Daniel Felch, the common progenitor of the Felch Family in New Hampshire, and Northern Massachusetts in Vermont, and Western Ohio settled in that part of Seabrook New Hampshire which was included within the jurisdiction of Hampton Falls from 1721-1768, sometime prior to 1730.
"I find his name, with the prefix "Doc." enrolled on an inventory of the several polls, and estates in Hampton Falls, taken in 1742, pursuant to an order of the General Assembly, against which his taxable estate, consisting of REAL and Personal property, is specifically enumerated with poll or head valuation; at which period of time Mr. Felch was, without doubt, more than seventy years of age: hence the exemption therefrom. "
"In the earliest mention we find made of him, he is styled "Doc:" a title that was not bestowed on ordinary persons in his time. Tradition says that he was a native of Massachusetts and that he had certain relatives then living in the vicinity of Boston, and that certain relatives of the same name living in some part of York county in the State of Maine."
Dr. Daniel Felch married Deborah Dean of Charlestown, Massachusetts, who died in 1715. He married second, Sarah Fuller, and third Hepsibah Curtis. He doubtless studied Medicine under some Physicians in or near Reading, Massachusetts.
The old lady of Seabrook, an old inhabitant, could also remember "Skipper Daniel," who according to her account was a wonderfully popular man, and a sort of Triton; she said: "he was a beauty in form and face, and no man around could blow such a powerful blast on the trumpet.