Person:William Hoskins (3)

Name^[1]	William Hoskins
Alt Name	William Hodgekins
Alt Name	William Haskins
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1615/16	Aghadown, Cork, Republic of Ireland
Marriage	2 Nov 1636	Plymouth, Plymouth, MAto Sarah Cushman
Marriage	21 Dec 1638	Plymouth, MAto Ann Hindes
Alt Marriage	21 Dec 1638	Plymouth, Plymouth, MAto Ann Hindes
Emigration`^?`	Bef 1645
Death^[2]	7 Sep 1695	Taunton, Bristol Co., MA

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Origins

William Hoskins was born in County Cork Ireland, about 1615, son of Henry and Anne (Winthrop) Hoskins. (NEHGR 125:80) Briggs of Taunton Family. ["Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family of New England" P. 21, Almon D. Hodges, Call Number: R929.2 H689]

[[1]]The Winthrop connection of William Hoskins helps to explain his standing in the communities in which he lived, and his education, which was of superior quality. Adam Winthrop (1498-1562) grantee of Groton Manor, Suffolk, in 1544 was succeeded there by his son John Winthrop (born 20 January 1545/4 6; died 26 July 1613). John became estranged from his wife, and in 1609 sold Groton to his younger brother Adam and the latter's son John, the future first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He settled in Aghadowne, CO Cork, IRE and by Elizabeth Powlden of Rathgogan, CO Cork, whom he married after securing a legal separation from his former wife, he had 3 children. One of them was Anne Winthrop, who married Henry Hoskins, Gentleman, and became the mother of William Hoskins.

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Life in New England

1633: History of Town of Middleboro, p. 45: William Hoskins came from England about 1633, and was one of the freemen that year. He married Sarah Cushman, and as a second wife, Ann Hynes, or Hinds.

1636: William married (1st), at Plymouth, Nov. 22, 1636, Sarah Cushman, and (2nd), at Plymouth, Dec. 31, 1638, Ann Hynes or Hinde, who was born in England.

New England Marriages Prior to 1700, p. 390: William Hoskin s/Hodgekins(-7 Sept 1694) and 1st wife Sarah Cushman, 2 Nov . 1636, Plymouth; 2ndwife Ann Hynes/Haynes/Hands, 21 Dec 16 38; Plymouth.

1638: Ann Hind(e) married Mr. William Hoskins of Plymouth, planter, as his second wife, Dec. 21, 1638. (Pope's Pioneers, p. 234.)

1641: Ply. Col. Rec., page 98, March 2, 1641. Ann Hinde, "wife of William Hoskins." She was then about 25 years old.

1641: Genealogical notes by Ebenezer Peirce, p. 139-145, The Hoskine, Hoskins or Haskins Family: William Hoskins, or Hoskine, as the surname used sometimes to be spelled in the public records of Plymouth colony, was at Plymouth and a married man as early as 1641, for on the 2nd day of March in that year, "Ann Hinde the wife of William Hoskins, aged 25 yeares or thereabout," testified concerning what occurred in the old country before she came to America.

January 18, 1643, William Hoskins in writing agreed that his daughter Sarah Hoskins should live with Thomas Whitney and wife until Sarah should be twenty years of age, and the document further went on to say that Sarah was 6 years old the 16th of Sept. last past, and therefore must have been born Sept. 16th, 1636.

1643: Willm Hoskine: August 1643 Among males that are able to beare armes between the ages of 16 and 60, New Plymouth. NEHGR 4:255 from a copy of the original record, Shurtleff.

DATE? William Hoskine (sic) and his wife Anne sued John Dunford for slander. They asked for £60. The jury found for the plantiffs and assessed the damages at 20s and the charges of the Court; and "John Dunford, for his slaunders, clamors, lude and euell carriage, p'ued as well by his owne confession as otherwise, is censured to dept. the gou'ment wthin the space of three months next ensuing, and in the mean tyme wel to behaue himself . . .

1657: Dec 24, 1657 Wm. Hoskins takes inventory of James Hurst, Plymouth, deceased NEHGR 5:386 (Will Abstracts)

1662: His name is on the list of those who, on June 3, 1662, applied to the General Court at Plymouth in reference to a grant to be made to them as being the first-born children of this government, and for disposing of two several tracts of land lately purchased. He was on the jury with John Tomson and Sergeant Ephraim Tinkham to try an Indian for murder in 1674.February 6, 1665, he was appointed administrator of the estate of Nicholas Hodgis, alias Miller, deceased. He had received a grant of land in Lakenham.

There is but little doubt that upon the incorporation of Middleboro as atown, in 1669, he was chosen town clerk, and continued in that office until 1693, although there is no official record of his election before May 24, 1681. At that time he was unanimously chosen to that office. His first election cannot be verified, as all of the town records were destroyed during the Indian War. He lived in Middleboro before the Indian War in the house of William Clark, and kept the original deed and records of the Prince and Coombs Purchase, and probably the records of the town. He is one of the soldiers "from Middleboro" who took part in the war, and was promised a grant of land for his services at Narragansett (See Isaac Pierce). [Laster source indicates it was his *son* William Hoskins Jr. who took part in the war.]

1675-1677: He was one of the men in the Twenty-six Men's Purchase and also in the Purchade Purchase, but at the breaking out of the war he does not appear to have been an owner in any portion of that land. His name is among the former proprietors of the liberties of Middleboro, but before 1677, his interest therein passed to George Vaughan, Sr. He lived in Scituate, Plymouth, and Taunton, and in 1680 was "grown old and feeble."

1679-80: Ply. Col. Rec., March 2, 1679-80. Court orders four pounds to be paid to William Hoskins by the treasurer, being poor, loosing all he had in the late war ( King Philip's War) and being grown old and unable to labor.

1692: William Hoskins, Sr. had returned to Plymouth by 1692 where 2 of his daughters, Sarah Eaton and Elizabeth Tillson were living. There he lived in the village of Lakenham as a sort of lay preacher. He was reprimanded by the Church for teaching the Bible without authorization. In the Plymouth Church records, we read under date of 24 August 1692, that "some of our church & church-children had last spring desired William Hoskins to come & live with them at Lakenham for carrying on the Sabbath in teaching them, which they desired & he accepted, without asking any consent or consell of the Elder or church therein, & thereby they generally in that village neglected coming to the publick worship", and the church voted that the Pastor should warn the Brethern concerned.

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