ORIGIN: Stepney, Middlesex.
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Planter (on 22 March 1634/5, "James Haieward," aged 22, servant, with a certificate of conformity from Stepney parish, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Planter [Hotten 43]).
FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown.
REMOVES: Woburn.
OCCUPATION: Tailor [ChTR 23].
ESTATE: On 3 January 1636/7, "James Hayward a tailor was admitted & to have such a houseplot as the town can afford & other accommodation where it is to be had" [ChTR 23]. On 30 April 1638, he was granted a haylot at Wilson's Point [ChTR 38].
BIRTH: About 1613 (aged 22 on 22 March 1634/5 [Hotten 43]).
DEATH: Woburn 20 November 1642 [WoVR 2:89].
MARRIAGE: By 1642 JUDITH PHIPPEN. She married (2) Woburn 18 January 1643/4 WILLIAM SIMONS [WoVR 3:127].
CHILD:
i REBECCA HAYWARD, b. Woburn 4 December 1642 [WoVR 1:117]; no further record.
COMMENTS: In the 1635 passenger list, James Hayward is entered as one of four servants, apparently of NICHOLAS DAVIS [GM 2:2:304-9]. This association allows us to build a consistent story for James Hayward. Arriving as a servant, he would probably not appear immediately in the records. The grant of land by the town of Charlestown in early 1637 is appropriate for a young man just being released from servitude, and in this case the servitude would appear to be apprenticeship as a tailor, which was the occupation of Nicholas Davis. Another of the servants of Nicholas Davis was JUDITH PHIPPEN , and the reasonable assumption has been that she was the woman who became the wife of James Hayward.
On 29 March 1642, "James Hayward of Salem" appeared twice in Ipswich Court as a plaintiff [EQC 1:41]. Pope has assumed that these two records pertain to the subject of this sketch [Pope 223], but we have no other reason to suppose that the man of Charlestown and Woburn also resided at Salem.
Pope correctly included the passenger list information under his entry for James Hayward, but inexplicably also gave the same information in the following entry for John Hayward of Concord.