Samuel Hubbard (1610 - 1692)

Born 10 May 1610 in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard — married 4 Jan 1636 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1692 in Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

1610 Born in Mendelsham, Suffolk County, England, the son of James and Naomi (Cocke) Hubbard who was the daughter of Thomas Cocke of Ipswitch. ^[1][2]

October 1633 (age 23) came from England to Salem, Massachusetts ^[3]

4 March 1634 (age 24) admitted as a freeman in Watertown, Massachusetts ^[3]

1635 (age 25) Both Samuel Hubbard and Tacy Cooper were in the party that marched through the wilderness from Watertown, Massachusetts during the terrible winter of 1635 to become the founders of Connecticut. They were persecuted in Massachusetts for expressing their Baptist views.^[4][5]

4 January 1636 (age 26) married Tacy Cooper in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut ^[3]

10 May 1639 moved to Springfield, Massachusetts ^[3][5]

1647 moved to Fairfield, Connecticut ^[5]

2-12 October 1648 moved from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Rhode Island after being threatened with imprisonment for their religious views ^[3]

"God having enlightened both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at and answered two terms publicly, where I was also said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened with imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove; that scripture came into our mouths, if they persecute you in one place, flee to another; and so we did 2 day of October, 1648, we went for Rhode Island."^[6][5]

3 November 1648 baptized into the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Newport, RI ^[5]

1655 made Freeman ^[6]

1 October 1657 "Brother Obadiah Holmes and I went to the Dutch and Gravesend and to Jamaica, and to Flushing and to Cow Bay." They came home Nov. 15th. ^[6]

1664 He was to be General Solicitor, in case of inability of Lawrence Turner. ^[6]

July 1668 He wrote his cousin, John Smith, of London, from Boston, where he had been to a disputation

"Through God's great mercy, the Lord have given me in this wilderness, a good, dillgent, careful, painful and very loving wife... A good house, as with us judged, 25 acres of ground fenced, and four cows which give, one young heifer and three calves, and a very good mare, a trade, a carpenter, a health to follow it, and my wife very diligent and painful, praised be God." &c. ^[6]

1 November 1675 He wrote Mr. Henry Reeve, at Jamaica

"Very sudden and strange changes these times afford in this, our age, everywhere, as I hear and now see in N. E. God's hand seems to be stretched out against N. England by wars by the natives, and many Englishmen fall at present." "This island doth look to ourselves as yet, by mercy not one slain, blessed be God". "My wife and 3 daughters, who are all here by reason of the Indian war, with their 15 children, desire to remember their christian love to you."^[6]

1688/1692 died in Westerly, Rhode Island

Burial: Baptist Berkly's, White Hall, Farm^{[citation needed]}

Children

Children of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard: ^[7][8]

1. Naomi, b. Nov. 18, 1637 at Wethersfield; d. Nov. 28 1637 at Wethersfield.
2. Naomi, b. Oct. 19, 1638 at Wethersfield; d. May 5, 1643, Springfield.
3. Ruth, b. Jan. 11, 1640, Springfield; d. about 1691, Westerly; m. Nov. 2, 1655, Robert Burdick, b. - -, d. 1692. Children: 1. Robert, 2. Son, 3. Hubbard, 4. Thomas, 5. Naomi, 6. Ruth, 7. Benjamin, 8. Samuel, 9. Tacy, 10. Deborah.
4. Rachel, b. Mar. 10, 1642, Springfield, d. --; m. Nov. 3, 1658, Andrew Langworthy. Children: 1. Samuel, 2. James
5. Samuel, b. Mar. 25, 1644; Springfield; d. soon.
6. Bethiah, b. Dec. 19, 1646, Springfield; d. Apr. 17, 1707, Westerly; m. Nov. 16, 1664, Joseph Clarke, b. Apr. 2, 1643; d. Jan. 11, 1727. Children: 1. Judith, 2. Joseph, 3. Samuel, 4. John, 5. Bethiah, 6. Mary, 7. Susanna, 8. Thomas, 9. William
7. Samuel, b. Nov. 30, 1649, Newport; d. Jan. 20, 1670/1, Newport

About 1987 a stone bearing the name Samuel Hubbard was found in a flower bed next to Whitehall on Berkeley Avenue in Middletown and in 1993 was in the basement of Middletown Historical Society's Paradise School Museum. The date is so obliterated that it is difficult to make positive identification with the father or either of his two sons bearing that name. The stone wall which still borders White Hall causes one to wonder if other similar stones lie hidden within the wall.^[10]

Establishing the Church

Stephen Mumford may have been the first Seventh Day Baptist in America chronologically, but the Hubbards were the most influential in establishing the first Sabbath keeping Christian church on this side of the Atlantic. Their importance lies not only in what they did and said, but also in the record that they provide for the history of the period in which they lived. Much of Samuel Hubbard's journal and correspondence was copied and extracts have been used by historians as a primary source for the thoughts and actions of the last half of the seventeenth century.

His property was in what was later named Middletown near that of Obadiah Holmes and John Clarke, leaders in the First Baptist Church.

Almost from the beginning, Samuel was recognized as a leader within the church. When John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall were arrested and imprisoned in 1651 while visiting a Baptist brother in Lynn Massachusetts, Samuel Hubbard was one of those who was sent by the church to visit them in prison and attempt to secure their release.^[11] In 1657 Hubbard accompanied Obadiah Holmes on a missionary tour to some of the Dutch settlements on Long Island, at Gravesend, Jamaica, Flushing and Hampstad.^[12]

Although Samuel Hubbard was a recognized leader in the Baptist Church, Tacy appears to have been the dominant force in the Seventh Day Baptist Church. As mentioned previously, Tacy was the first to have been "enlightened into [God's] holy ordinance of baptizing only of visible believers."^[13]

Nearly twenty years later, Samuel Hubbard entered into his Journal the note:

"My wife took up keeping the lord's holy 7th day Sabbath the 10 day March 1665. I took it up 1 day April 1665. Our daughter, Ruth 25 Oct. 1666. --Rachel-- Jan. 15, 1666 --Bethiah-- February 1666. Our son Joseph Clarke 23 Feb. 1666. (Hubbard, Journal p. 9-10. Note: The old style calendar was used in which the new year began in March rather than January.)"

Her role is also noted by Edwin Gaustad's account of the debate which led to the 1671 separation of the five from the church of John Clarke. "Joseph Torrey thought that the congregation ought to hear from someone besides Hiscox, and after much discussion Tacey Hubbard was allowed to summarize the reasons for their not taking communion with the rest of the church." (Gaustad, Baptist Piety p. 56. Hubbard records this incident, writing: "Then Br. Hiscox began but they would not let him -- every one must answer for himself lest others be led by him: so they named me, but I would not be first: then my wife laid down three grounds...")

In a letter to John Thornton of Providence in December 1686, Hubbard summed up their religious pilgrimage with the words:

"My wife and I counted this year 1686: My wife a creature 78 years, a convert 62 years, married 50 years, a baptist 38 years, a sabbath keeper 21 years. I a creature 76 years, a convert 60 years, an independent & joined to a church 52 years, a baptist 38 years and a sabbath keeper 21 years. We are rich grace born up & adorned with rich mercies above many, as to have all three daughters in the same faith & order & 2 of their husbands, and 2 of my grand daughters and their husbands also with us. ^[14]

Similarly, the Hubbard's third daughter, Bethiah married Joseph Clark, the nephew of Dr. John Clarke, the founder of the First Baptist Church in Newport. Her husband was mentioned by Hubbard as "son, Clarke," who came to the Sabbath with others in the family in 1666. Their daughter, Judith, married John Maxson Jr. who became the third pastor of the Westerly Church. Another daughter, Bethiah, married Thomas Hiscox, the fourth pastor of that same church. Two other daughters, Mary and Susanna, were progenitors of some of the Champlins and Babcocks within the denominational line. (For a more complete summary see Part II of this book.)^[15]

Research Notes

Samuel isn't profiled in the Great Migration series.

In the profile for Benjamin Hubbard (who seems to be his brother), Anderson states: "In 1895 Edward Warren Day made a number of claims... but this author's work is generally unreliable [One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895, from Hubba, the Norse Sea King, to the Enlightened Present (New York 1895)...]."^[16] It's relevant because One Thousand Years is often cited as a source for Samuel Hubbard's origins.

Sources

1. ↑ Johnson, Nellie. The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Typesetting Co., 1937. Page 5-6.
2. ↑ Magazine of New England History, Volumes 1-2. R.H. Tilley, 1891. Page 172-175.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Volume 1. New England: Lewis Historical publishing Company, 1913. Page 461.
4. ↑ Crandall, John C. Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants. New Woodstock, NY: 1949. Page 3, 8.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} The Seventh-day Baptist Memorial, Volumes 1-3. Seventh-day Baptist Publishing Society, 1852. Page 145-148.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5} Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 : with many families carried to the fourth generation. Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, 1887. Page 106-107.
7. ↑ Magazine of New England History, Volumes 1-2. R.H. Tilley, 1891. Page 175.
8. ↑ Ford, Carol Lee. Genealogies of Rhode Island Families From Rhode Island Periodicals, Volume 1. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983. Page 543-544.
9. ↑ Stiles, Ezra and Franklin Bowdritch Dexter. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, Volume 3: Jan. 1, 1782 - May 6, 1795. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1901. Page 82-83.
10. ↑ Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, Volumes 65-67. Newport, RI: The Society, 1993. Page 12.
11. ↑ Edwin Scott Gaustad, "Baptist Piety: The last Will and Testimony of Obadiah Holmes, (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian University Press and Eerdman's Publishing Co., 1978) 52.
12. ↑ Hubbard, Journal p. 9
13. ↑ Hubbard, Journal p. 4-5
14. ↑ Hubbard Journal, p. 146-147
15. ↑ Sanford, Ilou M. & Don A. Newport Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1998. Page 17-21.
16. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume 2. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011, p. 1035.

See also

• Arnold, James N., Ed. The Narragansett Historical Register, Volume 2. Hamilton, Rhode Island: The Narangansett Historical Publishing Company, 1883. Page 97-101.

• Champlin, Jr., J.D. Early Settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island. New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol XIV, January 1860.

• Day, Edward Warren. 1000 Years of Hubbard History 866 to 1895. Hubbard, NY: Harlan, 1895.

• Dexter, Franklin, Ed. Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901.

• Ford, Carol Lee. Genealogies of Rhode Island Families From Rhode Island Periodicals. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983.

• Huling, Ray Greene; "Samuel Hubbard of Newport, 1610-1689, Volume 5." 1886-7. Page 289-327. (Reprinted in Narraganset Historical Register 5 (Dec. 1887): 1-15.)

Magazine of New England History Volume 1 pp 172-79 & 193-201. Volume 2 pp 59-65, 170-76, 243-46

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