General Notes

b. 1572/3 at Hingham, Norfolk, England
bap. 1 Jan
Religion: admitted to Charlestown church 19 Oct 1633

From Lincoln's History of the Town of Hingham:36
      "Edmund, from Hing. County of Norfolk, Eng., and b. at that parish, ab. 1570, was the ancestor of all who have borne this surname by birth in our Hing. or its vic. He arrived at Charlestown, 1663, and with his s. Thomas, and several others, came to 'Bare Cove,' the same yr. (See Lincoln's History of Hingham, pp. 41 and 156), prob. for the purpose of assisting in establishing a new plantation or township. It is generally thought, howerer, that he did not locate here permanently until the arrival of his s. the Rev. Peter Hobart, and those who came with him. He was one of the early settlers who drew their house-lots on Town (North) St., on the 18th of Sept. 1635; Edmund's lot being the 17th, while Nos. 18 and 19 were granted to two of his sons. His first w., Margaret Dewey, was the mother of his ch. His sec. w., whom he m. at Charlestown, Oct. 10, 1634, whas Mrs. Srarh Lyford, the wid. of Rev. John Lyford. The dates of his, and of his sec. w.'s decease, are recorded in [their son, Peter] Hobart's Diary as foll.: 'March 8, 1646, father Hubbeard dyed.' 'June 23 1649, mother Hobart dyed.' He, therefore, at the time of his decease, was ab. 76 yrs. of age. Resided op. Hobart's Bridge, North St. Freeman, March 4, 1634; constable the same yr.; and in 1639, 1640, and 1642 a deputy to the Great and General Court."

Check out the two Hobart genealogies. (1) L. Smith Hobart, William Hobart his Ancestors and Descendants (Springfield, MA, S.G. Otis & Co., 1886), and (2) Margaret Griffith, Hobart Genealogy: The Descendants of Edmund Hobart of Hingham, Mass. (San Francisco, California Genealogical Soc., 1952).