Thomas Hale, ‘the glover,’ of Newbury

Thomas Hale, ‘the glover,’ of Newbury

• He was born a Jr. and died as Sr.
• Gender: Male
• Birth: May 15, 1606 Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England
• Death: December 21, 1682 (76) Newbury, Essex County , Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
• Place of Burial: First Settlers Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
• Son of Thomas “the Elder” Hale, of Watton-on-Stone and Joan (Kirby) Hale
• Husband of Thomasine Dowsett

Family

Thomas married Thomasine Dowsett, daughter of Gabriel Dowsett and Mercy, after 11 Dec 1632 in London, Middlesex, England (Thomasine Dowsett was born in 1606 in England and died on 30 Jan 1683 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.

1. Their children were:
2. Thomas, born 1633; married Mary Hutchinson
3. John, married first Rebecca Lowell; second, Sarah Somerby; third, Arah (Symonds) Cottle
4. Samuel, born 2 Feb 1639/40; married Sarah Ilsley
5. Apphia, born 1642; married Bejamin Rolfe

https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/aDeathsH.shtml "(HALE (Hail)) Thomas, sr., Dec. 21, 1682."

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Fake Pedigree

Burke claims that this Thomas Hale is the 5th son of William Hale, Esq. (1568-1634), and Rose Bond (1573-1648).[2][3][4] However, this has proven to be one of Burke's erroneous assumptions.[5]

Disambiguation

There are two different, near-contemporary, Thomas Hales:

• (this one) Thomas Hale, glover, of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts who married Thomasine Dowsett 11 Dec 1632 at St. Helen Bishopgate, London, England. They emigrated in 1637. They remained in Massachusetts and he died there in 1682. There's no evidence he was ever in Connecticut.
• Thomas Hale who arrived in Roxbury by 1633 and bounced back and forth between Connecticut and Massachusetts, and who m1 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Feb 1639/40 Jane Lord; she died by 1659 when he m2 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 14 Dec 1659 Mary Nash, dau of William and Mary (____) Nash. This Thomas died in CT in late 1678 or early 1679. Robert Charles Anderson (GMB, pp 838-840) documents this Thomas, citing specific sources.[1] His children were:
  • Thomas bp Hartford 19 Jan 1650/51 (by first wife)
  • John, bp Charlestown 23 Apr 1665 (by second wife)
• Mary, b by 1674; m Elias Brigden

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Family listed in "Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts"

http://books.google.com/books?id=vh04AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA181&pg=PA471#v=...

Hale Haile Hall Halle Hayle 177

Sergt 206

Apphia 176 181

John 154 175 176

Richard 845

Thomas 42 70 111 119 120 124 126,133 147 165 175 176 202 206 254 446

also, Hall 168

Samuel 169 363 378 379

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http://cybergata.com/roots/5791.htm

From the Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury, Mass., Robert S. Hale,Albany, N.Y. Weed, Parsons & Co. 1889:

According to Robert. S. Hale in, Genealogy of Descendant of Thomas Hale of Watton, England and of Newbury, Mass, both Savage & Coffin were incorrect about the ancestry of Thomas Hale. Robert Hale points to a letter published in The Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, 4th series, vol. vii, p.10 of a letter from Francis Kirby to Gov. John Winthrop, Sr., dated May 1737 as further proof of the real ancestry of Thomas Hale. In the second paragraph Francis Kirby states:

"These are now to intreat you that you would be assistante to the bearer herof (Thomas Hale, my neer kinsman) in your councell & aduise to put him in the way how & where to settle himself in a hopefull way of subsisteinge with his family. He hath brought with him all his estate, which he hath . . ."

The rest of the letter deals with Thomas and his family needs starting out in the American colonies. It is signed, "Your loving frend, Fra: Kirby. Coffin & Savage have the date of Thomas Hale settling in Newbury in 1635, rather than 1737, the date of Thomas Hale's introduction to Governor Winthrop, Sr.

There was correspondence between John Kirby and both John Winthrop the elder and younger between the years of 1631-1239. Although these letters are about business, they show a very cordial relationship between Francis and especially John Winthrop the younger. They contain information about local and family news.

In addition to this letter, the author, Robert Hale had a noted genealogist, Col. Joseph L. Chester investigate our Thomas Hale's English ancestry. Robert Hale says of Col. Chester that his research was "conducted with his well-known accuracy and thoroughness, established beyond question that Thomas of Newbury was not identical with Thomas the son of Richard of King's Walden, but is another Thomas Hale, son of an English yeoman, born in the neighboring parish of Hertfordshire, within a few weeks, probably within days of Thomas the son of Richard."

Francis Kirby was the uncle of our Tomas Hale. Thomas was the namesake of his father, also Thomas Hale of the parish of Watton, otherwise called Watton-at-Stone in Hertfordshire. The elder Thomas Hale's wife was Joan Kirby of the parish of Little Munden, and the sister of Francis Kirby. Thomas was probably born at Watton on the 15 Jun 1606, as "Thomas Hale, son of Thomas and Joane."

Another indication of the ancestry of Thomas Hale is proved by all the family records that can be found for the Kirby and Hale family in Mutton. Included among these records are these two entries found in the Registry of baptisms in the parish church of Watton: " 1633. Nov. 18. Thomas Hale, son of Thomas and Thomasine." "1635. April 19. John Hale, son of Thomas and Thoasine."

~Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury, Mass.. pgs. 1-16

Links

• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edburton/fam73191.htm

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Thomas Hale was baptized in Watton-at Stone, Herford, England on 15 June 1606 and died in Newbury, Massachusetts on 21 December 1682, age 76. He married in London at St. Helen's Bishopsgate, on 11 December 1632. Thomasine Doucette d/o Gabriel and Mercy Doucettt. She was born about 1610, and died in Newbury 30 January 1682/3. He was called a glover in the marriage record.

Thoms Hale came to New England in the HECTOR, apparently in the summer of 1637. He soon went to Newbury and appointed one of the Haywards September 7, 1638. About 1645 he moved to Haverhill where he became one of the selectmen and a commissioner for the trial of small causes. He was appointed in 1648 to keep the ferry across the river and elected constable in 1649. He was made sergeant of the military company of Newbury and later captain.

Submitted by Gladys Harris who adapted it from Threfall's Fifty Great Migration Colonists to America.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~machaver/thale.htm

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Name Thomas Hale Gender Male Age 76 Birth Date 1606 Birth Place Near Coadicote, Hertfordshire, Eng First Marriage Date 1630 Death Date 1682 Spouse Thomasine Child Thomas Hale Source Citation Book Title: A genealogy and history of the Hute [i e Chute] family in America : with some account of the family

Description Title: A genealogy and history of the Hute [i e Chute] family in America : with some account of the family

Source Information Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

Source Description This collection contains genealogical research privately published in family history books.

Name Thomas Hale Gender Male Record Type Marriage Marriage Place City of London, St Helens, Bishopsgate, London, England Spouse Thomasine Dewsett Register Type Parish Register Source Citation London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812; Reference Number: P69/HEL/A/002/MS06831/001

Description Year: 1598 - 1654

Source Information Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Images produced by permission of the City of London Corporation. The City of London gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB. Email - ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.

Source Description This data collection contains baptism and burial records from 1538-1812 and marriage records from 1538-1753 for more than 10,000 Church of England parish registers (including Bishop’s Transcripts) from parishes in the greater London area.

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Birth: May 15, 1606 Watton-at-Stone East Hertfordshire District Hertfordshire, England Death: Dec. 21, 1682 Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA

Born at Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England. Christened June 15, 1606.

He was married at St. Helen's Bishopsgate, London, on 11 Dec 1632.

Family links:

Parents:

 Thomas Hale (1590 - 1630)

 Joan Kirby Hale (1590 - 1640)

Spouse:

 Thomasine Dowsett Hale (1609 - 1683)

Children:

 Thomas Hale (1633 - 1688)*

 John Hale (1635 - 1707)*

 Samuel Hale (1640 - 1709)*

 Apphia Hale Rolfe (1642 - 1708)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Burying Ground of the First Settlers Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA

Created by: Kocart Record added: Mar 05, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 49089333

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Thomas Hale was baptized 15 Jun 1606 at Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Thomas Hale and Joan Kirby. (He was NOT born to William Hale and Rose Bond, who had a son Thomas within two weeks of this Thomas.)

Thomas married Thomasine Dowsett 11 Dec 1632 at St. Helen Bishopgate, London, England. They had four children with Thomas being the first born.

They immigrated to Newbury, Massachusetts from England in 1637 possibly on the Hector. Thomas’ trade was that of glover or leather dresser. Leather dressings are applied to keep leather lubricated and flexible.

Thomas’ uncle, Francis Kirby, introduced him to Governor Winthrop. On 10 Aug 1638, Thomas Hale and John Baker were "appointed haywards".

On 7 Sep 1638, Thomas became a freeman in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. His name appears in the list of proprietors of Newbury, declared by the ordinance of Dec 7, 1642 as the only persons “acknowledged to be freeholders by the town and to have proportinale rights in all waste lands, commons and rivers undisposed”.

They moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1645, where Thomas became a land owner; a selectman in 1646; and in 1647 chosen by the town "to try small causes". In 1648 he was appointed to keep a ferry and in 1649 was elected constable, the first chosen in Haverhill.

In or about the year 1652, he returned to Newbury, and continued to reside there till 1657, when he removed to Salem. There he remained till about the year 1661, when he again returned to Newbury, where he continued to reside till his death.

In Felt's 'Annals of Salem,' his name appears in the list of 'glovers' in 1659. It also appears in the town records of Salem in 1657 as 'Sarjent Thomas Hale (iin Newbury Militia Company) and he is several times referred to in those records as 'clerk of the market.'

After his final return to Newbury, he is found among the active supporters of the Rev. Mr. Parker in his controversies with a portion of his church, while the name of his son Thomas appears uniformly among the antagonists of Mr. Parker, known as 'Mr. Woodman's party.'

Conveyances of real estate to and from him appear in the Essex records in 1640, 1652, 1655, 1656, 1666, and 1669, in which he is described as 'of Newbury.' In conveyances appearing in 1647 and 1648, he is described as 'of Haverhill'; in one of Jan. 15, 1652-3, as 'of Newbury, late of Haverhill'; and in sundry of 1658, 1659, 1660 and 1661, as 'of Salem.' In these conveyances he is usually described as 'glover,' sometimes as 'yeoman,' and once as 'leather-dresser.' (It was in the 16th century that gloves reached their greatest elaboration, when Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) set the fashion for wearing them richly embroidered and jeweled, and for putting them on and taking them off during audiences, to draw attention to her beautiful hands.)

He seems to have been an active and public-spirited citizen, held in respect by his fellow citizens in the several towns in which he lived, and his long life was evidently one of active usefulness. By trade a glover, he united with that employment some practice as a surveyor, and his various public employments show him to have been a man of fair education and business qualifications.

Captain Thomas died in Newbury, Dec. 21, 1682. His widow Thomasine survived him just forty days (a 'widow's quarantine'), and died in Newbury, Jan. 30, 1682-3.

No will appears on record, nor any administration of his estate."

References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LKY6-68H
2. Hale, Robert Safford (1877). Thomas Hale: The Glover of Newbury, Mass. (1635) and His Descendants. < GoogleBooks >; < link >
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hale-452 cites
   1. Charles Robert Anderson, Great Migration Begins..., Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995, p. 840: "S. Alyn Peck has found baptisms of Thomas, Samuel and Martha, children of John and Martha Hale, at Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, a likely date, and suggests that these may be the immigrants to Connecticut [TAG 38:237-39]."
   2. Burke, Bernard. Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: The Lineages of 1,600 Families of British Origin Now Resident in the United States of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 2010. Print.
   3. Chauncy, Henry, The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire B.J. Holdsworth, 1826, p. 412.
   4. Hale, Robert Safford, 1822-1881. Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. Albany, N.Y. Weed, Parsons and Co, 1889. pg 4
   5. Moriarty, G. Andrews. Thomas Hale, Glover of Newbury, Mass. The American Genealogist. Volume 22. pgs 180-183. $
   6. England Marriages, 1538–1973 , database, FamilySearch : 10 February 2018), Thomas Hall and Thomazin Dowsett, 11 Dec 1632; citing Saint Helen Bishopsgate, London, London, England, reference, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 375027, 942 B4HA V. 31.[1]
   7. London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/HEL/A/002/MS06831/001. Image 59 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1624/images/31281_...
   8. Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864, and Joseph Bartlett. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, And West Newbury, From 1635 to 1845. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1845. pg 305
   9. Charles Robert Anderson, Great Migration Begins..., Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995, p. 840.
   10. Hale, Robert Safford, 1822-1881. Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. Albany, N.Y. Weed, Parsons and Co, 1889. pg 8
   11. Hale, Robert Safford, 1822-1881. Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. Albany, N.Y. Weed, Parsons and Co, 1889. pg 19
   12. Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864, and Joseph Bartlett. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, And West Newbury, From 1635 to 1845. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1845. pg 28
   13. Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow), 1789-1869. Annals of Salem. Volume II. 2d ed. Salem: W. & S. B. Ives. 1849. pg 169
   14. Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864, and Joseph Bartlett. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, And West Newbury, From 1635 to 1845. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1845. pg 108
   15. Hale, Robert Safford, 1822-1881. Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. Albany, N.Y. Weed, Parsons and Co, 1889. pg 20
   16. Hale, Robert Safford, 1822-1881. Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. Albany, N.Y. Weed, Parsons and Co, 1889. pg 18
   17. John B. Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1990), 171-174.
   18. Davis, Walter Goodwin, and Gary Boyd Roberts Introduction. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. [1], 1996), II:62-65.
   19. Hale, Robert S. "Thomas Hale, the Glover, of Newbury, Mass., 1635, and His Descendants," in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1877), 31:83-84.
4. See also:
   1. Steele & Related Lines Book II (2000) p103. MORE INFO NEEDED.
   2. The New England historical and genealogical register Vol XXXV Waters, Henry F. (Henry Fritz-Gilbert). Genealogical gleanings in England. New England Historic Genealogical Society; New England Historic Genealogical Society. Proceedings. Publisher: [Boston, etc., New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1881. Page(s) 367 to 376.
   3. The Hutchinson Family: or the Descendants of Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England, compiled by Perley Derby, Essex Institute Press, 1870, Salem, Massachusetts.