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• Name: James HOVEY
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1650 in Ipswich, Massachusetts ^b
• Death: 2 Aug 1675 in Brookfield, Massachusetts ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Daniel HOVEY Birth: 9 Aug 1618 in Waltham Abby, Co Essex, England Death: 24 Apr 1692 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
Mother:

• Abigail ANDREWES Birth: Abt 1623 in England Death: 24 Jun 1665

Family:
Marriage:

• Rebecca DANE on 1670 at Quabog, Massachusetts .^m1
  
• Rebecca DANE Birth: Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Before May 1684

Children:

1. Priscilla HOVEY Birth: Abt 1671 in Brookfield, Massachusetts Death: 9 Aug 1720 in Mansfield, Connecticut
2. Daniel HOVEY Birth: 1672 in Brookfield, Massachusetts Death: 7 Mar 1742 in Oxford, Massachusetts
3. James HOVEY Birth: 1674 in Brookfield, Massachusetts Death: 6 May 1760 in Mansfield, Connecticut

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Perley HOVEY p15, Raymond AMES #22],

place:

[Ref: Cutter NE p316, Perley HOVEY p15, Sav-age HOVEY Daniel, Waite BrookfieldMA p339],

parents:

[Ref: AndrewsHF ANDREWS p53, Cutter NE p316, Hammatt Ipswich p161, Perley HOVEY p15, Pope PioneersMA p242, Raymond AMES #22, Waite HOVEY p195],

father:

[Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p248, Hammatt Ipswich p158, Sav-age HOVEY Daniel, Waite BrookfieldMA p339]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

mother:

Rebecca ANDREWS [Ref: Savage HOVEY Daniel]

Rebecca ___ [Ref: Waite BrookfieldMA p339]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Cutter NE p316, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p248, Hammatt Ipswich p161, Perley HOVEY p30, Sav-age HOVEY Daniel]

1675 [Ref: Raymond AMES #22]

before 1683 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p242],

place:

[Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p248, Perley HOVEY p30, Sav-age HOVEY Daniel]

Sources with Information about marriage to Rebecca DANE

date:

[Ref: Perley HOVEY p30]

1668-70 [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p248],

place:

[Ref: Perley HOVEY p30],

names:

[Ref: NEHGR DANE Pedigree, Sav-age DANE John]

James HOVEY & Priscilla DANE dau John DANE [Ref: Perley HOVEY p30],

child:

[Ref: Perley HOVEY p30, Raymond AMES #22]

Research Notes:
one of the first settlers of Quabog, in Hampshire Co, MA, in 1668, and received a grant of a homelot, upon which he built a house and lived [Ref: Perley HOVEY p30]

a signer of the petition to the general court dated Oct 10 1673, praying for the incorporation of the settlement, and that it might receive the name of Brookfield. The request was granted [Ref: Perley HOVEY p30]

Aug 2 1675: killed by Indians in King Philips War [Ref: Cutter NE p316]

killed by the Indians, when a considerable number of his townsmen were massacred, Aug 2 1675 [Ref: Perley HOVEY p30, Sav-age HOVEY Daniel]

name is not mentioned in Captain Wheelers narrative of the destruction of Brookfield, neither by Dr. Fiske in his historical discourse, but it appears in the list of those who were slain at Brookfield Aug 2 1675, filed in the archives of the state. [Ref: Waite BrookfieldMA p339]

killed during King Philips War [Ref: Cutter NE p316]

---from Soldiers of King Philip's War, p102-118: Thomas Wheeler ... was in command of this company in July 1675 when it was called into the service of which some acount is to be given. Of this the main facts are gathered from the very interesting "narrative," which he published in 1675, within a few months after the service was rendered. ...
Having been twice warned of the designs of Philip, and his efforts to stir up the various chiefs of the Nipmucks, by Waban, the ruler of the Christian Indians at Natick, the Council at last began to realize that something ought to be done. And so, on June 13 1675, an embassy was sent to the Quabaugs and the Nipmuck tribes to discover their intentions.
The messengers visited the various Indian towns of Pakachoog, Maanexit, Wabaquasset, Quantisset, Chabonokongkomun, Manchaug, and Hassanamesit, and recieved satisfactory promises from all the rulers of these towns that they would remain faithful to the interests of the English. ... They were not aware that war had already begun at Mount Hope. And when Philip with his war party came amongst them, they were at first inclined to stand aloof. But the war fever soon spread among the young braves, and Philip's agents went about sowing the seeds of disaffection, and making promises of great things to be done by the general uprising of all the tribes. Philip made presents of wampum to several of these chiefs; and by the middle of July, four at least of them were in the great general war camp at Meminimisset, where Ephraim Curtis found them, on his first visit. ... The savages were in an ugly temper, and it was with much trouble that he finally prevailed upon them to listen to his message. ... His conference with these Indians was on July 14th, and on that same day Mattoonas had attacked Mendon, and killed five men at work in the fields. ... [Curtis] returned from a second trip on July 16th, and reported that he was well received by the Indians who were at the same place, and that they had promised to send Keehood and another of the Sachems to Boston within four of five days to speak with the Governor. The Council, however, did not wait ... but determined to send a larger force to confer with the Indians, so as to enforce their demands if necessary. But they entirely misjudged the strength and temper of the savages, and were deluded by their supposed knowledge that Philip was securely shut up in the swamp at Pocasset.
On July 26th, Capt. Thomas Wheeler, of Concord, was summoned to appear at Boston next day with twenty of his troop to receive further orders. Capt. Edward Hutchinson was also called into service again. ... They marched, July 28, from Cambridge to Sudbury, and thence the next three days into the Nipmuck Country. They marched to within two miles of New Norwich, and finding all the Indians had fled from their towns, and meeting with but a few stragglers here and there, who fled from them, they marched back to Brookfield, arriving there Sunday, August 1st, and hearing of Indians in great force about ten miles away, they sent out four men to treat with them. ... [The Indians] agreed to meet Capt. Hutchinson and his party next day at a plain three miles from Brookfield. Capt. Hutchinson, accompanied by the troopers, scouts and three of the "chief men" of Brookfield went to the place appointed; but no Indians appeared. ... The officers suspected treatcery, but the Brookfield men were so confident of the good faith of the Nipmucks, and urged so hard, that at last they prevailed and the party marched on.
When they came near the swamp, "the way was so very bad they we could march only in a single file, there being a very rocky hill on the right hand, and a thick swamp on the left, in which there were many of those cruel blood-thirsty heathen, who there waylaid us, waiting an opportunity to cut us off, ... they being about two hundred men or more. ... There were then slain to our great grief eight men, ... and five persons wounded. ... After a difficult march of ten miles the company came into Brookfield town, where they seized and hastily fortified one of the largest and strongest houses. ... Within two hours after they returned to the town the Indians had crept warily about the town and were found pillaging the outlying houses. The Indians came swarming upon them with feirce volleys and loud shoutings... All night they beseiged the house fiercely, till about three o'clock in the morning August 3rd, when they collected hay and other combustibles and attempted to set the house on fire at the corner. The parts promptly rushed out in the face of the enemies bullets and put it out. Only two of these were wounded. On August 4th they filled a cart with flax, hay and candlewood, and set up planks fastened to the cart, designed to wheel against the house under cover for the night. They constructed two of these, scarecely completed, when a heavy shower fell and wet down their combustibles, so that they would not readily burn. In the meantime, Major Willard and his force arrived, and so intent were the Indians about the machines, that his company, cominb about an hour after dark, gained the yard of the garisoned house before the enemy perceived them. The Indians, seeing the garrison reinforced, set fire to the barn and meeting-house, and withdrew in the early morning of August 5th.
In Rev. John Russell's list of men killed in Hampshire County, the name of James Hovey, killed at Brookfield, August 2. There is no other authority for the statement. The name occurs after that of Capt. Hutchinson, and it may be that he, like Capt Hutchinson, died of injuries received at the fight or garrison. [Ref: Bodge KingPhillipWar p102-118]

1703 his children, James of Malden, a weaver, Daniel of Ipswich, and Samuel Smith and wife Priscilla of Charlestown, sell their rights in Brookfield to Benoni Morse of Dedham, adjoining land formerly granted his father Daniel Hovey and his brother Thomas. [Ref: Waite BrookfieldMA p339]



Pedigree of James HOVEY
          /-----Richard HOVEY
 /-----Daniel HOVEY
|         \-----(Unk) (HOVEY)
James HOVEY
|         /-----Robert ANDREWES
 \-----Abigail ANDREWES
          \-----Elizabeth FRANKLIN



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