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Personal data Henry Haggett 

• He was born in the year 1594 in Suffolk, England.
• He died on January 24, 1677 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, he was 83 years old.
• He is buried in Ma.
• This information was last updated on September 20, 2008.

Household of Henry Haggett

He had a relationship with Ann (Mrs Haggett.

Child(ren):

1. Mary Haggett  1641-????
2. Moses Haggett  1639-????
3. Henry Haggett  1637-????
4. Moses Haggett  ± 1637-????
5. Mary Haggett  ± 1652-????
6. Deliverance Haggett  ± 1654-????
7. Henry Haggett  1645-1730
8. Hannah Haggett  ± 1645-???? 
9. Deliverance Haggett  1643-????
10. Deliverance Haggett  ± 1670-????
11. Henry Haggett  ± 1674-????
12. Mary Haggett  ± 1676-????
13. Moses Haggett  ± 1678-????
14. Mary Haggett  ± 1647-????
15. Abigail Haggett  ± 1647-????

Notes about Henry Haggett

History of Essex County, Massachusetts with Biographic Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, compiled under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd., V. II, Illustrated, Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co., 1888

CHAPTER XCIX. WENHAM. BY SIDNEY PERLEY. "To raising Townes and Churches new in wilderness they wnnder, First Plymouth and then Salem next were placed Tar asunder ; Wulmrn, Wenham, Ueddlng, built with little Silver Mettle, Andorer, Harerliill, Berris-banks,' their habitation settle." THUS wrote the author of " Good News from New England," in reference to ourearly towns, showing the 1 Portsmouth - Strawberry-banks. alacrity of our ancestors in establishing new homes and new governments, with little means, except the strong arm, undaunted will, and faith in the prosperity of their enterprise. Wenham was early fixed upon for a settlement ; its large lake, it» streams, hills and meadows being very attractive to the English emigrants. John Dunstan, Esq., an English gentleman, who visited the town in 1686, writes thus concerning it: " Wenham is a delicious paradise ; it abounds with all rural pleasures, and I would choose it of all other towns in America to dwell in. The lofty trees on each side of it are a sufficient shelter from the winds, and the warm sun so kindly ripens both the fruits and flowers, as if the spring, the summer and the autumn had agreed together to thrust winter out of doors." Josselyn, in 1663, says of it: "Wenham is an inland town, very well watered, lying between Salem and Ipswich ; consisteth most of men of judgment in re ruslica, and well stored with cattle." It is to-day a model town. It is supplied with nearly all modern conveniences, numbering among them the steam and street-cars, telegraph and telephone, churches, a town hall, public library and stores of various kinds; and its excellent roads passing across the shady plain and over gracefully curving hills, to the peaceful crystal lakes, present scenery that is rarely surpassed in beauty. The principal features of its topography are Lord's Hill, which is the highest elevation in the town, furnishing a grand view of sea and land ; and Moulton's Hill, which gives a less extended but more charming picture of Cedar Pond and the dark-green foliage above the swamp beyond. Wenham Lake, with its reputation for purity, gained in all the continents, is the distinguishing natural feature of the town. It contains about three hundred and twenty acres, two-thirds of which lie in Wenham, and the remaining third in Beverly, i Wenham Lake ice is so pure that a newspaper can'be read through a cake of it two feet thick ; and its preserving qualities have been famous from its borders to all tropical lands. Wenham Great Swamp, covering about two thousand acres, about fifteen hundred of which are in Wenham and the remainder in Topsfield and Hamilton, is a notorious variation in the natural formation of the surface of the town. Its proprietors held it in common, and, Jan. 13, 1755, were incorporated by an act of the General Court for the securing of the growth of wood and timber thereon. By several legislative acts the corporate body existed until 1779. It was again incorporated March 21, 1836, the act of incorporation containing regulations in reference to fences and field drivers. The territory of Wenham is mentioned for the first time in 1637. John Williams, a ship-carpenter by trade, was arrested in Ipswich for theft Siime time before, and imprisoned for his crime. He broke out of the jail with one John Hoddy, and they traveled together in the way to Ipswich. When they hadreached the valley by the border of the lake, near where the bound-atone between Beverly and Wen ham stands, by the highway leading from Wenham Centre to North Beverly, Williams murdered his companion, and took away what he had, even his clothing, which was bloody. He put on the clothing, and went in it to Ipswich. He was there apprehended, but would make no confession until a week after Hoddy's body was found. He was tried, convicted and executed, by hanging, in Boston September 28, 1637. This is said to have been the first murder which occurred among the European settlers of the colony. The next mention that we find made of this region is that of the preaching of Hugh Peters' sermon, about 1638, on a small conical hill, which formerly stood between the highway and the lake, where the ice-houses of Addison Gage & Company stand. To the few original settlers, the notorious Hugh Peters preached the Gospel here from the text, " Enon, near Salim, for there was much water there." - John iii. 23. This settlement was then called Enon, and Peters was the pastor of the church in Salem, a part of which town Wenham then was. He had particular friends among the early settlers of Wenham, one of whom Dea. Charles Gott, became his agent here after he had returned to England to become involved in the commonwealth and to suffer a terrible death as a regicide. There is a tradition in the Killam family that the first three settlers of Wenham were one of the early Fiske settlers, Austin Killam and Richard Goldsmith. The first settlement must have been made about 1635. It was at first known as Salem village as well as Enon, and was incorporated as a distinct town May 10, 1643, in the following words : " It is ordered that Enon shalbee called Wennam. Wennam is granted to bee a towne, & hath liberty to send a deputy." The name is supposed to have been taken from one of the two parishes near Ipswich, in England, of the same name, from whence probably some of the early settlers came. The following is a list of the settlers of the town down to 1700: John Abby, 1644; Mr. Auditor, 1646; John Badger, 1645 ; John Barr, 1679; Joseph Batchelder, from Canterbury, England, 1644 ; John Beaman, 1669 ; John Berry, 1696 ; John Bette, 1666 ; Goodman Bibber, 1692; Richard Braybrook, 1674; Edmund Bridges, 1661 ; John Browne, 1695 ; George Byam, 1648; John Carpenter, 1676; John Clarke, 1665; Eichard Coy, 1659; Robert Cue, 1696; John Dennis, 1669; Richard Dodge, 1644; Elijah Duble- dee, 1696 ; John Edwards, 1663 ; Rice Edwards, 1653 ; James Ellis, 1663; Daniel Epps, 1699; John Fair- field, 1644; John Fiske, 1642; Phineas Fiske, 1642; Willium Fiske, from Boston, 1643; Samuel Foster, 1650; Joseph Fowler, from Ipswich, 1670; James Friend, 1662 ; William Geare, 1644 ; Joseph Gerrish, from Newbury, 1674; Richard Goldsmith, 1644; Charles Gott, from Salem, 1644; Robert Gowen, 1650 ; Joseph Hacker, 1696 ; Henry Haggett, 1657 ; Robert Hawes, 1654 ; Joseph Herrick, 1691 ; Robert Hib- bert, 1674; Thomas Hobbs, 1672; Mr. Hubbard, 1642; William Hulitt, 1659; Isaac Hull, from "Bass River," 1681; John Huukin, 1674; Richard Hutton, 1653; Alice Jones, 1651; William Jones, 1687; Edward Kemp, from Dedham, 1652 ; Austin Killam, from Dedham, 1649; Richard Kimball, from Ipswich, 1656; John Knowkon, 1679 ; William Knowl- ton, 1678 ; Mordecai L ircom, 1682 ; John Leach, 1681; Robert Mackclifflin, 1661 ; Alexander Maxey, 1059; James Moulton, 1644; Antipas Newman, from Rehoboth, 1657 ; Abner Ordway, 1659 ; Edmund Patch, 1654; John Perkins, 1679; Richard Pettingell, 1649; John Poland, 1656; Samuel Porter, from Salem, 1657 ; Esdras Reade, 1643 ; Nicholas Rich, 1687 ; Theophilus Rix, 1688 ; John Rogers, 1653 ; William Sawyer, 1643; John Severett, 1695; John Shepley, 1655; Samuel Smith, 1642; John Soolard, a Frenchman, 1652; Mr. Sparrowhawk, 1645; Edward Spauld- ing, 1654; Robert Symonds, 1685; Peter Tompson, 1695 ; Francis Urselton. 1655 ; Edward Waldron, 1653; Joshua Wallis, 1698; Jeremiah Watts, 1665; Philip Welsh, 1675; Thomas White, 1654;- Edward Whittington, 1687; William Williams, 1673; Eze- kiel Woodward, 1672; and Christopher Young, 1644.1
A church was organized the year following the incorporation of the town, a militia company was soon afterward formed, and the town government was begun. Highways were early laid out. What was, much later, the turnpike from Salem to Ipswich, was laid out in 1644 or 1645. November 13, 1644, the General Court ordered " that the comission's for laying out the roade way between Ipswich & Salem shall have power to alter the way layde out beneath Wenham towards the east, & to lay it through y' towne if they shall iudge it meete." The people of Wenham obtained a deed of their territory from the Indians, bearing date December 10, 1700. The aborigines who claimed a title to the soil were Samuel English, Joseph English and John Umpee, heirs of Masconomet, the late sagamore of Agawam. The Indians were paid for their interest in the land four pounds and sixteen shillings. The early settlers were forbidden to sell arras and ammunition to the savages; and Robert Gowing was, in 1650, fined ten pounds for selling a gun to an Indian. "

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