| Ancestors | Type |
| Lt Samuel Hobart / Hoar b 24 Jul 1746 Brimfield, MA m. 2 Jul 1773 Brimfield, MA to Dorothy Hitchcock d. 1828 Homer, New York | Defining |
See the parent B00 Charles Hoare page for more information on the EKA. There are cousins and siblings of Samuel that they or their descendants changed their surname to Hobart and other variations. A hope is to use autosomal testing to verify a more complete list of children for the family at each level to explain matching yDNA relatives with the surname Hobart where they cannot figure their link up to B00 Charles Hoare. The table of descendants here starts with Samuel and Dorothy.
Michael Hobart has the most research on these lines with Roz Edson and her former Rootsweb database the second. Unfortunately, Michael's database is no longer online although some pages are available via archive.org. See Roz's database for more information on Samuel. Lt. Samuel's father is Deacon Joseph Hoar and grandfather is Leonard Hoar. Joseph or his sons must be the common patriline father of both Hobart testers and the three Wood line yDNA testers. Leonard is the great grandson of Charles Hoare.
Researchers and Descendants (current)
| Researcher | GenDB | Website | Lineage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Hobart *YA | Site | Lewis Dwight Hobart4, Lewis Randall Hoar / Hobart3, Martin Hoar2, Samuel Hoar1 | |
| Judy for Donald Hobart*YA | Ancestry | Heuston Harmon Hobart4, Orson Hoar / Hobart3, ? Hoar2, Samuel Hoar1 |
Pink for female, italic for portion of descendant line that is not on the patriline, pink, bold for female that starts the break from a patriline (daughter of patriline member)
To assist Judy, Michaels search in his database for unnamed sons of families that changed their name to Hobart and whose son have a birthdate around when Orson Hoar was born (1813) are:
- Son of Benjamin B Hoar and Chloe Garrett
- Son of Leonard Hoar and Dorcas Unknown
- Son of Jonathan Hoare and Sarah Unknown
The key reason for bringing in this intermediate study page is to introduce the Hobart surname more formally into the project. So others searching for their Hobart ancestry can understand the name change that occurred. Who we now know almost exclusively belongs to the Charles Hoare line due to yDNA testing. But many parallel changes from Hoare/Hoar to Hobart were made. Not necessarily through Samuel.
There were a number of Hoar siblings and cousins who change their surname from Hoar to Hobart beginning in the 1830s. These people had moved from Brimfield and Monson in (now) Hampden County in Massachusetts to Onondaga and Cortland Counties in New York. These people apparently changed surnames when they switched from Congregationalist to Methodist Episcopal after being influenced by prominent Methodist Episcopal bishop John Henry Hobart. Those who reside in Cortland County are reasonably well documented in surviving records. Some who lived in Onondaga county are less well documented. We know most of the early Hoar settlers in Onondaga county, but when the name changes were done by the NY State Legislature, they only listed the names of the fathers of the families "and all their children". Unfortunately, those Hobarts who died in Onondaga before 1850 often did not leave wills or deed transfers showing all of their children.
On a side note, at the same time that the NY families were changing their surname to Hobart, some relatives back in MA and CT also changed their name to Hobart, as well as Hobert, or Homer, or Horr, etc. A few of the NY Hobarts moved back to the New England area.
We should also note that the large Wood clan descends from either Samuel or his father Joseph. This based on the yDNA matching of a specific SNP value they all share. But is not shared by descendants of Joseph's brother John.