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Excerpt from In Memoriam Harriet E. Hatch: Wife of A J. F, Behrends
The subject of this sketch was of New England descent, and of Puritan blood, through both the paternal and the maternal lines of ancestry. Thomas hatch, her paternal ancestor, was born at Biddenden, in the county of Kent, England, about thirty-five miles southwest of London, in the year 1603. He came to Boston as early as 1633, perhaps in 1630, and was made a freeman in 1634. No man could be a freeman in the Colony unless he was twenty-five years of age, had a family, was a freeholder, and a member of the Puritan or Congregational Church. He remained in Boston about five years, removed to Yarmouth, and finally located at Barnstable, where he was a member of the church whose pastor was the Rev. John Lathrop, and where he died in 1661. His wife was the daughter of a Welsh farmer in Kent or Cornwall county, between Barnstable and Fal mouth, England.
His only son, jonathan hatch, was born in England in the year 1625. He, with thirteen others, one of whom was Isaac Robinson, son of the Rev. John Robinson, of Leyden fame, was one of the purchasers of the plantation of Sucka nesset, now Falmouth, in 1660, and one of its four original settlers, as well as chairman of the committee to lay out, apportion, and make sales of the lands in the grant. His house was located near the present Congregational Church.
He was a man of considerable in?uence, acquired a large amount of real estate, and he and his sons were large land holders in Falmouth. He lived to a very great age. His youngest son was the first white child born in Falmouth; and was named moses, because he was born on a bed of bulrushes, in a temporary cabin, the roof of which was a whaleboat, turned keel up.
From jonathan hatch, the present family are descended, according to the evidence supplied, partly by written records, and partly by well authenticated oral tradition though the branches are so numerous and the descendants so scattered as to make exactness of statement practically impossible. Many of them have been pioneers in the settlement of new States, in Vermont, New Hampshire, and the West, and they have been uniformly outspoken and active as the friends and supporters of the Christian Church. Not less than thirty of them shared in the privations of the war for the preservation of the Union, and some of them sealed their devotion in their blood.
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