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1. | Reverend Gershom HOBART, Sr. was born Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (son of Peter HOBART and Elizabeth IBROOK); died 19 Dec 1707, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried His body was lost or destroyed . Notes: Reverend Gershom Hobart graduated from Harvard in 1667. He resided in Plymouth, Groton, and Hingham Massachusetts. He was ordained in Groton, where he was the pastor of the Congregational Church there. The minister and the congregation did not always live together harmoniously. There was much dissension about his salary and where the new meeting house would be built to replace the one burned by the Indians in the 1676 massacre. He was dismissed in Dec 1685, but continued to preach in Groton occasionally for almost 20 more years. Gershom lost two children in the second massacre of Groton on 27 Jul 1694. One was killed, and the other, nine year old Gershom, was held captive for nearly a year before being ransomed from his captors. Gershom married Sarah ALDIS 26 Apr 1675, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Sarah was born 1652; died 14 Apr 1712, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] Children:
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2. | Peter HOBART was born 16 Oct 1604, Hingham, Norfolk, England (son of Edmund HOBART, Sr. and Margaret DEWEY); died 20 Jan 1679, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts; was buried Old Ship Church Burying Ground, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - Plot Sec B, Plot 44, Lot 7 . Other Events:
Notes: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England Peter married Elizabeth IBROOK 3 Jul 1628, Hingham, Norfolk, England. Elizabeth was born 31 Aug 1608, Southwold, Suffolk, England; died Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - in childbirth. [Group Sheet] |
3. | Elizabeth IBROOK was born 31 Aug 1608, Southwold, Suffolk, England; died Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - in childbirth.
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4. | Edmund HOBART, Sr. was born 1574, Hingham, Norfolk, England; died 8 Mar 1646, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts; was buried Old Ship Church Burying Ground, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts. Other Events:
Notes: "The exact date at which any individual came here to reside cannot be ascertained. Among the papers of Mr. Cushing, there is a 'list of the names of such persons as came out of the town of Hingham, and towns adjacent, in the County of Norfolk, in the Kingdom of England, into New England, and settled in Hingham.' From this list we are led to believe there were inhabitants here as early as 1633, and among them Ralph Smith, Nicholas Jacob with his family, Thomas Lincoln, weaver, Edmund Hobart and his wife, from Hingham, and Thomas Hobart with his family, from Windham, in Norfolk, England. During the same year Theophilus Cushing, Edmund Hobart, senior, Joshua Hobart, and Henry Gibbs, all of Hingham, England, came to this country. Cushing lived some years at Mr. Haines's farm, and subsequently removed to Hingham. The others settled at Charlestown, (the oldest neighborhood of Boston -Ed) and in 1635 removed to this place. In 1634 there were other settlers here, and among them Thomas Chubbuck; Bare Cove was assessed in that year. To 1635, at the May court, Joseph Andrews was sworn as constable of the place. There was a considerable increase of the number of Settlers, and in that year grants of land were made to upwards of fifty individuals, of which a record is preserved. It was in June of that year that Rev. Peter Hobart arrived at Charlestown, and soon after settled in this place." - from History of Hingham published 1893, pages 201-209 (Thomas Lincoln's younger brother Samuel Lincoln, also a weaver, who came to Hingham in 1737, was the ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln -Ed) Edmund married Margaret DEWEY 7 Sep 1600, Hingham, Norfolk, England. Margaret died Bef Oct 1634. [Group Sheet] |
5. | Margaret DEWEY died Bef Oct 1634.
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