Adam Hawkes

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Adam Hawkes

Birth
Attleborough, Breckland Borough, Norfolk, England
Death
13 Mar 1671 (aged 67)
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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Baptized Hingham, Norfolk, 26 January 1604[/5], son of John Hawke [Adam Hawkes Gen 1] (deposed on 30 March 1658 "aged about fifty years"). Came from Hingham, Norfolk to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 (based on date of wife's admission to Charlestown church). First settled in Charlestown; moved to Lynn in 1636. Died in Lynn 13 March 1671[/2].
MARRIAGES: (1) By about 1631 Anne (_____) Hutchinson. She died at Lynn on 4 December 1669.
(2) Lynn [blank] June 1670 Sarah Hooper, daughter of William Hooper. She married (2) at Andover on 9 January 1672[/3] Samuel Wardwell. Twenty years later, Samuel Wardwell and his wife were accused and convicted of witchcraft, and he was executed.
The claim that Adam Hawkes came to New England in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet is highly unlikely, given the lack of records for him and his family prior to 1634. The list of names from 1630 put forth in support of this claim is insufficient evidence, since most of the entries on that list are only surnames, and there are many which do not appear in New England.
"Adam Hawcks" was admitted an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1634, and was then included in the list of inhabitants of that town in January 1634/5.
There is no record of the two births supposed to have taken place in Charlestown in 1633 and no evidence for the supposed first son John.
Baptized Hingham, Norfolk, 26 January 1604[/5], son of John Hawke [Adam Hawkes Gen 1] (deposed on 30 March 1658 "aged about fifty years"). Came from Hingham, Norfolk to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 (based on date of wife's admission to Charlestown church). First settled in Charlestown; moved to Lynn in 1636. Died in Lynn 13 March 1671[/2].
MARRIAGES: (1) By about 1631 Anne (_____) Hutchinson. She died at Lynn on 4 December 1669.
(2) Lynn [blank] June 1670 Sarah Hooper, daughter of William Hooper. She married (2) at Andover on 9 January 1672[/3] Samuel Wardwell. Twenty years later, Samuel Wardwell and his wife were accused and convicted of witchcraft, and he was executed.
The claim that Adam Hawkes came to New England in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet is highly unlikely, given the lack of records for him and his family prior to 1634. The list of names from 1630 put forth in support of this claim is insufficient evidence, since most of the entries on that list are only surnames, and there are many which do not appear in New England.
"Adam Hawcks" was admitted an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1634, and was then included in the list of inhabitants of that town in January 1634/5.
There is no record of the two births supposed to have taken place in Charlestown in 1633 and no evidence for the supposed first son John.


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