William Hayden

Abt 1600 - 1669  (~ 69 years)

 Set As Default Person

• Name	William Hayden  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	Abt 1600	England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Sep 1669  [2, 5]
  	Age: 69
  Reference Number	4236
  Died	27 Sep 1669	Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA   [1, 4]
  Buried	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I4236	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Unknown Unknown,   b. Abt 1600,   d. 17 Jul 1655, Haydens, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Children	+ 1. Daniel Hayden,   b. 2 Sep 1640, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 22 Mar 1712/13  (Age 72 years)  [natural]   2. Nathaniel Hayden,   b. 2 Feb 1642  [natural]   3. Mary Hayden,   b. 6 Jun 1648  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1104	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Harvey,   b. Abt 1610, England
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Abt 1600 - England Died - 27 Sep 1669 - Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Buried - - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Book Title: Records of the Connecticut line of the Hayden Family
  		Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

  
  

• Notes

  From the Great Migration Begins; "Savage states that WIlliam Hayden, "Dorchester, came probably in the Mary & John, 1630" [Savage 2:387]. This may be a false association of William Hayden with John Hayden, who was in Dorchester from about 1632 to 1639. There is no record of William Hayden in Massachusetts Bay, and he first appears in Connecticut records in the late 1630s." The following is per William J. Dowell http://stithvalley.com/ancestry/taylor/johnhayd.htm Again and again we read that Gideon Haydon and Margaret Davy of Cadhay House, Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, were the parents of John Hayden, the 1632 immigrant to Dorchester, Massachusetts. However, tracing the origins of an early New England immigrant ancestor can be an extremely challenging exercise, not least because, in the past, genealogists have often reached firm conclusions based upon very inadequate evidence, such as a coincidence of names and dates. Frequently, New England settlers have been identified as members of gentry families in England, who were generally well documented. However, relatively few immigrants came from a gentry background; they were mostly tradesmen or yeomen. Thus the Gideon Haydon genealogy has gained wide acceptance among John Hayden's descendants in America, but without any proof beyond a coincidence of name and date. On the other hand, there are two strong arguments against this genealogy. First, the Gideon Haydon family of Cadhay were adherents of the Church of England, and their sons, Gideon Haydon (1609-1680) and Nicholas Haydon (1620-1676), were ardent Royalists during the English Civil War, whereas our John Hayden was clearly a Puritan. Second, coinciding with John Hayden's arrival in Massachusetts is the presence there of William Hayden and James Hayden. There is the possibility that either or both of these men were brothers of John. In that case, however, it is unlikely that they were children of Gideon Haydon, because no record exists of a child named William born to Gideon and Margaret Haydon. Gideon and Margaret had a child named James, but this son died in infancy. Of course it is equally possible that these three were cousins, or even strangers, which would not necessarily upset the identification of John Hayden as the son of Gideon and Margaret Haydon of Cadhay.

  
  

• Sources

  [S349] Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Record for William Hayden http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=barbourctdeath&h=72494&indiv=try Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [S304] Web: Connecticut, Find A Grave Index, 1636-2013, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for William Hayden http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=structuredcrawledsites-58&h=90049&indiv=try [S299] Records of the Connecticut Line of the Hayden Family, Jabez Haskell Hayden, (Date: 1888;). [S348] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Records of the Connecticut line of the Hayden Family. Record for Daniel Hayden http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ContentPegFamilyHistories&h=1561853&indiv=try North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Book Title: Records of the Connecticut line of the Hayden Family [S282] The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut 1635-1891, Henry R Stiles.