Tacy Hubbard

Said to be baptized 12 Feb 1608/09 in Mendlesham. Am looking for citation/record of this. FAG gives her birthdate as Sept. 27, 1609 and no place of birth. Married 1637 according to the literary diary of Ebenezer Stiles.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177536418?search=true

Born at Mendlesham, Suffolk, England. Mendlesham had a long history as a hotbed of religious and political rebellion, going back to the Middle Ages and the rural uprisings in England against the monarchy such as Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Mendlesham was also the site of an early Quaker meeting house and a Quaker cemetery exists there today.

Founder of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church in America. Tacy was born in 1608 and was 2 years older than her husband. She had a brother John who lived in London in 1677 and 1680 and a brother who lived in Yarmouth, England. Tace had a great deal of influence on her husband's religious path she being adamant regarding their stance on infant baptism, observing the Sabbath, and taking communion. Tace's original name may have been Tace, a favorite Puritan girls name for silence but she is also called Tasy.

They first lived in Wethersfield after their marriage. Wethersfield with other towns were involved with hostilities with the Pequots. Times were hard, and their church only had 7 members, and there was inner dissent. Tase and Samuel removed to Springfield in 1639 with their first child, six months old. They stayed there for 8 years and born there were Bethiah, Ruth and Rachel. On May 10th, 1647, the Hubbards departed Springfield and went downriver to found another settlement, Fairfield. Here they were threatened with jail in Hartford if they did not renounce their views on baptism. This prompted them to leave for Rhode Island Oct. 2, 1648 for a 12 day journey. There they were baptized by Pastor John Clarke on Nov. 3, 1648. Baptists were being actively persecuted by the Puritans at this time. Tase and Samuel were with this church for 23 years, and Samuel was their biographer.

In March 1665, Tase was converted to the teachings of the sabbatarian Stephen Mumford. She seems again to have taken the lead on this issue, with Samuel following about a month later.For six more years they continued worship at Mr. Clarke's church.Harrassment and prosecutions continued for objectors of infant baptism like Thomas Gould. Finally, the matter came to a head as to whether a church could be allowed to practice anabaptism and Samuel Hubbard, William Hiscox and Joesph Torrey went to the General Court to present their case to defend their colleagues in Boston. This did not sway the court and 2 men, Farnum and Turne,r were sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, and Russell died in prison.

Samuel always speaks of his and Tacy's marriage as "co-heirs of one mind in the Lord" and they seemed to have had a very happy marriage. Their continued views about the Sabbath, however, caused a final breach with Mr. Clarke's church (Clarke was now their son in law). . On the 23 of December 1671, five people withdrew from Clarke's church and with 2 others, founded at Newport, the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America.They were William Hiscox, Samuel and Tase Hubbard, Stephen Mumford and wife, and Tase's daughter Rachel Langworthy and Roger Baster. A second church was later founded at Hopkinton. In this church the Hubbards grandchildren were very prominent workers. They continued to struggle, but the church grew with powerful and well respected membership. Roger Williams remained a life long friend. Tase is found at church in 1697 but there is no trace of her after that. Source: Samuel Hubbard, of Newport. 1610-1689 by Huling, Ray Greene, 1847-1915. [from old catalog]

Published 1880 https://archive.org/details/samuelhubbardofn00huli

"The first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was held at The Mill Yard Church in London in 1653 under the leadership of Dr. Peter Chamberlen. However many Seventh Day Baptists believe that records showing that it had originated in 1617 were lost in a fire.

The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America was at Newport, Rhode Island in December 1671.[1] Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke (1609-1676), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists. Mumford, for his part, arrived in Rhode Island in 1665, and was mentioned as an advocate for seventh-day Sabbath in many records of that time. Other churches rose in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and soon spread north into Connecticut and New York, and south into Virginia and the Carolinas. Seventh-day Sabbatarianism also emerged among the Germans at Ephrata, Pennsylvania, (founded in 1735). Ephrata was incorporated as the German Religious Society of Seventh Day Baptists in 1814, and the site where their community was founded came to be known at the Ephrata Cloister. The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference was organized in 1801." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Day_Baptist 8/1709

"The first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was at The Mill Yard Church, formed in London in 1653 under the leadership of Dr. Peter Chamberlen. The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America was at Newport, Rhode Island in December 1671. Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke (1609-1676), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Day_Baptist

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"The study of the Scriptures in America brought Samuel and Tacy Hubbard to the Baptist principle of believer’s baptism in 1647, and membership in the First Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island. Beginning in 1665, their family and several others became convinced of the seventh day Sabbath and joined in fellowship with Stephen Mumford and his wife who had held Sabbath convictions while members of a Baptist church in Tewksbury, England. When two couples gave up their Sabbath convictions, the others found it difficult to share communion with them within First Baptist. Thus five members joined with the Mumfords in a covenant relationship, establishing the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America in December, 1671. Even after this seperation, close fellowship with other Baptists remained." http://www.seventhdaybaptist.org/7DB/A_Choosing_People1_EN.asp?SnID=2 ________________

"Tacy Hubbard was the first convert to the Seventh Day Baptist Church in the new world!" http://www.cfa.net/cfa/sdb.html

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first name spelled: Tacy, Tasy, Tase

1. ID: I1328
2. Name: Tacy COOPER
3. Name: Tase COOPER 1
4. Sex: F
5. Change Date: 26 MAR 2005
6. Birth: ABT 1608 in England
7. Death: AFT 1697 2
8. Note:

   Based on the "Ebenezer" quoted by Ezra Stiles (Literary Diary III:82) an d by Nellie Johnson (6), her birthday may be 27 Feb. 1608/09.

   Samuel and Tacy were part of the group that marched from Watertown, MA t o Connecticut in winter of 1635. (From Descendants of Robert Burdick).

   Samuel Hubbard's journal as quoted in the SDB Trilogy: "My wife took u p keeping the lord's holy 7th day Sabbath the 10 day March 1665. I too k it up 1 day April 1665. Our daughter, Ruth 25 Oct. 1666. -- Rachel - - Jan. 15 1666 -- Bethian -- February 1666. Our son Joseph Clarke 23 Feb . 1666."

   As Nellie Johnson puts it, Tasy "was, in 1664, the first convert in Amer ica to the doctrine that no authority existed or could exist for alterin g God's decree establishing the seventh day as the Sabbath by the substit ution of another day." (p. 6)

   One of seven original signers of SDB founding document:

   Original SDB covenant is dated 7 December 1671 in one version (Backus) a nd 23 in the other version (Comer):

   "After serious consideration and seeking God's face among our Selves fo r the Lord to direct us in a right way for us, and our children so as mig ht be for God's glory and our Souls good and others Example, We Entered i nto Covenant with ye Lord and with one another and gave up our Selves t o God and one another to walk togather in all God's Holy Commandments an d Holy Ordinances according to what the Lord had Discovered to us or Shou ld Discover to be his mind for us to be obedient unto; with Sence upon ou r Hearts of great need to be watchfull over one another, Do promise So t o do, and in Edyfying and building up one another in our Most holy fait h ---"

   Robert Cooper from Yarmouth, 11 April 1644:

   Loving and dear bror & sister Saml and Tase Hubbard, my hearty love reme mbd unto yo The occasion of this my writing unto yo is to certify yo y t I like N.E. very well. I wod not have you think yt I repent me of my c oming to N.E. for ti doth not, for I believe if I had staid there I sho d never have been that wch now I see to my comfort & I hope it will be fo r my souls good -- I rest yr poor yet loving brother.

   Robert Cooper. 3 1 4

Father: Unknown COOPER

Marriage 1 Samuel HUBBARD b: 1610 in Mendelsham, County Suffolk, England

   * Married: 04 JAN 1635/36 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Children

  1. Naomi HUBBARD b: 18 NOV 1637 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

  2. Naomi HUBBARD b: 19 OCT 1638 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

  3. Ruth HUBBARD b: 11 JAN 1639/40 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

  4. Rachel HUBBARD b: 10 MAR 1641/42 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

  5. Samuel HUBBARD b: 25 MAY 1644 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

  6. Bethiah HUBBARD b: 19 DEC 1646 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

  7. Samuel HUBBARD b: 30 NOV 1649 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island

Sources:

  1. Title: Johnson, Nellie Willard. The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Islan d. 1937.

     Abbrev: Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island

     Author: Nellie Johnson

     Publication: 1937

     Page: 6; Citing Ezra Stiles Literary Diary III:82; Recorded 29 Sep 2001

  2. Title: Johnson, Nellie Willard. The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Islan d. 1937.

     Abbrev: Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island

     Author: Nellie Johnson

     Publication: 1937

     Page: 5; Recorded 29 Sep 2001

  3. Title: Newport Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy

     Abbrev: Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy

     Author: Ilou M. and Don A. Sanford

     Publication: 1998, Heritage Books Inc.

     Page: 13, 19; Recorded 10 Sep 2001

  4. Title: Samuel Hubbard's Journal Circa 1633-1686

     Abbrev: Samuel Hubbard's Journal

     Author: Samuel Hubbard

     Publication: WPA transcription, Rhode Island Historical Records Survey Project, Januar y 1940, Second Date, 08 Oct 2001

     Repository:

           Name: Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society

           Note:

           Phone2: 608/752-7711 (fax)

           E-mail: sdbhist@inwave.com

           Rev. Don A. Sanford, historian

She was in England, came to Dorchester when 28 years old. Married by Mr. Ludlow.

• Tacy Cooper Hubbard Find A Grave Memorial# 102240599
• Hubbard Lot, Defunct, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
• Also known as: Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Middletown #56

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GEDCOM Note

Also spelled Tasy. Tacy was recorded at being at Dorchester, MA on 6 /9/1634. She moved to Windsor, CT before 1636

Came to Dorchester, MA on 6/9/1634.
Member of the party that marched through the wilderness from Watertown, MA during the terrible winter of 1635 to become the founders of Connecticut.
Supposedly of royal lineage