Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

472 GENEALOGICAL, NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
61. 11. M * * *, a son, twin child with Abiah, died same day,
buried 2d.
62. III. Moses, Oct. 6, 1688, died Oct. 23, 1688.
63. IV. Hepsiba, Feb. 16, 1690, married Benj. Nye of Falmouth,
who died in 1716 insolvent.
64. V. Elizabeth. She married Timothy Hallett of Yarmouth,
died Oct. 24, 1744, aged 44.
65. VI. Rebecca, bap. June 18, 1704, married in 1733 James
Lewis, of B., died July 5, 1740, aged 36.
66. VII. Hannah, bap. Oct. 14, 1705.
67. VIII. Moaes, probably born before the year 1700.
68. IX- Sylvanus. I have it noted that he had a son Sylvanus,
but I cannot quote my authority.
Capt. Moses Hatch of Falmouth, probably a son of Dea.
Moses, married April, 1724, Mary, daughter of Rev. Joseph
Lord of Chatham. Her birth is thus recorded by the father
"Mary Lord born 19-20 (2) 1701," that is, on the night of the
the 19th of April, 1701, 0. S. Their children were:
Sylvanus, Jan. 24, 1725; Moses, May 28, 1732, (married Prudence
Gorham Sept. 1766) ; Joseph, March 8, 1735; Hepsibah,
Feb. 12, 1737.
It is also stated that she had another child, and died during
her confinement, Jan. 27, 1742-3. The latter date is doubtful,
and taking all the circumstances into consideration, I am inclined
to the opinion that the Hannah, wife of Capt. Moses, recorded as
having died May 13, 1739, was a blunder of the clerk. He should
have written Mary, wife of Capt. Moses Hatch, died May 13,
1739. If I am right in this supposition, the difficulties are explained.
That this is right, his subsequent or second marriage
seems to favor. If his first wife died Jan. 27, 1743, N. S., then
he married the second very soon after the death of the first, for
his son Jonathan was born Dec. 17, 1743, and Benjamia Sept.
10, 1745.
The Rev. Charles Gorham Hatch, to whom I am under obligations
for materials for this article, is a descendant of Capt.
Moses.
Sylvanus Hatch, probably son of Capt. Moses, had Sylvanus,
who resided some time at Great Bend, Penn., and finally set-
tled in Illinois ; Samuel, who settled in Rome, N. Y. ; John, in
Pompey, Onandago Co., N. Y. ; Solomon, in Manluis, N. Y. ;
Charles—Orias, who was a tory and served in the British arm^'
and Jethoe, who was killed at the massacre at Wyoming.
I intended to have extended this genealogy one generation
further ; but on comparing my copies of records I find so many
discrepancies, that it is unsafe to trust them. Every one complains
of the difficulty of deciphering the early town records of
Falmouth, and I judge not without reason, for no two transcribe