Person:William Gifford (1)

William Gifford was a Quaker and Lydia Hatch was his second wife.

William with his father in 1685 founded the Friends Meeting at West Falmouth

   Sources:
  
   Text: Genealogial Notes of Barnstable Families, Otis, Amos; 2 vols in one; 1888/90; reprinted Geneal Publ Co 1979, 1991. [RE Carroll library] Reliability variable. Some errors
   Text: Little Compton Families, Wilbour, Benj F. Little Compton Historical Soc. Little Compton RI 1967. From NEHGS Circulating Libr. Call F/89/L8W5. 
   Text: Genealogial Notes of Barnstable Families, Otis, Amos; 2 vols in one; 1888/90; reprinted Geneal Publ Co 1979, 1991. [RE Carroll library] Reliability variable. Some errors
   Text: married a Mr. Gifford, a Quaker

1.   Ward, Azuba Ruth (Azuba Ruth Seaver). The Hatch Family: descendants of Lewis Hatch of Lee, Massachusetts and Granville, New York, from Thomas Hatch of Barnstable, Massachusetts. (Bellevue, Washington: A.R. Ward, c1985).
2. ↑ Rounds, H. L. Peter. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts probate records: Bristol County, Massachusetts probate records. (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987)
   5:389.

   WILL:
   Dated Feb. 25, 1737 Falmouth, MA. Names wife Lydia; sons: Gideon, Jabez, Gershom, Justice, Seth, William, Silas, Nathan, Melatiah & Joseph; daughters: Experience Wing, Mehitable Willis, Hannah Butler, Harris (Amy Harrison), Temperance Gifford & Sarah Gifford; grandchildren: children of daughter Mary Willis. Exor: Justice Gifford, Stephen Bowerman & Thomasn Bowerman Jr. Alternate-Benjamin Bowerman. Witnesses: Benjamin Swift, Samuel Bowerman & Ezra Bourne. [Barnstable Co. Probates 5:389]

3.   William Gifford of Sandwich, Mass., in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   128:241.
4.   First wife believed to have been Hannah as she would have been the only Hannah Gifford who could have signed son Gershom Gifford's marriage record.