William Hoskins (1647 - 1730)

Born 30 Nov 1647 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Caswell) Hoskins — married 3 Jul 1677 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 27 May 1730 at age 82 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts

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Biography

William Hoskins was born November 30, 1647, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He is the son of William Hoskins and Ann Hinds.^[1]

William married Sarah Casewell July 3, 1677, in Taunton, Massachusetts.^[2] They had nine children together, named in his will in this order:^[3]

• William
• Henry
• Josiah
• Jacob
• Stephen
• Ann; m Nathaniel Smith son of Nathaniel
• Sarah; m Nathaniel Smith Son of Samuel
• Hannah; m William Macomber
• John

Nicholas Miller's Will

Will, Oct 24, 1665. John Hoskins, Wm. Hoskins, Jr and Mary Hoskins Cobb receive bequests in the will of Nicholas Miller, alias Hodgis.

[fol. 31] "The Last Will .... of Nicholas Miller alies hodgis exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 2cond of December 1665 on the oath of Willam Hoskins senir:

"October the 24 1665 .... I Nicholas Miller alies hodgis .... by this my will .... give to Peter Reife my house and Land and all my Corne .... alsoe my pott and frying pan spade and all my beding a paire of shooes and stockens; my gun I give to John hoskins; and my Chist to Willam hoskins Junir; and my howes and sickle and axe I give to John hoskins; my kettle I give to Mary Cobb; my best briches and Jackett and hatt; and longe neckcloth to John hoskins and my stockens I weare and my shirts to Daniell Ramsden; my butter pott and ferkin to hannah Reife;"

The will was signed by a mark. The witnesses were William Hoskins and Peter Reife, the latter signing by a mark. MD 16, Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories. ^[4]

Multiple Contemporary William Hoskins

There were at least 5 to 6 William Hoskins living in New England in the late 1600s^[5]

1. William of unsavory memory at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
2. William of Ipswich who was tried and convicted 1681-2 for aiding Edward Randolph the King's Revenue Officer to break certain laws of the Provincial Court.
3. William of Lyn who died in 1662 leaving a son William
4. William of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1643, most of whose descendants took on the name of Hotchkiss
5. William of Plymouth William Hoskins
6. William Hoskins (1647 - 1730)

Miscellaneous Notes

• William Hoskine (sic) and his wife Anne sued John Dunford for slander. They asked for £60. The jury found for the plantiffs and assessed the damages at 20s and the charges of the Court; and "John Dunford, for his slaunders, clamors, lude and euell carriage, p'ued as well by his owne confession as otherwise, is censured to dept. the gou'ment wthin the space of three months next ensuing, and in the mean tyme wel to behaue himself . . .
• Dec 24, 1657 Wm. Hoskins takes inventory of James Hurst, Plymouth, deceased NEHGR 5:386 (Will Abstracts)
• Wm Hoskins: 16 Lot abutteth on the path with two white Oaks marked NEHGR 3:337, Sketches of the early history of Marlborough.
• Warnings Out in Malden: Thomas Burditt, constable, warned William Hoskins and to warn Mr. Phillips that took said Hoskings to depart. NEHGR 92:53

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) By Subscription. Page 417.
2. ↑ #PCR Page 69
3. ↑ Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) By Subscription. Page 12175:3.
4. ↑ NEHGR 6:187 (Will abstracts)
5. ↑ #Boston Note 1137(?) Hoskins

• NEHGR 9:316 Taunton: "William Hoskins, maried to Sarah Caswell, 3 July 1677. Anna, dr.of William borne 14 Feb. 1678." Other children include Sarah, 1679, William, 1681, Heniry (sic) March 1683, Heniry again, 1686, Josiah 4 April 1689, John, 28 Sept 1690. Jacob 1 Nov. 1692, Stephen 2 Sept 1697. NEHGR 17:35, Marriages, Births & Deaths at Taunton.
• #PCR: Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Deaths, Burials and Other Records, 1633-1689, Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (Ancestry.com)
• Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots: Volume 2
• Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver. Indian History, Biography and Genealogy: Pertaining to the Good Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag Tribe (Z.G. Mitchell, North Abington, Mass., 1878) Page 121
• Will Detail Source

Name: William Haskins

Residence Date: Abt 1780

Residence Place: Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Will Date: 26 Mar 1780

Probate Date: 1730

Probate Place: Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

Inferred Death Year: 1730

Inferred Death Place: Massachusetts, USA

Others Listed (Name) Relationship

William Haskins Son

Henry Haskins Son

Josiah Hoskins Son

Jacob Hoskins Son

Stephen Haskins Son

Ann Smith Daughter

Sarah Smith Daughter

Hannah Mucomber Daughter

John Haskins Son

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