Judith (Knapp) Hubbard (abt. 1590 - aft. 1657)

Born about 1590 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of William Hubbard — married before 1612 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 20 May 1657 after about age 67 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Judith Knapp was a daughter of John Knapp and Martha (Blois) Knapp.^[1][2] She was likely born at Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

Judith's birth date is uncertain. She was married by the time of the 1612 Visitation of Suffolk^[3] which suggests she may have been born in the early to mid 1590s. A 1635 passenger list for her emigration gives her age as 25,^[4][5] but this is clearly a mistake as her father died in 1604^[1][2] and she is listed as married to William Hubbard in the 1612 Visitation.^[3] If the ages for children in the passenger list are right, their oldest child John was 15 then,^[4] meaning he was born in 1620: that may suggest a birth date of 1600 or slightly before (12 or 13 was regarded as an acceptable age for marriage in this period, with the first child often being born several years later).

Before 1612 she married William Hubbard in England.^[1][2][3] She was likely to have been the mother of all William's children, however Anderson states that an unknown first wife was the mother of his first four children (see discussion in Research Notes below):

1. Martha, who married John Whittingham and Simon Eyre,^[1][2] was born about 1613^[6]
2. Mary, born about 1615.^[6] She married Rev. William Knight^[1][2]
3. John,^[1][2] born about 1620^[6]
4. William,^[1][2] born about 1622, married Mary Rogers and Mary (Giddings) Pierce^[6]
5. Nathaniel,^[1][2] born about 1629^[6]
6. Richard,^[1][2] born about 1631, married Sarah Bradstreet^[6]
7. Margaret, who married Thomas Scott and Ezekiel Rogers,^[1][2] was born about 1636^[6]

The family emigrated to New England in 1635, aboard the Defence.^[1][2][4] They were enrolled for passage in London on 18 July 1635, recorded as Wm Hubbard, husbandman, age 50, and Judith Hubbard, age 25. As mentioned above, the age of 25 is clearly wrong. Other family members listed were John Hubbard, 15, Wm Hubbard, 13, Nathaniel Hubbard, 6, Richard Hubbard, 4, Martha Hubbard, 22, and Mary Hubbard, 20.^[4] Anderson noted that ages entered in the London Port Books are "notoriously unreliable."^[7]

In New England, the family settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where William became freeman on 2 May 1638.^[4] As of 24 June 1662, William Hubbard had removed from Ipswich to Boston, where he may have resided with a son.^[8] Judith is said to have come under the influence of the preaching of the Puritan minister there, John Norton.^[9]

The last record of Judith Hubbard is a deed dated 20 May 1657, when "William Hubbard Senr. of Ipswich, gent., & Judeth his wife" sold a tract of about 1,000 acres of land.^[1][2][6] She is not mentioned in her husband's will, written 8 June 1670,^[8] so she probably died before then.

Research Notes

Children

There is some disagreement in secondary sources about whether Judith was the mother of all William Hubbard's children.

The 1635 passenger list referred to above gave Judith's age as an impossible 25.^[4] Her father died in 1604^[1][2] and the 1612 Suffolk Visitation records her as married to "William Hubart of Essex".^[3] If the evidence of the Suffolk Visitation is to be believed, then Judith must have been the mother of all the children, and this is what Douglas Richardson believes.^[1][2] The indication that Judith had her last child in about 1636 and was alive for over two decades thereafter suggests that she was near the end of her childbearing years in 1635, which reinforces the likelihood that she was mother of all the children.

Anderson notes that ages in passengers lists are unreliable, but nonetheless chose, "in the absence of further evidence", to treat William Hubbard as having two wives, on the basis of the age of 25 ascribed to Judith in the 1635 passenger list.^[7] Anderson comments that the 7-year gap between the ages of sons William and Nathaniel would be consistent with William having had an unidentified first wife who was the mother of the older children^[7] - but it could equally be a natural gap in childbearing.

The wording of Sibley's profile of the younger William Hubbard as a member of Harvard's class of 1642 could arguably be taken as implying uncertainty about whether Judith was William's mother: Sibley stated that William "came from London in 1635 with his father, whose wife Judith was brought up under the preaching of John Norton at Ipswich, England".^[9] But it need not be read as implying Judith was not William's mother. Sibley is presumably referring to John Norton who lived from 1606 to 1663, was awarded a BA degree from Cambridge University, England in 1623/4 and an MA in 1627, and sailed to Massachusetts in 1634 or 1635, where he was made a minister at Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1638:^[10] dates alone mean that Judith cannot have been "brought up" under John Norton's preaching in the sense of being influenced as a child, though she may have fallen under his influence as an adult after settling in New England. Ipswich, Massachusetts appears to have been confused with Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

The Visitation evidence alone casts strong doubt on Anderson's view.

A post by Douglas Richardson dated 2 May 2006 in soc.genealogy.medieval in the thread "A second Hubbard question" discusses some of these issues.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. II, pp. 507-508, KNAPP 15, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 352-353, HUBBARD 18
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Suffolk, William Pollard, 1882, p. 149, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H. (Boston: NEHGS, 2003). Online at American Ancestors, page 437.
5. ↑ John Camden Hotten. The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others, who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700, published by the author, 1874, p. 106, Internet Archive
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7} Anderson. The Great Migration Vol. 3, pages 440-441.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Anderson. The Great Migration, Vol. 3, page 442.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Anderson. The Great Migration, Vol. 3, page 439
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} John Langdon Sibley. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University (Cambridge: Charles William Sever, 1873) Vol. 1, Page 54.
10. ↑ Wikipedia: John Norton (divine)
11. ↑ 2 May 2006 post by Douglas Richardson, headed 'Re: Judith (Knapp) Hubbard and her children", in the thread 'A second Hubbard question', soc.genealogy.medieval'

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for ‘’Royal Ancestry’’.
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for "Magna Carta Ancestry".
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H. (Boston: NEHGS, 2003). Online at American Ancestors, pages 437-443: William Hubbard.

See also:

• Boddy, Maurice G. Knapp, The Boddy Family website
• Roberts, Gary Boyd. New England Ancestors. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006). Online at AmericanAncestors.org, Vol. 7.4, page 36: Mentions addition of Judith (Knapp) Hubbard to "Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants".

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was revised by Michael Cayley on 31 August 2020 and approved 5 Oct 2020 by Thiessen-117.

Judith (Knapp) Hubbard is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) and is in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. II, pages 504-508 KNAPP) that was developed by Michael Cayley and was badged 6 Oct 2020. Details of the trail can be found in the Magna Carta Trails section of her father's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".