Thomas HATCHE

                   Research from the Pane-Joyce Genealogy: Thomas Hatch. Born ca Jun 1596 at Ashford, Kent, Eng.  Thomas died at Scituate, MA, bef 14 Jun 1646.  
--- Thomas was presented to the Bishop on 19 Nov 1627 by the churchwardens of Wye for teaching school without a license. He was presented at every subsequent court until 9 Jun 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 freeman 5 Mar 1638/9. 
--- "Thomas Hatch was an older brother, probably, of William. He settled in a part of the Town at that time but little cultivated, 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. He died early. His widow had an infant Hannah brought to baptism 1646, which was probably near the date of his death."--- (This Tohomas Hatch is not the one of Dorchester, MA, freeman 14 May 1634, later of Yarmouth and Barnstable.)--- On 11 Feb 1617 Thomas married Lydia Gyles, at Tonbridge, Kent, Eng. Born at Tenterden, Ashford, Kent. Lydia died at Scituate, MA, aft 1665.--- After her marriage to John Spring, her second husband, Lydia lived for three or four years apart from him in Scituate when, on 6 Oct 1659, the court ordered that "she either repair to her husband with all convenient speed or repair to Duxburrow to the house of Mr. Alden on the 20th of the present month of October to give a reason why she does not." She was still living in Scituate in 1665. (Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, vol 3, page 174).