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Edmund Hawes (bef. 1612 - 1693)

Edmund Hawes
Born before in Solihull, Warwickshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married about 1636 in Massachusetts Baymap [uncertain]
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Died after age 80 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts Baymap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Edmund Hawes migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 3, p. 247)
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Biography

Edmund Hawes was the third son of Edmund Hawes, Gent., of Solihull, Warwickshire and Jane Porter.[1][2] He was baptized 15 October 1612 at Solihull, Warwickshire, England.[1][3][4] Edmund had three brothers: William, John and a younger brother, Thomas, as well as eight sisters.[1][2]

He was a legatee in the will of Francis Hawes of Belchamp, Essex, in 1621.[1] In 1627 he bound himself to Edmund Warnett, Citizen and cutler of London, for a term of 8 years and was sworn a free cutler on 9 December 1634.[1][2][3]

By a deed dated 12 February 1634/5 he sold his rights to his estates at Belchamp, St. Paul, Essex to Sir Leventhorpe Franche for £250 and, soon after, headed to America.[1][2]

Immigration and Life in Massachusetts

"Edmund Hawes, cutler, late of London, was included in the passenger list of the James, about to sail from Southampton for New England" on or about 5 April 1635.[3] He settled first at Duxbury and later removed to Yarmouth, Massachusetts[1][2] in 1643.[3]
Edmund was admitted freeman on 3 March 1644/5 "and then added to the Yarmouth section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen".[3] Edmund served as Duxbury constable in 1642; Deputy for Yarmouth to the Plymouth Colony Court from 1645-1649, 1651, 1653-1661, 1665, 1674-1675; Yarmouth constable 1659; Yarmouth selectman 1666-1668, 1670-1677, 1679-1683, 1685;[3] and Yarmouth town clerk.[1] He also served on numerous committees and in other positions in the Colony.[3]

Marriage and Issue

The name of Edmund Hawes wife is Unknown;[1][2] they married by about 1636[3] (see Research Note, below). They had one son:

Death and Legacy

Edmund died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts on 9 June 1693 and was buried 10 June 1693.[1][2][3]
His will dated 5 May 1692 was proved 20 July 1693. It named his son John Hawes and John's wife Desire; his grandsons Joseph, Jabez, John, Edmund, Ebenezer, Isaac, Benjamin and Experience; and granddaughters Desire Hawes, Elizabeth Dogged, and Mary Bacon. He appointed his son, John Hawes, the sole executor of his will.[5] The inventory of Edmund's estate was taken 1 August 1693 and totalled £130 7s.[3]

Research Notes

Wife's Name Unknown

Some online trees show Edmund married to a "Lucy" _____, some specifically give: Mercy/Lucy Penobscot, b. c1612, d. 18 Jul 1689 (77 y.o.), Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, but no sources are cited.
Robert Charles Anderson in Great Migration 1634-1635, vol. 3, page 249, shows only one wife for Edmund Hawes, name unknown. Douglas Richardson in Royal Ancestry (2013), vol III, page 272 #20, corroborates Anderson and gives five other sources. Anderson states that a misreading of a 1638 bond Edmund posted as security for Thomas Boardman of Sandwich (whose wife was named Lucy) could be the source of the confusion.[3]

Sources

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. II, page 383, HAWES 17.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. III, pages 272-273 HAWES 20.
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H. (Boston: NEHGS, 2003). Online w/subsc. at AmericanAncestors.org, pages 247-250.
  4. "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963," database with images, (FamilySearch: 21 August 2019), Edmonde Hawes, 15 Oct 1612; from parish registers of the Church of England, database and images, citing Baptism, Solihull, Warwickshire.
  5. The Mayflower Descendant. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants, vol 19 (1917), Abstracts of Barnstable County, Mass. Probate Records: Will of Edmund Hawe.
See also:
  • Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration Directory (NEHGS, 2015), page 155: "Hawes, Edmund: London; 1635 on James; Duxbury, Yarmouth"
  • Hawes, James William. Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth, Massachusetts: An Emigrant to America in 1635. (New York: The Lyons Genealogical Co., 1914). Online at Archive.org (cited by Anderson).
  • Hawes, James W. "The English Ancestors of Edmond Hawes" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 65, No. 258, April 1911. Online at AmericanAncestors.org, pages 163-164.
  • Hawes, Raymond Gordon. Edmond Hawes And His American Descendants. (Baltimore, MD: Published for R.G. Hawes by Gateway Press, 2000). Search online at HathiTrust (cited by Anderson).
  • Brandon, John C. "Reinterpreting the Vital Dates of William Hawes and His Wife Ursula from Their Memorial Brass" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 164 (2010) pp.250-253, (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1847-). Online (w/subsc.) at AmericanAncestors.org (Edmund's grandparents).
  • Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Royal and Magna Carta Descents to Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and Thomas Bressey" in The Genealogist, Vol. 7-8 (1987), pages 132-136.
  • Transcription of Edmund's will on Genealogy.com by Laura Derby Dupee on "Franklin Bartlett Benkard Home Page: Information about Edward Hawes". Note Edmund describes John as his natural son, commonly a euphemism for illegitimate. Perhaps he never had a wife at all?
  • Swift, Charles Francis. History of old Yarmouth. (Yarmouth Port: The author, 1884). Online at Archive.org, pages 54-55: occupations: Deputy of the Court, Land Committee Chairman, Town Clerk.
  • "Hawes, Edmund" in "America and West Indies, colonial papers, 1634-1635;" in the online database "Early Emigration From Britain 1636-1815." Records from the National Archives, C/O 1/8, accessed at www.findmypast.co.uk on 29 Oct 2019.

Acknowledgements

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 on 3 May 2020.
Edmund Hawes is listed as a Gateway Ancestor in Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry (vol. I, page xxv) and is in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed in May 2020 by a Magna Carta Project member) to Magna Carta Surety Barons Robert de Ros and Richard de Clare. Edmund is also listed as the Gateway Ancestor in another trail to surety baron Richard de Clare that is documented by Richardson (vol. II, pages 380-383 HAWES). The second trail to Clare was bagded by the project in July 2021. See the profiles in these trails, along with the status of each profile, in the Magna Carta Trails section of his father's profile.
See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".




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Thanks Rick. I have added this source to the profile.
posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
I only have a snippet view from that Google Books link, you might like to replace it with one from Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1920mass/page/n97/mode/2up or HathiTrust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076382629&seq=61 which I can see in full-text.
posted by John Atkinson
Thanks, John. I am the same. For people outside the USA, this quite often happens with Google Books links. I have replaced the link with one to Internet Archive.
posted by Michael Cayley
There is some more information about his will, codicil, and inventory here: https://books.google.com/books?id=sXdHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43
posted by Rick Pierpont