HODGKINS, Thomas

Thomas Hodgkins

1668 - 1719

Abigail [Hovey], married Sergeant Thomas, son of William and Grace (Dutch) Hodgkins, of Ipswich Dec 12, 1689; they lived n Ipswich; he was born in 1668; and died Nov. 16, 1719, aged fifty-one; his estate was valued at L625; she survived him, and died, his widow, Nov. 28, 1754.  Children, born in Ipswich:

  1. Daniel, born Oct. 14, 1690; lived in Ipswich; married first, Abigail Hunt in 1714; second Margaret Harris in 1737; he died June 1, 1773, aged eighty-two years; his wife Margaret survived him.  They had ten children. 

  1. Thomas, born in 1692; lived in Ipswich; married, first, Sarah Ayers of Ipswich Dec. 16, 1721; she died June 13, 1728; he married, second, widow Hannah (Warner) Stanwood, Jan. 20, 1729; he died Dec. 30, 1778, aged eighty-six.  He had eight children one of whom was Col. Joseph Hodgkins of the army of the Revolution, and another, Abigail, married, first, Thomas Ross, and, second, Andrew Burley, and lived to be ninety-nine years old.

  1. Hezekiah, living in 1737. 

  1. Esther, living in 1737. 

  1. Ezekiel, lived in Ipswich; married, first, Margaret Lakeman Jan. 20, 1731; she died March 1, 1744. He married, second, Deborah (Heard), widow of John Hovey (72) in 1746; and he died Sept. 13, 1777, having eight children. 

  1. Hannah, married John Lakeman in 1735. 

  1. John, baptized Aug. 16, 1713; lived in Ipswich; married Elizabeth Hovey Oct. 1738.

*Note:  Abigail is the daughter of Daniel Hovey & his second wife, Esther Treadwell.

Source:  “The Hovey Book: Describing the English Ancestry and American Descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts". Pub 1913 by Lewis R. Hovey, Pages 18-19

---Submitted by Tina Hursh