Capt. Joseph Hawley - Parent(s) of Joseph Hawley, the immigrant?

I curate Joseph Hawley and have Hawley ancestors. I looked in the most reliable places for his parents -- NEGHS online and did not find them.

I would NOT add parents for someone from this period based on My Heritage trees. Absolutely not.

http://www.hawleysociety.org/connecticut-line/who-was-joseph-hawley...

IN BOLD --The Hawley Society has conducted extensive research here as well as England and has no located no substantial evidence as to Joseph’s parentage. DNA evidence does not yet connect the Hawleys in North America with those living in Great Britain.

I have detached the parents and given him unknown parents. I hate going over old ground because for these early Connecticut families I looked at all the better sources.

Wikitree (attached as sources) and MH trees are not reliable sources for early American families.

Even some of the vanity genealogies of the last century made up relationships. I have recently had to detach parents for John King of Weymouth, Captain John Johnson and I constantly detach erroneous parents for the Leonards of Taunton. Whenever there is a merge, we end up with a set of (usually noble) parents, for whom there is absolutely no proof, for the immigrant ancestor from Massachusetts or Connecticut, copied from some Internet tree.

I may be beating a dead horse; however, there is a well rehearsed secondary source that suggests Judge Samuel N Hawley was Joseph’s father: http://www.zombeezy.com/getperson.php?personID=I2047&tree=T001 Parish is a very small village, and Samuel is the right age to be Joseph’s father. How many Hawleys were in that village? Moreover, Joseph named one of his sons “Samuel.” Barring the discovery of a primary source, Samuel would appear a better placeholder than “unknown” with an appropriate note that he is questionable.

Your logic is fine Capt Henry Edward Heater but I believe it is best to follow the conclusion of The Hawley Society which did the research and was not able to find substantial evidence to support any particular parentage. See the quote above and the link to The Hawley Society.