William Falconer Havens (1747 - 1798)

Born 1747 in Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York

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Died 21 Nov 1798 at about age 51 in Cape Cod, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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... William's first wife. Desire Havens-528, was a sister of Phebe Havens-529 who married Capt. Joseph-534, brother of Capt. William. His second wife, Bethiah Bowditch, is reported by Mailman to have married again after his death, her second husband being Phineas Parker, son of Abraham and Mary (Budd) Parker. But her tombstone inscription refers to her as "Bethiah, wife of Capt. William Havens."

Capt. William perished in a shipwreck off Cape Cod in November 1798, a fate similar to that of his brother Daniel-536, who was lost at sea some years before. Knowing that the brig "Lucy" of Sag Harbor had been lost off Cape Cod in 1798, Mr. Vail searched the files of Frothingham's Long Island Herald and found the following in the issue of Dec 3 1798:

"On the 21st of November last the brig 'Lucy' of this port (Sag Harbor), James Terry master, belonging to Col. Benjamin Huntting from Machias, Maine, laden with lumber on her homeward bound passage, was cast ashore on Cape Cod and entirely lost, and melancholy to add, Capt. William Havens, pilot, Jeremiah Rogers, mate, and a black man all perished in attempting to gain the shore. Capt. William Havens was an inhabitant of this place. In nautical knowledge very few excelled him. During the last Revolution he distinguished himself as a real Boanerges in the cause of freedom; he ever felt ready to fall or rise with the ruin or happiness of his country. But alas, the cause of liberty is not always the channel of preferment and reward, and he was possessed of too great an enlargement of heart ever to mourn his own misery or fortunes. As he lived generally esteemed, lo his death is universally lamented." (R14).

Captain William Havens served with New York Militia during the American Revolution.

William Havens is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A053276.

Sources

• Havens, Barrington S., The Havens Family in Suffolk County, New York (1975) Page 14.

• Find a Grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18156730/william-falconer-havens

* U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.

Original data: Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

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• Connecticut, U,S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934

Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.

• 1790 United States Federal Census

Source Citation The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: South Hampton, Suffolk, New York; Series: M637; Roll: 6; Page: 136; Family History Library Film: 0568146

Ancestry.com. 1790 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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