Notes for Thomas Dewey and Constant Hawes

1642 Constant Hawes, daughter of Richard and Ann Hawes, was born on 17 July 1642. [1]

1663 Thomas Dewey and Constance Hawes married on June 1. [2] [3]

1668/69 Thomas Dewey was one of four men appointed to lay out land granted by Springfield to Woronoco (Westfield) at "y^e Gene^rll Towne Meeting of y^e first Tuesday in February being y^e 2^e day of the Month Anno Dm 1668." [4]

And Whereas the Honno^rd Gen^rll Corte in October last uppon a petition presented to y^m from y^e People dwelling at Woronoco, for inlargm^t of their accommodations of land, &c Did make an addition of land to them to y^e Content of Six mile square, & left it to this Town of Springfeild or whom we should appoynt for y^e managm^t of y^e matter: This Towne doth now therefore Order & appoynt m^r James Cornish John Roote Thomas Dewey & John Sackett or any three of them to lay out the aforesaid grannt of land adjoyning to what is already allowed them from this Towne, or as shalbe most to y^e advantage of y^e Inhabitants of Worronoco: only they are not to intrench uppon y^e bounds fixt & Sett, or to be Sett as aforesaid between them & Vs.

1669/70 The appointment of Thomas Dewey and others to lay out land granted by Springfield to Westfield was rescinded "Att a Town Meeting March 23^d 1669-70" and others were appointed in their place. [5]

Research Notes:

Thomas Dewey was an original proprietor of Westfield, Massachusetts.

Savage states, [6]

Thomas [Dewey], Northampton, s[on] of the preced[ing, Thomas Dewey] but first at Westfield, m[arried] 1 June 1663, Constance, d[aughter] of Richard Hawes of Dorchester, had Mary, wh[o] d[ied] 11 Jan[uary] 1666; Samuel, b[orn] 25 June 1670; Hannah, 21 Feb[ruary] 1672; Eliz. 10 Jan[uary] 1676; James, 3 July 1678, d[ied] young; Abigail, 14 Feb[ruary] 1680 ; James, again, 12 Nov[ember] 1688, d[ied] young; and he d[ied] 27 Apr[il] 1690 at Westfield. His wid[ow] d[ied] 26 Apr[il] 1703. All of this name in N[ew] E[ngland] of wh[ich] twelve had been gr[aduated] in 1834 at N. E. coll. descend from Thomas.

Constance was also known as Constant.

Footnotes:

[1] James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing three generations, Vol. 2 (Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1860), 380, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[2] Clarence Almon Torrey and Elizabeth Petty Bently, New England Marriages prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985), 217, [GoogleBooks].

[3] James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing three generations, Vol. 2 (Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1860), 380, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[4] Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield, The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, Vol. 2 (Springfield, Massachusetts: Henry M. Burt, 1898), 100, [HathiTrust].

[5] Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield, The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, Vol. 2 (Springfield, Massachusetts: Henry M. Burt, 1898), 107, [HathiTrust].

[6] James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing three generations, Vol. 2 (Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1860), 43-44, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].