John Hadden, of Yonkers

Not the same as John Hayden, Jr.

John HADDEN was born between 1620 and 1630, and died 1710. He married Elizabeth _____.

Origins

• Parents seen as John HADDEN and Jane NICHOLS. 4169, 4170
• Parents seen as William Hadden.

Family

The children of John and Elizabeth Hadden were:

1. Sarah Hadden, b. 1656, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, United States , d. before February 1691, Yonkers, Westchester, New York. Married George Clevenger around 1676. He died 1684.
2. John Hadden, b. c 1660, d. 1749, Yonkers, Westchester, New York. Married Abigail.
3. Edward Hadden, b. c. 1664, Yonkers, Westchester, New York. Married 1) Hannah 2) Jane.
4. Elizabeth Hadden. Death: Nov. 1686. Married William Smith. Death: Oct. 1686.
5. Thomas Hadden, b.c. 1666 of Westchester, New York. Married Margaret Gardner.
6. Hannah HADDEN, b. of Westchester, New York.
7. Richard HADDEN, b. of Yonkers, Westchester, New York.

Reference 239 lists the children's birth order as Sarah born 1656, John born 1660, Edward born 1664, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah, and Richard.

Notes

Clevenger Pioneers and Descendants.” Griffiths, George R.: Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1980. p. 18:

"John Haden/Hadden of Younghers (Yonkers) Plantation is mentioned as early as Feb. 1668 when he witnessed a deed for Elias Doughty (Boston Transcript, 1 Aug. 1932)... On 6 May 1689 John and Elizabeth verbally bestowed upon sons Edward and Thomas part of their estate and, on Thomas, all of their real estate. A deed confirming the transfer of the real property to Thomas, in return for their own maintenance for the remainder of their lives, was executed 4 April 1692 and recorded on 9 April. Edward E. Hadden was a witness (Liber B, Deeds-107, Westchester Co., NY). John Hadden was apparently deceased before 1710. In Westchester records Edward Hadden is also mentioned in 1691 and Thomas Haden in 1703, 1704, 1725, and 1729.

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Reference 239: Liber B, Deeds, page 116-B Westchester County, New York:

"To all christian people to whom this present deede of sale, shall come, I John HADDEN Senior and Elizabeth my wife, living in the county towne of Westchester in the province of New Yorke sendth greetings in our Lord God, everlasting. Whereas that my son in law George CLEVENGER and Sarah his wife my owne daughter was possessed of five acres of land in the Yonkers plantation in their lifetime, which land did belonge to me the said John HADDEN Senior. Yet nevertheless, they having not confirmed to them by any deeds or writeing as to their owne proper use and behoofes, so as that it might be disposed of but for the better sattisfaction which I shall receive for said land shall be to the only proper use and behoofs of my grandson, John CLEVENGER, the son of George and Sarah CLEVENGER aforesaid.Now know yee that I the said John HADDEN Senior and Elizabeth my wife for valuable consideration to me in hand paid or secured to be paid for the use of the said orphant John CLEVENGER aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and therewith to be fully sattisfied content . . . In witness whereof I the said John HADDEN Senior and Elizabeth my wife hereunto put to our hands and seals this tenth day of February in the third yeare of their Majties Reigne Annog Domi 1691."

Note: George Clevenger, who was born in England in 1654 had come to colonial America by 1676. He lived on the Van Der Donck Estate on the Hudson River in what was Younghers and is now Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Around 1676, he married Sarah Hadden, who had been born on that estate; she was the the daughter of John Hadden and his wife Elizabeth. George died April 1684 and Sarah prior to February 1691.

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Comments

• Birth date seen as 05/12/1635 at Yonkers, but Yonkers was not settled until the 1640s. And, it’s the birth date for John Hayden, Jr. “ John Hayden (John ) was born May 1635 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died 20 May 1718 in Braintree, Massachusetts.”
• Are parents certain?
• Parents also seen as Susanna Hayden & John Hayden, of Dorchester & Braintree. But their son was John Hayden, Jr.

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"History of the Town of Kings Bridge" by Thomas H. Edsall, 1887

References

1. "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WX-39DY?cc=2078654&w... : [REFERENCE-ERROR]), Westchester > Deeds 1681-1698 vol A-B > image 243 of 396; multiple county courthouses, New York. (Notes) John Hadden Sr. and his wife Elizabeth bestow on sons John and Edward part of their estate. They bestow on their son Thomas all of their real estate. Deed recorded 9 April 1692.
2. -"History of the Town of Kings Bridge" by Thomas H. Edsall. (1887). Page 11. < Archive.Org >
3. "The House of Hadden, Some Descendents of John & Elizabeth Hadden," by J. Elwood Arnold, 1980. “John Hadden (1620/1630-1710), son of English immigrant William Hadden, lived in Westchester County, New York. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, New England, the midwest and elsewhere.” From House of Hadden, pg 4, we have children of John Hadden and Elizabeth ( ) as: Elizabeth married William Smith; John Jr. married Abigal; Sarah married George Clevenger; Edward married 1st Hannah and 2nd Jane; and Thomas married Margaret Gardner.
4. ”Clevenger Pioneers and Descendants.” Griffiths, George R.: Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1980. p. 18
5. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gregv&id=...
6. “Reference 358: Joseph HADDEN, born 12May1635 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA, instead of John HADDEN; Joseph's parents are John and Susannah (PULLEN) HAYDEN and nine more generations.I used John HADDEN because the deed of sale in reference 239 above.” [This is the Braintree MA family.]
7. https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/216734/I011706/john-hadden/individual
8. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/o/o/Michael-A-Woolvert... cites
   1. 4169. Carolyn Proffitt Winch, 239 - Clevenger, Hightower, and Wood Families.
   2. 4170. 495 - Selected US/International Marriage Records, 1340-1980, CD #403; Family Tree Maker (V403_01)..
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135770746/john-hadden (dates are wrong)
10. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ37-B7P (dates are wrong)
11. John Hadden (2nd) and his children were baptized March 4, 1702: "The History of the several towns, manors and patents of the county of Westchester... Carefully revised by the author." By the late Rev. Robert Bolton. Edited by the Rev. C.W. Bolton. New York, 1881. v. 2, p. 399. See: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077229714&view=1up&seq=431.
12. Yonkers Chamber of Commerce: Early Yonkers History. < link > “ About 20 years after Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians, Adrian Van der Donck received his grant of the Colony of Nepperhan (or Colen-Donck) from the Dutch West India Company. As the area's patron and as dictated by Dutch law, he bought the land from the Indian Sachem of the Keskeskick in the late 1640's. Referred to as De Jonkheer, "young gentleman" or "young nobleman," because of his status in Holland, Van der Donck built one of the first saw mills in the New World on De Zaag Kill, or the Saw Mill River, in 1649. Though small, the river provided significant waterpower for the location of the mill. It was from Van der Donck's nickname that the city name of Yonkers evolved.”