• Hatchville, Falmouth MA Cape Cod
  Hatchville is one of the hidden villages, tucked away in the forests, fields, and ponds of Falmouth’s northeast corner. Lined with horse farms, Hatchville is quiet and serene and offers great opportunities for the outdoor enthusiast, such as hiking and canoeing.
  
  Francis Crane Wildlife Reservation boasts trails for walking and horseback riding. Another beautiful location is the unique Ashumet Holly Reservation, owned and maintained by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. The sanctuary offers workshops, bird walks, and field trips through out the year.
• Hatchville, Falmouth MA Cape Cod - History
  In 1602, sea captain Bartholomew Gosnold of England, landed on these shores, explored the region and gave Cape Cod its name. In 1660, a band of about a dozen men led by Isaac Robinson and Jonathan Hatch left Barnstable to found a new settlement near the present Mill Road, between the Salt Pond to the west and the Herring Brook and Siders Pond (which was formerly called Fresh Pond) to the east.
  
  The plantation, on land bought from the Indians, was called Suckanesset, the Indian name for this part of the Cape. The settlement flourished and in 1686 it was granted a charter as a Town by the General Court of Plymouth Colony.
  
  In about 1690 the name of the town was changed to Falmouth, the name of the anchorage at the mouth of the River Fal in Cornwall, England, from which Bartholomew Gosnold had sailed in 1602. Gosnold was the first navigator from the Old World to set foot on what is now Falmouth. During his voyage he chose the name "Cape Cod" for the peninsula called "The Narrow Land" by the Indians.
  
  As the town grew, smaller villages sprang up along the coast, at North Falmouth, West Falmouth, Quissett, Woods Hole, East Falmouth, Davisville and Waquoit, and inland at Teaticket and Hatchville. These villages together with Falmouth Village itself and the surrounding land, became the Town of Falmouth.
• Jonathan Hatch of Falmouth MA Cape Cod - Settlers
  Jonathan Hatch was one of the first inhabitants of the town of Falmouth more than 300 years ago. His remains lie with others among early residents of the town in the Old Burying Ground off Mill Road. "Died Dec. 1710, Age 84 Years, Settler of Falmouth, Friend of Indians".
  
  Jonathan Hatch was the father of Mary Hatch, second wife of William Weeks, Jr. In the opinion of most researchers, Mary was mother of Benjamin Weeks. Through the Hatch, Rowley, and Palmer families the Weeks family is connected to the earliest Pilgrim, Puritan and Quaker settlers of New England. Among the descendants of Jonathan Hatch are General U.S Grant, Winston Churchill and Princess Diane and her son, Prince William, the "Once and Future King" of England. 
• Silas Hatch as postmaster in Hatchville, Cape Cod
  On the 30th of September, 1858, a post office was opened here, with Silas Hatch as postmaster. The Hatch family had been for years, and still is, one of the leading families in this part of Falmouth, and in proper recognition of the fact the name Hatchville was applied to the office and has since come to be accepted as the distinctive name of the place and the community.

Courtesy of Falmouth Historical Society, Hatch Genealogical Society and Falmouth Chamber of Commerce Guide Book

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