John Hatfield, Captain [14101] Details

John Hatfield, Captain [G1]
b.1740 ca - Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England
d.1804 16 Nov - Fox River, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
----- Marriages -----
m01. 1778 28 Jun - NY, NY + Mary Lockerman (10 Children)
----- Children -----
John W Hatfield [G3]
Elizabeth Hatfield [G80]
George Wilson Hatfield [G108]
Mary Polly Hatfield [G122]
Richard Hatfield [G135]
Jane Hatfield [G136]
Ann Nancy Hatfield [G145]
Isaac Hatfield [G152]
Thomas Hatfield [G161]
James Edward Hatfield [G162]

Peter Tong
Hatfield docs: Petition of Mary (Lockerman) Hatfield
  
Petition of Mary Hatfield, Widow of Capt. John Hatfield (National 
Archives of Canada, Reel B4692,
War Office Records 42/61), commencing on p. 82:
Page 88:
These are to certify that it appears by a Register, now in my possession, 
which was kept by the
late Right Reverend Charles Inglis, formerly Rector of Trinity Church in 
New York, and subsequently
Bishop of Nova Scotia, that "John Hatfield and Mary Lockerman were 
married by him, by Licence", at
New York, on the 28th of June 1778. Halifax, Nova Scotia (signed) John 
Nova Scotia March 27, 1826.
I do hereby certify that the above is the Certificate of the Right Rev'd 
The Lord Bishop of Nova
Scotia and I have no doubt that it is sufficient Evidence of the marriage 
to which it refers. (signed)
James Kempt
Page 89:
Required for placing on the Pension List the Widow of an officer who died 
on Half Pay. Mary
Hatfield of Parsboro in Kings County in Nova Scotia came this day before 
me and made oath that she
was lawfully married at New York in the now United States of America on 
the twenty eighth day of
June one thousand seven hundred and seventy Eight to John Hatfield late a 
captain on the Half Pay of
the late Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers who died at Parsboro aforesaid 
in this Province of Nova
Scotia on the Sixteenth day of November one thousand Eight hundred and 
four and that she has no
Pension Allowance or provision from Government and such her marriage took 
place before the said
John Hatfield was placed on the Halfpay.
Sworn before me at Parsboro this sixth day of December 1827. (signed) 
Mary Hatfield, her mark.
(witnessed by) Jas. Ratchford J.P. Parrsborough, Nova Scotia.
Page 90:
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the Petitioner 
Mary Hatfield. That she is a
widow and resides in this Parish. That tho I cannot make any declaration 
of the truth of the matters
contained in the annexed Petition from my own knowledge (my residence in 
Parrsboro being only five
years duration), yet I do verily believe all the material facts stated in 
the said Petition are true. And
moreover that her husband Capt. John Hatfield mentioned in the said 
Petition died at Parrsboro on the
sixteenth day of Nov'br in the year of Our Lord 1804 of consumption and 
was buried in the same place
aged upwards of sixty years. (signed) Geo. E.W. Morris, Rector of St. 
Georges, Parrsboro, N.S.
Page 91:
Province of Nova Scotia, Kings County.
To the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury 
or the Right
Honorable the Secretary at War. The Humble Petition of Mary Hatfield of 
Parsboro in Kings County in
the Province aforesaid Widow and Relict of John Hatfield late of the same 
place Esquire deceased.
Most respectfully Sheweth: That your Petitioner's said Husband departed 
this life at Parsboro aforesaid
about twenty one years ago leaving your Petitioner his Widow in very 
[--?--] circumstance and with a
large family to maintain and support. That the said Husband in or about 
the year one thousand seven
hundred and seventy six in the Colonies then belonging to His late 
Majesty in North America joined
the Brigade called "Skinners Brigade" of New Jersey Volunteers then 
raising in those Colonies and held
the rank of Captain in one of the Battalions there of which your 
Petitioner believes was the third and
was on full pay for a considerable time therein and engaged in active 
Service, but owing to several
disastrous circumstances the said Brigade was never completed to its full 
number of Regiments and
those which were raised were disbanded, on which her said Husband went 
upon the Half Pay of his
rank of Captain and without receiving any difference on Exchange and was 
in the receipt of Half Pay
till his death.
That before the reduction of the said regiment your Petitioner was 
married to the said John
Hatfield at New York on the twenty eighth day of June one Thousand Seven 
Hundred and Seventy
Eight by the late Right Reverend Charles Inglis Bishop of Nova Scotia who 
was then Rector of Trinity
Church in that City, and your Petitioner afterwards with her said Husband 
and other married officers of
the same Brigade came to this Province in or about the year Seventeen 
hundred and Eighty three and
subsequently settled at Parsboro aforesaid. That the original Certificate 
of your Petitioner's said
marriage signed by the said Rector remained till sometime past in your 
Petitioner's hands but became
greatly worn and obliterated, and was finally so torn and defaced that 
application was necessarily
made to His Worship the present Bishop of Nova Scotia for a Certificate 
from a Record in his possession
of Marriages kept by the late Bishop his Father at New York of her said 
Marriage and she humbly
refers to the annexed Certificate thereof granted to her by his Lordship 
and certified by His Excellency
Sir James Kempt the Lieutenant Governor of this Province. That your 
Petitioner humbly apprehends
that she is within the terms of the regulations under which Pensions have 
been and are granted to the
Widows of Officers who have been married and placed on the Half Pay and 
therefore respectfully
solicits permission to apply for the pension which in similar cases His 
Majesty of His Royal
benevolence hath been graciously pleased to grant to the Widows of 
Officers of the Land Forces. That
your Petitioner is now in the Sixty Eighth year of her age and subject to 
very many Privations in
addition to those which attend declining years and her advanced period of 
life But notwithstanding her
necessities did not owing to her residence in a sequestered part of the 
Country know that any Pension
or Allowance was granted to Widows under similar circumstances with 
herself and first supposed
herself within the objects of His Majesty's benevolence when she heard 
that a Pension had been
allotted to the Widow of Captain Leonard an officer in one of the same 
Regiments of New Jersey
Volunteers. Wherefore she most respectfully and earnestly entreats from 
your Lordship a favorable
Consideration of her case and as the situation and rank of her said 
Husband and continuance in the
service will fully appear from the Returns from the said Regiment or 
Brigade preserved in the proper
Office, She prays that the Pension usually granted in such cases may be 
allowed to her as the Widow
of the deceased, and that should this her humble application be admitted 
her case may also be
regarded as a proper one for such Pensions to be allowed from such 
earlier Period as it may be thought
reasonable, in reference to the reason she has assigned for the lateness 
of the present Petition. And
your Petitioned will ever pray. (signed) Mary Hatfield, her mark, 
Parsboro Nova Scotia, December 6th
1827
Page 92:
We the Subscribers principal Inhabitants of Parsboro in Kings County do 
hereby Certify that we
know the within named Mary Hatfield and long knew and were well 
acquainted with her deceased
Husband Captain John Hatfield and do verily believe that full faith and 
credit may be given to the
Statements contained in the Petition of the said Mary Hatfield. Witness 
our Hands at Parsboro this
Sixth day of December one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty seven. 
(signed) James Kerr J.P., Jas.
Ratchford J.P.
Page 92:
Kings County
Before me the Subscriber one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for 
Kings County personally
appeared Mary Hatfield Widow and Signed the foregoing Petition and by 
Solemn Oath taken before me
on the Holy Evangelist did depose and declare that the matters set forth 
in her Petition even and are
true in every particular, excepting only such matters as are contained in 
that part of the sentence on
the foregoing page which commences with the words "and first supposed 
herself" and terminate with
the words "New Jersy Volunteers". Parrsboro 6 Dec 1827 (signed) Jas. 
Ratchford J.P.
Page 83:
These may certify that it is known to me that the Parish Register of New 
York was consumed in
the fire which destroyed Trinity Church during the Revolutionary War, but 
it was the habit of my
Father, who was Rector of Trinity Church for some years, to keep a 
private Register of Marriages
solemnized by himself. That private register is now in my possession, and 
from it I extract the
following notice: "1778, June 28, John Hatfield and Mary Lockerman, 
License". Halifax May 13 1848.
(signed) John Nova Scotia
Page 87:
I Mary Hatfield do Solemnly Swear that I was lawfully Married at Trinity 
Church in the City of
New York on the 28th day of June A.D. 1778 by the Rev'd Charles Ingles 
Rector of Said Church to John
Hatfield late a Captain in the New Jersey Volunteers who died Nov. 16th 
1804, and that I have
Continued a Widow and am so at Present. Sworn before me this 22nd Day of 
Nov. 1848. (signed) Eben
Kerr J.P.
There are no means of ascertaining Capt. Hatfield's age at the time of 
his decease. (signed) W.B.
King
- September 27, 2008 at 4:57am


	John Hatfield, Captain [G1] b.1740 ca - Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England d.1804 16 Nov - Fox River, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada ----- Marriages ----- m01. 1778 28 Jun - NY, NY + Mary Lockerman (10 Children) ----- Children ----- John W Hatfield [G3] Elizabeth Hatfield [G80] George Wilson Hatfield [G108] Mary Polly Hatfield [G122] Richard Hatfield [G135] Jane Hatfield [G136] Ann Nancy Hatfield [G145] Isaac Hatfield [G152] Thomas Hatfield [G161] James Edward Hatfield [G162] Peter Tong Hatfield docs: Petition of Mary (Lockerman) Hatfield Petition of Mary Hatfield, Widow of Capt. John Hatfield (National Archives of Canada, Reel B4692, War Office Records 42/61), commencing on p. 82: Page 88: These are to certify that it appears by a Register, now in my possession, which was kept by the late Right Reverend Charles Inglis, formerly Rector of Trinity Church in New York, and subsequently Bishop of Nova Scotia, that "John Hatfield and Mary Lockerman were married by him, by Licence", at New York, on the 28th of June 1778. Halifax, Nova Scotia (signed) John Nova Scotia March 27, 1826. I do hereby certify that the above is the Certificate of the Right Rev'd The Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia and I have no doubt that it is sufficient Evidence of the marriage to which it refers. (signed) James Kempt Page 89: Required for placing on the Pension List the Widow of an officer who died on Half Pay. Mary Hatfield of Parsboro in Kings County in Nova Scotia came this day before me and made oath that she was lawfully married at New York in the now United States of America on the twenty eighth day of June one thousand seven hundred and seventy Eight to John Hatfield late a captain on the Half Pay of the late Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers who died at Parsboro aforesaid in this Province of Nova Scotia on the Sixteenth day of November one thousand Eight hundred and four and that she has no Pension Allowance or provision from Government and such her marriage took place before the said John Hatfield was placed on the Halfpay. Sworn before me at Parsboro this sixth day of December 1827. (signed) Mary Hatfield, her mark. (witnessed by) Jas. Ratchford J.P. Parrsborough, Nova Scotia. Page 90: I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the Petitioner Mary Hatfield. That she is a widow and resides in this Parish. That tho I cannot make any declaration of the truth of the matters contained in the annexed Petition from my own knowledge (my residence in Parrsboro being only five years duration), yet I do verily believe all the material facts stated in the said Petition are true. And moreover that her husband Capt. John Hatfield mentioned in the said Petition died at Parrsboro on the sixteenth day of Nov'br in the year of Our Lord 1804 of consumption and was buried in the same place aged upwards of sixty years. (signed) Geo. E.W. Morris, Rector of St. Georges, Parrsboro, N.S. Page 91: Province of Nova Scotia, Kings County. To the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury or the Right Honorable the Secretary at War. The Humble Petition of Mary Hatfield of Parsboro in Kings County in the Province aforesaid Widow and Relict of John Hatfield late of the same place Esquire deceased. Most respectfully Sheweth: That your Petitioner's said Husband departed this life at Parsboro aforesaid about twenty one years ago leaving your Petitioner his Widow in very [--?--] circumstance and with a large family to maintain and support. That the said Husband in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the Colonies then belonging to His late Majesty in North America joined the Brigade called "Skinners Brigade" of New Jersey Volunteers then raising in those Colonies and held the rank of Captain in one of the Battalions there of which your Petitioner believes was the third and was on full pay for a considerable time therein and engaged in active Service, but owing to several disastrous circumstances the said Brigade was never completed to its full number of Regiments and those which were raised were disbanded, on which her said Husband went upon the Half Pay of his rank of Captain and without receiving any difference on Exchange and was in the receipt of Half Pay till his death. That before the reduction of the said regiment your Petitioner was married to the said John Hatfield at New York on the twenty eighth day of June one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight by the late Right Reverend Charles Inglis Bishop of Nova Scotia who was then Rector of Trinity Church in that City, and your Petitioner afterwards with her said Husband and other married officers of the same Brigade came to this Province in or about the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three and subsequently settled at Parsboro aforesaid. That the original Certificate of your Petitioner's said marriage signed by the said Rector remained till sometime past in your Petitioner's hands but became greatly worn and obliterated, and was finally so torn and defaced that application was necessarily made to His Worship the present Bishop of Nova Scotia for a Certificate from a Record in his possession of Marriages kept by the late Bishop his Father at New York of her said Marriage and she humbly refers to the annexed Certificate thereof granted to her by his Lordship and certified by His Excellency Sir James Kempt the Lieutenant Governor of this Province. That your Petitioner humbly apprehends that she is within the terms of the regulations under which Pensions have been and are granted to the Widows of Officers who have been married and placed on the Half Pay and therefore respectfully solicits permission to apply for the pension which in similar cases His Majesty of His Royal benevolence hath been graciously pleased to grant to the Widows of Officers of the Land Forces. That your Petitioner is now in the Sixty Eighth year of her age and subject to very many Privations in addition to those which attend declining years and her advanced period of life But notwithstanding her necessities did not owing to her residence in a sequestered part of the Country know that any Pension or Allowance was granted to Widows under similar circumstances with herself and first supposed herself within the objects of His Majesty's benevolence when she heard that a Pension had been allotted to the Widow of Captain Leonard an officer in one of the same Regiments of New Jersey Volunteers. Wherefore she most respectfully and earnestly entreats from your Lordship a favorable Consideration of her case and as the situation and rank of her said Husband and continuance in the service will fully appear from the Returns from the said Regiment or Brigade preserved in the proper Office, She prays that the Pension usually granted in such cases may be allowed to her as the Widow of the deceased, and that should this her humble application be admitted her case may also be regarded as a proper one for such Pensions to be allowed from such earlier Period as it may be thought reasonable, in reference to the reason she has assigned for the lateness of the present Petition. And your Petitioned will ever pray. (signed) Mary Hatfield, her mark, Parsboro Nova Scotia, December 6th 1827 Page 92: We the Subscribers principal Inhabitants of Parsboro in Kings County do hereby Certify that we know the within named Mary Hatfield and long knew and were well acquainted with her deceased Husband Captain John Hatfield and do verily believe that full faith and credit may be given to the Statements contained in the Petition of the said Mary Hatfield. Witness our Hands at Parsboro this Sixth day of December one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty seven. (signed) James Kerr J.P., Jas. Ratchford J.P. Page 92: Kings County Before me the Subscriber one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Kings County personally appeared Mary Hatfield Widow and Signed the foregoing Petition and by Solemn Oath taken before me on the Holy Evangelist did depose and declare that the matters set forth in her Petition even and are true in every particular, excepting only such matters as are contained in that part of the sentence on the foregoing page which commences with the words "and first supposed herself" and terminate with the words "New Jersy Volunteers". Parrsboro 6 Dec 1827 (signed) Jas. Ratchford J.P. Page 83: These may certify that it is known to me that the Parish Register of New York was consumed in the fire which destroyed Trinity Church during the Revolutionary War, but it was the habit of my Father, who was Rector of Trinity Church for some years, to keep a private Register of Marriages solemnized by himself. That private register is now in my possession, and from it I extract the following notice: "1778, June 28, John Hatfield and Mary Lockerman, License". Halifax May 13 1848. (signed) John Nova Scotia Page 87: I Mary Hatfield do Solemnly Swear that I was lawfully Married at Trinity Church in the City of New York on the 28th day of June A.D. 1778 by the Rev'd Charles Ingles Rector of Said Church to John Hatfield late a Captain in the New Jersey Volunteers who died Nov. 16th 1804, and that I have Continued a Widow and am so at Present. Sworn before me this 22nd Day of Nov. 1848. (signed) Eben Kerr J.P. There are no means of ascertaining Capt. Hatfield's age at the time of his decease. (signed) W.B. King - September 27, 2008 at 4:57am