Daniel Hovey

1618 - 1692  (73 years)

• Name	Daniel Hovey  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	9 Aug 1618	Waltham Abbey, Essex, England   [4]
  Baptism	9 Aug 1618	Waltham Abbey, Essex, England   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Apr 1692	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I22512	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Richard Hovey,   b. Abt 1576   d. Bef 7 Mar 1637 (Age ~ 61 years)
  Family ID	F13648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Andrews,   b. Abt 1623   d. Between 1676 and 1683 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1643  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Daniel Hovey,   b. 1642, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 29 May 1695, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 53 years) + 2. James Hovey,   b. 1650, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 2 Aug 1675, Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 25 years)
  Family ID	F13646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  At Ipswich 1635, one of the earlier settlers there. Held a variety of town offices. Removed, 1668, to Quaboag, subsequently renamed Brookfield; removed again to Hadley before the massacre at Quabog in 1675 in which his son James was killed. Returned to Ipswich, 1678. His English origins were discovered by chance in 1905, when John Albree of Swampscott, Massachusetts, researching in the Boston public library, came across a 1621 edition of the Devine Weekes and Workes of Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas (b. 1544) which contained the following inscription on page 200: Daniel Hovey his boke hee was born in waltham aby ye 9th of Auguft 1618. Son of Richard Hovey of ye fam town. fent him my Mr John Gibons ye minifter of that town. sent him as a token from him in 37. ye yer of the pequod wars. Daniel Hovey. A further inscription on page 266 read: Daniel Hovey his Booke fent ouer to him in 37 at ye pecod war time ffrom Mr John Gibons under hof miniftry he lived at Waltham Abey The book is a 1300-page octavo volume bound in full leather, with the letters D and H stamped on both covers. That it was indeed the property of the 17th-century immigrant Daniel Hovey was easily proved by matching the signature on Daniel Hovey's will at the Essex, Massachusetts probate office. Albree then wrote to the parish clerk of Holy Cross, Waltham, in England, asking if a Daniel Hovey was recorded as having been baptised there on 9 Aug 1618. The clerk wrote back confirming that this was indeed the case, and followed up by sending copies of all the Hovey baptisms, marriages, and burials, plus several issues of the parish's monthly historical publication and five views of the church itself. The publication contained much material on the Rev. John Guibon, who presented the Du Bartas volume to Daniel Hovey -- who must have been a young man of literacy and intelligence when he left for New England at age 17, for his curate to have sent him this book years later.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S6004] Doris Schreiber Willcox, "Massachusetts Descendants of the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Author of the Pilgrims' Christian Dictionarie: Theophilus Wilson, Martha (Wilson) Bachelor, Mary (Wilson) Treadwell, and Their Nephew Samuel Taylor." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 163:5, 2009. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. [S2821] The Hovey Book, Describing the English Ancestry and American Descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts, "compiled under the auspices of the Daniel Hovey Association." Haverhill, Massachusetts: Press of Lewis R. Hovey, 1913. [S586] The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England 1620-1640 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 2015., year and place only.