The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Generations

The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Generations Joy F. Peach The Hartwells of America Association 2007 Copyright © 2007 by Joy F. Peach All rights reserved. The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Printed in the United States of America by Thomson-Shore, Inc., 7300 W. Joy Road, Dexter, Michigan 48130 PUBLISHER’S CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Peach, Joy F. The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Generations / Joy F. Peach. xxx, 596 p., 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-9793318-0-0 1.William Hartwell–Genealogy. 2. Hartwell Family–Genealogy. I. Title. 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Hartwell 7 Birch Tree Road Foxborough, MA 20235-1718 Contents List of Illustrations . v About the Author . vii Introduction . ix Abbreviations and References . xvii First Generation ..................................... 1 Second Generation . 11 Third Generation . 29 Fourth Generation . 71 Fifth Generation . 187 Appendix A, The Probable Ancestry of William1 Hartwell ................................427 Appendix B, Royal Ancestry of John3 and Edward3 Hartwell.................................431 Appendix C, A Hartwell Family of Color . 435 Index ........................................... 441 Illustrations Deposition of Jezan Hartwell . 3 William and Jezan Hartwell Memorial Headstone, Hillside Cemetery, Concord Center . 8 Inventory of William1’s Possessions . 9 John4 Hartwell’s Saltbox House on the Concord/Carlisle Line . 71 Reverend Francis Gardner Tablet . 101 Hartwell Tavern ................................... 146 Hartwell Tavern Sign . 147 Dr. Benjamin Hartwell House . 273 The Samuel Hartwell House (Shown in 1955) . 327 The Samuel Hartwell House’s Remains (Shown in 2006) . 328 Burial of British Soldiers, April 20, 1775 . 328 About the Author Hartwells across America have been consulting family his- torian Joy Peach for more than thirty years. Born a Hartwell at Littleton, Massachusetts, Joy developed an interest in genealogy while still a child. Intrigued by her grandfather’s incomplete and unindexed genealogy of the Hartwell family compiled in 1887, she began trying to fill in the blanks and was named as the offi- cial genealogist for The Hartwells of America family association at its 1975 Annual Reunion. To produce this volume, Joy began the project of revising and correcting the 1956 version of The Hartwells of America by John F. Hartwell and immersed herself in the study of the family. In 1996, Joy completed the National Institute on Genealog- ical Research course given at the National Archives in Washing- ton, DC. In addition to being a member of several genealogical societies, she is also a frequent contributor to, and editorial board member of, MASSOG, the quarterly publication of the Massa- chusetts Society of Genealogists. She has also had articles published in the New England Historic and Genealogical Society’s NEXUS, and, most recently, in the October 2006 issue of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, as well as in The American Genealogist, and has spoken to a number of groups. She was appointed Registrar for the Captain John Joslin, Jr., Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A volunteer at the Lancaster Historical Commission, Joy answers genealogical inquiries concerning the families whose lives have touched the Lancaster area. When the Lancaster, Massachusetts Historical Society chose to commemorate Black History Month, Joy researched the early African-American residents of that town. Fascinated by the information and compelling stories that she uncovered concerning this relatively unnoticed and unsung segment of the population, she expanded her research to include much of central Massachusetts, including Gardner. In 2000, the Freedom’s Way Heritage Associ- ation recognized the value of her work by granting her a schol- arship to continue her research. The results were published by viii About the Author Freedom’s Way in the form of a booklet that is used as an educa- tional tool in classrooms. Joy lives in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and is the mother of three children: Lucinda Peach, a professor at American Univer- sity in Washington, DC; John Peach, a creator of movie and tele- vision program sets, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Rebecca Cooke, an environmental engineer living in Hyde Park, New York, with her husband, Dr. Paul Cooke. For twenty years, Joy has been an active member of Walk’n Mass, the Massachusetts chapter of Volkssmarching, “Walks for the People.” Joy enjoys the health benefits of this noncompetitive sport, which has taken her to interesting places and to three national conventions. Through more than thirty years of research and collabora- tion, Joy has compiled thirteen generations of the descendants of William1. The Hartwells of America Association is pleased to publish the first installment of Joy’s efforts, The Descendants of William Hartwell, Concord Settler, 1636, Through Five Genera- tions. Hartwells throughout America owe a debt of gratitude to Joy for this major contribution to the family’s history. Not one to rest on her laurels, however, Joy is presently readying generations six through thirteen for publication. Introduction Why a new edition of the Hartwell family saga? Two versions of the story of the descendants of William1 Hartwell, who arrived in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1635 or 1636, have already appeared in print. Those familiar with the first effort, compiled by Lyman W. Densmore in 1887, and titled Hand-Book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1636-1887, can have little doubt that a new edition of that work was in order. Mr. Densmore himself only published that edition as a preliminary work to arouse people’s interest and to solicit input towards a more complete genealogy. Mr. Densmore was never able to realize his plan for this larger work, and lost many of his research notes in a tragic fire. Things came to a standstill for several decades, until John F. Hartwell became family genealogist and, in 1956, published The Hartwells of America, a Genealogy of all the Hartwell Families of the United States and Canada based largely on the Handbook of Hartwell Genealogy (1887) by Lyman Willard Densmore (this somewhat lengthy title is hereinafter referenced as “HOA”). For a time this work was considered the “be-all-and-end-all” of the Hartwell family story in America, and the family association turned its efforts towards finding William1 Hartwell’s English or- igins. Consideration was even given to producing a genealogy of the Hartwell family in England. A wonderfully appropriate editorial comment concerning “done” genealogies appeared in the July, 1999 issue of The American Genealogist. Editor David. S. Greene writes: Whenever we think about a genealogy that is “done,” we picture name after name in regular ranks, with every date in place and every relationship established beyond question. Of course, once researchers gain the ability to evaluate evidence critically, they realize that no ances- tral line is ever truly complete and that all conclusions are open to critical evaluation. Such evaluation was the hallmark of the “Jacobus School,” and today it is central to [all] major journals in the field. Jacobus once wrote that many people don’t realize how tentative genealogical conclusions are. Of course, with thorough combing x Introduction of the evidence and careful analysis, we can call many genealogical conclusions “proven” but always with the unspoken reservation that further evidence or evaluation may upset that conclusion. In another way, genealogy is cumulative. People may return to a family and, often in the light of evidence that was not previously available, add to our understanding of it. Genealogy is a process that is investigative and evaluative; it is also a process that is cumulative, with researchers continuing to reconsider and re-evaluate evidence. No matter how well a family has been researched, no family is ever completely done. [italics mine]. Lyman W. Densmore’s and John F. Hartwell’s contributions to the Hartwell family saga should never be underestimated. Both these gentlemen were well-intentioned and both did a fine job, according to the standards of their time, in recording the various twigs and branches of the Hartwell family tree. I would not have been able to accomplish this present volume without their pre- vious input. When I first became the Hartwell family’s genealogist, some years ago now, I thought that my major tasks were to keep the families included in John F. Hartwell’s work updated, and to eventually publish a supplement containing these updates. As I worked more and more with the volumes produced by Densmore and John F. Hartwell, I came to realize that a supplement just wasn’t going to “do the trick.” For one thing, John F. Hartwell had already (in 1962) published a supplement to his 1956 work. Trying to integrate the information in that supplement with the information in the 1956 volume is a daunting task, as anyone who has tried it will soon become aware.

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