John Hotchkiss

Abt 1580 - Bef 1666  (~ 86 years)

• Name	John Hotchkiss
  Birth	Abt 1580	Dodington, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Cotton, Shropshire, England   [4]
  Death	Bef 10 Jan 1666	Whitchurch, Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	10 Jan 1666	Whitchurch, Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I8784	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	23 May 2020

  
  

  Family	Margaret Nevett   d. Bef 1 Jan 1657
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Hotchkiss,   b. Abt 1623, Dodington, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England d. 28 Dec 1663, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age ~ 40 years)
  Family ID	F5372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2016

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S987] John Insley Coddington, "The Hotchkiss Family" (unedited lecture transcript). The Connecticut Nutmegger 12:218, 1979. [S988] The Hotchkiss Family: First Six Generations by Nellie Cowdell. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985. [S4170] Ancestry of Jabez Perkins, 1766-1836, of New Haven, CT., Ashe/Wilkes Co., NC, Grayson Co., VA, Bureau/Putnam Co., IL, and Knox/Whitley Co., KY. by Steven C. Perkins. 1989-2000. [S3954] The Visitations of Bedfordshire, Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634 ed. Frederic Augustus Blaydes. Harleian Society volume 21. London, 1884.