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Adam was born in 1605 and was baptized in St. Andrews, Hingham, Norfolk, England on 26 Jan 1605.
He died in Lynn, Essex co., MA in 13d:1m(March):1671/2; he was 66.
Family lore has Adam emigrating with the Governor Winthrop fleet in 1630, claiming that he was a passenger on the Mary & John. However, there is no proof of this and it is now a doubtful claim. He was in Lynn, Essex co., MA and well-established by 1638, when he received a good-sized land grant for having contributed mightily to the settlement (receiving 100 acres, as opposed to the basic 10).
Lewis says: "...Adam Hawkes was a farmer, and settled on the Hawkes Farms in Saugus. He owned the land where the iron ore was found, and filled up one of the mines, on the supposition that it contained silver. Soon after his settlement, his house was burnt. The only persons in it at the time, were a servant girl and two twin infants, who escaped..." Adam was granted "upland, 100" acres in the 1638 land distribution. This became known as the Hawkes Farm. The area of Adam's farm is now located in North Saugus, Essex co., MA. He owned the land where the iron ore was found which led to the founding of the Saugus Iron Works. Unfortunately, this also led to the loss of many acres of his farm as the Iron Works flooded it over the years!
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS The Iron Works was founded in 1643 on "land purchased of Thomas Hudson...erected on the western banks of the Saugus River..."[8] Between 1643 and 1646, the Iron Works was firmly established and expanded considerably. In 1646, the trouble between The Iron Works and the Hawkes family began when the Iron Works purchased other land and extended their pond. This flooded three acres of Adam Hawkes' land.
In 1652, "Mr. Gifford this year increased the height of the dam at the Iron Works, by which ten acres of Mr. Hawkes's [sic] land were flowed; for which he agreed to give 16 loads of hay yearly , and 200 cords of wood. Afterward he agreed to give him £7, 'which ends all, except that 10s. is to be given him yearly.' By this agreement the water was to be so kept 'that it may not ascend the top of the upper floodgates in the pond higher than within a foot and a halfe of the top of the great Rock that lies in the middle of the pond before the gates.'..."
In June 1660, Adam sued Oliver Purchis (as agent for the Iron Company) because water from the Iron Works' dam had once again overflowed his land.
"The deposition of Joseph Jenks, senior, saith, that having conference with adam hawkes about the great dam at the Iron works at Lin, he complayned that he suffered great damage by the water flowing his ground. I answered him, I though you had satisfaction for all from the old companie, he said he had from the old company, and further saith not."
"This, I Charles Phillopes do testifie, that I, keepeing of the watter at the Irone Workes, since Mr. Porchase came there, Mr. Porchas did att all times charges me to keepe the watter Lowe, that it might not damage Mr. Hawkes, which I did, and had much ill will of the workmen for the same."
Others testified that the lands had been much overflowed. Francis Hutchinson said, that the water had been raised so high, that the bridge before Mr. Hawkes' house had severeal times been broken up, and 'the peces of tember raised up and Made Sweme.' Joh Knight and Thomas Wellman were appointed to ascertain the damamge. They stated that the corn had been 'Much Spoilled,' and the wells 'sometimes ffloted;' that the English grass had been much damaged, and the tobacco lands much injured, 'in laying them so Coulld.' They judged the damage to be 'the ualloation of ten pounds a yeere.'..." The problems between the Hawkes family & the Iron Works continued into John2's lifetime culminating with John2 arranging for the Works' dam destruction in 1683. See more details under John2's entry.
ESTATE Inventory of the estate of Mr. Adam Hawks taken Mar. 18, 1671/2 by Thomas Newhall and Jeremiah Sweyen:
- in wearing Aparrill, 5li. 17s.
- a bedsteed, fetherbed, 2 fether pilows, Flock bed, on blanket, sheetts, curtins, vallenc and one Imbroadered coverlid, 14li.
- bedsteed and beding belonging to it, 2li. 10s.
- one other bed and bedsteed, 3li.
- bras and pewter, 3li., 14s.
- Iron potts and kettells, one pare of Andirons, __
- pare of trambrells, tow par of pott hoks, one cast backe, on friing pan, one pare of stilliards, one spitt, 5li., 7s.
- two croscut saws, one sith, one sikell, thre Axces, to par of Hoks, one Axtre pin, on sledg and ould Iron, 1li., 11s.
- tow muskits, tow small fflowlling pes, two Rest heads, 3li., 15s.
- thre swords, one wachbill, on ould belt, one pistell and one Drum, 2li., 13s.
- one Table, six Joyn stools, 2li., 8s.
- a pare of banddilars, milk vesells, sivs, 14s.
- a peas of black cloth, 1li. 6s.
- cart wheells, plow and yoks, chayns, clevis and pin, beatell, tow weges, one forke and part of a cart Roop, 5li., 18s.
- fouer oxcen, 21li.
- seven cows with tow sucking calfs, 24li., 10s
- one tow yearling and tow yearlings, 4li., 5s.
- tow Horses and tow mares, 17li.
- sixten swyn one with another, 9li.
- sadell and pillion, 15s.
- loking glass and baskett, 7s.
- tobakow and ould caske, 18s.
- The Dwelling Hows and barne, 120li.
- about nyn Hundred of boards, a stoke of bees, 2li., 16s.
- five hundred and ffivty akers of land, 550li.
- fouer Akers of upland, 2li.
total, 817li., 11s.
credit to the Estatt, 1li., 15s.
Debts from the Esstat, 46li., 14s.
Administration on the estate of Adam Haukes of Lynn was granted to John Hauks of Lynn, and certain articles of agreement were allowed. He was to give to his mother Mrs. Sarah Hauks, nine score acres of upland in Lynn, not joining to the farm, eight acres of medow in the great meadow, and one third of all the moveables; to Sarah Hauks, her daughter, four score and ten pounds, to be paid five pounds every two years until forty pounds is paid, and the fifty pounds at age or marriage; if she should die before said time to be paid to the widow, Sarah Hauks, all to be paid in corn or cattle; to Moses Hauks, son of John Hauks by Rebeckah Hauks, daughter of Mr. Moses Mavericke, as a legacy from his grandfather, Mr. Adam Hauks, one half of that farm in Lynn which the said Hauks lived and died upon, only for the housing, to pay the value thereof if he pleases, at age, and if he should die before, the estate to go t his father John Hauks and his children; to Mr. William Cogswell for his wife, four score and ten pounds, to be paid ten pounds yearly, in corn, cattle or goods, to be made in two payments within two years; to Samuell Huchisson, Thomas Huchisson, Edward Huchisson and Elizabeth Hart, five pounds each, within twelve months time, in corn or cattle; all the residue to John Hauks.
Signed March 27, 1672, by Sarah (her X mark) Hauks, Francis Hutchinson, Moses Mavericke, John Hauks, William Cogswell.
Approved and allowed March 26, 1672 in Ipswich Court.
[Essex Country Probate Files, Docket 12, 899.]
MARRIAGE #1 Circa 1631 when Adam was 26, he first married Ann BROWN, daughter of Edward BROWN & Jane LIDE, in Charlestown or Lynn, MA. She was the widow of Thomas HUTCHINSON and brought several children by him with her into the marriage with Adam Hawkes. Ann was born ca. 1615 in Inkeberrow, Worcestershire, England and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA in 4d:10m:1669; she was 54. John, John and Susanna are the only three proven children of Adam and Ann. Other sources (now considered dubious) mentioned sons, Adam, Moses, Benjamin and Thomas, but it is now thought that these are grandchildren and not children of Adam. While several of Adam's step-sons (surnamed Hutchinson) survived to adulthood, John2 was the only son of Adam to live past childhood. Thus, he inherited the bulk of Adam's estate when Adam died.
CHILDREN
i. John HAWKES John was born in 1631/2 in Lynn, Essex co., MA and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA before his namesake brotherıs birth in 1633; he was 2.
ii. John HAWKES (twin) Please see his own page.
iii. Susanna HAWKES (twin) Susanna was born on 13 Aug 1633 in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA and died before 1696; she was 62.
In 1649 when Susanna was 15, she married William COGSWELL, son of John COGSWELL & Elizabeth THOMPSON, in Ipswich, Essex co., MA.
They had the following children (surnamed COGSWELL):
i. Elizabeth
ii. Hester
iii. Susanna
iv. Ann
v. William
vi. Jonathon
vii. Edmund
viii. John
ix. Adam
x. Sarah
MARRIAGE #2 On 2 June 1670 when Adam was 65, he second married Sarah HOOPER, daughter of William HOOPER & Elizabeth [surname not known], in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1,28,25,29,30,31]. Sarah was born on 7 December 1650 in Reading (now Wakefield), Middlesex co., MA[4].
CHILD
i. Sarah HAWKES
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Adam Hawkes of Saugus, Mass.
On Arrival in America Adam Hawkes first settled in Charlestown in Massachusetts Bay Colony, where is was a husbandman. There he m. Ann ( ? Brown) Hutchinson, a widow with four sons and a daugter. Therse children grew up in the household of Adam and Ann Hawkes, and all were named in the settlement of Adam's estate following his death. Anne may have been the sister of Nicholas Brown
who settled first in Saugus and later in Reding, Massachusetts, son of Edward and Jane Lide Brown of Inkberrow, Worcestershire, England although no birth
record has been found for her in the parish records of Inkberrow. Or she may have been related to one of the several people named Browne who came with the Winthrop Fleet from Hawkdon, Suffolk, England. Anne's former husband, although listed in Mormon records as William Hutchinson, may have been the Thomas Hutchinson listed by Banks as having come to Charlestown with the Winthrop Fleet from London, who became a member of the church there 1630 (#52), and then marked dead." Anne's children by her first husband, surname Hutinson, were:
Samuel b. ca. 1617/18, Elizabeth b. 1622 (m. 1650 Isaac Hart), Edward b. ca. 1624
Thomas b. and Francis b. ca. 1630.
Adam Hawkes continued to live in Charlestown until 1634, having married the widow, Anne Hutchinson about 1631. (She is not to be confused with the famous
Anne Marbury Hutchinson, her contemporary, who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious reasons). He was a husbandman who held the town offices of Cow Commissioner and Surveyor, and was called "Mister"' a term denoting status.
Adam's first wife Anne was several years his senior and when she died in 1669 his children and stepchildren were all grown and married with families of their own or had moved away and so in June he married again. Adam, now 65, took for his bride the young Sarah Hooper who was just 19. Sarah was born in that part of Reading which is now Wakefield. She was the oldest living child of 11 born to William Hooper, a weaver, who had come in the James from London in 1635 at the age of 18. He had acquired considerable land and was a church member and freeman. The following year their daughter Sarah was born on Jun 1, 1671 and in less than a year after that Adam Hawkes died.
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