When he was age 14, Jonathan was bound as apprentice to Lt. Richard Davenport, of Salem. His parents and sister removed to Yarmouth, leaving him among strangers, in a strange land. Davenport was a soldier and Jonathon, after remaining w/him 2 years, deserted from his service and came to Boston, probably w/the intention of obtaining apssage by water to Yarmouth. On 02 Sept 1640 he was arrested in Boston as a fugitive from service and cnesured to be severely whipped and committed for a slave to Lt. Davenport (Mass. Rec.) He ran away and went to his Father's house in Yarmouth. There is more that happened to him, see Amos Otis Papers: 463/4 [
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He spent many years living in other parts of Mass; in 1661 returned to Falmouth, called Saconecet, Suconnesset or Suckinesset by the Indians. (Otis:466) He was one of the purchasers of the land, along with Isaac Robinson and 12 others. His son Moses was the first white child born there. He and his sons eventually acquired large amounts of real estate in the area. (The Hatch Family, NEHGR 14:197) He received a share of lands at Wood’s Hole, southwest Cape Cod, a liberal/Quaker part of Falmouth, in 1677.[
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Will of Jonathan Hatch from Hatch Society:, Jonathan Hatch of Falmouth, County of Barnstable in the Province of Mass Bay, dated 15 Sept 1705; named were 6 sons; 2 daughters, . Daughter, Marcy Rowley (wife of Nathan) was sole Executrix., Witnesses: John Weeks; William Weeks and Thomas Bowman
Savage's: JONATHAN, Barnstable, only s. of Thomas, b. at Sandwich. Eng. may have been at Salem 1640, m. 11 Apr. 1646, Sarah Rowley, had Mary, b. 14 July 1648; Thomas, 1 Jan. 1650; Jonathan, 17 May 1652; Joseph, 7 Mar. 1654; Benjamin, 7 Sept. 1655; Nathaniel, 5 June 1657; Samuel, 11 Oct. 1659; Moses, 4 Mar. 1662, or 7 Mar. 1663; and Sarah, 21 or 23 Mar. 1665; Mark, 27 Apr. 1667; and Lydia, 16 May 1669, the last four at Yarmouth. He built, bef. 1666, it is said, ho. in what is now Falmouth where his eighth ch. Moses was b. by Falmouth, rec. 23 Mar. 1665.