Thirteenth Generation

4450. Lodowick *Hauksie^{133,176,177,222} was born about 1630. Daughters of American Colonist vol I says he was born in Scotland. He may have been 21 yrs of age or more if he first took the oath of fidelity in 1657.
He emigrated about 1650 from from unknown. About 1650 he was apprenticed to one John Dexter to pay for his passage to America.. When his time was out with Dexter, who was a hatter, he established himself in the same business In 1657 he was paid three shillings for some service rendered the town. He first taking the oath of fidelity in 1657 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He owned six acres of land laid out to him in 1658 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. This place once owned by Lodowick Hoxie was about midway between Sandwich and East Sandwich, on the south side of Spring Hill. In Jul 1660 he was one of the musketeers that went to Yarmouth to the general muster the first Wed.. He helped distribute powder to the militia. He was a Quaker in 1661 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman in 1677 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He again took the oath of fidelity in 1678 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. It appears that Lodowick Hoxie was disenfranchised as a result of his becoming a Quaker In 1686 he and Thomas Tupper were appointed by the town to divide the law books among the citizens. In 1704 he was to "Diet the carpenter, for his share" of building a Friends meeting house appointed to R Harper. He died after 1704 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony. He was buried after 1704 in First Friends Burial Ground, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony. (no headstones)
Alternate spelling; Hakse/ Hackse/ Haxie.

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The following was written by (HENRY N HOXIE) in 1901:

"From researches made by myself in London and in this country, I am sure the name is very old. Of course, it is spelt variously, viz: Hocksley, Hawke, Hawksie, Hawksley, etc. I have authentic records of the name in London, easy of access there, in 1329, 1/25. In "Domesday Book", compiled about 1080, A.D., in the list of Yorkshire manor held by various lords on feudal tenure from the Archbishop of York occur the names of Ottlai, Roule, Gisels, Hanceford, alias Hauschsford, names that still survive in the modern manors of Ottley, Roule, Gyseiey and Hawkesworth. I have a list of ten places in as many counties in England-- Haxey in Lincoln, Hocksley in Hampshire, etc, - characterized by their names." .


EARLY HISTORY OF THE HOXIE FAMILY

EARLY HISTORY OF THE HOXIE FAMILY IN AMERICA

Here are the first few pages of the book, "The Hoxie Family: Three Centuries in America" by Leslie Hoxie.

Lodowick Hoxie, the common ancestor of all persons surnamed Hoxie, as variously spelled, in the United States, arrived about 1650 and settled in the town of Sandwich, Mass, in the Plymouth colony. When or where he was born is unknown. His ancestry has been stated by various members of the family to have been Scottish, Welsh, English, and Dutch. There seems to be a widespread tradition among many branches of the family that we are of Scottish origin. It is to be hoped that further research will sometime establish the time and place of birth of Lodowick Hoxie.

It is quite possible that the name Hoxie is a corruption of some other name, such as Hawkes. In fact, records of Lodowick Hawkes in Plymouth Colony records which have been published almost certainly refer to our ancestor, Lodowick Hoxie. In the original records, the name is variously spelled Hawkes, Hakse, Hackse, Hauksie, Hoxie, Hoxy, and Hawksie. A family which may have an origin common with our own is spelled Hakes, being descendants of one Solomon Hakes. In a study of the Hakes family published in 1889, Mr. Harry Hakes discussed the possibility of the two families being closely related, but could find no actual records to establish or disprove the theory.

A list of landholders in Sandwich in 1658 included the names Lodowick Hoxie and Edward Hoxy. No further record has been found of this mysterious Hoxy. It seems safe to conclude that either he left no descendants bearing his surname, or that the spelling became changed. Several versions concerning the parentage of Lodowick Hoxie have been advanced. One is that his father was one Joseph Hoxie, who settled in Reheboth, Massachusetts. Another gave his father as one Barnabas Hoxie. As the present writer has been unable to unearth authentic records to establish the facts, he feels that there is little to be gained by mere speculation.

In a short history of the Hoxsie lines written by Lyman Kenyon of Westerly, R. I., about 1888, the following statement was made concerning Lodowick Hoxie, "We first find him apprenticed (indentured) to one John Dexter to pay for his passage to America. When his time was out with Dexter, who was a hatter, he established himself in the same business, at Spring Hill." The writer has been unable to verify this story, the only evidence bearing on the matter being that Thomas Dexter seems to have been the emigrant ancestor, a son John Dexter was born about 1660. Of course it is very possible that there may have been an elder John Dexter.

The Sandwich town records show that in 1657, William Bassett paid Lodowick Hoxie, for some service rendered the town, the sum of three shillings. Also, from Plymouth Colony records, among those who took the oath of fidelity in 1657, include Lodowick Hawkes.

In 1658, he had six acres of land laid out to him by the persons chosen by the town under order of the Court of New Plymouth, said order requiring the town of Sandwich to choose seven persons to view and set up bounds to every man's land and meadow, to prevent suits and trouble that might arise in regard to boundaries. This place once owned by Lodowick Hoxie was about midway between Sandwich and East Sandwich, on the south side of Spring Hill.

Lodowick Hoxie helped distribute powder to the militia and was one of the musketeers that went to Yarmouth to the general muster the first Wednesday in July, 1660. In 1661, he and two others were chosen raters (assessors) of the town.

On June 10, 1661, Lodowick Hoxie was fined twenty shillings for refusing to aid the Marshall Barlow in the execution of his duties. Said duties are not explained, but appear to have been connected with the attempt of Plymouth and Sandwich authorities to destroy the Society of Friends, or Quakers. Thus it appears that Lodowick Hoxie became a convert to the Quaker faith at about this time, and later records show beyond doubt that for at least sixty years all members of the family adhered to the Friends.

Ministers of the Society of Friends made their first appearance in this country in the year 1657, about ten years after the beginning of the Society in England. They were Christopher Holder and John Copeland, who landed on the Falmouth shore on the 20th of the 6th month, 1657, and proceeded to the town of Sandwich. There they found fertile soil in the then unsettled condition of religion belief, and by 1658 there were only about eighteen families in their flock. In that year, a regular monthly meeting was organized, being the first Friends organization in America. Severe persecution by Plymouth and Sandwich officials continued until about 1662, many adherents being forced to pay heavy fines for trivial offenses.

It appears that Lodowick Hoxie was disenfranchised as a result of his becoming a Quaker, at any rate, he again took the oath of fidelity in 1678, after being admitted a freeman on 23 Feb. 1675.

In 1686, the Colony laws being printed and ordered to be published in several towns, Thomas Tupper and Lodowick Hoxie were appointed by the town to divide the law-books among the citizens "according to the last year's country's rate.

The last record we have of Lodowick Hoxie is dated the first month, 1704, at which time Robert Harper was appointed to build a new Friends meeting house for one hundred eleven pounds sterling, "except the glass, plastering, and ground-pinning." One was to get the shells for lime, another wood, another stone, and Lodowick Hoxie to "Diet the carpenter, for his share."

Lodowick Hoxie married Mary Presbury in December, 1664. She was born at Sandwich the 10th of the 3rd month, 1644, daughter of John and Katherine Presbury. John Presbury was in Sandwich by 1643, he died 9 May 1648 and his widow married Richard Chadwell 22 July 1649. It is probable that there no descendants bearing the Presbury name. Children of Lodowick and Mary Hoxie, born in Sandwich, Mass.

i. Bashua (Bethsoa in record), b. 10 Oct. 1665,
m. Daniel Allen about 1685.
2. ii. Joseph, b. 15 March 1667, m. Sarah Tucker.
iii. John, b. 25 Feb. 1669, died young.
iv. Ann, b. about 1670, m. Jashub Wing.
3. v. Gideon, b. 25 Feb. 1672, m. Grace Gifford.
(Note- birthdate also given as 1670.)
4. vi. Hezekiah, b. 3 April 1675, m. Dinah Butler.
5. vii. John, b. 2 March 1677, m. Mary Hull.
6. viii. Solomon, b. 19 Oct. 1649, m. Elizabeth Wing.
ix. Content, b. 1381, m. Gerhom Ewing

It must be mentioned that records do not always agree as to dates and spellings of names. Where different dates are found, the one which seems most authentic or reasonable is used in this work. The same is true of spelling, which is made more difficult by the fact that in the eighteenth century, a man spelled his name as he pleased, though his father or brother might use another spelling. Thus came about the various ways of spelling the family name in use today.

Joseph Hoxie and John Hoxsie moved to Kings County, in Rhode Island about 1697, while the other sons stayed in Massachusetts. This in effect divided the family into Massachusetts and Rhode Island branches.

The first westward emigration of the Joseph Hoxie line occurred about 1760 when his son Zebulon Hoxsie moved to Dutchess County, N. Y. Present members of this line live principally in Rhode Island, New York, Michigan, Iowa, and California, and constitute about one fifth of all Hoxie's in America.

About the time of the Revolution, several of the John Hoxsie branch moved westward, to New York and Vermont, and by 1817 one family was living in Michigan. This branch is represented at present by families all over the United States except in the South, and comprises about one half of the total of those bearing the name Hoxie, Hoxsie, Hoxey, or Hoxsey. In fact, it is among the families of this branch that the greatest diversity of spelling occurs, it sometimes happening that brothers spell the name differently.

The descendants of Gideon Hoxie had moved into Maine and western Massachusetts by 1785, one family shortly afterward lived in Georgia. Those of this branch comprise about one fourth of all Hoxie's at present, all use the short spelling except the southern branch.

Only one son of Solomon Hoxie carried on the name, this line has lived since 1782 in Maine and comprises only a few families.

Descendants of Hezekiah Hoxie are also few in number, this line is now divided between a Cape Cod branch and an Oregon branch, the later being established by Obadiah Hoxie, a forty-niner."

End of "Three Centuries In America" Extract


The following is from a report from Floyd E. Hoxie Genealogy.

"It is believed that Lodowick Hawksie is buried in the first Friends Burial Ground near the First Friends Society in America. There are no stones to mark the graves. Some writers state Lodowick Hawksie was Dutch. No doubt his parents left Leyden where he was born, or some\where in Holland. He was young when he came to Sandwich, Massachusetts. Other writers suggest the Mother Country. Still others suggest Scotland and Wales. There are early records of Hawksie in Lancaster, England. In 1913 G.T. Hodkin, Verger of Saint Mary's Church Banbury, England was commissioned by the Wing Family to search the Parish Registers from their commencement in 1558 down to the 1700 in quest of all references to the Wing Family in Banbury. This revealed an item as follows "Roger Hoxe and Hrydegwyde Whyngs were married June 21, 1608."

End of "Floyd E. Hoxie Genealogy" Extract

HOXIE FAMILY GENEALOGY
compiled by
MABEL GOULD DEMERS HINKLEY
MAJNE, 1977

The first record of the name HOXIE appears in the DOOMSDAY Book London, 1080 A.D., when William the Conqueror had a survey made of the landowners and it has been recorded that there is a record of the name in a will preserved by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I have made no attempt to verify the authenticity of this statement.

BATHSHESA, called RASHUA and also BATHSESA, was born October 15, 1665. She married Daniel Allen in 1685 and had five children and so recorded in the Sandwich, Mass., town records.

One of these was Cornelius Allen. He married Mrs. Anna (Spooner) Hatch. (See Spooner Memorial)

Note: Jesse Hoxie, with whom I corresponded for many years wrote under date of January 16, 1939: "Mary Chadwell, daughter of Richard, deceased, Nov. 2?, 1681 and buried the 28th, Sandwich town record, by will recorded in the old Plymouth record book of Barnstable County, leaves property to his daughter, wife of Ludowick Hoxie 1, and to his cousin Thomas Chadwell, son of Moses."

Solution: John Presbury died in 1648. Mary Presbury was born in l64l. Katherine, widow of John Presbury, married Richard Chadwell in 1650, Mary being nine years of age, Therefore, Mary Presbury was Richard Chadwe1l's step-daughter thus proving that Ludowick Hoxie had but one wife, Mary Presbury.

HAWKSHIE, HOXSEY HOXSIE, HOXIE et cetera, et cetera This manuscript is designed to show some of the descendants of LUDOWICK HOXIE, reputed to have come from Scotland the middle of the 17th century.

Since Ludowick is the only ancestor of that name, every Hoxie in America stems from this man.

The compiler worked with the late JESSE HOXIE of Sandwich, Mass., Mrs. Clara Emerson Hoxie of Waterville, Maine, both deceased, and others including Elsia Holway Burleigh of Vassalboro and Waterville, Maine, in an effort to obtain all possible information on the Maine branch of the family. Family records, genealogies, census and town records in both Maine and Massachusetts have been copied. In some instances whole Hoxie cemeteries (Quaker, Fairfield Ctr., Maine, and North Fairfield), were painstakingly copied. The inscriptions on some of the older stones were so badly washed by the elements that paper and pencil were used to obtain the record, the pencil being moved back and forth across the paper until the date came clear.

Leslie Hoxie, Ukiah, Oregon, and I do not agree on all of the Maine records. He published THREE CENTURIES OF HOXIES IN AMERICA. However, I had first hand information and believe the records here presented are as accurate as possible. Letters, innumerable letters, have been written to living Hoxies to whom I wish to express my thanks and appreciation. I have not attempted to cover the Rhode Island Hoxies, it being a work in itself. They appear as a separate story. This work places the Kennebec and Penobscot River families in their proper places.

It has been said "that the Hoxie family enjoys a prominent place among the old and distinguished houses of New England where it has been domiciled since the middle of the 17th century."

Ludowick Hoxie, presumably from Scotland, appeared in Sandwich, Mass., and was an Assessor of the town in 1661. It has been recorded that he arrived in Plymouth, learned the "hatting" business from one John Dexter and apprenticed himself to the man to defray his expenses to America. He settled in that part of Sandwich known as Spring Hill, The cellar of his shop may be seen at the present time.

The old Hoxie house was of the salt box variety, pictures of which appear in various publications. Six acres of land were laid out to Ludowick Hoxie after 1650 and he was admitted as a townsman in 1677. By vote of the Town Fathers, the names of all men who could prove their right to the privileges of the town were recorded in 1675. Ludowick's name appears two years later which would indicate that the debt to John Dexter had been paid and he was a "freeman."

He married Mary Presbury sometimes given as Presberry, daughter of John Presbury. They were married the tenth month which would have been December, Old Style, since the calendar year began with March instead of January as at the present time, l664. Mary was born October 3, l64l, also given as "May 10, l64l." The former was no doubt the baptismal date.

Consulting Freeman's Cape Cod, I find that "Mr. John Presbury (Presburry) was buried May 9, l648." No record of his family.

John Presbury's wife was Katherine ... After his death, she married Richard Chadwell, July 22, 1650. (Consult Adv. Bristol & Bremen, p 76).

Ludowick signed the oath of fidelity 1678, Daughters of the American Colonists record. In 1657 he received pay for work done for the town.

The Hoxies were Friends and Quakers and for this reason little military record is to be found regarding them. The Friends held their first meeting at Spring Hill, the records of which appear in "quaint and solemn phraseology." They go back to 1675 and are preserved by the Society of Friends.

Ludowick. Lodowick *Hauksie and Mary Presbury were married in Dec 1664.

4451. Mary Presbury¹³³ was born on 3 Oct 1641 in Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony. She died Y. Children were:

2065	i.	Bethsheba Hoxsie.
1024	ii.	Joseph Hoxsey.
	iii.	John Hoxie Possibly133,224 was born on 25 Feb 1668/69 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. He died Y.
	iv.	Job Hoxie Possibly225 was born on 25 Feb 1668/69 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. He died Y.
	v.	Anna Hoxsie133,219,226 was born about 1670 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. The date of birth is stated in "The Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers Volume 2 page 385" as probable. "About 1670" may be preferred. She died on 16 Dec 1721 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [worn] Wing Wife of Jashub Wing died Dec 16 1721[CI:471:?4:CI] THE OWL, APRIL 1901 PUBLISHED BY GEORGE DIKEMAN WING, KEWANEE, WISCONSIN. THE HOXIE'S Anne Hoxie married Jashub, the son of Daniel Wing of Sandwich. Subsequently, the Wings and the Hoxies intermarried many times. Together with the Allens, Ewers, Giffords and other Sandwich families they assisted in the establishment of the first organization of Friends in America. Bound together by ties of kindred, by comradeship in persecution and in association, the histories of these families must ever possess a peculiar interest to the Wings. It is therefore with no inconsiderable pleasure that The Owl presents following communication from Mr Henry N Hoxie, now of Haverford, Pennsylvania: Anne or Anna (the name is spelled both ways) was the second daughter of Lodowick and Mary (Presbury) Hoxie, who were married 10/1/1664. Lodowick thus far has not, I think, been traced beyond Sandwich. He is there mentioned, i.e., in town records, as having his land, in common with 55 others, clearly laid out by the town committee of surveyors as early as 1658: again, as admitted to citizenship in the town 1677- the date of the incorporation of the town being 1639. He (Lodowick's son Gideon ?) was a hatter by trade and lived at Spring Hill, about 2 1/2 miles below or east of Sandwich town, or intermediate between East Sandwich, where I myself born and where I spend my summers, and Sandwich town proper. I have always known where, just where, his house and shop stood, and have seen in a wall by the main road near the same, a portion of the mantel piece in his shop. Hoxies-- not of my branch, which derives from Gideon, son of Lodowick -- still live in that neighborhood. In my boyhood, marks of the cellar of his house were visible. From researches made by myself in London and in this country, I am sure the name is very old. Of course, it is spelt variously, viz: Hocksley, Hawke, Hawksie, Hawksley, etc. I have authentic records of the name in London, easy of access there, in 1329, 1/25. In "Domesday Book", compiled about 1080, A.D., in the list of Yorkshire manor held by various lords on feudal tenure from the Archbishop of York occur the names of Ottlai, Roule, Gisels, Hanceford, alias Hauschsford, names that still survive in the modern manors of Ottley, Roule, Gyseiey and Hawkesworth. I have a list of ten places in as many counties in England-- Haxey in Lincoln, Hocksley in Hampshire, etc, - characterized by their names. The whole subject of Wings and Hoxies should be worked up carefully. The Hoxie family are still in Sandwich and always have been. My father who died in 1890, at. 91, was full of them, and from Lodowick down had them pat, as also his brother, my uncle, who passed away in 1883. They are quite generally scattered, although not numerously so, in the South, West and Northwest, Middle and New England States, especially in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I am a Wing through my father's mother, Deborah Wing, and I know the house still standing in which she was born in Sandwich. The following is the Record: Daniel Wing, son of John and Deborah (Bacheldor) of London, married Hannah Swift of Sandwich, 9/5/1642; lived where my uncles have and ever did: had eleven children, of whom Jashub, born 1/30/1674, married Anna Hoxie, daughter of Lodowick and Mary, and Daniel Jr., born 11/28/1664, (son of Daniel and Hannah); married Deborah, daughter of Henry and Hannah Dillingham of Sandwich, in 1686, having seven children and among them Zaccheus, born 4/3/1703, who married Content Swift, the daughter of Benjamin and Hannah, of Falmouth, in 1731-2, and had five children and among them Paul, born 5/28/1737, who married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Hepzibah Wing of Sandwich, having eleven children. Among these was my grandmother on my fathers side, Deborah Wing, born 1/15/1765 who married Joseph Hoxie, the son of Barnabas and Hannah of Sandwich, 10/20/1790. Joseph and Deborah Hoxie had five children, among them my father, Joseph Hoxie, born 10/29/1798; died 12/12/1890. During my time a good many Wings have lived in and about Sandwich and Falmouth, with most or all whom I have had or have personal acquaintance, and I judge that they have all sprung from the old hive above Sandwich or west of it on the pond, places with which I am and have been perfectly familiar. Two of the old houses still stand, and one of the two farms and entire home is now owned by a son of Stephen R Wing - the son living in this city, i.e. Philadelphia. These houses and places I know room by room and foot by foot-lovely place yet; Boston parties summering still further west and above them as you go over the Cape higher up in the woodland. All the Wings and Hoxies I ever knew, at sometime, as I myself am, are or were Quakers. The first Friends meetings (orthodox) on the continent were at Spring Hill, where in the summer I yet attend worship. It is the third meeting house on the site, and there for the first time in history freedom of conscience was won in a long contest between the Sandwich and Plymouth authorities and them. In the two burying grounds still and carefully kept up, the Wing and Hoxies are laid away, and the records of the meeting in quaint and solemn phrase, running back to 1675 about, are in possession of the meetings. Sandwich town reached its maximum in 1860 in every respect, and since has lost almost in every respect -- its population leaving and its industries mostly failing through distance from raw material. It is, however, a beautiful town, some sixty miles south from Boston, and many people summer there, as they do most all over the Cape, from its beauty and because it is cool. Thousands from all over the country go there each summer season. I have always known the house of John Wing, the mythical founder of the Wing family in this country, and was born within sight of it. Within one year it has passed out of the family name onto the hands of a gentleman who, with his own family, summers there. Wings, more or less, are scattered for five miles on the country road.
	vi.	Gideon Hoxie Hackse/Hakse/Haxie/Hauksie133,176,177,227 was born on 25 Feb 1673 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. He died after 1740 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony. He followed his father's vocation, a hatter. He resided on the "old lot" at Spring Hill, near the brook, east side, bought from John Briggs Alternate spelling; Hackse/Hakse/Haxie/Hauksie. He gave one pound for building a Friend's Meeting House on Feb. 7 1720.
	vii.	Hezekiah Hoxie133,177,228 was born on 8 Apr 1675 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. He died on 2 May 1771. bequeathing lands to Hezekiah Hoxie and Richard Allen, son-in-law. He resided near Spring Hill. at south end of Spectacle Pond in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony Alternate spelling; (Haxie) (Hauksie). Son of Lodowick Hawksie and Mary (Presbury) Hawksie. In 1660 Hezekiah was a teacher. He was whipped for rescuing a Quaker when he was apprehended by M. Barlow. He resided near Spring Hill South of Spectacle Pond in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
	viii.	John Hoxsie133,229 was born on 2 Mar 1676/77 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. He died in 1767 in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island Colony. Alternate spelling; (Haxie) (Hausie). John moved to Rhode Island about 1698 and settled in that part of Westerly later called Richmond. He married Mary Hull, daughter of Joseph and Experience (Harper) Hull. Joseph Hull was born in 1652, was a Quaker preacher, served as Governor's Assistant 1699-1703, was a cooper and trader. The first of the name in America was Joseph Hull, born 1594, B.A. Oxford University 1614, to America 1635, founder of Barnstable, later of Yarmouth and York, Maine. Clergyman, Deputy to General Court 1638. His son Tristram Hull was the father of Joseph Hull, whose daughter married John Hoxsie. John Hoxsie married second, in 1736, Ann Richmond, who probably brought him no children. She was very active in the Friends affairs. John Hoxsie was made a freeman at Westerly 1727. He served as Justice 1733-36. At the first town meeting held after the organization of Charlestown in 1738, he was elected town treasurer and overseer of the poor.
	ix.	Solomon Hoxie133,219,230,231 was born on 19 Oct 1679 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. He died on 9 Nov 1762 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Colony. He had his estate probated on 9 Nov 1762 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts.188 He resided in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts188 Solomon resided at Scorton Neck in the eastern part of Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was a shoemaker.
	x.	Content Hoxie133,232 was born in 1681 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony. She died Y.