1648 A William Haines, son of William Haines, was baptized on November 12 in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. [1]
1684 A marriage license was issued to William Haines and Elizabeth Hussy on June 15 by the secretary of the province of New York. [2]
1685 "Elysabet" daughter of "William Heyns" and "Lysbeth Horsey" was baptized on April 5 in the Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. [3]
1686 "Isabella" daughter of "William Heys" and "Lysbeth Horsey" was baptized on November 1 in the Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. [4]
1688 "Margrith" daughter of "William Heyns" and "Elisabeth Hozy" was baptized on December 25 in the Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. "The Father and Mother are also the witnesses." [5]
1699 William Haynes' purchase of homelot 35 in Norwalk was recorded (Vol. 1, p. 370). [6]
1711 Mary, wife of William Hanes, died on July 22 and was buried in East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut. The memorial inscription states, [7]
Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Mary Hanes wife to Mr. William Hanes aged 51 years Decd. July ye 22d 1711."
1712 William Haynes wrote his will on April 1. [8]
In the Name of God Amen This First Day of Aprill Annogue Domini 1712 I William Haynes of Norwalk in ye County of Fairfield of ye Colony of Connecticut in New England being Very Sick and Weak in Body, but of perfect mind & memory, Thanks be given unto God, Therefore Calling to mind the Mortallity of my Body, And Knowing that it is appointed for men once to dye. Do make And Ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to Say principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the Hands of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have fulll and Free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to Inherit Everlasting Life. And my Body I Committ to the Earth to be Decently Buried at the Descretion of my Executors hereafter Mentioned, Nothing Doubting but at the Generall Resurrection I shall Receive the Same Again by the Mighty power of God. And as Touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased the Lord to bless me in this life I Give, Demise & Dispose of ye same in ye following manner & form That is to Say, First I will that all those Debts & Dueties as I do owe in Right or Conscience to any person or persons whatsoever, Shall be Well and truely Contented & paid or Ordained to be paid in Convenient time after my Decees by My Executors hereafter Named.
Item I GIve and bequeath to my Well beloved Daughter Mary Haynes Besides What I have already Given to her by Deed of Gift, one quarter parts of all the Rest of my Estate both Reall and personall, and if my sd Daughter Decees before She come of age 20 that what of her portion that is not Expended in bringing of her up shall return to The Remainder of my Said Estate both Reall and personall. I give and Bequeath the one half thereof to the Children of my Loveing Son John Bartlet that he now hath or shall have by my loveing Daughter Elizabeth his now Wife ye Said Bartlett to have ye use and Improvement of the said Estate untill his Children shall arive of age to Recieive their Equall portions thereof
Item the Other halfe of my Said Estate I give and bequeath to my child and Children of my Loveing Son Samuell Hanford that he now hath or Shall have by my Loveing Daughter Isabell his Now Wife, the said Hanford to have the Use and Improvement of said part of said Estate untill his child or children shall arive of age to Receive thir Equall portions thereof
I Likewise Constitute make and ordain my Trusty and Well beloved friends viz Mr Ralph Rootes & my Brother Samuell Marven Executors of this my Last Will and Testament And I do hereby utterly disalow Revoke and disanull all and Every other former Testaments, Wills & Legacies bequests & Executors by me in any wayes before this time named willed & bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and No other to be my last will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the Day and Year above Written. Before Signing I give and bequeath to my cosen Sarah Betts ye summ of five pounds in pay, besides her just Wages that is due to her Also I give five pound apiece to my Executors above named.
William Haynes
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by ye said William Haynes as his Last Wll and Testament in the presenc of us the subscribers John Maruen John Copp
1712 William Hanes died on April 2 and was buried in East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut. The memorial inscription states, [9]
Here lyes buried the body of William Hanes, aged 64 years, died April ye 2 1712.
Research Notes:
Of the marriage of William and Elizabeth Haynes, Torrey states, [10]
Haynes, William (1648?-1712) & 1/wf Elizabeth [Hussey?]; ?ca 1670/2?; Norwalk, CT
Marvin states, of Mercy, daughter of Mathew and Mary Marvin, [11]
Mercy [Marcy], b. abt. 1660; d. 22 July, 1711, "aet. 51" (gravestone); m. abt 1698, as his second wife, "Mr." William Haynes, born in England, 1648; said to have sailed from London 8 Jan'y, 1685, in the "Betty;" d. 2 (12 ?) April, 1712, in Norwalk; will dated 1 April, 1712.")
[Footnote] An engraving of his gravestone is given in Reports of Fairfield Historical Society (see p. xv, No. 96) on which his name is spelled Hanes, and on his wife's gravestone (No. 91) her name is given as Mary, by the same authority, which is an error either of the stone-cutter or the copyist. Various deeds show Mary m. Daniel Benedict. By his first wife he had two daus.
He [William Haynes] was a selectman in 1698. 15 May 1705, the town awarded him 93 acres on "Haynes Ridge;" he also owned land in the lower part of the town, which he bequeathed to his daughter Mary, if she should live to be 18; at the death of her father she chose her uncle, Samuel Marvin, as her guardian, who qualified 4 June, 1712, giving a bond of £500/ he had been made executor by the will of William, who calls him his "brother."
Child (Haynes), b. in Norwalk:
Mary, b. 1699; d. 13 May, 1789; m. (I), 171809, Rev. Jedediah, son of Thomas and Margaret (Griswold) Buckingham, b. 2 Oct., 1696, in Saybrook, Ct; d. 28 March, 1720, in Norwalk, while on a visit; he grad. at Yale, 1714, and was the minister of the First Church in West Newark, now Orange, N.J.; they had one son; she m. (2) James, son of Thomas and Sarah Fitch, of Norwalk, and youngest brother of Gove. Thomas Fitch; d. 2 Feb., 1790. They had five chil., of whom James m. Esther Marvin.
[1] citing John F. Cook, Parish registers of Lavenham in the county of Suffolk, [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLCatalog].
[2] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., Names of Persons for whom Marriage Licenses were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company 1860), 164, citing N.Y. Colonial MSS., vol. XXXI. p. 151, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Roswell Rahdall Hoes, ed., Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660 (NewYork: De Vinne Press, 1891), 24, [InternetArchive].
[4] Roswell Rahdall Hoes, ed., Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660 (NewYork: De Vinne Press, 1891), 27, [InternetArchive].
[5] Roswell Rahdall Hoes, ed., Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660 (NewYork: De Vinne Press, 1891), 32, [InternetArchive].
[6] p. 7, see http://www.norwalklib.org/index.aspx?nid=583, Malcolm P. Hunt Collection - Norwalk Land records & maps, transcripts, 1651-1800, [URL].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial 45359452, [FindAGrave].
[8] Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] Find A Grave Memorial 45359544, [FindAGrave].
[10] Clarence Almon Torrey and Elizabeth Petty Bently, New England Marriages prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985), 358, [GoogleBooks].
[11] George Franklin Marvin and William T. R. Marvin, Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 and 1635 (Boston: T. R. Marvin and Son, 1904), 301, [GoogleBooks].