Weymouth New England Genealogy

Conviction of Israel Hodgson for living in carnal fellowship with Ann Thompson for which offence the court adjudged he receive 15 stripes at the post on bare skin, and the court ordered a warrent out for Ann Thomson. Israel Hodgson & wife chastised for not frequenting church.

Israel Hodsdon, bapt. at Hingham, Mass., July 19, 1646, moved with his father to Boston, and later to Kittery, Me.; m. about 1670, Ann, dau., of Miles and Ann (Tetherly) Thompson of Kittery. The first record concerning Israel Hodsdon in Kittery is the following land grant:
"Laid out unto Israel Hodsdon, his grant of ten or twelve acres, at ye east end of his house lot. Eightie rods in length to a great white oak, bounded on ye North with Etherington's land and on ye East with land of William Gowen, and on ye South with land of Tristram Harrison."
Dated, Mar. 2, 1671.
Kittery town records.

And "Laid out to Daniel Emery twenty-two acres and half of land, it being part of a grant of 40 acres that was given to Israel Hodgdon by the town of Kittery, Apr. 13, 1671"
Dated, 1722.
Kittery town records.

The last mention we find of Israel Hodsdon is the following: "Miles Thompson and wife, James Heard and wife, Nicholas Hodsdin and wife, Thomas Spencer and wife, William Furbush and wife, Israel Hodsden and wife and Richard Nason and wife were presented for not attending meeting."
Jul. 6, 1675.
York county Court records.

It would look as though Israel Hodsdon and his father as well as some of their neighbors favored the Quakers, who were not populat at that time, for we find Nov. 12, 1659, in company with John Heard of Kittery, Nicholas was ordered to appear at the second session of the General Court, to be held at Boston, and answer to the charge of entertaining Quakers. To this Nicholas plead not guilty, but it was ordered that he be admonished by the Governor.

We do not find the date of Israel Hodsdon's death, but his widow m. (2) about 1675-6, Robert Evans of Dover, N.H. He had had a former wife, Elizabeth, dau, of Edward and Ann Colcord of Hampton, N.H. We do not find the death of Elizabeth, but her last child was b. Jan. 25, 1671-2, and the first child of Robert and Ann Evans was b. in 1676. Robert Evans d. in Dover, Feb. 27, 1697, and his widow Ann was bapt. in the first church in Dover, Oct. 30, 1720, and admitted a member of the church the following month. She d. about 1727, and administration on her estate was granted to her eldest son, israel Hodsdon, May 30, 1727; in one of the papers in the case he mentions her as his mother.

The estate of Israel Hodsdon was not settled until after his only son, Israel Jr., came of age, as shown by the following:
"Administration is granted to Israel Hodsdon of the estate of his deceased father Israel Hodsdon, late of Kittery, in ye County of Yorke, and the said Israel Hodsdon, as principal, Bartholomew Thompson and Thomas Thompson as sureties, own themselves to be holden and firmly obliged unto Samuel Wheelwright, Esq. his Successors in ye office of Judge of Probate, within the County of York, in the sum of seventy pounds. That said Israel Hodsdon shall well and truly administer on the Estate of his deceased father Israel Hodsdon, aforesaid, according to law."
Dated, Jan.19, 1696.
York County Probate Records.

"A true Inventory of all and Singular the goods, chattels and credits of Israel Hodsdon, planter deceased, praised ar Berwick this 19th. of Jany. 1696-7, as follows:
Imp. The house lot with the addition £25 --00--00
fifty acres of land, near ye third Hill £05--00--00
that piece of land and meadow in partnership,
Lying at the Healthy Marsh £08--00--00
Total. £38--00--00
Nathan Lord.
Andrew Neals.
Nicholas Gowen.
Inventory returned, Apr. 1697."
York County Probate records.

Israel Hodsdon, as administrator of his father's estate, sold the entire to Daniel Emery by the following deed:
"Israel Hodsdon of Portsmouth sell daniel Emery of Kittery, a piece or Parcel of land containing twelve acres situated in Kittery, bounded as follows: on the North with Etherington's land, on ye East with William Gowen, on ye south with Tristram Harris, on the West with land formerly laid out to Jeremiah Hodgdon; together with fifty acres in Kittery; near the Third Hill, bounded East by Edward Weymouth, South by William Gowens and John Breadens, West with ye Common and North by Stephen Jenkins."
Dated, Feb. 7, 1697.
York deeds, Vol. 4, p. 98.

Israel Hodsdon seems to have d. in 1675, as his widow m. (2) early in 1676.