Subject: Varnum/Nelson/Hobson/Jewett mystery
Date: 15 Nov 98 20:46:42 EST
From: Sharon Sergeant <ssergeant@usa.net>
To: sarafina@kua.net

Hi,
I started down a path of trying to find out which Sarah Varnum married both
John Hobson and Phillip Nelson in the 1600s, but the more I looked in the
Essex-roots archives, the more I wondered if there was any more info on the
Hobson family. The info on Nelson family and it's ties to both the Varnums
and Jewetts is a pretty tangled web. But I don't know much about the Hobsons.
So checked the web references of the people on this mailing list and found:

HOBSON, Sarah VARNUM/VARNAM m John Hobson son of William HOBSON ( BORN: , England DIED: ABT. 1694, MARRIED: Ann Reynor).  Sarah and John Hobson's son John was born 1680 and married Mehitabal Hidden and Dorcas Pearson (according to  http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/ward/17709  or email sarafina@kua.net )

also http://www.tiac.net/users/weymouth/Html/fam05938.htm shows that Sarah and John Hobson married 12/4/1679 Rowley, MA and that Sarah was also married to Phillip Nelson Born: 16 APR 1659 at: Rowley, MA Died: 4 DEC 1721 at:
Rowley, MA whose  Father was Capt Phillip Nelson and Mother: Sarah Jewett.
Sarah Varnum and Phillip Nelson had Sarah NELSON Born: 26 DEC 1686 at:
Rowley,MA,: Philip NELSON Born: 19 APR 1690 at: Rowley, MA Died: 4 DEC ,
Sarah NELSON Born: 19 APR 1690 at: Rowley, MA Married: 9 MAY 1715 Died: 26 MAY 1773 at: Rowley, MA Spouses: John HAZEN and: Hannah NELSON Born: 4 SEP 1694 at: Rowley, MA Married: 3 NOV 1714 at: Rowley, MA Spouses: Joseph RICHARDSON

But Jasper@empire.net shows that the Sarah Jewett who married William Hobson had an aunt named Sarah Jewett b 1639 who married Capt Phillip Nelson and that this Sarah Jewett Nelson had another niece named Joanna Jewett b: May 08, 1667 in Ipswich, Suffolk County, Massachusetts who married Thomas Varnum m: November 10, 1697.

Then I also have that  Joanna Jewett a cousin to Ruth Jewett (and possibly
sister to Sarah Jewett) married Joseph Bradley Varnum [III] VOD: baptised
6/3/1677,  in the Jewett lineage from -  Tristan Williams trisw@ljcrf.edu
http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/7379  Owner, JEWETT family discussion
group (JEWETT@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu) and Thomas Varnum's sister Hannah's son by Ezra Colburne married a Nelson:  Ezra4 born 1682 married  Lucy NELSON - all at the Varnum genealogy page at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7945

There you can see that Ruth Jewett and Joseph Varnum have many descendants
with Nelson as first or middle names.

But no-one seems to know which Sarah Varnum married John Hobson and Phillip
Nelson. KindredKonnections once had this listing VARNUM,SARAH m JOHN HOBSON 1657 MAR IPSWICH,ESSEX,MA which is a generation off from the previous info. and in the following references the Hobson widow who married Phillip Nelson seems to have been a Mary and no mention of a Sarah Varnum.

In the Hammett papers, p 276 : Humphrey Reynor of Rowley died in 1660 ...
will dated Sept 10, 1660 ... his daughters Whipple and Hobson ... grandchildren
Umphrey Hobson, John Hobson, William Hobson are all mentioned.

In the Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Supplement here are
references for these grandchildren and their father it seems:
Name: Hobson, Humphrey
Date: Sept. 1684
Town: Rowley
Type: int
Vol./page: IX:328

Name: Hobson, John
Date: Sept. 1683
Town:
Type: int
Vol./page: IX:96

Name: Hobson, John
Date: June 1684
Town: Rowley
Type: int
Vol./page: IX:271
 
Name: Hobson, William
Date: Sept. 1659
Town: Rowley
Type: int
Vol./page: II:178

As well as, Name: Nelson, Phillip
Date: Sept. 1691
Town: Rowley
Type: inv
Vol./page: 51:97
 

However, the Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers has:

Volume 2
page 438
Hobson, Humphrey, Rowley, s. of William, m. Eliz. Northend, d. of Ezekiel,
had Humphrey, b. 1684; was freem. 1683, d. next yr. His wid. m. Thomas Gage.

*JOHN, Rowley, s. of William, m. Dorcas, perhaps d. of John Pearson, had
Humphrey, b. 1702; Moes, 1704; and John, 1707; was rep. 1725, and many yrs.
later.

But an earlier JOHN of Rowley left wid. Mary, wh. m. Philip Nelson, as his
3d w. it is said.

WILLIAM, Rowley 1652, was from Yorksh. s. of Henry of Usflete, near
Whitgift in the S. part of the W.Riding, by w. Ann, d. of Humphrey Reyner, had
Humphrey, b. 1655; John, 1657; and William, 1659. He had a br. k. in the
civil war at a battle near Willoughby.

WILLIAM, Rowley, s. of the preced. m. Ann, d. of Jachin Reyner.

Volume 2
page 464
Hopson, see Hobson.
JOHN, Guilford 1664, b. it is said 1610, wh. I doubt, emb. 1635 at London
in the Globe, was constable 1666, by w. Sarah had John, b. 16 Mar. 1666; and
Francis, wh. d. young. His w. d. 9 Sept. 1669; and he at Saybrook m. 3 or
9Dec. 1672, Eliz. d. of Edward Shipman, had Eliz, b. 22 June 1674; Abigail,
17 Dec. 1677, d. [p.464] young; and Samuel, 10 Jan. 1684. But prob. this last
was by third w. Eliz. d. of John Alling of New Haven, as I suppose the see. w.
d.1683. He, in rec. of 685, is call. sen. and writ. Hopson, and d. 3 July
1701. His eldest d. Eliz. m. Comfort Starr, s. of Comfort of Middletown, and
gr.s. of Thomas.

JOHN, Guilford, s. of the preced. m. 28 Feb. 1701, Dorothy, d. of William
Lord of Saybrook, had John b. 22 Mar. 1703; and Sarah, 14 Aug. 1705. His w. d.
12 Oct. foll. and he m. 15 Feb. 1707, Dorothy, d. of Andrew Leete of Guilford;
was licut. and d. 12 Jan. 1731.

SAMUEL, Guilford, youngest ch. of the first John, m. 20 Jan. 1710, Mary
Fowler, perhaps d. of Abraham, ad only ch. Samuel, b. 21 Oct. foll. and the
f. d. 27 Dec. 1771, and the mo. d. 12 May 1783, but their s. d. 1760.

Volume 3
page 268
Nelson,
Francis, Rowley, s. of the sec. Thomas, m. Mary Ray, had Solomon, b. 1703;
Daniel, 1707; and Jonathan, 1713. Gage's Hist. of Rowley.
JOHN, Middleborough, perhaps s. of William, m. Lydia, wid. of James
Barnaby, d. of Robert Bartlett of Plyouth. But she was, I judge, his sec. w. and
that he first m. 28 Nov. 1667, Sarah, d. of Henry Wood, wh. d. 4 Mar. 1676, hav.
had John, wh. d. 5 June 1676; and Martha, wh. d. 19 Feb. preced.
...
PHILIP, Rowley, eldest s. of Thomas, came with his f. 1638, H. C. 1654, m.
24 June 1657, Sarah, d. of the first Joseph Jewett, had Philip, b. 1659, and
one d.; was freem. 1665; and by sec. w. Eliz. d. of John Lowell of Newbury, m.
1 Jan. 1667, had John, 1668; and by third w. Mary, wid. of John Hobson, had,
perhaps, Joseph, 1682; and Jeremiah, 1686, beside four ds. Coffin, wh. says
he d. 20 Aug. 1691, tells a sad story a. his delusion as to power of working
miracles, that Farmer abstract. but I prefer to omit. PHILIP, Rowley 1691, s. of the preced.
* THOMAS, Rowley 1638, prob. arr. that yr. freem. 23 May 1639, rep. 1641;
brot. from Eng. Philip, and Thomas, and by w. Joanna had Mercy, and Samuel,
went home in 1647 or 8, as we learn from his will, made in contemplat. of
the voyage so early as 24 Dec. 1645, with codic. made in Eng. designing to
return hither, 6 Aug. 1648, wherein his uncle, Rich. Dummer and Gov. Bellingham
have trusts as excors. and also care of the ch. Ast. is in the Geneal. Reg. III.
267. I suppose he d. bef. coming back.
THOMAS, Rowley, s. of the preced. m. Ann, d. of Francis Lambert, had
Thomas, b. 1661; [p.268] Jonathan, 1667; Gershom, 1672; and Francis, 1676; beside three ds.; and by sec. w. Mary Hunt, had Ephraim, 1682; and d. 5 Apr. 1712, in his 77th yr.

Then in the Pioneers of Massachusetts under Hobson:
William of rowley, , recd. bequest from Wm. Bellingham in 1650; propr.; selectman 1652. He m. 12 (9) 1652, Ann, dau. of Humphrey Raynor.
He was bur. 17 July, 1659. His wife, as adm. of his estate, confirmed in
1661 a deed of land he had formerly sold; and sold a lot which had been her
father's. She sold other land in 1682.
In the admin. of the est. of John Hobson in 1684 reference is made to his
father and mother and bro. and sister Hobson.and NORTHEND, NORDEN,:
Ezekiel, Rowley, propr. before 1648; corporal, town officer. He deposed in
1662, ae. 40 years, and in 1692, ae. about 64 years; worked in the building
of mills by Thomas Nelson in 1640, etc. He m. Dec. 1, 1648, Edna, widow of
Richard Bayley; ch. Edna b. July 1, 1649, (m. 1, Thomas Lambert, m. 2,
Andrew Stickney,) Elizabeth b. sept. 17, 1651, Elizabeth b. Oct. 19, 1656, (m. 1,
Humphrey Hobson, m. 2, Thomas Gage,) John b. Jan. 18, 1658, Sarah b. Jan.
3, 1661, (m. Thomas Hale,) Ezekiel b. Nov. 8, 1666.
 

thanks for any help you can provide,
Sharon Varnum Sergeant