James Hubbard - Contradicting facts RE: James Hubbard, b. 1578 ENG

Have no idea

I would think this phrase

"Burned at the stake in 5/26/1565 because he refused to recant his stand on Protestantism."

Leftover from another profile, perhaps one from the "Bloody Mary" era.

Use "contact manager" to request a manager or curator edit it out if they can't figure out who it really belongs to (I couldn't).

The profile says he died in 1655. It seems likely the 1565 date is just a typo reversing the order of the 5 and 6 in the middle. Just discovered this profile and it is certainly an interesting fact to have thrown in at the end with no apparent source. Would love to know more details!

People just like their ancestors to have a religious persecution story. Those Rogers guys claimed descent from a martyr, and the Hubbards were as good as the Rogerses any day.

The family comes from the footnote here

https://archive.org/stream/onethousandyears00daye#page/53/

But it does look like a lot of random Hubbards rolled into one family without any evidence.

Lol it must have come from somewhere... but you may be right. I don’t doubt the family info too much, but thank you for the link, hadn’t seen that book yet. I love the internet archive don’t you? Have found references to the Hubbard family in other local histories there, i am pretty sure, so shouldn’t be hard to verify that.

So, I found this wealth of information, accurate or not. Seems that it wasn't James who was burned at the stake, it was his father Thomas... which I now see is included in Thomas' About section. And the date of the execution was May 26 1555. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188474419/thomas-hubbard

Oh, but it still doesn't make sense because all of Thomas' children were apparently born after 1555? :/

Fox's Book of Martyrs

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22400/22400-h/22400-h.htm

Doesn't mention Thomas Hubbard, but descendants said Thomas Higbed was Hubbard.

Samuel Hubbard is supposed to have left a long-running journal and a lot of letters. They were all lost by 1852. What we have is from a notebook of Isaac Backus.

The Backus notebook was published in full in 1940. Key extracts from it are used in this book

https://archive.org/stream/samuelhubbardofn00huli#page/4/

The Edward Warren Day "1000 years" book mentions the Backus notebook, and includes quotes from it, but totally ignores Thomas and the martyrdom.

Thanks for the info!