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| Johanna Henchman m. 1611 Gloucester, England b. 1588 Gloucestershire, England d. Sep 21, 1651 Braintree, Norfolk, MA emigr. 1640? ?Scituate, MA |
Thomas b. Jun 15, 1612 Gloucester, England |
Charles b. 1613 Gloucester, England d. Jan 16, 1689 |
Margery b. 1614 Gloucester, England d. Mar 10, 1687 Braintree MA |
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Ruth b. 1617 Gloucester, England d. Jun, 1628 Gloucester, England |
Daniel b. 1617 Gloucester, England d. London, England |
John b. Mar 3, 1622 Gloucester, England d. Apr 2, 1704 Concord MA |
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Joanna b. Jun 11, 1624 Gloucester, England d. May 16, 1680 Braintree MA |
Leonard b. 1630 Gloucester, England d. Nov 28, 1675 Boston MA |
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Charles began as an apprentice to his father, a saddler. He was executor of his
father's will of May 29, 1632. He is known to have also been a brewer and a
wool stapler. For the city of Glocester, he was an alderman from 1632 to 1638,
sheriff in 1634. |
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Charles wife Joanna Henchman, sons, John, Daniel and Leonard, and daughters
Margery and Joanna emigrated to America about 1640, soon after Charles died.
His eldest son Thomas was the only living child that did not emigrate;
he was apprenticed to his father as a brewer Feb 2, 1625. |
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Daughters Margery and Joanna are both ancestors of the Presidents John Adams and
John Quincy Adams, through Judge Edmund Quincy (1681-1738), who marrried Margery's
grandaughter Dorothy Flynt (1678-1737), and his father Col. Edmund Quincy (1627-1698),
who married Joanna Hoar in 1648. Joanna Hoar's great-great-grandaughter Abigail
Smith married President John Adams. |
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Son Leonard graduated from Harvard College in 1650 and returned to England to
marry and to become the minister of the parish of Wanstead in Essex.
This position ended with the Restoration, so he retired to Cambridge
to study medicine but, when he learned from friends in Boston that the presidency
of Harvard College was open, he came back to Boston on July 8, 1672. On July 13,
he was elected by the General Court to be the first president to be a graduate. |
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Son Daniel appears in a 1664 Petition Pledging to Assist ... in Maintaining a Charter.
This is the earliest list, though incomplete, of inhabitants of Concord, Massachusetts. |
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Sources: Nourse, Henry Stedman, The Hoar Family in America and its English Ancestry; A Compilation from Collections Made by the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, Boston MA, D. Clapp & Son, 1899. Wheeler, Ruth R., Concord, Climate for Freedom, Concord Mass., The Concord Antiquarian Society, 1967, p. 201. |
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