Person:Amy Allen (1)

Before her marriage Amy Allen was privileged to set under the preaching of the eminent John Mayhew who ministered to the people of Tisbury and Chilmark from 1672-1688. After coming to Falmouth for some years her nearest place of worship was the West Barnstable church with which Amy Hatch united August 3, 1701 On Oct 10, 1708 when the organization of the Falmouth church Amy with eighteen others signifying their desire to the church in Barnstable to be dismissed to the work of gathering into a church estate in Falmouth

Amy Allen Hatch was buried in the Old Burying Ground of Falmouth where her stone may yet be seen, bearing the following inscription : "Here lyes ye body of ye virtuous Mrs. Amy Hatch Wife of Mr. Joseph Hatch ye dau'r of James Allen Esq'r Died Fernery ye 24th 1709-19 in ye 47th year of her age - Falmouth Historical Society. Old Burying Ground Falmouth Enterprise p. 6 1903

1. ↑ Pack - Thomas Hatch of Barnstable.
2. ↑ The cemetary stone still standing in the 1930's in the old Burying Ground reads; "Here lyes ye body of ye virtuous Mrs. Amy Hatch, wiffe, of Mr. Joseph Hatch, ye dau'r of James Allen, Esq., Died Febr.
3. ↑ Kardell, Caroline Lewis, compiler, and R. A. Lovell. Vital records of Sandwich, Massachusetts to 1885. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).
4. ↑ Hatch-Hale, Ruth A., and Hatch Genealogical Society. Genealogy and History of the Hatch Family: Descendants of Thomas and Grace Hatch of Dorchester, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. (Salt Lake City, Utah. 1925.).
5. ↑ Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Falmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1976).
6. ↑ Amy Allen Hatch, in Find A Grave.