Edmund Hobart

  Noted events in his life were:

• Emigration, 1633, England to Charleston, Massachusetts. ⁴⁴⁶

• Titles. ⁴⁴⁶
Charlestown constable, 1635
Deputy for Hingham to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 22 May 1639, 4 September 1639, 7 October 1640, 8 September 1642
Commissioner to end small causes for Hingham, 1638, 1639, 1641
Grand jury, 19 September 1637
Committee to levy a colony rate, 6 June 1639

• Family Background Information.
According to "Shepherd in the Wilderness," a biography of Peter Hobart written by Edward Franklin Ripley (2001), Edmund Hobart was the son of Thomas Hobart, Lord of the Manor in Hingham (England). According to the church records of St. Andrews Church, Thomas was married to Helen Windsofer on July 30, 1569, in Snoring Magna, Essex. He died May 30, 1603. Edmund Hobart was born Jan.1, 1573 and succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Hingham , England. He married Margaret Dewey, who had also been baptized at St. Andrews. These were the parents of the Rev. Peter Hobart. This Edmund Hobart sailed to what is now Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1633 aboard the "Elizabeth Bonaventura." He, with his son, the Rev. Peter Hobart, became one of the founders of Hingham, Massachusetts. Margaret Watson, descendent of Edmund Hobart.

Margaret Watson from HOBART-L@rootsweb.com" mailing list

• Background Information. ⁶³⁷
Edmund Hobart was born in Hingham, England in 1574. He first married Margaret Dewey on 1 Sep 1600, and she was the mother of all his children. To escape the restrictions and persecutions of the Established church in England, Hobart left England in his sixtieth year for North America. Along with him were his wife, and three of their children, Rebecca, Sarah and Joshua, as well a their man servant Henry Gibbs. They left England in Mar 1633 and landed at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 3 May 1633.

Edmund is likely the first person by the name of Hobart in the Americas, and the progenitor for the name. It wasn't long after his arrive in Massachusetts that his children and their families also arrived in Massachusetts. First his son Thomas arrived with his wife and three children, then Rev. Peter Hobart, along with his wife and four children arrived on 8 Jun 1635

Edmund became a member of the Congregational Church in Charlestown, 19 Aug 1633, and took the freeman oath, 4 Mar 1634. Soon after he was appointed by the General Court as a constable of Charlestown.

In Sep 1635, Edmund, his children and other friends moved to Bare Cove, a few miles south of Boston. They gave their new settlement the name of Hingham after the ancient community in Norfolk County, England.

Margaret Dewey, Edmunds wife, died at Hingham. He then married a woman named Ann who was the widow of Rev. John Lyford. Edmund died in Hingham, 8 Mar 1646.

~Hobart Family in America, pp. 1-2

• Dates & Events. ^648,649
Daniel Cushing's Records from NEHGR, Vol 15, 1861, pg. 25, and The Founders of New England, p. 79:

"A list of names of such persons as came out of the town Hingham, and Towns adjacent in the County of Norfolk, in the Kindom of England, into New England and settled in Hingham, in New England, most of them as followeth:

1633 Imprimis, in the year of our Lord God 1633, Theophilus Cusing came from Hingham in Norfolk, and lived serveral years at Mr. Hains's (Hayne's) farm and many years before he dyed he lived at Hingham, in New England, and there he dyed, being about 100 years old, and was blind about 25 years of the said time.

1633 Edmound Hobart, senior, came from said Hingham, with his wife and his son Josha and his daugthers Rebekah and Sarah and their servant Henry Gibbs, into New England, and settled frist at Charlestown, and after, the said Edmond Hobart and his son Joshua and Henry Gibbs settled in this Town of Hingham.

Also Ralph Smith came from Old Hingham and lived in this town.

1633 Also Nicholas Jacob with his wife and two children, their cosen Thomas Lincoln, weaver, came from Old Hingham, and settled in this Hingham.

1633 Also Edmond Hobart and his wife came from Old Hingham, and settled in this Hingham.

1633 Also Thomas Hobart came from Windham, with his wife and 3 children came from old Hingham, and settled this Hingham.

1634 Thomas Chubbuck and his wife came and settled in this Hingham.

1635 Mr. Peter Hobart Minister of the Gospell, with his wife and 4 children, came into New England, and settled in this this town of Hingham, and was Pastor of the Church.

Edmund married Margaret Dewey, daughter of Robert Dewey and Margaret Stasye, on 7 Sep 1600 in Hingham, Forehoe, Norfolk, England. (Margaret Dewey was born about 1574 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England and died on 23 Jun 1649 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Suffolk, British American Colonies ^557a,558.)