Hannah (Hatch) Ricker (1783 - bef. 1840)

Born 6 Sep 1783 in Bristol, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Ricker — married 16 Dec 1804 in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, USA

Descendants

Died before 1840 before age 56 in Freedom, Waldo, Maine, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Hannah Hatch was born at Bristol, Maine (then in Massachsetts), on 6 Sep 1783, the daughter of Phillips Hatch and Sarah (Perkins) Hatch.^[1]

Marriage

Hannah Hatch of Bristol, Maine, married Rev. Daniel Ricker of Bristol at Bristol on 16 Dec 1804.^[2]

Death

No record has been found of the death of Hannah (Hatch) Ricker. Rev. Daniel Ricker was shown living at Freedom with his son Ebenezer in the 1850 Census. In the 1840 Census, Daniel is not listed, but Ebenezer’s household includes a male aged 60 to 70, which is probably Daniel. Hannah is not in the household in 1850, and there is no female older than 30 in the 1840 Census. The household of Daniel Ricker in the 1830 Census shows a female aged 40 to 49, which is probably Hannah, so she probably died sometime in the 1830s.^[3]

Research Notes

• Daniel and Hannah Ricker recorded their birth dates and birthplaces after they settled at Freedom, Maine, in the 1820s,^[4] and Hannah's birth is shown in that record as 6 Sep 1781 at Bristol, Maine. Both the published Bristol vital records^[5] and the originals on microfilm^[1] show that the date is off by exactly two years and that she was two years younger, born on 6 Sep 1783.

• The published vital records of Bristol, Maine, show the marriage of Hannah Hatch to Rev. Daniel Becker on 16 Dec 1804.^[6] A close examination of the original record on microfilm (see the attached image) shows that the groom's name is Rev. Daniel Ricker.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Bristol, Maine, Town and Vital Records, FHL film 007592486, Volume 1, 1765-1880, page 168 (Image 92 of 837)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Bristol, Maine, Town and Vital Records, 1765-1890, Volume 1, 1765-1880, page 266 (FHL microfilm 007592486, Image 140 of 837)
3. ↑ 1850 Ebenezer Ricker family census record (U. S. Census, 1850, Maine, Waldo County, Town of Freedom, Dwelling #73); Ebenezer Ricker family, U. S, Census, 1840, Maine, Waldo County, Town of Freedom, 203; Daniel Ricker family, U. S, Census, 1830, Maine, Waldo County, Town of Freedom, 486
4. ↑ Mosher, Elizabeth M., transcriber, Vital Records of Freedom, Me., Prior to 1892, Camden,. Me. (1991), 12
5. ↑ Dodge, Christine Houston, ed., Vital Records of Old Bristol and Nobleboro in the County of Lincoln, Maine, including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the Plantation of Monhegan (n.p., 1951), 1:325
6. ↑ Dodge, Christine Houston, ed., Vital Records of Old Bristol and Nobleboro in the County of Lincoln, Maine, including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the Plantation of Monhegan (n.p., 1951), 2:121