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Facts and Events
Was in Dorchester for a short while before moving to Windsor, where he was admitted to the church on 10 Jul 1642[5]. Juror of a Particular Court in Jun 1643 and September 1645.[4] He received a land grant at Windsor before 1643 which he sold to Peter Brown in 1658. He was a millwright in Windsor and served nearby towns as well. Listed as a freeman in 1669. A 1680 deposition refers to Dr. Robert Howard, which is assumed to be this Robert, because there is no other man with a similar name found in the area. At his death, Robert Hayward’s estate amounted to £96.[5]
Will
Invt. œ96-02-00. Taken 28 August, 1684, by Daniel Clarke sen., Job Drake sen., John Moore.
Lydia Haward, the Relict, aged 70 years or thereabouts, & James Miles, aged 35, Testify that to their knowledge Robert Hayward in his life time gave unto Ephraim his son that parcell of Land that sometime belonged to the sayd Robert Hayward, Lying in a Meadow called Mr. Phelps his Meadow, & owned it a little before his death. And Widow Hayward farther sayth that her son Ephraim had the possession of the Sayd Land before her husband's death. They both, and Job Drake sen., doe testify that Robert Hayward freely gave Edward King's Mortgage to his son Ephraim, only Ephraim was not to turn King out of dores while he
lived, he the sd. King duly discharging the rates.
Lydia Hayward & James Miles personally appeared & gave oath to the above written Testimonies before Benjamin Newbery, Comr, 3 Sept., 1684.
Court Record, Page 93--4 September, 1684: Invt. Exhibited. Adms. to Lydia, the Relict, & Ephraim Hayward, the sonn of sayd Robert Hayward
References
- ↑ Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925
Bk I p. 46.
Robert Howard dyed August 23rd 1684
- 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).
HAYWARD, ROBERT, Windsor, a miller, m. Lydia, d. of the first Thomas Kilborne, had Tabitha, b. 1 Jan. 1647; Rebecca, 17 Aug. 1648; Esther, 8 June 1651; Lydia, 13 Jan. 1655; beside three other ds. most of wh. d. young; and Ephraim, 11 Jan. 1657; rem. to Northampton 1659, but after some yrs. went back to W. there d. 23 Aug. 1684. His wid. wh. came with her f. in the Increase 1635, test. in 1684, that she was 70 yrs. old, only slight exagger. Rebecca m. a. 1665, John Spencer of Haddam. This fam. is usually called Howard.
- ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
page 360.
'HOWARD, Robert (1613-1684) & Lydia [KILBOURNE] (1616-), m/2 Samuel HAYES?; ca 1642?; Dorchester/Windsor, CT'
If Lydia married Samuel Hayes, she would have been at least 70 when she married him. Torrey does not include a separate entry for this supposed second marriage.
- ↑ Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon. The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn. (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1856)
page 42.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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)
2:417-19.
- ↑ Anderson did not prepare a Great Migration sketch for this man, apparently not finding any records for him in New England prior to 1636. The "Robert Haiward", age 22, who was cleared to come in 1635 was going to Virginia, not New England [Hotten 110-11]. A quick literature search finds no record for Robert Hayward/Howard in New England prior to his admission to the Windsor church in 1642.
- ↑ Torrey's estimate of this man's approximate date of birth is probably based on Mrs. Ferris' assertion, in Dawes-Gates, that this was the man who was on the Assurance, 1635 (which was going to Virginia, not New England). However, based on the estimated birth of his eldest known child, c. 1641, the 1613 estimate is probably not far off the mark.
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