Samuel Hodgkins, Sr.

Samuel Hodgkins

• Birth: Nov 2 1658 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
• Death: 1683 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
• Wife: Hannah Gee

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Verbatim via FindAGrave:

"Samuel Hodgkins was appointed to keep the ferry at Tyndale Cove in 1694. He was a shoe maker and a Puritan.

Married Hannah Gee

Samuel Hodgkins b. 1658, was the son of William Hodgkins II, b. 1622 in England and MOTHER Grace Dutch HODGKINS.

(Note: Grace's brother Robert Dutch (Uncle of this record) was a soldier in Indian War of 1675.)

William Hodgkins II (father of this record) came to Ipswich with his father William Hodgkins I in 1641.

William Hodgkins1st was born before 1600 in England and came to Plymouth, New Hampshire with early settlers. He was an admitted freeman in 1634 and served as a juryman in 1636.

DAUGHTER of this record, was Mercy Hodgkins Coombs b. Aug 28, 1700 (she married Anthony Coombs II, 1695 Wenham, Mass." Cyndi Berg Jearman

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LHCY-V4S/samuel-hodgkins-1658...

Samuel Hodgkins
2 November 1658–3 May 1725

Brief Life History of Samuel

Biography

Samuel Hodgkins first appears in Gloucester with his wife Hannah in 1684. A William Hodgkins was an early inhabitant of Ipswich, and had a son Samuel born there in 1658. Samuel Hodgkins was appointed, in 1694, to keep the ferry at Trynall Cove, where he had already built a house. He was a shoemaker; and a descendant of the same trade was living, near the close of the last century, where his ancestor settled, and was the last ferryman at the place.

Samuel Hodgkins's wife died July 28, 1724, aged sixty years; and he next married Mary Stockbridge, May 3, 1725. The date of his death is not known.

«b»Fifteen children are recorded to him:«/b»
1.) Samuel, born in 24 Oct 1684;

2.) Hannah, 1686;

3.) John, 6 Jun 1688;

4.) Philip, 25 Jan 1689;

5.) William, 2 Mar 1690;

6.) a daughter, 1694;

7.) Jedediah, 8 Mar 1695;

8.) Patience, 21 August 1697;

9.) Abigail, 11 Jun 1699;

10.) Mercy, 28 Jul 1700;

11.) David, 14 Apr 1702;

12.) Martha, 4 Jan 1703;

13.) Anna, 1705;

14.) Jonathan, 1 Jul 1706;

15.) Experience, 31 January 1707.

More Information

Samuel Hodgkins (William2, William1) was a shoemaker and cordwainer. Samuel moved to Gloucester, Mass., in 1684. In 1694, he was appointed to keep the ferry at Tyndall Cove, where he already had built a house. A discrepancy exists between the two major genealogical sources used on the name of his first wife. Ruby Hodgkins Callender in her more recent Hodgkins Genealogy:
Chiefly the Descendants of David and Mary Spiller Hodgkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts, updated in 1980, has Samuel marrying Anna Gee, a daughter of John and Hazel (Willix) Gee of Exeter, N.H. The earlier Genealogy of the Hotchkins Family (1927) by Eben B. Hotchkins lists Samuel's first wife as Hannah Pilkington.

Callender, however, lists a Hannah Pelkington as the first wife of Samuel's son, Samuel Hodgkins Jr., which likely seems more accurate. Regardless of her name, Samuel Hodgkins Sr. and his wife had 15 children, all in Gloucester records, according to Eben B. Hotchkins. Samuel then married a Mary Stockbridge May 3, 1725. Babson in his history of Gloucester says that Samuel's sons Philip and Jedidiah went down the coast to Falmouth, Maine, according to Eben B. Hotchkins.

Several of Samuel's children married spouses that helped weave different family lines that led to Mary Hodgkins Banfield. Samuel and Anna Gee Hodgkins' daughter Hannah Hodgkins wed James Kent, and their daughter married John Murch, whose ancestors included Theo Murch, a grandmother of Mary Hodgkins Banfield. Samuel and Anna Gee Hodgkins' son Phillip Hodgkins was Mary Hodgkins Banfield's seventh great-grandfather. In addition, Samuel and Anna Gee Hodgkins' daughter Mercy Hodgkins was the great-grandmother of Lois R. Coombs who wed Lewis C. Murch in another branch of the Murch family tree.

Samuel Hodgkins3 b. Nov. 2, 1658/9, Ipswich, Mass. d. Gloucester, Mass.

m.1. Hannah Gee (b. January 1660, Gloucester, Mass., daughter of John and Hazelponi (Willix) Gee – d. July 28, 1724,

Gloucester, Mass.), 1683.

1. Samuel Hodgkins4 b. Oct. 24, 1684.

m.1. Hannah Pelkington (d. Sept. 16, 1753), Sept. 30, 1708.

m.2. Lydia Stanwood, Nov. 27, 1756.

2. Hannah Hodgkins4 b. May 18, 1686/7.
3. John Hodgkins4 b. Jan. 16, 1688/9.
4. Phillip Hodgkins4 b. Jan. 25, 1690.

m. Sarah Griffin (b. March 8, 1696) (wife also listed as  Jedidiah).

5. William Hodgkins4 b. Feb. 2, 1691.

m. Mary Chase.

6. Solomon Hodgkins4 b. July 30, 1692.

m. intentions, Mary Chase (Aquilla) Jan. 21, 1715

7. Jedediah Hodgkins4 b. March 8, 1695.

m. Sarah Millett, 1722, in Gloucester, Mass.

8. Patience Hodgkins4 b. Aug. 21, 1697.
9. Abigail Hodgkins4 b. June 11, 1699.
10. Mercy Hodgkins4 b. July 28, 1700.
11. David Hodgkins4 b. April 14, 1702.

m. Abigail Haskell, (daughter of William and  Abigail (David) Haskell), 1735.)

12. Martha Hodgkins4 b. Jan. 4, 1704.
13. Anna Hodgkins4 b. April 5, 1705.

14. Jonathan Hodgkins4 b. July 1, 1706.

m. Mary Stockbridge, Aug. 9, 1735.

15. Experience Hodgkins 4 b. Jan. 31, 1708. m. 2. Mary (Harding) (Villars) Stockbridge May 3, 1725.
http://banfield-hodgkinsfamily.com/hodgkinsdocument3.pdf

• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/aBirthsH.shtml "(HODGKINS (Hodgkin, Hodgskin, Hodgskins, Hodkins)) Samuell, s. William, Nov. 2, 1658. CTR"
• His marriage and death are not in Gloucester VR.