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- [S419] The Hawley Record Website, (Name: The Hawley Society, Inc.; Location: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=eliassillhawley;), entry for Benjamin HAWLEY, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=eliassillhawley&id=I25, 4 Jul 2011, accessed 7 Dec 2011.
ID: I25
Name: Benjamin HAWLEY
Surname: Hawley
Given Name: Benjamin
Sex: M
Birth: 1694/1696
Death: 8 May 1767
Burial: Lands End Cem, Brookfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
_UID: 01A2DC35CDD4094E939AEC54740B6A7E8054
Residence: Hawleyville, Fairfield, Connecticut
Note:
The Hawley Record, compiled and published by Elias Sill Hawley, 1890
Genealogical Note #25, page 456
Benjamin Hawley, son of Samuel, Sen, was born in 1695, according to his grave-stone, and died May 8, 1767, in his 73d year, according to the same authority. He married, in 1724, Mary, daughter of Capt Joseph and Mary (Curtis) Nichols. This Mary (Curtis) Nichols, as widow of Capt Joseph, married Henry Hawley, Sen (5070), but she was buried with her first husband in Unity burying-ground in Trumbull, CT.
Soon after they were married, Benjamin Hawley and his wife started on a journey into the wilderness, on horseback, he in the saddle and she on a pillion behind him. Near the close of the day the wife insisted that they must be at the end of the land, and that she would go no further, and there they ended the day's journey. Hence the place where they located was called "Land's End," and this name continued about one hundred years; then when the railroad was built the place was named Hawleyville, for Benjamin's descendants still lived there; and the school district is still called Land's End district, in Newtown, CT. The locality was about twenty-five miles frrom where Benjamin and his wife started on their journey, and over thirty from Stratford.
In 1708, Samuel Hawley, his brother John and thirty-four others became the patentees of the township of Newtown, CT, and settlers first located there in 1713, and only a few were actual settlers when Benjamin Hawley and his wife went a day's journey to locate in that township, a considerable of the land was still owned by his father Samuel Hawley, and as it proved they did go almost to the western extremity of the township, or the "end of the land." The descendants of Benjamin Hawley still reside in that place, and that Branch of the family have scattered less than any other Branch of the first Joseph Hawley's descendants, except those of Ebenezer of Simsbury and Jehiel of Durham, of whom but little is known.
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Change Date: 4 Jul 2011 at 19:24:30
Father: Samuel HAWLEY Sr b: 1647
Mother: Patience NICHOLS b: 2 Feb 1659
Marriage 1 Mary NICHOLS b: in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
Married: 13 Feb 1724
Children
Benjamin HAWLEY Jr b: 1730
William HAWLEY b: 1732
Sarah HAWLEY b: 1734 in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut
Abel HAWLEY b: 24 Dec 1736
May Mary HAWLEY b: in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut
Ebenezer HAWLEY
Marriage 2 Experience DIBBLE b: in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut
Sources:
Title: The Hawley Record
Author: Elias Sill Hawley
Publication: Press of E H Hutchinson & Co, Buffalo, New York, 1890
Page: HR #25, page 2
Note: Farmer
Title: Cemeteries of Brookfield, Connecticut, 1745-2003
Author: compiled by Marilyn Whittlesey, Carol Gurski and Jack Scully
Publication: The Historic Cemeteries of Brookfield Association, Brookfield, Connecticut
Page: page 6, Land's End Cemetery
- [S439] Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Benjamin Hawley, 18 Feb 1724.
Name: Benjamin Hawley
[Benjamin Hawlye,hawly]
Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1724
Marriage Location: Stratford
Spouse: Mary Nicholls
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Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
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