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• He was born on April 8, 1603 in Waverton, Cheshire, Eng.
• He was christened on April 8, 1603 in Chester St. Oswald, Waverton, Cheshire, Eng.
• (note1) .Source 1

  Source: Beth Bauchet, Frances Manwaring Caulkins, Barbara Stonehill, Gina Strack, Sandra Wamsley, Roy Hunt, Dale Riife, Greg Volk, Jerry Bevan Wright, et al.

• He died on January 8, 1690 in Norwich, New London Co., CT, he was 86 years old.
• He is buried after January 7, 1690 in Norwich, New London Co., CT (Old Town Cem.).
• A child of Rowland Calkins and Ellen (Elen) Payne
• This information was last updated on May 25, 2024.

Household of Hugh Calkins

He is married to Anne (Ann) (NN-Calkins, Hugh).

They got married about 1622 at Cheshire, Eng.

Child(ren):

1. John Calkins  ± 1634-1701 

Event (Alt. Marriage) in the year 1625 in Gloucester, Essex Co., MA .Source 1

Notes about Hugh Calkins

Hugh Calkins

Sources: Author: Bauchet, Beth; Caulkins, Frances Manwaring; Stonehill, Barbara; Strack, Gina; Wamsley, Sandra; Hunt, Roy; Riife, Dale; Volk, Greg; Wright, Jerry Bevan; et al.; Title: "Hugh Calkins," (Publication site: Salt Lk. City UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: xxi June MMXXIII)

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"... Hugh Calkins Last Changed: January 4, 2022 Greg Volk Sex Male Last Changed: July 6, 2021 Jerry Bevan Wright

Birth 8 April 1603 Waverton, Cheshire, England Reason: vabloxham review Perhaps born as early as 1600 per family research Last Changed: October 25, 2022 Gina Strack

Christening 8 April 1603 Chester St. Oswald, Waverton, Cheshire, England Reason: Waverton Parish records Last Changed: July 5, 2022 Sandra Wamsley

Death 8 January 1690 Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, ... Reason: ... History of Norwich, CT - Frances Manwaring Caulkins Last Changed: May 11, 2023 Dale Riife

Burial 1689/1690 Old Town Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, ... Reason: Updating location - specific cemetery. Only an epitaph marker, as pointed out by user Beth Bauchet. Last Changed: April 5, 2023 Bill D. W.

Also Known As Deacon Hugh Caulkins Reason: History of Norwich, Connecticut, From Its Possession by the Indians, to the Year 1866 By Frances Manwaring Caulkins · 1866 Last Changed: January 14, 2022 Beth Bauchet

Immigration 1640 Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, ... Reason: 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 Last Changed: January 14, 2022 Beth Bauchet

Arrival 1640 Plymouth, Massachusetts Last Changed: November 12, 2022 Roy Hunt
Residence 1672 Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, ...
Residence New London, Connecticut Colony, ...

Cemetery Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, Old Cemetery Lane off of Town Street.

Spouses & Children

Hugh Calkins Male 1603-1690
Ann Female 1605-1688
Marriage about 1622 Cheshire, England

Children (8)

[1] Sarah Calkins Female 1627-1683
[2] Mary Calkins Female 1629-1717
[3] Rebecca Calkins Female 1631-1651
[4] John Calkins Male 1634-1703
[5] Deborah Calkins Female 1639-1639
[6] Susan Calkins Female 1640-1683
[7] Deborah Calkins Female 1643-1724
[8] David Calkins Male 1644-1717

Parents & Siblings

Rowland Calkins Male 1570-1661
Ellen Payne Female 1576-1605
Marriage 25 June 1597 Chester, Cheshire, England

Children (4)

[1] Elizabeth Calkins Female 1598-1629
[2] William Calkin Male 1600-1642
[3] Hugh Calkins Male 1603-1690
[4] Peter Calkin Male 1605-Deceased

HUGH CALKINS was christened on 8 April 1603 in Waverton, Cheshire, England, the son of Rowland Calkins and Helen Ellen Payne. --- [Based on research preformed in 1998 by Mr. Roy Edwards of Hayes, Middlesex, England. Another statement that has often been made is that Hugh Calkins was a direct descendant of Sir William Colkin, who was one of the Magna Carta Barons, and who was a member of a family who founded a hospital in Canterbury. Again, there is no known evidence to support this statement as a fact.]

Because no marriage record for Hugh and Anne Calkins has been found the origin of Anne is even less well known. Her surname has often been given as Eaton, Easton, Eston, or a similar variation but, there is no evidence, other than frequent repetition, to support any of these names.

Hugh Calkins was a radical, in religion a non conformist, and living in the troublous times of Charles, the First, soon became satisfied that there were safer countries than England and Wales for men who wished to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. He was one of the body of immigrants known as the Welsh Company that came to New England from Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales with their minister, the Rev. Mr. Richard Blinman in 1640. --- [Because this group departed from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, one of the border counties between Wales and England, many writers have been led to conclude that Hugh and his family were "born" in Chepstow. However, searches of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts of the area around Chepstow have been unsuccessful in finding any indication that Hugh or members of his family were born there.]

Hugh brought his wife, Ann, and several children with him when he immigrated to New England. They first settled at Green Harbor, now Marshfield, in New Plymouth, where he was made a freeman of the colony, 2 Mar. 1640/1. However, religious dissensions arose and he followed the Rev. Mr. Blinman to Gloucester, Massachusetts. While in Gloucester he served as a Selectman from 1643 through 1648; was commissioner for the trial of small claims in 1645; and was a Deputy to the General Curt of the Colony in 1650 and 1652, but did not finish out the term.

After seven-years they found the climate in Gloucester to bleak for farming and, hoping to find more productive land, the party moved to New London, Connecticut in 1651. There is a record in Gloucester which indicates that "Hugh Calkins went with the cattle to Pequot," this implies that the main body of their company probably went to New London by ship while Hugh went overland. A narrow road on the west side of town was opened for the Gloucester immigrants, called Cape Ann Lane, now Ann street. Hugh had the first lot on the south east end of the street. While living there he was chosen twelve times Deputy to the Connecticut Assembly (the elections being semi-annual) and was one of the selectmen until he moved to Norwich. In 1653 and 1654 he was Commissioner of the Colony of Connecticut to enlist men for an expedition against the Indians.

Around 1659, the Rev. Blinman left the community, returning to England where he later died.

The town of Norwich was founded in 1659, by settlers from Old Saybrook led by Major John Mason and Reverend James Fitch. They purchased the land, "nine miles square", from the Mohegan Sachem Uncas. Hugh Calkins and wife, with other settlers, from New London, including their older son John and his family, moved northward and were among the founders of the town of Norwich, Connecticut. Hugh had the first lot by Lyme Road. Their younger son, David Calkins, and several of the sisters remained in New London with their respective families.

This area was then a wilderness and the land was owned by the Mohegan Indians. Just previous a treaty had been concluded between the celebrated Major Mason and others with the Mohegan Chieftains, by which a tract of land nine miles square around Norwich was ceded to the colonists for the price of £70, Sterling. Hugh Calkins and his son John were among the thirty-five original proprietors.

In those early days, the swamps in the New London-Norwich area were the habitat of number of wild animals - especially wolves. They created havoc with the colonists' sheep, which were of great importance for their wool. An Act of the General Court required every town to pay a bounty of no less than fifteen shillings for the killing of a wolf within its bounds. In 1660 Hugh Caulkins and William Peake were paid four pounds each for killing four wolves that year.

In Norwich, he was deputy at ten sessions of the Legislature, between March 1663, and October 1671, and was one of the first deacons of the Norwich church.

At each of the three towns in which he was an early settler and proprietor, he was largely employed in public business, being appointed committees for consultation, for fortifying, drafting soldiers, settling difficulties, and particularly for surveying lands and determining boundaries, for which he had apparently been trained in England. These offices would imply a considerable range of information, as well as activity and executive talent, yet he seems to have had no early education, uniformly making only a bold H for his signature.

Hugh Calkins died in New London, about 1690, at the age of 90 years. It is not known when or where his wife died.

Children of Hugh Calkins and Anne ____:

1.Sarah Calkins, chr. 6 May 1627, Waverton, Cheshire, England; married William Hough, 28 Oct 1645; she died 16 Oct 1683 at New London, Connecticut.
2.Mary Calkin, chr. 27 Dec 1629, Waverton, Cheshire, England; married 1st Hugh Roberts, 8 Nov. 1649 and 2nd Robert Bond, in 1672 at Newark, New Jersey; she died 23 Nov. 1717.
3.Rebecca Calkins, chr. 9 Nov. 1631, Waverton, Cheshire, England; died 14 Jan 1650/1651, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
4.John Calkins, born about 1634, of Waverton, Cheshire, England; married, in 1658, Sarah Royce daughter of Robert Royce and Mary Sims; died 8 Jan 1702/1703 at Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
5.David Calkins, born about 1637, of Waverton, Cheshire, England; married 1st in 1672, Mary Bliss daughter Thomas Bliss and Elizabeth Birchard and 2nd Hannah Baldwin. He died, 25 Nov. 1717, at New London, Connecticut.
6.Deborah Calkins, chr., 17 Apr. 1639, Chester St Oswald, Cheshire, England. She was buried, 4 Oct 1639, Chester St. Oswald, Cheshire, England.
7.Susan Clakins, b about 1641, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; md. Samuel Hough; she died 16 Oct. 1683 at New London, Connecticut.
8.Deborah Calkins, born 18 Mar 1643/1644, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; married 1st John Woodward and 2nd, 4 Jun 1660, Jonathan Royce, son of Robert Royce and Mary Jackson; died 10 Aug. 1723, at Lebanon, Connecticut.

References:
•Kenneth W. Calkins, "Calkins Family in America", Calkins Family Associaton, September 2000, pp 3-8.
•John Donald McGill, Jr., "Hough and Related Lines," 1986, pp. 19-20
•Mrs. Turney Sharps, "Calkins Family Manuscript", 1949, pp. 1-4.
•William Wirt Calkins, "The Calkins Memorial Military Roster," Chicago, M. A. Donohue & Co.; pp. 15-17.

Last Changed: August 28, 2020 Roy Hunt"
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