See also
| Husband: | William HOBSON (1730-1827) | |
| Wife: | Hannah JOHNSON (c. 1735- ) | |
| Children: | Jeremiah HOBSON (1754- ) | |
| Hannah HOBSON (c. 1756- ) | ||
| Name: | William HOBSON | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Jeremiah HOBSON (1707-1741) | |
| Mother: | Jane DRESSER (c. 1705- ) | |
| Birth | 1730 | Rowley, Essex, MA, US |
| Death | 1827 (age 96-97) | Buxton, York, ME, US |
| Name: | Hannah JOHNSON | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1735 (est) | |
| Death | ||
| Name: | Jeremiah HOBSON | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Lucy ELLSWORTH (1755- ) | |
| Birth | 19 Apr 1754 | |
| Name: | Hannah HOBSON | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1756 (est) | |
IV) William (3), eldest child of Jeremiah Hobson, was born in Rowley, Mass., in 1730, and died in Buxton, where he was the oldest settler of the name, in 1827, aged ninety-seven years. He was a man of martial proclivities, and much engaged in war. In the French and Indian war he belonged to the First Cavalry Company of Rowley. He reinlisted in 1759. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, was wounded and taken prisoner at King's Bridge by the British and carried into New York City, where he remained a prisoner of war eleven months. He was afterwards at the surrender of Burgoyne, and had the pleasure of maraching into Saratoga at its evacuation.
He married (first) Hannah Johnson.
Children:
Jeremiah and Hannah.
His first wife died in 1757, and he married (second) in 1759, Lydia Parsons.
Children:
William (died young), Joseph, Samuel, Andrew and Lydia.
The second wife died and he married (third) Margaret, who died in Buxton, Dec., 1819.