Isaac Hoxie (1767 - 1853)

Born 14 Jan 1767 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Amey (Killey-O'Kilia) Hoxie — married 29 Mar 1791 in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Sarah (Estes) Hoxie — married 1809 in Orneville Township, Piscataquis, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 1853 at about age 85 in Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States

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Biography

Isaac Hoxie was born at Sandwich, Massachusetts on 14 Feb 1764, the son of Abner Hoxie and his wife Abigail. A baptism record shows he was baptized at Sandwich on 14 Feb 1767; the parents shown on that record are also Abner and Abigail Hoxie.

Isaac's date of birth and place of birth differs from publication to publication. Massachusetts Town Clerk Vital and Town Records 1626-2001 shows Isaac Hoxie as being born January 14,1769 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts to Abner and Abigail (Robinson) Hoxie.

He married twice:

• Amey Kelley married 29 Mar 1791 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts (unsourced here). They were the parents of six known children.
• Sarah Estes married about 1809 at Orneville Township, Maine (unsourced here). They were the parents of two known children.

The 1850 US census for Sidney, Maine lists residents Daniel Gifford (40), a farmer, Mary Gifford (39), Arnold Gifford (13), a student, Mary A Gifford (9), a student and Isaac Hoxie (83), a farmer. All except for Isaac were born in Maine; Isaac was born in Massachusetts in 1767 according to this record, in agreement with the birth record from Sandwich, Massachusetts.

• Note: Mary Gifford is Mary Rogers Hoxie, the daughter of Isaac and his second wife Sarah Estes.

Religion

Isaac Hoxie was a Quaker.

Quakers practice a religion of experience, a contemporary, simple and radical faith. They believed firmly in social, gender and spiritual equality. This was something that didn't go over very well with established authorities of the day. Quakers were also called Friends.

Like any other Christian congregation, Quakers could disagree about their individual religious beliefs and practices, but Friends generally supported all aspects of social justice from abolition to women's suffrage.

Quakers were opposed to war as well as all other forms of violence.

Quakers began migrating to Maine because they were often persecuted by the Puritans in what was then Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the late 1600's there was a law banning Quakers and in 1660 and 1661 several Quakers were hanged for their beliefs.

Isaac and first wife Amey Hoxie moved from Massachusetts Bay Colony to Maine with their first three children in 1800 to escape religious persecution. An excerpt from the Society of Friends records follows:

'" Sidney Preparative Meeting

The Friends' meeting was begun in Sidney in 1795, the preparative meeting being granted to them in 1800; a monthly meeting was established in1802. called Sidney monthly meeting. This was for the accommodation of Friends in Sidney and Fairfield, being held alternately at each place. Phineas, Jeremiah, and Obed Butler, with their respective families, were the earliest Friends in Sidney, they being Friends when they moved into the town. Then a number of families came there from Sandwich, Massachusetts, among them Isaac Hoxie and family, Benjamin Wing, Adam and Stephen Wing, also John Wing Kelley, and families."'

Burial Notes

Although it states on the Find a Grave website that Isaac, first wife Amey (Killey-O'Kilia) and second wife Sarah (Estes) Hoxie are buried in Orneville Cemetery, Orneville, Maine, I could not find their headstones. I personally visited the small cemetery also known as Hoxie Hill in August 2019.

Several of the stones are badly damaged and are no longer readable, a few have fallen face down separated from their base, the ground slowly growing over them. If Isaac and his wives Amey and Sarah are buried there, the stones are no longer visible.

Note by Janet (Johnston) MacDonald.

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-RW23 : 20 May 2022), Isaac Hoxie, 14 Feb 1764; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934221.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DDMX-NQ2M : 20 May 2022), Isaac Hoxie, 1767.

• "The Hoxie Family - Three Centuries in America" written by Leslie R Hoxie Uriah Oregon 1950. Printed by Beattie & Co Portland Oregon page 45

• Find a grave Orneville Cemetery Orneville Maine - Find A Grave: Memorial #160563896

• Source: Caroline Lewis Kardell and Russell A. Lovell Jr. Vital Records of Sandwich Massachusetts to 1885 3 volumes New England Historic Genealogical Society Boston states: Isaac Hoxie born January 14,1767 Sandwich Barnstable Massachusetts to Abner and Abigail (Robinson) Hoxie

• Source "The Hoxie Family Three Centuries in America" written by Leslie R. Hoxie page 45 states that Isaac Hoxie was born January 14,1767 Sandwich Barnstable Massachusetts to Abner and Abigail (Robinson) Hoxie.

Research notes

Personal history obtained from Harriet Taber Miller Johnston's trunk. Her mother was a Hoxie. Harriet was my grandmother and our family's first genealogist, who kept impeccable records.

Note from Janet Johnston MacDonald (Johnston-14844)