Individual Details

On 11 Feb 1617 when Thomas was 20, he married Lydia Gyles, in Tonbridge, Kent, Eng. Born in Tenterden, Ashford, Kent. Lydia died aft 1665 in Scituate, MA.
Thomas lived for a while at Wye, co. Kent, where two of his childern were baptized, in 1626 & 1628. He was presented to the Bishop on 19 Nov 1627 by the church wardens of Wye for teaching school without a license. He was presented at every subsequent court until June 9, 1628 when he procured the necessary license.
The date of his emigration to New England is not known for certain, but he probably came with his brother William, on William's second trip to New England in the "Castle" in 1638. He settled at Scituate and was proposed as freeman March 5, 1638/39. (This Thomas Hatch is not the one of Dorchester, MA, freeman 14 May 1634, later of Yarmouth and Barnstable.)
Thomas Hatch was probably an older brother of William. He settled in a part of the Town but little cultivated at that time, viz. three fourths of a mile west of the present Town-house, near a small brook that runs in the meadow, and twenty rods west of the road.
His widow had an infant Hannah brought to baptism 1646, which was probably soon after the date of his death.

Thomas married Lydia Gyles 11 February1617, at Tonbridge, co. Kent, England.(27)By 1628, Thomas Hatch was a teacher at the parish of Wye, co. Kent, England where he was "presented to the Bishop by the church wardens at Wye for teaching school without a license; and they presented him at every subsequent court until 9 June 1628, when he procured the necessary license."(28)According to Ms. French, Thomas immigrated to the colonies about 1638, possibly on the Castle with his family in company with his brother William. He was living in Tenterden,co. Kent, England in 1636, when his daughter, Alice, was baptized, 25 Sep 1636.  He settled in a part of Scituate that was "at that time but little cultivated, viz. three fourths of a mile west of the present townhouse[1797], near a small brook that runs in the meadow, and twenty rods west of the road."(29) This may have been in the center of an area known as the "Two Mile" where his sons, Jeremiah and Thomas, settled. The Two Mile, granted in 1640, was the only part of Scituate that crossed the North River. The southern section of the Two Mile was annexed by Pembroke in 1738 and the rest was annexed by Marshfield in 1788. There is a Hatch Pondwest of Mill Pond Lane in Marshfield that fits with the old Scituate map of the Two Mile. Mill Pond Lane runs north from the junction of Maryland Street and Union Street. Hatch Pond is on the west, south of the junction between Mill Pond Lane and Pine Street. Thomas is often referred to as Thomas of Scituate to distinguish him from a second Thomas Hatch in thecolonies at the time who is often referred to as Thomas of Dorchester or Thomas of Barnstable. Thomas of Barnstable was in the colonies before both William and Thomas of Scituate as he was propounded a freeman 14 May 1634.(30)
Thomas was propounded a freeman in Scituate 5 March, 1638/9.(31) He witnessed the will of Nathaniell Tilden on 12 May 1641. Nothing more has been discovered about Thomas. He probably died at Scituate around 1642 at about the age of 46.Thomas was not on the 1643 'Able to Bear Arms' or freeman's lists(32)for Scituate, or any other town in Plymouth Colony. No reference is made that he was "excused."(33) It is unlikelyhe was missed because his son, William, was on the list, as was his brother,William, and William's two oldest sons, Walter and John. Dean thought Thomas died closer to 1646 when he wrote, "His widow had an infant Hannah brought to baptism 1646, which was probably near the date of his death. His other earlier [children] were William and Thomas."(34)Evidently Hannah was then a child of several years.(35)Thomas and William Hatch and their children were probably anabaptists,(36)which explains why Hannah was probably a child and not an infant at the time of baptism. Dean(37) also believedthat "some" of the Hatches were anabaptists since many of their childrenwere not infants when they were baptized. In addition, Thomas and William Hatch and their children were members of the Second Church of Scituate which was an anabaptist church. Several of the children of Thomas' sons, Jeremiah and Thomas, and one of the children of his daughter, Alice, have known birth and baptism dates which support the theory that they were anabaptists.The records of Scituate make a distinction between christening(38)which was performed on infants by the First Church of Scituate and baptism of children which was performed by the Second Church of Scituate.

Birth	Abt Jun 1596	England, Kent, Ashford, Tenterden
Marriage	11 Feb 1617	Tonbridge, Kent, England, United Kingdom - Lydia Gyles
Death	Bef 14 Jun 1646	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America

Spouse	Lydia Gyles ( - 1665)
Child	William Hatch (1624 - 1702)
Child	Jeremiah Hatch (1626 - 1712)
Child	Thomas Hatch (1628 - 1686)
Child	Mary Hatch (1631 - 1656)
Child	Alice Hatch (1636 - )
Child	Lydia Hatch (1638 - 1691)
Child	Hannah Hatch (1640 - )

Father	William Hatche (1563 - 1611)
Mother	Anne Tilden? (1566 - 1629)
Sibling	John Hatch (1594 - )
Sibling	Lieut. William Hatch (1598 - 1651)
Sibling	Elizabeth Hatch (1600 - 1649)
Sibling	Judith Hatch (1602 - 1628)
Sibling	Margaret Hatch (1604 - 1629)
Sibling	Mary Hatch (1606 - )
Sibling	Hatch (1609 - 1628)
Sibling	Anne Hatch (1612 - )

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