Sources: Information provided by Judy Sporny of Illinois (immigration date)
Rev Peter Hobart's Wives by Clarence A. Torrey (baptism, background, university degrees, immigration, identity of two wives, diary, death)
Information Provided by Jeanne Chubbuck of Concordia, Kansas (background from unknown source supplied by Carl Lyon)(Harvard, sons=ministers)
Mass Historical Commission (details of plaque to 1635 landing place of party led by Peter Hobart)
The Heyday of Their Strength by M.E. Lonsdale- St Andrew's Church, Hingham, Norfolk (pg 17- account of emigration and arrival, settlement)

Vol 1- Pedigree 3266; Vol 2- Pedigree 2625; Vol 8- Pedigree 1624644
LDS Film 0219428 (baptism, father, POB)481

The Rev. Peter Hobart, first minister at Hingham, Mass, was the son of Edmund and Margaret Dewey. He was baptized Oct 13, 1604 at Hingham, Norfolk, where the family name was usually written "Hubbert" or "Hubbard". In preparation for the ministry, to which he consecrated in early life, he was sent to Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he received a degree of BA in 1625/26, followed by a MA in 1629. He served the churches at Southwold and Haverhill, both in Suffolk County, England, and perhaps, other churches, before arriving from England with his wife and four children on 08 Jun 1635 bringing with him his followers. He founded the "Old Hingham Church of Puritan Faith". The Hingham Meeting House was a log structure raised by the Rev Peter and a "little band of 33" in 1635. The Old Ship Church was constructed in 1681 with timbers from the old church - this church was till in use in 1993. Peter died in Hungham, Mass, 20 Jan 1678/79, having been in a feeble condition for some time. . Peter was a Minister in Hingham, Mass, for 44 years and history shows that he kept a careful diary of baptisms and other church events during that time. On the first page of this diary, which recorded baptisms, marriages, and death, which came under his notice during his nearly 44 years in our Hingham, is the following: "I with my wife and four children came safely to New England ye 8: 1635: for everprayse be the god of Heaven my god and king." In Sept. following he settled in our Hingham, and on the 18th of that month recieved a grant of a house-lot on Town (North) St. He also had other grants of land for planting purposes. Peter's brother, John, may have been his twin. The identity and "sequence" of Peter's two wives has been the subjext of much speculation, however, Torrey is quite convincing in his deductions which state that they were Elizabeth Ibrook and Rebecca Peck, in that order. Peter left a will, in which his fifteen children then living are mentioned. Five of Peter's sons were educated at Harvard College, of which four became Ministers of the gospel. The date of his death, and the years of his ministry are recorded on a memorial tablet, standing near Central Ave., in the Hingham cemetery as follows:

IN MEMORY OF
REV. PETER HOBART WHO DIED JANUARY
20th 1679 IN THE 75th YEAR OF HIS
AGE AND 53d OF HIS MINISTRY 9 YEARS
OF WHICH HE SPENT IN HINGHAM
GREAT BRITIAN & 44 IN HINGHAM
MASSACHUSETTS

A second memorial is on the corner of North and Ship Streets, marking the 1635 landing place of Peter and his followers; it reads as follows:

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF

REVEREND PETER HOBART
AND
THAT COMPANY OF ENGLISH MEN AND WOMEN
WHO FOUNDED THE TOWN OF
HINGHAM
LANDING NEAR THIS SPOT IN SEPTEMBER
1635
ERECTED BY OLD COLONY CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1913

This journal was begun by Rev. Peter Hobart. While there are 2 entries in 1635, the journal begins in earnest in 1637.
It is believed that Dea. David Hobart copied his father's original journal and then continued with his own entries. What happened to Peter's original journal is not known.

The excerpts that follow are those notations made pertaining to the Hobart family. None of the spelling, punctuation, etc. has been changed or corrected, although I have taken the liberty of "double dating."

David Hobarts Book
of Records began, 1635
Continued to 1714
____________________________
David Hobarts
Book 1717
____________________________
Sar ___
Sarah Humphreys &
Lydia Hobart ye Book
1739 October
Sarah Humphreys
Lydia Hobart 17 ___
David
September 18th 1735
We find upon the Town Records
that this day 100 years agoe the
Town of Hingham was Settled
their House Lotts Drawn & that
The Revd Mr Peter Hobart was
here to draw a Lott wt ye 29 --
The Revd Mr Gay the third Pastor
of the Town gave us an excellent
Sermon Sept. 17th 1735 on the con-
clusion of the first century
from I Chron:29:15th for We are
Strangers before Thee & Sojourners
as were all Our Fathers --
Neh: Hobart
year 1817
This Book
is the property
of Capt. Joah
Hobart of Salem
a descendent of
Mr Hobart &
he will not alienate
it, & it must be
returned
to be conted in the family
June 1635
8
I with my wife and four children
came safely to New England June
ye 8: 1635 for ever praysed be
the god of Heaven my god and
king
October 1635
3
Ichubod my son borne at Charles-
towne he dyed July following
Aprill 1637
30
Hannah Hobart my daughter was borne
May 1637
7
Hannah Hobart was bapt at Hingham
Hannah Hobart dyed
December 1637
Rebeckah Hobart bapt
March 1637/38
Joshua Hobart married to
Elen Ibrook at Cambridge
Mary Hobart bapt
May 1638
5
Hannah Hobart my daughter borne
bapt the ye 13 day
febuary 1638/39
4
Joshua Hobart Tho Hobarts son bapt
September 1639
20
Hannah Hobart Joshua Hobarts
daughter bapt
March 1640
29
Sarah Hobart bapt
October 1640
4
Bathshua Hobart bapt
Aprill 1642
10
John Hobart bapt
June 1642
Israell Hobart my son born
July 1642
Israell Hobart bapt
peter Hobart Joshua Hobarts son
bapt
December 1643
20
Jael Hobart borne
bapt -----------------30
Nouember 1644
19
Sarah Hobart borne
December 1644
1
Sarah Hobart bapt
December 1645
Gershom Hobart born
bapt
March 1645/46
8
father Hubbeard dyed
June 1647
Martha Hobart bapt
September 1647
12
Deborah Hobart bapt
Nouember 1648
20
Nehemiah Hobart bapt
June 1649
23
Mother Hobart dyed in the
evening being Saturday buried
on the sabbath
October 1649
Tho Hobart son of Thomas Hobart
28
bapt 28 -----
March 1649/50
Daniell Hobart borne
bapt
22
Joshua Hobart son of Joshua
Hobart borne 22 bapt: 3d
July 1651
4
Mehetabell Hobart borne
8
baptized
August 1651
David Hobart my son borne
bapt
May 1652
28
Solomon Hobart borne
June 1652
6
Solomon Hobart bapt
**Missing years will be posted
once I have them**
febuary 1671/72
7
my son Josiah sonn borne
17
dyed
febuary 1673/74
26
Samuell Hobart maried to
Hannah Gold
Aprill 1674
John Hobart maried to
Hannah Burr
June 1674
18
John Lane Married to
Mehetibell Hobart at Hingham
July 1674
John Hobarts daughter borne
December 1674
4
Samuell Hobarts sonn borne
27
Edmond Hobart bapt
May 1675
15
John Hobarts sonn Edmond dyed
June 1675
20
Hannah John Hobarts daugh bapt
Nouember 1675
4
Edmond Hobarts wife dyed
Aprill 1676
19
this day Joseph Joanes and
Anthoney Spragues houses
Burnt allso Israell Hobarts
Nath Chubbuck James Whiton
Houses burnt downe by the
Indians
August 1676
7
Hencock Hobart married to
Hannah Haris at Hingham
January 1676/77
15
Samuell Hobarts sonn borne
febuary 1676/77
4
Samuell Hobart bapt
Aprill 1677
Josiah Hobart went
with his family to
Long Island being
Fryday
July 1677
16
John Records marryed
Hannah Hobart
August 1677
12
Hencock Hobarts daugh born
19
Hannah Hobart bapt
October 1677
11
Daniell Hobart married
at Boston to Elizabeth waren
16
Joseph Baset married to
Martha Hobart at Hingham
August 1678
27
Samuell Hobart dyed
September 1678
17
Daniell Hobarts daughter borne
December 1678
8
Ruth Hobart bapt
A notation is made:
Thus farre was written
by my ffather

These entries are now made by Dea. David Hobart, son of Rev. Peter.
January 1678/79
Hond
Peter Hobart my ^ ffather
dyed the twentieth day of Jan:
about 10 of the o'clock at night
being munday and was buried
on Thursday ye 23 day In the
75 yeare of his age being
53 yeares a Labourer in the
worke of the minnistrie
September 1679
29
Hannah Hobart Samll Hobarts
daughter borne
October 1679
10
Rebeckah Hobart maried to
Daniell Mason at Hingham
& Capt on _____
November 1679
26
My Brother Gersom Hobart
Ordained Pastor to Groton church
June 1680
18
Hannah Hobart died
October 1680
31
Daniell Hobarts child dyed
December 1680
8
Enoch Hobarts child borne
8
my father Quinsey married
to Mrs Eliot at Cambridg
12
John Hobart
} bapt 12
Hannah Hobart
March 1680/81
17
Elias Hobart decesed aged
22 yeares 3 month & 8 dayes
June 1681
26
Judeth Hobart baptized
July 1681
26
ye New meting house raised
27
which cost the towne 430lb
28
in money and the old house.
August 1681
1
I bough a negro boy of
Mr Dwigh: judge to be about
8 yeares old for 20lb
7
Samuell Hobart bapt
ye son of Samll Hobart
January 1681/82
8
this sabbath we first
met in the new meting House
July 1682
28
my unkiell Joshua Hobart
our Capt Died being sick
of a palsi eight months
in the 68 yeare of his age
29
buried on Saterday 29
Nouember 1682
9
Brother Daniell Quinsey
married
10
John Hobart son of Daniell
Hobart dyed
March 1682/83
7
Joshua Hobart borne
Aprill 1683
12
my sister Abigaill Hobart
died of a sore in her throat
aged 26 years & halfe
unmaried 12 buried 14
being Saterday
15
Tho Hobart bapt
May 1683
5
Hannah Hobart daugh: of
Samll Hobart born
7
Joseph Turner son of my
sister Barshua died at or house
27
Hannah Hobart bapt
October 1683
11
this day at eleven of clock
my wife was delivered of
a dead son being Thursday
febuary 1683/84
my Brother Riply died
sabbath day about midnight
July 1684
28
Samuel Hobart son of Samuel
hobart was drowned in a
well about 3 years old
September 1684
24
my son Peter Hobart born
weddensday at 9 clock at night
November 1684
5
Jeremiah Hobart son of
Daniell Hobart borne
Dacember 1684
24
my son Peter Hobart
died on sabbath day 9: n:
January 1684/85
Peter Hobart son of Sam
Hobart borne
24
Jeremi: Hobart died
Nouember 1684
5
Deborah Hobart Daugh of
Enoch Hobart born 5
20
my Daughter Abiel Hobart
borne Friday night at 7 oclock
ffebuary 1685/86
16
my oncle Edmond Hobart
deceased tu Day being
82 years old buried 17
May 1686
9
Solomon Hobarts tew children
borne one died 9
August 1686
19
Mary Hobart borne
October 1686
Moses Hobart died at Boston
in the prison
Febuary 1687/88
29
Daborah Hobart died
Aprill 1688
1
my uncle John Beale
died suddenly in his garden
15
John Hobart bap
June 1688
20
my daughter Jael Hobart
borne Wednsday at 4 of the
clock
february 1688/89
27
Daniel Hobart born
July 1689
10
Daniel Hobart died
August 1689
18
my uncle Thomas Hobart
aged 83 yeares deceased
25
James Hobart bapt
ffebruary 1689/90
18
aunt Hobart the wife of my
uncle Thomas Hobart died
June 1690
10
Deborah Hobart borne
November 1690
19
Thomas Lincoln married
to Lidia Hobart
January 1690/91
sister Elisabeth
Gookin died at our
house fryday morning
February 1690/91
20
Solomon Hobart borne
September 1691
11
Sister Hannah Rogers died
at Bristoll on Fryday
March 1692
26
my sister Elisabeth
Riply died saterday at
night in the 60 year of her
age. Buried on munday 27
September 1692
8
Daniell Hobarts child born -- died
September 1693
9
my Hon mother
Mrs Rebecca Hobart departed
This life Saterday
Aged 72 yeare m5 5d
January 1693/94
My daughter Rebecca
Hobart borne on Sabbath
day about 5 in ye morning
May 1695
18
Joanna Hobart my wife aged
41 years & 32 days expired
Saterday night at 9 of
clock buried on tusday
31
Natt Hobart married to
Mary Stowell
December 1695
4
I was married to Saray
Joyce at Boston by
Samuel Sewel Esqr
January 1695/96
2
the wife of Daniell
Hobart died
febuary 1695/96
24
Mrs Sarah Cleverly
daughter to Capt Joshua
Hobart died in Boston
Aprill 1697
27
My Son Nehemiah Hobart
borne on tusday at six
of the clock in ye morning
My Hond father in Law
Edmond Quinsey Esqr
deceased fryday at night
ye 7th of January 1697/8
buried th 12 in the 68 year
of his age
Aprill 1699
my son Joseph Hobart borne
tusday morning 3 clock
November 16 1700
this day att 11 at night
my wife was delivered of
a son still borne
My Son & Daughter
David & Sarah Hobart
born on Saterday at ten
of the clock at night
the 14th March 1701/2
9
My daughter Lydia
Hobart borne the 9 day
of January 1703/4 being
Sabbath day att noone
My son Noah
Hobart born on tusday
at ten in the morning
ye second day of
January 1705/6
My son Joseph Hobart
departed this life the
21 day of August 1706
in the eight yeare
of his age.
my brother Gershom
Hobart minister of the
gospell at groton departed
this life the 19 of december
1707 Aged 62 yeares
Daniel Hobart died
the 15 of December 1708
aged 58 years
my Daughter Judith
Hobart married to Joseph
Leavitt the 10 Janr 1711/10
My brother Josiah Hobart
died att Easthampton on
Long Island the later end
of the winter 1711
in the 78 yeare of his age
_____ brother Nehemiah
Hobart pastor to the Church
at Newtown died the 25
day of August 1712 in ye
_____ yeare of his age being
a preacher of the gospel
_____ years
My daugh Jael Hobart
married to Jeremiah Leavitt
the 10 Sept 1712
My daughter Rebecca
Hobart was married to
Joazaniah Nichols on
thursday the 30 day of
December 1714 in the
21 yeare of her age
my brother Joseph Bradford
son of the Honbl William
Bradford second gouenour
in New England died the
10 day of July 1715 in the
85 yeare of his age
My brother Joshua
Hobart Departed this life
about the later end of
febuary 1716/7 being a
Minister of ye Gospel
at Southold on Long Island
Nehemiah Hobart minister
of ye Gospel at Haddam in
ye Colony of Connecticut De-
parted this Life towards ye
Latter end of February
in ye year 1716/17

The following entries appear to be made by the children of Dea. David Hobart, into whose possesion the journal passed, his son David having the journal in 1717, and his daughter Sarah having it in 1729. Some of the entries appear
to have been made by his son Nehemiah.

Dea David Hobart my Hod Father
Departed this life on ye 21 of
August 1717 Aet:suce 67 Hora 11
Samll Hobart died 25th of
Aprill 1718 AESuce 74
My son Nehemiah
Hobart was Ordain-
ed Pastor to the
second Church of
Hingham at Cohasset
th 15 of December
1721
1724/25
January 4th
Nehemiah Hobart was
married to Lydia Jacob
1735
Sept 22th
Noah Hobart was married to
Elen Sloss att Fairfield
September
my brother Josiah Ho-
2
bart of brantry
died in Septem. 1725
in the 54 year of his
age
3
and my brother
John Cleverly died
3 day
1726 August 25
My daughter Sarah
was marryed to John
Humphry
My son David Hobart died
att Cape brittan the later
end of January 1745/6
in the 20 year of his age Sarah Hobart dyed
October 14 1729 AEtatis 65 9 o Clock P.M. 1730

My Hond Aunt Jael Bradford Departed this Life April 16 AEtatis 88 4 April 4th 1731

My Hond uncle Israel Hobart Departed this life AEtatis 89 1732

October 18th My Hond Aunt Lydia Lincoln AEt 74 & now My Grandfatherschildren are all Removed By Death & I hope are met together in Heaven

Oh May The Surviving Children of ye deceased follow them as they followed Christ

1740
May 31 My brother Nehe-
miah Hobart Pastor of the
Second church in Hingham
Died in the Forty fourth
yeare of his age being A minister
of the Gospel nineteen
years
1740
June 9 my sister Jael Leavitt
died being munday at twelve
years
A clock at noon aged 51 ^ 11 months
20 days at my house

It now appears that Joseph, son of David, grandson of Dea. David, makes the following entries:
Joseph Hobart maried
to Sarah Warick nouember
ye 15 1750
my Dagter Sarah was born
monday June ye 15 1752
my Dagter Ester was Born
friday febery ye 1 1754
my Dagter anna was Born
tusday Septr ye 30 1757
my Dagter Rachal was Born
thursday June ye 24 1757
my Son Joseph was Born
satterday march ye 10: 1759
my son nemiah was Born
Sunday March ye 22 1761
my son Jeremiah was Born
monday March ye 20: 1763
my son Gorg __ was Born
September ye 11 1768
my Dagter Silce was Born
September ye 7 1770
my : onred father
David Hobart died febery
ye 29:1780 in ye 78
year of His age
Sarah Hobart my ___
wife died Augus ye 4:178__
in ye 53 year of her age

Here the condition of the journal deteriorates severely, with few notes legible.

1814
Noah Hobart
Capt Joshua Hobart
died July 28 1682
Aetatis 69
Uncle Edmond Hobart
died febuary 16 1685
Uncle Thomas Hobart
died August 18 1689
Aged Aetatis 83
My Aunt Wife of Uncle J___
Hobart died febuary ___ 1638/9
Aprill 26 1737 Died this ___
Solomon Hobart of Hingham
being Dreadfully burnt by falling
into the fire in a fit a ___
weeks since & languished
___ was in his 44 yeare
10
January 1700 being very
sick of a feaver

By 1807 the journal had passed into the hands of Capt. Noah Hobart of Salem, by 1846 it was in the possession of Mr. David Andrews of Hingham, and in 1912 it was presented to the Massachussetts Historical Society by Mrs. Francis Henry Lincoln.

Excerts obtained from family group record -1 pg3 by James F. Culbertson P.O. Box 207 Ojai, CA93023 phone 805-646-1716 dtd 1-12-1988

01. Peter Hobart, Twin of Edmund the younger, was born in Higham, Norfolk Co., England, on the 26 Jan 1602 and died in hingham, MA, 20 Jan 1679.

02. He Graduated at Magdalen Collage, Cambridge University, England, in 1625, as Master of Arts, and taught there for a short period, and was ordained as a Minister of the Church of England, by the Bishop of Norwich in 1627.

03. He preached in England for ten years, and left Haverhill, England, in April 1635, with his wife and four children. He joined the Church in Charleston 30 June 1635.

04.The First entry in his journal reads as follows: “1635 June 8th, I with my wife and four children came safely to New England, June 8th 1635. Forever praised by God in Haven, My God and My King.” On Sept 2nd, 1635, Peter Hobart was made a “freeman,” and sep 18th, 1635, he with twenty others founded Higham,MA. Formally drawing their house lots an that day. From 1635 to 1679 he preached in Higham, according to the memorial tablet now in the church.

05. Peter was an independant and spririted clergyman, and somewhat contentious withal. According to the chronical of those times he was (a) deal of a Jacobite, and espoused the cause of the House of Stewuart. In this he ran counter to the political ideas of the Governor and colonial legislature.
In the words of the Historical: “ He espoused too wormly his late Sovereign’s cause and English customs generally, which occasidnally brought him up before the General Court to answear for his out spoken opinions. In 1646 He was fined twenty pounds for seditious practices and derogation, and contempt for authority, and was bound (paroled) to his good behavior.”

06. The late Sovereign here alluded to was Charles 1, who lost his head through a slight misunderstanding with Cromwell and the Long Parliament. So Peter being a staunch Royalist instead of a roundhead, and having the courage of his convictions, ran counter to the prejudices of the sympathizers with Parliament, who we in the majority in the colony, and suffered the penalty for a too intemperate expression of his loalty.
One cannot but admire his courage, though he might disparage his discretion. In fact all of the Hobarts of those days seemed to have a knack for getting into trouble. Peter defended his brothers Joshua, Edmund the Younger and thomas against charges of insubordination perferred by Lt. Antony Eames, “Commanding Officer of the Train Band,” and a member of his own church.
This was a bitter and disagreeable quarrel and agitated Hingham for many years, and resulted in finding of all of the participants in the sum of 125 pounds, to which the Hobart family contributed 27 pounds.