Kaye Hooley
© January 22, 2000
Updated January 22, 2000
From Torrey's New England Marriages Before 1700: BARSTOW, Jeremiah
(-1676) & Lydia [HATCH] (1633?-), dau Thomas, m/2 Richard STANDLAKE
ca 1677; by 1676 Scituate.
His sources
Barry, John S., A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass. (Boston:
Samuel Drake, 1853) page 213.
Savage, James A., Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of
New England, 1860-62, Vol 1:128.
Deane, Samuel, History of Scituate, Mass. (1831, reprint No. Scituate,
Mass.: Bates & Vinal, 1899, page 218.
Did Thomas Hatch (c. 1596-1642) and Lydia Giles have a daughter named Lydia? I believe they did.
Lydia appears in the will(1) of Richard Stanlake in 1691 where he names his "wife Lidia ... [and] brother in law Jeremiah Hatch." According to Torrey, Lydia Barstow, former wife of Jeremiah Barstow and daughter of Thomas Hatch, married Richard Standlake about 1677.(2)A further clue is given in New England Court Orders(3) recorded November 1, 1679 when William Hatch was named an executor with Lydia Standlake who was appointed guardian to her two sons, John and Jeremiah Barstow, to pay the two sons a legacy left them in the will of their great uncle, Micael Barstow." (New England Court Orders, 1679.)
A note that appears to be added later indicates that the William Hatch is William Hatch, Sr. (son of Thomas Hatch). The will of Richard Sandlake; Torrey's reference to Thomas Hatch; and the Court Order referring to William Hatch all indicate that Lydia was a Hatch.
Who was Lydia?
There are at least six known Lydia Hatches from Plymouth County and one in Barnstable County - all born prior to 1700.
In 1679, Lydia Standlake, was appointed co-executor with William Hatch (her brother?) of the estates of her sons, John and Jeremiah Barstow. They were her sons from a prior marriage to Jeremiah Barstow. The way the appointment is worded, she was probably already named as guardian of John and Jeremiah. Lydia's husband, Jeremiah Barstow, of Scituate, had been killed by indians Sunday, 26 March 1675/1676 near Pawtucket Falls in Bristol County. He was one of about 100 men under Captain Michael Pierce who had been pressed into duty to pursue indians that were raiding and killing up and down Plymouth Colony during King Phillip's War.(14) One of Lydia's sons was probably born about 1667. Assuming this is correct the other son would have been born about two years earlier in 1665. Also assuming the first child was born within the first two years of the marriage Jeremiah and Lydia would have married around 1663.Lydia Hatch was probably born in England about 1627, daughter of Thomas Hatch of Barnstable.(4) She married Henry Taylor 19 Dec 1650.(5) She probably died before 1665 in Barnstable.Lydia Hatch born 28 Apr 1653 in Scituate to William Hatch, Jr. (c. 1629-1653) and Abigail Hewes. She died 2 May 1653 a few days after her birth.(6)
Lydia Hatch born 7 Jan 1654 in Scituate to William Hatch, Sr. (c. 1624-1702) and Susannah Annible.(7) She married John Barstow 16 Jan 1678(8) when she was 24 years old. John and Lydia were named as husband and wife in an agreement between John Barstow and Lydia's brother, William Hatch, Jr. in the1702 settlement of the estate of William Hatch, Sr.(9)
Lydia Hatch born about 1669 in Scituate to Jeremiah Hatch, Sr. (c. 1626-1712) and Mary Hewes.(10) She married John Dillingham of Sandwich, Barnstable, MA about 1695. She is named in the wills of her parents (11)as Lydia Dillingham in 1712 and 1713. She is suggested as the Lydia that first married Richard Standlake in the NEHGR 128:18.(12) Lydia had an older sister, Lydia who died in 1664.
Lydia Hatch born 16 Oct 1699 in Scituate to Israel Hatch, Sr. (1667-1740) and Elizabeth F. Hatch.(13) She was born after the death of Richard Standlake.
Difficulty comes in assigning birth dates and parents to both Jeremiah and Lydia. Both were probably born by 1645 and both were from Scituate. With the exception of Lydia Hatch of Barnstable who was born around 1629 and married to Henry Taylor from 1650 until her death about 1665, none of the Lydias named above were born prior to1653.
Michael Barstow of Watertown made his will on 23 of June 1674. In it he makes bequests to the children of his brothers, William, John, and George, all deceased. The only children named are Michael, John, and Jeremiah, the three children of his brother John. After a series of other bequests, Michael instructed that the remainder of his estate be divided into ten equal shares, two of which were to be given to the two children of his brother George and the remaining eight to be given to the children of his brother, William, "that is to each child a single share of the tenn shares or parts."(15) The date of probate is not given, but Lydia Standlake and William Hatch were appointed in 1679, "to pay the two sons a legacy left them in the will of their great uncle, Micael Barstow."(16)
There is controversy regarding the father of Jeremiah Hatch. Both John Barstow of Dedham, Norfolk, MA. and William Barstow of Scituate have been named as Jeremiah's father. John was born about 1625, being age 33 at his death in 1658 and had three children named in his brother's will: Michael, John and Jeremiah with Jeremiah probably being the youngest born between 1650 and 1658 in Dedham. Since the dates are only approximate and could be off by several years, this is not evidence that Jeremiah, son of John, was or was not the Jeremiah that married Lydia Hatch. A more plausible Jeremiah is the son of William Hatch with William being the second oldest, after Michael.
Arthur Hitchcock Radasch has written two books on the Barstow family.(17) The first covers the descendants of John and George Barstow and the second covers the descendants of William Barstow. Radasch did not include a Jeremiah as the son of William and wrote and that William Barstow had seven children which contradicts the will of Michael Barstow. Whether William or John was the father of Jeremiah, Jeremiah's uncle, Michael, would have been the great uncle of his sons, John and Jeremiah.
Thomas Hatch and Lydia Giles had six children: William (1624-1702), Jeremiah (c. 1626-1712), Thomas (c. 1628-1684), Mary (born about 1631 and died before 1656), Alice ( - 1636), and Hannah (born about 1639 - ). The will of Richard Standlake refers to "brother in law, Jeremiah Hatch." William Hatch (probably senior) was made co-executor with Lydia Barstow Standlake. An interesting connection between Richard Standlake and Thomas Hatch is when they took some of their children for baptism the same day, 25 June 1682, at the Second Church of Scituate. Thomas' children were Mary, Thomas, Hannah, Abigail, and Joseph and Richard's children were Lydia and Abigail.(NEHGR 57:318). It is also interesting to note that Thomas and Lydia did not have a daughter by the name of Lydia. They had room for another child about 1633 or 1636. Also, all of the Hatches of Scituate in the 1600s were descendants of Thomas or his brother, Elder William.
The Lydias above were either too young to be married in 1667. In order to fit known facts, Lydia had to be born in 1645 or earlier; be the daughter of Thomas; had to have a brother, Jeremiah; and had to have a connection to William Hatch, Sr.
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Footnotes:
1. Mayflower Descendant 31:62-63 from Plymouth County Probate Records p. 109-111.
2. Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Gen. Publ. Co., Inc., 1895, 1992, pp 47. "Barstow, Jeremiah ( - 1676) & Lydia [Hatch] )1633?-), dau Thomas, m/2 Richard Stanlake ca 1677; Scituate"
3. Shurtleff, N. B. (Ed.), 1856. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Court Orders, vol. 1 1678-691. William White, Boston (FHL microfiche 6046866) page 23, Nov. 1, 1679.
4. French, Elizabeth, "Genealogical Research in England," NEHGR 70:256, Boston, 1916: On March 3, 1662-3 "Administration on his [Jonathan Hatch of Barnstable] estate was granted to Jonathan Hatch and Lydia, wife of Henry Taylor, who were, without doubt, his children." Taken from Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, Vol. 4, p. 31.
5. Mayflower Descendant 14:86 from Barnstable Vital Records p. 383 and Mayflower Descendant 18:203 from Plymouth Colony Vital Records.
6. Vital Records of Scituate 1:175; Mayflower Descendant 17:201 reprint of Plymouth Colony Records, "Marriages, Births & Burials," page 8:33; and NEHG 70:259.
7. Mayflower Descendant 17:75 reprint of Plymouth Colony Records, "Marriages, Births & Burials," page 22 as reprinted in the Mayflower Descendant, 17:75. Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1909, 1:175.
9. Settlement of the Estate William Hatch, Sr. Plymouth County Probate Records 1686 - 1903 p. 10.
10. Scituate Births, Marriages & Deaths 1635-1800, page 73. NEHGR 70:257; Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1909, 1:175. Baptism record taken from church record, Second Church of Scituate.
11. The American Genealogist, New Haven, Conn.., 35:9-11, 1959.
12. Anderson, Robert Charles, "Rebecca Hatch of Sandwich, Mass", NEHGR 128:13, Boston, 1974.
13. Scituate Births, Marriages & Deaths 1635-1800, page 143. Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1909, 1:175.
14. NEHGR , Boston, ________, 44:69-71 from the letter of Noah Newman written the day after the battle.
15. Will of Michael Barstow reprinted in NEHGR 8:169-170.
17. Radasch, Arthur Hitchcock, Barstow - Bester Genealogy, descendants of John Barstow and George Barstow, 1964 and The William Barstow Family; genealogy of the descendants of William Barstow, 1966. Both books were published by the author.