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Captain William Hedges
b.Est 1612
- H. Captain William HedgesEst 1612 - 1670
- W. Blanche UnknownEst 1625 - Aft 1670
m. Aft 1667
Facts and Events
William Hedges was a freeman 14 May 1634 and took the oath of fidelity at Sandwich in 1639.[1]
In his will dated 30 Jun 1670 and proved 11 Aug 1670, William Hedge Senior in Yarmouth names "son Abraham Hedge", "son Elisha Hedge", "son William" "son John", "son Elemuell", "daughter Sarah Mathews", "daughter Elizabeth Barnes", "daughter Mary Sturgis", "daughter Marcye", "sister Brookes", "son Elisha", "Blanch, my wife, [who] hath dealt falsely with me in the covenant of marriage in departing from me."[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 William Hedges, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
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Origin: Unknown.
Migration: 1633.
First Residence: Lynn. Removes: Sandwich 1638, Yarmouth by 1643.
Birth: About 1612, son of Elisha and Ann (Ward) Hedge (his parents married Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, 12 July 1610 [NEHGR 111:319] and the immigrant was admitted to freemanship on 14 May 1634).
Death: Yarmouth between 30 June 1670 (date of will) and 5 July 1670 (court order to bring in will and inventory [PCR 5:43]).
- 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)
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WILLIAM, Lynn, freem. 14 May 1634, rem. to Sandwich, thence to Yarmouth, had Elizabeth b. 21 May 1646; Mary, 1648; beside Abraham, Sarah, Elisha, William, John, Mary, and Lemuel, all liv. to be nam. in his will; but this may not be the order of their b. His sec. w. was Blanch, and had been wid. Hull. Elizabeth m. 4 Jan. 1666, Jonathan Barnes; Mary m. a Sturgis; and Sarah m. a Matthews. He d. 1670, when some of these ch. were young. His will of 30 June in that yr. ment. that his w. to wh. he gave only twelve pence, had brok. covenant and separat. from him.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thacher, Julia Edgar (Le Roy), comp. Joshua Gray of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and his descendants. (Boston, Massachusetts, 1914)
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... Captain William Hedge, father of Elisha, and the emigrant ancestor of the family, was made freeman in 1634, and in 1637 removed with Mr. Edmund Freeman and his associates from Lynn, to begin a new settlement in Sandwich, where a division of meadow lands containing fourteen acres was allotted him. But in the list of those able to bear arms in the Colony of New Plymouth in 1643, he is enrolled as of Yarmouth, where he finally settled. In 1653 he was elected ensign, and repeatedly served as captain of the military company. He was also a member of the Grand Inquest and of the Council of War and one of the jurors appointed to lay out a road from Sandwich to Plymouth. His will, which was made June 30, and probated August 11, 1670, mentions sons Abraham. Elisha, William, John and Elemuel ; daughters Sarah Matthews [wife of Thomas], Elizabeth Barnes [wife of Jonathan], Mary Sturgis [wife of Samuel], and Mercy Hedge ...
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