Obadiah Hawes

• Son of Richard Hawes and Ann Clapp
• Birth: March 25, 1635 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
• Death: October 05, 1690 (55) in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Buried at Uphams Corner where the ancient stone is still standing in Dorchester Massachusetts
• Headstone Inscription: Here Lyes Buried Ye Body of Obadiah Haws Aged 56 Years, Dyed October ye 5th 1690.
• Obadiah Hawes Find A Grave Memorial

Estate: On 10 September 1637, "it is ordered that Will[iam] Sumner and Goodman Hawes shall have the part of the swamp before their door and end of their lots they paying their part [of] making a sufficient cart bridge over the water" [DTR 24]. On 2 January 1637/8, "Goodman Hawes" was granted one acre "in lieu of the Calves Pasture from the burying place towards John Phillips" [DTR 27]. On 18 March 1636/7, "Richard Hawes" was granted two and three-quarter acres and twenty-six rods in the Neck and three and one-quarter acres and six rods in the Cows Pasture [DTR 31]. On 15 March 1641/2, it was "agreed by a town meeting that Richard Hawes should have one acre of ground added to his first division in the cow walk in consideration of one acre that were given him above the burying place which now he is not to have" [DTR 48].

On 22 January 1656/7, "power of administration to the estate of Richard Hawes late of Dorchester deceased is granted to Major Humphry Atherton and Lieutenant Roger Clap" [SPR 3:63]. The inventory of the estate of "Richard Hawes, of Dorchester, lately deceased," taken 27 January 1656/7, totalled £151 12s. 8d. (against which were debts of £48 18s. 9d.), of which £87 was real estate: "the house, barn, homelot & plot before the house," £35; "a neck of land about 3 acres," £9; "meadow in calves pasture about six acres," £12; "land by Toleman's," £5; "land by fresh marsh upland and meadow about 18 acres," £20; and "land in the division," £6 [SPR 4:83-85]. On 29 April 1662, "Court being informed that Major Atherton & Capt. Clap as friends to the deceased Richard Hawes of Dorchester took some care about the estate binding & placing out the children, the Major being since dead & Capt. Clap tendering to give Obediah Hawes son to the late Richard Hawes an account of said Obediah, the Court judgeth it meet to grant administration to the estate of the late Richard Hawes to Obediah Hawes his son in behalf of himself and the rest of his brothers & sisters" [SPR 4:85].

Obadiah Hawes, born as the second child of Richard Haws and Ann Clap bp. Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, 25 March 1635 [NEHGR 84]; m. (1) by 1663 Mary Humphrey (eldest known child born Dorchester 20 August 1663 [DVR 9]), daughter of James Humphrey [Hawes Gen 26]; m. (2) by 7 October 1678 Sarah Wiswall Holmes, widow of John Holmes [Hawes Gen 26-27].

Obadiah Hawes, married first, probably in 1662, Mary, bapt. in Dorchester 2:1 mo: 1645; died April 21, 1676, daughter of Elder James Humphrey. Her mothers name was Mary. She was admitted to full communion, together with Sarah, the wife of John Holmes, 3:9 mo: 1667. They were Neighbors, perhaps more nearly connected. Mrs. Hawes died the same day the Eleazer Hawes, the brother was killed in battle. She was mother of seven children, the eldest of whom was not thirteen when the mother died.

James Humphrey, his father, Jonas and other members of the family, came with Wendover, Bucks , a short distance from Great Missenden. The Humphrey and Hawes families seen to have been acquainted in the old Country and drawn to Dorchester by a common impulse. (Note will 36, of my Buckinghamshire quotations.) Like his father, James was a tanner and occupied the homestead on Humphrey street, Forchester, so long identified with his family. James was best known as ruling Elder of the church, from 1651 to he death, in 1686 (Gen. Reg. Bol. 2:383). He left a will (Suffolk Probate) which, in the enumeration of bequests first mentions his son-in-law, Obadiah Hawes, and the five living children, Obadiah, James, Desire, Richard, Sarah. It "entreats his loving friends, James Blake and Obadiah Hawes to be the overseers:

Children of Obadiah and Mary (Humphrey) Haws, recorded in Dorchester:

1- Obadiah Haws, born Aug 20, 1663; bapt. 10: 10 moL 1665, between 2 & 3 Years.

2- James Haws, born, Dec 18, 1664; died April 13, 1668

3- Mary Haws, born Oct 3, 1666; died April 13, 1668

4- Ebenezer Haws, born Dec,. 15 1668; bapt. 20: 10 mo: Dec 25, 1668

5- Desireth Haws, (son) born Aug 30,1670; bapt. 13:10 mo: 1671. "Desier" died June 27, 1691 (in his 20th year)

6- Richard Haws, born Dec 19,1672; bapt. 22:10 mo 1672

7- Sarah Haws, born Oct 29, 1674; bapt. 18: 1 mo: 1674-5; died prbably, in Dorchester, April 9, 1697

Richard Hawes of Dorchester Massachusetts and Some of his Descendants

Sources

Address Delivered Before the Genealogical and Biographical Society of the City of New York. April 12, 1895: Edward Hawes, the Emigrant, and Some of His Descendants - https://books.google.com/books?id=dnOBAAAAIAAJ&q=Obadiah+Hawes#v=on...

Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Richard Hawes and Ann Clapp" Webpage: www.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m1440x1441.htm Richard Hawes of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants-https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-67039-54/richard-hawes-o...

James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing three generations, Vol. 2 (Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1860), 380, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 3, G-H (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 250, [AmericanAncestors].

The Dorchester and Weymouth Families of Humphrey, Volume 3- ".... Mary 3; m Obadiah (son of Richard and Ann) Hawes, of Dorchest born about 1 0. e r, . 1 635. Mrs. Mary (Humphrey) Hawes died 21 Apr., 1676 For descendants, , see Sarage ' N w Eng.- https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-66699-10/the-dorchester-...

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http://www.jimsancestry.net/Hawes.htm

Obadiah Hawes' name appears often in the town records of Dorchester, MA, where he was a fence viewer, 1662, and the constable, 1669-1671. In 1673 it was "ordered that Obediah Haws and Robert Spur are appointed to look after Hoggs that are unyoked and unringed. If they find any, they are to demand and receive 4d per swine." In 1674, John Holmes and Obadiah Hawes were apponited to see that a wall "fower foot and half high and faced both sides" be built around the "burying place," now Uphams Corner Cemetery. In 1675, Obadiah contributed 1s 2p towards a bell for the First Church of Dorchester, MA. In 1682, Obadiah helped run the line between Roxbury and Dorchester, MA. Obadiah's wife, Mary, died the same day as his brother, Eleazer, he on the battlefield in the Sudbury Fight of 21 April 1676 where one thousand Indians ambushed a small party of Englishmen. The heirs of Eleazer received on 24 October 1676 nine shillings which was due him. Obadiah was appointed the administrator of his brother's estate, 23 May 1676. Mary (Humphrey) Hawes was admitted to full communion in the church together with Sarah, her neighbor, who was the wife of John Holmes. Mary Hawes was the mother of seven children, the eldest of whom was not thirteen when she died. Sarah Holmes became Obadiah's second wife after the death of Mary, and the death of John Holmes. Obadiah died intestate. The inventory of his estate amounted to 384.03.07 pounds including a dwelling house and several parcels of land.

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