38 TIMEHRI. 
Among the Records of JAMES I. and CHARLES I. suits 
in Somerset House, is one to which the celebrated JOHN 
HAMPDEN with THOMAS HAWTAYNE and his wife were 
parties in conneétion with the affairs of EDMUND DUNCH 
her brother. 
In 1637, two years before GERARD emigrated, THOMAS 
HAWTAINE had conveyed COLTHORPE back to his mother 
Mary, from whom ithad come. The subsequent history 
of this place is not easily traced, but there is reason to 
believe that THOMAS HAWTAYNE in 1648-50 no longer 
dwelt there, and was from some cause or another, depen- 
dent on his stipend as usher or schoolmaster in Magdalen 
College. EDWARD, another brother who was a doétor of 
Medicine, had died in 1666 without issue, and it is more 
than probable that GERARD came home after his long 
absence, as does many a colonist of the present day, to 
find himself friendless and forgotten. | 
The only further trace of him that has reached me is 
this ; 
On 26th————1686, a Commission was issued to JOHN 
EyLeEs and FRANCIS EYLES, attorneys of JOHN HOTHER- 
SALL, of St. John’s Parish, Barbados, principal creditor of 
GERRARD HAUGHTON late of Barbados deceased to ad- 
minister during the absence and to the use and benefit 
of JOHN HOTHERSALL. ; 
There is no record of the marriage of Captn. GERARD 
HAWTAINE the emigrant of 1639, although the Barbados 
Registers contain an entry of the marriage in 1680 of a 
GERARD HAUGHTAINE with HESTER WILTSHIRE, and 
in the following year their son GERARD was baptised. 
It was probably a son or other descendant of his who as 
above stated, married HESTER WILTSHIRE, It has already 
