RICHARD HAWES OF DORCHESTER,MASSACHUSETTS AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS COMPILED BY FRANK MORTIMER HA WES MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD COMPANY HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT PARISH CHURCH, GREAT MISSENDEN, BuCKS See p. 17 THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN6 HAWES AND HIS WIFE EUNICE (WITHINGTON) HAWES OF CANTON AND STOUGHTON, :MASSACHUSETTS CONTENTS ENGLISH CHAPTER I-17 FrnsT GENERATION IN AMERICA • 18 SECOND GENERATION 23 THIRD GENERATION 35 FouRTH GENERATION 41 FIFTH GENERATION 52 SIXTH GENERATION 76 SEVENTH GENERATION 122 EIGHTH GENERATION NINTH GENERATION INDEX TO ENGLISH CHAPTER INDEX TO HAWES NAMES INDEX TO OTHER NAMES CHRONOLOGICAL Signature of 7 :12mo :1641 FOREWORD O one is more aware of the shortcomings of this family history N than its author. There are many omissions, and doubtless as many mistakes and wrong guesses. A work of this kind, depending upon family, and even printed, records, can never hope for com­ pleteness; always there will be something more to be said. It repre­ sents the labor of years, and from start to finish is the work almost of one hand. I am deeply appreciative of the help accorded me by the various members of the clan who have contributed their family records. Many have not responded. I need only add that long perusal of the subject convinces me that the three New England branches of the Hawes name,-that of Edmund of Cape Cod, of Edward of Dedham, and of our Richard, represent three distinct groups, with no near relationship even in the mother country. Warwickshire, Edmund's habitat, and Bucking­ hamshire, our ancestral home, as they are not far apart, might incline one to suppose that these two had a common origin. A Virginia family, dating back to Early Colonial times, in my opinion, is trace­ able to the Suffolk region of England. It has been claimed in print that Edward's ancestor was a John Hawes of London. But there is not a particle of evidence to bear out this statement. A Robert Hawes of Salem and Roxbury, with no descendants numerically important, only adds diversity. The later migrations of the last century have brought an Irish element into the Hawes blood here, which has been still more compounded by those arriving through Canada and the Provinces. In Pennsylvania and States farther West we may look to find some German stock, beginning as Haas, &c. but gradually assimilating to our ways of spelling the name. As a matter of precaution, in studying my own problems, much material has accumulated that relates to all these "outsiders." The late James W. Hawes, Esq., aside from his own immediate line, carried the Edmund story in America only through three genera­ tions. My findings of Edmund's and Edward's descendants, enough of each to fill a larger volume than the present one, only await the financial backing of some loyal descendant, or descendants, to bring them before the public. FRANK M. HAWES, 1244 North Main Street, West Hartford, Conn. ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations used in this work are easily understood, since they pertain to most works of this kind, as b. born; bapt. baptized; d. died; Gen. Reg., The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; g.s., gravestone record; Jr., Junior; m. married; MS, manuscript; Pro., Probate Record; Sen., Senior; St. Ho., recorded at State House; VR, Vital Records (printed). IN ENGLAND The compiler of these pages, in articles contributed to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (July 1929 and July 1930) has shown that Richard Hawes of Dorchester, Mass., was the son of a Richard Hawes of Great Missenden, Co. Bucks, England, whose will of 9 September 1665, on which date our American ancestor was not living, speaks of two grandchildren, Obadias and Hana Hawes, in New England. They had come in the "Truelove''. with their parents in 1635 and were enumerated in the passenger hst. Wills and parish registers show that the Hawes clan of this section of England was numerically prominent and dwelt at Princes Risborough, Great and Little Missenden, Wendover, Stewkley, Great or High Wycombe, and other adjoining parishes, all within a few miles of each other and located near the southern central part of the county. Great and Little Missenden, about two miles apart, are five miles and seven miles respectively from Wen dover; Princes Risbor­ ough, which lies between these extremes, is still nearer; Stewkley is farther away. High Wycombe is twenty-five miles from Oxford. The birthplace of our ancestor, once the seat of a rich abbey, is only thirty-one miles from London. The Hawes family of Bucks probably does not date far back, but to the north, in Warwickshire, at Solihull (near Birmingham) was a more numerous branch of the Hawes with records as early as 1300. (Consult "Ancestors of Edmond Hawes", by the late James W. Hawes, Esq., historian of the so-called Cape Cod Branch in this country.) Both the Buckinghamshire and the Warwickshire families were antedated by Suffolk-Norfolk lines that evidently had their origin at W alsham-le-Willows, near Bury St. Edmunds, a perfect nesting place for Haweses. As shown in "County Visitations", one branch removed from here to Cornwall where they retained for their name an earlier spelling of "Haweis". Another old form much in vogue, "Hawys", would seem to show that our name was pronounced as a word of two syllables. At the time when migration to New Eng­ land set in scarcely any county of England fails to show our name, and the same may be said of the numerous parish registers of old London. It would be safe to affirm that the name of Hawes was more fre­ quently met with in the England of 1600 than at any subsequent time in this country. For the origin or meaning of the name one is again referred to the work of James W. Hawes, Esq., whose re­ searches were extensive. The name, however spelled, has not a Norman-French ring, and if not antedating the coming of the Saxons to England, may have originated with the Angles who after overrunning the flat, marshy country of Eastern England gradually made their way westward, like all wander-loving people before and since. As far back as the time of King John (1215) a feminine form of the name, Haweisa, was the baptismal appella­ tion of a lady and is met with in old records. 2 RICHARD HA WES Burke's Landed Gentry gives not less than seventeen varieties in the coats of arms of Hawes families, but the Buckinghamshire Branch seems to have laid no claim to such distinction, being satis­ fied with the plain title of yeomen. Of the seventy-eight or more Buckinghamshire wills found at Somerset House, London, relating to the name of Hawes ( with their various spellings) and deposited by me with the New England His­ toric Genealogical Society at Boston, some thirty-nine were printed in their Register for July 1929. As helping to place Richard Hawes, the immigrant, in his line of descent, we subjoin here some of the more significant wills, abbreviated for convenience and with modern­ ized spelling and retaining the arbitrary numbering as already printed. 2. The will of Bennett Hawse, Great· Wycombe, dated 20 October 1545. To my son George Hawse; to John Bussell, my kinsman; the rest to my wife Elizabeth Hawse who is to see my debts paid, my children kept, and my body honestly buried. Wit­ nesses: Robert Wade, priest, William "Awys", clerk and "orgayne player". Overseer: John Greene, my neighbor. Proved 3 December 1545. 4. The will of Thomas Hawies, parish of Prince's Rysborowe, yeoman, dated 27 May 1554. To Richard my son all my horses, cart gear, and plough gear, and all things belonging thereunto ; to Richard's wife all my brass and pewter, save one little brass pot. I give her the house and all things within the same. To Thomas, the son of Henry Hawies, one quarter of wheat and another of barley and the little brass pot aforesaid. To my daughter Mary a bushel of wheat and another of barley, to be paid at Christmas. To Henry Cocke of Pen a bushel of malt and another of wheat, to be paid at Christmas. To all my godchildren 4 s. apiece. To Robert Hawies, my son, two bushels of wheat, two bushels of barley and my best coat. To the mending of the "hye wayes" 20 d. I make Richard, my son, and his wife Alis, my only executors; the rest of my goods I give to them to bestow for my soul's health at my burial as they think good. Overseer: Henry Hawies. Witnesses: William Blike, Henry Hawies, Sir John Stalworthe, priest, Alice Coker, and Agnes Loosley. Proved at Myssenden 3 October 1554. 9. The will of Henry Hause of Smalde, parish of Sanderton, dated 17 January 1562. To Hugh Hause, my son, a bushel of barley. To (illegible) Winter a bushel of barley. To Agnes Hause, ~Y daughter, a bushel of wheat and another of malt. To Rafte Hause, my son, a bushel of wheat. To William Hause, Sr., a bullock. To John Hause, my son, a red steer and two sheep. To my son William Hause, Jr., a red steer and three sheep. To Joan Hause, my daughter, a red cow and three sheep. To Mary Hause, my daughter, a cow and three sheep. To Helen Winter a bushel of barley. The rest of my goods to Margery, my wife and executrix. She shall deliver to the two children of Elizabeth Stevens 20s.