Généalogie Wylie » Thomas Hardy (1603-????)

Données personnelles Thomas Hardy 

• Il est né le 25 août 1603 dans Bedfordshire, England.
• Alternative: Il est né environ 1605.Source 1
• (Bullet ) en l'an 1633 dans IMMIGRANT.
• Il est décédé le 4 janvier 1677/1678 dans Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, il avait 73 ans.Source 1
• Un enfant de Richard Hardy et Alice Wilson
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 24 mars 2023.

Famille de Thomas Hardy

(1) Il est marié avec Lydia.

Ils se sont mariés avant le 1635 à Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.Source 1

Enfant(s):

1. Thomas Hardy  ± 1635-????

(2) Il est marié avec Ann.

Ils se sont mariés avant le 1639 à Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.Source 1

Enfant(s):

1. Sarah Hardy  ± 1641-1684
2. Joseph Hardy  ± 1643-????
3. Mary Hardy  ± 1645-> 1713
4. John Hardy  ± 1647-???? 
5. Jacob Hardy  ± 1649-1706
6. William Hardy  ± 1651-???? 

Notes par Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, who was one of twelve men specially chosen by GovernorWinthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633 to settle a plantationat Agawam, now Ipswich, signed a protest against the departure of JohnWinthrop, Jr., to go to Connecticut soon after the settlement wascompleted, and became a most influential citizen. His brother John, ofSalem, Massachusetts, was Town Clerk in 1674... ("Hardy and Hardie, Pastand Present", 1935, Authored by H. Claude Hardy, Ph.D. of White Plains,N.Y. and Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, Ph.D., of Greenwitch, Connecticut,excerpts from pages 18-21)

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The following is Thomas Hardy's entry in "The Great Migration Begins",which gives his ancestry as "unknown" despite a line supposedly given inWurtz's "Magna Charta" (I believe vol II - there are 8 volumes, but muchless reliable than TGMB, which is published by NEHGS):

THOMAS HARDY

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Ipswich
REMOVES: Rowley, Bradford

OCCUPATION: Ferry operator at Bradford [Bradford TR 1:4].
EDUCATION: Made his mark to his will.
OFFICES: Bradford surveyor of highways, 1669 [Bradford TR 1:4].
ESTATE: On 29 September 1653 Henry Walker of Gloucester mortgaged toThomas Hardy of Ipswich sixteen acres of land [ILR 1:128].

In 1663 (day and month not given) the executors of the estate of JosephJewett of Rowley sold to Thomas Hardy of Rowley eight hundred acres ofupland and meadow in Rowley [ILR 3:47].

On 24 November 1665 the selectmen of Ipswich granted to "John Newmarshfor the house that was Tho[mas] Hardye's 3 acres" at Plum Island [EQC6:405].

On 20 April 1667 Thomas Hardy Sr. of Bradford, husbandman, gave to theinhabitants of Bradford two acres of land to promote the settling of aminister in Bradford [ILR 4:106].

In his will, dated 4 March 1671/2 and proved 26 March 1678, "ThomasHardee, Senior, living at Merrimack town, near Haverhill," being in"bodily health," bequeathed to "my eldest son" 200 acres of land; to "mysons John Hardee, to Joseph Hardee, & to Jacob Hardee" each 100 acres; to"my son-in-law William Hutchins" one hundred acres; to "my daughter Mary& to her children" œ10 paid out of the land of "my son William Hardee";to "my son Joseph Hardee sixty acres if he pays œ40 of my debts"; residueof lands to "my son William Hardee"; to my sons John, Joseph and Jacobeach ten acres of plowland; to "my beloved wife" sole use of dwellinghouse etc. and portions of land during her life; William Hardy to enjoyone-quarter part of the orchard during his mother's life; household goodsto be equally divided among children after wife's death; "my son JosephHardee" and "friend & neighbor" David Hazeltine executors. In a lengthycodicil dated 12 December 1677 "Thomas Hardee Senior aged about seventytwo" "yet alive & though weak in body" reshuffled lands among WilliamHutchins and sons Joseph and Jacob; to "my grandchildren" 20s. each; to"my beloved wife" two acres by the river on the east end of the house forher own dispose at her death; forty acres for wife's security; œ20 to bedivided equally among surviving grandchildren, those born into thefamilies of "Thomas & John Hardee, & my two daughters, Mary and Sary"; to"my son" John Hardy ten acres; "my son Thomas's" land entailed; to "myson" Jacob two acres of meadow; William Hardy sole executor; "loving andrespected friends" Rev. Mr. Zachary Simes, Mr. Shubael Walker, andJonathan Danforth, Sr. of Billerica, overseers; "& further I do exhortall my children, to live in the fear of god, & in the exercise of love &charity each to other, relieving each other's necessity according totheir ability as the case may require" [EPR Case #12405].

"An inventory of the estate of Thomas Hardee Senr. who deceased January4th 1677" was taken 7 March 1677/8 by Jonathan Danforth, Sr., ShubaelWalker, and Samuel Worcester. It totalled œ848 10s. 9d., of which œ800was real estate: "house & barns, orchard, fences & 800 acres land more orless joining to the house" [EPR 3:217].

BIRTH: About 1605 based on age given in codicil to will.
DEATH: Bradford 4 January 1677[/8].
MARRIAGE: By about 1635 Ann _____, who died at Bradford on 1 May 1689.

CHILDREN:
i THOMAS, b. about 1635 (d. Bradford 6 February 1716[/7] in his 82ndyear); m. Rowley 22 November 1664 Mercy Tenney.

ii SARAH, b. say 1641; m. Haverhill 1 July 1661 William Hutchins.

iii JOSEPH, b. about 1643; d. Bradford 11 January 1726/7, aged 84years, unmarried.

iv MARY, b. say 1645; m. by about 1665 Samuel Currier ("Thomas Hardyand wife Ann deeded land to dau[ghter] Mary, wife of Samuel Currier, in1670" [Hoyt 119]).

v JOHN, b. say 1647 (d. Bradford 4 February 1714/5, aged 67 years); m.(1) Rowley 2 April 1667 Mary Jackman; m. (2) Martha (Smith) Burbank,daughter of Hugh and Mary (_____) Smith and widow of Caleb Burbank[Rowley Fam 55]. (The second marriage of John is often given as takingplace at Bradford on 3 July 1695, but this event does not appear in theBradford records.)

vi JACOB, b. about 1649 (d. Bradford 2 or 3 April 1706 in his 58thyear); m. by 1691 Lydia Eaton, daughter of Thomas and Eunice (Singletary)Eaton [Hoyt 148-49; Ordway Anc 288].

vii WILLIAM, b. say 1651; m. (1) Bradford 3 May 1678 Ruth Tenny; m. (2)by 1690 Sarah _____ (eldest child b. Bradford 1 June 1690). (She is saidto be Sarah Savory, daughter of Robert and Mary (Mitchell) Savory,evidence not stated; but given the associations between the Hardy andSavory families this is a likely identification [Ordway Anc 282, 287-88].

ASSOCIATIONS: No connections are seen between the family of ThomasHardy of Haverhill and that of John Hardy of Salem.

COMMENTS: On 1 April 1633 Thomas Hardy is listed as one of the nine menpermitted by the Massachusetts Bay General Court to go with John WinthropJr. to settle Agawam (Ipswich) [MBCR 1:103].

Although several early writers believed Thomas had a first wife namedLydia, there is evidence only for wife Ann. Ann Hardy, widow, was themidwife for Sarah Savory in 1685, and may have performed that service formany of her neighbors over the years [EQC 9:531].

Given the lack of birthdates for the children of Thomas Hardy, there aresome difficulties in establishing the birth order and birth range ofthese children. By his age at death, John would be just barley twenty athis first marriage, which is certainly possible, but somewhat below thenorm. To make him older one would have to assume an underestimate of hisage at death, which is not likely, and move his birth all the way back to1639, which would make as much older than the norm at marriage as the ageat death would make him younger.

Possibly the younger Thomas's age at death is exaggerated by a fewyears. If his birth year were estimated at 1639, this would make himtwenty-five at marriage and would eliminate the gap of six years betweenhim and the next younger child. If this were correct, then the marriageof Thomas Hardy to Ann _____ need not have occurred until 1639. In theabsence of further evidence, however, we leave the children in thearrangement based on taking the ages at death at face value.

Called "old Goodman Hardy" in 1677 [EQC 6:421], he never achieved thestatus of "Mr.," living his life in a very circumspect and quiet manner,despite a respectable estate.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: A complete account of Thomas Hardy was published in1990 by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn [Ordway Anc 280-88].

NOTE: In order to explain the 6 year difference between Thomas' birthdate (1635) and the next born noted by TGMB above, I am interpreting thisas Thomas was born by the rumored first wife Lydia, while all the othersare born by the proven 2nd wife Ann.

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