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- Sources: Babcock and Allied Families, by Louis E. DeForest (929.273, B114d); A Witter Family History by Edwin D. Witter Jr.; Ancestral File. DeForest: Thomas Hubbard. Witter Family: Thomas Hubbard/Higbed, died 26 May 1555 at Mendelsham, Suffolk. "A gentleman residing at Hornden on the Hill, Essex; `of good estate and great estimation...zealous and religious in the true service of God'; informed on to Bonner, Bishop of London, who imprisoned him at Colchester and visited him to convert him; removed to London, thrice examined in St. Paul's, remained obdurate, sentenced by the Bishop to be burned at stake for heresy; taken to village where lived and burned - `shedding his blood in the most cruel fire to the glory of God and great joy of the Godly.' This occurred during the reign of Mary Tudor, who was Catholic." [Six books cited for Hubbard--Cooper lines, as well as three letters of correspondence. Unknown which pertains to the above.] Thomas Hubbard was an associate of Thomas Cook (Chart 14, #6). Ancestral File: Thomas Hubbard, born before 1525, Hornden-On-Hill, Essex. Died there 26 May 1555. Says he was married 1577 (20 years after he died) at Mendelsham, Suffolk, to a woman born about 1550. Also says he was married, apparently to another woman, about 1562. Both women called Mrs. Thomas Hubbard.
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