Anne Hawes (1632- )

Anne Hawes was baptized on 17 Dec 1632 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England, 385 years ago. She is the 8th great-grandaunt of my son-in-law; the daughter of Richard Hawes and his wife Ann, who came to Massachusetts in 1635 on the “Truelove,” part of the great migration to the New World.

The passenger list of the “Truelove” was dated 19 Sep 1635, and contains 67 names⁽¹⁾. The ship left London in Sep, and was bound for Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the passengers are Richard Hawes (29 yo), Ann Hawes (26 yo), Anne Hawes (2.5 yo), and Obadiah Hawes (6 mo). It is hard to imagine what it must have been like; 66 passengers plus crew crammed into a ship probably less than 100 ft long (Columbus’ Santa Maria was c. 60 ft and had a crew of 40⁽²⁾; the Mayflower was about 100 ft long and 130 passengers and crew⁽³⁾; a particularly grim story, albeit from a century later, can be found in “Passage to America,” written by a German in 1750⁽⁴⁾.

But Richard and his family made it to Dorchester, they became members of the church there in 1637, and Richard became a freeman on 2 May 1638. He and Ann had five more children, among them my son-in-law’s ancestor Constance. Anne does not seem to have married, but is still alive in 1662, when she is mentioned in her grandfather’s will in England.

(1) See: https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/truelove.htm
(2) See Wikipedia: Santa Maria
(3) See https://www.landofthebrave.info/mayflower-ship.htm
(4) “Passage To America, 1750,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2000).