Timothy Hatherly

Historical Collections of Mass, 2nd series, vol 4, pg 241:

Timothy Hatherly, one of the merchant adventurers, arrived at Plymouth on the "Ann", 1623, where he soon suffered a loss by fire, which induced his return to England. He came back, however, in 1632, and arrived in Boston, whence he repaired to Scituate, of which town he must be considered, as we have suggested, the father and principal founder. He was successively an assistant of Plymouth Colony, 1636, Treasurer, 1639, a commissioner of the United Colonies, and from all concurrent testimony, a very useful public and private character. He died 1666, leaving no children to bear up his respectable name. Hatherly was a liberal in principle. When the Plymouth Colony, following the lead of Mass, enacted penal laws against the Quakers, only two men, Hatherly and his life-long friend, James Cudworth, of all the magistrates, entered a strong protest. Their influence was such that the Plymouth penal laws, though similar to those of Mass, were not enforced with the same rigor. No Quakers were put to death in the Plymouth Colony, and Quakers were allowed to follow their own faith. No doubt that the fact his own step son-in-law, ZGeorge Sutton, was a quaker influenced his thinking.

Hatherly remembered his step children very generously in his will when he died. Lydia Huckstep Tilden Hatherly died in 1672 and is buried at Scituate in the "Men of Kent Cemetery."