Mr. Jonathan Vickery appears to have settled in Chatham in 1697 [witnessed a deed dated 5 Jul 1697 from William Nickerson et all to Samuel Sprague]. He was the son of George and Rebecca (Phippen) Vickery of Hull, Mass. He was not an educated man nor an ordained minister, but a lay preacher. He was executor of father's estate in 1679 and appears to have resided in Hull until he moved to Monomoit. "On April 30, 1702, he went out in an open boat with a party of villagers, probably on a fishing or whaling trip. The boat in some way was overturned, it is supposed, and all in the party were drowned."