page 66 “William Hatcher was a member of the house of Burgesses, 1644-45-46, 1549 1659-59. His son, Benjamin Hatcher, was born 1644 and married to Elizbeth Greenhough. They had (besides others) a son Henry Hatcher, who married Susanna Williamson. They had (besides others) a son Frederick Hatcher, who was married, as above stated, in 1756, to 164 Sarah Woodson.
He died in 1783 and she in 1813, leaving a number of children whose names have not been ascertained.
… Tradition says that our first American ancestor, William Hatcher, came over in company with Sir Harry Vane, the latter going to Massachusetts.
William Hatcher located in Virginia, where he received a grant of 200 acres of land in Henrico county in 1636. He was a successful planter
page 67 and politician. He was born in 1614, and received his education before he left England He was elected a member of the house of burgesses from Henrico county, Virginia, in 1644 and was reelected in 1645. He was again burgess in 1649, 1652 and 1654. In November, 1634, he was compelled to beg the pardon of the house of burgesses for calling the speaker, Col. Edward Hill, “an athiest, a blasphemer and a devil.” He was afterwards eleted burgess in 1658 and again in 1659. In 1676 he was fined a large quantity of pork for the part he took in Bacon’s Rebellion, which Bancroft, in his History of the United States, says he was presented by the grand jury for not attending church. He married — and died in 1680 at the age of sixty-six. He left issues:
1. Benjamin Hatcher . . .
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page 69 II Edward Hatcher, son of William Hatcher, the emigrant, born in Henrico county, Virginia in 1633. He owned the famous “Neck of Land” plantation. He took part in Bacon’s Rebellion. He married Mary — and died in or before 1710. Edward and Mary Hatcher had issue: Sarah, who married — Turpin; Martha, who married Richard Gower; William, who married a daughter of John Burton, and died in 1736; John, who married Mary, a daughter of Robert Hancock, and moved to Edgecomb county, North Carolina, where he was living in 1737 and had there a son John; Seth; Edward, who married in or before 1737; Martha, widow of Joseph Tanner.
III. Henry Hatcher, son of William Hatcher, the emigrant, born in Henrico county, married Ann, daughter of Henry Lound, and died in 1677. They had issue: William Henry, Ann and Mary Hatcher.
IV. William Hatcher, a son of William Hatcher, the emigrant, born in Henrico county, Virginia, and died unmarried in 1694. . . .