Pamphlet Image Name: Genealogy of the Hause and Hawes Descendants City: Hause, Alfred B., Genealogist / Statistician Date: 1 Jul 1904 View file SOURCE: Pages handed down from the descendants of William Penn Hawes; courtesy of his great, great-grandson Gordon Bennett III, Stevensville, Queen Anne's, Maryland.

   According to the legal records of both Germany and England, and to records copied in the Bible of Joseph Hause of Ovid, New York, the first John Hause was born in Germany in 1690 and when an infant, on account of religious persecutions, he was transported by his cousin, Queen Mary II, of Great Britain, House of Stuart, daughter of James II and Anne Hyde, born 1662, married William Prince of Orange at the age of 17, reigning 15 years, and died in 1694 of small pox, leaving no children. A kind, meek and noble Queen.³
John Hause lived in New York until his marriage in 1715 to Sarah Allen, a woman of fine English blood, which would make his descendants one half German.
After his marriage he removed to Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York.
The result of this marriage was the following children: Simon, John, William, Catharine, Johanna, and Sally.
Simon Hause was born in Haverstraw, N.Y. in 1717 and served as volunteer in the American army during the Revolutionary War until the battle of White Plains in which he and his brother John, standing side by side, were shot by the enemy. They received a soldier's burial, the place is unknown.³
Catharine was born at Haverstraw, N.Y. in 1723, married Andrew Secor in 1744 and removed to Albany, N.Y.
Johanna was born in 1725 and died on the Island of Jamaica in 1755.
Sally was born in 1728 and was married to Amos Conklin; Their children were Johanna, John, Hannah and Sally.
Johanna Conklin was born in 1747, married Joseph Butler in 1768 and died without issue.
William Hause, from whom all the descendants that lived or are living in New York came, was born in Haverstraw, N.Y. in 1730, and was married in 1751 to Martha Wood, a woman of full English blood, thus making his descendants ¼ German and ¾ English blood.³
Their children were John, Jonathan, Sarah, Johanna, Simon, William, Allen, Jonas, Joseph, Mathew (sic), Mary, Samuel, Hannah and Morris.
John Hause married Esther Ketchum; their children were Delebar, Charles, Electra, Augustus, Belinda, John, Alanson, Fannie, Louisa, and Catharine.⁴
Jonathan died on the island of Jaimaica while visiting his aunt Johanna.
Sarah married Samuel Johnson and had six children, second marriage to William Harris and 3 children, third marriage to Matthias Demond.
Johanna died in infancy, Simon married Zilpha Decker and had 6 children.
Allen died in infancy, Jonas Hawes married Rebecca Demond; their children were Matthias, John, Plebe, Aaron, Joshua, Gertrude, Edward, Mahlon and Delebar.
Joseph Hause married Eunice Rodgers and had 14 children: Herman, Alvin, Charles, Hannah, Lewis, Betsey, Joseph, Henry, Maria, Mary Jane, William, John, Angeline, and Caroline.
Matthew married Johanna Wood and had 6 children, second marriage to Maria Miles and had 4 children.
Smauel (sic) married Catharine Howard and had 11 children.
Mary married Daniel Burr and had 9 children, Hannah married Lemuel Nolen and had 4 children.
John Hause who was killed at White Plains had 2 children — John and Polly; John died in New York. Polly married Benjamin Butler and removed to New York where she died and left six children."⁵

"The difference in the spelling of the name was due to either to (sic) the different opinions of the brothers as to its origin, or a difference in the customary way of pronouncing it, some holding to the German Hause and others to the English Hawes."⁶

Mary II 1662-1694

   Was the eldest daughter of James II and Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon. When she was fifteen years old she married her cousin William, Prince of Orange, the president of the Dutch Republic. James II tried to bring England back to the Roman Catholic Church. This attempt brought about the Glorious Revloution (sic) in 1688, in which he lost his crown.
   The Protestant lords of England then offered the crown to William of Orange and his wife. William accepted, and in 1689 he and Mary were crowned king and queen of England. Their reign was known as that of Wm. and Mary. It was understood that the administration of affairs would be only the king's business. But Mary showed herself capable of acting with courage and good judgment on occasions when William was away from England. Five years after she became queen she died of smallpox.⁷

William III 1650-1702

   Known as William of Orange, was King of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was born in the Hague, the son of the Prince of Orange. William's mother was Mary, the daughter of Charles I of England. The young man gained fame early by his opposition to Louis XIV of France.
   In 1672, when Louis invaded Holland, the Dutch chose William to be their ruler. Time and again William was defeated, but always managed to keep the French from advancing. Once he was forced to open the dikes. The French were stopped for awhile, and William had the time to build up an alliance against them. In 1677 he married Mary, daughter of James, Duke of York, later James II of England. William hoped to gain the support of England and became friendly with the parties who were opposed to Roman Catholic King James. The King's only son became a Catholic, and the Protestants of England looked with favor on William and his wife Mary. Both were related to English kings, and both were Protestants. The leaders of both political parties invited William and Mary to become joint rulers of England.
   In 1688 William landed in England with an army of 14,000 men. Not a drop of blood was shed in the "Glorious Revolution" that followed. James escaped to France, and two years later led a French army to Ireland. Here William defeated James and his Irish allies in the Battle of Boyne. The Protestants of Ulster supported William, and to this day they are still called Orangeman.
   William was one of the ablest of English kings, but was not very popular. The people never understood the English political system. Wm. allowed Parliament to limit his power in order to gain their support in his fight against the French king.
   William proved to be both a good soldier and a clever diplomat in his struggle against Louis XIV. In 1692 his admirals destroyed the French sea power and his generals were successful on land. In 1701 he formed an alliance with nearly all Europe against Louis, but did not live to fight in the war which followed.⁸

James II 1633-1701

   Was the younger son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France. He became king in 1685 after the death of his brother, Charles II. He tried immediately to carry out two of his main desires—to rule independently of Parliament, and to restore the Roman Catholic religion in England. His efforts aroused great opposition. James put down the rebellion led by the Duke of Monmouth. But James's continued attempts to restore Catholicism aroused the anger of the entire nation. The "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 forced James to give up the throne, and he fled the country. William of Orange and his wife, Mary, a daughter of James II, were proclaimed joint rulers.James was cordially welcomed by King Louis XIV of France who furnished him with troops, and in 1689 James tried to win back his throne by invading Ireland. He was throughly defeated at the Battle of Boyne, and spent the rest of his life in retirement in France.⁹

Joseph Hause of Tyrone, New York
Married Eunice Rodgers

Children:

Herman C. Hause Hannah Hause Dr. Lewis Hawes Joseph Hause Maria B. Hause William Hause Angeline Hause

Alvin Hause Charles W. Hause Betsey Hause Henry A. Hause Mary Jane Hause John Hause Caroline Hause

Grandchildren:

Clarissa Hause—Genoa, Michigan
Hannah J. Hause—Genoa, Michigan
Caroline Hause—Newton, Mass.
Joseph Hause—Watertown, Mass.
Lyman Hause—Deceased
Lodowic Hause—Mendota, Minnesota
Elizabeth S. Hause—Pontiac, Illinois
Ella E. Hawes—Whitewater, Wisconsin
Charles Hause—Mendota, Minnesota
Cecil S. Hawes—Belvidere, Illinois
Harry L. Hawes—Belvidere, Illinois
Alfred B. Hause—Ovid, New York
Thomas Hause—Interlaken, Mew (sic) York
William Hause—Ovid, New York
Henry Hause—Watkins, New York

Great Grandchildren:

Ann Maria Hause—Mendota, Minn.
Ethel Olive Hause—Mendota, Minn.
Alice Hause—Mendota, Minn.
Charles Jr.—Mendota, Minn.
Elizabeth Hause—Mendota, Minn.
Charlotte Hause—Mendota, Minn.
Lillian Hause—Mendota, Minn.
Lodowic Jr.—Mendota, Minn.
Henry C. Hawes—Belvidere, Illinois
Mildred K. Hawes—Belvidere, Ill.
Cecil S. Hawes—Belvidere, Ill.
Marion E. Hawes—Belvidere, Ill.
Nancy Ellen Hawes—Belvidere, Ill.
Frank Edwin Hause—Interlaken, New York
Richard Hause—Ovid, New York

Jonas Hawes of Hector, New York
Married Rebecca Demond

Children:

Dr. Matthias Hawes Phoebe Hawes Joshua Hawes Edward Hawes Delebar Hawes

Dr. John Hawes Aaron Hawes Gertrude Hawes Mahlon Hawes

Grandchildren:

Dr. James Hawes—Washington, D.C.
William Penn Hawes—Watkins, N.Y.
Belle M. Hawes—Valois, New York
Cornelia E. Hawes—Auburn, New York
Mary Lovina Hawes—Troy, Wisconsin
Kate H. Hawes—Troy, Wisconsin
John M. Hawes—Delevan, Wisconsin
William Penn Hawes—Hector, New York
Parker Halsey Hawes—Watkins, New York
Nelle Clare Hawes—Correctionville, Indiana
Loretta D. Hawes—Fort Collins, Colorado
Louis Edward Hawes—Bisbee, Arizona
Dr. John W. Hawes—Russell, Kansas
Dr. Fred S. Hawes—Russell, Kansas
Anna M. Hawes—Hector, New York
L. Best Hawes—Deceased

Great Grandchildren:

Carrie May Hawes Bennett—Penn Yan, New York
Laura Maud Hawes—Delevan, Wisconsin
Harold Lee Hawes—Hector, New York
Edna E. Hawes—Watkins, New York
Chaster A. Hawes—Watkins, New York
Marquerite L. Hawes—Watkins, New York
John Kipp Hawes—Windber, Pa.
Elmer Swick Hawes—Hector, New York

Signed by
Alfred B. Hause¹º
Genealogist/Statistician of Descendents
July 1, 1904

NOTES ON THIS PAGE

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Book information File Image Author:   Alfred B. Hause Title:   Genealogy of the Purdy family, 1742-1905 Publisher:   Genealogical Society of Utah Date:   1942 View file SOURCE: New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building—Milstein Division Rm 121; Call No. NYGB AZ Fam 09-420. Record No. b18135475.

Alfred B Hause (Joseph Hause, Jr.< Joseph Hause, Sr. < William < John < John Hause) was born on 15 Nov 1857 in Seneca, New York, and went into his father's business of fire insurance. He then married Susanna A Seeley (1857-1901), but they had no children.
   Beyond this (partial) reprinting of Alfred's finished work on the Hause family, he also completed a much longer, 464-page history on his mother's genealogy: Genealogy of the Purdy Family, nearly complete record of the descendants of John Purdy, 1742-1905, a copy of which is kept by the Genealogical Society of Utah, located at the Repositories Family History Center in Salt Lake City. The page on his parents reads: "Nancy B. Purdy was born in the Village of Ovid, N. Y. April 15 1832 and died in the same place Nov. 6 1872. She married Nov 18 1856 to Joseph Hause, a son of Joseph Hause and Eunice Rogers Hause, who was born March 24 1821 and died May 18 1864. Joseph Hause was born at Tyrone, N. Y. and was a descendant of John Hause who was born in Germany about 1690. He came to Seneca County about 1850 and engaged in teaching school in which he was successful for a number of years in the towns of Covert and Ovid, and which avocation he followed for a number of years until failing health obliged him to discontinue this calling. At the time of his death he was engaged in the fire insurance business." Alfred died on 2 Jun 1916 in Manhattan, New York (but not in a high-rise fire, as I was expecting, but from a heart attack), where he had moved after Susanna died. Alfred is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Ovid, Seneca County, New York, whch apparently no longer exists.
   Nobody in the current record has ever seen the Bible of Joseph Hause, Jr. So the only choices are to discount it or put your faith in Alfred, although I am trying to confirm each bit with written or DNA evidence.

Article Image Name: Hause, Alfred; Hawes, James P Newspaper: Watkins Express City: Watkins Glen, Schuyler, NY Date: 21 Jul 1904 View file View Newspaper SOURCE: Watkins Express, Watkins Glen, Schuyler, New York. Publisher: L.M. Gano. Dates of publication: 1854-1988; -v. 129, no. 23 (June 8, 1988). Frequency: Weekly (Old Fulton New York Postcards)

   A very similar re-telling of the John Hause legend can be found in a newspaper story in the Watkins Express from Watkins Glen, Schuyler, New York, on 21 Jul 1904. The article is an interview with Dr. James P. Hawes, who (despite the spelling of his last name) was a great-grandson of William Hause, Sr., through his son, Jonas Hawes (1783-1861). The subject of the article, Dr. James P Hawes (Matthias D Hawes < Jonas Hawes < William < John < John Hause) practiced "allopathic medicine" in Valois, Hector, Schuyler, New York, where as a lifelong bachelor he lived with his sister, Isabella M Hawes (1843-1937). In his later years, James worked on the family genealogy with both Alfred B Hause and James Dwight "J.D." Hause (1866-1946) of Michigan. J.D. worked with his father at 'Hause and Son, Furniture and Undertaking.' James apparently liked J.D. quite a bit (or disliked undertaking), because he willed "namesake" James D Hause $500 in his will, "to be paid within three years, to be used for his education in any profession he may desire to follow." (Source: Watkins Express, 16 Jun 1915, Vol. LX, No. 50.) James P Hawes died of "disease of the stomach" on 24 Feb 1915 and is buried at Seneca Union Cemetery, Valois, Schuyler County, New York.
   During the interview, James says that he has researched the history of the Hause family, along with his cousin Alfred Hause (1857-1916), another great-grandson of William Sr. (through another son, Joseph Hause). Starting as early as 1901, these two men had been contacting Hause descendants around the country, such as Laban Hause, Caroline Hause-Gage, and James Dwight Hause, for their family trees (all of which were saved, passed down in their families, and through their kind descendants they are now available and used in this family history).
   Another version of the article, re-written with Alfred as the subject, was republished a week later in the Seneca County Courier-Journal, on July 28, 1904 (Page 4).

Correspondence File Image From:   Alfred B. Hause To:   James Dwight Hause Subject:   Hause Family History Date:   January 28, 1904 View file SOURCE: Collection of Stephen Hause.

   Alfred B Hause, despite transcribing the above genealogy, actually agrees with me about the family history having skipped a generation. He wrote in 1904 (at right): "I am of the opinion that this John was the grandfather of William, and the great-grandfather of John who married Esther Ketchum... I have an indistinct recollection of having seen and read the balance of that portion of the history as I find it now in the old Bible, and that it came directly down to William, but it was so long ago that I first saw it, that I cannot now tell where it connects, and came to the conclusion from the age of John about 60 at the time William was born that he was his grandfather."
   This letter also lists another source for the Ovid Bible: Lewis K. Hause would be Alfred's uncle, the brother of Joseph Hause, Jr., the owner of the Ovid Bible. His full name was Lewis Kensington Hause, and he was born on 6 Aug 1818 in New York. On 25 Mar 1845 he married Fanny D Stewart (1825-1885). That same year, he graduated from Hobart Free College and Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York, and became a doctor. He then served as an Assistant Surgeon during the Civil War. Records show that a "Lewis K. Hawes" of Whitewater, Wisconsin, enlisted on 11 Sep 1862 in the Union Army as an Assistant Surgeon. He was commissioned in Company S, 28th Infantry Regiment Wisconsin and received a disability discharge on 18 Nov 1863. Lewis apparently had a Hause family history document, just like his brother, or wrote it down for himself.
   The correct Hause family line stretching from John Hause should therefore be:

John Hause I (b. 1690) >

/ Simon (b. 1717) - John II (1719-1796) > \ William (?)

/ Simon (@1741-1776) - John (????-1776) \ William (1750-1818) ><

| John (1773-1844) | Johnathan (1775-1802) | Johanna (b. 1776) | Sarah (1777-1847) | Simon (1779-1851) | William (1781-1825) | Jonas (1783-1869) | Allen (1785-1804) | Joseph (1787-1838) | Mary (b. 1790) | Matthew (1792-1873) | Samuel (b. 1794) | Hannah (b. 1796) | Morris (1797-1868)

⁴—While this version of the family history focuses on the descendants of William's sons Joseph and Jonas, the genealogy of their brother (and my 5x great-grandfather) John Hause was continued by Alberta Spaid Reeder and Josephine (Bogart) Gregory. For a more complete genealogy of every line descending from William, click here.

Personal Information Census Image Name: Butler, Benjamin Township: Minisink County: Orange State: New York Year: 1790 Roll: M637 Page: 369 Image: 332 View image blank census form SOURCE INFORMATION: First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

⁵—"John Hause, who was killed at White Plains, had two children, John and Polly. John Hause's Widow, married a Benjamin Butler, and had six children. That part of Orange Co. where he died is now Rockland County, NY." Well, in a rare instance of Hause genealogy, there ia actually evidence that this story could be true: The 1790 United States Federal Census reveals a Benjamin Butler in Minisink, Orange, New York, with two household members. But if this story is true and you still want to believe in the original family chronology, that it was the John Hause who was born in 1719 who died at White Plains, then John's widow would have been nearly 60 years old when she remarried and had six more kids with Benjamin Butler!

⁶—In his above-referenced letter to James Dwight Hause, Alfred writes, "As to our name, I find that at the beginning of the record that Lewis K. wrote, that he makes this remark, 'As far as can be traced John Hause is the first of the family that can be found it is ascertained that he was a german of full blood and that the correct orthography of his name was H-a-u-s-e.'" Incidentally, how many ways can they spell our last name? In John Hause's 1796 will, alone, we have "Hause," "Haus," "Hawes," "Haues," and probably a dozen other ways that are unreadable. Pick one way and stick with it, at least until the end of the document, guys. Come on!

⁷—Okay, so first off, this does not explain how John Hause and Mary were cousins. It does not explain why baby cousin John, who apparently lived in Germany, suffered "religious persecutions" and being of royal blood, was moved to safety. This is an important question, as royal genealogies are always very expansive and meticulous. Basically, if you had royal relations in the 17th Century, you would milk it for all it was worth: prestige, power, money... but there are no Hauses in any of the royal genealogies. In fact, if John was a royal cousin and was in danger, why would Mary send him to the colonies of North America, away from civilization—with Native American wars, disputes with the French, and rampant disease? That's where they sent debtors and criminals. Basically there's nothing tying John Hause to Queen Mary or William of Orange at all. This looks more like wishful thinking, or bedtime stories for the kiddies passed down as facts.

⁸—So I was thinking that maybe John Hause was actually a cousin of William of Orange, as he's at least from the same general part of Europe, but no such luck. There hasn't been a mention of a Hause in two pages of our own genealogy!

⁹—Oh, come on! Now you're just padding pages!

¹º—For Alfred's list of children for John Hause of Fayette—Joseph's and Jonas's eldest brother (and my 5x-great-grandfather), click here; For a list from Alfred's cousin Alberta Spaid Reeder, click here; For a recent update of every line descending from William Hause, click here.

TOP PHOTO: The watch of James Palmer Hawes, willed to his nephew, Gordon Hawes Bennett, now in the possession on Gordon Hawes Bennett III.

The graves of William and Martha Hause on Hause Hill. Note the birthdate on William's D.A.R. marker.