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1. | Reverend Joshua HOBART was born Jul 1629, Hingham, Norfolk, England (son of Peter HOBART and Elizabeth IBROOK); died 28 Feb 1716, Southold, Suffolk, New York; was buried Old Burying Ground of First Presbyterian Church Southold, Suffolk, New York - Row 10, Stone 012. Notes: The Rev. Joshua Hobart was the second pastor of the Puritan church in Southold, Long Island, serving the congregation from 1674 until his death in 1716. Born in Hingham, a town in southern Norfolk, England, he was the son of the Rev. Peter Hobart, and had emigrated to colonial Massachusetts with his parents in 1635, while still a young child. He graduated from Harvard University in 1650, and according to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 50, in 1656 married Margaret Vassal (b. 1633) of Barbadoes Island, the daughter of William and Ann Vassal, formerly of Scituate, Massachusetts. Widowed by July 1657, it is believed that his first marriage was childless. He subsequently went to England, where he remained for about two years. He returned to Massachusetts in 1669, and in the early 1670's married Mrs. Mary Rainford (nee Sunderland), the widow of Jonathan Rainford. Six children were born to the couple during the decade spanning 1672-1682. Surviving his second wife, who died in 1698, by some 31 years, the Rev. Hobart was 87 years old at the time of his death in February 1716-17. His grave is marked by a slate ledger stone which was probably carved and imported from England. |
2. | Peter HOBART was born 16 Oct 1604, Hingham, Norfolk, England (son of Edmund HOBART, Sr. and Margaret DEWEY); died 20 Jan 1679, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts; was buried Old Ship Church Burying Ground, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - Plot Sec B, Plot 44, Lot 7 . Other Events:
Notes: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England Peter married Elizabeth IBROOK 3 Jul 1628, Hingham, Norfolk, England. Elizabeth was born 31 Aug 1608, Southwold, Suffolk, England; died Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - in childbirth. [Group Sheet] |
3. | Elizabeth IBROOK was born 31 Aug 1608, Southwold, Suffolk, England; died Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - in childbirth.
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4. | Edmund HOBART, Sr. was born 1574, Hingham, Norfolk, England; died 8 Mar 1646, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts; was buried Old Ship Church Burying Ground, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts. Other Events:
Notes: "The exact date at which any individual came here to reside cannot be ascertained. Among the papers of Mr. Cushing, there is a 'list of the names of such persons as came out of the town of Hingham, and towns adjacent, in the County of Norfolk, in the Kingdom of England, into New England, and settled in Hingham.' From this list we are led to believe there were inhabitants here as early as 1633, and among them Ralph Smith, Nicholas Jacob with his family, Thomas Lincoln, weaver, Edmund Hobart and his wife, from Hingham, and Thomas Hobart with his family, from Windham, in Norfolk, England. During the same year Theophilus Cushing, Edmund Hobart, senior, Joshua Hobart, and Henry Gibbs, all of Hingham, England, came to this country. Cushing lived some years at Mr. Haines's farm, and subsequently removed to Hingham. The others settled at Charlestown, (the oldest neighborhood of Boston -Ed) and in 1635 removed to this place. In 1634 there were other settlers here, and among them Thomas Chubbuck; Bare Cove was assessed in that year. To 1635, at the May court, Joseph Andrews was sworn as constable of the place. There was a considerable increase of the number of Settlers, and in that year grants of land were made to upwards of fifty individuals, of which a record is preserved. It was in June of that year that Rev. Peter Hobart arrived at Charlestown, and soon after settled in this place." - from History of Hingham published 1893, pages 201-209 (Thomas Lincoln's younger brother Samuel Lincoln, also a weaver, who came to Hingham in 1737, was the ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln -Ed) Edmund married Margaret DEWEY 7 Sep 1600, Hingham, Norfolk, England. Margaret died Bef Oct 1634. [Group Sheet] |
5. | Margaret DEWEY died Bef Oct 1634.
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