"Nathaniel5 Hatch, (John4, Benjamin3, Jonathan2, Thomas1), was born at Mansfield, CT 1 July 1726 … Nathaniel came to the South Precinct of DC by Feb. 1746/7 when he was first taxed there until June 1758 when he was taxed in Beekman from June 1759 through June 1760. Hatch Genealogy shows that his son Jeremiah was born in the Oblong 25 September 1766[-7?], indicating that he may have still been in Beekman at that time. He was the subject of a legal action in the May Court of Common Pleas in DC in 1757. He served from CT in the Revolution in Captain Abel Wilder’s company, Col. Ephraim Doolittle’s Regiment. Nathaniel Hatch died in Charlestown, NH 17 August 1776 after the selectmen of the town assisted him in his illness, the smallpox. He was noted as a discharged Continental soldier and had neither friends nor money."