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ORIGIN: Stepney, Middlesex (based on certificate of
conformity[
Hotten 91]).
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Abigailon 22 June 1635, "Geo[rge]
Hadborne," glover, aged 43, with a certificate of conformity
from the minister of , along with "his wife Anne," aged 46, and
"2 children, Rebecca," aged 10, and "Anna," aged 4, and two
servants, "Joseph Borebancke," aged 24, and "Joane Jorden," aged
16, were enrolled at for passage to New England on the Abigail[Hotten
91].
FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown.
OCCUPATION:Glover(his inventory included "stock & all
materials belonging to the trade of a glover or white tanner, in
partnership between George Hepburne and Aron Ludkin and produce
thereof till his decease Feb. 9th" valued at 50lb.[
MPR 2:286]).
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP:On 17 April 1636, "Georg[e] Heipbourn"
was admitted to church[
ChChR 9], and, on
6 April 1638, "Hanna Heipbourne" was admitted to the same
church[ChChR 9].
FREEMAN:25 May 1636[
MBCR 1:372].
OFFICES:Massachusetts Bay grand jury, 17 February 1636/7[
ChTR 25].
"At a meeting of the Selectmen, the 8th day of the 12th month,
1657, agreed with brother George Heipbourn to ring the bell on
the Lord's days and lecture days for this year ensuing, 1658,
and to make and keep clean the meeting house. He is to have four
pounds for the year"[
Wyman 495,
apparently citing from ChTR].
EDUCATION:Signed his will.His inventory included "1 Bible
& other old books" valued at 1lb.[MPR
2:286].
ESTATE:On 9 February 1635[/6], "the town [of ] is willing
that Mr. Hebourne should buy a house in town or land to build
upon, in places agreed upon to build in"[
ChBOP 16].
In the first of the two 1635 lists of holders of haygrounds in ,
"Mr. Hebourne" has been added to the list, inserted between the
entries for William Sprague and Michael Shavelin[ChTR
19]; George Hepbourne does not appear in the second of these
1635 lists.In 1637 "Geo[rge] Hebourne" held two and a half cow
commons[ChTR
38].On 25 June 1638, "Geo[rge] Hebourne" was allowed hayground
for one cow "in that swamp betwixt Mr. Nowell's cornfield &
W[illia]m Brakenbury's old house"[ChTR
39].On 30 December 1638, "Geo[rge] Heborne" held one and a half
cow commons[ChTR
42].
On 6 March 1636/7, "Geo[rge] Hebourne" resigned up five acres of
land on Mystic Side[ChTR
27].In the 23 April 1638 listing of Mystic Side lands, "Geo[rge]
Hebourne" held parcels of five, thirty and five acres[ChTR
37].
In the 1638 Book of Possessions, "George Hebbourne" held seven
parcels: "one dwelling house with a garden plot, situate in the
middle row"; "half an acre of arable land ... situate in the
South Field"; "one cow common and a half"; "two acres of arable
land ... situate in the Line Field"; "five acres of woodland ...
situate in Mystic Field"; "thirty and six acres of land ...
situate in Water Field"; and "one parcel of swamp ground, lying
in the East Field"[ChBOP
36-37].
On 26 January 1649[/50?], "George Hepbourn, inhabitant in ,"
sold to "Laurence Dous, of the said town, a certain island of
arable land, being one acre ... situate on Mystic Side"[ChBOP
114-15].On 25 April 1650, "Georg Heipbourn, inhabitant in ,"
sold to "Alice Rand, widow, of the same town, three-quarters of
an acre of arable land lying in the Great Field within the
Neck"[ChBOP 114].
On 6 March 1655[/6?], "Georg Heypbourn, glover, and John March,
husbandman, both inhabitants in the said ," agreed "to exchange
one with the other each a parcel of land, George Heypbourn's
parcel is an acre and a half of land ... situate in the East
Field, within the Neck, ... John Marche's parcel is one acre of
arable land, situate and lying likewise in the East Field within
the Neck"[ChBOP
132-33].
On 19 October 1660, John Cutler of sold to "George Hepbourne of
... part of a barn"[
MLR 2:212].On an
unknown day in 1660, "George Hepbourne of ..., glover," sold to
"Aron Ludkin of the same place ... all that land whereon his now
dwelling house is erected together with that wherein the widow
Ludkin now dwelleth, as also the ground on the north side
thereof from my own leanto so far as that little house ..., as
also one parcel of land ... in Charlestown Neck containing by
estimation about one acre ..., as also one half of a cow common
within Charlestown stinted common without the said Neck, as also
a part of a barn ... by me had & purchased of John Cutler"[MLR
2:210].
On 1 January 1665[/6?], "George Hepborne of ..., glover," sold
to "Thomas Rand of aforesaid, husbandman, ... one piece of land
containing one acre ... situate in the East Field within the
Neck"[ChBOP 160].
On 6 February 1665[/6?], "George Hepborne of , glover," sold to
"Aron Ludkin of , glover and white tanner, ... one piece of land
lying at the south end of the said Hepborne's garden about eight
pole of land ... together with one other piece of ground about
one pole of land ... at the lowest end or corner of the said
Hepborne's garden, which parcel of ground the said Hepborne
lately bought of the selectmen of Charlstowne ... upon both
which pieces of land the said Ludkin hath lately raised a
building by the said Hepborne's permission and is in his
possession"[MLR
3:153-54].
In his will, dated 27 August 1665 and proved 3 April 1666,
"George Hepbourne of ," glover, summarized his estate as "my
house and garden and a cow's common I value at forty pounds, as
for the rest of my estate it doth lie in my trade with the
things about my house, which I value at seventy pounds," and
bequeathed to "my son Wayte forty pounds of which he is to pay
unto each of the children ten pounds apiece namely Richard, John
& Abigail Wayte, but all this to be upon condition that he shall
give unto my son Ludkin an acquittance of his wife's legacy
given her by her first husband, otherwise this to be of no
force, only I give unto his wife twenty shillings for her
portion, beside what she had upon her marriage to her first
husband"; to "Sarah Sally," five pounds; to "Rebeccah Sally,"
five pounds, "to be some help unto her by reason of her loss of
cattle"; residue to "my son Ludkin," he to be executor; "William
Dady & John Cutler" to be overseers[MPR
2:284-85].
The inventory of the estate of "George Hepburne deceased of ,"
taken 6 March 166[5/]6, totalled 110lb., of which 42lb. 6s. was
real estate: "one dwelling house and garden," 35lb.; "one cow's
common in stinted pasture," 5lb.; and "the woodlot and land on
Mystic Side," 2lb. 6s.[MPR
2:285-86].
BIRTH:About 1592.
DEATH:Charlestown 9 February 1665/6[ChTR
1:49].
MARRIAGE:By about 1625 Hannah _____.
CHILDREN:
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i REBECCA
HEPBURNE, b. about 1625(aged 10 in 1635[Hotten
91]); m. by 1653 Richard Wait(eldest known child of
"Richard & Rebecca Wayte" b. 1 November 1653[
BVR 41]). |
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ii HANNAH
HEPBURNE, b. about 1631(aged 4 in 1635[Hotten
91]); m. (1) by about 1648 Manus Sally(two daughters, b.
about 1648 and 1650[Wyman
842]); m. (2) by about 1651 Aaron Ludkin(only known
child m. 8 August 1670[Wyman
302, 635]). |
COMMENTS:Thomas Bellows Wyman recognized that the passenger
record for "George Hadborne" was a corruption of Hepburn, and
pertained to the subject of this sketch[Wyman
495]. Savage had separate entries for "Hadborne" and "Hepburn" [
Savage 2:327,
404]. Pope also had separate entries for "Hadbourne" and
"Hepburn"[
Pope 205, 227],
and under "Hadbourne" instructed the reader to "See George
Hauborne, of Hampton, N.H." This latter person is George Haborne
or Raborne of Exeter, quite a distinct person from the subject
of this sketch[
GDMNH 294]. We
did not notice the connection between the George Hadborne
passenger list entry and the subject of this sketch when we
prepared our sketch of JOSEPH BURBANK {1635, }[ 2:1:487].
Wyman lists three daughters for George Hepburne: Rebecca, who
married Richard Wait; Hannah, who married Aaron Ludkin, and
Sarah, who married Manus Sally[Wyman
495]. The only evidence he gives for a daughter Sarah is his
brief abstract of a record in which "widow Sarah [was] granted
[a] lot"[Wyman
842]. Manus Sally certainly married a daughter of George
Hepburne, with whom he had daughters Rebecca and Sarah, and
these daughters received grants of land[Wyman
842]. Wyman most likely misread the document which he presents
for "widow Sarah," when the document more likely was made by the
daughter of that name; examination of the original of that
record, the source of which is not stated by Wyman, should
resolve this point.
We know from the immigrant's will that his daughter who married
Aaron Ludkin had had an earlier husband, and the chronology is
consistent with this earlier husband having been Manus Sally.
Furthermore, had there been a third daughter who made this
marriage, she would have been born in England, and should have
appeared with the rest of the family on the passenger list.
There is no evidence for a daughter Sarah.
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