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JEFFREY HANFORD (pr. c. 1580–1626)
EGLIN HATHERLY (bp. 1586–aft. 1654), daughter of ROBERT HATHERLY and ELINOR UNKNOWN
Jeffrey Hanford was probably born about 1580/5 in Devonshire. [1] He was buried on 12 May 1626 in Fremington, Devonshire, England. [2][3] He married Eglin Hatherly as her second husband on 31 March 1611 in Fremington, Devonshire. [2]
Eglin, the daughter of Robert and Elinor Hatherly, was baptized on 8 June 1586 in Winkleigh, Devonshire. [2] She died after 17 January 1653/4. [2] She married first Unknown Downe by about 1609. [2] She married third as his third wife Richard Sillis on 15 December 1637 in Scituate. [2][4, 3:518] Richard was probably the son of John and Mary (Stedman) Sillis, baptized on 26 November 1581 in Biddenden, Kent. [1] He died about 1656, probably in Scituate. He married first Phebe Chrisfeilde on 14 April 1604 in Biddenden. [1] She was buried there on 10 August 1612. [1] He married second Margery Lea on 4 May 1613 in Biddenden. [1] She probably died in England.
Eglin's mother Elinore ___ married second William Mortimer alias Tanner. The will of Elinore Mortimore otherwise Tanner of Fremington was proved 30 August 1637. She mentions her sons Matthew and Henry alias Tanner, daughter Elinore Friend, son Timothy Hatherly, and daughter "Eylin Hanver." [1]
Eglin's brother Timothy Hatherly was born about 1586 and died on 24 October 1666 in Scituate. He had an unknown first wife and married second Lydia, the widow of Nathaniel Tilden. [1] Timothy was one of the company of Merchant Adventurers which founded Plymouth Colony. He was a Treasury of the colony and an Associate of the governor. He was an early resident of Scituate and it largest landholder. [1][4]
Richard Sillis made his will on 17 January 1653; it was proved on 27 March 1656. He named his wife Eglin his executrix. [1]
On 10 April 1635 Eglin Hanford, age 46, and her two daughters Margaret, age 16, and Elizabeth, age 14, were enrolled at London for passage to New England on the Planter. Two boys, Rodolphus Elmes, age 15, and Thomas Stansley, age 16, were also enrolled. They may have been her servants. [2]
Scituate's first street—the highway or Kents Street—was laid out in 1633 and lots were laid out to Edward Foster, Humphrey Turner and Anthony Annable. The second street was Meeting House Lane and lots there were laid out for George Lewis, John Hewes, Walter Woodworth, Richard Foxwell and Isaac Chittenden. North of Satuit Brook was a path to the harbor with lots belonging to James Cudworth, John Lothrop, Eglin Hanford, Gowen White and Timothy Hatherly. [4]
Timothy Hatherly gave his sister five acres of land in Scituate in 1634—before she arrived. This was recorded in a deed of 24 February 1640/[1?]. [2]
Eglin, Mr. Hathaway's sister, was admitted to the church in Scituate on 21 November 1635. [2]
Eglin had children Lettice, Margaret and Thomas. [4]
In his will of 20 December 1664, Timothy Hatherly made bequests to Edward Jenkins, his wife and children; Nicholas Wade, his wife and children; Susanna, the wife of William Brookes and her children; Timothy Foster and Elizabeth Foster; Mr. Thomas Hanford; Fear Robinson, now the wife of Samuel Baker, and the other three children of Isaac Robinson: John, Isaac, and Mercy. [2]
Children of Jeffrey Hanford and Eglin Hatherly:
i. Susanna Hanford was born say 1615. [2] She died after 1682. [1] She married first John Whiston by about 1641. [2] He probably died about 1661. [1] She married second William Brookes by 1665. [2] William was born about 1615 and died between 7 July 1680 and 24 January 1682/3. [6] He had an unknown first wife. [6]
Susanna and her sister Lettice probably came to New England with their uncle Timothy Hatherly. [HI] Timothy made annual trips to London between 1631 and 1634. [7]
John Whiston is in the Scituate section of the list of those able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony in 1643. [9]
William came to New England on the Blessing in 1635 and settled in Scituate. [6] He was in Marshfield by 1643 and he returned to Scituate in 1657. [6]
ii. Lettice Hanford, the daughter of Jeffrey Hanford, was baptized on 8 June 1617 in Alverdiscott, Devonshire. [2][3] She died before 1684. [1] She was married first to Deacon Edward Foster on 8 April 1635 at the house of James Cudworth in Scituate by Captain Myles Standish. [2][4, 3: 518] Edward died between 24 November 1643, when he made his will, and August 1644, when it was proved. She married second Edward Jenkins by about 1650. [2] He died between 2 March 1699, when he made his will, and 9 August 1699, when it was proved. [1] He married second Mary (Farnsworth) Ripley, the widow of Abraham Ripley, on 17 June 1684 in Hingham. [1] She died in 1704/5. [1]
Lettice came to New England before her mother and younger sisters. [2] Goody Foster was admitted to the church in Scituate on 25 December 1636.
Edward Foster built a house in Scituate before September 1634. [2]
Edward Foster joined the Scituate church on 8 January 1634/5. He was a freeman on 3 January 1636/7. He was invested as deacon on 22 February 1637/8. He was a representative to the General Court from Scituate in 1639, 1640, and 1641. [2]
Edward named Mr. Timothy Hatherly, father Richard Sillis, Edmond Edenden, and brother Isaac Robinson the overseers of his will. [2]
Both Edward Foster and Edward Jenkins are in the Scituate section of the list of those able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony in 1643. [9]
iii. Margaret Hanford was born about 1619. [2] She was buried on 13 June 1649 in Barnstable. [1] She married Isaac Robinson on 26 September 1636 in Scituate. [1, in Barnstable][2][4: 3:518, contracted 27 June 1636 at Mr. Hatherly's house] Isaac, the son of Reverend John and Bridget (White) Robinson, was born in 1610, probably in Leyden, Holland. [1] He died, age 94, in Barnstable. [1] He married second Mary Unknown. [1]
iv. Elizabeth Hanford was born about 1621. She died between 5 June 1672 and 7 February 1683. She married Nicholas Wade.
v. Reverend Thomas Hanford was born say 1623, probably in Alverdicott. [1][2] He died in 1693, age 70. [1] He married first Hannah Newberry, the daughter of Thomas and Jane Newberry, about 1653. [1][2] Hannah was born in 1633, perhaps in Dorchester. [1] He married second Mary (Miles) Ince, the daughter of Judge Richard Miles and widow of Jonathan Ince, on 22 October 1661 in Norwalk, Connecticut. [1][2] She died on 12 September 1730, age 100, in New Haven. [1] She married first Jonathan Ince on 12 December 1654 in New Haven. [1] He died by 1661, probably on a voyage to England. [1]
Thomas came to New England after his sisters. [1] He was in Plymouth in 1643, age 20. [1] He taught school in Roxbury and then New Haven. [1] He was called to the ministry in Norwalk on 17 June 1652. [1] He was ordained in 1654. [1]
Thomas is in the Scituate section of the list of those able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony in 1643. [9]
References:
1. Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller (Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1948), 485–9.
2. "Great Migration, 1634–1635, G–H," digitized book, originally published as Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration to New England, 1634–1635, Volume III, G–H (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 205–7.
3. Mary Lovering Holman, "Hanford Items from English Records," The American Genealogist 17 (1940): 49–50.
4. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), vol. 1: 14, 23, 39.
5. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 842.
6. "Great Migration 1634–1635, A–B," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume I, A–B (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), 412–5.
7. "Great Migration Newsletter, v. 1–20," digitized newsletter, AmericanAncestors > vol. 16, p. 5.
8. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally Published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 690–2.
9. Nathaniel Shurtleff, "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth, 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 256.
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