John Hotchkiss

John Hotchkiss (b. Abt. 1580, d. 10 Jan 1665)

John Hotchkiss (son of Allan Hotchkiss and Mary Cotton)448 was born Abt. 1580 in Whitchurch, Shropshire County, England, and died 10 Jan 1665 in Whitchurch, Shropshire County, England. He married Margaret Nevett, daughter of Thomas Nevett and Ann Taylor.

Children of John Hotchkiss and Margaret Nevett are:

They had the following children:

  F i Elizabeth Hotchkiss 1 was born about 1622 in Of Whitchurch, Shropshire, , England.  

  F ii Barbara Hotchkiss 1 was born about 1624 in Of New Haven, New Haven, Ct. She died before 1675.  

  F iii Aurelia Hotchkiss 1 was born in 1626 in Of New Haven, New Haven, Ct.  

  F iv Susannah Hotchkiss 1 was born about 1623 in Of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.  

  M v Samuel Hotchkiss 

  M vi Joshua Hotchkiss 1 was born in 1620 in Of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. He died after 1691/1693.  

  M vii Daniel Hotchkiss 1 was born in 1628 in Of New Haven, New Haven, Ct.  

  F viii Sarah Hotchkiss 1 was born in 1616 in Of Whitchurch, Shropshire, , England. She died in 1698. She was buried in May 1698/1700.  

  M ix Thomas Hotchkiss 1 was born in 1611 in Of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. He died in 1693.  

  M x John Hotchkiss 1 was born before 25 Mar 1607 in Of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. He died on 16 May 1681.  

  F xi Susanna Hotchkiss 1 was born in 1613 in Of Whitchurch, Shropshire, , England.  

  M xii John Hodgkin 1 was born about 1619 in , Essex, England.  

  1. John Hotchkiss, b. Bef. 15 Mar 1607.

  2. Thomas Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1611.

  3. Susanna Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1613.

  4. Sarah Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1616.

  5. John Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1619.

  6. Joshua Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1620.

  7. +Samuel Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1622, Essex, England.

  8. Elizabeth Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1622.

  9. Susanna Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1623.

 10. Barbara Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1624.

 11. Aurelia Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1626.

 12. Daniel Hotchkiss, b. Abt. 1628.

source:

448. Dudick, Linda Coate, "Electronic."

The following is from the page: Hotchkiss Family Association Genealogy:

THE HOTCHKISS FAMILY

A Talk by John I. Coddington

NOTE: The late John Insley Coddington was a renowned genealogist, author and lecturer and a descendant of Sarah, sister of Samuel Hotchkiss whose great-great grandson immigrated to America in 1794 settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Coddington researched the English records at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) research center and the Shrewsbury library where he found a chart drawn by Joseph Morriss at the request of an English Hotchkiss family. Through his research he amassed much information regarding the Hotchkiss' in England, but at that time the U.S. genealogical societies were not interested in publishing his findings. At the time of his death he still had not privately published his work. Some years ago he spoke to a Hotchkiss Family Reunion. Following is the text of his presentation.

John Hotchkiss, who I am really sure is the father of the immigrant Samuel, was probably born in Dodington in the Parish of Whitchurch, County of Shropshire, [England] around 1580. He died at Whitchurch, which is the town itself. He moved in from Dodington to the regional town. He was buried on the 10th of January 1665/66, leaving a very interesting will, dated the 25th November 1657; probated the 14th of March 1665/6. In other words, he wrote the will at least nine years before he died. This is good, because you can be sure he was in his right mind when he wrote the will. I have the photostatic copy of the will right here and I will read you the passages which are relevant:

"My son John [that was his oldest son] Hotchkiss was lately indebted to me for the sum of two hundred pounds, where y my assent was given to his bonds for payment of the said sum. One bond is to be paid to my son Thomas Hotchkiss for the sum of forty pounds, the other bond to my son Joshua Hotchkiss for the sum of forty pounds. Another bond to my daughter Susanna for twenty pounds and another to my daughter, Elizabeth Hotchkiss for one hundred pounds. It is my will that my said children, Thomas, John, Susanna and Elizabeth shall and may accordingly to their several uses, have and receive the said sums and I do hereby acquit my said son, John, of his debt to me."

"To my daughter, Sarah Eadows, the feather bed with bolster, which are on the higher bedstead and two pillows." [That was my ancestress, I do not descend from the son, Samuel.]

"All other household goods to my daughter Elizabeth Hotchkiss, [that was his maiden daughter who obviously stayed home and looked after the old man].

"Linens to be divided between my daughters Elizabeth, Sarah and Susanna. To my son-in-law, Ralph Eadows, and to his daughter, Sarah, and to his wife, Sarah, five pounds per annum; to my son-in-law John Salmon and his wife Susanna, five pounds per annum; to each of my grandchildren, five shillings. To my sister-in-law Ann Wickstead, widow, twenty pounds and to my cousin Elizabeth Whithall, the elder, twenty pounds."

Then he goes on to say: "To my son, Samuel, if he be living, ten pounds or if he be deceased then to his children, ten pounds to be equally divided among them." This, in Donald Jacobus's mind and in mine, means that the son, Samuel, was not at home. The old man did not know whether Samuel was alive or dead, but he did know that Samuel was married and had children, so that he said "if my son be alive 10 pounds go to him, if dead, 10 pounds goes to his children." Where could that Samuel be? Well, Samuel of New Haven had all of the family names among his children that all his brothers and sisters had. Therefore, there seems to be little doubt that this is the right Samuel, and we have the will of the father.

I neglected to say that the old man was a draper, a man who deals in cloth of various kinds, whether or not the cloth was made up into clothing. Usually a draper dealt in cloth that had already been woven into bolts of cloth and the people would buy this and either the women of the family or somebody else made the cloth into garments. It was a reasonably well paying job and remember that he had silver spoons, so this was a family of a considerable substance. And I think this fits in quite well with what we know of the Samuel Hotchkiss family in New Haven.

We know that Samuel was married, and in the New Haven town records it seems that they got married in a hurry, and I think they were whipped for being naughty before marriage. But this happened very frequently. The record in the New Haven town records is that when they got married they could not obtain the permission of their parents because it was necessary for them to get married right away. So the permission of the parents was dispensed with. This means that the parents were nowhere around. And this squares exactly with Samuel Hotchkiss being the son of a couple who were in England.

But who was Elizabeth Cleverly? That is the Big Question! We have never been able to find her parents. Where she came from, I don't know. There were Cleverlys in the Boston area, but I haven't been able to attach her to them, so I just simply don't know.

Now the ancestry and relatives of your ancestor, Samuel Hotchkiss, are interesting people. They are to be found in two distinct visitations. Visitations are documents taken by a member of the College of Arms in England. The earliest ones were taken in the 1590's and they continued to be taken at various times into the 1660's. And then they stopped. They were taken county by county, and those families that claim to have the right to bear a coat of arms had to come into the county seat - Shrewsbury in the case of Shropshire - and depose that they had a Coat of Arms and show some sort of document to prove this. And show, of course, what their Arms were. Whether they were this color or that color or some other color. Well, strangely enough, none of the Hotchkisses in Shropshire, which is where they came from, ever bothered to produce their Arms. And they are not registered in the visitations of Shropshire. They are registered in the visitations of Bedfordshire and of Berkshire because branches of the family had gone from Shropshire to those two counties and had appeared at the time of the visitations in each of those two counties and had their Arms registered. So, we can say that those arms do belong to the Hotchkiss family and that the Hotchkisses do have a right to them, even though the ones in the old home county of Shropshire do not make a claim to them.

The ancestry of John, who died in 1665, part of whose will precedes, is known for about four generations. They didn't do anything very spectacular, I'm sorry to say. There was one marriage of the grandmother to a Cotton, and the Cottons were a little bit above the Hotchkisses socially speaking. They stayed in Shropshire and eventually the head of the Cotton family was raised to the peerage, as Viscount Combermeir. So we have remote, very remote kin, who were in the House of Lords. Not very important peers. The Viscount Combermeir never amounted to a great deal, I'm sorry to say. But, of all events, this is a perfectly good and respectable ancestry for a few generations.

Now, interestingly enough, the brothers of the man who came to New Haven did rather interesting things. Thomas went to the University of Cambridge, Christ Church College, and then became a clergyman in a little Parish in Wilshire and lived there for the rest of his life. I suppose he was a Puritan - he was in correspondence with a number of Puritans. He did continue to keep on good terms with his bishop and he never lost his job, as some Puritans did. He wrote the most dreary theological tracts that you can possibly imagine, and some of these have been published and I have read them, hoping to find something in the way of a biographical or a genealogical clue. Some of the Rev. Thomas Hotchkiss's works are in the Harvard Rare Books Library - the Houghten Library at Harvard, and some are in the Union Theological Seminary in New York, which is up near Columbia University, uptown. As I said before they are the most boring writings. I regret that Tom was such a dull man.

Now I will say something for the dull Uncle Tom. He was the Rector of the Parish of Stanton in Wilshire and he performed the wedding of one of his brothers - one of the ones who stayed in England. He went to Stanton and married a girl named Elizabeth Stedman. They then moved to London and all their children were born in London. And that brother was named Joshua. All of his descendants lived in London. There was another brother who was an apothecary, who also went to London to live. This is part in general of a pattern of middle class families, who would send sons to London because that was where they could make a better living than they could back at home. The eldest son stayed on the land; the youngest sons had to get out and scramble. In this family one was a clergyman, one came to New Haven and two went to London.

So I think that we have here a very interesting family. In spite of the fact that Thomas Hotchkiss was so dull, I think the family was interesting. And someday I hope to publish all of this. I thought the right place to publish it was in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, because that is where Donald Jacobus published his article on the Hotchkisses in 1910. And that was his first important genealogical article. But, I waited too long. I ought to have got this compiled and in before Dr. James B. Bell became the director....and he is anti-genealogical. He thinks that his magazine should have social significance and he will thereby gain an increased membership. Well, I don't agree with him, but this is why nothing can be done about publishing the material. And if I publish in the Nutmegger I can't include the English material because the Nutmegger is devoted to Connecticut genealogy and not to a lot of English ancestry. I must get this in print someday.

ohn Thomas HOTCHKISS and Margaret NEVETT were married in 1606 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.

Children were:

John HOTCHKISS

Elizabeth HOTCHKISS

Barbara HOTCHKISS

Thomas HOTCHKISS

Aurelia HOTCHKISS

Sarah HOTCHKISS

Daniel HOTCHKISS

Susanna HOTCHKISS

Joshua HOTCHKISSohn Thomas HOTCHKISS483 was born in 1580 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. He died in Jan 1665/66 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. John made his will 25 Nov. 1657 but it was not proven until

14 of March 1665/66, naming daughters Aurelia, Sarah,

Susanna, Elizabeth and sons John, Thomas, Joshua and

Samuel, if he be living, if deceased to his children, 10

pounds. This indicates that

John new Samuel was married and had a family, but lived at

such a distance that correspondence was slow and did not

know that samuel had recently predeceased him.

!DEATH:Died January 1665 or 1666, Died January 1665 or 1666 Parents: Allen HOTCHKISS and Mary COTTON. Parents: Allen HOTCHKISS.

Spouse: Margaret NEVETT. John Thomas HOTCHKISS and Margaret NEVETT were married in 1606 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. Children were: John HOTCHKISS, Elizabeth HOTCHKISS, Barbara HOTCHKISS, Thomas HOTCHKISS, Aurelia HOTCHKISS, Sarah HOTCHKISS, Daniel HOTCHKISS, Susanna HOTCHKISS, Joshua HOTCHKISS, Samuel HOTCHKISS.

Samuel HOTCHKISS.

source: theharmons.us/harmon_t/b1285.htm

John made his will 25 Nov. 1657 but it was not proven until 14 of March1665/66, naming daughters Aurelia, Sarah, Susanna, Elizabeth and sonsJohn, Thomas, Joshua and Samuel, if he be living, if deceased to hischildren, 10 pounds. This indicates that John knew Samuel was married andhad a family, but lived at such a distance that correspondence was slowand did not know that Samuel had recently predeceased him.

John married Margaret Nevett, daughter of Thomas Nevett and Ann Taylor, in 1606 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. (Margaret Nevett was born in 1585 in England and died in Dec 1656 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.)

Source: http://www.heapgen.org/hp/1196.htm