James
Hubbard m. Naomi Cocke
Samuel
Hubbard m. Tacy Cooper
Ruth
Hubbard m. Robert Burdick
Deborah
Burdick m. Joseph Crandall
Mary
Crandall m. Nathaniel Wells
Deborah
Wells m. Thomas Partelow, Sr
Thomas
Partelow, Jr. m. Martha Maccoone
Hannah
Partelow m. Rufus Mulkins
Thomas
Partelow Mulkins m. Annie
Sarah
Ann Mulkins m. Valentine Mohney
Silas
Warren Mohney m. Margaret Jane McCamey
Valentine
Edward Mohney m. Margaret Annetta Book
Donald
EdwardMohney m. Nettie Lynda Lindbeck
Donna
Evalyn Mohney
Seventh
Day Baptists in North America
The
first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was held at The Mill Yard
Church in London in 1651 but some Seventh Day Baptists believe that
it had originated in 1617.
Stephen
Mumford. came from England to Newport, R.I., in 1664-5. He was a
Seventh-Say Baptist and quickly began to share his religious beliefs.
Samuel
Hubbard's Journal gives this information: that he was originally
from Tewkesbury, England, that he and his wife were of the number who
made up the first Seventh-day Baptist church in America, and that he
made at least one trip back to England.
Mumford
converted several members of the First Baptist Church of Newport.
He
does not seem to have given formal speeches or sermons so must have
converted them individually.
Samuel
Hubbard’s Journal can be found in the library of Milton College,
Wis., In it, Samuel stated "My wife took up keeping of the
Lord's holy 7th day Sabbath the 10 day March, 1665; I took it up one
day April, 1665; our daughter Ruth, 25 Oct., 1666; Rachel, Jan. 15
day 1666; Bethiah, Feb. 1666; our son Joseph Clarke, 23 Feb., 1666."
From the records, it is quite evident that Tacy Hubbard was the first
to embrace the Sabbath in America.
After
prominent church members- Elder John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and
others (Who earlier had fought along with Elder John Crandall to
achieve religious freedoms themselves!) denounced them as heretics,
Wild and wife, and Solman and wife went back to the Baptist church.
They were called to an open trial to show cause as to why they had
denied Christ.. They appeared expecting a fair hearing but found that
they were there to be compelled to abandon their beliefs. Tacy
Hubbard gave 3 points - the "Grounds" for their grievance:
1.
The apostasy of those 4 persons.
2.
The speech of Brother Holmes.
3.
The dismal lying aside of the 10 precepts and the denying of them at
the meeting.
Finding
no agreement and rising tension, they withdrew from the church on 7
Dec. 1671. Very soon after, on 23 December
1671, they established the first Seventh Day Baptist church in
America. Samuel and Tacy Hubbard were two of the first 7 members who
joined together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.
Seventh-day Sabbatarianism spread across the country.
Joseph
Crandall became the 3rd pastor of that church and remained in that
position for 37 years.
Thomas1
Hubbard birth date unknown. Thomas died May 26, 1555 in
England. Thomas Hubbard was a gentleman residing at
Horden-on-the-Hill, in Essex, England, "of good estate and great
estimation," and "zealous and religious in the true service
of God." It is believed that the story of Thomas Highbed in
Fox's Book of Martyrs, refers to him. During the
reign of Queen Mary, [known as, "Bloody Mary"] who was a
Catholic, it was decided to eliminate all Protestants. Thomas was
considered to be an
'outspoken and dangerous' Protestant.who
was “of such property and estimation that
when they were reported to Bonner as holding scriptural doctrines,
Bishop Bonner apparently
feared the consequences of summoning them to London, and went himself
to attempt privily their perversions from the truth. Thomas
was seized and
imprisoned He
refused to recant his Protestantism and
was burned at
the stake May 26, 1555. in Essex, England.
Thomas
Hubbard had the following children:
James
Hubbard.
Richard
Hubbard. He was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England,
September 13, 1562.
Elizabeth
Hubbard. She was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk
James
Hubbard birth date unknown. James died in Mendelsham, Suffolk,
England. He married Naomi Cocke. Naomi was the daughter of Thomas
Cocke. Naomi died in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England. James Hubbard
was a yeoman’ of Mendelsham, Suffolk, England, 80 miles northwest
of London. His Testament (printed in 1549) "which he hid in his
bedstraw lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days,"
was brought to America by his son Samuel, and is possibly in the
Library of Alfred University, at Alfred Centre, NY.
James
Hubbard and Naomi Cocke had the following children:
Rachel
Hubbard was born in England. Rachel married John Brandish. They came
to America in 1633, and lived in Salem, MA, Wethersfield, CT, and
Fairfield, In England, he had been suspected
to be a Protestant. Unlike his father, James escaped
persecution.”
Benjamin
Hubbard.
James
Hubbard. He was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk, ENG, August 14,
1603.
Sarah
Hubbard was born 1598. Sarah, and her husband John Jackson, lived in
Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. They had a son, Robert Jackson, who
served four years under Oliver Cromwell.
Thomas
Hubbard was born 1604. Thomas and his wife Esther lived on Freeman
Lane, near Horsley, in Southwark, London.
Samuel
Hubbard
Four
others apparently remained in England
Samuel
Hubbard was born in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England May 10, 1610.
amd died 1689 in Newport, Newport Co, RI. He married Tacy Cooper in
Windsor, Hartford Co, CT, January 4, 1635/6. Tacy was born in
England February 12, 1608/9. Tacy died circa 1697 in Newport,
Newport Co, RI.
Samuel
says of himself: "Such was the pleasure of Jehovah towards me, I
was born of good parents, my mother brought me up in the fear of the
Lord, in Mendelsham, in catechising me and hearing choice ministers,
&c."
Menddelsham
was a market town about eighty miles northeast of London), Suffolk
County,
10
Oct 1633 - Salem, MA. He came this month from England. He probably
came in the ship James, Grant, master, which left Gravesend, England
late in August, 1633, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay October 10,
1633." Religious persecution is likely what brought
Samuel Hubbard to America in 1633.
9
June 1634 Tacy Cooper had come to Dorchester, MA, and was one of the
party who left for the Connecticut Valley.
Oct
1635 - With a party of about one hundred, he started to march through
the wilderness to the Connecticut Valley; winter coming on before
they reached their destination they suffered much from exposure, and
insufficient food. Samuel Hubbard remained at Windsor during the
winter
4
Jan. 1636 He married Tacy Cooper in Windsor, Hartford Co, CT, Mr.
Ludlow was the officiant.
1636,
shortly after their marriage, they went to Wethersfield, CT.
18
Nov. 1637 Naomi Hubbard
was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT
28
Nov. 1637 Naomi died in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT
19
Oct. 1638 Naomi
Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT
11
Jan. 1639/40 Ruth Hubbard was born.
5
May 1643 Naomi died in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA
10
May 1639 - Springfield, MA. He moved here at this date, in search of
peace, and a church was soon gathered; he says: "I gave acct. of
my faith" and that there were "five men in all...my wife
soon after added."
10
May 1647 "Samuel was now with his wife imbibing freely and
preaching ardently the doctrines of Anabaptism." To escape
persecution under the harsh laws of Massachusetts they agin moved to
Fairfield, CT. His stay here was short: "God having enlightened
both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only
of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly
struck at and answered two terms publicly, where I was also said to
be as bad as she, and sore threatened imprisonment to Hartford jail,
if not to renounce it or to remove; that Scripture came into our
mouths, if they persecute you in one place, flee to another; and so
we did 2 day of October, 1648, we went for Rhode Island, and arrived
there 12 day. I and my wife upon manifestation of our faith were
baptized by brother John Clarke, 3 day Nov 1648." And
they converted to the doctrine that "no
authority existed or could exist for altering God's decree
establishing the seventh day as the Sabbath by the substitiution of
another day."
Among
those chosen as conservators of the rights of the settlers and of t
he Rhode Island colonists were Tobias Sanders, Robert Burdick, John
Crandall, Joseph Clarke, all Seventh Day Baptists, with others whose
names are familiar in all our churches today. For the peaceful
performance of their duties, Sanders and Burdick were forcibly seized
by the Massachuse tts authorities, dragged to Boston, condemned to
pay a fine of 40 each, and cast into prison until the fine would be
paid and the prisoners should give bonds in the sum of 100 to observe
the peace of the commonwealth for the future. In a similar way,
Crandall was dragged to the Hartford jail. Samuel Hubbard (who
remained a lifelong friend of Roger Williams) defended Sanders,
Burdick, Crandall and Clarke.
10
March 10 1641/2 Rachel Hubbard was born.
25
March 1644. Samuel Hubbard was born in
Springfield, Hampden Co, MA
19
Dec. 1646 Bethiah Hubbard was born in
Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA 12 Oct 1648, "I and my wife
upon manifestation of our faith were baptised by brother Joseph
Clarke,
3
day of November, 1648." "He was a zealous Baptist and
public religious disputant. For twenty three years he belonged to
the First Baptist Church of Newport."
30
Nov. 1649 Samuel Hubbard was born in
Newport, Newport Co, RI
7
Aug 1651 - He was sent by the church to visit the brethren in prison
at Boston, viz: John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall.
Oct
1652 - "I and my wife had hands laid on us by brother Joseph
Torrey." He was admitted Freeman of Newport, RI in 1655.
1
Oct 1657 - "Brother Obadiah Holmes and I went to the Dutch and
Gravesend and to Jamaica and to Flushing and to Hamsted and to Cow
Bay." They came home 15 Nov 1657.
In
1664 he was chosen to be General Solicitor, in case of inability of
Lawrence Turner. He writes: "My wife took up the keeping of
the Lord's holy Seventh Day Sabbath. the 10th day March, 1665. I
took it up 1 day April 1665; our daughter Ruth, 25 Oct 1666; Rachel,
15 Jan 1666; Bethiah, Feb 1666; our son Joseph Clarke, 23 Feb 1666."
7
Apr 1668 - "I went to Boston to public dispute with those
baptised there."
Jul
1668 - He wrote his cousin, John Smith, of London, from Boston, where
he had been to a disputation: "Through God's great mercy, the
Lord have given me in this wilderness, a good, diligent, careful,
painful and very loving wife; we, through mercy, live comfortably,
praised be God, as co- heirs together of one mind in the Lord,
traveling through this wilderness to our heavenly Sion, knowing we
are pilgrims as our fathers were, and good portion being content
therewith. A good house, as with us judged, 25 acres of ground
fenced, and four cows which give, one young heifer and three calves,
and a very good mare, a trade, a carpenter, a health to follow it,
and my wife very diligent and painful, praised be God. This is my joy
and crown, in humility I speak of it, for God's Glory, I trust all,
both sons in law and daughters are in visible order in general; but
in especial manner my son Clarke and my three daughters, with my wife
and about 14 walk in the observation of God's holy sanctified 7 day
Sabbath, with much comfort and liberty, for so we and all ever had
and yet have in this Colony."
16
Dec 1671 - He wrote to his children at Westerly, about the
differences between those favoring the seventh day observance and the
rest of the church. Several spoke on both sides. Mr. Hubbard gave
his views. Brother Torrey said they required not my faith. Other
discussion followed: "They replied fiercely, it was a tumult.
J. Torrey stopped them at last."
7
Dec. 1671 Excommunicated from the church when Rev. Obidiah Holms
declared that they had left Christ and gone after Moses.
23
Dec, 1671 With his wife, one daughter, and four other persons he
formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America. He writes:
"We entered into a church covenant the 23rd day of December,
1671, viz: William Hiscox, Stephen Mumford, Samuel Hubbard, Roger
Baxter, sister Hubbard, sister Mumford, Rachel Langworthy," &c.
(There
is a letter from Roger Williams to Samuel Hubbard, in which he argues
the position taken by the latter, and cites various texts against his
views; but it is written in a very different spirit from that shown
by the Newport church, and recognizes the conscientious motives which
actuated Hubbard. "Bro' Hiscox and I send this Church to N.
London and Westerly, 7 day Mar 1675," and again March, 1677/8
and 1686.)
1675
- He says: "I have a testament of my grandfather Cocke's,
printed 1549, which he hid in his bedstraw, lest it be found and
burned, in Queen Mary's days."
1
Nov 1675 - He wrote Mr. Henry Reeves, at Jamaica; "Very sudden
and strange changes these times afford in this, our age, everywhere,
as I hear and now see in N.E. God's hand seems to be stretched out
against N. England, by wars by the natives, and many Englishmen fall
at present." "This island doth look to ourselves as yet,
by mercy not one slain, blessed be God." "My wife and 3
daughters, who are all here by reason of the Indian war, with their
15 children, desire to remember their christian love to you."
Nov
1676, he writes: "In the midst of these troubles of the war
[King Philip's War] Lieut. Joseph Torrey, Elder of Mr. Clarke's
Church, having one daughter living at Squamicut and his wife being
there, he said unto me `Come, let us send a boat to Squamicut, my all
is there, and part of yours.' We sent a boat, and his wife, his
daughter and son in law and all their children and my two daughters,
and their children [one had eight, the other three, with an
apprentice boy] all came. .. My son Clarke came afterwards before
winter, and my other daughter's husband in the spring, and they have
all been at my house to this day."
Feb
26, 1676, he writes a nephew at Rye: "I bless my God, my
condition is comfortable, and I am very well contented with knowing
it is more to give than to receive. ...My wife and daughter
Langworthy desired me to write about flax, yet if you bring some 20
pound if at a pound of flax for a pound of wool, it's so at
Stonington; if bring Indian Corn it's now 4 pound of wool a bushel
and I think it wiil be more."
Sep
2, 1677, he writes: "Truely Children for the present I am not
altogether beset with thoughts (as its judged from Satan) I have been
in very sore exercise, ever since br. Hiscox came to ye and a week
before, occasioned by a sudden sentence of the Ch. declaring yet I
have not the gift of prophesying publickly in the church tho' hereto
fore judged by those brethren of the Old Ch. Yet by most here and
encouraged in it, was so sorely set on, that I was horribly tempted
to deny all, yet kept; but sorely harried. I pray be silent in this
manner for the present."
29
Jun 1678 - He wrote Dr. Stennett, of London: "From my own house
in Mayford, in Newport," &c. "Last winter the Lord
visited me with a very sore cough as long as strength, and breath did
last, oft 5 times together only a little respite; my dear wife oft
took her farewell of me, my dear brethren watched me in their terms.
Major Cranston [his physician] I sent for - he judged none help or
hope for sure, but for present refreshment he gave me a small vial of
spirits, which I took, and had some sleep, but my cough rather
increased." He was visited by the church which drew into the
other room agreeing to seek God's face for me poor one. "The
next day I would have gone to town to give public praise, but was
advised not to go," &c. "Our Governor died the 19th
day of June, 1678, buried 20th day, all this island was invited, many
others were there, judged near a thousand people, our brother Hiscox
spake there excellently," &c.
1680
– Samuel is taxed 6s. 2d.
1683,
Samuel Hubbard went by water to visit friends at Rye, returning by
Fairfield, Milford, New Haven, Guilford, Lyme, New London, and
Westerly, arriving home after six weeks absence, Sept 25.
May
23, 1684, he writes: "What marvelous rich grace..hath made known
his holy sabbath to such poor worms: first to my wife, I next, the
first settlers or planters in N.E. (abrother and a sister came over
with the practice of it)."
19
Dec 1686 - He wrote to John Thronton, of Providence: "My old
brother who was before me, you and brother Joseph Clarke (only alive)
in that ordinance of baptism, I next and my wife in New England,
although we stept before you in other ordinances: Oh! let us strive
still to be first in the things of God," &c. ..."My
wife and I counted up this year 1686: My wife a creature 78 years, a
convert 62 years, married 50 years and independent and joined to a
church 52 years, a baptist 38 years, a Sabbath Keeper 21 years. I a
creature of 76 years, a convert 60 years and independent and joined
to a church 52 years, a baptist 38 years, a Sabbath Keeper 21 years.
We are by rich grace bornup and adorned with rich mercies above many,
as to have all my three daughters in the same faith and order, and 2
of their husbands and 2 of my grandaughters and their husbands also
with us. O praise the Lord for his goodness endures forever! Not to
us, not to us poor creatures. These may be my last lines unto you,
farewell."
7
May 1688 - He wrote Richard Brooks, of Boston: "The mesles is
not gone here. My daughter Rachel have them and some of her family."
"
1689
Samuel dies in Newport, Newport Co, RI
ca
1698 Tacy died in Newport, Newport Co, RI.
Samuel
Hubbard and Tacy Cooper had the following children:
Naomi
Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT
November 18, 1637. Naomi died November 28, 1637 in Wethersfield,
Hartford Co, CT, at less than one year of age.
Naomi
Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT October 19,
1638. Naomi died May 5, 1643 in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA, at 4
years of age.
Ruth
Hubbard was born January 11, 1639/0.
Rachel
Hubbard was born March 10, 1641/2. 1
Samuel
Hubbard was born in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA March 25, 1644.
Samuel died in died young.
Bethiah
Hubbard was born in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA December 19, 1646.
Bethiah died April 17, 1707 in Westerly, Washington Co, RI, at 60
years of age. She married Joseph Clarke in Newport, Newport Co, RI,
November 16, 1664. Joseph was born in Newport, Newport Co, RI April
2, 1643. Joseph died January 11, 1726/7 in Westerly, Washington Co,
RI, at 83 years of age. He was christened in Westerly, Washington
Co, RI, September 30, 1643.
Samuel
Hubbard was born in Newport, Newport Co, RI November 30, 1649.
Samuel died January 20, 1670/1 in Newport, Newport Co, RI, at 21
years of age.
Sources:
Genealogical
Dictionary of Rhode Island
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/hubbard_
Seventh
Day Baptists in Europe and America; August 20-25, 1902. (Plainfield,
N.J., Printed for the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference by the
American Sabbath Tract Society, 1910-1972), 3 vols. Vol 2, p. 589:
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/genealogy/
The
Descendants of Robert Burdick of R I by Johnson
The
Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by Austin.
English
Martyrology, Abridged from Fox-Book 3 Chapter 14; page 227.
The
Ancestors and Descendents of Rev. Henry Clark" C.C. VanDauenter
1902
One
Thousand Years of Hubbard History (866 to 1895) by Edward Warren
Day,1896
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