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, research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md): 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).