Rev.
Hope
"Hopestill"
Atherton
Born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of Humphrey Atherton Esq.
and Mary (Kennion) Atherton
Brother of
Jonathan Atherton, Elizabeth (Atherton) Mather, Isabella (Atherton) Wales, Consider Atherton, Mary (Atherton) Weeks, Margaret (Atherton) Trowbridge, Rest (Atherton) Swift, Increase Atherton, Thankful (Atherton) Bird, Watching Atherton and Patience Atherton
Husband of
Sarah (Hollister) Baker
— married
1674 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Died
at age 30
in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
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Biography
Sarah Hollister "married 1st, Rev. Hope Atherton, son of Maj.-Gen. Humphrey Atherton. He was baptized in 1646; was the first minister of the church in Hatfield, Mass., and was chaplain of Capt. Lathrop's company which was cut to pieces by the Indians at Bloody Brook (Deerfield). He died June 8, 1677." (Case)
Name
- Hope Atherton
Sources
- Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts (E.A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, Mass., 1895) Vol. 1, Page 158, Pages 166-169.
- Case, Lafayette Wallace, M.D. The Hollister Family of America (Fergus Printing Co., Chicago, 1886) No. 8. Page 25 & Page 35.
- Cutter, William. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Massachusetts, 1910) Vol. 4, Page 2647.
- Williams, Stephen. What Befell Stephen Williams In His Captivity (Deerfield, Mass., 1889)
- Page 34: "He was chaplain in the Turners Falls expedition, and wrote an account of his singular experience with the Indians, after being lost from the command in the retreat."
- Tucker, Arthur Holmes. Hope Atherton and His Times (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc., Deerfield, Mass., 1926)
- http://kpwar.org/sample-page/combatants/
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