James Hubbard
James Hubbard lived at Mendlesham in Suffolk. Day's Hubbard history calls it "a market town about eighty miles northeast of London." His children were baptized there from the 1590s. Rebecca was baptized on 21 March 1595/6, entered as "dau of Ja. HUBBARD," with a note placing either the baptism or the family at Little Stonham, the next parish. Thomas was baptized on 21 April 1601 and James on 14 August 1603.
He appears in three other records. In 1590-91 Thomas Aldous of Mendlesham brought a case in the Star Chamber against four Mendlesham men: Robert Keeble, Thomas Middlewood, Thomas Jerring and James Hubbard. The Star Chamber was the royal court at Westminster that heard complaints of riot, forgery and abuse of power. What Aldous alleged is not in the catalogue entry. In 1609 James Hubbard was one of the prizers of the goods of Henry Jesopp of Mendlesham. Prizers were neighbours who walked through a dead man's house, listed his goods and set a value on each, for the probate court.
He was buried at Mendlesham on 18 April 1611, entered as "James HUBBART." An inventory of his goods was taken in 1611 or 1612 and survives among the Norwich diocesan probate records at the Norfolk Record Office. What it lists is not printed.
His youngest son, Samuel, had been born in 1610. Samuel later wrote of his childhood: "I was born of good parents. My Mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendlesham, in catechiseing me and hearing choice ministers."
Edward Warren Day's One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, printed in 1895, names the parents as James and Naomi (Cocke) Hubbard of Mendlesham. Day worked from notes that the Baptist historian Isaac Backus made about 1777 from Samuel's diary and letters. The diary itself disappeared about 1852. Day says James and Naomi had ten children. Sarah, the eldest daughter, was born in 1593, married John Jackson and lived at Yarmouth in Norfolk. Her son Robert served four years under Oliver Cromwell. Thomas, the eldest son, lived with his wife Esther in Freeman Lane, near Horsley, in Southwark. Rachel married John Brandish of Ipswich and came to New England in 1633. Benjamin, James, Rachel and Samuel came to America, Day says, "but probably none of the others." He did not know the names of the other four.
Two of the daughters married at Belstead, a small parish two miles south-west of Ipswich, in the summer of 1621. Rebecca Hubbard married John Smith there on 1 August, and Rachel Hubbard married John Brundish on 13 September. Rachel's marriage matches Day's Rachel and John Brandish. Two daughters marrying in one small parish within six weeks suggests that their widowed mother had moved to Belstead by then.
His place as Samuel's father rests on the Mendlesham register and on Day. A James Hubbard family was baptizing children at Mendlesham from 1596 to 1603. Its father was buried in Samuel's first year, which is what Samuel's sentence about his mother describes. And a Rachel Hubbard married a John Brundish near Ipswich, as Day's Rachel married John Brandish of Ipswich.
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Cite: Heirology, "James Hubbard (d. 1611)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/james-hubbard-1611-923839.