 

Elisabeth, 189 
Kbkwbick, Richard, 36 

Robert, 36 

Ursula, 36 
KiLDABB, Count of, 88 

KlLUKOWOBTH, 13 
KlMB2fHAIX, 66 

KiKG Philip's War, 145 
Kikg's Sutton, 36 
KiNosroBD^ 13 
KiKOSwooD^ 70, 77, 78, 83» 109 

KiKOTOK, 13 

KmoHTLOw, 86 
Kkiohts Hospitallars, 88 

Templars, 88 
Kkiohtwick, 107 
Kkowlb, 5, 11, 19, 13, 16, 18, 67, 7Q, 

71, 74, 83, 90, 91 
Kkowlb, Guild of, 19 
Ktkotts, Paul, 114 

Ladbbookb, 98, 99, 100 
Henry de, 99 
Isabell de, 99 
Lambbbhubst, 41, 49, 109, 110, 119, 

113 
Lampbck, Katherine (Catharine), 80» 

81, 90 
Lampbtt, John, 90 
Thomas, 90 



Index 



209 



LiAKCASHIBXy 18 

Lakcastek, Duke of, 96 

liAKCBRg Lands, 68 

Lakodok Hall, 36 

LAPwmiTH, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 83, 

84, 85, 90, 98, 100, 101, 103 
Hall, 19, 100 
Lasell Seminary, 193 
Lbakb Wooten, 44 
Leamikotok, 99 
Lbcroft, Ranulph de, 11 
Leickstbk, 109 
LEICE8TEB8HIU, 3, 10, 78, 81, 93, 96, 

101 
Lbioh, 95, 43y2, 46, 104, 105, 106 
Lbokaud, Blisha, 181 
LiBBABD'f House, 99 
LicHFiiLD, 3, 16, 18, 90, 99, 94^ 95» 

96, 98, 47, 59, 56, 60, 80 
LiooK, Elisabeth, 80 

William, 80 
LiMEBi, Ralph de, 4 
LiwooLK, 108, 134 

LiKCOLXSHIBX, 93 
LiKDOK, 88 

LiTCHFULD, Conn^ 176 
LiTTUB, Agnes, 80, 90 
LrmjB Aston, 31 
LrrruBOVEB, 10 
LODBBOKE, 98, 99 

LoKDOK, 37, 43, 75, 84, 88, 89, 105, 
107, 109, 199, 193, 194^ 131, 136, 
137, 138 
Ann, 64 

LoxrOBRIDOEIFIELD, 81 
LOKODOK, 4, 5 

Hall, 67 
LoKo Island, N. Y^ 176 
Lord, BethiiOi, 168 

Rev. Joseph, 168, 170 
LoTHROP, Barnabas, 141, 149, 143 

Joseph, 141, 143 
Lowe, Mary F. B., 195 

Ruth A., 195 

William W., 195 
Lowell, Mass., 193 

LOXSPTCHE, 119 
LULSLBT, 104 

LuMPKiK, William, 198, 139 
LYinx>K, 5, 88 
Ltves, Elisabeth, 64 
George, 64 



Ltktoxt, William, 105 
Ltttle, Agnes, 17 

Malverk, 104 

Mavnamoiett, Mass., 197, 167 
Makkino, Henry, 117 

Mildred, 117 
Maksfield, Conn., 188 
Marbek, 119, 113 
Markham, 108 
Marrow, Dorothy, 86, 80 

IsabeUa, 83, 88 

Samuel, 31, 37 

Thomas, 84, 87, 88 

WiUiam, 88 
Marshfieij), Mass., 193, 194, 196, 145 
Marssok, Mary, 63 
Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 173 
Martek, Stephen, 181 
Martik, Stephen, 181 
Martixeau, p. E., 3, 6, 11, 19 
Mart, Saint, 8 
Masok, Mary, 157 

Sampson, 157 
Massachusetts, 185 

Colony, 133 

Bay Province, 178 
Matthews, James, 198, 139 
Matfield, 108, 109, 117 
Mayflower, The, 133, 145, 184 
Matke, James, 40 

John, 39, 40 

Simon, 40 
Mato, Eunice, 175 

Hannah, 175 

Rev. John, 198 
Mayor's Garden, 38 
Maysvhjlb, Ky., 177 
Meiskell, Isabell, 94 

Robert, 94 
Melrose, Mass., 191 
Mercla, 3 

Earl of, 4 
Meridbk Hall, 38 
Merevalb Abbey, 93 
Metley, Johanna, 69, 101 

Margaret, 69, 101 

Nicholas, 69, 70, 101 
Mexutotok, Alice, 100 

Robert, 100 
MmoLB Temple, 37, 107 
MmDLEBOROUGH, Mass., 150, 151, 164 



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Index 



MiDDUEMOBi, Jane (Joan), 79 

John, 85 

Margery, 85 
MiLCOMBB, 36, 46 

Mnisa, John, 27, 50 
MnxEi, Experience, 150, 151 

Francis, 150 

John, 137, 139, 143, 148 

Rev. John, 127, 130, 139 
MiLTOK, John, 133 
MiLWASD, Christopher, 91, 51 
MiTCHEix, Experience, 196 
MiTTOK, Jane, 81, 85 

Johan, 85 

John, 85 
Moat House, 108 
MOKGAT, 119, 113 
MoKOMOT, Mass^ 147, 165, 167 
MovTAGUK, Lord, 111 
MoirrfoiD, Margaret de, 100 

Simon, 94 

WilUam de, 100 
MooBs, George, 137 

MOREHOUBB, 1(M 

MoBiiCE, Anne, 134, 135 

Golding, 134 

Joan, 134 

Nicholas, 134 

Thomas, 134 

Ursula, 134 

William, 134 
Moamis, Anne, 191 

MORTLAKK, 117 

MoBTOK, Ephraim, 146 

Gov. Marcus, 174 

Maria, 174 

Stephen, 181 
MoRTEK, Stephen, 181 

MOSBLBT, 68 

MouimoRD, Rose, 84 
Much Malvern, 105 
MuLLBKS, WiUiam, 194 

Naittucket, Mass., 173» 180 
Nash, Treadway R., 104, 105 
Nashb, Dorothy, 107 

John, 107 
Nassau, Bahama Islands, 188 
Naubbt Beach (Chatham, Mass.), 

187 
Nbale, John, 135 
Nelsok, William, 134 
NsTRBR Eatendon, 93 



Nbthsr Norton, 88 

Pillardington, 18 

Woodcot, 87 
Nbvill, Richard, 70, 75, 101 
New Bedford, Mass., 174 
Newsuet, 116 

Mass., 193 
Newell, Jonathan, 161 
New England, 6, 139, 151, 159, 169, 

178 
Newet^ Henry, 97, 59 
New Hampshire, 160 

Hanover County, N. C, 163 

London, Conn., 157 
Newkham, 80, 100 

Edmund, 109 

Lettice, 100 

Thomas, 100 
Newpoet, R. I., 186 

William, 89 
Newtok, 93 

Berry, 116 

Adin G., 199 

Adin H., 199 

Anjennette, 199 

Henry S., 199 

Horatio D. P., 199 

Mercy O., 199 ' 

Susan A., 199 

Susan T., 199 
New York, 160, 165, 174, 176, 185, 194 
Nicholas, Elisabeth, 43 

Prosper, 43 
NiCKEESOK, Betsey, 188 

Ebeneser, 188 

Nicholas, 198, 138 

William, 196, 197, 156, 179 
NiVENS, W., 31 

NoBscussET (Yarmouth, Mass.), 199 
NosroLK, Duke of, 88 
NoRMAK, NormanSy 3, 10, 89 
NoRRis, Rev. Henry, 93, 94, 69, 70, 79, 
73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84^ 
89, 90, 91, 99, 93, 100, 109 
NmiTHAMPTOK, 13, 43%, 69, 109 

NORTHAMPTOKSHIEB, 3, 13, 16, 94^ 36, 

76, 81, 93, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 107 
North Carolina, 169, 163 
Kingstown, R. I., 169 

NORTHUICBERLAKD, 116 

NoRTOK, 86, 87 
Isaac, 165 



Index 



ail 



NoRTOK, Sarah, 165 

NOTTINOHAM, 96, 108 
NOTTIKOHAMSHIBB, 96, 108 

Ntb, David, 181 

Obloko, The, N. Y^ 175 
Odell, Alice, 107 

Elizabeth, 109 

Ralph, 107 

WiUiam, 109 
OmKOSELLS, Ela de, 4, 10 

Hugh de, 4 

WiUiam de, 4, 6, 8, 10 
OrFCHuacH, 86, 87 
Ohio, 151 
Oksk, Thomas, 17 
Oltok, 4, 5, 11, 19, 13 

Hall, 11 
Ombebslet, 107 
Onslow County, N. C, 163 
Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, 159, 160, 161, 

169 
Orpek, Abraham, 79 

Rebecca D., 79 

OsWEflTRT, 73 

Ong, Amos, 196, 130, 145, 148, 149 

Harriet F., 196 

Horace W., 196 

Lena P., 196 
Over Woodcot, 87 

OVINGTON, 135 
OWKHAM, 119 

OxfORD, 15, 36, 46, 109 

University, 191 
Oxfordshire, 3, 18, 76, 117 

Packingtok Parva, 79 
Packwood, 78, 89, 83, 85 
Paddy, William, 193 
Page, John, 158 
Paike, Ebeneaer, 179, 179 

Josiah, 179 
Palfret, John G., 133 
Palmer, Elizabeth, 78 

John, 111 

Thomas, 78 

WiUiam, 196 
Parkburt, 107 
Parbxr-Jervis, Sw3mfen, 31 
Parteridoe, Gabridl, 137 
Patterson, Elizabeth, 195 

Joseph, 195 

Rachel, 195 



Pauntley, 80 
Paybody, WUUam, 146 
Peas, Benjamin, 174 
Peche, Sir John, 99 
Pee, Thomas, 11 
Pelletbeau, WiUiam S^ 176 
Pembebton, Rev. Robert, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
7, 8, 9, 10, 19, 13, 15, 16, 99, 96, 
99, 39, 36, 38, 49, 66, 67 
Pender County, N. C, 163 
Peterborough, 108 
Pevensey, 119 
Philups, Sir Thomas, 107 

Thomas, 198 
Phillipse Patent, N. Y., 175, 176 
Phips, Lt. Gov. Spencer, 178 
Pillabdington, 18 
Pillebton Hersey, 18, 19, 99 
PiNCKNEY, Susanna, 169 
Pining, Anne, 134 

Joane, 134 

Mary, 134 
Pinning, Joane, 63 

Humphrey, 63 
PnrcHEB, Anne, 107 

Richard, 106, 107 
Pitman, Henry, 189 

Mary, 189 

PoUey, 189 
Plummeb, John, 68 

Margaret, 68 
Plymouth, Mass., 193, 133, 138, 145, 
146, 149, 166 

Colony, 194, 133, 151 

County, 164 
PoiTOU, 94 
Pole, Anne, 47 

POLESWOBTH, 89 
POOLEY, 89 

Pope, Charles H., 191, 193, 197 
Pobt-au-Pbince, Hayti, 189 
Porter Arms, 108 

Wais, 110, 113 

Agnes, 108, 110, 111, 119, 113 

Anna (Anne), 108, 110 

Dionisia, 109 

Elizabeth, 41, 110, 113, 199 

George, 108, 109, 111, 119, 113, 115 

Henry, 49, 108 

Jane, 15, 37, 41, 46, 109, 110, 113, 
117, 191 







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Index 



PoATBE, Joan, 106 
John, 41, 49, 108, 100, 110, 111, 

im, 114, 115 
Maria, 100, 111 
Martha, 110, 113 
Maiy, 110, lis 
Richard, 37, 41, 46, 108, 100, 110, 

111, 113, lis, 114, 117, 191, 139 
Robert, 108, 100, 111, 119, 115 
Stephen, 108, 100, 110, 119, 113 
Susanna, 110 

Thomas, 109, 110, 119, 114, 115 
WiUiam, 108 
PouLiOK, WiUiam, 137 

POWICK, 104 

Peatt's Farm, 16, 38 
PuKCB, Mary, 168, 

Sarah, 168, 170 

Gov. Thomas, 145, 164, 168, 175 
PuirDBmoAST, Amelia A., 193 

John W^ 193 

Nancy D., 193 
PmiKCB, Margery, 44 

Sarah, 170 
Pbovidekcb, R. I., 151, 157, 158, 169, 

163 
Pbovincbtowk, Mass^ 150, 199 
PuuRT, Isabella, 80 

PhiUp, 80 

Thomas, 85 
Putnam County, N. Y., 175, 176 
Ptchabd, Anne, 107 

Richard, 107 
Pttchsb, Richard, 106 

WiUiam, 106 

Qusnc, 133 

QuiMBT, Edward, 41, 100, 193 
Jane, 41, 49, 100 

Racike, Wis., 170 
Radboueitb, 99 

Joane, 99 

WUUam, 99 
Radcuffe CoUege, 199 
Raiksfoed Arms, 18 

HaU, 18 

Johanna, 15, 17, 18, 45 

John, 18 
Rakdaue, 96 
Rastall, WiUiam, 135 
Rastell, Elizabeth, 63 



Rasteix, Henry, 134 

WUUam, 199, 134 
Ratcuft Super Soar, 96, 97 

Super Wreak, 96 
REDOuro, Conn., 176 
Rehomth, Mass^ 157 
Relph, Thomas, 157 
Rhoue Island, 161, 16S, 190 
Rdbl, Matilda, 94 
Ring, Andrew, 196 
RiFTOx Parish, ComL, 100, 169 
RiyuroTOK, James, 176 
RoBExsoK, Elyn, 95 

Laurence, 95 
RoBEETH, WUUam, 113 
RoBEETs, Ann, 117 

George, 117 
RoBurs, Jane, 18 
RoBT, Rev. Mr^ 185 
RoBiNsoK, Samuel, 160 
RocHESTEE, Mass^ 150 
Rock, Thomas, 105 
RoDT Arms, 99 

Joan (Johanna), 74, 76, 99 

John, 99 

Margeria, 99 

Michael, 99 

Nicholas, 99 

Thomas, 74, 76, 99 

WUUam, 76, 99 
RooEES, Joseph, 137, 145 
RoMAir, 3 
RoMiTET, Alice, 104 

EUBabeth, 107 

Lawrence, 107 

Thomas, 104 

WiUiam, 104 
RoMPi^T, Elisabeth, 107 

Lawrence, 107 
RoMSET Abbey, 4 

ROTUEKFIELD, 41 

RowixoTON, 19, 66, 83 
RuDDiKG, AUce, 106 
RuDiKo, Edmund, 107 

Jane, 106, 107 
RUDLAKD, E. M., 144 
RuMKET, William, 106 
Rtdee, Bethiah C^ 191 

Desire, 189 

Eunice, 193 

Experience, 189 

Hannah, 169, 175 



Index 



218 



Rtder, James, 169, 177, 178, 179 

John, 166 

Samuel, 1^ 

Zoeth, 189 
Rtuotd, J. W., 13, 18 
Rtton, Margery, 103 

Thomas, 103 

Sable Island, 190 

Saixtt Aiy^iege, Chantry of, 31 

Clement, Chapel of, 30, 25 

Dimston in the West, 43 

John, Chapel of, 25 

John of Jerusalem, 88 

Mary Aldermanbury, 43 

Thomas k Becket, Chapel of, 30 
Saijihubst, 108 
Saixm, Mass., 133 
Salop, 95 

Sakdebs, Thomas, 53 
SAin>wicH, Masti., 134, 181 
Sabbs, Richard, 139 
Saswalo (Shirley), 93, 94 
Savage, James, 131, 133, 145 

John, 63 
Savannah, Ga., 188, 193 
Sawb, Joane, 64 
Saxok, Saxons, 3, 4, 10 
ScHOFiELD, Fielding, 193 

Sarah A., 193 
SciTUATE, Mass., 136, 150 
Scotch, 95 

SCOTTS, 95 

Seabs, Daniel, 166, 171 

Paul, 183 

Richard, 138, 133, 139, 180, 183 
Sevebance, Joseph, 138 
Secoksett (Chatham, Mass.), 173 
Sewall (Shirley), 94 

Judge Samuel, 166, 173 
Shakespeabe, William, 133 
Shawe, Joane, 63 

WiUiam, 63 
Sheldon, 66, 96, 97 

Elizabeth, 37, 38, 36, 46, 59, 61, 64 

William, 37, 36, 46, 59, 61, 64 
''Shelldok, Maister," 106 
Shelly, 13, 14, 16, 36, 431/2, 39, 38, 43, 

63, 64 
Shenstoke, 8 
Shephebd, Constance, 33 

Thomas, 33 



Shebman, Connv, 161 

Shibfobd, 80 

Shiblet, 4, 5, 11, 31, 63, 64, 93, 95 

Arms, 93 

Agnes, 94 

Alice, 96 

Beatrice, 77, 79, 81 

Beatrix, 95, 97 

Sir Hugh, 95, 96 

Isabel, 95 

Sir James, 94 

JocosA, 96 

Joyse, 96 

Matilda, 94 

Margaret, 95 

Ralph, 77, 79, 81, 95, 96, 97 

Sir Thomas, 95 
Shbewsbubt, 95, 96 
Shbopshuie, 73, 81 
Silhill, 3 
Slateb, Hannah, 169 

John, 169 
SiMPKiKs, Nicholas, 135 
Small, Mercy B., 193 
Smallwood, Catherine, 19, 31, 51, 63 

Roger, 49 

William, 19, 31, 63 
Smethwick, 35 
Smith, Benjamin, 173 

Bethiah, 168 

Christopher, 191 

Christopher I., 191 

Desire, 189 

Dorcas, 173 

Emme F., 191 

Enoch, 190 

Ephraim, 191, 193 

Florence, 191 

George, 191 

Henry O., 193 

John, 35, 168, 191 

Lucas, 191 

Rev. Luke, 33 

Marjorie C, 191 

Mercena, 193 

Mercy, 191 

Miriam, 188 

Nicholas, 10 

Ralph, 168, 191 

Richard, 191 

Sally T., 191 • 

Samuel, 191 



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Index 



Smith, Sarah A^ 193 
Sarah T., 191 
Seth, 189 
Stephen, 191 
Susan T^ 193 
Thomas, 174 

WiUiam C, 156, 165, 166, 169, 191 
Willietta F^ 191 
Smithfibld, R. I., 88, 158, 159, 160, 

161 
Sbitth, Andrew, 100 

John, 16 
Skelbton, Rev. William, 83 
SouHUix, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 13, 
15, 16, 17, 19, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 
38, 30, 36, 37, 38, 43, 43y„ 44, 
46, 47, 48, 40, 50, 53, 56, 57, 60, 
61, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 87, 88, 
89, 107, 110, 131, 133, 134, 135, 
136, 137, 143 
Church, 6 
School, 8 
SoMEBSBT House, 18 
Sombbsetbhue, 104 
South, Robert, 137 

SOUTHALI, 107 

SouTHAMPTOir, 41, 133, 133, 131 
Southeast, N. Y., 175 
South Dartmouth, Mass^ 187 

Framingham, Mass., 195 

Sea (Yarmouth, Mass.), 139, 130 
SouTHWOftTH, Thomas, 145 
Spihxed^ Constance, 33 

Thomas, 33, 45 
Spbkcer, Thomas, 17 
Spboat, Ebenezer, 150 

Experience, 150 

Robert, 150 
Spbout, Ebeneser, 150 

Experience, 150 

James, 150 

Robert, 150 
Stafford, 35, 31, 95 

Earl of, 96 
Stafforoshibs, 3, 34, 81, 90 
Stakdish, Capt. Myles, 136 
Stanford, 134 
Staplehurst, 113 
Staples, Robert, 160 
Starr, Thomas, 130 
Stephen, King, 93 



Sterbtok, Famell, 76 

Robert, 76 
Stoke Albany, 34 

Green, 36, 46 
Stokeleioh, 107 
Stoklet, William, 76 
Straduno, Edward, 80 

Elisabeth, 80 
Stratford, Conn., 159, 160, 161, 163 

on Avon, 3, 19, 90, 133 
Studson, Robert, 146 
Sturoib, Thomas, 148 
Sturtevakt, Samuel, 146 

SUCKLET, 104 
SUDBURT, 135 

Surrey, 117 

Sussex, 37, 41, 44, 46, 95, 108, 109, 

110, 111, 113, 113, 116, 117, 131, 

183 
SuTTOK, John, 146 
SwEETiKo, Henry, 163 

SWEETLAKD, LukC, 175 

SwETT, Clara D., 195 

Louisiana, 195 

Noah, 195 
SWOT, Charles F., 133, 136, 138, 130, 

131, 133, 145, 147, 148, 164, 165 
SwiKFORD, Emma, 100 

John, 100 

Tamworth Castle, 89 
Tandie, Elizabeth, 64 
Takworth, 11, 13 
Tapenhall, 107 
Tassarst, 113 
Tauktok, Mass^ 193 
Taylor, Thomas, 137 

Abigail, 180 

Barnabas, 180 

Bethiah, 180, 181 

John, 166, 180, 189 

Rev. John L., 175 

Joseph, 175 

PoUy, 169 

Reuben C^ 189, 190 

Rhodia, 180 

Richard, 138, 139, 139, 189 

Sally, 189 

Samuel, 166, 177, 179, 185, 189, 190 

Sarah, 189 

Seth, 180, 181 

Susannah, 189 



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Tayix>r, Thomas, 184 
Tew Magna, 18 
Tewksbuet, 105 
Texel, 193 

Thacheb, Anthony, 194^ 195, 197, 
198, 199, 130, 139, 139 

John, 198, 199, 139, 140, 141, 149, 
143, 148, 149, 159, 153, 155 

Josiah, 153, 155 

Lydia, 141, 149, 149 

Peter, 153 
Thame, 117 

Thorkton, Rev. Thomas, 198, 139 
Thobpe, Lettice, 100 

Thomas, 100 
Thbockmobton, Margaret, 37 

Robert, 85, 86 

Thomas, 32, 37 
TiLLEY, Elizabeth, 145 
TnxmroHAST, Benjamin, 169 
TiKKHAM, Ephrahn, 146 
TrrcHFiELD, 41, 109 
TiMMiNs, Samuel, 70 
ToMPKiirg County, N. Y^ 176 

TONWORTH, 18 

ToRRET, James, 146 
Trussell, John, 16 
Tubes, William, 196 
Tuck, Thomas, 137 
Tucker, Hannah, 175 

Samuel, 171, 175 
TuRBERViLLE, Isabell, 104 

Richard, 104 

TURCHIL, 4 

TuRKER, Edward, 64 

TUTBURY, 94 

Udimore, 109 
Ulverley, 4, 7 

Hall, 66 
Ukderhiix, Mary, 107 

RafPe, 107 

Vassalboro, Me., 165 
ViifEYARD Sound, Mass., 199 
VosE, Euphemia A., 165 

Wadhurst, 109, 115, 116 
Wakefield,* Mass., 191 
Walcroft, 95 

WAiJ)EflHOF, Margaret de, 95 
Walter de, 95 



Wales, 6, 106 
Walsall, 15, 94, 95 
Waltok, Agnes de, 94 
Wappekbury, 86 
Ward, Adam, 137 

Rev. Thomas, 99 
Wardwell, Mary, 174 

William T., 174 
Wariitg, Thomas, 90, 47, 48, 50, 51 
Warkett, Edmond, 199, 136, 137 
Warrex, Conn., 175, 176 

Sarah, 149 
Wars of the Roses, 89 
Warwick, 3, 4, 17, 18, 19, 95, 37, 38, 
43%. ^ ^> 4*7, 59, 60, 67, 69, 73, 
74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 89, 86, 
87, 88, 99, 95, 98, 107, 110, 134, 
135, 136 
Earl of, 13, 70, 74, 75, 81, 89, 101 
Warwickshire, 3, 10, 11, 19, 13, 14, 
16, 18, 99, 93, 94^ 96, 36, 39, 49, 
43, 44, 46, 56, 69, 66, 69, 70, 71, 
79, 73, 76, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 89, 
90, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 
107, 191, 136 
Washburk, John, 196 
Washikoton, Gen., 176 
Watermak, Richard, 158 
Waters, Henry F., 109, 110, 116, 117 
Watertok, Richard, 78 
Watertown, Mass., 196 
Wattok, 96 

Agnes de, 94 
Wattsok, John, 101 
Waturtok, Robert, 77 
Weale, Richard, 49 
Weaver, F. W., 107 
Webb, Eunice, 176 

Josiah, 176 
Weoonock Park, 18, 19 
Welch, Charles, 136 

H. B., 170 
Welsh, 3 
Welles, Alice, 64 
Wellfleet, Mass., 183, 195 
Wembury, 110 
Wenbour]», 116 
Katharine, 116 
West Chatham, Mass., 179 
Field (Yarmouth, Mass.), 196 
Medford, Mass., 195 
Newton, 95 



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Wmt, Christiaii, 67, 68 

John, 67, 68 

Wimam, 67, 68 
WisTOOTT, Margftret, 68 

Richard, 68 

WlfTHAIX, 96 

Wkitut, WilUam, 87 
WBtTMnrgna, 199 
WX0IOK, 16, 94 
Whxatlit^ John, 116 

Maud, 116 
Whxatok, John, 157 
Whksubb, SamiMl, 159 
Whblduto (Whelden), Henry, 139 
Whstkall, Isabel, 91, 51 
Whipple, Jonathan, 158 
White Friars, 75 

CSiurch, 75 
Whitfibld Arms, 116 

Hall, 116 

Agnes, 116, 117 

Ann, 117 

Eliubeth, 116, 117 

Frances, 117 

Rev. Henry, 117 

Jane, 109, 117 

Joan, 117 

John, 116, 117 

Katiiarine, 116 

Margaret, 117 

Mary, 117 

MatUda, 116 

Maud, 116 

MUdred, 117 

Myles, 116 

Richard, 116 

Robert, 109, 116, 117 

Sarah, 117 

Thomas, 115, 116, 117 

William, 116, 117 
Whttlokks Feld, 95 
Whitlox, 5 
WHrrroroToir, EliEabeth, 80 

W^ 80 
WiD]»T, 4, 5, 63 
WiLDBoosE, Joan, 108 

John, 108 

WiUiam, 108 
WiLKYS, John, 95 

Richard, 95 

Robert, 95 
WnxiAM I., 3, 4 



William III., 151 

& Mary, 133 
Williams College, 176 

T. E., 30 
WnxMoiB, Frederidc W^ 04 
Willows, 96 
WiircHxsm, Mass., 195 
WiirsLOw, Bethiah, 163 

Gov. Edward, 146 

Josias, 197, 145, 146 

Kenelm, 163 
WiKsoR, Joshua, 160 

Justin, 193, 195, 130, 139 
Wurm, Robert, 106 
WiKTHBOP, Gov. John, 193 
Withebs, Henry, 137 

WiTHTHAM, 110 

WixoK, Didamy, 188 

Zelotus, 188 
Worn, Avice atte, 11 

Richard atte, 11 
WoDHULL, Baron of, 107 

AUce, 107 

Foulk, 107 

Nicholas, 107 

WOLFHAMOOTE, 98 

Wolf, The, 186 
WoLLASTOK, George, 95 

Joan, 95 

Thomas, 95 
WooDCOTB, Nether, 86, 87 

Over, 86, 87 

WOODHOITBE, 95, 45 

WooDHULL, Elisabeth, 109 

William, 109 
WooDLET, Thomas, 113 
WooDLOEs, 93, 95 
WooDLOW, 93, 95, 39, 44, 75, 77, 78, 79, 

85, 86, 87 
WmiGESTEE, 14, 18, 19, 36, 43^1^, 44, 

46, 104^ 105 
WmiCESTEBSHiBE, 3, 13, 95, 39, 67, 104, 

105, 107 
WmiTH, 117 
Dorcas, 173 
John, 173 
Wroxall Abbey, 17, 18, 19, 80, 90 
WTiri«wiK, Wynnewike, William, 19 
Wtthet, Aime, 106 

Yale College, 150, 165, 176, 177 
Yabdlet, 13, 14, 67, 68 



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Yarmouth, Mass., 1S4, 1S5, 136, Youko, Edmund, 191 
137, 138, 139, 130, 131, 133, 138, John, 171, 173 
139, 140, 141, 143, 145, 146, 147, Jonathan, 183 
148, 149, 151, 164, 165, 166, 167, Moses, 169 
168, 175, 177 Phebe, 183 

Yarmouthport, Mass., 139, 130 Thankful, 169 



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