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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hobby, John, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
1:288.
"Hobby, John. Deputy for Greenwich, Oct. 1682, May 1696, May 1697, May 1701. He was a member of the petit jury which tried the witchcraft cases, 1692. Will of John of Greenwich, 24 Apr. 1707; sons Thomas, Benjamin, Jonathan; daus. Hannah Bunkham, Martha Morehouse; daus. of dec’d dau. Rebecca Hardy,—Rebecca and Hannah Hardy; daus. Mary Holmes, Rachel James; gr. children, John Hobby, Mary Holmes; son Jonathan and son-in-law Stephen Holmes, Exec’rs. Inv. 26 May 1707."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hobby Family, in Mead, Spencer P. (Spencer Percival). Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut: With Genealogical Notes on the Adams, Avery, Banks, Betts, Brown, Brundage, Brush, Budd, Bush, Close, Davis, Dayton, Denton, Ferris, Finch, Green, Hendrie, Hobby, Holly, Holmes, Horton, Howe, Hubbard, Husted, Ingersoll, Knapp, Lockwood, Lyon, Marshall, Mead, Merritt, Mills, Palmer, Peck, Purdy, Reynolds, Ritch, Rundle, Sackett, Scofield, Selleck, Seymour, Sherwood, Slater, Smith, Studwell, Sutherland, Sutton, Todd, Waring, Waterbury, Webb, Weed, White, Wilcox, Wilson, and Worden Families. (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1911)
555-56.
"The first of the Huby, Hubbe, Hoby, or Hobby family to settle in Greenwich, Old Town, was 1John Hobby, some time prior to 1659. The first authentic account that can be obtained of him anywhere in the New England Colonies is on the eleventh day of October, 1659, when he testified before the Magistrate's Court at New Haven, in reference to a horse detained by George Slawson of Stamford, Connecticut. He might have been at Newtown, Long Island, in 1656. He was one of the original patentees named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich by the General Assembly in May, 1665. He was born about 1632, probably in England, died at Greenwich, Connecticut, in May, 1707, and married about 1655, wife unknown, …"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 John Hobby, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:437.
"John (Hobby), Greenwich bef. 1666, may have been earlier of Newtown, L. I. He d. 1707, had four s. and six ds. of wh. all but John, wh. d. without issue, 12 Mar. 1693, are ment. in his will; Thomas, Benjamin, Jonathan, Eliz. Prindle, Hannah Burnham, Martha Morehouse, Rebecca Hardy, Mary Holmes, and Rachel James. Rebecca was d. but left childr."
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