When Hepzibah Hatch was born on 16 February 1690, in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Moses Hatch, was 26 and her mother, Hepzibah Eddy, was 26. She married Benjamin Nye on 11 April 1710, in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died before 1 August 1722, in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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By 1717, Barnstable had grown so large that the Town Meeting had decided to divide the town into two precincts – East and West Parishes – West Parish serving the villages of Cotuit, Marstons Mills, Osterville and of course West Barnstable. Construction of the West Parish Meetinghouse took two years; the first service of worship was on Thanksgiving Day, 1719. After just four years the Meetinghouse was deemed too small; it was divided in half: the ends were pulled apart by 18 feet and widened. A bell tower – one of the first in New England – was erected, and the gilded cock was ordered from England to serve as a weathervane. That Rooster still crowns the tower today.
English: habitational name from Hatch (Bedfordshire, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire), Hacche in South Molton (Devon), or else a topographic name from residence near a hatch, a gate leading to a forest or sometimes a sluice-gate, from Middle English hacche ‘gate’ (Old English hæcce, Kentish Old English hec(c)). This name has been in Ireland since the 17th century, associated with County Meath and the nearby part of Louth.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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