Williams - Richards Family Tree » Abigail Hewes (± 1633-> 1669)

Personal data Abigail Hewes 

  • Also known as Hatch.
  • She was born about 1633 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony.
  • She died after June 14, 1669 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • A child of John Hewes and Joanna UNKNOWN

Household of Abigail Hewes

(1) She is married to John King.

They got married on October 14, 1658 at Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts.


(2) She is married to William Hatch.

They got married in the year 1653 at Scituate, Plymouth.


Notes about Abigail Hewes

== Biography ==Abigail was the daughter of John Hewes, "the Welchman," of Scituate and Joan (unk) Hewes of Plymouth. Her birth is estimated ''c''1633, as her parents were ordered to sit 'in the stocks' after conceiving a child out of wedlock. Anderson, Robert C. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995 p. 918-20 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
She married first, William Hatch by 1653. William was baptized at Wye, Kent, England on August 9, 1629, and came to New England on the ''Hercules'' in March 1634/5, with his parents William and Jane (Young) Hatch and several siblings. Anderson, Robert C. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H , NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 2003 p. 241-3 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 70, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1916 p. 250: 259
William and Abigail had one daughter Phebe who was baptized at Scituate on March 19, 1653/4. Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the Year 1850: Vol. I- Births, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909 p. 176
Her husband William died on a trip to the Colony of Virginia, between September 13, 1653, when his will was written and 1656, when it was proved.
On August 15, 1657, spinster Abigial Hatch of Scituate, widow of William Hatch, sold of her father John Hewes, her house, barn and adjacent lands, being 13 acres of upland and meadow with an additional 5 acres of meadow, given her by her husband's father.
Abigail married her second husband, John King in Weymouth 14 October 1658.The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/920/0 page 920]
Abigail Kinge petitioned the Plymouth court on June 14, 1669 to confirm the sale in 1657 of the lands of her former husband William Hatch, to her father John Hewes, her daughter Phebe Hatch now being 16 years of age, and being provided for.
She married second, at Weymouth on on October 14, 1658, John King.

=== Hatch child ===# Phebe baptized at Scituate on March 19, 1653/4. Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the Year 1850: Vol. I- Births, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909 p. 176

== Sources ==
* Bent, Allen H., ''Col. Jabez Hatch, His Ancestry and Descendants'', [[Space:NEHGR|The New England Historical & Genealogical Register]] (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iyhAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35 Page 35].
External link: https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Hewes-44

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Abigail Hewes

John Hewes
± 1608-< 1674
Joanna UNKNOWN
????-> 1671

Abigail Hewes
± 1633-> 1669

(1) 1658

John King
± 1600-> 1669

(2) 1653

William Hatch
< 1629-± 1656


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Day of marriage October 14, 1658

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    • March 8 » Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
    • May 29 » Battle of Samugarh: decisive battle in the struggle for the throne during the Mughal war of succession (1658–1659).
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    • June 25 » Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
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