Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England

Read in the archive.org full text (vol. 3 at https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno03mass).

• 1:224 (12 Mar 1637/8): "Jane Hawkins, wife of Richard..."
• 1641: "Jane Hawkins is enioyned to depart away to morrow morning, & not to returne againe hither, upon paine of severe whiping ... & her sonnes stand bound in 20l to carry her away".
• 3:228 (May 1651): "In answer to the petition of James, Jobe & Thomas Hawkins for the returne for theire mother to liue in this jurisdiction..."

For the Holbrooks of Weymouth (vols. 2-5, https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05mass):

• Thomas Holbrook made a freeman between May 1645 and March 1647 (2:294).
• 25 Feb 1648/9: "Thom : Holbrooke, Henry Kingman, & Nathell Adams, a comittee of Waymoth" agreed with Braintree on "laying out of the high way for the country, from Waymoth to Dorchest'r," four rods wide past Braintree meeting house; the court received their return in May 1649 (2:271-272; 3:158).
• Capt. John Holbrook, Weymouth's deputy to the General Court in 1651, 1664, 1669, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1680, 1680/1, 1681, 1683 and 1685-86; in 1678 one of three sent to Plymouth "to assist in the sale of the concquest lands" after King Philip's War (5:204).

For the Foster, Bate, Payson and Hawkins families (vols. 1 and 3):

• Freemen: "James Bate," 7 Dec 1636 (1:372); "Gyles Pason," 18 Apr 1637 (1:373); "Hopestill Fostere," 22 May 1639 (1:375).
• "Mr James Bates" among the deputies at the General Court of Elections, 13 May 1640 (1:288).
• "James Hawkens" and the wage case of 4 Aug 1635, his forfeit later remitted to 50s (1:153-154, 244).
• Hopestill Foster, deputy for Dorchester in 1652, and in 1653 as "Ensigne Hopestill Foster" (3:259, 297).
• Jane Hawkins: in 1646 the court refused entry to "the widdowe Hawkings ... being knoune to be a dangerous pson" (3:63); on 22 May 1650, on her and her sons' petition, she was allowed "to come & stay in this jurisdiction one moneth any time this summer" to visit her children (3:189); the 1651 petition was refused, the court "not knowinge how to satisfy themselues about this woman" (3:228); on 23 May 1655 she was allowed to come for two months "to transport herselfe for England" (3:394); a further petition of "Jane Hawkins & her sons" was not granted (3:413).

For Capt. John Underhill (vol. 1, October 2026, The Long Island Quaker families of the Frost line): the allowances to "Mr Patricke & Mr Vnderhill," Sept 1630 (1:75-77); November 1637, "The Court did discharge Capt Vnderhill from any further servise, & gave him a quarters pay for a gratuity," and, "for haveing his hand to the seditious writeing," "Capt Vnderhill ... is disfranchized, & put from the captaines place" (1:207-208); "The Names of Boston Men to bee disarmed," headed by "Capt John Vnderhill" (1:211-212).

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/), vol. 5 (1674-1686, https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05mass), read in the archive.org full text:

• Capt. Hopestill Foster, Dorchester's deputy at the Courts of 1674-76, "Capt Hopestil Foster, Left Jn° Capen, Dorchest." (May 1676, 5:77; also 5:1, 14, 42-43); on the standing committee for Mendon, May 1675, "Mr Edward Tyng, Mr Joseph Dudley, Mr Wm Parkes, & Captaine Foster" (5:40); replaced on the Wrentham committee "in the roome of the late Capt Foster" (5:148). His son: "Sarjt Hopestill Foster to be ensigne to sajd Capt Tho Clarks company" (May 1676, 5:127).
• The licensers of the press from 1674 included "Mr Increase Mather, of Boston" (5:4); after John Foster's death Samuel Sewall was given "the printing press in Boston, late vnder the improovement of Mr John Foster, deceased" (5:323).
• "Left John Holbrooke" on a committee of May 1675 (5:35).
• 13 Oct 1675: the Punkapoag people had built "a good & deffencible fort," and soldiers of Dorchester, Milton and Braintree were sent to live with them and scout "betweene Weymouth & Naticke" (5:54); the Natick people removed to Deer Island (5:57).
• Capt. Joseph Sill: to "forthwith march to Hassanemesit" (12 Nov 1675, 5:69); "twenty pounds of tobacco & three gallons of rumme for the supply of the company that now resides at Lancaster" (21 Feb 1675/6, 5:73); discharged on 17 Oct 1676, "of late he hath carrjed himself offencively in that place, this Court doeth therefore order, that the sajd Scyll be forthwith dischardged from that imploy" (5:126); his petition of 1685 (5:506).
• The Court of May 1676 on the spring forces and the Christian Indians (5:84-86), with "Serjant Converse" on the committee for settling the Nashobah and Natick Indians at Pawtucket (5:86).
• Samuel Porter of Hadley, who had "taken care of most of the wounded souldjers at Hadley ... laying out of his oune money," and was owed "neere two hundred pounds," paid £25 on 16 Sept 1676 (5:116-117).
• Margaret Cogswell's petition, Oct 1676: "Jn° Cogswell, Jun., to be at liberty from the prison to attend his occasions till the case be heard" (5:126). He was in prison for the costs of his suit, not "a prisoner among the Indians" as Felt has it.
• Maj. John Pynchon's charges for the treaty with the Mohawks at Albany, 1677 (5:139), and the Court's letter to Albany of 22 Oct 1677 about the captives taken from Hatfield and Deerfield (5:167-168).
• 7 Oct 1678: "a comittee of the seuerall colonjes met at Plymouth March next to assist in the sale of the concquest lands, the Court judgeth it meete to appoint and order Capt Daniel Fisher, Mr Thomas Weld, & Leift Jn° Holbrooke to attend the same" (5:204; https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05mass/page/204/mode/1up). The order names John Holbrook "Leift" (lieutenant), not Capt. as given above, and the meeting it names was at Plymouth in March 1678/9. He is "Capt Jn° Holbrooke," Weymouth's deputy, from 1680 (5:266, 300, 309).
• "Thomas Holbrooke, Edward West, selectmen" of Sherborn, 1679 (5:443), a different Thomas from the Weymouth immigrant.