John Hoare

John's wife was Alice (nee unproven) This souce has Alice as a Lisle- who had two daughters The name Alice Lisle is perpetuated among the daughters of the line. Judge Sewell

In ans'r to the petition of Alice, the wife of John Hoare, of Concord, the Court judgeth it meete, on the petitioner's satisfying and paying in to the Treasurer to his content the sume of tenn pounds to abate the remain- der of her husband's fine yet remaining and unpaid.

(Massachusetts Records, Vol. IV. Part 11, p. 387—1668.)

In 1668 John Hoare was charged before the county court of say- ing at the public house of Ensign William Buss " that the Blessing Master Bulkeley pronounced in dismissing the publique Assembly in the Meeting-house was no better than vane babbling." Upon conviction of what the law of 1646 calls "the disparagement of the Lord's holy ordinance and making God's ways contemptible and ridiculous" he was fined ten pounds. He was also called upon to answer to the Court on two occasions " for neglecting the public worship of God on the Lord's day." (County Court Files, 1668- 1675.) Alice died Alice died June 5, 1696. Samuel Sewall makes in his

Diary but one noteworthy mention of Mr. Hoare. Under date of Friday, Nov. 8, 1690, he writes, " Jn'o Hoar comes into the Lobby and sais he comes from the Lord, by the Lord, to speak for the Lord : Complains that Sins as bad as Sodom's found here." We may therefore infer that neither imprisonment nor fines nor old age could put a curb upon John Hoare's freedom of speech. The children of John^ and Alice Hoare were three:

1. Elizabeth,- married December 23, 1675, Jonathan Prescott of Lan-

caster, being his second wife. To them six children were born :

i. Jonathan, 3 b. April 5, 1677; a noted physician; m. July 9, 1701, Rebecca Bulkeley ; d. Oct. 28, 1729, and had eleven children.

ii. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 27, 1678 ; m. John Fowle of Woburn.

iii. Dorothy, b. March 31, 1681; m. July 14, 1702, Edward Bulkeley; d. at Wethersfield, Conn., in 1748.

iv. John, b. May 13, 1683; d. Jan. 28, 1706.

V. Mary, b. Aug. 14, 1685; m. April 16, 1702, John Miles, and had six children.

vi. Benjamin, b. Sept. 16, 1687 ; was graduated at Harvard 1703 ; clergy- man; d. May 27, 1777; m. (1st) Elizabeth Higginson of Salem, in 1715; (2d) Mercy Gibbs, in 1732; and (3d) Mrs. Mary (Pepperell) Colman, in 1748. By the tirst he had five children, of whom Benja- min m. Rebecca Minot of Salem, and had a daughter Rebecca who became, May 12, 1763, the second wife of Hon. Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U. S. Senator from Connecticut, from 1791 to his death in 1793. Their youngest daugh- ter, Sarah Sherman, Oct. 13, 1812, m. Hon. Samuel Hoar of Concord, and of her elder sisters, Rebecca and Elizabeth in succession became the wives of Judge Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. Rebecca was the mother of Roger S. Baldwin, Governor and Senator, who argued the famous Armistead case, and grandmother of Judge Simeon E. BaldAvin. Mehitable m. for her second husband Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., the Honoi'able "William Maxwell Evarts being her son. Martha married Jeremiah Day, President of Yale College, and was the mother of Hon. Sherman Day, author of Pennsylvania Historical Collections and State Surveyor of California.

Jonathan Prescott d. Dec. 5, 1721, his fourth wife surviving him. His second wife, Elizabeth Hoar, d. Sept. 25, 1687.

2. Mary,^ married Benjamin' Graves, October 21, 1668.

3. Daniel, born 1650; married July 16, 1677, Mary Stratton, daugh-

"ter of Samuel and Mary (Fry), and (2d) Mary Lee, October 16,

https://archive.org/stream/hoarfamilyinamer00nour/hoarfamilyinamer0... ___________________________

His father died in 1638, and John was only 16 at this time. He is mentioned in his father's will. Will of Charles Hoare of Gloucester, EnglandBy George Frisbie Hoar This book with the will of Charles has John's wife as Alice Lisle. (this is not proven in any other source- jnathan note on 3/26/2020).

He came to America with his mothr in 1639/40- all children except Thomas (maybe the oldest, and may be a child of anothrer wife as not mentioned in will of brother Leonard) came with the Mother to America, Mother Joanna died in Braintree Dec.20, 1661. and is buried in Old Quincy Burial Ground with son Leonard and his wife and daughter near graves of her daughters Mrs. Flynt and Mrs. Quincy. Daniel returned to England. where he was engaged in trade with the Colonies. then he was in Boston when he gave power of attorney to ...and John Hoare. He also had a son John who was under the care of his brother Leonard. He then settled in Sciatuate and afterwards Boston and was asked to rescue Mrs. Rowland from captivity (son John).

The sister became the wife of Col. Edmund Quincy. ____________________

https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/fin_aids/Hoar

https://archive.org/stream/hoarfamilyinamer00nour/hoarfamilyinamer0...

Name: John HOARE

Given Name: John

Surname: Hoare

Sex: M

Birth: Abt 1622 in England

Death: 2 Apr 1704 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Charles HOARE b: Abt 1588 in England

Mother: Joanna HINCKSMAN b: Abt 1580 in England

Marriage 1 Alice UNKNOWN b: Abt 1624

Married: 1645 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA

Children

Elizabeth HOAR b: Abt 1646 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA

Mary HOAR b: Abt 1648 in
Daniel HOAR b: Abt 1650 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA
John Hoar, son of first family who located in New England by this name, was a lawyer, distinguished for bold manly independence. He resided in Scituate. Massachusetts, from 1643 to i(>55. It was about 1660 when he settled in Concord, and died April 2, 1704. His wife, Alice Lyle. sister of Bridget Lisle, who married Leonard Hoar, died June 5, 1697. Their children included Elizabeth, who. December. 1675, married Jonathan Prescott; Mary, married Benjamin Graves. October 21. 1668: and Daniel, married (first) Mary Stratton, (second) Mary Lee. The Hoar family were among the early Bay colonists, and some true conception of their character may be had by referring to a matter of Xew England history, wherein it is recorded that after the Indian massacre at Lancaster, at the time of King Philip's war, John Hoar, at the request of the colonial authorities, followed the Indian band far into the wilderness, and after great hardship and the exercise of great ingenuity, recovered by ransom Mrs. Rowlandson, a lady captive from Lancaster. Her account of her ransom is published. The rock where she was redeemed is close by the base of Wachusett Mountain, and has been marked by Senator Hoar by a suitable inscription.

See also: Scituate Historical Society: John Hoar

---

John HOARE731,1785 was born in 1622 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.8,566 He lived in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts from 1643 to 1655.566 He lived in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts from 1660.566 John died on 2 April 1704 at the age of 82 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.8,566 Ancestral File Nr. 91V6-L0. He was an a lawyer. The only original records I've seen only names his wife as "Alice". I have seen nothing which allows me to assign her any last name, much less a specific parentage. Parents: Charles HOARE The Younger and Joanna HINKSMAN.

Spouse: Alice LISLE. Alice LISLE and John HOARE were married. "Hoar/Hoare family" says she is the mother of John's children. This needs investigation. If true, she is a serious gateway ancestor. _______________________

Not Alice Lisle

He was known to have a wife named, Alice, but there is no record of her last name or the date of their marriage. It has been incorrectly stated that he married an Alice Lisle, a daughter of Lord Lisle. However, it was his brother, Leonard, a graduate of Oxford University and later president of Harvard College, who had married Bridget, daughter of John Lord Lisle, President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. Bridget's mother was Dame Alicia Lisle, a victim of Royalist justice, who was beheaded after being tried by Judge Jeffreys in 1685 . John and Leonard Hoar's sister, Joanna, married Edmund Quincy of Braintree. One of their descendants, Abigail Smith, married John Adams of the American Revolution.[1][2] Robert Sidney was coincidentally granted the title of Viscount Lisle on 4 May 1605, allowing the "Lisle" title to be passed on through to his descendants, adding further confusion for researchers in search of the identity of Hoar's wife. Currently, no physical or reliable evidence exists providing John Hoar's wife's maiden name, as many early records from the Concord colony have been lost. Their children were Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, and Daniel.[3]

The Hoar Family in America and its English Ancestry: a Compilation from collections made by the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 53. p. 92. at books.google.com"Dame Alice Lisle and the Bloody Assizes, a part of Hampshire history at hampshire-history.com

The Graves Family Association Newsletter Vol. 12-16, 1987, "[1]"

" Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, January 10, 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hoar __________

---

Known for his bold, independent mind and action. Took a great interest in the Native Americans of the area (Nashobas) and built them a house on his property. He aided in getting a young mother and her child returned from the Indians that had abducted them by going to the Indian encampment and securing a ransom and negotiated for their release. The ransom was a pint of rum. The story can be found in the book Worcester Legends by William Andrew Emerson published 1905. Monument which is a rock has a plaque. Birth is abt 1622

Second son of Sheriff Charles Hoar, was born in England.He was educated in England, apprenticed to father 1632/3 for 10 years. Came to America with widowed mother. 1643-1655: Living in Scituate, MA. a lawyer, "distinguished for his bold, independent mind and action." 1659: Sold land 1660: Removed to Concord, MA He was one of the "Cohasset Partners". He was a man of wealth for those days, much engaged in public affairs, and a great friend of the Indians. He was twice arraigned for not attending church regularly and was prohibited from practicing law except in his own cases because he spoke slightingly of one of the ministers.

Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3M9Q-TWQ

Son of Charles Hoar Jr. and Johanna (Henchman) Hoar

Father of Joanna Hoare, Elizabeth (Hoar) Prescott, Daniel Hoar and Mary (Hoar) Graves

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 18 2017, 19:29:37 UTC +++++++++++++++++ Redemption Rock, Princeton, MA Redemption Rock | Princeton, MA | The Trustees http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/central-ma/redemption-ro... Redemption Rock: A modest-sized reservation with a momentous history, it was ... She traveled to Boston with John Hoar to be reunited with her husband, son, . _________________

Family Papers FAMILY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHIES:

I. Family history: Family of Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts. Descended from Charles Hoare of Gloucester, England (died 1638) and Joanna Hincksman Hoare. Children of Charles and Joanna: Thomas; Margery; John; Daniel; Leonard; Joanna; and possibly Ruth (buried in England in 1628) and Charles. About 1640, Joanna Hoare and five of her children (Margery, John, Daniel, Leonard, and Joanna) came to New England. Joanna Hincksman Hoare died in Braintree in 1651.

Of the five Hoare children who came to New England, Margery married Henry Flint in Braintree. John Hoare (ancestor of the Concord and Lincoln Hoars) settled in Scituate, sold his land there in 1659, and came to Concord. He was living in Braintree in 1682. According to Henry Stedman Nourse, Daniel Hoare was a trader in Boston, although he does not show up in the Boston records as a resident or property owner. Lincoln historian Margaret Martin reports that Daniel owed Thomas Flint money, that he spent some time in Virginia, and that he is thought to have died in England. Leonard graduated from Harvard College in 1650, returned to England in 1653, came back to New England in 1672, and served as president of Harvard College from 1672 to 1675. Joanna married Edmund Quincy in 1648, died in 1680.

After coming to Concord from Scituate, John Hoare exchanged the land he first owned (near what is now MCI Concord) for land on the Bay Road (now Lexington Road), on the present Orchard House site. He took initiative for housing the "Christian Indians" in Concord during King Philip's War, and also succeeded in ransoming Mary Rowlandson (wife of the minister of Lancaster, Massachusetts), who was held captive by the Native Americans after the attack on Lancaster in February of 1675/6.

John's son Daniel married Mary Stratton in Concord in 1677. Their son Daniel, born in 1680, married Sarah Jones in Concord in January of 1704/5. Their son John, born in Concord in 1706/7, married Esther Peirce.

John's and Esther's son Samuel was born in 1743, in what would become Lincoln in 1754. He married Susanna Peirce in Lincoln in 1773, served as a lieutenant of the Lincoln company at the Concord Fight on April 19, 1775. He was later a Massachusetts representative and senator. Like his father (John), grandfather (Daniel), and Great-grandfather (Daniel), Samuel was a farmer.

Samuel's son lawyer Samuel (1778-1856), born in Lincoln, is the earliest member of the family whose papers are represented in this collection. He married Sarah Sherman in 1812. Their children: Elizabeth (1814-1878), who was engaged to be married to Emerson's brother Charles (died 1836); Ebenezer Rockwood (1816-1895), lawyer, judge, congressman, and Attorney General of the United States; Sarah Sherman (born in 1817), who married Robert B. Storer in 1837; Samuel Johnson (1820-1821); Edward Sherman (1823-1893); and George Frisbie (1826-1904), lawyer and United States senator and representative.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar married Caroline Downes Brooks (daughter of Lincoln-born Concord lawyer Nathan Brooks) in 1840. Their children: Caroline, the eldest (birth date not recorded in the Concord vital records), who married Samuel Bellows Greene of Burlington, Vermont; Sarah Sherman (born and died in 1844); Samuel (1845-1904); Charles Emerson (1850-1912); Clara Downes (born 1852); Elizabeth (born 1854; married Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, in 1884); and Sherman (1860-1898).

Ebenezer's son Samuel (1845-1904), also a lawyer, married Kate Wise in Baltimore in 1871. She died in 1877. In 1886, he married Helen Putnam Wadleigh (born in Milford, New Hampshire, the daughter of Bainbridge and Ann M. Putnam Wadleigh). Their children: Samuel (1887-1952); and John (1889-1972).

Lawyer Samuel Hoar (1887-1952), grandson of E.R. Hoar, married Helen Van Voast Warren of New York (daughter of William R. and Helen Van Voast Warren) in 1914. Helen V.V.W. Hoar died in 1984. Their children: Cynthia (born in Concord in 1915; married James B. Fisk; died in 1991); Virginia (born in Boston in 1921; later Mrs. Virginia H. Freccia/Frecha; currently--06/99--a resident of Stow, Massachusetts); and lawyer Samuel (born in Boston in 1927; married Martha Ford, daughter of Clement R. Ford; currently a resident of Essex, Massachusetts).

SOURCES FOR FAMILY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHIES:

Concord, Mass. Birth, marriage, and death records, 1850-ca. 1935 (unpublished; transcribed from original vital records; housed in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections).

Concord, Mass. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 ([1895]).

Concord, Mass. Historical Commission. "158 Main Street: Samuel Hoar House," pages [365]-[369] in Survey of Historical and Architectural Resources, Concord, Massachusetts, Volume II (1994).

Concord, Mass. Historical Commission. "194 Main Street: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar House," pages [399]-[403] in Survey of Historical and Architectural Resources, Concord, Massachusetts, Volume II (1994).

Concord Free Public Library. Special Collections. Obituary and events scrapbooks, with indexes.

Emerson, Edward W. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar," pages [1]-130 in Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Fourth Series (1909).

French, Allen. "Two Concord Laymen: John and Samuel Hoar," reprinted from Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. V, Pt. I ([1936]).

Haynes, George H. "Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood," in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 10, pages 86-87.

Haynes, George H. "Hoar, Samuel," in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 10, pages 89-90.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood. "Samuel Hoar," pages [30]-53 in Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Third Series (1907).

Hudson, Woodward. "Samuel Hoar," pages [265]-293 of Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Fourth Series (1909).

Lincoln, Mass. Vital Records of Lincoln Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (1908).

Newbury, Egbert S., Jr. "Samuel Hoar," pages 141-163, Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Sixth Series (1975).

Nourse, Henry Stedman. The Hoar Family in America and Its English Ancestry: A Compilation from Collections Made by the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar (1899).

Storey, Moorfield, and Edward W. Emerson. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar: A Memoir (1911).

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Papers, 1738-1958 (bulk 1815-1935), generated or collected by five generations of the Hoar family of Concord, Massachusetts. Collection consists of papers of lawyer Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) and his wife Sarah Sherman Hoar; papers of Samuel's son, lawyer and judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; papers of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar's daughter Caroline; papers of E. R. Hoar's son lawyer Samuel (1845-1904) and of Samuel's wife Helen Putnam Wadleigh Hoar (including letters and keepsakes to their grandmother from Helen's young granddaughters Cynthia and Virginia Hoar); and papers of lawyer Samuel (1887-1952), son of E.R. Hoar's son Samuel and father of Cynthia and Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous items with some connection to the Hoar family or to families related by marriage.

Forms and types of materials within the collection include: correspondence; manuscripts; financial papers; a range of materials reflecting the involvement of family members in local, state, and federal government; printed items (ephemera, newspapers, clippings, political cartoon); academic progress reports; some genealogical material; passports; a daguerreotype; and a military dog tag.

French, Allen. "Two Concord Laymen: John and Samuel Hoar," reprinted from Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. V, Pt. I ([1936]).

https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/fin_aids/Hoar

---

GEDCOM Note

{geni:about_me} https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/fin_aids/Hoar

https://archive.org/stream/hoarfamilyinamer00nour/hoarfamilyinamer0...

Name: John HOARE

Given Name: John

Surname: Hoare

Sex: M

Birth: Abt 1622 in England

Death: 2 Apr 1704 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Charles HOARE b: Abt 1588 in England

Mother: Joanna HINCKSMAN b: Abt 1580 in England

Marriage 1 Alice UNKNOWN b: Abt 1624

Married: 1645 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA

Children

Elizabeth HOAR b: Abt 1646 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA

Mary HOAR b: Abt 1648 in

Daniel HOAR b: Abt 1650 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA

John Hoar, son of first family who located in New England by this name, was a lawyer, distinguished for bold manly independence. He resided in Scituate. Massachusetts, from 1643 to i(>55. It was about 1660 when he settled in Concord, and died April 2, 1704. His wife, Alice Lyle. sister of Bridget Lisle, who married Leonard Hoar, died June 5, 1697. Their children included Elizabeth, who. December. 1675, married Jonathan Prescott; Mary, married Benjamin Graves. October 21. 1668: and Daniel, married (first) Mary Stratton, (second) Mary Lee. The Hoar family were among the early Bay colonists, and some true conception of their character may be had by referring to a matter of Xew Englandhistory, wherein it is recorded that after the Indian massacre at Lancaster, at the time of King Philip's war, John Hoar, at the request of the colonial authorities, followed the Indian band far into the wilderness, and after great hardship and the exercise of great ingenuity, recovered by ransom Mrs. Rowlandson, a lady captive from Lancaster. Her account of her ransom is published. The rock where she was redeemed is close by the base of Wachusett Mountain, and has been marked by Senator Hoar by a suitable inscription.

See also: Scituate Historical Society: John Hoar

---

John HOARE731,1785 was born in 1622 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.8,566 He lived in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts from 1643 to 1655.566 He lived in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts from 1660.566 John died on 2 April1704 at the age of 82 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.8,566 Ancestral File Nr. 91V6-L0. He was an a lawyer. The only original records I've seen only names his wife as "Alice". I have seen nothing which allows me to assign her any last name, much less a specific parentage. Parents: Charles HOARE The Younger and Joanna HINKSMAN.

Spouse: Alice LISLE. Alice LISLE and John HOARE were married. "Hoar/Hoare family" says she is the mother of John's children. This needs investigation. If true, she is a serious gateway ancestor.

---

Known for his bold, independent mind and action. Took a great interest in the Native Americans of the area (Nashobas) and built them a house on his property. He aided in getting a young mother and her child returned from the Indians that had abducted them by going to the Indian encampment and securing a ransom and negotiated for their release. The ransom was a pint of rum. The story can be found in the book Worcester Legends by William Andrew Emerson published 1905. Monument which is a rock has a plaque. Birth is abt 1622

Second son of Sheriff Charles Hoar, was born in England.He was educated in England, apprenticed to father 1632/3 for 10 years. Came to America with widowed mother. 1643-1655: Living in Scituate, MA. a lawyer, "distinguished for his bold, independent mind and action." 1659: Sold land 1660: Removed to Concord, MA He was one of the "Cohasset Partners". He was a man of wealth for those days, much engaged in public affairs, and a great friend of the Indians. He was twice arraigned for not attending church regularly and was prohibited from practicing law except in his own cases because he spoke slightingly of one of the ministers.

Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3M9Q-TWQ

Son of Charles Hoar Jr. and Johanna (Henchman) Hoar

Father of Joanna Hoare, Elizabeth (Hoar) Prescott, Daniel Hoar and Mary (Hoar) Graves

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 18 2017, 19:29:37 UTC +++++++++++++++++ Redemption Rock, Princeton, MA Redemption Rock | Princeton, MA | The Trustees http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/central-ma/redemption-ro... Redemption Rock: A modest-sized reservation with a momentous history, it was ... She traveled to Boston with John Hoar to be reunited with her husband, son, . _________________

Family Papers FAMILY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHIES:

I. Family history: Family of Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts. Descended from Charles Hoare of Gloucester, England (died 1638) and Joanna Hincksman Hoare. Children of Charles and Joanna: Thomas; Margery; John; Daniel; Leonard; Joanna; and possibly Ruth (buried in England in 1628) and Charles. About 1640, Joanna Hoare and five of her children (Margery, John, Daniel, Leonard, and Joanna) came to New England. Joanna Hincksman Hoare died in Braintree in 1651.

Of the five Hoare children who came to New England, Margery married Henry Flint in Braintree. John Hoare (ancestor of the Concord and Lincoln Hoars) settled in Scituate, sold his land there in 1659, and came to Concord. He was living in Braintree in 1682. According to Henry Stedman Nourse, Daniel Hoare was a trader in Boston, although he does not show up in the Boston records as a resident or property owner. Lincoln historian Margaret Martin reports that Daniel owed Thomas Flint money, that he spent some time in Virginia, and that he is thought to have died in England. Leonard graduated from Harvard College in 1650, returned to England in 1653, came back to New England in 1672, and served as president of Harvard College from 1672 to 1675. Joanna married Edmund Quincy in 1648, died in 1680.

After coming to Concord from Scituate, John Hoare exchanged the land he first owned (near what is now MCI Concord) for land on the Bay Road (now Lexington Road), on the present Orchard House site. He took initiative for housing the "Christian Indians" in Concord during King Philip's War, and also succeeded in ransoming Mary Rowlandson (wife of the minister of Lancaster, Massachusetts), who was held captive by the Native Americans after the attack on Lancaster in February of 1675/6.

John's son Daniel married Mary Stratton in Concord in 1677. Their son Daniel, born in 1680, married Sarah Jones in Concord in January of 1704/5. Their son John, born in Concord in 1706/7, married Esther Peirce.

John's and Esther's son Samuel was born in 1743, in what would become Lincoln in 1754. He married Susanna Peirce in Lincoln in 1773, served as a lieutenant of the Lincoln company at the Concord Fight on April 19, 1775. He was later a Massachusetts representative and senator. Like his father (John), grandfather (Daniel), and Great-grandfather (Daniel), Samuel was a farmer.

Samuel's son lawyer Samuel (1778-1856), born in Lincoln, is the earliest member of the family whose papers are represented in this collection. He married Sarah Sherman in 1812. Their children: Elizabeth (1814-1878), who was engaged to be married to Emerson's brother Charles (died 1836); Ebenezer Rockwood (1816-1895), lawyer, judge, congressman, and Attorney General of the United States; Sarah Sherman (born in 1817), who married Robert B. Storer in 1837; Samuel Johnson (1820-1821); Edward Sherman (1823-1893); and George Frisbie (1826-1904), lawyer and United States senator and representative.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar married Caroline Downes Brooks (daughter of Lincoln-born Concord lawyer Nathan Brooks) in 1840. Their children: Caroline, the eldest (birth date not recorded in the Concord vital records), who married Samuel Bellows Greene of Burlington, Vermont; Sarah Sherman (born and died in 1844); Samuel (1845-1904); Charles Emerson (1850-1912); Clara Downes (born 1852); Elizabeth (born 1854; married Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, in 1884); and Sherman (1860-1898).

Ebenezer's son Samuel (1845-1904), also a lawyer, married Kate Wise in Baltimore in 1871. She died in 1877. In 1886, he married Helen Putnam Wadleigh (born in Milford, New Hampshire, the daughter of Bainbridge and Ann M. Putnam Wadleigh). Their children: Samuel (1887-1952); and John (1889-1972).

Lawyer Samuel Hoar (1887-1952), grandson of E.R. Hoar, married Helen Van Voast Warren of New York (daughter of William R. and Helen Van Voast Warren) in 1914. Helen V.V.W. Hoar died in 1984. Their children: Cynthia (born in Concord in 1915; married James B. Fisk; died in 1991); Virginia (born in Boston in 1921; later Mrs. Virginia H. Freccia/Frecha; currently--06/99--a resident of Stow, Massachusetts); and lawyer Samuel (born in Boston in 1927; married Martha Ford, daughter of Clement R. Ford; currently a resident of Essex, Massachusetts).

SOURCES FOR FAMILY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHIES:

Concord, Mass. Birth, marriage, and death records, 1850-ca. 1935 (unpublished; transcribed from original vital records; housed in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections).

Concord, Mass. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 ([1895]).

Concord, Mass. Historical Commission. "158 Main Street: Samuel Hoar House," pages [365]-[369] in Survey of Historical and Architectural Resources, Concord, Massachusetts, Volume II (1994).

Concord, Mass. Historical Commission. "194 Main Street: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar House," pages [399]-[403] in Survey of Historical and Architectural Resources, Concord, Massachusetts, Volume II (1994).

Concord Free Public Library. Special Collections. Obituary and events scrapbooks, with indexes.

Emerson, Edward W. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar," pages [1]-130 in Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Fourth Series (1909).

French, Allen. "Two Concord Laymen: John and Samuel Hoar," reprinted from Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. V, Pt. I ([1936]).

Haynes, George H. "Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood," in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 10, pages 86-87.

Haynes, George H. "Hoar, Samuel," in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 10, pages 89-90.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood. "Samuel Hoar," pages [30]-53 in Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Third Series (1907).

Hudson, Woodward. "Samuel Hoar," pages [265]-293 of Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Fourth Series (1909).

Lincoln, Mass. Vital Records of Lincoln Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (1908).

Newbury, Egbert S., Jr. "Samuel Hoar," pages 141-163, Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Sixth Series (1975).

Nourse, Henry Stedman. The Hoar Family in America and Its English Ancestry: A Compilation from Collections Made by the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar (1899).

Storey, Moorfield, and Edward W. Emerson. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar: A Memoir (1911).

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Papers, 1738-1958 (bulk 1815-1935), generated or collected by five generations of the Hoar family of Concord, Massachusetts. Collection consists of papers of lawyer Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) and his wife Sarah Sherman Hoar; papers of Samuel's son, lawyer and judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; papers of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar's daughter Caroline; papers of E. R. Hoar's son lawyer Samuel (1845-1904) and of Samuel's wife Helen Putnam Wadleigh Hoar (including letters and keepsakes to their grandmother from Helen's young granddaughters Cynthia and Virginia Hoar); and papers of lawyer Samuel (1887-1952), son of E.R. Hoar's son Samuel and father of Cynthia and Virginia. Also includes miscellaneous items with some connection to the Hoar family or to families related by marriage.

Forms and types of materials within the collection include: correspondence; manuscripts; financial papers; a range of materials reflecting the involvement of family members in local, state, and federal government; printed items (ephemera, newspapers, clippings, political cartoon); academic progress reports; some genealogical material; passports; a daguerreotype; and a military dog tag.

French, Allen. "Two Concord Laymen: John and Samuel Hoar," reprinted from Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. V, Pt. I ([1936]).

https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/fin_aids/Hoar

GEDCOM Note

GEDCOM Note

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.

GEDCOM Note

GEDCOM Note

JOHN HOARE must have been younger by several years than his brother Thomas, for at his father's death in 1638, his apprenticeship, a translation of the record of which is given below, had but half expired. If apprenticeships terminated when the apprentice came of age, John Hoare was but eleven years old when bound to his father.

1633. John Hoare son of Charles Hoare of the City of Gloucester, brewer, binds himself apprentice to the aforesaid Charles his father and Johanna his wife by Indenture made on the day of the Feast of St. James the Apostle (May 11.) in the year of the reign of King Charles I. now of England etc. the eighth for the term of ten years from the feast etc. paying at the end of the term six shillings legal money of England.

John appears in Scituate, Massachusetts, as bearing arms in 1643. The historian of that town, Samual Deane, relates that he was, while there resident, always engaged in the business of the town, and in drafting of deeds, bonds, etc., and is occasionally called a lawyer. He had lands adjoining Mosquasheut pond which he sold to the lawyer John Saffin in 1659, when he removed to Concord. His ability, vigor and originality of thought and action soon made him one of the prominent figures in Concord and vicinity, but he is found often at odds with the ecclesiastical oligarchy of the times. Whether like his sometime neighbor at Lancaster, John Prescott - to whose son he gave his oldest daughter - he sympathized with the Presbyterian criticisms of the theocratic restriction of political and religious privileges in the colony, is not known, but he strongly resembled Prescott in his persistency, enterprise and altruistic spirit. He was not only independent in speech, but rashly sharp of tongue and pen, and suffered accordingly at the hands of jealous authority. The story of his disbarment is best told by the original documents:-

In answer to the peticon or remonstrance of John Hoare, the Court finding that severall of the magistrates, and some others, are impeached for not doing justice and other complaints of a very high nature, doe therefore order that a hearing be granted to the peticoner, and that due notice be given to the complaynant to appeare to make good his severall charges, or otherwise to give reason for the same. Notice was given accordingly to the sayd Hoare, and thesayd John Hoare appearing in Court, his peticon or remonstrance being read wth such evidences as he produced, the Court proceeded as followeth:- Whereas John Hoare, of Concord, hath presented to this Court a petition or remonstrance, wherein he complains of great wrongs and injuryes he hath susteyned as his brother's agent, by reason he could not obteyne justice in some of our Courts of judicature in severall actions depending betweene himself, as agent and Lieut Richard Cooke, of Boston, the Court having affoorded him large liberty and oppertunity to make good his charges, and having heard all his allegations together wth such witnesses as were produced to proove the same and duely weighed the case, doe judge his complaints to be groundless and unjust, and his offences to be of a very high nature, tending not only to the dishonour of God, but to the scandall and reproach of severall of our Courts, honer'dmagestrates, and officers of Court. That due witnes may be borne against such sinfull practises, and goverment of this jurisdiccon under his majestyes royall charter, may be upheld and mayntayned, this Court doeth order, that thesayd Hoare shall find suertyes bound in one hundred pounds for his good behavior during the Court's pleasure, and that henceforth he shall be disabled to plead any cases but his owne in this jurisdiction, and also that he pay as a fine the sume of fifty pounds for such his miscarriages, and be imprisoned till it be payd, or security given for the same. Whereas John Hoare, contrary to express order of the Court, hath withdrawn himself from the Court beforehis sentence was declared, the secretary is appointed by the Court to send for him, and require the performance of the sentence of this Court to all intents and purposes therein conteyned.
(Massachusetts Records, Vol. IV. Part II, p. 291-1665.)

In answer to the peticon of John Hoare, humbly desiring the favour of this Court to release him of his bonds of good behaviour and to make such abatement of his fine as their wisdomes shall judge meete. The Court judgeth it meete,and orders, the peticoner be released his bonds of good behaviour, and that twenty pounds of his fine be abated him. (Massachusetts Records, Vol. IV. Part II, p. 301-1666.)

In ans'r to the petition of Alice, the wife of John Hoare, of Concord, the Court judgeth it meete, on the petitioner's satisfying and paying in to the Treasurer to his content the sume of tenn pounds to abate the remainder of her husband's fine yet remaining and unpaid. (Massachusetts Records, Vol. IV. Part II, p. 387-1668.)

In 1668 John Hoare was charged before the county court of saying at the public house of Ensign William Buss "that the Blessing Master Bulkeley pronounced in dismissing the pubilque Assembly in the meeting-house was no better than vane babbling." Upon conviction of what the law of 1646 calls "the disparagement of the Lord's holy ordinance and making God's ways contemptible and ridiculous" he was fined ten pounds. He was also called upon to answer to the Court on two occasions "for neglecting the public worship of God on the Lord's day." (County Court Files, 1668-1675.)

In November, 1675, food and fuel failed the little community of Christian Indians at Nashoba, and a committee composed of Major Daniel Gookin, Major Simon Willard and Rev. John Eliot, the selectmen consenting, caused their removalto Concord. They numbered fifty-eight men, women and children, and no man in Concord could be prevailed upon to take charge of them until John Hoare consented to do so. He gave them quarters in his own house and offices, and began the building of a workshop and palisade wherein they could labor by day and be safely kept at night. The whole land was overshadowed by the horrors of Indian warfare, and in the frontier towns the howling of a wolf or the hooting of an owl, indistinctly heard, sent pallor to the cheeks and the chill of fear to the hearts of wives and mothers, lest it might be the war-whoop of Philip's savage crew, or the death shriek of an absent son, father or husband. In the midst of the public panic came the false rumor that some of Eliot's converts were among the blood-stained murderers. Mrs. Rowlandson has informed us that she was told by her captors, and she evidently believed, that the seven persons killed at Lancaster, August 22, 1675 "were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner by one-eyed John and Marlborough's praying Indians." Yet the red men so accused, seized and taken to Boston by Captain Mosely, upon their trial proved an undoubted alibi. It was not strange in a time of such excitement that many of the people of Concord were greatly troubled by the presence among them of Mr. Hoare's wards. Suddenly upon a Lord's day the most brutal of the Colony captains, Samuel Mosely, appeared in the Concord meeting-house with his rough troopers, probably by invitation of the dissatisfied, and after the service declared his intention to remove the Nashoba Indians to Boston. Receiving what he considered due encouragement, he without authority and in spite of the vigorous protests of John Hoare, broke into his premises and sent "the heathen" robbed of most of their personal property, down to Deer Island under a guard of twenty soldiers. The story is told at length in Major Daniel Gookin's History of the Christian Indians. (See Archæologia Americana, p. 495, et seq.) The colonial governor and council were not well pleased byMosely's contemptuous assumption of their powers, but did not dare to bring him to bar for his atrocious offence, nor did they recompense the brave John Hoare for his losses, which Gookin acknowledges "were considerable," Soon followed the massacre of February 10, 1676, at Lancaster, and when the governor and council sought to ransom the captive women and children they could find no efficient help until the abused Nashoba Christians came to their aid, andbore their messages to the then haughty sagamores April 3 and 28. With them on the latter date went John Hoare at the solicitation of the minister, Joseph Rowlandson. The historian, Hubbard, mentions the heroism, but forgets the hero's name who risked more than life in putting himself into the power of the merciles: "A person formerly acquainted with the Indians about Lancaster, did adventure upon the forementioned overtures, to go amongst them to try if he could not prevail with them for the redemption of the minister's wife, . . . . and through the favour of him who having the hearts of all in his hand, inclines them as he pleases, obtained the desired end for an inconsiderable sum, which gave encouragement to the council to send two messengers on the like errand the same week, to procure the redemption of others, not without success." These two messengers were Seth Perry sent on May 3, and Jonathon Prescott, John Hoare's son-in-law, on May 5. Mrs. Rowlandson in her Narrative gives us a more lively picture of the trials of the embassy to the sachems of Wachuset:

On the Sabbath-day [April 30], the sun being about an hour high, in the afternoon, came Mr. John Hoar, (the Council permitting him, and his own foreward spirit inclining him) together with the two forementioned Indians, Tom and Peter, with their third Letter from the Council. When they came near, I was abroad though I saw them not; they presently called me in and bade me sit down and not stir. They then catched up their Guns and away they ran as if an Enemy had been at hand, and the Guns went off apace. I manifested some great trouble, and they asked me what was the matter? I told them I thought they had killed the Englishman (for they had in the mean time told me that an Englishman was come). They said no; They shot over his Horse, and under and before his Horse, and they pushed him this way and that way, at their pleasure, shewing what they could do. Then they let him come to their Wigwams. I begged of them to let me see the Englishman but they would not: . . . . When they had talked their fill with him, they suffered me to go to him . . . . . I know asked them whether I should go home with Mr. Hoar? they answered no, one and another of them; and it being night, we lay down with that answer. In the morning, Mr. Hoar invited the Saggamores to Dinner; but when we went to get it ready, we found they had stolen the greatest part of the Provision Mr. Hoar had brought out of the bags in the night; and we may see the wonderfull power of God in that one passage, in that when there was such a great number of the Indians together, and so greedy, of a little good food, and no English there but Mr. Hoar and myself, that they did not knock us in the head and take what we had; there not only being some Provision, but also Trading-cloth a part of the twenty pounds agreed upon. . . . . . . At night I asked them again if I should go home? They all as one said no, except my Husband would come for me. When we were lain down, my Master went out of the Wigwam, and by-and-by sent in an Indian called James the Printer, who told Mr. Hoar, that my Master would let me go home tomorrow, if he would let him have one pint of Liquors . . . . . On Tuesday morning they call their General Court (as they call it) to consult and determine whether I should go home or no. And they all as one man did seemingly consent to it that I should go home except Philip who would not come among them . . . . . . About the Sun going down, Mr. Hoar and myself, and the two Indians, came to Lancaster and a solemn sight it was to me. There had I lived many comfortable years amongst my Relations and Neighbours; and now not one Christian to be seen, nor one house left standing. We went on to a Farm-house thet was yet standing, where we lay all night, and a comfortable lodging we had, though nothing but straw to lye on. The Lord preserved us in safety that night, and raised us up again in the morning, and carried us along, that before noon we came to Concord.

Before the war with the Indians was at an end John Hoare suffered an even more severe trial in the misfortune of his only son, a young man of twenty-six years. August 11, 1676, the grand jury, upon complaint of certain Christian Indians, presented and indicted Daniel Goble, Stephen Goble, Nathaniel Wilder and Daniel Hoare all of Concord, "for that they not having the feare of God before their eyes & being Instigated by the Divil with other his Accomplises at or on the 7th of August last, at or neere to Hurtlebury hill, in the woods in the precincts of Concord or neere thereunto did murder & kill three Indian weomen & three Indian Children contrary to the peace of our Soveraigne Lord the King, his Crowne & dignitye the law of God & of this Jurisdiction." The jury in the cases of Wilder and Hoare found a speciall verdict: "If being present & seing the fact done & concenting, it be murder then we find him gilty according to Inditement, if not not gilty." Stephen Goble was executed September 21, and Daniel Goble, September 26, several Indians suffering on the gallows the same day, as is told in the Diary of Samuel Sewall, I. pp. 21 and 22. The youths misled by them were pardoned.

11th Oct. 1676. Upon the humble peticon of Daniel Hoare & Nathaniell Wilder, presented to this Court, acknouledging the justice of this Court, & begging pardon for their lives, the Court have granted their petition and accordinglydoe remitt the sentence of death passed against them, and order, that they pay prison charges and tenn pounds apeece money, halfe towards the charge of witnesses, to be payd to the Tresurer of the Country, and the other halfe to Andrew Pittime & Swagon, ye Indians prosecuting against them: on payment whereof they are discharged. (Massachusetts Records, Vol. V. p. 117.)

In a petition to the General Court, dated June 3, 1680, John Hoare calls himself of Braintree, having taken up his residence there temporarily. He asks relief from his sentence, saying: "I am now grown old, not like long to continue in this world, and loath to leave such a remembrance upon my name or to my children." The Council voted to grant his request, but the Deputies refused consent.

The original of the following petition is in possession of the Honorable George F. Hoar:

To the Hono'rd Generall Court Now Assembled In Boston May 24th. 1682.

The Humble Petition of John Hoare- Humbly Sheweth that wheras in the yeare 1665 yo'r Poor Petitioner was comitted to Prison forced to find suretyes for his good behaviour and also fyned fivety pound for doing such things as I humbly conceived were but my duty and also prohibited from pleadding any bodies caus but my owne: Now yo'r poor Petitioner hath a long time layne under the smart of these sufferings and hath often moved for a release but such hath bene the unhappyness of yo'r Poor Suppliant that he hath not yet obtained such a good day the want whereof hath bene greatly prejuditiall to my Brother Mr. Daniel Hoare his Estate and so my owne and also unto my name and famyly. The perticulars in my petition then exhibited to the Honor'd Generall Court wear such as my Brother Mr Henery Flint of Brantrey & Mr Edmond Browne of Sudbury did judge would not give any ofence. And in that hope I did present it. I Humbly now present to this Hon'rd Court that in the time of the warr I tooke the charge of about sixty Indians belonging to Nashoby by the order of Majo'r Willerd, Majo'r Gookin, Mr. Eliott, and the select men of Concord. I built them a fort that cost mee of my own estate fourty pounds and went with my teame in Hazard of my life to save and bring home there Corne and also borrowed Rey and hors for them to plant and sow which I was forced to pay for myselfe. I also made severall Journeys to Lancaster and to the Councell and two Journies to the Indians to redeme Mrs. Rowlinson and Good wife Kettle with two horses and provisions and gave the sagamores considerably of my owne estate above whatever I received of the Countrey and by the favor of god obtained of them that they would fight noe more but in their owne defence: Seth Perry also had severall things of mee to give the Indians that hee might escape withhis life. My sonn Daniel Hoare also was Indicted for his life yet by divine providence was spared, yet was sentanced to pay five pounds to the Indians and five pound to the Countrey tho' as I humbly Conceive he had not broken any Law. My Humble Supplication on all accounts to this Hon'rd Court is that I might be sett att Liberty from my sentence and may enjoy the liberty of an English man, and also that the Cor't would pleas to grant me some small parcell of Land to comfort my wife with respect unto all her sufferings by my disbursements for the Countrey as above recited. And yo'r Petitioner shall give thanks to the Lord and you And shall ever Pray &c

JOHN HOARE

The magistrates consented to release John Hoare from his bonds and from the restraint laid upon him as to his pleading in the courts and also "that considering his publike service & costs in securing the Nashoby Indians at his house in Concord by order of this Court's Comittee for severall moneths in time of said warr, and for his adventuring his life to goe up to the Indians in the time of the warr the successe whereof was the Redeeming of some Captives particularly Mrs. Rowlandson" two hundred acres of land should be granted his family. The deputies refused to concur and the following is the final answer of the Court:

In ans'r to the peticon of John Hoare, and on further consideration thereof the Court judge meet for his service donne for the publick etc. to grant to the wife and children of the said John Hoare two hundred acres of land in any comon lands from former grants, and not hindering a plantation. (Massachusetts Records, Vol. V. 359.)

John Hoare owned about three hundred acres in the western part of Concord, but exchanged the larger portion of this with Edward Wright, in 1672, for an estate in the East Quarter and for "all the right, title and interest which Edward Wright of Concord aforesaid, husbandman, hath or should have in and to certain houses, lands and hereditaments etc. in the Lordship of Castle Browmick (?) in the County of Warwick in the Kingdom of England." (See Middlesex Deeds, IV. 409). He died April 2, 1704, and his wife Alice _______ died June 5, 1696. Samuel Sewall makes in his Diary but one noteworthy mention of Mr. Hoare. Under date of Friday, Nov. 8, 1690, he writes, "Jn'o Hoar comes into theLobby and sais he comes from the Lord, by the Lord, to speak for the Lord: Complains that Sins as bad as Sodom's found here." We may therefore infer that neither imprisonment nor fines nor old age could put a curb upon John Hoare's freedom of speech.

GEDCOM Note