Updated links to PDF downloads

The links to the books I reference in the older posts are long broken. Here are the updated links.

The Hovey Book

Daniel Hovey, the first Hovey in North America, was married to Abigail Andrews. She appears in this book, A Genealogy of Robert Andrews and His Descendants 1635-1890.

Josiah Hovey was a Private

Today I found Josiah Hovey in the list of patriots that the Daughters of the American Revolution recognize for satisfying membership requirements.  He was a Private who apparently served under Col. Jonathan Chase.

2nd try...

It's been almost exactly 4 years since the last genealogy post here, but I've become interested in it again and want to give the site another try.  I've driven past Suel's land grant property a few times and noticed some ruins of a house there, for example, and I've been seeing these "family crest" sites pop up around the web that try to sell you information about your surname and try to sell you coffee mugs and keychains with what they think your family coat of arms looks like.  Then, Google digitized a copy of the Hovey Book and put their corporate watermark on every page, so I wanted to make sure the download link here is working and that anyone can get a Google-advertisment-free PDF of the Hovey Book here.  More on these topics later, and of course, if you have information you'd like to share, send it in and we can post it here.

Abigail Andrewes, Great, Great, Great.... Grandma

According to The Hovey Book, Daniel Hovey, the first Hovey in America, was married to Abigail Andrewes in 1641. Abigail came from a family of some distinction, being owners of the The Mayflower, authors of the King James Bible, and advisors to the king of England. Here is a digitized book, History of the Andrews Family, that goes into some detail of these relations.

Here are some points of interest:

• Abigail's father was Captain Robert Andrewes, master of the Angel Gabriel
  
• Robert's aunt, Mrs. Johane Andrewes, had two sons, Robert's cousins, Thomas and Lancelot.
  
• Thomas received 1/3 ownership of The Mayflower from his mother.
  
• Lancelot, the Bishop of Winchester, assisted in crowning Elizabeth and James I.
  
• Lancelot was 1st in the list of 54 learned men selected to make what is known as the "King James" version of the bible.
  

Tying into The Hovey Book

Starting at the top and working down through the generations to me, showing lifespan and reference page in The Hovey Book:

1. Richard Hovey (1575-1636)
   
2. Daniel Hovey (1618-1692)
   
3. James Hovey (1650-1675), page 30
   
4. James Hovey (1674-1765), page 67
   
5. Daniel Hovey (1710-????), page 135
   
6. Josiah Hovey (1743-1820), page 194
   
7. Suel Hovey (1785-1873), page 195
   
   All that is written about Suel is that he "married Lucinda Holmes, and removed to Michigan." The remainder of this research is my own, initiated by anecdotal family history.
   
   Suel was given a land grant in 1826 from the United States government for 80 acres near Romeo, MI.
   
   
   
   Suel also has a grave marker in Romeo Cemetery, where he is buried in a family plot with his wife, Lucinda, and his son, Albert:
   
   
   
   Then, on page 310 of the 1870 Census for Macomb County, Michigan, we see the Albert Hovey household listed with Suel, Albert and Elmer.
   
   
   
   
8. Albert Hovey (1822-1905)
   
9. Elmer Hovey (1858-????)
   
   The link between Elmer and Maurice is found in the U.S. Social Security death records, but it is also verified by first-hand information from living relatives. I'm also awating a copy of Maurice's death certificate which should also verify this link.
   
   
10. Maurice Hovey (1898-1967)
    
11. Norman Hovey (living)
    
12. Matthew Hovey (me)
    

The Hovey Book

The Hovey Book describes the English Ancestry and American Descendants of Daniel Hovey (1618-1692) of Ipswich, Massachusetts. In 1635, Daniel Hovey was the first Hovey to come to America, and our family is directly descended from him. The book was compiled and published in 1914 under the auspices of the Daniel Hovey Association, which is now defunct. In this book, a family crest was identified to be a hand holding a pen, with a scroll underneath, bearing the legend, "Hinc Orior" (by this I rise).

I recently purchased a PDF version of The Hovey Book on eBay for $12. There are plenty of publishing houses out there who will happily charge you anywhere from $65 - $300 for a hardcover print, or you can download it here free of charge.

That's right. Free. Despite Sonny Bono's attempts to keep things copyrighted forever, the copyright of this volume has long since expired and it is now part of the public domain. Anyone can legally distribute it.

Download The Hovey Book in PDF form [35 MB].

If the link becomes broken at a future date, email me.

This is a PDF of scanned pages, so the text is not searchable. But, the book is fairly well organized. All 600 pages of it.

First Post

I'll slowly be migrating things from the hoveynet.com site to here. Email addresses at hoveynet.com will soon no longer work too, so make note of new addresses as you get them from us. If anyone in the family wants to be able to post articles on this site, send me an email.