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Samuel Hoskins (1654 - bef. 1731)

Samuel Hoskins
Born in Plymouth, Plymouth Colonymap
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Son of and
Brother of [half], , , , , and
Husband of — married about 1678 in Taunton, Plymouth Colonymap
Husband of — married 5 Feb 1684 in Taunton, Plymouth Colonymap
Husband of — married 12 May 1692 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Husband of — married 4 Jun 1702 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , and
Died before before age 77 in Taunton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Samuel Hoskins was born August 8, 1654, in Plymouth.[1] He is the son of William Hoskins. [2]

He died between 2 April 1727 and 13 October 1731.[3]

Marriages

Samuel Hoskins married four times:[1][4][5]
  1. m. by about 1679 Abigail Stacey, daughter of Richard Stacey
  2. m. 5 February 1684(/5?) Mary Austin, daughter of Jonah Austin in Taunton
  3. m. 12 May 1692 Rebecca Brooks, daughter of Gilbert Brooks in Taunton
  4. m. 4 June 1702 Hannah (Penniman) in Taunton

Children

Children of Samuel and Abigail (Stacey) Hoskins:[3]
  1. Samuel, b. 1679-80[6]
  2. Lydia, b. ca 1681-82, m. 3 February 1713/4 Samuel Cobb[7][8]
Children of Samuel and Mary (Austin) Hoskins:[3]
  1. William, b. about 1686
  2. Abigail, b. about 1688, m. Joseph Eddy
"Samuel Haskins married again. There are two deeds in Bristol County (Taunton) that prove [Mary's] parentage; 18:76, naming her brothers and sisters and the husbands of the latter; and 12:122, dated June 13, 1719, which shows that Mary, second wife of Samuel Haskins, left only two heirs: 'Samuel Haskins of Taunton for love and affection which I have, do bear unto my son William Haskins and to my daughter Abigail wife of Joseph Eddy... and for other good causes and reasons... forever claim quit all land and rights in Taunton or elsewhere which in anywise belonged to my deceased wife Mary who was daughter of Jonah Austin.'"[9]

Research notes

Marriage to Mary Austin

Although Clemens' American Marriage Records Before 1699 has Samuel Hoskins and Mary Austin marrying in Windsor, Connecticut,[10] The New England Historical and Geneological Register shows them marrying in Taunton.[4]

Mary Austin's date of death

Although Mary (Austin) Hoskins, Samuel's second wife, is shown in places as having died in 1718,[11] this does not appear to be true. There is a legal document from 1719[9] where Samuel Hoskins transfers the property that belonged to his deceased wife Mary to his two children by her, which is likely the source of the confusion.

Will

Although Cutter along with several other sources claim that Samuel's will, which was probated in 1732, bequeathes to wife Mary,[12] Rounds' Abstracts states that his will bequeathes to wife Mercy.[13] A study of the records has shown that the will in question does bequeathe to his wife Mercy, proving that this is a conflation of Samuel Hoskins and his son Samuel Jr. who married Mercy Cobb. The will belongs to Samuel Jr.[3]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anderson, Robert Charles et. al. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 3. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Page 418.
  2. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., Ed. Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Deaths, Burials and Other Records, 1633-1689, Page 16.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Barclay, Florence Harlow. "Haskins of Taunton: Samuel(2), Samuel(3) and Their Families." The American Genealogist, Volume 38. 1952. Page 252-256.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13. Boston, MA: Samuel G. Drake, 1859. Page 251, 252.
  5. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Page 390.
  6. ↑ Russell, George Ely. The Hoskins Genealogist. G.E. Russell, 1957. Page 33.
  7. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 162. Boston, MA: Samuel G. Drake, 2008. Page 197.
  8. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The American Genealogist, Volume 30. D.L. Jacobus, 1954. Page 174.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines. The American Genealogist, Volumes 27-28. D.L. Jacobus, 1951. Page 253.
  10. ↑ Clemens, William Montgomery, Ed. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1926. Page 120.
  11. ↑ NEHGS Nexus, Volumes 6-7. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1989. Page 17.
  12. ↑ Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2. Boston, MA: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908. Page 1145.
  13. ↑ Rounds, H.L. Peter, C.G. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. Page 209,

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Bromley-244 Clare Bromley III
An additional source book (loaner.) Contributions biographical, genealogical and historical, by Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver, 1822-1903. Publication date,.1989 List of families included in the Contributions: Barnaby, Bartlett, Booth, Brownell, Caswell, Gardiner, Godfrey, Harlow, Howland, Haskins, Macomber, Pearce, Richmond, Rogers, Rounsevill, Sheffield, Shelley, Warren, Weaver, Williams--T.p. verso. The Haskins/Hoskins family is page 139-195. Caution, after a detailed pedigree covering many pages, this author rips Ann Hinds on p194-195. https://archive.org/details/contributionsbio00peir/page/194/mode/2up/
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Rorabacher-18 Jo (Rorabacher) Hollingsworth
When I began working on this profile yesterday (7 June 2107), it, along with most of the five existing profiles for his four wives (including the one for Rebecca Brooks that you manage) had between them no real sources and very little information, just a lot of unsourced information imported from GedComs.

I have added in the information that I've found so far and made notes in the profiles regarding the conflicts in information that I have found, as per WikiTree best practices. I will continue to research the conflicting information and add updates as I find them.

Thank you for adding sources to your Rebecca Brooks profile today. It should prove quite useful in unraveling this mystery.

If you have access to the full text of Samuel Hoskin's will, please feel free to make corrections and updates directly in the profile. So far I have found an additional abstract of his will which also references his second wife with no mention of the third or fourth ones.

posted by Jo (Rorabacher) Hollingsworth
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
When Anderson (a highly respected modern researcher) disagrees with Cutter, please don't assume that Cutter (a prolific republisher of content of unknown quality that he copied from other people) is correct. Whoever Cutter copied his information from, a lot of that information was wrong. Hoskins' will describes Mary as deceased.

This profile needs some editing to eliminate the bad quotations from Cutter and clear up the assertions that Anderson must be wrong because he doesn't agree with Cutter or various online genealogies copied into Wikitree.

posted by Ellen Smith
Lee-5956 Robin Lee
Haskins-271 and Hoskins-21 appear to represent the same person because: same parents, wife name is similar
posted by Robin Lee
Lee-5956 Robin Lee
Hoskins-203 and Hoskins-21 appear to represent the same person because: same parents and birth
posted by Robin Lee
Lee-5956 Robin Lee
Hoskins-201 and Hoskins-21 appear to represent the same person because: same name, same birth
posted by Robin Lee

Rejected matches › Samuel Moody Haskins (1813-1900) › Irwin Samuel Hoskins (abt.1886-)

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