Born: 1613. 2 3 Born in ENGLAND according to most accounts, which refer to him as "The Immigrant."
Parents: UNKNOWN ( commonly believed to be descended from the Careby Hatchers of Lincolnshire, England; no documention)
Married: unknown.
Death: 1678. 2
Will: written 22 Feb. 1677. 7
Notes:
1 JUNE 1636: William Hatcher, 200 acs. Henricoe Co., 1 June 1636, p. 353. S.E. upon Appomattuck River, s. W. with a small Cr., N.E. towards Pearse his stile Cr. & n.W. into the woods adj. neare to land of Elizabeth Ward, Widdowe. 50 acs. for his own per. adv. & 150 acs. for trans. of 3 pers [transportation of 3 persons]: Richard Radford, John Winchester, Alice Emmerton. 4
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Henrico Co., VA. 1644-45, 1649, 1652, 1658-59. 5
Acts of Assembly, Nov. 1654:
PUBLIQUE ORDERS OF ASSEMBLY
"Whereas, Col. Edward Hill, unanimously chosen Speaker of this House, was afterward maliciously reported by William Hatcher to be an atheist and blasphemer, according to an information exhibited against him the last Quarter-court, from which the Honourable Governor and Council then cleared the said Edward Hill, and now certified the same unto the House; and forasmuch as the said William Hatcher, notwithstanding he had notice given him of the Governor and Council's pleasure therein, and of the said Col. Hill being cleared as aforesaid, hath also reported that 'the mouth of this House was a devil,' nominating and meaning thereby the said Right Worshipfull Col. Edward Hill, it is therefore ordered by this House, that the said William Hatcher, upon his knees, make an humble acknowledgment of his offence unto the said Col. Edward Hill and Burgesses of this Assembly; which accordingly was performed, and then he, the said Hatcher, was dismissed, paying his fees." 1 6
30 JULY 1676: He was a participant in Bacon's Rebellion.
Acts of Assembly, 15 March 1676-77:
PUBLIQUE ORDERS OF ASSEMBLY
"William Hatcher being brought before the court for uttering divers mutinous words tending to the disquiett of this his majesties countrey, and it being evidently made appeare what was layd to his charge by divers oaths, and a jury being impannelled to assesse the damages, who bring in their verdict that they award the said Hatcher to pay tenn thousand pound of tobacco and caske, which verdict of the jury this honourable court dothe confirme; but in respect the said Hatcher is an aged man, the court doth order that the said Hatcher doe pay with all expedition eight thousand pounds of drest pork unto his majesties commander of his forces in Henrico county, for the supply of the souldiers, which if he fayle to doe, that he pay eight thousand pounds of tobacco and caske and caske the next cropp and pay costs." 6
Spouse: MARY (UNKNOWN) 2
CHILDREN OF EDWARD HATCHER AND MARY (UNKNOWN):
EDWARD HATCHER(*?) b. about 1632 d. 1711.
BENJAMIN HATCHER b. 1644 d. 1727.
HENRY HATCHER d. about 1677.
Sources:
1. "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Vol. I," Bishop William Meade, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1966.
2. "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975," Compiled by Mary Louise Marshall Hutton, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.
3. Age given by Deposition in County Records 1677-1705 (Henrico County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1677-1705 , compiled by Benjamin B Weisinger III).
4. "Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666; Nell Marion Nugent, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1963.
5. The Colonial Virginia Register, New River Notes, Historical and Genealogical Resources for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia.
6. "Hening's Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the first session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619," William Waller Hening.
7. Henrico County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1677-1705 , compiled by Benjamin B Weisinger III.
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