Person:John Hathaway (4)

Lived in "The Farms", then part of Taunton, and now part of Berkley, MA. Ensign John served as Deputy to the Plymouth Colony General Court 1680-1684 and 1691, and to the General Court of MA in 1696-1697. He was constable in 1676 and 1691, a frequent juror, an attorney of record, and co-founder of the Chartley Iron Works of Norton.

Married first about 1649, at Freetown,

MA. Married second Dec. 25, 1692 at First Church, Braintree, MA, Ruth (b. 1642; d. Sep. 10, 1705, Taunton, MA; bur. Fox Burying Ground, Berkley, MA), the widow of Christopher DYER. The inventory of widow Ruth HATHAWAY's estate was taken Jan. 23, 1705/6.

1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:376.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Hathaway of Taunton, in Boyer, Carl. Ancestral lines: 206 families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (Santa Clarita, California: C. Boyer, c1998)
   289.

   Ensign John Hathway, born perhaps in England about 1629, died probably in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1705.