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Robert Hawley (1729–1799), Captain, raised provisions for the Continental Army soldiers and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Biography

Captain Robert Hawley was born June 5, 1726, in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, in New England. He was the son of John Hawley, Esquire and Sarah Walker, the grandson of Captain John Hawley and great grandson of Joseph Hawley (Captain), the first of the name in America. On March 15, 1750, Hawley married Anna Beach, daughter of Lt. Josiah Beach and Patience Nichols, and raised nine children. The family lived in the house built by Robert's great uncle Ephraim Hawley on Nichols Avenue Route 108 at the south end of the village of Nichols Farms on land that had been in the Hawley family since 1670. Hawley gifted the house to his son Eliakim in January 1787 when he married his cousin Sally Sara Hawley. Captain Robert Hawley died in 1799.

Lawsuit

Robert and Anna Hawley, and some 35 others, signed a petition to the county court held in Fairfield, Connecticut, by adjournment, the fourth Tuesday of January 1772, against Jonathan Nichols of Stratford, for the seizure and possession of about 47 acres (190,000 m²) of land in the Parish of North Stratford, which was tried by the Superior Court in 1773 and judgment rendered for plaintiffs.^[1]

Military service

The Connecticut general assembly named Robert Hawley the Ensign of the North Stratford Train Band or Company of the 4th regiment of the Connecticut Colony militia in October 1765.^[2] He was promoted to Lieutenant in October 1769 and to Captain in May 1773.^[3] At a special meeting assembled in North Stratford on November 10, 1777 he was appointed to a committee to provide immediately all those necessaries for the Continental Army soldiers.^[4] On March 12, 1778, the parish of North Stratford made donations of provisions for those residents serving in the southern army stationed at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania under the command of General George Washington. George Washington called Connecticut the Provision State because of supplies contributed to his army by Governor Jonathan Trumbull the only Colonial Governor to support the cause of America's Independence from Great Britain.^[5] Three Hawley's from North Stratford served in the southern army during the winter of 1778; Abraham, Nathan and Nero. Nero Hawley was a slave owned by the Hawley family who won his freedom after fighting in the American Revolution.^[6] Robert Hawley and his sons; John, Edmund, and Robert, Jr. are listed in the rolls of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution from Stratford, CT.^[7]^[8]

Notes

William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Lewis Historical Publishing, NY, 1914
Elias Sill Hawley, The Hawley Record, Press of E. H. Hutchinson & Co., Buffalo NY, 1890
Connecticut General Assembly, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776, Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard, 1885
Reverend Samuel Orcutt, History of Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Fairfield Historical Society, 1886
William Howard Wilcoxson, History of Stratford Connecticut, 1639-1939, Higginson Book Company, 1997
Royal R. Hinman, A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852

References

^ A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Royal Hinman, Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852, page 867 [1]
^ Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 12 page 416
^ Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 14 page 87
^ The History of the Old Town of Stratford and city of Bridgeport Connecticut, Reverend Samuel Orcutt, 1886, Vol. 2 page 376 [2]
^ State of Connecticut Official Website, Retrieved on 2009-04-11
^ Trumbull Historical Society Freedom Trail Nero Hawley Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ The USGenWeb Project Fairfield County CT, Stratford Men in the Revolution, W.M. Wilcoxson, 1939 [3]
^ Valley Forge Muster Rolls Retrieved on 2009-04-11

External links

[1] A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Royal Hinman, Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852, page 867 [1]

[2] Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 12 page 416

[3] Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 14 page 87

[4] The History of the Old Town of Stratford and city of Bridgeport Connecticut, Reverend Samuel Orcutt, 1886, Vol. 2 page 376 [2]

[5] State of Connecticut Official Website, Retrieved on 2009-04-11

[6] Trumbull Historical Society Freedom Trail Nero Hawley Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine

[7] The USGenWeb Project Fairfield County CT, Stratford Men in the Revolution, W.M. Wilcoxson, 1939 [3]

[8] Valley Forge Muster Rolls Retrieved on 2009-04-11

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+{{See also|History of Trumbull, Connecticut}}
-[[Image:Ephraim Hawley house circa 1880.jpg|thumb|right|Robert Hawley gifted this house to his son Eliakim in 1787 image ca. 1880]]
-[[Image:Ephraim Hawley House circa 1882.JPG|thumb|right|After modifications circa 1882]]
+[[Image:Ephraim Hawley house circa 1880.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Robert Hawley gifted this house to his son Eliakim in 1787 image ca. 1880]]
-[[Image:1964 House Tour Ephraim Hawley House.JPG|thumb|right|1964 Trumbull Historical Society Tour brochure]]
-[[File:1965 Map of Trumbull.JPG|thumb|right|1965 Map of Trumbull Ephraim Hawley House cover]]
 [[Image:Ephraim Hawley House Spring 2011.JPG|thumb|right|Image spring 2011]]
+'''Robert Hawley''' (1729–1799), Captain, raised provisions for the [[Continental Army]] soldiers and fought in the [[American Revolutionary War]].
-{{See also|History of Trumbull, Connecticut}}
-'''Robert Hawley''' (1729–1799), Captain, raised provisions for the [[Continental soldiers]] and fought in the [[American Revolutionary War]].
-;Biography
+==Biography==
 Captain Robert Hawley was born June 5, 1726, in North Stratford, now [[Trumbull, Connecticut]], in [[New England]]. He was the son of John Hawley, Esquire and Sarah Walker, the grandson of Captain John Hawley and great grandson of [[Joseph Hawley (Captain)]], the first of the name in America. On March 15, 1750, Hawley married Anna Beach, daughter of Lt. Josiah Beach and Patience Nichols, and raised nine children. The family lived in the house built by Robert's great uncle [[Ephraim Hawley House|Ephraim Hawley]] on Nichols Avenue [[Connecticut Route 108|Route 108]] at the south end of the village of [[Nichols Farms Historic District|Nichols Farms]] on land that had been in the Hawley family since 1670. Hawley gifted the [[Ephraim Hawley House|house]] to his son Eliakim in January 1787 when he married his cousin Sally Sara Hawley. Captain Robert Hawley died in 1799.
-;Lawsuit
+==Lawsuit==
-Robert and Anna Hawley, and some 35 others, signed a petition to the county court held in Fairfield, Connecticut, by adjournment, the fourth Tuesday of January 1772, against Jonathan Nichols of Stratford, for the seizure and possession of about {{convert|47|acre|m2}} of land in the Parish of North Stratford, which was tried by the Superior Court in 1773 and judgment rendered for plaintiffs.<ref>A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Royal Hinman, Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852, page 867 [http://books.google.com/books?id=KTkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA868&dq=robert+hawley+fairfield+court+1773#PPA867,M1]</ref>
+Robert and Anna Hawley, and some 35 others, signed a petition to the county court held in Fairfield, Connecticut, by adjournment, the fourth Tuesday of January 1772, against Jonathan Nichols of Stratford, for the seizure and possession of about {{convert|47|acre|m2}} of land in the Parish of North Stratford, which was tried by the Superior Court in 1773 and judgment rendered for plaintiffs.<ref>A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Royal Hinman, Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852, page 867 [https://books.google.com/books?id=KTkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA868&dq=robert+hawley+fairfield+court+1773#PPA867,M1]</ref>
-;Military service
+==Military service==
-The Connecticut general assembly named Robert Hawley the Ensign of the North Stratford Train Band or Company of the 4th regiment of the [[Connecticut Colony]] militia in October 1765.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/publicrecordsofc012conn#page/416/mode/2up Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 12 page 416]</ref> He was promoted to Lieutenant in October 1769 and to Captain in May 1773.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/publicrecordsofc014conn#page/86/mode/2up Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 14 page 87]</ref> At a special meeting assembled in North Stratford on November 10, 1777 he was appointed to a committee to provide immediately all those necessaries for the [[Continental soldiers]].<ref>The History of the Old Town of Stratford and city of Bridgeport Connecticut, Reverend Samuel Orcutt, 1886, Vol. 2 page 376 [http://books.google.com/books?id=HH4sb5UqwssC&pg=PA376&dq=robert+hawley+orcutt]</ref> On March 12, 1778, the parish of North Stratford made donations of provisions for those residents serving in the southern army stationed at [[Valley Forge]], Pennsylvania under the command of General [[George Washington]]. George Washington called Connecticut the Provision State because of supplies contributed to his army by Governor [[Jonathan Trumbull]] the only Colonial Governor to support the cause of America's Independence from [[Great Britain]].<ref>[http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=843&q=246434 State of Connecticut Official Website, Retrieved on 2009-04-11]</ref> Three Hawley's from North Stratford served in the southern army during the winter of 1778; Abraham, Nathan and Nero. [[Nero Hawley]] was a [[slave]] owned by the Hawley family who won his freedom after fighting in the [[American Revolution]].<ref>[http://www.trumbullhistory.org/freedomtrail/ Trumbull Historical Society Freedom Trail Nero Hawley]</ref> Robert Hawley and his sons; John, Edmund, and Robert, Jr. are listed in the rolls of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution from Stratford, CT.<ref>The USGenWeb Project Fairfield County CT, Stratford Men in the Revolution, W.M. Wilcoxson, 1939 [http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/stratford/stratford_revperson.htm]</ref><ref>[http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/detailMSAccess.asp?LName=CT15705 Valley Forge Muster Rolls Retrieved on 2009-04-11]</ref>
+The Connecticut general assembly named Robert Hawley the Ensign of the North Stratford Train Band or Company of the 4th regiment of the [[Connecticut Colony]] militia in October 1765.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/publicrecordsofc012conn#page/416/mode/2up Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 12 page 416]</ref> He was promoted to Lieutenant in October 1769 and to Captain in May 1773.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/publicrecordsofc014conn#page/86/mode/2up Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, Vol. 14 page 87]</ref> At a special meeting assembled in North Stratford on November 10, 1777 he was appointed to a committee to provide immediately all those necessaries for the [[Continental Army]] soldiers.<ref>''The History of the Old Town of Stratford and city of Bridgeport Connecticut'', Reverend Samuel Orcutt, 1886, Vol. 2 page 376 [https://books.google.com/books?id=HH4sb5UqwssC&pg=PA376&dq=robert+hawley+orcutt]</ref> On March 12, 1778, the parish of North Stratford made donations of provisions for those residents serving in the southern army stationed at [[Valley Forge]], Pennsylvania under the command of General [[George Washington]]. George Washington called Connecticut the Provision State because of supplies contributed to his army by Governor [[Jonathan Trumbull]] the only Colonial Governor to support the cause of America's Independence from [[Great Britain]].<ref>[http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=843&q=246434 State of Connecticut Official Website, Retrieved on 2009-04-11]</ref> Three Hawley's from North Stratford served in the southern army during the winter of 1778; Abraham, Nathan and Nero. [[Nero Hawley]] was a [[slave]] owned by the Hawley family who won his freedom after fighting in the [[American Revolution]].<ref>[http://www.trumbullhistory.org/freedomtrail/ Trumbull Historical Society Freedom Trail Nero Hawley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521212936/http://www.trumbullhistory.org/freedomtrail/ |date=2011-05-21 }}</ref> Robert Hawley and his sons; John, Edmund, and Robert, Jr. are listed in the rolls of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution from Stratford, CT.<ref>The USGenWeb Project Fairfield County CT, Stratford Men in the Revolution, W.M. Wilcoxson, 1939 [http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/stratford/stratford_revperson.htm]</ref><ref>[http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/detailMSAccess.asp?LName=CT15705 Valley Forge Muster Rolls Retrieved on 2009-04-11]</ref>
-;See also
+==See also==
 * [[A Great Jubilee Day]]
 * [[Ephraim Hawley House]]
-;Notes
+==Notes==
+* [[William Richard Cutter]], ''New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial'', Lewis Historical Publishing, NY, 1914
-{{Reflist}}
-;References
-* William Richard Cutter, ''New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial'', Lewis Historical Publishing, NY, 1914
 * Elias Sill Hawley, ''The Hawley Record'', Press of E. H. Hutchinson & Co., Buffalo NY, 1890
 * Connecticut General Assembly, ''The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776'', Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard, 1885
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 * Royal R. Hinman, ''A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut'', Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852
+==References==
-;External links
+{{Reflist}}
+==External links==
 * [http://www.hawleysociety.org/ The Society of the Hawley Family, Inc.]
-* [http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/ Colonial Connecticut Records: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121111213722/http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/ Colonial Connecticut Records: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776]
 * [http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/trumbull/trumbull_index.htm The USGenWeb Project, Fairfield County]
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 [[Category:1726 births]]
 [[Category:1799 deaths]]
-[[Category:People of Connecticut in the American Revolution]]
+[[Category:Continental Army officers from Connecticut]]
-[[Category:Trumbull, Connecticut]]
+[[Category:People from Trumbull, Connecticut]]
+[[Category:People from colonial Connecticut]]