Walter Hatch

Citations

1. [S920] Rev. Abner Morse, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston (Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1856), In the name of God Amen,
   The thirtie first of December in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred and Eight Thomas Holbrooke of Weymouth in New England being Sick and weake in body but of a good and perfect memory Thanks be to the Lord, & minding the uncertaine Estate of this Transitory Life & desiring to Settle that Estate that God hath blessed me with all, Doe make this my Last will & Testament....
   Item. I Give and bequeath unto Jane my beloved wife during her Life my whole Estate...
   Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Endeared Children all my Estate of whatever quality and quantity soever the Same Shall be that Shall remaine at my wife Janes Decease there being Six of them Three Sons & Three daughters. To be Equally divided between them alwaies provided that my Eldest Son John Holbrooke Shall have a double portion and the rest of my Estate to be Equally divided namely unto my Son William Holbrooke unto my Son Thomas Holbrooke unto my daughter Annie Reynolds unto my daughter Elizabeth Hatch and unto my daughter Jane Drake...
   
2. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2011), III:350-5.
3. [S965] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 70 (July 1916): 258names Elder William Hatch (ca. 1598–1651) as Walter's father and gives William's ancestry as "William, Thomas, John the Younger, Thomas, Thomas, John."
4. [S965] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England", 258, makes the case for a first, unknown, wife of William and the mother of Walter, who would have died shortly after Walter's birth.
5. [S965] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England", 258.