Enos Ives

Notes:

Revolutionary War soldier: private, Vermont. DAR ancestor #A060729. "Service Description: 1) Capt. James Claghorn, Col. Mead".

Enos married Anne Cook on 16 Mar 1749 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Anne (daughter of Israel Cook and Elizabeth Clark) was born on 4 Jan 1727 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Ives was born on 25 Apr 1766 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 15 Feb 1845 in Pottawattamie, Iowa.

Thomas married Rebecca Hotchkiss on 15 Nov 1720 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Rebecca (daughter of Sgt. Daniel Hotchkiss and Esther Sperry) was born on 14 Feb 1697 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 23 Jan 1762 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 14 Oct 1674, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Deacon married Esther Benedict on 11 May 1697 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Thomas Benedict and Mary Messenger) was born about 1679 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 1 Jan 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Mar 1710, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

Mistakenly given in History of Wallingford as "David Hotchkiss".

Daniel married Esther Sperry on 21 Jun 1683 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Richard Sperry and Dennes) was born on 16 Sep 1654 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died in 1707 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Ives (1644-1682) = Hannah Merriman (b. 1651)
John Ives (1669-1747) = Mary Gillett (1671-1716)
John Ives (1694-1745) = Hannah Royce (1701-1770)
John Ives (1729-1816) = Mary Hall (1742-1788)
Isaac Ives (1764-1845) = Sarah White (1773-1851)
George Ives (1799-1862) = Sarah Wilcox (1808-1899)
George Edward Ives (1845-1894) = Mary Elizabeth Parmalee (1850-1929)
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American composer

John married Hannah Merriman on 12 Nov 1668 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Merriman and Joan) was born on 16 May 1651 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Messenger in Jan 1665 in Jamaica, Long Island, New Netherland. Mary (daughter of Andrew Messenger and Rachel) was born about 1642 in Jamaica, Long Island, New Netherland; died in 1699 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1646
• Alternate death: Aft 1698

Notes:

Samuel Hotchkiss (1623-1663) = Elizabeth Cleverly (d. 1681)
Samuel Hotchkiss (1645-1705) = Sarah Talmage
Mary Hotchkiss (1680-1723) = Caleb Tuttle (1674-1751)
Eliphalet Tuttle (1718-1755) = Desire Bradley (1722-1778)
Esther Tuttle (b. 1747) = Nathaniel Lewis (b. 1740)
Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) = Isaac Hale (1763-1839)
Emma (Hale) Smith (1804-1879), wife of LDS founder Joseph Smith

From The Harmon and Perry Genealogy:

Samuel HOTCHKISS was born in 1623 in Dodington, parish of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. He died on 28 December 1663 at the age of 40 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. He was buried on 28 December 1663 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Samuel was christened in Dodington, Whitchurch, England.

[…W]as a resident of New Haven, CT in 1641, being among the first to locate there, and remaining there until his death.

Emigrated to the American colony of New Haven about 1638. May have been sent with the New Haven Colony founders at the behest of an older brother, Thomas, a Puritan minister and possible associate of John Davenport, one of the founders of New Haven. Sailed for New World in May, 1637 on the Hector. Samuel and Elizabeth Cleverly were allowed to marry September, 1642 without their parent's permission even though underage because they had spoiled one another for everyone else due to their "filthy dalliance". They had been whipped in August 1642 after being caught in said "filthy dalliance", so marriage was probably a necessity.

Samuel married Elizabeth Cleverly after 7 Sep 1642 in First Congregational Church, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Elizabeth died in 1681 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1670, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

Or Caverly, Cloverly.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 16 Feb 1606, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England
• Alternate birth: 1607

Notes:

"Richard Sperry was a proprietor of New Haven in 1685 and a member of the 'Night Watch.'" [Spooner Saga, citation details below.]

"[T]he most famous incident involving Richard Sperry concerns the regicide judges, Edward Whalley and William Goffe. They had been denied amnesty for their part in the execution of Charles I and were being pursued for retribution by agents of his son, the restored King Charles II. New Haven was, perhaps, the most Puritan of all the colonies and, accordingly, Whalley and Goffe fled there for protection in the late spring and summer of 1661. In the period between May 13th and June 11th, they hid in the 'Judges' Cave' near the West Rock. Atwater's history [Edward E. Atwater, History of the Colony of New Haven to its absorption into Connecticut, 1881] states that this was located about a mile from Sperry's farm and that he and his family provided them with shelter in inclement weather as well as food, which it is told they left on a nearby stump. From a tradition handed down in the family, it has been said that Whalley and Goffe left the cave on June 11th because they had been frightened by a wild animal (supposedly they saw the 'glaring eyes' of a 'panther' at the entrance of the cave). However, this is probably merely a legend since Atwater makes no mention of it and indicates that they left their hiding place and showed themselves openly so that Davenport and others who might have been thought to be concealing them would be relieved of suspicion. It is not known where Whalley and Goffe went between June 11th and the following 22nd, however, on the latter date they returned openly to New Haven. At this time, they considered surrendering to the authorities, but by June 24th on the advice of friends they had changed their minds and, again, went into hiding at the Judges' Cave. Undoubtedly, as before the Sperry family provided sustenance for the regicides. Atwater reports that they remained in secret at the West Rock until August 19th 'when the search for them being pretty well over', Whalley and Goffe went to Milford where they stayed two years and afterward went to Hadley, Massachusetts. They were never captured by royal agents." [David R. Evans, Richard Sperry, immigrant. Evans's essay at that URL is a good overview of the facts and legends around Richard Sperry.]

Richard married Dennes about 1648 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Dennes was born about 1631 in England; died in Mar 1707 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1625

Notes:

Also called Dennis.

It has been persistently asserted over the years that Richard Sperry's wife Dennes was the daughter of the affluent London merchant Stephen Goodyear who emigrated to New Haven in or before 1638. In 1646 Goodyear's wife embarked back to England and was lost at sea. Goodyear himself returned to London in 1656 and died shortly thereafter.

It appears to be actually the case that Sperry's passage to New England was paid by Goodyear, that Goodyear had a house built for Sperry on the Connecticut lands that Goodyear had purchased, and that Sperry farmed those lands for Goodyear and later acquired them in his own right. Certainly all of this makes sense if Sperry was the man who married "the boss's daughter", as W. M. Bollenbach puts it in The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson (citation details below). Unfortunately no record exists to confirm this, and no "Dennes" or variant thereof has ever been found listed among the documented offspring of Stephen Goodyear.

Notes:

Emigrated to New Haven, 1639. A founder of the Quinnipiac Colony.

From Genealogy of the Ives Family:

There is today, in the new cemetery at North Haven, a comparatively new obelisk-shaped monument on which is inscribed:
WILLIAM IVES, 1607-1648
JOSEPH IVES, 1647-1694
CAPT. JOSEPH IVES, 1673-1751
STEPHEN IVES, 1708-1745
STEPHEN IVES, 1742-1793

William married Hannah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is called only "wid. William Ives" in the Bassett section in volume 1 of Jacobus's Families of Ancient New Haven, but in the Ives section, in Volume 4, she is identified as Hannah. Presumably Jacobus found her given name in the time between publishing volumes 1 and 4.

Notes:

He was never married to an Abigail Olney. See The American Genealogist 9:91, 1932.

Emigrated 1632, first in Boston, then New Haven 1640-70, then one of the principal founders of Wallingford, Connecticut.

Served in the Pequot War of 1637. Ensign of the New Haven company, lieutenant of that in Wallingford, and was appointed a Captain to recruit troops for King Philip's War in 1675.

Town clerk of Wallingford for eight years, selectman for five years, and nine times a deputy from Wallingford to the General Court.

Nathaniel married Joan. Joan was born about 1628; died on 8 Dec 1709 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 30 Nov 1617, Long Stratton, Norfolk, England
• Alternate death: Between 28 Feb 1690 and 18 Mar 1690, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Aft 28 Feb 1690, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut

Notes:

Emigrated about 1638; settled successively at Southold, Huntington, and Jamaica (all on Long Island), and finally at Norwalk, Connecticut. Was twice a member of the Connecticut General Court. Town clerk, surveyor, and deacon of the church at Norwalk.

The identity of his wife has been the source of literally hundreds of years of genealogical confusion, but in fact she appears to have been his step-sister -- which is to say, her father was the second husband of his mother, meaning that they were no more related by blood than the average married couple.

The exact order of his early movements in New England, and the date and place of his marriage to Mary Bridgham, are still unsettled. Robert Benedict proposes the following:

* Sailed in May 1637, with his stepsister Mary Bridgham, from Great Yarmouth, arriving in Boston about 20 Jun 1637.

* In Salem by August 1637.

* Married Mary Bridgham about 1639, probably at Salem.

Thomas married Mary Bridgham about 1639. Mary (daughter of John Bridgham and Grace) was born before 15 Nov 1618 in Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England; was christened on 15 Nov 1618 in Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In New Haven by 1639, when he signed the "Fundamental Agreement" of that colony on 4 Jun 1639. In Hempstead, Long Island, sometime in the early 1650s; in Jamaica by November 1656.

Andrew married Rachel about 1641. Rachel died after 1688 in Jamaica, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Cotton, Shropshire, England

Notes:

He was a draper. Not absolutely proven as the father of Samuel Hotchkiss who emigrated to New England, but John Hotchkiss's will lists a set of offspring whose names are substantially mirrored in the names of the emigrant's children; furthermore, when the will comes to John Hotchkiss's son Samuel, it makes it clear that this Samuel is somewhere far away and that his father doesn't know if he's alive or dead. Other circumstantial evidence includes the fact that the emigrant showed distinct signs of the kind of affluence (his household contained silver spoons) that would come from being the son of exactly the kind of successful merchant that John Hotchkiss was. All of this is gone into in John Insley Coddington's 1979 lecture, citation details below.

John married Margaret Nevett. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Nevett and Alice Taylor) died before 1 Jan 1657; was buried on 1 Jan 1657 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The ancestry shown here for Margaret Nevett was abstracted by Steven J. Perkins from manuscripts by John Insley Coddington at the NEHGS library. As Perkins (citation details below) notes, it is unproven and should be regarded as a basis for further research.

John married Mary about 1596. Mary died after 1606 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A cooper.

William married Elizabeth Stephin on 8 Oct 1609 in St. Michael, Long Stratton, Norfolk, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Stephin and Anne Tovye) was born before 14 Sep 1578 in Long Stratton, Norfolk, England; was christened on 14 Sep 1578 in St. Michael, Long Stratton, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 21 Apr 1584, Long Stratton, Norfolk, England
• Baptised: 21 Apr 1584, St. Michael, Long Stratton, Norfolk, England

John married Grace. Grace died before 18 Feb 1628 in Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England; was buried on 18 Feb 1628 in Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Alice Taylor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Agnes Rawlins on 19 May 1562 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England. Agnes died on 18 Jun 1613 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]