Samuel HUBBARD

• General Notes
  • grandfather of Mary CLARKE, who married older brother of Joseph (1706-1767), William CHAMPLIN
    
    together with wife Tacy COOPER, the founder of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church in the U.S.
    
    b. Mendlesham, England
    prob. departed England on the James, which left in Aug 1633 and arrived at Massachusetts Bay on 10 Oct 1633
    arrived Salem, MA Oct 1633
    by 1634 moved to Watertown, MA
    joined church there in 1635
    m. Windsor, CT 4 Jan 1636 to Tacy COOPER
    by 1636-1637 in Wethersfield
    moved to Springfield, MA 10 May 1639
    moved to RI on 2 Oct 1648, on pain of imprisonment in Hartford Jail
    arrived RI 12 Oct 1648
    baptized there 3 Nov 1648 by "Josephe CLARKE"
    
    Samuel Hubbard (1610-1689) was born at Mendlesham, England, the youngest son of James Hubbard and Naomi Cocke, and the grandson of Thomas Hubbard. He arrived at Salem, Massachusetts in October of 1633 - probably on board the "JAMES" which left England in August and arrived at Massachusetts Bay on October 10th.
    
    from researcher Bob CHAMPLIN:
    Samuel Hubbard said of himself: "I was born of good parents, my mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendlesham, in catechising me and hearing choice ministers,"....."I have a testament of my grandfather Cocke's, printed in 1549, which he hid in his bedstraw, lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days." By 1634 Samuel had left Salem for Watertown, Massachusetts, where in 1635 he joined the church "by giving account of my faith." He was at Windsor, Connecticut in 1635 and then Wethersfield by 1636 or 1637. On May 10, 1639 he went to Springfield where he soon became one of the founders of a church, consisting of five men, and "my wife soon after added". From there he went to Fairfield, Connecticut where on May 10, 1647 his religious fervour created difficulties for him. He wrote: "God, having enlightened both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at and answered two terms publicly, where I was also said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened with imprisonment to Hartford Jail, if not to renounce it, or to remove; that scripture came into our mouths, if they persecute you in one place, flee to another, and so we did, 2nd day of October, 1648, we went for Rhode Island and arrived there the 12th day. I and my wife, upon our manifestation of our faith, were baptised by brother Josephe Clarke 3rd day of November, 1648."
    
        On August 7, 1651 he was sent to visit some brethren who had been imprisoned at Boston, and in 1657 he went with John Holmes on a preaching tour on Long Island. In 1655, he was made freeman, and in 1664, on account of the disability of Lawrence Turner, Hubbard was to be General Solicitor. On March 10, 1665, he wrote in his diary: "my wife took up keeping of the Lord's holy seventh day Sabbath," and in April 1665: "I took it up....." Later: "Bethiah Feb 1666, and our son Joseph Clarke, 23 Feb 1666." On April 7, 1668 he went to Boston to hold a public dispute with members of the church there, and in July 1668, he wrote from Boston to his cousin, John Smith, of London, England: "Through God's great mercy, the Lord has given to me in this wilderness, a good, diligent, careful, painful and very loving wife: we, through mercy, live comfortably, praised be God, as co-heirs together of one mind in the Lord, travelling through this wilderness, to our heavenly son, knowing we are pilgrims, as our fathers were, and in good portion being content therewith. A good house, as with us judged, 25 acres of ground fenced, and four cows which give, one young heifer and three calves and a very good mare, a trade, a carpenter, and health to follow it, and my wife, very diligent and painful, praised be God."
    
        There were differences between the observers of the "Seventh Day Sabbath" and the other members of the church and of a discussion of the subject in which he had participated, Hubbard wrote to his children at Westerly on December 16, 1671, that "it was a tumult." A few days later on the 23rd of December, with his wife and one daughter, and four other people, he formed the First Seventh Day Baptist Church in America.
    
    more on Seventh Day Baptist Church:
    Seventh Day Baptists date their origin with the mid-17th century separatist movement in England. With the renewed emphasis on the Scriptures for Free Church doctrine and practice, men such as James Ockford, William Saller, Peter Chamberlain, Francis Bampfield, Edward and Joseph Stennett concluded that the keeping of the seventh day Sabbath was an inescapable requirement of biblical Christianity. Some maintained membership within the Baptist fellowship and simply added the private Sabbath observance to their other shared convictions. As the power of the state was used to enforce conformity to a common day of worship, separation became necessary. The first separate church of record was the Mill Yard church founded about 1650 in London.
    
    The study of the Scriptures in America brought Samuel and Tacy Hubbard to the Baptist principle of believer’s baptism in 1647, and membership in the First Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island. Beginning in 1665, their family and several others became convinced of the seventh day Sabbath and joined in fellowship with Stephen Mumford and his wife who had held Sabbath convictions while members of a Baptist church in Tewksbury, England. When two couples gave up their Sabbath convictions, the others found it difficult to share communion with them within First Baptist. Thus five members joined with the Mumfords in a covenant relationship, establishing the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America in December, 1671. Even after this seperation, close fellowship with other Baptists remained.
    
    for more, see:
    http://www.seventhdaybaptist.org/
    

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