User:Carolleehatfield

Hello, My name is Carol Lee hatfield and I am the daughter of Lester Glenn and Grace Ione Sells hatfield. I was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa on October 24, 1943 and lived in that area until 1961 when my family moved to Monroe County. I graduated from highschool there and married. I did not go to college then, but eventuallly went to William Penn University in Oskaloosa where I obtained  a BA with double majors in Psychology and socialogy with double minors in English and History. I have been researching our family lines since  1984 and a just now beginning to write about it.

Our Hatfield lines begin with the arrival of William Hatfield in Jamestown in 1622 just before the major indian massacre. William survived that event having been a "servant" at Jordan's Jorney a plantation owned by William and Cecily Jordan Ferrar. It appears that that William paid his own way to Virginia and that he may have been a member of the landed Hatfield family which aligned itself with Cromwell during the "civil war" in England. If this is indeed true he would have had three major advantages; he would have received 50 acres in headrights, he had an education or training which was highly desired by plantation owners, and he had access to funding some others may have not had.

By 1638 William owned some land and received 550 more acres for transporting eleven persons from England at his own expense. This would have cost him about $3300 in modern money and the equivelent of 30# for each person he transported. Thirty pounds was approximently a "living" for a gentleman per year. It appears that he may have married one of the women, Elisabeth Edes in about 1645. They were the parents of at least John and Elizabeth and undoubtedly others. John migrated to Maryland in 1675 at the time that the Bacon Rebellion was beginning to gain momentum and William with "wife Elizabeth, daughter Ellizabeth, and two others" followed John in 1676. Records show that William bought a plantation from Thomas Collins in Talbot County Maryland which gave him land in additon to the 500 acres he would have received by headright for moving to Maryland and John would have h ad an additional 100 acres. John went on to marry the daughter of his business partner Arthur Whitely. They became the parents of John William born around 1702. This man then became the progentor of the "Delawaree Hatfields."