Elizabeth Dibble

John Hawkes was Born by 1613 (based on date of freemanship). Came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 (based on date of freemanship). First settled in Dorchester; moved to Windsor in 1635, & Hadley by 1660. Buried Hadley 30 June 1662. Married by 1643 Elizabeth _____. She married (2) ROBERT HINSDALE {1637, Dedham} and (3) Thomas Dibble, son of ROBERT DIBBLE {1634, Dorchester}. She died at Windsor on 29 September 1685

Read carefully the following two articles and note that Lydia Ward married William Markham:

Leslie Mahler, FASG, THE ENGLISH ORIGIN OF NATHANIEL 1 WARD OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, AND HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, MARY 1 (WARD) CUTTING OF NEWBURY, MASSACHUSETTS... in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.), 93:13, 2008.

Hovius, Matthew. The Ancestry of Edwarde Warde of Little Wrattling, Sufflock and the Putative Lukyn Origin of His Wife Judith, in American Society of Genealogists. The Genealogist. (New York: Vol. 28 (Fall 2014)

Some internet trees show that Lydia Ward married William Browne this is not correct. The family has been studied extensively. Edward Ward of Little Wratting, Suffolk, England married Judith Lukyn. They had nine children of which the baptism and / or marriages have been found for many. Lydia Ward baptized 4 Nov 1593 in Little Wratting, Suffolk, married on 30 Aug 1620 in St, Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England William Markham who was buried 8 JUL 1624 in Woolverstone, Suffolk. Their son William Markham bp 3 MAY 1621 in Woolverstone, Suffolk immigrated to New England and is an ancestor of an american president. Lydia did not marry anyone named Browne. Susan Ward did indeed marry Robert Browne and they lived in Ipswich, Suffolk. When she referred to her brother in-law she was referring to her husband's brother not her sister's husband.

i. John HAWKS (born in 1643). John was a carpenter; he was on the committee to build the meetinghouse in 1696, and took the contract to finish it off; his last claim for this service was paid in 1714, by a draft on the town lands at Mill River for 24 acres. His family was broken up in the massacre of 1704, and he retired to Waterbury. Ct. to live with his only surviving child.

ii. Nathaniel HAWKS was born in 1645 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. He Baptized on February 16, 1645 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.6,7 He died. History of Deerfield, by George Sheldon, Published by E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, MA, 1896. p. 188.

Died young. Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd, published in 1905. p. 67. Died young.

iii. Elizabeth HAWKS (born in 1647).

iv. Anna HAWKS (born in 1649) (Possible ancestor of musician Thomas Hastings).

v. Isaac HAWKS was born on August 15, 1650 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.8,9 He died on June 22, 1659.10,11 Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd, published in 1905. p. 67. Drowned in Conn. river.

vi. Mary HAWKS (born on May 23, 1652).

vii. Joanna HAWKS (born on February 8, 1654).

viii. Dea. Eliezer HAWKS (born on December 20, 1655).

ix. Sarah HAWKS (born on September 29, 1657).

x. Gershom HAWKS was born on August 12, 1659 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd, published in 1905. p. 67. Died young. History of Deerfield, by George Sheldon, Published by E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, MA, 1896. p. 188. Living unmarried March 26, 1681, which is the last heard of him.

Stiles calls her Elizabeth Hayden (Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor)

Elizabeth's life got interesting after she remarried, from http://www.greatmemories.info/noble/noblines.pdf :

The inventory of Robert Hinsdale's estate was taken October 22, 1676. His son, Ephraim, was surety for the widow Elizabeth. Deacon Robert Hinsdale married as his first wife, probably in England, Ann Woodward, daughter or Petter Woodward of Dedham, By whom he had six sons and two daughters, probably all born in Dedham. She was a sensitive and timid woman, and fainted away on making profession of her faith before the church at Dedham June 2, 1639. The Puritan method of admission to church membership was by public profession of faith and confession of sin before the congregation, an ordeal trying to the timid and now fortunately obsolete. The church records relate: "The wife of our brother Hinsdale being fearful and not able to speak in publike, but fainting awayhere, coming to church in private gave good satisfaction; which being publickly testified and declared, and she confirming the same relation to be so, was received." She died June 4, 1666, and he married, second, about 1668, Elizabeth, widow of John Haeks of Hadley, by whom he had no issue, She was a woman of different mold from Ann. The union did not prove a happy one and they soon parted. At the court held March 30, 1674, they were "presented for living asunder contrary to law," also charged "with lascivious and wanton carrage;" on the examination, she refused to answer and appears to have got off clear; he said the "did it as being her head and having the rule of her in the Pointe and that he did it for her correction or her disorder towards him." The court held he had "broken the Perfect rule of divine law Mal. 2:16; Matt. 19:6; and 1 Peter 3: 7 & the law of the Colony in the intent if not in the letter in the first living asunder, and ordered him "whipped ten stripes on the naked body: and imposed a fine for which his sons became responsible and which the court refused to remit after his tragic death. On June 25, 1683, his widow Elizabeth married Thomas Dibble of Windsor, Conn., and died September 25, 1689. Genealogical Line: Robert Hinsdale and Ann Woodward; Samuel Hinsdale and Mehitable Johnson; Ann hinsdale and Martin Kellogg; Martin Kellogg and Dorothy Chester; Rebecca Kellogg and Gamaliel Deming; Sarah Deming and Joseph Bates; Theodocea Bates and Ezekiel Noble.

John's wife, Elizabeth Browne, was a niece of Nathaniel Ward, an original settler of Hartford, CT. Nathaniel Ward was the son of Edward Ward of Little Wrathing, Suffolk Co., England. On 9 Jan 1620, Edward made his will, proved at Ipswich 7 Mar 1620. He provided for his wife Judith and his children Nathaniel, Edward, Lydia, Mary, Rebecca and Susan.

Susan Browne, widow of Robert Browne of Ipswich, made her will 22 Mar 1626, proved 24 April 1627. She remembered her mother Judith and both of her sisters, Rebecca Ward and Mary Cutting, as well as "Elizabeth Browne, daughter of my borther-in-law William Browne." As Lydia Ward was the fourth sister, it was she who married William Browne and their daughter Elizabeth was the niece of Nathaniel Ward (of Hartford). Elizabeth Browne married John Hawks in about 1642.

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