Bethia Ford

Bethia Hatch was born on 31 Mar 1661 in Scituate, MA.116,3 At the age of <1, Bethia was baptized in Scituate, MA, on 12 May 1661. Bethia died in Marshfield, MA, on 22 Nov 1728; she was 67.170 Buried in Old Burial Ground, Cong. Ch., Marshfield. She was also known as Bethiah Foord.

Parents: Walter Hatch (b. abt. 1623) and Elizabeth Holbrooke (b. abt. 1634)

Married

1. On 29 Mar 1683 in Marshfield, Massachusetts, when Bethia was 21, she married as his second wife to Michael Ford. “Michaell fford and Lydia [should be Bethia] Hatch were maryed [worn] 29 of march: 1683”. Born in 1643. Michael died on 27 Mar 1729 in Marshfield, MA.170 He was the son of William Ford (ca 1604-Sep 1676) & Anna [Ford] (-Aug or Sep 1684),

12 children of Michael Ford and Bethia Hatch include:

1. (infant daughter) Ford (Stillborn) (16 Nov 1683-17 Nov 1683)
2. (infant daughter) Ford (Stillborn) (16 Nov 1683-17 Nov 1683)
3. Thomas Ford (30 Apr 1685-22 Oct 1769)
4. Deborah Ford (24 Oct 1686-)
5. Bethiah Ford (16 Mar 1687/8-12 Nov 1773)
6. Susannah Ford (26 Jul 1689-8 Oct 1743)
7. Bathsheba Ford Born: 1 Apr 1691, Marshfield Plymouth Massachusetts [17129]. She married Ebenezer Sherman (1680-1759).
8. Ephraim Ford (18 Jul 1693-28 Sep 1775)
9. Elizabeth Ford (3 Mar 1694-)
10. Elisha Ford (19 Jan 1696-14 Nov 1758)
11. Mehitable Ford (18 Sep 1698-aft 1 Jul 1751)
12. Martha Ford (29 Oct 1700-5 Apr 1768)

Notes

(H) Walter, eldest son of Elder William and Jane Hatch, was born in England, in 1623: died in Scituate, Massachusetts, March, 1701. He is on the list of those capable of bearing arms in 1643. He settled on a point of land in Scituate, southeast of the Second Society's meeting house, and spent his life in farming. He married (first) May 6, 1650, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Jane Holbrook, of Weymouth, who was mother of all his children. He married (second) Mary, of Marshfield, August 5, 1674. Children, all born in Scituate : Hannah, born March 13, 1651 : Samuel, December 22, 1653, farmer and shipwright; Jane, March 7, 1656; Antipas, October 26, 1658, died unmarried, December 7, 1705; BETHIA, March 31, 1661, married, 1683, Michael Ford; John, July 8, 1664, died August, 1737; Israel, of further mention ; Joseph, December 9, 1669. [1]

Links

• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr06/rr06_491.htm#P2162
• http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrollrogers/ps35/p...
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ford&GSfn=bet...

Citations

1. Cutter, William R. Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co, 1912.
2. 116. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1909, two volumes.
3. 20. “The Vital Records of Marshfield, Mass.,” edited by George Ernest Bowman, Mayflower Descendant, 2: 3-7, 110-112, 179-183, 249-252; 3: 41-43, 187-189; 4: 125-126, 5: 233-237, 6: 18-21, 67-70; 7: 118-122, 131-134; 8: 42-44, 176-179; 9: 183-187.
4. 3. “Plymouth Colony vital records,” Mayflower Descendant, Transcribed by George Ernest Bowman, various volumes.
5. 170. Vital records of Marshfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1970.

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• Bethiah Hatch Ford
• Birth: Mar. 31, 1661 Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Nov. 22, 1728 Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Bethiah was the d/o Walter Hatch & Elizabeth Holbrook, she married Michael Ford 3/29/1683. Their son Elisha Ford was born 6/19/1696 and died 11/14/1758. Bethiah was a Mayflower descendant.
• Burial: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 144455344
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=144455344 ___________________
• Bethiah Hatch Foord
• Birth: Mar. 31, 1661 Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Nov. 22, 1728 Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• M. 29 Mar 1683 in Marshfield
• Was mother to eleven children:
  • Thomas Ford-1685
  • Deborah Ford-1686
  • Bethiah Ford-1687-abt 1690
  • Susannah Ford-1689
  • Bethiah Ford-1691
  • Ephraim Ford-1693
  • Elisha Ford-1696
  • Mehitable Ford-1698
  • Martha Ford-1700
  • Mitchell Robert Ford-abt 1702
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Michael Ford (1635 - 1729)*
• Children:
  • Thomas Foord (1685 - 1769)*
  • Susanna Ford Tilden (1689 - 1743)*
  • Ephraim Foord (1693 - 1775)*
  • Elisha Foord (1696 - 1758)*
  • Martha Ford Carver (1700 - 1768)*
• Burial: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 47582347
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47582347 ___________________
• CUDWORTH, James
• b. 3 JUN 1665 Scituate, Plymouth, Mass.
• d. 1729 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: CUDWORTH, James
• Mother: HOWLAND, Mary
• Family:
• Marriage: ABT 1693 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.
• Spouse: HATCH, Bethiah
• b. 31 MAR 1661 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: HATCH, Walter
• Mother: HOLBROOK, Elizabeth
• Children:
  • CUDWORTH, Keziah
  • CUDWORTH, David
  • CUDWORTH, James
  • CUDWORTH, Lydia
  • CUDWORTH, Abigail
  • CUDWORTH, Bethiah b. 1701 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.
  • CUDWORTH, Mary
  • CUDWORTH, Zerviah
  • CUDWORTH, Jesse b. 11 JAN 1705/6 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_1e3.htm#62 ___________
• HATCH, Bethia
• b. ABT 1645
• d. 22 NOV 1728 Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.
• Family:
• Marriage: 12 DEC 1667
• Spouse: FORD, Michael
• b. 1637 Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.
• d. ABT 1728 Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.
• Children:
  • FORD, Thomas
  • FORD, Deborah b. 24 OCT 1686 Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.
  • FORD, Bethia b. 16 MAR 1686/7 Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass. d. 12 NOV 1773 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.
  • FORD, Susanna
  • FORD, Bathsheba b. 1 MAR 1690/1 Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass. d. 28 SEP 1775
  • FORD, Ephraim
  • FORD, Elizabeth
  • FORD, Elisha
  • FORD, Mehitable
  • FORD, Martha
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_615.htm#22 _________
• Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation by Cutter, William Richard
• https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami05cutt
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfami05cutt#page/501/mode/1up
• The immigrant ancestor of the Hatch family of Buffalo, New York, herein recorded, was a son of Sir Walter Hatch, of England.
• (I) William Hatch, the first of his name in America, and one of the earliest settlers of Scituate, Massachusetts, was born in Sandwich, Kent county, England, from which place he emigrated to America before 1633. In the course of a year or two he went back to England for his family, and returned in March, 1635, in the ship "Hercules," with his wife Jane, five children and six servants. He settled in Scituate in Kent street in 1634, prior to his return to England, and on arriving the second time, with his family, resumed his residence there. He kept a store and was rated a merchant of ability. He was a very active and useful man in town and church, being lieutenant of militia and the first ruling elder of the Second Church of Scituate, which was founded in 1644. He died November 6, 1651. Thomas Hatch, supposed to have been an elder brother of William, lived first in Dorchester, but moved to Scituate, where he died in 1646. leaving five children: Jonathan, William, Thomas, Alice and Hannah. Children of William and Jane Hatch, all born in England : Jane, married John Lovell ; Annie, married, 1648, Lieutenant James Torrey ; Walter, of further mention : Hannah, married, 1648, Samuel Utley ; William, died in Virginia, about 1646, married Abigail Hewes, and had Phoebe; Jeremiah, died in 1713, married, in 1657, Mary Hewes, and had fourteen children.
• (II) Walter, eldest son of Elder William and Jane Hatch, was born in England, in 1623: died in Scituate, Massachusetts, March, 1701. He is on the list of those capable of bearing arms in 1643. He settled on a point of land in Scituate, southeast of the Second Society's meeting house, and spent his life in farming. He married (first) May 6, 1650, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Jane Holbrook, of Weymouth, who was mother of all his children. He married (second) Mary —— , of Marshfield, August 5, 1674. Children, all born in Scituate : Hannah, born March 13, 1651 : Samuel, December 22, 1653, farmer and shipwright; Jane, March 7, 1656; Antipas, October 26, 1658, died unmarried, December 7, 1705; Bethia, March 31, 1661, married, 1683, Michael Ford; John, July 8, 1664, died August, 1737; Israel, of further mention ; Joseph, December 9, 1669.
• (III) Israel, son of Walter and Elizabeth (Holbrook) Hatch, was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, March 25, 1667, died October, 1740. He married, July 27, 1699, Elizabeth Hatch, a kinswoman. Children : .... etc. _________________