Generation 1

ROBERT HATHERLY of Winkleigh

Parents: Unknown

Robert Hatherly married Elinor Unknown.

Elinor wrote her will in 1637. She calls her daughter Eylin Hanver. [Ref]

Children of Robert Hatherly and Elinor Unknown:

1. Eglin Hatherly was baptised on 8 Jun 1586 in Winkleigh. She married first Unknown Downe. She married second Jeffrey Hanford. She married third Robert Sillis.
2. Timothy Hatherly was baptised on 29 Sep 1588 in Winkleigh. [Ref] He died on 24 Oct 1666. [Ref] He married first Alice Collard on 26 Dec 1614 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey. [Ref] He married second Susan Unknown. [Ref] He married third Lydia, the widow of Nathaniel Tildon. [Ref] He left no children. [Ref] Timonthy wrote his will on 20 Sep 1664. He mentions Nicholas Wade's wife [his niece, Elizabeth Hanford] and her child. [Ref]
   Timothy, a felt maker, was one of the London Merchant Adventurers. He visited Plymouth in 1621 and emigrated on the William and Mary in 1632. He settled in Scituate. He was Treasurer of Plymouth Colony in 1640: also a Commissioner of the United Colonies in 1645, 1646 and 1650. [Ref] He opposed the oppression of the Quakers. [Ref]
   Timothy was one of the four London Merchant Adventurers given a large grant of land in what would later be Scituate in 1637. This grant was the subject of much controversy as settlers already resided within its bounds. Mr. Hatherly purchased the grant from the other three adventurers, reserved a quarter, and divided the rest into 30 shares which he sold for £180 to the "Conihassett partners". As many of these partners were settlers who were already resident, this represented an amicable solution.
   The northwest boundary of the town of Scituate was also the boundary between Plymouth colony and Massachusetts and it was the subject of much controversy. In 1637 Timothy was one of the Commissioners appointed to settle this boundary; the attempt was ultimately unsuccessful. [Ref]

Generation 2

EGLIN HATHERLY (bp. 1586)

Parents: Robert Hatherly and Elinor Unknown

Eglin Hatherly was baptised on 8 Jun 1586 in Winkleigh. [Ref] She married first Unknown Downe. [Ref] She married second Jeffrey Hanford on 31 Mar 1611 in Fremington, Devonshire. [Ref] She married third Robert Sillis of Scituate. [Ref]

Eglin migrated to New England in 1635 on the Defence. On 10 Apr 1635 Eglin Hanford, described as age 46, and her two daughters, Margaret, age 16, and Elizabeth, age 14, were enrolled as passengers. They were accompanied by Rodolphus Elmes, age 15, and Thomas Stanley, age 16. [Ref] Rodolphus was later one of the Conihassett Partners of Scituate. He married Catherine, the daughter of John Whitcomb, on 25 Nov 1644 in Scituate. [Ref]

"Egglin Hanford, Mr. Hatherley's sister" was admitted to the Scituate church on 21 Nov 1635. [Ref]

References

Church Records

Encyclopedias

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Entries for Edward Foster and Timothy Hatherly.

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 3, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Entry for Eglin Hatherley.

Family Genealogies

History

Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620 - 1691, Salt Lake City, Ancestry, 1986.

Local Histories

Deane, Samuel, History of Scituate Massachusetts, Digital Scanning Inc, 2002.

Vital Records

W. H. W., "Early Marriages and Births in Scituate, Mass. Prior to 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Society 18, 1864, 285-287.; 19, 1865, 219-221.

Wills

Winsor, Justin, "Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4, 1850, 33-36,173-174,280-284,319-320; 5, 1851, 259-262,335-338,385-388; 6, 1852, 93-96, 185-188.