Jane Hawkins

Parents look to have been John Angell (1552–1597), Elizabeth Clarke (1556– )

Richard Hawkins (1576?–bef. 1656) m. 1602 Jane Angell (d. bef. 1659); Bluntisham, St. Ives, Hunts., Eng.; Boston, Mass.; Portsmouth, R. I.

Known children

1. James, bricklayer
2. Thomas
3. Job, carpenter
4. Wife of Thomas Brooke

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On 12 March 1637/8, "Jane Hawkins, the wife of Rich[a]rd Hawkins, had liberty till the beginning of the third month, called May, & the magistrates (if she did not depart before) to dispose of her; & in the meantime she is not to meddle in surgery, or physic, drinks, plasters, or oils, nor to question matters of religion, except with the elders for satisfaction." On 22 May 1651, "[i]n answer to the petition of James, Jobe & Thomas Hawkins for the return for their mother to live in this jurisdiction, the Court, not knowing how to satisfy themselves about this woman, cannot give way to her coming into this jurisdiction."

Richard Hawkins and his wife Jane resided in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In her will, dated 30 July 1659, "Jane Hawkins widow to Richard Hawkins of Portsmouth late deceased" bequeathed to "her son James her eldest son," to "her son Thomas Hawkins," to "her maid Mary Brayton," and to "her son-in-law Thomas Brooke.

In 1629 Jane was in a trance for three days and spoke in rhyming verse to an audience of 200 people at St. Ives Square. Scribes would record her words from the foot of her bed. She continued her prophecies in the New World.

References

• Jaine Angell England Marriages, 1538-1973 Marriage: July 1602 - Bluntisham Cum Earith, Huntingdon, England Husband: Richard Hawkins
• Hal Bradley, "Gleanings: Addenda to the origin of several colonial families", The American Genealogist, volume 89, pages 303-312 Notes Pages 307-308 The author found the marriage record for this couple and the baptism records for their 9 children in Bluntisham and St. Ives, Huntingdonshire
• Find A Grave Memorial# 370717082 lists James Hawkins died 14 Mar 1670 at Boston as son of Richard Hawkins and Jane (Angell) Hawkins.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L69C-6K8
• Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden, with ninety allied families, by Sumner, Edith Bartlett, b. 1882. Page 137 - 139.Archive.Org
• http://www.rootedancestry.com/5821.html cites
• The early generations of this family receive brief treatment from John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 (1887; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978), 94, and
• Edward H. West, The Story of Jane Hawkins, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 114 (1960): 207-11.
• Sketches of James Hawkins and his brother Job are in Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, 7 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999–2011), 3:261-70.
• The pre-immigration records of this family were discovered recently. They now appear in Hal Bradley, Gleanings: Addenda to the Origin of Several Colonial Families, American Genealogist 89 (2017): 303-12, at 307-8, based partly on research initiated by John C. Brandon.( link to issue cover)
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MVB2-N1T