HOBBS, Henry
1642 - 1698 (56 years)Set As Default Person
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Name HOBBS, Henry [1] Birth 1642 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Gender Male Name // Death 4 Jul 1698 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [1] Residence 1957 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [2] Person ID I2985 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Family 1 CANNEY, Hannah, b. 1641, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 18 Apr 1720, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 79 years) Marriage 1661 USA [1, 2] Children 1. HOBBS, Hannah Mary, b. 1661, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 44 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] ▻ CORSON, Cornelius m. 3 Feb 16852. Living Photos U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Family ID F838 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Marriage Y [3] Photos Unknown(70).jpg Family ID F7202 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Event Map Birth - 1642 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Marriage - 1661 - USA Death - 4 Jul 1698 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Residence - 1957 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend : Address : Location : City/Town : County/Shire : State/Province : Country : Not Set
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Photos U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Histories Founding-and-Early-History-of-South-Berwick-Maine
Albums Founding Families of Kittery & The Berwicks (13)
While I was born in New Hampshire and have lived almost all of my adult in New Hampshire, I grew up just over the border, in Berwick, Maine. This is Jim and I met and dated throughout high school (Noble High School) and it's where we were later married at Our Lady of Peace. Berwick is where my grandparents purchased a farm after he was wounded in WWII and received a medical discharge from the Marines, and it is where they raised their nine children. It is where most of my family still lives and it is where Jim's parents live.
For all these reasons, I was beyond excited to find that our ancestral roots go back to the very beginning of the European settlement of Berwick. The branches run through both my maternal and paternal lines and I will use this collection to provide all my research.
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Notes - Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
He was deeded land, owned by his father in law, Thomas Canney, 12 July 1661, the land being located between Quamphegan and St. Alban's Cove (Dover). The lot, which had been granted to Canney in 1656 was assigned as an endowment after Henry married Canney's daughter, Hannah.
He was elected 17 Jan 1663 and again on 8 Feb 1667, with others, at a Dover town meeting to serve on the "Jury of Trialls." In 1675 he served on the Grand Jury.
Henry apparently had no problem with trespassing on the early land holdings of the Laconia Company, or of Capt. Mason's heirs in the tract lying between his land and the river. Henry used the land for his own purposes and later laid claim to it. Because of his claim, the town of Dover never granted the tract to anyone. In 1687 the circuit judge of Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall, referred to the cove in the lower extremity of the point as "Hobs his Hole, Quamphegan." It was called that because at high tide the water there was 40 feet deep. It faced down river and the location was used to build and launch small sloops and as a fair haven for seagoing vessels. Henry inherited a large part of his father-in-law's estate and resided in that part of town later known as Sligo. Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
He was deeded land, owned by his father in law, Thomas Canney, 12 July 1661, the land being located between Quamphegan and St. Alban's Cove (Dover). The lot, which had been granted to Canney in 1656 was assigned as an endowment after Henry married Canney's daughter, Hannah.
He was elected 17 Jan 1663 and again on 8 Feb 1667, with others, at a Dover town meeting to serve on the "Jury of Trialls." In 1675 he served on the Grand Jury.
Henry apparently had no problem with trespassing on the early land holdings of the Laconia Company, or of Capt. Mason's heirs in the tract lying between his land and the river. Henry used the land for his own purposes and later laid claim to it. Because of his claim, the town of Dover never granted the tract to anyone. In 1687 the circuit judge of Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall, referred to the cove in the lower extremity of the point as "Hobs his Hole, Quamphegan." It was called that because at high tide the water there was 40 feet deep. It faced down river and the location was used to build and launch small sloops and as a fair haven for seagoing vessels. Henry inherited a large part of his father-in-law's estate and resided in that part of town later known as Sligo
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- Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
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Sources - [S59] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - [S2717] Lawrence, Roger W, English Captives & Prisoners in New France, pgs 64-67, Abigail Corsonwhit.
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- [S59] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).