Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

HATHAWAY.
In early times this name was written as it is usually pronounced,
Hadaway. Four of the name came over. Arthur, who
settled in Marshfleld, and afterward removed to Dartmouth
John and Joseph of Taunton, and John of Barnstable.
John Hadaway of Barnstable, was born in the year 1617, as
appears by the Custom House record, and by his deposition dated
March 1, 1658-9. He came over in 1635, in the ship Blessing
from London. July 1, 1656, he married Hannah, daughter of
Mary Hallett, presumed to be the widow of the school-master,
Mr. Andrew Hallett, the elder. She died early, and he married
May 1, 1672, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Coleman of Yarmouth.
She was born in Boston 28th Feb. 1651-2, and was
thirty-flve years younger than her husband.
About this time he removed to Yarmouth, not to Taunton as
stated by Mr. Savage, and built a house on a clearing in the
woods, about a quarter of a mile west of the spot where the
Town House in Yarmouth now stands, and known as Thompson's
fields, because a man of that name subsequently owned the lot.
The late Mr. Paul Rider afterwards owned the old Hadaway
house and estate. He was taxed in Yarmouth in 1675 and 1676,
showing that he removed as above stated. His rate was eight
pence in 1675, evidence that he was at that time a man of small
estate.
His estate in Barnstable was equal to an average of the estates
of the first settlers, yet it soon passed iiuto the hands of
others. March 31, 1659, by a deed of gift, his mother-in-law
conveyed to him the land now owned by Major Phinney on the
north of the railroad, and the land where the Custom House now
stands, with the dwelling-house thereon. Dec. 14, 1661, he
bought the house and lands of his brother-in-law, Josiah Hallett,
situate on the south of the railroad, for £10 sterling. In this
purchase was included three acres of meadow at Blushes point,
bounded north by the beach, east by the meadow of Abraham
Blush, and south and west by "Old Mill Creek." As rights of