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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joseph Hawley (1603–1690), born in Parwich, Derbyshire, England, was the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629. He settled at Stratford, Connecticut in 1650, becoming the town`s first town clerk or record keeper, tavern (ordinary) keeper and a shipbuilder.