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Rhoda (Tinker) Hoyt (abt. 1611 - abt. 1694)

Rhoda Hoyt formerly Tinker aka Hobbs, Taylor
Born about in Windsor, Berkshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1 Nov 1631 in New Windsor, Connecticut Colonymap
Wife of — married 1639 in Windsor, Connecticutmap [uncertain]
Wife of — married before 1652 in Windsor, Connecticut Colonymap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 83 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticutmap
Profile last modified | Created 28 Feb 2012
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Rhoda (Tinker) Hoyt migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Biography

Rhoda Tinker was baptized June 16, 1611; the daughter of Robert Tinker.[1]

At New Windsor on November 1, 1631 she married Thomas Hobbs.[1]

Her father's will dated 1623, bequeaths her tenements and lands in Berkhamsted, [Hertsfordshire, England] following her mother's death or remarriage.[1]Rhoda's stepfather was Humphrey Collins.[1]

Robert Charles Anderson and Clarence Torrey identifies her as Rhoda (______), initially married to John Taylor, then married to Walter, son of Simon Hoyt.[2][3]

Researcher Douglas Richardson, writing about the same time as Anderson, argues that John Taylor's wife was:

RHODA TINKER, bp. 16 Jun 1611 as "daughter of Robert Tinker"; m. at New Windsor, 1 Nov. 1631, THOMAS HOBBS. By the 1623 will of her father, she was to inherit tenements and lands in Berkhamsted, Herts, following her mother's death or remarriage. In 1633, Thomas served as a witness to the will of Rhoda's stepfather, Humphrey Collins.
This author [D. Richardson] believes that Rhoda (Tinker) Hobbs immigrated to New England, where she m. (2) John Taylor of Windsor, Conn., and (3) Walter Hoyt of Windsor and Norwalk.[fn#36:]
"The reasons for this identification are as follows: First, it is known that Rhoda Taylor had a previous marriage, for John Taylor in his will dated 1645 bequeathed a tract on the east side of the Connecticut River in Windsor to his wife's daughters (see Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (1943), pp 785-787). Secondly, the given name Rhoda appears repeatedly among the descendants of Rhoda Tinker's brother and two sisters in New England, suggesting that rhoda TInker herself came to New England and that subsequent Rhodas in the family were named for her. Finally, Rhoda's second husband, John Taylor, and Matthias Sension (husband of Mary Tinker) both owned homelots in the Palisado in Windsor, and her third husband, Walter Hoyt, owned a farm in Windsor opposite that of John Tinker. Both Hoyt and Sension subsequently removed to Norwalk and there were intermarriages of their children. In an effort to identify Rhoda Taylor's children by her first marriage, this writer searched the Windsor land records to locate and trace the tract bequeathed to them by their stepfather, John Taylor. The search revealed that Taylor obtained his property on the east side of the river by exchange with John Rockwell (Windsor Deeds, I:10 and IA:8, not dated, FHL microfilm 6,188). Rhoda Taylor, then a widow, conveyed this same tract to Beggat (or Baggat) Eggleston, along with John Taylor's homelot and other Windsor land holdings (ibid., I;23, IA:19), before her daughters came into possession of it, and thus it cannot be used to identify them.[4]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Richardson, Douglas. "The English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families of New England [Part Two: John Tinker]," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 149 (1995), p. 412. birth, father, husbands. AmericanAncestors.org (with subscription)
  2. Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins, (1995) p 1031: Vol. 3, Pg 2093.
  3. Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Database online Ancestry.com Provo, UT. Pg 729
  4. Douglas Richardson, "Ancestry of John Tinker," in NEHG Register, 149:412
  • Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 405: "His Wo. (Rhoda) married & moved to Norwalk with son Thos.--Jno & Jospeh Twins."
  • Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. p. 232 explains some family relationships.link for subscribers
  • Wakefield, Robert S. "Additions and Corrections to Torrey" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) v. 71 (1996), p. 147. marriage to Hoyt.link for subscribers
  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) V. 149, p. 412. birth, father, husbands.link for subscribers
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Should Rhoda's birth be recorded as New Windsor rather than Windsor? I understand there may be a difference.
posted by Michael Stills
You are probably correct. See Wikipedia. The quote below is noted as lacking a citation,

""New Windsor" was officially renamed "Windsor" in 1974."

posted by GeneJ X
the parenthesis in the data, marriage location is causing a DBE. Since it says in the biography that Richardson indicated the marriage occurred at New Windsor, I'll leave that in the data and remove the England place, since that needs citation.

Something's not quite right, since the marriage to Thomas Hobbs was 1631 in New Windsor, CT, but Thomas Hobbs is not listed in The Great Migration Directory, unless it's there under a different spelling.

posted by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
edited by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
Tinker-550 and Tinker-95 appear to represent the same person because: No sources and no family attached. But she carries the same married name and dates are justs estimates. No Evidence for a Rhonda.
posted by Michael Stills
This profile (Holt-1988) appears to have existed since 2013 with no data other than a surname and date of birth and is not connected to any parebts or children. It looks like it may be Trash from a defective GEDcom import. Should it be recycled?
posted by GR Gordon
Thank you, Brian, for completing the merges of the multiple Rhodas.
posted by Jillaine Smith
In my original tree, I have no maiden nor former married name(s) for Rhoda. These must have come from a merge with another profile.
posted by Joyce (Rosnel) Weaver