Person:Robert Hawkins (10)

Robert Hawkins
b.Cal 1610
d.Est 1650
  • HRobert HawkinsCal 1610 - Est 1650
  • WMary UnknownCal 1611 -
m. Bef 1635
  1. Eleazer Hawkins1636 -
  2. Zachariah Hawkins1639 - Bef 1699
  3. Joseph Hawkins1642 - 1682
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Robert Hawkins
Gender Male
Birth[3] Cal 1610 Age 25 in 1635.
Marriage Bef 1635 to Mary Unknown
Emigration[1][2][4] 1635 On the Elizabeth & Ann.
Residence[1] 1635 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 25 May 1636 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1] Bef 1650 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] Est 1650
The Elizabeth and Ann (1635)
The Elizabeth and Ann, also known as the Eliza and Ann sailed in the spring of 1635. The passengers are found scattered amongst a number of entries in Hotten's Emigrant Ancestors.
Sailed: May? 1635 from London, England under Master Roger Clapp
Arrived: July? 1635 at Boston, Massachusetts

Passengers:
~100
Joseph Alsop - Thomas Alsop - Baker family - Gamaliell Beomont - John Birden - Grace Bulkley - Robert Carr - Sara Cartrack - Clement Chaplin - James Cobbet - Josias Cobbet - William Courser - Henry Curtis - Thomas Dane - Eaton family - Joseph Faberr - Elizabeth Fabin - Richard Goard - Amivell Hall - O. Halsey - Robert Hans - Robert Hawkins - Thomas Hedhall or Hedsall - John Holloway - Thomas Hubbard - Percy King - Henry Jackson - Robert Jefferies family - Thomas Lord family - Morecock children - Oldham children - George Orris - George Parker - Thomas Pond - Vincen Potter - William Read - William Samond - Richard Sanpson - Nicholas Sension - Robert Standy - Christopher Stanley - William Swayne - M. Swynden - Jo. Thomson - John Whitney family - Washburn family - Edmund Weston - Richard White - Andrey Whitton - Henry Wilkinson - George Wylde - John Wylie

Resources: Transcription of records from Hotten Founders of New England (NEHGR)

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Robert Hawkins, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    3:273-75.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    CHURCH MEMBERHSHIP: On 8 January 1635/6, "Mary Hawkins" was admitted to Charlestown church [ChChR 8]. On 17 April 1636, "Robert Haukins" was admitted to the same church [ChChR 9].
    FREEMAN: 25 May 1636 (second in a sequence of three Charlestown men) [MBCR 1:371].

  2. 2.0 2.1 Robert Hawkins, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
    1:263.

    Hawkins, Robert. Came in the Elizabeth and Ann, 1635, ae. 25; with Mary, ae. 24, his wife; settled in Charlestown; freeman, 25 May 1636. Quite early he owned land in Fairfield, which came into possession of Thomas Wheeler, Jr., who conveyed it in 1650.

  3. Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874): Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600- 1700. with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. (London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1874)
    58.

    Elizabeth & Ann Roger Coop[er] M[aste]r
    Husb:Robert Hawkynns ... 25
    Marie Hawkynns ... 24

  4. For some reason, Mr. Anderson does not assign Robert and Mary Hawkins to the 1635 crossing of the Elizabeth & Ann. Hotten [58] quite clearly has a Robert and a Mary Hawkins on the passenger list but they are not even discussed in Robert's Great Migration sketch.