Matthias Hatfield [B64] b.1640 - Holland d.1693 ca 22 Apr - NJ? ----- Parents ----- Thomas Hatfield [B1] Anna Hentem/Hamden/Hampton [B2] ----- Siblings ----- Thomas Hatfield [B3] Matthias Hatfield [B64] ----- Marriages ----- m01. 1664 25 Aug - New Haven, Ct + Marikin (Marie/Maria) Melyn (6 Children) ----- Children ----- Isaac B Hatfield [B66] Cornelius Hatfield, Colonel [B80] Abraham Hatfield [B113] Mary Hatfield [B709] Rachel Hatfield [B711] Elizabeth Hatfield [B712]

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Matthias HATFIELD may have come to America with the colonists who settled at Staten Island under the Patroon, Cornelius Melyn whose daughter Maria "Mary" he later married at New Haven. "Matthias Hithfield" took the Oath of Fidelity 1 May 1660 at New Haven. He also took an oath of allegiance in Elizabethtown, NJ. He appears as "Mathias Helefeild" on the 1670 list of those paying quit rents to the proprietors. He built in 1673 a house in Elizabethtown which descended in the family down to 1880 when it was owned by Robert Morris Hatfield. In 1677 the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown was erected on some of his land. He made his will 19 Apr 1684. Recorded 13 Dec 1687.   He married 25 Aug 1664 in New Haven to Mariken (Maria) MELYN PARADYS. She was the widow of Claes Allertson Paradijs and the daughter of Cornelis Melyn, Patroon of Staten Island and his wife Janneken Adriaens. - Cheska Wheatley