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John Hoskins

Male Abt 1585 - 1648  (63 years)

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  • Name John Hoskins  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Born Abt 1585  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried 5 May 1648  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 31 May 1648  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I107  Alford Hathaway
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2022 

    Family 1 UNK John Hoskins first wife 
    Children 
     1. John Hoskins,   b. Abt 1608, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Thomas Hoskins,   b. 1610, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2022 
    Family ID F796  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Anne,   b. 1590,   d. 6 Mar 1662, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Married 6 May 1630  Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Spouse: John Hoskins, Sr.
    Children 
     1. Anthony Hoskins,   b. Abt 1632, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 1707, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     2. Rebecca Hoskins,   b. 1634, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2022 
    Family ID F55  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Windsor Founder's Monument    		Windsor Founder's Monument
    Sketch of Mary and John    		Sketch of Mary and John
    A detailed sketch of the ship that John Hoskins and Anne Flyer sailed on in 1630.
    John Hoskins Homestead    		John Hoskins Homestead
    The homestead of John Hoskins and Anne Fyler in Windsor, Connecticut. The current house =was built by John Hoskins's great-grandson, John Hoskins, in 1750 and is still in use today.
    John Hoskins Plaque     		John Hoskins Plaque
    Plaque sitting adjacent to the John Hoskins house.
    WHS collections 2017.34.6-7, photos by Michelle Tom.
    Palisado Cemetery in Windsor, Connecticut    		Palisado Cemetery in Windsor, Connecticut
    The old cemetery in central Windsor where John Hoskins is buried
    Walter Fyler's House    		Walter Fyler's House
    Memorial to Walter Fyler    		Memorial to Walter Fyler

    Documents
    Meeting House Seating    		Meeting House Seating
    Seats in the Windsor Meeting House, used for both church services and town meetings, had to be purchased by the residents. This is an image of the original document showing the seating assignments for 1681.
    Probate Records for Anne Hoskins    		Probate Records for Anne Hoskins
    Windsor Sales Agreement    		Windsor Sales Agreement
    Sakes Agreenebt for Windsor between Plymouth Trading Company and residents from Dorchester
    John Hoskins Last Will and Inventory Records    		John Hoskins Last Will and Inventory Records

    Biographies
    The Story of John and Anne Hoskins    		The Story of John and Anne Hoskins
    In 1630, at age 45, John Hoskins took his son Thomas, and Anne took her son Walter and daughter Katherine and joined this mass migration. They sailed on the Mary and John from England on March 20, 1629/30. John and Anne had lost their spouses but found each other and were married either on board or shortly after landing in Dorchester,…

    Timelines
    The Times of the Life of John and Anne Hoskins    		The Times of the Life of John and Anne Hoskins

    Maps
    Map o Windsor    		Map o Windsor
    Map showing the location of John Hoskins homestead in Windsor 1640

  • Sources 
    1. [S107] History of Ancient Windsor, Henry R. Stiles, M.D., (Charles B. Norton, 348 Broadway, Nwe Yory, NY, 1859).

    2. [S49] The Great Migration, Anderson, Robert Charles, (NEHGS).

    3. [S121] Parentage of Anthony Hoskins, Genevieve Tylee Kiepura, (The American Genealogist, Vol 30, 1954).

    4. [S122] The Anthony Hoskins Project, Robert J. Haskins, (https://sites.google.com/site/anthonyhoskinsproject/Home), The Anthony.

    5. [S123] English and Welsh Surnames, Charles Wareing Bardsley, M.A, (Oxford University Press).

    6. [S124] Records of the First Church at Dorchester , (George H Ellis, Boston, Mass., 1891).

    7. [S125] Town of Dorchester, William Dana Orcutt, (John Wilson & Son University Press, 1893).

    8. [S126] History of the Town of Dorchester, Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, (Boston, 1859).

    9. [S127] Early Connecticut Probate Records, Charles William Manwaring, (K.S.Pack & Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1904).

    10. [S128] Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut , J. Hammond Trumbell, (Brown & Parsons, Hartford, 1850).