My 4X-Great Grandmother Margaret Haines

Richard Haines
b. 1639
Aynhoe, Northampton-shire, England
d. 1682 Aboard the Amity, Atlantic Ocean

Name spellings: haines, haynes, hayn

The Haines family joined with the Jones line when Margaret Haines became the second wife of Hezekiah Jones. She became the mother of his children, including our known ancestor Benjamin Jones.

The Haines Family

The Haines family has some well-documented history, including their immigration from Aynhoe Parish in Northamptonshire, England aboard the Ship "Amity" in 1682. Richard Haines and his family, including wife Margaret, children Richard, William, Thomas and Mary set sail from the port of Downs, England in 1682. Richard too sick on this voyage and died and found a watery grave in the Atlantic. In those days the voyage could take three months, and conditions shipboard were rude and unhealthy. The loss of one in this family was counterbalanced, if unevenly, by the birth of another son, Joseph. The family was coming to join their eldest son John, who had emigrated in 1680 and built a house below Lumberton, on the south branch of Rancocas creek, in the new colony of West jersey, still a wilderness inhabited by Native American tribes.

Margaret Remarries

The widow Margaret Haines settled her family in the new settlement at Burlington and remarried Henry Bircham, of Nesmamony, Pennsylvaniain 1985. The Haines' were Quakers and active in the Burlington Meeting from it's inception. Margaret had 6 children with Richard Haines, none born on American soil. Margaret's maiden name was Leeds, and her tentative dates are 1640-1744. Be wary of ancestral information on this family, as someone has pranked the "One World Tree" information and it has tainted much of the data elsewhere.

Children of Richard and Margaret Haines
Child's Name Birth Date/Place Death Date SPOUSE'S NAME
John 1664 England 21 Nov 1728 Rancocas W.Jersey Esther Borton
Richard 6 Aug 1665 Eng. 12 Apr 1746 Evesham, NJ Mary Carlile
Thomas? 22 Dec 1666 Eng. 1744 Mt. Holly NJ Elizabeth Austin
William 24 April 1672 Eng. 29 April 1754 Frances Goodwin
Mary 30 June 1676 Eng. bef. 1670 died in infancy
Margaret 1678 ? ?
Joseph Fall 1682 Aboard Amity 12 Sept 1763 Md. Elizabeth Thomas

Our Ancestor? Thomas Haines

Thomas Haines
b. 22 Dec 1666
Aynhoe, Northampton-shire, England
d. 1744 Mt. Holly, NJ

Thomas was the third son of Richard and Margaret Haines. He was born in Aynhoe, Northamptonshire. Because he is not listed with the family on the "Amity's" voyage, perhaps he emigrated earlier, in 1680 with his brother John. There is the possibility that he is of another parents of this family, but facts have gotten obscured by assumptions here.

Some possible research, unsourced

The History of the Haines family of N.J. was compiled by Richard Haines of Medford and like the data of the Haines family in the Anson Phelps Stokes Record follows the fortunes of the different branches from William the Conqueror to the present time. This Coat of Arms or seal was conferred upon Nicholas Haynes of Hackney in 1578. Literally translate the motto reads “With sails and with oars:” freely- “With might and main.”

Hayne Castle descended to an only daughter, Tameson Haines, in 1600 and remained in the family until 1870. Col. John Haynes, born at Coddicott, Hertford, England, left his sons, Robert and Hezikiah, at his splendid estate “Copford Hall” in Essex when he sailed for America on “The Griffin” in 1633 with 160 head of cattle, 8,000 pounds in money and a yearly income of 1,000 pounds to establish with Hooker and other English settlers the Colony of Connecticut- then a wilderness. He became the third Goernor of Massachusetts Bay COlony and in 1639 the first Goernor of Connecticut, to which officehe was elected every alternate year until his death at Hartford in 1654. His first wife was Mary Thornton. He married as his second wife

(The Gov. Haynes’ Mansion was on the corner of Front and Arch St. in Hartford)

Hayne” Castle is located in Devonshire, England see illustration on HaynesHistory.png file (in Hackney, Middlesex County, England)

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Chapter I: The Haines Family