Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

466 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAfiNSTABLE FAMILIES.
he was by the court admonished and released.
May 27, 1661. Goodman Hatch sold his farm at Sipnesset
and removed to SHConecet, Suconnesset, or Suckinesset,* the Indian
name of the town of Falmouth. He is not named in the
colony records till 1685 as one of the original proprietors, but
their records and deeds and other papers preserved in the family
prove that he was. At a meeting of the proprietors held Nov.
29, 1661, it was voted,
"That Jonathan Hatch and Isaac Robinson, because they
have built their houses, f shall have lots by their houses,—that is
to say, Jonathan Hatch to have ten acres by his house lying
against the neck, [lying by the Herring Brook.] And Isaac Robinson
to have four acres by his house, and eight acres next adjoining
to Jonathan Hatch towards Pease's land. Also because
they think themselves wronged, to be put out of the Neck, we
have considered that they shall have an acre and a half of meadow
within the Great Neck, towards Pease's land."
Goodman Hatch's farm at Falmouth contained eighty acres,
and for several years he was the ageul of the proprietors, and was
employed at times in running out the bounds of lots, and attending
to sales and transfers of rights. He could not give up his
old habit of trading with the Indians, and June 7, 1670, was fined
£3 for selling them liquor.
He bought three Indians of Capt. Church—a man and his
wife and a child—June 3, 1679, the brothers of the woman appeared
in court with Goodman Hatch, and it was agreed that the
man and his wife should be released for £6, and that the child
should remain with Goodman Hatch till 24 years of age and then
be released forever. He claimed his pound of flesh ; he forgot
that when a boy he had been bound to Lieut. Davenport—that he
had repudiated his service. Had not the Indian boy the same
right—or did the difference in color abrogate the right of the one,
and establish that of the other.
June 24, 1690, he took the freeman's oath at the County
Court in Barnstable. He was then about sixty-four years of age.
Time had tempered the fire and impetuosity of his youth, and he
had become a sober, religious man—the venerable patriarch of a
*Tliis name is a compound of Sucki, black; po quauhork, the round clam or quohoff
and et or set, place ; means the place where Suck-au-hock or black wampan was made.
The Indians had two kinds of money, beads of wampajn, the black of which three was considered
equal to apenny English, and the white of half the value of the black. The white
was called wampam, [white] and the black Sack-au-hock by the Indians, but the English
called it all wampam, or wampam-peage. The white was made from the stem of the periwinckle
; the black from the dark colored portion of the shell of the quohog. Some English
attempted to counterfeit it; but not finding it a paying business gave it up. The counterfeits
were readily detected by the Indians.
tThis record conflicts with the family tradition that Moses, son of Jonathan, was the
first white child bom in Falmouth, and that he was called Moses because he was born under
the shelter of a whale-boat, and on a bed of rushes. Unfortunately for the romance of
the story, Jonathan Hatch built a house in Falmouth two years before the birth of his son
Moses.