Martha (Baldwin) Hawks (abt. 1647 - 1676)

Born about 1647 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of John Hawks — married 26 Dec 1667 in Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 7 Jan 1676 at about age 29 in Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Martha Baldwin, daughter of Joseph, was born in 1647.^[1] (Birth year conflicts with that of baptism below.)

Baptism

Baptism: Mar 1644/1645 (? source?)

Marriage

Married John Hawks (son of John of Hadley) 26 Dec 1667.^[2] Sheldon's history of Deerfield says they lived together for ten years. John married second, in 1696 Alice, widow of Samuel Allis. Alice was killed in the Deerfield raid, when all of John's children and grandchildren surnamed Hawks were also killed.^[3]

Death

Death: 7 Jan 1675/76^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Boltwood, p. 10: "Baldwin... Martha, b. 1647, m. Dec. 26, 1667, John Hawks of Hat."
2. ↑ Great Migration, Vol. III, p. 259.
3. ↑ History of Deerfield, p. 45.
4. ↑ Boltwood, p. 69: "[John Hawkes] m. (1) Dec. 26, 1667, Martha, (probably Baldwin,) who d. Jan. 7, 1676".

See also:

• George Sheldon. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the times when and the people by whom it was settled, unsettled and resettled. 1896. Volume I, Volume II.

• Daniel White Wells and Reuben Field Wells. A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in Three Parts. Springfield, Massachusetts, F.C.H. Gibbons, 1910.

• The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H.

• Lucius Manlius Boltwood. Genealogies of Hadley Families: Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst, and Granby. Metcalf printers,1862. Courtesy of Google Books, https://play.google.com.