 1646 - 1677 (30 years)
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| Name |
Hope Atherton |
| Title |
Reverend |
| Born |
30 Aug 1646 |
Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
8 Jun 1677 |
Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I114734 |
Day Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
26 Feb 2014 |
| Father |
Major-General Humphrey Atherton, b. 1607, Preston, Lancashire, England , d. 16 Sep 1661, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA (Age 54 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Wales, b. Abt 1613, Lanchester, Minwick, England , d. 1672, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA (Age ~ 59 years) |
| Married |
1628 |
Preston, Lancashire, England [3] |
| Family ID |
F36501 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Sarah Hollister, b. 1646, Wethersfield, Hartford County, CT , d. 8 Dec 1691, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA (Age 45 years) |
| Married |
1674 [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Joseph Atherton, b. 7 Jan 1674/1675, Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA , d. Northampton, Hampshire County, MA |
| | 2. Hope Atherton, b. 7 Jan 1675, d. 1676 (Age 0 years) |
| | 3. John (Joseph) Atherton, b. 7 Jan 1675, d. 1753 (Age 77 years) |
| | 4. Sarah Atherton, b. 26 Oct 1676, Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA , d. 12 Feb 1729, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA (Age 52 years) |
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| Family ID |
F40643 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- After leaving college taught for some time the grade school at Dorchester. Began in 1669 to preach. Was ordained 1671. Freeman 1674. He served at chaplain in Philip's War to those forces employed in the neighborhood, and at the battle of the Falls in Montague. Was present 18 May 1676 under Captain Turner. During the retreat he was thrown from his horse and lost in the woods. Tradition tells that the Indians to whom he in his destitute offered to surrender, so reverence of fear, his madness or sanctity, as to refuse to record him. He reached home uninjured except in his mind, having strange hallucinations probably from exhaustion or sleeplessness or hunger. [4]
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| Sources |
- [S30] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 73 (Reliability: 3).
- [S653] http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com.
- [S322] Descendants of Humphrey Atherton and Mary Wales of England and New England (Reliability: 3).
- [S30] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England.
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