Jan­u­a­ry 9, 1807, Eliz­a­beth­town, New Jer­sey.

Sep­tem­ber 23, 1883, Sum­mit, New Jer­sey.

Hatfield was ed­u­cat­ed at Mid­dle­bu­ry Coll­ege, Ver­mont, and at An­do­ver. From 1832 to 1835 he was pas­tor of the Se­cond Pres­by­ter­i­an Church, St. Louis, Mis­sou­ri. In 1835, he moved to New York, where he served as pas­tor of the Sev­enth Pres­by­ter­i­an Church, then at the North Pres­by­ter­i­an Church (1856-63) there. In 1864 he was ap­point­ed spe­cial agent to the Un­ion The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, New York. He al­so held, from 1846, the po­si­tion of Stat­ed Clerk of the Pres­by­ter­i­an Gen­er­al As­sem­bly. His works in­clude:

• Freedom’s Lyre; or, Psalms, Hymns, and Sac­red Songs, for the Slave and His Friends (New York: 1840)
• The Church Hymn Book for the Wor­ship of God (New York: 1872)
• Chapel Hymns (New York: 1873)
• The Po­ets of the Church: Bio­graph­ic­al Sketch­es of Hymn Writ­ers, with Notes on Their Hymns (New York: An­son D. F. Ran­dolph and Com­pa­ny, 1884)

• Hughes, p. 420
• Julian, pp. 57, 495-6, 1133, 1526

1. Come, Bless Je­ho­vah’s Name
2. Come, Let Us Gladly Sing
3. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord
4. How Per­fect Is Thy Law
5. How Sweetly Breaks the Sabbath Dawn
6. My Shep­herd’s Name Is Love
7. O Sing Hal­le­lu­jah, Praise Ye the Lord
8. Thee, Thee, We Praise, O God, and Now
9. ’Tis Thine Alone, Al­mighty Name
10. Why, O God, Thy People Spurn!
11. O God, the Fa­ther, Son