Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

178 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
leisure to attend to the systematic education of so numerous a
family, and there are circumstances that indicate that a portion
of his children were educated in England. Thomas, the elder,
was a good mathematician and a skilful surveyor of lands.
Joseph had a good English education, had read the laws, was a
good conveyancer, and a superior clerk. Samuel associated with
the best men in Connecticut, and appears to have been a man of
learning and good parts. Of Benjamin I have no information.
Mr. L.'s children born in New England were well instructed, but
their education does not appear to have been so thorough. Barnabas
wrote an old English hand. Some of the best executed
manuscripts I have seen were executed by him. Every letter
drawn in the most approved style, carefully executed, and as easily
read as a printed page. Like all who so write, he executed
very slowly, and when compelled by circumstances to write rapid-
ly, he wrote a hand difficult to decipher. John was only nine at
the death of his father, he was then in England probably at
school. As he was afterwards a sea captain, he left little from
which an opinion can be safely drawn respecting the thoroughness
of his education.
Mr. Timothy Hatherly, one of the merchant adventurers, in
prosperity and in adversity, was a staunch friend of Mr. Lothrop.
He was honest, frank and truthful ; and his too confiding spirit
led him to believe that others were like himself, till he found by a
bitter experience that the wicked sometimes assume the cloak of
piety. He was one of the Forefathers, came to Plymouth in the
Ann, had his house burned at the fire in 1623, and returned to
England that year. He came over again in 1631 in the ship
Friendship as the agent of his associates, and arrived in Boston
July 14. After finishing his business he returned, and the next
year took passage in the ship Charles of Barnstable, sailing April
10, 1632. There is no record that he was a member of Mr. Lothrop's
church in London, but the probability is that he was, and
that by leaving London early in April he escaped imprisonment.
The Scituate church was a reunion of "many who had been in
covenant before." The church was organized Jan. 8, 1634. Mr.
Hatherly and his wife joined on the next Sabbath, Jan. 11.
He was connected with all the great financial transactions of
the Colony. The purchase of the ships Friendship and White
Angel was attended with great loss. Mr. Isaac Allerton was
then the agent of the Colony, and Mr. Hatherly and his associates
presumed that he was acting in his official capacity ; but he
had no authority, and the loss falling on Mr. Allerton individually
he was unable to respond for his proportion of the loss, and
for other losses on transactions in which he was individually engaged.
Mr. Hatherly's claim against him amounted to 2000