Reverend Gershom HOBART

1645 - 1707  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Gershom HOBART
  Title	Reverend
  Born	Dec 1645	Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Dec 1707	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Buried	His body was lost or destroyed
  Person ID	I85810	Zentmeyer Main Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2019

  
  

• 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 by his captors.

  
  

Father	Peter HOBART,   b. 16 Oct 1604, Hingham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 20 Jan 1679, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts  (Age 74 years)
Mother	Elizabeth IBROOK,   b. 31 Aug 1608, Southwold, Suffolk, England ,   d. Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - in childbirth  (Age 37 years)
Married	3 Jul 1628	Hingham, Norfolk, England
Family ID	F1162	Group Sheet




Family	Sarah ALDIS,   b. 1652,   d. 14 Apr 1712, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 60 years)
Married	26 Apr 1675	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Children	1. Catherine Elizabeth HOBART,   b. 16 Feb 1676, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Dec 1741, New River, Scott, Virginia  (Age 65 years)   2. Gershom HOBART,   b. 1679, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1752, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 73 years) + 3. Shebuel HOBART, Sr.,   b. 16 Sep 1682, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 30 Dec 1764, Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years)   4. Dorothy HOBART,   b. 10 Jun 1686, Groton, Middelsex, Massachusetts ,   d. 10 Jun 1686, Groton, Middelsex, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   5. Joanna HOBART,   b. 30 Dec 1696, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusettes ,   d. 19 Apr 1698, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusettes  (Age 1 years)
Last Modified	29 Dec 2018
Family ID	F23211	Group Sheet




• Photos » Slide Show		Birth Record for Gershom Hobart Recorded by his father, Peter Hobart, in the Hingham churchbooks
  		Article about Rev. Gershom Hobart from the volume Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University Volume II 1659 - 1677
  		Hingham Road Sign Apparently Hingham was halfway between Plymouth and Boston.