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734 SOUTHEASTEEN MASSACHUSETTS
David, 1736; and Lucy, I'iiO; and there was
a David Hatch, in Tolland, who by his wife
Anna had children, George, Solomon and Lucy,
born Sept. 2d, 1764, Nov. 5, 1766, and Feb.
19, 1768, respectively.
This Solomon Hatch, son of David, born
Nov. 5, 1766, it is assumed, married Patience,
born Sept. 4, 1773, of Bristol (R. 1.) town record,
daughter of George and Sally Coggeshall,
and is the ancestor of Rev. Dr. Leonard Bradford
Hatch, of Whitman, who was of Connecticut
and Rhode Island antecedents and himself
a native of the latter State. George Coggeshall
was born in Portsmouth, R. I., Nov. 3, 1780,
son of William Coggeshall and. his wife Elizabeth
(Newby), William removing to Bristol,
K. I., where earlier generations of the family
were born and lived. William Coggeshall was
the son of John Coggeshall, grandson of John
Coggeshall and great-grandson of John work of tlie ministry. He was ordained at
Brentwood, N. H., in the winter of 1858. He
engaged
Coggeshall,
of the County of Essex, England, who
came over in the "Lion" in 1632, with his wife
and children John, Anne and Joshua.
George Coggeshall Hatch, son of Solomon
and Patience (Coggeshall), married Martha
Turner Coomer, daughter of John Coomer,
grandson of John Coomer, great-grandson of
John and Elizabeth (Kinnecut) Coomer and
of John Coomer and his.
in the work later at Edgartown, Mass.,
then at Whitman, to which he came in 1877,
preacliing for several years at the First Baptist
Church. His ne.xt charge was at Avon,
Mass., where from a small society he built
up a large church and during his ministry
there he was instrumental in the expenditure
of considerable money in the improvement of
the church edifice. Following this he was stationed
over the church at Lexington, Mass.,
where his efi'orts were attended with similar
success, tlie membership being largely increased.
From Lexington he went to Braintree,
where the church society was small and
without a church building, a hall being used
for meetings, but through his zeal and efforts,
it may be said to liis credit, in less than three
years a church edifice was built and equipped
and the society became one of the largest in
point of attendance and most flourishing of
any in that vicinity. His success seemingly
here lay in his power and ability to attract
railroad men to the services, many of them
becoming zealous and strong members of the
church. Again he became pastor of a small
church society worshipping in a hall, this time
at Mattapan, Mass., and there he was as suc-
great-great-grandson
wife Sarah, of ,Newport, R. I. The third John
and his brother, Thomas Kinnicut Coomer,
were both Patriots of the Revolution and pensioners
of Bristol, R. I., in 1835, and through
John is made eligible his posterity in the So-
ciety of the American Revolution. George
Coggeshall Hatch was a farmer in that part
of Bristol, R. I., which later became a part
of the town of Warren, and he,. too, was of a
cessful as he had been at Lexington, building
up in the period of five years a strong church
and erecting on one of the principal street*
of the town a handsome church edifice, ele-
gantly equipped.
It will be observed that Dr. Hatch chose to
accept calls to pastorates small and struggling,
and, too. that it proved his forte to place them
upon a sure foundation. This was a prominent
feature of his ministry, much of his long min-
military turn, rendering service as an officer
in the Rhode Island militia.
Rev. Leoxard Bkadfoed Hatch, D. D., son
of George Coggeshall and Martha Turner
(Coomer) Hatch, was born Sept. 83, 1832, in
what is now the town of Warren, R. I., where
in the public schools and the Warren Academy
he acquired his early education. He for
a time t^ght school and in the meantime prepared
for college. Entering Colgate College
he pursued his studies in a manner to win
honor in his classes, but owing to ill health
he had to drop out and gain that rest his system
required. He had in view as a life work
the ministry, so he continued his preparations
in this line and as an aid in furthering his
preparation taught school to some extent and
preached occasionally. After having been so
occupied for a couple of years he passed a isterial life having
very
satisfactory examination for entering upon the
been given to the building
up of weak and small societies; and as each
became a power he left it to others and sought
other fields to benefit and while he was ;
sought
by many large and flourishing churches he felt
it a duty to decline such offers and continue
the path apparently mapped out for him.
Outside of his ministerial work Dr. Hatch,
for he bore the title of Doctor of Divinity,
which was conferred on him in June, 1908,
by Grand Island College, at Grand Island,
Nebr., found time to give attention to business,
having for thirty and more years been the
editor and proprietor of the Whitman Timex
and the Plymouth County Journal of Abington,
having been publisher and owner of the Timef
from 1878, and of the Plymouth. County Journal
from 1877. He was for twenty years, from
1890, a director of the Abington National