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HAWXHURST
Hurst is an old Saxon word for wood, indicating the ethnic origin of the name. John Hawkherst was appointed Abbott of St Augustine in Canterbury 25 Jan 1427.

Christopher Hawxhurst (1521-Aug 1576) m.15 Oct 1550 Elizabeth.  Lived in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. appointed Minister of Saint Chads on the accession of Queen Elizabeth I. Died of plague.
. William Hawxhurst was baptized 15 Oct 1551.

Samson Hawxhurst (1571-1627) received £5 toward his education at Oxford, 28 Apr 1590, from the bailiff's accounts as the son of the deceased pastor Christopher Hawxhurst.  He received his BA from Oxford 25 Jun 1593, and BD from Magdalen Hall 9 Jul 1607.  He was Canon of Litchfield 1607-1627, and Vicar of Nuneaton, Warwickshire 1626-27.
 . 1. William Hawxhurst (1600) matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford 6 Nov 1618.
. 2. Mary Hawxhurst (c1602-after1656) m(1) Robert Coles, m(2) Matthias Harvey
. 3. Christopher Hawxhurst came with his sister to Salem and Ipswich in 1630, and later to Rhode
. . . Island. He was made a freeman of Warwick in 1655, and the same year deputy to the General Court
. . . of Rhode Island.  He married about 1655 Mary Ruddock, eldest daughter of Henry Ruddock and
. . . Mabel Burroughs.  He sold his house in Pawtuxet 29 Mar 1666 and moved to Oyster Bay, Long
. . . Island, to land he purchased 7 Dec 1665, the Indian title being settled jointly with his father-in-law
. . . in 1667. He died after a 18 Dec 1683 transaction with his nephew Nathaniel Coles.
. . . 31. William Hawxhurst, whose daughter Sarah married Tristam Dodge
. . . 32. Mary Hawxhurst m.17 Nov 1684 George Townsend (1661-1697), m(2) Abraham Alling
. . . 33. Jane Hawxhurst married Jarvis Mudge (d.1735)
. . . 34. Sarah Hawxhurst m.1689 William Crooker
. . . 35. Samson Hawxhurst (7 Jan 1670/1-9 Nov 1732) m.18 Jan 1698 Hannah Townsend (1680-1757),
. . . . . .daughter of Mill John Townsend 
Miller, Robert B., "The Hawxhurst Family", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol XXXII (Jul 1901), 172-176, (Oct 1901), 221-224, Vol XXXIII (Jan 1902), 24-27, (Reprinted in "Genealogies of Long Island Families, Vol I" 1987, p.477-488)

Mary Hawxhurst was born about 1602 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and died between 1656 and 1682 in Oyster Bay, Long Island.  She married about 1637 Robert Coles was born about 1597-8 in Sudbury, Suffolk, and died in 1655 in Warwick, Rhode Island. After Robert's death, Mary married Mathias Harvey and moved to Oyster Bay, NY where she died.

. S. John Coles (c1630-1676) married Ann (c1640-before 1676) lived in Portsmouth, RI
. S. Deliverance Coles (c1632-c1671) married about 1651 Richard Townsend (c1630-1671)
. S. Ann Coles (c1634-after 1695) m.1649 Henry Townsend (1619-1695)
. 1. Daniel Coles (c1637-29 Nov 1692) married about 1665 Mahah Shalal Hasbaz Gorton
. 2. Sarah Coles (1636-c1692) married about 1664 Thomas Townsend (1645-1715)
. 3. Nathaniel Coles (c1637-c1678) m.1667 Martha Jackson (c1648-1668); m.c1669 Deborah Wright
. 4. Robert Coles (c1644-16 Apr 1715) m.1670 Mercy Wright (1641-1708)

Sarah Coles (1636-c1692) m. c1664 Thomas Townsend (1645-1715)

Freelove Townsend (1674-1726) m.1695 Thomas Jones (1665-1713)

 Freelove Jones (1700-bef1768)  m.1719 Jacob Smith (1690-1757)

Isaac Smith (1722-1795) m.1744 Margaret Platt  (1728-1791)

Mary Smith (1744-1809) m.1762 Maurice Smith (d.1779)

Margaret Smith (1763-1821) m.1780 Morgan Edwards (c1750-1798)

Margaret Edwards (1789-1864) m.1821 Thomas Tate (1775-1838)

Thomas Edwards Tate (1821-1914) m.1845 Mary Vernon Cutrer (1825-1892)

Frances Mary Tate (1852-1881) m.1871 Walter Edwin Tynes (1848-1928)

Jeanne Marie Tynes (1878-1958) m.1913 Carson B Matthews (1874-1948)

Frances Mary Tate Matthews (1917) m.1949 Virgil Raymond Liptrap (1907-1977)

James Matthews Liptrap (1951) (1907-1977)

James Matthews Liptrap (1951)


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