HATFIELD: Captain John Hatfield - A Genealogy of the Descendants of Captain John Hatfield, Loyalist, an Officer of the British Army (Softcover) 1943by Abraham Hatfield The Hatfields; A Genealogy of the Descendants of Captain John Hatfield, Loyalist, an Officer of the British Army who came to America in pre Revolutionary times. He was born about 1740 in England. He married Mary Lockerman in New York City and they had eight sons and four daughters. He died in Nova Scotia in 1804, where the family had sailed to about 1783. From a diary we learn that 'The convoy was made up of fourteen vessels