William Hatch (abt. 1598 - 1651)

Born about 14 Oct 1598 in Wye, Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Young) King — married 9 Jul 1624 (to 6 Nov 1651) in Canterbury, Kent, England

Descendants

Died 6 Nov 1651 at about age 53 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony

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William Hatch migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 3, p. 241) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

William ^[1][2][3] (Elder) Hatch. ^[4] was born 14 OCT 1598 in Wye, Kent, England. Alternate birth date "about 1595". He was the son of William Hatch and Ann Tilden.^[5]

William, with his wife and children, first arrived in America on the ship Hercules of Dover in March 1635, sailing from Sandwich (the Hercules sailed twice - once from London in 1634 and once from Sandwich in 1635), England.^[6][7] The manifest lists the family as follows:

Hatch William of Sandwich, Merchant

Hatch, Jane, wife

Hatch Walter, son

Hatch John, son

Hatch William, son

Hatch Anne, daughter

Hatch Jane, daughter

They settled in Scituate.

"Wiliam Hatch, Seni^r and elder, deceased November the sixt, 1651."^[8][9]

William married by license, Jane Young, July 9, 1624,^[10] with whom he already had a son, Walter baptized in March 1623. (Prior to the discovery of the baptism in the St. Dustan, Stepney, Parish register, it was believed that William had a first wife by whom he had his first son Walter, and that the reference to him as bachelor in his marriage to Jane Young was a clerical error. The baptism confirms that Walter was born to the couple prior to their marriage.).^[11] William and Jane had six additional children all born in England: John, Anne, a son, William, Jane and Andrew.

His Will was dated November 5, 1651 and proved on June 3, 1652. The Inventory was taken on June 3, 1652, and totaled £95, 3s, 4p, and apparently included no real estate. ^[12]In his Will, he mentioned:

Wife Jane

Daughters Jane Lovell, Ann Torry

Grandchildren John Lovell, James Torrey, William Torrey, Joseph, Damaris

Sons Walter, William

Children

All born in England^[13]

1. Walter bp March 1623 St. Dustan, Stepney^[11] m1 Elizabeth Holbrook, m2 Mary ___stable?
2. John bp 7 August 1625 Wye, Kent (no record after 1643 list of men able to bear arms)
3. Anne bp 3 December 1626 Wye, Kent, m James Torrey
4. Unnamed son, bur. 31 July 1628 Wye, Kent
5. William bp Wye, Kent, 9 August 1629 m Abigail Hewes
6. Jane bp Wye, Kent 19 June 1631 m John Lovell
7. Andrew bp 3 November 1633 Wye, Kent bur 6 Nov 1633 Wye, Kent

Research notes

According to Anderson, William Hatch was a "contentious man" as seen in his involvement in a number of law suits. He came on the Hercules with five servants, William Holmes, Joseph Ketcherell, Simon Ketcrell, Symon Sutton, and Lida Wells. He returned to England, and came back on the Castle in 1638.

Sources

1. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
2. ↑ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014; England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
3. ↑ Essex, England, Select Church of England Parish Registers, 1518-1960 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014; England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1900. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
4. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
5. ↑ Anne Tilden as mother of William Hatch Page 123 Twenty-six great migration colonists to New England & their origins https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE197629
6. ↑ https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/hercules2.htm Anne Stevens
7. ↑ Putnam, Eben. Two Early Passenger Lists, 1635-1637, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1921) [Page 219.
8. ↑ Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855 Open Library.Vol. 8, Page 21
9. ↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Joseph Neal 1769-c. 1835 of Litchfield Maine. Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945| "Ancestry of Joseph Neal, Chapter X, Hatch of Scituate, Pages 116 to 118"
10. ↑ "England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGN2-29TZ : 18 April 2019), Wm Hatch, 9 Jul 1624; from " Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1913," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d); citing Marriage, Thanington, Kent, England, United Kingdom, page 13, Citing Canterbury Cathedral Archives, England.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} West, Randy. Updates from English Records for Some Great Migration Immigrants Who Came by 1635, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., Fall 2018) Vol. 172, WN 688. Page 355: "William had only one wife and his son Walter was born out of wedlock to this couple." Subscription$
12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-VS2N : 5 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 115 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Page 105-106
13. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Pages 241-44.Subscription required.

See also:

• French, Elizabeth. Genealogical Research in England. A, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1916) Vol 70, pages 255-9.
• Pope, Charles Henry. Prouty (Proute) Genealogy (Charles H. Pope, Boston, Mass., 1910) Page 17. (Source for wife Jane Young, and death date and location)
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
• Bent, Allen H., Col. Jabez Hatch, His Ancestry and Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51, Page 34-5.

• "William Hatch, the first of the name in America, and one of the earliest settlers of Scituate, Mass., was a native of Sandwich, County of Kent, England, from which place he emigrated to New England before 1633. In the course of a year or two he went back to England for his family, and returned in March, 1635, in the ship Hercules with his wife Jane, five children and six servants. He was a merchant of ability, and first ruling elder of Scituate's second church, which was founded in 1644. He was also a lieutenant of militia."

• FamilySearch. [1] William Hatch, born about 1598 in England. died 6Nov1651 in Scituate, Mass. Spouse: Jane Young, married after 9Jul1624 in Kent, England.
• Geni. [2] William "The Elder" Hatch, "The Immigrant" Born in 1598 in Ashford, Wye, Sandwich, Kent, England. Died 6Nov1651 in Scituate, Mass. Son of William Hatch I of Sellinge and Anne or Ann. Occupation: Woolen draper and merchant. There are many references and descriptions here.