Shadrach Hathaway

This concerns his son Shadrach:

Shadrach Hathaway, the eldest son of Shadrach Hathaway, of Suffield, then in Massachusetts, but later in Connecticut, and grandson of Deacon Abraham and Rebecca (Wilbur) Hathaway, of that part of Taunton which is now Berkley, Massachusetts, was born in Suffield, February 1, 1717-18 ; his father died in 1721. His mother was Deborah, third daughter of John and Abigail (Dudley) Kent, of Suffield.

He was employed in November, 1745, to teach a public school in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts (where many of his father's family resided), for a year, with L75 (pounds) old tenor as compensation. He seems to have continued thus employed, there and in the adjoining town of Berkley, until his death. He was one of the original members of the Congregational Church gathered in Freetown in 1747, and also held the position of chorister.

He died in Freetown, December 3, 1749, in his 33d year, and is buried there.

Probably he was never married. His estate was administered by his relatives in Suffield; it was valued at L547 (pounds), and included a library of fifty-six volumes.

AUTHORITIES.

N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register, viii, 285. Gen, E. W. Peirce, MS. letters, 1884.

(from Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the college history ... By Franklin Bowditch Dexter Published by H. Holt and company, 1885)