Hawes, Richard 1606

Richard HAWES (1606 - 1656) and Ann CLAPP (1609 - 1662)

my 9g-grandparents

8g – Constant HAWES (1642 – 1703)
7g – Samuel DEWEY (1670 – 1734)
6g – Mabel DEWEY (1718 – 1760)
5g – Sarah HUBBELL (1742 – 1763)
4g – Nathniel LEE (1764 – 1845)
3g – Sara LEE (1803 – 1888)
2g – Festus EATON (1829 – 1909)
1g – George W EATON (1870 – 1928)
Dora EATON (1905 – 1970)
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Richard HAWES was born on 2 Nov 1606 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England, which is 30 miles northwest of downtown London. His parents were Richard HAWES (1580 - 1665) and Susan DEAN (1584 - 1609). [RHD, p. 18 ff]

Richard married Ann CLAPP about 1632 in Great Missenden. They were about 25 and 23, respectively.

Ann was born about 1609 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, some 100 miles southwest of London, just 5 miles north of the English Channel.

Richard and Ann had 2 children in Great Missenden. Their daughter Anna was baptized 17 Dec 1632, and their son Obadiah was baptized 25 Mar 1635. They were probably born shortly before those dates.

They settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, where Richard and Ann were listed as church members in a document dated 23 Sep 1636.

Dorchester, named after the city of the same name in England, was south of Boston, and was annexed to Boston in 1870. It was founded in 1630, just 10 years after the 1st voyage of the Mayflower, and was in Suffolk County, formed in 1643, and then was part of Norfolk County, formed in 1793, and went back to Suffolk in 1870.

That Ann's maiden name was CLAPP or CLAP is inferred from the close relationship between the HAWES family and Roger CLAP, whose will mentions "his cousins (meaning nephews or nieces), Thomas Swift, Esther Bissell, and our Constant (Hawes) Dewey." [RHD, p. 22]

Richard HAWES probably died in Dec 1656, as his estate was inventoried shortly thereafter. His wife Ann must have died or remarried by 1662.

1 Richard HAWES b: 02 Nov 1606 in Great Missenden, d: 27 Nov 1656 in Dorchester, MA, age 50
+ Ann CLAPP b: 1609 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, m: 1632 in Great Missenden, d: 1662 in Dorchester, MA, age 53
......2 Anna HAWES bapt. 17 Dec 1632 in Great Missenden, d: Aft. 09 Sep 1665, age 32+
......2 Obadiah HAWES bapt. 25 Mar 1635 in Great Missenden, d: 05 Oct 1690 in Dorchester, MA, age 55+
...... + Mary HUMPHREY m: Abt. 1662
......2 Bethiah HAWES b: 27 Jul 1637 in Dorchester, MA
...... + Obed SEWARD m: 01 Oct 1661 in Milford, New Haven, CT
......2 Deliverance HAWES b: 11 Jun 1640 in Dorchester, MA, d: 12 Jun 1718 in Middletown, CT, age 78
...... + John ROCKWELL b: 1628, m: 18 Aug 1662 in Dorchester, MA, d: 03 Sep 1673, age 45
...... + Robert WARNER b: 1636, m: 02 Feb 1674, d: 1690, age 54
...... + Nathaniel BISSELL b: 27 Sep 1640 in Windsor, Hartford, CT, m: 1692, d: 12 Mar 1713/14 in Windsor, Hartford, CT, age 73
......2 Constant HAWES b: 17 Jul 1642 in Dorchester, d: 26 Apr 1703 in Westfield, Hampden, MA, age 60
...... + Thomas DEWEY b: 16 Feb 1639/40 in Windsor, CT, m: 01 Jun 1663 in Dorchester, d: 27 Apr 1690 in Westfield, age 50
......2 Eleazer HAWES bapt. 09 Mar 1645 in Dorchester, MA, d: 21 Apr 1676 in Sudbury, Middlesex, MA; Killed in battle, age 31+
...... + Ruth HAYNES b: 27 Apr 1646, m: 23 Feb 1669/70 in Dorchester, MA, d: 16 Aug 1672 in Dorchester, MA, age 26
......2 Jeremiah HAWES b: Dorchester, MA

Sources

[JCH] The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England (1874) by John Camden Hotten

[RHD] Richard Hawes of Dorchester (1932) by Frank Mortimer Hawes

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