Person:Rhoda Tinker (1)

Probable Second and Third Marriages for Rhoda Tinker

"This author [Douglas Richardson] believes that Rhoda (Tinker) Hobbs immigrated to New England where she m. (2) John Taylor of Windsor, Conn., and (3) Walter Hoyt of Windsor and Norwalk. The reasons for his identification are as follows: First, it is known that Rhoda Taylor had a previous marriage, for John Taylor in his will dated 1645 bequeathed a tract on the east side of the Connecticut River to his wife's daughters (see Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (1943) pp. 785-787). Secondly, the given name Rhoda appears repeatedly among the descendants of Rhoda Tinker's brother and two sisters in New England, suggesting that Rhoda Tinker herself came to New England and subsequent Rhodas in the family were named for her. Finally, Rhoda's second husband, John Taylor, and Matthias Sension (husband of Mary Tinker) both owned homelots in the Palisado in Windsor, and her third husband, Walter Hoyt, owned a farm in Windsor opposite that of John Tinker. Both Hoyt and Sension subsequently removed to Norwalk and there were intermarriages of their children. In an effort to identify Rhoda Taylor's children by her first marriage, this writer searched the Windsor land records to locate and trace the tract bequeathed to them by their stepfather, John Taylor. The search revealed that Taylor obtained his property on the east side of the river by exchange with John Rockwell (Windsor Deeds, I:10 and IA:8, not dated, FHL microfilm 6,188). Rhoda Taylor, then a widow, conveyed this same tract to Beggat (or Baggat) Eggleston, along with John Taylor's homelot and other Windsor land holdings (Windsor Deeds, I:23 and IA:19, not dated, FHL microfilm 6,188), before her daughters came into possession of it, and thus it cannot be used to identify them."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Richardson, Douglas. The English Ancestry of the Merwin and TInker Families of New England: Part II: John Tinker of Boston and Lancaster, Massachusetts and Windsor and New London, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 1995)
   149:412-413.

   Rhoda Tinker, bp. (New Windsor) 16 June 1611 as "daughter of Robert Tinker," … (John Taylor's will was) not probated until 6 Sept. 1694, after the death of his widow.

2.   Taylor Family, in Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes; and A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. (Milwaukee, WI: Cuneo Press, 1931-1943)
   II:785.
3. ↑ Assuming that she was the Rhoda who married John Taylor and Walter Hoyt.