Balthazar Willix, of Exeter

Original family named Willech or Willechs (probably Flemish) changed to "Willis", "Willix" "Willecks".

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story written by Frank Iamelli:

Hazelelponah Willix was born in 1636 in Exeter, New Hampshire. Her given name comes from 1 Chronicles 4 : 3, and means 'she who gives shade, like the hazel tree.' Hazelelponah's story is as interesting as her name.

She was the oldest of three daughters born to Balthazar and Hannah Willix. In May or June 1648, when Hazelelponah was 12 years old, her mother was waylaid on the road from Dover to Exeter, robbed, and murdered. Her body was thrown into the river. Balthazar, who had been active in colonial politics and had been one of the signers of the 1643 Exeter Petition to the General Court of Massachusetts requesting that Exeter be admitted to Massachusetts, appears to have been crushed by the tragedy. On September 7, 1648, he filed suit in Norfolk County Court at Hampton against Robert Hithersay:

for raising an evil report of his deceased wife, and for breach of promise in carrying his wife to Oyster River in a canoe and not bringing her in a conoe again."

One commentator remarks that "Hithersay, who roved from Concord to Lynn, Exeter, and York, was apparently a wayward character, and may have been suspected of the murder."

Shortly after, Balthazar moved to Salisbury, Massachusetts. After 1650, he married the widow Mary Hauxton. He died March 23, 1655.

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Balthazar_Willix_%281%29
  • Balthasar Willix, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939), 759.
    • Willix, supposed of continental origin. See N. E. Reg. 50:46; 68:79-82; 69:361.
    • Balthasar, Exeter 1640, bp. at Alford, Lincolnshire, 27 July 1595, s. of Balthasar and Anne, and half-br. of Susanna (Bellingham) Pormort(3). Bell called him a man of more than ordinary education. Townsman 1647. … He and w. (Annah) wit. ag. Edw. Hilton in 1645. In 1647 he won a suit ag. John Legate and Humphrey Wilson, and Legate won ag. him and the Walls in a suit over cruelty to his cattle. About June 1648 his w. was robbed and murdered betw. Dover and Ex. and her body thrown into the river. In Hampt. ct. the next Sept. he and Robert Hethersay had cross suits for defama., he charging that H. had raised an evil report of his decd. wife; he also sued for breach of contract in carrying her to O. R. in a canoe and not bringing her back, as agreed. He soon m. wid. Mary Hauxworth of Salisb. and mov. there; taxed 1650; d. 23 Jan. 1650-1. She was gr. adm. in Apr. 1651 and was sued by Robert Tuck in 1652 for diet of 2 ch., one ab. a yr., one ab. 8 wks. Crazy and distempered, she was under a gdn. in 1664; wid. Willix a Salisb. abuttor 1667. Ch: Hazelelponi, servant of Henry Waltham of Weymouth, see N. E. Reg. 5: 303. She m. 1st John Gee of Boston and Martha's Vineyard, m. 2d aft. 19 Nov. 1671 Obadiah Wood of Ipsw., d. 27 Nov. 1718, ag. 78 (gr.st.). Gee ch: Mary, m. Thomas Pickering(8); John, b. in Boston 1662; Anna, m. Samuel Hodgkins of Gloucester; Martha, m. Thomas Cotes. See vol. 2, Hist. of Martha's Vineyard (Annals of Edgartown, p. 70, of Tisbury, p. 13); Essex Antiq. 8: 164. Anna, serv. of Rev. Timothy Dalton whose wid. Ruth in 1663 willed her £5. She m. 1st Robert Roscoe, had 3 more husbands in the south, James Blunt, Seth Southwell, Esq., Col. John Lear, and d. s.p. Susannah, a serv. near her sis. Anna, m. Francis Jones(16).

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AKA Willis, Willech

married 1635 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire

"Balthazar Willix, whose name would indicate that he was of foreign origin, was undoubtedly in Exeter as early as the beginning of 1640, as he was then awarded one of the smaller shares of the uplands. He was not a signer of the Combination. His name appears however repeatedly in the records at a later date, in his own bold and handsome chirography. In May, 1643, he was one of the petitioners to the General Court of Massachusetts to receive Exeter under their government. His name is not found in the records after 1650. In the month of May or June 1648, Willix's wife was robbed and brutally murdered on her way from Dover to Exeter. Whether the perpetrator of the outrage was ever brought to justice is not known. Willix did not remain in Exeter long afterwards, but took up his residence in Salisbury where he was taxed in 1650 and died March 23 1651."

Sources:

https://archive.org/stream/lincolnshireorig00sanb#page/16/mode/2up "The Lincolnshire Origin of some Exeter settlers" pages 16-17

One World Tree(sm) (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.)

Bell, Charles Henry. History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire (J.J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York, 1889) Page 40

↑ 1.0 1.1 1 Balthasar Willix, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939), 759. Hazelelponi (Willix), servant of Henry Waltham of Weymouth, see N. E. Reg. 5: 303. She m. 1st John Gee of Boston and Martha's Vineyard, m. 2d aft. 19 Nov. 1671 Obadiah Wood of Ipsw., d. 27 Nov. 1718, ag. 78 (gr.st.). Gee ch: Mary, m. Thomas Pickering; John, b. in Boston 1662; Anna, m. Samuel Hodgkins of Gloucester; Martha, m. Thomas Cotes. See vol. 2, Hist. of Martha's Vineyard (Annals of Edgartown, p. 70, of Tisbury, p. 13); Essex Antiq. 8: 164.

• The Lincolnshire origin of some Exeter settlers by Sanborn, V. C. (Victor Channing), 1867-1921; Hall, Virginia S Published 1914.  Hall, Virginia, "The Daughters of Balthazar Willix of Exeter." page 18

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