First Generation
1 Harriet Narcissa Hatch.    Born Cavendish, VT, on 25 Mar 1807. Died Binghamton, NY, on 29 Oct 1881.

She married Leonard Johnson , on 18 Mar 1827.

They had the following children:
i.  Harriet Narcissa (1827-1871)


ii.  Leonard Melancthon (1830-)


iii.  Uriel Chittendon (1832-1865)


iv.  Charles Hatch (1834-1867)


v.  George Munn Tracy (1838-)


vi.  Joseph Martin (1840-)


vii.  William Edward (1844-1893)


viii.  Herman Norton (1848-1868)


ix.  John Humphrey (1850-)






Second Generation
2 Uriel Chittenden Hatch.    Born East Hartford, CT, on 21 Oct 1780. Died on 19 Jun 1848.

He married Harriet Narcissa Beach .

They had the following children:
i.  Adeline Eliza


ii.  Uriel Chittenden

1 iii.  Harriet Narcissa (1807-1881)


iv.  Charles Beach


v.  Stella Lucretia


vi.  William Bradley


3 Harriet Narcissa Beach.    Died Granville, NY, on 5 Aug 1845.






Third Generation
4 Major Timothy Hatch.    Died on 10 Jun 1838.

ROLL OF HONOR

Grandfather of Harriet Narcissa Hatch, wife of Leonard Johnson, was a Revolutionary soldier. I take from the Hatch genealogy the following:

"He entered the army at the commencement of the Revolution, and at the age of nineteen was in the battle of White Plains. In this conflict he was taken prisoner by the British and suffered in the New York 'Bridwell' prison. The treatment of the prisoners, which, though not so atrocious as that of the rebels in the late war, was very cruel. He was finally exchanged, but we do not find that he was in further active service. . . . After the close of the Revolution he was a major in the militia, and at the time of the Shay's Rebellion, he was called out for its suppression."

[p. 137-43] HATCH-JOHNSON GENEALOGY

The first settlement of our family in this country was as early as 1635. The Plymouth colony received rapid accession at that time from the mother country. They penetrated the surrounding wilderness, planted their homes, and founded new towns.

About thirty miles southeasterly from Plymouth, our immigrant ancestors settled where is now the town of Falmouth. An old house which has stood more than a century and remained in possession of the family until a recent period of the family is pointed out as the old Hatch place, and undoubtedly stands upon the ground of the original settlement. None of the descendants, however, remain in that town.

Thence we trace our line downward to the State of Connecticut, whither several of that family removed at an early date, and settled in Tolland, Guilford, Windsor and other towns near Hartford.

Captain Zephaniah Hatch, whose exact succession has not yet been fixed, but is unmistakably clear as being from the Falmouth family, was a sea captain and traded with the West Indies. He lived in Guilford, where he married, 1745, Johannah, daughter of Josiah and Hannah Chittenden. Josiah was uncle of Thomas Chittenden, the first Governor of the State of Vermont. Of their fifteen children five were born in Guilford, and they then removed to Oxford in the same State. This was his residence the remainder of his life. Here he died at upwards of eighty years of age. Here their son Timothy, who is the head of our branch, was born in 1757.

Of the boyhood and early life of Timothy no account has been preserved. He entered the army at the commencement of the Revolution, and at the age of nineteen was in the battle of White Plains. In this conflict be was taken prisoner by the British and suffered in the New York "Bridewell" prison. The treatment of prisoners which, though not so atrocious as that of the rebels in the late war, was very cruel. He was finally, exchanged, but we do not find that he was in further active service. In 1778 he married Lucretia Rockwell, and settled in East Hartford, Conn., where he lived several years, and where their first two children were born. About 1784 he removed to Blanford, Mass., where he purchased a small farm and lived about twenty years. Six children were horn in Blanford. He removed to Hartford, Conn., where in connection with his son, Frederick W., he built a house on Pearl Street, opposite the old jail, which still remains in good condition. His wife Lucretia, died February 4, 1811. He married, second, Lucy Bassett, who died February 11, 1817. The third wife was Mrs. Lucinda (Martyn) Danforth, widow of Daniel Danforth, of Hartford. She was born in Hadley, Mass., June 6, 1777, and died July 3, 1853. By this marriage were three chiliron born in Hartford. After his removal to Hartford he was occupied in active business pursuits, public business, mercantile and exchange brokerage.

After the close of the Revolution he was a major in the militia and at the time of the "Shay's Rebellion" was called out for its suppression.

The character of Major Timothy Hatch would seem to partake largely of the elements ascribed to our Puritan ancestors, firm integrity, unbending adherence to principle, a strong will, persevering energy. These united with good judgment, a mind of some cultivation and stored by reading, would naturally give him success in his undertakings and a prominent place community.

In public affairs he took a lively interest and his name frequently occurs in the newspapers of that time in connection with public meetings of various sorts.

In religion he was an Episcopalian, a member of Christ Church, Hartford. He lived to the ripe age of eighty-one, and died June 10, 1838. He could count his progeny at the time of his death, eleven children, fifty-five grandchildren, and twentythree great-grandchildren, a total of eighty-nine.

In the old burying ground in Hartford are the following inscriptions: On a plain marble slab.

 TIMOTHY HATCH
Died June 10, 1838.
    Aged 81.

On a marble slab having a sculptured weeping willow.

MRS. LUCRETIA HATCH
 Died Feby. 4, 1811.
     Aged 52.

Children of Timothy and Lucretia Hatch: Timothy Linus. Frederick Winslow. Uriel Chittenden. Sherman. Lucius. Azor. Lucretia. Sarah.
Children of Timothy and Lucinda Hatch: Harry A. Lucinda Ann. Frances Maria.
I shall omit the genealogy of these children, excepting that of Uriel Chittenden.-G. M. T. J.

Uriel Chittenden, born in East Hartford, Conn., October 21, 1780; married Narcissa, daughter of Dr. Elnathan Beach, a distinguished physician in Cheshire, Conn. He studied law with General Stephen B. Bradley, of Westminster, Vt., and after acquiring his profession, went to the town of Cavendish, Vt., where he was one of the early settlers. There he attained distinction at the bar and upon the bench. He represented his town in the State legislature held for many years the office of Governor's Counsel and also that of Judge of Probate.

He removed from that town about 1830 and, after a short residence in Troy, and another in Guilford, he settled in 1834, in the village of Fitchville, in the town of Reading, all in Vermont. At the last named place he practiced his profession about ten years, until failing health obliged him to relinquish it. The death of his wife occurred August 5, 1845, at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Johnson, in Granville. N. Y.

She was a woman of great excellence of character, displaying under all circumstances, the loveliest Christian virtues. Her death weighed heavily upon him, and his health gradually declined until his death, June 19, 1848. A granite shaft marks his resting place in Greenwood Cemetery, New York.

Children, all born in Cavendish: Adeline Eliza. Uriel Chittenden. Harriet Narcissa. Charles Beach. Stella Lucretia. William Bradley.

I will now drop the Hatch genealogy with the exception of that of Harriet Narcissa, which here merges into that of the Johnson genealogy.

Harriet Narcissa was born in Cavendish, Vt., March 2, 1807, was married, March 18, 1827, to Leonard Johnson, a young Presbyterian minister.

The Hatch genealogy can be found with Edward H. Fletcher, in Nyack, Rockland Co., N. Y.
 

He married Lucretia Rockwell, in 1778.

They had the following children:
i.  Timothy Linus


ii.  Frederick Winslow

2 iii.  Uriel Chittenden (1780-1848)


iv.  Sherman


v.  Lucius


vi.  Azor


vii.  Lucretia


viii.  Sarah


5 Lucretia Rockwell. Died on 4 Feb 1811.

6 Dr. Elnathan Beach.

Child:

 3 i.  Harriet Narcissa (-1845)





Fourth Generation
8 Zephaniah Hatch.

He married Joanna Chittenden, on 31 Oct 1745.

They had one child:

 4 i.  Timothy (-1838)

9 Joanna Chittenden.

[p. 134-37] CHITTENDEN-HATCH GENEALOGY

The Chittenden family was one of the progenitors of the Leonard Johnson branch, uniting with the Hatch family October 31, 1745, when Joanna Chittenden, whose ancestry is recorded in the genealogy of William Chittenden, of Guilford, Conn., was married to Zephiniah Hatch.

From the Chittenden genealogy a copy of wHIch 1 obtained from Dr. Joseph H. Chittenden, of Binghamton, N. Y., records that William Chittenden was one of a company of twenty-five gathered chiefly from the counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, England, sailed from England to America about May 20, 1639. Arriving in New Haven about July 10. They made arrangements for settling in Guilford in the autumn of the same year. The deed of land for the colony from Shaumpishuh, the sachem squaw of Minunkatuck is dated September 29, 1639. William Chittenden came from the parish Cranbrook, in Kent, some thirty-five miles southeast of London.

There is quite an account of the life and public character of William Chittenden recorded in the Chittenden genealogy, to which, for further information I would refer. I will condense some portions.

Mr. Chittenden was the principle military man of the plantation, bearing the title of Lieutenant. Savage states, p. 381, that: "He had been a soldier in the English army in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years' War and that he reached the rank of Major." He was a magistrate of the plantation and deputy to the General Court until his death.

William Chittenden was married while in England to Joanna Sheaffe, daughter of Dr. Edmond and Joanna Sheaffe, of Cranbrook, Kent. (Dorothy Sheaffe, sister of Joanna, was the wife of Rev. Henry Whitfield, first minister and leading member of the Guilford Colony.) It is probable that two or more of his children were born in England. The birth of his sixth child, Hannah, is on the Guilford records, at the date of November 15, 1649.

Mr. Chittenden died at about the age of sixty-seven.

Thomas Chittenden, son of William, probably born in England, married Joanna Jordan, daughter of John and Anna Jordan, of Guilford. He died October, 1683. They had seven children, the youngest of which was Josiah, born 1677. He married, January 8, 1707, Hannah Sherman, of Woodbnry, Conn., daughter of John and Elizabeth Sherman. She died, aged sixtyfour, July 30, 1744. Josiah died in Guilford, August 28, 1759, aged eighty-two.

They had six children.

The third child, Joanna Chittenden, was born January 2, 1716, probably in Guilford. She married Zephaniah Hatch, October 31, 1745. Here we leave the Chittenden genealogy (a book of 262 pages, bringing down to 1880, giving the record of 1061 names), and I condense from the genealogy of Major Timothy Hatch, of Hartford, Conn., and his descendants.

The Hatch genealogy was compiled by Edward H. Fletcher, residing in 1905, in Nyack, N. Y., son of Adeline F. Hatch, daughter of Uriel Chittenden Hatch, who was a son of Timothy Hatch, in the year 1879. I shall copy from his work in tracing to the birth of Harriet Narcissa Hatch, who married Leonard Johnson, son of John<2>, son of John<1>. From that point I shall take fresher records.   G. M. T. JOHNSON.
 





Fifth Generation
18 Josiah Chittenden.  Born in 1677. Died Guilford, CT, on 28 Aug 1759.

He married Hannah Sherman, on 8 Jan 1707.

They had one child:

 9 i.  Joanna

19 Hannah Sherman.  Died on 30 Jul 1744.





Sixth Generation
36 Thomas Chittenden.  Died in Oct 1683.

He married Joanna Jordan.

They had the following children:
i.  Six older children

18 ii.  Josiah (1677-1759)

37 Joanna Jordan.

38 John Sherman.

He married Elizabeth.

They had one child:

 19 i.  Hannah (-1744)

39 Elizabeth.





Seventh Generation
72 William Chittenden.

ROLL OF HONOR

From the Chittenden genealogy I condense the following: Mr. Chittenden sailed from England to America about May 20, 1639, arriving in New Haven about July 10. He was the principal military man of the plantation, bearing the title of Lieutenant. Savage states, p. 381, that "He had been a soldier in the English army in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years' War and that he reached the rank of Major." He was a magistrate of the plantation and deputy to the General Court till his death, at about the age of sixty-seven.
 

He married Joanna Sheaffe.

They had one child:

 36 i.  Thomas (-1683)

73 Joanna Sheaffe.

74 John Jordan.

He married Anna.

They had one child:

 37 i.  Joanna

75 Anna.





Eighth Generation
146 Dr. Edmond Sheaffe.

He married Joanna.

They had the following children:

 73 i.  Joanna


ii.  Dorothy

147 Joanna.

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