Edmund Hobart - I25526 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

Edmund Hobart (I25526)

Given Names: Edmund
Surname: Hobart

Gender: Male

Birth: 1 January 1572/1573 -- Hingham, Norfolk, England
Death: 8 March 1645/1646 -- Hingham, Plymouth, Mass.

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Edmund Hubbard was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England in 1574. In 1600, he married Margaret Dewey. Edmund, his wife, Margaret,six of their children ‎(Nazareth, Edmond, Thomas, Joshua, Rebecca and Sarah)‎ and a man serv
ant, Henry Gibbs, left Yarmouth, Norfolk, England the first weekin May 1633 on the ship ' 'Elizabeth Bonaventure' ' ‎(1587 the flagship of English privateer Sir Francis Drake. In the battle to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588 under the ship command George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland)‎.

They arrived at Boston on June 15 with 95 passengers. They settled in Charlestown, Suffolk Co.. Edmund was admitted to the church with his son, Edmund, and his wife, Elizabeth. Hetook the freeman's oath on March 4, 1634 and soon after was appointed by the General Court as a Constable of Charlestown, Suffolk Co.. In 1635, his family, with three other married children recently arrived from England, moved to Bare Cove, a new place about 12 miles south of Boston. The residents later changed the name of the town to Hingham, after the town in England from which most of them had come.
Edmund was appointed to the Grand Jury for the year commencing on September 19, 1637. He was appointed by the General Court, on September 6, 1638, to be a commissioner to try small claims in the Town of Hingham. This a
ppointment, equivalent to the position of justice of the peace, was renewed on May 22, 1639 and June 2, 1641. He was also appointed by the General Court, on June 16, 1639, to be a member of the committee to levy a tax of one thousand pounds on the twelve towns then organized. He was chosen to be arepresentative of Hingham in the General Court in 1639, 1640, 1641, and 1642. After his first wife, Margaret Dewey, died in 1641, Edmund married, Sarah Lyford, the widow of Rev. John Lyford.
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A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THEFIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, BEFORE 1692 - Vol. 2 - Savage, James - 1860-62:
HOBART, EDMUND, Hingham, came with w. ch. Joshua, Rebecca, and Sarah, perhaps, also, Thomas, and his w. and childr. in 1633, with int. to satisfy inq.of his neighbors in old Hingham, was first at Charlestown, freem. 4 Ma
r. 1634, constable the same yr. went, as one of the first sett. 1635, to Hingham, was rep. 1639-42, and d. 8 Mar. 1646. Edmund, Joshua, Rev. Peter, Thomas, and two ds. I see reason to infer, that a wid. Lyford, wh. he m. late in life, wasrelict of that Rev. John L. who was at Plymouth the first disturber of theirch. My infer. was clear. pro. by Hist. Coll. of the Essex Inst. I. 35.
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Emigrated from Yarmouth, Norfolk, England May 16, 1633 and landed at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the middle of June 15, 1633. There were 95 passengers on board . Listed were Mrs. Margaret Hobart, Nazareth, Edmund, Thomas, Joshua, Rebecca and Sarah Hobart. Information from ' 'Planters of the Commonwealth' ' by Banks p 103, He arrived on the ship ' 'Elizabeth Bonaventure' ', John Gravesas Master, with part of his large family. Family crest was granted to Edmund19 May 1575 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. His son, the Reverand Peter Hobartcame in 1634 to America bringing with him his followers and founded the ' 'Old Hingham Church of Puritan Faith' ' in Mass.


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	Events of close relatives
Birth	1 January 1572/1573 Hingham, Norfolk, England
Marriage of father	22 April 1590 (Age 18) Sir Henry Hobart (I25528) (Age 27) - [Relationship Chart] Dorothy Bell (I25529) (Age 17) - [Relationship Chart] ‎[View Family ‎(F10050)‎‎]
Marriage	7 September 1600 (Age 28) Margaret Dewey - ‎[View Family ‎(F10049)‎‎] Hingham, Norfolk, England
Death of father	29 December 1625 (Age 53) Sir Henry Hobart (I25528) (Age 62) - [Relationship Chart]
Death of mother	30 April 1641 (Age 69) Dorothy Bell (I25529) (Age 68) - [Relationship Chart]
Death	8 March 1645/1646 (Age approx. 73-74) Hingham, Plymouth, Mass.
Universal Identifier	F8E4CA182AD3FE419DE988C8438A0FBA663F
Last Change	21 April 2007 - 16:36:29 Last changed by: dcoplien