Ahnentafel #1036 - William Hodges

William Hodges - may have been Hedges

Born: 1620, England

Died: April 2, 1654 Taunton, Massachusetts

Buried: unknown 

Married: Mary Andrews in 1648 Massachusetts 

Immigrant: arrived in Massachusetts ca. 1633

Biography:

William Hodges went to Taunton (perhaps from Salem) soon after Taunton was purchased by the first proprietors and his name is in the second list of early settlers made out by the Town Clerk, John Wilbore. His first certain appearance on the records is in August 1643, in the list of males at Taunton between the ages of 16 and 60, able to bear arms. On March 24, 1643/4 the town voted "that a sufficient carte-way be made from the houses into the woods behind the ground of William Hodges, William Evans and Aaron Knapp, where it is most convenient."  At Plymouth Court, Oct. 4, 1648, William Hodges was accused "for yt the sd. Hedgges, knowing of one yt hath traded shote unto the Indians, and refusing to declare who it is, by a sommons sent unto him is required to appeer at the next Generall Court; accordingly hee did and was cleared."  He was propounded freeman June 6, 1649, and admitted freeman June 5, 1651, on this last date being appointed constable at Taunton. He was on the Grand Jury June 2, 1652, and on a coroner's jury Aug. 2, 1653, at Plymouth Court. He was one of the original stockholders of the first Taunton Iron Works, subscribing ￡20 for a whole share. He seems to have held considerable property and probably was comparatively young when he died. There is still on file at Plymouth "an Inventory of the goods and chattles of William Hedgis, late of Taunton, deceased April the 2cond Anno 1654, taken and aprised by James Wyate, Oliver Purchis and William Parker May the 15th of the same yeare . . . 

Records:

1643 - August - Taunton, MA - William Hodges on military roll, between age of 16 and 60 able to bear arms.

1643/44 - March 24 - Taunton, MA - a road was to be set off behind his property by the town of Taunton.

1648 - Oct. 4 - Plymouth, MA - William Hodges was summoned into court. He was accused of knowing who had been trading ammunition to the Indians and refusing to tell the court.  He appeared at the next court and was cleared of all wrong doing. 

1649 - June 6 - Taunton, MA  - William Hodges was nominated for freemanship.

1651 - June 5 - Taunton, MA - He was made a freeman and appointed as constable.

1652 - June 2 - Plymouth, MA - William served on a grand jury.

1653 - Aug. 2 - Plymouth, MA - William served on a coroner's jury. 

1654/55 - March 15 - Plymouth, MA - William's inventory gives some idea about the house he lived in.  Inventory of goods and chattles of William Hedgis, late of Taunton, deceased Aprill the 2cond Anno 1654 was taken and apprised by James Wyate, Oliver Purchis and William Parker.

• Imprimis, his wearing apparell ￡8.5.0 
• Item, his woolen cloke, 2.13.0
• Item, money and [change?], 3.0.0
• Item 2 throne cushens and a carpett 1.7.0
• Item, a childs wrapper 1.10.0
• Item in the chamber below, 1 bedsted, 2 chists, one box, 2.0.0
• Item, one feather bedd, 1 feather bolster, 4 feather pillowes, one bolser teeke, 1 pillow teeke, 7.7.0
• Item all the Linnen 6.10.0
• Item 3 paire of blanketts 3.1.0 
• Item his bookes 1.10.0
• Item in the uper chamber 1 bedsted, 1 yalllow rugg, one blew covering 3.14.0
• Item one canvas teeke for a bedd 1.0.0
• Item Indian and English corn and mault 4.0.0
• Item his armes, 1 swor & belt, one paire of bandeleros 1.2.0
• Item five sackes 1.0.0
• Item coards and lines 0.4.0
• Item In the hall a Table board, one forme and dresser, 1.2.0
• 2 chaires 1 stoole, one cradle, one chaire, 1 Indian trading coate, 2 Iron potts 1.18.0
• Item, one brasse pott, 1 brasse posnett, 3 brasse skilletts, 3 brass kittles 3.16.0
• Item, one warming pan, one brasse chaffing dish, one brasse skimer, one brasse laddle, 0.15.6
• Item in pewter 2.15.0
• Item, plate, 3.7.0
• Item a corslett 1.10.0
• Item an houre glasse, 2 letten vessels & Iron furniture 3.6.6
• Item, 2 musketts, 1 pistoll, 2.10.0
• Item, in the cellar 2 brass panes 1.6.0
• Item [illegible] ware 1.10.0
• Item 4 cowes 20.0.0 
• Item 2 steeres 12.0.0
• Item 1 heifer and a steer 7.0.0
• Item two yeerling heifers, 1 yeerling calfe 5.0.0
• Item swine 4.0.0
• Item in debts upon booke 15.9.0
• Item his pte in the Iron worke 20.0.0
• Total 157.9.0 [but the items add up to 155.8.0]

James Wyate, William Parker, Oliver Purchis

This Inventory was testified upon oath to bee a true Inventory of all the goods and chattles of the deceased William Hedgis by Mary the wife of the deceased before mee, John Browne, the 15th of March  1654 [March 1654/55]

1654/55 - March 15 - Mary (Andrews) Hodges appeared in probate court to deed land to her two sons and write a pre-nuptial agreement with Peter Pitts:

Bee it known unto all men, that I, Mary Hedgis, widow, of the town and plantation of Taunton, within the pattent of New Plymouth, do give out of my estate left me by my husband as followeth.

Imprimis. I give unto John, my eldest sonne, thirty pounds, with my house, home lott and all lands pertaining thereto.

Item. I give unto Henery, my second son, the sum of thirty pounds, with a parcel of land given me by my father, lyign between the Lotts of my brother Henry Andrews and John Cobb.

Item. I reserve in my own hands the sum of thirty pounds of my estate to despose thereof as I shall thin good. Item I reserve in myne own hand power to despose of my own wearing apparrell as I shall think good.

Item. I bind Peter Pitts in case I make him my husband to perform the conditions of this my deed of gift, unless the hand of God doe disable him by some extraordinary accident as may fall out, as by his sickness or the like, and this to be judged of by those men whom she shall put in trust, and by them to be ordered what shee shall doe if god crosse him. I intend he shall maynetayne these my two children for the use of their portions I give them, untill they come of age or be otherwise desposed of in marriage.

Item. My intent and will is to make Richard Williams, James Wyate and James Walker my trustees and overseers for the fulfilling of this my deed of gift.

Richard Williams, James Wyate, William Pole, Samuel Williams, Peter Pitts [witnesses] 

Children:

John b. 1650, d. 1719 md. 1672 Elizabeth Macey

• John b. 1673, d. 1743/44 md. Mercy Tisdale
• Ebenezer b. 1698, d. 1749 md. 1) 1729 Mary Dailey & 2) 1732 Esther Fisher
• Mary b. 1734 md. Samuel Morey see below
• Elizabeth b. 1700, d. 1745 md. ca. 1723/24 George Morey
• George Morey b. 1724 md. Mary Hodges daughter of Joseph  & Bethiah (Williams) Hodges
• Samuel Morey b. 1727 md. Mary Hodges daughter of Ebenezer & Esther (Fisher) Hodges, see above
• Elizabeth Morey b. 1730, d. 1797 md. 1750 George Wheaton
• Benjamin Morey b. 1732 md. Priscilla (--?--)
• Hannah Morey b. 1735 md. Nathan Hodges see below for children
• Abigail Morey b. 1738 md. 1) 1756 Peter Makepeace & 2) 1805 David Lincoln
• Sarah Morey b. 1740, d. 1742
• Eliphalet b. 1702, d. 1765 md. 1735/36 Elizabeth Clapp 
• Elizabeth b. 1736/37 md. 1756 Caleb Lyon 
• John b. 1738/39, d. ca. 1756 never married
• David b. 1742 md. 1762 Bethiah Knapp
• Eliphalet b. 1746, d. before 1760
• Anna b. 1704/05, d. 1755 md. 1733 William Ware
• George Ware b. 1734, d. 1771 md. Mary Richmond
• Benjamin Ware b. 1736/37, d. ca. 1763 at sea 
• Anna Ware b. 1741, d. 1741 3 months old
• Edmund b. 1709, d. 1777 md. 1736/37 Mercy Cook 
• Hannah b. 1737/38, d. 1778 md. 1753 Noah Wiswall
• Sarah b. 1740, d. 1742
• Miriam b. 1742, d. ca. 1760 md. 1760 Daniel Tiffany no children
• Edmund b. 1744, md. 1) 1764 Rachel Godfrey, 2) Ruth (Fletcher) Paddock
• Deliverance b. 1746, d. 1801 md. 1764 Silas Cobb
• Elizabeth b. 1749, d. 1769 md. 1767 Samuel Godfrey
• Sarah b. 1751, d. 1781 md. 1773 Adam Johnstone
• Tisdale b. 1753, d. ca. 1811 md. 1774 Naomi Hodges daughter of Joseph & Miriam (Hodges) (Bishop) Hodges, see below
• John b. 1756, d. 1802 md. 1780 Abigail Wheaton
• Ebenezer b. 1759, d. 1759 1 month old
• Daniel b. 1763, d. 1789 md. 1787 Elona Shepardson
• Mercy b. 1711 b. 1711, md. 1) 1741 Silas Titus & 2) 1754 Joseph Phillips
• Ebenezer Titus b. 1742, d. 1822 md. Mehitable Knapp
• Sarah Titus b. 1745, d. 1748
• Nathaniel b. 1675, d. 1749/50 md. Hannah Deane
• Jonathan d. 1770 md. 1745/46 Deborah Newcomb
• Jonathan b. 1746/47, d. 1823 md. 1771 Abigail Carpenter
• Deborah b. 1748, d. ca. 1824 md. 1) 1771 John Allen & 2) 1784 Lewis Leprilete
• Nathaniel b. 1750, d. 1828 md. 1) 1774 Hannah Skinner, 2) 1804 Martha Dean
• David b. 1752, d. ca. 1806 md. 1783 Lydia Hodges daughter of Timothy & Lydia (Cox) Hodges
• Abigail b. 1755, md. 1774 Samuel Lincoln
• John b. ca. 1700 d. after 1749/50
• Hannah md. Timothy Bryant
• Hannah Bryant md. 1745 George White
• Mehitable Bryant md. Nathaniel Eliot
• Jemima Bryant md. 1766 Joseph Shelly
• Abiah Bryant md. (--?--) Jones
• Abiah d. 1774 md. 1) 1745 Jonathan Follett & 2) ca. 1745 Robert Claflin
• Abiah Follett b. 1736 md. ca. 1760 Samuel Redway
• Martha Follett b. 1737
• Jonathan Follett b. 1739 md. ca. 1763 Mary Brown
• Mehitable Follett b. 1742
• Robert Claflin b. 1746/47, d. 1767
• Anne Claflin b. 1750, md. 1774 Jacob Crossman
• Nathaniel Claflin b. 1751, m. 1771 Keziah Hodges
• Daniel Claflin b. 1755, d. 1822 md. Phebe Brown
• Elizabeth d. after 1749/50 probably never married
• Rebecca md. 1744 Seth Tisdale
• Rebecca Tisdale b. 1745/46 md. 1762 Joseph Godfrey
• Seth Tisdale b. 1748/49 md. 1770 Abiah Haskins
• Phebe Tisdale b. 1753, d. 1756
• Reuben Tisdale b. 1757 md. 1781 Rachel Crane
• Mary Tisdale (twin) b. 1759 md. 1786 Jonathan Pratt
• John Tisdale (twin) b. 1759, d. 1833 md. 1780 Hannah WHite
• Sarah Tisdale b. 1762 md. 1784 Jonathan Smith
• Phebe md. 1750 John Cobb
• Phebe Cobb b. 1751 md. Caleb Willis
• Mehitable d. 1733, md. 1732 Thomas Morey
• Thomas Morey b. 1733, md. 1759 Bathsheba Godfrey
• Remember b. 1713 md. Stephen Wood
• Elkanah Wood b. 1734
• Nathaniel Wood b. 1737, md. 1763 Abigail Carver
• Mary Wood b. 1739, d. 1784 md. 1763 Elisha Dean
• Rebecca Wood b. 1743, d. in childhood
• Samuel b. 1678, d. 1725 md. 1) 1700 Experience Leonard & 2) 1716/17 Mary (King) Allen
• Nathaniel (may have been a nephew, not a son, died young)
• Mary b. 1703, d. young
• Lydia b. 1705 md. 1732 Thomas Winchell
• Sarah Winchell b. 1733, md. 1753 Simeon Briggs
• Lydia Winchell (twin) b. 1735/36 
• Thomas Winchell (twin) b. 1735/36 d. 1735/36
• Hannah Winchell b. 1738 md. 1774 Ephraim Burr
• Mary Winchell b. 1740 md. 1764 Hezekiah Willard
• Abigail Winchell b. 1744
• Silence b. ca. 1708 d. ca. 1747 md. 1730 Ephraim Turner
• Lettice Turner md Benjamin(?) Pierce
• John Turner b. 1741, d. 1784 never married
• William Turner b. 1745/46 d. 1792 md. 1767 Ann Dumaresq
• Experience b. ca. 1710 md. 1732 Joseph Cook
• Ann Cook b. 1733
• Caleb Cook
• Samuel b. 1714, d. 1745 md. 1739 Ruth Potter
• Simeon b. 1740, d. 1815 md. 1) 1765 Susannah Cobb, 2) Sarah Fisher
• Samuel b. 1742
• Ruth b. 1744/45 md. 1762 Solomon Trow
• Miriam b. 1717/18, d. 1809 md. 1) 1736 Joseph Bishop, 2) 1749 Joseph Hodges (son of Joseph & Bethiah (Williams) Hodges) & 3) 1760 William Cobb
• Joseph Bishop b. 1736, d. 1759 never married
• Nathaniel Bishop b. 1739 md. Bethany Eddy 
• Mehitable Bishop b. 1741 md. 1761 Samuel Pitts
• Elkanah Bishop b. 1743 md. 1769 Lydia Robinson
• Zephaniah Bishop b. 1745, d. 1835 md. 1765 Sarah Stone
• Ephraim Bishop b. 1747, d. 1747 3 months old
• Huldah Bishop b. 1748, d. 1748/49 4 months old
• Miriam Hodges b. 1750 (see 158) 
• Joseph Hodges b. 1752 (see 159)
• Naomi Hodges b. 1754 md. Tisdale Hodges see above
• Sarah b. 1719, d. after childbirth md. 1736/37 Ephraim Tisdale
• Benoni Tisdale died in infancy
• Martha b. 1720, d. 1795 md. 1) 1736 Ephraim Tisdale [not the Ephraim above] & 2) 1755 John Evans.  Most of the Tisdale children were Tories during the American Revolution.
• Joshua Tisdale b. 1737
• Hannah Tisdale b. 1739, d. 1755
• Elizabeth Tisdale b. 1741/42 md. 1765 Thomas Gilbert
• Abigail Tisdale b. 1743/44 d. 1808 never married
• Ephraim Tisdale b. 1745/46, d. 1816 md. 1767 Ruth Strange
• Philena Tisdale b. 1747/48, d. 1752 
• Mary Tisdale b. 1749 md. 1776 Bradford Gilbert 
• Henry Tisdale b. 1751, d. 1793 md. 1) 1773 Elizabeth Evans & 2) 1785 Patience Brinsley
• Philena Tisdale (2nd) b. 1753, d. 1783 never married
• Anna Evans b. 1757
• Seth b. 1722/23 d. 1809 md. 1) 1744 Anna Hoar, 2) ca. 1763 Elizabeth (--?--) Tyler
• Samuel b. 1755, d. 1826 md. Rebecca Smith
• Asa b. 1756, d. 1818 md. Priscilla Lamb
• Mary b. 1758, d. 1809 md. William Porter 
• Seth b. 1765, d. 1847 md. Margaret Hodges daughter of Edmund & Rachel (Godfrey) Hodges above 
• Zilpha (probable child of Seth Hodges) md. 1773 John Lamb 
• Ebenezer (probable child of Seth Hodges) 
• Edmund (probable child of Seth Hodges) 
• Eliphalet (probable child of Seth Hodges) 
• William b. 1682, d. 1766 md. 1) 1710/11 Hannah Tisdale & 2) 1719/20 Mary Clapp
• George b. ca. 1711 d. 1786 md. 1737 Susannah Cobb
• George b. 1739
• Silas b. 1741/42, d. 1804 md. 1) 1761 Mary Bacon, 2) 1767 Rachel Freeman, 3) ca. 1778 Mary Gould
• Susannah b. ca. 1744 md. John Richardson
• Elkanah b. 1747
• Daniel b. 1754, d. 1829 md. 1781 Rachel Rich
• Leonard b. 1759, d. 1841 md. 1783 Sarah Spafford
• Abigail b. 1713 md. 1) 1731/32 James Cook, 2) 1759 Daniel King
• Hannah Cook b. 1733, d. young
• Lucy Cook b. 1736, d. young
• Lurana Cook b. 1738/39 d. young
• Elijah Cook b. 1741, d. 1822 md. ca. 1767 Ruby Adams
• Lusanna Cook b. 1742 md. 1) ca. 1759 Jonathan Whitmarsh, 2) ca. 1762 Sylvester Richmond
• Maria Cook b. 1744 md. ca. 1763 Elijah King (son of Daniel King, her stepbrother, no relation to each other)
• Bethiah Cook b. ca. 1747 md. ca. 1768 Thomas Baker
• James Cook b. 1751, d. 1798 md. 1782 Else Bradford
• Zenas Cook drowned 1790 md. Hannah Bradford
• Job b. 1721, d. 1808 md. Ruth Andrews
• Job b. ca. 1747 md. 1771 Margaret White
• Elona b. 1750, d. 1816 md. 1770 Jacob Skinner
• Zephaniah b. ca. 1752, d. 1795 md. Mercy (--?--)
• William b. 1755, d. 1840 md. 1784 Sarah Willard
• Rachel b. 1757, d. 1826 never married
• Elisha b. 1760, d. 1824 md. ca. 1788 Huldah Daggett
• Eunice b. ca. 1762, d. 1838 md. 1787 Joseph Lane
• Emerson b. ca. 1764, d. 1844 md. ca. 1792 Susan (--?--)
• Elijah b. 1724/25, d. 1809 md. Elizabeth Reed
• Abigail b. 1746, d. 1808 md. 1772 Joseph Shepard
• Sarah b. ca. 1748, md. 1769 Joseph Hewes
• Elijah b. 1751, d. 1837 md. 1) 1779 Sarah Morey daughter of Samuel & Mary (Hodges) Morey above
• Zebulon b. ca. 1755 d. 1839 md. 1) Amy Pierce 2) 1792 Elizabeth Howe
• John b. 1765, d. 1845 md. 1788 Mary Pratt
• Elizabeth b. ca. 1766, d. 1787 never married
• Abijah b. 1728, d. 1807 md. 1754 Jerusha Leonard
• Mary b. 1756, d. 1803 md. 1774 Joseph Tisdale
• Abijah b. ca. 1758, d. 1812 md. 1) 1779 Wealthy Godfrey daughter of George & Bethiah (Hodges) Godfrey
• Jerusha b. 1761, d. 1850 md. 1779 John Godfrey son of George & Bethiah (Hodges) Godfrey
• Samuel b. ca. 1763, md. 1785 Lucinda Austin
• James b. 1765, d. 1810 md. 1) 1786 Joanna Tillinghast, 2) 1792 Eleanor Cobb
• Anna b. 1768, d. 1840 md. Joseph Tillinghast
• unnamed child d. 1770
• unnamed child d. 1772
• William b. 1773, d. 1855, md. 1803 Mary Chandler 
• Lydia b. ca. 1776 md. 1798 Amasa Mason
• Mary b. ca. 1731, d. 1796 md. 1) 1753 William Chandler & 2) 1757 Peter Chandler
• William Chandler b. 1754, d. 1844 md. 1) 1777 Mary Grosvenor, 2) 1780 Patty Hill 3) 1788 Eunice Terry
• Henry Chandler b. 1756, d. 1813 md. 1781 Martha Brown
• Lemuel Chandler b. 1758, d. 1789 md. 1781 Alice Thurber
• Mary Chandler b. 1760, d. 1834 md. 1788 William Bowen
• Lucy Chandler b. 1762, d. 1816 md. 1780 Joseph Lord
• Matilda Chandler b. 1764, d. 1843 md. 1787 Thomas Edwards
• John Chandler b. 1766, d. 1766 1 month old
• Clarina Chandler b. 1767, d. 1801 md. 1792 Israel Putnam
• John Chandler (2nd) b. 1769, d. 1808, md. 1792 Mary Stedman
• Susannah Chandler b. 1771, md. 1794 John Winthrop Chandler 
• Charles Chandler b. 1774, d. 1833 md. 1797 Lydia Gray
• Abigail Chandler b. 1774, d. 1775 
• Nathan Chandler b. 1776, d. 1833 md. 1802 Elizabeth Arnold
• George b. 1685, d. 1713 never married
• Ebenezer b. 1688, d. before 1719 never married
• Nathan b. 1690, d. 1770 md. 1728 Experience Williams
• Nathan b. 1729 md. 1751 Hannah Morey see above
• Nathan b. 1753, d. ca. 1786 md. 1777 Betsey Bosworth
• Lemuel b. 1755, d. before 1789 no children
• Lucy b. 1757, d. after 1799 
• Lanson b. 1760 lost at sea before 1789
• Lyman b. 1764
• Sanders b. 1767, d. ca. 1804 md. Joanna (--?--)
• Schuyler b. 1772, probably d. young
• Hannah b. 1730 md. 1761 Richard Guild
• Richard Guild b. 1762, d. 1819 md. Zillah Turner (all these Turners are siblings)
• Lucinda Guild b. 1765, md. 1790 Samuel Turner
• Lanson Guild b. 1769, d. 1844 md. 1799 Keturah Turner
• Elizabeth b. 1733, d. 1814 md. 1756 Moses Wilmarth
• Elizabeth Wilmarth b. ca. 1757 md. (--?--) Pond
• Lydia Wilmarth b. 1760, d. 1816 md. 1787 Luther Richards
• Jonathan Wilmarth b. 1761, d. 1839 md. ca. 1785 Sarah Sheldon
• Lurana Wilmarth b. 1764 md. 1790 Stephen Wilmarth
• Tryphena Wilmarth b. 1767
• Roxa Wilmarth b. 1771
• Anna b. 1734, d. 1783 md. 1776 Ebenezer Blake no children
• James b. 1737, d. 1818 md. 1766 Mary Briggs
• James b. 1767, d. at sea md. 1793 Abigail Daggett
• Mary b. 1769, d. 1849 md. 1806 John Munroe
• Philena b. 1771, d. 1776
• Elisha b. 1773, d. 1852 md. Hannah (Wilber) Braman
• Laban (twin) b. 1775, d. 1800 never married
• Galen (twin) b. 1775, d. 1828 md. 1811 Dimmey Andrews
• Anna b. 1777, d. 1854 md. 1801 Lemuel Arnold
• Asa b. 1779, d. 1850 never married
• Lucinda b. 1782, d. 1870, never married
• Adoniram b. 1784, d. 1870 md. ca. 1812 Bathsheba Richmond
• Betsey b. 1787, d. 1834 md. 1809 Holmes Richmond
• Abiel b. 1739 md. 1) 1766 Experience Williams, 2) ca. 1775 Abigail Williams & 3) Thankful (--?--)
• Abiel d. after 1805
• Experience 
• Waitstill 
• Abigail md. ca. 1793 Nathaniel Wood 
• Josiah b. 1741, d. 1825 md. 1765 Wealthy Hodges (daughter of Jonathan & Abigail (Sanford) Hodges)
• Wealthy b. 1766, d. 1856 md. 1792 Ezra Macomber
• Linda b. 1771, d. 1797 never married
• Josiah b. 1774, d. 1841 md. 1801 Sarah Winslow
• Stephen b. 1781, d. 1847 md. 1809 Lintha Harvey
• Katharine d. after 1776 never married

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