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1642 - 1695 Daniel Hovey, born in Ipswich in 1642. He was a husbandman, and always lived in his native town. He was made a freeman March 11, 1673-4; and held several offices in the town. He was a fence viewer in 1671, having been chosen by the commoners and confirmed by the selectmen; a surveyor in 1671; a tithing man in 1681; a constable in 1691 and 1693. The selectmen of Ipswich granted to Mr. Hovey, Nov. 27, 1668, the right to fell trees for a house. This ancient Hovey house stood upon the south side of the river, and was born July 17, 1894. It had been untenanted since 1877, its great chimney had been torn down and the building used as a hay-barn. Over the front door were bull's eye panes of glass. The engraving on the opposite page is the most picturesque picture of the old house extant. It was made by E. Whitefield in 1888. The house had been owned by strangers for about half a century. March 2, 1670-1, the selectmen granted to Daniel Hovey timber for a neb and axletree. Jan. 17, 1680, the selectmen granted him liberty to fell some more trees. In 1683, the town paid him three pounds and eighteen shillings "for fetching the boat from ye Island." Among the papers on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, in the settlement of the estate of Thomas Andrews of Ipswich, the schoolmaster, is the following certificate of Daniel Hovey as to the heirs of the deceased:- Thefe may Informe This Honrd Court held at Salem Novembr 1683. That the children of the sister of the deseafe mr Thomas Andrews: vizt Abigaell Houy their names are a s follow: vizt Daniell Houy Jno Houy Thomas: Jofeph & Nathaniell: mr Andrews his sister Franklings daughters name is Elizabeth Glouer. Nouembr 30, 1683 Daniel Houey Jun. The only real estate transactions recorded in the registries of deeds in which Mr. Hovey was a party was a deed, dated May 3, 1694, by which he conveyed twenty acres of upland and salt march in Labor-in-vain field in Ipswich, on the south side of the town river, and six acres of pasture at Heartbreak hill on the south side of the river; and a conveyance from his brother Thomas of one acre of land in Labor-in-vain field in Ipswich, on south side of the river, March 23, 1694. Mr. Hovey married, first Rebecca ----, who died, on the day her son Daniel was born, May 24, 1665. He married, second, Esther, daughter of Thomas Treadwell of Ipswich Oct. 8, 1666. Mr. Hovey died in Ipswich May 29, 1695, at about fifty-three years of age. The following is a copy of Mr. Hovey's will, which is on file in the probate office at Salem:-
The following is a copy of the inventory of Mr. Hovey's estate, which is also on file in the probate office at Salem:- A true Inuentory of all & Singular ye Goods Chattels rights & Credits of Daniell Houey Senir Deceafed & Apprized in Ipswich as pay ye 15h of June 1695 by ye Subferibers as ffollows Imprmis His houfes & Lands 470 his Cattle horfes Sheep & Swine & ct 56 his wearing Apparrell 66 12 his houfhold Stufe & Vtensils of hufbandrey & ct 60 02 Totall is 592 14 Jacob Ffoster Sener Philemon Dane Debts due to ye Estate 11:13:- Debts due from the Estate 83 3 3 The inventory was sworn to by Thomas Hovey, executor, April 1, 1696. Thomas Hovey, the surviving executor of the will of Daniel Hovey, with his mother and his brothers and sisters, viz.: John Hovey, Ebenezer Hovey, Abigail Hodgkins, Mary Hovey and Thomas Hodgkins, all of Ipswich, conveyed a six-acre lot of pasture land in Ipswich, in Labor-in-vain field, on the north side of Heartbreak hill, June 28, 1697. The same executor conveyed two acres of planting land in the same field, on the south side of the river, May 2, 1794; and he also conveyed to his brother Ebenezer Hovey four acres of marsh on Barr Island in Ipswich, bounded westerly by the river, July 20, 1704. The same executor also conveyed to his brother John Hovey of Ipswich, weaver, five acres of salt marsh, pasture and planting ground in Ipswich, on the south side of the river, in Labor-in-vain field; one acre of marsh and upland (the upland being an island in said acre in Labor-in-vain field; and four and one-half acres of marsh at Barr Island, on Plum Island, in Ipswich, April 18, 1705. The same executor, for twenty-nine pounds, conveyed to Joseph Fuller of Ipswich, carpenter, three acres of upland or pasture in Labor-in-vain field in Ipswich, April 23, 1712. The same executor, for three pounds and ten shillings, conveyed to his brother John Hovey of Ipswich, weaver, half an acre of upland in Labor-in-vain field in Ipswich, Dec. 28, 1715. Mrs. Esther Hovey survived her husband, and died in Ipswich, his widow, Jan. 4, 1730, at the age of ninety. The children of Daniel Hovey were born in Ipswich as follows:-
Source: "The Hovey Book: Describing The English Ancestry and American Descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts". Pub 1913 by Lewis R. Hovey, Pages 16-19 --- Submitted by Tina Hursh |