Joseph HENCHMAN

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Unknown

  1. Elizabeth HENCHMAN
  2. Mary HENCHMAN
  3. Thomas HENCHMAN
  4. Deborah HENCHMAN
  5. Joseph HENCHMAN
  6. William HENCHMAN
  7. Hannah HENCHMAN
  8. Edmund HENCHMAN
  9. Sarah HENCHMAN
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Notes

Updated January 16, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Deane, Samuel. History of Scituate, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement to 1831. Boston, J. Loring, 1831. Page 282-283.

"JOSEPH HENCHMAN (or HINCKESMAN), appears in Scituate in 1680. He owned a considerable tract of land at Henchman's corner, half mile west of the south Meetinghouse, adjoining Dea. Joseph CUSHING's and Philip TURNER's land. His house stood twenty rods east from the parting of the roads, on the north side of the street. He sold it to Rev. Mr. EELLS 1714. It was a spacious house. Thirty years since, it was taken down, and a slight habitation built with its ruins: and the whole removed 1826. The family of HENCHMAN on record are Elizabeth born 1685, (married Amos SYLVESTER 1706), Mary 1689, Thomas (1691), Deborah (1692), Joseph (1694), William (1696), Hannah (1698), Edmund (1700), Sarah (1702). He had also a sister Elnathan, who married Eliab TURNER 1694. This family came from Massachusetts and returned thither; probably to Chelmsford. We take him to have been the son of Thomas HINCHMAN, Esq. of Chelmsford. There was, however, a Mr. HINCKSMAN in Marshfield, 1653, who may have been the father."

(2) Savage, James. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. Volume II. Boston; Little, Brown and Company 1860. Page 402.

"HENCHMAN or HINCHMAN... JOSEPH, Scituate, a. 1680, had Eliz. b. 1685; Mary, 1689; Thomas, 1691; Deborah, 1692; Joseph, 1694; William, 1696; Hannah, 1698; Edmund, 1700; and Sarah, 1702. Deane thought he was a s. of Thomas of Chelmsford."

(3) Old Scituate. United States, Chief Justice Cushing chapter, Daughters of the American revolution. Boston, Ernshaw Press Corporation, 1921. Pages 124-125.

"At the foot of Hoop Pole Hill, about a half-mile west of South Scituate Village, is Henchman's Corner, so called from Joseph HENCHMAN, who settled there in 1680. He built a large house a few rods east of the corner, on the north side of the 'Fore Road.' In 1703, the way leading from this road to Bryant's Corner was laid out, creating the corner named for HENCHMAN."

(4) Town of Norwell, Massachusetts

Henchman's corner is now located at the corner of Main and Lincoln Streets in the Town of Norwell, Massachusetts.