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GENEALOGICAL NOTES

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BEING A REPRINT OF THE

AMOS OTIS PAPERS,

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN

THE BARNSTABLE PATRIOT.

REVISED BY C. F. SWIFT,
Largely from Notes Made by the Author.

VOLUME I.

BARNSTABLE, MASS. :
F. B. & P. P. GOSS, PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS.
[ The "Patkiot" Press. ]
1888.

EDITOR'S NOTE.

When Mr. Goss, some months ago, informed me of his
intention to reproduce the papers of Mr. Amos Otis relating
to the early families of Barnstable, and asked me to assist
in preparing them for the press, I felt that the undertaking
was one which merited the commendation and encourage
ment of all who revere the memory of our ancestors. Hav
ing in my possession Mr. Otis's extensive revision of those
papers, together with some notes^of my own bearing upon
the subjects, I consented to assist in this work. The vol
umes, thus presented, will be as near as possible as Mr.
Otis himself would have presented them in his latter years,
and will constitute an enduring monument to his memory.
1 may, I trust, be permitted to say, that I have endeavored
to perform my duty in an unobtrusive and friendly way,
erasing some passages of temporary importance reflecting
upon contemporaries ; correcting a few verbal slips of style
and expression ; and adding an occasional explanatory note,
sometimes with, but generally without, my initial. It will
thus be apparent that I should not be held responsible for
judgments or conclusions in the text which may be a subject
of controversy, for which, of course, Mr. Otis is alone an
swerable. Neither would I undertake to vouch for the en
tire accuracy of all these papers. I can only say that thus
far, by Mr. Otis's own efforts mainly, the series is much
more perfect than when the papers first issued from the
press.
CHARLES F. SWIFT.

INTRODUCTION.

For several years past, I have spent much of my leisure
time in examining records and collecting materials for a his
tory of my native town. Old age is "creeping on" and I
find I have done little towards arranging the materials I
have collected. There are more difficulties to be surmounted
than the casual observer dreams of. Records have been de
stroyed, lost, mutilated, — tradition is not to be relied on
and the truth can only be arrived at by diligent inquiry and
comparison of various records and memorials of the past.
The fact is, the writer of a local history finds himself envi
roned with difficulties at every step in his progress, and is
compelled to use such words as perhaps and probably, much
oftener than good taste would seem to require. If the reader
would be satisfied with facts chronologically arranged, the
task would not be so difficult, diligence and industry would
soon accomplish it. But sbmething more is required. A
dull monotonous array of facts and figures would soon tire
and disgust all, excepting perhaps a few plodding antiqua
rians who are never happier than when poring over a black
letter manuscript. The page to be made readable must be
enlivened with descriptions, narratives and personal anec
dotes. When writing history, I often feel that I am in the
condition of the children of Israel, when they were required
by their Egyptian taskmasters to make bricks without
straw. Three times I have written the first chapter of a his
tory of the town of Barnstable, and three times have thrown
the manuscript into the fire. Progressing at such a rate my
head will be whiter than it now is, before the last chapter is
written. My friends are constantly urging me to do something
and not let the materials I have collected be Jost, and I have

authors introduction. ii
decided to write a series of "Family Sketches," like those
ofMr. Deane in his history of Scituate. These sketches,
though far from being accurate, are the most interesting por
tion of his work. As a general rule, I do not intend that
each number shall occupy more than a column and a half.
To give a full history of some of the families, namely, that
of Hinckley, Crocker, Otis, Lothrop, Bacon, and a few
others would require a volume. These will necessarily be
longer ; but a sketch of some of the families need occupy
only a few paragrai)hs.
I shall write them in an alphabetical series, beginning
with the Allyn family. That there will not be a thousand
mistakes, and omissions in each, I would not dare to affirm ;
but there is one thing I will venture to assert, I can point
out more deficiences in them than any other living man. I
desire, however, that persons having additional information,
or the means of correcting any error into which I may have
fallen would communicate the same. I presume there are
many documents preserved in family archives which would
affiard me valuable aid, in the work I have undertaken, and
it would give me much satisfaction, if the owners would loan
me the same or furnish copies.
In giving a genealogical account of the families, nearly all
the facts in relation to the history of the town will have to
be given. In the Allyn family, I give some account of the
original laying out of the town ; in the Lofhrop family a
history of the first church, and in other families where the
ancestor was the leading man in any enterprise, the history
of that work cannot well be omitted. In this manner nearly
all the principal events in the history of the town will pass
in review, and such consideration be given to them as time,
space or opportunity will admit.
I make no promises — I claim no immunity from criticism.
I may get tired, before writing one-half of the proposed sixty
columns, and it may be that the publisher will get sick of
his bargain even before that time. To those who take no
interest in genealogy, I have only one remark to make. My
ancient friend and schoolmaster, Dea. Joseph Hawes, would
often say he was a skiptic, that is, if he met with an article
in a book or newspaper that did not please him he "skipt
over it."
I have one more suggestion to make. I would recommend

Ill AUTHORS INTRODUCTION.
to those who do take an interest in these articles to cut them
out and paste them into a scrap book leaving on each Jiage
a wide margin for corrections, additions and notes. To
those vyho take less interest in the matter, I would suggest
that they cut out the article in relation to their own families
and paste at least the genealogical portion, on the fly leaf of
their family bibles : — their grand-children may take an in
terest in the subject if they do not.
AMOS OTIS.
Yarmouth, Nov. 15, 1861.

INDEX TO FAMILIES.

AT,T,YN,

Page 5

ANNABLE.

13
BACOlir,
21
BACHILER,
39
BASSET,
45
BEARSE,
52
BAKER,
60
BARKER,
64
BORDEN,
64
BODFISH,
68
BLOSSOM,
75
BOURMAN,
80
BUMPAS,
85
BETTS,
88
BLUSH,
«9
BLACKFORD,
»9
BOURNE,
104
a
140
BURSLEY,
127
BERRY,
136
BENJAMIN,
143
BUTLER,
144
BATES,
145
BRYANT,
146
CARSELY,
147
CHAPMAN,
151
CHffMAN,
153
COBB,
166
CLAGHORN,
180
CHILD,
183
COGGIN,
189
COOPER,
193
INDEX TO FAMILIES.

COLEMAN,

Page 195

cro(;ker,

200
CLAP,
249
CAMMET,
249
COTELLE,
250
CANNON,
250
CUDWORTH,
252
DAVIS,
276
DELAP,
304
DEXTER,
315
DEAN,
327
DIMMOCK,
328
DYER,
346
DUNHAM,
346
DICKENSON,
347
DUNN,
348
DOWNS,
349
EASTERBROOKS,
358
EWELL,
359
EWER,
360
FOXWELL,
365
FITZRANDOLPHE,
368
FULLER,'
' 371
FREEMAtir,
385
FOSTER*
388
©GODSPEED,
391
GiLPIN, \ .
406
(GILBERT,
406
GORHAM,
407
GREEN,
445
GARRETT,
449
HALL,
450
HATHAWAY, .
457
HATCH,
461
HALLETT,
473
HlMBLEN,
522
ALLYN,

THOMAS ALLYN.
This name is variously written on the records, Allyn,
AUyne, Allin and Allen ; but the descendants of Mr. Thom
as Allyn, one of the first settlers in Barnstable, usually write
their name Allyn. He owned a large estate, and was prob
ably the most wealthy among the first settlers. The date
when he first came over is not ascertained. It appears, by
an affidavit made by him March, 1654, on the Plymouth
Colony records, that his ancestors resided not far from Taun
ton, in England. His business is not stated ; but he was
probably engaged in trade. It appears by the document
above referred to, that he was in England in 1649, on busi
ness of his own, and as the agent of "divers friends." This
visit he speaks of as "att my last being in Ould England,"
implying that he had "returned home" more than once after
he first came over.
The records of the laying out of the lands in Barnstable
in 1639 are lost.* The entries made of the lands of Mr.
Allyn furnish the best information we have on the subject.
The house lots contained from six to twelve acres, and were
all laid out on the north side of the highway west of Rendez
vous Lane. In 1654, Mr. Allen owned six of the original
house lots, namely :
No. 1. Originally Isaac Robinson's contained eight
*NOTE. — In respect to these records, I have the following informa
tion : My Great-Grandfather, Solomon Otis, was many years Register
of Deeds. My father informed me that he had heard many inquire for
them, and that his grandfather's uniform answer was, that they were
in early times carried to Plymouth, and were there lost by Are. This
is tradition ; but considering the directness of the testimony, I think it
reliable.

6 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
acres of upland, and the salt marsh, at the north end. It
was bounded westerly by Calves Pasture Lane, northerly
partly by the creek and partly by the land of Tristram Hull,
easterly by the lot formerly Samuel Jackson's, and souther
ly by the highway. In 1654 the highway was a few rods
farther south, at this place, than at the present time. Mr.
Charles Hinckley is the present owner of this lot.
No. 2. Was laid out to Samuel Jackson, who returned
to Scituate in 1647. He sold it to Samuel Mayo, who sold
the same to Mr. Allyn. This lot contained eight acres of
upland, and the marsh at the north end. It was bounded
westerly by Lot No. 1, north by the harbor, easterly by the
highway (now discontinued) leading to Allyn's Creek, and
southerly by the highway. This lot is now owned by de
scendants of Mr. Allyn.
No. 3. Was laid out to Mr. Allyn, and contained ten
acres of upland, with the marsh adjoining, and was bounded
west by Allyn's Lane or highway to the creek, north by the
harbor, east by the house lot of Rev. Joseph Hull, and
southerly by the present highway. This land is owned by
Capt. Matthias Hinckley.
No. 4. Contained twelve acres of upland and the marsh
adjoining, bounded on the west by Lot No. 3, north by the
harbor, easterly by the lot of the Rev. John Mayo, and
southerly by the present highway. On this lot Rev. Mr.
Hull built his house in 1639, afterwards occupied by his son-
in-law, Mr. John Bursley, and sold to Mr. Allyn about the
year 1650. The first Meeting House stood in the ancient
grave yard on the opposite side of the road. This land is
now owned by Capt. Matthias Hinckley. Capt. Thomas
Harris perhaps owns a small portion of it.
No. 5, containing twelve acres of upland, more or less,
with the meadow adjoining, was the Rev. John Mayo's be
fore his removal in 1646 to Eastham. It was bounded west
erly by Lot No. 4, north by the harbor, easterly by the lot
that was John Casly's, and southerly by the highway. The
lot is now owned by Capt. Thomas Harris.
No. 6, contained ten acres of upland and the meadow
adjoining. It was laid out to John Casly and by him sold
to Samuel Mayo and by the latter to Mr. Allyn. It was
bounded westerly by Lot 5, north by the harbor, east by a

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 7
lot owned in 1654 by Tristram Hull,* and south by the
highway. Beside his house lots, he owned meadow at Sandy
Neck, and in 1647 owned the land on the north of the Hal-
lett Farm, adjoining the bounds of Yarmouth. Besides the
above he had rights in the common lands, and other large
tracts. He sold at one time 100 acres to Roger Goodspeed.
Mr. Allyn's house lots, with the lots named in the note,
constituted the central portion of the village as originally
laid out. On the west probably in the order named, were
the lots of Gov. Hinckley, Samuel Hinckley, Gen. Cud-
worth, James Hamblen, Lawrence Litchfield, Henry Goggin,
(on the west of Goggin's Pond) Henry Bourne, William
Crocker, Austin Bearse, John Cooper, Thomas Hatch, Rob
ert Sheley, William Betts, Henry Coxwell, Dollar Davis,
John Crocker, Thomas Shaw, Abraham Blish, and Anthony
Annable. The farm of the latter is now owned by Nathan
Jenkins. On the east of Rendezvous Lane, Mr. John Lothrop,
John Hall, Henry Rowley, Isaac Wells, John Smith, Geo.
Lewis, Edward Fittsrandle, (Lot oii west side of the road
to Hyannis) Bernard Lumbard, Roger Goodspeed, (Henry
Cobb, Thomas Huckins, John Scudder, Samuel Mayo,)
Nathaniel Bacon, Richard Foxwell, Thomas Dimmock.
Isaac Davis' house stands near where the Old Dimmock
house stood. The Agricultural Hall stands on Foxwell's
land. Mr. Allyn was not much in public life. March 1,
1641-2 he WHS propounded to be a freeman of the Plymouth
Colony, admitted 1652 ; in 1644, 1651 and 1658 he was
*N0TE. — In 1647 the highway run on a straight line from Mr. John
Burseley's corner to the head of Rendezvous Lane. In 1686 when the
present road was laid out, the ancient road was fjllowed as far as
Jail Hill when it was turned to the northeast through the lands of
Capt. Joseph Lothrop. I am inclined to the opinion that the ancient
road was on the south of the swamp and joined the present road where
the first court house stood, on the east of the Sturgis tavern. Joseph
Hull, son of Tristram, sold Lot No 7 in 1678 to John Lothrop. Thomas
Annable, Doctor Abner Hersey, Isaiah Hinckley, and Elijah Crocker
have since owned it. No. 8, 6 acres, was Wm. Casly's lot, afterwards
Hon. Barnabas Lothrop's; No. 9, 10 acres, was Robert Lynnell's. No.
10, 12 acres, Thomas Lombard's lot, sold to Thomas Lewis; No. 11. 12
acres, Thomas Lothrop's Land, bounded easterly by Rendezvous Lane.
These Lots embraced the central position of the village as it was orig
inally laid out.

8 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Surveyor of highways ; in 1648, 1658 and 1670 constable,
and in 1653 a juryman, oflSces of not much profit or honor.
The Court in passing up and down the County often stopped
at his house, a fact which indicates that he set a good table,
and was well supplied with provender for man and beast.
He married for his first wife Winnifred  — . His
second wife was Wid.  . He named in his will, dated
Feb. 28, 1675, proved 5th of March, 1679-80, his daughters-
in-law Sarah, wife of William Clark,
Martha, wife of Benjamin 
Rebecca, wife of Samuel Sprague.
He names his sons Samuel and John, his daughter Mehita-
ble Annable, and Samuel's oldest son, Thomas. After dis
posing of a part of his estate by legacies he ordered the rest
to be equally divided between his three children. He died
in 1679, and was buried in the ancient burying ground,
"Where the forefathers of the hamlet sleep."
Children of Thomas Allyn born in Barnstable:
I. Samuel, born 10 Feb., 1643-4, bap'd 18 Feb., 1643-4.
II. John, born 1646, bap'd 27 Sep., 1646.
III. Mehitable, born 1648, bap'd 28 Aug., 1648. She
married Samuel Annable June 1, 1667, and had a fam
ily of four children. She married second May 6, 1683,
Cornelius Briggs of Scituate. She inherited one-third
of her father's estate, Mr. Allyn in his will giving her
an equal portion with her brothers, an unusual circum
stance in those days.
Mr. Samuel Allyn, son of Thomas, was a freeman in 1670,
constable 1671, called Lieutenant in 1678. He was many
years Town Clerk, and held other responsible offices. He
resided at West Barnstable. In 1686, his house is described
as on the south side of the highway about half of a mile east
of Hinckley's Bridge. He married May 10, 1664, Hannah,
daughter of Rev. Thomas Walley. She died, Tuesday, Oct.
23, 1711, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Her age is not stated. She
was born in England and came over with her father in the
ship Society, Capt. John Pierce, and arrived here May 24,
1662. Mr. Samuel Allyn died Friday, 25th November,
1726, aged 82 years. Mr. Samuel Allyn's will is dated
Nov. 12, 1726, and proved on the 30th of Nov. following.
He gives to his daughter-in-law Sarah, then wife of Deacon

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. V
Samuel Bacon, 40 shillings ; to his grandsons Thomas Allyn
and John Jacobs, and his daughter Hannah Lincoln, 20 shil
lings each ; to his grandson Samuel Allyn, son of his son
Joseph "only one shilling" ; and to his great-grandson
Thomas, son to his grandson James, 40 shillings. All his
other estate, both real and personal, he devised to his son
Joseph Allyn, to grandson James of Barnstable, to daugh
ter Hannah Jacob, and his grandson Samuel Allyn of Barn
stable, to be divided equally. His son Joseph and grand
son James executors. The inventory of the estate is dated
January 4, 1726-7, but the oath of Allyn was refused by the
Judge of Probate "because I thought he could not do it with
a safe conscience." Joseph swore to it Feb. 18, 1726-7.
Children of Mr. Samuel Allyn born in Barnstable:
I. Thomas, born 22 March, 1654-5, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Hon. John Otis, 9 Oct., 1688, and had
three children, James, Thomas and Hannah. He died
25th Nov., 1696, aged 31. His widow married 20
January, 1699, David Loring of Hingham. She died
in Barnstable, June 17, 1748, aged 79.
II. Samuel, born 19 January, 1666, married Sarah, daugh
ter of Edward Taylor, 20 Dec, 1705, and had Samuel,
26 Nov., 1706. The father died Dec, 1706, in the 39th
year of his age. His widow married 26 January, 1708,
Dea. Samuel Bacon. She died Sept. 24, 1753, aged 73.
III. Joseph, born 7 April, 1671. He removed from Barn
stable about the year 1700. He was one of the execu
tors of the will of his father 1726. He then had a son
Samuel, showing he was married and had a family.
IV. Hannah, born 4 March, 1672-3, married 7 Dec, 1693,
Peter Jacob of Hingham, and had twelve children.
V. Elizabeth, born 26 Nov., 1681, died 23 Dec, 1698,
aged 17.
John Allyn, son of Thomas, married 1673 Mary, daughter
of John Howland. Children born in Barnstable:
1. John, born 3 April, 1674.
n. Mary, born 5 Aug., 1675 ; died 7 July, 1677.
HI. Martha, born 6 Aug., 1677 ; died Oct., 1680.
IV. Isaac, born 8 Nov., 1679.
The family of John Allyn was not of Barnstable Janu-

10 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ary, 1683-4. He had probably removed. There were at
that time so many John Allyns in New England, that in the
absence of records it is difficult to fix the place of his after
residence. In January, 1693-4, there were in Barnstable and en
titled to a share in the common lands, being either 24 years
of age, or married, Lieut. Samuel Allyn, eldest son of
Thomas, Sen'r, and Samuel and Thomas, sons of Lieut.
Samuel. January, 1697, Thomas was dead, and Joseph,
youngest son of Lieut. Samuel, was added to the list, he
being then 25 years of age, but in 1703 his name is omitted.
The present Allyn families in Barnstable, are nearly all
descendants of James, son of Thomas, and grandson of
Lieut. Samuel. His house was verj' ancient, the east part
two stories, and the west one story. It stood on Lot No. 1,
where Charles Hinckley's house now is, and it was taken
down about 50 years ago. He married July 24, 1712,
Susannah Lewis, daughter of Ebenezer. He was 21 and
she 18 at the time of their marriage.
No family in Barnstable could claim to be more respect
ably connected than this. Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth,
born in 1713, married 1732, Col. John Gorham, and re
moved to Portland. He was a man of note in his day.
Susannah, born 1715, married 1735, Capt. Jonathan Davis,
Jr., a shipmaster. Anna, born 1718, married in 1736,
John Davis, Jr. Thomas, born 1719, married Elizabeth
Sturgis 1752 ; Hannah, born 1721, married 1743, Doctor
Abner Hersey, an eminent physician, but most eccentric
man; Rebecca, born 1723, married 1742Rev. Josiah Crock
er of Taunton ; Abigail, born 1725, (an Abia Allin married
Seth Cushman of Dartmouth;) Mary, born 1727, married
1751, Nymphas Marston, Esq. ; James, bom 1729, married
1752, Lydia Marston ; Sarah, born 1730, married 1755,
Mr. Justin Hubbard, of Hingham ; Martha, born 1733, died
1740; Olive, born 1735, married 1754, Capt. Samuel Stur
gis, Jr. At a family meeting almost every profession in life
would have been honorably represented. Mr. Allyn him
self had a suit of armor, and two of his sons-in-law had done
good service for their country on the field of battle, so that
the military element would have been strongly represented •
the legal profession by two ; divinity by one, and medicine

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 11
by that strange compound. Doctor Hersey, perhaps in his
usual winter dress — cowhide boots, baize shirt, red cap and
leather great coat.
Mr. James Allyn died Oct. 8, 1741, (his grave stones
say 1742,) aged 50 years, and his widow Susannah Oct. 4,
1753, aged 59. In his will, proved Nov. 11, 1741, he pro
vides liberally for the support of his wife and younger chil
dren. To his daughters, who had not already had their por
tion, £30 each, and to Lis son James £150. To his son
Thomjis he gave his cane, marked with his grandfather's
name, his armor, valued at £16.10., and all his warlike
weapons and appurtenances, his books, excepting his Great
Bible, his "dwelling house from top to bottom," tools and
stock belonging to a saddler's trade, &c., &c. His estate
was appraised at £3.091. 19. 4, a large estate in those
times. Thomas was a saddler by trade. His house stood where
Mr. Charles Hinckley's now does. His children were Polly,
Hannah, Susan and Samuel.
James* was a cabinet maker. He resided in the old
Allyn house now standing. His children were James, Ben
jamin, two named Marston, who died young, Thomas, Nym
phas, who died young, and John, who was educated at
Harvard College, graduated in 1775, and was afterwards
pastor of the church at Duxbury.
Mr. Thomas Allyn has very few descendants in the
male line now living in Barnstable. Whether or not his son
John and grandson Joseph, who removed early from Barn
stable, were the ancestors of more prolific races I cannot say.
The first inhabitants selected the beautiful sweep of high
land between Rendezvous Creek and Coggen's Pond as the
seat of their town, the principal men built houses there, but

*Mrs. Chloe Blish, now aged 95, relates the following witch story
in relation to James Allyn. She lived at the time in Gov. Hinckley's
house, on the opposite side of the road:
Lydia Ellis, a daughter of Lizzy Towerhill, (a reputed witch, of
whom I have given an account,) resided in the family of Mi-. Allyn as
a servant. Lizzy took offence at the treatment of her daughter, and
threatened vengeance. A night or two after, a strange cat appeared
in Mr. Allyn's house, mewing and caterwauling — unseen hands upset
or turned bottom upwards every thing in the house. Six new chairs,
brought in the day before, were broke to pieces and destroyed. The
inmates were kept awake all night, and for a long time after, strange
noises were heard, at times, in the house, and the peace of the family
greatly disturbed.

12 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
in less than fifteen years half the lots belonged to Mr. Allya
and the houses had been abandoned or removed. In select
ing that location for the centre of the town, one fact was
overlooked : no water could be procured without sinking
wells to a great depth. They soon were compelled to re
move to situations near to ponds or springs of water.

JOHN ALLEN.
Mr. Baylies in his history states that John Allen re
moved from Scituate to Barnstable in 1649, and Mr. Deane
in his history of Scituate, says he probably removed from
Barnstable to Scituate in 1645. He appears to have been of
Plymouth in 1633 and of Scituate in 1646, where he died in
1662. His widow was named Ann and he had a son John.
John Allen of Barnstable was another man. Perhaps
he was the John who was taxed at Springfield in 1639, re
moved soon after perhaps to Rehoboth 1645, and to New
port 1650 and thence to Swansey in 1669. He married Oct.
10, 1650, Elizabeth Bacon of Barnstable, probable a sister
of Samuel. Allen and his wife were both ana-baptists, yet
no objection was made to their marriage. Gov. Hinckley
officiating at the nuptials. To this fact I shall have occasion
hereafter to refer. From Barnstable they went to Newport,
R. I., and there had Elizabeth, born July, 1651; Mary,
Feb. 4, 1653; John, Nov., 1654; Mercey, Dec, 1656;
Priscilla, Dec, 1659, and Samuel, April, 1661.

AN N ABLE

ANTHONY ANNABLE,
One of the forefathers, came over in the Ann in 1623, bring
ing with him his wife, Jane, and his daughter Sarah. He
remained in Plymouth till 1634 when he removed to Scitu
ate, and was one of the founders of that town and of the
church there. In 1640 he removed to Barnstable. With
tiie exception of Gov. Thomas Hinckley, no Barnstable man
was oftener employed in the transaction of public business.
He joined Mr. Lothrop's church at its organization, January
8, 1634-5, was always an exemplary member, yet he was
never dignified with the title of "Mr." and was all his life
called "Goodman Annable." That a man who was "most
useful in church and state," thirteen years a deputy to the
Colony Court, on a committee to revise the laws, frequently
employed in most important an(^ difficult negotiations, and
one of the 58 purchasers, was not thought worthy of that
dignity may seem strange to modern readers. In the Ply
mouth Colony, the governor, deputy governor, and magis
trates and assistants ; the ministers of the gospel and elders
of the church, school-masters, commissioned officers in the
militia, men of great wealth, or men comiected with the fam
ilies of the gentry of nobility, alone were entitled to be
called mister and their wives mistress. This rule was rigidly
enforced in early colonial times, and in all lists of names, it
w.'is almost the invariable custom, to commence with those
who stood highest in rank and follow that order to the end.
Goodman Amiable had four acres of land alloted to him
in the division of lands in 1623, to those who "came over*
in the shipe called the Anne." At the division of the cattle
in 1627, there had been no increase in the number of his
family, it then consisted of four, namely, himself, his wife

14 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Jane and daughters Sarah and Hannah. His name appears
in the earliest^list of freemen, made in 1633, and in that
year he was taxed £0. 18., and in the following year 9 shil
lings. Comparing these figures with the other taxes, it ap
pears that he was then a man to whom the petition in Agur's
prayer, "give me neither poverty nor riches," might well
apply. Oct. 1, 1634, he was elected a member to treat
with the partners for the colony trade, and the next January
he was chosen constable of Scituate. Oct. 4, 1636, Good
man Annable and James Cudworth were a committee from
the town of Scituate to assist in the revision of the laws of
the colony. He was a juryman that year and in 1638.
March 6, 1637-8 he was again chosen constable of Scituate.
In January of that year the Rev. John Lothrop, Mr. Timo
thy Hatherly, Goodman Annable and others of Scituate,
represented to the Court that they had small portions of
land, and petitioned to have the lands set off to them, be
tween the North and South rivers, which was granted.
In 1638 and 9 many meetings were held in Scituate to
adopt measures respecting a removal to another plantation.
Five days were set apart for humiliation, fasting and prayer
for success in their removal. The first fast was kept Feb.
22, 1637-8, and the last June 26, 1639. Several letters
signed by Mr. Lothrop, Goodman Annable and others in
behalf of themselves and other members of the church, ad
dressed to the governor, stating the grievances under which
they were suffering, and asking to be better accommodated
in some othei- part of the colony. At first they proposed to
i-emove to Sippican, now Rochester, and at the January
Court the lands at that place were granted to them. But
many were opposed to going to Sippican, preferring a resi
dence at Mattakeese, now a part of Barnstable. But the
lands at the latter place had previously been granted to Mr.
Richard Collicut and others of Dorchester; but in June,
1639, this grant M'as revoked and an opening was made for
Mr. Lothrop and his church. In the previous May Rev.
Joseph Hull of Weymouth, and Mr. Thomas Dimmock and
others romoved to Mattakeese, and commenced the settle-
, ment of the town. After the revocation of the grant to Mr.
Collicut, the Court, June 4, 1639,* O. S., corresponding to
*Tlie centennial celebration of tine 200th anniversary of tlio town
was hold Septombor 3, 1839, why and wherefore I cannot explain.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF HAUNSTABLE FAMILIES. IT)
June 14, new style, granted the lands at Mattakeese to
Messrs. Hull and Dimmock as a committee for themselves
and their associates, and incorporated the town, naming it
Barnstable. June 13, 1639, O. S., a fast was kept by Mr.
Lothrop's church to implore "God's directing and providing
for us in the place of removal," and on the 26th of the same
month another fast was kept "For the presence of God in
mercey to goe with us to Mattakeese."
Mr. Lothrop and a. majority of his church removed
from Scituate to Barnstable Oct. 11, 1639, O. S. (Oct. 21,
N. S.). On their arrival, the first settlers had built them
selves houses, any many of Mr. Lothrop's church found
dwellings provided for them on their arrival. Goodman
Annable did not remove with the first company, but some
few months after.
He was a member of the first General Court held in
1639, also in 1640, '41, '42, '43, '44, '45, '47, '50, '51, '53,
'56 and '57. He was not a member when the obnoxious
laws against Quakers were enacted.
In 1643 he was appointed by the Court a member of a
committee to provide places of defence against any hostile
attack of the Indians, and in 1645 "to propose laws to re
dress present abuses, and to prevent future."
In 1646 he was on a committee of one from each town
in the colony, "to consider a wav of defraying the charges
of the magistrate's tables by way of excise on wine and
other things." In 1661 he is named as one of the grantees
of the lands in Suckti.nesset, now Falmouth, and in 1662
land was granted to his daughter Hannah, one of the first
born children in the colony, and in 1669 a tract of land was
granted to him on Taunton River, near Titicut.
I do not find that Goodman Annable had a houselot as
signed to him in the village. He settled at West Barnstable
on the farm now owned by Nathan Jenkins, Esq. It is thus
described on the record :
1. Forty acres of upland, be it more or less, butting
northerly by the marsh, southerly by ye commons, bounded
easterly by Goodman Blush, westerly by Goodman Blush.
2." Twenty-two acres of marsh butting southerly, partly
upon his own Imd partly upon Gdd. Blush's upland, bound
ed eastorlv partly upcm ye creek lietwopn Goodman Wells

16 GENEALOGICAL >,OXJiS OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
and him, and partly by ye commons, we.sterly \>y Gdd.
Blush, northerly by ye commons.
3. Fifteen acres more or less of swamp boundetl east
erly by Gdd. Blush, westerly by Gdd. Bowmans, southerly
by ye commons, northerly partly by Gdd. Blush and partly
by Gdd. Bowmans.
This is one of the best farms in Barnstable. His land
was principally on the north side of the present County
road. Fifty-four acres were afterwards added to this farm,
extending to Annable's Pond on the south.
Goodman Annable died in 1674, and his widow Ann
administered on his estate. His age is not recorded, he
was probably 75 years old. His widow Ann was living in
1677 when she was fined £1 for selling beer without a li
cense. In 1686 she is spoken of as recently deceased. She
is called "the agjd widow Annible" in 1678, and was prob
ably nearly 80 years of age at the tii>i3 of her death.
Gdd. Annable resided in the Colony fifty and one
years. He was a pnritim of the school of blessed John Rob
inson, neither bigoted nor intolerant. Sympathizing in
feeling with Cudworth, Hatherly and other leading men of
the tolerant party — an opponent of the harsh measuies, and
bloody laws enacted and enforced against Quakers and ana
baptists in the Massachusetts Colon}', and adopted in the
Plymouth Colony in 1653, imt never enforced in Barnsta
ble. His moral character was unimpeachable. Me was
never a party to a law suit, and only in one instance en
gaged in any controversy with his neighbors. In 16(J4, he
was presented for removing a land-tn«Vk. The Court after
a full investigation of the charge, decided that he was l)laine-
able for removing the boundary ; but being convinced that
he did not willfully intend to do wrong, the complaint was
dismissed. Intellectually Goodman Annable had many superiors in
the Colony. He was a man of sound judgment, discreet,
cautious, — never acting hastily or unadvisedly, a <jood
neighbor, a useful man, and one who exhibited in his dailv
walk, his Christian character.
His descendants for several generations inherited from
him, to some extent, the same excellent traits of ch iracter.
None of thein were brilliant men ; but I have never heard
of an Annable who was convicted of crime or who was a bad

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 17
neighbor. There were not many of this name who came over.
There was a John at Ipswich in 1642, a tailor, and a Mat
thew at Newbury aged 18, 1672. Goodman Annable uni
formly wrote his name as it is now written; but it occurs
also on the records written Annible, Anible, Anniball and
Anable. The following account of his family differs from that
given either by Mr. Deane or by Mr. Savage. The latter
in attempting to correct the errors of the former, made
greater mistakes himself. I have carefully examined all ac
cessible records, and have not varied from these gentlemen
only on evidence which appears entirely conclu.sive. I am
aware that my account is defective, all I claim is that it is
fuller and has a less number of mistakes in it than those
which have been published :
Anthony Annable came over in the Ann in 1623, bring
ing with him his wife Jane and his daughter Sarah. Mr.
Savage says daughters Sarah and Hannah. On the list of
the first born in Plymouth is Hannah, daughter of Anthony
Annable. A grant of land was afterwards made to her in
virtue of her right as one of the first born. No stronger
evidence of a fact can be adduced. The members of the
Court knew that Hannah Annable was born in Plymouth,
otherwise they would not have made the grant.
Mr. Savage says Susannah was probably born in Barn
stable. If so she was very young when she married on the
13th of May, 1652, William Hatch, Jr., of Scituate.
His first wife, Jane, died in Barnstable, and was buried
Dec. 13, 1643, on the lower side of the Calves Pasture.
The exact locality of her grave is not known ; but is proba
bly at a place called Hemp Bottom. He married, March 3,
1644-5, his second wife, Ann Clark. There are three sever
al entries of this marriage, two on the Plymouth and one on
the Barnstable town records. The entry in the "Court
Orders" (vol. 2, page 80, of the printed volumes) is the
only one that can be called an original record, the other two^
are copies, and the transcriber evidently made a mistake of
one year in the date. The chirography of the entry on'' the
"Court Orders" is very obscure. The late Judge Mitchell,
who was familiar with the records, having spent his leisure
time for several years in their examination, copied the name
"Ann Clark." Mr. Pulsifer and Doctor Shurtleff, gentle-

18 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
men equally distinguished for their skill in deciphering an
cient manuscripts, read the name Ann Elocke. I prefer the
reading of Judge Mitchell.
Mr. Savage adds "The second wife was buried 16th of
May, 1651, and he married soon third wife, Ann Barker, by
whom he had Desire, 11th Oct. , 1653, and the wife was
buried about 16th March, 1658." Mr. Savage or his aman
uensis has strangely mixed up in the passage quoted, facts
in relation to the families of Anthony Annable and Abra
ham Blish. They were both good neighbors, very kind and
accommodating to each other, but I doubt whether they ever
swapped wives,* as the passage quoted indicates.
Family of Anthony Annable, by his wife Jane — born in
England :
I. Sarah, born about 1622, married Nov. 22, 1638, by
Mr. Winslow, at Green's Harbor, to Henry Ewell of
Scituate. She died in 1687, leaving a family.
Born in Plymouth:
II. Hannah, born about 1625, being his first born child,
after his arrival. She married, March 10, 1644-5,
Thomas Bowman of Barnstable.
III. Susannah, born about 1630, married 13th May, 1652,
Wm. Hatch, Jr., of Scituate.
Born in Scituate:
IV. A daughter stillborn, buried 8th April, 1635.
V. Deborah, baptized May 7, 1637.
By his second wife, Ann Clarh, born in Barnstable:
VI. Samuel, born January 22, bap'd Feb. 8, 1645-6, mar
ried, June 1, 1667, Mehitable Allyn, died 1678, aged
32. J , o
VH. Esek, (or Ezekiel) bap'd 29th April, 1649, probably
died young.
VIII. Desire, bap'd 16th Oct., 1653, married January 18,
1676-7, John Barker, Esq., died at Scituate July 24,
1706. ^
Samuel Annable married June 1, 1667, Mehitable,
*NoTE.— Mr. Savage will put this matter right in his fourth vol
ume, soon to be published. That he has made so few mistakes is won
derful. The late Capt. Isaac Bacon, Sen., said he wished it was the
fashion to swap wives, as it wa9.old horses— he would cheat somebody
most d  nably. •'

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP ^BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 19
daughter of Mr. Thomas Allyn of Barnstable. He resided
at West Barnstable, and inherited a large portion of the es
tate of his father, whom he survived only four years, dying
in the year 1678, aged 32. His widow married, May 6,
1683, Cornelius Briggs of Scituate.
^ Family of Samuel Annable :
I. Samuel, born 14th July, 1669, married Patience Dog-
get, April 11, 1695, and had Desire, 3d Jan'y, 1695 ;
Anna, 27th Sept., 1697, married, Aug. 19th, 1720,
Nathaniel Bacon; Jane, 24th Dec, 1699, married Oct.
8th, 1719, Dea. Robert Davis ;'**Samuel, 14th January,
1702 ; Patience, 15th May, 1705, married Joseph Ba
con, 1722 ;"*'Thomas, 21st June, 1708, married Ann
Gorham Aug. 7th, 1740. The father died June 21st,
1744, and his widow Patience, Oct. 11th, 1760, aged
90 yeai's.
II. Hannah, born March, 1672, died August following.
III. ^ohn, born 19th July, 1673, married June 16th, 1692,
Experience, daughter of Edward Taylor, and had^Sam-
uel, born 3d Sept., 1693 ; Mehitable, 28th Sept., 1695,
married, July 23d, 1713, Andrew Hallet, died Oct.
23d, 1767 ; John, born April, 1697, died May follow
ing; John, born 3d May, 1698, removed to Rochester;
Mary, born Dec, 1701, married David Hallet Aug.
19th, 1720 ; Cornelius, born 3d November, 1704, and
Abigail, born 30th April, 1710, married Oct. 22d,
1730, Wally Crocker.
IV. Anna, born 4th March, 1675-6, married Oct. 14th,
1696, Dea. John Barker. She died March 21st, 1732-
3, "aged near 57 years," and is buried at West Barn
stable.
The estate of Samuel Annable, deceased, included the
farm of his father, then in possession of his mother, and the
fifty-four acres on the south side of the highway which he
held in his own right by a grant from the town, and the es
tate which his wife held in her right, by gift from her father,
was settled, by order of the Court, Oct. 30, 1678, as fol
lows :
"The seate of land which was formerly Mr. Thomas
Allyn's" at Barnstable, was settled upon Samuel, the eldest
son, he paying to his sister Anna £25, one-half in current

20 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
silver money of New England, and the other half in "cur
rent pay att prise current" within two years after he become
of age. To John Annable, the youngest son, the farm that the
"aged widdow Annible hath her life in, and now liveth on ;
which was pte of the lands which formerly Anthony Anni
ble lived on," he to pay his sister £25, one-half in current
silver money of New England, and one-half in current pay,
within two years after he becomes of age.
To the widow Mehitable Annable was assigned all the
moveables and all the stock, "to be att her own dispose for
and towards the bringing up of the children, hopeing that
shee will have a care to bringe them up in a way of educa
tion as the estate will beare, and to have all the proffitts of
all the lands untill the said Samuel Annible and John Anni
ble comes to be of age, and then the third in the proffitts of
the lands during her natural life."
In 1703 there were only two of the family, Samuel and
John, in Barnstable entitled to a share in the common lands.
The West Barnstable family disappeared msiny years ago,
some removed to Rochester and some to other places, and
the ancient farm is now owned by strangers. The Barnsta
ble family eighty years ago was numerous, wealthy and in
fluential, — now there is not a solitary voter of the name in
the town. The family has dwindled down, and almost be
come extinct. There are a few of the descendants of An
thony Annable in Boston, and in other places. The last
parcel of the Annable farm (formerly Mr. Thomas Allyn)
was sold out of the family the present year (1861), and
there is no memorial of the family, now remaining in Barn
stable, save the monuments in the grave yards which mark
the places of their sepulchres.

BACON.

NATHANIEL BACON.
To write a genealogical memoir of Nathaniel Bacon and
his descendants would require a volume. I shall not attempt
it. Among the many of the name who came over early,
were Nathaniel and Samuel, supposed to be brothers, and
Elizabeth, probably a sister, all of whom settled in Barnsta
ble.* Michael of Dedham, who has numerous descendants
probably came from Ireland. William of Salem, who mar
ried Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Potter, mayor of Coven
try, had resided in Dublin. On the outbreak of the Irish
rebellion, she was sent over to this country, and her husband
followed soon after. Andrew who was early of Cambridge,
and one of the magistrates at Hartford, 1637, and died at
Hadley 1669, probably came from Rutlandshire, England.
He has no descendants in the male line, his son Isaac having
died young. Nathaniel Bacon of Middletown, was a neph
ew of Andrew and a son of William of Stretton, Rutland
County, England. The Bacons of Connecticut were prom
inent men, and the prevalence of the same names in the
Connecticut and Barnstable indicates a community of origin .
Mr. Nathaniel Bacon was one of the first settlers, and the
house lot assigned to him, is now owned by his descendants.
Without a plan, it will be difficult to state intelligibly, the
manner in which the lots in the vicinity of the Meeting
House in the East Parish were laid out. The locations of
*Mr. Savage in commenting on the evidence given in 1661 by
Dea John Fletcher ot Milford, Conn., relative to the ancestry of Na
thaniel Bacon, of Middletown, remarks that it "might without vio
lence be construed to refer equally to the Bai'nstable family, though it
is less probable." It il very much "less probable." The affidavits of
Dea. Fletcher and some others were taken at New Haven, before Na
thaniel Bacon, Esq , and they state distinctly that "Nathaniel Bacon
then present, was the oldest son of William Bacon, "&c. The abstracts
of thsse affidavits given by Hinman, are wanting in clearness, and
justify the caustic remarks of Mr. Savage.

22 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
all the roads, excepting that to Hyannis, anciently Baker's
Lane, have been changed, and the ancient boundaries on the
dividing lines between the lots have mostly been removed.
As early as 1653, nearly all the land in this neighborhood
had changed ownership. The present county road, proba
bly passed on the south of Mr. James Lewis' house, now
owned by Frederick W. Crocker, Esq. When the town
was settled, the present county road, from the Meeting
House to Baker's Lane, was a deep gully, impassable for
teams. When the present road was laid out in 1686 it was
located "up Cobb's Hill" through this gully. The "Old
Mill Way" joined the county road on the east of the Meet
ing House, the gate at the entrance standing north of the
town pound. From this point the "Old Mill Way" extend
ed north to the Mill Pond, and thence across the ancient
causeway sometimes called Blushe's bridge, to the Common
Field. The ends of the house lots butted on Mill Way not
on the county road. Beginning at the south the first lot
on west side was Roger Goodspeed's. His house stood on
this lot in 1649, but in 1653, he had surrendered it to the
town and taken other lands in exchange. The Meeting
House on Cobb's Hill and the lands now occupied for bury
ing grounds were included in this lot.
The second lot on the north of Goodspeed's contained
seven acres, and was set off to Elder Henry Cobb.
The third lot containing six acres was laid out to Thomas
Huckins by an order of the town dated 14th Sep. 1640.
The fourth lot, where the late Dea. Joseph Chipman re
sided, was Dolar and Nicholas Davis.
On the east of the •Mill Way" the first lot was Mr. Na
thaniel Bacon's, bounded south by the county road, west by
Roger Goodspeed and the Mill Way, north (^in 1654) by
Goodman Cobb, and east partly by Goodman Cobb, and
p&rtly by Goodman Foxwell's land. At the settlement of
the town the land on the north of the Bacon house lot was a
dense swamp, unfit for cultivation, or building purposes.
It contained some valuable timber and was reserved as town
commons. It was subsequently granted in small lots to
Goodman Cobb, John Davis and others, and subsequently
bought by the Bacon family. The land between the swamp
and mill pond, on the east of the Way was mostly ow:ned by

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 23
Dolar Davis who sold it to Abraham Blish in 1657, who
afterwards sold it to the Bacons.
Mr. Bacon owned sixteen acres of land in the old Com
mon Field, a name still retained and eleven acres in the new
Common Field.* He also owned the house lot and land
now owned by Frederick Cobb, containing twelve acres,
"bounded northerly by the highway, westerly by the road
running into ye woods, 80 rods, easterly by Goodman Fox-
well." Also four acres bought of Henry Taylor, "bounded
southerly by ye highway, northerly by Mr. Dimmock's
marsh, easterly partly by Mr. Dimmock and partly by John
Scudder's upland, westerly by Nicolas Davis."
In addition to these lots he owned thirty-two acres of land
and meadow at Cotuit, meadows in the mill pond and at
Sandy Neck, and other tracts of land and rights in the com
mons. Mr. Bacon was a tanner and currier. He had vats in the
low grounds near his house. As there were other tanneries
in town, it is probable that he worked at his trade in the
winter and was employed in the 'cultivation of his lands the
remainder of the year. During the latter part of his life,
his public duties absorbed a large part of his time.
He built his house in the year 1642. It was taken down
about thirty-five years ago and the old oak timber was as
sound and as hard as when cut from the forest. It was two
stories high, and built in the style then common. It was
about 22 feet in the front and 26 feet in the rear. The
lower story was divided into three rooms. The front room
was 16 feet square, low in the walls with a large summer
beam across the centre overhead. The bedroom floor was
elevated two feet above the other floors to give more height
to the cellar under it. The kitchen was very small. The
second story, which was very low in the wall, was divided
into three rooms corresponding in size with those in the
lower story. The chimney was of stone, few if any bricks
had then been made in the Colony. The fire place in the
*The Old Common Field extended from Blushes Point to the west
Waterinti place, bounded north by the harbor, and south by the mill
pond. The name is a free translation of the Indian name Mattakeese
which means ''old" or "worn Out planting lands." The new Com
mon Field extended from the West Watering place to the bounds of
Yarmouth, bounded north by the harbor, and south by the County
Road, and included the Indian reservation.

24 GENEALOGICAL NOTfiS OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.

front room was eight feet wide, four feet deep, and the man
tle laid high, so that a tall person could walk under it by
stooping a little. The oven was often built on the outside
of the house with the mouth opening in one corner on the
back side of the fire place. The fire was built in the centre,
and on a cold winter evening a seat in the chimnev corner was
a luxury unknown in modern times. The fire place in the
kitchen was necessarily smaller, in a house of this construc
tion, especially when the oven opened into it. There M'as
usually a tire place in the front chamber. The windows
were small and oiled paper was used instead of glass in many
houses. The successive occupants of this house, altered
and enlarged it so many times, that in 1825 it was entirely
unlike the original. The height of the rooms had been in
creased, by lengthening the posts three feet, — a large addi
tion had been put on the west, and several on the rear.
So that it covered more than four times as much ground as
at first.
Mr. Bacon was proposed as a freeman in June 1645 and
admitted June 1646. In 1650 he was constable of the town
of Barnstable, and a deputy to the Colony Court thirteen
years from 1652 to 1665. In 1657 he was chosen an assist
ant and was re-elected annually till his death in 1673. In
1658 and 1667 he was a member of the council of war. He
frequently served on committees appointed by the Court,
and was a prominent and influential man in the^ Colony.
It would be instructive and interesting to trace step by
step the progress of Mr. Bacon through fife. He came to
Barnstable a young man, comparatively poor, without
friends to assist him, and without the advantages of a good
education ; but a good moral character, good business habits,
energy and industry more than compensated for the want of
these advantages. He died Oct. 1673, probably not 60
years of age. His widow survived him many years. She
was living in 1691.
I do not find his will on record ; he probably made none.
The inventory of his estate, appraised at £632, 10. 2, is
dated Oct 29, 1673, sworn to by his widow Mistress Han
nah Bacon, and letters of administration granted to her. 
On the 4th of March following "Mr. Thomas Hinckley, Mr.
Thomas Walley, William Crocker, John Thompson,' and

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 25
Thomas Huckins were appointed by the Court to settle the
estate of Mr. Nathaniel Bacon deceased, among Mrs. Han
nah Bacon and her children, which settlement under their
hands, or any three of their hands, shall be accompted
against all claims, or contentions at any time arising about
the aforesaid estate or any part thereof."
Nathaniel Bacon married Dec. 4, 1642, Miss Hannah,
daughter of the Rev. John Mayo, then teacher of the church
in Barnstable, Children Born in Barnstable.
I. Hannah, born Sept. 4, 1643, bap'd 8th Dec 1644. She
married Mr. Thomas Walley, Jr., son of Rev. Thomas
Walley of Barnstable, and had one son Thomas, who
died leaving no issue ; and daughters, Hannah, who
m. first, Wm Stone, and had two dau's ; second, James
Leonard, by whom she had Lydia who m. Thomas
Cobb ; and Elizabeth, who m. Edward Adams, Hannah
m. Feb. 16, 1675, her second husband Rev. George Shove
of Taunton, and had Mary Aug 11, 1676, Jolianna
Sept. 28, 1678; Edward Oct. 3, 1680, and Mercy May
1682. She is named as one of the "remote members"
of the Barnstable church in 1683. She died in Taun
ton Sept. 1685, aged 42 vears.
II. Nathaniel, bap'd i5th Fei). 1645-6.
III. Mary, born Aug. 12.1648, bap'd 20 Aug. 1648.
IV. Samuel, born Feb. 25, 1650-1.
V. Elizabeth, born Jan'y 28, 1653-4. She died unmarried
in 1676, according to the Plymouth records "in the
28th year of her age." She was only 21, or at most,
22 years of age. Her estate wtis settled by agreement
on record.
VI. Jeremiah, born May 8, 1657.
VII. Mercy, born Feb. 28, 1659-60, married Hon. John
Otis, the third of the name, July 18, 1683. She died
Note —In the account of the Allyn family I inadvertantly stated
that Capt. Samuel Mayo bought his house lot of John Casely. This is
a mistake. John Casely's house lot was on tne South sideot the road.
Itcontainod four acres, the south-west corner being near the Jan lands.
An investigation of this matter, seems t) confli-m the tradition that
the present road between Jail Hill and the old bturges tavern was a
private way belonging to lhe»Lothr(>ps, before the year 1686, when it
was laid out as a public highway. In 1654 there was a highway from
near the Savings Bank Building to the wharf now owned by Josiah
HiQckley , and the house lots were bounded by that road.

26 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Dec. 10, 1737 aged 77 years. She was buried at ^Vest
Barnstable, where a monument is erected to her mem
ory.— [See Otis Family.]
VIII. John, born June, 1651 the record "says, but accord
ing to his grave stones in the burying ground near the
Meeting House in the East Parish, he was born in
June 1665. He "died Aug. 20, 1731, in the 67th year
of his age."
Nathaniel Bacon, 2d, bought a part of the house lot of
Elder Henry Cobb, including the stone or fortification house
thereon, afterwards owned by the third Nathaniel Bacon,
who kept a pulilic house. He also inherited the mansion
house of his father ; but his mother having a life estate
therein, it did not come into his possession.
He married March 27, 1673, Sarah, daughter of Gov.
Thomas Hinckley. She died February 16, 1686-7, aged
40. He married for his second wife Hannah [Lumhert?] a
young woman. He died Dec, 1691, aged 46. In his will
dated Aug. 6, 1691, proved May 9, Uii)2, he does not pro
vide liberally for his wife Hannah*, and contrary to the
usual custom, did not name her executrix of his will.
He also names his son Nathaniel and Samuel, his daughter
Mary and Klizabeth, liy his second wife, and
his "honored mother Bacon." He had two dwelling
houses, to Nathaniel he gave "one house which he will," and
the other to his younger son Samuel. He appointed as
executors of his will, "My loving brethen Jeremiah Bacon
and John Otis, and my trusty and well beloved friends
.Jonathan Russel and Lieut. James Lewis, all of this town of
Barnstable." Children of NatKl Bacon 2d, and his wife Sarah Hinckley ,
born in Barnstable.
I. Nathaniel, born Sept. 9, 1674. He was married by
Maj. Mayhew, Nov. 11, 1696, to Ruth Doggett, at
Martha's Vineyard. His children were Thomas, born
Sept. 30, 1697 ; removed to Eastham ; David born Dec.
11, 1700; Jonathan, born March 11, 1703 ; Hannah, born
Jan'y 15, 1704-5, and Sarah, born Jan'y 6, 1707-8. He
*In 1698 she niairied John Davis, Jr., his third wife, and had Nicho-
las. Jedediah.Desii-e, Noah and perhaps other children In 1705 she
IS calcd of Falmoiuh. She had one daughter, Elizabeth, by her sec
ond husband.

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died in Barnstable Jan'y 1737-8 aged 63, and his widow
died Aug 6, 175(), aged 80. He was a deacon of the
church, a blacksmith by trade, and kept a public house.
II. Mary, born Oct. 9, 1677, married Nov. 5, 1702, John
Crocker, of Barnstable. She died March 1711, aged 33.
HI. Elizabeth, born April II, 1680, married Aug. 31,
1704 Israel Tupper, of Sandwich.
IV. Samuel, born Jan'y 20, 1682, married March 30, 1704
Mary, daughter of Thomas Huckins. His second wife
was Sarah, daughter of Edward Taylor, and widow of
Samuel Allyn, Jr., whom he married 2()th Jan'y 1708. —
His children were Ebenezer, born ^Lirch 16, 1705, died
Julv 17, 1706; Ebenezer, Dec. 4, 1708; ^ileirv, born
May 22, 1710; and Edward. Jan'y 23, 1714-15.
Deacon Samuel Bacon, resided in the ancient family man
sion which he transmitted to his son Edward. Dea. Bacon
died April 29, 1728, aged 46, and his widow Sarah, Sept.
24, 1753, aged 73. Ebenezer of this family married Jan'y
17, 1734, Lydia Lothrop, and he removed with his wife
and five children in 1745, to Lebanon, Conn. His house, n
one story, gambrel roofed, double house, stood on the east
erly part of the land, which was the great lot of Rev. Mr.
Lothrop, where Daniel Downes now lives. He sold his
house and land to Capt. John Cullio, a Scotchman. INIercy,
daughter of Deacon Samuel, married Aug. 5, 1744, Jonathan
Hallett, of Hyannis, a son of David Hallett. The late Ben
jamin Hallett, Esq., was a son, and the present Hon. Ben
jamin F. Hallett, of Boston, a grandson, and of the sixth
generation from Nathaniel Bacon, the first settler. He has
numerous descendants.
Hon. Edward Bacon, youngest son of Dea. Samuel, was
a distinguished man in his time. He held many important
offices. He took an active part during the Revolution, and
in the stirring times immediately preceding it. His patriot
ism was at one time doubted : but the resolutions passed by
the town and recorded, vindicate his character as patriot and
a man. He inherited the ancient mansion house of the
Bacons, afterwards owned by his youngest son Ebenezer.
He married Sept. 7, 1744, Patience daughter of Benjamin
Marston; she died Oct. 21, 1764, and he married Dec. 21,
1765, Rachel Doane, of Wellfleet. He died March 16.

28 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES,
1783, aged 68, and is buried near the church in the East
Parish. His widow Rachael m. Dr. Thomas Smith,
Woods HoU. He had nine children, five of whom died in
infancy, namely ; 1. Edward, born Oct. 19, 1742, who
married Lydia Gorham, and died in 1811. 2. Lydia, born
February 3, 1744-5, died April 28, 1745. 3. Nymphas,
June 2, 1746, died Dec. I , 1746. 4. Samuel, Oct. 17,
1747, died Nov. 7. 1747. 5. James, Oct. 30, 1748, who
married Johanna Hamblen, and removed to Freeport Maine.
6. Susannah, Dec. 13, 1750, died March 24, 1753. 7.
Sarah, born Dec. 25, 1752, died April 11, 1776. 8. Susan
nah, Feb. 14, 1755; and Ebenezer, Aug. 30, 1756, a dis
tinguished man. He held many impoi-tant offices was a cor
rect business man, of sound judgment, intelligent, a good
neighbor and citizen, and hospitable to a fault. Whatever
Squire Bacon said was regarded as law by his neighbors, a
fact which shows that he was a man of worth and influence.
He died of consumption, in 1811, aged 55 year.s, leaving a
numerous family, who were "trained up in the way thev
should go," and now that "they are old they do not depart
from it."
Samuel Bacon, son of Nathaniel, removed to Hingham,
and married 17th Dec, 1675, Mary, daughter of John Jacob.
He died in Hingham, Feb. 18, 1680-1, aged 29 years, 11
mos., 23 days. In his will dated Jan'y 13, 1680-1 he names
his honored mother. Hannah Bacon, widow; his two daugh
ters, Hannah and Mary, and his wife, Mary, whom he ap
points sole executrix ; and for overseers, his father-in-law,
John Jacob, of Hingham, his brother-in-law George Shove,
of Taunton, Shubael Dimmock, of Barnstable, and his broth
er Jeremiah Bacon, Ho had property in Hingham and
Barnstable, all of which was apprized at £334,8,2. His
children horn in Hingham were Hannah, born Oct. 1676,
died aged two months. Hannah, again, born Feb. 16, 1678
and Mary, born Feb. 1680. Respecting these daughters I
have no certain information. Tradition says they removed
to Barnstable, never married, and built the large " two story
gambrel roofed house occupied by John Bacon, Jr., and
afterwards by his son, the late Capt. Isaac Bacon.
Jeremiah Bacon, son of Nathaniel, was a tanner. His
house which was a two story building with a Leantoo on the

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 29
west end, stood a little distance north-east from William
Cobb's house. His tannery was in the low ground on the
north-east his house. He married Dec. 1686, Eliza
beth Howes of Yarmouth. He died in 1706, aged 49, leav
ing a good estate, which was settled Feb. 15, 1712-13. His
house lot, a part of the Dimmock farm, contained nine acres
and he had thirty acres in the Common Field, adjoining the
house lot on the north, lands at Stony Cove, and at Middle-
boro, meadows and wood land. Of the homestead two and
three fourths acres were set off to Job, bounded south by
the highway, west by land of .Mr. John Otis, (now Lot N.
Otis,) and the meadow of Samuel Dimmock, north by the
Creek. This land is now owned by William Cobb. To
Samuel, his eldest son, and his mother, three acres, bounded
south by the highway, west by Job Bacon, and north by the
creek, with the barn and other buildings thereon. This land
is now owned by Solomon Hinckley. To Jeremiah, second
son, 3 and 1-2 acres, bounded south by the highway, west
by Samuel Bacon's land, (now by the town road to the
Common Field,) north by the creek, and east by Shubael
Dimmock's land. This lot was afterwards owned by James
Delap, and is now owned by the widow Anna Otis. Samuel
had 10, Jeremiah 9 1-2 and Job 9 acres in the Common
Field. Joseph had land at Stony Cove, and 1-3 of land at
Middleboro, &c. Ebenezer one third of land at Middleboro,
&c. Nathaniel had one third of land at Middleboro, &c, ; in
his portion were 1 silver spoon, 1 silver porringer, &c. —
His Wid. Elizabeth, and daughters Anna and Mary had por
tions set to them in severalty. S&rah and Elizabeth are not
named, and were probably dead.
Children of Jeremiah Bacon and his wife Elizabeth Howes
born in Barnstable.
I. Sarah, born Oct. 16, 1687, probably died young.
II. Anna, born Mar. 16, 1688-9.
ITI.Mercy, born Jan'y 30, 1689-90, married Mar. 19, 1719,
Thomas -Joyce of Yarmouth, had a large family of girls
noted for their beauty, which however did not prevent the
father from committing suicide.
IV. Samuel, born Aug. 15, 1692. He married three
wives. 1st, Deborah daughter of Nathaniel Otis, who
came from Nantucket and settled in Barnstable. She

30 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
died May 29th, 1721. 2d, he married Jan'y 7, 1724-5
Wid. Hannah Russell, a daughter of Joseph Paine, Esq.,
of Harwich. She had previously married on the 20th of
Jan'y 1715-16, Philip Russell. 'She died May 8, 1753
aged 58, (the church records say "about 50.") 3d Mary
Howland, Feb. 21, 1754. He was a captiiin, a man of
some property, and had the bump of self esteem largely
developed. Notwithstanding his official standing and his
being junior to Dea. Samuel, he was always known as
Scussion Sam, a nickname exceedingly mortifying to his
dignity. He believed that his family was entitled to more
respect than the other Bacon families and was often vexed
because his neighbors thought otherwise. He had a habit
of saying, "we will discuss that matter," hence his nick
name. He resided in the house which was his father's
and died Jan'y 29, 1770 aged 77. His children born in
Barnstable were Sarah, Feb. 24, 1713-14, who married
Jabez Linnell, Nov. 11, 1736; Oris, May 7, 1715, mar
ried Hannah Lewis Nov. 23, 1738, and died July 11,
1773, without issue, and bequeathed his estate to his
nephew, the late Mr. Oris Bacon; Thomas, Oct. 23, 1716,
married Desire Hallett Feb. 1, 1745 ; Susannah, Dec. 24,
1718, married Nath'l Cobb Dec. 14, 1738 ; Deborah, Dec.
4, 1720, married Peter Pierce Nov. 12, 1741 ; Hannah,
baptized Feb. 13, 1725-6, and Mary baptized July 26,
1730. There are no descendants in the male line of Capt.
Samuel Bacon now living in Barnstable. A great-grandson
residing in Wisconsin has many. Oris Bacon, son of Oris
died at Lima Centre, Wisconsin, Nov. 21, 1862, aged 85
years, 7 months, 5 days.
V. Jeremiah, born Oct. 2, 1694, married Abigail Parker
(she married 2d, Nov. 10, 1732, Mr. Eliphalet Carpenter
of Woodstock,) and had Prince June 15, 1720, and Jer
emiah, Jan'y 14, 1723-4. The latter married Hannah
Taylor April 23, 1750.
VI. Joseph, born June 15. 1695, married Patience Annable
1722, and had seven children. 1. Joseph born April 11,
1723, married Mirian Coleman Dec. 13, 1750 ; 2. Desire,
born Dec. 3, 1724, married Joseph Davis, Jr., Sept. 24,
1745. 3. Jane, born Feb. 28 1727-8 married James
Davis, Jr., Sept. 24, 1745. 4. Samuel, father of Robert

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 31
Bacon of Boston, born March 26, 1731. He died on
board the Jersey prison ship. One account says :
"Samuel Bacon of Barnstable, died on board the prison
ship at St. Lucia 1781." 5. Patience, born June 29,
1734, married May 19, 1747, Ben. Davis. 6. Annah,
born July 29, 1737, died June 20, 1761. 7. Mercy, born
April 17, 1740, married Sept. 4, 1760, Ben. Lumbert.
VII. Ebenezer, born March 11, 1698.
VIII. Nathaniel, born Sept. 11, 1700, married June 11,
1726, Sarah Cobb. He lived in the Otis Loring house
and removed to New Jersey about 1750. He had born in
Barnstable, Rebecca, Dec. 17, 1726 ; Jeremiah, born June
25, 1732 ; Elizabeth, born May 1, 1734; Sarah, born May
9, 1736 ; (she said her sister Elizabeth walked from New
Jersey, barefooted ;) died unmarried in 1815; Nathaniel
born March 3, 1737-8.
IX. Job, born March 23, 1703, married Elizabeth Mills,
March 10, 1725.
X. Elizabeth, born Aug. 6, 1705.
John Bacon, Esq., youngest son of Nathaniel, was eight
years of age when his father died in 1673. Beside his share
in his - father's estate, his brothers Nathaniel and Samuel
bought for him Nov. 25, 1676, twelve acres of land of
Major John Walldy, administrator on the estate of Nicholas
Davis, deceased. The enstern half, however, seems to have
been transferred to his sister Mercy, afterwards wife of Hon.
John Otis.
Extracts* from ancient deeds, and other records, enable
me to state in an intelligible form the original laying out of
the lands east of Cobb's, or Meeting House Hill. The house
lot of Roger Goodspeed as already stated was bounded west
by the present Mill Lane and the Hyannis road. On the
north side of the highway the next lot on the east was laid
out to Nathaniel Bacon, this extended to the top of the Hill
a little east of the spot where the late Capt. Isaac Bacon's
house stood. On the south side of the road, the lot next
east of Goodspeed's was owned in 1654 by the' Wid. Mary
Hallett, and is now owned by S. B. Phinney and the heirs
of Timothy Reed, deceased. The next lot was laid out to

*The extracts referred to are omitted.

32 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Lieutenant James Lewis and is now owned by F. W. Crock
er. The next lot now owned by Frederick Cobb, on the
east of the Lane (called Cobb's lane) was laid out to Nath'l
Bacon. The eastern boundary of this lot corresponding
with the eastern boundary of his house lot on the north side
of the highway. Richard Foxwell's lots were next east,
four acres lying on each side of the road. The Bacons
bought this land early. A part of that bought of Foxwell
on the north side is yet owned by them, and a part by the
Agricultural society. The Foxwell land on the south of the
road is now owned by Joseph H. Hallet and James Otis.
Next east of the Foxwell land on the south of the road, was
the great lot of Eider Henry Cobb containing sixty acres. —
It extended to the range of fence a little west of the present
dwelling house of Joseph Cobb. Henry Taylor owned two
acres at the north east corner of this lot. Next east of Elder
Cobb's great lot was the farm of Joshua Lumbard extending
to the range on the east of the house of Amos Otis, deceased,
and bounded east by the great lot of Rev. John Lothrop.
Joshua Lumbert, when he removed to South Sea, sold this
lot. The front was owned by Schoolmaster Lewis, and the
rear by Robert Shelly, who sold to Samuel Norman. Mr.
Lothrop's great lot contained 45 acres, and extended to the
range of fence between the houses of Daniel Downes and
Joshua Thayer. This lot was sold by the heirs of Mr.
Lothrop to John Scudder, and he sold his house and six
acres of land to Stephen Davis, and the remainder of the
land to the Bacons. On the north side of the road the lot
next east of Foxwell's was Nicholas Davis' ; this land ex
tended to the eastern boundary of the Dimmock farm, which
is the range of fence between the houses of Charles Sturo'is
and Solomon Hinckley. From this point, the Dimmock
land was bounded 115 rods on the south by the highway to
the turn in the road east of the house of William W. Stur
gis. The Dimmocks sold some of their land very early.
Nicholas Davis bought six acres at the west end and which
was a part of the tracts which his administrator sold to John
Bacon, but was afterwards transferred to his sister Mercy,
and is now owned by her descendants Solomon Hinckley
and Lot N. Otis. Four acres on the east of the last named
lot were bought by Henry Taylor, and by him sold in 1659,
to Nath'l Bacon. John Scudder bought six acres of the

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 33
Dimmock land which he sold to the Bacons. The two last lots
were afterwards the property of Jeremiah Bacon, and divi
ded in 1712 as above stated.
The Bacons owned extensive tracts of land. John Ba
con, Esq., owned on the road the lots which belonged to Fox
well, and the lot of Nicholas Davis. He owned a house and
farm at Strawberry Hill at South Sea, and extensive tracts
of wood land and meadows.
He was bred a lawyer, and had an extensive practice.
He was a Judge of the Court of Common Please, and held
other offices. He wrote the worst hand, for a man of busi
ness, that I have ever met with; his lines were crooked in
every direction ; his letters cramped and awkwardly formed,
and difficult to decipher ; the execution shabby and misera
ble. It has been remarked that a man's character is devel
oped in his hand-writing. If John Bacon, Esq., is to
be judged by that rule, a high estimate cannot be placed on
his orderly habits or intellectual endowments. He was much
employed in public business, was a church member in good
standing, and his moral character was unblemished.
John Bacon, Esq., youngest son of Nathaniel, married
June 17, 1686, Mary, daughter of Capt. John Hawes
of Yarmouth. She died March 5, 1725-6, aged 61 years.
He married for his second wife, Sept. 9, 1726, Madame
Sarah Warren of Plymouth, a widow-woman having children
and grand-children of her own. He died "Aug. 20, 1731,
in the 67th year of his age," and is buried in the grave yard
near the Meeting House in the East Parish.
In his Will, a most elaborate document, occupying four
and one-half large and closely written pages on the records,
he provides that in certain contingencies, his negro slave
Dinah shall be sold by his executors, "and all she is sold for
shall be improved by my executors in buying of Bibles, and
they shall give them equally alike unto each of my said
wife's and my grand-children." Whether this pious act was
performed by his executors, I am not informed.
He left a large estate, which he divided nearly in equal
proportions to his children then living. His wife was pro
vided for in a marriage contract dated 27th of May, 1729.
He owned his homestead on the north side of the road, con
taining about thirty acres, bought of Foxwell, Nicholas
Davis and Abraham Blish ; this he divided into five lots,

34 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
giving to Nathaniel the eastern, containing six acres, on
which his son had built a two-story single house. This lot
is now owned by Charles Sturgis, S. B. Phinney and Joseph
Basset. The next lot on the west, to his daughter Desire
Green, on which there had also been built a two-story single
house, afterward ownecl' by Lot Thacher. The next lot con
taining five acres, he gave by deed to his son Solomon, who
sold it to John Sturgis, jr. These two lots are now owned
by Joseph Basset. The fourth lot with the mansion house
thereon, he gave to his son Judah, and the west lot to his
son John by deed. These, excepting about an acre at the
southwest, are now owned l)y the Barnstable County Agri
cultural Society. The Foxwell land on the south side of the
road he gave to Judah with the barn, orchard, &c.
His farm and dwelling-house at Strawberry Hill, South
Sea, he gave 1-8 to Hannah, 1-8 to Solomon, 1-4 to Nathan
iel, 1-4 to John, and 1-4 to Judah. Solomon to have the
improvement of the house till he had one of his own.
His woodland he gave in equal shares to Desire,
Nathaniel, John, Solomon and Judah.
His nieadov\'s he divided to his sons, and daughter
Desire .
His clothing he divided to Nathaniel 1-4, and his best hat
and wig, John 1-2 and his cane, Solomon 1-4 and law books,
and to Judah 1-4 and his horse furniture.
His "household wares," 1-3 to Desire, and 1-3 to Hannah
and I presume the other 3d to his wife. His one-sixth of
the mill at Blushe's Bridge he gave to Solomon ; and his
great Bible to Hannah. He gave to all his sons and grand
sons, liberty to use his two landing-places, one at the mill
and the other at Blushe's Point. To his grand-daughter
Mary, daughter of his son Isaac, then deceased, 20 shillings,
and if Isaac's widow had another child, then £40, provided
either lived to be 21 years of age.
His orchard he gave to Judah, but his children, not
withstanding, were to have the fruit of five trees each for
seven years.
Judah bad the. largest share in the estate, but he had
duties to perforin that the others had not. He had to pro
vide among other things "a good gentle beast to go in my
wife's calache to any part of Barnstable, and once a year to
Plymouth."

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 35
Children of John Bacon, Esq., and his wife Mary Hawes.
I. Hannah, born June 7, 1687, married March 25, 1709,
Ebenezer Morton, of Plymouth, and had y. family.
II. V Desire, born March 15, 1688-9, married March' 25,
1709, (at the same 'time with her sister Hannah)
\Mlliam Green, and had «« children. She died
Dec. 29, 1730, aged 41. He died Jan'y 28, 1756,
"aged above 70."
III. Nathaniel, born Jan'y 16, 1691-2, married Aug. 19,
1720, Anna Annable, who died soon, leaving no issue.
He married in 1730, Thankful Lumbert, by whom he
had Lemuel, Benjamin, Jabez, Hannah and Jane, bap
tized April 26, 1741. She had afterwards Lurania,
illegitimate, baptized Aug. 28, 1743. She married
Sept. 7, 1744, Augustine Bearse, and had other chil
dren. She died Nov., 1774, aged "about 70." Jabez
died 1757, leaving his estate to his brothers and
sisters.
IV. Patience, born June 15, 1694 ; died young.
V. John, born March 24, 1697, married Elizabeth Free
man, May 3, 1726. The record says he died "abroad
May 24, 1745." He fell overboard at sea and was
drowned* He owned and occupied the large two-
story gambrel-roofed dwelling, on the rising ground
east of the ancient mansion-house of the Bacons.
He was called a saddler in 1729 ; but I have
understood he was a sea captain at the time of
his death. He had ten children, Mary, born
March 24, 1725-6, died in infancy; John, born
April 29, 1728; he died a young man leaving no
issue; Barnabas, born April 17, 1729, died in
infancy; a daughter, Jan'y 3, 1730-1, died "in half
an hour"; Elizabeth, born May 8, 1731, married
Oct. 6, 1755, Thomas Dimmock; Isaac, born Dec.
25, 1732, married Oct. 29, 1762, Alice Talor. He
died June 26, 1819, aged 87 years. He resided in
the house which was his father's. He had a small

* The circumstances are thus told: When he fell overboard there was
only one other man on deck— a man who stammered, but a good sin
ger. When Capt. Bacon fell overboard he attempted to call the crew,
but conld not articulate a word. One said to him^^ "sing it," and he
commenced and sung "John Bacon's overboard.'

36 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
fiirm which he cultivated, raising a large quantity of
onions for market. He was master of a packet run
ning between Boston and Barnstable many years, and
in the fall carried a large quantity of onions to the
Boston market. He was tall, over six feet, and
well proportioned — a man that was never vexed
at anything. If a man assailed him, he would
always have a witty reply, and thus turn the tables
on his opponent. Many anecdotes are related of
him. In the article on the Annable family a char
acteristic story is told of him. His packet was
called "the Somerset," not her real name — a small
craft — the remains of which lie in the raft dock at
Blushe's Point. One time he sailed from Barnstable
with a southwest wind. After crossing the bar his
vessel began to leak. Unable to keep her free by
pumping, he hove about to return, and continuing to
pump she was soon free. It did not take Capt. Isaac
long to find the trouble. A wicked rat had gnawed
a hole through the planking on the starboard side,
which was under water when on the other tack. He
made a plug, let himself down on the side of the ves
sel, and drove it into the rat-hole, hove about and
went to Boston.
One year straw to bunch early ripe onions could
not be procured, and the farmers cut green bull-
rushes for the purpose. Purchasers who wanted
onions for the West India market, objected to them.
In reply, Capt. Bacon said: "Gentlemen, these are
what are called 'tarnity onions' ; they'll keep to all
eternity." He sold his onions, but the purchasers
had to throw them overboard in a week after.
Capt. Samuel Hutchins, no relation of (kpt. Ba
con's, also run a packet to Boston and carried onions.
At one time he sold a load to be delivered in Salem.
Capt. Bacon heard of it, and having his vessel loaded,
sailed for Salem, and called on the merchant to buy.
The merchant said he had engaged a load of Capt.
Huckins. Capt. Bacon replied : "He is my son-in-
law and these are the very onions."
The town records say the 7th child of John
Bacon, jr., was named Mark, the chuT-ch records say

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 37
Mercy, born Jan'y 27, 1734-5, baptized Feb. 2,
1734-5. She died unmarried March 29, 1765; Sim
eon, born July 26, 1736,' died March 21, 1740;
Desire, born May 20, 1738 ; she was never married,
lived in the house with her brother Isaac, in which
she had a life estate. She died March 2, 1811 ;
Mary, born Aug. 23, 1740. married Joseph Davis.
VI. Isaac, born March 29, 1699, married Hannah Ste
vens. He removed to Provincetown where he died
in 1730, leaving a daughter Mary, and a posthumous
child, born after the death of the father.
VII. Solomon, born April 3, 1701, married July 16, 1726,
Hannah Capron, a Rehobeth name. He was a phy
sician and resided some time in Barnstable. Whether
he removed or died young, I am unable to say. I
have a memorandum that he had a daughter Sarah,
who died April 11, 1775, aged 20.
VIII. Judah, born Dec. 9, 1703. I do not find that he left
issue.
Nathaniel Bacon, including the male and female lines,
is the ancestor of a very large proportion of the eminent
men of Cape Cod. The sketch which I have given, is only
an outline. There are an abundance of materials for an in
teresting, useful and popular work, and 1 hope the author of
the Sears' Memorial will deem it a subject worthy of his
eloquent pen.
The descendants of Jeremiah Bacon did not inherit the
business talents for which the other branches of the Bacon
family were distinguished. Some of them were noted for
their pleasant humor and ready wit. The saying of Nathan
iel, brother of the second Oris, are often repeated in the
neighborhood where he resided. He married a grand
daughter of William Blatchford, and his wife Ehzabeth, the
reputed witch. He was a poor man, had a large family,
and died at the Almshouse in Barnstable. At first he re
sided near the late Mr. Ebenezer Sturgis, afterwards in a
small . house, at a distance from neighbors. On a cold,
stormy winter's day, when the roads were blocked by drifts
of snow, he sat in his comfortable room, while Mr. Sturgis
and his sons were out watering and taking care of their large
stock of cattle. Nathaniel remarked: "I am thankful that
I do not own that stock of cattle ; Sally and I have been

38 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
sitting at ease by a cheerful, blazing fire, they have been
toiling all day, exposed to the cold, driving storm.
When in the eastern country he boastingly said,
'Squire Bacon and I keep more cows than any other two
men in Barnstable"; Nathaniel had one; 'Squire Bacon
twenty. He took up a bar of iron in a blacksmith's shoj) and
said, "I can bite an inch off of this bar," at the same time
showing a good set of teeth. A bet on the performance of
the feat was accepted. Putting the iron near his open
mouth, he brought his teeth quickly together. "There,
gentlemen," said he, "I have bitten more than an inch
off." Of his wife he related the following anecdote : One
stormy winter morning, when he had no wood to kindle a
fire, no provisions in his house, and six small children
clamoring for breakfast, his wife got up, scraped a little
frost from a window, and looking out exclaimed in piteous
tones, "Oh, what would I give for one pipe of tobacco."
Samuel Bacon, of Barnstable, took the oath of fidelity
in 1657. How long he had then been of Barnstable does
not appear. In 1662, he had a grant of "six acres of land
more or less, sixty poles north and south, and 18 poles
wide," (less than 5 acres) at the head of Uichard Foxwell's
land, bounded- northerly thereby, east by the land of James
Cobb, south by the commons, and west by Nathaniel Bacon.
He married 9th of May, 1669, Martha Foxwell, and had
I. Samuel, born March 9, 1669-70.
II. Martha, born Jan'y, 1671.
This family disappeared early. Samuel is supposed to
have been a brother of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, but I find
no positive evidence that such was the fact.

BACHILER.

REV. STEPHEN BACHILER.
This eccentric and learned divine has the honor of beino-
the first white man who settled within the present limito of
the town of Barnstable. He lived a hundred years, and his
Jong life was checkered with exciting incidents on which the
imaginative pen of the novelist would delight to dwell. He
was born in England in 1561, received orders in the estab
lished church, was settled in the ministry, and ejected by
the bishops for non-conformity, at whose hands Gov. Winth-
rop says he had suffered much. He married early in life,
and four of his sons and three daughters are named : John
Wing, afterwards of Sandwich, married his daughter Debo
rah, probably before his removal to Holland, where he re
sided several years. During his residence in that country,
Christopher Hussey, the ancestor of the Nantucket family of
that name, became enamored with his daughter Theodate,
' and sought her hand in marriage ; but Mr. Bachiler refused
asrsent, without the bridegroom would agree to remove to
New England. Hussey assented to the condition imposed,
and took, probably in 1629, Theodate to wife. Mr. Bach
iler, intending tO' emigrate to New England, soon after re
turned to London. Mr. Lewis states that his church in
Holland consisted of six members beside himself, and that
these returned with him to London. No names are given ;
but it is uniformly stated that they were his friends, or mem
bers of his own family. If so, the seven probably were Mr.
Bachiler and his wife, John Wing and his wife Deborah,
John Sanborn and his wife, a daughter of Mr. Bachiler, and
Theodate Hussey. Sanborn's wife died in England, and it
does not appear that he came over. His sons John. \A"illiam
and Stephen came over with their grandfather and settled in
Hampton. Christopher Hussey and his mother, the widow
Mary Hussey, were afterwards members of his church, and

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followed their pastor in all his wanderings. Mr. Savage,
whose authority is not to be rejected on light or inconclu
sive testimony, thinks the Husseys came over in the same
ship with Mr. Bachiler. The court records, and the decis
ions of the ecclesiastical councils favor his supposition, and
it will be hard to show how the ubiquitous number of six
members is made up, if he is not right.'
On the 9th of March, 1632, Mr. Bachiler and his com
pany embarked at London in the ship \\'illiam and Francis,
Capt.' Thomas, and arrived in Boston Thursday, June 5,
1632, after a tedious passage of 88 days, and on the day
next after his arrival went to Lynn.
Mr. Lewis* states that "In Mr. Bachiler's church were
six persons who had belonged to a church with him in Eng
land ; and of these he constituted a church at Lynn, to
which he admitted such as desired to become members, and
commenced the exercise of his public ministrations on Sun
day, the 8th of June, without installation." Four months
after a complaint was made of some irregularities in his con
duct . He was arraigned before the court at Boston, Oct.
3, when the following order was passed: "Mr. Bachiler is
required to forbeare exercising his gifts as a pastor or teacher
publiqely in our Pattent, unlesse it be to those he brought
with him, for his contempt of authority, and until some scan-
dies be removed." Mr. Bachiler, however, succeeded in
regaining the esteem of the people, and the court on the 4th
of March, 1633, removed their injunction against him. In
1635, some of the members became dissatisfied with the
conduct of their pastor, "and doubting whether they were
regularly organized as a church," withdrew from the com
munion. A council of ministers was held on the 15th of
March, and after deliberating three days, decided "that
although the church had not been properly instituted, yet
after-consent and practice of a church-state had supplied that
defect. So all were, reconciled," says the record. Mr.
Bachiler, however, perceiving no prospect of terminating
the difficulties, requested a dismission for himself and the
six who had accompanied him from England, which was
granted, on the supposition that he intended to remove from
*The dates given by the author of the history of Lynn are not always
reliable. He states that Huasey SHttled in Lynn in 1630. The evidence
favors the supposition that he did not come over till 1632.

Lynn. Instead of this, he remained and formed another
church of his friends, that is of those who came over with
him. This conduct gave great offence to "the most and chief
of the town" of Lynn, and they entered a complaint against
Mr. Bachiler to the assistants who forbade him to proceed
in the organization of his church until the subject was con
sidered by other ministers. Still he goes on. The magis
trates require his attendance before them. He refuses to
obey ; they send the marshal 1 who brought him into theii;
presence. He submits and agrees to leave the town in thr^e
months. , ^
Mr. Bachiler was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635., and
removed from Lynn to Ipswich in Feb. 1636, where he re
ceived a grant of fifty acres of land, and had the prospect
of a settlement ; but some difficulty arose and he left th^
place. .
Gov. Withrop in the first volume of his history, under
the date of March 30, 1638, has the following passage :
"Another plantation was now in hand at Mattakeese
\^^'now Yarmouth," is written on the margin]six miles beyond
Sandwich. The undertaker of this was one Mr. Batcheller,
late pastor at Saugus, (since called Lynn) being about 76
years of age ; yet he walked thither on foot in a very hard
season." "He and his company, being all poor men, finding the
difficulty, gave it over and others undertook it."
Mr. Bachiler settled in the easterly part of Mattakeese,
at a place which is known to this day as "0?cZ Town." The
names of his associates are not given ; probably the com
pany consisted of persons who belonged to, or were con
nected by marriage, with the family of Mr. Bachiler, namely,
sons, sons-in-law and grand-sons, with their families.*
Mr . Bachiler probably obtained the consent of Mr.
Collicut, to whom the lands at Mattakeese had been granted,
before he undertook to establish a plantation ; for without

*There is a remarkable parallelism between the character of Mr.
Bachiler and that of Mr. Wm. Nickerson, the ancestorof the family of
that name. Both were, or assumed to be, religious men; both wer6
stiflf-necked and wayward; both were often involved in difficulties;
both were undertakers of new plantations, and in both their families,
the same clannish feeling prevailed. Bachiler had more wives and
Nickerson more law suits; the former "undertook" several planta
tions; the latter only one; otherwise their histories were parallel.

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such consent he would have been a trespasser and liable to
ejectment. The terms of the grant cannot be quoted ; but
it does not thence follow that no permit was given or grant
made. We know by the Old Colony records that in 1637
or 1638, certain lands in Barnstable were run out into house
and other lots ; that these lands were laid out by or under
the authority of Mr. Richard Collicut of Dorchester. He
was a surveyor, but there is no evidence that he was ever in
Bafnstable. The Plymouth records tell us the thing was
done; but they do not tell us who did it. The passage
quoted from Gov. Winthrop clearly and distinctly states
that ut, or about the time, the Plymouth records say the
lands were run out, Mr. Bachiler and his company under
took to form a plantation at Mattakeese. The very first
ithing that he and his company did, undoubtedly, was to do
what all such companies did in those times first do ; that is
run out house lots for each of their party, and farming lauds
and meadows to be held by each in severalty. Not to pre
sume this, is to presume that Mr. Bachiler and his company
were not only wantihg in common prudence, but wanting in
common sense. The first settlers in new countries
never failed to appropriate a sufficiency of land to them
selves, and in order to make such appropriation, they must
first run them out and put up boundaries.
That there were some among his company that could
survey lands, scarce admits of doubt. Mr. Bachiler, as Mr.
Prince informs us, was a "man of learning and ingenuity,
and wrote a tine and curious hand," and he could undoubt
edly run lines and draw plans. His son John Wing, one of
the company, was a man of skill and energy — and he proba
bly had with him his sons Daniel. Stephen and John, three
stout youths, if not all men grown — one of whom in after-
times was a surveyor of lands.
That Mr. Bachiler's party were capable of doing all
that the Colony records say was done, does not admit of
doubt, and in the absence of all proof to the contrary, it is
to be presumed that they did do it.
Sandwich was settled in 1637, mostly by people from
Lynn — old neighbors and acquaintances of Mr. Bachiler's
company — and it is probable, that being the nearest settle
ment to Mattakeese, that they left their women and little
ones there till shelter could be procured for them in the new
settlement.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 43
The first house built within the present bounds of Yar
mouth (of which there is a record), is that of Mr. Stephen
Hopkins, affei wards owned by his son Gyles, and by him
sold to Andrew Hallet, jr. This was in the summer of 1638,
and was built as a temporary residence for his servants who
had the care of cattle sent from Plymouth to be wintered at
Mattakeese. Whether or not cattle had been sent from
Plymouth in previous years does not appear ; if so, then
Mr. Bachiler found whites within a mile of the place he select
ed for settlement. It was also in the immediate vicinity of
"lyanough's town," a place not inhabited by the Indians in
the winter, and their deserted wigwams perhaps afforded
them a temporary shelter.
Mr. Bachiler and his company were all poor men, illy
provided with the means of establishing a plantation, even
in the mild season of the year, and it is hardly possible that
they could have sustained themselves during the intensely
cold winter of 1637, without .«ome kindly Jierdsmen, or
some friendly Indians gave them shelter while they were
preparing their rude habitations.
Early ia the spring of 1638, Mr. Bachiler, "finding
the difficulties great," abandoned his {ilantation at Matta
keese. John Wing and his family stopped in Sandwich.
Mr. Bachiler and Christopher Hussey went to Newbury,
atd on the 6th of September the Massachusetts Legislature
gave them and others leave to begin a plantation at Hamp
ton, of which he became the minister. The next year, ac
cording to Mr. Felt, he was excommunicated for unchastity,
though Gov. Winthrop says he was then "about eighty
years of age, and had a lusty, comely woman to wife ." In
November, 1641, he was restored to the church, but not to
his office. About this time his house in Hampton took fire
and was consumed with nearly all his property.
In 1644, the people of Exeter invited him to settle
there; but the court forbid his settlement. In 1647, he
was at Portsmouth, now Portland, where in 1650, he being
then 89 years old, his second wife Helena' beifig dead, he
married his third wife Mary, without publishing his inten
tion of marriage according to law, for which he was fined
ten pounds, half of which was afterwards remitted.
' With his third wife he lived only a few months. She
went to Kittery, and, according to the York records, on the
15th of October, 1651, was presented for committing adul-

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tery with George Rogers, and sentenced "to receive forty
stripes save one, at the first town meeting 'held at Kittery
six weeks after her delivery, and be branded with the letter
A." In October, 1656, she petitioned for a divorce from
Mr. Bachiler, because he had five years before "transported
himself to Ould England, and betaken himself to another
wife," and because she desired "disposing herselfe in the
way of marriage." Whether or not she obtained a divorce
does not appear on record.
Mr. Bachiler, after his return to England, married a
fourth wife, his third being then living. At last he died in
the year 1660, at Hackney, near London, in the one hun-
dreth year of his age.*
No record of his family is preserved . Four sons and
three daughters are named. Henry, settled at Reading ;
Nathaniel, born about 1611, "a chip of the old block," set
tled at Hampton, and Francis and Stephen, both remained
in London, the latter said to have been living in 1685. Of
his daughters, one as before stated, married John Sanborn,
and died before 1632. Theodate, married Christopher
Hussey, and died in Hampton in 1649. Deborah married
John Wing of Sandwich. On the Yarmouth town records I
find the following entry : "Old Goody Wing desesed the
last of January, '91 and '92," that i. Jan'y 31, 1692, N. S.
This record probably refers to Deborah, widow of the first
John Wing. Her son John resided at Sawtucket (now
Brew^ste^), then within the corporate jurisdiction of Yar
mouth, and his aged mother probably resided with him.
There is no one beside to whom the record will apply. Her
age is not given, but an approximation to it may be made.
Her son Daniel of Sandwich, if he had then been living,
would have been 70 years of age, consequently the mother
must have been about 90 years of age at her death

*In prepaiinjr this article, I have consulted Gov. Winthrop's Histo
ry, thtt Ph month and MHSsachnelts Records, Felt's, Ecclesiastical His
tory, Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, and Lewis's History of Lynn;
the latter gives the fullest sketch of the life of Mr. Bachiler yet pub
lished. The reading of the extracts from the records, given by Mr;
Lewis, leave I he impression on the mind that Mr. Bachiler was not
such a man as a minister of the gospel should be. A literary friend,
who for several years has behn collecting materials for a memoir of
Mr. Bachiler, says he is not deserving of the odium which has been
heaped on his character.

BASSET.

WILLIAM BASSET.
William Basset, one of the forefathers, came over in
the ship Fortune in 1621 ; settled first in Plymouth, then in
Duxbury, and finally in Bridgewater — of which town he was
an original proprietor. He died there in 1667. He was
comparativel}' wealthy, being a large land-holder, only four
in Plymouth paying a higher tax in the year 1633. He had
a large library, from which it is to be inferred that he was
an educated man. In 1648, he was fined five shillings for
neglecting "to mend guns in seasonable times" — an offence
of not a very heinious character — but it shows that he was
a mechanic as well as a planter. Many of his descendants
have been large land-holders, and even to this day a Basset
who has not a good landed estate, thinks that he is misera
bly poor. His name is on the earliest list of freemen, made in
1633 ; he was a volunteer in the company raised in 1637, to
assist Massachusetts and Connecticut in the Pequod war ; a
member of the committee of the town of Duxbury to lay out
bounds, ;ind to decide on the fitness of persons applying to
become residents, and was representative to the Old Colony
Court six years. His son William settled in Sandwich;
was there in 1651, and is the ancestor of the families of that
name in that toM'n, and of some of the families in Barnsta
ble and Dennis. His son. Col. William Basset, was mar-
shall of Plymouth Colony at the time of the union with
Massachusetts, and in 1710, one of the Judges of the Infe
rior Court, and afterwards Register of Probate. He was an
excellent penman, and wrote a very small, yet distinct and
beautiful hand, easily read. The records show that he was
a careful and correct man. He was the most distinguished
of any of the name in Massachusetts. He died in Sand-

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wich, Sept. 29, 1721, in the 65th year of his age.
Elisha Basset, a grandson of Col. Basset, removed to
Dennis, then a part of Yarmouth. He was a captain in the
Provincial militia ; had three commissions, each signed by a
different Royal Governor. At the commencement of the
Revolution he was a zealous whig and surrendered his com
mission, and was ofl'ered a captain's commission in the Con
tinental Army ; but the circumstances of his family obhged
hiin to decline accepting it. He was the representative from
Yarmouth at the Provincial Congress, as it was called, which
assembled at Cambridge and Watertown in the years 1774
and '75. Nathaniel Basset, son of the first William, is the ances
tor of the Yarmouth, Chatham and Hyannis, and some of the
West Barnstable families of the name. On the 2d of March,
1651-2, "Nathaniell Basset and Joseph Prior, for disturb
ing the church of 'Duxburrou,' on the Lord's day, were
sentenced each of them to pay twenty shillings fine, or the
next towne meeting or training day both of them to bee
bound unto a post for the space of two hours, in some public
place, with a paper on their heads on which theire capital
crime shall be written perspecusly, soe as may bee read."
Whether they paid the fines imposed, or suffered the novel
mode of punishment to which they were sentenced, does not
appear. Nathaniel settled first in Marshfield, but removed to
Yarmouth where he was an inhabitant in 1664, and perhaps
earlier. He resided near the first meeting-house, and his
descendants still enjoy his lands. Notwithstanding the trifl
ing irregularity in his conduct when a young man at Dux
bury, he was a very worthy and respectable citizen, had a
large family — ten of whom lived to mature age. He died
January 16, 1709-10, aged 82.
No record of the family of the first AVilliam Basset has
been preserved. It appears that he was married but had no
children at the division of the land in 1623 ; but at the divis
ion of the cattle in 1627, he had two, William and Elizabeth.
His wife was named Elizabeth, and it is stated by Judge
Mitchell that she was probably a Tilden.* His children,

His wife Mary presented the inventory of his estate. May 12, 1667,
and took the oath required. The names of Mary and Elizabeth were
formerly considered synonymous, and it may be that Mary was not his
second wife. •'

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 47
born in Plymouth and Duxbury, were
I. William, born 1624, removed to Sandwich, was called
Mr., married Mary, daughter of Hugh Burt of Lynn,
and died in 1670, leaving a large estate. Had daughter
Mary born 21st November, 1654; William, 2d, 1656, and
probably others. Col. William, 3d, married Rachel, had
Mary, Oct. 20, 1676 ; Nathan, 1677 ; Rachel, Oct. 25,
1679 ; William, Jonathan, and another daughter. Wil
liam married Abigail, daughter of Elisha Bourne, and
had Elisha, who removed to Yarmouth, and other chil
dren. Nathan married Mary Huckins, 1690, removed to
Chilmark and had eleven children. His son Nathan
graduated at Harvard in 1719, and was afterwards set
tled in Charleston, S. C. An interesting account of the
Bassets of Martha's Vineyard has recently been pub
lished by K. L. Pease, Esq. Mary, the wife of Nathan,
was a daughter of John Huckins of Barnstable, and
was brought up in the family of her grandfather, Elder
John Chipman. The account of her religious expe
rience, written by herself, is a narrative of thrilling in
terest. Jonathan married Mary  , and died Dec.
13, 1683, leaving, I think, one son, Jonathan, who is
named in his grandfather's will.
II. Elizabeth, born about 1626, married Thomas Burgess,
jr., of Sandwich, 8th Nov. 1648, was divorced June
10, 1661. He removed to Rhode Island, and was a
resident at Newport in 1671, having a wife Lydia.
III. Nathaniel, born 1628, married for his first wife a
daughter of John Joyce [Mary or Dorcas] of Yar
mouth. His wife Hannah, who died in 1709, was prob
ably a second wife. The record of his family is lost.
His will, dated Jan'ry 10, 1709-10, six days before his
death, is a carefully drawn instrument, witnessed by
Rev. Daniel Greenleaf, Experience Rider, and his
¦ nephew Col. William Basset, and furnishes much gen
ealogical information. He names his nine children then
living, says he is "aged and under much decay of
body," being then 82 years of age. To his son Wil
liam he gave meadow and upland, which was John
Joyce's drying ground, bought of Mr. Thomas Wally,
and meadow bought of Mr. Thornton. He names the
eldest son of Thomas Mulford of Truro, who married
his daughter Mary ; the eldest son of his son Nathan-

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iel ; the eldest son of his son Joseph ; to Nathaniel he
gave property that was his Grandmother Joyce's, and
his lands in Middleboro'. He names his daughter-in-law
Joannah, perhaps wife of Nathaniel, who removed to
Windham, Conn., and his daughter Ruth Basset. He
gives certain property unto six of his children, Mary
Mulford, Samuel Basset, Hannah Covell, Joseph Bas
set, Sarah Nickerson and Nathan Basset, Mr. Thomas
Mulford of Truro, and his son Joseph of Yarmouth,
Executors. Estate appraised at £228,11. One of the
oldest monuments in the Yarmouth grave-yard is that
of Dorcas Basset, who died June 9, 1707, aged 31.
She was probably a daughter of Nathaniel. Though
William is first named in the will, he was probably the
youngest son.
IV. Sarah, born about 1630, married in 1648, Peregrine
White of Marshfield, the first born of the English at
Cape Cod Harbor, Nov. 1620. Her third son Jona
than, born June 4, 1658, is the ancestor of the White
families in Yarmouth.
His other children named are Ruth, who married John
Sprague, 1655; Jane; Joseph, who settled with his father
in Bridgewater, married Martha Hobart, 1677, and died
1712. He had Joseph, William, Elnathan, Jeremiah, Lydia,
Ruth and Elizabeth. The posterity of Joseph are numer
ous. William, son of Nathaniel, married Feb. 23, 1710,
Martha Godfrey, and had Isaac, July 17, 1711 ; Moses,
Nov. 4, 1713; Fear, April 12, 1716, who married Joseph
Rogers of Harwich, Oct. 19, 1737. His second wife was
Sarah Jenkins of Barnstable, to whom he was married
Jan'y 30, 1722-3. He and his wife Sarah were dismissed
from the Yarmouth to the Barnstable Church, Aug. 1727,
His children recorded as born in Barnstable are Samuel,
Aug. 21, 1724; Experience, May 5, 1727; Mary, May 18,
1729, and Nathaniel, Sept. 4, 1732. Only the two last
were baptized in Barnstable. He had probably another son,
William, born in Yarmouth, who married May 8, 1741,
Margaret Merryfield. The Bassets of West Barnstable are
descendants of William, son of Nathaniel, and of Samuel of
Yarmouth, a great-grandson of Col. William of Sandwich.
This Samuel married June 15, 1743, Susannah Lumbard of

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Truro, and had born in Barnstable, Nehemiah, Sept. 22,
1743; Ebenezer, Dec. 27, 1744, and probabl}' others.
There was also a Nathan Basset, jr., called of Middleboro',
who settled at West Barnstable and married Oct. 25, 1739,
Thankful Fuller, and had born in Barnstable, Nathan, Dec.
30, 1750, and Cornelius, Jan'y 20, 1753, and perhaps
others. Joseph, son of Nathaniel, is the ancestor of the Yar
mouth and Hyannis families. He married Feb. 27, 1706-7,
Susannah Howes, she died Feb. 27, 1718-19, and he mar
ried for his second wife Thankful Hallet, Dec. 3, 1719.
His children were Sarah, born Dec. 10, 1707, died July 3,
1736; Joseph, June 15, 1709; Daniel, Nov. 17, 1710;
Joshua, Sept. 13, 1712; Susannah, Jan. 22, 1714-15, mar
ried John Hawes, Jan'y 2, 1732 ; Samuel, Oct. 23, 1716, a
whaleman died unmarried, 1740 ; John, Dec. 14, 1720 ;
Ebenezer, July 9, 1722, died Aug. 16, 1723 ; Thankful, mar
ried 1750, Joshua Brimhall of Hingham, and Nathan, Oct.
17, 1725. Mrs. Thankful Basset died Aug. 12, 1736, and Mr.
Joseph Basset, Jan'y 6, 1749-50.
Joseph Basset, son of Joseph, married Feb. 25, 1737,
Mary Whelden. He died Sept. 5, 1833, aged 94. He had
1st, Joseph, Dec. 23, 1738, who inherited the paternal es
tate ; married three times. One of his wives was a daugh
ter of Capt. John Bearse, who came over as a revenue offi
cer before the Revolution. He bought the Rev. Mr. Smith's
house, in Yarmouth, where Joseph Basset and Elisha Doane
, afterwards kept a public house. He had two children who
lived to mature age, Susannah, who married the late Elisha
Doane, Esq., and Joseph, now living, unmarried, on the
Basset farm. 2d, Mary, Oct. 20, 1744, married Edward
Sturgis, jr., Jan'y 28, 1767. 3d, Jonathan, Nov. 10, 1746,
and Samuel, Dec. 4, 1748, both of whom removed to Hal-
lowell, Maine.
Daniel Basset, son of Joseph, married July 1, 1735,
Elizabeth, daughter of Seth Crowell, and had one son,
Daniel, born Aug. 7, 1736. The father died soon after and
his widow married in 1742,, Hezekiah Marchant, and re
moved to Hyannis. Daniel, the grandfather of the present
Hon. Zenas D. Basset, resided at Hyannis, and is the an
cestor of the Bassets in that vicinity. He married a daugh-

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ter of Jabez Bearse, and had sons Joseph, Daniel and Seth.
He was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army. Joseph, his
son who enlisted as a soldier, but served in the capacity of
waiter to his father, was one of the last surviving revolu
tionary pensioners of the town of Barnstable. He died July
7, 1855, aged 93. He married two wives and was the father
of twenty-four children, of whom the Hon. Zenas D. is the
oldest. One of his wives had four children by a former hus
band, so that in fact there were twenty-eight in his family
who called him father.
Joshua, son of Joseph, was an ensign in Col. Gorham 's
Regiment in the expedition to Louisburg, in 1745. He
married in 1738, Hannah Brimhall of Hingham, and had
Sarah, Oct. 28, 1739 ; Susannah, May 16, 1741 ; Anna,
March 3, 1742-3, and Joshua, Nov. 18, 1744. The latter
probably died young.
Nathan Basset, son of Joseph, lived in the ancient
Hallet house, situated nearly opposite the Barnstable Bank.
He married first, Hannah Hallet, 1751, by whom he had
seven children, and second. Desire, widow of Prince Crow
ell. He had 1st, John, Nov. 4, 1753, who has no descend
ants now living; 2d, Thankful, Nov. 3, 1756, who died
young; 3d, Joseph, Feb. 13, 1759; 4th, Ebenezer, May
24, 1761 ; 5th, Thankful, Sept. 19, 1763, married Ebenezer
Taylor ; 6th, Francis, Jan'y 14, 1766 ; 7th, Joshua, Aug. 7,
1768, father of the present Capt. Joshua Basset.
Nathan Basset, son of Nathaniel, is the ancestor of the
Chatham and Harwich families. He married March 7, 1709,
Mary, daughter of Thomas Crowell of Yarmouth, He died
in 1728, leaving seven children. She died in 1742, and
names in her will sons Nathan, Thomas, Nathaniel, who
married Sarah Chase of Yarmouth, Aug. 23, 1729, Samuel,
and daughters Mary Basset, Dorcas Nickerson and Hannah
Covell. Capt. Elisha Basset of Sandwich, grandson of Col.
William, married Ruhama, daughter of Samuel Jennings of
Sandwich, and removed to Dennis, then Yarmouth. His
children, born in Yarmouth, were, 1st, Lydia, Aug. 14,
1740, married Abraham Howes, 1761 ; 2d, Abigail, Jan'y
30, 1742 ; 3d, Elisha, March 14, 1744-5, who removed with
his family to Ashfield in 1797, where he has descendants;
4th, Samuel, April 17, 1747, who went to Barnstable; 5th,
William, June 22, 1750, married Betty Howes, and had one

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son, the Hon. Francis Basset, whose parent died when he
was a child; 6th, Deborah, Oct. 30, 1752 ; 7tti, Lot, Jan'y
22, 1755.
Note.— I intended in this series of articles to write sketches of the
families of the first comers, and of no other. I have been induced to
depart from that rule in this instance. Nearly all of the materials
used in preparing this article I collected fifteen years ago, and I am
aware that it is not so full or so accurate as it might be made. Hon.
Francis Basset has an extended memoir of his family, which he has
spent much time in preparing, and I presume will publish it at some
future time.

BEARSE.

AUSTIN OR AUGUSTINE BEARSE.
Austin or Augustine Bearoe, the ancestor of this family,
came over in the ship Confidence of London, from South
ampton, 24th April, 1738, and was then twenty years of
age. He came to Barnstable with the first company in 1639.
His house lot, containing twelve acres of very rocky land,
was in the westerly part of the East Parish, and was bounded
westerly by John Crocker's land, now owned by. his heirs,
northerly by the meadow, easterly by Goodman Isaac Rob
inson's land, and "southerly into ye woods." He owned
six acres of meadow adjoining his upland on the north, and
two thatch islands, still known as Bearse's islands. He had
also six acres of land in the Calves Pasture, esteemed to be
the best soil in the town, eight acres of planting land on the
north side of Shoal pond, and bounded by Goodman Coop
er's, ^ now called Huckins' Neck, and thirty acres at the
Indian pond, bounded easterly by the Herring River. The
Indian pond lot he sold to Thomas Allyn, who sold the
same in 1665 to Roger Goadspeed.
He was proposed to be admitted a freeman June 3,
1652, and admitted May 3, following. His name rarely oc
curs in the records. He was a grand juror in 1653 and
1662, and a surveyor of highways in 1674.
He became a member of Mr. Lothrop's church, April
29, 1643. His name stands at the head of the list, he being
the first named who joined after its removal to Barnstable.*
He appears to have been very exact in the performance of
his religious duties, causing his children to be baptized on
the Sabbath next following the day of their birth. His son

*Since writing this passage I have become satisfied that there is an
omission in the Cape Church records preserved 1642, of members ad
mitted in 1640 and 1641.

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Joseph was born on Sunday, Jan'y 25, 1651, O. S., and
was carried two miles to the church and baptized the same
day. Many believed in those times that children dying un-
baptized were lost, and it was consequently the duty of the
parent to present his child early for baptism. Goodman
Bearse was influenced by this feehng ; he did not wish, by
a week's delay, to peril the eternal salvation of his child.
Now such an act would be pronounced unnecessary and
cruel. The subject of baptism had disturbed Mr. Lothrop's
church from its organization. In London the Baptists
quietly separated themselves and formed the first Baptist
Church in England. In Scituate 'the same question arose,
disturbing the harmony of the church, and to avoid these
troubles, Mr. Lothrop and a majority of his church came to
Barnstable. His book on the subject of baptism, printed in
London, was written and prepared for the press while he
was in Barnstable. I have not met with a copy, but inci
dentally from his records, I infer that he considered baptism
an ordinance of primary importance, and that the parent,
being a church member, who unnecessarily delayed the
performance, thereby periled the salvation of the child.
Some of the old divines taught this doctrine, and at the
present day it is not entirely obsolete.
Goodman Bearse was brought up under such teachings,
and however differently the present generation may view
such questions, he did what he honestly believed to be his
duty, and he that does that is to be justified.
He was one of the very few against whom no complaint
was ever made ; a fact which speaks well for his character as
a man and a citizen. He was a farmer, lived on the produce
of his land, and brought up his large family to be like him
self, useful members of society. His house stood on the
north side of the road, and his cellar and some remains of
his orchard, existed at the commencement of the present
century. I find no record of his death, or settlement of his
estate on the Probate records. He was living in 1686 ; but
died before the year 1697. A road from his house to Hyan
nis is still known as Bearse's Way. His grandsons settled
early at Hyannis. John Jenkins and John Dexter after
wards owned the ancient homestead. The planting lands at
Shoal Pond were occupied by his descendants till recently.
The marriage of Goodman Austin Bearse is not on rec-

54 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ord. His children, born in Barnstable, were'
I. Mary, born 1640, bap'd May 6, 1643.
II. Martha, born 1642, bap'd May 6, 1643.
111. Priscilla, born March 10, 1643-4, liap'd March 11,
1643-4, married Dea. John Hall, jr., of Yarmouth,
1660.
IV. Sarah, born March 28, 1646, bap'd March 29, mar
ried John Hamblin of Barnstable, Aug. 1667, and
had twelve children.
V. Abigail, born Dec. 18, 1647, bap'd Dec. 19, married
April 12, 1670, Allen Nichols of Barnstable, and had
nine children.
VI. Hannah, born Nov. 16, 1649, bap'd Nov. 18.
Yll. Joseph, born Jan'y 25, 1651-2, bap'd same day, mar
ried Dec. 3, 1676. Martha Taylor.
Vlll. Hester, born Oct. 2, 1653, bap'd same day.
IX. Lydia, born end of Sept. 1655.
X. Rebecca, born Sept. 1657, married F^b. 1670-1,
William Hunter. Additional investigtition will prob
ably show the above to be an error of the record.
William Plunter of Sandwich, married Rebecca,
daughter of Wid. Jane Besse, who married second,
the notorious Marshall George Barlow. If the record
is correct, she was only 13 years, 5 months old when
married.
XI. James, born end of July, 1660. He was admjtted a
townsman in 1683, being then only 23 years of age.
In the division of the meadows in 1694, he had four
acres, and in the final division in 1697, the same
number was confirmed to him. In the division of the
common lands in 1703, his name does not appear ac
cording to the rules adopted for the admission of
townsmen, and the division of common land ; the
above facts indicate that James Bearse was married in
1683, as no unmarried men were admitted townsmen
till 24 years of age ; that he was a man who had
good property, (2 1-2 or 3 being the average), this
proportion indicates, and his name not appearing on
the list in 1703, shows that he was then dead or had
removed from town. There was a Bearse family
early in Halifax, Plymouth county. An Austin
Bearse is named who removed to Cornwall, Nova
Scotia. Andrew Bearse of Halifax, Plymouth county,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. o5
married Margaret Dawes of East Bride water, 1736,
There were others of the name in Halifax, It is
probable that James, .son of Austin, removed to that
town.
Joseph Bearse, sou of .A.u,stin, probably was a soldier in
King Philip's war, his sons having rights in the town of
Gorham, granted to the heirs of the soldiers who served
with Capt, Gorham. He married Dec. 3, 1676, Martha
Taylor, daughter of Richard of Yarmouth, a "tailor" by
trade, and so called to distinguish him from another of the
same name called "Rock." He died about the year 1695.
She died January 27, 1727-8, aged 77 years.
Children born in Barnstable:
I. Mary, born Aug. 16, 1677. She did not marry —
was admitted to the East Church, 1742, and died
Jan'y 19, 1760, aged 84 years.
II. Joseph, born Feb. 21, 1679. He was one of the
Grantees of Gorham, and his name is on the list of
the first settlers in that town, dated 1733. He re
sided at Hyannis before his removal to Maine.
III. Benjamin, born June 21, 1682, married, Feb. 4,
1701-2, Sarah Cobb, second, Anna Nickerson of
Chatham,
IV. Priscilla, born Dec. 31, 1683, died March 31, 1684.
V. Ebenezer, born Jan'y 20, 1687, married Nov. 25,
1708, Elizabeth Cobb, and second Joanna Lumbert,
Sept. 4, 1712.
VI. John, born May 8, 1687, married Nov. 15, 1711,
Elinor Lewis.
VII. Josiah, born March 10, 1690, married first, Nov. 2,
1716, Zeurich Newcomb of Edgartown, and second
Mary. Removed to Greenwich, Conn., 1734.
VIII. James, born Oct. 3, 1692, married Mary Fuller,
March 17, 1719-20.
Benjamin Bearse, son of Joseph, was one of the early
settlers at Hyannis. His homestead was bounded east by
David Hallet's land, the corner being two rods' from Hallet's
house, and is now owned by his descendants. In his will
dated March 26, 1748, proved on the 7th of July following,
he named his sons Augustine, Benjamin, Joseph, Samuel,
Peter and Stephen ; his daughters Martha Lewis, Priscilla
Lewis, Sarah Nickerson and Thankful Nickerson, and his

56 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES-
wife Anna, to whom he gave all the household goods she
brought with her, and the improvement of one-third of all
his real and personal estate. To Augustine he gave land
bounded S. E. and N. by the heirs of Jonathan Lewis, de
ceased ; to Joseph and Samuel his honse and orchard ; to
Peter a house and one acre of land on the north side of the
road ; to Stephen and Benjamin all his lands in Gorham
town ; to Joseph, Peter and Samuel all the rest of his real
and personal estate, they paying debts, legacies, and allow
ing Augustine a convenient way to the landing "where I
make oysters," and a place to land and dry fish ; to Benja
min, Martha and Priscilla £12 old tenor each ($5.33), and
to Sarah and Thankful £2 each, a bed and other articles to
be divided equally. His perscmal estate was appraised at
£431, 16, v., Up., and his real estate at £910, and his mu
latto boy Tom at £(i0 — all I presume in old tenor currency,
corn being appraised at £1 per bushel — that is 50 coppers
equal to 44 cents.
He was engaged in the fisheries, and the success of
himself and sons was sung by some contemporary trouba
dour, whose verses are remembered though the name of the
poet is forgotten. He married first, Sarah, daughter of
Samuel Cobb, Feb, 4, 1701-2, she died Jfi.nuary 14, 1742,
and he married in 1747 his second wife, Anna Nickerson of
Chatham. He died May 15, 1748, aged 66, and is buried
with his first wife in the old grave-yard in Hyannis, where
their son Samuel caused grave stones to be erected to their
memory. Children of Benjamin Bearse born in Barnstable:
I. Martha, born 9th Nov., 1702, married Antipas Lewis,
Oct. 15, 1730.
II. Augustine, born 3d June, 1704, married June 3,
1728. Bethia, daughter of John Linnell, she died 7th
Oct., 1743, aged 39, and he married Sept. 7, 1744,
for his second wife. Thankful, widow of Nathaniel
Bacon. He died June 2, 1751, aged 47, and his
widow, Nov. 1774, aged 70. He resided at first at
Hyannis, perhaps after his second marriage, with his
wife at Barnstable. He was engaged in the whale
fishery and owned try-works which" M'ere sold after
his death. He had seven children, till of whom are
named in his will. 1. Prince, born 12th March

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 57
1730-1, married Desire Downs, 1754; 2d, Temper
ance, 17th March, 1732-3, married Lemuel Lewis,
March 7, 1750; 3d, Mercy, 9th March, 1734-5, mar
ried Feb. 20, 1752, Thomas Buck ; 4th, Lydia, 25th
Dec, 1736; 5th, Simeon, 27th June, 1739; 6th,
Sarah bap'd March 9th, 1745-6, married Samuel
Bearse Nov. 15, 1764; Levi, bap'd Oct. 25, 1747.
III. Elizabeth, 3d May, 1706, probably died young.
IV. Joseph, .30th Oct". 1708, married Lydia Deane Oct.
12, 1749, died in 1751, leaving a son Joseph, bap'd
Apl. 14, 1754. She married Feb. 17, 1756, Thomas
Annis.
V. Benjamin, 26th March, 1710. He was a blacksmith,
and married Jean or Jane, daughter of Moses God
frey of Chatham, to which town he removed, and is
the ancestor of the Bearse families in that town. He
died in 1753, IcMving widow Jean, sons Jonathan,
George, Benjamin, David and Moses, and daughters
Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Eldridge, Hannah, Sarah
and Martha. His real estate was appraised at £399,
lis., and his personal estate at £204, 2s., Sd., prob
ably in lawful money.
VI. Jesse, 22d Oct., 1712, probably died young.
VII. Priscilla, 5th June, 1713, married Oct. 16, 1735,
Elnathan Lewis.
VIII. David, 27th March. 1716, probably died young.
IX. Peter, 25lh Oct., ;718, married Nov. 12, 1741, Deb
orah, diughter of Capt. Samuel Bacon, and had 1st,
Samuel, lOth Sept., 1742, who married Nov. 15,
1764, Sarah Bearse ; 2d, Jesse, 2d Nov. 1743 ; 3d,
David, 20th Nov., 1745; 4th, Edward, 12th June,
1750.
X. Samuel, 9th Dec, 1720, died Oct. 30, 1751, aged 30
years. He resided in Yarmouth at the time of his
death, and in his will dated 15th Oct., 1751, he or
ders tomb-stones to be placed at the graves of his
father Benjamin and mother Sarah. He devises his
estate to his brothers, sisters and cousins [nephews].
'To his cousin [nephew] Samuel, son of his brother
Peter, his gold buttons.
XI. Sarah, 5fh July, 1722, married Ebenezer Nickerson
of Yarmouth, Feb. 17, 1744.

58 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Xli. Thankful, Feb. 4, 1724, married Shobael Nickerson,
March 6, 1746.
XIII. Stephen, named in his father's will, but I find noth
ing farther respecting him.
Ebenezer Bearse, son of Joseph, married 25th Nov.,
1708, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Cobb. She died I5th
July, 1711, and he married Joanna Lumbert, Sept. 4, 1712.
He died Feb. 1759, and his widow being "non campus,"
had a guardian appointed May 9, 1759. In his will he
names his grandsons Daniel and Solomon, children of his
son Stephen, deceased, his son Ebenezer, and daughters
Bethiah Lovell, Abigail Lewis, Elizabeth Basset and Ruth
Pitcher. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Bethiah. born 6th Aug., 1709, married John Lovell
Nov. 14, 1732. •
II. Samuel, 26th Feb., 1711. His grandfather Cobb
gave him a legacy in his will, and his father was ap
pointed his guardian March 27, 1728. He probably
died unmarried.
III. Elizabeth, 22d March, 1714, died young.
IV. Abigail, 22d Nov., 1715, married Melatiah Lewis,
Oct. I, 1742.
V. Ebenezer, 1st ^March, 1717, married Mary Berry of
Yarmouth, 1754.
VI. Daniel, 17th July, 1720. Probably died young.
VII. Stephen, born 1st Oct., 1731, married Hannah Cole
man, June 9, 1748, and had sons Daniel and Solo
mon, named in their grandfather's will.
VIII. Rebecca, born 3d June, 1725. Probably died young.
IX. Patience, bap'd 6th April, 1729. Probably died
young.
X. Elizabeth, bap'd 19th Oct., 1729, married Nathaniel
Basset of Rochester, 1752.
XI. Ruth, bap'd 2d June, 1734, married Jonathan Pitcher,
Feb. 9, 1758.
John Bears,e, son of Joseph, married Eleanor Lew
is 15th Nov., 1711. He died May 3, 1760, aged 72. His
children were Lydia, born 28th July, 1712, who married
Capt. John Cullio, a Scotchman, Jan'y 1, 1735 ; John, who
married Lydia Lumbert, Feb. 12, 1746; Hannah, who
married Jabez Bearse, March 26, 1761, second wife; Elea-

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nor, who married John Loggee, Jan'y 13,1753; Martha,
who married Isaac Lewis, F'eb. 10, 1748 ; Mtiry and Dinah.
Josiah Bearse, son of Josejih, married Zerviah New-
comb, by whom he had no children, and second Mary. He
was dismissed from the East Barnstable Church to the
Church in Greenwich, Conn,, Dec. 29, 1734, and afterwards
to New B^iirfield, in the same State. His children born in
Barnstable were Anna, 11th Jul}', 1719; Josiah, 3d Feb.,
1720-1; Eunice, 2d Jan'ry, 1722-3, died April 6, 1727;
Jonathan, born 22d Nov., 1724, died Dec. 2, 1731; Lois,
born 17th July, 17-26 ; Thomas, 10th March, 1728-9, and
Eunice, 13th Feb., 1731-2; Martha, June 26, 1738; Mary,
May 8, 1741.
James Bearse, son of Joseph, married March 19, 1719-
20, Mary Fuller, and second. Thankful Linnell in 1726.
He died Oct. 11, 1758, aged G6. In his will dated 13th
Sept., 1758, he gives to his v/ife Thankful, his Indian maid
servant Thankful Pees, and other property in lieu of dower.
To his son Jabez, the estate that was Augustine Bearse's, and
one-half of the cedar swamp near his house ; to his daughter
Thankful Lumbert, £20 lawful money, and one-fourth of
his in-door moveables ; and to Lemuel all the rest of his es
tate. His children born in Barnstable were
I. Jabez, 20th Feb., 1720-1, married Nov. 26, 1747,
Elizabeth Hallet, and second, March 26, 1761, Hannah
Bearse.
II. James, 3d Feb., 1728-9, died Sept. 29, 1729.
III. Lemuel, 3d May, 1731, married Patience Phinney,
April 30, 1761.
IV. Thankful, 1st Aug., 1736, married Lemuel Lumbert,
Sept. 20, 1753.

BAKER
The Baker families in Barnstable and West Barnstable,
are descendants of Rev. Nicholas Baker of Scituate ; the
Hyannis families from Francis, who settled in Yarmouth.
Rev. Nicholas Baker was a graduate of St. John's Col
lege, Cambridge, England, had his Batchelor's degree in
1631-2, and Master of Arts, 1635. His brother Nathan
iel came over with him and both settled at Hingham in 1635.
He received a share in the first division of house lots in that
town. He afterwards became a large landholder in Hull.
He was ordained in Scituate in 1660, where he was instru
mental in effecting a reconciliation of the two churches
which had held no communication with each other for twen
ty-five years. Cotton Mather says : "Honest Nicholas Ba
ker of Scituate, was so good a logician that he could offer
up to God a reasonable service, so good an arithmetician
that he could wisely number his days, and so good an ora
tor that he persuaded himself to be a Christian." He died
Aug. 22, 1678, aged 67, of "that horror of mankind, and
rejiroach of medicine, the stona," a memorable example of
patience under suffering.
He was twice married. Hie first wife died at Scituate
in 1661, and he married the following year his second wife
Grace, who died in Barnstable, January 22, 1696-7. In his
will dated 1678, he names his wife Grace, whom he appoint
ed executrix, his brother Nathaniel Baker, his sons Samuel
and Nicholas, and four daughters, namely, Mary, who mar
ried Stephen Vinal, 26th Feb., 1662; Elizabeth, married
1664, John Vinal ; Sarah, married Josiah Litchfield, and
Deborah married 1678, Israel Chittenden. /
Samuel, to whom his father gave an estate in Hull, was/
a freeman of that town in 1677. He married Fear, daughV
ter of Isaac Robinson, and had a f\imily. May_ 12, 1687, he
was admitted an inhabitant of Barnstable, and the same ye^r
he and his wife were admitted to the Barnstable Church liy
dismission from the Church at Hull. The venerable Iss(ac
Robinson resided a year or two at the close of his life with

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 61
his daughter Fear, and the fact that the widow Grace Baker
had idso resided in this family, probably gave rise to the
tradition that Isaac Robinson's mother came over with him,
and died in Barnstable.
I find no record of the children- of Saniuel and Fear
Baker. Deacon John aind Nathaniel were their sons, and
Mary, who married Oct. 26, 1699, Adam Jones, and Grace,
who married Dec 16, 1701, Israel Luce, were probably
their daughters.
Deacon John Baker married 14th Oct. 1696, Anna,
daughter of Samuel Annable. She died March 21, 1732-3,
"aged near 57 years," and was buried in the ancient grave-
3'-ard at West Barnstable. After the death of his wife he
removed to Windham, Conn.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Annah, 8th Sept., 1697, married Oct. 17, 1717, Capt.
Samuel Lombard. She died May 19, 1747.
II. , Mary, 18th Aug., 1699, married April 20, 1720, Ben
jamin Lothrop, and afterwards removed to Connec
ticut.
III. John, 14th June, 1701. Died young.
IV. Rebecca, 8th Sept . 1704.
V. Samuel, 7th Sept., 1706, married May 30, 1732,
Prudence Jenkins; had 1st, Martha, 24th Jan'y,
1732-3; 2d, Anna, 12th May, 1735; 3d, Bethia,
12th June, 1737; 4th, Samuel, 30th Sept., 1740;
5th, Mercy, 30th May, 1743. This family removed
to Windham, Conn.
VI. Mary, 25th March, 1710,' married Lemuel Hedge of
Yarmouth, 1733.
VII. Mehitabel, 7th May 1712, married Eben'r Crosby of
Yarmouth, Jan'y 10, 1734.
VIII. Abigail, 1st Feb., 1713-4, married Ichabod Lathrop
of Tolland, Conn., Nov. 9, 1732.
IX. John, 1st Dec, 1716, married Mercy Cary of Wind
ham, Conn., Dec. 7, 1744.
X. Hannah, 24th March, 1718.
Nathaniel Baker resided in the East Parish, his house,
yet remaining,' is on Baker's Lane. His first wife, the
mother of all his children, is not named on the record. He
married 5th Jan'y, 1718-19, Wid. Mercy Lewis. He died
in 1750, and his widow, Dec.7, 1768, aged 80, according to

62 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
the Church records; but according to the town records, she
was older. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Benney, born 15th Aug., 1705, died June, 1706.
II. Mercy, born 4th Feb., 1706, married Nov. 7, 1728,
Sylvanus Cobb, and had eight children.
III. Sarah, born 4th Oct., 1708, died Nov. 19, 1708.
IV. Nathaniel, born 15th Dec, 1709, married 1732, Ann
Lumbard of Newtown, and had 1st, Isaac, born 2d
April, 1734; 2d, Mercy, 6th May, 1738 ; 3d, Benne,
2d Oct., 1751 ; 4th, Anna, 18th Jan'y, 1754. Isaac
of this family married Rebecca Lewis, Oct. 6, 1754,
and had Rebecca, James, Lewis, Ezekiel, Nathaniel,
John, who removed to Brewster, and Isaac who died
in Barnstable, unmarried, about 20 yetirs ago.
V. Nicholas, born 6th Nov., 1711, married Dorcas Back
us of Sandwich, was of Dighton, removed to Barn
stable in 1635. He was a mariner, and died Jan'y
31, 1739-40. He had 1st, Nath'l who died young;
2d, Ebenezer, and 3d, David.
VI. Sarah, 2d Nov., 1713, married Oct. 26, 1732, Jona.
Sturgis.
VII. Thankful, 28th March, 1715, married Jan'y 1, 1734,
Jesse Cobb.
VIII. Benne, 28th Sept., 1716, married Patience Lumbard,
Nov. 19, 1741. He died 29th Dec, 1747, and she
died 28th Dec, 1748, leaving two orphan children,
John, born 3d Jan'y, 1743, and Thankful, born 29th
June, 1745 — both of whom married and had families.
IX. Elizabeth, born 9th March, 1718, married Benjamin
Nye, Jr., of Falmouth, Sept. 28, 1738.
There are very few descendants of Honest Nicholas
Baker, now remaining in Barnstable. Dea. John, who re
moved to Windham, Conn., was a prominent man ; but the
other members of the family have not been distinguished.
The Baker families at Hyannis are descendants of Fran
cis, who settled in Yarmouth. Their pedigree is as follows :
Francis Baker, from Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire', Eng
land, came over in the Planter, 1635, aged 24, married in
1641, Isabel Twining, and had six sons and two daughters.
Nathaniel, his eldest son, born March 27, 1642, had three
sons; Samuel, the eldest, born Oct. 29, 1670, married July

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 63
30, 1702, Elizabeth Berry, and had three sons and five
daughters; the eldest son, Judah, born Aug. 19, '1705,
married Feb. 15, 1728-9, Mercy Burgess, and had" three
sons and five daughters ; the oldest son, Timothy, born Ap.
21, 1732, married —-  , 1753, Kezia, and had six sons
(one of whom v/as the father of the present Capt. Timothy
Baker), and three daughters.
The descendants of Francis Baker of Yarmouth, lua}'
be numbered by tens of thousands. None have been very
much distinguished ; but among them will be found very
many able seamen, and good business men.

BARKER AND BORDEN.

John Barker, Sen., of Duxbury, married in 1632, Ann,
daughter of John Williams, Sen., of Scituate. He removed
to Marshfield, then called Rexamc, in 1638, and was drowned
in 1652. He had children Deborah, John, Williams, and
perhaps others. His widow Ann married Abraham Blush
of Barnstable, and died Feb. 16, 1657-8. Deborah came to
Barnstable with her mother and probably her son John. At
fourteen John chose his uncle, Capt. John Williams of Scit
uate, his guarditm, with the understanding that he should be
brought up to some trade or profitable employment. After
he became of age, John sued his uncle, who was a man of
great wealth, for wages during his minority, averring that
his uncle had violated his contract ; that he had not brought
him up to a trade that would be of use to him, and that his
uncle had Jkept him employed in menial duties^, and there
fore he was entitled towages. He also brought an action
for rents collected from his estate in Marshfield, during his
minority, and his uncle brought an action against him for
slander. The details of these actions occupy much space on
the records. They were finally settled by the good offices
of mutual friends. Afterwards he had another lawsuit with
his uncle, making it evident that they did not live together
on terms of amity or friendship.
He was a sergeant in Philip's war, probably in the
company of which his uncle was captain, and was severely
wounded in an engagement with the Indians, from the effects
of which it seems he never entirely recovered, for in 1680
he was freed from serving in the train bands on account of
the injury received. He removed from Scituate in 1676 or
7, and resided in Barnstable till 1683, and perhaps later,
when he removed to Marshfield, of -which town he was the
deputy in 1689, and soon after returned to Scituate, where
he died Dec 1729, aged nearly 30 years.

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John Barker, Esq., Was a prominent man in the Colony.
He was often engaged as an attorney for parties in the tran-
siiction of legal and other business; was a referee in many
important cases. Though a resident of Barnstable, only
when young, and for about ten years after the time of his
marriage, he was not entirely disconnected with the business
of the town and county, after his removal. He was one of
the referees in the important case between the Winslows and
Clarks, which alienated those families and made their de
scendants bitter enemies for more than a century.
The account which Mr. Deane gives of this family will
not bear the test of criticism. He says that Williams Bar
ker was a son of John Barker, Esq., second of the name,
and that Capt. John Williams gave his farm in Scituate to
Williams Barker. The latter was a brother, not a son of
John Barker, 2d. Ctipt. Williams in his Avill, gives to
"Nephew Williams Barker, son of John Barker of Marsh
field, the 200 acre farm formerly purchased of Mr. Hath
erly." He also gives legacies to nephews John Barker of
Marshfield and Abraham Blush of Boston.
It can be shown by the Barnstable town records that if
John Barker, 2d., had a son Williams, he could not have
been over six years of age at the date of Capt. John Wil
liams' will in 1691 ; yet Mr. Deane assures us that Samuel
Barker, Esq., only son of Williams Barker, was born in the
year 1684 ; that is, that Samuel was only one year younger
than his father Williams. If this is true, the Barkers of
early times were a more prolific race than the present John
Barker  of Bxrnstable.
The following account of his family is principally ob
tained from the Barnstable town records. He married Jan.
\ 18, 1676-7, Desire, youngest daughter of Anthony Annable
of Barnstable. She died, according to the inscription on her
: grave-stones, at Scituate, July 24, 1706, in the 53d year of
her age. He married the same year for his second wife
iHannah, daughter of Thomas Loring of Hingham, and widow
of Rev. Jeremiah Gushing of Scituate. She died May 30,
1710, aged 46, and he took for his third wife Sarah  ,
who died Sept. 7, 1730.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. John, born 4th May, 1678. He married in 1706, Han-,
nah,» daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Cushing^whose widow

66 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
had married, as above stated, his father. This is the
statement of Mr. Savage, and I think reliable, though
in direct conflict with the account given by Mr. Deane.
II. Desire, born 22d Sept., 1680.
III. Anne, 26th Aug., 1682, died 22d Nov., 168.2.
IV. Anne, born 1st Nov., 1683.
He probably had other children after his removal from
Barnstable. His sister Deborah married William Barden,
Burden or Borden. Fie was, perhaps, one of the youths of
fourteen years of age, of good habits, sent over to be bound
out as apprentices. He came over probably in 1638, and
was bound to Thomas Boardman of Plymouth, to learn the
trade of a carpenter, Jan'y 10, 1638-9; six and one-half
years of the term of his apprenticeship being unexpired,
Boardman released him, and he was bound to John Barker
of Marshfield, to learn the trade of a bricklayer. After the
expiration of his apprenticeship, he went to Concord, then
a mere settlemerit, and after his marriage he resided a short
time in Duxbury. From Barnstable he removed to Middle-
borough, his wife being dismissed from the Barnstable
Church to Middleborough in 1683. 31st Oct., 1666, John
Bates and WiUiam Burden were fined 3 shillings, 4 pence
each for "breaking the King's peace by striking each other.
Burden was drunk at the time, and was fined 5 shiUings be
side, and Bates was ordered by the Court to pay Burden 20
shillings for abusing him."
^^,^jHe married Feb., 1660, Deborah Barker, and had
children born in Barnstable, namely :
I. Mercy, born 1st Nov., 1662.
II. Deborah, 28th June, 1665.
III. John, 17th March, 1667-8.
IV. Stephen, 15th April, 1669.
V. Abraham, 14th May, 1674.
VI. Joseph, Sept., 1675.
VII. Anna, 26th Aug., 1677.
John "Bardon," son of William, had John, born May
1, 1704, in Middleborough, Ichabod, Dec. 18, 1705.
Stephen "Borden," son of William of Middleborough,
had Sarah, Apl. 30, 1695 ; William, Mar. 2, 1697 ; Abigail,
Mar. 3, 1698-9 ; Stephen, May, 1701 ; Timothy, Jan'y 3,
1703-4; Mary, Oct. 27, 1705, and Hannah, March 13,
1707-8. Abraham, son of William, married Mary Booth, 1697.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 07
Perhaps the reader may think I am severe in my criti
cisms on the Rev. Mr. Deane. All I do is to take his own
statements and place them in a position where their absurd
ity will be seen. No one has a higher respect for Mr. Deane
than the writer. He was a pioneer in the work, and the
wonder is that he has made so few, rather than so many
mistakes. In his article on the Gushing family, he says that Sam
uel Barker, ^Esq., was a son of John Barker, Esq., and that
he married in 1706, Hannah Gushing. This is much more
probable than lii^ other statement that Samuel was the son
of Williams. The children of this Samuel were, Samuel, Ignatius,
Ezekiel, Hannah and Deborah. Samuel married Deborah
Gorham of Barnstable. The Crockers at West Barnstable
are also connected by marriage with the Barkers.
The Bordens of Fall River probably descend from Ste
phen, son of William of Barnstable, and not from the Rhode
Island families of the name.

BODFISH.

The ancestor of this family wrote his name "Rob
ert Botfish," yet on the records it is written Botfish, Bot-
ffish, Bodfish, Badfish, Bootfish and Boatfish. He was early
at Lynn, a freeman May 5th, 1635, and of Sandwich in 1637,
of which town he was one of the original proprietors. The
Indian title to the lands in Sandwich was purchased by
William Bradford and his partners of the old Plymouth
Company in 1637, for £16, 19 shillings, payable "in com-
odities," and Jan'y 24, 1647-8, they assignied their rights to
Edmund Freeman, and on the 26th of February following,
he assigned the same to George Allen, John Vincent, Wil
liam Newland, Robert Botfish. Anthony Wright and Rich
ard Bourne, a committee of the proprietors of the town of
Sandwich. In 1640, the meadow lands were divided, giv
ing to each in proportion to his "quality and condition."
Robert Bodfish bad five acres assigned to him, a little less'
than an average amount.
Jan'y 1, 1638-9, Robert Bodfish "desired to become a
freeman of the Plymouth Colony; in 1641 he was a sur
veyor of highways ; in 1644 on the grand jury, and the
same year licensed "to draw wine in Sandwich." He died
in 1651, leaving a wife Bridget, who became Dec, 15, 1657,
the second wife of Samuel Hinckley (the father oif Governor
Thomas.) He had a son Joseph, born in Sandwich April 3,
1651, a daughter Mary, who married Nov., 1659, John
Crocker, and Sarah, who married June 21, 1663, Peter
Blossom, and a son Robert, who did not become an in
habitant of Barnstable. The family removed to Barnstable
in 1657. Joseph, the ancestor of all of the name in Barnstable,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 69
married Elizabeth Besse, daughter of Anthony Besse,* of
Sandwich. He resided at West Barnstable ; his house was
on Bursley's Lane, (Proprietor's Records), on the farm
owned by the late Lemuel Bursley, and died Dec. 2, 1744,
in the 94th year of his age.
When he was eighteen, Plymouth had been settled fifty
years, and though liberal bounties had been paid to English
and Indians for wolves' heads, yet these ravenous animals
abounded in the Colony. In 1654, the whole number killed
was nineteen — of which three were killed in Barnstable, and
in 1655, thirty-one — nine in Barnstable. In 1690, the
number killed was thirteen, and in 1691, nineteen. Jona
than Bodfish said his grandfather could set a trap as cun
ningly as the oldest Indians, and that the duck or the goose
that ventured to come within gunshot of him, rarely escaped
being shot. Wolf Neck, so named because it was the resort
of these animals, was about half a mile from Joseph Bod-
fish's house, and there he set his traps. Once he narrowly
escaped losing his own life. Seeing a large wolf in his trap,
he incautiously approached with a rotten pine pole in his
hand. He struck — the pole broke in his hand, and the en
raged beast, sprang at him with the trap and broken chain
attached to his leg. Mr. Bodfish stepped suddenly one side,
and the wolf passed by him. Before the wolf could recover,
Mr. Bodfish was beyond his reach. This trap is preserved
in his family as an heir-loom.
?Anthony Besse, born in 1609. Came over in the James, 1636, from
London, settled in Lynn and removed to Sandwich in 1637, and was
many years a preacher to the Indians. He died in 1657, leaving wife
Jane, and children Nehemiah : David, born May 23, 1649, tilled in the
Rehobeth battle March 26, 1676 ; Ann, who was the wife of Andrew
Hallet, Jr., of Yarmouth; Mary; and Elizabeth who married Joseph
Bodfish. His widow married, second, George Barlow, and had by him John,
who has descendants, and Rebecca who married William Hunter. The
widow Barlow died in 1693. Her last marriage was an unhappy con
nection. Barlow was appointed June 1, 1658, Marshq,l of Sandwich,
Barnstable and Yarmouth. His name adds no honor to the annals of
the Old Colony — a hard-hearted, intolerant, tyrannical man, abusing the
power entrusted to him, and seemingly taking delight in confiscating the
property of innocent men and women, or in dragging them to prison, to
the stocks, or the whipping post.
In his family he exercised the same tyrannical spirit, and it is not sur
prising that the aid of the magis irate was frequently called into requi
sition to settle the difficulties that arose. The reader of the Colony rec
ords may think the Besses were not the most amiable of women — per
haps they were not ; but in these family quarrels Barlow was in fault,
and deserving of the infamy which will forever attach to his name.

70 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Some years after a wolf was followed by hunters from
Wareham to Barnstable, and they wished Mr. Bodfish to
join them, but he declined. Having studied the habits of
the animal, he felt certain it would return on the same track.
Taking his gun he went into the woods, concealed himself
within gunshot ori the leeward side of the track, and waited
for the return of the wolf. He was not disappointed, the
wolf at last appeared and was shot. He returned to his
house, and soon after the Wareham hunters came in and re
ported that they had followed the wolf to the lower part of
Yarmouth, and the dogs had there lost the track, and they
gave up the pursuit. They felt a little chagrined when the
dead body of the wolf was shown to them.
All his sons, excepting Benjamin, were good gunners.
Wolf hunting, however, was not a sport in which they en
gaged. It is said that the last wolf killed in Barnstable was
shot by Joseph Bodfish ; but this story requires confirma
tion . Joseph Bodfish* joined the Church in Barnstable, Feb.
12, 1689, N. S., and 'his wife Elizabeth on the 16th July
following. His seven children, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Nathan,
Robert, Elizabeth and Melatiah, were baptized' March 26,
1699, and his daughter Sarah, April 6, 1700.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. John, born Dec. 2, 1675. Removed to Sandwich,
where he has descendants. He married Sarah Nye,
May 24, 1704, and had Mary, March 9, 1705-6 ; John,
Feb. 5. 1708-9; Hannah, Sept. 23, 1711; Joanna,
Oct. 22, 1714; Sarah, March 21,1717; Elizabeth,
March 30, 1720; Joseph, Sept. 20, 1725.
II. Joseph, born Oct. 1677, married Oct. 11, 1712,
Thankful Blush, daughter of Joseph. He was not
living in 1735.
III. Mary, born March 1. 1679-80, married Josiah Swift,
of S., April 19, 1706.
IV. Hannah, born May, 1681, married Richard Thomas.
He had baptized Dec. 4, 1715, Peleg, Ebenezer and
Ann. The children of Richard and Hannah recorded,
?Erroneously printed "Bradford" in, the Genealogical Register for
1856, page 350. Elizabeth, his wife, was baptized on ihe day she was ad
mitted to the Church— a fact perhaps not without significance in the
history of the Besses.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 71
are Anne, born June 15, 1715, and Joseph, born
Aug. 24, 1721. His son Ebenezer and grandson
Nathan, had families resident in Barnstable. Joseph
Bodfish, Sen., calls Ebenezer Thointis his graiulsoii.
V. Benjamin, born July 20, 1683, married Nov. 10, 1709,
Lydia Crocker, daughter of Jonathan. He died in
1760, wged 77. He wan an active man, and may he
called the founder of the Bodfish family of recent
times. He bought for £100, by a deed tiom bis
father-in-law, Jonathan Crocker, dated Oct. 20, 1713,
one-half of the twenty-acre lot and meadow which
the latter bought of his father, John Crocker, includ
ing the dwelling-house then standing thereon. Tins
tract of land is situated on the east of Scorton Hill,
and is bounded ^southerly by the County road. It
was a part of the great lot of Abraham Blush, con
taining fifty acres, and sold by him Feb. 10, 1668,
to John Crocker, Sen., and by him given in his will
to children of his brother, Dea. William Crocker, of
whom the John Crocker, first named, was one. The
house above mentioned, a high, single house, with a
leantoo, was occupied by Benjamin Bodfish and his
son Jonathan till 1809, when it was taken down, and
the present Bodfish house built on the same spot.
VI. Nathan, born Dec. 27, 1685. He married Abigail
Bursley, daughter of John. She died March 31,
1739, in the 49th year of her age, and is called on
her grave-stones at West Barnstable, the wife of
Nathaniel. I find no record of his family, and tradi
tion says he had no children. A Nathan Bodfish
married Patience Hathaway, and had Abigail, July
10, 1756, and Patience, Dec. 10, 1761. But this
man was perhaps a son of Robert, by his first wife.
VII. Ebenezer, born March 10, 1687-8, removed to Wood-
bridge, N. J., where he died unmarried in 1739, and
bequeathed his estate by will to his brother Benjamin,
who was executor, and to his sisters Hanntih Thomas
and Mary Swift.
VIII. Elizabeth, born Aug. 27, 1690, married and had a
family — not living in 1735.
IX. Rebecca, born Feb. 22, 1692-3, married Benjamin
Fuller, March 25, 1714. She died March 10, 1727-8,
leaving a family.

72 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
X. Melatiah, born April 17, 1669, married Samuel Ful
ler, June 20, 1725-6.
XL Robert, born Oct. 10, 1698. He was published in
1729, to Jemima Nye of Sandwich. He afterwards
married Dec. 10, 1739, Elizabeth Hadaway, and had
Elizabeth, Sept. 11, 1741, and Ebenezer, Feb. 15,
1743-4.
XII. Sarah, born Feb. 20, 1700, married March 8, 1726-7,
Joseph Smith, Jr., his second wife, by whom she had
Sarah, born Jan'y 22, 1727-8.
Joseph Bodfish, son of Joseph, born Oct. 1677, mar
ried 11th Oct. 1712, Thankful, daughter of Joseph Blush of
West Barnstable. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Elizabeth, 6th Sept., 1713, married Eben Goodspeed,
3d, Sept. 29, 1736.
II. Hannah, 18th July, 1716, married Samuel Blossom,
Oct. 28, 1744.
III. Mary, 17th June, 1719, married Joseph Nye of Sand
wich, Dec. 10, 1741.
IV. Joseph, 8th March, 1722, married Mehetabel Good-
speed, 1749. He resided at West Barnstable, and
had Mary, Hannah, Thankful, Lydia and Ruth, twins.
Thankful again, Elizabeth and Joseph.
V. Thankful, 6th June, 1724, married Peter Conant,
May 4, 1741,
Benjamin Bodfish, son of Joseph, born 20th July, 1683,
married Lydia Crocker, 10th Nov. 1709.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Svlvanus, 2d Sept., 1710, married Mary Smith, Dec.
20, 1738.
II, Hannah, 12th Feb., 1712, married Caleb Nye of
Sandwich .
III. Thankful, 19th Feb., 1714, married Joseph Shelly of
Raynham.
IV. Solomon, 20th March, 1716, married Hannah Burs
ley, Jr.
V. Joseph, 16th April, 1718, married and had a family.
VI. Benjamin, 18th March, 1720.
VII. Lydia, baptized 9th June, 1723.
VIII. Rachel, baptized Jan'ry, 1725-6. '

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 73
IX, Jonathan, . born 10th Aug., 1727, married Desire
Howland, May 3, 1753. He died Jan'y 1818, aged
91, and his wife April 1813, aged 81. The farm of
Mr. Jonathan Bodfish and his sons, at the time of his
death, consisted of six hundred acres of tillage, mead
ow and woodland. They had all their property in
common, and at the end of each year invested their
surplus earnings in real estate. They were farmers,
raising large crops — often 400 bushels of Indian corn
in a season— and of other agricultural products, a
proportional amount. They usually kept 50 head of
cattle and 120 sheep. Benjamin was a carpenter and
mason, and a very skillful workman, Isaac lived
thirteen years with Edward Wing, receiving from
$10 to |13 per month as wages. It is said of him,
that during all this time, his idle expenses amounted
to only 20 cents. The earnings of both were put
into the common stock. For more than seventy
years the property of Jonathan Bodfish was owned in
common, and during the whole time nothing occurred
to disturb the harmony and good feeling which sub
sisted between the different members of the family.
They were hard-working, prudent and industrious ;
and in all tjieir dealings were honest and honorable.
Jonathan, the father, was treasurer, and all deeds,
excepting enough to make his sons voters and qualify
thein for holding civil offices, were taken in his name.
Jonathan Bodfish, the fiither of this remarkable fam
ily, was a venerable old man — the patriarch of his
, family. In person he was nearly six feet tall, large
and well proportioned, weighing ordinarily 230
pounds. His sons, excepting Josiah, were over six
feet, large boned, spare men, and in personal appear
ance, would hardly be recognized as belonging to the
same family with Jonathan.
The children of Jonathan Bodfish born in Barnstable
were
I. Sylvanus, born Nov. 15, 1754; died in 1801, aged
47. He did not marry, and his estate was a part of
the common stock.
II. Benjamin, born April 14, 1756, died Jan'y 14, 1827,
aged 70. He was a carpenter, mason and farmer;
did not marry, and his estate was also a part of the

74 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
common stock.
III. John, born March 16, 1761, married Mary, daughter
of Joseph Smith, and had a family . He was for
many^ears one of the selectmen of Barnstable. He
died Aug. 1847, aged 86, and his wife in 1849.
IV. Isaac, born July 22, 1763, married Elizabeth Bod
fish, and had a family. He died Aug. 30, 1837,
aged 74.
V. Josiah, born Nov. 8, 1765 ; died Oct. 8, 1845, aged
80. He did not marr}'.
VI. Deborah, born June 11, 1768, married Benjamin
Goodspeed.
VII. Simeon, born Feb. 10, 1771 ; died young.
VIII. Alice, born about 1773 ; did not marry, and died
April 21, 1854, aged 81. /
Some members of the Bodfish family removed to New
York, New Jersey and other places, and their connection
with the Barnstable stock can be easily traced.

BLOSSOM,

Deacon Thomtis Blossom, one of the Pilgrims, and the
ancestor of the Blossom -family of Barnstable, came from
Leyden to Plymouth, England ; but being on board the
Speedwell, did not obttiin a passage in the Mayflower from
England in 1620. He returned to Leyden to encourage the
emigration of the residue of Mr. Robinson's Church. He
came over in 1629, with Mr. Higginson and others, who
were bound to Salem. Judge i\litchell says he was first
deacon of the Church in Plymouth, and his letter to Gov.
Bradford gives evidence that he was a well educated and a
pious man. He died in PJymouth in the year 1()32.* Of
his family no record has ])een preserved. He had a son in
1620, who went to England with him and returned to Ley
den ; but was not living Dec. 1625. At the latter date he
had two other children, btit their names are not recorded.
Circumstantial evidence proves, beyond a reasonable doubt,
that he had two sons who survived him ; Thomas, who was
sixteen or over in 1643, and Peter who was younger.
Anna, the widow of Dea. Thomas Blossom,^ married
Henry Rowley, Oct. 17, 1633. They were members of
Mr. Lothrop's Church at its organization, Jan'ry 8, 1634-5,
and removed with him to Barnstable in 1639. Thomas and
Peter came to Barnstable with their mother, and were prob
ably members of the family of their father-in-law. Thomas

*The date of the death of Deacon Blossom is uncertain. Gov. Brad
ford who was his contemporary, says he died of the malignant fever
which pervaded in the summer of 1633. The accurate Prince copies
Gov Bradford's statenient, and the careful Mr. Savage refers to Prince
as his authority. Judge Mitchel says "about 1633." Notwithstanding
this arrav of authorities it can perhaps be demonstrated that Dea. Blo^s-
som died in 1632. In the tax lists for the town of Plymouth, dated Jan y
12 1633 N S (1632.0. S.), Dea. Thomas Blossom is not taxed ; but the
Wid Blossom is. The record now existing was made in March 1632-3,
and proves conclusively that Dea. Blossom was dead when that record
was made.

76 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
was a landholder in 1647, and he and his brother Petef- had
a lot granted to them in partnership at Cotuit. Thomas
does not appear to have been a householder. He resided in
the easterly part of the town, and after his marriage, proba
bly at the house of Thomas Lothrop, who was father'-in-law
to his wife. He was a mariner, and at the time of his death,
April 22, 1650, was on a fishing voyage.
Peter removed with his father-in-law to West Barnsta
ble about the year 1650. His farm, containing forty acres
of upland, was on the east of the Bursley farm, and separa
ted from it by Boat Cove and the stream of fresh water emp
tying into it. On the northeast it was bounded by Thomas
Sharv's marsh and the land of Henry Rowley, and on the
southeast by the farm of Mr. Thomas Dexter, Sen'r. He
owned twelve acres of meadow. A part of his land is now
owned by his descendants.
Children of Deacon Thomas Blossom born in Leyden.
I. A son, who died before Dec. 1625.
II. Thomas, born about the year 1620, married June 18,
1645, by Major John Freeman, to Sarah Ewer, at the •
house of Thomas Lothrop in Barnstable. She ^<'as a
daughter of Thomas Ewer, deceased, of Charlestown^
and was then residing with her mother. He and another
' Barnstable man, Samuel Hallet, were drowned at Nau-
set, April 22, 1650. He left one child, a daughter
named "Sara," and had, perhaps, a posthumous sou
named Peter.
III. Peter, born after the year 1627, married Sarah Bodfish,
June 21, 1663. He resided at West Barnstable, was a
farmer, and died about 1700, intestate. His estate was
settled Oct. 5, 1706, by mutual agreement between his
widow Sarah and sons Thomas, Joseph and Jabez, and
daughters Thankful Fuller and Mercy Howland. His
children born in Barnstable were :
I. Mercy, born 9th April, 1664; died in 1670.
II. Thomas, born 20th Dec, 1667, married Dec. 1695,
Fear Robinson. He resided at West Barnstable.
III. Sarah, born 1669; died 1671.
IV. Joseph, born 10th Dec. 1673, marrie'd Marv Pinchon,
17th June, 1696.
V. Thankful, born 1675, married Joseph Fuller, 1700.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 77
VI. Mary, born Aug. 1678, married Shubael Howland,
Dec. 13, 1700.
VII. Jabez, born 16th Feb.. 1680, married Mary Good-
speed, 9th Sept. 1710.
Thomas Blossom, son of Peter, married Dec. 1695,
Fear, daughter of John Robinson of Falmouth, and a great-
grand-daughter of Rev. John Robinson of Leyden. His
children born in Barnstable were :
I. Peter, born 28th Aug. 1698, married Hannah Isum,
June 9, 1720. According to the town record he had
an only son, Seth, born 15th March, 1721-2. Seth
married Jan'ry 8, 1746-7, Sarah Churchill of Sand
wich, and second Abigail Crocker of Barnstable, Jan'ry
10, 1754. Children— Churchill, 15th Oct. 1749 ; David,
12th Jan'ry, 1755 ; Peter, 4th Dec. 1756 ; Abigail,
10th May, 1760 ; Seth, 4th Dec. 1763 ; Hannah, 15th
Aug. 1766; Levi, 15th April, 1772, who removed to
Bridgewater.
II. John, born 17th April, 1699, married April 6, 1726,
Thankful Burgess of Yarmouth, and had two children
born in Yarmouth. Fear, Feb. 3d, 1730-1, and Thank
ful, March 5th, 1732-3.
III. Sarah, born 16th Dec 1703 ; died young.
IV. Elizabeth, born Oct. 1705, married July 1, 1725, Israel
Butler.
V. Sarah, 30th July, 1709, married James Case of Leba
non, Sept. 23, 1736.
Joseph Blossom, son of Peter, married 17th June, 1696,
Mary Pinchon. She died April 6, 1706, and he married
second, Mary  .
Children born in Barnstable.
I. A child, born 14th March, 1696-7 ; died March, 1696-7.
II. A son, born May, 1702 ; died May, 1702.
III. Joseph, born 14th March, 1703-4, married Temperance
Fuller, March 30, 1727. Children born in Barnstable :
Lydia, 19th March, 1729, married Matthias Fuller,
1765 ; James, born 9th Feb. 1731, married Jan'ry 19,
1758, Bethia Smith ; Sarah, 14th Oct. 1734, and Mary,
14th Sept. 1736.
IV. A son, May 1705 ; died June, 1705.
V. Mary, 11th Dec. 1709, married Joseph Bates of Mid
dleborough, 1743.

78 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
VI. Thankful, 25th March, 1711 ; married Eben'r Thomas,
Dec. 8, 1736.
Jabez Blossom, son of Peter, married 9th of Sept. 1710,
Mercy Goodspeed. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Sylvanus, born 20th Jan'ry, 1713, married Charity Snell,
1738, and settled in South Bridgewater. His grandson
Alden went to Turner, Maine, where he was a general
and high-sheriff".
Sylvanus is the only child of Jabez recorded ; but there
was a Jabez Blossom, Jr., who married May 17, 1739,
Hannah Backhouse of Sandwich ; also, a Ruth, who married
June 8, 1738, Sylvanus Barrows.
In addition to the above, there was a Peter Blossom,
born as early as 1680, who was entitled to a share in the
division of lands in 1703. If he was a son of Peter, son of
Dea. Thomas, it is difficult to account for the omission of
his name on the town and probate records. Perhaps he was
a son of Thomas, Jr. None of the Blossoms, excepting the
deacon, appear to have been church members, consequently
their children's names do not appear on the church records.
There was a Samuel Blossom of Barnstable, who mar
ried Hannah Bodfish, Oct. 28, 1744, and had Thankful, 5th
Sept. 1745 ; Joseph, 28th Oct. 1747 ; Samuel and Hannah,
twins, 24th Jan'ry, 1752, and Mehitable, 23d June, 1753.
The mother of this family was a church member.
There was also a Benjamin Blossom of Sandwich, pub
lished Dec 22d, 1750, to Elizabeth Linnell, and married Oct.
31,1751, Bathsheba Percival, and had one son born in Barn
stable, Benjamin, 18th Aug. 1753.
James Blossom, son of Joseph, married Jan'ry 19th,
1758, Bethia Smith, and had children born in Barnstable:
James, Feb. 3, 1760 ; Temperance, Oct. 1761 ; Matthias,
Sept. 12, 1765 ; Lucretia, Oct. 8, 1768, and Asenath, Aug.
30, 1770. There was also a Thomas Blossom of Yarmouth, who
married Thankful Paddock, 1749, and had five children
born in Yarmouth, namely : Enos, Aug. 18, 1750 ; Thomas,
March 11, 1753; Thankful, Jan'y 6, 1756: Sarah, July
13th, 1758, and Ezra, May 10, 1761.
Benjamin Blossom, of Sandwich, by his wife Elizabeth,
had Sarah. Oct. 23, 1752: Mary, Nov. 27, 1757 ; Meribah,

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Jan'y 27, 1760.
Mehitable, wife of Joseph Blossom, of Cushnet, died
.March 16, 1771, aged 80 years, 6 mos., and 10 days.
Benjamin, of Acushnet, died Oct. 25th, 1797, aged 76,
who had by his wife Rebecca, Levi, who died May 8th,
1785, aged 8 1-2 months.

Note. — Some of the Blossoms lived in Sandwich, a fact that I was not
aware of when I commenced writing this article. A consultation of the
records of that town, will, I presume, %nable those interested to fill up
the gaps in this genealogy.

THOMAS BOURMAN.

This name is written on the records Bourman, Burman
and Boreman. Some of his descendants write it Bowman,
others Bowerman. Thomas Boardman's name is written
Boardman and Boreman. In some cases it is difficult to
decide which man is intended. Thomas Boreman was taxed
in Plymouth in 1633, and in the following year contracted
to repair the fort on the hill which was a wooden structure,
and Thomas Boardman being a carpenter; I infer that he
was the man intended. A Thomas Boreman was a freeman
of Massachusetts, March 4, 1634, and a representative from
Ipswich, 1636. It has been supposed that he removed to
Barnstable, but I think it very doubtful. Thomas Bourman
of Barnstable could not write, and though one of the first
settlers, he was not admitted to be a townsman for some
reason ; perhaps he favored the Quakers. It is not proba
ble that the inhabitants of Ipswich would have selected such
a man for their representative. Again, Bourman was in
aftertimes a common name in that town, and there is no evi
dence whatever that Thomas of Ipswich removed.
Thomas Bourman was of Barnstable in 1643. He re
sided at West Barnstable, on a farm on the South side of
the cove of meadow, at the head of Bridge Creek. It is
thus described on the town records :
1. Twenty-five acres of upland, be it more or less,
butting northerly upon ye marsh, easterly upon a brook,
and westerly' upon a brook, and so running eighty rods
southerly into ye woods.
2. Sixteen acres of marsh, more or less, bounded
westerly partly by John Jenkins, and partly by a ditch cast
up between Abraham Blush and him ; northerly, partly by
ye highway, and partly by Gdd. Blush, easterly, partly by
ye great swamp and partly by Gdd. Blush's, his marsh.'
3. Five acres of upland, more or less, butting north-

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erly upon ye marsh, southerly upon a foot-path, easteriy
upon a flashy swamp, westerly upon his own land.
The above described land and meadow with his dwelling
house thereon, he sold 28th Oct. 1662, to Robert Parker
for £78. Bourman signed this deed with his mark; his
will is signed in the same manner ; but the latter would not
be evidence that the testator was never able to write.
He was a surveyor of highways in 1648, and a grand
juror in 1650, and was a proprietor of the lands in Sucka-
nesset, now Falmouth. He died in 1663, and is called of
Barnstable at the time of his death.
Children born in Barnstable.
He married 10th of March, 1644-5. Hannah, daughter
of Anthony Annable, and his children born in Barnstable
were
I. Hannah, May 1646.
II. Thomas, Sept. 1648, married Mary Harper, April 9,
1678.
HI. Samuel, July, 1651, slain at Rehobeth, March 26,
1676.
IV. Desire, Mav 1654.
V. Mary, March 1656.
VI, Mehitable, Sept. 1658.
VII. Tristram, Aug. 1661.
This family removed to Falmouth. They early joined
the Friends. Thomas, 22d April, 1690, bought of Jonathan
Hatch, Senior, and Robert Harper, agents of the inhabitants
of Suckanesset, one hundred acres of land formerly John
Robinson's, described as situate on the easterly side of the
"Five Mile River," bounded from the head of the river on a
straight line to the pond, northerly by the pond and south
erly by the river. One acre to be on the south easterly side
of the road that leads from the river to Sandwich.
Samuel Bourman was a soldier in King Philip's war
from Barnstable, and was slain at Rehobeth March 26, 1676.
In the same battle Lieut. Samuel Fuller, John Lewis, Elea-
zer Clapp, Samuel Linnet and Samuel Childs of Barnstable
were also killed.
Thomas Bourman was town clerk of Falmouth 1702,
1704 and 1705. March 26, 1691, Thomas Bourman and

82 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
William Wyatt, a committee to lay out lands at Woods
Hole. The following account of the family after the removal
to Falmouth, collected by Mr. Newell Hoxie of Sandwich,
from ancient papers, is the best I have been able to obtain.
The illumination of dates would made it more intelligible :
Thomas Bourman, though belonging to the Society of
Friends, was taxed for the support of the ministry in the
town of Falmouth. All non-conformists were then required
to pay a double tax, one to their own society and one to the
settled minister of the town. Many resisted this law as
tyrannical and oppressive, and of this number was Thomas
Bourman. In the winter of 1705-6, he was committed to
Barnstable Jail for non-payment of a ministerial tax. On
the 4th of the 11th mo., 1705-6, the Friends monthly meet
ing, held at the house of William Allen in Sandwich, ordered
"A bed and bedding to be sent to Thomas Bourman, he be
ing in prison for the priest's rate." The following distraints
was subsequently made of his property to pay his taxes to
Rev. Joseph Metcalf, of Falmouth, one whose ministry
neither himself nor his family attended r
19th, 3d mo. 1709—2 cows, worth £5, for £3, 12s. U.
tax. 13th, 3d mo. — 1 cow and calf, worth £2, 2s. tax.
22d, 3d mo.— 1 cow worth £3, 10s. for £1, 13s. tax.
24th, 1st mo. 1710—1 cow worth £2, 14s. for £1, \ls.
tax. 17th, 1st mo. 1715—1 cow worth £3, 10s. for £l, 3«.
Id. tax. 9th, 1715—1 fat swine worth £3, 00, for £1 tax.
21st, 11th mo. 1716—2 calves worth £2, 10s. for £1,
2s. M. 10th, 3d mo. 1728—5 sheep worth £2, 10s. for £0,
16s. tax.30th, 3d mo. 1728—12 lbs. wool worth £1, 10s. for
£0, 16s. lOt^.
As these distraints were made by different constables,
the presumption is that the three first named were for taxes
of former years.
His son, Thomas Bowman, also, refused to pay his
ministerial tax, and in 1727 the constable seized three bush
els of Malt, worth 16s. 6d. to pay the same. On the 2d

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of the 3d mo. 1728, the constable seized one Linen Wheel
and one Bason, worth 20 shillings.
These exactions were very moderate in comparison with
those riiade by Constable Barlow half a century earlier.
Thomas Bourman, born in Barnstable, Sept. 1648, mar
ried Mary Harper, April 9, 1678. Their children were
Samuel ; Thomas, who married Jane Harby ; Stephen, who
did not marry ; Benjamin, who married Hannah  ; Han
nah, who married Nathan Barlow 1719, and Wait, who
married Benjamin Allen, 1720.
Thomas Bourman, son of the second. Thomas, resided
at West Falmouth on the estate now owned by Capt. Nathan
iel Eldred. He married Jane Harby, and had children :
Ichabod ; Judah, who married Mary Dillingham 1758 ; Da
vid, married Ruth Dillingham 1751, and Hannah Wing 1770 ;
Silas, married second, Lydia Giffbrd ; Joseph, married Rest
Swift, Sept. 17, 1766; Sarah, married Melatiah Giffbrd
1743; Jane, married Joseph Bowman; Elizabeth; Peace,
who did not marry, and Deborah.
Benjamin Bourman, son of Thomas 2d, married Han
nah  . He resided at Teeticket, Falmouth, was a man of
enterprise and wealth, and died in the year 1743, leaving
sons Daniel, Samuel and Stephen, and a daughter "Rest,'"
all of whom belonged to the Friends' Meeting. He wrote
his name Bowerman, as many of the family now do. In the
inventory of his estate, one-half of the sloop Falmouth and
one-eighth of the sloop Woods Hole, are appraised. His
son Stephen, married 1756, Hannah, daughter of Caleb and
Reliance Allen; Samuel married three wives; first, 1743,
Rose Landers; second, 1746, Jemimah Wing; third, Oct.
10, 1785, Grace Hoxie. Daniel married Joanna, daughter
of Simeon Hathaway, and had Barnabas, grandfather of the
present Barnabas, and a daughter "Rest," who rested in
single life.
Beside those mentioned in the will of Benjamin Bour
man, Mr. Hoxie says he had a son Enos, who married in
1764, Elizabeth, daughter of Recompence and Lydia Land
ers ; Joseph, who died young; Wait, who married 1741,
Benjamin Swift, and a son Benjamin, who married in 1755,
Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary Gifford. This
Benjamin lived at Teeticket. His children, Elihu, married
Sept. 23, 1779, Anny Allen: Harper, who married, first.

84 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Elizabeth Shepherd, and second, Meribah Jones ; Hannah,
who married Eben Allen ; Zacheus, married Sept. 26, 1810,
Elizabeth Wing; Benjamin, married 1796, Phebe Shepherd;
Elizabeth ; Anna, married Abel Hoxie ; Samuel, and Rest
who married Francis Allen. Several of this family lived to
a great age.

BUMPAS.

Edward Bompasse came over in the Fortune, and arrived
at Plymouth Nov. 10, 1621. The name is probably the
French Bon pas — a similar name to the English Goodspeed.
At the division of the land in 1623, and of the cattle in 1627,
he was unmarried. He sold land in Plymouth in 1628, and
removed to Duxbury and there bought land of William Pal
mer, on which he built a house and "palisado," which he
sold to John Washburn in 1634. In 1640 he was of Marsh
field, and was living at Duck Hill in that town in 1684.
It appears that he married about the time he removed
to Duxbur}^ and according to the Marshfield records his
wife was named Hannah. The record says "Hannah, widow
of old Edward Bumpas, died 12th Feb. 1693," and that
Edward Bumpas died nine days before. Mr. Savage sup
poses that the latter record refers to Edward Bumpas, Jr.
This Barnstable family descend from Thomas, prob
ably the youngest son of Edward, the pilgrim. He was not
a proprietor, and I do not find that he was admitted an in
habitant of Barnstable. He and his son Thomas claimed to
be proprietors, but the lands laid out to them in 1716, were
in consideration of fifteen shares purchased by them of Lieut.
John Howland, and in settlement of "their whole right or
pretence to any claim in the division of the common land in
Barnstable." Thomas Bumpas' house was on "Lovell's
Way," in Cokachoiset, now Osterville.
Samuel Bumpas' house was at Skonkonet, now called
Bump's river, and on the road south of Thompson's
bridge. His house stood near the cedar swamp. His hoiise
lot and other lands in the vicinity of Thompson's bridge,
laid out to him in 1716, was for one share he bought of his
brother-in-law Samuel Parker, and one of John Howland.

86 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
The family in Barnstable is extinct, but the descendants
of Edward in other parts of the country are very numerous.
No record has been preserved of the family of the first
Edward. His children as well as can now be ascertained
were :
I. Faith, born 1631.
II. Sarah, married March, 1659, Thomas Durham.
III. John, born 1636, probably the oldest son, had at
Middleborough, Mary, born 1671; John, 1673,
Samuel, 1676 ; James, 1678 ; at Rochester, Sarah,
16th Sept. 1685; Edward, 16th Sept. 16«8, and
Jeremiah, 24th Aug. 1692. The latter married
Nov. 15, 1712, Jane Lovell of Barnstable. The fam
ily' was afterwards in Wareham.
IV. Edward, born 1638. Mr. Savage supposes he died
in Marshfield in 1693.
V. Joseph, born 1639, first of Plymouth, and afterwards
of Middleborough. Mr. Winsor in his history of
Duxbury doubts whether Joseph was a son of Ed
ward, though he puts his name among his children.
A deed of land recently found settles this question.
He was a son of Edward, and had Lydia, born 2d
Aug. 1669; Wvbra, 15th May, 1672; Joseph, 25th
Aug. 1674; Rebecca, 17th Dec. 1677; James, 25th
Dec, 1679 ; Penelope, 2lst Dec. 1681 ; Mary, 12th
Aug. 1684, and Mehitable, 21st Jan'y, 1692.
VI. Jacob, born 1644. Mr. Deane says he was of Scit
uate in 1676, where he married in 1677, Elizabeth,
widow of William Blackmore, and had Benjamin,
1678, and Jacob, 1680. Benjamin had nine children,
and has numerous descendants.
VII. Hannah, born 1646.
VIII. Philip. Winsor says Philip was the son of Edward,
and he was living in 1677 ; but gives no additional
information.
IX. Thomas, born about the year 1660, married Nov.
1679, Phebe, eldest daughter of John Lovell of
Barnstable. His children born in Barnstable were :
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Hannah, born 28th July, 1680, married Samuel Par
ker, Dec. 12, 1695. The bride was 15, and the

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bridegroom 35.
II. Jean, born Dec. 1681.
III. Mary, born April, 1683.
IV. Samuel, born Janr'y 1685, married Joanna Warren,
Aug. 1, 1717, and had Sarah, April 5, 1718, married
Samuel Lothrop, July 17, 1740; Joanna, May 15,
1719, married Samuel Hamblin, Jr., Nov. 16, 1749 ;
Jabez, June 25, 1721 ; Thomas, March 20, 1722-3 ;
John, May 17, 1725 ; Warren, June 28, 1727 ; Bethia,
Aoig. 23, 1729, married Seth Phinney, Oct. 26, 1748 ;
Mary, Jan'y 1, 1731-2, and Phebe, April 21, 1734.
V. Thomas, born May, 1687.
VI. Sarah, born Jan'ry 1688.
VII. Elizabeth, born Jan'y 1690.
VIII. Abigail, born Oct. 1693.
IX. John, baptized June 21, 1696.
X. Benj-amin, born 27th, March 1703.
Phebe, wife of Thomas Bumpas, became a member of
the Barnstable Church, May 24, 1696, and on the 21st of
June following, his children Samuel, Thomas, John, Mary,
Sarah, Abigail and Elizabeth were baptized. Hannah, his
eldest child, was then married, and respecting Jane under
the date of July 5, 1696, is the following entry: "Jane of
Phebe, wife of Thomas Bump, ye girl being about 14 or 15
years old, was examined, and being one of ye family and
looked upon in her minority, was baptized." The baptism
of Benjamin does not appear on the church records. Phebe
Bumpas of Barnstable, married Nov. 11, 1724, John Fish.
She was probably daughter of Thomas, Sen'r, The Thank
ful Bumbas, who married Dec. 12, 1744, Jonathan Hamblin,
was perhaps another daughter.' There was also a Samuel
Bumpus, Jr., of Barnstable, who married in 1733, Sarah
Rogers of Plymouth. She died April 10, 1736, leaving a
son Levi, born March 17, 1734-5.

BETTS.

WILLIAM BETTS,
Aged twenty years, came over in the Thomas and John,
Richard Lombard, master, from Gravesend, 6th Jan'y 1635.
He joined Mr. Lothrop's church Oct. 25, 1635, married
Alice, Goodman Ensign's maid in the Bay (Massachusetts),
Nov. 23, 1638, removed with the church to Barnstable in
1639. Mr. Savage says he was a tanner by trade, and that
he was afterwards of Dorchester. In the list of those who
were able to bear arms in 1643, his name is written Beetts.
Perhaps the name is Bills. There was a family of that name
early in Barnstable. The children of William Betts, born
in Barnstable, were :
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Hannah, bap'd Jan'y 26, 1639-40.
II. Samuel, bap'd Feb. 5, 1642-3.
III. Hope, a son, bap'd Mar. 16, 1644-5.
After the date of the birth of his son Hope, his name
disappears on the Barnstable records. His lands are not
recorded ; probably they were transferred to another with
out a formal deed, as was the custom at the first settlement.
He, perhaps, settled in the westerly part of the plantation,
near John Crocker.

BLUSH.

ABRAHAM BLUSH.
This name is uniformly written on the Colony and early
Barnstable records Blush. Many of his descendants now
spell their name Blish, though the popular pronunciation of
the name continues to be Blush.
He was an early settler at Duxbury. Nov. 1, 1637, he
bought of Richard Moore, for twenty-one pounds sterling,
(payable in money or beaver, ). a dwelling-house and twenty
acres of land at Eagle's Nest in Duxbury. On the 26th of
Nov. 1638, he sold the easterly half of the land to John
•Willis for £8, 10s. sterling.
He was of Barnstable in 1641, and was probably one of
the first settlers ; was propounded to be admitted a freeman
June 1, 1641 ; again in 1651, and 1652. The date of his
admission is not given ; his name is on the list of freemen
in 1670. He was a grand-juror in 1642, 1658, and 1663;
surveyor of highways 1645, 1650 and 1652; constable,
1656, 1660 and 1667. He is styled a planter, and was a
large landholder, owning at West Barnstable eight acres of
land on the east side of Bridge Creek or Cove, and seven
teen acres of meadow adjoining. Fourteen acres of upland,
eight on the south, and six on the north side of the road and
bounded easterly by the Annable land, and three acres of
meadow adjoining. His great lot containing forty acres was
on the east of Scorton Hill, and bounded southerly by the
highway. This he sold Feb. 10, 1668, to John Crocker,
Sen'r, for £5, 10s.
In 1662, he owned another strip of land on the east of
the Annable Farm, containing eight acres, extending from
the marsh across the highway to Annable's pond.
The above lands were his West Barnstalile farm, on
which it appears that he resided in 1643, being onfe of the

90 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
earliest settlers in that part of the town. His old home
stead on the west of the Annable land was owned by him
and his descendants about two centuries.
July 17, 1658, he bought for £75, the Dolar Davis
farm, in the easterly part of the town containing fifty acres
of upland and ten of meadow. Twelve acres of this land
was at Stony Cove, and was sold by him in 1680 to Nathan
iel and Jeremiah Bacon ; twenty-two acres in the Old Com
mon Field, and sixteen acres (his house lot), on the south
of the Mill Pond. His dwelling-house stood a short dis
tance south-easterly from the present water-mill. The
causeway which forms the Mill Dam was called in early
times Blushe's Bridge, and the point of land at the western
extremity of the Old Common Field is now known as
Blushe's Point.
The first wife of Abraham Blush was named Anne,
perhaps Anne Pratt. She was buried in Barnstable, ac
cording to the Town and Colony records. May 16, 1651 ;
but according to the Church records, which are more relia
ble, on the 26th of May, 16,53. His second wife was Han
nah, daughter of John Williams of Scituate, and widow of
John Barker of Marshfield. She was buried in Barnstable,
March 16, 1658, according to the Colony records; but the
Barnstable record probably gives the true date, Feb. 16,
1657-8. He married for his^hird wife, January 4, 1658-9,
Alice, widow of John Derby of Yarmouth. He died Sept.
7, 1683 ; his age is not stated. His children born in Barn
stable were Children born in Barnstable.
I. Sarah, born 2d Dec. 1641, bap'd 5th Dec. 1641.
II. Joseph, born 1st April, 1648, bap'd 9th April, 1648;
married Hannah Hull, loth Sept. 1674; died June 14,
1730, aged 82 years.
III. Abraham, born 16th Oct. 1654. In the will of his
uncle, Capt. John Williams of Scituate, he is called of
Boston in 1691. In 1698, Thomas Brattle of Boston,
conveyed to Abraham Blush and twenty others, land
called Brattle Close. He was one of the founders of
the church in Brattle street in 1698. Mr. Savage does
not find that he had a family.
Joseph Blush, son of Abraham, married Sept. 15, 1674,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 91
Ilannah, daughter of Tristram Hull. He resided at West
Barnstable. He died June 14, 1730, aged 82, and his
widow died Nov. 15, 1733, aged 75 years. His will is da
ted June 25, 1722, and was proved Aug. 30, 1731. He
names his wife Hannah, and sons Tristam sole executor,
Benjamin, Abraham and Joseph ; and daughters Annah,
Thankful and Mary. He gives his cane to his son Joseph,
and remembers all his grand-children then four years of
age. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Joseph, born 13th Sept. 1675, married Hannah Child,
30th July, 1702.
II. John, born 17th Feb. 1676-7 ; died young.
IIL Annah, born Feb. 1678-9.
IV. Abraham, born 27th Feb. 1680-1, married Temper
ance Fuller, Nov. Nov. 12, 1736.
V. Reuben, born 14th Aug. 1683, married two wives.
VL Sarah, born Aug. 1685, died 3d Jan'y 1686.
VII. Sarah, born Sept. 1687, died 1705.
VIII. Thankful, born. Sept. 1689, married Joseph Bodfish,
Ocf. 11, 1712.
IX. John, born 1st Jan'y 1691 ; died Oct. 14, 1711.
X. Tristram, born April, 1694.
XI. Mary, born April 1696, married Samuel Jones 26th
June, 1718.
XII. Benjamin, born April, 1699.
Joseph Blush, Jr., son of Joseph, resided at West
Barnstable. He married 30th July, 1702, Hannah, daugh
ter of Richard Child. She died 11th Nov. 1732, aged 58
years, and he married in 1733 his second wife. Remember
Backus of Sandwich. He died March 4, 1754, aged 79
years. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Joseph, born 2d Feb. 1704, married Oct. 28, 1730,
Mercy Crocker, and had Joseph, born July 20, 1731,
who married Sarah Crocker, May 19, 1757. During
the Revolution he was an active and energetic Whig.
Hannah, born Oct. 28, 1732, married Zachariah Perry
of Sandwich, Feb. 7, 1744-5 ; William, Dec. 22, 1733 ;
Samuel, bap'd March 16, 1734-5 ; Seth, bap'd March

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25, 1739; Mercy, born Oct. 24, 1740; Benjamin,
bap'd July 18, 1742; Ebenezer, born April 1, 1744,
and Timothy, Feb. 16, 1745-6.
IL Abigail, born 29th Nov. 1705, married Seth Crocker.
III. Sarah, born 1st Oct. 1707, married Seth Hamblin, Oct.
9, 1735.
IV. Mehitable, 14th June, 1711, married Ben. Jenkins,
Oct. 29, 1730.
V. Abraham, born 29th Sept. 1712 ; died Feb. 8, 1723-4.
VI. Hannah, 14th June, 1715.
Abraham Blush, son of Joseph, married Nov. 12, 1736,
Temperance Fuller. He was fifty-five and she was only
twenty at their marriage. Joseph Blush, Jr., had a son
Abraham born in 1712, who died in 1724, and as there was
no other Abraham in Barnstable, it is to be presumed that the
match was made notwithstanding the disparity in the ages
of the bride and bridegroom.
Children born in Barnstable.
1. Abraham, 20th Oct. 1737.
II. Elijah, 5th March, 1738-9, married Sarah Stewart,
Jan'y 25, 1761.
III. Rebecca, 14th Nov. 1740.
IV. Benjamin, 9th May, 1743.
V. Elisha, 23d April, 1745 ; died 17th Nov. 1645.
VI. Elisha, 1st March, 1746-7.
VII. Martha, 14th July, 1749.
VIII. Temperance, 21st Nov. 1751.
IX. Timothy, 3d Aug. 1756, probably died young.
Reuben Blush, son of Joseph, is not named, if my ab
stract is reliable, in his father's will, and though he mar
ried twice and had a family, the births of his children are
not on the Barnstable records. By his first wife Elizabeth,
he had six children baptized Dec 20, 1730, namely: John,
Silas, Reuben, Elizabeth, Hannah and Thankful.
He married for his second wife, Mary Thomas, Oct.
25, 1735. In his will dated July 3d, 1738, proved on the
20th Oct. following, he names his wife Mary, and sons John,
Reuben and Silas. His widow, who is styled Mrs., married '
March 5, 1745, Lieut. John Annable.

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Tristram Blush, son of Joseph, married Oct. 17, 1717,
Anne Fuller, and had children born in Barnstable, namely :
I. Benjamin, June 16, 1718.
II. Anna, Nov. 19, 1719.
III. Sylvanus, Oct. 13, 1721.
IV. Thankful, bap'd Nov. 1725. A Thankful Blush mar
ried Caleb Perry of Sandwich, Oct. 1758.
John Blush, son of Reuben, married Nov. 15, 1739,
Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Goodspeed, Jr., and had John,
Nov. 14, 1745; Mary, Feb. 17, 1748, (who had Mary
Crocker by Enoch Crocker, Aug. 20, 1765 ;) Stacy, March -
26, 1751, and Rebecca, Oct. 14, 1756.
Reuben Blush, son of Reuben, married May 11, 1747,
Ruth Childs, and had Reuben, 20th Oct. 1747 ; David, 11th
May, 1749; Thomas, 21st July, 1751, and Elizabeth, 19th
Oct. 1755.
Silas Blush, son of Reuben, married Nancy Tobey of
Falmouth in 1747, and had Rebecca bap'd Jan'y 25, 1748-9 ;
Abigail, June 2, 1751 ; Mercy, Sept. 30, 1752 ; Silas, Aug.
1, 1756; Elisha, Jan'y 15, 1759, and Mercy, April 18,
1762. Silas of this family married Chloe, daughter of Njcholas
Cobb. His widow is now living at the advanced age of
ninety-six. His brother Elisha was a very worthy man ; but he
made one sad mistake, he married for his first wife a woman
because she had lands and money.
ELISHA BLUSH  AUNT "BECK" AND HER MUSEUM.
Elisha Blush married for his first wife June 2, 1790,
Rebecca Linnell — familiarly known as "Aunt Beck," — the
third wife and widow of John Linnell, deceased. The first
wife of the latter was Mercy Sturgis, his second, Ruth, a sis
ter of Rebecca, and both daughters of James Linnell. By
Mercy and Ruth he had no issue, by Rebecca a daughter
Abigail. By the ecclesiastical law of England it was then
illegal for a man to marry his deceased wife's sister, and the
issue of such marriages was declared illegitimate. Under
this law the other heirs of John Linnell claimed his large es
tate to the exclusion of his widow and daughter. Before
anv settlement was made, the daughter died, the widow

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married, and the law was changed. The matter was finally
settled ])y compromise, and Rebecca Blush came into posses
sion of nearly all her first husband's estate.
Elisha Blush was a shoemaker by trade, a very honest
and worthy man, and an exemplary member of the Metho
dist Church. At the time of his first marriage he was thirty-
one and his wife forty-six years of age. She died Nov. 7,
1830, aged 86 years, and six weeks and three days after he
married Rebecca Linnell, a grand niece of his first wife, a
young woman aged 29. Elisha Blush died May 1836, aged
77, and his widow is the present wife of the Rev. Scolly G.
Usher, now a practicing physician at the West.
When young I had often heard of Aunt Beck's Museum,
and there are very few in Barnstable who have not. In the
winter of 1825, I resided in her neighborhood, and made
several calls to examine her curiosities. Her house, yet re
maining, is an old-fashioned, low double-house, facing due
South, with two front-rooms, a kitchen, bedroom and pan
try on the lower floor. The east front-room, which was
her sitting-room, is about fourteen feet square. The west
room is smaller. Around the house and out-buildings every
thing was remarkably neat. The wood and fencing stuff
was carefully piled, the chips at the wood-pile were raked
up, and there was no straw or litter to be seen about the
barn or fences. It was an estate that the stranger would
notice for its neat and tidy appearance.
In my visits to her house the east front-room was the
only portion I was permitted to see, though I occasionally
caught a glimpse of the curiosities in the adjoining rooms
through the half-opened doors. I was accompanied in my
visits by a young lady who was a neighbor, and on excel
lent terms with Aunt Beck. She charged me not to look
around the room when I entered, but keep my eye on the
lady of the house, or on the fire-place. To observe such
precautions was absolutely necessary, for the stranger who,
on entering, should stare around the room, would soon feel
the weight of Aunt Beck's ire, or her broom-stick. I fol
lowed my instructions, and was invited to take one of the
two chairs in the room. It was a cool evening, and all be
ing seated close to the fire, we were soon engaged in a
friendly chat, and I soon had an opportunity to examine the
curiosities. In the northeast corner of the room stood a

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bedstead with a few ragged, dirty bed-clothes spread thereon.
The space under the bed was occupied partly as a pantry.
Several pans of milk were set there for cream to rise, (for
Aunt Beck made her own butter) ; but when she made more
than she used in her family, she would complain of the dull
ness of the market. In front of the bed and near the centre
of the room stood a common table about three feet square.
Respecting this table a neighbor. Captain Elisha Hall, as
sured me that to his certain knowledge it had stood in the
same place twenty years, how much longer he could not say.
On this table, for very many successive years, she had laid
whatever she thought curious or worth preserving. When
an article was laid thereon it was rarely removed, for no one
would dare meddle with Aunt Beck's curiosities. Feathers
were her delight ; but many were perishable articles, and in
the process of time had rotted and changed into a black
mould, covering the table with a stratum of about an inch in
thickness. In front of the larger table stood a smaller one near
the fire-place, from which the family partook of their meals.
This table was . permanently located, and I was informed by
the neighbors that no perceptible change had been made in
the ORDER, or more properly disorderly, arrangements of
the furniture and curiosities for the ten years next preceding
my visit. The evening was cool, and though my hostess
was the owner of extensive tracts of woodland, covered with
a heavy growth, she could not afiford herself a comfortable
fire, a' few brands and two or three dead sticks, added
after we came in, cast a flickering light over the room ; but,
fortunately for our" olfactories, did not increase its tempera
ture. The floor, excepting narrow paths between the doors,
.fire-place and bed, was entirely covered with broken crock
ery, old pots, kettles, pails, tubs, &c., &c., and the walls
were completely festooned with old clothing, useless articles
of furniture, bunches of dried herbs, &c., &c., in fact every
article named in the humorous will of Father Abby, except
ing a "tub of soap." The other articles named in the same
stanza were conspicuous :
"A long cart rope,
A frying-pan and kettle,
An old sword blade, a garden spade,
A pruning-hook and sickle, "

96 genealogical notes of barnstable families.
But in justice to Aunt Beck, I should state that she did
for many long years contemplate making "a tub of soap."
For thirty years she saved all her beef-bones for that pur
pose, depositing the same in her large kitchen fire-place and
in other places about the room. During the warm summer
of 1820, these bones became so offensive that Aunt Beck
reluctantly consented to have them removed, and Captain
Elisha Hall, who saw them carted away, says there was more
than an ox-cart load.
Of the other rooms in the house I cannot speak from
personal knowledge ; but the lady who went with me and
who is now living, informed me that in the west room there
was a bed, a shoemaker's bench, flour barrels, chests con
taining valuable bedding, too good to use, and a nameless
variety of other articles scattered over the bed and chairs ;
from the walls were suspended a saddle and pillion, and
many other things preserved as rare curiosities. In time the
room became so completely filled that it was difficult to en
ter it. The kitchen, bedroom, pantry and chambers were
filled with vile trash and trumpery, covered with dirt and
litter. This description may seem imaginary or improbable to
the stranger ; but there are hundreds now living in Barn
stable who can testify that the picture is not drawn in too
strong colors. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and
this maxim applies in all its force to Rebecca Blush. That
she was a monomaniac is true ; but that she was insane on
all subjects is not true. Early in life she was neat, industri
ous and very economical, but her prudent habits soon degen
erated into parsimony. Economy is a virtue to be inculcat
ed, but when the love of money becomes the ruling passion,
and a man saves that he may hoard and accumulate, he
becomes a miser, and as such, is despised. The miser accu
mulates money, or that which can be converted into money.
Aunt Beck saved not only money, but useless articles that
others threw away. These she would pick up in the fields,
and by the roadside, and store away in her house. During
the latter part of her life she seldom went from home.
During more than twenty years she thus gathered up useless
trash, and as she did not allow any thing "(except the bones)
to be carried out for more than forty years, it requires no
great stretch of the imagination to form a correct picture of

GENEALOGICAL NOTES Of' BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 97
the condition and appearance of the place, she called her
home. Her estate, if she had allowed her husband to have
managed it, would have been much larger at her death. Her
wood she would not be allowed to be cut and sold, and the
proceeds invested. She lost by investing her money in
mortgages on old houses and worn-out lands, and loaning to
persons who never paid their notes. She also had a habit
of hiding parcels of coin among the rubbish in her house,
and sometimes she would forget not only where she had
placed the treasure, but how many such deposits she had
made. It is said that some of her visitors, who were not
over-much honest, often carried away these deposits, un
known and unsuspected by her.
On one subject, saving, Rebecca Blush was not of
*)und mind. She was, however, a woman naturally of strong
mind — no one could be captain over her. She knew more
or less of almost every family in town, and was always very
particular in her inquiries respecting the health of the fam
ilies of her visitors. She delighted in repeating ancient bal
lads and nursery tales. In her religious opinions she was
Orthodox ; and she hated the Methodists, not because they
were innovators, but because the preachers called at her
house, and because her husband contributed something to
their support.
Not a dollar of the money saved and accumulated by
her, during a long life of toil and self-denial, now remains.
In a few short years it took to itself wings and flew away.
Her curiosities, which she had spent so many years in col
lecting and preserving, were ruthlessly destroyed before her
remains were deposited in the grave. She died on Sunday.
On the Thursday preceding, her attendants commenced re
moving. She overheard them, and asked if it thundered.
They satisfied the dying woman with an evasive answer.
Before her burial, all her curiosities were either burnt, or
scattered to the four winds of heaven.
The old house soon lost all its charms, and its doors
ceased to attract visitors. Its interior was cleansed and
painted ; paper-hangings adorned the walls, and handsome
furniture the rooms. Forty-five days after her death there
was a wedding-party at the house. Mr. Blush endeavored
to correct the. sad mistake which he made when a young

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man, by taking in his old age a young woman for his second
wife, forty-three years j'ounger than himself, and flfty-seven
years younger than his first wife.
During the closing period of his life, a term of nearly
six years, Elisha Blush enjoyed all those comforts and con
veniences of life of which he* had been deprived for forty
years, and to which a man having a competent estate is enti
tled. This great change in his mode of living did not, how
ever, afford him unalloyed happiness. One remark which
he made at this period is worth preserving ; it shows the
effect which habits of forty years growth have on the human
mind. Some one congratulated him on the happy change
which had taken place. "Yes," said he, "I live more com
fortably than I did," but he added with a sigh, "my present
wife is not so economical as my first."
Note. — I read the manuscript of this article to the only persons now
living whom I presumed would have any feeling in regard to its publi
cation. They are relatives of Aunt Beck, and when young were frequent
visitors at her house. I altered whatever they said was not literally
true, excepting things of which I was myself an eye witness. They re
quested me to say nothing of her eccentricities. I replied that Aunt
Beck and her museum, like Sarcho and Dapple, were born for each oth
er, and if the account of the museum was omitted, Aunt Beck sunk into
insignificance.

BLACHFORD.

WILLIAM BLACHFORD.
According to tradition William Blachford, the ancestor
of this family, came from London. His wife, Elizabeth
Lewis, was a daughter of Benjamin Lewis, who had a house
at Crooked, now called Lampson's Pond. She was popu
larly known, not by her true name, but as Liza Towerhill,
because the family of her husband is said to have resided in
that part of London. She was reputed to be a witch.
Some of the marvels which are related of her I have pub
lished. It is unnecessary now to re-produce them, or other
equally improbable relations since collected. That Elizabeth
Blachford was a witch, and transformed herself into a black
cat at pleasure, and performed most wonderful feats, all her
neighbors three-fourths of a century ago believed, or at least
pretended to believe. Even at this day, there are persons
who firmly believe that Liza Tower Hill was a witch, and
did all the woriderful things that they have heard ancient
people relate.
She was a daughter of Benjamin Lewis by his second
wife, Hannah Hinckley. Her father was a grand-son of the
first George Lewis, and her mother was a grand-daughter
of the first Samuel, and own cousin to Gov. Thomas Hinck
ley. Her family and connections were among the most respec
table and influential in Barnstable. She was born Jan'y 17,
1711-12, married William Blachford, Nov. 12, 1728,
admitted to the East Church, in full communion, Jan'y 9,
1736-7, of which she was an exemplany member until her
death in July, 1790. She was honest, industrious, ener
getic and shrewd in making a bargain. The records of Rev.
Mr. Green furnish evidence that she was an exemplary and
pious woman, fifty-three years of her life — a period cover
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she was in league with the Evil One.
Her husband was a very worthy man, admitted to the
church at his own house on the day preceding his death ;
died June 15, 1755, leaving a small estate and seven chil
dren, four under seventeen, to be provided for by their
mother. She spun and wove for those who were able to
pay for her services, managed her small farm, working
thereon with her own hands,* kept several cows, and thus
was able to bring up her children respectably.
A question here arises which covers the whole ground
respecting the popular belief in witchcraft. It is difficult
perhaps satisfactorily to explain this phase in the popular
mind. Fifty years before the time of Liza Towerhill, the
intelligent and the ignorant alike believed in the existence
of witches. The Bible taught that there witches in olden
times; and the laws of Old and New England recognized
witchcraft as an existing evil, the practice whereof was crim
inal and punishable with death. Respecting the meaning of
the words "being possessed with devils," and "witches"
in the Scriptures, our ancestors had vague and uncertain
notions. The imaginations of the ignorant and the super
stitious, perhaps aided by the malice of the wicked, gave
form and substance to those vague notions, and they became
visible forms to their eyes, more frequently in that of a cat
than any other animal. That such transformations actually
occurred was believed by very many ; and not a few held that
the hanging of witches was a religious duty. We may re
gret that such was the popular delusion, or we may laugh
at the simplicity of those who believed in such vageries ; yet
five generations have since passed, and time has not entirely
eradicated from the popular mind a belief in the existence of
apparitions and witches.

*A man now living informs me that when a small boy, he went with
his father to assist Liza in breaking up a piece of new ground. At that
time she must have been over seventy-five years of age, yet she performed
the most laborious part of the operation— holding down the plough.
During the operation the plough was suddenly brought up against a
stump, and the concussion threw her over it. She suffered no incon
venience by the accident, and continued to work till the job was com
pleted. All admit that she was not a weak-minded woman, aud this
anecdote shows that she was also physically strong.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 101
Phenomena which Science now enables us to explain in
accordance with the laws which govern the Universe, were
inexplicable to them, and without imputing to them wrong
notions, or being influenced by a superstitious fear, we may
safely admit that their conclusions were honest. All dis
eases which affected both the mind and the body, including
diseases of the nervous system, epilepsy, monomania, &c.,
were classed in ancient times under the general head of being
I 'possessed of an evil spirit." Without entering upon this
inquiry, it is sufficient to say that our fathers believed that
the devil had something to do with persons thus afflicted. I
am, however, satisfied that nineteen-twentieths of the witch
stories told, originated in dream-land. All that are told of
Liza Towerhill are of this class. Some were proved to be
so during the life-time of the parties. The case of Mr.
Wood of West Barnstable is an illustration. He charged
Liza with putting a bridle and saddle on him and riding him
many times to Plum Pudding Pond in Plymouth, where the
witches held their nightly orgies. Though Mr. Wood had
palpable evidence of the falsity of the charge, yet for many
years he continued to relate the story, and evidently believed
he was telling the truth. This case, if it proves anything,
proves that Mr. Wood was a monomaniac.
Another question arises, how it happened that a woman
who sustained the good character of Elizabeth Blachford,
should be made the scape-goat of the fiock, and be charged
with being in league with the devil, and as a witch, persecu
ted for more than half a century.* Some of the reasons may
be found that induced the belief; but none that will justify
her persecution. Her father's house was in the forest, two
miles from ii neighbor. At that time wolves and other wild
animals abounded ; Indians were constantly scouring the for
ests for game, and their great "trail" from Yarmouth to
Hyannis, now visible, passed near Mr. Lewis' house. The
solitariness of the residence, and the associations of raven
ous beasts, and of more cruel Indians- therewith, inspired
awe, and led the popular mind into the belief that the fam
ily must be connected with evil spirits, or they could not
live in such a wild place in safety. Elizabeth's husband
built a house a mile west of her father's, on the borders of
Half- Way Pond. She was only sixteen and one-half years
old, and that a young woman should have the courage to live

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alone in the woods, seemed in that superstitious age to car
ry with it the evidence that she was in league with the devil.
It is unnecessary to add that such reasoning is unconclusive ;
the superstitious never examine facts, or inquire respecting.
the soundness of the opinions they adopt.
When Mrs. Blachford was charged with being a witch,
she always took offence, and resented the charge as false and
malicious. Her children would not allow any one with im
punity to tell them that their mother was a witch. Even
her grandson Uriah, who died about fifteen years ago, aged
over eighty, was very sensitive on the subject, and the man
who dared to tell him his grandmother was a witch, he would
never forget or forgive.
The days of witchcraft are now numbered and past, —
the few who still believe in it cautiously conceal their opin
ions. It is fortunate for the reputation of the Plymouth
Colony that no one therein was ever convicted, condemned,
or punished for that crime. Our rulers had the good sense
to punish the complainant in the first case that arose, instead
of the person complained of. If a different decision had then
been made, a thousand complaints would have arisen and
similar acts to those which disgrace the annals of Salem and
Massachusetts, would now disgrace the history of Plymouth
and Barnstable. The ashes of Elizabeth Blachford rest quietly in the
grave-yard near the East Church. No phoenix spirit has
arose therefrom to disturb the equanimity of the living, or
disturb the repose of the cfead. Neither ghosts nor hobgob
lins are seen to dance over her grave, or sigh because the
manes of the last witch have fled.
The family of William Blachford and his wife Elizabeth
Lewis, born in Barnstable :
I. Peter, born May 10, 1729.
II. Lydia, April 5, 1734; died young.
III. Benjamin, June 11, 1738, married 1761, Sarah God
frey of Yarmouth, and had a family.
IV. Remember, March 3, 1739-40, married Luke Butler
of Nantucket, Oct. 9. 1760.
V. Mercy, April 13, 1742.
VI. David, June 17, 1744, married Elizabeth Ellis of
Provincetown, 1765. He died Nov. 16, 1822, aged
78.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 103
VII. Lydia, May 22, 1746, married  Ellis.
VIII. William, June 25, 1750. He married Monica

I believe she was an Eldridge from Harwich. She
lived at one time in a house built over a large, flat
rock, on the west side of Monica's Swamp in Barn
stable. After their marriage they lived in the house
which was his mother's at Half-Way Pond. He was
a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. He deserted ;
but being an invalid and unable to stand up straight
no effort was made to secure his return to the army.
Col. Otis was instructed to have him arrested as a
deserter as an example to others. Bill, however, on
his way home, passed the house of Col. Otis. At the
time, he and some of his neighbors were standing in
his yard. One of them said "There comes Bill Blach
ford." The Colonel turned quickly around, and look
ing in an opposite direction, exclaimed, "Where is
the rascal ? " Without turning, the Colonel went into
his house and Bill escaped. A little further on Bill
met with others who knew him, and they inquired
where he was from. Bill replied, "Straight from
the camp." "Then," replied the first speaker, "you
have got most d  y warped by the way." He died
Aug. 30, 1816, aged 66, leaving no children.

BOURNE.

RICHARD BOURNE.
In the biographical dictionaries and in many historical
works, there are short sketches of the life and character of
Richard Bourne. No biography of this distinguished man
has been written. I shall not attempt it. My purpose is
to elucidate one point in his character, namely : the politi
cal influence of his labors as a missionary, — a point not en
tirely overlooked by early writers, — but hiotorians have
failed to give to it that prominence it deserves. The fScts
bearing on this point will be stated in a condensed form.
Aside from his labors as a missionary, Richard Bourne
was a man of note. He was often a representative to the
General Court ; held many town offices ; often served on
committees, and as a referee in important cases. He was a
well-informed man ; discreet, cautious, of sound judgment,
and of good common sense. There is reason to doubt
whether he brought to New England so large an estate as
has been represented. The division of the meadows at
Sandwich does not indicate that he was a man of wealth.
He was a good business man, and while he carefully guarded
the interests of the Indians, he did not forget to lay up
treasures for himself.
John Eliot, Thomas Mayhew, father and son, Richard
Bourne, John Cotton, Daniel Gookin, and Thomas Tupper
consecrated their hves to the philanthropic purpose of meli
orating the condition of the Indians. They instructed them
in the arts of civilized life ; they established schools, and
they founded churches. Many of the Indians were con
verted to Christianity, and lived pious and holy lives ; very
many of them were taught to read and write their native
language, and a few were good English scholars.

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Mr. Bourne was the pastor of the Indian Church at
Marshpee,* gathered in 1670. The apostles Eliot and Cot
ton assisted at his ordination. His parish extended from
Provincetown to Middleboro' — one hundred miles. He
commenced his labors as a missionary about the year 1658,
and in his return to Major Gookin, dated Sandwich, Sept.
1, 1674, he says he is the only Englishman employed in this
extensive region, and the results of his labors are stated in
his return, of which the following is a condensed abstract :
"Praying Indians that do frequently meet together on
the Lord's Day to worship God." He names twenty-two
places where meetings were held. The number of men and
women that attended these meetings was three hundred and
nine. Young men and maids, one hundred and eighty-
eight. W^hole number of praying Indians, four hundred
and ninety-seven. Of these one hundred and forty-two
could read the Indian language, seventy-two could write,
and nine could read English.
The labors of Mr. Bourne and his associates have not
been sufficiently appreciated by historians. In 1675, the
far-seeing Philip, Sachem of Mount Hope, had succeeded
in uniting the Western Indians in a league, the avowed ob
ject whereof was the extermination of the white inhabitants
of New England. His emissaries in vain attempted to in
duce the Christianized Indians to join that league. They
remained faithful. Richard Bourne, aided by Thomas Tup
per of Sandwich, Mr. Thornton of Yarmouth and Mr. Treat
of Eastham had a controlling influence over the numerous
bands of Indians then resident in the County of Barnstable,
in Wareham, Rochester and Middleboro'. Mr. Mayhew ex
erted a like controlling influence over the natives of Martha's
Vineyard and the adjacent islands.
In 1674, the year preceding King Philip's war, the re
turns made to Major Gookin, show that the aggregate num
ber of Christianized or praying Indians

*Maeshpee.— Mr. Hawley. who understood the Indian language, says
it should be written Massape. This word is from the same root as
Mississippi, and literally means Great Eiver. The principal stream m
the plantation is called Marshpee or Great River.

10b GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
In Massachusetts, was _ _ _ - - 1100
In Plymouth, Mr. Bourne's return, - - 497
In " Mr. Cotton's partial, - - - 40
Estimated number not enumerated, _ _ - 170
On Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquidock, - 1500
On Nantucket, - 300

3607

It is not to be presumed that, at thtit time, more than
one-half of the Indians had been converted, or were nom
inally Christians. Perhaps a fair estimate of the Indian
population in 1675, in the territory comprised in the eastern
part of the present State of Massachusetts, would be 7000 ;
one-fifth, or 1400 of whom were warriors.
On account of the jealousies and suspicions entertained
by the English in Massachusetts, the Indians rendered little
service to the whites. Mr. Eliot and Major Gookin suffered
reproaches and insults for endeavoring to repress the popu
lar rage against their pupils. Some of the praying Indians
of Natick, and from other places in Massachusetts, were
transported to Deer Island in Boston harbor. Some of the
Indians in Plymouth Colony, particularly those at Pembroke,
were conveyed to Clarke's Island, Plymouth.
On Martha's Vineyard and on the Cape, the Indians
were friendly to the English. Many enlisted and fought
bravely against the forces of Philip. Capt. Daniel of Sa-
tucket, (Brewster), and Capt. Amos distinguished them
selves in the war and are honorably mentioned. In the
course of the war, the number of prisoners became embar
rassing, and they were sent to the Cape and Martha's Vine
yard, and were safely kept by the friendly Indians,
Major Walley says that the English were rarely suc
cessful when they were not aided by Indian auxiliaries, and
urges this as a reason tor treating them kindly. The reader
of the "History of the Indian Wars" will find many facts to
corroborate the opinion of Major Walley.
In the spring of 1676 the armies of Philip were victo
rious, and the inhabitants of Plymouth Colony were panic
stricken and despondent. If at that time the one thousand
Indian warriors, who were influenced and controlled by
Bourne and Mayhew had become enemies, the contest in
Plymouth Colony would not have been doubtful, the other

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towns would have been destroyed and met the fate of Dart
mouth, Middleboro' and Swanzey. At this time three hun
dred men could not be raised to march for the defence of
Rehobeth. All the towns, excepting Sandwich and Scituate,
raised their quotas ; but many of the soldiers that went
forth, returned to their homes without marching to the de
fence of their frontier towns.
In 1675, Gov. Hinckley enumerated the Christianized
Indians embraced in the region of country which had been
under the superintendence of Mr. Bourne. The number had
increased from four hundred and ninety-seven in 1674, to
ten hundred and fourteen in 1685. Showing that in a
period of eleven years the number had more than doubled.
In 1676, no enumeration of the Indians was made ; but it
is within the bounds of probability to assume that in the
district of country under the supervision and care of Mr.
Bourne there were at least six hundred Indian warriors.
Had these at this particular conjuncture turned rebels, the
whites could not have defended their towns and villages
against the savages, and Plymouth Colony would have be
come extinct.
It ma}^ be urged that Mr. Bourne could not have done
this unaided and alone ; or, if he had not, God in his provi
dence would have raised up some other instruments to have
effected this great purpose. The fact is Richard Bourne by
his unremitted labors for seventeen years made friends of a
sufficient number of Indians, naturally hostile to the English,
to turn the scale in Plymouth Colony and give the prepon-
derence to the whites. He did this, and it is to him who
does, that we are to award honor. Bourne did more by the
inortil power which he exerted to defend the Old Colony
than Bradford did at the head of the army. Laurel wreaths
shade the brows of military heroes — their names are en
shrined in a bright halo of glory — while the man who has
done as good service for his country by moral means, sinks
into comparative insignificance, and is too often forgotten.
The Apostle Eliot, Mr. Mayhew, and other missiona
ries, performed like meritorious services. The people of
Massachusetts were more suspicious of the good faith of the
converted Indians, than the residents in the Plymouth
Colony. These Indians were treated unkindly by the En
glish, yet ii company from Natick proved faithful, and did
good service in the war.

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Of the early history of Mr. Richard Bourne little is
known. It is said he came from Devonshire, England. He
was a householder in Plymouth in 1636, and his name ap
pears on the list of freemen of the Colony, dated March 7,
1636-7. On the 2d of January preceding, seven acres of
land were granted to him to belong to his dwelling-house.
At the same court seven acres of land were granted to John
Bourne, in behalf of his father, Mr. Thomas Bourne.
May 2, 1637, he was on a jury to lay out the highways
about Plymouth, Duxbury and Eel River. June 5, 1638,
he was a grand juror, and also a member of a coroner's in
quest. On the 4th of September following, he was an in
habitant of Sandwich, and fined 18 pence for having three
pigs unringed. He was a deputy to the first general court
in 1639, and excepting 1643, represented the town of Sand*
wich till 1645 ; again in 1652, 1664, '65, '66, '67 and '70.
In the division of the meadows in Sandwich in 1640,
he had seven acres assigned to him.
In 1645 he was on the committee elected to draft laws
for the Colony; in 1652 agent of the Colony to receive oil
in Sandwich. In 1655, Sarah, daughter of Richard Kerby,
was sentenced to be punished severely by whipping, for ut
tering divers suspicious speeches against Mr. Bourne and
Mr. Freeman, but the execution was respited till she should
again be guilty of a like offence. In 1659 he and Mr.
Thomas Hinckley were authorized to purchase lands of the
Indians at Suckinesset,* and the same year he and Mr.
Freeman were ordered to view some land at Manomet, and
confirm the same to Thomas Burgis.
In 1658 he was one of four referees to settle a disputed
boundary between Yarmouth tind Barnstable. The boundary
established by them is the present bounds, but the grant of
the township to which they refer in their report is lo.st.
In 1661, he and Nathaniel Bacon and Mr. Thomas
Hinckley were authorized to purchtise all lands then unpur
chased at Suckinesset and places adjacent.
*Suckinessett the Indian name of the town of Falmouth is variously
spelled on the records. It means "the place where black wampum
(Indian money) is made.'' I prefer the orthography here given, because
the roots of the words from which the name is compounded can be more
easily traced. Sucki means black ; the terminal syllable is applied to
places on the sea-shore, or by water. The other syllables I cannot ex
plain.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 109
In 1650, he and others of Sandv?ich petitioned to have
lands granted to them at the following places: Marshpee
pond, Cotuit river, and meadow at Mannamuch bay. In
1655, he and others had meadows granted them at Manomet,
and the use of some upland meadow at the end of Marshpee
pond was granted to him, if the Indians consented. In 1660,
he had authority to locate land at South Sea, above Sand
wich, and in 1661 Mr. Alden and Mr. Hinckley laid out to
him "a competency of meadow" there.
At a General Court held at Plymouth June 4, 1661, the
Court granted unto Richard Bourne of Sandwich, and to his
heirs forever, a long strip of land on the west side of Pam-
paspised river, where Sandwich men take alewives — in
breadth from the river to the hill or ridge that runs along
the length of it, from a point of rocky land by a swamp
called Pametoopauksctt, unto a place called by the Enghsh
Muddy Hole, by the Indians Wapoompauksett. "The
meadow is that which was called Mr. Leverich's ; " also, the
other strips that are above, along the river side, unto a point
bounded with two great stones or rocks ; also all the meadow
lying on the easterly side of the said river unto Thomas
Burgess, Senior's farm.* Also, "yearly liberty to take
twelve thousand alewives at the river where Sandwich men
usually take alewives, him and his heirs forever." Likewise
a parcel of meadow at Marshpee — one-half to belong to him
and the other half to be improved by him. Also, a neck of
meadow between two brooks with .a little upland adjoining,
at Mannamuchcoy, called by the Indians Auntaanta.
Feb. 7, 1664-5, "Whereas, a motion was made to this
Court by Richard Bourne in the behalf of those Indians
under his instruction, as to their desire of living in some
orderly way of government, for the better preventing and
redressing of things amiss amongst them by meet and just
means, this Court doth therefore in testimony of their coun
tenancing and encouraging to such a work, doe approve of

* The farm of Thomas Burgess was at West Sandwich, and is now
owned by his descendant, Benjamin Burgess, Esq. He had also another
farm at Manomet, which adjoined Mr. Bourne's land. Mr. Leverich's
meadow was granted in 1660, but fraudulent means having been used to
obtain it, the grant was revoked and the meadow granted to Mr. Bourne
in 1661. The long track of land above described is near the Monument
station on the Cape Cod Railroad, the railway passing through its whole
length.

110 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
these Indians proposed, viz : Paupmunnacke,* Keecomsett,
Watanamatucke and Nanquidnumacke, Kanoonus and Mo-
crust, to have the chief inspection and management thereof,
with the help and advice of the said Richard Bourne, as the
matter may require ; and that one of the aforesaid Indians
be by the rest instated to act as a constable amongst them,
it being always provided, notwithstanding, that what homage
accustomed legally due to any superior Sachem be not here
by infringed. — [Colony Records, Vol. 4, page 80.]
April 2, 1667, Mr. Richard Bourne, William Bassett
and James Skiffe, Senior, with the commissioned officers of
Sandwich, were appointed on the Council of War. He was
also on the Council in 1676. June 24, 1670, he and seven
others agreed to purchase all the tar made within the Colony
for the two years next ensuing at 8 shillings per small bar
rel, and 12 shillings per large barrel, the same to be deliv
ered at the water-side in each town.
Nearly all the purchases of land of the Indians made in
Sandwich or vicinity during the life-time of Mr. Bourne,
were referred to him, a fact which shows that the English
and the Indians had confidence in him as a man of integrity.
At the solicitation of Mr. Bourne, the tract of land at
South Sea, containing about 10,500 acres, and known as the
plantation of Marshpee^ was reserved by grant from the
Colony to the South Sea Indians. The late Rev. Mr. Hawly
of Marshpee, says, "Mr. Bourne was a man of that discern
ment that he considered it, as vain to propagate Christian
knowledge among any people without a territory where
they might remain in peace, from generation to generation,
and not be ousted." The first deed of the Marshpee lands
is dated Dec. 11, 1665, signed by Tookenchosen and Weep-
quish, and confirmed unto them b^' Quachateset, Sachem of
Manomett. In 1685, the lands conveyed by said deed were
by the Old Colony Court "confirmed to them and secured
to said South Sea Indians and their children forever, so as
?Paupmunnacke was the sachem of the Indians in the westerly part
of Barnstable, at Scorton, and perhaps of Marshpee. Keencnmsett was
sachem of the Mattakesits. His house stood a little distance north of
the present Capt. Thomas Percival's. He was constable. The residences
of the other sachems named I cannot define. These facts show that as
early as 1665 an orderly form of government was established among the
Indians. They held courts of their own, tried criminals, passed judg
ments, etc. Mr. Bourne and Gov. Hinckley frequently attended these
Indian courts and aided the Indian magistrates in difficult cases.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. Ill
never to be given, sold or alienated from them without all
their consents."
The first marriage of Mr. Richard Bourne is not on the
Colony Records. As he was a householder in Plymouth in
1636, it may safely be inferred that he was then a married
man. His first wife, and the mother of all his children, was
probably Bathsheba, a daughter of Mr. Andrew Hallet.
Senior. He married 2d July, 1677, Ruth, widow of Jona
than Winslow, and daughter of Mr. William Sargeant of
Barnstable. Mr. Bourne died in 1682, and his widow
married Elder John Chipman. She died in 1713, aged 71
years. No record of the births of the children of Richard
Bourne has been preserved. His eldest son was probably
born in Plymouth ; the others in Sandwich.
I. Job married Dec. 14, 1664, Ruhama Hallet.
II. Elisha, born 1641, married Oct. 26, 1675, Patience
Skiff.
III. Shearjashub, born 1644, married Bathshea Skiff, 1673.
IV. Ezra, born May 12, 1648. He was living in 1676,
when he was fined £2 as a delinquent soldier.
Job Bourne, son of Richard, married Dec. 14, 1664,
his cousin, Ruhama, daughter of Andrew Hallet of Yar
mouth. He resided in Sandwich, where he was find in 1672
for not serving as constable. He died in 1676, leaving a
large landed estate, which was settled March 6, 1676-7. His
Avidow afterwards married  Hersey.
In the record, which is very full, it is stated that the
deceased left five children, but the names of John and Hannah
are omitted, probably by mistake. On the Barnstable Pro
bate records is an instrument bearing date of 13th Sept.
1714, signed by Jonathan Mory and his wife Hannah,
called a settlement of Job Bourne's estate. In this paper
all the children are named excepting John. Jonathan's
mother-in-law, Ruhama Hersey, is named. Children of
Job Bourne, born in Sandwich :
I. Timothy, born 18th April, 1666, married Temperance
Swift.
II. Hannah, born 18th Nov. 1667, married Jonathan
Mory, Esq., of Plymouth.
III. Eleazer, born 20th July, 1670.

112 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
IV. John, born 2d Nov. 1672. He resided with his grand
mother Hallet, at Yarmouth.
V. Hezekiah, born 25th Sept. 1675.
Timothy, son of Job, married Temperance Swift of
Sandwich, and had Job, Benjamin, Timothy, Joanna and
Mehitable. His will is dated in 1729, and proved in 1744.
His son Timothy married Elizabeth Bourne, and had sons
Benjamin and Shearjashub, H. C, 1764. Benjamin, son of
Benjamin, married  Bodfish, and had Benjamin,
Timothy, Sally, Martha, Temperance, Elizabeth and Han
nah. Shearjashub married  Doane, and had John,
Shearjashub, Elisha, Abigail, Nancy and Elizabeth.
Eleazer, son of Job, married  Hatch, and had
Isaac, Job and Mercy. Job, son of Eleazer, married 
.Swift, and had Thomas, Thankful, Maria, Deborah and
Lydia. Thomas, son of Job, married  Bourne, and had
Alvan, Job, John, Mary, Deborah, Lydia, Hannah and
Abigail. John, son of Job, married and had a daughter Amia,
who married a Sturtevant.
Hezekiah, youngest son of Job, married Eliza Trow
bridge, and had a son Ebenezer, who married Annah
Bum.pas, 1746, and had Ebenezer, John, Benjamin, Mehita
ble and Mary. Ebenezer, Jr., married three wives, and had
four sons, John, Josiah, Ebenezer and Leonard C. Benja
min, son of Ebenezer, Senior, married Hannah Perry, and
had Alexander, Ebenezer, Elisha, Sylvanus, Abigail and
Bathsheba. The Sylvanus last named, is the late Sylvanus Bourne,
Esq., of Wareham, widely known as the late Superintendent
of the Cape Cod Railroad.*
Elisha Bourne, son of Richard, born in Sandwich in
1641, resided at Manomet, near the present location of the
Monument Depot, on the Cape Cod Railroad. He was con
stable of Sandwich in 1683, and a deputy from that town to
the last General Court held at Plymouth in 1691. His will

*I have a genealogy of the Bournes prepared by Sylvanus Bourne ;
but It gives no dates, and does not give the Christian name of the wife.
i. '® °* ''^'^'^ service. The portions of this genealogy where dates and
the Christian names of the wives are omitted, is copied from that gen
ealogy, and I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 113
is dated June 9, 1698, proved March 3, 1706-7. He names
his wife Patience, his sons John and Elisha (the latter it ap
pears was not in good health), and his five daughters, Abi
gail, Hannah, Elizabeth, Mary and Bathsheba. The estate
was finally settled by agreement, dated April 8, 1718, at
which time Mrs. Bourne and her son Elisha were dead. The
agreement is signed by Nathan, "only son," and all the
daughters and their husbands.
Elisha Bourne married 26th Oct. 1675, Patience,
daughter of James Skiff, Esq., of Sandwich. She was born
25th March, 1652, and died in 1718, aged 66. He died in
1706. Children born in Sandwich.
I. Nathan, born Aug. 31, 1676, married Mary Basset.
II. Elizabeth, born June 26, 1679, married John Pope.
III. Mary, born Feb. 4, 1681-2, married John Percival.
IV. Abigail, born July 22, 1684, married William Basset,
Jr.
V. Bathsheba, born Dec. 13, 1686, married Micah Black
well.
VI. Hannah, born May 4, 1689, married Seth Pope. '
VII. Elisha, born July 27, 1692 ; died young.
Nathan, only surviving son of Elisha, was a shipwright.
He died in 1789, in Hanover. His estate in that town was
appraised at £727.17.2, and in Sandwich at £898.18.10;
a large estate in those times. He married  Basset,
had Jonathan, John, Nathan, Elisha, Thomas, Maria, Eliza
beth and Mary. Jonathan married Dec. 22, 1748, Susannah
Mendal, and had John, Elisha, Nathan, Maria and Abigail.
John, son of Nathan, married  Dillingham, and had
Edward, Mary, Abigail and Hannah. Nathan, Jr., married
 . and had Samuel and Remembrance. Elisha,

son of Nathan, Senior, married  , and
Stephen and Eunice. Thomas, son of Nathan, Senior, mar
ried  Randall, and had Nathan, Lemuel, William,
Anselm, Samuel, Asa, Bethuel, Thomas, Lucy, Ehzabeth
and Mary. Of the sixth generation of this branch of the
family, Elisha, son of Jonathan, married  Nye, and
had Jonathan, Charles, Hannah, Mehitable, Abigail and
Joanna. Stephen, son of Elisha, married  Pope, and
hi:^d Elisha and Richard.

114 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Shearjashub Bourne, Esq., son of Richard, resided on
the Marshpee Plantation until his death, living in reputation
and presiding over the Indians, with whom he carried on a
lucrative trade. I cannot find, says Mr. Hawley, that he
made anj^ trespasses on their lands, or was instrumental in
bringing about an alienation of any part thereof. He was
much employed in public business, was often a representa
tive to the General Court at Plymouth and in Boston. He
married in 1673, Bathsheba, daughter of James Skiff, Esq.,
of Sandwich. She was born 20th April, 1648, and was not
living at the decease of her husband. He died March 7,
1718-19, aged 75. In his will, dated on the day next pre
ceding his death, he names all his children, except Sarah,
who probably died young. To his eldest son Melatiah, he
gave all his lands in the town of Falmouth ; to his son Ezra
all his lands in Marshpee ; to his grandson Shearjashub,
£100 ; to his grandson Joseph, £100 ; to his daughter Mary,
£200 ; to his daughter Remember, £200 ; to his daughter
Patience, £200 ; and to the Church in Sandwich £8. His
estate was appraised at £943.16.
He took a deep interest in the well-being of the Indians
and' was their constant friend, and adopted measures to
secure to them and their heirs forever their lands.
The children of Shearjashub Bourne, born in Sandwich,
were :
1. Melatiah, born 12th Jan'y, 1673-4, married Feb. 23,
1695-6, Desire Chipman.
II. Ezra, born 6th Aug. 1676, married Martha Prince.
III. Mary, born 21st Oct. 1678, married  Allen.
IV. Sarah, born 6th Feb. 1680-1.
V. Remember, born 6th Feb. 1683-4, married  May
hew.
VI. Patience, born 20th April, 1686, married  Allen.
Ezra, the youngest son of Shearjashub, inherited the
Marshpee estate on which he lived, and presided over the
Indians, over whom to the day of his death, he maintained
a great ascendency. He was one of the most distinguished
and influential men of his time. He was Chief Ju'stice of
the Court of Sessions, and Court of Common Pleas. He
died Sept. 1 764, in the 88th year of his age. The late Rev.
Gideon Hawley of Marshpee, says of him, -'In him I lost a
good friend."

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Hon. Ezra Bourne married Martha, daughter of Samuel
Prince, and had
L Joseph, who was liberally educated, and ordained) as
the pastor of the Marshpee Church in 1729. He re-
i !> signed the mission in 1742. He married July 25,
t o 1743, Hannah Fuller of Barnstable, and died in 1767,/
^ ^ leaving no issue. ,/
II. Samuel, son of Ezra, married  L'Horamed>^u,
and had Benjamin, Samuel, Nathaniel, Nathan. Tim
othy, Sarah and Elizabeth, all of whom married.
HI. Ezra, son of Ezra. ^ ,, ¦
IV. Searjashub, married  Bosworth, and had Shear
jashub, Benjamin and Martha, all of , whom married —
the eldest having a family of thirteen. Benjamin was
Judge of the District Court of Rhdde Island.
V. Martha, daughter of Ezra, married a Mr. L'Homme-
dieu.
VI. Mary, daughter of Ezra, married 1733, John Angler,
first minister of East Bridgewater.
VII. Elizabeth, daughter of Ezra, married Timothy Bourne.
The descendants of Ezra Bourne, Esq., as they are not
of Barnstable, I shall not trace farther. In 1794, three of
his grandsons were members of Congress ; one from Massa
chusetts, one from Rhode Island and another from New-
York. Hon. Melatiah Bourne,* oldest son of Shearjashub
Bourne, Esq., inherited his father's lands in Falmouth, but
he settled in Sandwich. He was a distinguished man, held
many responsible offices, and during the last years of his
life was Judge of Probate for the County of Barnstable.
He married Feb. 23, 1692-3, Desire, youngest daughter of
Elder John Chipman. She died March 28, 1705, and he
married second, Abigail, widow of Thomas Smith. In his
will, dated 24th Sept. 1742, proved Feb. 15th following,
he gives to the Sandwich Church £10, old tenor, or 50 shil-,
lings lawful money. He names his wife Abigail, her sons
Samuel and John Smith, her daughter Rebecca, Mary tind
Isaac, children of her son Shubael, deceased, and her
grandson. Doctor Thomas Smith, to all of whom he gave
* His house is yet remaining in Sandwich ; it was most substantially
built. The clapboards on the walls were shaved from cedar about an
inch in thickness, and nailed with wrought nails. They are now tight
and as good as new.

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116 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
legacies. He gave his cane to his eldest grandson, Melatiah,
and his clock to his son Silas. Names his son Sylvanus ;
gave to his son John and grandson Joseph, his lands in
Falmouth. He gave legacies to his daughter Bathsheba
Ruggles and to each of the children she had by her late
husband, William Newcomb. He orders his negro man Nero
,0 be manumitted. Children of Hon. Melatiah Bourne :
l\ Sylvanus, Sept. 10, 1694, married Mercy Gorham,
"¦ March 20, 1718.
II. Richard, Aug. 13, 1695 ; died in Falmouth, 1738.
III. Sc^muel, Feb'. 7, 1697 ; died young.
IV. SarahpFeb. 7, 1697 ; died young.
V. John, March 10, 1698, married March 16, 1772,
Mary Hinckley.
VI. Shearjashub, Dec. 21, 1699, married four wives.
VII. Silas, Dec. 10, 1701, married  Allen.
VIII. Bathsheba, Nov. 11, 1703, married William New
comb ; second, Timothy Ruggles, 1736.
Hon. Sylvanus Bourne, son of Melatiah, of Sandwich,
born Sept. 10, 1694, married in 1717, Mercy, daughter of
Col. John Gorham of Barnstable. In 1720, he was an in
habitant of Falmouth, but soon after removed to Barnstable,
where he resided till his death. He bought the estate which
was Mr. James Whippo's, who removed to Boston in 1708.
Mr. Thomas Sturgis, who died that year, bought this estate
for his son Edward ; but it passed not many years after into
the possession of the Bourne family, in which it continued
about a century.
He inherited a good estate from his father, and his wife .
belonged to one of the most wealthy families in Barnstable.
In early life he was a merchant, and engaged in commer
cial business, in which he was successful, and became
wealthy. He was a Colonel of the militia, many years one
of the Governor's Council, Register -of Probate, and after
the death of his father in 1742, was appointed Judge of
Probate. He died in 1764. In his will, dated May 20, 1763, he
names his sons Melatiah, to whom he gives £66.13; Wil
liam, £133.6.8; and Richard, £133.6.8. To each of his
five daughters, namely, Desire Clap, Mary Stone, Hannah
Hinckley, Mercy Jordan and Eunice Gallison, £66.13.4
each. He also gives legacies to his grand-children Reuben,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 117
Joseph and Abigail Winslow, children of his deceased
daughter Abigail. He appoints his wife Mercy sole execu
trix, and gives her the residue of his large estate.
The will of Mrs. Mercy Bourne, widow of Hon. Sylva
nus, is dated July 10, 1781, and was proved May 28, 1782.
She gives to her son Richard, all her real estate — lands,
buildings, woodlands and meadows, a silver hilted sword
that was his father's, a large silver tankard that was his
grandfather's, her best great Bible, two pair of oxen, one
cow, half her sheep, all her husbandry tools, &c.
To her three daughters Desire Clap, Mary Stone and
Hannah Hinckley, she gave all her plate (except tankard to
Richard, and silver porringer to Mercy), all her wearing
apparel and household furniture, excepting what she had
given Richard, and £30 each.
To her granddaughter Abigail Gallison. her mother's
work, called a chimney-piece. Also, two mourning rings,
her grandfather Bourne's and her mother's.
She gave to her daughter Mercy Jordan, a work called
the Coat of Arms, one silver porringer and £6, over and
above what she had already had of her.
She also gave the following legacies :
To the children of her son Melatiah, deceased, £30.
To the children of her daughter Abigail, deceased, £20.
To the children of her daughter Eunice, deceased, £20.
To the children other son William, £20.
To son-in-law John Gallison, Esq., £10.
To daughter-in-law Hannah Bourne, £3.
She gave her negro boy Cato to her son Richard, on
the followmg conditions, that is, as soon as the said Cato
shall arrive to the age of 35 years, her said son Richard shall
manumit him. Her negro girl Chloe she gave "to such
daughter as Chloe should prefer to live with, the daughter
receiving her to pay such sum as said girl shall be apprized
at." She appointed her son Richard sole executor and resi
duary legatee, and ordered him to pay all the legacies in
silver dollars at six shillings each.
The portrait of Mrs. Bourne, painted by Copley in
1766, has been preserved, and some of the worsted work
named in her will. The old family portraits were stowed
away in the garret of the late Sylvanus Bourne, and finally

118 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
removed to his barn, where they were destroyed by fire.
One of them was saved ; and after having been used as a
target, is now in the possession of Major S. B. Phinney,
who has had it restored. He also has a view of Boston
Common taken more than a century ago, wrought in worsted,
which formerly belonged to his ancestor. Colonel Sylvanus
Bourne. N. S. Simpkins, Esq., who is also a descendant,
has a specimen of worsted work that belonged to the Bourne
family. The facts which have been stated show that Colonel
Sylvanus Bourne was a man of wealth ; and that he lived in
the style of an English country gentleman. Facts are per
haps not wanting to show that he had littlie respect for the
simplicity of his puritan ancestry. Some of the family joined
the Episcopal Church, and the fact that Mrs. Bourne in her
portrait is represented as holding in her hand a copy of the
English prayer book, shows that she had a predilection for
the Episcopacy. Mrs. Bourne joined the Barnstable Church Sept. 20,
1724, and on the Fourth of July, 1729, was admitted to the
Church in the East Parish, being dismissed with many others
at that time from the West Parish. All her children were
baptized at the Barnstable Church. She died according to
the inscription on her grave stones, April 11, 1782, in the
87th year of her age.
The children of Colonel Sylvanus Bourne and his wife
Mercy Gorham, were all born in Barnstable, except Mary,
who was born in Falmouth.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Desire, born Jan'y 19, 1718 ; bap'd Oct. 4, 1724, mar
ried Nathaniel Clap, Esq., of Scituate, Dec. 22, 1737.
He was a son of Deacon Stephen, and a brother of
Thomas, President of Yale College — one of the most
distinguished men of learning of his time.
II. Mary, born April 22, 1720, bap'd Oct. 4, 1724, married
1742, Nathaniel Stone, Jr., of Harwich.
III. Melatiah, born Nov. 14, 1722, bap'd Oct. 4, 1724, mar
ried Mary Bayard, niece of Gov. Bowdoin. His son,
Capt. Sylvanus, was Consul many years at Amsterdam.
Portraits of his children taken at Amsterdam, are in the
possession of Major S. B. Phinney. His son Melatiah,
married Olive Gorham, and had Melatiah, Sylvanus

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and Olive— the latter the mother of Major S. B. Phin
ney of Barnstable, and George Phinney, Esq., of North
Bridgewater. The other children of Melatiah were
Sarah and Mary.
Melatiah Bourne, Esq., died Sept. 1778, after a
long and painful illness, aged 56. His monument in the
grave-yard, near the Church, in the East Parish in
Barnstable, says :
"He was a gentleman who, in public employ, con
ducted with great reputation to himself, and honor to
his country. And in the more private walks of sociable
life exhibited those virtues which have raised in the
bosoms of those who knew him, a monument that shall
exist when this stone shall be mouldered to its native
dust. In him the Christian graces shone with pecuhar
lustre, and the plaudit of an approving conscience was
the summit of his ambition."
" Surely when men like these depart.
The cause of virtue deeply feels the wound."
IV. William, born Feb. 27, 1723-4, bap'd Oct. 4, 1724.
Tradition saith, and its accuracy is vouched for by Col.
Swett, that when a child he was prostrated by an
ajjpalling disease, pronounced by the medical faculty
incurable . The Indians, who remembered all the
members of the Bourne family with affection, did not
despair, and came with the medicine men of their tribe
to try the effect of their simple remedies and incanta-
' tions. The tender mother did not hesitate to submit
her beloved son to savage rites and Indian remedies ;
and from that hour, says Col. Swett, the child was
made whole.
He served in Gorham's Rangers at the taking of
Louisburg in 1757. He settled in Marblehead, and
was a wealthy merchant. He was a Justice of one of
the Courts. He exerted his influence in procuring a
charter and raising funds to build the bridge at New
bury, and for his services he had the honor to be the
first to pass over it. He was a Colonel of the
militia, and died in 1770.
He married for his first wife a daughter of Lieut.
Gov. Hazard, and for his second a daughter of Judge
Tasker, and widow of James Fessenden of Marblehead.

120 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
He had three daughters : Clarissa, Charlotte and Fanny.
One married Col. Orne of Marblehead, another Dr.
Swett of Newburyport, and the third Judge Peabody
of Exeter, N. H., the father of the authors of that
name. [From the Boston Weekly News Letter of 30th August, 1770.]
"On Wednesday were interred the Remains of the
Hon. William Bourn, Esq., Son of the Hon. Sylvanus
Bourn, Esq. ; late of Barnstable : — A Gentleman blessed
with good natural Abilities, which were improved by a
liberal Education and an extensive acquaintance with
the world.
In early Life he was engaged in the military Service,
and has since been constantly honored with public Em
ployments, which he filled with dignity, and discharged
with upi'ightness.
In the vale of private life, where merit is impartially
examined, his worth was conspicuous : His vivacity,
frankness, and delicacy of sentiment, endeared him to
every acquaintance, and to his honor, his free, social
hours will long be remembered by them with delight.
The goodness of his heart and the integrity of his
life corresponded to the clearness of his head ; so that
he beheld with philosophic firmness and Christian re
signation his approaching dissolution ; and, a few days
before his death, discovered an uncommon vigor and
serenity of mind in the orderly disposition of his af
fairs. Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis?
&c., to Quando uUum inveniet parem."
V. Hannah, born Dec. 8, 1725, bap'd Jan'y 9, 1726,
married Isaac Hinckley, Jr., Dec. 18, 1748, of Barn
stable. She had eight children.
VI. Mercy, born Monday, Aug. 22, 1727, says the record,
and bap'd Aug. 27, following. She married Samuel
Jordan, Esq., of Biddeford, Maine, April 10, 1751.
VII. Abigail, born Saturday, June 21, 1729, bap'd next
day according to Puritan custom. She married March
14, 1754, Kenelm Winslow, Jr., of Marshfield. She
died before her father, leaving three children as above
stated.

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VIII. Sylvanus, born (says the town record, and his grave
stones), Nov. 21, 1731, and bap'd, according to the
church records, on the 14th of the same month. He
married Feb. 3, 1757, Hannah Sturgis. He had no
children. Before leaving for Cape Breton he made
his will, dated May 24, 1758 ; but it was not proved
till July 16, 1761. He styles himself a merchant, and
says he is bound on a dangerous enterprise. He gave
his whole estate to his wife. He died suddenly at
Martha's Vineyard, May 22, 1761. He was then a
captain in the provincial army, and was recruiting men
for the service, in which he had been employed several
years. He was 29 years of age. The inventory of
his estate amounted to £122.9, including a small stock
of merchandize. His widow died June 13, 1798,
aged 62.
IX. Eunice, born Feb. 16, 1732-3, bap'd on the 25th of the
same month; married June 19, 1754, Capt. John Gal
lison of Marblehead. Her grandson, John, was a dis-
tinguised Counsellor at Law.
X. Richard, born Nov. 1, 1739, bap'd 18th of same month.
He was a physician, and though he usually laid his sad
dle bags and spurs on his table every night, so that he
could promptly respond to a call, he rarely had a patient.
He was a very different man from his brothers. He in
herited none of the energy of character and good busi
ness habits of his ancestors. He was a man of feeble in
tellectual power, — simple-minded and incapable of mak
ing much exertion. He was a well educated mqn, and it
has been remarked of him by persons well qualified to
judge, that he had a good knowledge of the theory and
practice of medicine ; but being wanting in judgment,
his learning was of no practical advantage to him. He
was very courteous and gentlemanly in his habits, and
one of the most accommodating and obliging of men.
He was the first Postmaster in Barnstable, an office which
he held many years, and the Barnstable Social Library
was kept at his house. For many years he was the only
Postmaster, and his house was a place of frequent resort.
At first, there was only a weekly mail ; afterwards a
semi-weekly, and in 1812 a tri-weekly — only two how
ever were paid for by the Post Office Department ; the

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third was paid by private subscriptions. The mail left
Boston about four o'clock in the morning, and was due
in Barnstable at eight in the evening. During the war
the people were anxious to obtain the news, and the men
of the neighborhood, and messengers from distant parts
of the town, assembled at the post-office on the evening
of the days when a mail was due. It was also a favorite
resort for boys who were very troublesome to the doctor.
On winter evenings when the mail was delayed by the bad
condition ot the roads, or a storm, a large company as
sembled in the doctor's parlor. The men were usually
seated in a semi-circle around the fire, and the boys were
seated on the floor with their feet pushed between the
rundles of the chairs to obtain some warmth from the fire.
The doctor had a few stereotype stories which he re
peated every evening, the scenes whereof were laid in
Maine, where he resided some time when a young man.
His wife was a very intelligent woman, and their only
child, Abigail, was a kind-hearted and accomplished
lady, extremely courteous and obliging to all who called
at the office, or to obtain books from the Social Library,
of which she took the charge. After the death of her
parents she married her relative, Nathan Stone, Esq., of
Dennis. Doctor Bourne was temperate in his habits ; that is
he never was intoxicated at his own expense. During
his time, there were few who could say as much in their
own vindication. It was fashionable at that time for the
men to assemble frequently at the taverns, where they
often Remained till late, drinking, carousing, and some
times to gamble. The doctor was sometinres invited to
these parties. He sung the same song "Old King Cole,"
on all festive occasions. After two or three drams, he
would sing his song, which would cause infinite diversion
to the company. Liquor deprived the doctor'of the little
wit he ordinarily had, and his grotesque acts and uncouth
expressions rendered him a boon companion. The story
of one of t;hese adventures was often told by the late
Abner Davis, Esq., who probably added some embellish
ments of his own, for there were few men who could tell
a story better than he.
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attend a Christmas party at Hyannis. He rode his gray
mare, which did him excellent service for twenty years,
and arrived at the place appointed soon after sunset.
There was an abundance of liquor on the table, and the
doctor was frequently pressed to partake thereof. The
company had a jolly time, the doctor repeatedly sung
his favorite song, and told the story of his advent:ures in
Maine. It was twelve o'clock when the party separated,
and the doctor had to be helped on to his horse. It was
a clear, moonlight evening, the ground was covered with
snow and a north-west wind rendered the air cold and
piercing. He had to pass four miles through woods,
and along a narrow road on which no inhabitants resided.
The horse knew the way better than the master, and if
the animal could have had its own way the rider would
h-ave escaped the perils he soon after encountered. Rid
ing about a mile he left the direct roa,d and turned into
the way that leads to Half-Way Pond. He had not
travelled far before he caught sight of a rotten stump
which reflected a phosphorescent light. The doctor
imagined it was a fire, and as his feet were very cold, he
dismounted, pulled off his boots and placed his feet on
the stump. When . sufficiently warm, he remounted ;
but unfortunately omitted to put on his boots. He wan
dered about the woods till morning, when he found his
way out. On arriving at the main road, instead of turn
ing westerly towards his own house, he turned in an
opposite direction, and urged his beast into a gallop. He
had not rode far, when he met Abner Davis, Esq., and
several gentlemen of his acquaintance. He suddenly
reined up his horse, and accosted them thus: "Gentle
men," said he, "canyon tell me whether lam in this
town or the next?" Mr. Davis replied, "You are in
this town now, but if you drive on you will soon be in
the next." The company perceiving that he had no
boots, and that he was wild and excited, invited him to
a house where he was furnished with a warm breakfast
and a pair of boots. After resting a few hours he rode
home ; but it was several days before he entirely recov
ered from the excitement and fatigue of his Christmas
frolic. Often when waiting for the mails in the doctor's parlor

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there would be a knock at the door of the office. The
doctor would open the door, and with his usual suavity
of manner, would say, "Good evening, sir." The reply
would sometimes be, "Doctor, I just called to inquire
whether or not you have found your boots?" At other
times the inquiry would be, "Am I in this town or the
next?" These inquiries irritated the doctor, and he
would grasp his whip, which he kept hanging by the
door, and make a dash at the boys, who always took the
precaution to be beyond the reach of the lash.

AN ERROR CORRECTED.
"A few years before his death, Matthew Cobb, E^q.,
succeeded him in the office of Postmaster. This was a great
grief to him, and was regretted by many. However simple
or foolish the doctor may have been, he was a very accom
modating officer, and took much pains to ascertain the^resi-
dences of parties, and forward them their letters or papers.
On the settlement of his accounts, he was found to be, a
defaulter for nearly a thousand dollars, which was levied on
his estate, and rendered him poor at the close of his life.
His accounts were not carefully kept, and several who ex
amined them were of the opinion that he was not a defaulter ;
that he had neglected to take vouchers for several sums
of money he paid over, and he was therefore unable to
prove that he had faithfully accounted for the receipts of his
office." When writing the above paragraph, I had the impres
sion in my mind that subsequently it was ascertained that
the errors were committed at the Post Office Department,
and not by the doctor ; but those of whom I inquired had a
different impression. No one of whom I inquired seemed to
know certainly. I am now happy in being able to state that
Doctor Bourne was not a defaulter. Asa Young, Esq., who
was his agent, informs me that Doctor Bournes property had
been set off by execution, sold, and the proceeds paid over
to the Department, when it was ascertained that the error
occurred at the Post Office Department. The money was re
funded, and the draft for the same was received by Miss
Abigail Bourne, the sole heir, on the very day she was mar
ried to Nathan Stone, Esq. — a most happy coincidence.
According to the doctor's accounts, kept by his daugh-

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ter Abigail, he owed the Department thirtv dollars when his
successor was appointed. This sum was laid aside to be
paid over when called for. Subsequent investigtition proved
that Doctor Bourne's accounts were right. His property
was wrongfully taken from him, and he did not live till it
was rectified. Justice to Doctor Richard Bourne as an honest and
honorable man, requires this correction to be made, and
those whp preserve files of my papers are requested to note
this fact in the margin of No. 28, that the money was subse
quently refunded by the Post Office Department.
He died in Barnstable April 25, 1826, age^ 86 years.
His wife died in Barnstable March 5, 1826, aged 85 years.
I. Capt. Richard Bourne, a son of Melatiah, born Aug.
13, 1695, was an officer in the army, and distinguished
himself at Norridgwalk. He settled in Falmouth, where
he died in 1738, Feaving no issue.
II. John Bourne, son of Melatiah, born March 10, 1698,
married March 16, 1722, Mercy, daughter of Joseph
Hinckley of Barnstable. He removed to Falmouth and
had Joseph, John, David, Thomas, Sarah, Mary, Eliza
beth and Mary. All the sons, excepting Thomas, mar
ried and had families. Mr. John Bourne, the father of
this family, died early in life, leaving a good estate.
III. Shearjashub, son of Melatiah, born I)ec. 21, 1699. He
received his degrees at Harvard College in 1720, and
was ordained pastor of the First Church in Scituate,
Dec. 3, 1724. He married 1725, Abigail, daughter of
Rev. Roland Gotten of Sandwich, and had Elizabeth,
1726 ; Abigail, 1727 ; Desire, 1728 ; Bathsheba, 1730 ;
Shearjashub in 1732, who died young. His first wife
died in 1732, and he married in 1738, Sarah Brooks of
Medford, by whom he had one son, Shearjashub, born
in 1739. His second wife died in 1742, and he married
in 1750, Deborah Barker, b}' whom he had one son,
Roland, born the same year. His third wife died in
1750, and he married in 1757, Joanna Stevens of Rox-
bury. He was a man of feeble constitution, and depressed
and melancholy spirits. In 1755, his health was
impaired by a paralytic affection. He tendered his
resignation of the pastoral office, and Aug. 6, 1761,

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was dismissed; his society generously presenting him
with £100, and the use of the parsonage for a year and
a half. From Scituate he removed to Roxbury, the
native place of his wife, where he died Aug 14, 1768,
in the 69th year of his age. — [See Deane's Scituate,
ptiges 186 and 187.]

BURSLEY.

JOHN BURSLEY.
Mr. John Bursley, the ancestor of the families of this
name, came over very early, probably before Gov. Endicot.
From what part of England he came, I have not ascertained.
There is a parish in England called "Burslem," and as sur
names often originated in the names of places or trades, it is
probable that some of his ancestors resided in that parish.*
The name is variously written on the old records, — Burs
lem, Burslin, Bursl}^, Burseley, Bursly. When first
named, he is styled Mr. — a title of respect in early times.
He appears to have been an active business man, engaged
in the fisheries, and in trade with the Indians, and a planter.
He may have been a member of the Dorchester Com
pany, that settled at Cape Ann in 1624. In 1629, he was
at Wessaguscus, now Weymouth, where he was an associate
of Mr. William Jeffrey. The following assessment levied to
defray the expenses of the arrest and sending of Merton to
England in 1628, proves that he was a resident in the coun
try prior to 1629. This is the oldest tax bill on record, and
shows the comparative wealth or ability of the different
settlements in 1629:

*Sur-naines were often suggested by the appearance, character or
history of the individual. Burse is a purse ; hence the name of Bursely
may have originated thus— "Jolm the Bnrser," or treasurer, and in
course of time contracted to "John Bursley." The importance of sign
ing all legal and other instruments with the Christian name
written at full length is not well understood. The "Christian" name is
the "signature." It is not, however, so important now as formerly, that
it should be written at full length. Legally, the man who writes only
the initial letter of his Christian name, only "makes his mark;" he does
not "sign" the document.

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Plymouth, - _ - . - - £2.10
Naumkeak, (Salem,) _ - - - 1.10
Piscataquack, (Portsmouth,) _ - - - 2.10
Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Burslem, Wessaguscus, (Wey
mouth,)  2.00
Nantascot, (Hull,)  1.10
Mrs. Thompson, (Squantum Neck,) _ _ _ 15
Mr. Blackstone, (Boston,) ... - 12
Edward Hilton, (Dover,)  1.00

£12.7
Mr. Savage says that Mr. Bursley was an early settler
at Weymouth ; reckoned some three or four years among
"old planters." That he was early of Weymouth, is evident
from the record of the proceedings May 14, 1634, in relation
to his servant Thomas Lane. Lane "having fallen lame and
impotent, became chargeable to the town of Dorchester, his
then place of residence. The General Court investigated
the questions at issue, and ordered that the inhabitants of
Wessaguscus should pay all the charges of his support."
From this it appears that Lane had previously to 1634, re
sided a sufficient length of time at Wessaguscus, as the ser
vant of Mr. John Bursley, to make the inhabitants of that
place legally chargeable for his support.
Mr. Palfrey, in his history of New England, says the
cottages of Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Burslem probably stood at
Winnisimmet, now Chelsea. The foregoing abstracts from
the records show that he was mistaken in his supposition.
It also appears that John Bursley was one of the assessors
of Dorchester, June 2, 1634.
From 1630 to 1635, Wessaguscus appears to have been
included within the corporate limits of Dorchester. Oct.
19, 1630, Mr. Bursley and Mr. Jeffrey requested to be ad
mitted freemen of Massachusetts, and were sworn in the
18th of May following. They were then called Dorchester
men, though residents at Wessaguscus, which was incor
porated m 1635, and named Weymouth.
Mr' Bursley was deputy from Weymouth to the Massa
chusetts General Court, May, 1636, and was appointed a
member of the Committee to take the valuation of the estates
in the Colony. He and two others were elected to the
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Weymouth, being a small town, was not entitled to send
three deputies, and he and John Upham were dismissed.
In Nov. 1637, he was appointed by the Court a member of
a committee to measure and run out a three mile boundary
line. In May, 1639, he removed to Barnstable, in company
with Mr. Thomas Dimmock of Scituate, and Mr. Joseph
Hull of Weymouth, to whom the lands in Barnstable had
been granted by the Plymouth Colony Court. In 1643 and
1645 he was at Exeter; in 1647 at Hampton and Kittery;
Sept. 9, 1650, at Neweechwannook ; and at Kittery from
1650 to Nov. 1652. Excepting at Kittery, he did not reside
long at either of these places,— he visited them and the Isles
of Shoals, when his father-in-law was settled in the ministry,
and other places on the coast, for the purposes of trade, his
family residing at Barnstable. In 1645, he is called of
Exeter, yet he was that year chosen constable of Parnsta^
ble, sworn at the June Court, and served in that office. In
1647, he is called of Kittery, yet he was that year one of
the grand jurors from the town of Barnstable. These facts
show that his residence in the eastern country was not per
manent. In 1652, the General Court of Massachusetts appointed
a commission to assume jurisdiction over the township of
Kittery, and require the inhabitants to submit to the gov
ernment of that Colony. A meeting of the inhabitants was
called on the 15th of Nov., and while the matter was under
consideration, "complaints were made against one Jno.
Bursly* for uttering threatening words against the Commis
sioners, and such as should submit to the government of
Massachusetts." "The said Bursly uppon his examination
at length in open Court, did confess the words, and uppon

* "One Jno. Bursly." Mr. Bursley was well-knowa to the Commis
sioners, for some of them had been his associates in the General Court
of Massachusetts. The right of that Colony to assume the jurisdiction
claimed, to say the least of the matter, was doublful. The liursleys of
the present day are firm and unwavering in the support of their opinions
and never yield a point that is just and for their interest to maintain. —
Their ancestor it is to "be presumed was as firm and unyielding as any of
his descendants, and would not be overawed by the Commissioners.^
They say in their return — "Bursly submitted." He resisted their au
thority and refused to sign the articles of submission which were signed
by forty-one of the inhabitants. Their own record shows that be fear
lessly exercised his right as a freeman, and the Commissioners vented
their spleen by contemptuously calling him "one Jno. Bursly."

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his submission was discharged." After much debate forty-
one of the inhabitants submitted ; but Mr. Bursly was not
of the number. He returned to Barnstable, and it does not
appear that he afterwards visited the eastern country.
Mr. John Bursley married Nov. 28, 1639, Joanna,
daughter of Rev. Joseph Hull of Barnstable. The marriage
was solemnized in Sandwich, no one in Barnstable being
then authorized to officiate. He resided in the house of his
father-in-law, which stood near where Capt. Thomas Harris'
now stands, till about the year 1650, when he removed to
the Bursley farm at West Barnstable. His first house was
built on the north side of the County Road across the little
run of water, and about one hundred yards north easterly
from the barn of the' present Mr. Charles H. Bursley. The
remains of the old chimney and the ancient hearthstone were
removed not many years ago. An incident in his personal
history which occurred during his residence at the old house
has been preserved by tradition. The low land in front or
south of the house was then a quag-mire. One day when
he was confined to the house with a broken leg, and when
all the male members of the family were absent, a calf sunk
in the quag-mire, and would have been lost without assist
ance. The women were alarmed, being unable to extricate
the calf. Mr. Bursley directed them to fasten a rope around
it, and pass the end into the house. They did so, and with
his aid, the calf was drawn out and saved.
The ancient Bursley mansion was taken down in 1827.
The John Bursley, then living, born in 1741, said it was
one hundred and thirty years old, according to the best in
formation he could obtain. This would give the year 1697,
as the date at which it was built. He had no record of the
time ; he knew its age only from tradition, and was mis
taken. A house was standing on the same spot in 1686,
when the County Road was laid out, and was then occupied
by the Wid. Joanna Davis, who had previously been the
wife of the first John Bursley. The description given of
the house at the time of the death of the second John Burs
ley in 1726, corresponds very nearly with its appearance in
1827, showing that few alterations had been made. The
style was that of the wealthy among the first settlers. The
Bacon house, which has been described, was built in 1642.
The style of the Bursley house was the same, only it was

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originally a larger and better building. As late as 1690,
dwelling houses were built in a very similar style, and there
was a general resemblance. Both had heavy cornices, the
front roof was shorter and sharper than the rear. The more
ancient houses were lower in the walls, especially the cham
bers, and the sleepers of the lower floors were laid on the
ground, leaving the large sills used in those days, projecting
into the rooms.
The style of the old Bursley house indicated its early
origin, and there seems to be no good reason to doubt that
it was built by the first John Bursley, before the year 1660.
If it was a matter of any importance, it could be shown by
other facts that the house was built before 1660. I have
pursued the inquiry thus far mainly to show how uncertain
and unreliable is tradition, especially in regard to time.
The Bursley farm at West Barnstable is thus described
on the town records :
Forty-five acres of upland, more or less, bounded partly
by two rivers that run into Boat Cove, and partly by the
Commons, as it is marked out.
Feb. 1655. Eighty acres of upland, more or less,
bounded easterly by Boat Cove, westerly by a runlet, ad
joining Goodman Fitz Randle's, southerly partly by Mr.
Linnell's and ptirtly by ye Commons, northerly to the
marsh. Fifteen acres of marsh, more or less, bounded easterly
by Boat Cove, westerly by Goodman Fitz Randle's, north
erly to a creek, southerly to his upland.
The eighty acres on the north side of the road, is
bounded on three sides by water ; a very desirable location
because the water courses saved much labor and expense in
building fences. The soil is generally a strong loam, free
of rocks, and good grass land. From the first it has been
carefully cultivated, and is now one of the most fertile and
productive farms in Barnstable. Forty acres of the upland
on the north side of the road are now owned by a lineal de
scendant, Mr. Charles H. Bursley, and thirty by Frederick
Parker, Esq.
The first John Bursley died in 1660. The inventory of
his estate, taken Aug. 21, of that year by John Smith and
John Chipman, amounted to only £115.5. I do not know
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but presume it did. I copy from the Genealogical Register,
in whicb only the gross is given. The same estate was ap
praised at £137.13.10 in 1726. I have called Mr. Bursley
wealthy. Wealth is a comparative term, and when a man
is called rich, a great variety of circumstances are taken into
account. V^'hat was the cash value of Mr. Bursley's farm
at the time of his death, has little to do with the question.
Eight years after, the Blush farm, now Bodfish's, the next
west, excepting one, sold for £5.10. This was worth about
one-third of the Bursley farrn, exclusive of buildings. A
common one-story house at that time cost only about £5.
That was the price paid William Chase for building the first
Hallett house in Yarmouth. Very little glass, lime, iron
or brick, was used in those days, and the expense of lumber
was the cost of cutting and sawing it. They were very
rudely constructed, and as late as 1700, it was not common
for the walls of a house to be plastered. The joints between
the boards were filled with clay or mortar. The meeting
house built in 1725, in the East Parish, was constructed in
that manner. A house like the ancient Bursley mansion
would not, when that was built, have cost more than £50
sterling. Very little money was in circulation in those
times, and as a consequence prices ruled very low. It is
said on good authority, and there can be no doubt of its
truth, that in the year 1675, five hundred pounds in money
could not be raised in Plymouth Colony ; and, for a good
reason, there was not so much money in the Colony.
In 1669, the Otis farm, about half a mile east of the
Bursley, was bought for £150. The latter was then much
more valuable. It was easier land to till, and was in a
better state of cultivation. The Bourman farm, not so val
uable as the Bursley farm, sold in 1662 for £78. There is
apparently a wide difference in these prices of property of
the same description, in the same neighborhood at id)out the
same time. But it must be remembered that the value of
landed estate depended then very much on the value of the
improvements thereon, and on the kind of pay for which the
property was sold. The usual consideration being provis
ions at "prices current with the merchants." Very few
contracts were made payable in silver money.
The names of the children of the first John Bursley
are not entered on the town or probate records. At the

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time of his marriage, Nov. 28, 1639, he was probably forty
years of age, and the bride. Miss Joanna Hull, a blushing
maid not out of her teens. Their children, as entered on
the church records, are as follows :
I. A child — name not recorded — died suddenly in the
night, and was buried Jan'y 25, 1640-1, at the lower
side of the Calves Pasture.
II. Mary, bap'd July 29, 1643, married April 25, 1663,
John Crocker. She was his second wife, and was the
mother often children.
IIL John, bap'd Sept. 22, 1644, buried Sept. 27, 1644.
IV. Joanna, bap'd March 1, 1645-6, married Dea. Shubael
Dimmock, April, 1662 ; had a family of nine children
born in Barnstable. She died in Mansfield, Conn.,
May 8, 1727, aged 83 years.
V. Elizabeth, bap'd March 25, 1649, married, flrst,
Nathaniel Goodspeed, Nov. 1666, by whom she had a
daughter Mary, who married Ensign John Hinckley.
She married, second. Increase Clap, Oct. 1675, and
by him had four children born in Barnstable.
VI. John, bap'd April 11, 1652, married, first, Elizabeth
Howland, Dec. 1673, and second, Elizabeth  .
VII. Temperance, who married Joseph Crocker, Dec. 1677,
and had seven children born in Barnstable, and was
living in 1741.
Mr. John Bursley died in 1660, and his widow married
Dolar Davis, who died in 1673. The widow Joanna Davis
was living in 1686. The date of her death I am unable to
ascertain .
John Bursley, 2d, only son of John, was eight years of
age when his father died. He inherited the mansion house
taken down in 1827, and two-sixths of his father's estate.
The right of his sisters it appears that he bought, for at his
death in 1726, he owned all the lands that were his father's.
He married twice ; first, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant
John Howland, Dec. 1673, who was the mother of his ten
children. His second wife was also named Elizabeth ; buT; .
her maiden name does not appear on record.
He was a farmer, industrious and enterprising, and died
leaving a large estate. The old mansion house he bequeathed
to his son Joseph.

134 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Children of John Bursley, 2d, born in Barnstable :
I. Elizabeth, born Oct. 1674; died Oct. 1675.
II. Mercy, born Oct. 1675 ; died April 1676.
III. John, born March, 1677-8. He married Mary Crocker,
daughter of John, and was living in the year 1741,
Feb. 11, 1702, and had three children. Two died in
infancy, and the other, Experience, married Benjamin
Lothrop. He inherited the southwesterly part of the
old farm on which he resided. He was captain of a
vessel employed in the whale fishery, and died in
Barnstable, 1748.
IV. Mary, born, 23d May, 1679, married Joseph Smith,
after the year 1722.
V. Jabez, born 21st Aug. 1681. His. father in his will
gave him the northwest quarter of his farm, since
known as Doctor Whitman's farm, and now owned by
Frederick Parker, Esq. He married Hannah  ,
1705, and had Benjamin, 21st July, 1706, married
Joanna Cannons, July 7, 1735 ; second, Mary Good-
speed, Feb. 2, 1744, and hacj Jabez, 26th July, 1745;
Martha, 25th Aug. 1740 ; Elizabeth, 23d Dec 1744;
Sarah, 3d Feb. 1748 ; Benjamin, 27th March, 'l752,
and Lemuel, 17th June, 1755 ; John, born 1st Sept.
1708, married Eliz. Saunders, 1743 ; Elizabeth, born
1st Feb. 1710-11; Abigail, 25th Feb. 1714, married
Benoni Crocker, Feb. 19, 1736; Hannah, Nov. 1715,
married Solomon Bodfish, Dec. 17, 1741 ; Joanna born
June, 1719, married Charles Connett, 1733 ; Mary,
Aug. 1723, and Barnabas, 16th Jan'v 1725, married
Thankful Smith, May 16, 1754, and had Hannah, Feb.
3, 1756 ; Thankful, March 29, 1759, and Barnabas,
April 24, 1761. Jabez Bursley died in 1732, and
names in his will all his eight children. Estate,
£1.281.12.6.
VI. Joanna, born 29th Nov. 1684, married March, 1708-9,
Nathan Crocker of Barnstable.
VII. Joseph, born 29th Jan'y 1686-7, married Sarah
Crocker, Nov. 7, 1712, and had Joseph, who married
Dec. 20, 1739, Bethia Fuller, and had John, Nov. 1,
1741, grandfather of the present Mr. Charles H.
Bursley; Bethia, born March 2, 1743; Lemuel,
March 2, 1745, father of the present Mr. Joseph

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES". 135
Bursley of Barnstable ; Sarah, born Oct. 24, 1748 ;
Abigail, Oct. 23, 1750, and Joseph, 27th March,
1757. Joseph Bursley, Sen'r., also had Lemuel, 8th Sept.
1718, and Mercy, 10th July, 1721, married May 22,
1757, John Goodspeed.
VIII. Abigail, born 27th Aug. 1690, married Nath'l Bod
fish, March 10, 1713.
IX. Elizabeth, born 5th Aug. 1692, married Nov. 28,
1723, Jon. Crocker.
X. Temperance, born 3d Jan'y 1695. She was of feeble
health, and died unmarried Sept. 20, 1734.
John Bursley, 2d, bequeathed to his son Joseph the
ancient house then appraised, with the house lot, at £240,
and all the feasterly half of the estate. John Bursley, 2d,
owned at his death in 1726, the same real estate that his
father did in 1660, with the addition of- shares in the com
mons, to which his father was also entitled. The estate was
appraised at £115.5 in 1660, and in 1727, £3.137.13.10.
Presuming that each had the same proportional amount of
personal estate, these appraisals show a rapid appreciation
of value during the 68 years. After allowing for the depre
ciation of the cui-rency, £115.5 in 1660, if the appraisal was
in sterling money, would be about 520 ounces of silver, and
if in lawful money 384 ounces. In 1727, an ounce of silver
was "worth 17 shillings, and £3.137.13.10, was equal to
3.486 ounces of silver.

BERRY.

RICHARD BERRY.
In the list of those who were able to bear arms in
Barnstable, in 1643, is the name of Richard Berry. It is
not slanderous to say the son is a better man than the father,
or that the daughter is a better woman than the mother.
This remark applies to Richard Berry and his wife Alice.
They did not sustain good characters, but their children
followed not in their footsteps. He did not reside long in
Barnstable. He probably removed to Boston in 1647, and
thence to Yarmouth where his large family of children were
born. Oct. 29, 1649, Berry accused Teague Jones of Yar
mouth, of the crime of sodomy, and Jones was put under
heavy bonds for his appearance at the March term of the
Court to answer. At that Court Berry confessed that he
had borne false witness against Jones, and for his perjury
was whipped at the post in Plymouth.
His wife Alice was a thievish woman, and husband and
wife were well matched. May 3, 1653, she was presented
for stealing a neckcloth from the wife of William Pierce of
Yarmouth ; at the June Court for stealing bacon and eggs
from Mr. Samuel Arnold; at the March Court, 1654-5, for
stealing from the house of Benjamin Hammond a woman's
shift and a piece of pork, and at the following Court in

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 137
June for thievishly milking the cow of Thomas Phelps* of
Yarmouth. For the latter offence she was fined ten shillings,
"or refusing to pay, then to sit in the stocks at Yarmouth
m hour the next training day." This is a sufficient specimen
of her character, and it is unnecessary to trace it farther.
It would, however, be unjust to the wife to say nothing
more respecting the husband. Richard, notwithstanding his
humiliating confession that he had sworn falsely, and his
visit to the whipping-post, continued to live on excellent
terms with his friend Teague at Doctor's Weir, near the
mouth of Bass River. The Court, however, thought differ
ently, and caused them "to part their uncivil living togeth
er." In March, 1663, he was fined forty shillings for playing
cards ; but at the March Court following, the fine was re
mitted. In 1668, Zachary Rider, the first born of the
English in Yarmouth, complained that Berry had stolen his
axe, and the matter was referred "to Mr. Hinckley and Mr.
Bacon to end it at home." Richard, notwithstanding his
vicious propensities, went to meeting on the Sabbath days
carrying with him his pipe and tinder-horn. One Sabbath,
during "the time of exercise," he and others, instead of
listening to the exhortations of the preacher, seated them
selves "at the end of Yarmouth Meeting House," and
indulged in smoking tobacco. For this offence he and his
companions were each mulcted in a fine of five shillings, at
the March Court in 1669.
Richard Berry died Sept. 7, 1681, having at the time
of his death a house therein, though he!" had in early times
been forbidden to erect a cottage in Yarmouth. In his old
age he lived a better life, was admitted a townsman of Yar
mouth, and his wife became respectable. They were very
poor, and having a large family, it was very difficult for them
to provide the necessaries of life. They thought it less
criminal to steal than to starve. Necessity may palliate dis-
*This name should perhaps be Thomas Philips, who was an early
settler in Yarmouth. He is not named by Mr. Savage, and I have been
unable to find much respecting him. His wife's name was Agnesse or
Annis. In 1665, he was find ten shillings for lying. A woman supposed
to be his daughter, was found dead in the wreck of a boat at Duxbury,
Dec. 6, 1673. He died in 1674, leaving an estate appraised at £61.0.3. a
widow and eight children then surviving. In 1678, Hugh Stewart, the
administrator, had liberty to sell the house and land belonging to the
estate of Thomas Philips, deceased, and it would appear from the mode
of expression employed, that the family had then removed.

138 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
honest acts, but it cannot justify. Another consideration
may be named ; as soon as their children were able to con
tribute something by their labors for the support of the
family, no more is heard of the thievish propensities of hus
band or wife.
He had eleven children born in Yarmouth, but the
record is imperfect, most of the names being torp off and
lost. The dates remain. John, born 29th March, 1652;
one, 11th July, 1654; Elizabeth, 5th March, 1656; one,
12th May, 1659 ; one, 23d Aug. 1662 ; one, 16th Oct.
1663 ; one, 5th Oct. 1668 ; one, 1st June, 1-670 ; one, 31st
Oct. 1673, one, 12th Dec. 1677, and one other. It is prob
able that five of the above died before July, 1676. I judge
so from a mutilated record under the entry of the births.
He certainly had sons John, Richard, Samuel, Nathaniel,
who died Feb. 7, 1793-4, and Joseph, who died in 1686,
and a daughter Elizabeth, who married Josiah Jones, 28th
Nov. 1677.
John Berry was a resident of Yarmouth ; he was a
soldier in King Philip's war, and died in 1745, aged 93.
In his will he names his children Judah, Ebenezer,
Elizabeth, who married Samuel Baker, July 30, 1702;
Experience, who married  Bangs, and Mary, who
married Isaac Chase, July 23, 1706.
Samuel Berry, son of Richard, married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Bell, and had six children born in Yar
mouth, viz: A daughter, born Jan'y 19, 1682; Elizabeth,
Dec. 21, 1684; Patience, June 22, 1687; John, July 9,
1689; Samuel, Nov. 1691, and Desire, June 29, 1694.-
The father died Feb. 21, 1703-4.

Note.— A friend for whose opinion I have a high respect, reproves me
for speaking so plainly of the faults of those whose biography I write.
In the common intercourse of life, [ admit that it is a good rule to say
nothing, when yon cannot speak well of a man. Such a rule does not
apply to the writer of history. Shall all that is said in the Bible respect
ing Judas Iscariot and other vile persons be stricken out? Shall the
name of Nero and of Benedict Arnold cease to appear in history? Shall
^be name of Judge Jeflries be hereafter chronicled among the saints?—
J^hat rf a man's blood "has crept through scoundrels ever since the
flood, IS he to blame? Is it not meritorious in him to have controlled a
constitutional predisposition to do wrong? I know prudes will condemn,
and the very discreet object, yet their objecting or condemning does not
relieve the writer of historv from telling the whole truth.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 139
From these two sons of Richard, John and Samuel,
both of whom sustained good characters and were useful
citizens, the numerous families of the name of Berry on the
Cape appear to descend. As it is not a Barnstable name I
shall not trace the family farther. Among the descendants
of Richard, are many active and successful business men,
aud shipmasters, and they probably would not have suc
ceeded any better in the world if their ancestor had been
one of the most pious and distinguished among the Pilgrim
fathers.

BOURNE.

HENRY BOURNE.
Jan'y 25th, 1634-5, Henry Bourne joined the church of
Mr. Lothrop at Scituate. The suppositions of Rev. Mr.
Deane, respecting his family and relatives, appear to be
mistakes. He says, Richard of Sandwich, was his brother;
but I find no evidence that he was a relative of the pastor of
the church at Marshpee. He supposes John of Marshfield,
to be his son. John was a son of Thomas, and it does not
appear that he was connected with Henry.
He settled at first in Scituate. His wife Sarah was
dismissed from the church in Hingham to that of Scituate,
Nov. 11, 1638, and it is probable that he was married about
that time. He bought in 1637 or 8, the dwelling-house of
Richard Foxwell, the eleventh built in that town.
He was admitted a freeman of Plymouth Colony, Jan'y
2, 1637-8 ; on the grand jury in 1638, '41, '42, '46, '56, '58
and '61 ; deputy to the Colony Court from Barnstable in
1643 and '44, and surveyor of highways in 1655. At the
March Court, 1641, he was a witness against John Bryant
and Daniel Pry or of Barnstable, on a complaint for "drink
ing tobacco on the highway."
He removed with Mr. Lothrop's Church to Barnstable
in 1639. His house lot was the second west from Coggin's
Pond, now called Great Pond.* His house stood on the

* Coggin's Pond was afterwards called Hinckley's Pond, now Great
Pond — a very indefinite name. Cooper's or Nine Mile Pond is also
called Great Pond. I would suggest that the old name be revived. No
objection can be urged against it ; it is definite, and is the name by which
it was known by our ancestors.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 141
north side of the road. The ancient house known as
"Brick John Hinckley's," taken down a few years since,
stood near the location of Bourne's house.
Henry Bourne was a large, land holder. In 1654, he
owned eight acres on the north of Coggin's Pond, bounded
westerly by the marsh, northerly by the Calves Pasture and
easterly by the land of Thomas Hinckley ; and five acres of
salt meadow adjoining the same. His house lot on which
he built his house contained eight acres of upland, with
three acres of marsh adjoining ; bounded on the east by the
land of the heirs of Henry Coggin, southerly by the com
mons, west by the land of James Hamblin, and north by
the Main Creek or Harbor. The house lot extended across
the highway. The three acres was called "Bourne's Hill,"
and as it was bounded westerly by his house lot, must have
been the hill west of the house of the late Robinson Hinck
ley. He also owned two acres in the Calves pasture
adjoining his lot at Coggin's Pond, bounded northeasterly
by the highway, called Calves Pasture Lane ; three acres on
the south side of the road, near the present railroad crossing ;
ten acres of upland in the woods on the west of Pine Hill,
and six acres of marsh at Scorton.
In May, 1659, his great lot was assigned to him, and is
thus described on the records : "Forty acres of upland more
or less, bounded northerly by ye lands of Henry Coggin's
heirs ; southerly by Dolar Davis, butting easterly by ye
Indian Pond, westerly by ye commons, with an acre of
marsh more or less adjoyning to it."
"One acre of upland at Scorton, bounded southerly by
his own marsh, westerly by John Chipman, easterly by
John Coggin's upland."
I do not find the record of the death of Henry Bourne,
or his will. He was living in 1661, but at the time of the
settlement of Mr. Jonathan Russell in Sept. 1683, he had
deceased. An entry on the Church records, Jan'y 28,
1684-5, refers to him as "late deceased." I am, however,
inclined to the opinion that he had then been dead several
years. His widow Sarah was living in Sept. 1683 ; but
died soon after that date.
Henry Bourne had a still-born daughter born 7th May,
1641, and a daughter Dorcas, bap'd 26th Aug. 1649, but
the latter doc's not appear to have survived long.

142 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
It seems by an entry in the Church records, that he
made a will, and gave a legacy to the Barnstable Church.
£6.13. wp,s paid to Mrs. Bourne before her death, and
the balance, which was to be paid by Thos. Huckins, Jr.,
and John Phinney, was remitted to Thomas Huckins,
excepting £5, which was paid to the deacons of the church.

BENJAMIN.

JOSEPH BENJAMIN.
Joseph Benjamin, son of John, of Watertown, married
10th June, 1661, Jemimah, daughter of Thomas Lumbert
of Barnstable. He settled in Yarmouth before 1670, on a
farm near the meadows, on the north of the Miller farm. —
He owned an estate in Cambridge, which he sold 30th Oct.
1686. In 1680, he exchanged his farm in Yarmouth for
that of Joseph Gorham in Barnstable, now owned by Nathan
Edson. He removed" to New London, Conn.'fwhere he died
in 1704, leaving a widow, Sarah, and seven children. The
births of his children were recorded in Yarmouth, but the
record is torn and imperfect. He had Abigail ; Joseph,
1666 ; Hannah, Feb. 1668, not living in 1704; Mary, born
April, 1670, married John Clark, 16th Nov. 1697, who was
a schoolmaster ; Mercy, born March 12th, 1674 ; Elizabeth,
born Jan'y 14th, 1679-80, not living in 1704; John, born
1682, and Jemimah, Sarah and Kezia named in the settle
ment of his estate.
"The admirable, accurate and precise," record of the
s»ttlement of his estate, dated in 1704, says his son Joseph
was aged 30; John, 22; and Abigail, Jemima, Sarah,
Kezia, Mary and Mercy were all aged twenty years.J^Six at
one birth if the New London record is deserving of credit.

BUTLER.

ISRAEL BUTLER.
Respecting the ancestors of Israel Butler, I have no
information. He married July 1, 1725, Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Blossom ; she died Jan'y 7, 1734-5, aged 29, and
he married for his second wife, Oct. 29, 1735, Mary, daugh
ter of Daniel Parker, Esq. She died in 1745, aged 35. —
Children of Israel Butler born in Barnstable.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Nathaniel, born April 11, 1726, 9 o'clock, P. M.
II. Benjamin, Dec. 18, 1727, sunset.
III. Elizabeth, June 6, 1720, 12 at noon.
IV. Sarah, Oct. 31, 1732, P. M.
V. James, Dec. 15, 1736, 6 at night.
VI. Hannah, May 11, 1738.
VII. Mary, Sept. 26, 1739.
VIII. Daniel, Feb. 23, 1740-1.
This was a Sandwich and Falmouth name. There was
a family of the name in Harwich. It is said that General
Butler is a descendant of the Cape family.

BATES.

JOHN BATES.
There was a John Bates in Barnstable.in 1666 ; perhaps
only a temporary resident. He had a fight with William
Borden, the latter being drunk at the time, came off second
best. Bates was condemned to pay Borden twenty shillings
for abuse, and three shillings and four pence to the Court
for breach of the peace. Borden was fined five shillings for
being drunk, and three shillings and four pence for the
breach of the peace.
The present family in Barnstable are descendants of
another John Bates, who, by his wife Abigail, had eight
children born in Barnstable, viz. : Susannah, born July 15,
1739; Samuel, March 7, 1741-2 — died twenty-one days
after; John, Jan'y 10, 1742-3; Job, Feb. 3, 1745-6;
Mehitable, Feb. 19, 1748-9; Thomas, March 17, 1750-1;
Samuel, Sept. 27, 1754, and Seth, March 7, 1758-9.

BRYANT.

JOHN BRYANT.
John Bryaijt, house carpenter, was of Barnstable in
1640. He married in 1643, Mary, daughter of George
Lewis, for his first wife. He returned to Scituate and was
an active and useful man, much employed in the division of
lands, and other public business. In 1657, he married his
second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Witherell,
and in 1664, Mary, daughter Of Thomas Hiland. By his
first wife he had seven, and by his third, ten children.

CARSELY.

Two of this name were of the first settlers. William,
admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony, Nov. 2,
1637, and of new Plymouth, Dec. 3, 1639. He came from
Scituate to Barnstable. He was the first constable, having
been appointed June 4, 1639, O. S., the day the town was
incorporated. He married Nov. 28, 1639, at Sandwich, a
sister of the Rev. Marmaduke Matthews of- Yarmouth. It
does not appear by the record that he had any family. A
still-born child of his was buried May 7, 1641.
His house lot, containing six acres of upland more or
less, was bounded easterly by Mr. Linnell's, westerly by
Tristram Hull's, southerly by the highway, and northerly by
the marsh. He had one acre of meadow at the north end,
butting northeasterly on the harbor. He sold a part of his
house lot to Hon. Barnabas Lothrop about the year 1658.
William Casely was a man who had received a good
education, — had some knowledge of Latin, had perhaps
studied law, and was employed by the first settlers to draw
legal instruments. He was a member of Mr. Lothrop's
Church, but the date of his admission does not appear.
Thus far he has a clean record. He was a vain, self-con
ceited, vulgar fellow. Common decency forbids stating
particulars. He was excommunicated from the Church,
Sept. 5, 1641, and among other reasons which I omit, he is
charged with being "much given to Idleness, and too much
to jearing" — "observed alsoe by some to bee somewhat
proud." The sentence of excommunication was pronounced
by Rev. Mr. Mayo. The record adds : "William Carsely
took it patiently.''

148 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
John Carsely was also one of the first settlers, and it has
been supposed that he was a brother of William. I find no
evidence that such was the fact. He came from Scituate.
He was unlearned, not a church member, and his record is
not creditable to him. March 1, 1661-2, he and his. wife
Alice were presented "for fornication in unlawfully com-
panying before their marriage." John was condemned to
be whipped, and Alice to set in the stocks while the punish
ment was inflicted ; all of which was duly performed June
7, 1642. He was fined three shillings and four pence,
March 6, 1665-6, for a breach of the public peace.
His house lot contained four acres. The southwest
corner of his lot was near "the prison," there being a nar
row strip of common land between it and the road now
known as Jail Lane. The northwest corner of Carsely's lot
was at the southwest corner of Mr. John Lothrop's orchard
in 1703. On the north it was bounded partly by the hill
"against the highway," and partly by the swamp, the north
east corner stake standing south of James Paine's shop. On
the east it was bounded partly by Mr. Linnell's land and
partly by Richard Child's land, the eastern boundary being
in 1708 in the range of Wid. Abigail Sturgis' barn. On the
south it was bounded by common land, afterwards
granted partly to Mr. Linnell, and three-fourths of an acre
near the Jail to John Otis. In 1661, four acres in addition
were granted to him, bounded north by Mr. Linnell, east
by Joseph Lothrop,* south and west by the commons.

* It it erroneously stated in the account of the lots purchased by Mr.
Thomas Allyn, that Capt. Samuel Hayo bought the lot between Bev. Mr.
Mayo's and Tristram Hull's lot. of John Casely. When I wrote that article,
I had not read the proprietor's records. The descriptions are very indefi
nite, but a comparison of the records of lots in the vicinity of John
Casely's house lot has been made, and the description above given I
think is reliable. This tract of land containing eight acres was above
the "poly pod swamp," and extended forty rods east and west and
thirty-two rods north and south, and was bounded west by John Casely,
and east by James Naybor's land. The latter was bounded east by the
highway, — probably the road into the woods east of the old Sturgis tav
ern. It would seem from this investigation that the ancient road fol
lowed the present road from the Jail to Capt. Wilson's house, then turn
ing to the south to the head of Capt. Joseph Lothrop's land, then followed
the south edge of the swamp and joined the present road, near the house
of the late Capt. Joshua Loring. This view of the matter makes the rec
ord of the laying out of the road in 1686 intelligible.. On reaching Capt.
Lothrop's land, Instead of turning to the southeast they turned to the
north, through his land over a private causeway across tlie swamp which
was narrow at that place.

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Twenty acres were also granted to him on the west of the
land of James Claghorn, which he sold 20th April, 1675, to
Joshua Lumbert for £7.
He married twice; first, in 1642, to Alice  , and
second, Sarah  . He died in 1693, and his widow
married Samuel Norman. There is no record of his family.
In the settlement of his estate on the probate records, his
children John, Benjamin, Sarah, who married Elisha Smith,
April 20, 1719, are named; John, Jr., removed to Yar
mouth where he died Jan'y 13, 1705-6.
Benjamin Casely married March 4, 1713-14, Mary
Godfrey of Yarmouth.
John Casely married May 17, 1739, Dorcas Hamblin,
and had children born in Barnstable, namely :
Children born in Barnstable.
I. John, born Feb. 14, 1740.
II. Ebenezer, born Aug. 12, 1744.
III. Mary, born May 23, 1749.
IV. Seth, born Feb. 21, 1751.
V. Isaac, born July 10, 1753.
VI. Dorcas, born July 8, 1755.
VII. Eunice, born Sept. 19, 1759.
Benjamin Casely, Jr., married Nov. 29, 1739, Huldah
Hinckley, and had children, namely :
I. Ambrose, June 19, 1741.
II. Benjamin, March 9, 1743.
III. Thomas, Feb. 14, 1745 ; lost with Capt. Magee, Dec.
27, 1778.
IV. Lemuel, Nov. 17, 1747.
V. Samuel, Dec. 3, 1749.
VI. Hannah, Dec. 2, 1750.
VII. Mehitabel, Jan'y 8, 1758.
VIII. David, March 15.
Lemuel, son of Benjamiji, Jr., had a family, the last of
the name in Barnstable.
It is a fact worthy of note that of the forty-five first
comers to Barnstable, who were heads of families, proprie
tors, and regularly admitted townsmen, prior to January 5,
1643-4, there were only four who did not sustain good moral
characters, and whose lives were not in accordance with the
religion which they professed. These four were John Crocker,

150 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNiSTABLE FAMILIES.
William and John Casely, and Thomas Shaw, neither of
whom have any male descendants in the town or county of
Barnstable. John Crocker's crime was committed before he
came to Barnstable, and strictly cannot be charged as the
act of a Barnstable man. The charges against William
Casely were not criminal, and did not subject him to any
legal punishment. Though educated, he was a vulgar man,
and though a professor of religion, he did not live a Chris
tian life. He was weak-minded, vain, frivolous, and com
mitted acts that gentlemen are ashamed to have laid to their
charge. The sentence of ex-communication pronounced
against him was a righteous one ; and though he continued
to reside in Barnstable, he sunk into merited ignominy. —
The crime for which John Casely was punished is not stated,
and as the laws are now administered he would not be held
liable in the manner he was two centuries ago.
The complaint against Thomas Shaw was that he went
into the house of his neighbor, John Crocker, on the Sab
bath, and helped himself to something to eat. It was not a
justifiable act, neither was it very criminal. (See Matthew,
Chap, xii : 1 to 6.)
In these three short paragraphs I have given an abstract
of the criminal calender of a generation of men, the first set
tlers, the ancestors of nineteen-twentieths of the present
inhabitants of Barnstable. If a parallel can be found in the
annals of any of our towns, I am not aware of it.

CHAPMAN.

ISAAC CHAPMAN.
Ralph Chapman came in the Elizabeth from London in
1635. His age is stated in the Custom House return to be
20. He was a ship carpenter of Southwalk, in Surry, near
London. He settled first in Duxbury, and there married
23d Nov. 1642, Lydia Wells, a daughter of Isaac, after-.
wards of Barnstable.* His children were Mary, born 31st
Oct. 1643 ; Sarah, 15th May, 1645 : Isaac, Aug. 4, 1647 ;
Lydia, born and died 26th Nov. 1649 ; Ralph, 20th June,
1653, died next month, and Ralph again. His daughter
Mary married 14th May, 1666, William Troop of Barnsta
ble, and Sarah married William Norcut of Yarmouth, after
wards of Eastham. His son Ralph of Marshfield, had a son
John reputed to be 104 years of age at his death. The
elder Ralph died at Marshfield in 1671, aged 56.
Isaac Chapman, son of Ralph, settled in Barnstable.
He married Sept. 2, 1678, Rebecca, daughter of James
Leonard. His house and shop stood on the south side of
the County road on the lot formerly owned by Isaac Wells,
a short distance west of the Court House. Children born in
Barnstable. Children born in Barnstable.
I. Lydia, 15th Dec 1679.
II. John, 12th May, 1638.
III. Hannah, 26th Dec. 1682, died July 6, 1689.
* Mr. Savage says Lydia Wills or Willis. I read the record Wells ;
but cannot at this moment give the authority for saying she was a
daughter of Isaac Wells of Barnstable. Isaac Chapman and John Miller
of Yarmouth, were heirs to the estate of Margaret, widow of Isaac
Wells. It may be that Ralph Chapman's wife was not a daughter, but
it is probable.

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IV. James, 5th August, 1685, married Aug. 14, 1723,
Mehitabel Sharp.
V. Abigail, 11th July, 1687.
VI. Hannah, 10th April, 1690.
VII. Isaac, 29th Dec. 1692.
VIII. Ralph, 19th Jan'y, 1695.
IX. Rebecca, 1st June, 1697.
Isaac Chapman removed to Yarmouth, now Dennis,
vrith his family where he has descendants. His son Isaac,
by his wife Elizabeth, had Isaac, 7th April, 1711 ; Mary,
6th June, 1713 ; Rebecca, 14th Nov. 1725, died Dec. 30,
1726 ; Samuel, 14th Nov. 1727 ; Rebecca, 25th June, 1730 ;
Ruth, 13th April, 1733 ; Micah, 18th July, 1735.
Ralph Chapman, son of Isaac, by his wife Elizabeth,
had John, born 22d  , 1728-9 ; Betty, 15th Oct. 1736,
and David, 15th Nov. 1739.

Note. — As this is not a Barnstable family, I have not carefully ex
amined the Yarmouth or the Probate Records. Persons interested can
find materials for a full geneaology of the family.

CHIPMAN.

ELDER JOHN CHIPMAN.
Elder John Chipman is probably the ancestor of all of the
name of Chipman in the United States and British Provinces. The
following statement, drawn up by himself, is printed from an an
cient copy of the original in the possession of the family of the
late Mr. Samuel Chipman of Sandwich. An incorrect copy was
published in the Genealogical Register of 1850. The following
has been carefully collated with the manuscript, and is a true tran
script thereof, excepting four words, which are repetitions and
erased in the manuscript. Interlineations are printed in italics.
A Brief Declaration in Behalf of Jno. Ohipman of Barnstable.
A Brief Declaration with humble Request (to whom these
Presents shall come) for further Inquiry & Advice in ye behalf of
John Chipman, now of Barnstable in the Government of New Pli-
mouth in New England In America, being ye only Son & Heu of
Mr. Thomas Chipman Late Deceased at Brinspittell 1 about five
miles from Dorchester in Dorsetshire in England concerning some
certain Tenement or Tenements with a Mill & other Edifice there
unto belonging Lying & being in Whitchurch of Marhwood vale
near Burfort aUas Breadport, in Dorsetshue aforsd hertofore
worth 40 or 50 Pounds pr Annum which were ye Lands of ye sd
Thomas Chipman being entailed to him & his Heirs for Ever but
hath for Sundry years Detained from ye sd John Chipman the
right & only Proper Heir thereunto. By reason of Some kinde of
Sale made of Inconsiderable value by the sd Thomas (In the time
of his Single Estate not then minding marriage) unto his kinsman
Mr. Christopher Derbe Living Sometune in Sturtle near Burfort
aforsd being as the Said John hath been Informed, but for 40 lb
And to be maintained Like a man with Diet Apparel &e by the
sd Christopher as Long as the sd Thomas Should Live whereat ye
Lawyer wc. made the Evidences being troubled at his Weakness
in taking Such an Inconsiderable Price tendered him to Lend him
money or to give to htm ye sd Thomas Seven Hundred Pounds for
ye sd Lands. But yet the matter Issuing as Aforsd The Vote of
the Countrv who had knowledge of it was that the sd Thomas had

154 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
much wrong in it Especially After it pleased God to change his
condition, and to give him Children, being turned off by the sd
Christopih^r only with a poor Cottage and Garden Spott instead of
his forsd Maintainance to the great wrong of his Children Espec
ially of his Son John Aforsd to whom ye Sd Lands by right of En
tailment did belong Insomuch that mr William Derbe who had the
sd Lands in his Possession then from his father Christopher Derbe
told the sd John Chipman (being then a youth) that his father
Christopher had done him wrong, but if ye sd Lands prospered
with him that he would then consider the sd John to do for him in
way of recompence for the Same when he should be of capacity in
years to make use thereof. The sd John further declareth that
one mr Derbe A Lawyer of Dorchester (he supposes ye father of
that mr Derbe now Living in Dorchester) being a friend to the
mother of the sd John told her being Acquainted with ye Business
and sorry for the Injury to her Heir, that if it pleased God he
Liv'd to be of Age he would himself upon his own charge make a
tryal for the recovery of it, and in case he recovere it Shee Should
give him 10 lb Else he would have nothing for his trouble and
charge. Furthermore John Derbe late deceased of Yarmouth in
New Phmouth Government Aforsd hath acknowledged here to
the sd John Chipman that his father Christopher had done him
much wrong in the forsd Lands but ye sd John Chipman being but
in a poor and mean outward condition, hath hitherto been Afraid
to stir in it as thinking he should never get it from ye rich and
mighty, but being now Stirred up by some friends as Judging it
his Duty to make more Effectual Inquu-y after it for his own com
fort his wife and childrens which God hath been pleased to bestow
on him if any thing may be done therein, & in what way it may be
• attained, whether without his coming over which is mostly Deshed
if it may bee. Because of exposing his wife & children to Some
Straits in his Absence from them, he bath therefore, Desued these
as aforsd Desiring also Some Search may be made for farther
Light in ye case into the Records the conveyance of the Said
Lands being made as he Judgeth about threescore years Since as
Also that Enquiry be made of his Sisters which he supposeth
lived about those parts & of whom else it may be thought meet,
and Advice sent over as Aforsd, not Else at present But hoping
that there be Some Left yet in England alike Spirited with him in
29 Job whom the Ear that heareth of may bless God for Deliver
ing ye poor that crieth and him that hath no helper Bein Eyes to
the blind feet to the Lame A father to the Poor Searching out ye
cause which he knoweth not, &c. Barnstable as Aforsd this 8th
of Feb. (57.) John Chipman Desires his Love be presented to
his Sisters Hannor aud Tamson and to hear particularly from them
if Living and doth further request that Enquiry be made of mr
Oliver Lawrence of Arpittle who was an intimate friend of his

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fathers. He deshes also Enquu-y be made of his Sisters what
those parchment writeiugs concerned in the custody of his mother
when he was there.
The sd John Chipman Supposeth his age to be About thirty
seven years ; it being next may Twenty & one year Since he come
out of England. ¦^ ¦ J J ¦
On the 2d of March, 1641-2, Ann Hinde, the wife of WilUam
Hoskins, deposed before Gov. Edward Winslow, relative to a
matter in controversy between John Derbey and John Chipman.
She stated that she was then about 25 years of age, that she lived
with Mr. Christopher Derbey at the time when John Chipman
came to New England to serve Mr. Richard Derbey a 'son of
Christopher, and a brother of John, that she afterwards came over
to serve the said Richard, and that when she left, old Mr. Derbey
requested her "to commend him to his cozen (nephew) Chipman,
and tell him if he were a good boy, he would send him over the
money that was due to him, when he saw good." She also testi
fied that she had heard John Derbey affirm that the money had
been paid to John Chipman's mother, who died about three months
before her old master sent this message by her to his nephew
Chipman. The object of this deposition was to establish the fad
that John Derbey did not pay the money to Chipmans's mother,
because she died three months before Mr. Christopher Derbey
made the promise to send it.
John Chipman, only son of Mr. Thomas Chipman, was born
in or near Dorchester in Dorcetshire, England, about the year

1. Brinspittell or Brinspudel, Dorsetshire, is between Affpudel and
the river Piddle. Dorsetshire, from the .mildness of the air and the
beauties of its situation has been termed the garden of England.
2. Whitchurch, west of Bridport, a seaport town, is one of the largest
parishes in the county. It has a large and ancient church in which are
some antique ornaments.
3. Marshwood, with its vale and park, four miles N. W. of Whit
church, was formerly a barony of great honor.
4. Bnrtport, or rather Hritport, called also Bridport and Britport,
Dorsetshire. A seaport borough and market town in the hundred of
Sturminster. 5. Sturhill, Bridport Division, Godbertorne Hundred, Dorcetshire.
6. Athpuddel in Dorcetshire.
All the places named are in Dorcet County or shire England, as stated
in an article in the Genealogical Register communicated by Rev. Richard
M. Chipman. In the same article Mr. Chipman presumes that "Hannor"
and "Tamson," the sisters of Elder John, are the names of their hus
bands. He reads the name of Tamson, Jamson ; and supposes Thomp
son was intended. This reading probably led to the error. Hannah
and Tamson or Thomasine, are common names, and there seems to be no
good reason to doubt that they were the Christian names of his sisters.
The Declaration is dated Feb. 8, 16,57. O. S., which is Feb. 18, 1658, N. S.
Deduct 21 years, and it gives May, 1637, as the date of his leaving
England. The date of his birth by the same rule is 1621.

156 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
1621. He had two sisters Hannah and Tamson, who married and
remained in England. His father died early, and he resided with
his uncle, Mr. Christopher Derbey. In May, 1637, Mr. Richard
Derbey, a son of Christopher, came to New England, bringing
with him his cousin John, then sixteen years of age, and others,
in the capacity of servants. It was then customary to send over
orphan youths of good habits, to be bound for a term of years, to
the planters and other early settlers. Mr. Richard Derbey settled
at Plymouth, where he remained several years ; but no mention is
made of his cousin John till the spring of 1642, when he had
arrived kt legal age, and when he brought an action against his
cousin, Mr; John Derbey, for a sum of money sent to him by his
uncle Christopher, and not paid over by said John Derbey.
It is probable that during the four years that had intervened, he
had served an apprenticeship with a carpenter. This is not cer
tain ; but it appears by his will that he was a carpenter, though in
deeds he is styled a yeoman.
In Aug. 1643, he was absent from the colony, or was sick
and unable to bear arms ; but it appears that he was afterwards a
resident of Plymouth. In 1646, he married Hope, second daugh
ter of Mr. John Howland. In 1649, he was of Barnstable, and
that year bought the homestead of Edward Fitzrandolphe, the
original deed whereof is in my possession. The land has since
been sub-divided many times, and is now owned by several indi
viduals. It was bounded on the north by the County road, east
by the Hyannis road, extending across the present line of the rail
road, and was bounded south by the commons, and on the west
by the homestead of George Lewis, Senr., and contained eight
acres. The deed also conveyed a garden spot and orchard on the
north side of the County road, now owned by Capt. Heman Foster.
The ancient house on this estate stood between the present dwel
lings of the heirs of Anna Childs, deceased, and the house formerly
owned by Isaiah L. Greene, Esq. How long he resided on this
estate is not known. In 1659, it was owned and occupied by John
Davis, Senr. Probably about this time he removed to Great
Marshes. No lands are recorded as belonging to him in 1654,*
when all were required to have their possessions entered and de
scribed on the town books. He may have resided about that time
in another town, though he was of Barnstable in 1659. He bought
of his brother-in-law, Lieut. John Howland, one half of his farm

* Perhaps he did own lands ; but neglected to have them recorded.
That he was not careful in regard to his title deeds there is evidence'.
His deed from Fitzrandolphe was not executed till 1669, twenty years
after the purchase, and the consideration in his deed from Howland in
dicates that the purchase was made many years before the date of the
deed. Farms no better in the same vicinity were sold about that time
for four times £16.

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which is now owned by his descendants. The deed is dated Dec.
10, 1672, and for the consideration of £16 Mr. Howland conveys
to him one-half of his lands in Barnstable, containing forty-five
acres of upland. The deed is in the hand writing of Gov. Thom
as Hinckley, is on parchment, and is now in the possession of the
family of Mr. Samuel Chipman of Sandwich. The lands sold
were bounded, easterly, partly by the land of John Otis and partly
by the land of AYilliam Crocker, northerly by the marsh, westerly
by the other half of the lands not sold. The boundaries are par
ticularly described, and the range between Howland and Chipman
ran over a well or spring, giving each a privilege thereto. Mr.
Howland names his northern orchard, showing that at that early
date he had set out two. Elder Chipman owned lands at West
Barnstable before 1672, for in the same deed he makes an ex
change of meadow with his brother-in-law. After his second mar
riage in 1684 he removed to Sandwich. He was admitted an
inhabitant of that town in 1679, but appears to have been in Barn
stable in 1682. His removal was deeply regretted by the people,
and many efforts were unsuccessfully made to induce him to return
to Barnstable. The church, though dissatisfied at his removal
without their consent, agreed to pay him five or six pounds annu
ally, if he would resume his office of Elder, and the town voted
to make him a liberal grant of meadow lands if he would return.
These votes show that his services were appreciated by the mem
bers of the church, with which he had held communion nearly
forty years, and that he was highly esteemed as a man and a
christian by his fellow townsmen and neighbors.
His connection with the Barnstable church was most happy.
His wife Hope joined the church Aug. 7, 1650, and he joined
Jan'y 30, 1652-3. "Henry Cobb and John Chipman were chosen
and ordained to be ruling Elders of this same church, and they
were solemnly invested with office upon ye 1 4th day of April Anno
Dom:I670." [Church Records.
It is probable that he was a deacon of the church before he
was elected Elder. He survived Mr. Cobb many years, and was
the last RuUng Elder of the church. Subsequently, attempts were
made to revive the office. The question was frequently discussed
at church meetings ; but a majority opposed another election.
His talents and services in civil life were duly appreciated.
In June, 1659, he and Isaac Robinson and John Smith of Barn
stable, and John Cook of Plymouth, were appointed by the Ply
mouth Colony Court to attend the meetings of the Quakers "to en
deavour to reduce them from the errors of their way es."— The re
sult was that Robinson, whose name appears most prominent in
these proceedings, recommended the repeal of the severe laws that
had been enacted against that sect. Smith and Chipman did not
incur the censure of the Court, though there is no reason to doubt

158 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
that they sympathized with Robinson in his views respecting the
impolicy of those laws.
In 1649 he was a freeman, and in 1652 he was a grand juror,
and appointed by the Treasurer of the Colony, a committee for
the Town of Barnstable to receive the proportion of oil taken
which belonged to the Colony ; in 1663, '4, '5, '8 and_ '9 hewas
representative from Barnstable to the Colony Court; in 166y, '6,
'7, and '8 he was one of the selectmen of Barnstable, who at that
time exercised, in addition to other duties, the functions since per
taining to justices of the peace ; and in 1667 he was one of the
council of war. For his public services the court in 1669 granted
him one hundred acres of land, between Taunton and Titicut,
which was afterwards confirmed to him.
His will is dated at Sandwich, Nov. 12, 1702, and was proved
May 17, 1708. In it he says : "I will and bequeath to Ruth, my
dear and loving wife, all whatsoever is left of her estate, which I
had with her when I married her. I also give her one half part of
my whole personal estate which shall be found in Sandwich at my de
cease.. Besides and moreover, all the carts plows and husbandry
implements, as also all the corn meat, fias wool, yarn and cloth
that is in the house at my decease, aud I do give her twenty
pounds in money which is due to her by ye compact made between
• us at our inter-marriage ; she according to sd compact, upon pay
ment of this twenty pounds to quitt claim to all riglit and title and
interest in my housing and lands att Barnstable, and this twenty
pounds shall be paid her out of that money of mine in ve hand of
my friend Mr. Jonathan Russell of Barnstable."
He bequeathes to his sons Samuel and John his whole real
estate in Barnstable, Samuel two parts and John one part, unless
my son Samuel pay his brother John £70 in lieu of his third part.
He gives his son Samuel his carpenters tools, then in his posses
sion. To his two grand children Mary Gale and Jabez Dimmock
£5 apiece. He names his daughters, Elizabeth, Hope, Lydia,
Hannah, Ruth, Bethia, Mercy aud Deshe. He appoints his sons
Samuel aud John executors, and Mr. Jonathan Russell and Mr.
Rowland Cotton overseers. Witnesses, Rowland Cotton, Samuel
Prince and Nathan Bassett. In the inventory of his ^tate, taken
by Wm. Bassett and Shubael Smith, it stated that he died 7 April,
1708. His real estate is not apprised. — Among the articles ap
prised is plate at 8 sh per ounce, £8.2. ; Cash, at 8 sh per ounce,
£51.5.3. ; Bills of Credit, £6.6. ; Cash in lAIr. Jonathan Russell's
hands £20. 18 books, small and great, £1.
The wUl of his widow Ruth is dated Dec. 7, 1710, proved
Oct. 8, 1713. As she had no children living, she gave her estate
to her relatives and friends. Of the Chipman family she names
only Bathsheba, a daughter of Mr. Melatiah Bourne, and Jabez

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 159
Dimmock, both grand children of Elder Chipman. Family of El
der John Chipman :
The bu-ths of twelve children of Elder Chipman are recorded ;
one at Plymouth and eleven in Barnstable, Elizabeth is the only
child named, older than Hope. In his wUl dated at Sandwich,
Nov. 12, 1702, and proved May 17, 1708, he names sons Samuel
and John, and daughters Ehzabeth, Hope, Lydia, Hannah, Ruth,
Mercy, Bethia and Desire.
To his daughters, he gave half his moveable estate in
Sandwich and Barnstable, excepting the articles given to Samuel,
and he adds the following proviso : ' 'And in case any of my said
daughters be dead before their receiving this my bequest, my will
is that then- part be given and distributed equally to their surviv
ing children." Two of the daughters, Hannah and Ruth, were
then dead, and it is probable that Bethia had also deceased.
His first wife was Hope, second daughter of John Howland
and Elizabeth Tiley. Until the discovery of Bradford's History
in 1855, in the Library of the Bishop of London, it had been sup
posed that his first wife was a daughter of Gov. Carver. — She died in
Barnstable and was bui-ied in the ancient burying ground on Lo
throp's Hill. Her monument is in good preservation, and the fol
lowing is a copy of the inscription :
Here lteth
Interred ye Body of
Mrs. Hope Chipman
WIFE OF Elder John Chipman
AGED 54 YEARS
WHO CHANGED THIS LIFE
FOR A BETTEK
YE 8th of January
16 8 3.
He married for his second wife the Wid. Wth Bourne. She
was a daughter of Mr. William Sargeant, born in Charlestown 25«
Oct. 1642, married first, Jonathan, sou of Josiah Winslow of
Marshfield, second, Mr. Richard Bourne of Sandwich. She died
in Sandwich in 1713, aged 71, leaving no issue. Elder John Chip-
man died in Sandwich 7 April, 1708, aged 87 years. Children of
Elder John Chipman :
I. Elizabeth, born 24 June, 1 647 at Plymouth, baptized in Barn
stable, Aug. 18, 1650. Mrs. Hope Chipman was admitted
to the church on the 7th of Aug. 1650, and Elder John
Chipman Jan'y 30, 1652-3. Hope was baptized, according
to Puritan usage, on the Sabbath next succeeding her birth,
namely on the 5th of Sept. 1652, having been born on the
31st of the preceeding August. — Elizabeth was the second

160 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
wife of Hosea Joyce of Yarmouth. He married flrst Mar
tha, and had John and Dorcas. His wife Martha died
April 3, 1670, and he married Elizabeth Chipman before
1676, and had Samuel, June I, 1676 ; Thomas, June 3,
1678, and Mary, Sept. 19, 1680. The above is all i}hat can
now be obtained from the Yarmouth record, which is muti
lated and a part of the leaf gone. By his whl it is ascer
tained that he had ten children, two by his first wife Mar
tha, and eight by his second wife Ehzabeth Chipman. 1,
John, married, first, Margaret, daughter of John Miller,
Feb. 5, 1701-2', and second, Esther, daughter of Jonathan
White, Nov. 7, 1707. He died in 1714, leaving two daugh
ters, Desire and Fear. His widow married John Drake of
Yarmouth, and removed to East Greenwich, R. I., about the
year 1726 ; 2, Dorcas, married Aug. 8, 1695, Prince Howes
of Yarmouth ; 3, Samuel, died unmarried in 1741, aged 65 ;
4, Thomas, married March 19, 1719, Mary, dar^hter of
Jeremiah Bacon of Barnstable. He had one son Jeremiah
a cripple, died unmarried in 1755, and five daughters noted
for their beauty. He was a man of wealth, became
melancholy, and from fear of starvation committed suicide
20 April, 1743 ;-6, Mary, married James Gorham Sept. 29,
1707, aud had five children. The other children of Hosea
Joyce were Hosea, whom his father cut off in his will by
giving him his "smaU gun" ; Lydia who married Nov. 20,
1706, Ebenezer Howes ; Martha, who married  Godfrey ;
Mehitable ; and Dorothy who married Dec. 12, 1717, John
Oats, an Englishman. His descendants write their name
Otis, and reside principally in Maine. Hosea Joyce died in
Feb. 1712, and his widow Elizabeth survived him. He had
a large landed estate, and in his will calls his wife "well
beloved," though he appears to have loved his money
better, for he gave her but a small portion of his estate.
"The stille-lforne maicle childe of John Chipman buryed
« Sept. 9, 1650."— [Church Records.
II. Hope, born August 31, 1652, in Barnstable, married Aug.
10, 1670, John, son of Mr. Thomas Huckins of Barnstable,
and had EHzabeth, 1 Oct. 1671 ; Mary, 3 April, 1673 ; Ex
perience, 4 June, 1675, and Hope, 10 May, 1677. John
Huckins died 10 Nov. 1678, aged 28, and she married
March I, 1682-3, Jonathon, son of Elder Henry Cobb of
Barnstable,. born 10 April, 1660. He was twenty-two and
his wife thirty at the time of their marriage. By him she
had five children born in Barnstable. June 3, 1703, she
was dismissed from the Church in Barnstable, to the Church
in Middleboro'. From that town the family removed to
Portland, Maine. (See Cobb.)

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•III. Lydia, born Dec. 25, 1654. She was the thu-d wife of
John, son of Mr. William Sargeant of Barnstable, removed
to Maiden, where she died March 2, 1730, aged 76, leaving
no issue.
IV. John, born 2d March, 1656-7, died 29th May, 1657.
V. Hannah, born 14th Jan'y, 1658-9, married Thomas Huckins,
May 1, 1680. She died in Barnstable, 4th Nov. 1696, aged
37, leaving eight children. (See Huckins.)
VI. Samuel, born I5th April, 1661.— He had ten children. Many
of his sons were distinguished men. (See an account of his
family below.)
VII. Ruth, born 31st Dec. 1663, married 7th April, 1682, Eleazer
Crocker of Barnstable. She died 8th April,' 1698, aged 34,
leaving ten children. (See Crocker.)
VIII. Bethia, born 1st July, 1666, married, as I have noted, Shu
bael Dimmock. The Jabez Dimmock and Mary Gale named
in the will of Elder Chipman were probably children of
Bethia. She died early. Shubael Dimmock married 4th
May, 1699, Tabitha Lothropf or his second wife.
IX. Mercy, born 6th Feb., W68, married Dea. Nathaniel Skiff,
removed to Chilmark where she died.
X. John, born 3d March, 1670-1. (See account of him below.)
XI. Desire, born 26th Feb., 1673-4, married Hon. Melatiah
Bourne of Sandwich, Feb. 23, 1695-6. She died March 28,
1705, aged 31. (See Bourne, where her name in one place
is erroneously printed Bethia, and in the same paragraph
"Rev." before the name of Thomas Smith should be
erased.)
Dea. Samuel Chipman, son of Elder John Chipman, born in
Barnstable, I5th April, 1661, inherited the homestead of his
father. He was a carpenter ; but farming was his principal busi
ness. He kept a public house, and was a retailer of spirituous
liquors, a business not then held to be incompatible with the office
of Deacon of the church. He was a man of good business habits,
often employed as a town officer, and there were few in town who
stood higher than he in public estimation. He was ordained a
deacon of the church in Barnstable, Sept. 1, 1706.* He married
Dec. 27, 1686, Sarah, daughter of Elder Henry Cobb. He died
in 1723, aged 63, and his widow Sarah Jan'y 8, 1742-3, aged 79
years. Children of Dea. Samuel Chipman born in Barnstable.
I. Thomas, born, 17th Nov., 1687. He removed to Groton,
*After this date the custom of ordaining deacons appears to have been discontinued.
The subject was discussed at several meetings of the Church, but a majority was not in fa
vor of reviving the custom. The deacons of the East Church, organized in 1725, were not
ordained. Aug. 6, 1732, a church meeting was held to consider the propriety of reviving
the office of Ruling Elder and ordaining deacons. Aug. 21, 1734, another meeting was
held, which was not harmonious.

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Conn., where he remained several years, and from that town*
removed to Salisbury, Conn., where he held high rank in the
town and county. He was appointed a judge in 1751 ; but
died before he held a court. His sou, Samuel, who removed
to Tinmouth, Vt., was the father of Chief Justice Nathaniel
Chipman, L. L. D., and of the late Hon. Daniel Chipman of
Vermont. (See Hinman, page 576.)
II. Samuel, born Aug. 6, 1689. He was a deacon of the Barn
stable Church, and kept the "Chipman tavern," noted in
former times. He married Dec. 8, 1715, Abiah, (bap'd
Abigail) daughter of John Hinckley, Jr., (son of Gov.
Thomas.) She died July 15, 1736, and he married second,
Mrs. Mary Green of Boston, 1739. His children were, 1, a
son born Aug. 1717, died 26th Aug. following ; 2, Hannah,
born 1st July, 1719 ; 3, Samuel, born 21st November, 1721,
removed to Groton, Conn., and had descendants in that
vicinity; 4, Dea. Timothy, born 30th April, 1723, married
Elizabeth Bassett of Sandwich, Jan'y 23, 1752. He was a
deacon of the church in West Barnstable, and died Aug. 24,
1770. His children were Abigail, Dec. 9. 1752, died young ;
Samuel, May 8, 1754 ; Mary, Nov. 1, 1756 ; Abigail, again
Jan'y 31, 1758, died young; William, Feb. 4, 1760; John,
June 24, 1762 ; Timothy, May 6, 1764 ; and Ehzabeth, Jan'y
27, 1767, who died young. Ebenezer, 5th child of Dea.
Samuel, born 9th of Sept., 1726, removed to Middletown,
Conn., where he has descendants. John, sixth child of
Dea. Samuel, born June 30, 1728, removed to Stratford,
Conn., and thence to Middletown. Hinman says he has
descendants residing at New Haven, Waterbury, &c. ; 7,
Mary, daughter of Dea. Samuel, born 2d May, 1731, mar
ried March 11, 1750, Samuel Jenkins of Barnstable, and
removed to Gorham, Maine. Mr. Charles H. Bursley has
two interesting letters from her, and one from her husband
after their removal. Her children born in Barnstable were,
Josiah, Sept. 30, 1750; Deborah, Feb. 2, 1752; Abiah,
Jan'y, 27, 1754; Samuel, Nov. 23, 1755 ; Mary, Jan'y 16,
1758, and Joseph, June 6, 1760. The three sons were sol--
diers in the Revolutionary army. Joseph died April 20,
1783, near West Point, of consumption. He had been in
the army two years. The other members of the family mar
ried and had families. Mr. Jenkins writing respecting his
grandchildren, says "It seems to me they are the prettiest
children that I see anywhere." Nathaniel, eighth child of
Dea. Samuel was born 31st January, 1732-3 ; Joseph, ninth
child, born 26th May, 1740, died July 4, 1740.
III. John, born 16th Feb., 1691, graduated at Harvard College,
1771, aud ordained over the second church at Beverly, Dec.

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28, 1715. He married Feb. 12, 1718, Rebecca, daughter of
Dr. Robert Hale. He died March 23, 1775. His son John,
born Oct. 23, 1722, graduated at Harvard College 1738. He
was a lawyer and resided at Marblehead. His son Ward, a
graduate of Harvard College, 1770, was a Judge of the
Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and died president of
that province. He left an only child, the late Chief Justice
Ward Chipman, L. L. D.
IV. Abigail, born 15th Sept., 1692, she was baptised Oct. 30,
1692, by the name of Mercy. Probably her name was
changed to Abigail after her baptism. She married March
14, 1713, Nath'l Jackson.
V. Joseph, born 10th .January, 1694, according to the town
.record. He was baptized March 4, 1692-3, so that both
records cannot be accurate.
VI. Jacob, born 30th Aug., 1695, married 25th Oct., 1721, Abi
gail Fuller, she died Oct. 6, 1724, and he married for his
second wife in 1725, Bethia Thomas. He had children,
Sarah, born Nov. 23, 1722, and Elizabeth, June 16, 1724,
afterwards changed to Abigail. The latter married July 8,
1742, Stephen Cobb.
VII. Seth, born 24th Feb. 1697. In 1723 he was of Plymouth
and called a cooper. He was afterwards of Kingston, and
is the ancestor of most of the name in Maine.
VIII. Hannah, born 24th Sept., 1699, married Dec. 25, 1713,
Barnabas Lothrop, Jr., his second wife, she died, June 11,
1763..
IX. Sarah, born 1st November, 1701. She died July I, 1715,
aged 14 years and 8 months, and is buried near her grand
mother in the ancient burying ground.
X. Barnabas, born 24th March, 1702. He was a deacon of the
West Church, and was an influential citizen. He has de
scendants in Vermont, Michigan and Iowa. He married
20th Feb., 1727-8, Elizabeth Hamblen and had 1, Barnabas
28th Dec, 17^8, who married Mary Blackwell of Sandwich
in 1721, and had Martha, Sept. 4,' 1752 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 8
1755; Joseph, May 14, 1758, deacon of the East Church
Hannah, June 6, 1760 ; and Barnabas, Nov. 20, 1763 ; 2
Joseph, born 22d Dec. 1731 ; 3, Elizabeth, 12th May, 1734
she married Nov. 23, 1768, Nath'l Hinckley, 2d. ; 4, Thom
as, born 5th March, 1735-6, married Bethia FuUer of Col
Chester in 1760, and had Timothy Fuller, Feb. 1, 1761
Isaac, Sept. 12, 1762, and Rebecca, Jan'y 26, 1764
Hannah, 20th Feb. 1737-8.
John Chipman, son of Elder John, born in Barnstable, March
3, 1670, was a cordwainer, or shoemaker. He removed early to
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afterwards to Newport, R. I. During his residence at Martha's
Vineyard he was one of the Justices of the Court, and after his
removal to Newport, he was an assistant to the governor. Re
specting him I have little information ; but it is just to infer that
if a poor mechanic rises to places of honor and trust, he must be
a man of some talent and of sound judgement. He was thrice
married. First, in 1691, to Mary Skeffe, a daughter of Capt.
Stephen. She died in 1711, aged 40. Second, in 1716, to Widow
Elizabeth Russell, her third marriage. She was a daughter
of Capt. Thomas Handley, and married first,  Pope. Third
in 1725, to (Hannah?) Hookey of R. I. His thkteen children
were probably all born in Sandwich.
I. John, died young.
II. James, born 18th Dec, 1694.
III. John, born 18th Sept. 1697, married Hannah Fessenden of
Cambridge, Sept. 26, 1726.
IV. Mary, born Dec. 11, 1699.
V. Bethia, twin sister of Mary, married Samuel Smith, Oct.
6, 1717.
VI. Perez, 28th Sept., 1702, is the ancestor of the Delaware,
Carolina and Mississippi families of the name.
VII. Deborah, 6th Dec, 1704.
VIII. Stephen, 9th June, 1708.
IX. Lydia, twin sister of Stephen.
X. Ebenezer, 13th Nov., 1709. He married Mary  ,
resided at Falmouth where his son John was born April 10,
1733, afterwards of Barnstable, where he had Ebenezer.
XI. Handley, 31st Aug., 1717. He removed with his father to
Chilmark, thence to Providence, R. I., and in 1761 to
Cornwallis, N. S. He was a distinguished man, and his
descendants are numerous and respectable.
XII. Rebecca, 10th Nov. 1719.
XIII. Benjamin.
Few families are more widely disseminate than this. Elder
Chipman had eleven children and eighty-two grand-children, near
ly all of whom married and had famihes. The Rev. K. M.
Chipman has for several years been employed in compiling a gen
ealogy of the family, extending to the ninth generation. — ^Want
of funds has prevented him from publishing. No harm will result
from the delay. It will give him an opportunity to correct some
important mistakes into which he has fallen, and from which no
genealogist can claim exemption.
The manuscript of the "Declaration" of John Chipman, from
which we copy is not, as has been supposed, an original document
in the handwriting of the Elder. It is in the hand writing of John
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the date of the Declaration. Notwithstanding it is reliable, for
the principal facts are corroborated by the deposition of Ann
Hinde and by records in Dorcetshire, P^ngland. I cannot learn
that his descendants ever obtained anything from the estate,
which was illegally conveyed by Thomas Chipman to Christopher
Derby. Mr. Hinman says there is no evidence that John Chipman re
ceived any benefit from the grants made to him by the Plymouth
Colony. The presumjition is that he did. The others to whom
grants were made at the same time, and at the same place, re
ceived theirs, and no legal or other difficulty prevented Mr. Chip-
man from obtaining his right.
Chipman is an ancient name and occurs as early as A. D.
1070, on the Doomsday Survey Book. Originally the name was
written De Chippenham, or by the armorial bearings Chippenham.
There are three places in England of this name, and whether
these places derived their names from the family, or the family
from the places is a matter of no importance. The meaning of
of the name is Chapman's town or home.

COBB.

ELDER HENRY COBB.
Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the Cobb Family of Barn
stable, was of Plymouth in 1632, of Scituate in 1633, and of
Barnstable in 1639. According to the Rev. Mr. Lothrop's re
cords, Goodman Cobb's dwelling house in Scituate, was con
structed before September 1634, and was the seventh built in that
town by the English. He afterwards sold this house to Henry
Rowley, and built on his lot in Kent Street, house numbered
thirty-two on Mr. Lothrop's list. Mr. Deane in his history of
Scituate says he was one of the "men of Kent," and that in addi
tion to his house lot, he owned eighty acres on North River,
which was afterwards the farm of Ephraim Kempton, and then of
John James.
On the 23d of November, 1634, Goodman Cobb and other
members of the church at Plymouth "were dismissed from their
membershipp in case they joyned in a body att Scituate." On the
8th of January following, Mr. Lothrop makes the following entry
in his records : "Wee had a day of humiliation and then att night
joyned in covenannt togeather, so many of us as had beene in
Covenannt before ; to witt, Mr. GUson and his wife, Goodman
Anniball and his wife, Goodman Rowley and his wife, Goodman
Cob and his wife, Goodman Turner, Edward Foster, myselfe,
Goodman Foxwell and Samuel House." The two last named may
have been a part of the company who arrived in the Griffin with
Mr. Lothrop ; but the others had been in the Colony several years.
It is probable that many of them had been members of the Con
gregational Church in London, and "that this meeting was a re
union under their old Pastor of those who had before been "in
convenannt togeather." Goodman Cobb was a leading and influ
ential member, and for forty-four years was either the senior dea
con, or a ruling elder of the church.
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now Rochester, Dea. Cobb was one of the committee to whom the
Colony Court in 1638 granted the lands for a township; and
when it was afterwards decided to remove to Mattakeese, now
Barnstable, he was a member of the committee having charge of
the selecting of a suitable location for the settlement.
Deacon Cobb's house lot in Barnstable containing seven acres,
was situate at a little distance north from the present Unitarian
Meeting House, between the lots of Thomas Huckins on the
north and Roger Goodspeed on the south, extending from George
Lewis' meadow on the west to the "Old Mill Way" on the east.
This tract of land is uneven and a large portion was originally a
swamp. It was not one of the most desh-able lots in the settle
ment. His other lands were the neck of land and the meadows ad
joining, where Cobb & Smith's wharf and stores are now situate,
bounded southerly by Lewis Hill and John Davis' marsh and on
the other sides by the surrounding creeks.
His Great Lot, containing three score acres, was situate on
the south side of the County road, between the present dwelling
houses of Joseph Cobb and James Otis. It was bounded in 1654,
easterly by the lands of Henry Taylor and Joshua Lumbard,
southerly by the commons, westerly partly by the commons and
partly by Goodman Foxwell's land, and northerly by the highway
and Henry Taylor's land.
Two lots of six acres each in the new Common Field.
One acre of Goodspeed's lot, (the deep bottom on the north
of the Meeting House) then town's commons was granted to him
in 1665, in payment for land damages "by ye highway running
over or between his land from ye gate to Thomas Huckins."
This acre was situated between "The Gate" at the entrance to the
old mill way and the present Pound. He was also one of the
proprietors of the common lands in the town of Barnstable, and
owned lands in Suckinneset, now Falmouth.
Deacon Cobb's house lot was rough and uneven, and not
desk-able land for cultivation. His great lot had some good soil.
It was a good grazing farm, and as the raising of cattle was the
principle business of the first settlers, his lands were probably
selected with reference to that object. His two lots in the new
Common Field had a rich soil, and was occupied as planting
lands. He appears to have built two houses on his home lot. The
flrst was probably a temporary one to shelter his family till he bad
time and means to build a better. It is a curious fact that the
three deacons of the church lived in stone or fortification houses.
It was required that such houses should be built in every planta
tion as a place of refuge for the inhabitants, should the Indians
prove treacherous or hostile. It seems that the deacons then pro-

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vided for the personal safety, as well as the spiritual wants of the
people. Deacon Cobb built his house on his lot, where the house
formerlj'' occupied by Josiah Lewis stands — a spot well selected
for defence against Indian hostilities. Dea. Dimmock's stood a
little east from the dwelling house of Isaac Davis, and Dea.
Crocker's at West Barnstable. The two latter were remaining
within the memory of persons now living. They were about
twenty-five feet square on the ground ; the lower story was of
stone, the upper of wood.
Elder Cobb died in 1679, having lived to a good old age, and
was buried in the grave yard on Lothrop's Hill. No monument
marks the spot where rest his mortal remains — no ejjitaph records.
his virtues. Deane says "he wa's a useful and valuable man," and
there is beauty and truth in the words. He lived to be useful not
to amass wealth or acquire political distinction.
When a young man, he separated himself from the Church of
England and joined the Puritans, then few in numbers, without
influence, poor, despised and persecuted by the civil and ecclesias
tical powers. It appears that he joined Mr. Lothrop's church in
London, the members whereof were tolerant in their views, inde-
liendent and fearless in advocating the cause of religious liberty
and the rights of conscience, and bold in their denunciations of
all human creeds. He did not escape persecution, but he for
tunately escaped being confined for two long years with Mr.
Lothrop and twenty-four members of his church in the foul and
loathsome prisons of London.
He came to this country to secure religious liberty and the
freedom of conscience — utterly detesting all human creeds, and
firmly believing that the life is the best evidence of christian faith.
He remained in Plymouth a few years, joined in church fellowship
with the followers of Robinson, and listened to the teaching of
the mild and venerable Brewster.
^ In 1633, he went to Scituate, then a new settlement, and
assisted in clearing the forests and building up a town. The next
year his pastor Mr: Lothrop came over and settled in that town,
and soon after, many of his ancient friends and brethren were his
townsmen. After the organization of the church, they invested
him with the office of senior deacon, a mark of their confidence
in his ability and of their esteem for him as a man and a christian.
In Barnstable he was active and useful in promoting the
temporal, and in ministering to the spiritual wants of the first
settlers. He was a town officer, a member of the most important
town committees, and in 1G15, 1647, 1652, 1659, 1660 aud 1661,
a deputy to the Colony Court. Ou the 14th of April, 1670, he
was chosen and ordained a ruling elder of the Bftrnstable church,
an office which he held till his death in 1679.
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useful man, and an exemplary Christian. With perhaps one
exception his life was a living illustration of his political and
religious opinions. When in 1657, mainly through the influence
of men in the Massachusetts Colony, a spirit of intolerance spread
through the Plymouth Colony, and laws were enacted that an
enlightened common sense condemns, and which were in violation
of the principles of rehgious liberty which the fathers had held
sacred. Elder Cobb was one of the deputies to the General
Court, and there is no evidence to show that he did not approve
of theu- enactment. In so doing he violated principles which he
had long cherished and held sacred. It would have been better
for his reputation had he like his friends Smith, Cudworth and
Robinson and nearly all of the "first comers" then living, pro
tested against these intolerant measures, and like them rethed to
private hfe with clear consciences and an unspotted reputation.
Four years were sufficient to sweep away every vestige of the
fanatical and intolerant spirit which had spread over . the Old
Colony. How could it be otherwise? llow coidd men who had
themselves suffered persecution, imprisonment and stripes for
conscience sake, and who had through hfe stoutly maintained that
God alone was the judge of men's consciences, how could they,
when the excitement had passed away, believe it right to perse
cute Baptists and Quakers and wrong to persecute Puritans. The
absurdity of such a course forced itself upon the minds of such
men as Elder Cobb, and soon wrought a complete change in pub
lic opinion. Three of the name of Cobb came to New England, and if
John of Plymouth and John of Taunton are not the same, four.
The Cobbs of Georgia are a different family, though perhaps
remotely related. Thomas R. R. Cobb a brother of the rebel
general HoweU Cobb in a letter dated at Athens, Geo., April 7,
1857, says, "I have but little information as to my remote ances
try. The tradition as I have received it from my father, is that
seven brothers originally emigrated from England. Four settled
in Vh-ginia, three went to Massachusetts. Their names or subse
quent history I never learned. I have heard my father say that
his grandfather would frequently relate that the brother from
whom he was descended, bought his wife from an emigrant ship
for 700 lbs. of tobacco. My father, grandfather and great
grandfather were all uamed John."
Traditions are usually worthless. Three of the name came
to Massachusetts, as stated in the letter ; but there is no evidence
that they were brothers. The presumption is they were not.
Mr. Pratt in his history of Eastham, page 27, gives an account of
the origin of the Cobb families founded on a tratition which is
wholly unreUable. He says four of the name, sons of Sylvanus^
came over, namely, Jonathan from Harwich, England, settled in

170 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Eastham ; Eleazer in Hingham ; Sylvanus north of Boston ; and
Benjamin, whose son Isaac was Port Admiral of Yarmouth, Eng
land. Jonathan was a descendant of Henry and born in Barn
stable. Respecting Benjamin, the document quoted by Mr.
Pratt, says he settled near Rhode Island, which is very doubtful.
Descendants of Augustine were in that vicinity. The Eleazer and
Sylvanus he named were probably both descendants of Henry.
No Eleazer settled in Hingham. The earhest of the name in that
town was Richard who is called of Boston. He had a son
Thomas born 28th March, 1693, probably the one of that name
who settled in Eastham, and married Mary Freeman, before 1719.
A Thomas Cobb, Sen'r, died in Hingham Jan'y 4, 1707-8.
Edward Cobb was of Taunton in 1667, married at Plymouth,
28th Nov. 1660, Mary Haskins, and died 1675, leaving a son
Edward. His widow married Samuel Phihps.
Augustine Cobb was of Taunton in 1670, and had Ehzabeth,
born 10th Feb. 1771 ; Morgan, 29th Dec. 1673 ; Samuel, 9th Nov.
1675; Bethia, 5th April, 1678; Mercy, 12th Aug. 1680; and
Abigail, 1684. Gen. David Cobb, one of the aids of Washington
in the army of the Revolution is a descendant from Augustine.
John Cobb of Taunton from 1653 to 1677, Mr. Boylies says,
came from Plymouth, if so, he was a son of Henry of Barnstable.
A John Cobb who appears to have been a resident in Taunton,
administered on the estate of his brother Gershom who was killed
at Swanzey by the Indians, June 24, 1675. Mr. Savage thinks
there were two John Cobbs ; but 1 prefer the authority of Mr.
Baylies. There is only one entry on the records, that favors the
supposition that there were two John Cobbs, and that after careful
examination, I think is an error of the town clerk of Taunton.
Elder Henry Cobb married in 1631, Patience, daughter of
Dea. James Hurst, of Plymouth. She was "buryed May 4, 1648,
the flrst that was buryed in our new burying^place by our meeting
house." (Lothrop's Church Rec.) He was married to his second
wife, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Hinckley by Mr. Prince, Dec. 12,
1649. He died in 1679, and his wife Sarah survived him.
In his will dated April 4, 1678, proved June 3, 1679, and in
the codicil thereto dated Feb. 28, 167^, he gives his great lot of
land in Barnstable to his son James, the latter paying Elder Cobb's
John £5 for his interest therein. Names his sons John, James,
Gershom and Eleazer, to whom he had Iheretofore given half his
lands at Suckinesset, — gave his "new dwelling house"* and all
* "His new dwelling house." I am inolined to the opinion that Elder Cobb sold his
stone house to Nathaniel Bacon, in his life time' and that the house to which he refers was
on his "gi-eat lot," and that it was afterwards owned by son James and gi-andson Gershom.
In 1823, Mr. Josiah Childs a deseeudent in the female line pointed out a post to me in his
ience, and said fifty years ago I mortised that post from a timber taken from the house of the
iirst Gershom Cobb, and said that fi'om information he had obtamed fi-om his ancestors, the
house was over one hundred yeai-s old when consequently was built in the life time of the
Klder. That house stood on his "gi-eat lot," near the ancient pear tree now standing.
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the rest of his uplands and meadows to his wife Sarah. In his
will he gave his dweUing house after the decease of his wife to
his son Samuel ; but in the codicil to his son Henry. He also
named his son Jonathan, and daughters Mary, Hannah, Patience
and Sarah. Children horn in Plymouth.
I. John, born 7th June, 1632. Removed from Barnstable to
Plymouth and from thence, according to Mr. Bayhes, to
Taunton, and returned again to Plymouth about the year
1678. He married twice, first 28th Aug. 1658, Martha
Nelson of P. Second, June 13, 1676, Jane Woodwai-d of
Taunton. His children were John, born 24th June, 1662,
in P., died young. Samuel, Israel and Ehzabeth, the
dates of whose births are not given, probably born in
Taunton. John, born in Taunton 31st March 1678, ac
cording to the return, probably 1677 ; Elisha, in Plymouth,
3d, April, 1678, and James, 20th July, 1682. Elisha of
this family probably settled in Wellfleet, and had Col.
Elisha and Thomas. Col. Elisha had flve sons, and has
descendants in the lower towns of this County. A Thomas
Cobb married Mary Freeman of Eastham, before 1719, and
probably was not the Thomas above named.
II. James, born 14th Jan'y, 1634. (See account of him and
his family below.) Children horn in Scituate.
III. Mary, 24th March, 1637. She married 15th Oct. 1657,
Jonathan Dunham then of Barnstable and his second wife.
His first wife was Mary,- daughter of Phillip Delano, whom
he married 29th Nov. 1655. He removed to Middleboro',
was sometime minister to the Indians at the islands ; but
was in 1694 ordained at Edgartown.
IV. Hannah, 5th Oct. 1639, married 9th May, 1661, Edward
Lewis. She died Jan'y 17, 1729-30, aged 90 years, 3
months, 12 days. Children born in Barnstable .
V. Patience, bap'd I3th March 1641-2, married Robert Parker
Aug. 1667, his second wife. After his death in 1684, she
probablv married Dea. William Crocker.
VT. Gershom, born 10, bap'd 12th Jan'y, 1644-5. He removed
to Middleboro', where he was constable in 1^71 and on the
grand jury in 1674. He was buried at Swanzey 24th
June, 1675, having, with eight others, been killed that
day by the forces of Phihp. His brother John adminis
tered on his estate, which was divided in equal proportions
to the children of Mr. Henry Cobb of Barnstable, only
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172 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
VII. Eleazer, born 30th March, 1648. He was admitted a
townsman Dec. 1678, when he was 24, indicating that he
was then unmarried. He was of Barnstable in 1703, and
as he had only 12 1-2 shai-es in the common lands, the
presumption is that he was not then a householder. It does
not appear that he had a family. His death is not re
corded, and the settlement of his estate is not entered on
the probate records. It may be, but is not probable, that
he was the Eleazer whom Mr. Pratt says settled in Hing
ham. 4
VIII. Mehitabel, born 1st Sept. 1X51, died 8th March, 1662.
IX. Samuel, born Oct. 12, 1654. (See account below.)
X. Sarah, born 15 Jan'y, 1658, died Jan'y 25, 1658.
XI. Jonathan, born 10th April, 1660. (See account below.)
XII. Sarah, born 10th March, 1662-3, married 27th Dec. 1686,
Dea. Samuel Chipman of Barnstable. She had ten chil
dren. Her sons Thomas, Samuel, John, Seth and Barna
bas, were men who held a high rank in society. The late
Chief Justice Nathaniel Chipman, L. L. D., was her grand
son. She died Jan'y 8, 1742-3, aged neai-ly 80.
XIII. Henry, born 3d Sept. 1665, inherited the paternal mansion.
He was married by Justice Thacher, 10th April 1690 to
Lois Hallet. Oct. 9, 1715, he was dismissed from the
Barnstable, to the church in Stonington, Conn. His chil
dren born in Barnstable were, Gideon, 11th AprU, 1691 ;
Eunice, 18th Sept. 1693 ; Lois, 2d March, 1696 ; and
Nathan, bap'd June 1, 1700. Margaret the wife of Gideon
of this family was admitted July 31, 1726, to the chm-ch
in Hampton, Conn. He afterwards removed from H.
XIV. Mehetabel, born 15th Feb. 1667.
XV. Experience, born 11th Sept. 1671.
Neither of these two daughters being mentioned in the will of
their father, the presumption is they died young.
Sergeant James Cobb, son of Elder Henry Cobb, born in
Plymouth, January 14, 1634, resided in Barnstable. He married
26th Dec. 1663, Sarah, daughter of George Lewis, Sen'r. He
died in 1695, aged 61. He left no will. His estate was settled
Feb. 1, 1696-6, and all his eleven children are uamed. His
widow Sarah married 23d Nov. 1698, Jonathan Sparrow of East
ham. She died Feb. 11, 1735, in the 9 2d year of her age, and
was buried in the grave-yard near the East Church, Bai-nstable.
Children born in BarnstcMe.
I. ¦ Mary, 24th Nov. 1664, married May 31, 1687, Capt. Caleb
Williamson of Barnstable. The family removed to Hart
ford after 1700, where she died in 1737, aged 73.
II. Sarah, 26th Jan'y 1666, married 27th Dec. 1686, Benjamin
Hinckley of Barnstable. She had ten children, the flve

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first born all dying young.
III. Patience, 12th Jan'y, 1668, married 1694, James Coleman,
and had eight children. She married 10th Sept. 1715,
Thomas Lombard of Barnstable. She died March 30,
1747, aged 79 years. Her second husband was 95 at his
death May 30, 1761.
IV. Hannah, 28th March 1671, married Joseph Davis March
1695, and died May 3, 1739, aged 68. She left a family
of eight children.
y. James, 8th July, 1673. (See account below.)
VI. Gershom, 4th August, 1675. (See account below.)
VII. John, 20th Dec. 1677, Mr. John Cobb as he is called on
the records, married 26th Dee. 1707, Hannah Lothrop.
He owned the house now the residence of Mr. David
Bursley, and his son Ephraim resided there within the
memory of persons now living. His children were Ephraim,
born 5th Dec 1708. He married Margaret Gardner of
Yarmouth, Jan'y 7, 1729-30. He had also John born 1st
July, 1711, died March 1, 1713, and John again born Oct.
2, 1719, who died May 26, 1736. Mr. John Cobb died
Aug. 24, 1754, aged 77 years, and his wife Hannah April
3, 1747, aged 66 years.
VIII. Elizabeth, 6th Oct. 1680.
IX. Martha 6th Feb. 1682.
X. Mercy, 9th April, 1686.
XI. Thankful, 10th June, 1687.
The four daughters last named had shares in the estate of
their father at the settlement made in 1696. Their mother married
in 1698, Jonathan Sparrow, Esq., of Eastham, and these daugh
ters probably removed to that town with her. Mercy was May
24, 1701, a witness to the will of Mu-iam Wing of Harwich. At
the proof of the will Jan'y 8, 1702-3, she is called "now Mercy
Sparrow." Samuel Cobb, son of Elder Henry Cobb, born in Barnstable
12th Oct. 1654, was a farmer and resided in the lower part of the
town, and built a house on the six acre lot that was his father's in;
the new commonfield. His flrst house stood on the south-east
corner of the land, on the west side of the lane leading to Indian
lands. He soon after built a two story house, a little farther west
on the same spot where the late farmer Joseph Cobb's house stood.
It was two stories and constructed in the style common in those.
days. It was taken down about the year 1805. He married Dec.
20, 1680 Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Taylor, called "tailor"
to distinguish him from another of the same name. He died Dec.
27, 1727 aged 73, and his wife May 4, 1721 aged 66.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Sarah, 20th Aug. 1681. She married Feb. 4, 1701-2

174 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Benjamin Bearse, and resided at Hyannis where she died
Jan. 14, 1742, aud is buried in the old grave yard there.
II. Thomas, born 1st June 1683, married Rachel Stone of
Sudbury, Jan. 1, 1710, and had eleven children born in
Barnstable, namely : 1, Abigail 29th March 1711, married
Nathaniel Sturgis Feb. 20, 1734-5 ; 2, Nathaniel, 15th Oct.
1713, married Susannah Bacon Dec 14, 1738. He died
Feb. 14, 1763, aged 60. His children were Thomas Dec.
1, 1739 ; Oris Nov. 9, 1741, father of the present Lewis;
Samuel Nov. 30, 1744 ; Susannah Jan. 1, 1746-7 ; Nathan
iel March 19, 1748-9, died Sept. 26, 1839 aged 90 ; Sarah
March 31, 1751. 3, Elizabeth 14th Feb. 1715, married
Jonathan Lewis, Jr., Oct. 13, 1737 ; 4, Samuel 20th March
1717; 6, Matthew 16th April 1719, married Mary Garret
January 24, 1750-1, and had Matthew, a merchant at Port
land and a man of wealth and considerable distinction ;
Daniel engaged in trade many years in Barnstable, and the
father of the present Matthew Cobb, Esq., and others ; 6,
David 28th Feb. 1721, married Thankful Hinckley Aug.
12, 1745, and had four children, died May 23, 1757; 7,
Henry 16th AprU 1724, married Bethiah Hinckley Jan. 31,
1753-4; 8, Thomas 30th April 1726, died Aug. 1726; 9,
Ebenezer, twin brother of Thomas, clied January 5, 1856,
married Mary Smith, had 6 daughters ; lO, Eunice, bap't
23d Feb. 1728-9; and 11, Mary, bap'd Nov. 7, 1731.
Thomas Cobb was taxed in 1737 for £1000, and was a man
of wealth for the times.
III. Elizabeth, born Nov. 1686, married 26th Nov. 1708 Eben
ezer Bearse. She died 16th July 1711.
IV. Henry, born 1687.
V. Samuel, 10th Sept. 1691, married first Sarah Chase of Tis-
bury, Jan. 25, 1716, and in 1725 Hannah Cole.
VI. Mehitable, 10th Sept. 1691, twin sister of Samuel, married
30th June 1716, Nathan Taylor.
VII. Experience, 8th June 1692, married 18th Feb. 1713-4
Jasher Taylor of Yarmouth.
VIII. Jonathan, 26th Dec. 1694, married Oct. 20, 1715, Sarah
Hopkins of Harwich. The records of his family are incom
plete. He had Benjamin, born June 26, 1726, married
Bethia Homer of Yarmouth, and was afterwards a mer
chant of Boston ; Samuel, born May 21, 1728 ; Elkanah,
born Aug. 9, 1731 ; Eleazer born Dec. 28, 1734, married
Kesiah, daughter of Eleazer Crosby ; and Elizabeth born
April 30, 1738, married  Crosby. Beside the above
he had a son Jonathan, who married Mary Clark, born
about 1716, who was the father of Elijah,— Scotto, 1741,
Isaac 1746, John, Seth, Mary, Sally, Hannah, Betsey and

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Elkanah. Scotto above named, was the father of the late
Gen. Elijah Cobb,* whose son Elijah, a merchant of Bos
ton, died Aug. 1861.
IX. Eleaze^r, born 14th Jan. 1696, married Reliance Paine Oct.
18, 1724. He occupied the house ijauilt by his father.
He died Sept. 21, 1731 aged 36, and his widow married
John Coleman Aug. 6, 1736. She continued to reside on
the Cobb farm till her death, June 11, 1742. The children
of Eleazer Cobb born in Barnstable were, Benjamin Nov.
20, 1725 ; Joseph 28th March, 1727, died 11th Oct. 1737 ;
and Reliance, 30th Sept. 1728, married 1747 Paul Crowell,
Jr., of Chatham; and Patience, bap't 15th Aug. 1731,
married Nathaniel Allen of Barnstable. Benjamin, the
son of Eleazer, married May 29, 1749, Anna Davis, and
had Reliance May 9, 1750 ; Eleazer, Aug. 7, 1752 ; Benja
min, Jan. 28, 1769", married Persis Taylor of Barnstable,
Nov. 13, 1783, the second marriage recorded by Rev. Mr.
Mellen. He had one son, the present Enoch T. Cobb, and
a daughter Hannah ; Joseph, February 19, 1763, known as
farmer Joseph, married June 19, 1786, EUzabeth Adams ;
and Samuel April 23, 1765, the latter a tanner and shoe
maker.
X. ^ Lydia, born Dec. 1699, married Ebenezer Scudder, 1725,
and is the ancestor of nearly if not all of the name in
Barnstable.
Jonathan Cobb, son of Elder Henry Cobb, born in Barnstable
lOth April 1660, married March 1, 1682-3, Hope, widow of John
Huckings, and daughter of Elder John Chipman. He resided m
Barnstable till 1703, when he removed to Middleborough, and
from thence to Falmouth, now Portland, Me. His children were,
1, Samuel, born 23d Feb. 1683-4 ; Jonathan 26th April, 1686 ;
Ebenezer 10th April 1688 ; Joseph 24th Aug. 1690 ; Lydia 17th
Jan. 1692-3 ; Gershom bap't 7th July, 1695. That this' Jonathan
was not the one who removed to Harwich, the following facts
show. His son Samuel married AbigaU and had at Middleboro,
Chipman born 5th March 1708-9, and probably others ; at Port
land, Peter, Feb. 1720, and at Manchester, James, born July 7,
.''723. Jonathan, son of Jonathan, had by his wife Betty at
Portland Lydia, Aug. 9, 1720 ; Ebenezer, Feb. 19, 1722 ; Mary,
Nov. 8, 1723 ; Deborah, Aug. 14, 1725. Ebenezer, son of Jona
than, married Mary. He died at Portland Oct. 29, 1721, aged

* I have a genealogy of the Cobb family based on the recollections of Gen. Cobb. It
seems to be the same on which Mr. Pratt relied, and which has always been noticed. Gen.
Cobb's information respecting his great grandfather is very imperfect, and of the preceed
ing generations mostly if not entirely suppositions. It is certain that Gen. Cobb was a
deseeudent of Henry of Barnstable. The Truro and WelWeet families probably descend
some flrom Elisha of Plymouth and some from James Cobb born Sept. 13, 1698, who removed
to Truro. Elisha Cobb, born 24th Dec. 1702, married Mary Harding, and probably removed
to Wellfleet, and Thomas, son of Richard of Hingham to Eastham.

176 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
rWT Chipman, son of Samuel, married EUzabeth and had, at
Portland, Nathan, January 7, 1732; and Andrew, March 27,
1734. James Cobb, son of James and grandson of Elder Henry
Cobb, born 8th Jult, 1673, resided on his grandfather's "great
lot." He married 18th Sept. 1695, Elizabeth Hallett. She died
April 1, 1759, aged 80. Their children born in Barnstable were :
I. James, born 13th Sept. 1698, he married Hannah Rich of
Truro, May 14, 1724, and had 1, James, June 16, 1725,
died Oct. following ; 2, Elizabeth, Saturday Oct. 29, 1726 ;
3, Lois, Friday June 27, 1729 ; 4, Isaac, Tuesday Dec. 21,
1731; 6, Ezekiel, Satm-day Aug. 31, 1734; 6, Hannah,
Wednesday, April 20, 1737 ; 7, Dinah, bap'd June 1, 1740 ;
8, Deliverance, bap'd Sept. 19, 1742. Hannah, wife of
James Cobb, Jr. , was dismissed from the church in Barn
stable to the church in Truro, Jan'y 15, 1663-4, and pro
bably the family removed to that town.
II. Sylvanus, born 25th Nov. 1700, married Mercy Baker,
Nov. 7, 1728. He died Sept. 30, 1756, aged 66. His
children born in Barnstable were, 1, Mercy, Oct. 13, 1729,
married James Churchill, Jan'y 10, 1751, died Sept. 25,
1766; 2, Ebenezer, Aug. 13, 1731, married 1754 Lydia
Churchill of Middleboro', and had James and Ebenezer ;
8, Sylvanus, Feb. 18, 1734-5, died May 10, 1737 ; 4, Ben-
nie, Jan'y 23, 1736-7; 5, Rebecca, April 2, 1739, died
Aug. 17, 1766, aged 17; 6, Sylvanus, -July 21, 1741; 7,
Thankful, bap't Sept. 26, 1743 ; 8, Lydia, bap'd Jan'y 5,
1745-6. From this family I am informed that Rev. Syl
vanus Cobb is descended.
III. Elisha, born 24th Dec 1702, married Mary Harding, of
Truro, Feb. 25, 1724-5.
rV. Jesse, boru 15th April, 1704, married Thankful Baker,
Jan'y 1, 1733-4. She died May 6, 1742, and he died Dec.
1777, aged 72. His children born in Barnstable were
Joseph, born 22d Sept. 1734, who married Deshe Lum
bard and had Thankful Nov. 14, 1757 ; Remember-Mercy,
Jan'y 13, 1760, and Joseph, Aug. 18, 1762, (the father of
the present Mr. James Cobb) . The daughters Thankful
and Mercy it is said were bewitched when young, and
marvelous stories are related of them. Jesse Cobb had
also Seth, bap'd Sept. 4,, 1737, removed to Sandwich;
Rowland, bap'd Oct. 15, 1738, married Thankful Garret of
S. ; Nicholas, bap'd Feb. 10, 1739-40, married Ann Perry
had Chloe Blush now living, aged 96, and others ; Nathan
bap'd Jan's 18, 1740-41. Jesse Cobb was an illiterate
man. He could neither read or write ; but he considered
himself a great pOet and employed an amanuensis. 'His

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two nearest neighbors, John Lewis, many years town
school master, and Solomon Otis, Esq., were graduates of
Harvard College. John Bacon, Esq., and Capt. Samuel
Bacon, "gentlemen," were also his neighbors, and he thus
had the advantage of daily intercourse with literary 'men.
Jesse's poetry has not been preserved. Some verses are
however repeated by his descendants. The extravagance
of the times, the fashions, and the ladies, whom he did not
treat with much courtesy, where his favorite themes. The
dogerel rhymes in the note* are extracts from his poem
addressed to James Paine, Esq., who kept a school several
years in Barnstable, and who, during his leisure hours,
courted the muses.
V.' Seth, born 15th April, 1707.
VI. Ebenezer, born 7th March, 1709, died Sept. 1710.
VII. Jude (or Judah), boru 24th June, 1711.
VIII. Nathan, born, 15th June, 1713, married Bethia Harding of
^astham, 1735.
IX. Stephen, born 27th .lan'y 1716, married July 8, 1742,
Abigail Chipman, and had Mary, Judah, James, Abigail,
Stephen, Chipman and Jacob.
X. Elizabeth, born 18th April, 1718, married March 10,
1736-7, David Hawes of Yarmouth.
Gershom Cobb, son of James and grand son of Elder Henry
Cobb, born Aug. 4, 1676, married Hannah Davis, 24th Feb.
1702-3 His house stood near the centre of Elder Cobb's great lot.
Some ancient pear trees now mark the spot. Elder Cobb proba
bly built a house there, afterwards owned by his son James. His
children born in Barnstable were :
I. John, 22d May, 1704, died April 1706. '
II. Sarah, 27th Oct. 1705, married Nath'l Bacon, 1726.
ill. Gershom, 15th Nov. 1707, married April 20, 1732, Miss
Sarah Baxter of Yarmouth, and died the same year leaving
a son Gershom, who married Feb. 6, 1761-2, Mehitebel,
daughter of Job Davis. He died in 1758 leaving three
* "Christ, he was a carpenter by trade.
And he the doors of Heaven made,
^ And he did swear
That high crowned caps and plaited hair
Should never have admittance there." . ^, , . „„,„i,„j „,„i
A fashion prevailed among the ladies in Jesse's time of rearing the hair combed and
, plaited over a cushion resting on the top of the head- This was surmounted with a mgtt
"¦"The^Xwing is the closmg stanza and is particularly addressed to Mr. Paine who was
the champion of the ladies : . ,,
. "He who for a p.s'treen twice told.
Will labor for a week in school.
Can offer nothiug very great,
in another stanza ,J.°lf^^^. W'^ the perusal of the third, chapter of
Isaiah .

178 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
sons, bap'd Nov. 25, 1759, named Edward, (born Nov. 6,
1752) Gershom and Josiah. Gershom the father was a
very honest, upright man, a weaver. In the summer
months he was employed in the fishing business, and the
remainder of the year in weaving, &c. His widow in 1776
married Nathaniel Lothrop, his second wife, and she had
by him a daughter Susan, who married Eleazer Cobb, Jr.
She died in 1812 or 13, aged about 80. Her son Edward
was a carpenter, married Jan'y 29, 1778, Hannah Hallett of
Yarmouth, removed in 1782 to Westborough, where he died
Oct. 27, 1819. He had ten children. Gershom was a
mariner and taken a prisoner by the English during the
Revolution. He returned to Barnstable about the year
1793, and it is said that he returned to England married
and had two children there. Josiah went to Boston to
learn a shoemaker's trade, but disliking the trade left. It
is supposed that he was lost at sea.*
IV. John, born 17th Nov. 1709. Removed to Plymouth.
V. Hannah, 29th Aug. 1711, married Jan'y 29, 1734, David
Childs of Barnstable.
VI. Thankful, 10th July, 1714, married Oct. 14, 1746, David
Dimmock.
VII. Anne, 8th Dec. 1716, died 4th Nov. 1720.
VIII. Josiah, twin brother of Anne.
IX. Edward, 2d Nov. 1718.
X. Mary, 14th June, 1721, married first, Isaac Gorham, Sept.
2, 1742, and second, James Churchill, Feb. 3, 1756-7.
Jesse Cobb was a loyalist or tory. He was one of the party
who assembled on the evening of the night when the liberty pole
in Barnstable was cut down. Jesse was called on by the company
to compose a notice to be posted up, and he dictated the following,
impromptu : Your Liberty pole,
I dare be bold.
Appears Uke Dagon bright,
But it will fall.
And make a scrawl,
Before the morning light.
Jesse was seventy years of age when he dictated the above,
and it indicates that he was ready, and possessed more wit than
we have given him credit for., The Liberty pole stood in front of
the public house of Mrs. Abiah Crocker, where the willow tree
now stands. It stood on a knowl or small hill there which has
*The account of the family of Gershsom Cobb I obtain from the records, a manuscript
of one of the descendants, and other sources. Respecting the third Gershom (son of Ger
shom and Sarah) I rely on the manuscript which seems to be corroborated by the Probate
records. 'Gershom Cobb, Jr.'s inventory is dated Jan'v 23, 1733, showing that ho died soon
after his marriage.

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since been leveled. The pole was very tall, and surmounted with
a gilt ball, to which allusion is made by Mr. Cobb. During the
night the pole was cut down and fell across the road. Who cut
it down has never been satisfactorily ascertained. I persume it
would have been difficult for Jesse Cobb, Samuel Crocker and
Otis Loring, to have proved that they were not present.

CLAGHORN,

.JAMES CLAGHORN.
James Claghorn was not one of the first settlers. He was of
Barnstable in 1654, and took the oath of fidelity in 1657. He
removed to Yarmouth about the year 1662, when his wife com
mitted suicide Oct. 1677, by hanging herself in the chamber of
her house. This is the first suicide on record in this part of the
Colony. James Claghorn married 6th January, 1 654, Abigail, sometimes
written Abia, probably a daughter of Barnard Lombard, though she
may have been a sister. His children born in Barnstable were :
I. James, 29th January 1654. He probably died early. Mr.
Savage was led into a mistake by a typographical error in the
Genealogical Register of 1856, page 348, where Jane is
printed James.
II. Mary, born 26th October, 1665, married March 28, 1682,
Joseph Davis, had four children, died 1706.
III. Elizabeth, April 1668.
IV. Sarah, 3d January, 1659.
V. Robert, 27th Oct. 1661.
VI. Shubael. Birth not recorded.
Robert Claghorn, son of James, married 6th November,
1701, Bethia, widow of Nathaniel Lothrop. By her first husband
she had John and Hannah. She died, say the church records,
'last end of October, 1731, aged about 60.' Robert Claghorn's
estate was settled 22d Aug. 1715, and his widow Bethia, sons
Joseph, Nathaniel and Samuel, and only daughter Abia are
named. He owned 7 1-2 acres of land in the common field, a lot
,in the neck below Joshua Lumbard's, and lands bought of the
heirs of Joseph Davis at South Sea, shares in the common lands,
and about £300 in money. No house is named in the settlement.
He administered on the estate of his sister Mary, and probably
resided at her house at the time of his death. In 1702 he owned
a part of the Lumbert farm, and had a house at the east end of
the pond and for that reason it is sometimes caUed in the records

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 181
Claghorn's instead of Lumbert's pond. This estate he sold to a
Crocker and it afterwards was bought by the Lothrops. Respect
ing Robert Claghorn I have httle information. He appears to
have been a very worthy man.
Chihlreti of Robert Claghon.
I. Abia, born Aug. 13, 1 702 . She did not marry, was admitted
a member of the East Church Nov. 3, 1745; and died Feb.
4, 1763.
II. Joseph, born Aug. 25, 1704.
in. Nathaniel, born Nov. 10, 1707.
rV. Samuel, June 23, 1709. In the division of his father's es
tate, the lands bought of the heu-s of Joseph Davis at
Chequaquet were set off to him. He married September 11,
1742, Hannah, probablv daughter of Job Hinckley, and had
a son Nathaniel, April 29, 1743.
Shubael Claghorn, a son of James, married Jane, daughter
of .lohn Lovell. He died before 1729, when his widow married
John Bumpas of Rochester. Children born in Barnstable.
I. James, August 1689. By his wife Experience he had, at
Rochester, Lemual June 10, 1713, and Mary April 12, 1715.
He aftei-wards, in 1736, married Elizabeth King of Kingston.
His wife died in Barnstable, Dec. 25, 1774, aged 66.
II. Thankful, 30th January, 1660-1, died January, 1696.
in. Thomas, 20th March 1692-3. A Thomas Claghorn of Ed
gartown had a daughter Hannah baptized at the West
Church July 17, 1756.
IV. Shubael, 2dth September, 1696.
V. Robert, 18th July, 1699. He married January 16,1722-3
Thankful Coleman. He died July 11, 1760, aged 50, and
his widow April 1770, aged 70. He had : 1, James, Dec. 8,
1723, married 1747, "Temperance Gorham, removed to Sahs-
bury, returned in 1770; 2, Nehemiah, Jan. 30, 1725-6;
3, Eunice, May 4, 1728 ; 4, Benjamin, Dec. 17, 1733 ; 5,
Jabez, May 9, 1736, married Nov. 10, 1780, Eunice Davis,
died June 10, 1821, aged 85.
VI. Benjamin, 14th June, 1701.
VII. Reuben, baptized 28th AprU, 1706, married 1733, Eleanor
Lovell and had : , Jane, April 12, 1733 ; 2, Nathaniel, 22d
Aug. 1735 ; 3, Seth, Nov. 1, 1737; 4, Joanna, January 12,
1742; Lois, Feb. 8, 1747. His autograph signature is
affixed to a paper in the Probate Office. It is the best exe-

182 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
cuted signature that I have seen in that office.*
Vni. Mary, baptized 3d Aug., 1707, married 1729, Eben Clark of
Rochester.
rX. Jane, baptized 31st .July 1709, married Joshua Lumbert, Jr.,
1755.
X. Ebeneazer, 30th July, 1712, married Oct. 30, 1734, Sarah
Lumbert. She died. He married Sept. 7, 1763, Elizabeth
Hamblin — had Joseph, Oct. 9, 1743 ; Sarah, July 27, 1764 ;
Jane, Oct. 1, 1765, married .Job ChUds, Nov. 24, 1785.

*N'ote. — Some would perhaps give precedence to the signature of Hon. Barnabas Lo
throp or Col. "William Bassett. Specimens of the chirogrophy of Mr. Lothrop are preserved.
The form of hie letters resemble the Old English black letter type. He was not a rapid
writer, and evidently took much pains. Col. Bassett was a rapid penman, wrote a fine nm-
ning hand, yet distinct and easily read. Of the early settlers, Rev. Joseph Lord of Chat
ham was the best penman. He wrote a splendid hand. I have a volume of his manuscript
written as compactly as a printed page yet perfectly distinct. Joseph Lothrop, Esq., the
first Register of Probate, wrote a very neat hand. Anthony Thatcher and his son. Col.
John, were excellent Clerks. In the Gorham family were many who wrote good hands.
There is a remarkable similarity in the signatures of the successive John Gorharas, so
freat that it requires a practised eye to distinguish them. William, son of Col. David Cor
am, wrote a splendid hand for records.

CHILD.

RICHARD CHILD.
The earliest notice I find of Richard Child is in Mr. Lothrop's
Church records. It is there recorded that "Richard ChUde and
Mary Linnett marryed the 15th day of October, 1649, by Mr.
Collier at my Brother Linnett's house."
I find no record of his children ; but it appears that he had a
family, for March 5, 1660, he was ordered by the Court to desist
from erecting a cottage within the bounds of Yarmouth, the put
ting up of such buildings being contrary to law. — He afterwards
gjave security to save harmless the town of Yarmouth from all
charges on account of the children he then had, and he was there
upon permitted "to enjoy his cottage."*
It thus appears that Richard Childs had a family, Samuel and
Richard Childs of Barnstable were probably his children. Sam
uel was killed at Rehobeth battle March 25th, 1675. — There was
a Richard Child in Marshfield in 1665, perhaps the same who had
been of Barnstable and Yarmouth. He there built him a house
and married, and had a family. Richard Child of Watertown,
born in 1631, was another man. He married March 30, 1662,
Mehitable Dimmock, a daughter of Elder Thomas of Barnstable.
His daughter Abigail married Joseph Lothrop of Barnstable, and
Hannah,' Joseph Blush.
I find no positive evidence that, Dea. Richard Child, from
whom all the Barnstable famUies of the name descend was a son
of the Richard who married Mary Linnell ; but there is little reason
to doubt that such was the fact,
*In the account of Richard Berry I stated that he was forbidden to erect a cottage in
Yarmouth. That was a mistake, it was Richard Child that was so forbidden. Ihe prac
tice which prevailed in early colonial times, of warniag strangers out of town and iorbia-
ding them to build houses or settle in a town without a Ucense was sanctioned by law. ihe
case of Richard Child is not a solitary one. Men of good standing who were strangers
were often warned out of toivn. The law may seem harsh and tyranical; but reasons tnen
existed which have now passed away. If Richard Child had been allowed to build in X a,r-
mouth without protest, he wotild have been entitled to a personal right m the common lanas
and a tenement right amounting in Yarmouth to 16 1-2 shares out of the 3,118 mto wluon
the town was divided ; and if unfortunate, the tomi would be liable for the supphes ol nis
family. A protest not only saved the town harmless; but prevented the person moving
in from claiming the rights of a proprietor.

184 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
The name is written Childe, Child, Chiles and Childs on the
records. The true orthography is Child ; but all the descendants
of Richard, resident in Barnstable, write the name with a final s.
Dea. Richard Child, probably a son of the first Richard of
Barnstable, resided in the westerly part of the East Parish, on the
estate owned by the late Mr. John Dexter, deceased. He had a
shop, which indicates that he was a mechanic. He was admitted
to the church May 4, 1684, and ordained a deacon Sept. 4, 1706.
He married in 1678, Elizabeth, daughter of John Crocker. She
died January 15, 1696, and he married, second, Hannah  .
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Samuel, born 6th Nov. 1679.
II. Elizabeth, born 23d Jan. 1681-2, died five weeks after,
III. Thomas, horn 10th January, 1682-3. See account of fami
ly below.
IV. Hannah, 22d January, 1684. The Hannah Child who mar
ried 30th July, 1702, Joseph Blush of Barnstable, was as
above stated a daughter of Richard Child of Watertown.
V. Timothy born 22d Sept. 1686.
VI. Dea. Ebenezer, born, says the town record, "March, latter
end, 1691, as I think." He died January 17, 1756, N. S.,
in the 66th year of his age, and was buried at West Barn
stable. He married in 1719 Hope, and had, 1, Elizabeth,
18th July, 1720, died 18th Sept. 1720; 2, Ebenezer, 10th
AprU, 1723 ; 3, Richard, baptized 1st Aug. 1726 ; 4, Mary,
baptized 3d Sept., 1727, died June 15, 1762 aged 35 ; and
Mercy, baptized 4th January, 1730. The three last named
are not on the town records. Ebenezer Child, Jr., son of
Dea. Ebenezer, married January 15, 1746, Hannah Crocker.
She died Feb. 23, 1756, aged 37, and he married in 1756,
Abigail Freeman. His ehUdren were, 1, Ebenezer, born
Nov. 3, 1747, baptized at the West Church, Nov. 8, 1747;
2, Josiah, Aug. 8, 1749 ; 3, Hannah, Sept. 10, 1751 ; 4,
David, March 2, 1754; 5, by his second wife, Jonathan,
May 13, 1757; 6, AbigaU, Dec. 26, 1758; 7, Hope, Janu
ary 21, 1761 ; and Mary, baptized AprU 10, 1763.
VII. Elizabeth, born 6th .June, 1692.
VIII. James, born 6th November, 1694. See account of his
family below.
IX. Mercy, born 7th May, 1697.
X. Joseph, born 5th March, 1699-10, married AprU 23, 1724,
Deliverance Hamblin. He was admitted to the West
Church Aug. 18, 1728, removed to Falmouth and returned
to Barnstable in 1747. The names of only two of his chil
dren were on the town records. His children were, 1,
Joseph, born 17th Aug. 1724 ; married Meribah Dexter of

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Rochester; 2, Benjamin, baptized 25th Aug. 1728, married
Mehitable llambUn, 1452, and had Lewis, Aug. 29, 1782 ;
Hannah, Sept. 6, 17J4; and Mehitable, Dec. 27, 1756.
He died before June 10, 1758, when his three children were
baptized at the West Church. 3, Ehzabeth, daughter of
Joseph, was baptized 24th August 1729 ; 4, Ruth, baptized
26th Sept. 1731, married 21st May, 1747, Reuben Blush ; 5,
James, born 4th March, 1742 ; and AbigaU, baptized 29th
July 1750. Deliverance Childs who married March 3, l757,
Daniel Hamblin, was probably a daughter of Joseph born in
Falmouth.
Thomas ChUds, son of Richard, born 10th January, 1682,
resided in the East Parish where he died, AprU 11, 1770, aged
88. He married in 1710, Mary  . Of his famUy only
David appears to have remained in Barnstable.
Children of Thomas Childs born in Barnstable.
I. David, born July 20, 1711. See account below.
II. Jonathan, Nov. 27, 1713.
IIL Silas, March 10, 1715. Silas removed to Rhode Island,
and it is said settled in Warren. He has many descend
ants.
IV. Hannah, born July 29, 1720, married Prince Taylor of
Lebanon, Conn., March 6, 1748.
V. Thomas, Sept. 10, 1725.
VI. Benjamin, Dec. 4, 1727, married Rebecca, daughter of
Stephen Davis of B., removed to Portland, had Thomas
Sept. 25, 1752 ; Isaac, Feb. 10, 1756 ; and Rebecca, March
9, 1769. He and his three children died early, and his
widow gave her estate to her brothers and sisters in Barn
stable.
VII. Mary, born AprU 1, 1733.
James ChUds, son of Richard, born 6th Nov. 1694, married
Sept. 27, 1722, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Crocker. He died
Nov. 2, 1779, aged 86.
Children horn in Barnstable.
I. Samuel, July 15, 1723, married Feb. 20, 1762, Mary
daughter of Thos. Hinckley, and had 1, Samuel, July 7,
1753 ; Elijah, baptized Oct. 21, 1764 ; and Ebenezer, Jan.
18, 1766 ; Elijah and Ebenezer of this family, owned the
ancient house on the farm which was Dea. Cooper's at the
settlement of the town. Ebenezer did not marry and his
half of the house was sold to John Dexter. Elijah, mar
ried Nov. 10, 1785, Mary Gorham, and was the father of
the present Dea. Samuel Childs and other children. He
was many years master of the Barnstable and Boston
packet sloop Romeo.

186 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
II. James, born April 22, 1725, married June 5, 1756, Mary,
daughter of David Parker, Esq., and had Elizabeth, born
May 6, 1756; Daniel, baptized Aug. 10, 1760; Mary,
baptized Feb. 15, 1761; Sarah, baptized Dec. 30, 1764,
and James, baptized May 24, 1767.
III. Elizabeth, born Dec. 20, 1730, married May 19, 1748,
Daniel Crocker.
IV. Sarah, born April 9, 1736, married May 2, 1754, Jonathan
Crocker.
V. Thankful, born Aug. 4, 1741, married Joseph Lawrence of
Sandwich, March 27, 1760.
VI. Richard, born March 22, 1743-4. He inherited the estate
which was his father's and grandfather's. He did not
marry. He had a large wen on one of his ankles, which in
the latter part of his life nearly disabled him from walking.
He gave his estate to John Dexter, on the condition that
he should support him for life. He died suddenly in 1805,
aged about 61.
David Childs, a son of Thomas, born July 20, 1711, married
Jan. 29, 1734 by John Thacher, Esq., to Hannah, daughter of
Gersham Cobb. His children born in Barnstable were :
I. David, Feb. 7, 1735-6, married AprU 4, 1758, Hannah,
daughter of Job Davis, and had 1, Susannah, July 30,
1762, married Joseph Cobb, Sept. 30, 1784; 2, Asenath,
Sept. 22, 1765, married 1st, Josiah Clark, 2d, 
Wild, and lived in Boston; 3, Job, Sept. 8, 1767, married
Jane Claghorn, 24th Nov. 1785; 4, Hannah, Nov. 17,
1769, married 4th AprU, 1788, Josiah Gorham; 5, Anna,
Nov. 1741, died unmarried, had Polly Allyn; 6, Josiah,
Dec. 14, 1773, married and then removed to Westborough
and thence to Boston ; 7, David, July 8, 1775 ; 8, Shubael
Davis, Dec. 16, 1777, married  ^, died suddenly in
Chelsea; 9, Benjamin, Aug. 11, 1779, died a young man,
in Georgia; and 10, Edward, March 9, 1783, married
thrice, 1, Jane Goodeno, 2, Cynthia Goodeno, 3,  ,
died in Boston.
II. Jonathan, Dec. 25, 1737, married Thankful Howland,
March 19, 1787, removed to Sandwich.
III. Anna, Aug. 18, 1742, died unmarried.
IV. Asenath, Feb. 28, 1738-40, married —  LinneU.
V. Josiah, Sept. 7, 1745, married 1st, Temperance, daughter
of George Lewis. She died soon after marriage, of eon-
sumption, and he married 2d, AbigaU, daughter of Nathan
iel Sturgis. He was with his uncle, Capt. James ChurchiU,
in the French War, and during the Revolution, was one of
the Home Guard, detailed for the defence of the coast.
He was entitled to a pension, but did not obtain it. He

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 187
was employed fifteen winters in trading voyages to the
Carolinas'.
VI. Edward, Sept. 13, 1749, married Mary, daughter of Seth
Lothrop. He was employed many years by the eccentric
Dr. Abner Hersey, and as a reward for his faithful ser
vices, the Dr. in one of his early wiUs, gave him £100.
The Dr. inquired of Edward what disposition he intended
to make of the bequest. "Fit out my daughters and
marry them off," was the inconsiderate reply. The Dr.
could not tolerate even neatness in dress, was indignant at
the reply, altered his wiU, and Edward lost the money.
Josiah and Edward bought the smaU estate of John Logge,
(a part of Elder Cobb's great lot) , which they divided, and each
had a house thereon. Both were coopers and small farmers, and
displayed more taste for horticultural and florticultural pursuits
than was common in those days. Both, in early life, went on
feather voyages, a term which few, at the present time, will under
stand. About a century ago, vessels were fitted out for the coast
of Labrador to collect feathers and eider down. At a certain
season of the year some species of wild fowl shed a part of their
wing feathers, and either cannot fly, or only for a short distance.
On some of the barren islands on that coast, thousands of those
birds congregated. The crews of the vessels would drive them
together, kiU them with a short club or a broom made of spruce
branches, and strip off their feathers. Millions of wild fowl were
thus destroyed, and in a few years, their, haunts were broken up
by this wholesale slaughter, and theu- numbers so greatly dimin
ished that feather voyages became unprofitable and were dis
continued. For fourteen years subsequent to 1800 these brothers were
oftener seen together than seperate. Every week day at 11 and
4 o'clock they visited the groceries with a degree of punctuaUty which
all noticed. Housewives that had no time-pieces, when, they saw
them, would say. Uncle Ned and Siah (as they were familiarly
called) have passed, and it is time to set the table. At the close
of his life, Edward became estranged from his brother and would
have no intercourse whatever with him. This was a great affiic-
tion to Josiah, and no efforts or concessions he could make
effected a reconciliation. Edward had some eccentricities. ' Per
haps his long and famUiar intercourse with Dr. Hersey had in
fused that trait into his character. His feelings were strong, and
when he took a dislike he was not easily reconcUed. Josiah was
a different man in this respect. He harbored no prejudices
against any one. He was a kind hearted man, and a good neigh
bor. When young he took an interest in the history of the early
settlements, and remembered many things that his grandfather had
said to him. He stated that aU the families of the name of

1^8 GESfEA'tdGibAE NOISES OF Ba'RNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Ghildis,' in- BSi-nMtblie-,- were dfebehdatits of the first Richard,
which is probably the fact. He survived his brother, dying at an
adV'aiilied a&'^l-

COGGIN.

Four of this name came to New England. John, Sen'r, of
Boston, said to have been the first who opened a store for the sale
of goods in that city, was a ship-owner, and a man of wealth ; he
died' in 1658; John Jr., of Boston, son of Humphrey, and a
nephew of John, Sen'r., died in 1674; Thomas was of Taunton
in 1643, died March 4, 1653 ; Henry Coggin was of Boston in
1634, afterwards of Scituate, aud removed with the first settlers
to Barnstable in 1639. July 1 1634, three cases, in one of. which
Hem-y, and in another, John Coggin was a party, were referred to
Gov. Winthrop and three others for adjustment and settlement.
The matters in dispute are not fully stated ; but appear to have
been connected with the settlement of a ship's voyage, in which
Henry and John probably had an interest.
Dec. 4, 1638, William Andrews was convicted of making an
assault on Mr. Henry Coggin, striking him several blows and
conspiring against his life. Andrews, as apart of his punishment
was committed, or sold into slavery ; but on the 3d of September
foUowing, he was released, he promising to pay Mr. Henry Coggin
eight pounds.
Feb. 13, 1639-40, Mr. Henry Coggin assigned for 50 shillings
sterling, and 20 bushels of Indian Corn, paid by Manaseth
Kempton, of Plymouth, the services of his servant James Glass,*
for the term of five years, from June 14, 1640.
Oct. 14, 1643, he was one of the Committee appointed by the
Court to cause a place or places in Barnstable to be fortified for
the defence of the inhabitants against any sudden assault.
• June 5, 1644, he was on the grand jury, and at the same
court he and Mr. Thomas Hinckley took the oath of fidelity.
They had previously taken the same oath at Scituate.
*. James Glass settled ui Plymouth. He married 31st Oct., 1645, Mary, daughter of
William Pontus, had Hannah, 2d June, 1647; Wybra, 9th Aug. 1649; Hannah again 24th
Dec. 1651; and Mary posthumous. He was a freeman 1648, and was lost in a storm, Sept. 3,
1662, near Plymouth harbor. Roger Glass, a servant of John Crocker, was probably a
brother of James.

190 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
The record of his lands in Barnstable was not made till 3d
Feb. 1661-2. His home lot containing ten and one-half acres,
was bounded easterly by Coggins's, now called Great Pond,
southerlj' by the highway, and John Finney's land, westerly by
Henry Bourne's land, and northerly by the meadow. His house
stood near the spot where Sturgis Gorham, Esq., built the house
now owned by the Smiths. The lot originally contained eleven
acres and a half, one acre, before the record was made, had been
sold to John Finney. This acre was near the present railroad
crossing, and was bounded on the south by the highway, and on '
other sides by the land of Henry Coggin, deceased.
He also owned four acres of marsh adjoining his home lot ;
four on Jewell's island ; eight of marsh and one acre of upland
at Scorton ; fifty acres of land at the Indian pond ; and two
shares in the Calve's pasture.
He married, perhaps in England, Abigail Bishop. Her
father, probably, never came to New England. Circumstance
favors the supposition that Henry Coggin was a sea captain, and
that his death, June 16, 1649, in England, occurred, not while he
was on a visit to that country, as Mr. Savage supposes but while
pursuing the regular course of his business as a trader between
London and^ Boston. This is probably the fact. Nothing is
positively known on the subject. The case which he had with
John Tilly shows that he had some connection with ships, and the
fact that he was entited to be caUed Mr. in Massachusetts, shows
that he was a man of good standing, not a common sailor. His
widow married John Finney, according to the Church Records,
July 9, 1650, and according to the Colony Records, 10th June,
1660 ; she died 6th May, 1653.
Children of Mr. Henry Coggin.
.1. Abigail, born probably in Scituate', about the year 1637.
She married 21st June, 1659, John French, of BiUerica.
He was a son of William, and came over in the Defence
with his parents at the age of 5 months. She died soon
after her marriage leaving no issue.
II. Thomas, baptized at the Barnstable Church March 2, 1639-
40, died 26th Feb. 1658-9 ; but according to the Colony
Records he was buried 28th Jan. 1658-9. f
III. John, baptized Feb. 12, 1642-3. In 1654 his parents were
dead, sind all his brothers and sisters excepting Abigail.*
His father-in-law had taken a thu-d wife who had no sympa
thy for these children. Mar. 1, 1658-9 Mr. Isaac Robinson
and Gyles Rickard, Sen'r., of Plymouth, complained to the
^ 1 1 usually follow the dates on the Church Records. These are noted in the order in
which they occurred. The Town Records from which the Colony were copied, have been
transcribed several times, and the order in which they are arranged affords no clue for
detecting en-ors.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 191
Court that these orphan children living with Finney, suffered
wrong in several respects and thoii- case was referred to
Gov. Prence and Mr. Thomas Hinckley to examine. On the
3d of May following, John Coggin having made choice of
Capt. James Cudwerth and Mr. Isaac Robinson, the Court
appointed them his guardians ; but ordered that he should
remain with his father-in-law till the June Court, and mean
time to be kept at school all the time, excepting six days.
The Court delayed giving any definite order, to give Mr.
Finney time to make up the accounts of the estate, and
because letters were expected from Mr. Bishop, the grand
father, who was probably in England. June 7, 1659, all
the lands of Henry Goggin, deceased, were transferred to
the guardians of John. In these proceedings AbigaU is not
named. She was then of age and married soon after, as
above stated.
April 8, 1664, John Coggin executed a discharge of his lov
ing friends and guardians, acknowledging himself to be
fully satisfied with their management in relation to himself
and his estate. On the 8th of the following June, the
Court declared John Coggin to be "heir apparent" of Henry
Goggin, deceased, and authorized him to make sale of
the lands that were his father's. The houselot, meadows
adjoining, and on Jewell's island, and shares in the Calve's
Pasture, he sold to his father-in-law, the meadow at Scor
ton to Capt. Matthew Fuller, and his great lot at Indian
Pond to Wm. Crocker. He married 22d Dec. 1664, Mary
Long, of Charlestown, and had children, Henry and John.
IV. Mary, baptized AprU 20, 1646, buried May 3, 1645.
V. Henry, baptized Oct. 11, 1646. I find no record of his
death ; he was not living in 1659.
The parties named in connection with this family, were
among the most respectable in this, and in the Mass. Col
ony. J The name is written Coggin, Coggan, Cogan, Cog-
gen, and by Mr. Lothrop, Cogain. The records of Mr.
Lothrop's Church in London are lost, but circumstances
make it probable that Mr. Coggin was a member in Eng
land, and was admitted to feUowship in the Scituate and
Barnstable Church, without any formed proceedings on
record. Circumstances indicate that such were the facts,
not only in regard to Mr. Coggin ; but to other members of
the London Chm-ch, who came over and flnaUy settled
in Barnstable. §
tMary Gaunt was a kinsman of Heniy Coggin and probably resided m his family. She
married Francis Crocker. . , , , , ^v
§1 have heretofore suggested that the old name of Coggin's pond be restored. The
present name is indefinite and without meaning. In spellmg the nam* I have followed the
town records. Cogain is perhaps better. Let the station on the Cape Cod Raih-oad be
called Cogain's Pond station.

COOPER.

Dea. John Cooper was one of the first settlers in Barnstable.
He came to Plymouth about the year 1632, and there married ou
the 27th Nov. 1634, Priscilla, widow of William Wright and
daughter of Alexander Carpenter,* of Leyden. She had no issue
by either marriage that survived her. In 1683 she removed to
Plymouth where she died Dec. 29, 1689, aged 91. The following
is a copy of her letter of dismission from the Barnstable to the
Plymouth Church :
"ffor ye Rev'd Elders of ye CCh. of Ct., at Plymouth, to
bee communicated to ye CCh. there; Rev'd and beloved Brethren,
The providence of God having removed ye Widow Cooper
A member of ye CCh of Ct. at Barnstable fro. us to dweU w'th
you ; and she desiring to partake with you of ye good things of
God's house, and to be under yo'r watch and care, and in order
y'r unto to bee dismissed fro. o'er CCh unto you ; y'r fore if
you judge meet to receive her, wee do dismiss her fro. us unto
yo'r holy communion ; as one yt has walked orderly while w'th
us, and do commend her to you unto ye grace of God in all you'r
holy Administrations. In ye name and w'th consent of
ye CCh of Ct. at Barnstable,
Barnst : pr nos,
8 r : 15, 1683, Jonath: Bussel, Pastor.
John Chipman, Elder. -f
* Alexander Carpenter was one of Mr. Robininson's church at Leyden. Five of his
daughters are named :
I. Anna, also named Agnes, in the Dutch records, called a maid oi Wrentham, in Eng
land, married April 30, 1613, Samuel Fuller, afterwards the physician of the Plymouth
Colony. She died early.
II. Julian or Julia Ann, bom 1584, married 23d July, 1612, at Leyden, George Morton,
2d, Manasseth Kempton, of Plymouth, died 19th Feb. 1664-5, aged 81.
III. Alice, bom 1590, married first Constant Sonthworth, was a widow when she came over,
married 2d Gov. WilUam Bradford, 14th Aug. 1623, and died March 26, 1670, aged 80.
TV. Priscilla, bom 1698, married as above stated.
V. Mary, according to Mr. Savage, bom in 1577 and died unmarried at Plymouth, March
19, 1668, aged 90. Mr. Russell says in 1638, if so she was bom in 1593, a letter of hers
has recently been pubhshed, giving information respecting the family; but I cannot at
this moment find it.
t This letter is printed to correspond as nearly with the original as the types upually
found in a printing office will admit. In old- manuscripts, th is made like the modem letter
y. Many transcribers of old manuscripts use y instead of th. This practice is wrong,
because the character was intended for th not for v.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 193
Dea. Cooper was admitted a freeman Jan. 1, 1634-5; re
moved to Scituate lief ore 1638 ; aud was one of the grantees of
the lands between North and South rivers, made that year. Sept.
3, 1638, Cooper's island containing 18 acres was granted to him,
which he sold in 1639, to William WUls, and the island bears the
name of the latter, to this day. He was constable of Barnstable
in 1640, aud a deputy to tlie Colony Court in 1642, and '43.
March 24, 1640-1 he was "invested into the office of a Deacon
Mr. Lothrop, Mr. Mayo and Dea. Cobb laying on hands."
His home lot was the fourth west from Coggin's pond. 1,
Henry Coggins containing twelve acres ; 2, Henry Bourne's, eight
acres; 3, James Hamblin's, twenty acres, and 4, Dea. Cooper's,
containing twenty-four acres. The latter was bounded northerly
by the marsh, easterly by Mr. Groom, J westerly by Isaac Robin
son, and southerly "running into ye woods." Deacon Cooper's
house was ou this lot, and stood near the present location of the
ancient house now owned by WiUiam Hinckley and Elijah Childs.
A part of that house is ancient and it is not improbable that it is
the same which was owned by Deacon Cooper. He also owned
the meadow on the north of his home-lot, of the same width with
the upland and extending north to the great creek ; a share in the
Calve's Pasture containing half an acre ; a little neck of land
pointing southerly into the Great Pond, with eight acres of
upland against it, bounded northerly by a great swamp ; and a
neck of land between the Great and Shoal ponds. The first
named neck of land he sold May 9, 1656, to Roger Goodspeed,
and the other to John HaU 14th Feb. 1660-1.
Dea. Cooper had no children. His sister Lydia married 25th
Dec. 1636, Nathaniel Morton, son of George, and Secretary of
the Colony from 1646, till he died June 29, 1686, and the author
of that well known work, the New England's Memorial. Dea.
Cooper was the brother-in-law of the Secretary, and his wife,
Priscilla, was his aunt. She was also nearly related to the Brad
ford and Fuller families. Mr. Dean says that Dea. Cooper in his
will, gave half of his estate to the Barnstable Church and half to
his sister Lydia, after the decease of his wife. He was not a
man of large estate and it is not probable that much remained at
the death of his widow.
A small pond in the northerly part of his home-lot is still
known as Cooper's pond, and a small island on the north thereof
is called by his name. A marsh island at the north of Rendevous

J Who this Mr. Groom was I am unable to ascertain. It seems that in 1653, when the
record of Dea. Cooper's land was made, that he owned a part of the land, recorded proba
bly the next year 1654, as the property of James Hamblin. There was a family of -that
name in Middlesex County. There was a Samuel, oi SaUsbury, in 1850, a mariner, dignified
with the prefix of Mr. who went home to London before 1668. Was he that Quaker who
published in 1676 "A Glass for the people of N. E." Perhaps the name is Green. An
Isaac Green, a surveyor, was early of Barnstable and removed to Falmouth at the settle
ment of that toivn and had a familv there.

194 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Creek is also called Cooper's island ; but I think the name is more
modfern than the time of Dea. Cooper. Great or Nine Mile Pond
is also called Cooper's Pond on the record — a good name — and if
revived would help preserve the memory of one of the best men
among the settlers of Barnstable. §
§ There was another man of the name of John Cooper in the Colony — a man who did
not sustain the excellent character of Dea. John of Barnstable, and the reader of the
Colony records must be careful not to confound the two.

COLEMAN.

Edward Coleman, of Boston, aud Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Lumbard, of Barnstable, were married at Eastham by
Mr. Prence, Oct. 27, 1648. He was of Boston in 1655, and
probably came to Barnstable soon after that date. He was
admitted an inhabitant Oct. 3, 1662, and was Uving 26th March,
1690, when the town granted 25 acres of land at "Yannows" to
his son Edward, "on the condition that he do his utmost for the
maintainance of his father and mother and the rest of the family."
This grant was at the south-east corner of the town, bounded
easterly by the bounds of Yarmouth, "south by the harbor at
Yannows," west by the Hallett land, and north by the commons.
Margaret Coleman was living Nov. 12, 1714 ; but Edward Senior
and .Junior were then both dead.
Children of Edward Coleman, born in Boston.
I. Edward. The date of his birth was probably 1649. He
died in 1714, leaving no issue, and his estate was divided to
his mother Margaret ; his sister Widow Ehzabeth Hadaway ;
his sister Sarah Coleman, and the children of his only
brother James Coleman.
II. Elizabeth, born 28th 11 mo. 1651, was the second wife of
the flrst John Hadaway, whom she married in Yarmouth,
May 1, 1672.
III. Marv, born I2th Sept. 1663.
IV. Martha, born 8th Aug. 1655.
V. Sarah, pirobably born in Barnstable, unmarried in 1714.
VI. James, probably born in Barnstable, married Patience,
daughter of James Cobb. He was not living, in 1714, and
his widow married 10th Sept. 1715, Thomas Lumbard.
She died March 30, 1747, aged 78 years.
Children of James Coleman.
I. Edward, 25th Oct. 1695, married Thankful Lumbard, 16th
Sept. 1715. The names of his children I do not find on the

196 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
town records. His son Edward was baptized Nov. 7, 1725,
and his daughter Miriam Oct. 29, 1727. The latter married
Dec. 13, 1750, Joseph Bacon, Jr.
II. Martha, 4th March, 1698, married Sept. 26, 1718, Capt.
John Phinney, the founder of Gorham, Maine. She had
nine children, viz : 4 in Barnstable ; 3 in Portland ; and 2
in Gorham.
III. Thankful, 7th Feb. 1699-1700, married Jan. 16, 1722-3,
Robert Claghorn, and died AprU 1770, aged 70 years and 2
months.
rV. A son, 26th Feb. 1702-3, died same day.
V. James, 11th April, 1704, married March 12, 1727-8 Pati
ence, daughter of Dea. John Phinney. He married 2d
Martha (Phinney.) His chUdren were Martha, born Jan.
31, 1768-9, probably died young. By his second wife,
Martha again, March 19, 1732-3. 3, James, Aug. 8, 1735,
married, Sept. 24, 1761, Zerviah Thomas, and June 28,
1763, Ann Lumbard. 4, John, May 14, 1739, removed to
Granville, N. S. married Feb. 19, ^764, AbigaU, daughter
of Capt. James Delap. He lived to be aged, and has
descendants in Nova Scotia. 5, Mary, born March 27,
1739, married March 15, 1763, David Howland. Mr.
James Coleman died AprU 16, 1781, aged 77, and his widow
Feb. 29, 1784, aged 80.
VI. John, born 26th Sept. 1706, married Aug. 5, 1736, Reliance,
widow of Eleazer Cobb. She died June 11, 1742, aged 36,
and he married 2d, Mary Hamblin, Aug. 2, 1743. He
resided in the ancient Samuel Cobb house till Nov. 20, 1746,
when he removed to South Sea. His children were aU
baptized at the East Church, namely : Martha, June 19,
1737; John, Oct. 29, 1738; Mary, May 11, 1740; Mary
again, August 5, 1744; Thomas, November 8, 1747;
Nathaniel, Sept. 17, 1749; Zaccheus, Feb, 24, 1750-1;
Reliance, April 26, 1762. Nathaniel of this family was
insane the latter part of his life. He believed the land had
everywhere become soft and miry. He carried a very long
cane with a ram's horn on the upper end, and his hat was
ornamented with feathers of various colors, stuck under the
band. Notwithstanding his constant fear of sinking, he was
good natured, cheerful, and inoffensive. As he walked
thro' the streets, feeling his way, with his left foot always
in advance of his right, he would sing these words, "Bacon's
got home and brought me a new ram's horn, a new ram's
horn, a new ram's horn."
VII. Patience, 6th May, 1709, married June 20, 1732, James
Lothrop.
VIII. Ebenezer, 15th Aug. 1711.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 197
The town records respecting this famUy are defective. The
deficiencies, I presume, may be supplied from the Church and
Probate records.
" Edward Coleman built the first house at Hyannis. At that
time all the southerly part of Barnstable was called "South Sea,"
and the Indians resident there, "South Sea Indians." The earli^
est settlers at South Sea were John Thompson, who sold his land
to John Lovell, Roger Goodspeed, Jona Hatch, Thomas Bumpas,
and Joshua Lumbert. The first building erected by the whites
was a warehouse by Nicholas Davis, near where Timothy Baker's
store now stands, and on land presented to him by the Sachem
Hianna. In 1697 the "South Sea" men were Thomas Macy, John,
Benjamin, and Ebenezer Goodspeed, sons of Roger ; John LoveU,
and his sons John, James, WiUiam, and Andrew ; John Issum,
Thomas Bumpass, DoUar Davis, Thomas Lewis, Joshua Lumbert,
John LinneU, John Phinney, Jr., Edward Lewis, Joseph Lothrop,
Jr., John Lewis, and Edward Coleman.
Soon after this date the HaUett, CroweU, Bearse, and Clag
horn families settled at South Sea. Jonathan Lewis, who, accord
ing to tradition, was the fii-st settler in the present viUage of
Hyannis, probably did not build his house before his marriage in
1703. The foregoing statement shows that Edward Coleman was
the flrst settler at Hyannis. His house was at the south-east
corner of the town, not far from Baxter's wharf.
The Indian villages at South Sea, beginning at the south-west
corner of the town were, 1st, Cotuit or Satuite, the present name ;
2d, Mistic, now Marston's MUls ; 8, Cot-o-ches-et, now Osterville ;
4, Shon-co-net, now corrupted into Skunknet; 5, Che-qua-quet,
or Wee-qua-quet, now Centreville and Hyannis Port ; 6, Tam-a-
hap-pa-see-a-kon. This was the name of the brook, now known
as Baxter's Mill Pond and River. The lands in the vicinity were
probably known by the same name. This was the uniform prac
tice of the Indians, and it was not probably departed from in this
case. The name being a long one, and difficult to pronounce was
dropped, and the name of the Sachem adopted. As I intend
devoting an article to this name, I will here make only one
remark. In writing this name all the early writers, excepting
Thacher, dropped the aspirate H at the beginning, and wrote the
name lyanough, Yanno, or Janno. The popular pronunciation of
the name indicates that the orthography of Mr. Thacher's Hianno,
is the best.
All the Indian names that I have succeeded in translating
are descriptive terms, suggested by some physical peculiarity of
the region to which they were apphed. Cotuit or Satuit means
"cold brook," and was so named because there are many springs
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198 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
There is a brook of the same name in Scituate, from which that
town derives its name. Mistic is a name that is forgotten and
lost, by the people who reside in that vicinity. Marston's MUls
is not an improvement on the Indian name.
Cot-o-che-set. The manner in which this name is written on
the town records, has probably had an influence in bringing it into
disuse. For more than half a century it was the popular name of
Oyster Island vUlage. The island was so named on account of
the abundance of Oysters found in its vicinity — a very appropriate
name for the island ; but not applicable to the main land. When
the post-oflflce was established in the viUage, about thirty years
ago, it was called OstervUle, for what good reason is unknown.
The old name Cot-o-che-set, is a better one, more expressive, and
at the time of the change, was familiar to many of the aged.
Skon-ko-net, perhaps a derivative of Kong-kont, the crow,
and so called because those birds frequent that region. This
name is now incorrectly written and pronounced Skunknet. Only
the northerly and westerly part of the tract formerly so-caUed is
now so designated. The western branch of the Skon-ke-net river
is now known as Bump's river, and the easterly as Phinney's mill
brook. The changing of a few letters in an Indian name, often
makes a redical change in the meaning of the word. Che-qua-
quet signifies "the edge of a forest." The large knurls on the
oak were called by the same name. As these abound more on
the edge than in the center of a forest, it is not surprising that in
a language containing so few words as the Indian, that both
should be called by the same name. The termination, "et," was
applied to places near the water, so that the literal meaning of
Che-qua-quet seems to be "a vUlage situate on the edge of the
forest and by the sea-shore." This is descriptive of the place,
and probably the true signification of the name.
The village was by Bourne, as quoted, Gooken, called Wee-
qua-keet, a different name, Wee-koh-quat, is "fair weather," and
with the terminal "et," instead of "at," the meaning would be
fair weather harbor or river. Mr. Bourne's authority is not to be
rejected for slight reasons. In the records, where the name
frequently occurs, it is uniformly written Che-qua-quet, with some
unimportant variations in the orthography — never Wee-qua-keet.
The popular pronunciation of the name is uniformly Che or Cha,
not Wee-qua-quet. This is not conclusive ; but taken in connec
tion with the records, I think it settles the question in favor of
Che-qua-quet as the hest authorized spelling of the name.
When the post-office was established, the old name was
dropped and the French Centreville adopted. This is not so
objectionable as OstervUle, yet it is no improvement on the old.
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that name, and for that reason mail matter is now liable to be
mis-sent. This objection would not be applicable to the "name
Che-qua-quet.* * For the definition of Che-qua-quet aud many other Indian names, I am indebted to
au intelligent Indian Chief irom the West. He had a perfect knowledge of his native tongue
which was a dialect of the language spoken by the Massachusetts Indians. He could
read without much difficulty Eliot's Indian bible, and Cotton's vocabulary. He was very
cautious in giving his opinion. The names of places were often spelt so differently from
the manner in wnich he was accustomed to write the equivalent words that he did not
always recognize them. He asked me several times if the pronunciation of the first svlable
of Che-qua-quet was Che or Tshe, not Wee, because the meaning of the name depended on
that pronunciation. The meaning of the name of a pond in Mashpee, which he gave me,
is co:afirmed by Mr. Marston, the Indian superintendent, as its true meanins. I have also
attempted to obtain information from members of the Penobscot tribe, out with little
success.

CROCKER.

Two. brothers named John and William Crocker, were among
the first settlers in Barnstable, WiUiam came with Mr. Lothrop
and his church. Oct. 21, 1639, and John the following spring.
There was also a Francis Crocker of Barnstable, able to bear
arms, Aug. 1643. He was one of the soldiers in the Narraganset
Expedition, sent from Barnstable Aug. 1645. He married in
1647, Mary Grant "a kinswoman of Mr. Goggain of Barn
stable,"* and removed to Scituate, and from thence to Marshfield.
He had a family, and his descendents now write their name
Crocker. John Crocker, the elder brother, left no family ; but WiUiam's
posterity are very numerous. Perhaps no one of the first comers,
has more descendants now living. A large majority of all in the
United States, and in the British Provinces of the name, trace
their descent from Dea. William of Barnstable. The descendants
of Francis are not numerous. A Thomas Crocker, born in 1633,
settled in New London and .had a family. Widow Anne Crocker
of Scituate, had a son 'Moses born in 1650, but it does not appear
that he has any descendants. Mr. Savage names an Edward of
Boston, who was the public executioner in 1684, and a Daniel
who married in 1660, but these were perhaps descendants of
Francis. It is said, on how good authority I have not ascertained, that
John and William Crocker came over in 1634, either in the same
ship with Eev. Mr. Lothrop, or in another that sailed about the
same time, and that they stopped in Roxbury before they settled
in Scituate. They did not remain long in Roxbury, for their
- *The renowned Capt. John Smith, probably the first white who visited Bai-nstable har-
boir, wrote this name as here spelled. The town in England from which our town was
named is now written Bai-nstaple. On his retui-n from his voyage in 1614, he presented to
Prince Charles a schedule of Indian names of places, and recommended new ones. For
I^embeek, (probably Naumkeag, Salem) he proposed the name of Bastable, for Chaw-um
(Shaume) part of Sandwich, Barrwick, (forAccomack, Plymouth, &c. A few of the new
names are retained. Mr. Jolin Buley (probably John Bursley) afterwards of Barnstable,
owned one-fourth of the two ships which Capt. Smith commanded in 1614.

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names do not appear on the Massachusetts Colony Records.
Crocker or Croker as the name is usually written in England,
IS very ancient. An old proverbial distich record that,
"Crosker, Crewys, and Copplestone,
When the Conqueror came, were at home."
The family of Crocker, originally seated at Crocker's Hale,
and Crokern. For, in Devonshire, became possessed of Lineham,
by marriage with the heirs of Churchill. The genealogy of the
Crokers of Lineham is accurately recorded aud exhibits a descent
of eleven John Crockers in almost uniuterrupted succession.
Members of the family removed to CoruwaU, Waterford, and
other places. (See Burke.) JOHN CKOCKEE.
It incidentally appears by Mr. Lothrop's church records, that
John Crocker was an inhabitant of Scituate in 1636. Feb. 1,
1638-9, he and other inhabitants of Scituate took the oath of
allegiance. March 3, 1639-40, he is caUed of Scituate, but he
probably removed soon after this date to Barnstable. Mr. Deane
says he probably did not remove tiU 1654 ; but this is a mistake,
for he was certainly of Barnstable Aug. 1643. The account
given by Mr. Deane of his family, is erroneous and the fault is
perhaps chargeable to his printer, and not to the author, the name
of John having been inadvertantly substituted by the printer for
that of William. His wife's name was Joan or Jane. The date
of his marriage does not appear on record, probably not till late
in life. In Mr. Lothrop's list of the householders in Scituate his
name does not occur, making it probable that he was not married
till after 1637. If he had any children they all died young, for
he had none living at his death in 1669.
The farm of John Crocker, now owned by the descendants
of his brother William, is at the north-east corner of the West
Parish in Barnstable, and is thus described on the town records :
"Forty acres of upland, more or less, bounded easterly by
Goodman Bearse, westerly by Mr. Dimmock, northerly by the
marsh, and southerly into the woods." He also owned forty
acres of salt marsh adjoining his farm on the north ; and thirty
acres of upland at the Indian pond, the later he sold 24th Feb.
1662-3, to John Thompson. Feb. 10, 1668-9, (the dav on which
he executed his wUl) Abraham Blush conveyed to him for £5,10,
his great lot containing forty acres of upland and six of marsh.
This lot is situated on the east side of Scorton Hill, and is now
known as the Bodfish farm. By Blush's deed it appears that John
Crocker had formerly owned meadow in that vicinity, then owned
by Edward Fitzrandolph.
John Crocker was propounded to be a freeman June 6, 1649,
and admitted on the 4th of June foUowing. He was a juryman
in 1647, '50 and '54 ; and surveyor of the highways in 1668.

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June 6, 1649, he was licensed to keep an ordinary, the name by
which taverns or public houses were then known.
March 2, 1646-7 he made a complaint against Thomas Shaw,
which is entered on the Colony Records, and it incidentaUy fur
nishes some information that is of interest. This is the first crimi- '
nal complaint made against a Barnstable man, and is interesting
on that account. It shows that John Crocker was a good-liver,
that his house was either pallisade built, or surrounded by a
pallisade; and that smaU, as weU as large offenders were
promptly and severely dealt with. (See Casely No. 33.)
"At a General Court holden March 2d, in the x x i j th year
of his Maj'etts now Raigne, of England, &c., 1646-7.
At this Court John Crocker compl. against Thomas Shawe
for coming into his house by putting aside some loose pallizadoes
on the Lords day, about the middle of the day, and tooke and
carried out of his said house some venison, some beefe, some
butter, cheese, bread, and tobacco, to the value of x i i d, which
the said Thomas Shaw openly in publike Court confessed, sub
mitting himself to the censure of the Court; whereupon, his
sureties being released, he was committed to the Marshall's
charge ; and the Court censured him to make satisfaction for the
goods stolen, 1 sh., being so valued, and 14 s, 4 d, a peece to the
two men that attended on him to the Court, and to be publikely
whipt at the post, which was accordingly don by the publike
officer." John Crocker's house stood near the ancient dweUing-house
recently occupied by Joseph and Prince Crocker deceased. Per
haps that house was originally John Crocker's, enlarged by its
subsequent owners. It appears by the above extract that the
house was either pallisade built or was surrounded by pallisade
fence. The nine houses first built in Scituate were small paUisade
houses and intended only as temporary residences. They were
not built as the log-houses at the West are built, by pUing logs
horizontally over each other ; but with small poles, placed in
paralled rows, and filled in with stones and clay. Some of the
better kinds were plastered. The roofs were thatched with the
long sedge that grows abundantly near the creeks in the salt
meadows. The fire-place was built of stone, and the chimney of
sticks piled like a cob-house and plastered on the inside with clay.
Straw or thatch served for a floor and a carpet. The south-east
slope of a hill, near water, was usually selected bj' the flrst
settlers on which to place their dwellings. By digging into the
hill-side a secure back to the fire-place was obtained and the labor
of building one side diminished. As a substitute for glass, oiled
paper was used. Such houses were called by some of the early
writers booths, that is a shelter made of slight materials for tem-
porarj' purposes. A few such houses were put up in Barnstable,
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those who came in the spring of that year had good substantial
frame-houses. A saw mUl had then been erected in Scituate and
lumber, for covering and finishing buildings, could be cheaply
procured. Mr. HuU, Mr. Mayo, Thos. Lumbert, Mr. Dimmock,
and others had frame-houses. According to tradition preserved
in the family, the first house built by Gov. Hinckley, aud that by
his father Samuel, were on the east side of Goggins' pond, had
thatched roofs, and were not much better than the booths above
described, yet they were the only houses they had for several
years. It is doubtful whether the first comers ever built any houses
of the description now known as log-houses. Block houses of a
similar construction to a log-house, were built early. They were
constructed of hewn timbers, two stories high, and adapted for
defence against Indian hostiUties as well as for a residence. ^ A
block house was built in Yarmouth ; but in Barnstable, the lower
stories of all the fortification houses were of stone, and have
already been described.
Some of the pallisade houses built by the first settlers, were
the most comfortable and durable houses built. Elder John
Chipman's, I believe, was so constructed, Mr. John' Crow's, of
Yarmouth, certainly was, and stood nearly two centuries, required
but little repair, and, in fact, the recent owners did not know that
it was so constructed tUl it was taken down. This house was
built by taking large sticks of timber for sills and plates, boring
two paralled rows of holes in each, about six inches apart, except
ing where doors or windows were to be placed, and filling between
with stones and clay. This formed the walls of the house, which
were plastered with shell mortar inside and out. The Crowell
house was afterwards clap boarded, which concealed the original
construction from sight.
John Crocker's house probably was not so constructed,
because it would be difficult for any one to have removed the
pallisadoes and entered the house in the manner described.
Many of the early settlers built a pallisade around their houses,
and John Crocker probably did, as a defence against the Indians,
and to keep out intruders aud wild beasts. Such pallisades were
built of smaU logs 12 or 15 feet long, sharpened at each end and
set or driven into the ground side by side, so as to form a fence
ten feet high, which it would be difficult for man or beast to
scale. He died in 1669 leaving a wife Jane, but no chUdren. After
providing for his widow he gave his estate to the sons of his
brother WiUiam, and appointed his nephew Job, his executor.
The latter came into possession of the old homestead, aud it is
now owned by his descendants.
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He was illiterate, kept a public house where it was customary in
early times, for a certain class of people, found in all commu
nities, to assemble to drink, and indulge in low and vicious
conversation. Such company and such associations never im
prove the temper or moral character of a man, or add anything to
his respectable standing in society. His treatment of his servant
Roger Glass, a very worthy young man, shows that he was a man,
"In whose veins the milk of human kindness did not flow." That
he belonged to Mr. Lothrop's church, does not appear. He was
one of the pioneer settlers in Scituate and in Barnstable. He
was not a perfect man. His ashes rest in the old burying-ground
beside those of the fathers where it will be well to let them rest
in peace. William Crocker, a younger brother of John, joined Mr.
Lothrop's church in Scituate Dec. 25, 1636. He came to Barn
stable Oct. 21, 1639, and his daughter Elizabeth, baptized Dec.
22, 1639, is the fourth on the list, showing that he was among the
first who came. He built a frame house in Scituate in 1636 — the
forty-fourth built in that town. June 5, 1644, he was propounded
a freeman, but does not appear to have been admitted tiU after
1652. He was constable of Barnstable in 1644 ; on the grand
jury in 1654, '55, '57, '61, '67 and '75; selectman in 1668;
deputy to the Colony Court in 1670, 71, and 74 ; and surveyor of
highways 1673. In the year 1675 he was on the jury which
condemned the mm-derers of John Sassamon, secretary of King
Phillip. He was one of the leading men in early times and was
often employed in the business of the town and in settling the
estates of deceased persons.
He probably settled first in the easterly part of the town,
and removed to West Barnstable about the year 1643. The loss
of the early records makes it difficult to decide, but it is probable
that his first house in Barnstable was on the lot next west of
Henry Bourne's. He had a large landed estate, and for many
years was perhaps the richest man in town. His sons were all
men of wealth. In 1703 his son Joseph was the owner of the
largest estate in Barnstable.
In 1655, Dea. William Crocker owned one hundred and
twenty-six acres of upland, and twenty-two acres of meadow at
West Barnstable, and forty acres of upland at the Indian ponds.*
The West Barnstable farm was bounded easterly by the farm of
John Smith, now known as the Otis farm, aud by the farm of
Samuel Hinckley, now owned by Levi L. Goodspeed, southerly
* The Indian ponds are three in number, and form the head waters of the stream now
known as Marston's Mill river. Excepting where the water was very high, all these ponds
did not originally connect with the mill stream. They were called the Indian l^onds
because the Indian land reservation was on tlieir borders.* On the town records there is an
entry of five dollars, paid for permanently closing one of the passages ; and, at some tornier
time a new outlet was excavated at a very considerable e-xpense, probably for tlie purpose
of admitting heiTing.

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it extended into the woods. The southerly part of the farm, in
16o4, was bounded on the west by the commons, and the northerly
part by lands then owned by Governor Bodfish, and afterwards
by Lieut. John Howland. He afterwards added largely to his
West Barnstable farm, and to the farm at the Indian pond, the
latter containing one hundred acres at his death. The West
Barnstable farm was two mUes in length from north to south,
extending from the salt meadows on the waters at Barnstable
harbor to the neighborhood of the West Barnstable meeting
house. The lands he first occupied were the south-easterly part
of the farm, the old stone house which, according to tradition,
was his first residence, was about a fourth of a mile easterly from
the West Barnstable church. This stone or fortification house
was taken down many years ago. A few aged persons remember
to have seen it in a ruinous state. This part of the farm his son
Josiah afterwards owned. There was another stone house on the
south-westerly part of the farm owned by the descendants of
Eleazer. This was taken down about the year 1815. It was
caUed the old Stone Fort, and stood where Capt. Josiah Fish's
house now stands. It was about 25 feet in front and 20 feet on
the rear. The walls of the lower story were built of rough stones
laid in clay mortar, and nearly three feet in thickness. The
upper story was of wood and projected over the lower on the
front, about three feet. In this projection were a number of loop
holes about six inches square, closed by small trap doors. The
windows iu the lower story were high and narrow. These and
the loop holes in the projection, were intended to be used as port
holes, should the building be assaulted by hostUe Indians. The
earliest known occupant, to any now living, was Mr. Benoni
Crocker, a great-grand-son of Dea. William. He made a two
story addition on the south-side, which was occupied by his son
Barnabas. Dea. William Crocker married in 1636 Alice. She was living
in 1683, was the mother of all his children; but died soon after
that date. He married second Patience, widow of Robert Parker
and a daughter of Elder Henry Cobb. He died in the fall of
1692. His age is not stated, but he was propably about 80 years
of age. His will is printed below at full length. It is a docu
ment that will be interesting to his descendants, and to the public
as a specimen of the manner in which those instruments were
drawn up in olden times.
The last wiU and testament of Deacon WiUiam Crocker of
Barnstable, in New England.
The 6th day of September Anno Dom. 1692 I, WiUiam
Crocker of Barnstable, being sick and weak in body but throu ye
mercy of God of disposing mind aud memory, and knowing ye
uncertainty of this life on earth, and being desirous to settle

206 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
things in order, do make this my last wiU and testament in man
ner and forme following, viz : first and principally, I give and
committ my soul to God in Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer
throw whose pretious death and merrits I hope to find ye free
pardon and remition of all my sinnes, and everlasting salvation,
and my body to ye earth from whence it was taken, to be buried
in such decent manner as to my Executor hereafter named, shall
seem meet and convenient, and as touching my wordly estate
which God hath in mercy lent unto me, my will is to bestow ye
same as hereafter is expressed, and I do hereby revoke and make
void all wills by me formerly made and declared and appoint this
to be my last will and testament.
Imprimus my will is that all those debts and duties which I
owe in right or conscience to any person or persons whatsoever,
shall be well and truly contented and paid when convenient by my
Executor. Itt. I give and bequeath unto Patience my loving wife,
besides ye liberty to dispose of all ye estate which she brought
with her or had at ye time of our intermarriage, and besides ye
forty pounds I then promised to give her, in case she should sur
vive me, 1 give unto her my best bedd and bedstead with all ye
ffurniture thereto belonging.
Itt. 1 give and bequeath to my eldest son John Crocker my
now dwelling house and lands both upland and ffresh meadows
adjoyning and belonging thereunto now and of late under my
occupation and improvement to have and to hold to him his heirs
and assignes forever he or they paying to ye s'd Patience my wife
twenty pounds of ye fores'd forty pounds she is to receive, and I
do also hereby confirm to him my son John his heirs and assignes
forever all those parcels of land I heretofore gave unto him and
are well known to have been in his quiet possession for sundry
years ; 1 further also give and bequeath to him my son John my
two oxen which he hath had in his posession some years.
Itt. I give and bequeath unto my son Job Crocker besides ye
land 1 heretofore gave him and known to be in his possession,
twenty acres of that fifty acres at ye ponds which I purchased of
John Coggin to have and to hold to him my son Job his heirs and
assignes forever and that he chuse it on which side of s'd land he
please. Itt. I will and bequeath to my sons Josiah and Eliazer
Crocker besides those lands 1 heretofore gave to each of them
and are in their particular knowne possession, all my upland at
the marsh together with all ye marsh adjoining thereunto, (except
such particular parcel or parcels thereof as 1 have heretofore
given and is possest of late by any other or is in these presents
hereafter mentioned,) to be equally divided between them ye s'd
Josiah and Eliazer to have and to hold to them their heirs and

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assignes forever : Each of them ve s'd Josiah and Ehazer paying-
seven pounds and ten shillings apiece to ye s'd Patience in paying
of ye forty pounds above mentioned. And I further will and
bequeath to my sons Josiah and Ehazer to each of them one
cow. Itt. I will and bequeath unto my son Joseph Crocker (besides
ye two parcels of upland and one parcel of marsh which I hereto
fore gave him and is known to be in his possession ye house and
land which he hired of me and now lives on) that is to say, so
much of my s'd land as he hath now fenced in ; together with that
parcel of marsh which he hath from year to year of late hired of
me; to have and to hold to him ye s'd Joseph his heirs and
assignes forever : he or they paying flve pounds to ye s'd Patience
to make up ye full of s'd' forty pounds I promised to her as
above s'd.
Itt. I give and bequeath aU ye rest of my lands att ye ponds
to my grandsons, viz : to Nathaniel, ye son of John Crocker,
Samuel, ye son of Job Crocker, and Thomas, ye son of Josiah
Crocker to be equally divided between them and to their and each
of their heirs and assignes forever.
Itt. my will is and 1 do hereby constitute and appoint my
trusty and well beloved son Job Crocker to be my sole executor to
see this my last will and testament to be performed, with whom I
leave all ye residue of my estate in whatsoever it be, to be equally
distributed amongst all my children unless I shall signifie my
miude to have such part or parts thereof to be disposed to any in
particular. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal.
On my further consideration" I signifie my mind before ye
ensealing hereof and it is my will that Mr. Russell shall have my
two steers which are att Isaac Howlands and that Mr. Thomas
Hinckly shall have my nagro boy if he please he paying fourteen
pounds to my Executor for him.
WILLIAM CROCKER. [Seal.J
Signed Sealed and declared
In presence of
SAINIUEL CHIPMAN,
MERCY CHIPMAN.
Samuel Chipman and Mercy Chipman whose hands are sett
as witnesses to this will made oath in COui-t October ye 19 : 1692,
that they did see the above said William Crocker now deceased
sign seal and declare this above written to be his last wUl and
testament. JOSEPH LOTHROP : c 1.
Examined and duly compared with ye original wiU and en
tered October ye 22, 1692.
Attest: JOSEPH LOTHROP, Recorder.

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The division which Deacon Crocker made of his estate in the
foregoing will, may perhaps, be better understood by the follow
ing description of the shares of each of his five sons. Job had
the estate which was his uncle John's homestead, and his father
therefore gives him a larger proportion of his estate, not imme
diately connected with the West Barnstable farm.
John had the great lot of his uncle John, on which he had a
house, and therefore, there was no immediate need that he should
be provided for. For his other four sons he had provided houses,
or they had built on his land.
The present road running north from the West Barnstable
Meeting House, to the Cape Cod Rail Road Depot, divides Dea.
Crocker's farm into two nearly equal parts. On the east of the
road, Josiah had the south part, excepting the portion given to
John, and Joseph the north. On the west side, John had the
south part, including a strip running north to the meadows, and a
strip on the east, adjoining Josiah's land, where Nathaniel
Crocker afterwards lived, and Eleazer the north-westerly part.
A question arises which will be hereafter considered, and that is,
whether or not John's portion extended far enough west to include
the old stone fort.
Dea. Crocker died in good old age. For many years he was
deacon of the Barnstable Church, and Uving an exemplary and
pious life. He has a clean record. Nothing dishonest or dis
honorable was ever laid to his charge. Men who acquire great
wealth, often make enemies of the envious ; but Dea. Crocker
appears to have been beloved and respected by all. When he
removed to West Barnstable, the lands there had only a nominal
value. He was industrious, economical, and a good manager.
His boys were as industrious and as prudent as the father, and
that was the whole secret of their becoming wealthy. In early
colonial times a large family was considered a great blessing in a
pecuniary point of view. The boys assisted the father on the
farm, and at seventeen were able to do the work of a man. The
girls were also brought up to more than earn their own living.
They assisted the mother, spun and wove the flax and the wool,
and made their own and their brother's garments, and in hay time
and at harvest assisted then- brothers. A man with a large family
of healthy children was then the most independent of men.
From his farm and his household he obtained an abundance of the
prime necessaries of life. The surplus which he sold was more
than sufficient to pay the bills of the mechanic, and to buy the
few articles of foreign growth and manufacture then required.
There was very little money in circulation, and very little was
needed. Taxes were payable in agi-icultural products, at a rate
fixed by law, and if lands or property were sold, without it was
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in silver money, it was a barter trade, payable in produce at the
"prices current with the merchants."
Aged people often remark that theu- ancestors estimated that
every son born to them added to their wealth a £100, and of
every daughter £50. However heterodox this theory may now
appear to parents, or to political economists, it was undoubtedly
true in early times. The Crocker's, with few exceptions, all mar
ried in early life, had large famiUes, and excepting the few who
tried to live by trade or speculation, acquired good estates, lived
comfortably, and were respectable and honorable members of
society. [The genealogies of the Crocker, Gorham, Hallett, and
several other families, I have drawn up in the manner recom
mended in the Genealogical Register, it is neccessary to transcribe
them, because the columns of a newspaper are too narrow for
such kind of composition, and because the varieties of type
required are not kept in a newspaper office. As the same name
so frequently occurs in the Crocker family, I shall preserve the
serial number in Arabic or common figures, using the Roman
numerals as heretofore, to distinguish members of the same fami
ly. John and Benjamin are names that frequently occur, and
without the serial numbers it will be difllcult to distinguish them.
At one time there were four John Crocker's in Barnstable, all
householders and heads of families. They were, from necessity,
distinguished by nick-names; but the use of the serial number
will render the repetition of those names unnecessary.]
Family of Dea. William Crocker.
Dea. William Crocker married for his flrst wife, Alice, who
was the mother of all his children. She was living in 1683, but
died soon after that date. He married for his second wife.
Patience, widow of Robert Parker and daughter of Elder Henry
Cobb. He died Sept. 1692, aged probably 80 years. His
children were :
2. I. John, born in Scituate May 1, 1637, baptized June 11,
1637.
3. II. Ehzabeth, born in Scituate Sept. 22, 1639, baptized in
Barnstable, Dec. 22, 1639. She was his only daughter and
died in Barnstable unmarried. May 1658, in the 19th year
of her age.
4. III. Samuel, born in Barnstable, June 3, 1642, baptized
same day. He died Dec. 1681.
5. IV. Job, born March 9, 1644-5, baptized same day.
6. v. Josiah, born Sept. 19, 1647, baptized same day.
It seemed improbable that Dea. Crocker had three
children born in succession on the sabbath, and that each was
baptized on the day of its birth. Mr. Lothrop, the pastor of the

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church, so records the baptisms, and there is no reason to question
his accuracy. Gov. Hinckley so makes his return to the Colony
Court, and David Crocker, Esq., one of the early town clerks, so
transcribes the earlier records. A single instance of this charac
ter was noticed in the family of Austin Bearse, (No. 12) and the
comments made thereon are equally applicable to this case.
7. VI. Eleazer, born July 21, 1650.
8. VII. Joseph, born 1654.
2. John Crocker, eldest son of Dea. William, resided
at West Barnstable. His father, in his will, gave him the south
westerly part of his farm, and the dwelling-house in which he
then lived. John Crocker had, at that time, been a married man
thirty-three years, and had children and grand-children, and
owned lands and a dwelling-house in his own right, independent
of the property bequeathed to him by his father. He owned the
Bodfish farm, set oif to him as his portion of his uncle John's
estate, on which there was a dwelling house. One half of that
farm he conveyed by deed to his son Jonathan, through whom it
came into possession of the Bodfish family.
The lands bequeathed by Dea. William to his son Eleazer,
are not clearly defined in the will. Eleazer owned the lands south
of the Dexter farm, on Dexter's, now called Fish's Lane, bounded
west by the land of Joseph Bodfish, Sen'r, including the land on
which the Stone Fort stood. 1 infer from this, that the house
named in the will of Dea. William, as theu in the occupancy of
Eleazer, was the old Stone Fort, consequently it was not the
house given to his son John. Anciently there was another stone
house on the Crocker farm, standing about a fourth of a mile
easterly from the West Barnstable Church. This was probably
built about the year 1643, and as it was on his first grant of land
at West Barnstable, made to Dea. William, it is just to infer that
it was his residence. His son Josiah afterwards owned it and the
land on which it stood. Seth, a grandson of Josiah, built, about
the year 1766, a large and convenient dwelling house near the old
stone house, in which he had previously resided. Afterwards
the latter was used as an out-buUding. Seventy-five years ago it
was in a ruinous condition, and every vestage of it is now re
moved. It corresponded in size and construction to the fortifica
tion house already described. Previously to his death Deacon
WiUiam built and resided in the large two story frame house on
the Meeting House way, afterwards owned and occupied by his
grand-children, Nathaniel and Experience. They came into the
possession of it soon after the .death of Dea\ WiUiam, who
devised it to their father Johu, 'after the death of his widow
Patience. Neither Nathaniel nor Experience married. Each
owned a large real-estate and had, at their deaths, money on hand
and money loaned, on bonds payable in silver money. In 1740

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the house required repairs, and Experience, before her death,
provided lumber, nails, &c., to complete the same, and which she
directed to be done after her death. This house was taken down
about fifty years ago. The style was that of the first settlers.
Two stories in front and one in the rear.
My main object in this inqukey, is to ascertain from records
and other sources of information, what was the action of the
townsmen of Barnstable under the order of the Colony Com-t,
dated Oct. 10, 1643, requiring them to fortify "a place or places
for the defence of themselves, their wives, and children, against
a suddaine assault." The committee to enforce this order, were
Mr. Thomas Dimmock, Anthony Annable, Henry Cobb, Henry
Coggen, Barnard Lumberd, and the constable James Hamblen.
The three deacons of the church, Dimmock, Cobb and Crocker,
each complied with the order of the court, built fortification
houses, and were aided by then- neighbors, because in case of a
sudden assault by the Indians, the buildings were to be a common
place for refuge for all. Who built the stone fort on Dexter's
lane, I have been unable to ascertain. In 1692 it was owned and
occupied by Eleazer Crocker.*
2. John Crocker, the second of the name, a son of Dea.
William Crocker, was born in Scituate May 1, 1637, came to
Barnstable with his father 1639. Married in 1659, Mary, daugh
ter of Robert Bodfish. She died Dec. 1662, and he married
April 25, 1663, for his second wife, Mary, daughter df John
Bursley. He died May 1711, aged 74. His children born in
Barnstable were :
9. I. EHzabeth, 7th Oct. 1660, married Dea. Richard Child
1678, died Jan. 15, 1716, aged 56. Her first house was
next west of Lieut. Howland's. She afterwards resided
as named in the account of her family.
10. II. Jonathan, 15th Julv, 1662, married Hannah, daughter
of John Howland, 20th May, 1686. He died Aug. 24,
1746, aged 84, and is buried in the West Barnstable
graveyard.
11. III. John, 17th Feb. 1663-4, married 5th Nov. 1702, Mary,
daughter of Nathaniel Bacon. She died March 1710-11,
and he married 22d June 1721, Sarah Hinckley. This John
*The earliest land oivners in the vicinity of the old stone fort, were VVilliam Crocker,
Joseph Bodfish, Peter Blossom, Mr. Thomas Dexter, Edward Fitzrandolph, and John
Bursley. The old stone fort was impregnable agamst any torce that the Indians could
"a"se a^nd it is surprising that its history is burieS m oblivion. Perhaps 4™'?,f»''i;« '?\^-
tigator may be more sulcessful than I have been. In Tarmouth a fort was built neai the
CSnff Meeting House, on a rising ground known as "^ort Hdl,' and in the easterly part of
fiietl,^, on"fnd o"™ed by the la^te^Capt. Samuel Kogers a Wock house ^ That house was
formerly owned by Thomas Baxterr Capt. Rogers, who took it down m 1810, iiumshes me
with the^foUowin/description. "It was about 20 feet by 28 f^/' «1"^™! ™"^ "f^^J^" *™;
her, one stoi-v high, gambrel roof, windows small, diamond glass set m lead, chimney stone
to chamber floorfb -ilk above, all laid in clay mortar. Bricks large ; partiaUy bui-nt, Fire-
p°aeeS front loomreight feet wide, with a stone hearth Shingies on the walls and roof
?edar,ln|ra^dTnrn!h thick. Boards used apparently sawed by hand." Fortification
houses were also built in Sandwich. See Freeman s History.

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is called Jr., on the early records, and his father Sen'r.
He resided on the west side of the road, a short distance
north from the present meeting house.
12. IV. Hannah, 10th Oct. 1665, married 1st July, 1686,
Sainuel Lothrop, a grandson of Rev. John.
13. V. Joseph, 1st March, 1667-8, married 18th Sept. 1691,
Ann, daughter of Lieut. John Howland.
14. VI. Benjamin, probably died young. He is not named in
his father's wiU dated 36th AprU, 1706, or in the division of
his brother Jabez's estate, April 3, 1700.
15. VII. Nathaniel, born 1773. He died Feb. 11, 1740-1, in
the 69th year of his age, leaving neither wife nor children.
In 1715 his house is described as being near the head of
the lane, on the east side, and north of the land on which the
West Barnstable church now stands. (Blue) John Crocker after
wards owned it, and subsequently the same estate was owned by
the late Stephen C. Nye, deceased. He owned only two fifteenths
of the house, his sister Experience owning the other thirteen
fifteenths. His estate was apprized at £2,003 10 10. Silyer at
that time was worth 28 shillings per ounce. His homestead was
apprized at £1,100. He had 92 ounces of silver on hand, and
£266,5 due him in silver, at his death. He left no will, and his
own brothers and sisters contended that Jonathan Crocker and
Elizabeth ChUd's heirs, being only of the half blood, were not
entitled to shares. The Judge of Probate, Hon. Sylvanous
Bourne, in a very able report on the law, decided that they were
equally entitled, and ordered the estate to be divided into seven
shares, and distributed to 1, Jonathan Crocker; 2, heirs of
Elizabeth Childs ; 3, Mrs. Mary Bursley, surviving sister ; 4,
Children of Capt. Joseph Crocker, deceased ; 5, Children of
Hannah Lothrop, deceased ; 6, Children of ,Iohn Crocker,
deceased ; and 7, to heirs of Experience Crocker deceased.
16. VIII. Experience, born in 1674, died single, April 17,
1740-1, in the 67th year of her age, and is buried in the
West Barnstable graveyard. She owned thirteen fifteenths,
and her brother Nathaniel two fifteenths, of the ancient
dwelling house of her grandfather, which has akeady been
described. Besides the estate bequeathed to her by her
father, she accumulated a considerable amount by her own
industry and prudence. Her estate was apprized at £588
14. Her silver plate were valued at £69 14 : 50 ounces at
the current rate of silver at that time. In her will she
makes bequests to her brothers Jonathan and Joseph ; to
her sister Mary Bm-sley ; to the chUdren of her sister
Elizabeth Childs, deceased ; to Benjamin, son of her brother
Joseph; to Benjamin and Samuel, sons of her ' sister Han
nah Lothrop ; to Moses, son of her brother John ; to Mary

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Davis, daughter of her sister Hannah Lothrop ; to Deborah,
daughter of her brother Joseph; to Johu, son of her
nephew Moses ; to EUzabeth, daughter of her brother John ;
to Joseph Lothrop, son of her nephew Joseph, deceased ; to
the poor of the church of which she was a member ; to the
church in West Barnstable ; and to John, son of the Rev.
Jonathan RusseU. To her brother John's son John, (caUed
Blue John Crocker) she bequeathed the lower great room
in her house, the bed room and the garret, and materials to
put the house in good repaii-. The remainder of the house
she bequeathed to her neice Hannah Lothrop, a single
woman, then fifty years of age. AU the rest of her estate
she gave to her sister Mary Bursley, Experience Lothrop,
Hannah Lothrop, Abigail Lothrop, and Prudence Gorham,
wife of John Gorham, Esq., and daughter of Joseph
Crocker.
Miss Experience had some of the good qualities of the
Vicar of Wakefield's wife. He said all his wife's cousins
even to the fortieth remove, never forget their relationship,
and never passed his door without caUing, and his table was
always well filled with a happy company.
17. IX. Jabez, died in 1700, without issue, and his estate was
divided among his brothers and sisters, by the same father
and mother, then surviving.
18. X. Mary, married Feb, 11, 1702, John Bursley, .Jr.
19. XI. Abigail. Her birth is not recorded on the town
records. She died young, leaving no issue.
20. XII. Bathshua, also died young, leaving no issue.
Of the children of John Crocker, his son Joseph is the last
whose birth is recorded on the town records. The names of the
others are arranged in the order found on the Probate records.
4. Samuel Crocker, son of Dea. William Crocker, born in
Barnstable July 3, 1642, died Dee. 1681, aged 39. It does not
appear that he married. If he had left issue, his children would
probably have been named in their grandfather's will. The cause
of his death is stated in the following extract from the Plymouth
Colony Records, Vol. 6, page 82.
An Inditement.
"Indian James, thou art here indited by the name of James,
for that thou, haveing not the fear of God before thyne eyes, on
the one and twentyeth day of November 1681, in the town of
Barnstable, didst felloniously, willfully, and of maUice fore
thought, with intent to murder, kick Samuel Crocker, son of
William Crocker, of Barnstable, on the bottom of his beUey,
whereof the said Samuel Crocker three weeks after died ; which
thou hast don contrary to the law of God, of England, and this
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his crowne, and dignity.
The jury find the prisenor nott guilty of willfull murder."
No Indians were on the jury, as was the usual practice iu
such cases ; and the verdict of the jury shows that impartial jus
tice was dispensed by our aneesters irrespective of caste or race.
Against Indian James no further proceedings appear on the
records. 5. Dea. .Job. Crocker. Few men in Barnstable were held
in higher esteem in his day, than Dea. .Job Crocker. Like his
father, he was honest and upright in his dealing, industrious and
prudent in his habits, an obliging neighbor, a good citizen.
Nurtured by pious parents, in early life he became a member of
the church, and through life, his daily walk was in accordence
with his profession. The church records say of him, "God and
his people having elected and proved our Brother Job Crocker,
for the office of deacon in this church, he was solomnly set a part
for, and ordained unto that work and office iu July 1684 ; to
serve in the deaconship of this church, together with his father."
For eight years, during the pastorate of the elder RusseU, he and
his venerable father were joint occupants of the deacon's seat.
It is inscribed on his grave stones, that for thirty and four years
he was a deacon of the Barnstable church.
Dea. Job Crocker was a man of good business capacity,
was much employed in the business of the town, holding many
offices which it is unnecessary here to enumerate. He inhabited
the homestead of his uncle Johu, rocky and hard to cultivate,
but an excellent grazing farm. The substantial stone walls built
thereon in his day, remain as monuments of his industry and
perseverance. His house, a large two story structure, built in the
fashion of that day with a heavy cornice in front, and a long low
or leantoo roof on the rear, yet remains.* It is situate near the
meadows and in close proximity to the Cape Cod Railroad. The
flrst location of the road was between the house and spring from
which seven successive generations of Crockers had drawn water.
Out of respect to the then venerable occupants, the location was
changed to a point below, a concession rarely made by engineers.
Dea. .lob Crocker married for his first wife, Nov. 1668,
Mary, daughter of Rev. Thomas Walley, the then pastor of the
Barnstable church. She was born in London and there baptized
April 18, 1644. She came over with her father iu the ship
Society, Capt. John Pierce, and arrived in Boston 24th of the
,,: Some doubt may arise whether or not Dea. Job occupied the western or the eastern
house. He occupied the most ancient, that is certam, and the decision of the question
turns on this point ; was the western, tlie one now standing, the most ancient. The fii'St
settlers, with scarce a solitary exception, planted pear trees near their houses and these old
button and fall pear trees are their monuments. The trees near the western house were
very ancient, while those near the eastern were smaller aud not so old. The eastei-n house
was a two 'Jtory single bouse built in the style common about one hundred and forty years
ago. It was taken down about forty years ago. It was occupied by David Crocker, Esq.,
son of Job, and 1 presume Wiis built by him.

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3d month (May) 1662. She died about the year 1676, leaving
two children. For his second wife he married, 19th July 1680, Hannah,
daughter of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth, caUed "taUor" to dis
tinguish him from another of the same Christian name. He died
March 1718-19, aged 75 years, and is buried in the ancient bury
ing ground. His wife Hannah survived him, and died 14th May
1743, in the 85th year of her age. In her wiU dated 10th of July
1739, proved 8th July 1743, she names her grandsons in law,
Thomas and Walley Crocker, her daughters Mary Howland,
Hannah, Elizabeth Allen, and Sarah Lumbert; her sons John
Crocker, David Crocker, and Job, deceased ; Mary, wife of Isaac
Howland ; Abigail, wife of Geo. Howland ; Hannah, daughter of
her son David ; grand-daughter Hannah Allen ; and her grand-son
John Howland. Children of Dea. Job Crocker.
21. I. A son, born 18, 1769, died in infancy.
22. II. Samuel, 15th May, 1671, .married Dec. 10, 1696,
Sarah, daughter of Robert Parker, and for his. second wife,
April 12, 1719, .Judeth Leavet, of Rochester.
23. III. Thomas, 19th Jan. 1674, married 23d Dec. 1701,
Elizabeth, widow of "John Lothrop, the son of Esquire
Barnabas Lothrop."
24. IV. Mary, born 29th June, 1681, married June 19, 1719,
John Howland, Jr., his second wife, and had John, 13th
Feb. 1720-21, graduate of Harvard College 1741, ordained
at Carver, 1746, died Nov. 4, 1804, aged 84 ; and a son
Job, June 1726.
25. V. John, 24th Feb. 1683, called Dea. John.
26. VI. Hannah, 2d Feb. 1685. [A Hannah Crocker of
Barnstable, married July 7, 1712, John Holden of War
wick.]
27. VII. Elizabeth, 15th May, 1688, married AprU 5, 1712,
Rev. Benjamin Allen, a native of Tisbury, Martha's Vine
yard. He graduated at Yale College 1708, ordained July
9, 1718, as the first misister of the south parish i in Bridge-
water, where he remained about twelve years.! He was
afterwards installed at Cape Elizabeth where he died May
6, 1754, aged 65. He was improvident in his habits and in
consequence often involved in troubles. One of his grand
daughters by the name of Jourdan, married Rev. Enos
Hitchcock, D. D., of Providence.
28. VIII. Sarah, born 19th Jan. 1690-1, married May 27,,
1725, Benjamin Lumbard, Jr., died Nov. 1768, aged 76,
leaving no issue.
29. IX. Job, 4th AprU 1694, died May 21, 1731, aged 37.
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216 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
30. X. David, born 5th Sept. 1697, graduate of Harvard Col
lege 1716, married 12th Nov. 1724, AbigaU, daughter of
David Loring, and Jan. 27, 1757, Mrs. AbigaU Stuart. He
died in 1764, aged 67.
31. XI. Thankful, born 14th June, 1700, died unmarried Oct.
1, 1735.
6. Josiah Crocker, son of Dea. William, born Sept. 19,
1647, was a substantial farmer, and resided in the old stone
house built by his father. He inherited the southeasterly part of
his father's estate. In the proprietor's records, it is stated that
his heirs owned a house at Cotuit ; whether or not it was ever
occupied by him, I have no means of ascertaining. At the divis
ion of the common meadows in 1697, he was one of the five to
whom was awarded seven acres, showing that he was a man of
wealth. In 1690 there was laid out to him at Cotuit Neck, forty
acres of land formerly the great lot of John Hall, and thirty acres
formerly the lot of Thomas and Peter Blossom. In 1698 he
exchanged twenty-seven acres of his land at Cotuit Neck with
the town, taking land at the same place adjoining Lewis's Pond,
now called Lovell's Pond.
In 1688 the town granted him one and a half acres of upland on
the south of his barn, bounded north and east by his other land,
south and west by the commons. He was not much in public life.
He is named as a member of the grand inquest in 1679, and was
surveyor of highways in 1682. He married 23d Oct. 1668,
Melatiah, daughter of Gov. Thomas Hinckley. He died 2d Feb.
1698-9 aged 51 years. In his will dated on the 28th of the
preceding month, he names his wife Melatiah, sons Thomas,
Josiah, Ebenezer, Seth, Benjamin, and daughters, Mercy, Mary,
Else, and Melatiah.
The Wid. Melatiah Crocker died 2d Feb. 1714-15, aged 66
years. In her will dated Jan. 21, 1613-14, she names her five
sons ; and daughters Mary, Alice, and Melatiah ; also daughter
Hannah (wife of her son Thomas) and her grand-daughter
Tabitha. I' Children born in Barnstable.
31. I. A\ son, born 20th Aug. 1669, died Sept. 1669.
32. II. Thomas, born 27th May 1671, married 25th March
1696, Hannah Green of Boston. He died April 1728, aged
.57 years.
33. TIL Mercy, born 13th Feb. 1674, died in early life.
34./ IV. Mary, born 10th Sept. 1677, married Nov. 1705, her
cousin William Crocker.
35. V. Alice, born 25th Dec. 1679, married 14th June 1711,
George Lewis. She died 23d Feb. 1718. Alice does not
appear to have been a favorite name with the Crockers.
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give the name to either of her daughters.
36. VI. Melatiah, born 20th Nov. 1681, married Oct. 27, 1729,
her cousin Timothy Crocker.
37. VII. Josiah, born 8th Feb. 1684, married April 10, 1711,
Desire, daughter of Col. John Thacher.
38. VIII. Ebenezer, born 30th May, 1687, married 2-2d
March, 1715, Hannah HaU of Yarmouth. ,, a
39. IX. Seth, born 23d Sept. 1689, died in Harwich, 1623,' '^'
leaving no issue. His brother Benjamin of Ipswich, was
executor of his will.
40. X. Benjamin, born 26th Sept. 1692, graduate of Harvard
College 1713. He removed to Ipswich, Mass., and was
many years teacher of the Grammar School in that town.
He was a representative from Ipswich to the Mass. Gen.
Court in 1726, '34 and '36. He was a member of the south
chui-ch in that town ; but as the individuals chosen for its
RuUng Elders were not ordained, because Mr. Walley, the
pastor, did not believe such officers were required by the
gospel, he left, and united with the flrst chm-ch. He was a
deacon and occasionally preached. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Rev. WUliam Williams of Weston, and had
Mary, who married  Gannison, and John, a deacon of
the chui-ch and a man of note in his day. Dea. Benjamin
Crocker died in 1766, aged 75, and his wife who survived
him married  Cogswell. t
7. Eleazer Crocker, son of Dea. William Crocker, born in
Barnstable 21st July 1650, was admitted a townsman in 1681.
In 1692 he was one of the committee appointed to draw up a list
of the proprietors of the common lands, and determine what
was each man's just right therein. After the death of Nathaniel
Bacon in 1693, he was "chosen and empowered by the town to be
a land measurer to lay out land." He married 7th April 1682,
Ruth, daughter of Elder John Chipman. She died 8th April
1698, aged 34. For his second wife he married Jan. 25, 1716-17,
Mercy Phinney. Children of Eleazer Crocker.
41. I. Benoni, born 13th May, 1682, died 3d Feb. 1701.
42. II. Bethia, born 23d Sept. 1683, married John Whiton
March 13, 1710.
43. III. Nathan, born 27th AprU, 1685, married 10th March,
1708-9, Joanna, daughter of John Bursley, and the Barn-

t Alvah Crocker, Esq., of Fitchburg, in a letter says that "upon one of the oldest
Grave Stones in St. Anns Church Yard, Newburyport, he finds this inscription, 'Capt.
John Crocker bom in 1692, died March 19, 1763.' '- This Capt. John Crocker was the great
grandfather of Alvah Crocker, Esq., and if the inscription on his Grave Stona is accur
ately transcribed he was not a son of Benjamin of Ipswich. Mr. Crocker says the tradition
in his femily, is that he is a descendant of Dea. William, but as at present advised I do not
preceive how the tradition can be verified.

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stable records say he also married Abigail Bursley March
10, 1713-14, evidently an error of the Clerk.
44. IV. Daniel, boru 23d March, 1686-7, died without issue
1723.
45. V. Sarah, born 23d March, 1689, married Nov. 7, 1712,
Joseph Bursley.
46. VI. Theophiius, born 11th March, 1691.
47. VII. Eleazer, born 3d Aug. 1693.
48. VIII. Ruth, born 3d Aug. 1693, married Samuel Fuller
1718.
49. IX. Abel, born 15th June, 1695, married AprU 16, 1818
Mary Isum. The names of his children do not appear on
the town records. His wife joined the church Dec. 1723,
when her son Daniel and daughter Rebecca were baptized,
and Aug. 1725, her son Eleazer. Soon after the latter date
the family removed to Plymton, and returned 1757.
50. X. Rebecca, born 10th bee. 1697, married  Robbins.
51. XI. Mercy, by his second wife, and named in his will.
8. Sergeant Joseph Crocker, youngest son of Dea. William,
born in 1654, resided at West Barnstable. He inherited the
north-easterly part of his father's farm, bounded easterly by the
Otis and Hinckley estates. That portion of the ancient Crocker
estate, on the north of the County road and bounded easterly by
the lands of Mr. John Smith, was not included in his estate.*
His house was on the Meeting House road, if I construe the
records rightly, not far from the present location of the Cape
Cod Railroad Depot. A reservation of three rods in width
through his lands was made for that road. In 1703 he was rated
the highest, and probably was the most wealthy man in Barn
stable. He was admitted a townsman in 1678; but does not
appear to have been often employed in town or other public busi
ness. He was a sergeant in the militia company, than an office
of some honor. In his will dated 20th Feb. 1720-1, he gives to
his wife Temperance all his personal estate, and the use and
improvement of all his real estate during her natural life. In
most of the old wills the phrase used is, "while she remains my
widow," on the presumption that the husband can bind the wife
after his decease.
To his four daughters he devised all his lands and meadows
lying by the mill river; to his soel William, "all his housing and

*Tlie same rule was adopted iu Barnstable and Yarmouth in the division of the common
lands; that is, one third to the townsmen, one third on the estates, and one third to the tene
ments. In Barnstable only the gross number of shares alloted to each is recorded ; in Yar
mouth the several particulars are given. Joseph Crocker had 80 shares, James Gorham 74
3-4, John Hamblin 71 3-4, .James Hamblin, Sen'r, 69, &c. It will thus be perceived why it
was that our ancestors, were so cautious in admitting townsmen. It not only conferred all
the rights appertaining to a citizen; but made the party a proprietor of the common lands.
If a house stood on the common land, the owner was not entitled to a tenement right. To
confer the right, the honse had to be on the land of the individual, and the title acquired
by him according to the usuages of the times.

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lands where he then dwelt," and all his wood lots ; and to Timothy
all his lands in the timber lands, at a place caUed Great HiU, all
subject to the use and improvement of their mother during her
natural life. Noah is not named in the wUl, and was probablv
then dead.
T y°^^^^^ Crocker married Dec. 1677, Temperance, daughter
ot John Bursley. She survived her husband many vears and died
very aged. ' '
Children horn in Barnstable.
52. I. WUliam, born 25th Aug. 1679, married Nov. 1705, his
cousin Mary Crocker.
53. II. Timothy, born 30th AprU 1681, married Oct. 27, 1709,
his cousin Melatiah Crocker.*
54. III. Noah, born Dec. 1683, died young.
55. IV. Joanna, born 18th July 1687,'married 9th Feb. 1708-9,
Joseph Fuller, Jr., died AprU 13, 1766.
56. V. Martha, born 22d Feb. 1689.
57. VI. Temperance, 26th Aug. 1694.
58. Vn. Remember, 26th Aug. 1699, married Samuel Annable,
3d, May 28, 1719. Third Generation.
(10) Jonathan Crocker, son of John, owned the land now
known as the Bodfish Farm at West Barnstable. He was a sub
stantial farmer, owned a large estate ; and, as his father and
grand-father had done, he conveyed by deeds a large part of it to
his children, reserving only a sufficiency for his comfortable sup
port in old age. His residence on the Bodfish Farm, probably
built by his father, was a two story single house, with a leantoo,
or "salt box," as they were sometimes called, on the side. This
he sold in 1713 to his son-in-law, Benjamin Bodfish. It was
taken down in 1819, and the old Bodfish mansion house stands on
the same spot.f His will, which is in the hand writing of the
Rev. Jonathan Russell, is dated June 1737, and the codicil thereto
* Physiologists may peirhaps notice these two instances of the marriage of cousins.
William and Mai*y had eight children. One was still born, and one died aged 21 days.
Of the other six, none were distinguished either for physical or intellectual vigor. Timothy
and Melatiah had five daughters, distinguished for their intellectual vigor, graceful accom
plishments, and business capacity. Beautiful specimens of embroidery -wrought by them
are preserved by their descendants. A few years since a gentleman well versed in the
genealogies of the Nantucket families, attempted to showthatthe marriage of cousins was
not objectionable, and he made out a strong case.

t Since wrifmg the above I have examined the records of the grants of land made in
1716. There is great want of cleanness, in the descriptions. The records says, "Set out to
Jonathan Crocker, a piece of laud at the head of his own, bounded westerly by the way
that goeth up by his house, northerly by his oivn land to the dividing line between him and
.lohn Crocker." John Crocker's land is bounded "easterly,''^ evidently should be
westerly, by Jonathan's, and easterly by the way to Nathaniel Crocker's. Out of this
gi-ant the three acres on which the West Barnstable meeting house now stands was
reseived. The reservation was made in the n-ant to Thomas ; but appears to have been
taken from .lohn's. It seems by this that Jonathan Crocker's house in 1716, was on
Dexter's Lane, and whether he ever resided in the bouse he sold to Bodfish is not clear.

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June 1742, four years before his death. He provides for the
support of his wife Thankful, giving her the household goods she
brought with her, and some bedding she had made since. He gave
his son Isaac £30 and his great chair, names bis son James, and
James' oldest son, to whom he gave his gun. To the Rev.
Jonathan RusseU he devised 20 shillings ; to the church 20 shil
lings ; and to Mercy Dexter then living with him £5. All the
rest of his estate, real and personal, to the chUdren of his three
daughters, Lydia, Hannah and Reliance. In the codicil to his
will he gives the estate which had fallen to him by the death of
his brother Nathaniel, equally, in five shares, to his sons Isaac
and James, to the children and heirs of his daughter Lydia Bod
fish, deceased, to the children and heirs of his daughter Hannah
Fuller, and to the children and heirs of his daughter Reliance
Smith, deceased. At the time he made his wUl all his children,
excepting Isaac and James, were dead, and they resided in Con
necticut. Jonathan Crocker married for his first wife, 20th May, 1686,
Hannah, daughter of Lieut. John Howland. She was the mother
of aU his chUdren. After her death he married Feb. 1710-11,
Thankful, widow of Mr. John Hinckley, Jr., and daughter of
Thomas Trott of Dorchester. He died Aug. 24, 1746, aged 84,
and is buried in the West Barnstable grave yard. No monuments
are erected to the memory of either of his wives.
Children born in Barnstable.
59. 1. Lydia, born 26th Sept. 1686, married Benjamin Bodfish,
10th Nov. 1709.
60. II. Hannah, born 26th March 1688, married 10th 7th
month, 1708, Shubael FuUer, of East Haddam, Conn., and
removed thither.
61. III. Thankful, born 6th March, 1690, died young.
62. IV. Isaac, born AprU 4, 1692, married Dec. 13, 1718,
Ann Smith, and removed to East Haddam, Conn., where
she died June 1725, aged 30. Oct. 31, 1726, he married
for his second wife Elizabeth FuUer of Barnstable. In
1 729 he removed to Westchester, in the town of Colchester.
He died Aug. 8, 1769, at 4 o'clock P. M., aged 77 years, 4
months, and 8 days.
Children of Isaac Crocker born in East Haddam, Conn.
1, Hannah, Sept. 22,1719; 2, Ann, June 29, 1722, died
unmarried, March 29, 1772, aged 49 ; 3, Joseph, Dec. 20, 1724,
married Nov. 10, 1748, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Judah Lewis ; 4,
Elizabeth, Aug. 26, 1727, married as second wife, Mav, 26,
1747, Simeon Ockley. She died at Williamston Nov. 9,"^ 1797,
aged 70 ; 5, Mary, April 30, 1729 ; 6, Martha, born at Colchester,
arch 3, 1731 ; 7, Abigail, March 10, 1733 : 8, a daughter, Sept.

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62, 1736, died same day.
63. V.f Reliance, born 28th June, 1694, married Joseph Smith,
Jr., 5th Oct. 1712 ; died 4th May, 1704, aged 30.
64. VI. Jonathan, born 28th May, 1696, married Nov. 28,
1723, Elizabeth, daughter of the second John Bursley. He
died Sept. 21, 1725, leaving a son Ephraim, who died Oct.
17, 1725, aged one year and 15 days.
65. VII. James, born 3d Sept. 1699, married Nov. 21, 1721,
Alice Swift, born in Sandwich July 23, 1698 da'r of Jh-eh
and Abigail Swift. About the year 1724 he removed to
Colchester, Conn. , and built a house near the Colchester and
East Haddam turnpike which, till 1860, was occupied by his
descendents. He and his wife were members of the church
in the parish of Westchester. She died in Westchester
Jan. 15, 1783, aged 84 ; and he died Nov. 7, 1785, aged 86.
They lived in the marriage state over sixty-one years.
Their children were: 1, Simeon, the Barnstable records say
born at Barnstable, March 22, 1722, the Colchester, Sept.
19, 1722, (the latter probably accurate.) He married
March 7, 1751, Dorothy WiUiam's. He died at Westchester
Feb. 13, 1778. His death was caused by a fall on the ice,
while going from his house to his barn. She died Aug. 4,
1818, aged about 95. 2, AbigaU, J born according to the
the Barnstable record, Sept. 19, 1724, according to the
Colchester, March 25, 1724, married Feb. 23, 1744, John
Williams, and 2d, AprU 23,. 1755, Enoch Arnold, died
1771. 3, Hannah, born at Colchester Jan. 17, 1726. 4,
Levi, May 11, 1728. 5, .Jonathan, March 16, 1730. 6,
James, AprU 20, 1732. 7, Thankful, Jan. 27, 1733-4. 8,
Lydia, Jan. 14, 1735-6. 9, Ephraim, Sept. 21, 1739. The
last was a physician settled in Richmond, Mass.
66. VIII. Ephraim, born AprU 1702, died May 1, 1704.
(11) .lohn Crocker son of John, born 7th Feb. 1663-4, was
called Junior until 1711, when he was the elder of the name in
Barnstable. He married 5th Nov. 1702, Mary, daughter of the
second Nathaniel Bacon. She died March, 1710-11, aged 33, and
he married for his second wife, Sarah, Nov. 11, 1711, probably a
daughter of Ensign John Hinckley.
Children born in Barnstable.
67. I. Sarah, born 4th Jan. 1703-4.
68. II. Moses, born 5th AprU, 1705, married May lo, 1/35,
Mary Fish of Sandwich, and had 1, Nathaniel, May 7,
1736; 2, John, March 8, 1737-8, he was 4th and called
Tanner. He married Jan. 8, 1761, Thankful Hallett; 3,
TAbigaU Crocker was the great grand-mother of my correspondent, D. William Patter
son *Esq^of West WiSstead, Comi., to whom I am .nuch indebted for information respect
ing the early emigrants from Barnstable to Connecticut.

222 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Sarah, Aug. 16, 1740; 4, Moody, Feb. 14, 1742; and 5,
Edmund, Aug. 17, 1645, also Nathaniel not named in the
record.
69. III. Mary, born July, 1707. In a deed dated 37th Aug.,
styles herself spinster, names her uncle Nathaniel, deceased,
and her two brothers, Moses and John.
70. IV. John, born Sept. 1709, caUed John Blue or Blue
Stocking John. In the latter part of his life he was the
, elder of the four John Crocker's and caUed first. His
house, bequeathed to him by his great aunt. Experience,
stood on the easterly side of the road, a little distance north
of the West Barnstable church, and was afterwards owned and
occupied by Mr. Lemuel Nye. He married Lydia Barker of
R. I. (Neither his marriage nor the publication thereof is
on the Barnstable town records.) His children born in
Barnstable were : 1, Elizabeth, Feb. 28, 1738 ; 2, Stephen,
Dec. 3, 1740 ; 3, Joseph, Feb. 6, 1842 ; 4, Allyn, Feb. 18,
1745 ; 5, Bathseba, Jan. 23, 1747, David KeUey ; 6, Lydia,
May 12, 1749; 7, David; 8, Hannah, March 13, 1753,
Tobey ; 9, John, May 12, 1755, called "Young Blue." He
was a sea captain, and active and intelligent man. He
bought the ancient Hinckley house in which he resided.
His son John Barker Crocker is well known. AbigaU, lOth
child of Blue John Crocker, was born Feb. 1758, Nath'l
Jenkins.
71. V. EUzabeth, born March 1710-11.
(13) Capt. Joseph Crocker, son of John, born 1st March,
1667-8, married Ann, daughter of Lieut. John Howland, 18th
Sept. 1691. Capt. Crocker was an infiuential man, and was
much employed in public business. About the year 1700 he
bought the house of Robert Claghorn, which stood at the east end
of Lumbard's pond, and the lands adjoining which he afterwards
sold to the Lothrops His residence was at Cotuit, aud his farm
is now owned by Josiah Sampson and others. His residence was
a large old fashioned two story double house.. It was standing
not long since. Children born in Barnstable.
72. I. Deborah, last of Dec. 1691.
73. II. Prudence, born 26th July, 1692, married Oct. 2, 1712
John Gorham, Esq., of Barnstable. She was the mother
of 14 children, 13 of whom lived to mature age. She died
in 1778 aged 86.
74. III. Benjamin, born 5th AprU, 1696, married 17th Sept.
1719, PrisciUa, daughter of Dea. Joseph HaU of Yarmouth.
He resided at Cotuit, and died 1757, aged 61. His children
were 1, Deborah, born June 22, 1721, died early ; 2, Desire,
born Aug. 9, 1727, married Oct. 3, 1747, Corhehus Samp
son of Rochester; and 3, Martha, horn June 6, 1732.

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(22) Samuel Crocker, son of Job, born 15th May, 1671,
married Dec. 10, 1696, Sarah, daughter of Robert Parker. She
was the mother of thirteen chUdren, and died in 1718, aged 40.
He married for his second wife, AprU 12, 1719, Judith Leavet of
Rochester, by whom he had two children. His farm was at the
village now caUed PondvUle, near the Sandwich line and was.
bounded by the road leading to Scorton.
Children horn in Barnstable.
76. I. Samuel, born 12th Dec. 1697, married 2d March, 1723-4,
Ruth, daughter of the third James HambUn. She was
born in 1692, and was five years older than her husband.
He had 1, Noah, Sept. 12, 1724'; 2, Sarah, Jan. 5, 1726,
married Shubael Hambhn, .Jr., July 16, 1761 ; 3, Hannah,
May 16, 1729, married Jan. 29, 1758, Abel Cushing of
Hingham; 4, Anna, May 8, 1731, married Jabez Bursley,
Dec. 15, 1747 ; 5, Joanna, June 4, 1735, died Aug. 7, 1735,
6, Joanna.
77. II. Cornelius, born 24th Oct. 1698, died young.
78. III. Mary, 8th AprU, 1700.
79. IV. Patience, born 18th AprU, 1701. She became, in
1727, the second wife of Shubael Davis, sixteen years her
senior.
80. V. Elizabeth, born Feb. 1702-3, married James Childs
Sept. 27, 1722.
81. VI. Cornelius, born 23d March, 1704. (See account of
him below.)
82. VII. Rowland, born 18th June, 1705.
83. VIII. Gersham, born Dec. 1706, died Nov. 26, 1786,
aged 80.
84. IX. Ebenezer, born 5th June, 1710, married Ann Eldredge
of Falmouth, June 12, 1735, removed to East Haddam,
Conn., 1751. Children born in Barnstable, 1, Rowland,
June, 8, 1736, married 24th May, 1763, Persis Brown, and
had six children ; 2, Joanna, born Dec. 8, 1737 ; 3,
Ezekiel, born Nov. 24, 1739, married Feb. 28, 1765, Lydia
Arnold of East Haddam. He removed to Richmond,
Mass., where he had David, Samuel and Lucy baptized,
Aug. 14, 1785. He was one of the early settlers of
Broome County, N. Y., a very pious man and regular at
family worship. One morning while engaged in his devo
tions, he saw his cows in the corn, and he broke into his
prayer with, "David! Sam! don't you see those cursed
cows in the corn ? run boys ! quick ! ! " and seeing them well
started after the cows, took up his broken prayer, and
leisurely finished it. At 80 years he married a girl of 18,
promising her, it is said, as her dower, her weight in silver
doUai-s. Thev lived together but a short time. She

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separated from him and married his grandson. 4, Tabitha,
born in Barnstable Feb. 20, 1741-2 ; 5, Bethia, baptized
Bethiel, born June 8, 1744 ; 6, Gershom, born Oct. 8, 1746,
married .Jan. 17. 1769, Ann Fisher; 7, Alice, baptized
March 9, 1748-9 ; 8, Ebenezer, born in East Haddam,
June 25, 1751 ; 9, Samuel, June 2, 1753.
85. X. Benjamin, born July, 1711, married 1738, AbigaU,
daughter of John Jenkins of Falmouth. He married in
1747, Bathsheba, daughter of Dea. Joseph HaU of Yar
mouth. He probably married for his 3d wife in 1759 Annie
Handy of Sandwich. He had seven children born in Barnsta
ble, all of whom, excepting Josiah, were baptized at the West
Church. 1, Joseph, AprU 15, 1748 ; 2, Benjamin, Sept. 17,
1749 ; 3, Timothy, Oct. 3, 1751 ; 4, Abigail, Nov. 91, 1753 ; 5,
Bathsheba, Nov. 11, 1755; 6, Peter, Jan. 11, 1768; 7,
Josiah, April 17, 1760.
86. XI. Rebecca,  , married Eben Jones, March 20, 1 740.
87. XII. RacheU,  , married Joseph Howland, Jan. 18,
1738-9.
88. XIII. David,  , called junior to distinguish him from
David Crocker, Esq., son of Job, married Dorcas Davis of
Falmouth, 1741, had 1, Anna, born Dec. 24,1742; 2,
Rachel, 1744; 3, Samuel, Feb. 1747.
89. XIV. Sarah,  , married Joshua Backhouse of Sand
wich, Nov. 7, 1734.
90. XV. Tabitha, baptized Aug. 21, 1721, married Timothy
Davis of Falmouth, Feb. 7, 1760.
(81. VI.) Cornelius Crocker, son of Samuel, was bound,
when young, as an apprentice to a tailor, and afterwards had a
shop of his own, and worked at the business many years. He
had a club-foot, was lame and unable to attend to business which
required much physical effort and active exertion. He married,
Nov. 9,' 1727, Lydia, daughter of Joseph Jenkins. He resided
in the East Parish, built in 1741 the high single house near the
Agricultural Hall, afterwards owned by Ebenezer Taylor. He
bought the ancient grist mill on MiU Creek, which he rebuilt. He
afterwards owned the farm on the west of Rendevous lane, which
was originally Thomas Lothrop's home lot, and that x^art of
Joseph Lothrop's which was on that side of the lane, together
with the ancient gambrel roofed house which according to tradi
tion, belonged to the Glovers. He also owned the wharf known
as Crocker's Wharf, and a fish house near the same. He resided
for a time in the gambrel roofed house, afterwards owned and
occupied by his son Samuel. He also bought the estate known of
late years as "Lydia Sturgis's tavern," where he kept a public
house many years. He owned other real estate, and was one of
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till within a few years has been a noted tavern stand, and a
favorite resort for travellers. It has always been kept in good
repair. It was buUt to accommodate those who attended the
courts. The first court house in the county of Barnstable was
built in the field next on the east. Its location caused, at that
time, much excitement. The Gorhams who resided at the lower
part of the town, were wealthy and influential, and insisted that
it should be located in their neighborhood. They urged that such
a location was nearer the center of the population, and that it
would give better satisfaction to the people of the County. Gov.
Hincldey and the Lothrops insisted on a more western location,
and they prevailed. The Lothrops owned the land on which it
was finally located. The Gorhams were so confident that the
Court House would be located in their neighborhood that one or
more buddings intended for hotels, were put up.
Cornelius Crocker, as has already been stated, kept a public
house ; he was also engaged in the fisheries, gave employment to
quite a number of men, and naturaUy exerted much influence, in
• his neighborhood and in the town. He belonged to that moderate
class, among the tories who deemed it inexpedient for the colonies
to adopt measures that would inevitably lead to a war with the
mother country. Perhaps under other circumstances, he would
have been more decided and out-spoken than he was. He had
passed the age of man ; his political principles and his interests
were antagonistical, and prudence dictated that he should commit
no act that would render his large estate liable to confiscation.
At the commencement of the Revolution there were, in fact,
four political parties in Barnstable, the lines between which were
drawn with more or less distinctness. 1, The ardent whigs, of
whom Dr. Nathaniel Freeman of Sandwich, and Joseph Otis,
Esq., a brother of the patriot James, were the moving spirits and
leaders. Dr. Freeman was then a young man, active, ardent and
zealous ; but his zeal was not always tempered by the discretion of
age. This party were nearly all young men, burning with indig
nation at the outrages which the mother country had inflicted on
the colonies. In the East Parish the leading men were Daniel
Davis, Esq., Sylvanus Gorham, Seth Lothrop, Jonathan Lumbert,
John Thacher, 'jethro Thacher, Nathaniel Lothrop, John Lewis,
George Lewis, Timothy Phinney, and James Coleman. Brigadier
Joseph Otis at flrst acted with them, but he and Daniel Davis,
Esq., afterwards acted with the more moderate party. 2. The
leaders of the more moderate party were older men, and more
conservative in theu- views. Col. James Otis, Solomon Otis,
Esq., Nymphus Marston, Esq., Lieut. Joseph Blish, Capt. Samuel
Crocker, Edward Bacon, Esq., Sturgis Gorham, Esq., Isaac
Hinckley, Esq., Shearjashub Bourne, Esq., Eleazer Scudder, and
Dea. Joseph HaUett, were prominent men of the party. During

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the Revolution they were always in the majority in Barnstable,
and the members of this party were the men who were relied on
to furnish men and money, the sinews of war.
The tories were few in numbers in Barnstable. They were
also divided into two parties, the out-spoken and decided, of
whom David Parker, Esq., and Mr. Otis Loring were the leading
men. The more moderate were such men as Mr. Cornelius
Crocker and his son Josiah. Among the tories were men of
wealth, of respectability, and influence. They were citizens, and
so long as they did not give aid or comfort to the enemies of the
country, and contributed their share to the public expenses, they
were entitled to the protection of the laws, though their political
opinions might not have been in accordance with the views of a
majority of the people. Such protection the moderate among the
whigs were wUhng to concede ; but for making this concession,
some of them were persecuted with more bitterness of feeling
then were the open and avowed tories. Edward Bacon, Esq.,
who had been chosen a representative to the General Court, was
denounced as a tory, and an enemy to his country. A remon
strance embodying these charges was presented to the Legislature
and published in a newspaper at Watertown, July 8, 1776, and in
consequence the seat of Mr. Bacon was declared vacant. He
returned home. A town meeting was duly notified and held, and
the town meeting resolved, with great unanimity, that the charges
preferred against him were false and slanderous.
Capt. Samuel Crocker, to whom unintentional injustice was
done in the notice of the cutting down of the liberty pole in
Barnstable, was also persecuted with a malignity of feeling that is
not creditable to those who took an active part therein. He was
one of the most intelligent and active men of the whig party,
conservative and tolerant in his opinions. His position was un
fortunate ; but it was not one of his own seeking or making, and
for which he was in no way responsible. His father and brothers
were classed among the loyalists, whether rightfully or wrong
fully, to hirj belonged neither the censure or the*praise. He was
responsible for his own acts, not for those of others. Natural
affection would dictate to him that he ought not to deal harshly
with those who were bound to him by the ties of consanguinity.
His position entitled him to sympathy ; but there were those who
irreverautly said that he should forsake "father and mother and
wife and children," for the cause of his country. His brother,
Cornelius, was not a decided politician, though he generally acted
with the whig party, and therefore could not be classed among the
tories. He did not possess the commanding talents of his brother
Samuel, or the learning of his brother Josiah, but in his own way,
he denounced, with perhaps too much severity, the excesses of the
day. Such a course exposes a man to the censure of both parties.

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In times when the political elements are moved to their very founda
tions, men cannot be neutral, they must belong to the one party or
the other. To some extent Cornelius Crocker, Jr., profe-ssed to be
neutral in politics, and he was therefore denounced by both parties.
In front of his house stood the Liberty Pole, the emblem of progress,
around which the whigs were wont to assemble; and near by, in lov
ing proximity, the stocks and the whipping post, lingering emblems
of a barbarous code, and of a more barbarous age.
The inhabitants in town meeting, by their repeated votes,
manifested their confidence in the political integrity of Capt. Samuel
Crocker, against whom the shafts of malevolence seem to have been
as violently hurled as against his father and brothers. Its bitterness
may be judged by the fact that a century has now nearly elapsed,
yet the feelings of animosity which it engendered have not yet sub
sided. Another unhappy dissension between individuals also divided
public sentiment. An unfriendly feeling which existed between
Brigadier Joseph Otis and Edward Bacon, Esq., led to unpleasant
political action. Mr. Otis, however, soon became satisfied that the
charges against Mr. Bacon were false and malicious, and there
after cordially co-operated with him and the conservative portion
of the whig party. Mr.-Bacon was a deacon of the East Church,
and the matter became a subject of church discipline. The
church wisely decided that "a church being an ecclesiastical
body, have no right to call its members to an account for actions
of a civil and public nature ; that in signing petitions against Dea.
Bacon, they exercised their just right as meu, and subjects of a
free state ; and that in their apprehension, when they entered into
a church state, they did not give up any of their civil rights ; that
they did not charge the Deacon with any immorality ; but that his
religious character stood as fair in their minds when they signed
the petitions as before ; that if they were chargeable with any
overt acts of wickedness, or breach of their covenant engage
ments, they were willing to answer it to the church, and to make
christian satisfaction ; but that as to political controversies, they
begged leave to refer them to a civil tribunal."
This extract is from the reply to the complaint of Dea.
Bacon. The vote of the church assumes the same ground, but
all the particulars are not recapitulated. This vote was passed
June 22d, 1780, three years later than the action of the town,
and after the passions engendered at the moment had had time to
subside. This is contemporaneous authority and therefore valu
able. Dea. Bacon had, for some time, withdrawn himself from
the communion of the church, and a second vote was unanimously
passed desiring and requesting him "to return to his privilege and
duty and the discharge of his ofllce in the church." On the 2d of
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and on the 30th they reported at an adjourned meeting, "that the
afiair between Dea. Bacon and the Brethren, styled petitioners,
was happily accommodated." Dea. Bacon returned to the dis
cbarge of his office, and harmony once more apparently prevailed
in the councils of the church.
In the language of the town records, "the dissentions which
divided our once happy town" were so intimately blended that it is
difficult now to draw the distinguishing lines between them,
"The Crocker quarrels" were two in number, one between Col.
Nathaniel Freeman and others, and the family of Cornelius
Crocker, and the other between Abigail Freeman* and Samue]
Crocker and others. It was the latter that the towu refused to
take action on, on the ground that it was a private matter, and
that the settlement of the questions involved, belonged to the
Courts and not to the town.
As references will be made to localities in vicinity of the
Court House, a brief description will not be out of place. The
second Court House has been remodeled and is now known as the
Baptist Meeting House. It was built about the year 1774, and
stands on the north side of the road. At that time there was on
the east, where Judge Day's house now stands, an ancient two
story house, probably built by one of the Lothrops of the first
settlers, and then occupied by the widow Abigail Freeman as a
dwelling house and grocery store. The house on the east,
between the Court House and Rendezvous Lane, said to have
been built of the timber of the old meeting-house, is yet standing,
and is occupied by the Baptist Society for a parsonage. On the
west side of the lane, there was an ancient two story house, prob
ably built by Thomas Lothrop, a brother of Joseph. This bouse
was then owned by Cornelius Crocker, Jr., and occupied as a
public house. In front of these buildings, excepting that
occupied by the widow Freeman, there was a narrow green, on
which the militia company often paraded during the Revolutionary
struggle. In front of the Court House, and ou the south side of
the street, stood the public house of Mr. Otis Loring. Between
the Court House and Loring's tavern was his blacksmith shop,
*8ome of the essential features of this transaction have been the subject of controversy
between the writer of these sketches and the author of the "Hist, of Cape Cod." The
latter, writing with much apparent feehng, and in a tone of bitter denunciation, (See Hist.
0. C, Vol. II, pp. 306-306,) controverts the assumption of Mr. Otis, that this outrage was
committed by Whig sympathizers, upon a Tory lady, but charges its commission upon the
Tories and their loyalist associates, against one who sympathized with the Whigs. The
fact that the outrage was committed upon Mrs. Freeman is not disputed. In support of
his views, Mr. Freeman quotes Dr. James Thacher, a native of the town and a contem
porary of the events in controversy. It seems very singular that two such well-informed
writers as Mr. Otis and Mr. Freeman should have taken such entirely opposite views of
a transaction of which it would seem that the truth could easily have been arrived at by
men of their opportunities of judging; and it has been the purpose of the writer of this
note, to investigate the subject, with a view of endeavoring to set the transaction right;
but documentary evidence in the case has not been available to him. He deems it
proper, however, to here remark upon this strange contradiction, with an expression of
the hope that future investigation may place the matter in controversy in its true
light. [See pp. 2334.] g.

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not in the direct Hne between, but a little eastward. The Sturgis
tavern, which has. been described, is about three hundred yards
eastward from the Court House, and on the south side of the road.
1 here has been only one change in the location of the buildings in
this vicinity since 1775— the Loring tavern has been taken down.
In 1774 Loring made an addition to his house, in order to induce
the justices of the courts to stop with him. During the Revolution
his house was the head-quarters of the tories, and the Sturgis
house of the whigs.
The exciting incidents which occurred in that vicinity, are
popularly known as the "Crocker quarrels," though others beside
the Crockers took part in them. The scene of the Indian Dream
was laid in that vicinity ; the Liberty pole, cut down by sacrUeg-
ioiis hands, stood at the west end of the Green; the widow
Freeman was tarred and feathered thereon, the difficulties between
Cols. Freeman and Otis, aud the Crockers,. occurred there, and in
the house of Cornelius Crocker, Jr., fronting thereon, and the
defiant passage at arms, between Otis Loring and the Vigilance
Committee, in the Blacksmith's shop. The bitter feelings of
personal hostility which these incidents engendered, has no
parallel on Cape Cod, if the case between the Clarks and the
Winslows of Harwich, be excepted. Even now, individuals may
be found who are ready "to shoulder their crutches, and show
how the battles" were fought.
The Indian Dreame. On a fine morning, just before the
Declaration of Independence, the villagers found under the
latchets of their doors, a small pamphlet entitled "An Indian
Dream, drempt on Cape Cod, intended as a satire upon the lead
ing men of the County, particularly on the justices of the Court
of Common Sessions. It was written with much ability, and its
witty allusions commended it to the young and the old, and to
men of all parties.
The Indian said, "I dreamed that I was in the spirit world,
that I saw a long bench, with twelve antieut men sitting thereon.
(The twelve justices of the Court.) I inquired who they were,
and was informed that they had just arrived from the lower world,
and that Satan (a nickname of Otis Loring) had added an apart
ment to his domain for their special accommodation. I asked,
who is that venerable man sitting at the head of the bench.
(Col. James Otis.) I was told that he was their Chief in the
nether world, that in early hfe he was a painter and glazier by
trade,* that he afterwards peddled goods to customers, and law
to clients, that his tribe had made him a chief sacheni ; but of
late he thought himself to be the best paddler in canoe of State."
•* This fact I have never .seen stated in any biography of Col. James Otis. It was
during the time ho travelled from house to house painting and repairing the ancient dia
mond glass windows, that lie laid the foundation ot his influence and usefulness.

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In this manner the Indian described, in his dream, the twelve
justices. He called no one by name ; but described some peculiar
trait in the character of each, so that the individual intended was
known, t
The pamphlet caused much excitement at the time, and was
considered a tory document. The secret of the authorship was
well kept ; no legal proof could be obtained respecting the author
or the printer. It was a caustic satire on many who were after
wards leading whigs, and they never forgot it, or forgave the
Crockers who were the reputed authors. Why this was so, it
seems difficult to determine, for tories came in for their full share
of the satire. If that pamphlet had emanated from a different
source, I am inclined to the opinion that it would have been differ
ently received. It was the allusions therein to the private char
acters of the individuals that gave offence. "The Body of the
People" prevented the same justices from holding, by virtue of
authority emanating from the King, their court in Barnstable. J
The Committee arrested, or attempted to arrest, others who were
satirized in the pamphlet. Private considerations probably had an
influence in giving to Mr. Otis Loring so prominent a position m
the Dream. He kept an opposition tavern, and had then recently
enlarged his house, and was endeavoring to induce the Court to
stop with him.
Mr. Loring was an outspoken and decided tory. He made
no attempt to conceal his opinions. When the Vigilance Commit
tee, of whom Col. Freeman was the Chairman, came to an-est
him, he went into his blacksmith's shop and laid a long bar of
iron across the fire, and heated the central portion to a read heat.
His friends had given him notice of the approach of the Com
mittee, and when they aiTived he was prepared for them. He
stood before his shop door holding the bar by either end. With
out burning their fingers, it would have been difficult for them to
have made an immediate arrest. He politely said, "gentlemen, I
am ready for you, come on." Finding him determined to resist,
they went away, without making an arrest. At another time, Mr.
Loring was concealed in a chamber of his house for several days,
to avoid arrest.
It does not appear that Mr. Loring or the Crockers had
committed any overt or open act of treason. They had freely
1 1 read this pamphlet when a school boy fifty years ago, and I cannot vouch for the
verbal accuracy of the words placed in quotation marks. Henry Crocker, Esq., now of
Boston, sat on the same bench with me, had the pamphlet, and I read it in the school room
and have not since seen it. About the year 1824, 1 had a conversation with Sarah Lawrence
respecting it. She said, "the people said that my brother Josiah wrote it, that it was
printed in Boston, brought from there in the packet, and the night following a copy was
laid at the door of each man in the village." Her manner induced me to believe at the
time, that there was truth in the common report, though she did not so state.

JThe original papers on this subject have been preserved, and I intended to have
printed them, with fac similes of the signatures ; but the publication must be deferred.

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expressed their own opinions, usually in their own houses, and
however obnoxious such opinions may have been to others, a
sound policy did not demand the arrest or imprisonment of such
r^^\ Treason should be nipped in its bud ; but perfect freedom
to debate on matters of policy is the unailenable right of a free
people. "
The "Crocker Quarrels."
Almost every evening, in these exciting times, the whigs met
at then- headquarters in the Sturgis tavern, to hear the news, and
discuss current political events, and words often ran high. One
evening a large company had assembled, Capt. Samuel Crocker,
and his brothers Cornelius and Josiah were present. Col.
Nathaniel Freeman of Sandwich, the late Capt. Samuel Taylor of
Yarmouth, and others were present. The subject of the conver
sation was politics. The principal speakers were Col. Freeman
and Capt. Samuel Crocker. The latter was a whig, and one of
the most efficient of the party in Barnstable, being frequently on
Committees, and was a very able and inteUigent man. He
opposed the system of espionage which had been established, not
only as useless, but as calculated to do injury to the cause of the
country. Inquiring of the aged whether they had tea concealed
in their houses, and of young ladies whether they were whig or
tory, he said was a duty not required of the patriot or the states
man. Others of the company opposed both Capt. Crocker and Col.
Freeman. Words ran high. The Colonel was ardent and
zealous — of a nervous temperament and opposition kindled his
ire. Capt. Crocker, when excited, was earnest and irascible, and
would not submit to be told that the moderate measures that he
advocated was toryism in disguise. Crimination lead to re-crimin
ation, and re-crimination to personal violence. Some of the
company vented their spleen against the Crockers by breaking
down the fence in front of the house.
Opprobious epithets never make proselytes ; like the over
charged gun, they are apt to recoil. The violent political discus
sions of those days, prove no more this, that the convictions of
the people were deep — that they were in earnest and that in their
earnestness they sometimes over-stepped the bounds of pru
dence. If the difficulties between the Crockers and the Freemans had
ended as they begun, only in the use of intemperate language,
theVemembrance of their dissentions would have long since been
buried in oblivion.
Not long afterwards the militia company paraded on the
Court House Green. Cols. Nathaniel Freeman and .Joseph Otis
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for what reason I am unable to say, probably on account of the
differences in political sentiments which then prevailed, akeady ex
plained in the account of parties in Barnstable. According to
military usuages, when they passed through the* lines, the soldiers
should have presented arms. Instead of extending to them this
token of respect, due to them as superior officers, every soldier,
at a given signal, clubbed his musket. 1| This was received, as it
was intended, as a token of disrespect, as an insult from the
officers and soldiers of the Company to their superiors. Col.
Otis turned to Capt. Samuel Crocker, and said in a defiant tone,
"The Crockers are at the bottom of this." "You lie, sir," was
the response. Col. Otis immediately raised his cane and struck
Capt. Crocker a severe blow, which he returned. The spectators
interfered, but before they were parted several blows were inter
changed. Simultaneously, Col. Freeman made the same charge
against Cornelius Crocker, Jr. , who had gone or was going into
his house. Col. Freeman followed him into the west room and
made three passes at him with his cutlass. Fortunately neither
of them took effect ; but some one called out that Col. Freeman
had cut down NeU Crocker, at which EUjah Crocker rushed from
the ranks into the house, and, with fixed boyonet, swore he would
revenge the blood of his uncle. Dr. Samuel Savage was stand
ing in the doorway, and grasping the bayonet, turned it on one
side, aud with the assistance of others in the house, prevented
young Crocker from executing his threat.
One or more of the blows aimed by Col. Freeman at Cornehus
Crocker, Jr., took effect on the "summer-beam" of the house,
and th'e deep incision made therein showed the force with which
the blows were struck. These marks remained till the house was
taken down, about fifty years ago, and were often examined by
visitors. The difficulty between Col. Otis and Capt. Crocker was satis
factorily adjusted and settled. That between Col. Freeman and
the Crockers never. The only palliation for the offence is, it was
done hastily and in a moment of uncontrolable excitement, caused
by a palpable insult to him as a man and an officer. There is no
other excuse — it cannot be justified — a man's house is his castle,
his sanctuary, and he that invades it, without legal authority,
commits an outrage on the rights of others. The tory proclivi
ties of Cornelius Crocker, Jr., did not warrant Col. Freeman in

It Clubbing Arms. I am profoundly ignorant of military terms, and cannot say whether
this is a technical or cant phrase. I am told that it is the reverse of shoulder arms, — that
the breach is elevated across the shoulder, and the muzzle grasped as a club is held.
Note .^Attention has been called to the statement found on page 224 which says of
Benjamin Crocker, "He probably mamed for his third wife in 1759, Annie Handy of Sand.
wicli." Ibis is rendered inprobable, by the fact that the inscription upon their grave
stones in the burying-gi-ound at Marston's Mills represent him as dying in 1785, and his ,
wife, Batlisbeba, in 1808, surviving him twenty-three years. S.

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drawing his sword on an unarmed man, nor did the act of Col.
Freeman warrant the act of EUjah Crocker in rushing upon him
with fixed bayonet.
I have repeatedly heard aged men, who took an active part in
the stirring events of those times, not only justify the act, but
refer to it as an evidence of the patriotic zeal of Col. Freeman.*
He had numerous adherents, more zealous than himself, who
counselled no concession. The Crockers had also many friends.
The wound might at first have been healed ; but frequent irrita
tions caused it to fester, and its virus spread through the viUage,
parish, and town, causing divisions in famUies, and alienation of
old friends. The children and friends of the parties ever enter
tained a bitter hostility towards each other, and their grand
children, the men of the present generation, are sensitive on the
subject, and refer to it with painful interest.
Tar and feathering. AbigaU Freeman, baptized in the East
Church Sept. 21, 1729, was a daughter of Thomas Davis of
Barnstable. The few among the aged who remember her, call
her the Widow Nabby Freeman. April 8, 1753, at the tender age
of fifteen, she married David Freeman of Fairfield, Conn. His
mother, who was a Sturgis, had married for her second husband,
Job Gorham, and it appears that some of her children came with
her to Barnstable. .A.bigail had a son born March 25, 1757,
named Thomas Davis Freeman, and she became a widow soon
after that date. She united with the East Church March 26,
1758, and continued to be a member, of good standing, till the
close of her life in November, 1788.
She resided in the ancient dwelling house probably built by
Joseph Lothrop, Esq., that stood next east of the new Court
House, where Judge Day now resides. Early in life she became a
widow and had to rely on her own unaided exertions to procure
the means of subsistence. She kept a small grocery store, and
being an outspoken tory, refused to surrender her small stock of
tea, to be destroyed by the Vigilance Committee. She was talka
tive, a fault not exclusively confined to her sex, was a frequent
visitor at the house of Otis Loring, made no attempt to conceal
her tory principles, and was sometimes severe in her denunciation
of the acts of leading whigs. Her course was not patriotic and
not to be commended. Even at the present day (1863) there are
persons who condemn, with more 'severity, the acts of our govern
ment aiid the leading politicians, than did AbigaU Freeman during
the Revoluntionarv struggle ; yet no sane man would consider it
wise or expedient to enact laws, restraining the freedom of speech
in regard to the policy of measures, or the motives of individuals.
*I must confess that I have myself used this argument. I had not then investigated
the facts and circumstances of the case. In truth, there is only one essential fact, and that
is. the assault. No one denies it, and the question turns on this point; did the circum
stances ju«titv the act? I once thought they did. I now think otherwise.

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Some of our Revolutionary fathers in Barnstable, thought differ
ently and acted differently. Abigail Freeman was an eye sore to
them. She kept a little grocery store, saw many persons, and
would keep her tongue in motion whenever and wherever she
could find a listener. Doctors Freeman and Smith, for whom she
had a strong antipathy, some of the Crockers with whom she had
a private quarrel, and some of the radical whigs, resolved that a
bridle should be put upon her tongue. Ducking stools, for the
cure of scolds and unquiet women, had then gone out of use, and
the then modern invention of tarring and feathering, and riding
on a rail, were in vogue. Perhaps it is well that the names of the
individuals who took part in this courteous ceremony were not
recorded. They were all young men, and acting in the shade of
night, perhaps were not recognized in the 'disguises which they
assumed. When they came to the house of Mrs. Freeman she had
retired for the night. They obtained an entrance, took her from
her bed to the Green, besmeared her with tar and covered her
with feathers. A rail was procured from a fence in the vicinity,
across which she was set astride, and either end thereof was
placed on the shoulder of a stout youth. She was held iu her
position by a man who walked at her side, holding her by the
hand. When they were thed of the sport, and after they had
exacted from her a promise that she would no more meddle in
politics, they released her, and the gallant band soon after sneaked
homeward. Though some who took an active part in this demonstration —
this visible argument for personal liberty and the freedom of
speech — disliked to be known as participators ; yet a strong party
in Sandwich and Barnstable justified the act.
No apologist for this can now be found ; bnt before condemn
ing the participators, we must take into consideration the mitigat
ing circumstances. Its respectability and influence, if not actual
participators, countenanced and supported those that were.
Allowance must also be made for the excitement of the times, and
that men acting under the influence of such excitement, often do
things which they afterwards regret. The Widow Freeman was a
thorn in their sides — she could out-talk any of them, was fascinat
ing in her manners, and had an influence which she exerted,
openly and definantly, against the patriotic men who were then
hazzarding their fortunes and their lives in the struggle for
American independence. Sitting quietly at our firesides we may
condemn such acts, and, as moralists say, the end does not justify
the means. Perhaps if we were placed in the same circumstance
that our fathers were, we should do as they did. These consid
erations are not presented as a justification of the gross and
shameless violation of the personal rights of Widow Abigail

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Freeman, but as mitigating circumstances which should temper
the verdict of public opinion.
Col. James Otis attempted to heal the difficulties in town and
reconcile the parties, and he partiaUy succeeded. Deacon Bacon
and Col. Freeman were his kinsmen, and his age and the eminent
services which he had rendered to the town and County, entitled
his opinions to high consideration. At a town meeting held May
21, 1776, he made, what the records call, au "apology ! " and the
town voted to hear a part of it, but uot "that part relating to
Abigail Freeman and the Crocker's quarrel." The reason for
making this distinction is apparent, Dea. Bacon was the repre
sentative elect of the towu. Joseph Otis, and others, had peti
tioned the General Court that he be ejected from his seat, and
therefore any matter relative to Deacon Bacon's qualifications or
to the petition, was pertinent ; but neither Abigail nor the
Crockers stood in the same relation to the town, and therefore the
inhabitants, as a town, had nothing to do with their quarrels.
These votes show that the men of those days thou.ght and acted
independently, and that they could not be persuaded to act in
opposition to what they believed to be the right course of action,
even by one who had been President of the first continental Con
gress at Watertown.
Mr. Cornehus Crocker died Dec. 12, 1784, aged 80. His
wife, Mrs. Lydia Crocker, died Aug. 5, 1773, aged 68. His will
is dated AprU 5, 1782, and the codicil thereto Feb. 10, 1784.
His sons Elijah and Elisha were then dead, and are not named.
To Samuel he gave "all his land lying westward and northward of
the way that leads from the County road, near his son Cornelius's
dweUing house, to Rendevous Creek, with the dwelling house in
which he now lives, and all other buildings standing on the
premises," with one half of the fish house and the land on which
it stood, one half of his wharf, and one half of the way to the
same. His son Joseph was dead. To his widow, Elizabeth, he
gave a right in the house he devised to the sons of his son Josiah,
and to his grand-daughter Mary £30 in silver money. To his
daughter, Widow Lydia Sturgis, he gave the westerly part of the
dweUing house where he then lived, and one half of the
furniture. To Cornelius he gave one half of his fish house,
half of his wharf, £1*5 in sUver moneys and aU the debts
he theu owed him. In consideration of the larger proportion of
the estate given to Samuel, the latter was to make no demand on
Cornelius, Jr., for debts due. His son Josiah was then dead.
To his grand-sons, Robert, Uriel, and Josiah, the house in which
their father Josiah had lived, with one and one half acres of
land, being the east part of his homestead next the lane, and
£6 each when 21 ; to his two grand-daughters, Deborah and
Mehitable, chUdren of his son Josiah, £6 each in silver money.

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To his daughter. Widow Sarah Lawrence £30 in silver, his desk,
one half of his furniture, and one quarter of his pew in the East
Meeting House.
He made Samuel, Cornelius, and Lydia, his residuary lega
tees, giving them his grist mill, the easterly part of his dwelling
house, wood-lots and meadows and all his other real and personal
estate not otherwise specifically devised. His will was witnessed
by Edward Bacon and his wife Rachael, and Mercy Crocker.
The sons and daughters of Cornelius (Jrocker were all per
sons of more than ordinary intellectual vigor. Josiah received a
public education, and all of the family were well educated for the
times. They were close observers of passing events, and were
all distinguished for their conversational powers, and their ready
command of language. The children of Cornelius Crocker, born
in Barnstable, were : 1, Elijah, born April 12, 1729; 2, Elisha,
born Sept. 14, 1730. Both died in early life, and are not named
in the will of their father. 3, Samuel, born July 29, 1732; 4,
Joseph, born April 12, 1734; 5, Lydia, April 14, 1739; 6,
Cornelius, born Aug. 21, 1740; 7, Josiah, born Dec. 20, 1744,
and 8, Sarah, whose name is not ou the town records, born in the
year 1749.
Capt. Samuel Crocker, son of Cornelius, a man of note dur
ing the Revolutionary struggle, married April 8, 1753, by David
Gorham, Esq., Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Samuel Lumbert.
She died of consumption June 13, 1757, aged 27. He married,
for his second wife, her sister Anna, Mav 29, 1760. His chUdren
were: 1, Abigail, July 1, 1753; 2, Elijah, Oct. 27, 1755; 3,
Elizabeth, Feb. 24, 1767; 4, Anna, AprU 7,1766; 5, EUsha,
Aug. 30, 1767; 6, Ezekiel, Jan. 20, 1770; and 7, Susanna, July
7, 1773. Elijah, I think, died early in life. Elizabeth lived to
be aged, and died unmarried. Anna married Isaac Bacon, Jr.,
July 1, 1793, died early leaving a large family. Elisha was a sea
captain, had a family, and resided in the ancient gambrel roofed
house on Rendevous Lane. He died May 15, 1817. Ezekiel, the
last survivor of the family, married Temperance Phinney Dec. 28,
1794 ; kept ^ public house where Judge Day now resides.
Susannah, married .July 14, 1796, John Bursley, father of the
present David Bursley, Esq., and was the mother of a numerous
family. Joseph Crocker, son of Cornehus, married Jan. 12, 1758,
ElizaBeflTTJavis. He had Joseph Nov. 15, 1760, who died young,
and Mary born Dec. 28, 1763. He died early. His widow died
Feb. 7, 1811, aged 75, and her daughter Mary or Polly married
Isaac Lothrop Oct. 1796.
Lydia, daughter of Cornehus, married AprU 3, 1760, Capt.
Samuel Sturgis, 3d. He was a captain of a Company at Cape
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aged 86, having lived a widow 62 years and 8 months. She was
born in the house which has been' named, near the Agricultural
HaU ; but resided nearly aU her life in the house where she died,
and widely known as "Aunt Lydia's tavern." She had an only
child, Sally, who married Daniel Crocker. He died AprU 22,
1811, aged 49. She died Oct. 3, 1837, aged 77, leaving many
descendents. A grandson, Barnabas Davis, Esq., of Boston,
now owns the ancient tavern.
Cornehus Crocker, Jr., married Abiah Hinckley. He had
two sons ; Naler, boru in 1773, many years one of the selectmen
and town clerk of Barnstable. He died March 28, 1829, he had
a son Henry, now living, and a daughter Abiah, first wife of
Enoch T. Cobb. Cornelius also had a son Asa, born in 1776.
He taught a school in Barnstable several years and died unmarried
April 17, 1822, aged 46. Cornelius Crocker, Jr., died early, and
his widow Abiah survived him many years, dying June 7, 1823,
aged 77. For many years she kept a tavern in the dwelling house
now owned by Dr. .Allen, and in the more ancient house that
stood on the same spot. She was a strong-minded, intelligent
woman, and of good business capacity. One anecdote respecting
her iUustrates her character for firmness. After the death of her
husband Col. Freeman called at her house on a court week, and
asked to have lodgings. Her reply was, "my house is full, sir."
"But," said the Col. "my friends put up here, and I would like to
be with them." Her reply was, "my house is full, sir." Col.
F., a little excited, said, "madam, you are licensed to keep a
public house, and are bound to accommodate travellers and per
sons attending the Courts." "Yes," said she, "but, if my house
was not full, (pointing to the marks on the summer beam) there
would be no rOom for Col. Freeman." To this he responded,
"It is time to forget those old matters and bury the hatchet."
"Yes," said Mrs. Crocker, "but the aggressor should dig the
grave. .^.^.I^* !.,u\ -
Joseph] Crocker,' son of Cornelius, graduated at Harvard
CoUegg-iu 1765. He did not take the degree of Master of Arts.
He resided in the two story single house east of his sister Lydia's
tavern, and afterwards owned by Freeman Hinckley. He taught
a school some little time in Barnstable ; but on account of his
feeble health and tory proclivities, was not much, if any, in public
Ufe. He married Oct. 6, 1765, immediately after leaving college,
Deborah, daughter of Hon. Daniel Davis, and had five children,
Robert, Uriel, Josiah, Deborah, and Mehitable. He died of
consumption Mav 4, 1780, in the 36th year of his age, and is
buried in the new grave yard on Cobb's HUl. His widow married
Benjamin Gorham, Jr.," and had by him AbigaU, who married
Aug. 4, 1803, Capt. Henry Bacon. Uriel Crocker settled in
Boston, and has a son of the same name now living. Deborah

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married John Lothrop ; Mehitable, Joseph Parker. The Wid.
Deborah Gorham died in 1818, aged 72.
Sally or Sarah, daughter of Cornelius, married Capt. David
Lawrence, after a very brief courtship. He was a sea captain,
and was the first who displayed the Stars and Stripes in the port
of Bristol, England. Dea. Joseph Hawes of Yarmouth, was his
mate. Capt. Lawrence was consumptive and -was unable to per
form his duties during the voyage, and died soon after his return,
on the 3d of October, 1783, aged 35 years. She survived till
Feb. 21, 1825, when she died, aged 76. Mrs. Lawrence was
distinguished for her conversational power. She had read aU the
current literature of the day. Her friends were among the^ lead
ing men of the times, and she was well versed in local history,
and in all the leading topics of conversation in her day. Her
wit was keen and cut without seeming to give offence. She was
not fastidious, and the point of her wit was never blunted in order
to avoid an allusion which prudery might condemn. She was
open, candid, and decided in all her opinions, and in the expres
sion of them, her wit often sparkled with a brUUancy that sUenced
opposition. Her instantaneous reply to Col. Freeman and other
members of the Whig Vigilance Committee, when they inquired of
her whether she was whig or tory, was of this character, and will
be long remembered. She belonged to the same school of politics
with her brother Samuel, and held that the asking of young ladies
such questions was not only uncalled for ; but impertinent. Her
most cutting rebuke consisted of only four words ; and that com
mittee never forgot them, and ever after treated her with the
most marked respect. I have often heard her relate the story,
but the reply she made was always pronounced in a suppressed
tone of voice.
She lived a widow over forty-one years, and her house was
the resort of numerous friends who appreciated her talents and
listened with delight to her conversation. Intellectually she never
grew old. She could, without seeming effort, adapt herself to the
old and the young, the gay and the religious. vShe could discuss the
merits of the last novel, or the doctrines of the last sermon. Her
friends and relatives always treated her with marked respect, and
the survivors still fondly cherish her memory.
She had a son William, who was a hatter, and died early ; and
Lucy, who married Holmes Allen, Esq. He built the house now
owned by Mr. Frederick Cobb. He was a lawyer, a man esteemed
for his talents and legal knowledge ; but unfortunately became in
temperate, and died in early life, leaving au only child, Henry
Holmes Allen, born Aug. 14, 1801. He was three days my sen
ior. We were school-mates and play-fellows in early life, and as
sociates in manhood. He was honest and honorable ; kind, gen
erous, sympathetic — a man who never had an enemy. He married

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 239
AbigaU T. Gorham, daughter of Edward. She died early, and he
soon after died in foreign lands ; but his body lies entombed beside
that of his wife. He left no issue, and having no near relatives, he
devised his estate to the Fraternal Lodge, of which he was an
active member.
(23) Thomas Crocker, son of Dea. Job Crocker, boru 19th
Jan. 1674, married 23d Dec. 1701, Elizabeth Lothrop, widow of
"John Lothrop, son of Barnabas Lothrop, Esq." She was the
eldest child of James, son of James Green of Charlestown, and
was born Nov. 14, 1662, and was twelve years older than her
second husband, and five older than her first. She died in Hing
ham Aug. 1, 1752, aged 89. By her first husband she had a sou
and a daughter. The latter died early, and the son at 20. Mr.
Thomas Crocker resided iu the East Parish, and is styled in the
records "a dealer." He clied in 1718, insolvent. His indebted
ness was large, and his creditors received from his estate 2
shillings in the pound, per cent. His children born in Barnstable
were :
91. I. Walley, 80th July, 1703, died 2d Oct. 1703.
92. II. Thomas, 26th Aug. 1704.
93. III. WaUey, 26th June 1706.
His son Thomas married 1, Mehitable, daughter of Joseph
Dimmock, 1727. She died March 13, 1728-9, and he married 2d,
Oct. 20, 1730, Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Hamblin. Mr.
Thomas Crocker died Dec. 5, 1756, aged 51, and his wife May 9,
1766, aged 46. He resided in the easterly part of the West
Parish. His childi-en were: 1, Walley, born Feb. 28, 1727-8died
Aug. 23, foUowing; 2, Elizabeth, born 5th Dec. 1731 ; 3,Sarah,
born 26th Feb. 1733-4; 4, Rebecca, 30th Nov. 1735; 5, Hope,
March 1738; 6, Thomas, 23d Jan. 1740; 7, Esther, 28th Aug.
1743 ; 8, Barnabas, 26th Oct. 1746 ; 9, Huckins, 15th March,.
1748; 10, Mary, 31st Aug. 1753. Elizabeth of this famUy
married, in 1757, George Conant, and died Sept. 17, 1759 ; Sarah,
married. May 19, 1757, Joseph BUsh, Jr. ; Rebecca married Oct.
25, 1757, Lemuel Nye, Jr., of Sandwich; Barnabas married at
19, March 24, 1765, Ann Smith ; Mary died unmarried.
WaUey Crocker, son of Thomas, married, Oct. 22, 1730,
AbigaU, daughter of John Annable. He had born in Barnstable :
1, AbigaU, Nov. 2, 1731 ; 2, Temperance, Dec. 18, 1733 ; 3,
WaUey, April 18, 1737. Temperance married April 5, 1759,
Daniel Carpenter.
(25) Dea. John Crocker, son of Dea. Job, born 24, 1683,
married 11th Nov. 1704, Hannah. She died 10th Oct. 1720, and
he married 2d, 22d June, 1721, Mary Hinckley, Uving in 1731.
It appears that he married a third wife Nancy, her grave stones
record her death July 27, 1744, aged 56. Dea. John Crocker
died Feb. 7, 1773, aged 89 years and 11 months, (grave stones).

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He resided on the westerly part of his father's farm, and was
many years a deacon of the West Church. His children born iu
Barnstable were :
94. 1. Abigail, born 5th Oct. 1705, married Oct. 28, 1731,
George Howland. She joined the West Church in 1728,
and after marrige was dismissed to Deerfield.
95. II. Zaccheus, Aug. 1, 1707, married 1734, Ehzabeth Beals
of Hingham. His children were, Joshua, born Aug. 6,
1736; Zaccheus Dec. 1737 ; Sylvanus, baptized Feb. 19,
1739, and Hannah born June 21, 1743.
96. III. John, 27 July 1710, died 30th May, 1711.
97. IV. Ebenezer, Nov. 1, 1713, married July 26, 1739,
Elizabeth LoveU, Jr., and had James Feb. 19, 1739-40; 2,
Mary, Nov. 7, 1744. He married in 1746, Zerviah, daugh
ter of Kenelm Winslow, Esq., of Harwich, and had 3,
Alvan Friday, 6th Nov. 1747; 4, Ashsah Monday, 24th
July, 1749; 5, Ebenezer Thursday, 26th July, 1753, died
Feb. 17, 1817; 6, Zerviah Wednesday, 17th July 1751 ; 7,
Joshua Friday, 4th July 1755 ; 8, Kenelm Sunday, 14th
Aug. 1757; 9, George Monday 18th Feb. 1760; 10, Zenas
Friday, 26th Dec. 1761 ; 11, Heman, AprU 14, 1764.
There were four Ebenezer Crockers. The 1st son of Josiah
died in 1723 ; 2d, a son of Saumel, born 1719, removed to
East Haddam 1761 ; 3, a son of Dea. John,, boru in 1713 ; 4, a
son of Ebenezer, born 1723. Ebenezer, son of John, resided at
Cotuit, and the house which he built there is still owned by his
descendants. John, baptized Oct. 16, 1716.
98. V. EUzabeth, baptized Aug. 10, 1718.
_99. VI. Jabez, 16th June, 1720, died llth Dec. 1720.
100. VII. John, 1st AprU, 1722.
101. VIII. Job, 29th March, 1724.
102. IX. Daniel, 1st March, 1726-6, married three wives, 1,
EUzabeth Childs, May 19, 1748 ; 2, Phebe Winslow of Har
wich, 1755 ; and 3, Bathsheba Jenkins. His children were,
1, Job, bom May 6, 1749, removed to Western New York,
and has descendants; 2/'Winslow, Dec. 31, 1755, resided
at West Barnstable, married  Blush, had a family.
Edward W. Crocker of Yarmouth, is of this family ; 3,
Elizabeth, March 14, 1770, she married, 1, Heman Crocker.
Her son, Oliver Crocker, Esq., of New Bedford is now
living, and 2, EUsha Ruggles, of Rochester ; 4, Daniel,
March 8, 1762, married Sally Sturgis, and had a family ; 5,
Mary, July 11, 1767, married James Davis; 6, AbigaU;
Nov. 6, 1769, married Ebenezer Bacon, Esq. ; 7, Joseph,
Jan. 27, 1771, married Joanna Bacon, and had Walter,
.Tames, and others now living; 8, Prince, Sept. 6, 1772,

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married Martha Nye, and has descendants living. Joseph
and Prince owned and occupied the ancient Crocker house,
and both lived to extreme old age. 9, Temperance, born
July 28, 1776, married Ezra Crocker; 10, David, Feb. 21,
1779, married RacheU Bacon, and his sons Eben, Frederick
and Henry, and daughter Caroline, are now hving ; 11,
Josiah, Aug. 24, 1781, died unmarried at New Orleans.
103. X. Timothy, Aug. 23, 1728.
104. XI. Jonathan, born Nov. 22, 1731, married May 2, 1764,
Sarah Childs. He died of the small pox Dec. 4,*1796, and
his wife Sarah of the same disease Dec. 16, 1796. He was
the first buried in the Crocker burying ground. He has
descendants living.
(30) David Crocker, Esq., youngest son of Dea. Job
Crocker, born 5th Nov. 1697, graduate of Harvard College 1716,
resided on the John Crocker farm at West Barnstable. He was
many years town Clerk, transcribed the ancient town records, now
lost. _ The records of the births of the Crockers he arranged
genealogically. He was many years one of the board of select
men, and in 1742 a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He
died in 1764, aged 67 years. He married 12th Nov. 1724,
Abigail, daughter of Mr. David Loring, and Jan. 27, 1757, Mrs.
Mary Stuart. His children were :
105. I. A son, born Jan. 9, 1725, died Feb. 19, 1725.
106. II. David, AprU 14, 1726, died June 28, 1734.
107. III. AbigaU, May 20, 1728, married .Jan. 10, 1754, Seth
Blossom.
108. IV. William, Dec. 8, 1730 (called Jr.) He resided in the
house which was his father's. He belonged to the East
Parish, and was a member of the East Church. He married
twice, 1st in 1753 Lydia Knowles of Eastham. She died
April 16, 1764, and he married 2d, Sept. 30, 1764, Mary
Cobb, .Jr. He died May 3, 1819, in his 89th year, and she
died May 20, 1817, aged 85. His children born in Barn
stable were: 1, AbigaU, March 15, 1754; 2, David, Aug.
23, 1756 ; 3, Temperance, Jan. 2, 1763 \A, Sarah, June 26,
1766 ; 5, Mary, Nov. 2, 1766 ; 6, William, Nov. 19, 1768 :
7, Matthias, July 26, 1770; 8, Ebenezer, -baptized July 26,
1772: 9, Loring, born March 18, 1774. Of this family,
William resided in his father's estate, and died June 24,
1844, and his brother, Dea. Ebenezer, a tanner, did also in
the first part of his hfe. He removed to the West, where
he died a few years since. Matthias was a hatter and
resided in Boston. Loring was largely engaged in the salt
manufactm-e at the common field, and died March 21, 1841.
His son Loring now owns his nianufactories.
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and in the church records called the daughter of "Squire
David and Mary Crocker."
110. Vl. Hannah, Sept. 24, Wednesday [1759. J
111. VII. Sarah, Oct. 24, Tuesday, [1761.]
112. VIII. Lydia, Feb. 28, [1762] died Sept. 24, 1763.
(32) Thomas Crocker, son of Josiah, born 28th May,
1671, married 25th March, 1696, Hannah, [Green] of Boston.
He died April, 1728, in the 57th year of his age, and is buried at
West Barnstable. He resided in the ancient stone house, as be
fore stated. In his will he makes provision for the education of
his son Joseph at College. His wife, Hannah Crocker, died Jan.
23d, 1728-9 in the 53d year of her age. Their children born in
Barnstable were :
113. I. Tabitha, Dec. 20th, 1698.
114. II. Josiah, 21st, AprU 1701, died Feb. 23d, 1728-9.
115. III. Seth, 13th June, 1708. He resided at West Barn
stable on the estate which was his father's. He married
three wives, 1, Joanna Leavet, April, l6th, 1730. She
died Aug. 4th, 1732, aged 20. 2d, 'Temperance Thacher of
Yarmouth, June 1st, 1734;. She died July llth, 1736, aged
24. 3d, AbigaU, daughter of Joseph Blush, 1742.. He
died March 25th, 1770, in the 62d year of his age, and is
buried with his wives in the West Barnstable grave yard.
By his first wife he had a daughter Hannah, born July 18th,
1732, baptized July 23d, 1732. This' child was of feeble
mind. By his second wife he had Thomas, born June 8th,
;> 1736. He married in 1756, Mercy Hamblen, and about the
year 1781 removed to Lee, Mass. He had a large estate,
and has numerous descendants. There have been some re
markable instances of longevity in this family.
116. IV. Hannah, born 8th May, 1711, married July 25th,
1744, Jabez Robinson of Falmouth?
117. V. Thankful.
il8. VI, Joseph, born 1715, graduated at Harvard College,
1734. He was ordained Sept. 12, 1739, pastor of the
church and society in South Eastham, now Orleans. He
died March 2d, 1772. He married twice, had Josiah, a
graduate of Harvard College, 1760 ; Lucia, who married
Eev. Simeon WilUam of Weymouth ; and Ann, whb married
Rev. Wm. Shaw of Marshfield. Of the family of Rev.
'' Josiah Crocker, the Orleans records furnish little informa
tion. His wife. Reliance, died in 1759, aged 44. He had
six children who died in infancy bfetween 1741 and 1757.
His son Josiah waS bOrn in Orleans in 1740, graduated at
Harvard CoUfegfe in 1760, aild died Ih OrieianS Hn. 20,
1764, aged 24. Hts had i-ecelved a call to becbme pastor of
the second Church in YkrmOuth, (how Dennii) but his ^ifck

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ness and death prevented his di-dinatioh. His father
caused a glowing eulogium to be inscribed on the monument
to his memory in Orleans.
The Rev. Joseph Crocker was a Calvihist, a hard student,
and a well read theologian. Wanting the graces of the
orator, he never was a popular preacher.
(38) Capt. Josiah Crocker, son of Josiah, born 8th Feb,
1684, married Desire, daughter of Col. John Thacher of Yar
mouth, April 10, 1718. He was a sea captain, and while on a
voyage to Nova Scotia, was betrayed out of his course by an
Irishman who pretended to be a pilot. He and all his crew were
sick at the time. He died on board his own vessel in St. Mary's
harbor, Annapolis Rial, Oct. 10, 1721, and was ^buried at Port
Royal, Oct. 14, 1721, aged 37. His widow, Mrs. Desire Crocker,
died in Yarmouth, on the morning of the Sabbath, May 6, 1722,
and is buried in the ancient burying ground in Yarmouth.
He had two children born in Yarmouth.
119. I. Josiah, born 30th Oct. 1719, gi-aduate of Harvard
College, 1738, and ordained May 19, 1742, pastor of the
church in Taunton. He entered College at the early age of
15, and was ordained at 23. He was of an ardent tempera
ment, zealous, earnest, yet tender and persuasive in his
manner. Like other zealous men, he was not always cau
tious in his expressions. He had many warm friends, aud
some enemies. His call to the Taunton church was not
unanimous, and there were always some who opposed him.
He was dismissed from his pastoral charge Dec. 1, 1766,
but continued to reside in Taunton till his death. He was
the friend of Whitefleld, and possessed some of the charac
teristics of that eminent divine. His earhest, persuasive
manner, drew together a large audience when it was known
that he was to preach. It is said that a women travelled
from Plymouth on foot, carrying a child in her arms the
whole distance. When the load seemed heavy, or the way
long, she would comfort herself by crying out at the top of
her voice, "Crocker's ahead, Crocker's ahead," [See Min
isters of Taunton.] He married twice. His first wife was
Rebecca, daughter of James Allyn ol Barnstable, whom he
married July 28, 1742. She died Sept. 28, 1759. He mar
ried Nov. 5, 1761, Hannah, daughter of Col. Thos. Cobb of
Attieboi-ough. His chUdren were : Josiah, Benjamin, AUyn,
Joseph, WiUiam, Ebenezer, Rebecca, Leonard, born Oct. 2,
1762, and Hannah, Oct. 18, 1766. He died Aug. 28, 1774,
iti the 55th, and not the 53d year of his age, as insbfibed on
his tbidbStone. A simUar inistake of two yfears occurs on
the mdrium^ht to the meihory of his first ivife. The Rev.
Josiah Crocker haS mahy de§cenddtits in Tauutoii aiid other

244 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
places. His grand-daughter, Hannah M. Crocker, was the
author of "The Rights of Women," pubhshed in 1818.
120. II. Desire, born 17th Dec. 1721.
(39) Ebenezer, son of Josiah, born May 30, 1687, married
May 22, 1715, Hannah HaU of Yarmouth. He died 18th March,
1722-3, in the 36th year of his age. His children born in Barn
stable were :
121. I. Mehitable, Sept. 16, 1716, married Nathan Crocker,
Jr., Dec. 27, 1739.
122. II. Hannah, Oct. 10, 1718, married Eben Childs, .Jr.,
Jan. 15, 1747, died Feb. 23, 1756.
123. HI. Susannah, Oct. 20, 1720, married George Conant,
Jan 30, 1755.
124. IV. Ebenezer, March 2, 1722-3.
(43) Nathan, sou of Eleazer, born 27th April, 1685, mar
ried, 10th March, 1708-9, Joannah Bursley. He was a farmer,
and resided in the old stone fort. His children were :
125. I. Jabez, born 20th June, 1709. He married, July 6,
1732, Deliverance Jones; Feb. 9, 1737-8, Mary Baker ; and
afterwards Remember Fuller, and had six children : 1 ,
Anna, March 6, 173-, married Benj. Howland March 15,
1763; 2. Deliverance, May 7, 1740; 3, Asa, Sept. 4, 1741,
4, Ruth, Aug. 25, 1743 ; 5, Lot, baptized March 31, 1745 ;
6, Mary, baptized June 21, 1747. Feb. 1750, Jabez
Crocker sold his house and the lot containing two acres 'on
which it stood, to his brother Johu Crocker, who was then
called third. Charles Gray now owns the land- It was
then bounded, northerly by the high way, westerly by
Dextei-'s lane, southerly by land of Cornelius Dexter, and
easterly by land of Col Otis. In a mortgage deed, dated
10th May, 1746, he names his brothers, Benoni, Nathan
and John, and his cousin, John Crocker, Jr.
126. II. Benoni, born 24th Feb. 1711-12, married, Feb. 19,
1736, Abigail, daughter of John Bursley. He inherited the
old stone fort in which he resided, and to which he made an
addition. His childred were: 1, Lemuel, born March 1,
1737, married Sarah Backus of Sandwich, 1763 ; 2, Barna
bas. (There is a blank in the record which I fill with the
name of Barnabas. Benoni had a son of that name for
whom he made the addition to his house.) 3, Abigail,
born May 22d, 1745 ; 4, Abner, Aug. 18th, 1747.
127. 111. Nathan, born 7th March 1713-14, married Mehitable,
daughter of Ebenezer Crocker, Dec. 27th, 1739, and had
ten children: 1, Enoch, June 1st, 1741; 2, Susannah,
AprU 9th, 1743; 3, Deborah, March 30th, 1745; 4, Aru-
bah, Aug. 14th 1747; 5, Elijah, Feb. llth, 1749; 6,
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8, Mehitable, June 8, 1758 ; 9, David, March 15th, 1761.
128. IV. Isaac, born 6th May, 1719, married, March 22d,
1738-9, Elizabeth FuUer, and had 1, Ansel, Aug. 27th,
1739 ; 2, Rebecca, March 24th, 1740 ; 3, Thomas, Sept. 19th,
1743; 4, Josiah, Oct. 14th, 1762; 5, Ansel, Jan. 22d,
1767. "The names of the two last are added by a late town
clerk.
129. V. John, llth Jan. 1721-2. His father, in a deed to him,
dated Oct. 12th, 1744, caUs him 3d. He was in the ex
pedition to Cape Breton, and to distinguish him from the
others of the same name, was called Cape Breton John.
130. VI. Temperance, born Oct. 3d, 1724, married Joseph
Annable, Dec. 31st, 1744.
(62) WiUiam Crocker, son of Joseph, born 25th Aug.
1679, married, by Justice Skiff of Sandwich, Nov. 1706, his
cousin, Mary Crocker, daughter of Josiah. He died in 1741,
in the 62d year of his age, his mother, Temperance, a daughter of
the first John Bursley, was then living. In his will dated Feb.
10th, 1740-1, proved July 8th, 1741, names his wife Mary his sons
William and Joseph, to whom he gives his West Barnstable es
tate ; and Benjamin, to whom he devises his lands in Sandwich,
and meadows at Scorton. He also named his daughters, Mercy
Blush aud Mary Beals, and his "Hon'd mother Temperance
Crocker," who then retained the improvement of his estate. He
had children born in Barnstable, namely :
131. I. Mercy, 22d Sept. 1706, married Joseph Blush Oct.
28th, 1730.
132. II. A son, born 20th June, 1708, died July 4, 1708.
133. III. A daughter, stiU born, Aug. 3, 1709.
134. IV. William, born 9th Sept. 1710. He resided at West
Barnstable, and married, in 1743, Hannah Baker, and had
twelve children. He is called Mr. in the town records, then
a token of respect, and his wife Mrs. Only four are named
on the town records ; but the names of all are on the church
records. 1, Mary (called Mercy on the church records)
born March 26, 1745 ; 2, William, Feb. 6, 1744, died young ;
3, Martha, Nov. 28, 1748; 4, Temperance, Jan. 22, 1749;
5, Hannah, baptized AprU 22, 1751 ; 6, Josiah, July 5,
1762; 7, William again, Oct. 1753; 8, Alice, July 27,
1765; 9, Mercy, Jan. 1, 1758; 10, Josiah, June 8,1760;
11, Ephraim, July, 26, 1761 ; 12, Calvin, May 1764. The
latter was the late Capt. Calvin Crocker, who has descend
ants in Barnstable.
135. V. Alice, born Sept. 1712, married Stephen Beals of
Hingham, Sept. 16, 1736. (In the abstract of his father's
wUl I have the name Mary, probably an error, should be
Alice.)

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136. VI. Mary, born Aug. 12, 1714.
137. VII. Joseph, born Dec. 1718.
138. VIII. Benjamin, March 20, 1720, married Bathsheba HaU
of Yarmouth, AprU 1747. See 85,*
(53) Timothy, son of Joseph Crocker, born 30th April,
1681, resided at West Barnstable. He was a merchant, an ensign
in the militia, as his grave stone informs us, and a justice of the
peace. He was married 27th Oct. 1709, by Rev. Jonathan
Russell, to Mrs. Melatiah, daughter of his uncle Josiah Crocker.
His children were :
139. I. Jerusha, born 12th Dec. 1711. She married. May 19,
1741, Mr. Ehjah Deane of Raynham.
140. II. Melatiah, born 19th March 1714, married, March 21,
1734, John Sturgis, Esq., of Barnstable. Her children
were, Josiah, born Oct. 17, 1737, Melatiah, Oct. 11, 1739;
Timothy Crocker, March 30, 1742 ; Lucretia, Oct. 14, 1743.
The latter did not marry. She was a well educated and
accomplished lady, resided in her grand-father Crocker's
house, and taught a school jnany years. A large proportion
of the aged at West Barnstable, are indebted to her for
their early education.
141. III. Bathsheba, born 2d April, 1717, married Sept. 6,
1738, Rev. Samuel Tobey of Berkley. He was born in
Sandwich in 1715, a graduate of Harvard College, 1733,
ordained Nov. 23, 1737. He had twelve children.
142. IV. AbigaU, born April 2, 1721, married Sept. 2, 1740,
Rev. Rowland Thacher, pastor of the church at Wareham.
He graduated at Harvard College in 1733.
143. V. Martha, born 26th Dec. 1724, married, Feb. 2, 1744-5,
Capt.' WiUiam Davis, of Barnstable. She died Jan. 5,
1773, aged 48. Mrs. Andrews Hallett of Yarmouth, has
some fine specimens of worsted work embroidered by her
grand-mother Davis.
The dwelling house of Timothy Crocker, Esq., stood near
where Seth Parker's store now stands. It was large, two stories
high, and most substantially built. The style was that of the
wealthy among the first settlers. It fronted to the east, the gable
being towards the road, and was probably built as early as 1660.
Who was the first owner I have been unable to ascertain. In
1686, when the road was laid out, it appears to have been owned
and occcupied by Increase Clap ; but I doubt whether he was the
first owner. In 1649 Mr. Thomas Daxter resided in that neigh-
*In 1747 there were four Ben.iamin Crockers, 1, Benjamin, sou of .losiah, bom in 1692,
removed to Ipswicli ; 2, Benjamin, sob of Joseph born in 1696 ; 3, Benjamin, son of Samuel,
born 1711; 4, Beii,iamin, son oi William, bora 1720. The Beiyamin, who married in 1747,
Bethsheba Hall, is called Jr., and I inferred firom the fact, that there was then an older
man of the same name in town, that the one numbered 85, X, was the person intended. I
am now inclined to think that 138, III, was the person intended. An investigation of the
wills, which I have not the time to do, will settle the question.

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borhood, and owned the land bordering on Dexter's Lane ; but
whether his land extended so far east, I have no means of
ascertaining. The Rowley's who removed to Falmouth about the
year 1661, owned land in the vicinity. Dea. William Crocker
owned the land on the east at the settlement of the town, and it
was afterwards owned by his son John. The exact bounds of this
land it would perhaps be now difficult to ascertain.
This ancient mansion, while owned by Timothy Crocker,
Esq., was kept in good repair, and elegantly fui-nished. His
family ranked among the aristocracy of those days. His
daughters were well educated and accomplished ladies, and his
house was the resort of the learned and the fashionable. The
husbands of all the daughters, excepting Martha, were men who
had been liberally educated. Martha had many suitors, and some
of the tea-table talk of those days is reported by her grand
children. She might have married one who was afterwards one of
the most distinguished and influential citizens of Barnstable.
Timothy Crocker, Esq., died Jan. 31, 1737, in the 57th year
of his age, and is buried in the West Barnstable grave yard. I
do not find the record of the death of his wife. She died a short
time previous to her husband. His will was made four days
previous to his decease. He gave £10 to Rev. Jonathan RusseU,
£10 to Mr. Joseph Crocker, Jr., and the same sum to the poor of
the town. He divides his estate equally among his daughters,
excepting to Jerusha, to whom he gave £10 over and above her
share. Mr. John Bursley was executor.
His estate was apprised at £6 607,7,2 in old tenor currency,
equal to about $3,000 iu sUver money. The merchandise in his
warehouse was apprised at £1,483,10 ; his homestead, including
all his buildings and lands, at £1,020, equal to only $450 in silver.
After the payment of his debts, there was only the real estate
and £1,949,14 2 of the personal estate remaining, equal to about
$300 in silver to each of the heirs. f
In later times the north part of the house was owned by his
grand-daughter, Lucretia Sturgis, the school mistress, a maiden
lady who is kindly remembered by the aged at West Barnstable ;
and the south part by Nathan Foster.
Conclusion. — Here I rest ; not because my materials are ex
hausted, but because I am. Respecting the early famiUes I have
studied to be accurate, to the later famiUes I have not given so
much attention. Respecting the "Crocker Quarrels," as they are
caUed on the records, I have endeavored to be impartial, and have
softened many harsh expressions that I found in my notes, and
have omitted some circumstances which perhaps others may think
TThe verv low prices at which the real estate and the furniture was apprised, indi.ates
that a portion of the apprisal was in lawful money-that is, that the pound was eqn il to
43 33 iSSer. His plate and silver was apprised at £73 10, his looking glass and p^¦tures
It £5,6° and his Sdiii giri at £5, about two doUars. If she was worth anything, it was a
very low price to apprise her at.

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important. If I have fallen into errors, I shall be happy to
make the corrections. The part which the Crockers played in the
Revolution, was one not to be omitted. It could not be examined
without noticing the parts which others acted in the drama. I do
not justify the Crockers, yet I do not believe them to be the worst
of men, neither do I believe that Col. Nathaniel Freeman was a
man without fault. The facts" will not justify either conclusion.
Why, then, the attempt to shield their acts from criticism. When
such attempts are made, most men think there is something wrong
at the bottom. I may attempt, by and by, to do justice to the
character of Col. Freeman as a man and patriot ; but not by
drawing a veil over his faults. A very few among the Crockers
and the Freemans object to certain portions of my article. I
was aware when writing those portions, .that I was treading
on the scoria of a yet smouldering volcano, which a breath would
fan into activity. I hear the distant rumblings of the approaching
earthquake ; but do not yet fear that I shall be engulfed
thereby.

CLAP.

Extensive genealogies of the Claps have been printed.
Many of this name came over and settled in Dorchester and
vicinity. Two of the name were early in Barnstable ; but no
descendants remain. Eleazer, a son of Dea. Thomas, of Wey
mouth and Scituate, was a soldier in King Phillip's war, and was
slain at Rehobeth March 26, 1675. He had no family in
Barnstable. Increase, resided at West Barnstable, married, Oct. 1675
Elizabeth, Widow of Nathaniel Goodspeed, and daughter of John
Bursley. His children born in Barnstable were: 1, John, Oct.
1676 ; 2, Charity, March, 1677; 3, Thomas, Jan. 1681, died Jan.
1683 ; 4, Thoma's, Dec. 1684.
Increase Clap's house was on the south side of the road a
little east of Dexter's lane. He purchased his estate probably of
the Rowleys, when they removed to Falmouth, who were early
settlers in that neighborhood, and was a proprietor of the com
mon lands "iu Rowley's right." He was living in 1697. Several
of the Clap famih' of Scituate intermarried with the Bournes and
Gorhams, of Barnstable.

CAMMET.

I do not find this name in the works of Savage, Bond,
Mitchell, or Hinman. Peter Cammet was the first of the name
in Barnstable. He married, May 4, 1741, Thankful Bodfish, and
had Hannah 26, 1742, and David Sept. 25, 1744. Hannah
married, in 1765, John Bates, and those of the name in Barn
stable are, I think, descendants of David.

COTELLE.

Peter Cotelle was a Frenchman. He resided in the easterly
part of the West Parish, in a small gambrel-i-oofed house,
embowered in trees and shrubbery — an exquisite little place which
he took pleasure in adorning. He was a tinker, shrewd in making
a trade, and it is said that he would take advantage of his pre
sumed imperfect knowledge of English, to drive a hard bargain.
He also kept a small grocery store. He has descendants.

GANNON.

This is not a common name in Barnstable, or in any part of
New England. John Cannon came over in the Fortune in 1621.
He was not of Plymouth in 1627. Whither he removed or went
hence is unknown. There was a Robert Cannon of New London,
in 1678, and one of the same name in Essex County in 1680,
whose wife's name was Sarah. Mr. Savage states that there was
one of the name in Sandwich as early as 1650. Capt. John
Cannon was of Norwalk, Conn., 1760.
The earliest record of the name in Barnstable is April 12,
1691, where Joanna Cannon joined the church. On the foUowing
Sabbath her children, John, PhUip, Timothy, Nathan, and EUza
beth, were baptized. Of these, Timothy is again named on the
records. He married, Nov. 9, 1711, Elizabeth, widow of Isaac

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Hamblen. The names of his chUdren are not on the Barnstable
records. Ebenezer was probably his son, and Joanna, who married,
July 7, 1735, Benjamin Bursley, was probably a daughter.
Ebenezer Cannon married, in 1735, Mercy Blossom; July
30, 1753, Patience Goodspeed. His children born in Barnstable
were :
I. Ebenezer, March 19, 1736-7, married, in 1761, Experience
Tupper of Dartmouth.*
II. Ruth, Jan. 18, 1738-9.
III. Nathan, AprU 10, 1741, married, March 23, 1763, Thankful
Bassett.
IV. Joanna, Sept. 4, 1743, married, Nov. 28, 1760, Bezalee
Waste, of Dartmouth.
V. Joseph, Dec. 14, 1746.
VI. Timothy, baptized June 17, 1760.
VII. Mercy,' baptized June 30, 1754.
VIII Ebenezer, baptized Jan. 30, 1756.*
IX. Ira, baptized Oct. 12, 1740.
X. Ziba, baptized Aug. 1762.
* The Ebenezer who was published to Deliverance Tupper in 1761, is called Jr. ; the
Ebenezer baptized June 30, 1756, is called son of Ebenezer and Patience. It is probable
that there was yet another Ebenezer.

CUDWORTH.

GEN. JAMES CUDWORTH.
Little is known of the early history of this most excellent
man. It is probable that he came to Boston in 1632, with his
friend, Mr. Hatherly, in the ship Charles, from London. In
September 1634, he was a- householder in Scituate, and a freeman
of the colony of New Plymouth. His house was one of the nine
first built in that town, and is described as a "small, plaine,
paUzadoe house." This he sold to Goodman Ensign, and in 1636
built on his lot near the bridge at the harbor.
Mr. Cudworth and his wife joined Mr. Lothrop's church Jan.
1 8, 1634-5, and tiU the meeting-house was completed, in November
1636, the congregation frequently met on the Sabbath, and on
other special occasions, to worship in his "small, plaine, palizadoe
house." In 1636 he was a member of the Committee appointed by the
Court, to revise the Colonial laws ; in 1637 he was constable of
Scituate; and Jan. 22, 1638-9, one of the grantees of the lands
in Sippican, where Mr. Lothrop and a portion of his church then
proposed to remove. In 1640* he removed to Barnstable, and
was elected that year a deputy to the Colony Court. In the list
of Deputies at the June term his name is underscored, and that
of Mr. Thomas Dimmock written against it. In a subsequent
entry in the same record it is stated that Mr. Cudworth was then
an inhabitant of Scituate, and if so, was not eligible as a member
from Barnstable, and therefore Mr. Dimmock was elected in his
place. It is probable that Mr. Cudworth came to Barnstable
in the Spring of 1640 ; but did not become a permanent resident
*Mr. Freeman says he came to Barnstable in 1639 ; Mr. Deane says in 1642. The latter
is certainly wi'ong, and after a carefiil examination of the records, I find no positive evi
dence that Mr. Freeman is in the right. He certainly did not come in May, 1639, with
Messrs. Hull and Dimmock, and I find no evidence that he came in the following October
with Mr. Lothrop. Some difference"!, about this time, had arisen between him and his
friend Hatherly, and in the entry on the court orders, June 2, 1640, it is distinctly stated
tliat he was then of Scituate, therefore could not have been of Barnstable at that date,
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till the autumn of that year.
Mr. Cudwoi-th's name appears only once on the records of
the town of Barnstable now preserved. It occurs on the list of
townsmen and proprietors dated Jan. 1643-4, and its position
thereon, indicates that he resided in the vicinity of Coggin's
Pond. In the church records he is named as of Barnstable
AprU 18, 1641, March 28, 1642, and June 24, 1644. He
conveyed, by deed, his second house and lot in Scituate, to
Thomas Ensign, June 8, 1642. In that deed he is styled "gentie-
man of Barnstable," Jan. 4, 1641-2, he is called an inhabitant of
Barnstable, though at tiiat date he was absent from town. In
1642, Mr. Cudworth was again elected a deputy to the June court
from Barnstable, and his name was again underscored, and Mr.
Thomas Dimmock's written against it. The fact that Barnstable
was entitled to only two deputies at the June terms in 1640 and
in 1642, and that Antliony Annable and Mr. Dimmock served at
those terms, seems to make it certain that Mr. Cudworth was
sick, or absent from the town at the terms named. In Aug. 1643,
a return was made of all in the colony "able to bear arms." Mr.
Cudworth's name appears on the return' from Barnstable, and on
that from Scituate. On the former it is crossed out, and retained
on the latter.
These few isolated facts are all that the records furnish
relative to Mr Cudworth's residence in Barnstable. The records
of the laying out of the lands at the time of tlie settlement, being
lost, nothing is known respecting his lands in Barnstable. By a
municipal regulation, :in inhabitant removing from town, was
obliged to offer his lands to the other inhabitants, before he could
legally sell to a stranger. In such cases a memorandum of the
transfer was made on the proprietor's records now lost.f
Mr. llathway, in his deed to the Conihasset Partners, Dec.
1, 1646, styles him a "Salter," that is, one who makes or sells salt,
and this fact, perhaps, explains the uncertainty of his place of
residence from 1639 to 1646. He had a salt work at Scituate,
which it does not appear tliat he sold on his removal to Barn
stable. This required his attention at certain seasons of the year,
and explains why he was so often absent from Barnstable. A
salt work was erected in Barnstable very early, on the jioint of
land on the west of the entrance of Rendevous Creek, still known
tThomasBird, Byrd.orBourd, wasatthis time a resident in Barnstable, and a ser-
vant of Mr. Cudworth. His father, also named Thomas, was one of the earliest settlers in
Scituate, and a freeman in 1633. There was a man of the same name at Hartford, and
another iit Dorchester, one of whom was perhaps the same who was at Barnstable. As
Thomas Bird resided only a short time in Barnstable, I have not taken the trouble to
Investigate his history. In a notice of the criminal calendar of Barnstable, under the title
of Casely, I periiaps ought to have mentioned the crime of Bird. In Jan. 1641-2, for
running away tromhis master and breaking into one or more houses in Barnstable, and
stealing therefrom "apparel and victuala,"Iie was sentenced to be whipt, once in Barn
stable and once in Plymouth. Ills father settled with iN. r Cudworth for the time Ihomas
had to serve, and the young man was released ii-om the messenger's hands, though not
absolved from the punishment of his crimes. He afterwards resided in Scituate.

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as Saltern point. This word, Saltern, has now become nearly
obsolete. It means a salt work, a building in which salt is made
by boiling or solar evaporation. On some ancient records that
point is caUed "salt-pond" point. Who owned or who established
this ancient saltern 1 have been unable to ascertain. It was
situated on the Lothrop land, on a parcel that from the situation,
I should judge was owned by the Rev. John, and afterwards by
his widow Ann. Neither iu the wills nor in the settlement of the
estates of the Lothrops is any reference had to the salt-work, and
I am of the opinion, if the facts in relation to the matter are ever
ascertained, they will prove that Gen. James Cudworth was the
flrst who manufactured salt in Barnstable. J
Before 1646 he returned to Scituate, and became, Dec. 1,
1646, one of the Conihasset Partners. At that time he resided
on the South East of Coleman's hills, in a house which he sold to
Thomas Robinson before 1650. After this, he resided, during
life, on his farm near the little Musquashcut pond in Scituate.
In 1652 he was appointed captain of the militia company in
Scituate ; in 1649-'50-'51-'52-'53-'54-'55 and '66, a representative to
the Court ; June 3, 1656, he was chosen an assistant of the
Governor, and re-elected in 1657 and 1658. In 1663 he was
chosen one of the councU of war; March 2, 1657-8 he was dis
charged, with his own consent, from his office as Captain of the
militia company, and in 1659, for the same reason, he was not
approved of by the Court as a deputy from Scituate, to which
office he had been elected by the people. June 6, 1660, he was
required to give bonds, with sufficient surities, for £600 for his
appearance at the next October Court, and so from one General
Court to another, tUl the next June, "in reference unto a seditious
letter sent for England, the coppy whereof is come over in print."
This letter was dated at Scituate in 1658, and was addressed by
him to Mr. John Brown, then in England. It has been justly
admired for its liberal and Catholic sentiments, clearly and boldly
expressed. X In 1624 a man was sent over to establish salt works in Plymouth. Gov. Bradford says
he was ignorant of the business, vain and self-willed. The facts indicate that the Governor
was severe in his judgement. It was evident that, in the variable climate of New England,
that salt conld not be manufactured by solar evaporation, in the mode common in tlie south
of Spain, and in the West India Islands. On the other hand, the small proportion of salt
contained in sea water would render the English process, by boiling in pans, be too tedious
and too expensive. His plan seems to have been to reduce the sea water by
solar evaporation in ponds and finish the process by boiling in pans. In
selecting the sites for his ponds he was unfortunate, whether, as Governor Brad-'
ford says, from a lack of ^ood judgment, or for other reasons, does not appear. The
ponds did not prove to be tight, and to correct the fault of the bottom and make it more
retentive, he covered it with a coating of clay. Similar ponds are constructed by the salt
makers at the present day, and errors iu the selection of sites are not always to be avoided
by men of good judgement. Before this man (his name is not given) had a fair opportunity
to test the value of his works, his buildings and most of his pans there, were unfortunately
destroyed by fire. The little information preserved respecting the salt work in Barnstable,
shows that tne method was similar to that adopted by the Plymouth manufacturer. A pond
was dug on the high meadow, and a dyke thrown up around it to retain the water, and
prevent the ingress of more than was wanted. When the water was reduced to a weak
brine by solar evaporation, it was conveyed to pans and the process completed by boiling.
There was a similar establishment at Pine Hill, Sandwich.

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For the expressions in another letter, addressed by him to the
Governor and assistants, he was sentenced at the same court to be
disfranchised. At the Court held Oct. 2, 1660, the printed letter of Mr.
Cudworth was read, and Mr. Johu Brown, who was present, testi
fied that he did receive a letter subscribed by James Cudworth,
of Scituate, and that, according to his best recollection, it was
substantially the same as the one then read. The bonds for £500,
of Mr. Cudworth, were cancelled, and the Court ordered that a
civil action should be commenced against him at the next follow
ing March term of the Court. When the day came, no action was
brought. The absurdity of men sitting as judges, in a case where
they themselves were the plaintiffs, was too glaring, and they
wisely determined to drop the action.
The firmness displayed by Gen. Cudworth, in these trying
times, will ever be a monument to his memory, more endearing
than brass or granite. Rather than violate his convictions of
right and of duty, he submitted to disfranchisement, ejection from
office, and to be placed under a bond for a larger sum than the
whole colony could have paid in coin. He did not come over in
the Mayflower ; but he had adopted as his own, the principles of
those who did, and no earthly power could make him swerve from
them. Some speak lightly of those principles ; but it is igno
rance of their character which makes them do so.
The PUgrims came over with their bibles in their hands, and
in their hearts ; that holy book was the only creed, to which mem
bers of their church were required to give their assent. They
held that Christ was the only bishop to whom they owned aUegi-
ance, and that the gorgeous vestments of the priests of the
Catholic and English churches, and the ceremonial observances
required, were anti-Christian, and uot in conformity with the
usages of the Apostolic age. They came here that they might
have liberty to worship God according to the dictates of their own
consciences, to establish a pure aud simple form of worship for
themselves and their posterity. They held that the conscience
was free, that man was uot responsible to his fellow man for his
faith, but to God alone.
These principles lie at the bottom of all that is tolerant in
religion, liberal in politics, or worth contending for. The PU
grims took another step in advance of the prevalent opinions of
theu time. When about to embark from Leyden, their reverend
pastor, in his fareweU address, says: "I charge you before God
and his blessed angels, that you foUow me no further than you
have seen me follow the LordJesus Christ. The Lord has more
truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. I cannot suffi
ciently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are
come 'to a period in religion, and will go atpresent no further than
the insti-uments of their reformation, Luther and Calvin were

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great and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not
into the whole counsel of God. I beseech you, remember it, 'tis
an article of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive
whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word
of God." This was not spoken for rhetorical effect, it was a sober truth,
a solemn injunction, not to forget, or transgress a prime article in
their church covenant. The covenant of the Puritan Church
estabhshed in London in 1616, of which Mr. Lothrop was after
wards pastor, was the same in form. The members of that
church, with joined hands, "solemnly covenanted with each other,
in the presence of Almighty God, to walk together in all Gods
wavs and ordinances, according as he had always revealed, or
should further make known to them." This covenant Mr. Lothrop
brought over with him, and on the 8th day of Jan. 1634, 0. S.
(Jan. 18, 1635, N. S.) at Scituate, after spending the day in
fasting, humiliation and prayer, at evening, there was re-union of
those who had been in covenant before. Mr. Cudworth united
with the church ten days after, and from the expression used in
the record, I infer that he had not been a member of Mr. Loth
rop's church in London.
TiU 1657, the Plymouth Colony had maintained the principles
of its founders ; but during the preceding twenty-six years, causes
had been in operation which had gradually disturbed the harmony
of sentiment which had at first prevaUed. Rhode Island, influ
enced by the liberal and intelligent counsels of Roger Williams,
had become the impregnable citadel of toleration in New England.
Massachusetts and Connecticut were founded by men who brought
over with them the same spirit of intolerance, which then pre
vailed in the mother country. They enacted severe laws against
the Anna baptists, and more severe against the qaakers.
Through the commissioners of the United Colonies, they urged
the magistrates of Plymouth to pass similar laws.
The "first comers" had, among their number, a large propor
tion of educated men. There were very few who had not received
the elements of a good education. They were men of large
experience, intelligent, tolerant in religion, and liberal in their
poUtics. These men were the advocates of a learned ministry,
and desirous of establishing schools and seminaries of learning.
In 1657, many of these men had passed away. Brewster and
Lothrop, the calm yet firm advocates of toleration and liberty,
were dead. A new race had succeeded — men who had enjoyed
few educational advantages, and who, in their ignorance of better
things, had imbibed intolerant, and illiberal principles.
During this period many new meu had been introduced into
the colony, some from Massachusetts, but mostly from the eastern
country. Among these were many who had no sympathy for the

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institutions established by the Puritans. There was also another
class--disappointed politicians— like George Barlow of Sandwich,
of which I have had occasion to speak in no complimentary
terms. f t- j
The effect on the churches was disastrous. The Barnstable
Church was rent in twain, and the difficulties did not end tiU the
settlement of Mr. Walley in 1662. There were divisions in the
old Plymouth Church, in fact iu almost everv church in the
colony. A large majority of those known as first comers, then sur
viving, sympathized with Mr. Cudworth. Scituate was very
nearly unanimous in his support, so were a large majority in Sand
wich and in Barnstable. Of the state of feeling in other towns
at that period, I have no means of correctly ascertaining.
Such was the state of public feeling in the colony in the sum
mer of 1657 ; yet such was the reverance of the people for the
institutions first estabUshed, that the magistrates and representa
tives hesitated in passing the laws recommended by the commis
sioners. They simply ordained, says Mr. Cudworth, that the
word "aud" in an old law, should be changed to "or." This
apparently small and unimportant alteration changed, as will be
seen, a salutary or harmless law, into an instrument of tyranny.
This change would have been inoperative if there had not
been men in the colony in whom the spirit of persecution only
slumbered, who were ready to catch at every straw and urge the
people on to acts of madness. Of this class was George Barlow
of Sandwich, and as he was the type of the class, some account
of him will not be out of place, in order to show what kind of
men Cudworth, Hatherly and Robinson, had to contend with.
The four years from 1657 to 1661, have been called the dark
ages of the colony. It is unpleasant to recount the events "of
those years — to be forced to admit that such excellent men as
Thomas Hinckley, Josiah Winslow, Thomas Prence, John Alden,
and others, adjured, for the time being, the liberal principles of
civil polity which the fathers professed, and were led astray by a
senseless clamour from without, and by factious and ambitious
men within. That they unwillingly consented to enact laws
restraining political and religious freedom is evident, from the
statements in the letter of Mr. Cudworth to Mr. Brown ; and that
they lived to regret then- hasty and inconsiderate action, is verified
by their subsequent acts ; but that unwillingness, and that regret
does not blot from the memory, or from the statute book, the
unjust laws which they sanctioned and enforced. The precedents
established in Massachusetts and Connecticut are no excuse, they
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colony and were amenable at the bar of public opinion for their
acts.* The Puritans have suffered more from over zealous friends,
than from open and avowed enemies. A community is an aggre
gation of individuals — one rule of act applies to both, and he
that attempts to conceal or paliate wrong, does an injury to him
whom he thus essays to defend. The Plymouth Colony existed
seventy-one years. During sixty-seven, with the exception of a
short period during the usurpation of Andros, the people enjoyed
a mild, a liberal, and a paternal government. Shall we cease to
honor the institutions they established because, during four
years, a bigoted majority were false to' the principles of the
fathers? George Barlow was the type of a class who, in 1667, inaug
urated a system of terrorism" in the Old Colony, and it may be
truthfully said that he made more converts to the doctrines of the
Quakers than aU their preachers. The spirit of persecution which
he was largely instrumental in introducing, raised up opponents
who at first sympathized with the sufferers then with their doc
trines which they at last embraced. In the towns where the
.Quaker preachers were not opposed and .persecuted, they made
no proselytes, but where they were persecuted, there they made
many converts.
In a former article 1 have spoken of George Barlow, not in
terms of commendation. The Puritans and Quakers, though
opposed to each other, agreed in this, that George Barlow was a
bad man. No one speaks well of him. Of his early history I
know nothing. He was of Boston or vicinity in 1637, perhaps
earlier. In the records of the Quarter Court held at Boston and
Newtown 19th Sept. 1637, is the following entry: "Georges
Barlow, for idleness, is censured to be whipped." From Boston
he went to the eastern country, and was at Exeter in 1639, and
at Saco in 1652. At these places and elsewhere, says Mr.
Savage, he exercised his gifts as a preacher. On the 5th of July,
1653, at a court held at Wells, by Richard Belliugham and others,
commissioners of the Massachusetts Colony, George Barlow and
fifteen Others, inhabitants of Saco, acknowledged themselves to be
subject to the government of that Colony, and took the freemans'

* He that supposes that Gov. Hinckley, and those who acted with him, had neither law
nor reason on their side, is mistaken. They had both. The lands in the several towns
were granted on the express condition that an Orthodox church should be gathered, of at
least forty families, and that a learned minister should be supported out of the products ol
those lands. These were legal conditions, and the grantees were bound by them. Gov.
Hinckley was the best read lawyer in the Colony, and he examined the question only in its
legal aspect. On that ground he was right. Whether his course was judicious is another
and entirely different question. The Puritans were equally severe against men who
attempted to disregard the conditions on which the lauds were gi-anted. Rev. Joseph Hull,
whose learning and Orthodoxy, for makinff such an attempt, was excommunicated and
forbidden to preach. Mr. Cudworth considered the rights of conscience as paramount to
the legal obligation. Gov. Hinckley thought otherwise, and that was the point at issue
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oath in op6n court. In the record of the proceedings of the
same court the f dllowing passage occurs :
"Several of the inhabitants complained that George Barlow
is a disturbance to the place, the commissioners thought meet to
forbid the said George Barlow any more publickly to preach or
prophesy, under the penalty of ten pounds for every offence."
Soon after the last elate he removed to Newbury. Of his
character while an inhabitant of that towu, Mr. Thomas Clark
affirmed in open court, at Plymouth, on the 13th of June 1660,
"that he is such an one that he is a shame and reproach to all his
masters ; and that be, the said Barlow, stands convicted and
recorded of a lye att Newbury."
In 1667 he was of Sandwich, and June 1, 1658, he was
appointed by the Plymouth Colony Court, marshal of Sandwich,
Barnstable and Yarmouth, with "full power to act as constable in
all things in the town of Sandwich." Oct. 2, he was commis
sioned to apprehend Quakers coming to Manomett, or places
adjacent, in boats. June 7, 1659, he was allowed to be a tows-
man of Sandwich, and June 5, 1661, his authority, as marshal,
was extended to all places in the Colony.
March 5, 1660-1. The court ordered George Barlow "to
pay a fine of twenty shillings to Benjamin Allen, for causing him
to "sit in the stocks at Sandwich the greater part of a night,
without cause, and for other wrongs done by him unto the said
Allen." Barlow was also ordered to return unto Ralph Allen a
shirt aud some other small linen, which he took from him, in the
pursuit of Weulock."
March 4, 1661-2. "George Barlow and his wife were both
severely reproved for their most ungodly living in contention, one
with the other, and admc.nished to Uve otherwise." (See Colony
Records, Vol. 4, pages 7 and 10.) In May, 1665, he was put
under bonds for his good behavior, and ia the following March he
was fined 10 shillings for being drunk a second time.
The foregoing extracts are from the records of the friends of
Barlow, and it is safe to infer that they did not admit that which
was not true. This evidence establishes the following points:
That he was an idle fellow, a disturber of the public peace ; that
he was a shame and reproach to all his masters ; that he was not
truthful ; that he was tyrannical, that he was quarrelsome, and
that he was a drunkard." In addition to the testimony of Gov.
Thomas Prence may be added, it is reported that he made this
remark respecting Barlow, "That an honest man would not have,
or hardly would take his place." (Bishop, page 388.)
The following testimony is extracted from the writings of the
Quakers. I quote from Bishop's New England Judged, (London
Edition) because he is more accurate in his statement of facts
than many of the early writers among the friends. In the fea-

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tures of these men the poet Whittier says you could itad :
"My hfe is hunted — evil men *
Are following in my track ;
The traces of the torturer's whip
Are on my aged back."
Naturally, however meek a man may be, it is hardly to be
expected that a man having the ta-aces of the whip on his own
person, can describe so calmly as one who had not suffered.
Bishop, Vol. 1, page 389, says:" "As for this Barlow, his natural
inclination is to be lazy, filthy and base to all. In his former
years, he was one of the Protectors Preachers at Exeter, in New
England and elsewhere ; of which being weary, or having worn
that trade out, or it having worn out him, he turned lawyer and
so came into Plymouth Patent, where he became a notorious
spoiler of the goods of the innocent by being a marshal."
.June 23, 1658, Marshal Barlow arrested Christopher Holder
and John Copeland,* two Quaker preachers, whUe on their way to
a meeting in Sandwich. They had been banished from the
Colony on the 2d of the preceding February, and had been, whipt
at Plymouth on the 8th of that month for not complying with the
order of the Courts. Barlow carried them before the selectmen
of Sandwich, who had been appointed by the Com-t, in the
absence of a magistrate, to witness the execution of the law.
They "entertaining no desire to sanction measures so severe
towards those who differed from them in religion, declined to act
in the case." Barlow, disappointed at the refusal, took the
prisoners to his house, where he kept them six days, and then on
29th of June, carried them before Mr. Thomas Hinckley of
Barnstable, who had that month been elected one of the magis
trates and an assistant of Gov. Prence. Bishop, page 184, thus
describes the scene at the execution : "They, (Christopher Holden
and John Copeland) being tied to an old post, had thirty-three
cruel stripes laid upon them with a new tormenting whip, with
three cords, and knots at the ends, made by the Marshal, and
brought with him. At the sight of which cruel and bloody execu
tion, one of the spectators (for there were many who witnessed
against it) cried out in the grief and anguish of her spirit, saying :
"How long. Lord, shall it be ere thou avenge the blood of thine
elect?" And afterwards bewailing herself, and lamenting her
loss, said: "Did I forsake father and mother, and all my dear
?Before 1654 Christopher Holder resided at Winterboume, in Gloucestershire, Eng
land. He is represented to be a well educated man and of good estate. He came to New
England in 1656 and again in 1657, and spent the winter of that vcar in the West Indies. He
returned to England in 1660 and there uiarried Mary, daughter of Richard and Katherine
Scott, of Providence, R. I. He repeatedly visited America and other countries, and suf
fered much in his natiye county and in foreign Lands. He died July 13, 1688, aged about
60. .John Copeland was from Yorkshire and had also been well educated. He came to
America in 1657. In 1661 he was in London, and in 1687 he was in Virginia. He married
thrice, and died at North Cave, County of York, March 9, 1-^IS, very aged. Among the
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relations, to come to New England for this? Did I ever think
A ^Z ^^^^^^'^ ^o"l^ come to this ? Who could have thought it ? "
And this Thomas Hinckley saw done, to whom the Marshal
repaired tor that purpose. f
"The Friends of Sandwich, aware of the hatred which the
Barnstable magistrate had to Quakerism, with a view to cheer their
brethren in bonds, accompanied them thither. These were new
proceedings at Barnstable, and caused no little sensation among
the quiet settlers of the district. They felt that however
erroneous Quakerism might be, such conduct on the part of their
rulers did uot consist with the religion of Jesus." (Bowden.)
Bishop (pages 188 and 189) says that when Barlow went, in
16.19, to arrest Edward Perry, "he was so drunk that he could
hardly forbear vomiting in the bosom of him whom he pretended
to press" as his aid. A friend of Perry who was present said to
him, "Yea, George, thou mayst wash thy hands, but thou canst
not wash thy heart." He answered, stiU laughing and jeering,
and said, "Yes, one dram of the bottie wUl do it," and clapped
his hand on his bosom. Unto which kind of washing, it seems,
he is used to much, viz : To be drunk, and then to be mad, and to
beat his wife and children like a mad man ; and to throw the
things of the house from one place to another."
Many passages from the early writers to the same effect
might be quoted. That he was honest there is much reason to
doubt. Thomas Ewer charged him in open court with having on
a garment made from cloth stolen from him. Barlow also
encouraged and justified his children in stripping the fruits from
the orchard of his neighbor Thomas Johnson. An Indian took a
knife from an Englishman's house, and being told he should not
steal, he answered, "I thought so, but Barlow steals from the
Quakers, and why may not I do the same ?"
It has already been stated that a majority of the Plymouth
Colony Court had pronounced the letter of Mr. Cudworth to Mr.
Brown to be seditious. The foregoing extracts clearly establish
one point, and that is, his denunciations of Barlow are not
seditious, without it can be proved that telling the truth is sedition.
The other statements in his letter will also be verified by extracts
from the records and contemporaneous authorities.
George Barlow does not appear to have had a family when he
t Mr. John Whitney in Truth and Innocency defended. London edition, 1702, pa^e 26, .
describes the scene at Barnstable substontially as above; but his language is wanting in
clearness. Bowden does not refer to Whitney ; but he was probably misled by the ambigu
ous language of that author. He represents that the residence of the magistrate was
"about two miles distant." It should be twelve miles. This is probably a mistake of the
printer. He adds, (page 116, London edition.) "This functionary, after a frivolous exam-
ination of the prisoners, ordered them to be tied to the post of an out-house ; and then,
turning executioner, he gave each of them thirity-three lashes." I should not notice this
gross scandal if it had not l)een copied by other historians without comment. (See annals
of Sandwich, pages 60 and 61.) No trustworthy authority can be quoted in its supportr— its
falsity is apparent. Bowden is usually very cautious in his statements. He refers to
Norton's Ensign as his authority ; but he evidently relied on and was misled by the ambigu
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came to Sandwich.. He married Jane, widow of the lamented
Anthony Besse. She had then a son Nehemiah, a,ncestor of the
Besses of Sandwich, Wareham, and other towns, and three
daughters. By her second husband she had a son John, ancestor
of some of the Barlows in Sandwich, &c.
Details of his brutahty as the master of a family, have
already been given. From Mr. Besse's once "sweet home,"
peace, comfort, and happiness, were banished. Morning and
evening prayer and praise had ascended from the family altar,
now desecrated by impiety and drunken revelries. The little ones
who had been brought up"to be kind aud affectionate, one towards
the other, were now rude and disobedient, and taught that it was
no sin to steal from those who were not members of then-
church. Barlow made high pretension to piety, and became a member
of the Sandwich church. He also claimed to have studied the
law, and essayed to be a lawyer. By his pretended piety, and by
his plausible address, he at first deceived the unsuspecting, Puri
tans, and they appointed him to a responsible office. This they
did ignorantly, and no blame can attach to the court ; but he was
continued in office, and his authority enlarged, after his true
character was known. For this, it is difficult to frame a sufficient
excuse. The worst of men usually have some redeeming traits of
Character. Contemporaneous authorities say nothing in his favor.
He was hated by every member of his family, wife, sons, daugh
ter, and daughters-in-law ; despised and avoided by his neighbors
— a blot on the annals of the Old Colony which time wiU never
wipe out.
Barlow, in the latter part of his life, was never sober of his
own free choice — as an officer he was unfeeling and tyrannical,
and seemed to take pleasure in wringing the last penny from the
hard hand of industry — in dragging men and women to the prison
and the whipping post. His career was short. An outraged
people hurled him from office, and in his old age he craved charity
from those for whom he had shown no piety in the day of his
power. The early writers furnish many details of his cruel acts. 1
shall relate one, and prefer giving it as it has been preserved by
tradition. X
t Among the flrst settlers in Sandwich was George Allen, a man of good standing
among the Puritans, notwithstanding be was au Ana baptist. The house which he built at
Spring Hill in 1646, is now owned by Mrs. Eliza C. Wing, is in good repair, and will proba
bly last another century. He died in 1648, leaving nine children mentioned ih his will, four
of whom are named, Matthew, Henr}', Samuel and William, the other flve least children
not named. Brown says that six brothers and sisters of this family were among the earhest
who embraced the principles of the Friends. He says that Ralph Allen was his son, aud
George, Jr., was probably another. The two last named must have been men grown when
they came to this country, for George had taken the oath of fidelity in England. The
Aliens settled at Spring Hill, and two or more of their houses yet remain, and are probably
as old as any in Massachusetts. The one in which tlie early quakers met for many succes
sive years, is still standing, and remained in the family till 1862, when it was sold to Prank
KcrnB, thB"pr6l<Bnt owner.

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The traveller from Sandwich to Barnstable has, perhaps,
noticed the ancient and substantial dweUing houses near Spring
HiU. Some of these have stood two centuries, and were the
residences of the early Quakers. In 1659 William AUen was the
occupant of one of them. He was a young man, married, March
21, 1649-50, PrisciUa Brown. His fines amounted to £86,17, and
were imposed for the following offences : £40 for twenty meetings
at his house ; £4 for attending meetings at other places ; £5 for
entertaining Quakers; £25 for refusing to take the oath of
fidelity ; £1 for not removing his hat in court, and the balance for
expenses, &c.
In payment for these fines there was taken from him at
different times :
18 head of cattle, apprised at £64,10
1 mare and a horse of which he was half owner ; but
according to the Treasurer's accounts mare and 2 colts, 19,10
8 bushels of corn and a hogshead, 1,07
Corn at another time, 1,10

£86,17
In addition, a brass kettle was taken in payment of a fine of
£1, imposed in 1660 for wearing his hat in court. These dis
traints were made by Barlow at different times, and some parti
culars may be found in Bishop. In the winter of 1660-61 William
Allen was in Sandwich. In June, 1661, he and 27 others were
released from prison in Boston, the authorities having received
intelligence that King Charles would order all Quakers imprisoned
to be sent over to England for trial. The mandamus or letter of
the King was received in November, 1661, and in the Plymouth
Colony persecutions and the exacting of fines ceased ; but in
Massachusetts the magistrates found means to evade the royal
authority, and persecutions did not entirely cease for several
years. Sandwich suffered more than all the other towns in the Ply
mouth Colony — in fact, only a few and unimportant cases occurred
out of that town. Many of those who were imprisoned in Bos
ton were Sandwich men who went there on business. Though two
centuries have passed, it is not surprising that many particulars
respecting the persecutions in Sandwich have been preserved.
Accounts of the sufferings endured by the Quakers in Boston,
Sandwich, and other places, immediately after the events occured,
were published in London, and were read by all classes. Such
events are not soon forgotten, and it takes many generations to
eradicate the memory thereof from the minds of the descendants
of the sufferers. In Sandwich the principle facts have been
preserved by tradition, even the locahties where the events
occurred are pointed out. The preservation of so many of the
houses of the first Quakers, the ownership whereof for successive

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generations, can be ascertained by deeds, wills, and other legal
instruments, has aided in keeping in memory locations which
would otherwise have been forgotten. The following incidents,
said to have occurred when Barlow made his last distraint on the
goods of William Allen, are yet related, and the exact location
where they occurred pointed out. This story of wrong is in some
particulars differently related by different persons ; but the leading
facts are confirmed by the records.
On the soutli side of Spring Hill, in Sandwich, in one of
those cosey nooks, which the first comers selected for their house
lots, sheltered by hills from the bleak north and west winds, the
traveller on the Cape Cod Kailroad has perhaps noticed an ancient
dwelling which the renovating hand of modern improvement has
allowed to remain as it was one hundred and fifty years ago. In
1658 it was owned bv William Allen.* He and his wife Priscilla

* William Alien's House. Mr. Newell Hoxie who has made the study of the antiquities
of Spring Hill a speciality, is of the opinion that William Allen, in 1658, resided in a house
nearer the grave yard than the Alden Allen house. The history of the latter can be traced
by records from the year 1672. It was then the residence of William Allen, and continued
to be till his death in 1705, when he bequeathed it to Daniel, son of his brother George,
reserving the use of the south end for the meetings of the Quakers in the winter as had
been customary. Daniel bequeathed it to his son Cornelius, Cornelius to his son George,
George to his son WiUiam, and William to his son Alden who died Jan. 8, 1858, aged 80.
To determine the question of the age of this house I have spent some time. Outwardly
the style indicates about the year 1680 as the date of its erection; hut on comparing the
descrmtion of the appearance of the framing and interior an-angements furnished me by
Mr. Iloxie, with the description thereof given in 1705, by the apprisers of the estate of
William Allen, I am satisfied that it has been enlarged three, if not four times_ since
originally built. The original house was 18 feet by 23, two stories high In the life time of
William Allen a leanto was added on the west for a kitchen, and an addition made on the '
south one story high, with a leanto roof, in the style pojaularly known as a "salt box."
Under the salt box there was a cellar. This corresponds with the description of the build
ing in 1705 on the Probate Records. Soon after this date the "salt box" was removed or
enlarged, and an addition made corresponding in size and appearance with the ancient part,
making the main building 18 by 40 feet, two stories hig;Ii, not including the leanto ou the
west, and precisely in the form it now remains. The objection to this view is, the framing
of the north and south ends are precisely alike, the posts on the south not having been
spliced, making itprobable that both ends were built at the same time, but if so the descrip
tion 'of the apprisers of Allen's estate is incorrect. The position of the cellar and chimney
indicates that both ends were not built at the same time, and the plates are spliced precisely
at the place where the addition was probably made. It may have been John Newland's
house, which William Allen bought about the year 1680, but the location of Newland's house
is said to have been on the south of the swamp, the cellar whereof yet remains.
All the old houses at Spring Hill have undergone similar transformations since they
were built. The Wing house, probably the oldest house in Massachusetts, built before 1643
as a fortification, has been altered so often that little of the original remains. The George
Allen built, according to a mark thereon in 1646, is iu good preservation.
The conclusion to which I have arrived is this, that it is not pei-feotly certain that
William Allen resided in the Alden AUen house in 1660. It is difficult to prove such a
question. He may have lived in a house nearer the "grave yard," as tradition says.
Portions of the tradition to which I refer are proved erroneous, namely, that William Allen
married two wives, the records show that his first wife Pi-isciUa survived him ; that having
no issue he devised his estate to Gideon Allen, tlie records show that he bequeathed it to
his nephew Daniel. Both houses were near the "grave yard," and nothing is proved by that
expression, and if the tradition is errouous, as above shown, in important particulars, it
creates a doubt at least, whether or not it is accurate in regard to the exact location of
William Allen's house in the year 1660.
William Allen died in the Alden Allen house Oct. 1, 1705, aged about SO years, having
lived in the marriage relation fifty -five years with his wife Priscilla, who survived him,
certainly thirty-three years in the house in which he died, probably the whole period. His
house, during the latter part oihis life, and when owned by his successors Daniel, Conielius,
George, and William, was the resort of numerous Friends at their quarterly, monthly, and
weekly meeetings. The occupants were hospitable and provided liberally for all who came.
It should be regarded by the Friends as their "Mecca" and be preserved as a monument of
the "olden time." The associations connected with that old "south end" would be pleasant.

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were among the first in Sandwich who embraced the principles of
the-Quakers. His father was an Ana Baptist, a sect that held to
some of the peculiar doctrines of the Quakers. His six sons and
others in Sandwich belonged to the same sect, or sympathized in
the views of the elder Allen, and readily received the doctrines of
the Quakers. The father had, ten years before the time of Bar
low, "laid down his life in peace." His sons were industrious and
prudent. William had accumlated a good estate for those times,
was hospitable, and his house was the resort of the early Friends.
The distraints which the Marshal bad made in 1658 and 9, in pay
ment of the fines which had been imposed on him, had strip't him
of nearly all bis goods. His house, his lands, a cow, left "out of
pity," a little corn, and a few articles of household furniture,
were all that remained, and he was living on bread and water, a
prisoner in the common jail in Boston. These things did not
move him, he held fast to his faith.
Such was the condition of the family, when the Marshal
appeared with a warrant to collect additional fines. The sancti
monious Barlow was drunk. The distress of the wife did not
move him. He took the cow which had been left "out of pity,"
the little corn remaining, and a bag of meal which a kind neigh
bor had just brought from the mill. This was insufllcient. He
seized a copper kettle, (two iron pots according to one tradition)
the only one remaining, and then mockingly addressing Mrs.
Allen, said: "Now Priscilla, how will thee cook for thy family
and friends, thee has no kettle." Mrs. Allen meekly replied :
"George, that God who hears the young ravens when they cry,
will provide for them. I trust in that God, and I verily believe
the time will come when thy necessity will be greater than mine."
George carried away the goods, but he remembered the "testi
mony" and lived to see it verified.
Friends, and among them were many who had no sympathy
for the doctrines of the Quakers, immediately provided for all
Mrs. Allen's wants, and soon after the trembhng Magistrates of
Massachusetts, fearing that the royal displeasure would be visited
on their own heads, opened then- prison doors, and ordered all
who were iu bonds, for conscience sake, to depart.
The letter of King Charles was dated Sept. 9, 1661, and was
addressed to all the Governors, Magistrates, &c., in his colonies
in New England, ordering them "to forbear to proceed any
further" against the Quakers, and to send such as were imprisoned
to England for trial. The bearer of this dispatch was Samuel
Shattuck, a Quaker who had been banished from Massachusetts
on pain of death. He deUvered the King's letter to Gov. Endicot.
It must have been exceedingly mortifying to the Magistrates, to
The men, whose names now belong to history, met there, they took sweet counsel together,
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have been obliged to give audience to, and receive the King's
letter from the hands of one whom they had banished.
The news of the King's letter fell like a thunderbolt on Bar
low. He had grown rich "on the spoils of the innocent," but in
after times he was very poor, and often wished for the return of
"the good times," as he called the four years from 1657 to 1661.
In his old age he often craved Priscilla's charity. She always
administered to his wants, and though he never went from her
door emptj' handed, yet he was never grateful ; and was always
sighing for the return of the "good old times."
Barlow died as he lived, a poor miserable drunkard. No
loving hand smoothed his brow in death, and no stone tells where
he lies. It is not surprising that the persecutions of the Quakers at
Sandwich should have aroused the indignation of such men as
Cudworth, Hatherly, and Eobinson — it is surprising that the acts of
Barlow should have found an apologist in the Old Colony. - William
Allen was not the greatest sufferer. Edward Perry, who resided at
East Sandwich, was wealthy, a man who had been well educated,
he suffered more. Eobert Harper had his house and lands and all
that he had taken, and suffered many cruel imprisonments and
punishments. Thomas Johnson, the poor weaver, to whom Mr.
Cudworth refers, was strip't of all be had. Not only were their
goods taken from them, and cruel punishments infiicted ; but they
were disfranchised, even those who were of the flrst settlers and
had lived in Sandwich twenty years. Oct. 2, 1658, nine were
disfranchised by the Colony Court, for being, or sympathizing
with the Quakers, and it was farther ordered, that no man should
thereafter be admitted an inhabitant of Sandwich, or enjoy the
privileges thereof without the approbation of the church. Gov.
Prence, or one of the assistants.
During the Protectorates in England a similar feeling existed
there, and the injudicious legislation of New England was only
the echo of the Puritan opinion in the mother country. Mr.
Palfrey in his excellent history of New England, remarks on this
subject: "The Puritan's mistalie at a later period was: that he
undertook by public regulation what public regulation can never
achieve, and by aiming to form a nation of saints, introduced
hypocrites among them to defeat their objects and bring scandal on
their cause, while the saints were made no more numerous and no
butter." The following letter of Mr. Cudworth to Mr. John Brown
was written in December 1658, and printed the next year in Eng
land, and probably had an influence in determining King Charles
to issue his letter or mandamus. Mr. Deane, in his history of
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and modernizing the language in some instances. I, prefer to
give the letter as written by Mr. Cudworth :
LETTER OF JAMES CUDWORTH.
Scituate, 10th mo. 1658.
As for the State and condition of Things amongst us, it is
Sad, and like so to continue ; the Antichristian Persecuting Spirit
is very active, and that in the Powers of this World : He that will
not whip and Lash, Persecute and Punish Men that Differ in
Matters of Religion, must not sit on the Bench, nor sustain any
Oflflce in the Common-wealth. Last election, Mr. Hatherly, and
my Self, left off the Bench, and my self Discharged of my
Captainship, because I had Entertained some of the Quakers at
my House (thereby that I might be the better acquainted with their
Principles) I thought it better fo to do, than with the blind
World, to Censure, Condemn, Rail at, and Revile them, when
they neither faw their Persons, nor knew any of their Principles :
But the Quakers and my f elf cannot close in divers Things ; and
fo I signified to the Court, 1 was no Quaker, but must bear my
Teistimony against sundry I'hings that they held, as I had Occasion
and Opportunity : But withal, I told them. That as I was no
Quaker, fo I would be no Persecutor. This Spirit did Work those
two Years that I was of the Magistracy ; during which time I was
on sundry Occasions forced to declare my Dissent, in sundry
Actings of that Nature ; which, altho' done with all Moderation
of Expression, together with due respect unto the Rest, yet it
wrought great Disaffection and Prejudice in them, against me ; so
that if I should say, some of themselves set others on Work to
frame a Petition against me, that so they might have a seeming
Ground from others (tho' first moved and acted by themselves, to
lay what they could under Reproach) 1 should do no wrong. The
Petition was with Nineteen Hands ; it will be too long to make
Rehearsal : It wrought such a disturbance in our Town, and
in our Military Company, that when the Act of Court was
read in the Head of the Company, had I not been present,
and made a Speech to them, I fear there had been such Actings as
would have been of a sad Consequence. The Court was again
followed with another Petition of Fifty Four Hands, and the
Court returned the Petitioners an Answer with such plausibleness
of Speech, carrying with it great shew of Respect to them, readily
acknowledging, with the Petitioners, my Parts and Gifts, and how
useful I had been in my Place ; Professing, they had nothing at all
against me, only in that thing of giving Entertainment to Quakers ;
whereas, I broke no Law in giving them a Night's Lodging or
two, and some Victuals : For, our Law then was, — If any Enter
tain a Quaker, and keep him after he is warned by a Magistrate
to Depart, the Party so Entertaining, shall pay Twenty Shillings
a Week, for Entertaining them. — Since hath been made a Law, —

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If any Entertain a Quaker, if but a quarter of an Hour, he is to
forfeit Five Pounds. — Another, — That if any see a Quaker, he is
bound, if he live Six Miles or more from the Constable, yet he
must presently go and give Notice to the Constable, or else is
subject to the Censure of the Court (which may be hanging) —
Another, — That if the Constable know, or hear of any Quaker in
his Precincts, he is presently to Apprehend him, and if he will not
presently Depart the Town, the Constable is to whip him, and send
him away. The divers have been Whipped with us in our Patent ;
and truly to tell you plainly, that the Whipping of them with that
Cruelty, as some have been Whipp'd, and their Patience under it,
has sometimes been the Occasion of gaining more Adherence to
them, than if they had suffered them openly to have preached a
Sermon. — Also another Law, — That if there be a Quakers Meeting
any where in the Colony, the Party in whose House or on whose
Ground it is, is to pay Forty Shillings ; The Preaching-Quaker
Forty Shillings ; every Hearer Forty Shillings : Yea, and if they
have Meetings, thou' nothing be spoken, when they so meet, which
they say, so it falls out sometimes  Our last Law,  That now
they are to be Apprehended, and carried before a Magistrate, and
by him committed to be kept close Prisoners, until they will
promise to depart, and never come again ; and will also pay their
Fees — (which I preceive they will do neither the one nor the
other) and they must be kept only with the Counties Allowance,
which is but small (namely Course Bread and Water.) No Friend
may bring them any thing ; none may be permitted to speak with
them ; Nay, if they have money of their own, they may not make
use of that to relieve themselves. 
In the Massachusetts (namely, Boston-Colony) after they
have Whipp'd them, they Cut their Ears, they have now, at last,
gone the furthest step they can. They Banish them upon pain of
Death, if they ever come there again. We expect that we must
do the like ; we must Dance Af tei their Pipe : Now Plimouth-Sad-
dle is on the Bay-Horse (viz. Boston) we shall follow them on the
Career : For, it is well if in some there be not a Desire to be their
Apes and Imitators in all their Proceedings in things of this
Nature. All these Carnel and Antichristian Ways being not of God's
Appointment, effect nothing as to the Obstructing or Hindring of
them in their way or Course. It is only the Word or Spirit of the
Lord that is able to Convince Gainsayers : They are the Mighty
Weapons of a Christian's Warfare, by which Great and Mighty
Things are done and accomplished.
They have many Meetings, and many Adherents, aJmost the
whole Town of Sandwich is adhering towards them ; and give me
leave a little to acquaint you with their Sufferings, which is Griev-

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OUS unto, and Saddens the Heart of most of the Precious Saints
of God ; It lies down and rises up with them, and they cannot put
it out of their minds, to see and hear of poor Families deprived
of their Comforts, and brought into Penury aud Want (you may
say. By what Means? And, to what End?) As far as I am
able to judge of the End, It is to force them from their Homes
and lawful Habitations, and to drive them out of their Coasts.
The Massachusetts have Banish'd Six of their Inhabitants, to be
gone upon pain of Death ; and 1 wish that Blood be not shed :
But our poor People are pillaged and plundered of their Goods ;
and haply, when they have no more to satisfy their unsatiable
Desire, at last may be forced to flee, and glad they have their
Lives for a Prey.
As for the Means by which they are impoverished ; These in
the first place were Scrupulous of an Oath ; why then we must put
in Force an old Law, — That all must take the Oath of Fidelity.
This being tendered, they will not take it ; and then we must add
more Force to the Law ; and that is, — If any Man refuse, or
neglect to take it by such a time, he shall pay Five Pounds, -or
depart the Colony. — When the time is come, they are the same as
they were ; Then goes out the Marshal, and fetcheth away their
Cows and other Cattle. Well, another Court comes. They are
required to take the Oatli again, — They cannot — Then Five ,
Pounds more : On this Account Thirty Five Head of Cattle, as I
have been credibly informed, hath been by the Authority of our
Court taken from them the latter part of this Summer ; and these .
people say,  If they have more right to them, than themselves.
Let them take them.  Some that bad a Cow only, some Two
Cows, some Three Cows, and many small Children in their
Families, to whom, in Summer time, a Cow or Two was the great
est Outward Comfort they had for their Subsistence. A poor
Weaver that had Seven or Eight small children (I know not which)
he himself Lame in his Body, had but Two Cows, and both taken
from him. The Marshal asked him. What he would do? He
must have his Cows. The Man said,  That God that gave him
them, he doubted not, but would still provide for him. 
To flll up the measure yet more full, tho' to the further
emptving of Saudwich-Men of their outward Comforts. The last
Court of Assistants, the first Tuesday of this Instant, the Court
was pleased to determine Fines on Sandwich-Men for Meetings,
sometimes on First Days of the Week, sometimes on other Days,
as thev sav • They meet ordinarily twice in a Week, besides the
Lord's" Day, One Hundred and Fifty Pounds, whereof W. New-
land is Twenty Four Pounds, for himself and his Wife, at Ten
Sliillings a Meeting. W. Allen- Forty Sis Pounds, some. affirm it
Forty Nine Pounds. The poor Weaver afore spoken of. Twenty
Pounds, Brother Cook told me, one of the Brethen at Barnstable

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certified him. That he wa's in the Weaver's House, when cruel
Barloe (Sandwich Marshal) came to demand the Sum, and said,
he was fully informed of all the poor Man had, and thought, if all
lay together, it was not worth Ten Pounds. What will be the
end of such Courses and Practices, the Lord only knows. I
heartily aud earnestly pray, that these, and such like Courses,
neither raise up among us, or bring in upon us, either the Sword, or
any devouring Calamity, as a just Avenger of the Lord's Quarrel,
for Acts of Injustice and Oppression ; and that we may every one
find out the Plague of his own Heart ; aud putting away the Evils
of his own Doings, and meet the Lord by Entreaties of Peace,
before it be too late, and there be no Remedy.
Our Civil Powers' are so exercised in Things appertaining to
the Kingdom of Christ, in Matters of Religion and Conscience,
that we have no time to effect any thing that tends to the Promo
tion of the Civil Weal, or the prosperity of the Place ; but now we
must have a State-Religion, such as the Powers of the World will
allow, and no other : A State-Ministry, and a State way of
Maintenance : Aud we must Worship and Serve the Lord JesuS
as the World shall appoint us : We must all go to the publick
Place of Meeting, in the Parish where he dwells, or be prevented ;
1 am Informed of Three or Fourscore, last Court presented, for
_ not coming to publick Meetings ; and let me tell you how they
brought this about : You may remember a Law once made, call'd
Thomas Hinckley's Law, — That if any neglected the Worship of
.God, in the Place where he lives, and sets up a Worship contrary
to God, and the Allowance of this Government, to the public
Prophanation,of God's Holy Day aud Ordinance, shall pay Ten
Shillings. — This Law would not reach what then was aimed at:
Because he must do so and so ; that is, all things therein ex
pressed, or else break not the Law. In March last a Court of
Deputies was called, and some Acts touching Quakers were made ;
and then they contrived to make this Law serviceable to them ;
and that was by putting out the word [and] and putting in the
word [or] which is a Disjunctive, and makes every Branch to
become a Law. So now, if any do neglect, or will not come to
the publick Meetings, Ten Shillings for every Defect. Certainly
we either have less Wit, or more Money, than the Massachusetts":
For, for Five Shilling a Day, a man may stay away, till it come to
Twelve or Thirteen Pounds, if he had it but to pay them : And
these Men altering this Law now in March, yet left it Dated,
June 6, 1651, aud so it stands as the Act of a General Court ;
they to be the Authors of it Seven Years before it was in being ;
and so you your selves have your part and share in it, if the
Recorder lye not. But what may be the Reason that they should
not by am.ther Law, made and dated by that Court, as well effect
what was intended, as by altering a Word, and so the whole sense

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of the Law ; and leave this their Act by the Date of it charged on
another Court's Account? Surely the chief Instruments in the
Business, being privy to an Act of Parliament for Liberty, should
too openly have acted repugnant to a Law of England ; but if
they can do the Thing, and leave it on a Court, as making it Six
Years before the Act of Parliament, there can be no danger in
this. Aud that they were privy to the Act of Parliament for
Liberty, to be then in being, is evident. That the Deputies might
be free so act it. They told us,' That now the Protector "stood not
engaged to the Articles for- Liberty, for the Parliament had now
taken the Power ir^to their own Hands, and had given the Pro
tector a new Oath, Only in General, to maintain the Protestant
Religion ; aud so produced the Oath in a Paper, in Writing ;
whereas, the Act of Parliament, aud the Oath, are both in one
Book, iu Print : So that they who were privy to the one, could not
be Ignorant of the other. But still all is well, if we can keep the
People Ignorant of their Liberties and Priviledges, that we have
Liberty to Act iu our own Wills what we please.
We are wrapped up in a Labyrinth of Confused Laws, that
the Freemen's Power is quite gone ; and it was said, last June-
Court, by one, — That they knew nothing the Freemen bad there to
do. — Sandwich-Men may go .to the Bay, lest they be taken up for
Quakers : W. Newland was there about his Occasions, some Ten
Days since, aud they put him in Prison Twenty Four Hours, and
sent for divers to Witness against him ; but they had not Proof
enough to make him a Quaker, which if they had, he should have
been Whipp'd : Nay, they may not go about their Occasions in
other Towns in our Colony, but Warrants lie in Ambush to
Apprehend and bring them before a Magistrate, to give an
Account of their Business. Some of the Quakers in Rhode
Island came to bring Goods, ¦ to Trade with them, and that
for far Reasouabler Terms, than the Professing and Oppressing
Merchants of the Country ; but that will not be suffered : So that
.unless the Lord step in, to their Help and Assistance, iu some way
beyond Man's Conceiving, their Case is sad, and to be pitied ; and
truly it moves Bowels of Compassion in all sorts, except those in
place, who carry it with a high Hand towards them. Through
Mercy we have j'et among us worthy Mr. Dunster, whom the Lord
hath made . boldly to bear Testimony against the Spirit of
Persecution. Our Bench now is, Tho. Prence, Governour ; Mr. Collier,
Capt. Willet, Capt.^ Winslow, Mr. Alden, Lieut. Southworth, W.
Bradford, Tho. Hinckley. Mr. Collier left June would not sit on
the Bench, if I sate there ; and now will not sit the next Year,
unless he may have Thirty Pounds sit by him. Our Court and
Deputies last June made Capt. Winslow a Major. Surely we are
Mercenary Soldiers, that must have a Major imposed upon us.

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Doubtless next Court they may choose us a Governour, and
Assistants also. A Freeman shall need to do nothing but bear
such Burdens as are laid upon him. Mr. Alden has deceived the
Expectations of many, and indeed lost the Affection of such, as
I judge were his Cordial Christian Friends ; who is very active in
such Ways, as I pray God may not be charged on him, to be
Oppression of a High Nature. James Cudwoeth.
A tabular statement of the amount of the fines, &c., of the
Sandwich Quakers in the years 1658, 1659 and 1660 :

Cattle taken. Remarks.

£

Shs,

Ralph Alien, Sen'r,

8

3 horses, &c.

68

Ralph " .Jr.,

4

18

Joseph "
2 pr. Wheels and a
Cloak
5
12
George "
8
25
15
William "
18
1 horse, 2 colts, 15
bush, cora, &c.
86
17
Matthew, "
16
8 bush, corn,
48
15
John "
6
Thomas Greenfield,
1
all his corn.
4
Robert Harper,
William Gifford,
9
house & land.
44
15
1-2 house, 1-2 pig.
57
19
Peter Grant,
10
1 horse, coi-n, and wheat.
43
14
Ralph Jones,
4
1
Thomas Johnson,
house & land.
10
John Jenkins,
S
money £8,
19
10
Thomas Ewer,
money, chest, clothing.
axe.
25
08
Rich, Kerby, Sr., & Jr.,
15
3 bush, coi-n.
67
12
Wm. Newland,
2
2 horses,
86
John Newland,
1 horse.
2
06
Edward Perry, i
17
tar, feathers, &c.,
89
18
Michael Turner,
9 sheep,
13
10
Daniel Wing,
12
Cattle taken, 129, 3 horses, 9 sheep, £679,02.
To the above lists may be added the names of Stephen Wing,
Henry Saunders, Samuel Kerley and others. Ralf Jones' house
was in Barnstable, but close to the Sandwich bound. He belonged
to the Sandwich Meeting. He does not appear to have been finisd
only £1 for not attending meetings. Keith's wonderful story
about his cows, wants confirmation.
From 1660 to 1673, Capt. Cudworth resided at Scituate.
During this period he was often employed in settling differences
between his neighbors, &c., but sustained no office. In. 1666 he
was nominated by the military company of Scituate to the office
of Captain, against the advice of the Court, and his appointment
was not confirmed. This vote shows that he was held in high
estimation by his townsmen. June 3, 1773, Major Josiah Winslow
succeeded Mr. Thomas Prence as Governor, and made honorable
amends for the abuse and neglect which Capt. Cudworth had
received from his predecessor. He was, at the July Court re
established into the right and privilege of a citizen, and authorized
to solemize marriages, grant subpoenas for witness, aud to admin
ister oaths. Dec. 17, 1673, he was unanimously appointed
Captain of the Plymouth forces in the proposed expedition against
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the Dutch at New York. The following quotations from his letter
to (jov. Winslow, declining the appointment, I find in Deane's
History of Scituate :
'^Sir, I do unfeignedly and most ingenuously receive the
Court s valuation and estimation of me, in pref errihg me to such
a place. It is not below me or beneath me, (as some deem theirs
.to be), but IS above me, and far beyond any desert of mine ; aud
had the Court been well acquainted with mv insufficiency for such
an undertaking, doubtless I should not have been in nomination;
neither would it have been then- wisdom to hazard the cause aud
the lives of their men upon an instrument so unaccomplished for
the well management of so great a concern. So being persuaded
to myself of my own insufficiency it appears clearly and undoubt-
edley unto me, that I have no call of God thereunto: for vox
popuh, IS not always vox Dei. Beside, it is evident uuto me,
upon other considerations, I am not called of God unto this work
at this time. The estate and condition of my family is such as
will uot admit of such a thing, being such as can hardly be
paralleled ; which was well know unto some : but it was not well
or friendly done as to me, nor faithfully as to the country, if they
did not lay my condition before the Court. My wife, as so well
known unto the whole town, is not only a weak woman, but has
so been all along ; and now by reason" of age, being sixty-seven
years and upwards, and nature decaying, so her illness grows
strongly upon her.
"Sir, I can truly say that I do not in the least waive the busi
ness out of any discontent in my spirit arising from any former
difference : for the thought of all which is and shall be forever
buried, so as not to come in remembrance : neither out of any
effeminate or dastardly spirit ; but I am as freely willing to serve
my King and my Country as any man, in what I am capable and
fitted for : but I do uot understand that a man is called to serve
his country with the inevitable ruin and destruction of his own
family. "These things being premised, I know your Honor's wisdom
and prudence to be such, that you will, upon serious considera
tion thereof, conclude that I am uot called of God to embrace
the call of the General Court. Sir, when I consider the Court's
act iu pitching their thoughts upon me, I have many musings what
should be the reason moving them thereunto ; I conceive it cannot
be, that I should be thought to have more experience and better
abilities than others, for you, with many others, do well known,
that when I entered upon military employ, I was very raw in the
theoretic part of war, and less acquainted with the practical part :
and it was not long that I sustained my place in which I had
occasion to bend my mind and thoughts that way ; but was dis
charged thereof, and of other publick concerns : and therein I

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took VOX populi to be vox Dei, and that God did thereby call aud
design me to sit still and be sequestered from all publick transac
tions, which condition suits me so well that 1 have received more
satisfaction and contentment therein, than ever I did in sustain
ing any publick place."
Capt. Cudworth was chosen, in 1674, an assistant, aud
annually thereafter till 1680. In 1674, though over 70 years of
age, was re-established Captain of the Military Company in
Scituate. Oct. 4, 1675, "Major James Cudworth was unanimously
chosen and re-established in the office of a General or Commander-
in-chief, to take the charge of our forces that are or may be sent
forth in the behalf of the Colouy against the enemy, as occasion
may require."
In 1678 he was on the committee to revise the laws, and
again appointed in 1681. June 7, 1681, he was chosen a Com
missioner of the United Colonies, aud Duputy Governer. In
Sept. 1681, he .went over to England as the Agent of the
Colony, and died of the small pox in London in the spring of the
following year.
Thus "ended the life of one who, take him all in all, had no
superior in the Old Colony. As a christian, he was meek, humble,
and tolerant ; as a neighbor, he was mild, humane, and useful ; as
a man, he was magnanimous in all his acts, and as a commander
he was brave and able, and had the entire confidence of his
soldiers. When disfranchised and thrust out of office, he did not
murmur, he regretted that some of his ancient friends, particularly
John Alden, should be led astray, and though he condemned then-
acts, yet he never allowed a difference of opinion to break the ties
of friendship. He retired to his farm, and for thirteen years was
constantly engaged in rural occupations. Referring to this period
he says, they were the happiest years of his life.
It is no credit to the memory of Gov. Thomas Prence that he
had not the magnanimity to do justice to the merits of Gen.
Cudworth. He had many excellent qualities, but toleration in
matters of faith- was not one of them, and therefore his hostility.
Gov. Hinckley was a zealous Puritan ; but he was more tolerant and
more liberal in his views. He never joined in the crusade against
the Anna Baptists, and in respect to the Quakers, many things
have been laid to his charge of which he was not guilty. What
ever may have been his opinion in 1658 and 1674, he and all the
assistants and deputies unanimously co-operated with Gov.
Winslow in awarding justice to Gen. Cudworth. Such conduct
disarms criticism. Geu. Cudworth lived down all opposition, and
in his old age the highest honors in the gift of the people were
freely bestowed on him.
Of the family of Gen. Cudworth, no record has been pre
served. His wife was living in 1674, but had deceased at the

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date of his will, Sept. 15, 1681. He names therein his sons
James, Israel, and Jonathan and daughter Mary's four children,
and Haunah Jones.
His children were : James, baptized in Scituate 3d May,
1635 ; Mary, baptized in Scituate 23d July, 1637 ; Jonathan,
baptized in Scituate 16th Sept. 1638, died here; Israel, baptized
in Barnstable 18th April, 1641 ; Jonna, baptized in Barnstable
24th March, 1643.
Besides these he had a son buried in Barnstable 24th June,
1644, who died young — a daughter Hannah, aud another son
named Jonathan.
James and Jonathan resided in Scituate aud had families.
Israel removed to Freetown.

DAViS.

ROBERT DAVIS

Some of the descendents of Robert Davis* have supposed
that he was the first who settled in that part of Barnstable known
from early times as Oldtown. But this is a mistake. He was not
the first nor the second. Rev. Stephen Bachiller and his company,
settled there in the winter of 1637-8. William Chase owned a
farm there very early, probably in 1639, certainly June 8, 1642,
when he mortgaged a part of it to Stephen Hopkins. He sold out
before 1648. In the division of the fences that year, it appears
that the fence on the south boundary of his land extended seventy
rods. In 1648, the Oldtown lands were owned by the following
persons, in the following order, beginning on the east at Stony
Cove, as the mill-pond was then called : 1st, Mr. Thomas Allyn
25 acres, Mr. Andrew Hallett 8, Goodman Isaac Wells 9,
Goodman James Hamblin 9, Mr. John Mayo 7, Thomas Huckins
1, Goodman Rogers Goodspeed 2, Mr. Henry Coggin 4, Samuel
House (or Howes) 4, the Sachem Nepoyetam 30, and the Sachem
Cacomicus 10. The quantities here given included only the
cleared lands fit for planting. Forest, swamps, and meadows,
were not probably included in the measurement.
In January, 1648-9, the grist mill now known as Hallett's
water-mill, had been built and the division of the fences com
menced at the mill. Mr. Allyn had purchased largely, and
Samuel Hinckley seven acres. Mr. Hallett, Mr. Coggin, and
Cacomicus, had sold out. After this date, the records furnish no
means of tracing the ownership of these lands.
Robert Davis' name appears on the list of those who were
able to bear arms in Yarmouth in August, 1643. He married, in
1646, and his daughters Deborah and Mary were born in Yar
mouth the latter April 28, 1648. The birtii of his son Andrew
* Two of the name of Robert Davis came over. Robert of Sudbury, bom in 1609, came
(with Margaret Davis, perhaps his sister, aged 26) in 1638, in the confidence of Southampton
as servant of Peter Noyes, and died 19th July, 1765, aged 47.' He had a wife Bridget who
survived him, and daughters Rebecca and Sarah ; the latter born 10th April, 1646.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 277
in May, 1650, is on the Barnstable, and not on the Yarmouth
~ return, which fixes the date of his removal with sufficient exact
ness. Excepting of the births of his children, the earliest entry I
find of his uame on the records, is 12th Mav, 1657, when a grant
of "a parcel of common land" iu the New Common Field was
made to him, lying between the lands of Goodman Cobb and
Goodman Gorham. He was admitted a freeman of the Colony
in 1659. ^
Robert Davis was not a man of wealth, was not distinguished
in political life, nor was he ever entitled to the then honorable
appeUation of "Mister;" he was
 "Au honest good man,
And got his living by his labor.
And Goodman Shelly* was his neighbor."
His character for honesty and industry he transmitted to his
posterity.]: His lands were not recorded in 1654. His_farm iu 1639, was
included within the bounds of Yarmouth, and with the exception
of a small lot owned by Robert Shelly, was bounded on the west
by Indian Lane — the original boundary between the towns — on
the east, his farm was bounded by the lands of Joseph HaUett,
and on the south by Dead Swamp, including the narrow strip
between the present road and that swamp. The easterly part of
his farm was a part of the William Chase farm. The westerly
part he bought of the town, of the Indians, aud of James Gor
ham, and the south was a part of the great lot of Thomas Lum
bert. § His house,, iu 1686, was not on the present County road,
but on the higher ground n/irth of the swamp where the first road
probably passed. Iu 1686, the house of Robert Shelly was the
next west of that of Robert Davis, aud both appear to have been
on the north of the swamp. In that year the town granted Good-

* Goodman Shelly was a very worthy, unambitious man, "a rolling stone that gathers no
moss" — iu other words, he was often removed from place to place, and was always poor.
His wife. Goody Shelly, was a Bay lady, and a cobbler would say of her, was "high in the
instep." If Mrs. Lothrop or Mrs. Dimmock had a party, if she was not au invited guest,
she took great offence, aud her seat at church on the following Sabbath would be vacant.
Rev. Mr. Lothrop complains bitterly of this trait in her character.

X All the descendants of Robert Davis for eight successive generations, have been
noted for their honest dealings and industrious habits. Of the whole number, I find only
one whose character for integrity was doubted by his neighbors. Cornelius Davis, I pre
sume, was a descendant of Robert, though the evidence is not satisfactory. He was not
reported honest. Perhaps his habit of carrying an Iniian basket on his back was no
credit to him. It, however, is said that other peoples' goods got into that basket. Whether
or not these reports were slanderous I canuot say ; but this much is certain, he did not enjoy
aii unspotted reputation for honesty and integrity in his dealings. There is something in
race ; tor even now, the character of the ancestor can be traced in the child of the ninth
generation. § Thomas Lumbert's great lot was all finally owned by the descendants of Robert
Davis. In 1664, the western part was owned by Samuel Hinckley, and the eastern part by
the widow of Nicholas Davis. Robert Davis appears to have owned the north-easterly part
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man Shelly a part of the swamp, and Robert Davis sold him "a
small gore of land," so that Shelly's lands was afterwards bounded
south by the present highway. This addition was made where
the late Capt. John Easterbrooks' old house now stands. Fifty
years ago John, Abner, and Elisha T. Davis, sons of Joseph,
owned ail Robert Davis' lands on the north of the highway.
Robert Davis died in 1693. His will is dated April U, 1688,
and proved June 29, 1693. He names his wife Ann. To his
son Joseph he devises the land in the New Common Field, which
he bought of the Indians ;|| and to Josiah he devises the two acres
of land in the Common Field, which the town granted to him iu
1657. He also names Josiah's house lot, now owned- by Lot
Easterbrooks. He also names his son Andrew, fo whom he gave
flve shillings, and his son Robert ; also his daughters Deborah
Geere, Sarah, Mercy, Mary Dexter, and Hannah Dexter. His
estate was apprised at £75,13, a small sum ; but it must be remem
bered that money had not then been depreciated, and that land at
that time was not valuable.
His widow, Ann Davis, died in 1701. Her will is dated May
5, 1699, and was proved April 1, 1701. She named Robert
Davis, my .son Joseph's son, daughter Hannah Dexter, grand
child Sarah Dexter, son Josiah's wife, and daughters Sarah Young
and Mercy Young. The fact that she names only the younger
children, indicates that she was the second wife of Robert
Davis. 1. Robert Davis of Yarmouth, in 1643, of Barnstable in
1650 where he died in 1693, probably married twice. His last
wife, whom he probably married in 1657, was named A im.
Children born in Yarmouth.
Deborah, Jan. 1645.
Mary, April 28, 1648.
Born in Barnstable.
Andrew, May, 1650.
John, March "l, 1652.
Robert, Aug. 1654.
Josiah, Sept. 1656.
Hannah, Sept. 1658.
. Sarah, Oct. 1660.
Joseph.
Mercy.
1. Deborah Davis married Thos. Geere of Enfield, Conn.,
had Shubael who has descendants, and Elizabeth born May 4,
1685, who died under three years of age. Thomas, the father,

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5.

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6.

V.

7.

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8.

VII.

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11 This fact IS probably the foundation of the family tradition, that Robert Davis bought
his farm of the Indians for a brass kettle. The recent discovery of the grave of lyanoiieli
has revived the old story, which has no foundation in truth. » j'm.v, e

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14th Jan. 1722, aged 99 years, and his wife Deborah in 1736,
2. Mary, married a Dexter, whose Christian name 1 cannot

3. Andrew, to whom his father gave five shillings in his will,
removed from Barnstable, perhaps to New London, Conn.
4. John Davis is not named in his father's will and probably
died young.
5. Robert Davis, 2d, removed from Barnstable. Mr.
Deane, in his history of Scituate, says that "Tristram Davis, son
of Robert of Yarmouth, born in 1654, was in Scituate in, 1695.
He married Sarah Archer of Braintree 1694." Mr. Savage copies
the mistake of Deane. Robert Davis, Senior, had no son Tristram.
It was probably Robert that Deane intended to name.
6. Josiah Davis' house is named in the laying out of the
County road, in 1686, as next east of Samuel Cobb's, ou the north
side of the way. It stood a few feet east of the present dwelling
house of Lot Easterbrooks, and was taken down not many years
ago. In his will, dated 21st April, 1709, and proved the 5th of
October following, he names his nine children, all of whom were
then living. To his sons John, Josiah, and Seth, he gave his
dwelling house, the laud he bought of James Gorham, the Com
mon Field land, given him by his father, and one-half of the
orchard lying before his door, on the south side of the road. To
his sons Jonathan and Stephen, the other half of the orchard,
&c. He names his daughters Hannah Cobb, and Ruth, Sarah and
ATina unmarried. The legacies to his daughters he ordered to be
paid out of the £53 he ventured in trading at sea, £30 in the
hands of his son John, and £23 in the hands of Gersham Cobb.
His estate was apprised at over £500, corn being then worth 10
shillings a bushel, showing that there had been some depreciation
iu the currency since the death of his father. In the division of
the common he was entitled to 43 1-2 shares, a number above the
average. He was a soldier in Capt. John Gorham's company in
King Phillip's war in 1675, and one of the proprietors of Gorham-
town. 7. Hannah Davis married a Dexter whose Christian name
does not appear on the record. She had a daughter Sarah.
8. Sarah Davis married, 28th Oct. 1679, Joseph Young of
Eastham, son of the first John and had a family.
9. Joseph Davis resided in Barnstable. His family was
one of the most respectable in town. He died, say the Church •
Records, Aug. 10, -1735, aged about 70 years, and his widow
Hannah May 2, 1739, aged 68.
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280 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Joseph above named, and 10th June, 1708, Nathaniel Mayo, of
Eastham. (7-6) Josiah Davis, son of Robert, born Sept. 1656, married
Ann, daughter of Richard Taylor, (tailor) of Yarmouth, June 25,
1679, and had
12. I. John, 2d Sept. 1681, married M. Dimmock Aug. 13,
1705.
13. II. Hannah, April, 1683, married Gersham Cobb Feb. 24,
1702-3.
14. HI. Josiah, Aug. 1687, married M. Taylor July 10, 1712.
15. IV. Seth, Oct. 1692, married Lydia Davis Aug. 6, 1727.
16. V«. Ruth, Feb. 1694, married John Scudder, 19th May,
1715.
17. VI. Sarah, Feb. 1696, married Elisha Taylor 24th Oct.
1718.
18. VII. Jonathan, 1698, married Susan Allyn April 24, 1735.
19. Vlll. Stephen, 12th Dec. 1700, married Rebecca  .
20. ' IX. Anna, 5th April 1702, married Theophiius Witherell,
1724.
(10-9) Joseph Davis, son of Robert, married, by Mr.
Thatcher, March 1695, to Hannah, daughter of James Cobb.
Children born in Barnstable.
21. I. Robert, 7th March 1696-7 married Jane Amiable, Oct.
8, 1719.
22. II. Joseph, 23d March, 1698-9.
23. III. James, 30th July, 1700, married Thankful Hinckley
Jan. 4, 1727-8.
24. IV. Gersham, 5th Sept. 1702, married three wives.
25. V. Hannah, 5th March, 1705, married Samuel Dimmock
1724.
26. VI. Mary, 5th June 1707, married Matthias Gorham March
1, 1730.
27. VII. Lydia, 12th Feb. 1709, died unmarried Dec. . 30,
1763.
28. VIII. Daniel, 28th Sept. 1713, married twice.
(12-1) John Davis, Esq., son of Josiah, born in Barnstable
2d Sept: 1681, married, Aug. 13,1705, Mehitable, daughter of
Shubael Dimmock. Her father resided for a time in Yarmouth,
and she was a member of the Yarmouth Church, and was dis
missed to the East Church in Barnstable Feb. 12, 1725-6. She
died May 1775, aged 89. She was blind several years previous
to her death. John Davis, Esq., was a captain, a justice of the
peace, &c., aud was a man of note in his day. He died 29  ,
1736; aged 58, leaving a good estate. He bought a part of the
great lot of Mr. Thomas Lumbard, and the house which he built
thereon is now standing, and is now owned by. the successors of

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 281
the late Eleazer Cobb, Sen'r, and George L. Gorham.
His Children born in Barnstable, were :
29. I. Thomas, Oct. 1, 1706, married. Susan Sturgess Nov. 17,
1726.
30. II. John, Sept. 8, 1708, married twice.
31. III. Solomon, April 5, 1711, died July 18, 1712.
32. IV. William, April 10, 1713, died July 4, 1713.
33. V. Solomon, June 24, 1715, married twice.
34. VI. Mehitable, Aug. 10, 1717, married four times.
35. VII. William, Aug. 24, 1719, married Martha Crocker
Feb. 2, 1745.
36. VIII. Josiah, Feb. 17, 1722.
37. IX. Isaac,- "^ 'died Oct. 28, 1724.
V twins, Aug. 3, 1724.
38. X. Jesse, ) died Aug. 13, 1724.
39. XI. Isaac, March 1, 1727, died Nov. 2, 1727.
(14-3) Josiah Davis, sou of Josiah, married, July 10, 1712,
Mehitable,. daughter of Edward Taylor of West Barnstable.
Children born in Barnstable.
Edward, 19th June, 1713.
Mary, 8th Aug. 1714.
. Josiah, 2d Aug. 1718.
A .losiah Davis resided in the high single house next west of
Capt. Jonathan Davis' afterwards bought by James Davis, and
now owned by. his descendants.
(15-4) Seth Davis, son of Josiah, was of Barnstable in 1728.
Aug. 6, 1727, Lydia Davis was admitted to the East Church.
Aug. 4, 1728, Lucy, daughter of Seth and Lydia Davis, was
baptized. The name then disappears on the Church records.
Sept. 29, 1755, a Seth Davis married Sarah Sturgis. I think
Cornelius Davis was his son. He owned Josiah Davis' house,
who was probably his grandfather.
(18-7) Capt. Jonathan Davis, son of Josiah, resided in
Barnstable. He was a sea captain. His first wile was Elizabeth
 . She died Sept. 14, 1733, aged 32. He married,
April 24, 1735, Susannah Allyn. She died Aug. 14, 1751, aged'
36. According to the Church records he died Dec. 2, 1782, aged
83. His grave stones in the burying ground near the Unitarian
Meeting House, say Jan. 4, 1784, iu the 82d year of his age.
•His will was proved Jan. 1788. He names Wm. Belford and
daughter Ann, to whom he gives all his estate, and his daughter
Ehzabeth. Neither correspond with the record of his birth. His
house stood on the north side of the road, between the houses of
Samuel Cobb and Josiah Davis. His daughters Ann and Eliza
beth were his only children living at the time of his death. Ann
taught a school several years. She married John Belford, one of

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282 GElfEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
the Scotch Irish, (see Delap) and had Susy Davis baptized Oct.
11, 1772; Edward, baptized Jan. 1, 1770, died young; Edward
again, baptized Oct. 1778; and Davis, June 18, 1781. The
descendants write their name Ford.
His children boru in Barnstable, and baptized at the East
Church, were :
43. I. Elizabeth, baptized Nov. 9, 1729, died young.
44. II. Elizabeth, baptized Oct. 24, 1736, died young.
45. III. Susannah, born July 29, 1738.
46. IV. Elizabeth, baptized Oct. 4, 1741, married 
Hamlin.
47.. V. Anna, baptized May 1, 1743, married Wm. Belford.
48. VI. Jonathan, baptized June 14, 1747, died young.
(19-8) Stephen Davis; called Stephen ,lr., fo distinguish him
from Stephen, son of Dolar, who was ten years his senior, was
son of .losiah, born in Barnstable Dec. 12, 1700. He bought the
ancient John Scudder house of his brother-in-law, John Scudder,
Jr., and six acres of land, a part of Rev. Mr. Lothrop's great
lot. The old house was taken down in 1803, by his son Jonathan,
and the dwelhng house of the late George Davis stands on the
same spot. He married, in 1723, Rebecca  , and had a
large family, the record of which lOn the town books is imperfect,
and the deficiencies are supplied from the Church records. He
joined the East Church, and was baptized March 21, 1773, at the
age of 72. He died Jan. 4, 1782, aged 81, and his wife Rebecca
Nov. 28, 1769, aged 60. Both have monuments iu the grave yard
near the Unitarian Meeting House.
Children born in Barnstable.
49. I. Prince, Nov. 17, 1724, married Sarah Coleman, Feb.
15, 1750.
50. II. Ann, Dec. 13, 1726, married Benjamin Cobb, May 17,
1749.
51. III. Isaac, Sept. 14, 1729, married Hannah Davis, Jan. 16,
1752.
52. IV. Rebecca^ Feb. 26, 1731, married Benjamin Childs, Jr.,
Nov. 6, 1751.
53. V. Susannah, May 14, 1734, married Solomon Otis, Jr.
54. VI. Sarah, Jan. 20, 1737, married Jonathan Bacon, Jr.,
May' 13, 1755.
55. VII. Stephen, baptized Aug. 17, 1740.
66. VIII. Abigail, baptized May 15, 1743.
67. IX. Thankful, baptized Oct. 26, 1746, married Samuel
Smith.
68. X. Jonathan, baptized Oct. 1, 1749, married Susannah
Lewis.
(21-1) Dea. Robert Davis, son of Joseph, resided in Barn
stable, and lived where the late Nath'l Holmes's house now

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stands. He had a Cooper's Shop, and was a part of his life
captain of the Barnstable and Boston packet. He was much
employed in town affairs and was often one of the selectmen.
He was a man of sound judgment, and held in esteem by all who
knew him. He married, Oct. 8, 1719, Jane Annable. He has no
children recorded on the town or church records. He died June
1, 1765, aged 69, and his wife Jane Nov. 27, 1766, aged 66.
In his will he devises his estate to James, son of his brother
Gersham Davis.
(22-2) Joseph Davis, son of Josiah, I persume, died young
— I find no notice of him on the records.
(23-3) James Davis, son of Joseph, married, Jan. 4, 1727-8,
Thankful, daughter of Joseph Hinckley of West Barnstable. She
died Aug. 20, 1745, aged 38, and Aer husband about the same
time, leaving a family of seven children, who were brought up
by their grandfather Hinckley.
Children horn in Barnstable.
59 1. Hannah, baptized July 4, 1729, died young.
60. II. Hannah, May 31, 1731, married twice.
61. III. Joseph, Aug. 15, 1733, married twice.
62. IV. Benjamin, June 27, 1635, married Patience Bacon, May
19, 1757.
63. V. Eunice, Aug. 8, 1737, married  Jones of Hing
ham.
64. VI. Thankful, Nov. 7, 1733, married Joseph Palmer of
Falmouth, Dec. 6, 1765.
65. VII. James, March 6, 1741, married Reliance Cobb.
66. VIII. David, Jan. 4, 1743.
67. IX. Barnabas, died young.
(24-4) Dea. Gersham Davis, son of Joseph, born in Barn
stable, 5th Sept. 1702, was a farmer, and was a man of good
standing. ' His house stood where Capt. Pierce's house now stands,
at the north-west corner of the great lot laid»out to Thomas Lum
bard. He married thrice. First, Feb. 24, 1725-6, Elizabeth Sturgis,
daughter of Samuel, she died June 6, 1727, aged 21. He married
2d Mary, daughter of Joseph Hinckley of West Barnstable,
Sept. 23, 1731. He married for his third wife, in 1757, Thankful
Skifl? of Sandwich. He died May 6, 1790, in the 88th year of his
age. Children horn in Barnstable.
68. 1. James, June 2, 1727, married Jean Bacon, Oct. 3,
1745.
69. II. Robert, July 12, 1732, and died soon.
70. III. Samuel, Sept. 13, 1734, married Mary Gorham, Jr.,
Dec. 22, 1757.

284 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
71. IV. Elizabeth, Aug. 12, 1736, married Joseph Crocker,
Jr., Jan. 12, 1758.
72. V. Mary, Dep. 5, 1740.
73. VI. Abigail, July 12, 1744, died young.
74. VII. Abigail, July 12, 1746.
75. VIII. Mercy, Feb. 4, 1748, died young.
(28-8) Hon Daniel Davis, son of Joseph, born in Barnstable
28th Sept. 1713, was Judge of Probate, and held other offices of
trust and responsibility. He resided in the house afterwards
occupied by his son Dr. John Davis and now owned by Daniel Cobb,
a descendant in the female line. He was an active man, and an
ardent patriot during the Revolution. He often represented the
town in the General Court, was on committees, and performed
much labor. As I have had occasion to remark in a former arti
cle, at the commencement of the Revolutionary struggle, he was
inclined to take sides with the radical portion of the whigs ; but
was afterwards more conservative in his views. Barnstable had
not a more devoted patriot than Daniel Davis. He married
Mehitable, daughter of Thomas Lothrop. The land on which
Daniel Davis built his house, was a part of the original allotment
to Joseph Lothrop, the father of Thomas. He married for his
second wife, July 7, Mehitable Sturgis, noticed below. Hon.
Daniel Davis died 22d April, 1799, aged 85 years, 6 months, and
13 days. Children horn in Barnstable.
76. I. Mary, April 29, 1740.
77. II. Daniel, Oct. 10, 1741.
78. III. Robert, March 27, 1743.
79. IV. John, Oct. 7, 1744.
80. V. Deborah, Aug. 13, 1746, married, Oct. 6, 1765, Josiah
Crocker.
81. VI. Thomas, Aug. 24, 1748.
82. VII. Desire, March 27, 1750, married Freeman Parker.
83. VIII. Ansel,»March 13, 1752.
84. IX. Experience, July 11, 1754, married Joseph Annable.
85. X. Mehitable, July 11, 1756.
86. XI. Lothrop, lost at sea, no issue.
87. Xll. Daniel, May 8, 1762.
(29-1) Thomas Davis, sou of Capt. John, born Oct. 1, 1706,
married Nov. 17, 1726, Susannah Sturgis, daughter of Edward.
He had a daughter Susy baptized in the East Church April 17,
1737. He died April 9, 1738, and his widow married, Aug. 12,
1739, Mr. Elisha Gray of Harwich.
(30-2) John Davis, son of Capt. John, born Sept. 8, 1708,
married, Feb. 5, 1720-30, Abigail Otis, and second Anna Allen,
March 23, 1736. He had sons Josiah and John, and daughter
Martha, baptized in the East Church April 25, 1742.

UKNKALOdlCAL NOTES OF BAIiNSTABLE FAMILIES. 285
(88-5) Solomon, son of Capt. John, born June 24, 1715, was
a merchant and i-csided in Boston. During the siege he removed
his familj* to Barnstable. He was an intimate friend of Gov.
Hancock. In 1791 be was dining with his Kxcellency in company
with some of the rare wits of the day, John Rowe, Joseph Balch,
and othcii-H, Mr. Davis made some witty remark, which induced
Mr. IJalcli to say to him, "Wcdl, Davis, you bad better go home
now and die, for you'will never say as gopd a thing as that again."
On his way home he was taken suddenly ill, and sat down on the
steps ol' King's (Jliapcl, from whence he was removed to his house
in the vicinity, wlien; he sliortly after died.
Solomon Davis married Jan. 29, 1750, Elizabeth Wendell of
Portsmouth, N. II. She died at Plymouth Feb. 20, 1777, aged
about 47. , She was the mother of all his children. He married,
Nov. 18, 1777, her sister Catharine Wendell, who died April 7,
1808, aged 06. He dic<l June 6, 1791, aged 76.
His ciiildren were : I, John, born May 19, 1753 ; 2, Solomon,
Sept. 25, 1751, died at sea Sept. 1789 ; 3, Edward, Deo. 18, 1765,
died at sea Nov. 11, 1708; 4, Thomas, July 26, 1757, died at
Falmouth, Kiig., Oct. 10, 1775 ; 5, Elizabeth, Oct. 14, 1758, died
Aug. 14, 18;!.'!. (She rnairi(!d Dr. David Townsend May 24, 1785,
and was the mother of Dr. Solomon Davis Townsend of Boston.)
6, Mehitable, .luly 11, 1760, died Oct. 28, 1761 ; 7, Henry, Oct.
8, 1761, died March 15, 1762; 8, Josiah, Sept. 24,1763, died
June 29, 1777, buried at Barnstable; 9, Isaac, April 2,1765,
uiiirricd Klizabeth Fellows, died Dec. 5, 1800, at Hartt'ord, Conn. ;
10, WiUiam, April 26, 1768, iiiiuried Martha Harris, he died Sept.
11, 1804, at DorclicHtcr. Solomon Davis has descendaate living
in Boston, and other (ilaces, (Justavus F. Davia president of the
City Bank, Hartford, Conn., is a descendant of Isaac Dalvis of
Bbston and many others of note.
Dr Solomon Davis Townsend of Boston, son of Elizabeth
Davis, born March 1, 1793, married his cousin, a daughter of
Edward Davis, and is now three score years and ten. He was
cousultiiig Hurgcou to the Massachusetts General Hospital from
1835 to 1889, and Acting Surgeon from 1839 to 1863, when he
tendered his resignation of tiie place ho had so long and honorably
lillcd. In the resolutions adopted by the Trustees of the Hospital,
they e.xpriissed their high api)reciation of his long, faithful and
valuable 'Nin'vici'H, of his generous devotiou to tiie interest of that
institution, of his |)i-ofcssional skill, of his ability, sound judg
ment, assiduity and kindness, and his consistent aud gentiemauly
conduct. . ^ T , , •
(;)l-6) Mehitable Davis, daughter of Capt. John, born in
Barnstable Aug. 10, 1717, was a remarkable woman, and deserv
ing of .cHpccial note. She married four husbands, all men of
character, inttuen(!(^ and respectability,- namely :

286 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
At 23 she married, April 9, 1741, Dr. James Hersey, a native
of Hingham, a man of learning and skillful in his profession. By
him she had a son Ezekiel, born Jan. 14, 1741-2. He, died July
22, 1741, aged 26. His first wife was Lydia Gorham, whom he
married July 27, 1737. She had a son James, born Nov. 9, 1738,
and she died Nov. 9, 1740. Dr. James Hersey owned that por
tion of the Dimmock farm on which the fortification house stood,
and whether he resided in that, or in a house" that formerly stood
a little west of the present residence of Asa Young, Esq., I cannot
say. Dr. James was succeeded in his practice by his brother. Dr.
Abner Hersey, a curious compound of good sense and eccen
tricity. 2d, at 26, she married, Oct. 21, 1744, John Russell, son of
Dr. John of Barnstable. By him she had one son John, whose
birth is not recorded. The father died Aug. 1, 1748, aged 24.
The son was baptized Sept. 4, 1748, on the day his widowed
mother was admitted to the East Church. He was captain of the
marines on board the ill fated private armed ship Gen. Arnold,
Capt. James Magee, lost in Plymouth Harbor Dec. 26, 1778, when
nearly all on board perished. Though a strong, robust man, he
was one of the first who perished. On his monument in Plymouth
church yard it is stated that he was then 31, if so, he was born
in 1747. 3d, at 37, on the 9th of May, 1754, she became the second
wife of John Sturgis, Esq. , of Barnstable. By him she had Sarah,
whose birth is recorded with sufficient particularity, namely : at
"3 1-2 o'clock A. M., Thursday, April 17, 1756, and baptized on
the Sunday following ;" and John baptized March 19, 1758.
John Sturgis, Esq., died Aug. 10, 1759, aged 56.
4th, at 44, she, married, July 7, 1761, her relative, Hon.
Daniel Davis, and again assumed her maiden name. By him she
had one son, Daniel, born May 8, 1762.
Her daughter Sarah married the late Mr. Isaiah Parker of
West Barnstable, had a family and lived to be aged. John was a
graduate of Harvard College, and died early. Her son Daniel
was Soliciter General, and a distinguished man. She survived all
her husbands, but at last "the woman died also," namely : on the
 aged 87 years.
Her son, Hon. Daniel Davis, marrigd Lois Freeman, daughter
of Constant Freeman, and sister of the Rev. James F»eeman of
the Stone Chapel, Boston, and had a large family. Louisa, the
eldest daughter, married WiUiam Minot, Esq., of 'Boston. Rear
Admiral Charles Henry Davis, of the U. S. Navy, is his youngest
son. (35-7) Capt. William Davis owned the house and estate
which was his father's. He was a sea captain, and died .in 1759,
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He married Feb. 2, 1745, Martha, daughter of Timothy
Crocker, Esq., of Barnstable. She died Dec. 2, 1772, aged 67.
Children horn in Barnstable.
1, Mehitable, March 4, 1746, married Benjamin Gorham, Jr.,
(caUed Young Fiddler) a man of more wit than sound judgment ;
2, WiUiam, born Jan. 18, 1748, was clerk in the store of his uncle
Solomon in Boston, and died unmarried at the age of 24, of
yellow fever ; 3, Catharine, born AprU 29, 1751, married Stephen
HaU of Sandwich; 4, Elizabeth, born April 13, 1755, married
Eleazer Cobb, Sen'r, and inherited half of her father's house
where she resided ; 5, Martha, born Aug. 19, 1758, (she was
always caUed Patty) married John Cobb, who bought the
Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., house, and had a family. Mrs. Hetty
Davis Hallett, widow of Andrews, is her daughter ; 6, Ruth, born
Jan. 24, 1763, married Capt. Thomas Gray of Yarmouth; 7,
Jesse, who died aged 2 years.
(36-8) Josiah Davis, son of Capt. John, born Feb. 19, 1722.
Of this Josiah Davis I have no certain information.
(40-1) Ebenezer, son of the 2d Josiah, born 19th June, 1713.
Of Ebenezer I have no certain intelligence. I think he removed
to Maine. (42-3) Josiah Davis, son of 2d Josiah, born Aug. 2, 1718,
married„in 1745, Thankful Matthews ; and May 3, 1760, Thankful
Gorham. He resided in the house which was his father's, and sold
the same, on his removal to Gorham, to the late Mr. James
Davis. He had Josiah and Thankful baptized June 6, 1756 ;
Mary, Sept. 3, 1759 ; Josiah, Oct. 11, 1761, and three children
born in Gorham, in 1773, 1776 and 1780.
(49-1) Prince Davis, son of Stephen, Jr., born Nov. 17,
1724, was a house carpenter. He resided in Barnstable tUl 1760,
when he removed to Gorham, Maine, of which town he was a
proprietor in the right of his grandfather Josiah, who was a
soldipr in the Company of Capt. John Gorhain in KingPhillip's
war in 1675. Mr. Prince Davis early joined the East Church in
Barnstable, and continued to be a church member after his removal
east. At Gorham his name appears as one of the selectmen, aud
in church affairs he was a prominent man. He was married by
Rev. Mr. Green, Feb. 17, 1749-50, to Sarah Coleman, daughter of
James, of Barnstable. The births of his chUdren are not on the
town records. He died in Gorham in 1809, aged 85 years, and
his wife in 1804. He had flve children born in Barnstable, four
baptized Oct. 9, 1757, namely, Elijah, Edward, Prudence and
Alice, and Temperance baptized Nov. 18, 1759 ; and flve born in
Gorham, namely, Isaac, March 27, 1762 ; David, Oct. 20, 1764 ;
Rebecca, July 15, 1766; Thomas, May 14, 1768; and Jonathan
•MvlO, 1770.

288 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Elijah married Phebe Hopkins April 8, 1780; Prudence
married Josiah Jenkius June 15, 1776, and died 1836; Alice
married Enoch Frost April 22, 1779, and died 1802 ; Temperance
married David Harding June 23, 1781, and died 1810 ; Isaac did
not marry, died in 1738; David married Martha Watson March
17, 1788; Rebecca married Geo. Knight March 14, 1789, died
June 18, 1836 ; Thomas did not marry ; Jonathan married Mary
AprU 10, 1796.*
(51-3) Isaac Davis, son of Stephen, Jr., born Sept. 14,
1729, married Hannah Davis, daughter of James. His house
was on the north-easterly part of Thomas Lumbert's great lot, on
the south side of the road, opposite his grand-father's house. He
had a son, aud a daughter Rebecca baptized Aug. 3, 1755, and
another daughter of the same name baptized Jan. 15, 1768, and a
son Isaac boru Dec. 3, 1764. The latter married AbigaU Gorham,
and had Stephen G., Cashier of the Shawmut Bank, Boston,
Frederick of Falmouth, and others. The widow Haunah, of the
first Isaac, married, June 17, 1783, Col: David Gorham, she died
Oct. 3, 1810, aged 79 yrs. and 3 mos.
(58-10) Jonathan Davis, sou of Stephen, Jr., born in Barn
stable, baptized Oct. 1, 1749, married Susannah Lewis, born the
saipe day, Sept. 27, 1749, or rather within a few hours of each
pther. He went to sea in early life, and was in after life a
f3,rmer. He had sous Stephen, Solomon, and Georg?!, and a
daughter Susannah yet living. Stephen was a carpenter, removed
to Falmouth, and lived to be aged, and has descendants there.
Solomon was a carpenter, died a young man, and has descendants
in Dennis. George was a shoemaker, and resided on the paternal
estate, and died Nov. 6, 1847, aged 68, leaving one son, the pre
sent Mr. Isaac Davis. He being uow the sole representative da
the voting list of Barnstable, of the many Davis families of that
town. Mr. Jonathan Davis died Sept. 22,' 1840, aged 90. She
died Sept. 25, 1841, aged 91 years.
(61-3) Joseph Davis, son of James, born Aug. 16, 1733, was
a tanner and currier and resided in a house that stood near where
the first Robert's stood. He married flrst Lucretia Thatcher Nov.
17, 1763, and had Phebe, Rebecca, who married Job Gorham,
Elisha Thatcher, Mary, Lucretia, Joseph and Benjarnin. By his
second wife, Mary Bacon, John, Lucretia and Abner.
John, (father of Joseph aud Barnabas of Boston) built a
house near where the first Josiah Davis house stood. Abner
(father of Adolphus and James W., of Boston,) inherited the
paternal mansion; He was a lawyer, and Clerk of the Courts.
Elisha Thacher was a tanner and shoe maker, died a young man.

* Manuscript letter of .Josiah Pierce, Esq., author of her history, of Gorham, Maine.
The climate of Maine seems to agree with the Davis family. Prince lias more descendants
than his nine brothers and sisters.

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leaving a large family of young chUdren. His widow lived to
great age.
(62-4) Benjamin Davis, son of James, married. May 19,
1754, Patience Bacon.
(66-7) James Davis, son of James, married ReUance Cobb.
He had James, David, and others. James removed to Boston, was
a brass founder, acquired a large estate, and died very suddenly in
1862, aged 84. . ^ '
(68-1) James Davis, son of Dea. Gersham, married, Oct. 3,
1745, Jean Bacon. His unde, Dea. Robert Davis, made him his
heir. His children were : 1, Elizabeth, July 2, 1746 ; 2, EUzabeth
again, March 25, 1748; 3, Jean, April 24, 1750; 4, Patience,
June 13, 1752; 5, Desire, Oct. 22, 1754; 6, Joseph, Sept. 19,
1757; 7, Robert, June 30, 1760; 8, Hannah, Dec. 19, 1762; 9,
James, Jan. 19, 1767 ; baptized May 5, 1765 ; and Desire baptized
Sept. 20, 1772.
(70-3) Samuel Davis, son of Dea. Gersham, married, Dec.
23, 1759, Mary Gorham, Jr., and had Ebenezer baptized July 6,
1760; Samuel, July 4, 1762; Mary, Sept. 25, 1763; Ebenezer,
Feb. 17, 1765; Prince, May 17, 1767; William, June 9, 1771.
This family removed to Gorham, where they had EUzabeth AprU
14, 1777. "
(79-4) Hon. John Davis, son of Daniel, born Oct. 7, 1744.
He practiced medicine many years, was Judge of Probate, and held
many responsible offices. He was a mild, pleasant man, not inherit
ing the energj' of character for which his father was distinguished.
He resided in the early part of his life in the house now standing
that was Col. Davis Gorham's. After the decease of his father he
removed to the paternal mansion, where he continued to reside till
his death. He was afilicied with cancer on the nose which nearly
destroyed that organ . He had a large family. The late Hon. Job
C. Davis was his son, who married Desire Loring daughter of Oti^
Loring — had 12 children.

In 1643, five of the name of Davis were "able to bear arms" in
Bardstabie, viz : Dolar or DoUard and his sons John, Nicholas,
Simon, and Samuel ; and in Yarmouth, Robert Davis, afterwards of
Barnstable. Dr. Palfrey informed Mr. Savage that the graves of the
ancestors of Dolar Davis were at .Bennefield, Northamptonshire,
and that was probably his native town. He married as early as
1618, Margery, daughter of Richard Willard, of Horsmonden, in
the County of Kent, where aU his sons were born, and perhaps his
daughter Mary. He came over in 1634, in company with his
brother-in-law. Major Simon Willard, a man of note in the history
of the Massachusetts Colony. He stopped first at Cambridge, and
in 1635 was one of the first settler.s, aud had a house lot on Water
street. He sold his lands in Cambridge in 1636, and removed. He

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was also one of the proprietors of the lands in Concord. In 1638
he was of Duxbury. AprU 6, 1640, lands and meadows were granted
to him and others, at North Hill, in that town, and on the 31st of
August foUowing, he had granted to him fifty acres of upland, and a
proportion of meadows on the Namassacuset river. May, 1641, he
was bondsman for George Willard of Scituate, and is called of
that town. August, 1643, he and his sons were included among those able
to bear arms in Barnstable. He probably came to Barnstable in
1639 with the first settlers, though he did not make it the place of
his permanent residence until 1642 or 3. He was a carpenter, and
a master builder ; his son John was also a carpenter, and his sons
Nicholas, Simon, and Samuel, probably assisted their father. This
fact furnishes an explanation of his frequent removals from place to
place. In the new settlements he found more employment than in the
older. It did not, however, require much time to construct the
rude dweUings of our ancestors. In 1643 William Chase built the
house of Andrew Hallett, Jr., finding aU the materials, and delivered
it "latched, thatched and daubed" for the sum of £5. Some of the
flrst settlers put up substantial frame houses, like that of Nathaniel
Bacon, which has been described ; but generally they were as rudely
and as cheaply constructed as Andrew Hallett, Jr's. The chimneys
were of rough stone, and above the mantel piece, which was always
of wood, they were often only cob-walls, that is built with small
sticks and clay. The roofs were thatched, and oiled paper was
often a substitute for glass. They were not plastered — the cracks
were "daubed," that is filled up with clay or mortar. The hardware
and nails required, were furnished by the blacksmith. Saw mills
had been built at Scituate, and the lumber for the best houses came
from that town ; but at first the boards required were sawed by hand,
or hewn from split logs.
Houses of this description, having only one large room on the
lower floor, whether one or one-half stories high, were quickly and
cheaply built.
Neither Dolar Davis or his sons were ambitious of political
distinction. In 1642 he was on the jury of trials, in 1645 a grand
juror ; but was excused from serving on account of sickness, in
1662 surveyor of highways, and in 1654 constable.
In 1655 he removed to Concord, Massachusetts. He was one
of the original proprietors of Groton, and he and Mr. Thomas
Hinckley of Barnstable, were' of the first Board of Selectmen
appointed by the Legislature May 23, 1655, and to hold office two
years. The Selectmen managed the prudential affair.T of the town,
laid out the lands into lots, and disposed of them to the flrst
settlers. In 1666, Dolar Davis was a resident at Concord, and in receipt
dated April 9, of that year, calls himself of that towri. In a deed

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executed in that town July 17, 1658, describes himself as a house
carpenter late of Barnstable. Feb. IG, 1667-8, he had returned to
Barnstable, where he died June 1673, aged about 80 years.
Dolar Davis' house lot was the most northerly on the east side of
the ancient MUl Way, discontinued in 1669. In his deed to Abra
ham Blush, dated July 17, 1658, he says, "all my house lott of
lands lyiug by a place commonly called Old MiU Creek," containing
two acres, and was bounded northerly by his own meadow in the Mill
Pond, easterly partly upon Mr. Dimmock marsh, and partly upon
his own land ; southerly, partly on the common, and partly by
Goodman Huckins, and westerly, partly on Goodman Huckins' and
partly by Nicholas Davis. His house stood not far from the water
mill built by the flrst settlers on the spot where the present mill
stands. He also owned three lots of land at Stony Cove, containing
twelve acres, ten acres of meadow on the north ot his house lot, and
on the opposite side of Mill Creek, twelve acres in the old common-
field, and a lot of four acres adjoining his houselot on the south-east,
bounded westerly partly upon the common, and partly by his own
land, easterly by Nicholas Davis, northerly by Mr. Dimmock's
marsh, and southerly by Goodman Foxwell's land'.
The above described lands and meadow he sold to Abraham
Blush, by deed dated 17th July, 1658. The common land named in
the above description, consisted of two acres of swamp, a little dis
tance north-west of the Agricultural HaU,' afterwards granted to
John Davis, and by him sold to Abraham Blush.
Dolar Davis' great lot of sixty acres, "butted easterly upon the
Indian Pond, westerly into the commons, bounded southerly by John
Crocker, northerly by Henry Brown." This he sold .to Mr. Thomas
Alien, who re-sold the same 22d Feb. 1665, to Roger Goodspeed.
The causeway across Mill Creek to the Common Field, which
was then, and now is, the mill dam. MiU Creek is frequently
named iu the description of the lands aud meadows in the vicinity ;
but the owners of the Mill are not named in the earliest records now
extant. Nicholas Davis owned the land adjoining the spot on
which the Mill stood. No description of his lands except the grant
made to him by the Indian Sachem at Hyannis, is found on the town
records. After his death his lands were set ofi" to his creditors, and
no particular description is given. John Bacon, Esq., was an early
owner in the mill, and was part owner of the landing or dock on
the west side of the mill formerly owned by Nicholas Davis, and
yet the property of the Bacons. Dolar Davis sold his farm, includ
ing his dwelling-house and meadows, for £75. Nicholas Davis' real
estate, not including the twelve acres sold to John Bacon, or the
Caleb Lumbert farm which was set off to his widow as her portion,
was apprised at £180. He did not own so many acres as his father,.
and it is evident that the superior value of his property consisted in

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the buildinsfs and improvements thereon. He had a warehouse at
Hyaunis, the first building erected by the English at South Sea, and
a warehouse on his lot at Mill Creek. The latter contained not
more than two acres, aud on this there was, sixty years ago, a large
and valuable frame dwelling-house,' built in the style of the first
comers. In absence of all evidence to the contrary, the presumption
is that this ancient house aud the Mill, were originally the property
of Nicholas Davis.
Perhaps among all the families which came to New England,
not one can be selected more deserving of our esteem and unqualified
approbation than that of Dolar Davis. As a man, he was honest,
industrious, and prudent ; as a Christian, tolerant and exact iu the
performance cf his leligious duties; as a neighbor, kind, obliging,
and ever ready to help those who needed his assistance, aud as a father
and the head ot his family, he was constantly solictious for the
.welfare of all its members, cultivating tho.se kindly feelings and
amenities of life, which render home delightful. His sons and his
grand-sous followed in his footsteps. They were men whose charac
ters stand unblemished. It is pleasant to read their wills on record,
and note the affection with which they speak of the members of
their families, and their desire to provide not only for their immediate
wants, but for the future prospective misfortunes or necessities of
any of their kindred. The latter remark, however, will apply more
particularly to Samuel, of whom a more particular account will
be given. The family of Dolar Davis is for convenience of reference
arranged in a regular genealogical series, in order to distinguish
between members of this tamily, and that of Robert of the same
Christian name. I call Nicholas a son oi Dolar. If I am asked to
point to the record of the fact 1 cannot. Many circumstances show
that they were near relatives. The fact that Nicholas was a favorite
name among the descendants of Dolar who joined the Quakers, that
the house lots of Dolar and Nicholas were parts of the same original
lot, and other circumstances, have induced me to call Nicholas the
son of Dolar.
1. I. Dolar Davis, carpenter, married first Margery Willard,
daughter ot Richard Willard of Horsmonden, County of Kent,
in England. " Hp came over in 1634. His first wife probably
died in Concor^. He married for his second wife- Joanna,
widow of John Bursley, and daughter of Rev. Joseph Hall.
He died in 1673, and names in his wiU dated Sept. 12, 1672,
his children, then living. Nicholas was then dead, and left no
children.
2. I. John, born in England, married Hannah LinneU 15th
March, 1648.
,.3. II. Nicholas, born in England, married Mary or Sarah.
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Dec. 1660.
5. IV. Samuel, born in England, married Mary Meads llth
Jan. 1665.
6. V. Mary, born in England, married Thomas Lewis, June
15, 1653.
7. VI. Ruth, born in Barnstable, baptized 24th March, 1644,
married, Dec. 3, 1663, Stepen Hall, son of widow Mary
of Concord. He afterwards removed to Stowe, was repre
sentative in 1689.
John Davis was a house carpenter and was one of the three
last survivors of the first settiers.. His houselot, containing eight
acres, Was the first on the west of Baker's Lane, now called
Hyannis road. The lot was originally laid out to Edward
Fitzrandolph, who sold the same in 1649" to John Chipman; but
the deed was not executed tiU Aug. 13, 1669, and was never
recorded.* John Davis' deed of the same lot recorded in the
Basnstable town records is dated Oct. 16, 1649, and signed by
John Scudder.
Jan. 14, 1658, he sold six acres of his houselot to Samuel
Normon, bounded northerly by his little fenced field, easterly by
the Hyannis road, southerly by the woods, and westerly by the
land of Mr. Wm. Sergeant. On the 26th of February, 1665,
Norman re-conveyed this land, with his dwelling house thereon,
to John Davis ; but the land yet retains the 'name of Norman's
HiU. He also owued thirteen acres on the east side of the Hyan
nis road, bounded northerly "upon Mrs. Hallet's set of," easterly
by Mrs. Hallett, westerly by the Hyannis road ; aud an addition
of five acres on the south, extending on both sides of the Hyannis
road. He also owned three acres in the old, and two acres in the
new common-field, half an acre on the north side of the County
road, opposite his house, improved as an orchard and garden, and
a quarter of an acre bought of Henry Cobb near where David
Bursley's house now stands, four acres of meadow at Sandy Neck,
and two acres within the present dyke, bounded westerly by
Rendevous Creek.
In his wiU, dated May 10, 1701, proved AprU 9, 1703, he
bequeaths to his "eldest son John all that parcel of upland and
swamp that he now possesses and dwells on contained within his
fence on the eastward side of the highway that leads up into the
woods, estimated to be about fourteen acres, upon condition that
he shall pay £30 in money to my executors as shall be hereafter
ordered. And what he hath already paid to be deducted out of
ye said £30.
* I refer here to an original deed which I have in my possession. Another deed of the
same property dated June 1, 1649, to John Chipman was recorded that year. Why two
were given of the same property is not easily explained. They are not exact copies.
Perhaps the one I have, was given to correct some en-or in the flrst.

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Itt— I give and bequeath to my daughter Mercy for her tender
care and labor past done for me and her mother, £20 in money,
and £6 a year so long as she continues to attend me and her
mother, or the longest liver — her diet, washing, and lodging, in
the family with her brother Benjamin, 1 cow and heifer, 2 sheep,
2 swine, and at her mother's decease, 1-2 the household stuff and
bedding forever, and the southward end of the house so long as
she shall live a single life.
Names son Samuel, to whom he gives 1 yoke of Oxen and a
great chain. Son Benjamin, to whom he gives nearly all his
estate in consideration of his taking care of him aud his mother
during life. *
Names sons Dollar, Timothy, Jabez, daughters Ruth LinueU,
Hannah Jones' 5 children, son John's four eldest sons, grand
daughter Mary Goodspeed, grand-son Joseph Davis, Daughter
Mary Hinckley. Benjamin Davis, Executor.
Signed with his nbark, J. D.
Witness — Joseph Lothrop, James Cobb, Samuel S. Sergeant, (his
mark) .
Appraisers — James Lewis, Jeremiah Bacon, Edward -Lewis.
Am't of Inventory 268,12,4.
Nicholas Davis came to Barnstable with his father, and was
able to bear arms in 1643. Judge Sewall says he favored the
Quakers at their flrst coming, though he did not embrace theu-
principles till after 1657, when he took the -oath of fidelity. He
was a trader, built a warehouse at South Sea, the first building
erected by the English in that part of the town. His accounts
show that he dealt more with the Indians than was for his profit,
and that the gift of land to him by the Sachem Hianna, was uot
in the end a good bargain.
June 1656, he was iu the court at Plymouth when the Sand
wich men were convicted and fined for refusing to take the oath of
fidelity, and was a witness of the unjust usages to which they
had been subjected by the cruelty of the under Marshal Barlow.
He was indignant and attempted to speak, saying "That he was a
witness for the Lord against their oppression," and was about to
say wherein, when he was put down, and committed to prison ;
but was soon released.
In the same month he went to Boston to settle with those
with whom he had traded, and pay some debts. He was there
arrested, sent to ,pri8on to remain till the sitting of the court of
Assistants. His fellow prisoners were William Robinson, a mer
chant of London, and Marmaduke Stevenson of Yorkshire,
Quaker preachers, and Patience Scott of Providence, a little girl
eleven years old. He was kept in prison till Sept. 12, 1659,
when he was liberated on the consideration if found within the
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suffer death. The two Quaker preachers who were confined did
not leave the Colony within the time prescribed, were again
arrested, and afterwards hung on Boston Common.
On the 6th of October foUowing the Plymouth Colony Court
ordered the notorious Marshal Barlow "to repair to the house of
WiUiam Newland and Ralph AUeu of Sandwich, and Nicholas
Davis of Barnstable, to make search in any part of their houses,
or in any of the chests or trunks of the above said, or elsewhere,
for papers or writings that were false, scandalous, and pernicious
to the government, and return such as they may flnd to the court."
As no return appears to have been made, it is presumed no such
papers were found.
Nicholas Davis continued his business iu Barnstable tiU 1670.
In the spring of 1672 he was a resident of Newport, where he
traded, but it does not appear that he had permanently removed
from Barnstable. He was drowned before 9th Aug. 1672. His
wife Sarah administered on his estate at Newport. Maj. John
Walley administered on his estate in Massachusetts.
It does not appear that Nicholas Davis was a member of the
Society of P'riends. His name does not appear on the records of
the Sandwich Monthly Meeting, yet he probably was a member at
the time of his removal to Rhode Island, otherwise Roger
Williams in his big book against the Quakers, would not have
boasted, that in his public conference, with the friends of George
Fox, that he made good use of the event that Nicholas Davis, one
of their leading men, was drowned.
Nicholas Davis owned a large real estate in Barnstable.
Hianna, the Sachem, gave him a tract ol land on, the inlet now
called Lewis' Bay. The boundaries are indefinite ; it included
the land where Timothy Baker's store now stands, and on which
he erected a warehouse. f He traded at New York, Connecticut,
and Rhode Island, and his goods were landed at Hyannis and
t Xo all persons to whom these presents shall come, know yee that I, Yanno Sachem of
a certaine tract of lands lying and being att the South See, in the presincte of Barnstable, in
the Govei-nmeiit of New Plymouth, in New England, in America, have for divers good
reasons mee moving freely and absolutely given, granted, enfeofed, and couHrmed, and by
these presents do giye, grauut, ei^feof, and confirm unto Nicholas -Davis, of Barnstable,
aforesaid merchant a certaine p sell of the said lands lying att the South Sea aforesaid,
commonly called by the name of Sam's Neck, bounded northerly by the lands of Barnstable
bought of mee, the said Yanno, at the head of the river where the said Nicholas Davis hath
now erected a -warehouse, and ft-oin thence extending to the head of the river, westerly
where the Indians were wont to dwell in winter, extending southerly over the mouth of the
said river to the sea, and bounded westerly partly by the said river and partly by the lands
of Barnstable, and bounded easterly by the harbor, commonly called Yanno's harbor.
The mark (><j ) of Yanno.
And a f scale] .
Yanno Sachem above said, personally appeared before mee and acknowledged this to be
his acte and deed. Atttest, THOMAS HINCKLEY, Assistant.
Wattanwassan, the eldest son of the said Yanno, appeared before mee and acknowl
edged his free consent to this above said deed of gift.
THOMAS HINCKLEY, Assistant.
The above deed is dated October 26th, 1666, and recorded in Plymouth Colony Records
Book of Deeds Vol. 3, Page 61. ' ,„„„,t , , -^ ^
WM. S. RTJSSELL, keeper of said record.

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transported across the Cape. Oysters were at that time very
abundant and Davis bought them, put up in barrels, of the
Indians and others, aud shipped them from Hyannis. In early
times the "making of Oysters," as the packing of them is called
in the wUl of Benjamin Bearse, was a considerable business.
Many of the Oysters packed were probably brought from the
vicinity of Oyster Island.
He also owned two acres of land on the west of his father's
land, where the late Dea. Joseph Chipman lived, including the
landing and the land around the water mUl, which was then proba
bly his property. Ori his land he had a dwelling house which
stood where Mr. Maraspin's now does, corresponding in size and
appearance to that built by Nathaniel Bacon which has been
described. He also had a warehouse on this lot. He had
twelve acres of land on the south-east of his father's, sold to
John Bacon, Esq., and already described. He also bought of
Caleb Lumbard the easterly part of the great lot of Thomas
Lumbard, with the house thereon. This was set off to his widow
as her dower, and was afterwards owned by the descendants of
Robert Davis.
(2-1) John Davis, son of Dolar Davis, married by Mr.,
Prince, at Eastham, March 15, 1648, to Hannah, daughter of Mr.
• Robert Linnell of Barnstable. He died 1703.
Children born in Barnstable.
8. I. Johu, born 15th Jan. 1649-50, married three wives.
9. II. Samuel, born 15th Dec. 1651, died unmarried 1711.
10. III. Hannah, married Jedediah Jones.
11. IV. Mary, boru 3d Jan. 1753-4, married- 1st, B. Good-
speed, 1676, 2d, John Hinckley, Nov. 24, 1697.
12. V. Joseph, born June 1656, married Mary Claghorn,
March 28, 1682.
13. VI. Benjamin, born June, 1656, died unmarried 1718.
14. VII. Simon, born 15th July, 1658, died young, no issue
probably.
15. VIII. Dolar, born 1st Oct. 1660, married 3d Aug. 1681,
Hannah Linnell.
16. IX. Jabez, married Experience Linnell, 20th Aug. 1689.
17. X. Mercy, unmarried 1718.
18. XI. Timothy, married Sarah Perry 1690.
19. XII. Ruth, born 1674, married Johu LinneU 1695.
(3-2) Nicholas Davis of Barnstable, probably son of Dolar
Davis, married, June 1661, Mary or Sarah. There is no record
of his family on the Barnstable town records. He was drowned
at Newport before Aug. 9, 1672.
Children horn in Barnstable.
20. I. A child Feb. 1651-2.
21. II. Simon, 1656, drowned Feb. 13, 1657-8.

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.(4-3) Simon Davis of Concord, son of Dolar Davis, married
12th Dec. 1660, Mary, daughter of James Blood.
22. I. Siflion, born 12th Oct. 1661.
23. II. Mary, born 3d Oct. 1663.
24. III. Sarah, born 15th March, 1666.
25. IV. James, born 19th June, 1668.
26. V. Ellen, born 22d Oct. 1672.
27. VI. Ebenezer, 1676.
28. VII. Hannah, born 1st AprU 1679.
(6-4) Samuel Davis of Concord, son of Dolar Davis, married,
llth Jan. 1666, Mary Meads (or Meddows.)
29. I. Mary, born Sept. 27, 1666.
30. II. Samuel, born 21st June 1669.
31. III. Daniel, born 16th March 1673.
32. IV. EUza.
33. V. Stephen.
34. VI.- Simon, born 9th Aug. 1683.
(6-5) Thomas Lewis, son of George, married Mary Davis
15th June 1653, and had James March 1664 ; Thomas, 15th July
1656 ; Mary, 2d Nov. 1659 ; Samuel, 14th May 1662. Thomas
Lewis was probably the first town clerk of Falmouth, but I am
not certain. (3-1) John Davis, Jr., son of John, and grandson of Dolar,
married Ruth Goodspeed 2d Feb. 1674. She died  . 2d,
married Mary Hamlin 22d Feb. 1692, she died Nov. 1698. 3d,
married Widow Hannah Bacon 1699, widow of Nathaniel.
36. I. John, last of Nov. 1675, died middle August 1681.
36. II. Benjamin, 8th Sept. 1679.
37. III. John, 17th March 1684.
38. IV. Nathaniel, 17tb July 1686.
39. V. Jabez, baptized 10th May 1691, married Patience
Crocker, 1727.
40. VI. Shobal, born 10th July 1694.
41. VII. James, 24th March 1696.
42. VIII. Ebenezer, 13th May 1697.
43. IX. Nicholas, 12th March 1699.
44. X. Jedediah, 5th June 1700.
45. XI. Desire, born May 1705.
46. XII. Noah, 7th Sept. 1707.
John Davis, Jr., was a house carpenter. Feb. 21, 1677-8,
the town granted to him "liberty to set up a shop on a knowl of
ground over against his house adjoining to his father's fence on
the other side of the highway." In August, 1683, the neighbors
wanted a watering place in the swamp on the south side of his
house, and the town agreed to give him five acres of land at the
head of Samuel Sergeant and Isaac Chapman's lots. That now
within fence, was afterwards re-sold by the town to Ebenezer
Lewis.

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His father gave him the fourteen acres of land he owued on
the east of the Hyannis road on which he built a house. He
removed to Falmouth about the year 1710, and died In 1729, aged
80, leaving an estate appraised at £1,810. He names his ten sons
and two daughters, and his wife's daughter, Elizabeth Bacon, in
his will, which is simUar to that of his brother Samuel's. He
orders a fund of £500 to pay legacies, &c.
(9-2) Samuel Davis, son of John Davis, resided in Barn
stable. He did not marry. He died in 1711, leaving a large
estate for those times. He owned all the land on the south side
of the road, between the lot which was his father's, and the lane
next west of the Barnstable R. R. Depot. Dec. 21, 1696, he
sold lands in Rochester, to Samuel Chipman, for £35. His will
on record is dated 25th June, 1711, and was proved on the 4th of
January following. It is one of those wills that please gene
alogists. He says : "I freely give unto my brother Benjamin
Davis, during his natural life, the use and improvement of all the
uplands and meadows I bought of Isaac Chapman and Samuel
Sargeant here lying together — butting against 'the land of Ebene
zer Lewis on Potter's Neck, and so up into the woods to the head
thereof and also, in like manner, to have my woodlot lying above
the head thereof, and at the decease of my brother Benjamin,
then my will is that Samuel Davis, son of my brother Jabez
Davis, deceased, shall have all the f orementioned lands, meadows,
and woodlot, to him, his heirs and assigns, forever, he or they
paying three hundred pounds for the. same, (excepting five pounds
of said sum to himself) and to have seven years time to pay out
the same, after said lands come into his hands."
He further provides, that if Samuel should die or refuse to take
the same, then Simon, son of his brother Joseph, to take the
same, on the same conditions, and if he refuse, then the next in
kin of the "Davises" to have the same offer, and the £295 to be
divided as follows :
To. my sister Mary Davis, £40
Solomon, son of Jabez Davis, 5
Brother Jabez Davis' 3 daughters, 3
Sister Ruth Linnell, 5
" " " children,, 7
Br. Joseph Davis' 3 sons 5 each, 15
" " " daughter Mary, 6
" Dolar Davis' son Shubael, 5
" " " daughter Hannah, 5
" " " Thankful and Mary, 2
Sister Mary Hinckley, 10
" " " daughter Mary, 1
" Hannah Jones' children £1 each, 7
Br. John Davis' 10 sons £4 each, 40

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To Br. John Davis' 2 daughters, £1, £ 2
" " Timothy Davis, 20
" " " - " son Nicholas, 5
" " " " daughter, 5

£182
To his brother Benjamin Davis he gave ten acres of land in the
common field bought of Samuel Sargent, and other property, and
to his sister Mercy Davis nearly all his moveable estate.
He also ordered a part of the income of his estate to be kept
in bank, and to be distributed to such of his relations of the
Davis' as may fall under decay, and be in want either by sickness
or lameness or other accident — ^proportioned according to their
several necessities — until all is distributed.
He appointed Benjamin Davis his executor. He died in 1718
and Samuel assumed the trust, and though the estate was
appraised at £481,17,10, it proved insufficient to pay the legacies
in full. Samuel, before making a' final settlement, removed to
to Connecticut. Some of the receipts call him of Groton, others
of New London, and others of Coventry.
(10-3) Hannah, daughter of John Davis, married Jedediah
Jones 18th March, 1681, and resided at Scorton, just within the
bounds of Barnstable. In the town records only Shubael, Simon,
Isaac, Timothy and Hannah, are named-born previous to 1695.
(11-4) Mary, daughter of John Davis, married in 1677,
Benjamin Goodspeed, and had Mary Jan 10, 1677-8, who married
ichabod Hinckley, and receipted for his wife's legacy. Nov. 24,
1697, she married Ensign John Hinckley of West Barnstable. By
her last husband she had no children.
(12-5) Joseph, son of John Davis, married, March 28, 1682,
Mary Claghorn, daughter of James. He resided at Chequaquet,
aud died about 1690. She died 1706.
Children horn in Barnstable.
•47. I. Simeon 19th Jan. 1683.
48. II. Mary, 19th June 1685.
49. III. Joseph, AprU, 1687.
50. IV. Robert, 13th June 1689.
James Cahoou, illegitimate son born Oct. 26, 1696.
(13-6) Benjamin, son of John Davis, died unmarried in 1718,
and his estate was divided among his brothers and sisters and then-
representatives then living: 1, to John Davis, (Samuel died in
1711) ; 2, to heirs of Hannah Jones, deceased; 3, to heirs of
Mary Hinckley., deceased ; 4, to heirs of Joseph Davis, deceased,
(Benjamin and Simon deceased) ; 5, to heirs of Dolar Davis ;
6, to heirs of Jabez Davis ; 7, to Mary Davis ; 8, to Timothy
Davis ; and 9, to Ruth Linnell. Of the family of John Davis
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who had families. He had lands at Catacheset, Oyster Island,
Cotuit, Cooper's Pond, and at the Common Field. He owned the
dwelling-house which was his father's.
(14-7) Dolar, son of John Davis, removed early to South Sea.
His farm was at Skonconet. He married, 3d Aug. 1681, Hannah,
daughter of David LinneU. He was a house carpenter and joiner.
He died in 1710, and names in his wUl, sons Shubael, Stephen,
Daniel, Job, and Noah", and daughters Hannah, Thankful, Remem
ber Mercy. He gave one half of his joiners tools to Stephen,
and the other half and all his carpenters tools, to Job. He had
two swords, which indicates that he had seen service as a soldier.
The best he gave to Job, and the other to Noah. His wife is not
named, and was probably dead. /
Children horn in Barnstable.
51. I. Shubael, 23d April, 1685, married twice.
52. II. Thomas, Aug. 1686 died young,
63. III. Hannah, Dec. 1689.
64. IV. Stephen, Sept. 1690.
'56. V. Thankful, March 1696.
66. VI. Daniel, July 1698.
67. VII. Job, July 1700.
58. VIII. Noah, Sept. 1702.
59. IX. Remember Mercy, 16th Oct. 1704.
(16-9) Jabez, son of John Davis, was a carpenter, and
resided in Barnstable. In his will dated 29th Sept. 1710, he
named all his children excepting Reuben and Ebenezer, who
probably died young. He orders his sons Isaac aud Jacob to be
put to some trades as soon as they are capable. Inventory
£538,16,08. Jabez Davis married, 20th Aug. 1689, Experience, daughter
of David Linnel, of Barnstable. He died 1710, and his widow
married, Feb. 13, 1711-12, Benjamin Hatch, of Falmouth. She
died a widow Dec 1736.Children born in Barnstable.
60. I. Nathan, 2d March 1690, (town aud church records.)
61. II. Reuben, (church records.)
62. III. Samuel, 25th Sept. 1692. Removed to Connecticut.
63. IV. Bathsheba, 16th Jan. 1694.
64. V. Isaac, 23d AprU, 1696, died in 1718.
65. VI. AbigaU, 26th AprU, 1698, married Sept. 1718, Joseph
Hamblin.
66. VII. Jacob, Oct. 1699.
67. VIIL Mercy, 6th Feb. 1701.
68. IX. Ebenezer, bap 23d June, 1706.
69. X. Solomon, 4th Sept. 1706.

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(17-10) Mercy, daughter of John Davis, was an old maid,
gentle, kind, affectionate, nurse and physician to her father and
mother, her brothers and sisters, and the host who called her aunt.
She died in 1733, aged about 70, and bequeathed her whole estate
to her sister Ruth Linnell, to children of her brother John, and to
her nephew Simon Davis.
(18-11) Timothy, son of John Davis, joined the society of
Friends and removed to Rochester, and is the ancestor of the
Davis's in New Bedford and Rochester. Until the discovery of
Samuel Davis' Will they were unable to trace their descent from
Dolar. They knew they were distantly related to the Davis's in
Falmouth, descendants of John Jr., and that Nicholas, the early
Quaker, was a connection, but the degree of consanguinity was
unknown. Timothy Davis married 7th of 1st month, 1690, Sarah,
daughter of Edward Perry, of Sandwich. His oldest son was
born in Sandwich, his other children probably in Rochester.
Nicholas, Oct. 28, 1690.
Hannah, Sept. 17, 1692.
Sarah, March 18, 1693-6.
Rest, Sept. 17, 1700.
Peace, AprU 14, 1702.
Dorcas, Sept. 10, 1704.
dates are from the records of the Sandwich monthly
meeting, and first month was then March.
(19-12) Ruth, daughter .of John Davis, married, in 1695,
John Linnel, one of the first who removed to South Sea. His
house was at Hyannis Port, and was taken down a few years ago.
She had seven chUdren ; making the whole number of the grand
children of- John Davis, Senior, 56. She died May 8, 1748, in
the 75th year of her age, and is buried in the ancient grave yard
at Barnstable. [The Concord and Falmouth branches are here dropt.J
(47-1) Capt. Simon Davis, son of Joseph, born 19th Jan.
1683-4, was an officer in the militia, and a man of some note. At
41 he married. May 12, 1725, Elizabeth Lumbert, who died leav
ing no issue. At 56 he married PrisciUa HambUn, (June 5, 1740.)
By her he had Mary, Feb. 28, 1741-2 ; Content, March 23, 1743-4 ;
Priscilla, Feb. 17, 1746-6, and Joseph baptized July 17, 1748.
She died AprU 1751, aged 41.
(50-4) Robert, son of Joseph Davis, probably removed to
Rochester, where he had by Mary, Joseph, AprU 8, 1727;
Benjamin, Feb. 22, 1728-9 ; Benajah, June 27, 1734.
(51-1) Shubael Davis, son of Dolar, married, Sept. 15, 1720,
HopestiU Lumbert, and 2nd, Patience Crocker 1727.
(54-4) Stephen Davis, son of Dolar, married Desire Lewis
March 12, 1730. He died very suddenly Dec. 7, 1766. He had
Mary and Martha, twins, born AprU 23, 1732 ; Jonathan baptized

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June 8, 1740; and Stephen born July 6, 1746. Mary married
Benjamin Lumbert, Jr., May 23, 1751 ; Martha, Joseph Lewis,
Esq. (56-6) Daniel Davis, son of Dolar, married Mary Lothrop.
Children born in Barnstable : Daniel, AprU 1, 1724 ; Samuel, May-
8, 1727; Joseph, May 28, 1729, died June 30, same year;
Jonathan, Sept. 21, 1733. Mrs. Mary Davis was dismissed Sept.
26, 1742, from the Barnstable church to the church in Lebanon,
Conn. (57-7) Job Davis, son of Dolar, married, Dec. 22, 1724,
Mary Phinney. He inherited the estate of his ancestor John.
He died AprU 4, 1751, aged 50, and his widow- died at the great
age of 98 years. Their children were: 1, Mary, June 21, 1725,
died young; 2, Thomas, Oct. 16, 1726, deaf and dumb, was a
weaver, died unmarried ; 3, Shubael, March 19, 1729, married
Thankful Lewis, Jr., AprU 30, 1852 ; 4, Mary, July 18, 1731,
married Thomas Young Feb. 1759-60: 5, Mehitabel, March 9,
1733-4, married 1st Gershom Cobb Feb. 6, 1761-2, and 2d,
Nathaniel Lothrop, 1776 ; 6, Seth, Dec. 27, 1736 ; 7, Hannah,
Sept. 6, 1739, married David Childs AprU 4, 1758, and through
her the ancient Davis estate passed into the Child family ; 8,
Ebenezer, Dec. 17, 1742, deaf and dumb, a shoe maker. He
removed to Maine.
(58-8) Noah Davis, son of Dolar, married. May 7, 1724,
Hannah FuUer, and had Lewis, Aug. 26, 1724 ; Thankful, March
9, 1728; Eunice, AprU 20, 1734;. Johu, baptized July 4, 1742;
Joseph, Oct. 21, 1746. Eunice married Jabez Claghorn Nov. 21,
1759. (60-1) Nathan Davis, son of Jabez, was a wheelwright, he
married, 24th Nov. 1714, Ehzabeth Phinney, and had Jabez 7th
Oct. 1715; Sarah, 12th Aug. 1717; p:iizabeth, 15th Sept. 1718;
Isaac, 9th June 1720. He administered on his brother Isaac's
estate in 1710.
Solomon, son of Jabez Davis, married Mehitabel Sterteyat of
Sandwich, and removed to that town.
(70-1) Nicholas Davis, son of Timothy, belonged to the
Society of Friends and resided at Rochester. He was a Quaker
preacher, aud spent most of his time in Rochester and Dart
mouth. He however travelled extensively, visiting North Caro
lina, Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New
York. On his return from a journey from New York he
was taken sick of a fever and died at the house of William Russell
in Oblong, 10th month, 7th Oct. 1775, (after 1752 January was the
first month) iu the 65th year of his age. He married thrice.
1st, Mary, 2d, Hannah, and 3d Ruth. By his first wife he had
Nathan born llth month, (Jan.) 28, 1715-16; Elizabeth, 11
month, 20, 1718-19. By his second wife he had no children. By
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3 month, (May) 10, 1732 ; Ahram, 12th month (Feb.) 20, 1735-6 ;
(Rochester' records Feb. 1, 1736) Mary, 5th month (July) 3,
1742 ; James, 3d month (May) 1743. The latter was grandfather
to Wm. P. Davis of Yarmouth. Timothy of this family was a
Quaker preacher. During the Revolution he was an ardent whig,
and wrote a pamphlet in favor of prosecuting the war. For this,
he was diso-wyied by his brethren. [It is said, on what authority
I am unable to say, that Jefferson Davis is a descendant of
-Timothy.] In early times the descendants of Dolar Davis were very
numerous in Barnstable ; now not one remains who is a legal
voter. Many famUies of the name removed ; but not so many as
of some other names. Mahy of the families have dwindled and
died out.
The Davis families in Truro are descendants of Benjamin
Davis, born about the year 1730. He married Betsey Webb. He
had Benjamin who removed first to Chatham and thence to Reed-
field, Maine ; James W. ; Ebenezer L. ; and Betsey who married
Solomon Miric-k, of Brewster. His son Ebenezer L. married
Azubah Hinckley, and had Dianah, Solomon, Ebenezer, Betsey,
Benjamin, Azubah, and Joshua H., most of whom are now living.
James W. has afso descendants now living.

DELAP.

JAMES DELAP.

In 1688, when William and Mary asceuded the throne of
England, manufacturing industry had given wealth and prosperity
to Ireland. In the first year of their reign the royal assent was
given to laws passed by both Houses of Parliament, to discourage
the manufactures of Ireland which competed with those of Eng
land. Lord Fitzwilliam says that by this inviduous policy 100,000
operatives were driven out of Ireland. Many o*f the Protestants
to Germany, some of the Catholics to Spain, and multitudes of
all classes to America. Dobbe, on Irish trade, printed in Dublin
in 1729, estimated that 3000 males left Ulster yearly for the
colonies. The tolerant policy of William Penn, induced many to settle
in Pennsylvania. The arrivals at the port of PhUadelphia, of Irish
emigrants, for the year ending December 1729, was 5,655. The
satiriol Dean Swift reproached the aristocracy for their suicidal
impolicy "in cultivating cattle and banishing men."
The Irish emigrants who came over at the close of the 17th
and the beginning of the 18th centuries, were a very different
class from those who now throng to our shores. Very few could
claim a purely Celtic ancestry. Those from the north of Ireland
were descendants of Scots who had settled there and were known
as Scotch Irish. Many were descendants of English parents, and
of the Huguenots who found an asylum in Ireland after the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantz. A large proportion of them
were tradesmen, artisans, and manufacturers. Many settled in
the Southern States. Londonderry, in New Hampshire, was
settled by the Scotch Irish, and several towns in Maine. Many
settled in various towns in New England, and not a few of the
most noted men in our country trace their descent from these
Irish refugees. Among these are some families of the name of
AUison, Butler, Cathern, Carroll, Clinton, Fulton, Jackson, Knox,
McDonouah, Ramesyi Read, Sullivan, Walsh, Wayne^ and many
others distinguished in the annals of our country. ' Of the fifty-

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six who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine were Irish,
or of Irish origin.
The infiuence of this class of imigrants has not been suffi
ciently appreciated. The acts of the British Pariiament which
brought ruin to Ireland, gave prosperity to America. Wherever
the Irish refugees settled, there mechanical and manufacturing
industry was developed, giving a diversity of employment to the
people, adding to their wealth, aud making them prosperous and
less dependent on the mother country. The introduction of steam
power, the construction of canals and many great public enter
prises, originated with, or were promoted, and brought to a suc
cessful issue, by the descendants of these settiers. In the.
Revolutionary army many of the most efficient officers were Irish,
or sons -of Irishmen. In civil life many were eminent. Gov.
James SulUvan of Mass., was the son' of a Limerick school
master, who with other Irish families settled in Belfast, Maine, in
1723. Gen. Andrew Jackson, President of the United States,
was the son of an Irish refugee.
Among them were men distinguished in literature, George
Berkluy, Dean of Derry, came in 1729. His "Theory of Vision"
has made his name familiar in Europe. His object was to estab
lish a college for the conversion of the red race. He settled at
Newport where he had a farm of ninety acres. Fading in his
purposes in 1732, he gave his farm and the finest collection of
books which had then come over at one time, to Yale College. In
Newport his "Minute Phylosopher" was composed, and the' follow
ing beautiful lines so poetical in conception, and known to every
school boy to this day :
"Westward the Star of Empire takes its way,
The three first acts already past;
The fourth shall close it with the closing day,
Earth's noblest Empire is the last."
Among the flrst settlers in this County several Irish names
occur. Higgins is a Longford name. The Kelley's descended
from the O'Kelley's, a noted clan resident -near Dublin. In latter
times, several of the Scotch-Irish settled in Barnstable, namely :
WUliam Belford, James Delap, John Cullio, John Easterbrooks,
and Matthew Wood.
Charles Clinton, the ancestor of the Clintons in New York,
was born in Longford, Ireland, in the year 1690. His grand
father William was an adherent of Charles I, and took refuge in
the north of Ireland. His father James married Elizabeth Smith,
a daughter of one of the Captains in Cromwell's army. He was
a man of wealth and influence, and induced many of his friends
and neighbors to emigrate with him to America. He chartered
the ship George and Ann, Capt. Rymer, to transport them and
their effects from Dubhn to PhUadelphia. The whole number of
passengers, including men, women, and children, was one hundred

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and fourteen. Among the papers of Mr. Charles Chnton is a
document showing that he paid the passage money for ninety-
four. Mr. Clinton was unfortunate in his selection of a ship ;
but more unfortunate in his selection of a captain. Rymer
was a cold blooded tyrant, of whom his officers and sailorb
were in constant fear, and as base a villian as ever trod the deck
of a slave-ship. The George and Ann sailed on the 20th of May,
1729, from the port of Dublin for PhUadelphia, poorly supplied
with stores for a voyage of the ordinary length, but protracted by
the infamy of the master to one hundred and thirty-flve days.
The passengers were not isolated individuals who had casually met
'on ship-board, they consisted of families who had converted
their estates, excepting such portion as they could con
veniently take with them, into, gold, to purchase lands in
Pennsylvania, and build a town where they could enjoy the
civil and religious privileges denied to them in their native
land. They had selected the mild season of the year for their
passage, and expected to arrive in Philadelphia in July, in season
to select their place of residence, and put up dwellings before
winter. Such were their anticipations. They did not dream that
half of their number would flnd watery graVes before reaching
the shores of America.
Among the passengers in this ill-fated ship were the father
and mother of James Delap, and his sister's Rose, Jean, and
Sarah. - Tradition says there was another child whose name is not
preserved. The Delap family were from Cavan, a county
adjoining Longford, the former home of nearly all the other
passengers. There were two on board whom Capt. Delap in his
narrative, calls "Methodists."*
Several besides Mr. Clinton had considerable sums in gold
and silver coins. This was known to the captain, and excited his
cupidity, and he resolved to prolong the voyage, and to keep his
ship at sea until his provisions were exhausted, and his passengers
had died of famine and disease, and then seize and appropriate
their goods to his own use. Such was the diabolical plan of Capt.
Rymer. The ship had not long been at sea before the passengers
began to mistrust that the captain had evil designs. He was
tyrannical in the exercise of his authority, and his officers and
men were in constant fear of him. The ship was making slow
progress towards her port of destination, the passengers had been
put on short allowance, and some had already died of disease
engendered by the small quantity and bad quality of the provisions
*No Methodist preachers came oyer as early as 1729. "Methodist" was a nick-name
then applied to men who were very exact in the performance of their religious duties,
whether Catholic or Protestant. The converts of fiie Wesley's were called "Methodist,"
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served out. Starvation and death seemed inevitable if no change
could be effected, and the passengers, after' consultation, resolved
to assume the command if a change could not otherwise be made.
The two called "Methodists," having some knowledge of the
theory and practice of invigation, were appointed to watch night
and day all the movements of Capt. Rymer. One night soon
afterwards, they discovered that though the wind was fak, the
ship was sailing in an opposite directiou from her true course.
They inquired of the helmsman why he so steered ; his reply was,
"that is the captain's order."
This fact was communicated to the other passengers. Several
had then died of starvation, and many had become so weak and
emaciated by want of .food and nourishment that they could
scarcely stand. Though weak and feeble they resolved to make
an effort to compel the captain to keep his ship on her true course,
both by night as well as by day. One of the passengers had a
brace of pistols. These were loaded and put into the hands of
the "Methodists," and all the passengers who had sufficient
strength remaining followed them to the quarter deck.f With the
loaded pistols in their hands they, charged the captain with
treachery, with protracting the voyage, with the design of keep
ing the ship at sea till all the passengers had perished of disease
or famine, and then seize on their goods. He. said in reply that
the voyage had been prolonged by head winds, and not by any
fault or connivance of himself or his offcers. They then charged
him with having kept his ship off her course in the night, thus
deceiving the passengers, who were mostly landsmen, and unable
in dark weather to judge whether or not the ship was on her true
course ; with issuing fuller rations to his crew than to the passen-
ers that he might be able to navigate his ship. Seeing the resolute
and determined manner of the passengers, he made fair promises ;
but he made them only that he might break them. J
The Capes of Virginia was the first land made, but no date is
given, from whence, according to the pretence of the captain, he
was driven by stress of weather to Cape Cod, making the land on
the 4th of October 1729.
This was only pretence, and though his surviving passengers
earnestly persuaded him to land them, according to contract, at
Philadelphia, or at New York, or at any port he could make, he
refused to accede to their requests, and obstinately kept his vessel
at sea, though his passengers were daily perishing for want of
t Another account says this occurred in the cabin of the ship. Prudence required thatit
should not occur in presence of the crew, and I am inclined to.the opinion that the tradition
in our family is at fault in this particular.
t Whether this uprising among the passengers was before or after land had been dis
covered is not named in the narrative of Capt. Delap. It probably occurred before. It is
referred to in several notices of the voyage that I have seen; but the date of its occurrence
is not given, nor the date of the first sight of land.

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food. P>ery sailor knows that the gale which would drive a
vessel from the Capes of Virginia to Cape Cod, would enable a
captain of very moderate attainments to have made a harbor either
in the Chespeake or in Delaware Bay, or to have reached the port
of New York. Like many other villains, he did not see the goal
to which his base conduct inevitably led. When off the Capes of
Virginia he had wit enough to perceive the difficulty in which he
was involved. If he hstened to his passengers, and made for the
port of Philadelphia, he would have been immediately arrested ou
his arrival, and his only alternative was to keep his ship at sea,
avoid speaking any vessel, and persist in his diabolical purpose.
The New England Weekly Journal, printed at Boston Nov.
10, 1729, contains the following notice of the arrival of the
George and Ann :
"We hear from Martha's Vineyard that some time last-month
Capt. Lothrop, in his passage from this, place (Boston) to that
island, off of Monomoy espied a vessel which put out a signal of
distress to them. He making up to her went aboard ; found her to
be a vessel from Ireland, bound for PhUadelphia, (as they said)
who had been from thence 20 weeks and brought out 190 passen
gers, 30 of whom were children, being destitute of provision,
(having then but 15 biscuit on board) 100 of them were starved
to death, among which were all the children except one, and the
remainder of the passengers looked very'ghastfully. They craved
" hard for water, of which one drank to that degree that he soon
after died ; and two more died while Capt. Lothrop was, aboard.
Only three of the sailors were alive (besides the master and mate)
and they sick. They entreated him to pilot them into the first
harbor they could get into, but the master was for bringing them
to Boston. They told him if he would not let the pilot carry
them into what place he should think fit, they would throw him'
overboard ; upon which Capt. Lothrop having brought the vessel
off of Sandy Point, told them there was but one bouse near, and
spoke of going somewhere else, but they were all urgent to put
them ashore anywhere, if it were but land. Accordingly he
carried them in and left them there, with provisions ; 'tis thought
many are sinbe dead. Notwithstanding their extremity, and the
sad spectacles of death before their eyes, and a near prospect of
their own, 'twas astonishing to behold their impenitence, and to
hear their profane speeches."
The renowned Capt. Johu Smith, and other early navigators,
speak of Isle Nauset, which in ancient times extended from the
entrance to Nauset harbor, south about four miles. Deep naviga
ble waters now occupy its location. The loose sands of which
it was composed have been carried southward by the currents, or
blown inward, covering up the meadows, which for many years
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has passed entirely over them, and united with Pochet islands.
The harbor between the latter and Nauset I.'-le is now entirely filled
up. Since 1729 Monomoy Point, in Chatham, has extended south
several miles. The point which Capt. Lothrop calls Sandy, was
then about four miles north of Monomoy Point. A vessel then
entering Chatham harbor could sail -eight mUes in a northerly
direction within the islands up to the present town of Eastham.
It is certain that Capt. Rymer landed his passengers at Nauset,
and in that part of the territory, now called Orleans..
When Captain Lothrop boarded the George and Ann, Mono
moy Point was the nearest land ; a barren, desolate region, where
neither shelter nor provisions could be procured. The point which
he called Sandy point was on the north of the entrance to Chat
ham, probably then separated by a channel from Isle Nauset.
This was also a barren, desolate region, with only one house.
The settlement at Chatham was the nearest, but at that time there
were only a few inhabitants scattered over a large territory.
Capt. Lothrop judged it better to proceed further up the harbor to
Nauset, or Eastham, an older settlement, where an abundance of
supplies could be procured. The passengers were probably landed
near the head of Potamomacut harbor, in the easterly part of the
present town of Orleans. Tradition says they were landed on
Nauset Beach ; but it was equally as convenient to set them ashore
on the main land, and not ou a desert island. J
Capt. Lothrop belonged to Barnstable, and was a very relia
ble and accurate man. He states that the number of passengers
was 190, instead of 114. I give both statements, not knowing
which is the most accurate.
Of the one hundred and fourteen (or 190 as stated by Loth
rop) who embarked at Dublin, less than one-half were then living
— all the rest had been committed to -the watery deep. Of the
Delap family the father. Rose, Jane, Sarah, and another, had been
buried in the ocean. The mother was living when Capt. Lothrop
came on board — emaciated and very weak, in consequence of long
abstinence. When food was distributed she took a biscuit, and
in attempting to swallow it a piece lodged in her throat, and
before reUef could be obtained, expired. Her body was-taken on
shore, and buried at Nauset. James, when taken from the boat,
was so weak that he could not stand, and crawled from the boat
to the beach. After landing, the surviving passengers and some
of their goods, Capt. Rymer proceeded on his voyage to Phila-
Tjune 25 1863. Not being able to clearly understand the statement of Capt. Lothrop,
which I receiVed this week, I went yesterday to Nauset beach, and examined the localities,
and I feel certain that the comments made thereon are reliable and accurate. Monomoy i§
now calledTlso Sandy Point, which creates confusion. By Sandy Point Capt. Lothrop
meint the point at the north eAti-ance of Chatham harbor, possibly he may have meant the
Sat the entrance of Potamomacut harbor; but be that as it may it does not afi-ect the
?esSu Now if a vessel should arrive off Chatham in such condition .the news would be
Lansmitted to Boston in an hour, then it was thirty-five days before the intelligence reached
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delphia. After his arrival the saUors, reheved from the terror in
which they had been held, entered a complaint against their
Captain. He was arrested, a preliminary examination was had,
and he was sent in irons to England for trial. The charges of
cruelty to his passengers and crew, of extortion, and of an
attempt to embezzle the goods of the passengers, were proved,
and he was condemued to be hung and quartered, and this just
sentence was duly executed in Dublin.*
Such is the short and sad narrative of the passage of James
Delap to this country. No details of individual suffering are
given. The fact that more than one-half of aU on board perished
of starvation, is a suggestive one. He was then fourteen years of
age ; young, but the incidents of such a passage would make a
.deep impression, not soon to be fqrgotten. So far as known, he
was the sole survivor of the family — an Orphan boy, weak and
emaciated — a stranger in a strange land, without money, without
any friend or protector but "the father of the fatherless."
Little is known of his orphanage. From Eastham he came
to Barnstable^ and Nov. 5, 1729, he chose John Bacon, Jr.,
saddler, for his guardian, with whom he resided during his minor-
¦ ity, as an apprentice to learn the trade of a blacksmith. t
He had a guardian appointed early that he might, as stated in
the record, have an agent who had legal authority to secure the
small "estate of his Honored father, deceased." A small portion
was recovered, and on the 26th of the following January apprised
at £16, 4s by Geo. Lewis, James Cobb, and John Scudder, Jr.
The "Goods and Chatties" saved consisted of articles of men and
women's apparel, bedding, table linen, woolen yarns, and a gun.
Capt. Delap always spoke kindly of his "Master Bacon."
He was treated as a member of the family. The children
regarded him as a brother, and for three successive generations
the relation between the famUies was most intimate.
-* Respecting the voyage and its termination, there are some discrepencies. Hoosack.
in his life of Clinton, says the ship sailed from Dublin in May, 1729, and after a voyage of 21
weeks and 3 days an-ived at Cape Cod, in the fall, where Mr. Clinton and his surviving
friends remained till the following spring, when they took passage for New Winsor, Orange
Co., New York. As the ship had been insured in Dublin the captain contrived to let her
slip .her moorings on a stormy night, in which she was lost. T?he account in Hoosack says
that the captain kept his passengers at sea imtil he extorted a sum of money from them to
land them; that Clinton wanted the officers ol the ship to seize the Captain and ship but
they refused.
Eager, in his history of Orange County, N. Y., says the Captain was seized, put in irons
by the passengers, and the command given to the mate, who brought the vessel in, in a
few days. '
Among the passengers were three of the name of Armstrong, all of whom died on the
passage, Charles Clinton and wife, Alexander Dennison, and John Young, who survived.
[For the information in this note, I am indebted to E. B. O'Callagan, Esq., of Albany. I
am also indebted to Hon. .John G. Palfrey, and Rev. Henry M. Dexter, of Boston, and J. R.
Boi-dhead, Esq., author of the history of New York, for assistance in compiling this
article.] t John Bacon, Jr., was the father of the late Capt. Isaac Bacon, Sen'r, and o-wned the
honse in which the latter lived, a large two story gambrel roofed house, that stood next east
of the ancient Bacon mansion. John Bacon, Jr., is called a saddler, he was also a black
smith and a sailor. His blacksmith's shop stood on the west of liis house, near the row of
ancient cheri-y trees, and there -James learned his trade. \

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After completing the term of his apprenticeship, he bought
the estate of Jeremiah Bacon, Jr., bounded south by the county
road, the present lane to the Common Field is ou the' west of his
land, north by MiU Creek, and east by a small run of water, con
taining three and one-half acres, with the two story single house
thereon. His shop stood on the road, east of the run of water.
The hiU on the east of his shop is yet known as Delap's HUl.
In the summer season he sailed in the Barnstable and Boston
packet, at first, with Capt. Solomon Otis, and afterwards ' as
master. In the winter he was employed in his blacksmith's
shop. June 22, 1738, he was married by Rev. Mr. Green, to Mary,
daughter of Benjamin O'KeUey, of 'Yarmouth. She was born
AprU 8, 1720, O. S., and at the time of her marriage had been
residing in the family of Deacon Isaac Hamblin of Yarmouth.
Though only 18, she was a member of the Church in Yarmouth,
and was all her life a woman of exemplary piety. Her mother,
Mary, was a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Walker) Lumbert,
born in Barnstable 17th June, 1688.- She was a widow many
years, and resided with her daughter, was a mid-wife, a vocation
which a century ago was a very common and very useful employ
ment for females. She was experienced, and stood high in her
profession. When more than four score years, when on her way
to visit a patient, her horse stumbled, and she fell and broke her
leg ; but after being confined to her room some months she
recovered, and resumed her useful labors for a short time. She
died, according to the church records. May 1, 1772, aged 82 years
— nearly 84 years of age, if her birth is accurately recorded.
Capt. James Delap removed from Barnstable to Granville,
Nova Scotia, in the spring of the year 1775, and resided on a farm
which he inherited from his son Thomas, who died young. All
his family removed with him excepting his daughters Rose and
Catherine. His health began to fail before he removed from
Barnstable, and he died in Granville in 1789, of apoplexy, aged
about 74.
He is spoken of as a "very friendly, civil man, hospitable to
strangers, kind to all, and very liberal in his efforts to educate his
children." His letters to his children indicate that he was a
very affectionate parent, and took a lively interest in their welfare.
"In person he was short, thick set, stout built, with a short neck,
a form which physiologists say predisposes to apoplexy of which
he had three shocks, two before he removed from Barnstable. In
politics, he was a staunch loyalist, a fact that seems inconsistent
with the history of his family. Though his widow was sixty -nine
years of age at his death, she married John Hall, Esq., of Gran
ville, whom she survived. She died June 4, 1804, aged 84 years.
She was an exemplary and consistent Christian ; an active ener
getic woman ; and an excellent wife and mother.

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Capt. James Delap had ten children all born in Barnstable,
all lived to mature age, and all excepting Thomas married and
had famihes. The eight daughters of James Delap were all
robust and healthy ; women of good sense, sound judgement, and
good business capacity, most of them lived more than seventy
years and had numerous descendants.
Children fif James and Mary Delap horn in Barnstable.
I. Rose, born Feb. 25, 1739, O. S., married Ebenezer Scud
der, of Barnstable, Jan, 11, 1759, and had ten children:
1, Ebenezer, Aug. 13, 1761; 2, James, March 14, 1764,
died young; 3, Thomas, Sept. 10, 1766, died young; 4,
Isaiah, Jan. 8, 1768 ; 5, Asa, July 25, 1771 ; 6,'EUzabeth,
Oct. 12, 1773, married Morton Crocker; 7, Josiah, Nov.
30, 1775 ; 8, James D., Oct. 27, 1779 ; 9, Thomas D.,
Jan. 25, 1782 ; 10, Rose, AprU 24, 1784, died young.
Mrs. Rose Scudder died April 17, 1812, aged 72 years.
Mr. Ebenezer Scudder died June 8, 1818, aged 85 years.
He was a man of mild, pleasant disposition, a quiet, good
neighbor. Mrs. Rose Scudder was a woman of great
firmness and decision of character, and of untiring industry.
She resided at Chequaquet, near Phinney's Mill, seven
miles from the meeting house in the east parish, yet she
often, on the Sabbath, walked to meeting, attended the
morning and afternoon service, dined and took tea with
her sister Catherine, and walked home in the evening, the
whole distance by unfrequented roads, and more than one-
half the distance through forests. She often traveled four
miles to spend an evening, and at 9 o'clock walked home
alone, nearly the whole distance through a dense forest.
She spun much street yarn ; but she spun it for some pur
pose. She carried her knitting work with her, and knit as
she walked on. She said her work was good company on
a dark night. Her sons Ebenezer, Isaiah, Asa, Josiah and
James, inherited the character of their mother, and were
active business men, and successful in life. Thomas and
Elizabeth, like their father, were mild and pleasant ; but
wanting in energy of character.
II. AbigaU, born Nov. 6, 1741, O. S., married, Feb. 9, 1764,
John Coleman, of Granville, Nova Scotia. He was a son
of James Coleman of Barnstable. She had several chil
dren. Her sons James and Thomas were lost at sea. She
died in 1826, aged 84. '
III. Catherine, born Sept. 3, 1743, married Amos Otis, (my
, grandfather) and always resided in Barnstable. She had
two children, Amos and Solomon. She died Feb. 28,
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IV. Thomas, born AprU 14, 1745, did not marry. He was
master of a vessel, in the King's service, Dec. 6, 1771,
, while on a voyage from Philadelphia to Halifax, during a
violent gale and snow storm was cast ashore on Great
Point, Nantucket. All on board succeeded in getting to
the shore. It was a thick snow storm and very cold.
Capt. Delap perished in one of the hollows or gorges on
that point. Mr. Amos Otis in another. Two of • the sailors
went on to Cortue Point, heading towards the town, and
both froze to death on that point. Two other sailors and
a boy, John Weiderhold, succeeded in getting off Great
Point, and reached a barn at Squam. They covered them
selves up in the hay, placing the lad between them, so that
the warmth of their bodies kept him from freezing.
The next day the vessel was discovered by people from
the town, high and dry on the beach, and if the captain and
crew had remained on board none would have been lost.
Capt. Delap, Mr. Otis, and most of the crew, had been
exposed to the storm about twelve hours when the vessel
was cast on shore, and were wet, benumbed with cold, and
almost exhausted, when they got to the land. The boy
was the only one who had not been exposed, and who had
dry clothing. Capt. Delap is buried at Nantucket, and the
manner of his death is recorded on a monument to his
memory. His age was 26 years, 7 months, and 11 days.
The boy, Weiderhold, from that time made Nantucket
his home. He died ahout thirty years ago. He was a
member of the Masonic Fraternity, and a very worthy man.
He often related the sad story of the shipwreck, and pointed
out the spots where each perished.
V. Mary, born Nov. 3, 1747, O. S., married Seth Backus of
Barnstable, had a family of six children, Walley, Betsey,
Mary, Seth, James, Thomas, and removed to Lee, Mass.,
where she died at an advanced age. Her son Walley was
an influential man.
VI. Sarah, born AprU 11, 1750, 0. S., married Capt. James
Farnsworth, of Groton, and removed to Machias, where
she died in 1785, aged 35 years. She had a son who died
in childhood, and three daughters. One married Simeon
Foster, and resided at Cooper, Maine. Her grandson,
Benjamin F. Foster, was a popular writing master, and
author of a system of penmanship. Another daughter,
Sarah, married George S. Smith, Esq., of Machias.
VII. Jane or Jean, born Aug. 13, 1752, O. S., married, in 1772,
Jonas Farnsworth, (a cousin of the Capt. Jonas who mar
ried Sarah.) Their oldest daughter, Nancy, (my mother)
was born at Machias, in 1773. Having obtained of the

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British authorities a permit to remove, and a protection
against capture, the famUy embarked for Boston. On their
passage the vessel was taken by the British ship of, war
Viper, and sent to Hahfax. They afterwards took passage
in another vessel, were again captured, and were flnaUy
landed at Newburyport, from whence they proceeded to his
native town, Groton, Mass. When captured, several shots
were fired, and at the suggestion of the Captain, Mrs. F.
and her infant daughter laid on the cabin fioor, which was
below the water hne and comparatively safe.* Mr. Jonas
Farnsworth died suddenly of apoplexy, July 16, 1805, aged
57 years. She died May 1826, aged 73. They had ten
chUdren, and have numerous descendants. Their youngest
son. Rev. James Delap, was a graduate of Harvard CoUege,
and collected materials for genealogies of the Farnswortii
and Delap famUies, which remain unpubUshed.
VIIL Hannah, born July 14, 1755, N. S., married Samuel Street,
Esq., a Captain in the British Navy, and died soon after,
leaving no children.
IX. Temperance, born in 1757, baptized at the East Church
Jan. 15, 1758, married Dea. Thaddeus Harris,! of Corn
wallis, Nova Scotia, and died Nov. 9, 1732, aged 76, leav
ing a numerous family of children and grand-children.
One of her sons was for many years a member of the
Queen's Council. A grandson for several years was a
minister at Hyannis.
X. - James, born March, baptized Nov. 18, 1769, married at
20, Sarah Walker, of GranvUle, and had twelve children.
He married for his second wife Mrs. Pengree, of Corn
wallis, N. S., and removed to that town. He was for
many years a deacon of the Baptist Church in GranvUle.
He lived to be an old man.

It is surprising that no contemporaneous account of the voy
age of the George and Ann to this country can be quoted — a voy
age unparelled iu atrocity in the annals of immigration. Most
that is known is traditionary. Records must somewhere exist.
The newspapers of the day probably contain some information.
The records of the court in Dublin, where Rymer had his trial, if
copies could be obtained, would furnish authentic information.
* In a letter of my great grandfather, James Delap, to his daughter .lane, dated Gran
ville, July 16, 1780, but not forwarded till Oct. 1, he says : "We want to see you very much ;
but as the times are, cannot. Pray write at ever^ opportunity, for wc long to hear from you
and little Nancy. Wo heard you had a tedious time home, and were taken again. We hope
all these thingB will work together for your good. We are old, and the times are such, we
never expect to see you again. Let us endeavor to become the true children of Ood, so as
to meet in the Heavenly Kingdom, and never more bo separated."

t Dea. Harris was living in 1834, aged 86.

DEXTER.

MR. THOMAS DEXTER, SENIOR.
Of the early life of Mr. Dexter, little is known. He came
over, either with Mr. Endicott in 1629, or, in the fleet, with Gov.
Winthrop, the following year, bringing with him his wife, and chil
dren, and several servants. He had received a good education,
and wrote a beautiful court-hand ; was a man of great energy
of character, public spirited, and ever ready to contribute of his
means, and use his influence in promoting any enterprise which he
judged to be for the interest of the infant colony. He did his
own thinking, and was independent and fearless in the expression
of his opinions. Such were the leading traits in the character of
Mr. Dexter ; but it must be admitted that his energy of character
bordered on stubbornness, and his independence of thought, on
indiscretion and self-will.
In the year 1630, in the prime of life, and with ample means,
he settled on a farm of eight hundred acres, in the town of Lynn.
In the cultivation of his lands he employed many servants, and
was called, by way of eminence. Farmer Dexter. His house was
on the west side of Saugus river, above where the iron works
were afterward built. In 1633, he built a weir across the Saugus
river, for the purpose of taking bass and alewives, of which many
were dried and smoked for shipment. He also built a mill, and
bridge across the Saugus. In these enterprises he was the man
ager, and principal owner.
Mr. Dexter was admitted to be a freeman of the Massachu
setts Colony May 18, 1631 ; but disfranchised March 4, 1633,
therefore his name does not appear on the printed list. He had
many quarrels, and many vexatious law-suits. If the contro
versies respecting the iron works, in which he was a large owner,
* One of Mr. Dexter's descendants writes that the absence of all reference to any wife in
numerous deeds, dating back to 1639, seems to make it certain that he was a widower when
he came over, or lost Tiis wife early in his residence here. The fact that his youngest
daughter wan raarriagable in 1639, would seem also necessarily to throw hack his birth date
to 1S90-1595 ; which would make him 81 to 86 when he died.

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are included in the records and documents, which have been pre
served, in which he had an interest, they would flll a moderate
sized volumn. The reader of these records should remember that
they were made by the personal enemies of Mr. Dexter, and though
the facts may be accurately stated, yet some allowance is to be
made for the hostile feeling which existed in the minds of the
writers. In March, 1631, he had a quarrel with Gov. Endicott, in which
the Salem Magistrate struck Mr. Dexter, who complained to the
Court at Boston. Mr. Endicott in his defence, says, "I hear I
am much complained of by goodman Dexter for striking^ him ;
understanding since it is not lawful for a justice of the peace to
strike. But if you had seen the manner of his carriage, with such
daring of me, with his arms akimbo, it would have provoked a
very patient man. He has given out, if I had a purse he would
make me empty it, and if he cannot have justice here, he will do
wonders in England ; and if he cannot prevail there, he will try it
out with me here at hlows. If it were lawful for me to try it at
blows, and he a fit man for me to deal with, you would not hear
me complain." The jury to whom the case was referred, gave on
the 3d of May, 1631, a verdict for Mr. Dexter, assessing the
damage at £10 sterling ($44.44.)
In March, 1633, the court ordered that Mr. Dexter "be set in
the bilbows, disfranchised, and fined £10 sterling, for speaking
reproachful and seditious words against the government here
established." The bilbows were a kind of stocks set up near the
meeting-house in Lynn, in which the hands and feet of the culprit
were confined "A Bastile, made to imprison hands,
By strange enchantment made to fetter,
The lesser parts, and free the greater."
Mr. Dexter, having been insulted by Samuel Hutchinson, he
met him one day on the road, "and jumping from his horse, he
bestowed about twenty blows on his head and shoulders, to the no
small danger and deray of his senses, as well as sensibilities."
These facts show that Mr. Dexter was not a meek man. He had
many diflflculties with his neighbors, and one of the vexatious law
suits in which he was engaged, he left as a heritage to his children
and to his grand-childgren. Whether justice was or was not on his
side in all these cases, the troubles that environed him at Lynn,
induced him to seek a quieter home. In 1637, he and nine of his
neighbors obtained from the Plymouth Colony Court a grant of
the township of Sandwich. He went there that year, and with
the commendable public spirit for which he had ever been distin
guished buUt the first grist mill erected in that town. He did not
remain long, for in 1638, the next year, he had 350 acres of land
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remained there certainly tiU 1646, when he was indicted by
the Court of Quarter Sessions as a common sleeper at meetings.
It is probable that he left his son Thomas, not then of age, at
Sandwich, to take the care of his property in that town, and that
he returned to Lynn. At Sandwich he had lands assigned to him
in the first division. At the division of the meadows AprU 16,
1640, he bad six acres assigned to him for his mUl, and "twenty-
six acres if he come here to live." This record is conclusive evi
dence that he was not of Sandwich in 1640. Mr. Freeman, in his
annals of that town, is mistaken in his statement that "he was one
of those able to bear arms in Sandwich in 1643." His name is
not on the list ; neither is that of his son Thomas who does not
appear to have been of Sandwich that year. From the year 1640
to March 1646, neither the lather or the son are named in the
Colony Records as residents in Sandwich, though the father con
tinued to own the mill, and was one of the proprietors of the
lands. March 3, 1645-6, Thomas Dexter, of Sandwich, was pre
sented by the grand jury, for conveying away a horse that had
been pressed for the country use. Whether this was the father or
son, does not appear, nor is it material, for both were residents in
Sandwich that year. The father did not remain long in Sandwich.
Mr. Freeman says he left in 1648, he was certainly of Barnstable
in 1651, and was an inhabitant of that town till 1670, probably till
1675. About the year 1 646 he purchased two farms in Barnstable.
One to which reference has been frequently had in these articles,
situate on the south-east of the Blossom farm, and adjoining to
the mill stream,* and afterwards owned and occupied by WUliam
Dexter, probably his son, and the other on the north-eastern
declivity of Scorton Hill. His dwelling house was situate on the
north side of the old county road, and commanded an extensive
prospect of the country for miles around.
He led a quiet life in Barnstable, his name occasionally
appears as a juryman, and as a surety for the persecuted Quakers,
showing that he did not sympathize with the Barlow party. He
could not, however, entirely refrain from engaging in law suits.
At the March term of the Court in 1648-9, he had eight cases,
principally for the coUection of debts, and he recovered in seven.
In 1653, he had a controversy with his neighbors respecting the
* In my investigations, I have been unable to ascertain who built the first mill on the
sti-eam now known as Jones's mill stream at West Barnstable. Mr. Dexter's lands were
partly bounded by that stream, and I should not be surprised if some future investigator
should ascertain that he built the first mill at West Barnstable, also the Old Stone Fort, to
which frequent reference is made in the Crocker article. . , , , ,
On Wednesday last 1 was at Sandwich, and for the flrst time examined the records of
that towu for information respecting the Dexter family. I found much that I regret that I
had not known before writing this article. The records, in almost every instance, and I am
not certain but in evei-y instance, refer to the second Thomas Dexter. A deed of his to the
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boundaries of his lands, and at his request two men were appointed
by the Colony Court, "to set at rights the hnes or ranges," pro
vided the parties cannot agree among themselves. It was after
wards referred to Barnard Lumbard.
He had, soon after his settlement in Barnstable, a contro-
versey with the inhabitants, which remained unsettled for many
years. As the case has a historical interest and illustrates the
leading trait in his character, I shall give some details. Some
years prior to 1652, he built a causeway across his own meadow,
and a bridge across Scorton Creek, and extended the causeway to
the upland on Scorton Neck, at the place where the new County
road now passes over. A bridge and causeway to Scorton Neck
had previously been built by Sandwich men, about half a mile
farther west, which had been used in common by them and the
inhabitants of- Barnstable. Mr. Dexter's bridge shortened the
distance which the latter had to travel to their meadows on Scorton
Neck, and they claimed a right to pass over the new bridge with
out having assisted in the building, and without paying toll ;
because in the year 1652, according to the Barnstable town
records, "It was agreed upon by the Jury for the highways,
Anthony Annable being the foreman thereof, that a H' :;y two
rod broad go from the point of upland of Samuei Fuller's
through the marsh of Thomas Dexter's to the main creek, and so
cross the marshes as far as the marsh of Samuel Hinckley's.
Also, it is agreed by the said Jury that a foot way go from
Lieutenant Fuller's house across the creek, where Mr. Dexter's
bridge was, and so straight along to Mr. Bursley's bridge, leaving
Mr. Dexter's orchard on the right hand, and Goodman Fitzrandles
house on the left hand."
The highway laid out passed on the west side of Dexter's
farm, southerly to the old County road. The foot way corre
sponds in locations with the new County road, till it joins the
old, and thence by the latter to Bursley's bridge.
The matter was a cause of difllculty, and remained unsettled
till Obtober 5, 1656, when the Plymouth Colony Court appointed
and requested M. Prence, and Capt. Cudworth, to view the place
in controversy, and if they they can, put an end to it, and if they
cannot, to make report unto the Court of the state of the
matter. On the 10th of the same month the parties interested, namely,
Thomas Dexter, Senior, of the one part, and of the other, Samuel
Hinckley, WiUiam Crocker, Samuel Fuller, Peter Blossom,
Thomas Hinckley, Robert Parker, John Chipman, and Robert
Linnell, appeared on the premises before Mr. Thomas Prence and
Capt. James Cudworth, and the case that had caused so much
trouble, was "issued" to the satisfaction of all the parties. 1,
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the aforesaid marsh, that needs the privilege of the said way,
shall pay unto the said Thomas Dexter six pence per acre, in lieu
and fuU recompense for the said marsh wayed, forever, himself
and such others as make use thereof, to make and repair the said
way, proportionable to the use made of it— the gates or bars to be
shut after any one's use thereof by them, to prevent damage."
Right in this case, is apparent. If Thomas Dexter built, as
he did, a causeway and bridge on his own meadow, no one had a
legal right to use the same without his consent. The owners of
the meadows on Scorton Neck had a right of way to the
same, and the town had a legal right to lay out such way ; and if
they laid it out over Thomas Dexter's private way, he had a legal
right to claim compensation. This he claimed^ and the parties
interested refused to pay. The referees decided the case in his
favor, giving him six pence an acre, or about six dollars in all, not
enough to pay the law expenses he probably incurred. He had
legal right on his side ; but there were other considerations which
should have deterred him from exacting "the pound of flesh." It
was the only convenient place to build a bridge, it was the natural
outlet of the meadows above, and before the bridge was built the
owners had sometimes crossed over at that place. It was not an act
of good neighborhood on the part of Mr. Dexter to maintain a
quarrel more thanflve years, that he might have his own way.
In the following year, 1657, he commenced his lawsuit against
the inhabitants of the town of Lynn for the possession of Nahant,
which he claimed as his private property by virtue of purchase
made about the year 1637, of the Indian Sachem, Poquanum, or
Black Will, for a suit of clothes. This was a mercantile specula
tion, and the law suits which it produced were very expensive.
In February 1657, the inhabitants of Lynn voted to divide Nahant
among the householders, to each an equal share, and Mr. Dexter
thereupon brought an action against the town for taking possession
and occupying his property. He had, up to that time, manu
factured tar from the pine trees ; and the town had also exercised
some rights of ownership. This unusual mode of division made
every householder an interested party against Mr. Dexter, who
was then a non-resident. The court decided in favor of the
defendants, and Mr. Dexter appealed to the Assistants, who con
firmed the judgment of the lower court. Whatever might have
been the justice of his claira,'-it would have been difficult for him
to have obtained a verdict where nearly all the witnesses in the
case had an adverse interest.*
After his death his administrators, Capt. James Oliver, his
son-in-law, an eminent merchant of Boston, and his grandson,
¦? The law forbidding purchases of land from the Indians except by public permission,
had not been passed when Mr. Dexter bought Nahant; so that it would seem that he had a
legal right to make the purchase. S.

320 GENEALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Thomas, of Sandwich, were not satisfied with the decisions of the
courts, and in 1678, brought another action, and in 1695, aftei- the
death of Thomas Dexter, 3d, another was brought all with like
results. These suits continued at intervals through a series of
thirty-eight years, were very expensive, and the Dexters being the
losing party, their costs must have amounted to a large sum. It
was the settled policy of the first settlers, that all purchases of
lands from the Indians, should be by virtue of public authority.
Mr. Dexter was not so authorized, and therefore had no legal
right to make the purchase.
In 1657, Mr. Dexter took the oath of fidelity, and was
admitted a freeman of the Plymouth Colony June 1, 1668. For
the succeeding eighteen years he appears to have lived a quiet,
retired life, on his farm at Scorton Hill. He had passed that
period in life when men usually take an active and leading part in
business or in politics. Notwithstanding his expensive law suits,
he had ample i means remaining. During his life, he appears to
have conveyed his mill and his large real estate in Sandwich to his
son Thomas, and his West Barnstable farm to William, retaining
his Scorton Hill farm and his personal estate for his own use.
The latter farm he sold about the year 1676 to William Troop and
removed to Boston that he might spend his last days in the family
of a married daughter, where he died in 1677 at an advanced age.
No attempt has been made to veil his faults — ^he did not bury his
talent in a napkin — and in estimating his character, we must
inquire what he did, not what he might have done. Who did
more than Thomas Dexter to promote the interests of the infant
settlement at Lynn? who more at Sandwich? Others, perhaps,
did as much, none more. He knew this, and his self esteem and
love of approbation, prompted him to resist those who sought to
appropriate to themselves without compensation, the benefits of
the improvements which he had been the principal party to intro
duce. When at Lynn, he built a weir across the Saugus river,
for the benefit of the fisheries, a grist mill, a bridge across the
Saugus, and was foremost in establishing the iron works in 1643 ;
and at Sandwich he buUt a grist mill, and at Barnstable a cause
way and bridge across Scorton Creek and marshes; aU improve
ments in which the public took a deep interest. For these acts, he
is deserving of credit and they wiU forever embalm his memory.
His harsh and censorious spirit created enemies, where a more
conciliatory course would have made friends. Vinegar was an
element of his character, and no alchymist could have transmitted
it into oil. He was a member of the Puritan Church ; yet tolerant
and liberal in his views. No immorality was ever laid to his
charge, and judging him by the rule laid down by the Great
Teacher in the parable of the ten talents, we must decide that he
was a useful man in his day and therefore entitied to the respect
of posterity.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 321
Of the family of Mr. Thomas Dexter, Senior, very little is
certainly known. Mr. Lewis, the historian of Lynn, was unable
to furnish anything that was certain and reliable, and the undefati-
gable Mr. Savage gives but a meagre account of his family. Mr.
Freeman repeats the statements of his predecessors, adding very
littie to the information furnished by them. It is surprising that
so little should be known of the family of so noted a man as Mr.
Dexter. It is certain that he had
I. Thomas, born in England, settled in Sandwich.
II. Mary, who married Oct. 1639, Mr. John Frend, who died
young. Before Aug. 1656, as is show by a deed in Suffolk
Registry, she had married Capt. James Oliver. They left no
children.And he probably had
III. William, who settled in Barnstable.
IV. Francis, who married Richard Wooddy. They had eight chil
dren. They lived some years in Roxbury. In 1695, Mary
and Frances, who were then widows, brought the fourth suit
iu behalf of their father's claim upon Nahant, against the
town of Lynn, once more in vain.
In regard to the two last named, I say probably, yet I have
no reason to doubt the statement that William was the son of
Thomas. Messrs. Lewis, Savage, aud Freeman, say he was his
son ; but, after the most careful research, I cannot find positive
evidence that such was the fact.
Mr. Drake, the able historian of Boston, has forwarded to
me the following abstracts, from the records in the Probate Office
of the County of Suffolk, which furnish additional information to
what was before known :
"Feb. 9, 1676-7. Power ot administration to the estate of
Thomas Dexter, Senior, late of Boston, deceased, is granted to
Capt. James Oliver, his son-in-law, and Thomas Dexter, Jr., his
grandson." "Nov. 1678, Ensgne Richard Woodde was joined with Capt.
Oliver in this administration in room of Thomas Dexter, Jr.,
deceased." The Rev. Henry M. Dexter of Boston, a descendant, furnishes
the following abstract of the inventory of the estate dated April
25, 1677. It includes merely "so much as is due by bill from
WiUiam Troop of Barnstable, as follows :
Payable before or in Nov. 1677, £20
" " " " " 1678, 20
" " " " " 1679, 20
" '¦ " " " 1680, 10
£70

322 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
It is added, "this is inventory and all of the estate that is
known belonging to the deceased party aforsaid, only a claim of
some lands which ly within the bounds of Lynn ; the value whereof
we cannot determine at present until further insight into and
known." The "claim of some lands" was for Nahant, which was
worthless and to which reference has already been had.
These two extracts prove that Thomas Dexter, Senior, was a
resident in Boston at the time of his death, that he died the latter
part of 1676 or early in 1677, that he had a son Thomas and a
grand-son Thomas, and a daughter who married Capt. James
Oliver, an eminent merchant of Boston.
These facts enable us to trace one branch of his family with
certainty — that of his son Thomas — who was an early settler in
Sandwich, and died there Dec. 30, 1686. He died intestate, and
his estate was apprised on the 12th of the following January by
John Chipman, Stephen Skiff, and William Bassett at £491,6, a
very large estate in those times. He owned 240 acres of land
at the Plains, valued in the inventory at only £12, or one
shUling an acre. He owned four valuable tracts of meadow,
one on the north of Town Neck, valued at .£30; one at
the Islands > near James Allen's, £90 ; one below Mr. John Chip-
man's new house, £4 ; and one at Pine islands, £40. He owned
two dwelling-houses. That in which he resided (situated about
half a mUe southerly from the Glass Factory village) was a large
two story building, apprised at £40; his barn, corn-house, &c.,
£10 ; his home lot 10 acres, £30 ; and a tract of 20 acres adjoin
ing, at £30. His other dwelling was occupied by his son John,
and the farm on which it was situated is described as consisting of
about 28 acres of "meane land," and "two parcels of meadow that
belongs to that Seate," estimated at 8 acres, all apprised at £80.
The mill, now known as the town mUl, with "all her apperten-
ances," at £50. As this apprisment was carefully made,
and was the basis of the division of the estate, it shows
the relative value of difl'erent article at that time. A pair
of oxen was valued at £5, and a negro slave at four times that
sum, £20, 7 cows and one steer, £12 ; 28 sheep, £5 ; 1 mare, £2 ;
1 colt, 10 shillings ; his silver ware at £5, 5 shs. ; and his house
hold furniture, clothing, tools, &c., £25 10 shs.
The estate was settled by an agreement of the heirs in writ
ing, dated Feb. 16, 1686-7, and is signed by the widow Elizabeth
Dexter, Senior, John Dexter, son of Thomas Dexter, late of
Sandwich, gentleman deceased in his own rights, Elizabeth Dexter,
Jr., in her right, Daniel Allen of Swansea, in the right of Mary,
his wife, and by Jonathan Hallett, in the right of Abigail, his wife.
This agreement shows that Thomas Dexter, the third of the uame,
was then dead, and had no lineal heir surviving.

GENEALOGIOAL NOTES OP BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 323
June 1647, Thomas Dexter, Jr., or the second of the name,
was chosen Constable of the town of Sandwich, a fact which shows
that he was not then less than twenty-four years of age, and that
he was born before his father came to this country. The exact
date when he became a permanent resident, aud an inhabitant of
the town of Sandwich, I am unable to fix with certainty. He was
not of Sandwich in 1643, but probably was as early as March
1645. The Thomas Dexter named as one of the inhabitants of
Sandwich March 3, 1645-6, was probably the young man, because
his lather was about that date an inhabitant of Lynn. In 1648,
he kept the mUl built by his father before the year 1640. In 1647,
he was constable of the town of Sandwich. In 1655, he was
commissioned by the Coui-t, at the request of the inhabitants of
Sandwich, Ensign of the company of militia. He held the office
many years, and was known as Ensign Dexter, and by this title
was distinguished from his father, and his son of the same name.
He was often on the grand and petty juries, was surveyor of high
ways, and held other municipal offices. In 1680, he was licenced
to keep an ordinary or public house for the entertainment of
strangers. He did not inherit the litigious spirit of his father, though he
did inherit some of his quarrels respecting lands where "no fences,
parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, distinguished acres of litig
ious grounds." These, however, were amicably adjusted by
referees, not by expensive law suits. After 1655, he was, accord
ing to the usages ol the time, entitled to the honor of being styled
Mister, and in the latter part of his life, being a large land-holder,
was styled gentleman. From what is left on record respecting
him, he appears to have been a worthy man ; enterprising, useful,
a good neighbor, and a good citizen.
Ensign Thomas Dexter married, Nov. 8, 1648, Mary or
Elizabeth Vincent. The record of the marriage is mutilated, but
this seems to be its true reading. (In early times Mary and
Elizabeth were considered synonymous or interchangeable. I have
found several similar cases ; but am unabled to give reason.)
The children of Ensign Thomas Dexter, born in Sandwich,
were :
I. Mary, born Aug. 11, 1649. She married Daniel AUen of
Sandwich and removed to Swansey, where she had Elizabeth
28th Sept. 1673, and Christian 26th Jan. 1674-5, and probably
others. After the close of the Indian war she returned to
Swansey. Mr. Savage and Mr. Freeman both err in saying
that Mary was a daughter of Thomas Dexter, Senior, and that
she was born in Barnstable. The record is perfectly clear
and distinct.
II. Elizabeth, born Sept. 21, 1651, and died young. (Mr. Free- -
man says, "said to have been a maiden in 1767.")

324 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
III. Thomas. , His birth does not appear on the record, probably
in 1653. He died, without issue, in 1679. He was appointed,
Feb. 9, 1676-7, joint administrator with Capt. James OUver of
Boston, on his grandfather's estate.
IV. John, born about the year 1656, resided in Sandwich. He
married, Nov. 1682, Mehitabel, daughter of the second
Andrew Hallett of Yarmouth, and had Ehzabeth Nov. 2, 1683 ;
Thomas, Aug. 26, 1686; AbigaU, May 26, 1689 ; John, Sept.
11, 1692. From Sandwich he removed to Portsmouth, R. I.,
and was there living 24th June 1717 (Savage.) Mr. Free
man makes a singular mistake in regard to Thomas of this
family. He says, page 79, "Thomas, born Aug. 26, 1686,
who is afterwards called Jr., whilst his uncle Thomas is called
Senior." When this Thomas was born, his uncle Thomas
had been dead seveiryears, and his grandfather Thomas died
before the child was six months old, and the necessity for the
use of the terms in not seen.
V. Elizabeth, born 7th April 1660. She does not appear to have
married. She was single at the time of the settlement of her
father's estate, Feb. 16, 1686-7. Her mother, who died
March 19, 1713-14, bequeaths to Elizabeth in her will dated
Aug. 29, 1689, her whole estate. This will was proved April
8, 1714, and the daughter seems to have then been living, and
unmarried.
VI. Abigail, June 12, 1663, married, Jan. 30, 1684-5, Jonathan
Hallett of Yarmouth, had eight children, and died Sept. 2,
1715, aged 52, and is buried in the old grave yard iu
Yarmouth. WiUiam Dexter was in Barnstable in 1657. He probably
was a son of Thomas Dexter, Senior, and came with his father to
Barnstable about the year 1650. His farm was originally owned
by his father. He removed to Rochester about the year 1690,
where he died in 1694 intestate, and his estate was settled by
mutual agreement between the widow Sarah and her children,
Stephen, Phillip, James, Thomas, John, and Benjamin Dexter,
and her daughter Mary, wife of Moses Barlow. James, Thomas
and John, had the Rochester lauds, and Stephen, Phillip and
Benjamin, the Barnstable estate. In the division of the meadows
in 1694 WUUam had 3 acres assigned him by the com-.nittee of the
town, which was reduced to two by the arbitrators in 1697. Ste
phen and PhiUip, the only children of William of sufficient age,
were assigned 2 acres each. In 1 703 PhUlip had removed to Fal
mouth, and Stephen was the only one of the name who remained
in town. He had 48 shares alloted to him in the division of the
common lands, considerably more than the average, showing him
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GENEALOGICAL NO-TES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 325
and his children born in Barnstable were :
I. Mary, Jan. 1654, married Moses Barlow and removed to
Rochester.
II. Stephen, May 1657, married Ann Saunders.
III. PhUHp, Sept. 1659, removed to Falmouth.
IV. James, May 1662, married Elizabeth Tobey, died 1697.
V. Thomas, July 1665, married Sarah C, March 1702-3. Died
July 31, 1744. Left no issue.
VI. John, Aug. 1668.
VII. Benjamin, Feb. 1670, removed to Rochester, married Mary
Miller of Rochester July 17, 1696. His son, Dea. Seth,
was the great grandfather of Rev. Henry M. Dexter of
Boston. Stephen Dexter, son of William, born in Barnstable May
1657, married, 27th AprU, 1696, Anna Saunders. He resided on
the farm of his grandfather Thomas at Dexter's Lane, West
Barnstable, and had,
I. Mary, 24th Aug. 1696, married March 6, 1717-18, Samuel
Chard.
II. A son, 22d Dec. 1698, died January following.
III. AbigaU, 13th May, 1699.
IV. Content, 5th Feb. 1701, married Eben Landers of Roches
ter, 1725.
V. Anna, 9th March 1702-3, married John WUliams 1725.
VI. Sarah, 1st June, 1705.
VII. Stephen, 26th July 1707, married Abigail Collier 1736.
VIIL Mercy, 6th July 1709. June 1737, she was Uving with
Jonathan Crocker, Senior, who gave her £5 in his will.
IX. Miriam, 8th March, 1712.
X. Cornelius, 21st March, 1713-14. He did not marry. With
his sister Molly, he lived in a two-story single house on the
east side of Dexter's Lane, opposite the Mill Pond.
Stephen Dexter, in his will dated March 17, 1729-30,
names his wife Ann, his son Stephen, to whom he gave his home
stead, son Cornelius, and daughters Abigail, Content, Sarah,
Mercy and Miriam. Also grand-daughter Ann Williams and
grand-children David and Elizabeth Cheard.
Philip Dexter removed to Falmouth, and in his will, proved
June 10, 1741, names his wife Alice, sons Joseph andPhUUp, and
son Jabez of Rochester, and five other children. Also a son John
who died 1723. He owned a mUl.
James Dexter married Elizabeth Tobey and removed to
Rochester. He died in 1697, leaving a daughter EUzabeth arid a
posthumous child. His widow married Nathan Hamond.
Mr. John Dexter was the last of the name in Barnstable.
(See Childs.)

326 GENBALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
A John Dexter of Rochester, a blacksmith, settled in Yar
mouth. ' He owned the brick house near the Congregational
meeting house. He married 1st, Bethia Vincent in 1748, and 2d,
Phillippe Vincent in 1758. He had Hannah Sept. 7, 1749 ; Isaac
Oct. 7, 1751 ; and John June 4, 1759. He has descendants in
Nova Scotia.

DEAN.

Rev. Mr. Dean in his history of Scituate, states that Jonas
Deane was in that town in 1690, that he was called Taunton Dean,
and that he came from Tauuton, in England. He died in 1697,
leaving a widow Eunice, who married in 1701, Dea. James Torrey,
Town Clerk. His children were Thomas, born Oct. 29, 1691, and
Ephraim, born May 22, 1695. Ephraim married Ann and settled
in Provincetown, and had Eunice Nov. 10, 1725; Thankful Feb.
8, 1727-8 ; Ann March 4, 1730-31, and perhaps others.
Thomas settled in Barnstable, and was admitted. May 23,
1731, a member of the East Church. He probably resided at
South Sea. He married Lydia, and his children born in Barn
stable were :
I. Lydia, born July 7, 1728, married Joseph Bearse Oct. 12,
1749.
II. Thomas, AprU 19, 1730, married AbigaU Horton.
III. Jonas, Oct. 27, 1732.
IV. Ephraim, Oct. 17, 1734.
V. William, May 27, 1736.
VI. Eunice, Nov" 4, 1737.
All baptized at the East Church.
Thomas Dean, son of Thomas, married Abigail Horton,
(published Feb. 29, 1752,) and had
I. Hannah, born Jan. 20, 1753.
II. Archelaus, June 26, 1755
After'the latter date the name disappears on the Barnstable
records. There ai-e numerous descendants of Thomas Dean of
Barnstable; but they are widely scattered. Archelaus Dean
Atwood, Esq., of Orrington, Maine, is a descendant.

DIMMOCK.

ELDER THOMAS DIMMOCK.
Elder Thomas Dimmock and Rev. Joseph Hull, are the par
ties named in the grant made in 1639, of the lands in the town of
Barnstable. A previous grant has been made to Mr. Richard
Collicut of Dorchester, by the Plymouth Colony Court, and sub
sequent events make it probable, if not certain, that Messrs.
Dimmock and Hull were his associates. The date ol the flrst
grant is not given ; but it was made either in the latter part of 1637,
or the beginning of 1688. Soon after the flrst grant was made
Mr. Collicut and some of his associates came to Mattakeese,-
surveyed certain lands, and appropriated some of them to his own
particular use ; but he never became an inhabitant of the town,
and failing to perform his part of the contract, the grant to him
was rescinded and made void ; but individual rights acquired by
virtue of the grant to him, were not revoked.
In the winter of 1637-8 the Rev. Stephen Batchiler of Lynn,
and a small company, consisting mostly of his sons, and his sons-
in-law, and their families, attempted to make a settlement in the
north-easterly part of the town, at a place yet known as Oldtown ;
but they remained only a few months. (See Batchiler.)
Some of those who came with Mr. CoUicut in 1638, remained
and became permanent residents, for in March 1639, Mr. Dim
mock was appointed by the Colony Court to exercise the Barn
stable men in their arms, proving that there were English resi
dents in the town at that time. ,
April 1, 1639, the Court ordered that only such persons as
were then at Mattakeset should remain, and make use of some
land, but shall not divide any either to themselves or others, nor
receive into the plantation any other persons, excepting those to
whom the original grant was made, without the special Ucense and
approval of the government.
This order implies, that the Enghsh who were in Barnstable
AprU 1, 1639, were associates of Mr. Collicut and restricts them
from receiving any who were not of that company.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 329
May 6, 1639. "It is ordered by the Court, that if Mr. Collicut
do come in his own person to inhabit at Mattakeeset before the
General Court in June next ensuing ; that then the grant shall re
main flrm unto them ; but, if he fail to come within the time pre
fixed, that then their grant be made void, and the lands be other
wise disposed of."
The language of this order cannot be misunderstood. The
Court had granted the lands at Mattakeeset to Mr. CoUicut and
his associates on the usual conditions, namely, that they should
"see to the receiving in of such persons as may be fit to live to
gether there in the fear of God, and obedience to our sovereigne
lord the King, in peace and love, as becometh Christian people;"
that they should "faithfully dispose of such equal and fit portions
of lands unto them and every of them, as the several estates,
ranks and qualities of such persons as the Almighty in his provi
dence shall send in amongst them, shaU requh-e ; to reserve, for
the disposal of the Court, at least  acres of good land, with
meadow competent, in place convenient, and to make returns to
the Court of their doings." These conditions had not been com
plied with — a month's notice was given — Mr. CoUicut did not
come in person— and the Court on the 4th of June, 1639, made
void the grant to him ; but not to his associates who had then set
tled in Barnstable.*
As Mr. Dimmock was of Dorchester he was probably one of
the original associates of Mr. CoUicut. Mr. HuU and Mr. Burs
ley of Weymouth, and the other inhabitants of Barnstable, prior
to Oct. 21, 1639, with a few exceptions hereinafter named, be
longed to the same company.
Mattakeeset was incorporated and became a town called Barn
stable, on the 4th of June 1639, old stile, or June 14th new stile.
lam aware that the Rev. John Mellen, Jr., in his Topographical de
scription of Barnstable, published in 1794 in the third volume of
the Massachusetts Historical Society's collections, says : "There
is no account to be found of the first settlement made in this
town. Probably there was none made much before its incorpora
tion which was Sept. 3, 1639, O. S. As Mr. Mellen says, there
was no record of the act of incorporation made. As early as 1685
when many of the flrst settlers were Uving, Gov. Hinckley was
appointed a committee of the town, to examine the records and
*Mr. Collicut was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony March 4, 1632-3.
He was a deputy to the General Court from Dorchester in 1636, '37 and *55. Selectman in
1636. His business arrangements probably prevented him fr-om coming to Barnstable, as he
had intended. May 17, 1637, about the time he and his associates intended to remove, he
was appointed Commissary, to make provisions for the troop.s employed in the expedition
against the Pequot Indians. In 1638 he was appointed by the Court to rectify tjie bounds
between Dedham and Dorchester, and in 1641 to run the south line of the State adjoining
Connecticut. He was one of the company authorized to trade with the Indians, and was
much employed iu public business. He removed to Boston before 1656. In 1669 he was of
Falmouth, now Portland, and in 1672 of Saco, from both of which places he was a repre
sentative to the General Court in the years named, He finally returned to Boston, where he
died July 7, 1685, aged 83, and was buried on Copp's Hill.

330 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ascertain the conditions on which the grant to Messrs. HuU and
Dimmock was made. The result of his investigation he placed
on record. He found no record of the grant or of the act of in
corporation, but he ascertained that both were made in the year
1639. Notwithstanding there is no record of the day on which Barn
stable was incorporated as one of the towns of Plymouth Colony,
the date can be fixed with certainty by other evidence. It clearly
appears by the records that Barnstable was not an incorporated
town June 3, 1639, O. S. As has been already stated, a certain
conditional grant of the lands had been made to Mr. Collicut and
his associates, preliminary to the organization of a town govern
ment ; and under the authority of that grant, about fifteen fam
ilies had settled within the limits of the township. Mr. Dimmock
was authorized, March 1639, to exercise the men in the use of
arms, because, in a remote settlement, surrounded by bands of
Indians, in whose friendship reliance could not be placed, a mili
tary organization was of prime importance.
The terms of the Court order of May 6, imply that some of
Mr. CoUicut's associates had then settled at Mattakeeset, but he
himself, it is emphatically stated, had not, and he was allowed tiU
the 3d of June, 1639, to remove, and if on that day he had not
removed, the grant made to him was to be null and void. He did
not remove, and on the 4th day of June the grant to Mr. Collicut
was declared null and void, and the grant transferred to Rev.
Joseph Hull and Elder Thomas Dimmock. Perhaps the reason
for not making a record was this ; the grant was a simple trans
fer from Mr. CoUicut as principal to Messrs. Dimmock and Hull
two of his associates. As no change had been made in the
conditions, no record was deemed necessary.
Beside the above, others had settled within the present territory
of the town of Barnstable prior to Jan. 1644, but had removed at
that date. Rev. Mr. Bachiler and his company, as above stated,
on lands, that prior to 1642, were included within the bounds of
Yarmouth. William Chase afterwards owned a portion of those
lands occupied by Mr. Bachiler, and as he had a garden and an
orchard thereon, it is probable that he resided some little time in
Barnstable prior to 1644.
President Ezra Stiles presumes that George Kendrick, Thomas
Lapham, John Stockbridge, and Simeon Hoit or Hoyte, removed
with Mr. Lothrop There is some evidence that George Kendrick
was one of the first who came to Barnstable. Mr. Deane says he
left Scituate in 1638. He is named as of Barnstable in 1640, but
there are reasons for doubting the accuracy of the date. If of
Barnstable he removed to Boston in 1640 or soon after. Mr.
Deane's notice of Thomas Lapham is imperfect. He was one of
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 331
died in that town in 1648. I find no evidence that he was ever of
Barnstable. Hoit joined Mr. Lothrop's church in Scituate AprU
19, 1635, sold his house there in 1636 or soon after. About the
year 1639 he removed to Winsor, Conn. If of Barnstable he was
here very eai-ly. Johu Stockbridge was a wheel and miUwright,
and may have resided in Barnstable as a workman. I flnd no
ti-ace of evidence that he was ever an inhabitant. He afterwards
was of Boston.
In addition to the foregoing, a few other names may be added,
servants of the first settlers, who did not remain long and were
never legal inhabitants.
Of the forty-five heads of famiUes who were inhabitants of
Barnstable in Jan. 1643-4, there came from
Scituate, 26 23
Duxbui-y, 2
Hingham, 2 2
Yarmouth, 1
Boston, 3 3
Weymouth, 1 1
Charlestown, 1
England, 9 9

45 38
Those noted as from England had probably resided in Boston
or Dorchester a short time previously to coming to Barnstable.
In the second column is placed the number of the families who
were inhabitants Oct. 21, 1639.
Thus far the proof respecting the date of the incorporation of
Barnstable has consisted of negations. June 4, 1639, O. S., the
General Court met and entered on its records that Barnstable was
one of the towns within the Colony of New Plymouth, and ap
pointed William Casely the first constable, and he was then sworn
into oflBce.
These quotations from the records show conclusively that the
Rev. Mellen was mistaken in bis date, and equally as conclusively
that the towu of Barnstable was incorporated, according to the
usages of the times, on the fourteenth day of June 1639, new
style.* That Mr. Dimmock was appointed in March, 1639, "to exercise
Barnstable meu in their arms," does not prove that the town had
then been incorporated for, at the same court, a similar appoint-
*The conclusion of Mr. Otis that the incorporation of Barnstable should date fi-om
June 4, O. S., (June 14, N. S.,) seems untenable fi-om his own reasoning. The fact that a
constable was appointed, at the session of the court of June 4, is not sufficient; this officer
was ofteu appointed for places that were uot at the time recognized as towns. A place not
entitled to be represented in the court called not be considered as fuUy incorporated, and
Barnstable was not so represented untU the ensuing December term. The record of the
"Committees or Deputies for each town" in the colony, has the following : "For Bai-nstable,
Mr. Joseph Hull, Mr. Thomas Dimmock, made In December Court, 1639." This would
seem to be conclusive that the incoi-poration of the towir should date fi-om Dec. 3, 1639,
when the court met. S-

332 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ment was made for Marshfield, but that town was not incorporated
till September 1640, and then as Rexame.
No formal acts or incorporation were passed in regard to any
of the towns, so that Barnstable is not an exception. A general
law was passed from which I have made some extracts. The
Secretary usually noted the time when acts of incorporation were
passed, but the instrument itself was not recorded.
The history of Mr. Dimmock is identified with the early history
of the town and cannot be separated. He was the leading man
and was in some way connected with all the acts of the first settlers.
On the 5th of January, 1643-4, Thomas Hinckley, Henry Cobb,
Isaac Robinson, and Thomas Lothrop, drew up a list of those who
were then inhabitants of Barnstable, and I infer from the order
annexed to the same, that the forty-five named were also house
holders. In making this list, they commenced at the west end of
the plantation, at Anthony Annable's, now Nathan Jenkins', and
proceeded eastward, recording the names of the inhabitants in the
order in which they resided to Mr. Thomas Dimmock, whose
house stood a little distance east of where Isaac Davis' now
stands. Townsmen of Barnstable Jan. 1643-4.
1. Anthony Annable, from Scituate, 1640.
2. Abraham Blush, Duxbury, 1640.
3. Thomas Shaw, Hingham, 1639.
4. John Crocker, Scituate, 1639,
6. DoUar Davis, Duxbury, 1641-2.
6. Henry EweU,* Scituate, 1639.
7. William Betts, Scituate, 1639.
WUUam Pearse of Yarmouth, 1643.
8. Robert Shelley, Scituate,, 1639.
9. Thomas Hatch, Yarmouth, 1642.
10. John Cooper, Scituate, 1639.
11. Austin Bearse, came over 1638, of B. 1639.
12. WiUiam Crocker, Scituate, 1639.
13. Henry Bourne, Scituate, 1639.
14. Henry Coggin, Boston, Spring 1639.
15. Lawrence Litchfield of B., Spring 1639.
16. James Hamblin, London, of B., Spring of 1639.
17. James Cudworth, Scituate, 1640.
18. Thomas Hinckley, Scituate, 1639.
19. Samuel Hinckley,t Scituate, 8th July, 1640.
William Tilly, Spring 1639, removed to Boston 1643.
20. Isaac Robinson, Scituate, 1639.
*rhe town record is Henry CoxweU, an error of the clerk who transcribed the list. It
should be Henry Ewell.
tSamuel Hinckley's name is the 45th ou the record. It should be the 18th. His
houselot adjoined his son Thomas Hmckley's houselot. In 1640 he built a house on the east
side of Coggms' Pond, in which he resided until his removal to West Barnstable.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 333
21. Samuel Jackson, Scituate, 1639.
22. Thomas AUyn,  Spring of 1639.
Mr. Joseph HuU, Wevmouth, May 1639.
23. Mr. John Bursley, Weymouth, May 1639.
24. Mr. John Mayo, came over 1638, of Barnstable 1639.
25. John Casley, Scituate, Spring of 1639.
26. WiUiam Caseley, Scituate, of B. Spring of 1639.
27. Robert Linnett, Scituate, 1639.
28. Thomas Lothrop, Scituate, 1639.
29. Thomas Lumbard, Scituate, 1639.
30. Mr. John Lothrop, Scituate, Oct. 20, 1639.
31. ,Iohn HaU, Charlestown, 1641.
32. Henry Rowley, Scituate, 1639.
33. Isaac Wells, Scituate, 1639.
34. John Smith, of Barnstable, 1639.
35. George Lewis, Scituate, 1639.
36. Eldward Fitzrandolphe, Scituate, 1639.
37. Bernard Lumbard, Scituate, 1639.
38. Roger Goodspeed, of Barnstable, 1639.
89. Henry Cobb, Scituate, Oct. 21, 1639.
40. Thomas Huckins, Boston, 1639.
41. John Scudder, Boston, 1639.
42. Samuel Mayo, of Barnstable, 1639.
43. Nathaniel Bacon, of Barnstable, 1639.
44. Richard FoxweU, from Scituate, 1639.
46. Thomas Dimmock, Hingham, Spring 1639.
The following were or had been residents, but were iiot
townsmen in Jan. 1643-4.
Samuel House returned to Scituate. He was of Barnstable
in 1641 and 1644.
John Gates, buried May 8, 1641.
Samuel FuUer, from Scituate, had resided temporarily in
Barnstable ; but he did not become a townsman till after Jan.
1643-4. His cousin, Capt. Matthew Fuller, did not settle in
Barnstable till 1652.
Capt. Nicholas Simpkins was returned as able to bear ai-rtis in
Aug. 1643. He was one of the flrst settlers in Yarmouth. He
did uot remain long in Barnstable. John Bryant and Daniel
Pryor are najned as residents in 1641 . Neither were then of legal
age. In 1643, Bryant had removed to Scituate, and Pryer to
Duxbury. John Blower and Francis Crocker were residents in
1643. Perhaps not of legal age. A John Rus.-^ell was also of
Barnstable in that year.
The following also returned in Aug. 1643, as able to bear
arms, were not of legal age in January 1643-4 : Thomas Bourman,
John Foxwell, sou of Richard, Thomas Blossom, Nicholas and

334 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
John Davis, sons of Dolar, Samuel, Joseph, and Benjamin
Lothrop, sons of John, David Linnett, son of Robert, Nathaniel
Mayo, son of John, aud Richard Berry.
Of the 26 from Scituate, two, at least, were of Barnstable in
the Spring of 1639, and three delayed removing tiU 1640. Mr.
Lothrop aud a majority of his church did not resolve to remove
tiU June, and on the 26th of that month a fast was held
"For the presence of God in mercy to goe with us to Mattakeese."
There is no record of the names of those who came in June.
Those who came, probably left their famiUes at Scituate, and
came by land, bringing with them their horses, cattle, farming and
other utensUs, in order to provide hay for their cattle, and shelter
for their families before winter.
A majority of the earlier settlers did not come from Scituate.
The fourteen last named on the list were in Barnstable very early,
and settled near the Unitarian Meeting-House, in the easterly part
of the plantation. These lands are those named in the record as
run out by authority of Mr. Collicot. Mr. Dimmock's Lot was
the most easterly, and in 1654 is thus described on the town
record: "Imp. a grant of a great lot to Mr. Dimmock, with
meadow adjoining, at a Little Running Brook at ye East End of
the plantation, toward Yarmouth, which Lands is in the present
possession of George Lewis, Sen'r, let and farmed out to him for
some certain years by the said Mr. Dimmock."*
This description is indefinite, yet important facts are stated.
It was triangular in form and contained, including upland and
meadows, about seventy-five acres. The east corner bound stood
a little distance east of the present dwelling-house of William W.
Sturgis, and was bounded southerly by the county road, 116 rods
to the range of fence between the houses of Solomon Hinckley
and Charles Sturgis, thence northerly across mill creek to the old
common field, and thence south-easterly to the first mentioned
bound, and included a narrow strip of upland on the north side of
the mill creek meadows. The soil of the upland was fertile, and
the meadows easy of access, and productive. It was the best
grazing farm in the East Parish, and although lands and meadows
then bore only a nominal price, it is not surprising that Mr, Dim
mock was enabled to rent his.

*This is called Mr. Dimmock's "gi-eat lot" yet. I think it was not what was generally
understood by the term "great lot" among the first settlers. In subsequent records the
tracts of land situate between Mr. Lothrop's great lot on the west, and Barnard Lumbert's
on the east, (now Dimmock's Lane) and bounded north by the County road, is called "Mr.
Dimmock's Great Lot," and is now owned by Joshua Thayer, Capt. Pierce, Wm. W. Stur
gis, Mr. Whittemore, Capt. Swinerton, and the Heirs of Capt. Franklin Percival. This land,
m 1689, was owued by his son Ensign Shubael, and the record may refer to him, though he
would not have been entitled to a "great lot" only as the representative of his father, not in
his own right. Besides the above, Elder Thomas, as one of the proprietors, was entitled to
commonage, to which his son Shubael succeeded. (Commonage. This word is used hy
Dr. Bond and others, to express in one word all the right which tlie first settiers of towns
had in the common lands and meadows, whether by virtue of their rights as proprietors, or
as townsmen.)

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 335
In the sketch of the Bacon Family, the laying out of lots on
the west of the Dimmock farm is described. The lots first laid
out generally extended in length from east to west, while those
afterwards laid out were longer on their north and south Unes.
The Rev. John Lothrop's first house stood near the Eldridge
hotel. On the east of this lot seven Scituate men settled, namely,
Henry Rowley, on the same lot, Isaac WeUs near the Court House,
George Lewis, Sen'r near the Ainsworth house, Edward Fitz
randolph on the corner lot adjoining the Hyannis road, Henry
Cobb a Uttle north from the Unitarian Meeting House, Richard*
Foxwell near the Agricultural HaU, and Bernard Lumbard near
the mill where Dolar Davis afterwards resided. f The three last
named came early, probably all of the seven.
The other Scituate men who came with Mr. Lothrop numbered
from 12 to 32, settled between the Court House and the present
westerly bounds of the East Parish. Those who came later,
farther west. This is a general statement ; there are exceptions,
which will be noted hereafter.
A settlement was also made very early on the borders of
Coggin's Pond. Here we find the same pecuUarity in the shape of
the original lots, their longer lines extended from east to west ;
whUe in all other parts of the town except in these two particular
localities the longer lines are north and south. The early settlers
in that neighborhood were Henry Bourne and Thomas Hinckley,
from Scituate, and Henry Coggin, Lawrence Litchfield, James
Hamblin, and William Tilly, probably associates of Mr. Collicut.
In an inquiry of this kind, entire accuracy is not to be
expected, but these three points in regard to the settlement of
Barnstable are clearly established.
1st. In the winter of 1637-8, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, with a
company consisting of himself, his sons, his sons-in-law, and his
grand-sons, in all making five or six families, settled at the north
east part of the town. They remained till the Spring of 1638,
when they abandoned the attempt to form a permanent settlement,
and all removed.
2d. In 1638, or on the year previous, the lands at Mattakeese
were granted to Mr. Richard Collicut of Dorchester, and his
associates. Under the authority of this grant, two settlements
were made, the larger near the Unitarian Meeting House, and the
other near Coggin's Pond. In March, 1639, there were about
fifteen famiUes in the two neighborhoods. June 14, 1639, new
style, when the grant to Mr. CoUicut was revoked, about twenty.
tl do not state this with perfect confidence of its accuracy. Respecting the Collicut
lots; there are two, one laid to Barnard Lumbert, and one to Samuel Mayo. The one near
the mill, afterwards Dolar Davis', 1 suppose to be Lumbard's, the other including Major
Phinney's house lot, and the house lot of Timothy Beed, deceased, I judge was Samuel
Mayo's. Both were sold early, the latter was owned in 1664 by the Widow Mary Hallett,
probably widow oi Mr. Andrew Hallett, the schoolmaster.

336 GENEALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
3d. June 14, 1639, N. S., Barnstable was incorporated as a
town, and the lands therein granted to Rev. Joseph HuU and Mr.
Thomas Dimmock, as a committee of the townsmen, and of such
as should thereafter be regularly admitted. In that month Rev.
Mr. Lothrop and a majority of his church resolved to remove to
Barnstable, and some then came ; but a great majority came by
water Oct. 21, 1639, N. S., making the whole number of families
then in Barnstable forty-one, the full number required.
If the names already ;given, John Chipman, John Phinney,
'.John Otis, .John Howland, Thomas Ewer, WiUiam Sergeant, and
Edward Coleman, who came to Barnstable a few years later, are
added, the list wiU include the emigrant ancestors of nineteen
twentieths of the present inhabitants of the town of Barnstable.
Capt. John Dickenson and J as. Nabor were also early inhabitants.
iNearly all the offices were conferred upon Messrs. HuU and
Dimmock. They were the land committee, an office involving
ar.duous and responsible duties, and the exercise of a sound
judgment and discretion. That they performed their duties well,
the fact that no appeal from their decisions was ever made to the
Colony Court, affords auflicient evidence. They were the duputies
to the Colony Court, and seemed to possess the entire confidence
of the people. 1
Mr. Dimmock was also a deputy to the Plymouth Colony
Coiui-t in 1640, '41, '42, '48, '49, and '50. He was admitted a
freeman ol the Colony Dec. 3, 1639. June 2, 1640, Mr.
Thomas Dimmock of Barnstable, Mr. John Crow of Yarmouth,
were appointed to "join with Mr. Edmond Freeman of Sandwich,
to hear and determine all causes and controversies within the
three townships not exceeding twenty shillings, according to
the former order of the Court." This was the first Court estab
lished in the County of Barnstable. Mr. Freeman had been
elected an assistant in the preceeding March, and by virtue of that
oflHce was a magistrate or judge ; but he was not qualified till June
2, 1640, but Mr. Dimmock and Mr. Crow were qualified. Cases
involving larger sums were tried before the Governor and assis
tants. The first court of assistants, or Supreme Court, convened
in this County, was held in Yarmouth June 17, 1641. June 5,
1644, Mr. Dimmock and Mr. Crow were re-appointed magistrates
JMr. Hull's popularity in Barnstable soon waned. In 1640 he does not appear to have
held any office. May 1, 1641, he was excommunicated from the Bai-nstable Church, for
joining a company in Yarmouth as their pastor. He was however received again into
fellowship Aug. 10, 1643. From Bai-nstable he removed to Oyster River, Maine, and from
the^ice.in 1092 to the Isle of Shoals where he died 19th Nov. 1665. Simple justice has never
been done to the memory of Kev. Joseph Hull. He came over iu 1835, probably from
Barnstaple in Devonshire. He welcomed Mr. Lothrop and his church to Barnstable, — he
then opened the doors of his house, one of the largest and best in the plantation, for their
meetings,-.-he feasted them on thanksgiving days, and was untiring in his efforts for their
temporal prosperity. He is not charged with any immorality, or with holding any heretical
opinions; yet he was driven from the town, that probably received its name, as a mark of
respect to him. His history is worthy to be preserved, and at the proper time I .shall
endeavor to do justice to his memory.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 337
or assistants of Mr. Freeman, who was the chief justice of the
inferior court, and assistant, or associate justice of the higher
court. Sept. 22, 1642, Mr. Dimmock was appointed by the Colony
Court to be one of the councU of war. On the 10th of Oct. 1642,
he was elected lieutenant§ of the company of militia in Barnstable,
and the Court approved of the choice March 3, 1645-6, the grand
jury presented him "for neglecting to exercise Barnstable men in
arms ;" but the Court, after hearing the evidence, discharged the
complaint. In July, 1646, Mr. Dimmock was again re-elected
lieutenant, and the choice was approved.
In 1650, he was one of the commissioners of the Plymouth
Colony, to confer with a similar commission of the Massachusetts
Colony, and decide respecting the title of the lands at Shawwamet
and Patuxet. On the 7th of August, 1650, he was ordained Elder of the
Church of Barnstable, of which he had been a member from its
organization. These extracts require no comment. They prove that Mr.
Dimmock was held by the colony, the town, and the church, to be
a man of integrity and ability. He lived at a time when the
faults of every man holding a prominent position in society were
recorded. One complaint only was ever made against him, and
that was "discharged" as unfounded and frivolous.
After 1650 he does not appear to have held any public oflBces,
and in 1654 he had leased his farm, though he continued to reside
in Barnstable. He died in 1658 or 1659, and in his nuncopative
will, attested to by Anthony Annable and John Smith, they state
that "when he was sick last summer, [1658] he said, what little
he had he would give to his wife, for the children were hers as
well as his."
Few of the first settlers lived a purer life than Elder Thomas
Dimmock. He came over, not to amass wealth, or acquire honor ;
but that he might worship his God according to the dictates of his
own conscience ; and that he and his posterity might here enjoy
the blessings of civil and reUgious liberty. His duties to his God,
to his country, and to his neighbor, he never forgot, never know
ingly violated. In the tolerant views of his beloved pastor, the
Rev. John Lothrop, he entirely coincided. If his neighbor was
an Ana-Baptist or a Quaker, he did not judge him, because he
held, that to be a perogative of Deity, which man had no right to
assume. A man who holds to such principles, whose first and only
inquiry is what does duty demand, and performs it, will rarely
stray far from the Christian fold. His posterity will never ask to

§Lientenant was then the highest rank in the local militia.

338 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES,
what sect he belonged, they will call him blessed, and. only regret
that their lives are not like his.
In the latter part of .his life Mr. Dimmock appears to have
been of feeble health, and unable to perform any act that required
labor or care. It appears also, that he was obliged to sell a por
tion of his ample real estate, to provide means for the support of
himself and family, and at his death he gave the remainder to his
wife, in a "wUl" full of meaning and characteristic of the man.
Dimmock is an old name in England, and there are many
families who bear it. It has various spellings, and probably was
originally the same as that of Dymocke, the hereditary champion
of England, an office now abohshed, who at coronations owed the
service of Challenge to all competitors for the crown. In this
country I find the name written Dymocke, Dimmock, Dimack,
Dimuck, Dimicku. In the commission of Edward Dimmock
engrossed on parchment, three different spellings of the
name occur. The family usually write the name Dimmock, but
many Dimick, which is more nearly in accordance with the pro
nunciation than any other spelling. It is probably a Welch or a
West of England name, and some facts stated by Burke in his
genealogy of the family favor the family tradition, that Elder
Thomas Dimmock's father was Edward, and that he came from
Barnstaple or that vicinity.
I. Elder Thomas Dimmock married Ann [Hammond ?] *
before his removal to Barnstable. His children were :
2. I. Timothy, baptized by Mr. Lothrop Jan. 12, 1639-40,
and was the first of the English who died in Barnstable, and
was buried June 17, 1640, "in the lower syde of the Calves
Pasture."
3. II. Mehitable, baptized April 18, 1642. She married
Richard Child of Watertown, March 30, 1662, where she
appears to have been a resident at the time. She
died Aug. 18, 1676, aged 34. She had 1, Richard,
March 30, 1663 ; 2, Ephraim, Oct. 9, 1664 ; 3, Shubael,
Dec. 19, 1665, he married, was afterwards insane, and
froze to death in the County prison ; 4, Mehitable ; 5,
Experience, born Feb. 26, 1669-70 ; 6, Abigail, born June
16, 1672, married Joseph Lothrop, Esq., of Barnstable; 7,
Ebenezer, born Nov. 10, 1674 ; 8, Hannah, twin, born Nov.
10, 1674, married Joseph Blush of Barnstable.
4. 111. Shubael, baptized Sept. 15, 1644, married Joanna,
daughter of John Bursley, AprU 1663.
'*To attempt to glean in a field which has been surveyed by so thorough a genealogist as
Dr. Bond, may seem presamptuous. Samuel House, Robert Linnett, and Thomas Dim
mock it appears by the records of Mr. Lothrop, were his brothers-in-law. Kev. Mr.
Lothrop married for his second wife, Anne, daughter of William Hammond of Watertown;
Samuel House married her sister Elizabeth; Mr. Lothrop's son Thomas married Sarah,
daughter of Robert Linnell; WilUam Hammond had two daughters of the name Anne, and
this would not be a case without a parallel, if both were living at the same time, and that
one maii'ied Mr. Lothrop and the other Mr. Dimmock.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 339
The children of Elder Dimmock are not recorded on the
Barnstable town, or on the Plymouth Colony records. The above
are from the church records, which are more reliable than either of
the others. He may have had chUdren before he came to Barn
stable ; but it is not probable. The widow Ann Dimmock was
living in Oct. 1683. The date of her decease is not on the town
or church records. She probably died before 1686.
4. Ensign Shubael Dimmock, only son of Elder 'Thomas,
who lived to mature age, sustained the character and reputation of
his father. In 1669 he was a resident in Yarmouth; but did not
remain long. In Barnstable he was much employed in town busi
ness. He was one of the selectmen in 1685 and 6, a deputy to
the Colony Court in the same years, and again in 1689 after the
expulsion of Sir Edmond Andi-os. He was Ensign ol the militia
company, and was called in the records Ensign Shubael Dimmock.
About the year 1693 he removed to Mansfield, Conn., where he
was known as Dea. Dimmock. He died iu that town Sunday, Oct. ''
29, 1732, at 9 o'clock, in the 91st year of his age, and his wife
Joanna May 8, 1727, aged 83 years.
He inherited the real estate of his father, to which he made
large additions. Of his place of residence and business in Yar
mouth, I flnd no trace in the records. In 1686 he resided in the
fortiflcation house which was his father's. The house which his
son Capt. Thomas afterwards resided in, was built and owned by
him. It was built 176 years ago, and as it has always been kept
in good repair, few would mistrust from its appearance that it was
so ancient. It remained in the family till about 1812, when it
was sold to the father of Mr. Selleck Hedge, the present owner.
This house, and the houses built by Ensign Dimmock's sons, all
belong to the class of buildings known as high single houses.
They were of wood, and somewhat larger, but the style was the
same as that of Elder Thomas'. They contained the same num
ber of rooms, fronted either due north or due south, and on clear
days the shadows of the house were a sun dial to the inmates, the
only time piece which they could consult.
Ensign Dimmock, at the time of his marriage, AprU 1663,
was only eighteen years and "seven months old, and his wife
Joanna seventeen years and one month. At her death, they had
lived in the marriage state 64 years. His children boru in
Barnstable were :
5. I. Thomas, born AprU 1664.
6. IL John, Jan. 1666.
7. III. Timothv, March 1668.
8. IV. Shubael", Feb. 1673.
9. V. Joseph, Sept. 1675.
10. VI. Mehitabel, 1677.
11. VII. Benjamin, March 1680.

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340 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
12. VIII. Joanna, March 1682.
13. EX. Thankful, Nov. 1684.
V 5. Capt. Thomas Dimmock, or Dimmack, as he wrote his
name, son of Ensign Shubael, was in the military service in the
eastern country, and was killed in battle at Canso, on the 9th of
Sept. 1697. He was a gallant officer, and in the battle in which he
lost his life he would not conceal himself in the thicket or shelter
himself behind a tree, as the other officers and soldiers under his
command did, but stood out in the open fleld, a conspicuous mark
for the deadly aim of the French, and of the Indian warriors.f
Capt. Dimmock resided in the East Parish, and about the
year 1690 bought the dwelling-house of Henry Taylor, which
stood on the east of the common field road, where Mr. Nathaniel
Gorham now resides. This he sold to Nathaniel Orris in 1694.
He afterwards owned and occupied his father's house, above
described. Though only thirty-three at his death, he had acquired
a large estate. The real estate which was his father's was apprised
at £110 ; the farm at West Barnstable bought of Jonathan Hatch,
at £72 ; land bought of Thomas Lumbert, Sen'r, Henry Taylor,
and Sergeant Cobb, £20 ; meadow in partnership with JotJh Bacon
and Samuel Cobb, £16 ; and meadow at Rowley's Spring, formerly
his father's, £12. He had a large personal estate, including one-
sixth of a sloop, shares in whale boats, &c.
Capt. Thomas Dimmock married Desire Sturgis. He died
Sept. 9, 1697, and she married 2d, Col. John Thacher, 2d of that
name, Nov. 10, 1698, by whom she had six children. She died
29th March, 1749, in the 84th year of her age. Her husband
wrote some highly eulogistic poetry on her death. J
His children born in Barnstable were :
^ 14. I. Mehitabel, born Oct. 1686. She married Capt. John
Davis Aug. 13, 1706, and died May 1775, aged 88. (For
a notice of her see Davis.)
15. II. Temperance, June 1689, married June 2, 1709, Benja
min Freeman of Harwich, and has numerous descendants.
16. III. Edward, born 5th July 1692. (See account of his
family below.)
17. IV, Thomas, born 25tb Dec. 1694. Of this son I have
no information^ '
18. V. Desire, born Feb. 1696, married Job Gorham Dec. 4,
¦:' 1719, died Jan. 28, 1732-3.
tThis is the tradition which has been preserved iu the neighborhood; but I find no men-
t'on of his death in the histories of the times which I have consulted. It was the last year
of King Williams' war, and great alarm prevailed throughout New lingland that the
country would be invaded by the French. Capt. Dimmock was engaged in the whale
fishery, and he may have been on a whaling voyage at the time ; but flie statement in tlie
text IS probably accurate.
tl have the original in the hand-writing of Col. Thatcher. I preserve it not for the
poetry; but because it is written on the back of a valuable historical document.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 341
6. John Dimmock, or Dimuck, as he wrote his name, son of
Ensign Shubael, was a farmer and resided in Barnstable till
October 1709, when he exchanged his farm in Barnstable contain
ing forty acres of upland and thirty of meadow, his houselot and
commonage, with Samuel Sturgis of Barnstable, tor a farm on
Monosmenekecon Neck, in Falmouth, containing 150 acres and
other lands in the vicinity of said Neck, and removed to that
towu, where he has descendants. His house in Barnstable is now
owned by Mr. Wm. W. Sturgis. He married, Nov. 1689, Eliza
beth Lumbert, and had nine children born iu Barnstable, viz :
19. I. Sarah, born Dec. 1690.
20. II. Anna, or Hannah, last of July 1692.
21. III. Mary, June 1695.
22. IV. Theophiius, Sept. 1696, married Sarah, daughter of
Benjamin Hinckley, Oct. 1, 1722.
23. V. Timothy, July 1698.
24. VI. Ebenezer, Feb. 1700.
25. VII. Thankful, 5th AprU. 1702.
26. VIII. Elizabeth, 20th April, 1704, married John LoveU
1750.
27. IX. David, baptized 19th May, 1706.
7. Timothy Dimmock, son of Ensign Shubael, removed to
Mansfield, Conn., and from thence to .Xshford where he died
about-Hie-year-17S3. His wife was named Abigail. She had six
children born in Mansfield. Timothy, born June 5, 1703, is the
first named on the record. He had also Israel and Ebenezer, the
latter born 22d Nov. 1716, and was the grandfather of Col. J.
Dimick of Fort Warren, Boston harbor. He has many descend
ants in Connecticut.
8. Shubael Dimock, son of Ensign Shubael, resided in
Barnstable. He married Tabitha Lothrop May 4, 1699. She
died July 24, 1727, aged 56 years ; he died Dec. 16, 1728, aged
55 years. Both are buried in the ancient grave yard on the Old
Meeting House Hill. His father, on his removal to Mansfield,
gave him a share of his estate. His children, born in Barnstable,
were —
28. I. Samuel, born 7th May, 1702, married Hannah Davis
1724. June 1, 1740, she was dismissed to the church in
ToUand, Conn. She died in Barnstable, a widow, Oct. 13,
1755 ; but the family probably remained in Connecticut.
They had seven children born in Barnstable: 1, Mehitable,
AprU 25, 1722, Sabbath ; 2, Samuel, Oct. 17, 1726, Monday ;
3, Hannah, Nov. 26, 1728, Tuesday ; 4, Shubael, 31st Janu
ary, 1731, Sabbath ; 5, Joseph, Feb. 19, 1733, Monday;
6, Mehitabel, 29th Sept. 1735, Monday ; 7, Daniel, May 28,
1738, Sabbath ; 8, David, 1745. (Born in Connecticut.)
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342 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
several years in Saybrook, Conn. His widow, as above stated,
died ill Barnstable, and it is said that he also died in his native
town. His son Samuel died at Albany in 1755 ; Shubael went to
Mansfield, and it is said removed to Nova Scotia, before the Revo
lution ; Joseph lived many years iu Wethersfleld, Conn., and died
in 1825 at one of his daughter's in GreenviUe, N. Y., aged 92.
Several of his descendants were sea captains and lost at sea.
Joseph J. Dimock, late Assistant Secretary of State, Hartford, is
a great grandson of Joseph. Daniel, son of Samuel, lived in the
eastern part of Connecticut. David Dimock, a son of Samuel,
born after his removal from Barnstable, removed from Wethers-
field to Montrose, Penn., and died there in 1832, aged 87.
Davis, a son of David, was a Baptist preacher of some note — a
man all work — baptized "2,000 persons — preached 8,000 sermons —
a practicing physician — acting county judge, &c. The descend
ants of David at Montrose are among the most worthy and influ
ential in that region. Milo M., a son, was a member of Congress
in 1852, Associate Judge, &c.
29. II. David, baptized llth June, 1704 Married Thankful
Cobb, October 14, 1746. (Doubtful.)
30. 111. Joanna, born 24th Dec. 1708; died January, 17.09.
31. IV. Mehitable, born 26th Juiie, 1711.
32. V. Shubael, baptized April, 1706.
9. Joseph Dimmock, son of Ensign Shubael, married, 12tb
May, 1699, Lydia, daughter of Doct. John Fuller. She learned
the trade of tailoress, aud after the death of her father, Stephen
Skiff, Esq., of Sandwich, was her guardian. Her mother-in-law
administered on the estate, and May 9, 1700 she acknowledges the
receipt of £75. from her said mother, then wife of Capt. John
Lothrop, in full for her right in her father's estate. Several mem
bers of this family removed to Connecticut. She died there
November 6, 1755, aged 80. Children born in Barnstable:
33. 1. Thomas, born 26th January, 1699-1700.
34. 11. Bethiah, 3d Febuary, 1702. Married, 1726, Samuel
Annable. Oct. 22, 1751, dismissed from the Barnstable
Church to the church in Scotland, Conn.
35. 111. Mehitable, 22d Nov., 1707, married Thomas Crocker,
1727, died 1729.
36. IV, Ensign, (?) born 8th Nov., 1709, married Abigail
Tobey, of Sandwich, Oct. 19, 1731, and had — 1, Thomas,
29th Oct. 1732 ; 2, Mehitable, 12th AprU 1735 ; 3, Joseph,
12th July, 1740.
Joseph Dimmock resided in the east parish. His house stood
ou the spot where Asa Young, Esq., now resides. It was a two
story single house Uke his brother's, father's aud grandfather's.
On his removal to Connecticut it was sokl to the Sturgis's, and
passed from tliem into the possession of Bangs Young and his son

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 343
Asa. It was takeu dowu about 30 years ago. "Shuball Dim-
mack" of Mansfield, on the 6th of " March, 1705-6, "for the
natural affection he bears to his son Joseph Dimmock," conveyed
to him eight acres of land on .the ¦w;est side of his great lot (now
Joshua Thayer's home lot) with one acre more on the north side
of the road (now the house lot of Asa Young, Esq.) This land,
at the time, was under lease to Shubael Dimmock, Jr. The con
ditions of the deed were as f oUows : "That the said Joseph Dim
mock shall not make sale, or give conveyance of the said given
and granted nine acres of land from his heirs to any stranger or
person whatever, except it bee to some or one of his brothers
John or Shubael Dimmock, or their heirs of the race of the Dim-
mocks, unless they or either of them, or theirs, shall refuse upon
tender of sale of the premises to give the true and just value
thereof for the time being, that any other will give in reality,
bone fide, without deceit, or what it may be valued at by two indif
ferent or uninterested persons." Similar provisions 1 presume
were incorporated in the deeds to his other sons. Excepting one
small house lot, all the lands of Eusign Dimmock passed out of
the possession of the Dimmocks fifty years ago, and all the lands
of the elder a century ago. As numerous as this famUy was at
the beginning of the eighteenth century, there is now only one, a
maiden lady, who bears the name in the town of Barnstable.
37. V. ishabod, boru 8th March, 1711.
38. VI. AbigaU, born 31st June, 1714, married Thomas Anna
ble April 1, 1768, his third wife and was the mother of
AbigaU and Joseph, the latter yet remembered by the aged.
39. Vll. Phai-oh, 2d Sept. 1717.'
40. Vlll. David, 22d Dec, 1721. (I think this David married
Thankful Cobb.) David, the son of Shubael, is named in
the church, but not in the town records, indicating that he
died early.
11. Benjamin Dimmock, son of Ensign Shubael, removed
with his father to Mansfield, Conn. Also his sisters Joanna aud
Thankful ; but my correspondent, Wm. L. Weaver, Esq., to whom
I am largely indebted for information respecting this and other
Connecticut famiUes, gives me no particulars respecting them.
16. Edward Dimmock, son of Capt. Thomas, resided on the
paternal estate. He was a Ueutenant in the militia and his com
mission, engrossed on parchment, is preserved by his descendants.
He was captain of the 1st Company, 7th Mass. Regiment, in the
expedition against Louisburg, his commission bearing date Feb.
15, 1744, O. S. He married in 1720 Hannah  , and had—
41. 1. Anna, 23d Nov. 1721, Married Thomas Agrey or
Egred March 7, 1749. He is said to have been the flrst in
Barnstable who made ship-building a business. Mauy who
afterwards built vessels in Barnstable served their appren-

ants.

42.

II.

43.

Ill,

44.

IV,

344 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ticeship with him. He had a son John born in Barnstable
,lan. 2, 1752. He removed to Maine where he has descend-
Thomas, baptized July 26, 1725, died young.
Edward, baptized March 17, 1726, died young.
Thomas, born 16th March, 1727, married Elizabeth
Bacon Oct. 7, 1755, and had Charles 10th Dec. 1766, a
master ship carpenter, the father of the late John L. Dim
mock of Boston, and Col. Charles Dimmock of Richmond,
Va., and others; 2, Hannah, 21st July, 1758. In her old
age she became the fourth wife of Capt. Job Chase of Har
wich ; 3, John, 16th June, 1764.
Children of Timothy Dimmock and his wife Abigail, born in
Mansfield, Conn. :
I. Timothy, June 2, 1703.
II. John, Jan, 3, 1704-6, settled in Ashford.
III. Shubael, May 27, 1707.
IV. Daniel, Jan. 28, 1709-10.
V. Israel, Dec. 22, 1710.
VI. Ebenezer, Nov. 22, 1716.
11. VII. Benj, Dimmock, son of Pmsign Shubael, by his
wife Mary, had the following chUdren born in Mansfield, Conn. :
I. Perez, June 14, 1704, married Mary Bayley Nov. 6, 1725,
and had a family.
II, Mehitabel, June 8, 1706, died Dec. 1713.
HI. Peter, June 6, 1708, died Aug. 1714.
IV, Mary, Sept. 14, 1710.
V, Joanna, June 22, 1713,
VI, Shubael, June 22, 1715.
VII, Mehitabel, Aug, 6, 1719,
12. VIIL Joannah Dimmock, daughter of Ensign Shubael,
married, Oct, 6, 1709, at Windham, Josiah Conant, son of Excise,
and grandson of Roger, a man of note in early times. She had
only one child, Shubael, born July 15, 1711. Shubael Conant
was a very prominent man in Mansfield. He was a judge of the
court, held various town, county, and state offices, and was one of
the Governor's Council of safety at the commencement of the
Revolutionary War. <
13. IX. Thankful Dimmock, youngest daughter of Eusign
Shubael, married, June 28, 1706, Dec, Edward Waldo, of Wind
ham. She had ten children, and died Dec. 13, 1757, aged 71
years. Among her living descendants are Rev. Daniel Waldo, a
grandson, of Syracuse, N. Y., aged one hundred years Sept. 10,
1862; and Judge Loren P, Waldo, late Judge of the Superior
Court of Connecticut,
17, IV. Thomas Dimmock, son of Capt. Thomas, removed
to Mansfield, Conn. He was an Ensign in the King's service, and

GENEALOGICAL N©TES OF BARN8TAULE FAMILIES. 34.')
(lied at Cuba in 1741. He married, Nov. 9, 1720, Anna, daughter
of Hezekiah Mason, a grandson of Major John Mason, of Nor
wich, Conn. His children born in Mansfield were :
1. Silas, born  , died Dec. 31, 1721.
II. A Son, Oct, 3,<1722, died 6th of said month,
111, Thomas, Oct, 25, 1723, died Nov, 25, 1726.
n\ Jesse, Feb, 6, 1725-6, married Rachel Kidder, of Dudley,
and had a family.
V. Anna, l-i'eb. 22, 1727-8,
VI, Desire, Jan, 23, 1732-3, married Timothy Dimmock, of
Coventry, and had a family,
VII, Lott, Feb, 14, 1733-4, married Ilannah GuSley and had
issue,
VIII, Seth, .Iiiue 5, 1736, died July 14, 1736,
IX, Hezekiah, Dec, 3, 1739, married Alice Ripley and had
issue.
23, V, Timothy Dimmock, a son of John, of Falmouth,
removed to Mansfield, and married Ann, daughter of Mr. Joseph
Bradford, Aug, 15, 1723, and had a family at Mansfield,
These additions make the Dimmock genealogy almost perfect
down to the fifth generation. Very few of the descendants of
FAder Dimmock remain in Massachusetts, John, a grandson, has
a few descendants in Falmouth, None in the male line remain in
Barnstable, In Boston there are a few. Nearly all are in
Connecticut, or trace their descent from Connecticut famiUes,
The Great Lot of Elder Dimmock — Thomas Lothrop, aged
80 years on the 4th of April, 1701, testified and said that he and
Baruard Lumbard were appointed land measurers of the town of
Barnstable — that "we did lay out the Great Lots twelve score pole
long from the foot to the head ; the lots that were so laid out
were Mr, Dimmock's and my father Lothrop's."

DIEROR DYER.

Of this family I can furnish little information. The family J |
removed from Barnstable earh'. William, the only cue of the
name on the town records, married Mary, daughter of Henry
Taylor, Dec. 1686, and had eight chUdren born in Barnstable : ' -
I. Lydia, 30th March, 1688, 1 *
II. WUliam, 30th Oct. 1690.
111. Jonathan, Feb, 1692,
IV, Henry, llth AprU, 1693.
V, Isabel, July 1695,
VI, Ebenezer, 3d AprU, 1697.
VII, Samuel, 30th Oct. 1698.
Vlll, Jud.ih, AprU, 1701,

DUNHAM.

John Dunham of Barnstable, horn in 1648, probably eldest
son of John, Jr., of Plymouth, resided at the Indian Ponds, or
Hamblin's Plain, as the neighborhood is uow generally called.
He died January 2, 1696-7, and in his noncupative wiU devises
his estate, apprized at £223,13, to his wife Mary to pay his debts
aud bring up theh children. He married, 1,' March, 1679-80,
Mary, daughter of Rev, John Smith, aud had,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 347
I- Thomas, born 25th Dec. 1680.
II. John, 18th May 1C«2.
HI. Ebenezer, 17th AprU, 1684. ,
IV. Desire, 10th Dec, 1685; married, March 11, 1712-13,
Samuel Stetson, of Scituate.
V EUsha, 1st Sept. 1687 ; married Temperance Stewart, and
was of Mansfield, Couu,, 1729,
VI. Mercv, 10th June, 1689 ; married Samuel Stetson, Dec.
17, 1724,
Vll, Benjamin, 20th June, 1691,
John Dunham was a member of the Plymouth Church, and
afterwards of the Barnstable. He was not an original proprietor.
He bought of Thomas Bowman, Jr., who removed to Falmouth,
Feb. 18, 1685, three acres of laud at the Herring Brook was laid
out to him, bouuded east bj' Goodspeed's old cart way that goeth
from Ebenezer Goodspeed's house to the place where the old
house of the said Goodspeed was by the salt marsh ; south and
west by the cove and river, and north by the commons. On the
10th of April, 1689, 30 acres which had been granted to him
several years previous was laid out to him at Oysterhead river, 65
rods square, bounded westerly by Herring River, southerly by
John Leede, Senr's, marsh, easterly by John Goodspeed's cart
WSLY, aud north by the commons.

DICKENSON.

Capt. John Dickenson married, 10th July, 1651, Ehzabeth,
dauo-hter of iMr, John Howland of Plymouth, aud widow of
Epln-aim Hicks, She married Hicks 13th Sept, 1649, and he died
three months after. He bought the lot which I presume was
originally Rev. John Smith's, containing 8 acres, bounded west by
the lot of Isaac Wells, and easterly by George Lewis, The new
Court House stands near the western boundary of his lot. In
1654, he had sold this lot to Isaac Wells, and had removed from
Barnstable. .„ , , ,
In 1653, he was master of the Desire, of Barnstable, owned

348 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE KAMILIE.S,
by Capt, Samuel Mayo, Capt. Wm. Paddy, and John Barnes, and
was employed to transport the goods of Rev. Wm. Leverich, of
Sandwich, to Oyster Bay, Long Island. In Hempsted harbor his
vessel was seized by Capt, Thomas Baxter, who had received a
commission from the Assembly of Providence plantation. The
matter was immediately investigated by the commissioaers of the
United Colonies, The Assembly of Providence disapproved of
the act of Baxter, stating that he had no authority to seize the
Desire, and that his commission authorized him to seize Dutch,
and not vessels belonging to citizens of the United Colonies,

DUN, OR DUNN.

John Dun came to Barnstable about the year 1720. His
house stood on the hill at head, or south end of Straight Way,
and his farm is yet known as Dun's field. He died July 21, 1755,
aged 70, and his wife Experience Aug. 17, 1746, aged 50. He
was a member of the East Church, and his children, Dorothy,
Mary, and Elizabeth, were baptized April 17, 1726; John and
Martha, April 24, 1726 ; Thomas, Oct. 15, 1727, and anotiier
Thomas Sept. 29, 1734.
Dorothy married in 1748, Josiah Smith, then a resident in
Plymouth ; Elizabeth was published in 1745, to Thomas Thomas,
of Cambridge ; but July 26, 1748, married Benjamin Casely.
He has no male descendants in Barnstable, and I have no
information relative to his earlv history.

DOWNS.

Respecting this family I have little information. In 1725
there were three of the name in Yarmouth, WiUiam, Edward and
Samuel, and they married a trio of sisters named Baxter, daugh
ters of Temperance, the wife of Hon. Shubael Baxter. Of the
paternity of Mrs. Baxter, and how it happened that she had three
daughters of the name of Baxter, before her last marriage, I am
unable to explain.
WiUiam Downs, of Yarmouth, married, June, 1726, Eliza
beth Baxter, and had EUzabeth Aug. 1, 1727; Desire, Dec. 10,
1728 ; Barnabas, Aug. 8, 1730 ; Thankful, Sept. 22, 1732 ; Mary,
AprU 12, 1734 ; Jabez, March 23, 1735-6 ; A daughter, Oct. 29,
1737, died 7 days after ; Sarah, Dec. 16, 1738 ; William, Dec. 6,
1740 ; Isaac, AprU 5, 1742 ; Lydia, Jan. 20, 1743-4 ; and Benja
min, Nov. 20, 1749,
Edward Downs, of Yarmouth, married in 1728, Mary Baxter,
and had Jerusha, 4th Aug. 1729; Bethia, 8th June, 1734;
Thomas, 27th Oct. 1736; Robert, 6th March, 1736-7; Betty, 3d
Nov. 1739.
Samuel Downs married, Feb. 25, 1730-1, Temperance Baxter.
He removed to Barnstable owned and kept the public house known
in subsequent times as Lydia Sturgis' tavern.* He died in 1748,
and his wife Temperance administered on his estate July 6, 1748,

* In the notice of Cornelius Crocker, Senr, I state that the Sturgis Tavern was built by
Samuel Downs in 1686. [This statement was omitted by the Editor in this reprint, it Ijeing
obviously incorrect.] This information I obtained from the late Cornelius Crocker, who
said he had deeds and papers to substantiate his statement. These papers cannot now be
found. He was mistaken. If tho house was built in 1686, it was not built by Samuel
Downs, because he had not then seen his flrst birthday. If built by him, it was probably
built in 1731, Its architecture does not indicate that it was built so early as 1684, The
tradition is, that it was built the same year that the Court House was. The first County
Court in Barnstable was held on the third I-uesday of June, 1686. It was a meeting to
organize — no actions were tried. Neither the Court House nor the Sturgis tavern had been
constructed April 1686. The Court House was probably built in the latter part of the year
1686. In the same article I give a wrong location of Otis Loring's blacksmith's shop. It
stood on the south side of the road, about half way from the Sturgis to the Loring tavern,
on the spot where the shop recently occupied by Isaac Chipman now stands. The black-
emitli's shop opposite the I/oring tavern, was built by Isaac Lothrop about the year 1788.

350 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
which was apprized at £650. The description of the house at
that time shows that the only alteration since made is the "L" on
the east end. Soon after this date, she married Nathaniel Howes,
of Harwich, who resided near the Herring River, and was an
"inn holder,"
The children of Samuel Downs were Nathaniel, Shubael, Bax
ter, Jonathan, Hannah, who married a Gage, Temperance, who
married a KeUey, and Jane who married a Hall ; all living Feb.
24, 1773. Barnabas Downs, son of William, born in Yarmouth, Aug, 8,
1730, resided in Barnstable, His farm was on the east side of
Dimmock's lane. It was on the south of the great lot of Barnabas
Lumbert, His house, a small one story building, stood near the
woodland. His farm contained about thirty acres of cleared land
and would not now seU for more than $100, yet he kept thereon a
large stock of cattle, one or more horses, and a large flock of
sheep, and raised an abundance of grain and vegetables for the
supply of his large family. His sheep and young cattle ran at
large in the summer, and his hay he procured from the salt mead
ows at Sandy Neck. He was one of that class of small farmers
which at that time comprised more than half of the rural popula
tion of Barnstable — hard working, industrious men, who lived
comfortable, and brought up their families respectably, on means
which would now be considered totally inadequate. Barnabas
Downs lived on the produce of his own lands. His clothing was
manufactured in his own house. With the blacksmith, the shoe
maker, and the carpenter, he exchanged labor for labor. The few
groceries he wanted, he obtained by exchanging his surplus pro
duce with the trader, or by the sale of onions in Boston. He had
very little money, and he needed but little. He was the most in
dependent of men. Six days he labored and did all his work, and
the seventh was a day of rest.
He became a member of the East Church in Barnstable, July
4, 1779, and regularly attended all its meetings and ordinances.
As certain as the Sabbath came, Mr. Downs would be seen riding
on horseback to meeting, with his wife seated on a pillion behind
him. Everybody then attended meeting on the Sabbath, and if
they were no better men and women in consequence, they certain
ly were no worse.
He married four wives ; 1st, Mercy Lumbert, Sept. 20, 1753,
by whom he had three chUdren ; 2d, Mary Cobb, Sept. 23, 1759,
by whom he had eight children, she died April 1780 ; 3d, Eliza
beth Sturgis, who died Feb. 1772 ; 4th, widow Sarah Spencer, Oct.
7, 1792. She was a daughter of Ebenezer Case, aud taught a
small school while a widow at her home. Whitney had not then
invented the cotton gin, and cotton was then sold with the seeds,
which had to be picked out by hand. Mrs. Spencer, to keep her

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 3,51
pupils quiet, gave each a small bunch of cotton to pick during
school hours. He died AprU 18, 1620, in the 90th year of his
age.t His children born in Barnstable were :
I. James, born May 12, 1764, married Joanna Bacon, resided in
Barnstable and had a family. He was more distinguished for
his wit than sound judgment. Many anecdotes of him arc re
lated. One day when at work for Col. James Otis, the men
sent him at eleven o'clock for their usual mug of beer. James
was sent to the cellar ; but a barrel of rum standing near, he
filled the tankard with the stronger liquor. On his return, he
saw Col. Otis with the workmen, and to avoid detection, he
contrived to stumble down and spill the liquor. Col. Otis,
who had watched his motions, called to him and said, "Jim,
bring me that tankard." He obeyed. Col. Otis, smelling the
vessel, discovered the trick. Instead of reproving him, he
ordered him to go and fill the tankard again from the same
barrel, and be more careful in returning. James did not
stumble on his return.
Shubael Gorham and his wife Desire, were his neighbors,
and he deUghted in cracking his jokes at their expense.
II. Barnabas, born Oct. 2, 1766. He served three campaigns in
the Revolutionary War. Afterwards he shipped on board the
private armed schooner Bunker HiU, Capt. Isaac Cobb, Six
days after leaving port, the schooner was takeu by the P^ng-
lish brig Hope, Capt. Brown, and carried to Halifax. After
his return he shipped in Boston, on board the private armed
brig Gen. Arnold, Capt. James Magee, wrecked in Plymouth
harbor, Dec. 27, 1778. He published an auto-biography — a
pamphlet of about a dozen pages — printed by John B. Downs,
a son of Prince. Many copies were sold ; it is now extremely
rare — only one copy was found after much inquiry. If none
had been found, little information would have been lost. He
furnishes few facts, and his narrative of the shipwreck is
meagre and unsatisfactory.
I have often heard Mr. Downs relate the particulars of the
shipwreck in plain and simple words ; but with a pathos and feel
ing that would draw tears from the eyes of the most obdurate.
Nearly half a century has passed since "he told his simple story of
the horrid sufferings endured by that ill-fated crew, yet few of the
circumstances have faded from memory. It is from my recollec
tion of his conversations, from the pubhshed statements of Capt.
Magee, and the narrative of Cornelius Merchant, Esq., that I
t He was carried as was the uniform custom at that time, on a bier from his house to the
grave, a distance ot nearly two miles, I was one of the six carriers. He weighed over 200
pounds when he died, and I shall never forget his funeral, for my bones ache, even now,
when I tliink of that long tramp with at least 75 pounds on one shoulder. In those days, it
would have been deemed a sacrilege to have carried a corpse to the grave iu a hearse.

352 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
have compiled the foUowing account of the shipwreck ; not from
"The Life of Barnabas Downs, Jr." :
The Gen. Arnold was a new vessel, mounted 20 guns, with a
crew of 105 men and boys. Of these twelve were from Barn
stable, namely, Mr- John Russell, captain of the marines, Barna
bas Lothrop, Jr., Daniel Hall, Thomas Casely, Ebenezer Bacon,
.lesse Garrett, John Berry, Barnabas Howes, Stephen Bacon,
Jonathan Lothrop, Barnabas Downs, Jr., and Boston Crocker, a
negro servant of Joseph Crocker. In the Boston Gazette of Jan.
4, 1779, Barnabas Lothrop, Jr., is included in the list of surviv
ors. It appears that he was alive when taken from the wreck,
but died on his way or soon after reaching the shore. Barnabas
Downs, Jr., was the sole survivor of the twelve from the East
Parish in Barnstable
The Gen. Arnold, Capt. James Magee, sailed from Nantasket
Roads, Boston, on Thursday, Dec. 24, 1778, in company with the
privateer sloop Revenge, Capt. Barrow, mounting teu guns. In
the Bay they encountered a violent north-east storm. Its severity
is perhaps unparalled in the annals of New England, This is the
unanimous verdict of those who lived at that time, and eveu to
this day the aged remark respecting a very violent storm, "it is
almost as severe as the Magee storm," The Revenge being in
good sailing trim weathered Cape Cod, and afterwards arrived at
the West Indies,
Capt. Magee was unable to weather the Race. On Friday,
Dec. 25, the gale having subsided, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon,
he anchored off Plymouth. Having no pilot, he did not judge it
prudent to run into the harbor.
In the course of the night the gale increased in violence, and
on the morning of Saturday, Dec, 26, Capt. Magee says, it was
"the severest of all storms," — a strong expression, yet the testi
mony of mauy witnesses justifies its use.
Capt. Magee was a good sailor. In the hour of difficulty and
danger he was calm, hopeful, self-reliant. Without these quali
ties, the most experience and energetic often fail. The sixteen
main deck guns were lowered into the hold, the topmasts were
struck, the sails snugly furled, long scopes given to the cables,
and all those other little precautions which will suggest themselves
to the mind of a sailor, were taken to prevent the brig from
dragging her anchors. All these precautions did not prevent her
from dragging. She drove towards the shore and struck on
White Flat, a shoal in Plymouth harbor.
While preparing to cut away the masts to prevent rolling and
bilging, a disturbance occurred among some of the saUors who
had become intoxicated. By the prudent management of the
officers, order was again re-established.
The brig rolled and thumped violently on the flat, and in the

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course of Saturday afternoon bilged and filled with water. Up to
this time the officers and crew had found shelter in the cabin and
forecastle, and none had then perished. The water was nearly
on a level with the main deck, the tide was rising, and no shelter
could be obtained below. The high quarter deck was the only
place that afforded the least prospect of safety. A sail was
extended from the topsail boom on the larbord side, to the star-
bord quarter rail, and a partial protection from the storm was
obtained. More crowded under the sail than could stand without
jostling against each other, and many were thrown on the deck.
It was now Saturday afternoon. The storm raged with
fearful intensity, the snow fell thick aud fast, smothering the men,
darkening the air, and rendering objects at a little distance
invisible. The waves dashed furiously against the vessel and fell
in frozen spray on the ill-fated mariners. The brig rolled and
thumped so violently that none could stand without support.
The authority of the officers had ceased — each one sought, as
best he could, his own safety. Some of the sailors had not only
drank to excess, but to keep their feet from freezing, had filled
their boots with rum, and they were among the first to yield
to despair. Capt. John RusseU, of Barnstable, was the first who perished.
He was large, stout, courageous, and capable of much physical
endurance. He was thirty-one years of age, in the prime of life,
and while exhorting the men not to despair, telling them the
vessel was new and strong, and would hold together, he slipped,
fell heavily to the deck, sinking to rise no more.
"Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death,
Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots
"Through tlie wrung bosom of the dying man,
His wife, his children, and his friends unseen."
Mr. WUliam Russell, the first lieutenant, bad carefully
watched the fiow of the tide, about sunset announced the welcome
inteUigence that the tide was on tiie ebb. This gave courage to
the survivors, for their only hope of relief depended on the faU of
the tide. The water was then ankle deep on the main deck, and
if it had continued to rise the vessel would have broken up, and
all would have been lost.
At nine o'clock on Saturday evening the tide had receded, the
wreck lay motionless on the flat, and no frozen spray feU on
the deck. Towards Sunday morning, Dec. 27, the wind veered to the
northwest, and the cold increased. The morning sun rose in a
clear sky, the wind had abated ; but the cold was intense. At this
time thirty had perished ; some had been smothered by the snow,
others were frozen, and a few had been washed off the deck and
drowned. Early on Sunday forenoon three men, Abel WiUis, of Rock
Island, David Dunham, of Falmouth, and .lohn Robinson, an

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Irish sailor, neither much frozen, volunteered to attempt to obtain
assistance. They took the yawl, which had caught under the
larbord gang-board, and proceeded to the ice, which commenced
about ten rods from the brig, and thence travelled to a smaU
schooner, laying in the ice about half a mile to the southward,
belonging to Duxbury, and then recently from Boston, with three
or four men and a lady on board. When these men reached the
schooner, the hving on board the wreck were elated with the
prospect of immediate reUef . The men did not return.
Before leaving the wreck these men had made a solemn
promise that if they reached the schooner they would procure
assistance and return. They did neither. The survivors watched
with eager eyes — they saw no movement on board the schooner —
their boat was gone, and no one could now reach the ice.
Every effort was now made to convince the inhabitants on
shore that some were yet alive on the wreck. Capt. Magee tied a
handkerchief to a staff, which he waived, and at the same time all
the survivors simultaneously made a loud wail, hoping that the
sound might reach the shore.
The people of Plymouth for some hours previously, had been
aware of their situation, and made every exertion in their power,
but in vain, to reach the wreck, and afford relief. The harbor
was filled with loose cakes ol ice, over and through which they
found it impossible to force a boat.
With the setting sun on Sunday night, the last ray of hope
of relief faded away and perished — some yielding to despair, and
laid down to rise no more — stout youths who had been playmates
in their native vUlage, embraced and clasped in each other's arms,
quietly yielded up their spirits to God — middle aged men carried
in their arms boys placed in their care, till death relieved them of
the burden. To the few yet remaining who did not yield to
despair, another long and dreadful night was approaching, with no
hope of relief till after the rising of Monday morning's sun.
Wet, faint with hunger, benumbed with cold, and frost bitten —
the thermometer at zero — a tattered sail, and the bleached,
stiffened corpses ol half their late companions piled around, was
their only protection from the piercing wind and cutting frost.
Under such circumstances, the stoutest heart might quail.
Capt. Magee was heard to lisp only one word of complaint — he
never despaired — he cheered and encouraged bis men to persevere.
Sunday night was clear, and he knew that with the thermometer at
zero none could survive if they sat still on the deck.
A piercing northwest wind rendered their sufferings intense,
and to pass away that long and dreadful night, various expedients
were resorted to. Unable to stand and keep in motion all the
time, they sat down in circles, and with their legs crossed over one
another, by constant friction, strove to keep their feet from

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARN8TABLE FAMILIES. 355
freezing. None would have survived if our master spirit had not
been there to cheer them by his words, and encourage them by
his example. Monday morning at last dawned on the sufferers — it was
serene and beautiful — but its light revealed to the survivors the
sad havoc which death had made on that dreary night. The
quarter-deck was covered with the dead and the dying — blanched
and frozen bodies were lying in every position — some as they had
expired-rothers piled in heaps to give more room for the living,
or a breast-work to protect them from the piercing wind that was
seizing on their vitals.
Late on Monday forenoon, Dec. 28, relief came. Early in the
morning the shore was thronged with people — some were collect
ing materials, and others were building a causeway, from one cake
of ice to another, and thus a pathway was made to the wreck.
To relieve the living was their flrst care, and to distinguish
between some of them and the dead, was not easy. Barnabas
Downs, Jr., lay on the deck motionless and apparently dead — ^yet
living and perfectly conscious. He heard the conversation — they
had passed by him as dead. He exerted all his remaining strength
to move, and exhibit some sign of vitality. He moved his eye
lids, which fortunately was noticed, and he was carried to the
shore — revived and soon after was able to speak.
Of the 105 who sailed from Boston on the Thursday preceed
ing, only 33 were then living. Of these, nine died before the end
of nine days ; eight were invalids ever after, and sixteen entirely
recovered. Capt. Magee and Mr. WiUiam RusseU lived twenty
years, Barnabas Downs, Jr., thirty-nine years, and Cornelius
Marchant, Esq., the last survivor, died Oct. 1, 1838, aged 75
years. He was only 16 when he shipped, and during the storm of
Saturday and Saturday night he stood at the tafel rail, with
nothing to protect him from its violence.
The people of Plymouth, remarks Capt. Magee, with "that
tenderness and social sympathy which does honor to human.
nature," then opened their houses, received the survivors as they
would a brother or a father, watched over them, and administered
to their wants everything which necessity demanded or kindness
could suggest.
The seventy-two dead, frozen in every variety of form, were
laid in Mill river to thaw before the rights of sepulchre were per
formed. The bodies were afterwards put into coffins, and removed
to the Court House where funeral services were performed.
So solemn and affecting a spectacle is rarely witnessed.
Around that ancient hall seventy-two dead were arranged. Their
friends were far away ; vet real mourners were there, the people of
old Plymouth attended in mass. The profound solemnity of the
scene choked the utterance of the officiating clergyman -- the

356 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
congregation sympathized with him in feeling — the deep silence
which pervaded the hall was only broken by the half suppressed
sobs of the audience. Silence is more eloquent than words — it
drew tears from every eye, and its teachings were not soon
forgotten. Capt. John Russell and Mr. Daniel HaU, of Barnstable, and
perhaps one or two others were interred in separate graves.
About seventy were committed to one common grave, and no
stone marked the place of their sepulchre tiU 1862, when a
generous son of old Plymouth erected at bis own expense, a beau
tiful granite monument to their memory.
The deep snow had blocked the roads rendering them impassa
ble, and it was several days before the inteUigence of the disaster
reached Barnstable. Mr. Barnabas Downs, Mr. Oris Bacon and
others, who had friends on board the Gen. Arnold, immediately
proceeded to Plymouth. Of the twelve who went from Barnstable
they found only Barnabas Downs, Jr., living. Barnabas Lothrop
was living when the Plymotheans reached the wreck ; but he
soon died.
Mr. John Thacher brought Mr. Downs from Plymouth. No
carriage* set on springs was then owned in Barnstable, and if
there had been one, the deep snow with which the roads between
Sandwich and Plymouth were blocked, would have prevented its
use. Mr. Thacher constructed an ambulance which at this day
would excite much curiosity . He took two long slender poles ; at
one end a horse was harnessed as into the shafts of a carriage, and
at the other, another horse was harnessed, only in the reverse of
the usual position, both heading the same way, with a space of
about ten feet between them. That space was covered with a
netting, which hung down like a hammock between the poles. On
this a feather-bed and bedding were laid, and iu which Mr. Downs
was placed. Mr. Thacher rode on the head horse, and thus
brought the patient to his father's house.
On the sea coast, in all parts of the world, there are "moon
em-sers," that is men who hold that it is no sin to steal from a
shipwrecked mariner. To the everlasting honor of the Plymouth-
eans, they had not forgotten the rigid morality taught by their
Pilgrim fathers — there were no "moon cursers" there. Capt.
Magee, the friends of the deceased who went from Barnstable,
and the Vineyard, bear one testimony — every article recovered
from the wreck was carefully preserved, and returned to its right
ful owner or to his heirs.
The history of Plymouth will be studied as long as man
exists, and the two facts we have named will ever be bright jewels
*Dr. Bourne had a chaise at that time, the only one tlien owned in Barnstable, and said
to have been the first in town. Doct. Hersey had a. chair, or sulkey, whether as early as
this date, I am unable to say.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 357
in her diadem, namely, the noble, generous hospitality which her sons
and daughters extended to the shipwrecked mariners of the Gen.
Arnold, and second, the scrupulous honesty they displayed in re
storing every article found, however smalfin value, to its rightful
owner. Soon after Mr. Downs was taken on shore sensation and
speech were restored. While lying on the deck he could see and
hear — was perfectly conscious of his situation — suffered no pain —
but could not move a limb — and if left, would have died without
a struggle. With the return of feehng, his pains became most
excruciating. He always said that he suffered far more during
the time in which he partook of the hospitality of Plymouth
friends, than he did while on the wreck.
Mr. Downs lost his feet. The toes and heel of each were
frozen, and the flesh sloughed off leaving stumps which did not
heal over tUl a few months before his death. He used crutches,
and ever after walked on his knees.
He married, Nov. 23, 1784, Sarah Hamblin, and had a
family, several of whom yet survive. He died in the summer of
1817. That year a. young physician had opened an office in Barn
stable, and desirous of performing some cure that would give him
a name and reputation, said to Mr. Downs, "I can cure your
feet," He did so. Mr. Downs immediately after became very
fleshy, and at sunset on the day of his death remarked to a
neighbor that he never felt so well in his life, and exhibited his
arms and legs to show how fleshy and strong he was. Two hours
after he died. Dissolution commenced immediately, and be had
to be buried the next forenoon.
Barnabas Downs, Jr., resided in the ancient Lumbert house,
on the high ground south of Lumbert's pond . He was honest
and industrious, and though he went about on his knees, he
worked in his garden in pleasant weather, cut up his wood, and
did many jobs about his house. In the winter, and during un
pleasant weather he coopered for his neighbors. He also cast
spoons, ink stands, and other small articles, in pewter or lead, a
business in which he exhibited some skUl.
He rode to meeting on the Sabbath on horseback, and few
can now be found who can mount or dismount quicker than he
did. He and his wife were admitted to the East Church Oct. 10,
1804, and his children, James Magee, Timothy, Catherine, Tem
perance, and Ruth Hamblin, were then baptized.
He was a pious man, and being considered a worthy object of
charity, a collection was annually taken up for his benefit by the
churcli. The benevolent often remembered him, and though he
had but few of this world's goods, he lived comfortably and re
spectably. His wife was a pattern of neatness. Neither a
paint-brush nor a carpet was ever seen in her house, yet frequent

358 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
washings had polished the walls, and the fioors were as white as
saud scouring could make them.
The other children of Barnabas Downs, Sen'r, were : 3,
Prince, born Dec. 6, 1758, married  Bacon; 4, Mercy,
born Oct. 8, 1765, lived to old age unmarried ; 5, RacheU, Sept.
7, 1766, married Shubael Hamblin, Jr., 25th Nov, 1787; 6,
Mary, born April 11, 1767, married Henry Cobb; 7, EUzabeth,
July 25, 1768, married Stephen Bearse Nov, 29, 1790; 8, David,
born Dec. 20, 1769, married Rebecca Hallett, died at sea; 9,
Samuel, June 7, 1771, married Lucy Childs May 2, 1797; 10,
PMward, Sept. 13, 1773; 11, Abigail, Oct. 7, 1778, married
Lewis Cobb, Aug. 30, 1804, He is living — she died recently.
NOTE. — The date of the death of Barnabas Downs, printed near the top of page 351,
as the reader lias doubtless coucbided, should read 1820 instead of 1620.

EASTERBROOKS.

The Easterbrooks families of Barnstable are descendants of
Capt. John Easterbrooks, a native of Ireland, probably one of
the Scotch Irish. The progenitors of the families of this name at
Concord and Swanzey, came from Enfield, in Middlesex County,
England, about the year 1660.
Capt. Easterbrooks married Aug. 23, 1749, AbigaU Gorham.
He was a sea-captain — a man of good sense, and sound judg
ment. He resided on the estate which was the homestead of his
father-in-law, bounded on the west by the eastern lane to the In
dian lands. His wife died in 1794, aged 65, and he July 2, 1802,
aged 75. His children born in Barnstable were :
I. RacheU, Aug, 10, 1750,
II, Gorham, ,luly 7, 1756.
IIL EUzabeth, July 2, 1759.
IV. Samuel, .Ian. 28, 1766,
V, John, (His birth is not on the town, nor is his baptism on
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 359
VI. Joseph, baptized March 27, 1768.
Capt. John Easterbrooks, Jr., was for many years captain of
the Liberty, a packet from Barnstable to Boston.'

EWELL,

Henry Ewell was from Sandwich, in the County of Kent.
He was a shoemaker, came over in the ship Hercules, Capt. John
Witherlev, in March 1634-5. He settled in Scituate, and was a
member of Mr. Lothrop's church. In 1637 he volunteered and
was a soldier in the Pequod war. He was a freeman in 1638,
and in 1639 removed to Barnstable, and about 1 646 returned to
Scituate, where he died in 1681. He married, Nov. 23, 1638,
Sarah Annable, daughter of Anthony Annable. His children
were: .John, born in Barnstable 1639-40; Ebenezer, 1643, and
Sarah 1645; aud Hannah, born in Scituate 1649; Gersham,
1650; Bethia, 1653; Ichabod, 1659; Deborah, 1663, and
Eunice. Sarah Eiwell, widow of Henry, died 1687.
Henry Ewell's house and barn, in Scituate, valued at £10,
was burnt by the Indians in 1676. His eldest son John, lived in
Boston, and died at Newbury 1686. Ichabod lived on the pater
nal estate, and Gershom at "Cold Spring," Scituate. None of
the name of Ewell now reside in Barnstable.
He' resided at West Barnstable, near Mr. Annable's. On
the town records his name is recorded as Henry Coxswell — a
blunder of the town clerk.

EWER.

This name on the early Barnstable records is written Eure,
on the Colony records it is written Ure, Eue, Ewe, and Ewer.
A Henry Eue' was one of the first settlers in Sandwich, Dec, 4,
1638, a warrant was directed to James Skiff, ordering him to re-
carry Henry Eue and his wife and their goods, to the place where
he brought them. This warrant does not ^appear to have been
executed, for in 1640 he was an inhabitant of Sandwich and had
a share assigned to him in the division of the common meadows,
Mr. Freeman's statement that he was the ancestor of the Ewer
family of Sandwich, requires confirmation ; because after 1640
his name disappears on the records.
In 1643, there was a John Eue at Hartford ; but it does not
appear that he was connected with the Ewers of Massachusetts
and Plymouth, "'"Thomas Ewer, aged 40, a tailor, embarked aboard the ship
.lames, Jo. May, at London, June 19, 1635, for New England,
with his wife Sarah, aged 28, and two children, Elizabeth, aged 4
years, and Thomas, aged 1 1-2 years. He had at least two older
children, not named in the Custom House records, who came over
subsequently, perhaps with their grandfather in 1638.
1. Thomas Ewer married Sarah, daughter of Mr. Robert
LinneU,* probably in London where he resided. It does not ap
pear that he had any children born in this country. His chUdren
were :
2, I. Sarah, born AprU 1627, married, June 18, 1645,
Thomas Blossom, of Barnstable.
3, II. Henry, born April 1629, married Mary  , he died
in 1652, and it is not known that he left issue. His- widow
became the second wife of John Jenkins 2d Feb, 1652-3.
4, 111, Elizabeth, born 1631, died in Barnstable, and was
buried 9th April 1641.
5, IV, Thomas, born 1633, married Hannah,  , and died
in Barnstable in 1667, aged 34,
Thomas Ewer settled in Charlestown, where he acquired
some notoriety as a politician. In 1637 Lord Ley brought a
*Mr. Savage and others say William Larned, Linnett or Linnell,! find written Larnctt,
easily transformed into Lamed. William and Robert are unlike, yet I Icol confident that I
am right.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTAHLE FAMILIES. 361
charge against him for using language disrespectful to the
King, and afterwards he was prosecuted as one of the friends
and supporters of Wheelwright ; but he recanted his opinions,
proving himself not to be so firm a man as his son Thomas.
He died in Charleston in 1638, and his widow Sarah mar
ried, Dec. 11, 1639, Thomas Lothrop. Her family removed with
her to Barnstable.
5. Respecting the family of Thomas Ewer, 2d, little is
known. He removed to Sandwich early. In 1659 he had a
family and resided near Spring HiU. He was a Quaker, and for
refusing to take the oath of fidelity, and for attending Quaker
meetings, was flned £20,10, which with expenses amounted to
£25,8. In payment the MarshaU seized a debt due him from
Richard Chadwell for labor, £7,13
In money taken out of his house, 6,17
Clothing, new cloth, with other goods particularly
named, 10,18

£25,8
From the new cloth taken (four yards of Kersey) George
Barlow, the Marshall, had a coat made, and which he wore at
Court. Ewer, seeing him have it on, asked the Magistrates,
" Whether they owned George Barlow in wearing his cloth." To
this question Gov. Prence replied : "That if he could prove that
George Barlow had wronged him, he might seek his satisfaction."
For this question he was sentenced "to be laid neck and heels
together." Which, says Bishop, was the injustice he received at
their hands.
The Court records give a different reasion of the matter.
He was sentenced to lye neck and heels together during the pleas
ure of the Court, "for his tumultuous and seditious carriages and
speeches in Court." The Magistrates being informed that he was
an infirm man, and was troubled with a rupture, the sentence was
not executed. Bishop is usually accurate, but in this case he omits a mate
rial fact and leaves a wrong impression on the mind of his reade^.
He adds that Ewer's axe, with which he wrought, worth three
shillings, was taken for a tax of ten pence to the country, and
that at another time, half a bushel of grain, out of his bag at the
mill, for a similar tax, for the same amount.
These were assessments legally made to pay the current ex
penses of the Colony. Ewer was abundantly able to pay, he re
sisted the execution of a law, to which no constitutional objection
was made, and if his axe or his grain was taken to pay, neither
he nor his apologist, Mr. Bishop, had a right to complain.
The Quakers had right and justice on their side, when they
refused to pay flues imposed for not taking the oath of fidelity, or

362 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
for attending meetings of their own society ; but when they re
fused to pay their proportion of the public expenses, they were
clearly iu the wrong, and those of their number who resisted,
were not only guilty of doing wrong to their country, but to their
religious associates ; because by thus resisting they prejudiced
their claim for sympathy as sufferers for conscience sake.
In 1658 Thomas Ewer and most of the leading members of
the Society of Friends in Sandwich were disfranchised and ordered
to leave the town. Ewer cdntinued to reside there till 1660. In
1661 he is spoken of as of Barnstable. In that year he bought a
part of the farm and meadows on the west of the Crocker land,
then owued by Mr. Dimmock, originally laid out, I think, to
Thomas Hatch. This small farm his descendants have continued
to own till recently.
The goods seized by the Mgirshall were such as a tailor
usually keeps, and 1 infer from this that he learned the trade of
his father. He died in 1667, aged 34, leaving a widow Hannah
and a family of children. 1 find no record ol their names.
Thomas Lothrop, the father-in-law of the deceased, and Shubael
LinneU, his uncle, were appointed guardians of the children.
Thomas Ewer, 3d, afterwards owned the Ewer farm, and the
facts and circumstances above stated make it probable, if not cer
tain, that he was the son of Thomas Ewer, 2d, and his wife Han
nah. 6. Thomas Ewer, 3d, probably son of Thomas, 2d, married
three wives. He married his flrst wife about the year 1682 ; she
died in a few years, and he married, in 1689, Elizabeth, daughter
of the first .lohn Lovell, and for his third wife he married, Sept.
18, 1712, Wid, Sarah Warren,
Children born in Barnstable.
Thomas, Dec. 1683, (?) died young,
Thomas, Jan, 1686.
Shubael, 1690,
John, Feb, 1692,
Mehitabel, Oct, 1694, (?) diedsame year.
Nathaniel, Nov. 1695, (?) baptized Dec. 9, 1694.
Jonathan, July 1696.
, Hezekiah, Sept, 1697,
Mehetabel, baptized Dec. 11, 1698.
Thankful, Nov. 1701.
Abigail, baptized April 7, 1706.
Thomas Ewer, 3d, died June 1722, leaving a widow Sarah,
and three sons, Thomas, John, and Nathaniel, whom he exhorts
in his wiU, "to Uve in the fear of God, and love one another, and
cary dutifully to their Honored Mother," Only three of his
eleven chUdren appear to have been then living, ' His real estate
was apprized at £74, and his personal estate at £83, In 1684 his

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V.

11.

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12.

VII.

13.

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14,

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15.

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16.

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dwelling house was on the north side of the road. In the appriz-
al of his estate his home lot is described as four acres of upland
on the south of the road. He owned the meadow which his
father bought in 1661.
8. Thomas Ewer, 4th, born Jan. 1686. He is called a "cord
wainer" or shoemaker, and died insolvent in 1761. He married,
June 10, 1718, Reliance Tobey, of Sandwich, and had,
17. I. John, born AprU 28, 1719, "a cordwainer" or shoe
maker. He died 1782. He had 1, Ebenezer, 20th Dec.
1741, died young ; 2, John, 25th Dec. 1744, died young ;
3, David, 15th AprU, 1747 ; 4, Jonathan, 7th June, 1754 ;
5, ReUance, 16th June, 1756; 6, Ebenezer, 31st Dec.
1758 ; and 7, John, 31st Oct. 1763.
18. II. Mary, born Oct. 7, 1721, married Lazarous Lovell
May 29, 1760, died AprU 5, 1813, aged 91.
19. III. Sarah, March 1, 1723-4, died young.
20. IV. Thomas, Oct. 3, 1726, married, in 1749, Lydia Har
low of Plymouth, where he removed and had, 1, Thomas,
Feb. 22, 1750; 2, Eleazer, Aug. 26, 1752; (he married
Abigail Lothrop and had Isaac, Barnabas, Ansel, and
Abigail. He bought the estate of schoolmaster Joseph
Lewis, in the East Parish — he was a tanner and shoe
maker, and died young.) After his return to Barnstable
Thomas had 3, Ansel, Sept. 9, 1753, died young, 4, Seth,
July 5, 1755; 5," Lydia, Sept. 16, 1758; and 6, Ansel
again, Sept. 21, 1760.
21. V. Seth, born March 14, 1729, married, 1782, Elizabeth
Rich, of Truro,
22, VI. Sarah, born Feb. 23, 1732, married Elisha Holmes
of Plymouth, 1749.
23. VII. Sylvanus, born March 18, 1741-2.
9. Shubael Ewer, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ewer, bap
tized Sept. 21, 1690, resided at West Barnstable. He married
June 14, 1714 Rebecca Conant of Bridgewater. He died Aug. 6,
1715, leaving an estate apprized at £152, a widow Rebecca, and
one daughter.
24. I. Rebecca, born 27th AprU, 1755. She married, June
27, 1734, Thomas Winslow of Rochester.
10. John Ewer, son of Thomas, 3d, married July 5, 1716,
Elizabeth Lumbard, He died in 1723, leaving sons Shubael,
Joseph, {non compos mentis, whose estate in 1744 was apprized at
£262,15,) Benjamin, and daughter Elizabeth, all minors. He in
herited the old homestead, and built a house on the land on the
south of the road. He gave to his widow all the eight acres of
land on the south of the road. His chUdren born in Barnstable
were :
25, I. Shubael, (father of Lazarus, and grandfather of

364 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Joseph Ewer, of East Sandwich.)
26. II. Joseph, (non compos mentis.)
27. III. Benjamin, born 1721, married Hannah Lawrence of
Hog Pond village, in Sandwich, and removed to that town.
His children were Mary, who married  .lenny ; Peleg,
(father of Benjamin, East Sandwich,) ; Nancy, who mar
ried Peter Smith, of Newbern, recently deceased ; Hannah
married  Jones ; and Elizabeth married 
Lawrence.
28. IV. Elizabeth.
11. Nathaniel Ewer, son of Thomas, 3d, born, the record
says, 1695 ; but having been baptized Dec. 9, 1694, he was prob
ably born that year. He married, Nov. 8, 1723, Mary Stewart of
Sandwich. Children born in Barnstable.
29. I. Silas, 27th Nov. 1724, married Lydia Garrett of Sand
wich, 1746, and had Mehitabel May 1, 1747; Abigail,
March 2, 1748; Susannah, Dec. 5, 1750; Silas, Aug. 10,
1752; Elizabeth, Dec. 14, 1754; and Prince Feb. 6,
1757.
30. II. Nathaniel, 17th AprU, 1726, married Drusilla Co-
bell of Chatham, and resided, as I am informed, at Nan
tucket some part of his life. Isaac Ewer, who recently
died at Osterville, nearly a hundred years of age, was his
son.
31. III. Desire, born 26th Nov. 1727,
32, IV. Gamaliel, 19th June, 1733, married Martha Fuller
1763.
33, V. Mary, 7th Aug. 1737, married, Oct, 26, 1757,
Thomas Churchill of Plymouth,

FOXWELL.

RICHARD FOXWELL.
Two men of the name of Richard Foxwell, of about the same
age, came to New England about the year 1630. Mr. Deane was
perhaps not aware there were two of the name, and it is not sur
prising that he has confounded them, because he supposed both
Richards were the same person.
Richard, who settled in that part of Maine then known as
Georgiance, was born in 1604 and was probably the younger
man. He came over as early as 1631, went home, as our ances
tors called England for many years, in 1632, and returned in
1633, He was of Scarborough in 1636, where he married, in
1636, Sarah, daughter of Capt, Richard Bonython, one of the
patentees of Georgiance, His sons were Richard, John and
Philip, and he had five daughters. He died in 1677, aged 73,
[Folsom.] The other Richard Foxwell probably came over in the fleet
with Gov, Winthrop. He was admitted a freeman of the Massa
chusetts Colony Oct. 19, 1630, and was sworn on the 8th of May
following. On his removal to the Plymouth Colony his name was
entered on the list of those who had taken the oath of fldelity ;
but in 1657 he was required to take that oath, though he had pre
viously taken the freeman's oath in Massachusetts.
Mr, Deane says he came from the County of Kent, in Eng
land, There is some evidence that he was a resident in the city
of London at the time he embarked for New England, His son
John was born as early as 1627, a fact which proves that he mar
ried in England, Whether his wife died before he left, or came
over with him, is not known.
From 16.31 to 1034 he is not named in the records, Mr.
Savage intimates that during this period he may have gone home
and returned ; if so, it affords another curious paraUism in the
history of the two Richard Foxwells, He probably removed from

366 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Boston, in 1631, to Scituate, where there was a small settlement
of men whom he had known in his native land. In 1634 he was
of Scituate. His house, in the spring of 1635, is described as
being ou Kent street, the fourth on the south of Meeting House
lane, and as the eleventh built in that town. This house he sold
to Henry Bourne, and in 1637 built on his houselot, numbered 50
on Mr. Lothrop's list.
In the spring of 1639 he removed to Barnstable, and buUt a
house on his lot near where the Hall of the Agricultural Society
now stands. No record was made of his lands till 1662, when he
owned only eight acres, four on each side of the road. His lot
was one of those laid by the authority of Mr. Collicut, and origi
nally probably included the twelve acres owned by Nicholas Da
vis, This would make his lot correspond in shape with the other
lots laid out at the same time. If I am right in this, his homelot
contained sixteen acres, and was bounded west by the homelot of
Nathaniel Bacon, north partly by the swamp (then town's com
mons) and the lands of Dolar Davis, east by the Dimmock farm,
and south by the highway. His lot on the south side of the road
contained four acres, and was bounded north by the highway.
east by Elder Cobb's great lot, south by the commons, and west
by Nathaniel Bacon's land.
He set out an orchard, as aU the flrst settlers did, A seed
ling raised by him, and known as the FoxweU apple, is yet culti
vated, I have seen it stated that he was a trader. Whatever may
have been his employment, it is certain that he was very poor at
his death in 1668, for his sons-in-law refused to act as "executors
to his will.
He is not named as the holder of any office ; but as private
citizen he was a good neighbor, an honest man, and and exem
plary member of the christian church.
He was one of the original members of Mr. Lothrop's Church
having joined at its organization at Scituate on the 8th of Janu
ary, 1634-5. The expression used in regard to the first members,
"so many of us as had been in covenant before," evidently imphes
that they had been members of his church in London. After his
removal to Barnstable he continued to be a member in good stand
ing till his death.
He married, as already stated, his first wife in England, and his
son John probably came over with him. In 1634 he married Ann
Shelly, who came over that year. His children so far as known
were :
I. John, born in England as early as 1627. He is named in
1640 in connection with John Makefield, and as having two
lambs in his possession. In Aug. 1643, his name is on the
list of those able to bear arms, and in Oct. 1645, was one of

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th'; soldiers from Barnstable in tin; Narraganset expedition.
In subsequent records, the land where James Otis now re
sides in called .lohn F'oxwell's house lot, from which it may
be inferred that lie owned a house. It does not appear
that he married and had a family. He died in Barnstable,
and was buri(;d Sept. 21, 1646.
II, Miiiy, born in Scituate 17th Aug, 1635, married, .Jan. 8,
1651, Hugh Cole, Sen'r, of Plymouth, and was afterwards of
Swanseii, His ciiildren wer(;' James, born 3 or (8) Nov.
1655 ; Hugh, 8 or (15) March 1658 ; .fohn, 15 or (16) May
1660; Martha, 14 or (16) April 1662; Anna, 14th Oct.
1664; lluth, 8 or (17) Jan. 1666; and Joseph, l.'ith May
1668,
III, Martha, born in Scituate 24th March, 1638, mamed Samuel
Bacon 9tlj May 1669, and had Samuel 9th March 1659-60,
and Martha Jan, 6, 1661.
IV. Uutii, born in iJariistable 25tli March 1641.
If the Barnstable and Colony Records are reliable, Mary and
Martha Foxwell were born in Barnstable, showing that the town
was settled in 1035. Both records are erroneous. I have fol
lowed the church records. In the Barnstable records there is an
error of ten years in the marriage and births of the children of
Hawuel Bacon.

FITZRANDOLPHE.

EDWARD FITZRANDOLPHE.
Mr. Lothrop says, "the young Master Fitzrandolphe" buUt"
in 1636, the 38th house constructed in Scituate. Having provided
himself with a home he married, Iday 10, 1637, Elizabeth,*
daughter of Dea. Thomas Blossom of the Leyden and Plymouth
churches. He joined Mr. Lothrop's church in Scituate May 14,
1637, and his wife joined at Barnstable Aug. 27, 1643.
He sold his house in that town to Dea. Richard Sealis, and
removed in the spring of 1639 to Barnstable, and built a house on
his lot containing eight acres, bounded east by the road to Hyan
nis, which separated it from the homelot of Roger Goodspeed,
and land probably then afterwards town commons, and on the
west by the homelot of George Lewis. This land is now owned
by the heirs of Anna Childs, Dea. John Munroe and others. He
also owned a garden spot and two acres of meadow on the north
of the County road, now owned by Capt. Foster, Ebenezer Bacon,
Esq., and others, two lots in the Old Common Field, one of two,
and the other of three acres, and ninety-two rods in the Calves
Pasture, This property he sold June 2, 1649, to Elder John
Chipman, by a deed witnessed by William Casely, Henry Cobb
and Richard Church. -j- This deed is recorded in the Colony rec
ords, and is printed in the 12th volume of the records, pages 180
and 181. I have in my possession another deed of the same
*In my notice of the Blossom family I inadvertantly omitted to name this daughter of
Dea. Thomas Blossom.
tRichard Cliureh, bom in 1608, was a carpenter, and only a temporary resident in Barn
stable. He probably came to Massachusetts in the fleet with Gov. Winthrop in 1630. He
removed from Weymouth to Plymouth, and was admitted a freeman 4tli Uct. 1632. He
sold his estate in Plymouth in 1649, stopped in Barnstable some little time, was at Charles
town in 1643, and finally set down at Hingham, and died at Dedliam in 1648. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warren, and liad ,Ioseph; Beniamin 1639, (the renowned
fcoldicr) Richard, Caleb, Nathaniel, Humah 1646, Abigail, Charles, Dehorah 1657, and per
haps Mary, The dwelling house of Gen. Benjamin Church was at Fall River, and was
taken down not many years s.ncc. It stood near the present dwelling house of Col. Rich
ard Borden.

GENEALOGICAL IVfOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 369
property, in the hand vyriting of Gov. Hinckley, acknowledged
before him Aug, 13, 1669, and witnessed by his wife Mary Hinck
ley, and Peter Blossom. In this deed it is stated that the property
was sold to John Chipman in 1649, Why two deeds of the same
property were given, I am unable to explain.
Soon after 1649, John Chipman sold this lot to John Davis,
and Jan. 14, 1658, the latter sold six acres thereof to Samuel
Norman, reserving two acres at the north end on which his house
then stood. Feb. 26, 1665, Norman recohveyed this land to
Davis, with his house thereon. The portion owned by Norman, is
now known as Norman's Hill.
In 1649, Edward Fitzrandolphe removed to his farm in West
Barnstable, "a double great lot," containing 120 acres of upland,
bounded north by the meadows, east by the Bursley farm, south
by the commons, and west by the lands of Mr. Thomas Dexter.
On the north he had twenty-three acres of salt meadow, bound
west by the lands of Mr. Thomas Dexter, on the north hounded
partly by the marsh of William Dexter, partly by the common
meadows, and partly by the "Committees Creek, so called," east
by the upland of Mr. John Bursley, and south by his own land.
This tract is now known as the Bodfish and Smith farms. In
1669 he and several famUies from the Cape removed to New
Jersey. In Oct. 1683 his widow was living at New Piscataqua,
New Jersey.
I-Ie is caUed in deeds a yeoman, or farmer, and does not ap
pear to have been employed in any official station. He had re
ceived a good education for those times, and as Mr. Lothrop
styles him "Master" he probably belonged to a good family. He
came probably from the west of England.
His farm at West Barnstable he sold partly to John Crocker,
Sen'r, partiy to Abraham Blush, who afterwards sold to Crocker,
and the eastern portion to Rev. John Smith, whose descendants
StiU enjoy it.
His children born in Barnstable were :
I. Nathaniel, baptized Aug. 9, 1640, buried at Barnstable
Dec. 10, 1640.
II. Nathaniel, baptized May 15, 1642, married Nov. 1662,
Mary, daughter of Joseph Holway, or Holloway, of Sand
wich, and had 1, John, 1st Feb. 1662-3 ; and 2, Isaac, 7th
Dec. 1664. No other chUdren recorded. He probably re
moved with his father in 1669.
III. Mary, baptized Oct. 6, 1644, died young.
IV. Hannah, baptized AprU 23, l'648. The town record says,
"born April 1949," an error. She married 6th Nov. 1668,
Jasper Taylor.
V. Mary, baptized June 2, 1650, (town record, "last of May

370 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
1651," an error,) married, 15th Jan. 1668-9, Samuel Hinck
ley.
VI. .lohn, Jan. 2, 1652. (If not the same as the following he
died young.)
VII. John, born 7th Oct. 1653, (town records.)
VIII. Joseph, born 1st March 1656, (town records.)
IX. Thomas, born 16th Aug. 1654, (town records.)
X. Hope, born 2d April, 1661, (town records.)

FULLER.

Samuel Fuller, son of Edward and Ann FuUer, came over in
the Mayflower, in 1620. His parents died soon after they came
came on shore,* and he resided at Plymouth with his uncle Sam
uel, the first physician who came to settle in our country. He
had three shares at the division of lands in 1624, Mr. Savage
presumes out of respect to his father and mother. He was execu
tor of his uncle's will in 1633, and was a freeman of the Colony
in 1634. From Plymouth he removed to Scituate, where he mar
ried, April 8, 1635, Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lothrop. Nov.
7, 1636, he joined the church at Scituate, having a letter of dis
mission from the Plymouth church, of which he had been a mem
ber. He built, in 1636, the fifteenth house in Scituate, on Green
field, the flrst lot abuting.on Kent street. He had twenty acres
of land on the east of Bellhouse Neck, in that town. Mr. Deane
calls him "a man of Kent," from which country many of the flrst
settlers in Barnstable came.
Samuel Fuller, as appears by the church records, was in
Barnstable as early as 1641, but it does not appear that he was
inhabitant of the town till after the 1st of Januarj' 1644. His
brother, Capt. Matthew, the earliest regular physician in Barn
stable, came a few years later. They bought of Secunke, Indian,
Scorton or Sandy Neck, that is, so much of it as lies within the
boundaries of the town of Barnstable. The arable land, in the
purchase was set off to the Fullers, the remainder, including the
meadows, was reserved as town's commons and afterwards divid
ed. Samuel Fuller also bought meadow of his brother Matthew
that was Major John Freeman's, and meadow of Samuel House,
and owned land on Scorton Hill. He had a good estate for those
This is the expression used by Gov. Bradford, who knew the parties. Mr. Z. Eddy
says the Wid. Ann Fuller died in Barnstable in 1663, aged 79 years. I find no corrobora
tion of the latter statement.

372 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
days. His personal estate is apprized in his inventory at
£116,6,09. He Uved in the north-west angle of the town, in a secluded
spot, where travellers or others had seldom occasion to pass. He
was very little engaged in public business. He was constable at
Scituate in 1641, and his name occasionally appears as a jury
man, and on committees to settle difficulties that arose with the
Indians, and was one of the 58 purchasers, as that company was
called. Samuel and Matthew Fuller, though brothers, and Uving near
each other in a retired spot, and owning property together, were
as unlike as two men can well be. Samuel was eminently pious,
and retired in his habits ; Matthew, though nominally a Purita,n,
was not a religious man ; but was ambitious, and courted official
distinction. In one instance he recanted an opinion deliberately
expressed, in order to secure the patronage of the majority.
Samuel committed no acts that he had to recant — he was an honest
man, a good neighbor, and a christian, and his posterity will ever
honor him.
He died in Barnstable Oct. 31, 1683. He was the only one
of the passengers in the Mayflower who settled permanently in
Barnstable. Of the 102 who arrived in that ship at Province-
town in 1620, 61 died, or just one half, in a few months. Of the
remaining 51, or Old Stock, as Gov. Bradford calls the first com
pany, 31 were Uving in 1650 ; 12 in 1679, of whom Samuel Ful
ler was one ; three in 1690, namely. Resolved White, Mary Cush
man, daughter of Mr. Allerton, and John Cook, son of Francis
Cook, and in 1698, seventyrcight years after the arrival of the
Mayflower, two passengers who came' over in her were living,
namely, Mary Cushman and John Cook.-j-
1. Samuel FuUer, son of Edward, married at Mr. Cud
worth's, in Scituate, by Capt. Miles Standish, April 8, 1635,
Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lothrop.
Children born in Saituate.
2. I. Hannah, married Nicholas Bonham Jan. 1, 16.58-9,
(see Bonham.)
3. II. Samuel, baptized Feb. 11, 1637-8, married Anna,
daughter of Capt. Matthew Fuller, (see account below.)
4. III. EUzabeth, married  Taylor.
5. IV. Sarah, baptized in Barnstable Aug. 1, 1641, died
young. Ciiildren born in Barnstable.
6. V. Mary, baptized June 16, 1644, married Nov. 18, 1674,
'jBefore writing the genealogies of the Fullers, I intended to have examined the Sand.
wich records and the Probate records with more care than I have. I delayed writing till
the- printer's boy was at my elbow, asking for copy, and the result is I have very little be
side that which I ilirnished Mr. Savage for his Genealogical Dictionary. Some facts that I
have, I omit, not knowing the right places in the series.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 373
Joseph WUUams, son of John of HaverhiU. He was born
AprU 18, 1647, had Sarah 17th Nov. 1676 ; Mary, 29th
Nov. 1677; John, 17th Feb. 1680; Hannah, 30th Sept.
1683.
7. VI. Thomas born, says the town record, May 18, 1650,
probably on the day of his baptism. May 18, 1651. He is
not named in his father's will, and perhaps died young.
8. VII. Sarah, born Dec. 14, 1654, married  Crow. <
9. VIII, John, called Little John, or John, Jr,, to distin
guish him from John, son of Capt. Matthew.
10. IX. A child, Feb. 8, 1668, died 16 days after.
Gov. Bradford in his history states that in 1660 Samuel Ful
ler had four or more children. He had Hannah, Samuel, EUza
beth, and Mary, four ; if Thomas was born in 1660, five. In his
will dated 29th Oct. 1683, he names oldest son Samuel, son .John,
daughters EUzabeth Taylor, Hannah Bonham, Mary WUliams,
and Sarah Crow, two sons and four daughters then living. He
died Oct. 31, 1683, and was one of the last survivors of those
who came over in the Mayfiower. His wife not being uamed in
his will had probably died previously.
3. Samuel Fuller, son of Samuel, born Feb. 1637-8, mar
ried Anna, daughter of Capt. Matthew Fuller- There is no
record of his family on the Barnstable records. An inventory of
his estate was taken at his house in Barnstable Dec, 29, 1691, It
appears that he had then been dead some little time, and that his
widow had then recently deceased, and her estate was settled by
mutual agreement on the 30th of the same month. All the heirs
sign with their mark, showing that they had received no benefit
from the schools established in the distant parts of the town. It
is presumed that they were then all of legal age. The names oc
cur in the following order on the agreement.
11. I. Matthew, married Patience Young 25th Feb. 1692-3.
12. II. Barnabas, married Elizabeth Young 25th Feb.
1680-1.
13. III. Joseph, married Thankful Blossom.
14. IV. Benjamin.
15. V. Desire.
16. VI. Sarah.
9. John Fuller, born about the year 1665, was the youngest
son of Samuel, Sen'r. He resided on the paternal estate at Scor
ton till 1689, when he removed, with several other families frorii
that vicinity, to East Haddam, Conn. On the 30th of October,
1688, "Mehitabel, the wife of Littie John FuUer," was admitted
to the Barnstable Church, and her sons Samuel, Thomas and
Shubael, were baptized, and on the 19th of May, 1689, her
daughter Thankful was baptized. Here occurs a gap in the fam-
ERRATA. In Ewer familv. The late Isaac Ewer, of Osterville, was son of Seth.
Richard Church at Charlestown 1653, died 1668.

17.

I.

18.

11.

19.

Ill,

20.

IV.

21.

V.

22.

VI.

26.

VII

26.

VII

374 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ily register, for her next son John is recorded as born Nov. 10.
1697, at East Haddam. During the interval he probably had
Deborah and others.
Children of Littie John Fuller and his wife born in Barnsta
ble : Samuel, baptized Oct. 1688.
Thomas. Shubael.
Thankful, baptized May 19, 1689.
At East Hadam, Conn.
John, Nov. 10, 1697.
Joseph, March 1, 1699-1700.
. Benjamin, Oct. 20, 1701.
1. Mehitabel, AprU 16, 1706.
Thomas Fuller of this family had by his wife Elizabeth, born
at East Haddam, Ebenezer, 1715 ; Thomas, 1717 ; Nathan,
1719; Hannah, 1720; Jabez, 1722; Jonathan, 1725. John
Fuller, Jr., married May 10, 1721, Mary Rowley alias Mary
CornweU, and had at East Haddam, Mary, 1722 ; Esther, 1724;
John, 1727; WiUiam, 1730; Mehitabel, 1732; Andrew, 1734;
Sarah, 1737. Shubael FuUer married 10th 7th mo. 1708, Hannah
Crocker, of Barnstable, and had at East Haddam, Lydia, 1709;
Ephraim, 1711; Thankful, 1713; Zerviah, 1716; Hannah, 1718;
Shubael, 1721 ; Jonathan, 1724; and RacheU, 1727.
11, Matthew Fuller, son of Samuel, and grandson of
Samuel, Sen'r, married 26th Feb. 1692-3, Patience Young, proba
bly daughter of George of Scituate, and had children born in
Barnstable, namely :
23. I. Anna, Nov. 1693, married Reuben Blush, Oct. 1717.
24. II, Jonathan, Oct. 1696, married Rebecca Perry, of
Sandwich, March 3, 1718.
25. 111. Content, 19th Feb. 1698-9.
26. IV. Jean, 1704, died 1708.
27. V. David, Feb. 1706-7.
28. VI. Young, 1708.
29. VII. Cornelius, 1710.
This family probably removed soon after 1710.
12, Barnabas FuUer, brother of 'the preceding, married 25th
Feb. 1680-1, Elizabeth Young.
Children born in Barnstable.
30. I, Samuel, Nov. 1681, married twice.
31. II. Isaac, Aug. 1684, married Jerusha LoveU.
32. Ill, Hannah, Sept. 1688.
33. IV, Ebenezer, AprU 1699, married Martha Jones.
34. V. .losiah, Feb. 1709 married Ann Rowley, of Fal
mouth.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 375
13. Joseph Fuller, brother of the preceding, married
Thankful Blossom, and had,
35. I. Remember, 26th May, 1701, married Jabez Crocker,
May 27, 1765.
36. II. Seth, 6th Sept. 1705, died Jan. 7, 1732-3.
37. III. Thankful, 4th Aug. 1708, died July 3, 1728.
14. Benjamin Fuller, brother of the preceding, married and
38. I. Temperance, 7th March, 1702. Sh^Uiyf^y^x, Jtm^,-/^ ?i«t^w»^i
39. II. Hannah, 20th May, 1704. I think she married Rev.
Joseph Bourne July 25, 1743.
40. III. John, 25th Dec. 1706, married Mariah Nye, March
7, 1728-9.
41. IV. James, 1st May, 1711, married Temperance Phin
ney.
30. Samuel FuUer, son of Barnabas, married first Ruth
Crocker, and Dec. 20th 1727, Lydia LoveU, probably widow of
Andrew. Ciiildren horn in Barnstable.
42. I. Sarah, AprU 16, 1719.
43. II. Barnabas, AprU 1, 1721.
44. III. Eleazer, Feb. 9, 1722-3, married Elizabeth Hatch
1756. By his second wife.
45. IV. Joshua, Oct. 3, 1727.
46. V. Elizabeth, Jan. 24, 1728-9, married Nathaniel Good-
speed and removed to Vasselboro', Maine.
47. VI. Rebekah, AprU3, 1731.
48. VII. Lot, Sept. 18, 1733.
This family removed to Rochester.
31. Isaac FuUer, brother of the preceding, married July 9,
1719, Jerusha Lovell. Children bom in Barnstable.
49. I. EU, AprU 11, 1720, married 1746, Mercy Rogers, of
Harwich, and had, 1, Martha, Nov. 17, 1747 ; 2, Jede
diah, March 28, 1749 ; 3, David, June 21, 1761 ; 4, Wil
liam, Sept. 28, 1753 ; and 5, Jerusha, May 2, 1756.
50. II. Mehitabel, March 10, 1722-3, married Thomas Ames
Oct. 30, 1740.
51. ni. Jerusha, Jan. 19, 1725-6, married John Green, of
Falmouth.
52. IV. Zaccheus, Oct. 16, 1727, married Sarah Jones, Feb.
22 1762.
53. V.' Charity, Dec. 11, 1729, married Silas LoveU Aug. 7,
1760.
64. VI. Isaac, Sept. 9, 1731, married Susan Wardsworth, of
Pembroke.

376 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
55. VII. Seth, May 29, 1734.
56. VIII. Hannah, April 9, 1736.
33. Ebenezer FuUer, brother of the preceding, married
Martha .Jones, and had,
57. 1, David, born Feb. 6, 1725.
58. II. Jonathan, April 9, 1729.
59. III. Daniel, Sept. 16, 1731, married Martha Phinney
Nov. 1, 1753,
60. IV. John, June 3, 1734.
61. V. WiUiam, Sept. 27, 1737.
62. VI. Jean, Jan. 12, 1739.
Matthew Fuller was one of the prominent men of the Old
Colony — and his name is inseparably connected with her annals.
I have neither the time nor the ability to write his biography — to
recount in detail the various services which he rendered to the
country. He was an able man ; but he had his faults, which I
shall not, in this sketch, attempt to palliate or conceal.
He was the son of Edward and Anne, and brother of
Samuel, who came over in 1620, in the Mayfiower. His parents
died soon after their arrival at Plymouth. Samuel went to reside
with his uncle, and Matthew remained with his friends in Eng
land till about the year 1640, when he came over. Though he
was then nearly thirty years of age, probably a married man and
a parent, yet he was accounted to be "one of the flrst born
of the Colony," and had lands assigned in virtue of his right of
primo-geniture. Edward and Anne Fuller had no child born in
this country to claim the lands granted to "the flrst born ;" and in
all such cases the right was transferred to the eldest child of the
same parents, though born in the mother country.
Little is known of his early history. This is to be regretted ;
because we delight to trace the successive steps by which an or
phan boy became eminent. It is not known whether he studied
medicine before or after he came over, or whether he was then a
married man and a parent. The best authorities give the year
1640, as the date of his coming to Plymouth. The earliest date
I find is AprU 5, 1642 ; but it is evident that he had been in the
country some little time, probably two years. If he did not
come before 1640, he was certainly a married man and a parent,
because his daughter Mary was born as early as 1635.
In 1642 he had ten acres of land assigned to him near Thurs
ton Clark's, in Plymouth, and as this is the first grant made to
him the presumption is that he had not then been long in the
country. The same year he was a juryman, and propounded to
be a freeman of the Colony ; but was not sworn and admitted tiU
June 7, 1653.
In 1643 a"mUitary discipline" was established by the Colony
Court, embracing the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury and Marsh-

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field, MUes Standish was chosen Captain ; Nathaniel Thomas,
Lieutenant ; Nathaniel Souther, Clerk ; and Matthew FuUer and
Samuel Nash, Sergeants,
To be a sergeant in a mUitia was then an office of honor, and
conferred distinction on the holder.
When the company met, the exercises were always begun and
ended with prayer, and at the annual election of officers, on the
flrst of September, an occasional sermon was preached. None
but freeman of honest and good report, approved by the officers,
and by a majority of the company, were admitted. Servants
were not admitted, neither were freeman who were not of honest
and good report. No conversation was allowed while the com
pany was on parade and the most exact discipline was exacted.
For absence, without a sufficient excuse, a flne of two shiUings
was imposed, and if not paid in a month, the delinquent party
was summoned to appear before the company, the flne was
exacted, and his name was stricken from the roll of the company.
For each defect in arms or equipments a flne of six pence
was imposed, and if any one was defective for six consecutive
months, his name was also stricken from the roll of the company.
The arms and equipments required of each was a musket or
piece approved; a sword; a rest; and a bandilier. Only 16
pikes were required, namely, 8 for Plymouth, 6 for Duxbury, and
2 for Marshfield.
All the officers of the company were forever after to be
known by their titles ; each member paid six pence a quarter for
the use ol the company ; and at the decease of a member, the '
company assembled with their arms, and he was buried as
a soldier. No person propounded for a member could be received on the
day he was nominated ; and before admission, he was required to
take the oath of fidelity. The fifteenth rule of the company
required "That all postures of pike and muskett, motions, ranks,
and files, &c., messengers, skirmishes, seiges, batteries, watches,
sentinels, &c., be always performed to true military discipline."
This company was established on the same principle as the
ancient and honorable artillery company of Boston, which has
maintained its organization to the present time.
The freemen of Sandwich, Barnstable, and Yarmouth, "pro
vided they be men of honest and good report," were granted by
the Court Uberty to form a similar company ; but I do not learn
that they accepted the privUege. In each town there was a
mihtary company, which included all between the ages of 16 and
60, "able to bear arms," The "military discipUne" was not
intended to supercede the ordinary trainings. It was intended as
an honorable association of the freemen, for instruction in the art
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The date of his removal to Barnstable is uncertain. Sept. 3,
1652, the Court approved his election as Lieutenant of the miUtia
company in Barnstable. In 1653 he was deputy from Barnstable
to the Colony Court, and it is probable that he had been a resident
for three or four years.
June 20, 1664, he was appointed Lieutenant under Capt.
Miles Standish of the company of flfty men, the quota of the
Plymouth Colony, in the proposed expedition against the Dutch
Colony at Manhattoes, now New York. The men were ordered
to rendezvous at Sandwich June 29, and to embark from Mano
mett in the bark Adventer, belonging to Capt, Samuel Mayo, of
Barnstable, and join the force of the other colonies at the place
appointed. On the 23d of June, the news of the conclusion of
peace between England and Holland was received, and the pre
parations for the expedition ceased. Peace had long been desired
by the colonies ; they were opposed to the war, but were most
loyal subjects. The order to raise the men, furnish ammunition,
stores and transportation was received June 6, and all the prepar
ations had to be made before the 30th. When the news of peace
was received, all the preparations had been made, and if the war
had continued, the Plymouth Colony troops would have embarked
from Manomett on the day appointed.
Oct. 2, 1658, he was elected one of the council of war, and
in 1671 its chairman, and one of the magistrates of the Colony,
and the same year. Lieutenant of the forces to be sent against the
Saconet Indians. Dec. 17, 1673, he was appointed Surgeon
General of the colony troops, and also of the Massachusetts, if
that Colony approved. In 1675, he was allowed 4 shillings a day
for his services as Surgeon General, and for "other good services
performed in behalf of the country." In addition to his duties as
Surgeon General, he served as a captain of the Plymouth forces
during King PhiUip's war. To trace his history during this
interesting period belongs to the writers of general history.
In the Quaker controversy, Capt. Fuller took a noble stand
in favor of religious toleration ; but he was independent, and said
many things that he had better have left unsaid. Acting under
strong feelings of excitement, and indignant at the course pursued
by a majority of the Court, he made statements that a discreet
man would not have made, thus doing injury to the cause he
would aid.
At the October Court, in 1668, he was presented by the grand
inquest of the Colony for saying, "The law enacted about minis
ter's maintenance, was a wicked and devUish law, and that the
devil sat at the stone when it was enacted." That he had uttered
these words he admitted, and he submitted himself, without trial,
to the judgment of the magistrates, who flned him 50 shUUngs.
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matter was true which he knew to be false. Gov. Hinckley com
menced an action against him for defamation. Capt, Fuller made
a publid acknowledgment of his fault and Gov. Hinckley discon
tinued the action.
Though Capt. Fuller was undoubtedly right, in regard to the
abstract questions, underlying the Quaker controversy, yet the
bitter knguage in which he expressed his opinions was wholly
unjustifiable, more especially when the circumstances under which
they were uttered are taken into consideration. Capt. Fuller held
a high social position in the Colony. So did the members of the
Court, whose motives he so bitterly impugned. To the honor of
the latter, it wiU ever be remembered, that at the same term where
the grand jury indicted Capt. Fuller for speaking reproachfully of
the members of the Court, those slandered members, disregarding
their private grievances, and looking only to the interests of the
country, did, at the very same term of " the Court, elect Capt.
Fuller one of the Council of War ; and, notwithstanding he
continued to utter vituperative language against individual mem
bers of the government, the Court continued to confer on him
offices of honor and trust — returning good for evil. Men do not
always thus heap coals of fire on their enemy's heads. The
members of the Court knew Capt. Fuller to be a honorable man,
and that however indiscreet he might be in words, he would per
form his whole duty to his country.
In private life, and in his business relations, he exhibited a
litigious spirit which is not commendable. He was often involved
in law-suits with his neighbors which a more discreet man would
have settled without an appeal to the courts. •¦
These details, however, enable us to form a just estimate of
his character. That he was a man of sound judgement, of good
understanding, and faithful in the performance of all his duties,
there is no reason to doubt. In politics he was liberal, and in his
religious opinions tolerant ; but unfortunately for his reputation,
he was very indiscreet. This weakness in his character seems to
have been so manifest, so well known to all, that his injudicious
speeches were disregarded, and he was duly honored for the many
good services which he rendered to his country.
Capt. Fuller was the first regular physician who settled in
Barnstable.* That he was a man of some skill aud ability in his
profession is evident from the fact that he was appointed Surgeon
Generaljof the forces of Plymouth and of Massachusetts in 1673.
His official duties required that he should be often absent from
home, therefore his practice in Barnstable and Sandwich was
necessarily interrupted, and not of that continuous character
* The early ministers were usually practicing physicians, and Rev. Mr. Lothrop, Mr.
John Smith, and Mr. William Seargant, of Barnstable, were not, I presume, exceptions to
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necessary for the success of a local physician. His son John and
one or more of his grand-sons were physicians.
The farms of Capt, Fuller and his brother Samuel were on
Scorton Neck, at the north-west angle of the town. Soon after
the settlenient, the town bought of Secunke Indian, Scorton Neck.
The arable land at the west end thereof was assigned to the
Fullers. The town of Sandwich bought the west end of the neck,
so that the western boundary of the Fullers' land was the line
between the two towns. Some difficulty arose respecting this
boundary which was not finally settled till 1680, after the death of
Capt, Fuller. The difficulty originated in an order of the Colony
Court, dated Oct, 30, 1672, fixing the boundary line farther west
than the Committee of Sandwich was wiUing to concede, thus
giving a considerable tract of good land to the Fullers. Suits
were brought by each party, which were finally withdrawn, and
on the 30th of June, 1680, the matter was settled by agreement,
the Fullers relinquished the lands they had obtained by authority
of the Court Order of Oct. 30, 1672, and the town of Sandwich
conceeded to the Fullers certain rights of way and the privilege
of cutting fencing stuff within the bounds of Sandwich.
Capt. Fuller, by virtue of his right as one "of the first born
of the Colony," and lor the eminent services which he had rendered
the country, had lands granted him at Suckinesset, now Falmouth,
and in "the Major's purchase" at Middleboro.
Capt. FuUer died in Barnstable in 1678. His wiU is dated
July 20, 1678, and was proved Oct. 30th foUowing. He names
his wife Frances ; his grand-son Shubael, son of Ralph .lones ; his
son John, to whom he bequeathed one-half of his real estate ;
his grand-children Thomas, Jabez, Timothy, Matthias and Samuel,
children of his eldest son Samuel Fuller, deceased, to whom he
bequeathed the other half of his estate ; and Bethia wife of John
Fuller. To daughter Mary, wife of Ralph Jones, he gave £10 ;
to daughter Anne FuUer, "now wife of Samuel Fuller," £10 ; to
daughter Elizabeth, wife of Moses Rowley, £10 ; he also names
Sarah Rowley, daughter of Elizabeth Rowley ; Jedediah Jones,
son of Ralph ; Mary Fuller, late wife of his son Samuel ; also
Robert Marshall, the Scotchman ; and Jasper Taylor. He ap
pointed his wife Francis executrix. Witnesses of his will : Lieut.
Joseph Lothrop and John Hawes. His estate was apprised at
£667,04,06, a very large estate in those times. Among the items
in the inventory is the following : "Pearls, precious stones, and
Diamonds, at a guess, £200." t
tin connection with this box of jewels a marvellous story is told. Soon after Capt.
Fuller's death it was missing. Robert, the Scotch servant, was charged with having stolen
it. There was no proof agamst him — he was simply suspected. This charge so affected
him, that he took no food, and finally died of gi-ief and starvation. He was buried in a
grove of wood, on the north-eastern declivity of Scorton Hill, He died in the winter when
a deep snow laid on the ground. The neighbors carried his body to this place— the deep

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AU that is known respecting the relationship of the two
FuUer families is this : in the settlement of the disputed boundary
line, with the town of Sandwich, Dr. John Fuller, son of Matthew,
calls Samuel Fuller, Sen'r, his uncle, consequently Matthew and
Samuel, Sen'r, were brothers, and sons of Edward, and nephews
of Dr. Samuel, of Plymouth. Matthew must have been born in
England as early as 161.0, and his older children were probably
born there. No record exists of their births or baptisms in this
country. This fact, though not conclusive, indicates that they
were born in England, AU that is known of his family is
obtained from his will, of which an abstract has been given. His
wife, at the time of his death, was Frances, whether first or
second is not known, and whether he had other chUdren than
those named in his will is also not known. He calls Samuel his
eldest son, and the order of the births of his chUdren evidently is
not that given in his will.
Children of Capt. Matthew Fuller.
2. I, Mary, married Ralph Jones AprU 17, 1655, and has
many descendants.
3. II. 'Elizabeth, married Moses Rowley, AprU 22, 1652, and
has many descendants.
4, IH, Samuel, (see account of bis family below.)
5. IV. John, (see account of his family below.)
6. V. Anne, married Samuel, son of Samuel Fuller, Sen'r.
4. Samuel Fuller, son of Capt. Matthew, was a lieutenant
in the Plymouth Colony forces in King PhUlip's war, and was
killed at Rehobeth, March 25, 1676. In 1670 he was a member
of the Colony Committee appointed to view the injury done to the
Indians, by the cattle of the Enghsh, and assess damages. His
name also occurs as a town officer. His wife was Mary. I fiiid
no record of the births or baptisms of his chUdren. In his will
he names aU his children excepting Samuel, who was born after
the death of .the father.
¦/ /, Children of Samuel Fuller, son of Matthew.
7. I. Thomas, (see account below.)
8. II. Jabez, (see account below.)
9. HI. Timothy. Removed to East Haddam.
10. IV. Matthew, died unmarried 1697. In his wUl dated
Boston, Aug. 7, 1696, proved May 22, 1697, he gives to his
brother Timothy, of Haddam, his half of the laUd and
snow preventing them from proceeding farther, and there he was buried. Capt. Oliver
Chase has recently placed two stones, one at the head and the other at the foot of poor
Richard's grave. For nearly two centuries the plow has not desecrated Ins grave, and we
hope no sacreligions hands will hereafter remove the simpje monuments now erected to his
memory. To this day his grave is pointed out, and some timourous people dare not pass it
afl:er nightfall. Many fearful stories are told of the appearance ot the Scotchman s ghost,
and for years many a waywa.d child was fi-ightcned into obedience by threatening to call
the Scotchman's ghost, to aid the authority of the weak mother.

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meadow in Middleborough, given him by his grandfather
Matthew Fuller. All the rest of his estate, both real and
personal, he bequeathed to his honored mother, to be dis
posed of for her comfortable subsistence during her natural
life, and whatsoever she shall die possessed of, without any
alienation shaU be disposed equally amongst the rest of my
brothers and sisters. 6
11. V. Anne, born 16^9, married Joseph Smith 29th AprU,
1689. ¦ ' 1
12. VI. Abigail.
13. VII. Samuel, born 1676 (post humeus.)
¦^.i' Dr. John Fuller, son of Matthew, resided on the paternal
estate at Scorton Neck. He was a physician of some note in his
day. He died in 1691. He married two wives: 1st, Bethia
 , and second, Hannah  , of Boston, who survived
him and married, Dec. 9, 1695, Capt, John Lothrop, of Barn
stable, Children horn in Barnstable.
14. I. Lydia, born 1675, married 12th May 1699, Joseph
Dimmock. She died in Connecticut Nov. 6, 1756, aged 80.
15. II. Bethia, Dec. 1687, married Feb. 20, 1706, Barnabas
Lothrop.
16. IIL* John, Oct. 1689, (see account below.)
17. IV. Reliance, 8th Sept. 1691, married John Prince (?).
7. Capt. Thomas Fuller, son of Samuel, married 29tb Dec.
1680, Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Joseph Lothrop.
Children horn in Barnstable.
18. I. Hannah, 17th Nov. 1681,
19. II. Joseph, 12th July 1683, married Feb. 9, 1708-9,
Joanna Crocker, (see account below.)
20. III. Mary, born Aug. 1685, married Wm. Green Sept. 1,
1731.
21. IV. Benjamin, born Aug. 1690. He was Lieutenant, and
called junior. He married 26th March 1714, Rebecca
Bodfish. She died 10th March 1727-8, and he married Feb.
20, 1729-30, Mary FuUer. His children born in Barnstable
were: 1, Mary, July 15, 1714; 2, Lydia, March 23, 1716,
married Dec. 2, 1742, John Percival ; 3, "Thomas, June 18,
1718, (see account below) ; 4, Elizabeth, Sept. 30, 1720;
5, Benjamin, Oct. 28, 1723; 6, AbigaU, Nov. 29, 1725,
died 1726 ; 7, Joseph, Oct. 18, 1730, died 1732 ; 8, Thankful,
AprU 26, 1733, married AprU 23, 1757, Samuel Gilbert, of
Conn. ; 9, Rebecca, June 1, 1735, Timothy Jones paid
attention to her twenty years, but did not marry. She
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March 14, 1736-7, married Deliverance Jones Oct. 15, 1757.
22. V. EUz;abeth, 3d Sept. 1692, married Oct. 31, 1726, Isaac
Crocker, of East Haddam.
23. VI. Samuel, 12th AprU 1694, married Malatiah Bodfish
June 20, 1725-6, and had: 1, Abijah, Dec. 29, 1726, mar
ried Hester .Auold Aug. 7, 1746, and had a family ; 2, still
born child Dec. 7, 1728 ; 3 and 4, a son who died aged 4
, weeks, and Abigail June 26, 1730.
24-: VII. AbigaU, 9th Jan. 1695-6, married Oct. 25, 1721,
Jacob Chipman.
25, VIIL John, baptized AprU 19, 1696.
8.. Jabez Fuller, son of Samuel, and grandson of Matthew,
resided in Barnstable. Children :
26, I. Samuel, 2.3d Feb, 1687.
27. II. Jonathan, 10th March 1692.
28. III. Mercy, 1st April, 1696, married March 17, 1719-20,
James Bearse (?).
29. IV. Lois, 23d Sept. 1704, married Thomas Foster Nov.
25, 1725.
30. V. Ebenezer, 20 Feb. 1708.
31. VI. Mary.
9. Timothy Fuller, son of Samuel, removed to East Haddam
and by wife Sarah had :
32. I. Timothy, Aug. 29, 1695.
33. II. Mary, Dec. 19, 1697.
34. III. Matthias, March 24, 1700.
35. IV. Sarah, Aug. 7, 1702.
36. V. AbigaU, July 5, 1704.
16. Lieut. John FuUer married 16th June 1710, Thankful
Gorham. He died July 20, 1732, aged 42. He is buried at West
Barnstable, and on his grave-stone it is recorded, "He was son of
Doct. John Fuller." Children horn in Barnstable.
37. I. Hannah, 1st AprU 1711, married Mr. Matthias Smith
Sept. 3, 1730.
38. II. John, 3d Aug. 1714, married Temperance Gorham
Oct. 29, 1741, and had : 1, Desire, Aug. 1, 1742 ; 2, John,
,Iune 23, 1744; 3, Edward, Dec. 28, 1746; 4, Francis,
March 10, 1749 ; 5, Job, Nov. 25, 1761.
39. III. Mary, 1st Sept. 1715, married Seth Lothrop Aug. 11,
17.33.
40, IV. Bethia, 1st Sept. 1715, married Joseph Bursley Dec.
20 1739.
41. V.' Nathaniel, 10th Dec. 1716, married AbigaU Hinckley
Feb, 22, 1739, Capt, Nathaniel Fuller, flrst of Sandwich,
afterwards of Barnstable, was in the French war. He

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brought home the Small Pox, and his wife and daughters
Thankful and Abigail died of that disease, and are buried
on Scorton Neck. He had a daughter Hannah who re
covered, and afterwards married Matthias Smith ; and
Lydia, who married Lazarus Ewer. He also had a son
Lieut. Joseph, born 1768, died Aug. 16, 181)5, who married
Tabitha, daughter of Josiah Jones ; he was an officer in the
Revolutionary war ; and Nathaniel, who married Ruhama,
daughter of Samuel Jones. Capt. Nathaniel married a
second wife. I flnd no record of his family. Capt.
Nathaniel FuUer owned the west part of the farm now
owned by Mr. B. Blossom on Scorton Neck, containing
about 35 acres. His house stood on the south side of the
old way leading to Sandy Neck, and nearly opposite Ben
Blossom's house. In 1783 he sold his farm on Scorton
Neck to Edward Wing, and removed to a house just within
the boundaries of Barnstable, on the east of the causeway
leading to the Neck. It was taken down about 53 years
ago. The new road passes over the spot on which it stood.
After the death of - his second wife he resided with his
daughter Hannah Smith, and died at her house. "Capt.
Nat," as he was familiarly caUed, was stern in his manner,
and very decided in the expression of his opinions. He was
not an industrious man, and therefore not prosperous in
business.
^42. VI. Thankful, 19 Sept. 1718, called junior, married
Oct. 25, 1739, Nathan Russel, Jr., of Middleboro'.
19. Joseph FuUer, Jr,, son of Thomas, married 9th Feb,
1708-9, Joanna Crocker. She died AprU 13, 1766, aged 76.
Children horn in Barnstable.
42. I. Rebekah, 29th Dec, 1709, died July 30 1732.
43. II. Bethia, 2d March 1712, died July 1, 1737.
44. III. Temperance, 24th AprU 1717, married Joseph Blos
som, Jr. March 30, 1737. ' ')2n 4-
45. IV. Timothy, 3d AprU 1719. '
46. V. Matthias, 6th Sept. 1723. He married in 1755 Lydia
Blossom, and resided in a very ancient house situated on the
east side of Scorton Hill ,
47, VI. Batheheba, 10th Aug. 1726.
48. VII. Lemuel, 10th Feb. 1732, married Abigail Jones, and
resided at Marston's Mills, and had, 1, Joseph, Jan. 30,
1761; 2, Benjamin, Sept, 18, 1763; 3, Samuel, Nov. 27,
1765, also Timothy and Hannah.
Thomas Fuller, son of Benjamin, Jr., and grandson of Capt.
Thomas, married Ehzabeth  . Children: 1, EUzabeth, Jan,
21, 1743 ; 2, Thomas, Aug. 14, 1745 ; 3, .lacob, March 6, 1746 ;
and 4, Hannah, April 2, 1749.

FREEMAN.

This is not a Barnstable name. It is a common name in the
County, and several families of the name were early of Barn
stable. Two of the name came to this Count}'. Edmund of
Lynn, who was one of the flrst settlers in Sandwich, and Samuel
of Watertown, who settled in Eastham.
Edmund was a prominent man of good business habits,
liberal in poUtics, and tolerant in his religious opinions. He was
a member of the Sandwich church — the most bigoted and intoler
ant in the Colony — yet he did not imbibe the persecuting spirit
which has condemned to everlasting infamy many of his brethen.
In his intercourse with his neighbors and associates, he was
affable and obliging, and to his kindred and intimate friends, he
was ever kind and affectionate. He rested from his labors at
Sandwich in 1682, at the ripe old age of 92 years. His wife died
Feb. 14, 1676, aged 76. She was buried on a rising ground on
his own farm. He was then 86, and had lived 59 years in the
married state. Some little time after her decease he summoned
together his sons and his grandsons, they placed a large flat rock
resembling a pillion, over the grave of the wife. He then placed
another, resembling in shape a saddle, beside it ; and addressing
his sons, he said : "when I die, place my body under that stone,
your mother and I have travelled many long years together in this
world, and 1 desire that our bodies rest here till the resurrection,
aud 1 charge you to keep this spot sacred, and that you enjoin it
upon your children and your children's children, that they never
desecrate this spot."
A substantial wall was built around these simple but sugges
tive monuments, and his descendants to this day with pious hands
protect them from desecration. Many of them regard this spot as
their Mecca, which it is their duty to visit at least once in their
lives. Children of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman.
For the reason stated in a note, I have not carefully examined

386 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
the records of this family. The entries at the London Custom
are not entirely reliable.' In one place it is stated that he was
34 in 1635, and in another 45 years of age. I have assumed the
latter to be accurate, because it is not probable that he married at
16. His son John was born in 1622, The Custom House records
say in 1626, also in 1627. The family came over in 1635 in the
ship Abigail, Capt. Hackwell. Born in England.
I. Alice, 1618, married 24th Nov. 1639, Dea, Wm. Paddy.
II. Edmund, 1620, married and had a family.
III. John, 1622,
IV. Elizabeth, 1623, married John EUis.
V. CycelUa, 1631, probably his daughter, died young.
VI. Mary, probably born in this County, married Edward Perry.
Major John Freeman, a son of Edmund, born in England in
1622, was a more distinguished man than his father. He removed
to Eastham, and married 13th Feb. 1650, Mercy, daughter of
Gov. Thomas Prence. He lived to a venerable old age, and in
the ancient graveyard in that town are monuments wrought in the
mother country to his, and his wife's memory. His wife died first,
and on her curiously wrought gravestone a heart is depicted within
which her epitaph is engraved in small capital letters.
HERE LYES
BURIED YE BODY
OF MARCY FREEMAN
WIFE TO MAJOR
FREEMAN AGED
80 YEARS DEC'D
SEPT. 28TH
1711.
HEBE LYES THE
BODY OF MAJOR
JOHN FREEMAN
DEC'd OCTOBER YE
2 8th 17 19
IN YE 98th year
OF HIS AGE
Samuel Freeman, of Watertown, settled in Eastham, and has
many descendants. His mother married Gov. Prence, and there
is no known connection between the families of Edmund and
Samuel. The earliest family in Barnstable was that of Nathaniel, who
married Oct. 1723, Mercy, daughter of Mr. James Paine, and a
grand-daughter of Col. John Thacher, of Yarmouth. He died
Dec. 2, 1727. His children born in Barnstable were: 1, Bethia,
July 4, 1725 ; 2, James, Oct. 11, 1726 ; and 3, Nathaniel, March

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 387
30th, 1728, died 17th AprU, 1728.
Stephen Freeman married^ Oct. 22, 1736, Hannah Jenkins,
and had a daughter Zerviah born Sept. 24, 1737.
David Freeman, from Connecticut, married in 1756, Abigail
Davis, and had a son Thomas Davis born March 25. 1757. He
died soon after his marriage, and his wife was the Widow Freeman
who figured so conspicuously in the "Crocker Quarrels." *
Dr. Nathaniel Freeman, better known as Col. Freeman, was
some time a resident in Barnstable. During the Revolutionary
period, he was one ol the most active among the patriots of his
time. In character he was the counterpart of his ancestor, a man
of talent, very decided in his opinions, and impetuous in action.
Like all men of such a temperament, he made many enemies.
The tories denounced bim, in the bitterest of bitter terms. These
denunciations never affected his reputation as a man or a patriot,
but other causes did. He was not a meek man — he would not
tolerate the least opposition, consequently made many personal
enemies — and among the aged who knew him, few speak in his
praise. He held many offices — he was a busy man — some of his
duties he had not time to perform f well — this his personal enemies
noted ; but with all his faults, he was a useful man and the
services he did his country are appreciated.
, *As a full genealogy of the family is in print, it will be unnecessary for me to repeat it,
tSee Probate Records, The poorest writing and worse spelling therein, occurs during
the time h^ was Register.

FOSTER.

For many of the facts contained in this article, I am indebted
to Lucius R. Paige, Esq., of Cambridge. Foster is not a Barn
stable name, though there were a few here early.
1. Thomas Foster, of Weymouth, had three sons:
1- Thomas, born 18th Aug. 1640, whom I suppose to have been
the Dr. Thomas Foster who died in Cambridge 28th Oct.
1679, aged 39 years.
2. John, born 7th Oct. 1642, whom I suppose to have been the
Dea. John Foster named below ; but of this I have no
absolute proof.
3. Increase. 2. Dea, John Foster settled early in Marshfield, and married
Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna ChUlingsworth, by whom
he had ten children. His wife Mary died 25th Sept. 1702. He
then married Sarah Thomas, who died 26th May, 1731, aged 85.
Dea. Foster died 13th June 1732, aged 90, according to the record
make by his son Thomas, (who was Town Clerk,) or 91, accord
ing to the inscription on his head stone, standing in the Winslow
burying-ground. But if he was son of Thomas of Weymouth, he
lacked a few months of 90 years.
The chUdren of Dea, John and Mary Foster were :
1. Elizabeth, born 24th Sept. 1664, married WiUiam Carver
(the centenarian) 18th Jan, 1682-3, and died in June 1715.
2. John, born 12th Oct. 1666, married Hannah Stetson of
Scituate, resided in Plymouth, was deacon, and died 24th
Dec. 1741.
3. Josiah, born 7th June 1669, resided in Pembroke.
4. Mary, born 13th Sept. 1671, married John Hatch, died in
Marshfield 3d April 1750.
5. Joseph, born about 1674, resided in Barnstable and Sand
wich,- (see below.)
6. Sarah, born about 1677, died unmarried 7th April 1702,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 389
7. ChiUiugs worth, born llth June 1680, resided in Harwich,
(see below.)
8. James, born 22d May, 1683, died 21st July, 1683,
9, Thomas, born 1686, resided in Marshfield, Deacon, Town
Clerk, &e., died 6th Feb. 1768, aged 72, married Lois Ful
ler Nov. 25, 1725, had Gersham at B. Sept. 23, 1733.
10. Deborah, born 1691, died unmarried 4th Nov. 1732, aged 41.
ChUlingsworth Foster, son of Dea. John and Mary, resided
in Harwich, of which town he was many years Representative in
the General Court. His first wife was Mercy, (I have not been
able to ascertain her family name) by whom he had seven children.
She died 7th July 1720, and he married 2d, Widow Susanna Sears
Aug. 10, 1721, who died Dec. 7, 1730, by whom he had four
children. He died about 1764, but the precise date I have not
learned. The children of ChUlingsworth Foster were :
1. James, born Monday, Jan. 21, 1704-5, resided in Rochester,
married Lydia, daughter of Edward Winslow, Esq., 10th
July 1729. He was deacon &c. In very advanced age
(over 70) he went to reside with a son at Athol, where he
died.
2. ChiUingsworth, born Thursday, 25th Dec. 1707, resided at
Harwich, many years Representative. He married Mercy,
daughter of Edward Winslow, Esq., of Rochester, 10th
Oct. 1730. She died, and he married 2d Ruth Sears ol
Harwich, 7th Dec. 1731. His children were , 1 , Thankful,
born in Harwich June 14, 1733 ; 2, Mercy, born in Barn
stable May 2, 1735; 3, ChUlingsworth, born in Barnstable
July 17,1737; 4, Mehitabel, born in Harwich April 18,
1746 ; 5, Sarah, born in H. Nov. 25, 1747.
3. Mary, born Thursday, 5th ,Ian. 1709-10, married David
Paddock of Yarmouth, 12th Oct. 1727.
4. Thomas, born Saturday, 15th March, 1711-12, married Mary
Hopkins, of Harwich, llth July 1734, and had 1, Joseph,
March 27, 1735; 2, Thomas, June 22,1736; 3, James,
Feb. 18, 1737-8 ; 4, Mary, July 18, 1740.
5. Nathan, born Friday, 10th June, 1715, married Sarah
Lincoln, of Harwich!! 14th June 1739.
6. Isaac, born Tuesday, 17th June, 1718, married Hannah
Sears, of Harwich, 2d Nov. 1738, and had, 1, Isaac, May
29, 1739 ; 2, Samuel, May, 31, 1741 ; 3, David, March 24,
1742-3; 4, Lemuel, Feb. 24, 1724; 5, Seth, March 1747;
6, Hannah,, March 4, 1749 ; 7, Nathaniel, AprU 8, 1761.
7. MerefTSorn Wednesday, 30th March 1720, and died 28th
^ tug." 1720.
8. Mercy, born Sunday, 29th July 1722.

390 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
9. Nathaniel, born Saturday, 17th April 1725.
10, Jerusha, born Saturday, 9th Dec. 1727.
11. A son, StiU bom, March 1729-30.
Joseph Foster, son of John, married RacheU Bassett, of
Sandwich. Children born in Barnstable and Sandwich.
1. Mary, 1st Sept. 1697, at S., married Moses Swift, of S.,
Dec. 24, 1719.
2. Joseph, 19th Sept. 1698, at B.
3. Benjamin, 16th Nov. 1699, at B,, married Dec. 31, 1724,
Maria Tobey, at Sandwich.
4. William, 31st March 1702.
5. Thankful, 3d Nov. 1703, married Sept. 25, 1725, Nathan
Tobey.
6. John,"l2th AprU 1706.
7. Nathan, 3d Jan. 1707-8.
8. AbigaU, 27th Feb. 1708-9, married May 15, 1735, Zaccheus
Swift.
9. Deborah, 18th Jan. 1710-11, married May 10, 1733, Isaac
Freeman.
10. Ebenezer, 10th May, 1713.
11. Solomon, 4th Sept. 1714.
12. RacheU, 30th Oct. 1716, married Dec, 10, 1743, Jonathan
ChurchiU.
13. Sarah, 23d Sept. 1721, married Nov. 11, 1742, Nathan Nye.
14. Solomon.
Nathan Foster resided in the Timothy Crocker house at West
Barnstable. He was a hair dresser and wig maker by trade, and
died aged. He married, 1st, Mary Lothrop May 21, 1753; 2d,
Mercy Smith 1766. ChUdren bornin Barnstable :
1. AbigaU, Sept. 24, 1766.
2. John Bursley, June 11, 1758.
3. Mary, Oct. 4, 1765. (?)
4. James, Feb. 8, 1767.
5. Mary, March 7, 1768.
6. Thomas, March 4, 1771.
7. Nathan, March 19, 1773.
8. Abigail, Jan. 4, 1775.
9. .loseph, July 16, 1776.
10. John, July 16, 1778.
11. AbigaU, May 6, 1780.
12. Elizabeth, Feb. 16, 1783.

GOODSPEED.

Roger Goodspeed, the ancestor of aUof the name in this County,
came to Barnstable in the spring of 1639. His houselot has been
a fruitful theme for controversy, from the first settlement to the
present day, and I shall, therefore, state with some particularity,
the facts that I have collected in regard to it.
Mr. CoUicut's records, as stated in a previous article, were
accidentally lost at a fire in Plymouth. All that is known respect
ing the lands laid out under his authority, is obtained from a few
ancient deeds, and the boundaries of a portion of the original lots,
placed on record by the owners thereof in 1654. Goodspeed, at
that date, had sold and relinquished his title, it therefore does not
appear on the town records'. From the boundaries of the adjoin
ing lots, it appears that it was bounded north by Elder Henry
Cobb's lot, east partly by Nathaniel Bacon's lot, and partly by
John Scudder's, south by the land of John D,a vis',, originally
Samuel Lothrop's lot ; west by the lot of Edward Fitzrandolphe,
from which it was separated by the Hyannis road, and a line
nearly corresponding with the new Mill Way laid out in 1665, and
contained about eight acres, not including the swamp. It was
divided into nearly two equal portions by a deep gully, through
which the County road now passes. At that time this gully was
narrow, with steep, precipitous banks, and impassible for teams.
Within the memory of persons now hving it was so narrow in
some places that two teams could not pass.*
On the north of this gully, the land was rocky and uneven,
and of little value for cultivation, and in 1653, had been surren
dered to the town as common lands. On the south of the gully
the land was better. On the south and west, that is, on that
portion now inclosed by the Hyannis road and Bow Lane, there
*Mrs. Susannah Cobb, who, when young, lived in the neighborhood, stated that on a
Sabbatli, during the services, she saw a door leap across this gully, at a point a little west of
where tlic Custom House now stands.

392 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
was a dense swamp, (called Lewis' Swamp) j which remained
more than a century in its natural state. This swamp, in 1663,
had been surrendered as town's commons. On the east, including
a strip on the north, by the edge of the gully, there were about
two acres of good land, which was the only part cultivated by
Goodspeed. On the south of Lewis' swamp there was a strip of
land laid out corresponding in location with the southern part of
Bow lane, called in the records "Goodspeed's Out-Let," and
subsequently "the Widow Hallett's Set-Oflf." This name seems
to indicate that at the time Goodspeed resided on this lot, he had
no "Out-Let" on the north. "Goodspeed's Out-Let" extended
further east than at the present time, certainly to Josiah Hallett's
house, and probably to Taylor's Lane.
Meeting House Hill was called by the first settlers Goodspeed's
HiU; from 1660 to 1725 Cobb's HiU, and since by its present
name. A stream of water from Lewis' swamp ran across the
County or King's road, and down the "New Mill Way" between
the hill, and the lot now owned by Ebenezer Bacon, Esq., and
emptied into a swamp in front of the dwelling-house of David
Bursley, Esq., and which was in 1683, purchased by the town for
a common watering place. At the foot of the hill, in front of
Odd Fellows' Hall, there was a foot bridge across the stream,
constructed of a single log 20 feet long, and two feet in diameter,
hewn flat on the upper side.
In 1650, the traveller with a team coming from the west could
not turn down either of the roads now leading to the dwelling-
house of David Bursley, Esq., because there was a pond and a
swamp that extended across both ways to the margin of the hill.
He could not drive up the precipitous sides of Goodspeed's HiU,
nor through the jagged gully where the road now passes, nor
through the north end of Bow Lane, because there was no road
way there. He had to pass up the Hyannis road to the present
residence of Mr. James S. Lothrop, thence through Goodspeed's
Out-Let to the lot of John Scudder, and up the hill to the spot
where the Patriot Office now stands, thence continue easterly
across Scudder's and Lewis' lots to Taylor's Lane. *
The Inhabitants residing west of the HiU were subject to the
t At a Town meeting held in Barnstable Oct. 26, 1769,
"Voted, That Messrs, John Lewis and Geo, Lewis (sons of Lieut. James) be allowed to
fence a piece of swamp that belonged to the town, said swamp being adjoined to their
swamp by their malt house, and they and their assigns to improve it forever, provided that
they do not encroach upon the King's road, nor the lane leading into the woods, and make
a sufficient drain to carry off the water,"— [Town Records Book 3, page 34,
The bushes in this swamp were very thick, Mr, George Lewis lost a fat hog therein,
which he had stuck and left for dead. It ran into the swamp and there died, and though
careful search was made, it could not be found. When first ploughed, a large deposit of
arrow heads were turned up. They were all made of white quartz, and were afterwards
sent by Mr, Mullen as a present to some ol his friends, connected with Cambridge College,

¦This paper, it will be recollected, was written in 1862, and applied to the localities as
then occupied.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.

393

same inconvenience. In going to the mill or to their planting
grounds in the Common Field, they went by the circuitous route I
have described. Lieut. James Lewis' house, which is now stand
ing, was built about two centuries ago. About the time that that
house was built, the road on the north of Lewis' Swamp was
cleared, and thus the distance was shortened.
I have heretofore supposed that there were three original
allotments between Goodspeed's lot and Taylor's Lane, though I
was unable to give the names of the owners of only two. On a
more careful examination of deeds and the records, I think it is
evident there were only two original allotments, yet three house
lots, John Scudder's being divided into two by the road called
Goodspeed's Out-Let.
The following diagram exhibits the relative position of the
lots. The situations of buildings to which reference is made, are
indicated by flgures : 9 6

Lewis's

20

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"•^ on Common
N. Bacon's Lot,
1. Odd Fellows' HaU.
2. School House.
3. Meeting House.
4. Pound.
' 5. Old Parsonage.
6. New MiU Way.
7. Old MUl Way.
8. Bacon House.
9. Hyannis Road.
10. Old Malt House.
11. Custom House.
12. Patriot Office.
13. Major Phinney's house.
394 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
14. Timothy Reed, deceased, house.
15. Ancient Lewis house.
16. Eben Bacon's house.
17. Goodspeed House Lot.
18. James S. Lothrop's house.
19. Hallett House.
20. Bow Lane.
In 1654 the Widow Mary Hallett owned the Scudder and
Goodspeed lots. March 31, 1659, she conveyed by a deed ol
gift to her son-in-law, John Haddeway, her dweUing house and
the north part of the Scudder lot, and that part of the Goodspeed
lot on the north of Goodspeed's Out-Let. Dec. 14, 1661, Josiah
HaUett, a son of the Widow Mary, sold to John Haddeway for
£10 sterling the southerly part of the Scudder lot containing eight
acres, bounded westerly by the lands of John Davis, south by
John Haddeway, east by James Lewis, and south by the wood
lots, with his dwelling-house standing thereon.
These boundaries are definite and clear, but the boundaries in
Mrs. Hallett's deed are unintelligible to the modern reader. She
conveys the land known as Goodspeed's Hill ; but what portion of
it does not clearly appear, probably that part where the Custom
House now stands.
In the year 1664 the legal title to Meeting House Hill, coh-
taining about five acres, and to Lewis' Swamp was held by the
town of Barnstable. It is probable that prior to 1664 Roger
Goodspeed had surrendered his title, or to use the form of expres
sion adopted by our ancestors, had "laid down to commons"
Meeting House HiU and Lewis' Swamp, and had received in ex
change other lands — a common mode of doing business in early
times. A certificate of the boundaries of the land "taken up,"
signed by the land committee, was held to be a sufficient title.
No circumlocution was used, no good paper and ink wasted.
One acre of this land was granted to Henry Cobb in 1665 —
the deep bottom on the north of the Meeting House. This grant
is in the usual form, short and comprehensive ; and it would not
be amiss for some modern conveyancers to study it.
"22 May, 1665, Granted that Henry Cobb shaU-have an
acre of ground, adjoining to his land above the gate, between that
and the pond, in lieu of some damage that he hath or shall receive
by the highway running over or between his land from the gate to
Thomas Huckins." [Records, vol. 1, page 46.
Aug. 16, 1683, the town purchased of John Davis about half
an acre of swampy land on the west side of Cobb's HUl, for a
pubUc watering place. In a short time a large quantity of saud,
brought down by the rains from the roads and hiU sides, BUed up
the watering place, and it was sold to Ebenezer Lewis, and is now

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 395
owned by Ebenezer Bacon. The deed is from the land committee
in the usual form, as follows :
"November the 13, 1717. Bargained with and laid out to
Lieut. liibenezer Lewis a small gore of land by the highways, and
is bounded by the ways, viz : on the south by the highway, or
County Road ; easterly by the way that goeth down by the brook ;
on the west by the way that goeth by Benjamin Davis' land or
fence, down to Lieut. Nathaniel Bacon's, until it meeteth with
the other way, last before mention — not to infringe on any former
grant, for which he remits two shares and a half — two of them
in the right of Jedediah Jones, and half a share in the right of
Thomas Blossom. * DANIEL PARKER,
JOSEPH LOTHROP.
Lieut. Lewis being one of the committee, did not sign the
grant made to himself.
In 1717 the new Meeting House was built on Cobb's Hill, by
proprietors who purchased the land. The conditions of the sale
are recorded as follows : There is no date. The authority to lay
out land for public uses and setting Meeting Houses were vested
in the land committee by a vote of the proprietors, dated April
16, 1716. The following was laid out in 1717 :
"Bargained with and set out to Mr. John Bacon, Lieut, .lohn
Tha(!her, Lieut. Ebenezer Lewis, Samuel Cob, Joseph Davis,
James Gorham, Thomas Lothrop, George Lewis, Lieut. Nathaniel
Bacon, Samuel Lewis, Samuel Sturgis, and Nathaniel Lumbert,
Jabez and Sylvanus Gorham, a piece of land lying on Cob's Hill,
bounded northerly by said Nathaniel Bacon's land and partly by
Samuel Bacon's land, to a stake by the fence ; thence set to a
Rock and soe to another Rock at the S. W. corner ; and from
thence sets easterly to Samuel Bacon's land, soe as to include the
land on which the pound stands, not to remove said pound unless
aU parties concerned doe agree to it, for which they remitt fifty
shares and a quarter in this division, that is to say,
John Bacon, four and a quarter, 4 1-4
Thomas Lothrop, 5
Joseph Davis, 5
Samuel Cob, 4
George Lewis, 3
James Gorham, 3
Lieut. Jonathan Thacher, 3
Lieut. Ebenezer Lewis, 3
Samuel Sturgis, 5
*In the third or last division, the common lands were divided into 6000 shares— 28
shares made a 40 acre lot— but some of the lots were smaller, and some much larger. In
the first division, 6000 shares, 43 made a lot, in the second 6000 shares, 42,— and in the Sandy
Neck lots 100 shares made a lot. The lots were all apprized at the same sum, and pre
sumed to be of equal value. If the land was poor, more acres were put mto a lot— it valn-
ahle, a less number. These shares were an article of traflc, and transferred from one to
anotlier.

396 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Nathaniel Lumbert, 3
Samuel Lewis, 3
Lieut. Nathaniel Bacon, 5
Jabez Gorham, 2
Sylvanus Gorham, 2
The boundaries given in this grant are indefinite ; but are
well known. They included all the land on the north of the car
riage way that runs east and west immediately in front of the
Meeting House. The East Parish still owns this land, excepting
the part east of the pound, where the parsonage house stood, that
has been sold. The Parish owns the land where the pound stands ;
but it cannot be removed without the consent of the town, and of
the parties who are bound to maintain it.
The Meeting House was built by twenty-four proprietors in
1717-18, and sold Jan. 25, 1718-19, to the East Precinct in the
town of Barnstable, for the sum of £450 in money. In the deed
of conveyance, no land is named, but the parish immediately took
possession, and have improved the land to this day, which is a
sufficient title.
After the above grant was made by the committee of the
proprietors of the town, the remainder of the land on Cobb's Hill
was reserved for public use, and recorded as follows :
"A piece of land of about three acres lying on Cobb's HiU,
laid out for pubUc uses pursuant to the vote of the proprietors ;
bounded as foUoweth : southerly by the highway ; westerly by
the brook and way round to Lieut. Nathaniel Bacon's, thence by
his land to the piece laid out to John Bacon and others, to Samuel
Bacon's, and easterly by it to the highway."
These boundaries are not clearly stated but are well known.
The three acres includes all the land bounded southerly by the
present County road ; westerly by the branch of Mill Way that
passes on the east of the store of Ebenezer Bacon, till it joins the
western branch of that way, thence by that branch till it joins the
eastern branch, thence south-easterly by that way to the top of
Meeting House Hill, and thence east by the carriage way in front
of the Meeting House, to the County road, at a point in front of
Major Phinney's barn. To a small portion of this land the town
has partially alienated its title. About the year 1800 the town
granted to Fraternal Lodge a small lot of land on the east of the
school house in the third district, for the purpose of erecting a
hall thereon.*
*I have been perhaps unnecessarily particular and tedious in my description and historv
of Roger Goodspeed's original house lots. I have done so, in order that I might be instrii-
mental in settling the questions that have arisen relative to the maintainance of the pound,
and the improvement of the pound meadows. They can be settled equitably without an
appeal to the Courts. These points I think are clearly established.
The East Parish though the owner of the soil on which the pound stands, has no right
to remove it without the consent of the town, and of the present holders of the pound
meadows.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 397
Before the year 1653, Roger Goodspeed removed from Good-
speed's Hill to the Indian viUage of Mistick or Misteake, now
known by the more modern and perhaps more euphoneous name of
Marston's MiUs, I think he was the first of the whites who
settled iu that part of the town.
His six acre houselot then was bounded southerly by the land
of the Indian Sachem Paup-mun-nucks, f and westerly by Oyster
River, On the north of this lot he owned a neck of land'coH'
taining sixteen acres. In 1666 he bought forty acres of land ad
joining the Oyster River and the Indian pond of Thomas AUyo.
In 1667 the town granted him sixteen acres adjoining his house-
lot. He also owned meadows in that vicinity. In 1659 he pur-
chased a tract of land of Dea. John Cooper 'at the east of CoO'
per's Pond.
AprU 6, 1678, he conveyed all his lands and meadows at
South Sea to his sons John and Ebenezer, excepting six acres, ou
the condition that they support him and his wife Alice during
their natural lives. This instrument is on record, and is very
carefully drawn. It is signed with his mark.
He joined the church in Barnstable July 28. 1644, his wife
Alice having joined on 31 of the preceding December. He was
admitted a freeman of the Colony June 5, 1651, and was on th«
grand jury that year. He was a farmer or planter, and had en
joyed no advantages for obtaining an education. He appears to
have been an exemplai-y member of the Christian church, and to
have lived, except on one occasion, a quiet and inoffensive life.
In 1672, at the Meeting House in Baraetable, be charged John
Jenkins with having stolen his kid and lying ; but like an honest
The town of Barnstable has no right to remove the pounds without the assent of tlap
holders of said meadow. If the town should order its removal without sueh assent the
latter would be relieved from all obligation to maintain a pound ija another place, and could
not be dispossessed of said meadows,
June 1, 1688, The grass that grows on the Pound Meadows was granted to James
Lewis and Nathaniel Bacon, for so long a time as t&iey shall maintain a pound ^r the town's
use and no longer. The meadows were not granted, only the right to cut the "common
thatch, goose grass or sedge l^at grows upon them.^' Tills -is a nioe distjncfiion but the
language used shows the intention of the parties. Lewis and Baoon ftdmitt^ four others
as partners and the meadows were divided into six lots, and the maintenance of certain
portions of the pound fence was assl^ed to each lot. In 1778 aome ^o/ itjhe partners
neglected to put up their particular portion of the fence and the town was indicted. That
matter was settled, (he partners found that they were obliged to put up the fence, and did
so. Recently they have again neglected to keep the fence in repair and the ttown l;ias taken
possession of the meadows. This the town had an undoubted right to do ; but a question
arises whethesr or not those partners who have miaintajned their particular pontiosis of lifee
fence can be deprived 'Of the use of the meadows. On the other hand, it is said that the
grant was made as a whole, that the divWion was a subsequent arrangement net binding ©n
the town. The latter is the common sense view of the question. A quadrangular ^ece of land
fenced on three sides is not a "pound for the town's use." Either of the partnecs had (jhe
same right that the town had. He could have put up the fence and elaimed the delin
quent's share of the meadow.
t Paup-mun-nucks was the Sachem of Maaapee.now called IVferahpeej the jasterly part
of Sandwioli and the westerly and central parte of Barnstable, He ever lived on friendly
terms with the whites. For severalyears this' ancient and once powerful sa^more resided
in the iminediate vicinity of Rogei- Goodspeed.

398 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
man, after due consideration, he ackno\!?ledged that he "had no
just cause, soe to say, and was sorry for soe saying, and desired
Mr. Jenkins to pass it bv."
He died in 1685, and his wife Alice in 1689. In her wiU
dated Jan. 10, 1688, and proved Sept. 4, 1689, she names her
son John whom she cuts off with a shiUing ; her daughter Ruth
Davis, to whom she gives 40 shUUngs, a brass kettle, and half
her wearing apparel ; to her daughter Elizabeth, then unmarried,
£20, and the other half of her wearing apparel ; to her daughter-
in-law Lydia, wife of her son Ebenezer, one colt and one gown ;
to her grandson Benjamin, son of Ebenezer, 1 colt ; and to her
son Ebenezer, her dwelling-house, and all her other estate.
Roger Goodspeed left no will. He divided his large landed es
tate to his children by deeds, and the agreement above referred to
executed during his lifetime. He married Alice Layton Dec. 1,
1641. Children born in Barnstable :
2. 1, Nathaniel, 6th October, 1642, (see below,)
3. ^ II. John, June 1645, (see below.)
4. III. Mary, July 1647, married, 14th Dec. 1664, Samuel
Hinckley.
5. IV. Benjamin, 6th May, 1649, (see below.)
6. V. Ruth, 10th AprU, 1652, married, 2d Feb. 1674-5,
.Tohn Davis, Jr,
7. VI. Ebenezer, Dec. 1655, (see below.)
8. VII, Elizabeth, Ist May, 1658, (unmarried 1688,)
1. Nathaniel Goodspeed, son of Roger, married Nov. 1666,
Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Bursley. He died June, 1670,
and his widow married Oct. 1675, Increase Clap. He had two
children born in Barnstable, namely :
9. 1. Mary, born 18th Feb. 1667-8.
10. II, Nathaniel, probably. Another chUd beside Mary is
mentioned in the settlement of the father's estate.
Nathaniel Goodspeed is also named several times on the
town records. After 1703 his name disappears, and a
Nathaniel Goodspeed, who married Sarah, appears at
Rochester, and had a family born from 1706 to 1713.
' 2. John Goodspeed, son of Roger, resided at Mistick. He
died in 1719, aged 74, and names in his will his wife Experience,
sons John and Benjamin ; daughters Mary, Rose and Bathsheba,
grand-daughter Ruth, daughter of his son Samuel, deceased. He
left a large estate. He married 9th Jan. 1668, Experience Hol
way, and had :
11. I. Mary or Mercy, 18 Feb. 1669.
12. II. Samuel, 23d June, 1670, died before his father. He
married, and had a daughter Ruth living in 1719.
V 13. III. John, 1st June, 1673, (see below.)
14. IV. Experience, 14th Sept. 1676, not living in 1718.

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15. V. Benjamin, 31st March, 1679, (see below.)
16. VI. Rose, 20tb Feb. 1680-1, married, July 10, 1700,
Isaac Jennings, of Sandwich. Died Dec. 21,' 1721.
17. VII. Bathsheba, 17th Feb. 1683.
5. Benjamin Goodspeed, son of Roger, married Mary,
daughter of John Davis, and had,
18. I. Mary, 10th Jan. 1677, married 7th Jan. 1702, Icha
bod Hinckley. She died Oct. 1, 1719. Benjamin Good-
speed died early and his widow married Ensign John
Hinckley Nov. 24, 1697.
7. Fibenezer Goodspeed, son of Roger, Uved to a great age.
He resided at Mistick, and owned a large real estate. Jan. 23,
1740, he conveyed one-half of his real estate to his son Roger.
Dec. 30, 1746, being then 91 years of age, he conveyed to his
son Moses the other half of his real estate, in consideration of an
obligation from his son to maintain him ten years, or till 101
years of age. His signature to this deed is a very good one,
written thus, "Eben — Good — speed." In a deed dated Feb. 22,
1725-6, he names his sons Moses, Benjamin and Roger.
He was the youngest son, and appears to have been, con
trary to the usuages of ^ihose days, the favorite son. He was
better educated than an™ of the family. Though his father, in
1678, conveyed the bulk of his estate in equal proportions to John
and Ebenezer, something appears to have occurred that alienated
the affections of the parents from John. The latter accumulated
a large estate, and was probably an avaricious man — and having
his father's estate legally secured to him he forgot, as is too often
the case in such circumstances, the duties he owed in love, in
honor and in common justice, to his confiding parents. Such in
stances are not rare, and they teach a lesson that parents should
never forget.
Ebenezer left no will. Not profiting by the example of his
brother John, he conveyed aU his estate to his children in his Ufe-
time, including the ancient homestead of his father at Mistick, be
queathed to him in his mother's will.
Ebenezer Goodspeed married Feb. 16, 1677, Lydia Crowell
of Yarmouth. According to the records she was his only wife.
May, 1694, Lydia, wife of Ebenezer Goodspeed, was a member
of the Barnstable Church, and her daughter Patience was bap
tized, and subsequently in regular course her other children.
When she was admitted to the church does not appear, and the
fact that there is no record of the baptisms of the older chUdren
indicates that Lydia, the mother of Patience, and the subsequent
children was not the flrst wife. His chUdren born in Barnstable,
were :
19. I, Benjamin, 31st Oct. 1678, (see below.)
20. II. Son, 21st Jan 1679-80, died Dec. 20, 1689.

400 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
21. III. Mehitabel, 4th Sept. 1681, married Samuel Howes
18th Dec. 1706.
22. IV. AUce, 30th June, 1683, married Benjamin Shelly
8th Aug. 1706.
23. V. Ebenezer, 10th Sept. 1685, (see below.)
24. VI, Mary, 2d Aug, 1687.
25. VII. Susannah, 7th Nov. 1689, married Samuel White
May 14, 1719.
26. VIII. Patience, 1st June, 1692, married Joseph Hatch
or HaUett of Dighton, May 12, 1718.
27. IX. Ruth, 12th July, 1694.
28. X. Lydia, llth Oct. 1696, married Benjamin Marston
AprU 26, 1716.
29. XI. Roger, 14th Oct. 1698, (see below.)
30. XII. Reliance, 18th Sept. 1701, married Thomas Phin
ney, Jr., March 18, 1726.
31. Xlll. Moses, 24th Nov. 1704, (see below.)
12. Samuel Goodspeed, son of John, married—— — — ,
died before the year 1718, leaving one. child.
32. I. Ruth.
sf 13. John Goodspeed, son of John- born in Barnstable June
1, 1673, died in 1721. He inherited the^^homestead of his father,
whom he survived only two years. He bought of John Green, of
Boston, attorney of his brother Samuel Green, the dwelling-house
and lands of the latter. They were sons of James Green, of
Barnstable, and the estate was probably that of his father's. The
real estate of John Goodspeed was apprized at £709, and his
personal estate at £640,79, a large estate in those times. In his
inventory his carpenter's tools are apprized, and I infer from that
entry that he was a mechanic. He also owned a "whale-boat and
tacklin," indicating that he was interested in the shore whale
fishery, a business in which many of the people of Barnstable at
that time were engaged. He had also four hives of bees, which
were kept by many of our ancestors.
His house was well furnished, and among other articles of
elegance and luxury, a looking-glass is named, a very rare article
of household furniture at that date.
His will was drawn up by Dr. John Russell and is without a
date, and the names of his children are not mentioned. To his
sons, (Samuel, Cornelius and John) he bequeathed all his landed
estate and houses, to be equally divided among them. To each
of his daughters (probably Elizabeth, Temperance and Eatperi-
ence) he devised £60 in money, "a good feather-bed and furni
ture." By "furniture" is meant the bedstead, bolsters, pillows,
quilts, &c., not what is now understood by the term. To his
wife's daughter Ann he gave £5, and to her daughter Content £5,
and a good feather-bed and furniture. If his personal estate was

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 401
insuflScient to pay the legacies, he ordered the Green estate to be
sold to make up the deficiency. He gave the improvement of all
his estate, during her widowhood, to his wife Remember, who,
with his brother Benjamin, were appointed joint executors.
"John Goodspeed, ye son of John Goodspeed, and Remem
ber Buck, were married" the 1 6th of Feb. 1697-8." She was of
Sandwich, a widow of a grandson of Cornet ,lohn Buck, of Hing
ham and Scituate, who in his will dated that year gives legacies.
"to all my grand-children living at Yarmouth and Sandwich."
She had two daughters, Ann and Content, by her first husband.
Children born in Barnstable.
33. I. Elizabeth, 10th Dec. 1698, married Edward Dilling
ham, Jr., of Sandwich, Oct. 10, 1723,
34. ..- II. Temperance, l7th Feb. 1699-1700, married John
Trowbridge July 27, 1717.
35. III. Samuel, i7th March, 1701, married Rebecca 
and had nine children born in Barnstable, namely ;

^ 1, Temperance, May 20, 1725; 2, John, Aug. 31, 1728;
3, ICunice, AprU 6, 1731; 4, Ann, 24th AprU, 1734; 5,
AbigaU, July 11, 1736 ; 6, Remember, May 18, 1739 ; 7,
Samuel, March 1, 1741; 8, Abner, June 17, 1743; 9,
Anthony, AprU 18, 1746.
36. IV. CorneUus, 2d Feb. 1703-4, married Mary LoveU,
Jr., Feb. 19, 1745, and had Cornelius 1747.
37. ^Y. John,* 16th Nov. 1708, married June 15, 1732, Re
becca Goodspeed; children: 1, Susannah, AprU 22, 1736,
married Nathan Thomas 1757; 2, Lydia, Jan. 21, 1738;
3, Philemon, AprU 25, 1742 ; 4, John, Nov. 15, 1745.
38. ^ VI; Experience, 24th June, 1710, married Cornelius An
nable 172^.
39. VII. A daughter, 4th AprU 1712.
15. Benjamin Goodspeed, son of John, born 31st March,
1679, was one vear younger than Benjamin, son of Ebenezer,
and is called juiaior on the records. He died in 1733, and in his
wiU gives aU his estate to his wife Susannah during her widow
hood ; to his son Joseph, after the termination of said widow
hood, his homestead, woodlot, &c. To his son John his landing
place and marsh north of Tracy's brook ; and to his son Timothy
a lot of land called Barley Hill, meadow east of Tracy's brook,
&c. ; all his right to Sandy Neck to his three sons equally ; to
daughter Mary £60 and a good feather bed and furniture ; and to
^He resided near Shubael's Pond, Hamblin's Plains, and was ^<±l^"'^{,r^''l^°'^fl^.
distinguish him from another John Goodspeed, called "Silver John. His fathe and
grandfather were men of wealth. The children and the g'rSis''?f°rti'HSn a?e
areeenerallv wanting iu energy of character and therefore thriftless, if the ohildien are
born^befo?e the™ ren! accumXtes his wealth they usually acquire h^'^jj^^^f "dustry and
ft-Ugalitv in early life, which they retain, and therefore do not waste tlfe wealth which they
"S. I?-i?™-y rare that graSdchildreu are benefited by the wealth of the grandparent,
mthoiit it is secured to tbem by deeds of tnist.

402 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
his daughter Mercy a like amount. The amount of his inventory
was £1,170, and the provisions of his wiU are simUar to those of
his brother John's. He signed his name to his wiU with a mark,
not certain evidence that he could not write when younger. He
married Susannah Allen, March 1710.
His children horn in Barnstable were :
40. I. Joseph, Jan. 1,1711, married June 28, 1739, AbigaU
Smith, and had: 1, Benjamin, Feb. 8, 1739, married Su
sannah Smith 1766; 2, WUliam, July 17, 1741, married
Mary Meigs of Sandwich, March 25, 1762; 3, Josiah,
AprU 24, 1744, married Jemima Blossom, AprU 20, 1762;
4, AbigaU, Dec. 16,1746; 5, Timothy, AprU 22,1749;
6, Ann, 1752 ; and 7, Joseph, Feb. 26, 1756.
41. II. Mary, Oct. 12, 1713, married Benjamin Bursley, Feb.
2, 1744. -
42. HI. Marcy, Sept. 26, 1715, married Isaac Jones Jr.,
1751.
43. IV. Timothy, married Ann Smith 1747.
44. V. John, His birth is not recorded on the town records.
He resided at Mystic during his minority, where he learned
the trade of a carpenter. He sought in marriage the hand
of Miss Mercy Bursley of West Barnstable, who, in addi
tion to her personal charms, had, like "Mistress Mary Ford,
large expectancies." In 1 754 she consented to marry, and
the bans were published according to the, customs of the
times. A difficulty arose. John insisted that their resi
dence should be at Mystic, Mercy that it should be on her
farm at Great Marshes. After four years spent in diplo
macy, the difficulty was happily terminated, by an agreement
that their home should be at Great Marshes, and they were
sccordingly married on the 29th of May, 1757.
He resided in the large mansion house since known as the
residence of Dr. Whitman. In the French war next pre
ceeding the Revolution, he shipped as carpenter on board of
a privateer. A Spanish vessel was taken and brought into
port, having a large amount in silver dollars and silver bul
lion in bars on board. The Captain and owners of the priva
teer succeeded in having the vessel and cargo condemned as
French property, and it has always been currently reported
that the Captain offered to each sailor, for his share of the
prize money, as much silver as he could carry from the end
of Long Wharf to the head of King, now State street, Bos
ton, on the condition, that if he stopped to rest by the way
he forfeited the whole. Goodspeed, as carpenter, had two
shares. The exact amount which he received is not known,
probably not over $5000. At the sale of the prize, and her
effects, he bought a boat. His connections reported that he

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 403
found a large sum in sUver hid under the ceiling. This
story is doubtful. Why should money be concealed in a
boat, where the chances for loss were greater than in the
vessel.Five thousand dollars in specie was a large sum for a Barn
stable man to hold in those days, and it is not surprising
that the amount should be reported to be much larger. Ex
cepting Goodspeed, and one other, all the rest soon spent
their shares in riotous Uving. Goodspeed was , frugal in his
expenses, and cautious in business. A portion of his silver
he loaned at high rates, interest and principal payable in
Spanish mUled doUars ; the remainder he carefully hoarded,
and much of it was inherited by his daughter, whose chil
dren spent it, having no reverence for antiquity, or love of
hoarding.
Of the many stories told of "SUver John Goodspeed" it is
difficult to separate the true from the false or highly exagger
ated. His biography would be interesting, and teach some
useful lessons. His early Ufe of trial, his eccentric court
ship, and his adventures as a privateersman or buccaneer,
have a romantic interest. In after life, he devoted all his
energies to the accumulation of wealth.
He had an only child, Mercy, baptized Aug. 7, 1763. She
inherited all her father's and her mother's wealth, and from
early childhood was educated in the belief that -'man's chief
end is to gather up riches." She married Dr. Jonas Whit
man, a man not unlike in character to "Silver John." She
had two daughters and several sons, among whom Silver
John's great wealth was divided ; but it soon took to itself
wings and flew away, — and is now enjoyed by the chUdren
and grand-children of his poor neighbors. "Silver John's"
wealth was a curse to his posterity.
19. Benjamin Goodspeed, son of Ebenezer, born 31st Oct.
1678, resided in Barnstable, where he died in 1750, aged 72. In
his will, which he signs with his mark, he devises half the im
provement of his estate to his wife Hope ; to son Jabez, 10 shil
lings Old Tenor (22 1-2 cents) ; to son Jonathan, 10 shillings Old
Tenor ; to his daughter Patience, one-half his indoor moveables ;
and to his son James, all his real estate, wearing apparel, cattle,
&c., &c.
He married in 1707 Hope, daughter of Benjamin Lumbart,
and had seven children born in Barnstable, namely :
45. I. Jabez, 26th Jan. 1707-8, married ReUance Tobey, of
Sandwich, 1733, and had: 1, Jabez, July 31, 1737, married
Margaret Bassett Aug. 6, 1761 ; 2, Jane, March 21, 1739;
3, Heman, Sept. 4, 1743; 4, Benjamin, May 26, 1745; by
his 2d wife, Elizabeth Adams, 5, EUsha, baptized Jan. 31,

404 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
1753 ; 6, Sarah, baptized April 2, 1755 ; 7, Solomon, bap
tized April 25, 1762.
46. II. Jane, 7th Sept. 1709, probably died young.
47. III. James, June 1711, married EUzabeth FuUer Nov. 13,
1739, and had 1, Martha, July 31, 1741, married Samuel
Winslow of Hardwick, June 12, 1760 ; 2, Mary, June 14,
1743, married Timothy Hinckley 1766 ; 3, David, Aug. 20,
1745; 4, Hannah, March 14, 17^7T 5, Desire, baptized
July 21, 1751; 6, Abner, baptized July 7,1754; (Church
records say daughter of Reuben, probably a mistake) 7,
Temperance, Sept. 5, 1766; and 8, Temperance, July 19,
1759.
48. IV. David, 13th Nov. 1713.
49. V. Nathan, 7th Oct, 1715, died April 29, 1723.
60. VI. Patience, 26th March 1718, married Eben. Cannon
July 30, 1752.
51. VII. Jonathan, 23d AprU 1720,
23. Ebenezer Goodspeed, son of Ebenezer, born Sept. 10,
1685, married Nov. 7, 1711, Mary Stacy. He was caUed junior,
and his son Ebenezer third., His children born in Barnstable
were :
62, I. Rebecca, Oct. 28, 1714, married John Goodspeed June
18, 1732,
53. II. Ebenezer, Feb. 7, 1716-16, married Sept. 29, 1736,
Rebecca Bodfish, and had eight children born in Barnstable :
1, Thankful, March 10, 1736-7, married Oct, 20, 1757, Jo
seph Nye, Jr., of Sandwich; 2, Martha, Feb. 7, 1738-9; 3,
Edward, June 5, 1741 ; 4, Joseph, Oct, 15, 1743, married
Hannah Bodfish 1766; 5,'Rufus, Jan. 15, 1749-50; 6,
Silas, Jan. 27, 1751-2 ; 7, Hannah, Aug. 9, 1755 ; 8, Eliza
beth, Feb, 7, 1757 ; and 9, Mary, May 29, 1759.
54. HI. Mary, Aug. 2,1721, married John Blush, Nov. 17,
1739.
29. Roger Goodspeed, son of Ebenezer, married Hannah"
Phinney Oct, 6, 1720. His father, Jan. 23, 1740, conveyed to
him by deed one-half of his real estate in Barnstable. It after
wards was the property of the heirs of his brother Moses.
Children of Roger Goodspeed born in Barnstable :
55. I. Thomas, Oct. 27, 1721. (A Thomas Goodspeed, whose
wife was PueUa, resided at Hyannis,)
56. II. Isaac, Sept. 23, 1723, married Ann Jenkins Oct. 17,
1764, and had : 1, Sarah, Oct, 25, 1755 ; 2, Isaac, April 29,
1758 ; 3, Hannah, May 17, 1760 ; 4, Luther, Nov, 1, 1762;
5 and 6, Elijah and Daniel, twins, Jan. 17, 1765 ; 7, Heman,
Feb. 14, 1767 ; and 8, Charies, July 20, 1769.
57. 111. Ruth, baptised 1725 ; she probably died young.
68. IV. Sarah, born Dec. 5, 1827, married George Conant,

GENEALOGICAL NO'lE,'* OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 405
June 20, 1753, died March 14, 1754, aged 27.
59. V. Abigail, baptized July 26, 1730, probably died young,
60. VI. Elizabeth, born Nov. 14, 1731, married Jedediah
Winslow of Rochester, Nov. 7, 1751,
61. VII. Joseph, Sept. 17, 1736, married Sarah Adams, Jr..
June 29, 1756.
62. VIII, Hannah, baptized July 25, 1742,
31. Moses Goodspeed, thirteenth child of Ebenezer, and
grandson of Roger, inherited the homestead of his ancestor, and
by purchases made by him and his son Seth, the latter became
the owner of all the lands that were his ancestors, and it is now
the property of Henry Goodspeed. a son of Seth, and now a
volunteer in the army of the United States, Moses Goodspeed
married March 30, 1726, Hannah Allen. His children born iu
Barnstable are all named in his will dated March 1, 1774, and
were :
63. 1, Nathaniel, March 18, 1727, married Elizabeth FuUer of
Rochester, in 1755, He sold to his brother Seth, his share
in his father's estate and removed to Vassalboro', Maine.
64, II, Seth, Feb, 2, 1728-9, married March 16, 17.53, Abi
gail Linnel. He resided on the ancient Goodspeed farm
which became his by inheritance or purchase. He devised
the farm to his son Allen, and the latter to the present
owner, Henry Goodspeed, Seth Goodspeed died March 26,
1810, aged 82, and his wife July 7, 1805, aged 75, His
children were: 1, Anna, born Sept. 29, 1753, who died uu-
__, married Feb. 15, 1821 ; 2, Temperance, Nov. 7, 1755, mar
ried  Davis; 3, Patience, Oct, 10, 1755, married
Benjamin Lumbard; 4, Abigail, April 4, 1760, married
Solomon Bodfish ; 5,- Hannah, Sept, 19, 1762, married Peter
Blossom; 6, Eunice, Oct. 5.1764, married Prince Hinck
ley; 7, Olive, Sept. 21, 1766, married Johu Marston, died
Nov. 21, 1814; 8, Allen, Jan. 6, 1769, married and had a
f.amily, died Jan. 7,1831; 9, Sophia, June 1^7 1771, mar
ried Lot Scudder; and 10, Temperance, Jan. 14, 1774,
married .James Crosby,

GILPIN.

ANTHONY GILPIN.
Anthony GUpin's name occasionally appears as a land holder
in Barnstable. He died in March 1655, at the house of George
Lewis, and it does not appear that he left a family. His wUl was
proved June 5, 1655. He gave all his estate in trust to Nathaniel
Bacon, for the benefit of his kinsman, WiUiam Hodges of Darn-
ton, in Yorkshire, England, and his five sisters. There are sev
eral papers on the record, filed by Mr, Bacon, respecting the es
tate ; but I have mislaid my abstract of them.

GILBERT.

s.\mi;el gilbert.
Samuel Gilbert from Connecticut, married AprU 23, 1758,
Thankful Fuller and had :
1, Seth, born Feb, 4, 1759,
11, Abigail, Jan, 1762,
HI, Benjamin, June 21, 1764,
Respecting this family I have no additional information. In
1778 a Samuel Gilbert, Jr., a physician and surgeon, died in
Barnstable. At the time of his death, he had some mercantile
business with parties in the West Indies, He left a small estate
apprized at £32,16 shs. hiwful money. £137,19 iu currency.

GORHAM.

Capt. .lohn Gorham is the ancestor of the numerous families
of the name of Gorham in New England, in the British Prov
inces, in Rhode Island, New York, and other states in the Union.
His descent is traced from the DeGorran of La Tanniere, near
Gorram, in Maine, on the borders of Brittany. Several of the
family removed to England in the eleventh century, during the
rejgn of William the Conquerer. In England many of the name
were men of learning, wealth and influence. The immediate an
cestors of Capt. John were not men of note. His father Ralph
and his grandfather James resided at Benefield in Northampton
shire, where John was baptized January 28, 1620-1. James Gor
ham of Benefield, was boru in 1550, married in 1572, Agnes Ber-
nington,- and died 1576. Ralph, born in 1575, came with his
family to New England, and was iu Plymouth in 1637. On the
2d of October in that year, "Lands to erect a house upon are
granted to Ralph Goarame, of some part of the waste grounds
about Edmund Bumpas or Philip Delanoys house."
Of Ralph Gorham or his family little is known. Only the
birth of his son John is recorded either at Benefield or at Plym
outh. He probablv had other children, evidently a son Ralph,
born in England, for he is called, March 4, 1638-9, "the elder,"
showing that there were then two persons of that name in Plym
outh.* He is named in the Plymouth Colony Records June 4,
1639, and April 5, 1642, and thereafter his name disappears. At
the latter date he was sixty-seven years of age, and, if he was
living in 1643, his name would not be enrolled- on the list taken in
August that year, of all between 16 and 60 that were able to bear
arms in the Colony. Ralph, the younger's name, is not on that
list. It is probable that Ralph Gorham died about the year 1643,
leaving no widow, and an only child John who inherited his prop
erty. This is inferred from the fact that no settiement of his es-
*20t]i June, 1635, Thomas Gorham, aged 19, and John (Jorliam, aged 18 years were
nassengersin the Phillip, Richard Morgan master, from — —--^liound to Virginia.
S'ew England was sometimes called North Virginia. A Mrs. Katlirjne (Torham presented
ii petition to tlie Assemblv of lihode I'iland 1680.

408 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
tate appears on the records — none was required if he had only
one heir, and he of legal age. During the seventeenth century,
besides John and his descendants, no other person of the name of
Gorham is mentioned as a resident in the Colony.
Of the early life of John, littie is known. He had a good
common school education, was brought up in the Puritan faith,
and during life was a consistent and exemplary Christian.! He
probably served an apprenticeship with a tanner and currier of
leather, working at that business in the winter, and pursuing some
other calling in the summer. At the first settlement of the
country very few mechanics were employed at their trades during
the year. All had lands assigned to them, and in the summer
season labored more or less on their farms. Even" the governors
and their assistants had farms, which they tilled with their own
hands. At an early age he had to rely on himself, — a young man, iu
a strange land, with no family connections to sustain him, and
little wealth to aid him in the pursuit of the business of life.
However, he was an honest boy, and he grew up an honest man,
and his descendants have inherited, not only his good name, but
generally this trait of his character, I
In 1643, he being then twenty-two years of age, married De
sire Howland, one of the first born at Plymouth, a young woman
who had also been educated in the Puritan faith, and who, during
her long life was a pattern of good works, a kind hearted woman,
and a Christian in name and spirit. § She was a daughter of-
John, and a grand-daughter of John Tilley, both of whom came
over in the Mayflower.
In 1646 he removed from Plymouth to Marshfield, and in
1648 was chosen constable of that town. In the same year he
was propounded to become a freeman of the Colony, and June 4,
1650, was admitted. In 1651 he was a member of the Grand In
quest of the Colony.
In 1652 he removed to Yarmouth, and purchased the house-
lot on the north County road, adjoining to the bounds of Barn-
t March 5,1655, .John Gorham was presented for "unseamly carriage toward Blanch
Hull at unseasonable time being in the night." She was then the wife of Trustrum Hull of
Barnstable, and after .vards-the second wite of Capt. Wm. Hedge of Yarmoutli. She was a
bad woman, being frequently envolved in broils and difficulties. Capt. Hedge, in his will,
cut her oft- with "a shilling,'' and gives as a reason that "she had proved false to him."
,7ohn Gorham was fined 40 shillings, Blanch 50 shillings — a poor speculation for Mrs. Hull.
} In examining the history of hundreds of his descendants, I have not yet found one of
the uame who was convicted of crime. A few families of the name have run out, the chil
dren partaking largely of the character of their mother's families.
§ Sometimes a trifling incident affords an excellent and suggestive illustration of char
acter- A beautiful tribute to the memory of Mrs. Gorham is lound in the will of her old
servant Totoo. His dying request was, "Bury me as near as vou can to tlie feet of my mis
tress." There is true poetic feeling in the .simple words of the dying servant, 'Ibev are
suggestive of a thousand acts of kindness that had lived in his memory during the eight
years that his mistress had been dead,— and he craved no higher folicitv In tlic spirit world
than to be allowcrl to dwell near hei- wliom he served on eartli.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 409
stable. About the same time he purchased a part of the Hallett
Farm, containing 100 acres of planting land, adjoining his house-
lot, and situate mostiy within the then boundaries of the town ol
Barnstable. [Thomas Starr owned the northwest houselot in
Yarmouth. This he sold to Andrew Hallett, Senior, in 1639.
This house was afterwards John Gorham's.] This farm was
granted to Mr. Andrew HaUett in the spring of 1639, and the
boundaries of the same entered on the Plymouth Colony Records
Sept. 3, 1639, as follows :
"It is granted by the Court, that Mr. Andrew Hallett shaU
have his greate lott of two hundred acres at Yarmouth, 80 pole in
breadth, at the first beginning at the head of the cove [Stony
Cove] from the marked tree, and to bear up that breadth fourty
pole in length, and afterwards to be enlarged in breadth in the
ranging of yt towards the other end wch was afterwards layed
forth in form foUowing, viz : from the sd tree on the east sid upon
a southerly liu 40 pole [following the bounds between Yarmouth
and Barnstable to the County road] and then enlarged in breadth
towards the east 20 pole, and extending in length 60 pole [to the
stable on the west of the Yarmouth R. R. Depot] and from thence
in breadth 38 pole, [to the new Hyannis Road] and from thence
extends still in length 100 pole beyond a great pond [Long Pond]
to the end thereof ; [the S, E. corner is a rock marked F, called
the Farm Rock in the town records] and on the north and north
west side from the said tre, 80 pole in breadth, [to the Mill Road]
and in length, first 40 pole, [to the County road] and then en
larged to the westward 50 pole in breadth [by the County road to
Thomas Lumbart's great lot] aud thence extending itself 160
pole, and the south side thereof upon a straight line 188 pole."
The distance between the ancient monuments yet remaining
is greater than given in the record. It was customary to allow
for ponds and swamps and not include them in the admeasure
ment. He also owned the land on the north of the Hallett Farm,
between Stoney Cove and the MUl Road, and the seventeen acres
of meadow on the south-west side of the Cove, (more or less)
and ten acres at Stony Cove Neck laid out to Mr. HaUett.
His farm contained very little waste land. That on the north
side of the County road, excepting a few gravelly hills, near the
bounds of Yarmouth, is a strong loam soil and good grass land ;
and that on the south is a sandy loam, of easy cultivation and
adapted to corn and rye. Taken as a whole, this farm is not so
fertUe as it was formerly. The hght soils- on the south have been
exhausted by repeated crops, without returning sufficient manure ;
but the loam and clay soUs on the north, yet retain their ancient
fertility. There were few better farms in the Colony than Capt.
Gorham's — it was well watered, convenient to the meadows, and
contained soils adapted to the cultivation of a great variety of
crops.

410 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
He also owned the Grist Blill known as Hallett's MUl, and
the landing place, or wharf, near the same. The grist mUl
named in the early town records (1647) was situate farther south
than the present mill. The ancient dam, built by the flrst
settlers, only enclosed the southern part of the present mill pond,
then appropriately named Stone Cove. The northern portion of
the mill pond was then a tract of salt meadow which has gradu
ally worn away, since the erection of the present dam.
The tannery of Capt. Gorham was a short distance southerly
from the present miU, on the west of the pond, and northerly
from the site of the ancient grist mill.
He was deputy from Yarmouth to the Plymouth Colony
Court at the special session AprU 6, 1653, and the following year
he was chosen surveyor of highways in the town of Yarmouth.
At the Court held June 1, 1663, "Liberty was graunted
unto John Gorham to looke out some land for accomodation, and
to make report thereof to the Court, that soe a competency may
be granted to him." He selected a tract of one hundred acres at
Papasquash Neck, in Swansea, which was granted to him in July,
1669, and in July, 1672, Mr. Constant Southworth, Mr. James
Brown, and Mr. John Gorham, were appointed a committee to
purchase the same of the Indians. July 13, 1677, in considera
tion of the good service that Capt, Gorham had performed for the
country in the war in which he lost his life, the Court confirmed to
his heirs and successors forever the 100 acres of land at Papas-
quash Neck.
In 1673 and 1674, he was a member of the board of Select
men of the town of Barnstable, and iu the former year received
the appointment of lieutenant of the Plymouth forces in the
Dutch war.
June 17, 1675, Gen, Benjamin Church arrived at Plymouth,
and conflrmed former reports of the conduct of King Philip.
The next Sunday, June 20, Philip's men made an attack on Swan
zey, and rifled a few houses. Forthwith a post was sent to
Plymouth for aid, who arrived at break of day June 21. Infor
mation was sent to Boston, and aid solicited ; orders were issued
to all the Captains of all the companies in the Colony to march
without delay, Thursday, June 24, was a day. of fasting and
prayer, by appointment, throughout the Colony. The names of
the soldiers who went from Barnstable are not recorded. Mr.
John 9^orham, it appears by the Yarmouth records, was captain of
the militia company and a resident in that town. June 24, 1675,
Capt. Gorham and twenty-nine from Yarmouth, whose names ap
pear on record, "took their flrst march" for Mount Hope. These
were mounted meu. It is not so stated in the records ; but such
clearly appears: £9 were paid for nine horses lost, £10 for the
hire of horses, and £11,15 10 for the loss of saddles and bridles.
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their quotas. This appears in the division of the lands, in Gor
ham, Maine, granted to those soldiers or their heirs, in considera
tion of their service in King PhiUp's War. The Plymouth forces
were commanded by Major Cudworth, and were at Swanzey June
28, and were joined by the troops of :Massachu8etts.
In the latter part of August the theatre of the war was trans
ferred to the banks of the Connecticut. Capt. Gorham and his
company marched into Massachusetts. He arrived after the total
defeat of Capt. Lothrop at Sugar Loaf Hill, in which Capt. L.
lost the greater part of his force, consisting of eighty picked men,
"the flower of Essex." The following letter written by Capt.
Gorham, is copied from the original in the Secretary of State's
office in Boston. It has never been published and wUl be inter
esting to his descendants :
{_From the original in the Secretary's office.]
Mendum, October th 1 : 1675
Much Honored : My service with all due respects humbly
presented to yourself and unto the rest of the Council hoping of
your healths. I have made bold to trouble you with these few
Unes to give your honors an account of our progress in your juris
diction. According unto your honors order and determination I
arrived at Mendum with flfty men, and the next day Lieutenant
Upham arrived with thirty-eight men, and the day following we
joined our forces together and marched in pursuit to flnd our ene
my, but God hath been pleased to deny us any opportunity there
in ; — though with much labor and travel we had endeavored to
find them out, which Lieut. Upham hath given you a more particu
lar account. Our soldiers being much worn but having been in
the field this fourteen weeks' and little hopes of finding the ene
my, we are this day retui-ning toward our General, but as for my
own part, I shall be ready to serve God and the country in this
just war, 80 long as I have Ufe and health, not else to trouble
you, I rest yours to serve in what I am able.
JOHN GORRUN.
Oct. 4, 1675, he was appointed by the Court, captain of the
second company of the Plymouth forces in King PhUip's war.
Mr. Jonathan Sparrow, of Eastham, was lieutenant. Capts.
Bradford and Gorham were ordered by the councU of war, to ren
dezvous their men at Plymouth Dec. 7, Taunton Dec. 8, Reho
beth Dec. 9, and at Providence Dec. 10.
Capt, Gorham and his company were in the sanguinary bat
tle at the Swamp Fort, in the Narraganset country, fought Dec.
19, 1675. That battie was decisive in its results, it not only
crushed the power of the Narragansetts ; but it destroyed the
hope of King Philip and his alies, of exterminating the white race
in New England. The forces of the United Colonies had assem
bled on the 18th within fifteen mUes of the Swamp Fort. The
weather was cold and severe, the forces had to remain in an open

412 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
field, "with no other covering than a cold and moist fleece of
snow." At the dawn of day the next morning they started on
their weary march, sinking ancle deep at every step in the snow.
At one o'clock they arrived at the Fort. It was built on an is
land, containing flve or six acres,- in the swamp, surrounded with
a thick hedge and strengthened with palisades. There were two
entrances, one "over a long tree upon a place of water ; the other
at an angle of the fort, over a huge tree, which rested on its
branches, just as it had fallen, the trunk being raised flve or six
feet from the ground. The latter was judged to be the only ac
cessible entrance. Opposite the fallen tree there was an open
space within the Fort, defended in front by a log house, and flank
ers on each side. In these the Indian sharpshooters were posted,
and to attempt to cross over on the fallen tree was almost certain
death. A part of the Massachusetts troops made the first at
tempt. Capt. Johnson was kUled on the tree, Capt. Davenport,
who followed, met with the same fate after entering the Fort, and
a large number of soldiers were wounded or slain by the galling
shots ol the Indians. A soldier named John Raymond, of Mid
dleboro', was the first to enter the Fort.
After three or four hours of hard fighting, the English suc
ceeded in taking the Fort. Hubbard estimates that the Indians
"lost seven hundred fighting men, besides three hundred that died
of their wounds. The number of old men, women and children,
that perished either by fire or were starved with hunger and cold,
none of them could tell." There were about eighty of the Eng
lish slain, and a hundred and fifty wounded that recovered after.
Sergeant Nathaniel Hall, of the Yarmouth troops, and John Bar
ker of the Barnstable, were wounded. I believe none from either
towu were killed. Capt. Gorham never recovered from the cold
and fatigue to which he was exposed in this expedition. He was
seized with a fever and died at Swansea where he was buried Feb.
5, 1675-6. Mr. Thomas Hinckley was commissary general of the
forces, and his daughter Reliance, born Dec. 15, was so named
because the mother relied th&t God would protect the father iu the
perils to which he was exposed.
In the second expedition to Narraganset, Yarmouth furnished
fourteen men under Capt. Gorham. The proportion furnished by
Barnstable was probably about the same number. No record of
their names has been preserved. The third expedition was com
manded by Capt. Howes of Yarmouth, and the fourth by Capt.
Pierce of Scituate. , The latter were in the bloody battle at Reho
beth, March 26, 1976. Of the nine who went from Yarmouth,
five were kiUed : John Matthews, John Gage, WUliam Gage,
Henry Gage and Henry Gold. Five from Sandwich were slain :
Benjamin Nye, Daniel Bessey, Caleb Blake, Job Gibbs and
Stephen Wing. Barnstable six: Lieut. Saniuel Fuller, John
Lewis, Eleazer Clapp, Samuel LinneU, Samuel Childs and Samuel

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILLES. 413
Bourman. Eastham four : Joseph Nessfleld, John Walker, John
M. [torn off] [Newman's Letter.]
Capt. Gorham was flfty-four years of age at his death. On
the 7th of March following, letters of administration were granted
by the Court to his widow, Mrs. Desne Gorham, and to his sons
James and John to settle his estate. At the same Court Mr.
Hinckley, Mr. Chipman, and Mr. Huckens, were appointed guar
dians of the chUdren then not of age.
Mrs. Gorham died Oct. 13, 1683. Capt. Gorham, it ap
pears, was an inhabitant of Yarmouth at the time of his death,
and his widow continued to reside there, though she died at her
son's house in Barnstable. Her estate was settled on the 6th of
March following. AU her children were then Uving except EUza
beth. [The Gorham Genealogy I wrote several years since in the
form recommended in the Genealogical Register. The columns of
a newspaper are too narrow to set it economically in that form,
and I have therefore been under the necessity of transcribing it.
The personal notices are in the form of notes. That peculiarity I
retain.] Capt. John Gorham, the ancestor of the family, was born at
Benefleld, in Northamptonshire, England, and was baptized Janu
ary 28, 1620-1. In the Benefleld churchyard, no monuments of
the Gorham family are found, which indicates that the family had
not long resided at Benefleld. Monuments to the memory of the
ancestors of the Freeman and other families who came to New
England are there found. The names of his father Ralph and his
grandfather James appear in the parish register, showing that the
family for one or two generations had been residents at Benefleld.
Capt. Gorham married in 1643, Desire, daughter of Mr. John
Howland of Plymouth. He died as above stated, in the service
of his country, and was buried at Swansey Feb. 5, 1676-6. His
widow survived him and died in Barnstable Oct. 13, 1683.
Children of Capt. John Gorham and his wife Desire (How
land) Gorham.
2. I. Desire, born in Plymouth April 2, 1644.
3. II. Temperance, born in Marshfield May 5, 1646.
4. III. Elizabeth, born in Marshfield AprU 2, 1648.
5. IV. James, born in Marshfield AprU 28, 1650.'
6. V. John, born in Marshfield, Feb. 20, 1661-2.
7. VI. Joseph, born in Yarmouth Feb. 16, 1653-4. ¦-
8. VII. Jabez, born in Barnstable Aug. 3, 1656.
9. VIII. Mercey, born in Barnstable Jan. 20, 1658.
10. IX. Lydia, born in Barnstable Nov. 16, 1661.
11. X. Hannah, born in Barnstable Nov. 28, 1663.
12. XI. Shubael, born in Barnstable Oct. 21, 1667.

414 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE ITAMILIES.
2. Deshe Gorham daughter of Capt. John Gorham, * mar
ried Oct. 7, 1661, Capt. John Hawes of Yarmouth. He was a
son of Mr. Edmond Hawes, caUed a cutler, who came from Lon
don in 1635. She resided in Yarmouth, and died iu that town
June 30, 1700, aged 56 years. She has a numerous posterity.
AU of the name of Hawes in this County are her descendants.
3. Temperance Gorham married for her flrst husband Ed
ward Sturgis of Yarmouth, by whom she had Joseph, Samuel,
James, Desire and Edward. He died Dec. '8, 1678, and she mar
ried Jan. 16, 1679-10, Mr. Thomas Baxter, by whom she had
John, Thomas and Shubael. Edward Sturgis resided near the
flrst meeting-house in Yarmouth. He left a large estate, which
was divided among his children when they became of legal age.
Mr. Thomas Baxter is called in the records "a bricklayer." He
was a soldier in Capt. Gorham's company in the flrst expedition,
where he lost the use of one of his hands by a wound. He re
sided after his marriage at South Sea, now West Yarmouth, and
then recently settied. Unable to work at his trade, he devoted
himself to study, and was much employed in public business. In
partnership with his brother-in-law Shubael, and his sons, he built
the fulling miU on the western Swan Pond river, and the grist
miU known as Baxter's Mill, though some poetical genius of the
day, gave the whole credit to his sons.
"The Baxter boys, they built a mill.
Sometimes it went, sometimes stood still ;
And when it went, it made no noise.
Because 'twas built by Baxter's boys."
She died March 12, 1714-15, in the 67th year of her age.
Her descendants are numerous, and among them are many men of
literary and political distinction. All of the name of Baxter iu
this County are her descendants.
4. Elizabeth Gorham married and had a family. At the
settlement of her mother's estate in 1684 she was a widow.
5. James Gorham, eldest son of Capt. John Gorham, was a
farmer, and often employed in public business. In the division of
his father's homestead, he had the north westerly and central por
tions, on which he built a large and elegant mansion house. It
stood on the spot where Mr, Warren Marston's house now stands
and was taken down about twenty years since. It appears by the
schedule of the division of the common lands made in 1703, that
he was then the richest man in the town of Barnstable. He mar
ried Hannah, daughter of Mr, Thomas Huckins, of Barnstable.
He died in 1707, aged 57, and his widow 13th Feb. 1727, aged 74
years *Freeman, page 273, says she married Samuel Hinckley. He is mistaken. Tlie Bai-n
stable and the -y armouth records give the facts as I have stated them. Samuel Hinckley,
. the second of the name,, married 14 Dec. 1664, Mary Goodspeed, she died 20 Dec. 1666, and
he married 15 Jan. 1668-9, Mary Fitzrandolphe. He also says that Mercy Gorham "mar
ried 2d, Geo. Demiison." I find no authority for this statement. If Geo. Dennison was her
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 415
6. Lieut. Col, John Gorham was brought up and worked at
the trade of his father. His tannery was a short distance south
westerly from Hallett's Grist Mill, then owned by the Gorhams.
He was a man of wealth, ranking next to his brother James in
the town of Barnstable. He inherited the northeasterly portion
of his father's homestead, with his father's dwelUng-house there
on. In 1686 it is represented as being the most easterly in the
town of Barnstable. It stood where Miss Abigail T. Gorham's
house now stands, and was enlarged over a century ago. He was
a man of influence, much respected, aud in the latter part of his
life almost constantly employed in the public service. He was
with his father in King PhiUp's war. June 5, 1690, he was ap
pointed a captain in the unfortunate Canada expedition, and sub
sequently Lieut. Col. of the militia. He was a man of sound
judgment and of good business capacity. He was much em
ployed as conveyancer, in writing wills aud in drawing up public
documents. He married Feb. 16, 1674, Mary, daughter of Mr.
John Otis. He died Dec. 9, 1716, in the 6.5th year of his age.
His tomb is at the north-east corner of the Unitarian Meeting
House in Barnstable. It is covered with a slab of gray sand
stone, and the inscription is now hardly legible.
7. Ensign Joseph Gorham, son of Capt. John Gorham, was
a shoe maker, and not much engaged in pubUc business. In the
division of his father's estate he had the south-west forty acres of
the old Hallett Farm. It was bounded easterly by the land of his
brother James, southerly by the commons, westerly by the land of
Caleb Lumbard, and northerly by the highway. This tract of
land, with five acres of meadow at Stony Cove, he exchanged
March 18, 1680-1, with Joseph Benjamin, of Yarmouth, for 19
1-2 acres of upland and six acres of meadow and appurtenances
at Clark's Neck, * and removed to Yarmouth. In 1683 he was
exempted by the Colony Court from serving as a common soldier
in the mUitia, because be had formerly served in the oflace of eu
sign at Barnstable. He died July 9, 1726, aged 72, and was
buried in the old burying ground in Yarmouth,
8, Jabez Gorham, son of Capt, John Gorham, is the ances
tor of the Gorham families in Rhode Island. From an entry in
Colony records, 1 infer that he went to Rhode Island when a lad,
and was there in the time of King PhUip's war. May 5, 1677,
the following record was made by the Plymouth Colony Court :
"In reference unto the cure of Jabez, Gorham who was wounded
in the late wars, the Court doth apprehend, that in case it be not
paid by some of Rhode Island concerned in it, that they judge the
charge of said cure should be defrayed out of the general estate
of Captaine John Gorham, deceased, both lands and moveables."
After his recovery he returned to Yarmouth, and it appears
* Clark's Neck is in the northerly part of Yarmouth, west of tlie Alms House. It was
SMcoessivclr called Gorham's, Matthews' and Hawes' neck.

416 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
probable that he resided with his mother, in the house which Capt.
Gorham bought when he first came to Yarmouth. His name ap
pears on the hst of the townsmen of Yarmouth 1679. In 1680
he was constable, was on the grand inquest of the Colony in
1683, and that year took the freeman's oath. His oldest chUd,
Hannah, was born in Yarmouth 23d Dec. 1677, and probably his
sons Samuel and Jabez were also born in that town. He was at
Plymouth at the settlement of his mother's estate in March,
1683-4. These disconnected facts show that he resided in Yar
mouth till after the decease of his mother, and that soon after
that event he removed to Bristol, R. I. Mr. John Gorham, of
Providence, a descendant, has carefully collected a genealogy of
this branch of the family, which he intends to publish.
9. Lydia Gorham married Col. John Thacher of Yarmouth,
Jan. 1, 1683-4. (Freeman says Jan. 2, 1633-4—28 years before
her birth.) An amusing story is told respecting his courtship and
marriage. The flrst wife of Col. Thacher was Rebecca, daughter
of Josiah Winslow of Marshfield, and niece of Gov. Edward.
He was married Nov, 6, 1661, and some little time after his re
turn to Yarmouth he and the bride called at Capt. Gorham's.
Lydia was then an infant only a few months old. Col. Thacher
taking the babe in his hands, presented it to his wife, and said in
a sportive manner, "allow me to introduce you to my second
wife." Mrs. Thacher took the babe and kissed it. July 15,
1683, Mrs. Rebecca Thacher, wife of Col. Thacher, died, and
"many lamentable verses" he wrote on the occasion. Before the
ink was dry with which he penned the elegies, he thought of Miss
Lydia who was then twenty-two and unmarried. Common de
cency required that he should wait three months before proposing
to marry her ; but passing the house of the widow Gorham one
evening, he saw his son Peter's horse hitched at the door. Mis
trusting that Miss Lydia was the object of his visit. Col. Thacher
on the morrow privately asked his son if he thought of marrying
Miss Lydia. The young man blushed, and frankly admitted that
to be the object of his visit. "Now," said the Colonel, "if you
will agree to discontinue your visits, I will give you my black
oxen." Peter accepted the oxen, and the Colonel married Miss
Lydia 6 months and 16 days after the death of his first wife,
whom he had so deeply lamented, and in most dolorous rhymes.
Mrs. Lydia Thacher survived her husband. She died Aug. 2,
1744, aged 82 years.
11. Hannah Gorham was living March 5, 1683-4 ; but I find
no subsequent information respecting her.
12. Shubael Gorham, youngest son of Capt. John Gorham,
was intended for one of the learned professions, but he fell short,
and instead of spending his minority at College, served an ap
prenticeship with a carpenter. After the death of his mother his
brother James was appointed his guardian. In 1696 he married

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 417
PueUa Hussey, of Nantucket, and removed to South Sea. His
house built that year, f near the landing at Hyannis Port, is a
large two story building, kept by him as a tavern, and subsequent
ly by Eleazer Scudder and Benjamin Haddaway. June 8, 1706,
he entered into an agreement with his brother-in-law, Mr, Thomas
Baxter, and his nephew, John Baxter, "whaler," to build a full-
ing-miU on the Western Swan Pond River, in Yarmouth, which
they afterwards owned in partnership. The stream on which the
mill is built is now called Parker's river, and the old dam is about
a mile north of the bridge over that stream, on the County road
through West Yarmouth. Nov. 7, 1710, John Baxter, "whaler,"
sold for £31, lawful money, to his "unkell Shubael Gorham of ye
town of Barnstable, carpenter," his quarter part of said mUl. J
He had previously. May 22, 1708, sold to his uncle Shubael for
£21, in silver money, another quarter of the mill.
April 17, 1749, Shubael Gorham deeded to the town of Barn
stable a road through his land from the old lauding place, "begin
ning at the shore against a noted § great rock," thence northerly to
the land of Mr. John Bearse, and the road leading to the School
Lot, It passed on the west side of a swamp, or pond, and on the
east side of land leased to his son-in-law, James Lovell, Jr.
Shubael Gorham did not possess the commanding talents, and
energy of character, which distinguished his elder brothers ; yet
he was a man of good business capacity, honest, industrious and
frugal. He died in 1750, in the 83d year of his age.
5. IV. James Gorham, son of Capt. John Gorham, born
in Marshfield April 28, 1650, married Feb. 24, 1673-4, Hannah,
daughter of Mr. Thomas Huckins, of Barnstable. He died in
1707, aged 57, and his widow Feb. 13, 1727-8, aged 74 years.
Children horn in Barnstable.
Desire, 9th Feb. 1674-5.
.James, 6th March, 1676-7.
Experience, 23d July, 1678.
John, 2d Aug. 1680.
Mehetabel, 28th AprU, 1683.
Thomas, 16th Dec. 1684.
Mercv, 22d Nov. 1686, died June 12, 1689.
. Joseph, 26th March, 1689.
Jabez, 6th March, 1690-1.
t In 1696 leave was granted to "Mr. Shubael Gorham to cut and cai-ry out of toivn's
commons pine timber to build his house." — [Yarmouth Records.
} The contract for building the fulling-mill is in the handwriting of Col. John Thacher,
and the deed from which the extract is made, is in the handwriting of Lieut. Col. John
Gorham. These.papers have an historical interest, showing when, where, and by whom the
fii-8t fulling mill was built in Tarmouth. They also show the relationship between the Gor
hams and the Baxters, which otherwise it would be exceedingly difficult to trace.
§This "Great Rock" was removed, and used in the construction of the Breakwater, and
I would suggest to the town authorities that a monument be put up at the termination of the
road on the shore.

13,

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14.

II.

15.

HI.

16.

IV.

17.

V.

18.

VI.

19.

VII.

20.

VIII,

21.

IX.

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22. X. Sylvanus, 13th Oct. 1693.
23. XI. Ebenezer, llth Feb. 1695-6.
Mr. James Gorham in his will dated Nov. 4, 1707, proved
Jan. 7, 1707-8 names his seven sons who were all then living, and
his three daughters Desire Sturges, Experience Lothrop, and Me
hetabel Gorham.
13. Desire Gorham married one of the Sturgis family. I
have not investigated her history.
14. James Gorham resided in Barnstable. He married
Mary Joyce of Yarmouth, (See Chipman) and died Sept. 10,
1718, aged 41. A widow Mary Gorham died in Barnstable, June
28, 1778, aged 92, according to the church records. If Mary,
widow of James, she was 98, — if Mary, widow of Col. Shubael,
90. 15. Experience Gorham married 23d April, 1697, Thomas
Lothrop, son of Capt. Joseph, and grandson of Rev. John. She
was the mother of fourteen children, and died in Barnstable Dec.
23, 1733. 16. John Gorham married Ann Brown, 24th Feb. 1705-6.
He resided at West Yarmouth, where he died in 1729, aged 49
years, 17. Mehetabel Gorham, "daughter of ilames Gorham, de
ceased," was admitted to the Barnstable Church Jan. 16, 1714-5.
She married May 12, 1715, John Oldham, and was dismissed to
the Church at Scituate,
18. Thomas Gorham was a blacksmith aud resided in Barn
stable. In early times there was a blacksmith's shop on the west
side of Marston's Lane, nearly opposite his father's house.
There was also an ancient house on the old road near the present
railroad crossing. As both were on the land of his father, the
presumption is that these were the house and shop of Thomas
Gorham, He died insolvent iu 1771, at the advanced age of 87.
20. Joseph Gorham, the records inform us, was "uon com
pos mentis" during a con.siderable portion of his life. From the
facts stated I should infer that he was temporarily insane, not a
person of weak mind. His brother Ebenezer was his guardian
for 27 years previous to 1760, In 1747 he made a wiU giving aU
his property, including his share in his brother Sylvanus' estate,
to his brother Ebenezer, He died in 1762, and this will was pre
sented for probate Jan. 4, 1763, and was objected toby Seth
Lothrop aud the other heirs-at-law. The will was flnaUy 'estab
lished in the Supreme Court to which it was removed by" appeal,
and Ebenezer inherited his estate.
21 Jabez Gorham, it appears, lived Unmarried tiU 58, and
Nov. 15, 1749, married Mary Burbank of Plymouth. I do not
find that he had any children.
22. Sylvanus Gorham died before 1747, leaving no issue.
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23. Ebenezer Gorham, the youngest son of James, resided
when a young man at Scituate. Nov. 1, 1725, he was dismissed
from the south church in that towu, to the east church in Barnsta
ble. Sept. 22, 1727, he married Temperance Hawes, daughter of
Dea. Joseph of Yarmouth. He was a farmer, and his house stood
where Sylvanus Gorham's now stands. It was a large, two story
building, very ancient and may have been Joseph HaUett's, who
had a house very early on the same laud. She died Feb. 21,
1767, in the 62d year of her age. He died Nov. 16, 1776, iu the
83d year of his age. Both have monuments in the old graveyard
near the Unitarian Meeting House.
James Gorham was the richest man in Barnstable. His chil
dren inherited that wealth ; but they did uot inherit the art of
keeping it. P^xcepting Ebenezer, who appears to have been
brought up under different influences, they all died poor, some of
them insolvent. The poor boy who saves his little earnings forms
a habit of frugality, which he carries with him through life ; the
child of the wealthy does not feel the necessity of saving, and he
spends the little sums which his friends give him in toys, or in
vain amusements, and thus forms a habit which in its ultimate,
leads to poverty. In a free country, where the institution of sla
very is not tolerated, and where the estates of deceased intestate
persons are divided equally to all the children, these causes are in
constant operation, changing the relative position of famiUes
every two or three generations. I have had in these articles, fre
quent occasion to say that "the wealth of the parent was a curse
to his posterity." Physiological reasons afford a sufficient expla
nation. The boy who is brought up in ease and affluence, whose
every want is provided for, when he becomes a man is often lack
ing in energy of character, — he has not been taught to be self-re
liant, the great secret of success in life, iu consequence, the son
of his poor neighbor, who has been taught to be frugal and indus
trious, and above all, to believe that he must rely on himself, out
strips the other in the race of life, and in old age, they find that
their relative positions in society have been reversed. This is
generally, not universally true; for some wealthy parents teach
their chUdren to be frugal, industrious and self-reliant, and they
thereby escape the perils to which they would otherwise be ex
posed." Such boys make distinguished men — they start from a
higher stand-point — have the advantage of a good education — and
of friends who are able to assist them.
Lieut. Col. John Gorham, the brother of James, was his
neighbor. As has been stated, he ranked next to his brother in
point of wealth, both had large families, aud both had the same
facilities to educate their children ; but no two famUies in Barn
stable were more unlike. John was a mechanic and a mUitary
man, he had traveled more and had seen more of the world than
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attributed to innate ideas in his mind, and modern phrenologists
say the same in a different form, that is, that the character depends
entirely on the size and form of the brain. Locke, in his essay on
the human understanding, demonstrates that there are no innate
ideas in the mind, and his followers usually maintain that,
"'Tis education forms the common mind.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
This, couplet inculcates a sound philosophy, because in compar
ing the human mind to the vegetable growth, it admits innate
differences, and that education does not eradiate or destroy them,
only modifies them. FrankUn, in one of his poetical essays, com
pares the infant mind to white paper, on which you may write any
character you may desire, but in this case the paper may be of
different qualities, and though the same things be written, the re
sults wUl be widely different. It is also a common saying, that
"he that is born to be drowned, will never be hung." The doc
trine here inculcated, sav(jrs too strongly of the fatalism taught
by Mahomet, and of the predestination creed of some of the most
ultra advocates of election and reprobation, to be generally as
sented to. It is also said "that the poet is born, not made."
This remark, if applied to Shakespeare and Burns, would require
some modification ; and would perhaps have to be reversed if ap
plied to Pope or Bryant.
However men may differ on these points, the science of
genealogy teaches these truths, that home influences affect the
character of the child more than all that is taught by the church
or in the schools ; and that as a person advances in age, he be
comes less and less qualified to have the management of children.
It is a notorious fact that the grandmother always spoils her pet
child, and that children brought up by maiden aunts, rarely pros
per in life.
Mr. Deane, in his history of Scituate, justly remarks, that
"nature is wonderfully impartial in the distribution of intel
lectual talents ; and it seems to be the fixed order of Providence,
that families, in this respect, should flourish and decline ; nay,
often, that an individual, should spring forth into eminence, whose
origin was as obscure as that of the spark which, by the collision
of steel and adamant, is struck out of darkness."
6. Lieut. Col, Johu Gorham married Feb. 24, 1674-5,
Mercy, daughter of Mr, John Otis, 'ru. i.o.\.\ ¦. -'i' c^y^, i^i. j a «^ 4 ' r.
Children born in Barnstable.
24. 1, John, 18th Jan. 1675-6, died AprU 1, 1679.
25. 11, Temperance, 2d Aug. 1678.
26. 111. Mary, 18th Sept. 1680.
27, IV. Stephen, 23d June, 1683,
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29. VI. John, 28th Sept. 1688. Some of these dates are not
correct.
30. VIL Thankful, 15th Feb. 1690-1.
31. VIII. Job, 30th Aug. 1692.
32. IX. Mercy, Dec. 1695.
Lieut, Col. Gorham died Dec. 9, 1716, if I rightly decypher
the inscription on his tomb. His will is dated Nov. 18, 1716, and
was proved on the 7th of January following. To John he gave
the farm he bought of James Hamblin ; to Shubael, lands at
Stony Cove, and land where his house then stood, to Stephen
lands adjoining Shubael's, andtotlobthe home farm. His wife
and sons Stephen and Shubael executors. His personal estate
was apprized at £322, and his real estate at £2000 lawful money.
His widow died AprU 1, 1733, and in her wiU, dated Nov. 7,
1727, proved April 20, 1733, she names her sons Stephen, John
Job and Shubael, and her daughters Temperance Clap, Mary
Hinckley, Thankful FuUer, and Mercy Bourne, and John, son of
her son John.
During the French and Indian wars, from 1689 to 1704, flve
expeditions were fltted Out to operate against the enemy in the
eastern country, under the command of the renowned Col. Benja
min Church. Connected with these expeditions, there was a
"whale-boat fleet," manned by whalemen, sailors and friendly lu-
dians. In most, if not all these expeditions, the "whale-boat
fleet" was under the direction and command of Mr. John Gor
ham, who, in the fourth and fifth expeditions, was commissioned
a Lieut. Col,, was second in command, and in case of accident
was named as Col. Church's successor. Without this fieet, all the
expeditions would have proved abortive. The French and In
dians, excepting at a few prominent points, had established their
headquarters at places where the trausports could not approach
suflflciently near to be of service, and to have marched the troops
to the attack through the wilderness, would have exposed them to
almost certain destruction.
Col, Church in his letter to Governor Dudley, dated Feb, 5,
1703-4, advises the Governor to provide for the expedition, "Four
" and forty or fifty good whaleboats, well fitted with five good oars
and twelve or fifteen good paddles to every boat. And upon the
wale of each boat, five pieces of strong leather be fastened on
each side to'slip five small ash bars through : that so, whenever
they land the men may step overboard, and slip in said bars
across, and take up said" boat that she may not be hurt against the
rocks." In such a fleet four or five hundred men could be transported
up the shallow bays and rivers, with their guns and ammunition,
and provision, for several days consumption. At night, or iu
stormy weather, the boats were taken ou shore, turned over, and
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and other conveniences for cooking and rendering the men com
fortable, were carried.
Lieut. Col. Gorham ranked as a Captain in the Canada Ex
pedition under Major Walley, in 1690. In that expedition he had
the command of the "whaleboat fieet" without which it would
have proved still more disastrous. In the second and third expe
ditions of Col. Church he is not named in the authorities I have
consulted ; yet from an expression in one of his letters I infer
that he was. In the fourth and fifth he was second in command,
and performed most eflScient and valuable services for his country.
Col. Gorham's biography would be a work of brilliant interest ;
but I have not space to devote to the details.
The details of these expeditions are exceedingly interesting.
Many men from the Cape were engaged in them. In the winter
of 1703-4 Col. Church visited every town in the County, and en
listed a large number for his fifth expedition. Many of the offi
cers were Cape men, . In 1689 Col, William Bassett of Sandwich,
and Nathaniel Hall, son of John, of Barnstable, served as Cap
tains in the eastern country. In 1690 Major John Walley, son of
Mr. Walley of Barnstable, was commander of the Canada expe
dition. Sept. 9, 1697, the gallant Capt. Thomas Dimmock of
Barnstable, was slain at the head of his company, in a severe en
gagement with the French and Indians ; and in the last expedi
tion Caleb WiUiamson, of Barnstable, was Captain of the Plym
outh forces. Other Barnstable men bore less conspicuous ; but not
less honorable parts in these contests. For years after these old
sailors and soldiers, seated in their round-about-chairs, within
their capacious chimney-corners, would relate to the young the
story of their adventures in the "Old French Wars," and some of
their descendants yet preserve them in remembrance.
25. Temperance Gorham married Dec. 24, 1696, Dea.
Stephen Clap, of Scituate. a nephew of Eleazer of Barnstable.
Thomas, son of Dea, Stephen and Temperance, born in 1703,
graduated at Harvard CoUege 1722, was one of the distinguished
men of his time. He was ordained at Windham, Conn., 1726.
President of Yale College from 1740 to 1764, when he resigned
and died on the following year while on a visit to Scituate. Presi
dent StUes, his successor, says, "he studied the higher branches
of Mathematics, was one of the first philosophers America has
produced, and equalled by no man, excepting the most learned
Professor Winthrop." President Clap was also the most power
ful opponent that Whitefleld found in New England, (See Dean's
Scituate, page 235.)
26. Mary Gorham married Sept. 21, 1699, .loseph Hinck
ley, of West Barnstable, and had ten children. Her youngest
son Isaac was a distinguished man and an ardent patriot during
the Revolution, He died Dec. 1802, aged 83. Joseph Hinckley
inherited the mansion-house of his ancestor Samuel, which is vet

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 423
standing, though it is not probable that much of the original
structure now remains.
27. Stephen Gorham, born June 23, 1683, was a man of
some note ; but I am unahle to trace his history. He married
Dec. 25, 1703, P^lizabeth Gardner, of Nantucket. Her mother
was Mary Starbuck, the flrst white child born on Nantucket. He
had twelve children, all born in Barnstable, but the record of their
children born previous to 1715 I do not find. He removed to
Nantucket, and perhaps resided some time in Charlestown. His
son Nathaniel's family, of Charlestown, was one of the most dis
tinguished in the State.
28. Col. Shubael Gorham was a man of enterprise — a man
who persevered in whatever he undertook, till he failed or suc
ceeded. His name frequently occurs on the parish, town and state
records, showing that he was a man that was esteemed by those
who knew him. The great act of his life, that for which he will
ever be remembered, is the active and eflficient part which he took
in obtaining the grants made by the legislature of Massachusetts,
to the oflficers and soldiers of the Narraganset or King Phillip's
War, or to their lawful representatives.
The earliest grant made to the Narraganset soldiers is dated
May 27, 1685, of a township eight miles square in the Nipmay
country. This grant was made to persons resident in Lynn, Read
ing, Beverly and Hingham, This, Mr. Pierce, * the historian of
Gorham, thinks was never located.
Dec. 14, 1727, two tracts of land six mUes square were
granted, and AprU 26, 1733, this grant was enlarged, giving a
township equal to six miles square to each 120 persons whose
claims should be established within four months. It was found
that the whole number was 840. Seven townships were granted
in the province of Maine called Narraganset No, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and 7. The latter was assigned to the officers and soldiers who
served with Capt, John Gorham, and a few others, and was after
wards incorporated as the town of "Gorham," but was generally
known as "Gorhamtown."
By an order "In Council," dated Feb. 2, 1736, Shubael Gor
ham, Esq., was empowered to assemble the grantees of the town
ship. In this order a curious mistake occurs. It is stated that
the grant was made "to the soldiers under the command of Capt.
John Gorham, in the Canada expedition in 1690." Capt, John
Gorham of the Canada expedition was the father of Col. Shu
bael ; the grant was made to the officers and soldiers who served
under his grandfather in the Narraganset war. By an order dated
July 5, 1736, this mistake was corrected. Col. Gorham was the
chairman of the committee for Narraganset No. 7, and the efflci-
*1 am much indebted to Josiah Pierce, Esq., for much valuable information respecting
the emigrants from Barnstable to Gorham. I regret that I did not send him copies of
papers in my possession, that would have been usenil to him.

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ent man in promoting in its settlement, and Capt. John Phinney,
of Barnstable, was the father of the colonists.
Col. Gorham spent much time and money in promoting the
settlement of Gorhamtown. He bought the shares of many who
did not desire to emigrate, and his speculations in wild lands
proved unfortunate: Buying such lands, is like buying lottery
tickets, a few get prizes. Col. Gorham was not one of the lucky
ones. He died insolvent in 1746, his own childrep being his prin
cipal creditors. *
29. John Gorham, Esq., 3d of the name, was an active, in
teUigent man. His father bought for him the estate of James
Hamblin, on the east of Coggin's Pond, and adjoining to the es
tate ol Gov. Hinckley, on which he built a large and elegant
mansion house, which was taken down about forty years since.
He was a merchant and was engaged in the cod and whale fisher
ies, in the coasting trade, and in the West Indian trade. He
built the wharf at Calves Pasture point, known as Gorham's
wharf, and now owned by N. & D. Scudder. This is one of the
most eligible places for business in Barnstable, and for many
years was the center of trade. During nearly half a century he
was the most active and successful business man in Barnstable,
and to give detaUs would be to write the commercial history of the
town during that period.
He married Oct. 21, 1712, Prudence, daughter of Joseph
Crocker, of West Barnstable, and bad fourteen children. He
died in 1770, aged 82, and his widow in 1778, aged 86.
30, Thankful Gorham married June 16, 1710, Lieut, John
Fuller, a son of Dr, John, and a grandson of Capt. Matthew.
She resided on Scorton Neck.
31. Job Gorham inherited the dwelling-house built by his
grandfather, and the lands in the immediate vicinity, and the
same are yet owned by his descendants. Job Gorham about the
year 1745, took down the old mansion and built the one now
standing on the same spot, A part of the materials of the old
house were used in the construction of the present. He married
Dec. 4, 1719, Desire Dimmock, and second. Widow Bethia Free
man, of Fairfield, Conn, He died in 1762,
32. Mercy Gorham, the youngest daughter, was a woman of
rare aecomplishmeuts. She married Hon. Sylvanus Bourne, and
a notice of her has already been published. (See Bourne.)
7-6, Joseph Gorham, only son of ,Capt, John, recorded as
born in Yarmouth, married Sarah -SlSkA^Mi iu 1678, His children
are all recorded as born in Yarmouth ; but as he resided in Barn
stable tUl 1681, it is probable that his oldest child was born in
?Shubael Gorham was Col. of the 7th Mass. Regiment in the Louisburg Expedition;
commission dated Feb. 2, 1744. He was also Captaiu of the First company. John Gorham
Lieut. Col. and Captain of the Second company; com. dated Feb. 20, 1744. S.

that town.

33.

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34.

II.

35.

III.

36.

IV.

37.

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38.

VI.

39.

VII.

40.

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Children.
Sarah, 16th Jan. 1678-9.
Joseph, 15th AprU, 1681.
Samuel, Oct. 1682.
John, 28th Feb. 1 683-4.
Desire, April 1685.
Isaa'c, Oct. 1687.
Hezekiah, Aug. 1689.
. Josiah, 7th Sept. 1692.
Joseph Gorham, in his wiU dated July 27, 1723, proved 20th
July, 1726, names his wife Sarah, sons Josephand Josiah, daugh
ter Desire Baxter, grand-daughter Sarah Sears, daughter of my
daughter Sarah Howes, deceased ; also grand-children Thomas,
Eben, and Elizabeth Howes.
The Widow Sarah Gorham, in her wUl dated 1st May, 1728,
proved 3d Feb. 1738-9, names sons Joseph and Josiah, daughter
Desire Baxter, and grand-children Rebecca, (Josiah's daughter by
his flrst wife) Thomas and Eben. Howes, Sarah Sears and Eliza
beth Crosby.
His sons Samuel, John, Isaac and Hezekiah, died young,
leaving no issue. Isaac and Hezekiah in 1714, and their fatiier
administered on their estates.
33. Sarah Gorham married April 24, 1699, Eben. Howes,
son of Jeremiah, and grandson of Thomas, by whom she had
Thomas and Sarah, twins, Jan. 22, 1699-10, EUzabeth Sept. 28,
1701, a son July 5, 1704, died in infancy, .and Ebenezer Sept. 8,
1705, and the mother died the day following.
34. Respecting Joseph Gorham, theyounger, I have little
information. He married Sarah jiiAJk. ^ and had children
Mary and George in Yarmouth.
40. Josiah Gorham had three wives : 1st, .Sarah  ,
whom he probably married in Rhode Island ; 2, PrisciUa Sears,
March 11, 1721-2, and 3, Mary  . He died AprU ,3,
1776, aged 82 years. . »
8-7. Jabez Goruam married twice : 1st, Hannah -^i«*«^ife,
the mother of his ten children. Hannah and Samuel, and per
haps Jabez, were born in Yarmouth, the others in Bristol, R. I.
He was 88 years of age when he married his second wife Mary
MaxweU, if the date of the marriage which I have is reliable.
Its accuracy may well be doubted. Respecting the descendants
of Jabez, and they are a host, I do not propose to inquh-e. His
children were :
41. I. Hannah, 23d Dec. 1677, drowned in a tub ol water
1682.
42. IL- Samuel, 1682, died 1735.
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426 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
44. IV. Shubael, 1686, died 1734, no issue.
45. V. Isaac, 1689.
46. VI. John, 1690, died 1717, no issue. ^
47. VII. Joseph, 1692, died without issue. fitVL.^.'^ I ,
48. VIII. Hannah, 1694. (^ZtWSC lU ^a^r^U^i, CC
49. IX. Benjamin, 1695. ^  ' '
50. X. Thomas, 1701.
12-11. Shubael Gorham, youngest son of Capt. John Gor
ham, married in 1696, PueUa, daughter of Stephen Hussey, of
Nantiicket. Children born in Barnstable.
51. I. George, 29th Jan. 1696-7.
62. II. AbigaU, 31st Maroh, 1699.
63. III. Lydia, llth May, 1701.
64. IV. Hannah, 28th July, 1703.
66. V. Theodale, 18th July, 1705.
56. VI. Daniel, 24th Sept. 1708.
57. VII. Desire, 26th Sept. 1710.
58. VIII. Ruth, 7th May, 1713.
59. IX. Deborah.
Shubael Gorham in his wiU dated 23d Sept. 1748, proved
Aug. 7, 1750, says he is "advanced in years," and gives all his
real estate to his son George and allows him to retain whatever he
owes him or his wife. He gives his personal estate to his seven
daughters, to be equally divided to them. His personal estate
was apprized at £99,10 8 ; his real at £266,13 4.
51. Respecting George Gorham I flnd nothing on the rec
ords. 62. Abigail Gorham married Oct. 26, 1716, James LoveU,
Jr. She resided at Hyannis Port, and died June 28, 1778, aged
79 years. 83. Lydia Gorham married Sept. 8, 1720, Joseph Worth, of
Nantucket. * The records say they were then both of Nantucket.
They had eight sons and four daughters, who lived and married.
They have many descendants at Nantucket, in New York, Indi
ana, and other states. She died March 1, 1763, aged 62 years.
Her son Daniel, with six in his family, removed to North Carolina
in 1771. 54. Hannah Gorham married Oct. 24, 1726, WilUam Mann
ing, and Dec. 21, 1732, Wm. Stubbs, of Nantucket. She died
16th 8 mo., 1761, at Nantucket.
65. Theodate married 2d Nov. 1729, Francis CoflBn, and
second, Reuben Gardner. She died 6th AprU, 1787, aged 81
years, leaving numerous descendants.
56. Daniel Gorham belonged to the society of friends, and
'*! am indebted to William C. Folger, Esq., for information respecting the Gorhams
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in 1734 his tax for the support of the ministry in the East Parish
was remitted for that reason. He was a mariner and died in 1746
of the small-pox in London. His wiU is dated Jan. 24, 1740,
and was proved Jan. 19, 1746. He appoints his "affianced
brother" James Lovell, Jr., executor, and divides his estate into
eleven shares, giving his brother George, 1, his sister AbigaU, 1,
Lydia 2, Hannah 1, Theodate 1, Deshe 3, Ruth 1, and Deborah
1. He owned four rights in Gorham-town Amount of estate
£2,960,16,1, old tenor.
Erratum.— In last No. John Hale should be John HaU.
57. -Desire Gorham married Sept. 2, 1728, Zachariah Gard
ner, (or Bunker) of Nantucket, and had seven sons and two
daughters. She died at Nantucket 5th 11 month, 1801, aged 91
years. 58. Ruth Gorham married Jan. 12, 1731-2, by Shubael Bax
ter, Esq., to Dr. Cornelius Bennet from Middleboro'. Her son
Cornelius was born in Barnstable Sept. 30, 1732. Her other chil
dren were Theodate who married  Miller ; Christina,
who married Samuel Russell ; William ; Thomas ; and perhaps
others. 69. Deborah Gorham married Dec. 11, 1735, Beriah Fitch
of Nantucket, and had four sons and flve daughters. Their son
Jonathan Gorham Fitch, born Sept. 13, 1740, is said to have been
the flrst child on Nantucket having a double, or two christian
names. Beriah and Jonathan were worthy men. Some of their
descendants reside in Baltimore.
As nearly all the daughters of Shubael Gorham married at
Nantucket, it is probable that during some portion ol his life he
resided there. However, his wife had many relatives at Nan
tucket and his daughters probably visited there, and as he keptthe
pubUc house where travellers from that island stopped, he per
haps did not remove from Hyannis Port.
Third Generation.
It would require a volume to give as many particulars, as I
have thus far, relative to each member of the succeeding genera
tions of the Gorhams, and I am therefore under the necessity of
condensing my materials into the smallest space, and give little
beside names and dates.
14-2. James Gorham, Jr., son of James, married Sept. 29,
1707, Mary, daughter of Heosea Joyce, of Yarmouth. He died
Sept. 10, 1718, aged 41. His widow survived him. A widow
Mary Gorham died in Barnstable June 28, 1778.
Children horn in Barnstable.
60. I. Thankful, 25th May, 1711.
61. II. Isaac, baptized AprU 17, 1715.
62. III. Hezekiah, baptized AprU 17, 1715.
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64. V. Mary, baptized July 19, 1719.
The wiU of James Gorham, Jr., is dated Sept. 10, 1717,
proved Nov. 5, 1718. He names his wile Mary and sons Isaac,
Hezekiah and James, and daughter Thankful. His daughter Mary
was born after his death, therefore not named. He describes land
in the Common Field, bounded by the land of his uncle Shubael.
Executors, his wife Mary, her brother Thomas Joyce, and Joseph
Davis. All the laud on the north of the road, in the north
easterly part of the town, was then called the "Common Field."
His uncle Shubael's house is yet standing, and was owned by the
late Job C. Davis. James Gorham, Jr.'s land, I presume, was on
the west. 60. Thankful Gorham married May 16, 1701, Thomas
Hawes, of Yarmouth, She had four chUdren and '^ied in that
town. 61. Capt. Isaac Gorham married Jan. 24, 1738, Hannah
Hallett, of Yarmouth. She died Aug. 19, 1741, aged 24, and he
married Setpt. 2, 1742, Mary Cobb, daughter of Gershom. He
died in Scotland Jan. 1753, and his widow married James Church
iU Feb. 3, 1756-7, His children by his first wife were Mary, who
married Feb, .8, 1759, Elisha Hedge of Yarmouth, and Thankful
who married John Hall of Yarmouth, By his second wife he had
1, Edward, baptized Sept, 11, 1743, who probably died young,
not being named in his father's will ; 2, James, baptized Aug. 4,
1745, married Widow Mary Baker, had no issue ; 3, Sarah, bap
tized June 19, 1748, and 4, Hannah, baptized June 17, 1750.
He was also the reputed father of Isaac Gorham, son of Remember
Backhouse, born Aug. 19, 1746.
62. Capt. Hezekiah Gorham, twin brother of Isaac, was a
sea captain. He married Widow Anna Davis May 12, 1746. In
her will dated March 2, 1702, she names her sons James and
Jonathan and her son Josiah Davis of Gorham, in the County of
Cumberland, daughters Anna, wife of Sylvanus Gorham, and
Susan, wife of Gorham Easterbrooks. Also her dwelling-house
and her part of the Grist Mill, which as before mentioned origi-
naUy belonged to the Gorhams. I infer from her will that she
was the widow of John Davis, Jr., whom she married March 26,
1736, and had Josiah, John and Martha, baptized in the East
Church AprU 25, 1742. She was a daughter of Mr. James Allen,
and was connected by marriage with some of the most influential
and respectable families in the Colony. Capt. Hezekiah Gorham
died Oct. 2, 1778, aged "about 60 years." His children born in
Barnstable, 1, James, baptized Feb. 22, 1746-7 ; 2, Anna, July
17, 1748; 3, Lemuel, May 6, 1751, died young; 4, Jonathan,
Feb. 4, 1753; 5, Susan, April 21, 1754; and Isaac April 13,
1760. James of this family married Rachel Easterbrooks ; Anna
married Sylvanus Gorham and bad a large family ; Susan married

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Gorham Easterbrooks July 18, 1782 ; and Isaac died at sea, leav
ing no Issue. Jonathan married Mary Davis. He resided at
flrst on the Mill Road, in the house now owned by the heirs of
Ezekiel HaU, afterwards in a house in the fields, on the south of
the County road. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary
army, and after his death his family removed to Nantucket. The
chUdren of Jonathan Gorham were, 1, Susan, born Sept. 1786 ;
2, Davis, 12th Sept. 1790 ; 3 and 4, Polly and Josiah, twins,
Jan. 1793 ; 5, Edward, 24th Aug. 1795 ; and 6, Isaiah, 1802.
The children of this family married at Nantucket, excepting the
youngest, who died unmarried. Josiah was a wealthy manu
facturer of oil at Edgartown, and now resides at N. Jonathan
has many descendants at N. and in California.
63. James Gorham, son of James Gorham, Jr., baptized
May 12, 1717, was a mariner, died in 1742, leaving no issue. He
was pubhshed Nov. 11, 1738, to Mary Hallett, Jr., of Yarmouth ;
but I find no record of his marriage. In his will dated 19th
March, 1738-9, he gives all his estate, apprized at £145,14 6, to
his brother Hezekiah.
64. Mary Gorham was a singular woman. She was known
as Mrs. "Slicker," and her children were called "Slickers." She
was plausible in her address, and polite in her manners. Nothing
seemed to vex her. She had a ready excuse for all her delinquin-
cies, and like some lawyers, had the peculiar faculty of making
the worst appear as the better reason. She was no advocate for
celibacy, and held that it was no breach of etiquette for ladies to
make proposals for marriage. She married Jan. 25, 1738-9,
Th9mas Hedge of Yarmouth, of just her own age, 19. He was
only son of Thomas, a son of Ehsha, and grandson of Capt.
William Hedge, one of the first settlers in Y. Her chUdren
were: 1, Mary, born 1740, died young ; 2, Thomas, 1742, died
young; 3, Hannah, 1743, married Barnabas Hedge, of Plymouth;
4, Mary, 1743, married Joshua Gray; 5, Sarah, 1748, married
Edward Hallett; 6, Thankful, 1751, married William Thacher;
7, Thomas, who has descendants ; and 8, James, 1758, drowned
aged three years.
Mr. Thomas Hedge died June 9, 1764, aged 45, and his
widow married Mr. Thomas HaUett, of Yarmouth. His fourth
and her second marriage. He died April 10, 1772, aged 81 years,
leaving no issue, and his widow married for her third husband
Capt. Benjamin Lothrop, of Kingston. After the death of Capt.
Lothrop she returned to Y., where she died June 3, 1795, aged 75
years. 16-4. John Gorham, born Aug. 2, 1680, a son of James,
married Feb. 14, 1705-6, Ann Brown. His children born in Yar
mouth were :
65. I. Matthew, born 18th Dec. 1706.
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430 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
67. III. Desire, 20th Aug. 1710.
68. IV. Rose, 19th March, 1711-12.
69. V. Elizabeth, 27th June, 1714.
70. VI. Ann, 12th Jan. 1716-17.
His wiU is dated 20th July, 1729, proved Nov. 3 following,
showing that he died that year. He names his wife Ann, son
Matthias, and daughters Mercy, wife of Ebenezer Crowell ; De
sire, who married Thomas Hallett, Aug. 19, 1750; Rose, who
married Ephraim Crowell ; EUzabeth, and Ann who married Wil
liam Taylor Sept. 17, 1741. Matthias, his only son, married
Nov. 1, "l733, Mary Davis, and had born in Yarmouth, 1, Lydia,
Jan. 13, 1734-5; 2, Elizabeth, Dec. 28, 1737; 3, Mehitabel,
Jan. 26, 1739-40; 4, Ann, Jan. 1, 1741-2; 5, John, March 26,
1744; 6, Mary, May 16, 1746; and 7, Matthias, Dec. 17, 1743.
John and Matthias married and have descendants.
18-6. Thomas Gorham, born 16th Dec. 1684, a son of
James, resided in Barnstable. He was a blacksmith. He mar
ried in 1707, RacheU Trott of Nantucket, and had :
71. I. Benjamin, 8th Sept. 1708.
Reuben, 10th Dec. 1709.
Priscilla, 18th Dec. 1711.
Samuel, 18th Dec. 1713.
Peter, 19th Dec. 1715.
Paul, 6th Jan. 1717-18.
Abraham, 10th July 1720.
. James, 23d June, 1723.
Gershom, 22d June, 1725.
AbigaU, 13th May, 1729.
In his will dated in 1768, and proved Dec. 3, 1771, he names
his daughter Abigail Easterbrooks, to whom he gives half his
lands and his dweUing-house, and to his son Benjamin the other
half. He also names his daughter Priscilla Folger. His chUdren
did not realize anything from his estate for he died insolvent, pay
ing his creditors 15 sh. 6d. in the £.
As he names in 1758 only Benjamin, Priscilla and AbigaU,
the presumption is that his other children were then dead. Peter
is named as a whaleman in 1733.
71. Benjamin Gorham married Sarah Cobb of Yarmouth, Oct.
23, 1739, and had Samuel born Sept, 2, 1740, No other children
are named on the Barnstable records. He was drowned in the
Mill Pond in 1771. There were flve Benjamin Gorham's in Barn
stable at the same time, and all residents in the East Parish, and
of necessity had to be distinguished by nicknames, namely :
1. Benjamin, son of Thomas, born Sept. 8, 1708, died 1771,
was called "Moderate Ben."
2. Benjamin, son of John, born June 18, 1715, died in 1784,
was caUed "Old Fiddler."
3. Benjamin, son of Shubael, born June 4, 1726, was called

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III.

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IV.

76.

V.

76.

VI.

77.

VII.

78.

VIII

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Captain. He removed early.
4. Benjamin, son of Benjamin, born March 26, 1746, was called
"Young Fiddler."
5. Benjamin, son of David, born Feb. 23, 1747, was called
"Turkey Foot." ,
o,. I^'. PrisciUa Gorham married Eliphar Folger of Nantucket.
She died 28th of the 5th mo., 1801, aged 90 years.
80. AbigaU Gorham married Aug. 23, 1749, Capt. .lohn
Easterbrooks. She died July 2, 1802, aged 73.
23-11. Ebenezer Gorham, born llth Feb. 1695-6, was the
youngest son of James Gorham. He married Temperance Hawes
of Yarmouth, Sept. 22, 1727. She died Feb. 21, 1767, in the
62d year of her age ; he died Nov. 16, 1776, in the 83d year ol
his age. Children horn in Barnstable.
Ebenezer, 7th Aug. 1729, baptized Aug. 24, 1729.
Prince, llth March, 1730-1, baptized May 21, 1721.
Hannah, 16th April, 1733, baptized AprU 8, 1733.

81.

I. 1

82.

II.

83.

III.

(?)

84.

IV.

85.

V. 1

86.

VI.

87.

VII.

88.

VIII.

Mary, 16th June, 1735, baptized June 19, 1735.
Sarah, baptized May 22, 1737.
Thankful, baptized April 22, 1739.
Sarah, baptized AprU 19, 1741.
. Temperance, baptized May 20, 1744.
89. IX. Sylvanus, baptized July 17, 1746.
The will of Ebenezer Gorham, of Barnstable, yeoman, is
dated 16th May, 1772, and the codicU thereto 26th Dec. 1776,
proved 6th Dec. 1776. He says he is "advanced in years,"
names his grand-daughter Desire, eldest daughter of his daughter
Hannah, deceased, his daughters Mary Davis, Thankful Davis,
, and Temperance Sturgis ; his sons Ebenezer, Prince and Sylva
nus. He says his "son Ebenezer has been missing some consid
erable time," speaks of the four sons of Lot Hall, deceased, for
whom his son Ebenezer was guardian, and names his grand
daughter Hannah, only daughter of his daughter-in-law Hannah.
In the codicU to his will, he says, "at the time of making my
will it was uncertain whether my son Ebenezer was then living."
He gave half of his house * to Sylvanus, and with the exception
of legacies to his other children, all the rest of his estate to his
sons Prince and Sylvanus.
81. Ebenezer Gorham, son of Ebenezer, married, and was
lost at sea about the year 1772. He built the house in Barnstable
*Ehenezer Gorham's house stood near the location of Joseph Hallett's, and I have
supposed they were the same ; but on further investigation I have coine to the conclusion
that it was built by one of the Gorhams about the year 1686, at the time the Gorhams' made
strenuous efforts to have the Court House located on their land. The architecture was not
ancient. It had four rooms on the lower floor, and four chambers, and was built for a pub-
,Iic house. It had two chambers, the more ancient had only one in the center, lam in-
elined to the opinion that it was bnilt by James Gorham, Sen'r,

432 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
now owned by Mr. Ezekiel Thacher. He married Dec. 21, 1752,
Mary Thacher ; in 1764, Hope Carver of Plymouth, and July 16,
1767, Hannah, widow of Lot HaU, of Yarmouth. He was guar
dian to Daniel, f Lot, Urian and WUUam HaU, minor children of
Lot HaU, -deceased. His widow Hannah administered on his es
tate in 1773, which was rendered insolvent. Dividend 5 sh. 2d.
in the £. It does, not appear that he had more than one child,
Hannah, and that by his third wife.
82. Capt. Prince Gorham was a sea captain, and in the lat
ter part of his life was insane. He built on the Gorham farm the
house now owned by the heirs of Ansel Hallett, deceased, stand
ing on the County road near the lane to the mill. He married
April 22, 1756, Abigail Gorham, who died Aug. 3, 1765, aged
aged 34 ; and second, Nov. 15, 1767, Desire Clap ol Barnstable.
She died Aug. 20, 1813, aged 72 years. His children were: 1,
Sarah, born June 27, 17.62, married Nov. 15, 1778, Wm. H. Jack
son, of Plymouth ; 2, AbigaU, born May 15, 1669, married May
18, 1790, Isaac Davis, and second, Samuel Holmes of Plymouth.
After the death of her second husband she resided in Boston,
where she kept a store. 3, Prince, born Sept. 8, 1775, died, leav
ing no issue, at his sister Abigail's house in Boston ; 4, Eunice,
born Aug. 25, 1777, married a Capt. Shaw, of Providence, R. I.,
went on a voyage to Maderia with him, and on her return died at
her sister's house in Boston ; 5, Stephen, born July 28, 1779, was
lost at sea. He left no family.
83. Hannah Gorham married Thomas Gorham May 16,
1764, and had seven children. She died April 5, 1765, aged 32.
84. Mary Gorham married Dec. 22, 1757, Samuel Davis.
85. Sarah Gorham, both daughters of this name died
young. 86. Thankful Gorham married May 3, 1759, Josiah Davis,
son of John, Jr., and removed to Gorham, Me.
88. Temperance Gorham married Feb. 7, 1765, Jonathan
Sturgis, a brother or Eben of Barnstable, and removed to Gorham.
t Daniel Hall married Oct. 31, 1776, Mehitabel, daughter of John Gorham, Esq. He
was a lieut. with Capt. Magee, and was one of those who perished Dec. 27, 1778, and was
buried in Plymouth,
Lot removed to West Minister, in Vermont, He man-led Mary Homer, of Boston, a
daughter of Benjamin, Jr., of Yarmouth. He was an associate-justice of the Supreme
Court of Vermont. His son Lot was a distinguished lawyer at Ti-oy, N, T,, and his grand
son Edward H, graduated at Harvard College in 1851.
Of Urian I have no information. William is deserving of note for his eccentricities.
About the year 1798, he established himself in Boston as grocer and ship chandler. He
did a Urge business, lived fast, and about 1806 failed for a large amount. Afterwards he
entertained the visionary project of connecting Nobscusset Pond, by a ship canal with the
deep water of the Bay, North Dennis was to be a city, and the nval of Boston in trade.
He planned the streets of the new city, and selected a site for the Custom House on the
northern declivity of Scargo Hill. To obtain an appropriation for the purpose he for sev
eral years was a loby member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and continually harrased
the members to obtain a legislative report in favor of his project, and failing in nis efforts,
he visited Washington several times, and it is hardly necessary to add thwt he was unsuc
cessful. He died in the Alms House, in Boston, in which city he had obtained a legal resi
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 433
89. Sylvanus Gorham, born in 1746, was the youngest son
of Ebenezer, who was the youngest son of JaiUes, son of John,
the emigrant ancestor of this family. The children of Sylvanus
are of the fifth generation, and three of them are now (1864)
living, namely, Sylvanus, aged nearly 83, John, 76, and Hannah,
wife of Nathaniel Gorham, 70. In my researches I have found
no parallel case, and doubt whether there is another in New Eng
land. Sylvanus Gorham owned a large real estate, and was a hard
working farmer. He resided in the ancient house that was his
father's, described in a note. He married in 1764, Anna Gorham.
He died in 1805, aged 58, and his widow in 1811, aged 73. His
chUdren born in Barnstable, were: 1, Solomon, 29th Sept. 1769,
died at sea, leaving a widow in Boston, no children ; 2, AUyn,
19th May, 1771, married Nabby Baxter, he was connected with
the Navy Yard, New Orleans, several years, died in New York,
has a daughter living ; 3, Ebenezer, 10th May, 1773; 4, Isaiah,
13th April, 1775 ; he and Eben, lost at sea — neither married ; 5,
Clarrisa, 12th May, 1777, married Isaiah Matthews Dec, 1, 1796 ;
6, Tempe, 29th 'March, 1779, married July 21, 1805, Samuel
Gray; 7, Sylvanus, born 4th AprU, 1781, now living, married
Lydia Hallett; 8, Betsey, 12th March, 1783, died 1800; 9,
Sally, 17th March, 1785, married Josiah Lewis; 10, Isaac, 3d
April, 1787, married, died away from home, his wife and child
died nearly at the same time ; 11, John, 28th March, 1789, now
living, married Lydia Cobb AprU 12, 1804; 12, Ezekiel, 16th
June, 1791, married during the last war, sailed from Hyannis
with Chas. Easterbrooks, and was not afterwards heard from ;
and 13, Hannah, 26th Nov. 1793, now living.
•(27-4). Stephen Gorham, born 23d June, 1683, son of John
and grandson of Capt. John, married Dec, 25, 1703, Elizabeth
Gardner, of Nantucket, She was a daughter of James Gardner,
son of Richard, Sen'r, Her mother was Mary Starbuck, born
March 30, 1663, being the first white child born on Nantucket,
Respecting Mr. Stephen Gorham, I have very littie informa
tion. He owned a part of the old Gorham farm and probably re
sided thereon in the eariy part of his life. His twelve chUdren
were all born in Barnstable, The record of the births of his
children born previous to 1716 I do not find, though the record is
referred to in a subsequent volume. His wife died July 22, 1763,
From Barnstable I think he removed to Nantucket, and from
thence to Charlestown, Mass, ; but am not entirely certain.
Children :
90, I, Mary.
91. II, Susannah,
92, III. Sarah,
93, IV, Nathaniel, 1709,
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434 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
95. VI. Barnabas, 20th March, 1715.
96. VII. Zaccheus, 20th AprU, 1717.
97. VIII. Elizabeth, 6th July, 1718.
98. IX. Eunice, 20th March, 1720.
99. X. Stephen, 20th Feb. 1722.
100. XI. Josiah, 2d June, 1723.
101. XII. Lois, 5th Nov. 1727.
90. Mary Gorham married Andrew Gardner of Nantucket,
and had eleven children, nine of whom lived to be married.
91. Susannah Gorham married 1st, Daniel Paddock, who
was lost at sea in 1743; 2d, Jonathan Folger, his third wife.
She died July 12, 1777. When very aged she taught, at Nan
tucket, a school for young chUdren.
92. Sarah Gorham married Daniel Hussey of Nantucket,
and had seven children. He died in England \st 6 mo. 1750.
She died at N. 18 7 uio., 17J8.
93. Capt. Nathaniel Gorham, born in 1709, resided in
Charlestown. He died early, but his widow (Mary Soley) was
living in Boston in 1796. His children were: Nathaniel, born
27th May, 1738 ; John, Harvard College 1759, died early ; Ste
phen, and probahly others, Nathaniel, the son, was a distinguished
man. He died June 11, 1796. After being fltted for admission
to the University, he went an apprentice to Mr. Nathaniel Coffin
of New London, Conn. He finally settled in Charlestown, and in
1763 married Rebecca, oldest daughter of Caleb CaU, Esq. He
was a representative from Charlestown when the Revolutionary
troubles began, and he took a decided stand among the Patriots
and was forced effectually to seek an asylum in the town of
Lunenburg, with his wife and seven smaU children, and stripped
of all his property. In 1778 he was representative from that
town, a member of the Board of War, and was constantly em
ployed in the most important trusts. In 1785 he was chosen
speaker of the House of Representatives, and a delegate to the
Continental Congress, and in 1787 was a member of the Consti
tutional Convention.
His son, Hon. Benjamin Gorham, member of Congress, &c.,
&c., died Sept. 27, 1856, aged 80.
Stephen Gorham, son of the first Nathaniel, married Mary
White. His son John, born in Boston 24th Feb. 1783, Harvard
College 1801, studied medicine with Dr. John Warren. He con
tinued his studies in London, Edinburg and Paris. In 1809 he
was appointed to the professorship of Chemistry in Harvard Col
lege, and in 1816 was Erving Professor. He pubUshed a work on
Chemistry in two volumes octavo. He 'died 27th March. 1829,
aged 46, (For additional information respecting this branch of
the family, see General Register 1853, 1854, and 1866,)
94. Lydia Gorham was the first wife of William Swain,
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 435
97. Elizabeth Gorham married David Bunker of Nantucket,
who was lost at sea in 1755.
98. Eunice Gorham died 13th July, 1790, aged 70.
100. J'osiah Gorham lived at Nantucket several years, and
was a captain in the whaling business. In 1756 he was in a whal
ing sloop, and with five other vessels, was taken by the French
and carried to France. After his release he removed to Eastern,
Washington Co., N. Y. He owned a good farm in that town, and
died in 1803, aged 90. His wife Deborah was received 29th 7
mo. 1765, a member of the Friends Meeting at Nantucket, and
renewed her connection 27th 8 mo. 1773. He obtained the good
will ol the Indians resident in Washington County, and they did
no injury to him or his family during the Revolution. Several
battles during that war was fought near his residence.
101. Lois Gorham married Jonathan Macy of Nantucket.
She was a very worthy woman, and her descendants are numerous
at Nantucket, in New York State, Virginia and California. Jo
siah Macy of New York, is her grandson and has been a very
active and enterprising sea captain and merchant.
(28-6.) Col. Shubael Gorham, son of Lieut. Col. John,
born Sept. 1686, married his cousin Mary, daughter of Col. John
Thacher of Yarmouth. He died in 1746, and his widow Mary
was probably the Widow Mary Gorham who died June 28, 1778,
aged 89. Children horn in Barnstable.
John, 12th Dec. 1709.
David, 6th April, 1712.
Mary, 7th Feb. 1714.
WUliam, 6th May, 1716.
Lydia, 28th June, 1718.
Hannah, 22d May, 1720, died young.
Hannah, 1st May, 1721.
[. Shubael, 27th June, 1723.
Joseph, 29th May, 1725.
.  Benjamin, 6th June, 1726.
Col. Shubael Gorham had no estate to dispose of by his wiU.
At his death he was hopelessly insolvent. James Lovell, Jr., was
appointed Aug. 16, 1746, to administer on his estate. The inven
tory is dated Dec. 11, 1746, and his personal estate is apprised in
Old Tenor at 479,18,6
and his real estate at 2,3652,844,18,6
He had 55 oz., 17 pwt., 12 grs. of plate, valued at £99, 16s.
A part of this marked with the arms of the Gorham family, has
been preserved by the descendants of his son John. Members of
his own family were his principal creditors. He lost his property
in his endeavors to secure to the officers and soldiers in King

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III.

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IV.

106.

V.

107.

VI.

108.

VII.

109.

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Phillip's war, or their legal representatives, their just dues. In
his strenuous efforts to do justice to others, he was unjust to him
self, and involved himself, for the benefit of others, in liabiUties
which he was unable to meet.
102. Col. John Gorham, son of Shubael, was distinguished
as an officer in the colonial forces in the latter French wars. He
was at the taking of Louisburg, and rendered similar services to
those which his grandfather had rendered in the previous wars.
He resided in Barnstable tiU the year 1742, when he removed to
Falmouth, now Portland, and was sometime a resident at Gorham.
In 1749 he resided in Boston. He built the first mUls in the town
of Gorham, was a large land holder ; but did not become a per
manent resident. After the close of the French war he visited,
Europe and he and his wife were presented at the Court of St.
James, and had an audience with the King, a distinction to which
few of the subjects of royality attain.
He married March 9, 1731-2, Elizabeth, daughter of James
Allyn, one of the most accomplished ladies of her time. They
had fifteen children ; but I have not a complete list of them.
Those born in Barnstable were: 1, Susannah, 21st Nov. 1732,
died March 1738; 2, Mary, 3d Dec. 1733, died 8th Jan, 1738;
3, Anna, 28th July, 1735, died 18th March, 1738 ; 4, John, 26th
Dec, 1736; 5, Christopher, 10th Jan, 1737-8; 6, Elizabeth, bap
tized 16th Dec. 1739 ; 7, Daniel, baptized March 1, 1740-1. The
other children were born after the removal of the family in 1742,
to Falmouth : 8, Sea Deliverance, a daughter, was baptized at the
East Church July 22, 1744, and was christened by that name be
cause she was born at sea. Three of the other children were
Mary, Susannah and Solomon,
Elizabeth Gorham of this family married Daniel Rogers of
Kittery, Maine, and had four children. Mary married Eben,
Parsons, a large ship owner and men-haut of Boston, well known
to all our aged sea captains, Christopher died at sea unmar
ried. 103. Col. David Gorham resided on the old homestead iu
Barnstable. His dwelling-house, yet remaining, was afterwards
the dwelling-house of Dr, John Davis and of his sou Job C,
Davis, Esq, He was with his brother John at Cape Breton aud
the taking of Louisburg, * and was engaged in other military ser
vices. During the Revolution some parties unjustly charged him
with being a tory, because he would not advocate the extreme
measures of younger men. He was many years Register of Pro
bate, and kept the records very carefully. He was much in pub-
liclife, was active, energetic, and capable ; but was never a popu
lar man. In the latter part of Ins life he was intemperate, and
many of his old friends lost their confidence in him as a man of
* Blind Abner, whom the middle aged remember, was a slave of Col. Diivid Gorhain,
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 437
integrity and honor. They had reason to, for the civil law was
his standard of morality. His intemperate habits was the cause
of this change, and while we can honor him in youth and middle
age, impartial justice requires that no veU be drawn over his short
comings in after life.
Col. David Gorham married three wives, namely : Aug. 2,
1733, AbigaU Sturgis, she died Feb. 11, 1775, aged 63; 2, to
Elizabeth Stevens, of Truro, in 1775, and 3, to Hannah Davis
June 17, 1783. She died at the house of Eben. Sturgis Oct. 3,
1812, aged 79 years, 3 months. Mr. Sturgis and Eben. Bacon,
Esq., took care of her property and provided for her support dur
ing the latter - part of her life. He died in 1789, aged 77, His
children born in Barnstable, were: 1, David, Aug, 24, 1735, died
young; 2, Elizabeth, Aug. 22, 1737, died young; 3, Edward,
AprU 23, 1739, living in 1756, probably died soon after; 4,
Lydia, May 30, 1741, married Jan. 26, 1764, Capt. Edward
Bacon, Jr, ; 5, WiUiam, July 12, 1743 f; 6, Shubael, born Feb,
3, 1745, died 1748; 7, Benjamin, J 23d Feb, 1747; 8, AbigaU,
March 5, 1749, married Oct. 12, 1776, Dr, Jeremiah Barker, of
Falmouth, now Portiand, § Maine, He married 2d, Temperance,
widow of Hon, Wm, Gorham ; 9, Shubael, Feb, 18, 1751-2, died
at sea, leaving no issue; 10, Mary, May 21, 1754, The Rev.
Dr. James Freeman, of Boston, paid attention to Mary ; but she
declined his offer, and afterwards married, in 1778, WiUiam Pren
tiss. She died in Barnstable July 8, 1784, aged 26, leaving no is
sue. 104. Mary Gorham married Oct. 24, 1734, Mr. Stephen
Clap, of Scituate.
t Hon. William Gorham, when young, wrote a splendid hand, and assisted his father in
the office of Eegister of Probate. About the year 1770 he removed to Gorham, Maine, and
was a prominent man during the Bevolution. Hs was on the committees of safety, corre
spondence and vigilance, and most of their patriotic and spirited papers were written by
him. He held many municipal offices, was president of the convention to consider the
matter of the separation of Maine from Massachusetts ; Judge of Probate 1782, and of the
' Court of Common Pleas 1787, and held both offices till his death in 1804. He married
twice. 1st, Widow Temperance White of Scituate, in 1769, and 2d, Temperance Garret.
Hehadason Francis born in 1775, who died young, and his only daughter Fanny Tyler,
died in 1698. (See Pierce's History of Gorham.)
t Benjamin Gorham, son of Col. David, was called "Turkey Foot," to distinguish him
from the other Ben. Gorhams. After his marriage, Oct. 15, 1775, to Desire Thacher, his
father built a house for him on Dimmock's Lane, which in a few years was removed to a
lot on the Gorham farm. He removed to Gorham, Maine, was there in 1789 ; but January,
1791, had retui-ned to Barnstable, and died not long after. He is called on the records a
"spendthrift," He had no business capacity— a man of weak intellect, and his wife was a
yet weaker vessel, though a member of the church, an honest woman and good neighbor.
Their children are not on the town records, some were probably born in Maine, 1, Ed
ward, baptized Aprii 28, 1776, was a respec table man, married Widow Joana Polond
[W^bbjandhad Fanny, Bhoda, Eliza, Mai-y and John, born in Boston; 2, William, bap
tized Jan. 25, 1778, a worthy man, married Charlotte Beals, resided in Portland, and had
WUliam, Charlotte, and- Joseph B. ; 3, Chi-istopher, never married, died at sea, he and
Polly aud Shubael stammered, and were onlv one remove from idiocy; 4, Polly, died un
married, had David 1809 ; 6, David, baptized April 1786, a respectable and worthy man,
resided in Maine; 6, Shubael, baptized July 11, 1790, died single in 1840.
§Dr. Barker practiced in Barnstable several years before removing to Portland, and
must be included m the list of physicians of that town.

438 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNS'IABLE FAMILIES.
105. William Gorham was a mariner — he was living in
1746. 106. Lydia Gorham married July 27, 1737, Dr. James Her
sey, an elder brother of the noted Dr. Abner, and died Nov. 9,
1740, aged 22.
107. Hannah Gorham, first of the name, died in infancy,
the second daughter of the same name, married July 24, 1748,
Mr. Edward Crosby.
108. Shubael Gorham, Jr., was a mariner, and died in 1748,
aged 26 years, leaving no issue.
109. Lieut. Joseph Gorham was of Annapolis in 1750. He
married Ann Spry, an English lady, and had children : Joseph
William, Amherst, James Wolf, John, Benjamin, Mary, Anna,
Lydia, and Abigail.
110. Benjamin Gorham, youngest son of Col. Shubael
Gorham, was a ship-master. He married 1st, Nancy, daughter
of Eben. Hinckley, and had, 1, James, who was a merchant in
Cuba, and married Charlotte Kneeland ; 2, Benjamin, a shipmas
ter, married Ist Nancy Kneeland, 2d, Frances Harrington; 3,
Samuel, settled in New York, and his second wife was Ellen Ran
kin ; 4, John, who died young ; 5, Nancy, who married 1st, An
thony Glean, of Cuba ; 2d, James Macomb, of Matamoras. See
Genealogical Register, 1869.
(29-6). John Gorham, Esq., son of Lieut. Col. John, mar
ried Oct. 2, 1712, Prudence Crocker, daughter of Joseph, of
Barnstable. Children horn in Barnstable.
Joseph, 26th Aug. 1713.
Benjamin, 18th June 1715.
Ann, 13th Jan. 1716-17.
Deborah, 13th Nov. 1718.
John, 10th Nov. 1720, died young.
Thankful, 10th Feb. 1721-2".
Mary, 1st Jan. 1723-4.
. Nathaniel, 30th S6pt. 1726.
Experience, 23d June, 1728, died young.
Mercy, 5th July, 1729.
Naomi, 16th June, 1731, died young.
AbigaU, 1st June, 1731.
. Prudence, 16th Aug. 1734.
Rachel, [no record.]
John Gorham, Esq,, died in 1769, aged 82, and his widow in
1778, aged 86. In his wiU dated Nov. 4, 1762, proved 19th Oct.
1769, he gave to his wife Prudence, in lieu of dower, one-half of
his house, and one-half of his land between the road and Cog-
gins' Pond, one-half his orchard, and also the use of so much of
aU his other buildings as she shall have occasion for. Also 2
cows, 10 sheep, all his indoor moveables and provisions, his

111.

I. J

112.

II.

113.

III.

114.

IV.

115.

V. .

116.

VI.

117.

VII.

118.

VIII,

119.

IX.

120.

X.

121.

XI.

122.

XII.

123.

XIII

124.

XIV.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 439
negro girl Peg, half the services of his negro Cesar, and the use
of one-third of aU his other real estate. To his son Benjamin his
silver hilted sword, and to his son Nathaniel the remainder of his
armory, and his house and homestead, reserving to his wife the
improvement as above stated. To his sons Benjamin and Na
thaniel, to be divided equally, all the rest of his real estate, they
paying his just debts and legacies. To Nathaniel his negro man
Cesar, reserving as aforesaid, aud his husbandry tools. To his
four daughters. Thankful, Mary, AbigaU, and RacheU, £3 apiece
in addition to what he had already given them. To his daughter
Prudence £33,6,8, and a right in the house so long as she remains
single. He names his gTand-daughter Thankful Annable, and
grandson John Gorham, to whom he gives 3 shs., and all his
wearing apparel, to his grandson Daniel 30 shs., and to his grand
son Joseph £6 at 21, and to each of the daughters of his son .lo
seph, deceased, 30 shs. To his son Benjamin he gives all his live
stock, my negro girl Peg, and his moneys, debts, &c., to pay his
debts, legacies, funeral charges, &c., and if not sufficient, Na
thaniel to pay half of the deficiency, and if there should be a
surplus, Nathaniel to have half thereof. He appoints his sou
Benjamin executor. Witnesses, David Phinney, Thomas and
James Allyn.
To his will there are three codicils annexed. In the first,
dated Oct. 21, 1765, he states that his daughter Abigail having
died since the execution of his will, he gives to his grand-daugh
ter Sarah Gorham, daughter of his daughter AbigaU, deceased,
£3, when 18 or married. Witnesses, David Phinney, James Al
len, Sarah Lumbard.
In the second codicU dated Jan, 12, 1767, he states that his
daughter Prudence had married since the execution of his will and
he therefore revokes the legacies given to her, and devises to her
the same as given to his other daughters, £3.
In the third codicU dated 3d Nov. 1768, he states that
whereas his daughter Mary Clap had died since executing the
second codicil, he gives to his grand-daughter Prudence Clap, the
same legacy he gave to her mother, to be paid at 18 or marriage.
Witnesses, David Gorham, Edward Bacon, Enoch Hallett.
111. .loseph Gorham married Dec. 8, 1737, Abigail LoveU.
He removed to Norwalk, Conn., where he died in 1760 of the
small pox, and his wife, and children probably born at Norwalk,
returned to Barnstable. His children were: 1, John*; 2,
Daniel ; 3, Joseph, of whom I have no information ; 4, AbigaU,
* John Gorham was a mariner and is described as being 6 feet 6 inches in height, and of
sandy complexion. . After the death of his father he lived with his grandfather in Barnsta
ble, He iai-i-ied April 28, 1771, Thankful Butler of Falmouth, and after residing rnany
years in that town, removed to Nantucket, where he died 23d July, 1801, His widoiv
Thankftil died 18th June, 1840, aged 90 years and 85 days. He was a soldier m the war of
the llevolution, and under the act of Congress, of July 4, K36, his mdow was entitled to a
pension of $46.66 per annum from March 4, 1831; but she dymg m 1840, the pension was
obtamed by her only surviving child, William Gorham,

440 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
who mrrried Nov. 30, 1770, Daniel Smith, Jr., of Nantucket; 5,
Deborah, who married Jan. 16, 1772, Peleg Bunker of Nantucket,
and died 25th Sept. following ; 6, Susannah, who married James
Perry, Jr., and resided many years in the State of Maine. She
died in the Alms House, Nantucket.
112. Benjamin Gorham, called "Old Fiddler" to distinguish
him from the others of the same name, resided in the Ebenezer
Hinckley house, next east of Gov, Hinckley's new house, which
his father probably bought for him. He married Sept, 3, 1741,
Mary Sturgis, of Yarmouth, May 8, 1722, His children were:
1, Sturgis, born June 28, 1742; 2, Deborah, July 6, 1744, died
in infancy; 3, Benjamin, March 26, 1746; 4, Mary, Oct. 8,
1748, married 1st Capt. John Russell, lost with Capt, Ma
gee, 2d, Otis Loring, and died March 11, 1811; 5, Mehitable,
Nov, 28, 1756, married Daniel HaU Oct, 31, 1776, also lost with
Capt, Magee, She died Sept. 22, 1784 ; 6, Olive, March 12,
1759, married Melatiah Bourne, Jr., of Boston, Sept, 24, 1778,
(see Bourne) ; 7, Edward, Feb. 15, 1762,
Sturgis Gorham, Esq., son of Benjamin, was a successful
business man. He was a merchant, engaged in the fisheries, aud
iu the coasting and West India trade. In the Revolution he was
a whig, and was on many committees, and did much good service
iu the cause. He built a large and elegant mausion house oppo
site his grandfather's, on the west side of Coggins' Pond. This
house has been cut up and shorn of its fair proportions, and the
builder, if now living, would not recognize it, * He married
Sept. 13, 1763, Phebe Taylor, who died Nov. 7, 1775, aged 31,
and July 12, 1778, to her sister Desire Taylor, who died Dec. 15,
1786, aged 30. His children were: 1, Nancy, born Sept. 4,
1765, died in infancy ; 2, Nancy, 4th Sept. 1767, died unmarried
Dec. 27, 1791 ; 3, Debby, 12th May, 1769, married Oct. 2, 1786,
James S. Lovell, of Boston; 4, Mary Sturgis, 26th July 1772,
married May 3, 1795, John Palfrey, Jr., Esq., of Boston, father
of the Hon, John Gorham Palfrey of Boston ; 6, Edward S.,
25th March 1774, died in infancy; 6, WiUiam Taylor, 17th Oct.
1775, died May 5, 1790; 7, Ed-ward S,, 29th Nov. 1779, died in
infancy ; 8, Phebe. T., 30th Sept, 1781 ; 9, Edward S,, 31st Oct.
1784, died in infancy; 10, Charlotte, 22d June, 1786, married
1813, Thomas L. Harman, of New Orleans. She died in Bath,
Eng,, in 1821, leaving three children : Thomas L,, Francis S.,
and Charlotte. Sturgis Gorham, Esq., died April 26 1795, aged 52 years.
In his will he gives one-half of the profit of his wind mill to his
sister Olive tUl her son Sylvanus is 21, He gives legacies to his
grandsons James and Joseph Lovell, and the remainder of his es-
* The late Mr. Jabez Hinckley said that for building the front staii-way, Mr. Gorham
paid him for seventy-five days work. Every part of the honse and its surroundings were
finished with the same care.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 441
tate equally to his daughters Charlotte and "PoUy," (Marv Stnr
gis) May 5 1795, John Palfrey, Esq., of Boston, was ap-
P^'"*^^,,^"'^'"^'^'^ °{ Charlotte. His estate was settied April 13,
1802 ; after paying debts and legacies the balance was £683,13 10
His real estate was sold to Elijah Smith, ol Chatham for £900.
Sturgis Gorham, Esq., for many years was the business man
of Barnstable. On his shoulders the mantie of his grandfather
fell. He did much to develop the business, and advance the pros
perity of his native town. He exerted a wide influence, but it is
perhaps doubtful whether that influence was always salutary
He was a slaveholder, as many at that time were ; and if common
report is reliable the poor slave rarely had a harder master.
Benjamin Gorham, son of Benjamin, (caUed Young Fid
dler) resided in the house that formerly stood where Capt. John
T. HaU's now stands. He had not the business capacity of his
brothers; but was a man of wit and a, boon companion. The
foUowing story is told of him, and illustrates his general charac
ter : When a boy he had a dog that was very troublesome, and
annoyed his mother very much. One day he went home and with-
a serious air said, "Mother, I have sold my dog." "I am very
glad, Benjamin, she was so troublesome — how much did you ge"t
for her?" "$500." "Did you, Benjamin !" "Yes, mother, I
did, most certainly." "What did you get your pay in, Benja
min ?"_ "Aye, that's it,— in bitch pups, at $50 apiece." This
story is the origin of the common saying, applied to a man who
makes a bad batter trade : "He got his pay in bitch pups." He
married first, Mehitable, daughter of Capt. Wm. Davis. She
died Dec. 1788, and he married 2d, Deborah, widow of Mr. .lo
siah Crocker, by whom he had, before marriage, one illegitimate
daughter AbigaU, who married Capt. Henry Bacon Aug. 4, 1803.
Capt. Bacon had an only daughter Eloisa, who died single in
1835. Edward Gorham, § son of Benjamin, married Jan. 6, 1785,
Abigail, daughter of Capt. William Taylor, and resided in the
easterly part of the town, on the estate which was the property of
his father-in-law. His wife died Sept. 19, 1820, and he died
Sept. 9, 1822, aged 60. His children were: 1, John Taylor,
born Jan. 7, 1786; 2, Hitty, Jan. 4, 1788, married AprU 29,
1804, Dr. Ansel Davis; 3, Lucy, Sept. 27, 1789, married Sept.
29, 1808, R. D. Shepherd, of New Orleans || ; 4, Caroline, Aug.
26, 1791, now living unmarried ; 5, Desire i'., Aug. 27, 1793,
married Capt. Daniel C. Bacon; 6, WUliam Taylor, Sept. 19,
§ On one occasion he reproached David Loring for his drunkenness and improvidence.
Loring replied — I admit sir, I have not Bacon provided for my dinner; neither have I a
'Shephard to watch over me by night.
II 5e paid Mr. Waterman twenty dollars for performing the marriage services— the
largest fee named in the record. Mr. Chas. De Wolfe, of Bristol, K. I., wno married, Oct.
24, 1801, Mrs. Nabby Green, paid a doubloon ($16) the next highest fee.

442 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
1795 ; 7, Nabby Thacher, June 8, 1798, married Henry H. AUen ;
8, Benjamin, Feb. 6, 1800, a graduate of the mUitary academy at
West Point, died unmarried ; 9, Mary Sturgis, now living, mar
ried Thomas Gray, of Boston.
118. Nathaniel Gorham, son of John, was unlike any of the
family — he was eccentric in his habits, and in his manners, and
strenulously opposed any innovations of the customs of the
fathers. He drove his team with a long pole, because the flrst
settlers did so ; and for the same reason, he would never have a
tip-up-cart. In dress, he not only adhered to the fashions of his
ancestors ; but, in some particulars was an oddity. He wore his
shirt with the open part behind, and fastened at the back of the
neck with a loop and a nail. He lived on a very simple diet.
Salt meat broth, bread and milk, hasty pudding, and samp, were
his favorite dishes morning, noon, and night. He had a natural
aversion to spirituous liquors, and never drank any during his life.
If his sons had inherited that antipathy, they would have been
better men.
During the Revolution he manufactured salt at Sandy Neck
by boiling sea-water, a slow and toilsome process ; but not irk
some to him, because the first settlers, whom he venerated, had
been engaged in the same business. For several successive days
during the winter of 1780-1, Tf he drove a four ox sled, loaded
with wood, on the ice across the harbor, from Sandy Neck to
Calves Pasture Point. Since that date the harbor has been frozen,
so that persons crossed on the ice, but at no time since sufficiently
to bear a team.
Notwithstanding his oddities, he was industrious, honest, and
prudent, an obliging neighbor, and a good citizen. He married
Oct, 30, 1751, Anna, daughter of George Lewis, and had 1,
Lewis, llth Nov. 1763, and 2, George Lewis, 3d Oct. 1763. His
children were: 1, Anner, born 29th March, 1775, married Thos.
Harris of Boston, July 12, 1798 ; 2, David, 6th Aug. 1778, mar
ried Hannah Nye; 3, John, 16th July, 1781, married Ist, Martha
Cobb AprU 12^ 1804, 2d, Lucy Cobb May 30, 1813 ; 4, Henry,
8th Aug. 1785, married Polly Hoxie; 5, Sarah, 12th May, 1793,
married Barnabas Hinckley.
Lewis Gorham* resided in the mansion-house of his father
and grandfather, at Coggins' Pond. He was a blacksmith by
trade, and for many years was a deputy sheriff. He married
April 14, 1774, Sarah, daughter of David Phinney. She died
Feb. 10, 1851, aged 97 years, 1 month, 6 days, and at her death
had living 5 chUdren, 30 grand-children, 64 great grand-chUdren,
and 4 great great grand-children.
H This is the tradition and it is probably accurate, for the winter of 1780 is represented
,as the coldest k^o^vn.
?During the llevolution he took an active part in local proceedings in Barnstable, and
from him I obtained some information not acceptable to Mr. Freeman.

OEKEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 443
George Lewis Gorham resided in the house which his father
purchased of Capt. WiUiam Davis. He married March 25, 1784,
Phebe, daughter of Joseph Davis, and for his second wife her sis
ter Mary, then only 16. After the death of Mr. Gorham she
married Dea. Joseph Hawes of Yarmouth, whom she survived.
His children were: 1, Phebe, born Feb. 8, 1785, married James
Childs; 2, Nathaniel, Oct. 9, 1789, married Hannah Gorham
AprU 11, 1813 ; 3, beborah, March 19, 1792 ; 4, Anna L. AprU
21, 1795, married Nymphas Davis Aug. 7, 1814; 5, Benjamin
Davis, July 29, 1798; 6, Mary Davis, Dec. 1, 1808, married N.
S. Hallett. 0/
(31-8.) Job Gorham, son of Lieut. John, born Aug. 30,
1692, married Dec. 4, 1719, Desire, daughter of Thomas Dim
mock. She died Jan. 28, 1732-3, and he married 2d, in 1735,
Bethia, widow of Isaac Freeman of Fairfield, Conn. She was a
Sturgis, born in Yarmouth. Capt. Job Gorham died in 1762, and
his widow Bethia July 11, 1769, aged 73.
Children horn in Barnstable :
124. I. Temperance, 23d July, 1721.
125. II. Thomas, 13th Aug. 1723.
126. III. Edward, 12th Sept. 1725, died young.
127. IV. Desire, 17th March, 1727-8,
128. V. Job, 6th Nov. 1730, died young.
129. VI. Sarah, baptized 15th Aug. 1736, died young.
The will of Job Gorham of Barnstable, gentleman, is dated
12th Sept. 1753, and proved Nov. 2, 1762. He names his wife
Bethia Gorham, daughters Temperance FuUer and Desire Gor
ham, to whom he gives legacies. All the remainder of his estate
he gives to his son Thomas, whom he appoints his executor.
124. Temperance Gorham married Oct. 29, 1741, her cousin
John FuUer, a great grandson of Capt. Matthew FuUer.
125. Thomas Gorham, during the latter part of his life
was Wind. He was a man of sound judgment, and of industri
ous habits. After he became blind, he performed many kinds of
labor which others in his situation would not have attempted.
Timothy Swinerton, the ancestor of the family of that name,
Uved with him when a boy. Mr. Gorham, instead of having the
boy to lead him, put the boy on his horse, and taking the crupper
in his hand walked behind the horse. When walking alone, he
kept his cane in constant motion before him.
He married 1st, Hannah Gorham, daughter of Ebenezer,
Mav 16, 1754. She died AprU 5, 1765, and he married 2d,
Widow Rebecca Jones of Yarmouth, in 1765. She united with
the East Church Sept. 6, 1767, and on the 13th of that month,
Edward, Lucy and Sarah, children by her flrst husband, and Mary
by her last, were baptized. His children were : 1, Job, born 12th
Dee. 1754, who married Sept. 2, 1786, Rebecca Davis. He was a

444 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
sea captain, inherited the ancient Gorham homestead, and was
lost at sea Feb. 1804, while on a voyage to Copenhagen, in a
vessel belonging to Stephen Gorham. He has children surviving.
2, Isaac, 29th Ap. 1766, died in New Jersey Prison Ship ; 3, De
sire, 16th Oct. 1757, married 1st,  Richmond, 2d, 
HUl ; 4, Ezekiel, 3d Dec. 1758, removed to So. Carolina, was a
sea captain lost at sea, and left no issue ; 5, John, 7th March,
1760, was a sea captain, lost at sea and left no issue; 6, EUza
beth, 10th June, 1761, married  Tenter; 7, Hannah, bap
tized 28th June, 1763, married  Burr; 8, Temperance,
baptized 17th Feb. 1765, married  Johnson ; 9, Mary, llth
Sept. 1766, married Elijah ChUds, father of the late Dea. Samuel
Childs, May 10. 1785. Mr. Thomas Gorham, in his will dated
July 28, 1795, gives to his wife Rebecca, who was a woman of a
weak intellect, a dower in his estate, (a gift he could not avoid)
to his oldest son Job all his estate excepting dower, and 20 shill
ings to each of his other children. He names his youngest son
John, daughters Desire Richmond, Elizabeth Tenter, Hannah
Burr, Temperance Johnson, and youngest daughter Mary.
[By an oversight I omitted several families resident in Yar
mouth. This article is too long to make additions.]
Note. — While the Gorham genealogy was going through the
press additional information of some of the later branches of the
family was forwarded by a descendant in Gloucester. Col. John
Gorham (102,) died of small-pox, in London, about the year
1750, while prosecuting his claim for expenses in the Louisburg
Expedition. His son Solomon died in Gloucester, Dec. 20, 1795,
aged 47. His daughter EUzabeth married Daniel Rogers of Glou
cester (not of Kittery, Me.,) and Eben. Parsons, who married
her sister Mary, was also some time of Gloucester. His widow,
Elizabeth (.411yn) married second Col. John Stevens of Glouces
ter, in 1776, and died Dec. 25, 1786, in her 73d year. Her
grave-stone bears this inscription :
"She supported thro* Life the Christian Character and moved in the Various Circles of
Domestic Life with Honor and Dignity. The Affectionate Wife,
The Tender Mother,
The Exemplary Widow,
The Pious Fi-iend."

GREEN,

In 1653 a Mr. Groom owned land adjoining Dea. Cooper's
houselot. There was a Mr. John Groom in Plymouth from 1638
to 1650, when he disappears at Plymouth and appears in Barnsta
ble. Dr. Shurtleff seems to favor the notion that John Gorham
and John Groom were the same person. Land for a houselot was
granted to John Groom in 1638. John Gorham was then only 17,
and it is not probable that he was the person intended. Mr. Sav
age mentions Nicholas, Henry and Samuel Groom ; but not John
of Plymouth. I have thought the name on the Barnstable rec
ords was Green, and therefore refer to it in this connection.
There was an Isaac Green, a surveyor, afterwards of Falmouth,
who probably resided some little time in Barnstable.
James Green, who died in Barnstable in 1731, aged about 90,
was a son of James of Charlestown. He married Nov. 19, 1661,
Rebecca Jones of Dorchester, and had,
I. Elizabeth, Nov. 14, 1662, married 1691, John Lothrop, of
Barnstable, 2d, Thomas Crocker, 23d Dec. 1701. She was
four years older than her flrst, and twelve older than her last
husband. She died in Hingham Aug. 1, 1752, aged 89.

446 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
II. James, Dec. 15, 1665. In 1688 and 9, master of the ship
Success, of Boston.
III. Thomas, Jan. 2, 1666. He owned a house in Barnstable
which he sold to John Goodspeed before the year 1721.
IV. Richard, AprU 7, 1669.
V. John, Feb. 24, iwi.
VI. Esther, Sept. 27, 1675, married  Frothingham.
VII. Samuel, July 20, 1680; Itisdau. Hannah was b. i^ma-r>. nib-
WUliam Green, a descendant of James, married March 25,
-1709, Desire, daughter of John Bacon, Esq. She died Dec, 29,
1730, aged 41, and he married 2d, Sept. 1, 1731, Mary Fuller.
He died .Ian. 28, 1756, aged above 70, (Church Records) aud his
widow Oct. 23, 1756.
He resided in a high single house on the lot next west of Na
thaniel Bacon's, given to him by his father-in-law, (see Bacon)
and afterwards owned by Lot Thacher.
His children horn in Barnstable were :
H, Warren, born June 9, 1712; mar. Ml area Painfc.
HE. Desire, Oct. 24, 1718. •'
ISr. WUliam, July 17, 1721.
SV. Sarah, Dec. 27, 1723.
Vl, Mary, baptized Sept. 5, 1725.
VIL John, born AprU 12, 1726.
VlH.James, Sept. 17, 1728.
William married Mary Conant Oct. 1745. James married
Feb. 14, 1766, Ruth Marshal of Freetown, and removed to East
Haddam. He had five chUdren, — was a blacksmith, and a Cap
tain in the French War. Isaac Green, I think, belonged to this
family. He removed to Falmouth, married Ist, Sarah, 2d, Ju
dith, and died Jan. 1, 1739-40. He had by his flrst wife Sarah,
Jonathan, EUzabeth, Sarah and Martha, after 1700, and by his
2d wife, Lemuel, April 29, 1719, and a daughter AbigaU born
Jan. 21, 1722. This name is sometimes written Groon.
Rev. Joseph Green, of Barnstable, belonged to another fam
ily. To him I am much indebted for the careful manner in which
he kept the church records. He resided in the parsonage near the
Meeting House in the East Parish. He married Nov. 18, 1725,
Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Jonathan RusseU, and had :
I. Joseph, born 12th Sept. 1727.
II. Martha, 17th Nov. 1730.
III. Hannah, 6th June, 1745.
Mr. Green died Oct. 4, 1770, and is buried in the Old Bury-

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 447
ing Ground on Lothrop's HiU. On his tombstone the followins
epitaph is engraved : °
"Here lieth
The Body of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Green
The worthy pastor of this church
As a Gentleman a Friend a Christian and a
Minister
His character was greatly distinguished
His natural abilities were conspicuous
And much improved by study and application
In human and sacred Literature he greatly ex
celled
His principles were evangelical and canUid
In prayer and preaching
His Gilts were generally and justly admired
Temperance Purity Prudence Benevolence Ees-
ignation
Devotion and exemplary Diligence in his Mas
ter's Service adorned his character
His mind was sedate his Temper placid
His Aftections and Passions regulated by Rea
son and Religion
His manners courteous generous and Hospitable
His conversation entertaining instructive and
serious
A dutiful Son an affectionate Husband and a
tender Parent
A sincere Frieud and a faithful Minister
Greatly and to the last beloved and honored by
his People Born June 21 O S 1701
Graduated at Harvard College 1720
Ordained May 12 O S 1725
Departed this life in assured hope of a better
Oct 4 N S 1770 in the 70th year of his age
And 46th of his Ministry
Think what the Christian Preacher Friend
should be
You've then his character, for such was he."
Notwithstanding this fuUsome panegyric which some unwise
friend caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Mr. Green was an
excellent man in all the relations of life. He was a moderate
Calvinist, and his ministry, an account of which will hereafter be
given, was most successful. As his tombstone says, he was "be
loved and honored by his people."
TUl recently it had always been the custom of the parishion
ers to cut and draw the wood, and prepare the same for the minis
ter's fire on the week following the annual Thanksgiving. After
his death, in 1770, the people turned out as usual. Mr. Green
had always given them flip and prepared for them a good dinner,
and they expected the custom would be continued. When the
teamsters had unloaded they expected to be invited in ; but no
one came to the door. After waiting some time, Abner, negro
slave of Col. David Gorham, was sent into the house. Abner,

448 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
went into the kitchen, found no preparations were making for a
dinner, and that there was no flip on the side-table. He came
out, and raising his hands over his head, said in a solemn sing
song tone : Mister — Green — is — dead.
Joseph, son of Rev. Joseph Green, of Barnstable, was a
graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1 746, and of Yale
College in 1752. He- was settled in the ministry at Marshfield in
1753, From that town he removed to Yarmouth, and Sept. 16,
1762, was ordained pa.stor of the West Church. He died Nov. 5,
1768 aged 41 years.
He married Hannah Lewis, daughter of Rev. Isaiah of West-
field, and had Isaiah L. Green born in Barnstable Dec. 28, 1761,
Harvard CoUege 1781, and a distinguished man. Was a member
of Congress 1805-9 and 1811-13, collector of customs, &c., and
died in 1841, leaving a large family. 2, Abigail, who married
Oct. 24, 1802, Capt. Charles De Wolf, of Bristol, R. I.
Martha Green died unmarried Jan. 1791, in the 61st year of
her age. Hannah, his third child, died in infancy.
Madam Hannah Green, wife of Rev. Joseph Green, Sen.,
died June 6, 1745, on the day of the birth of her daughter Han
nah. John Green of Barnstable belonged to another family. I
have heard it said that he came from French Guiana. His house
is yet standing, and is the second east of the Court House. He
married in 1763 Elizabeth, widow of Shubael Baxter of Yar
mouth, and had John and Elizabeth baptized in 1768, James in
1771, and Sarah in 1775. She died March 27, 1782, aged 45.
Her son Shubael by her first husband, born June 14, 1758. John
Green was not popular with the boys, and they troubled him in
his old age. Some curious stories are told of his adventures, but
they are hardly worth preserving.

GARRETT.

Dea. Richard Garrett was the first Tovrn Clerk of Scituate.
He married Lydia, daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, and had
Joseph 1648, John 1661, Mary 1655, Richard 1659. Richard
married 1695 Persis, daughter of Capt. Michael Pierce, and had
Ann, Deborah, and John born 1706. * His second wife was
Martha Tobey of Sandwich, whom he married 10th Sept. 1712.
Andrew Garrett of Sandwich, probably a son of Richard, Jr.,
married Dec. 20, 1753, Temperance Parkei iud April 17, 1760,
Lucy Davis. He removed to Barnstable, und owned the estate
and wharf afterwards owned by Dea Joseph Chipman. His chil
dren were: Andrew, born Feb. 25, 1755, who married, was a
Lieutenant in the continental army, was taken prisoner by the In
dians, with whom he resided four years, adopted their habits, and
it is said took one to wife. On his return his wife, a Salem
woman, believing him dead, had married and had a child. " They
agreed to part, and he married Miss Blish, and afterwards resided
at Annable's Pond. 2, Jesse, born Feb. 20, 1761, was lost with
Capt. Magee Dec. 27, 1778 ; 3, Isaac, born May 17, 1763 ; 4,
Temperance, Aug. 19, 1765 ; 5, Susannah, Oct. 7, 1768. A
widow Susannah Garrett died in Barnstable July 7, 1789, perhaps
ajthird wife of Andrew, Senior.
* Deane,

JOHN HALL.

The precise date when John Hall came to Barnstable, 'I can
not ascertain. I find no evidence that he came before 1641. As
he removed to Yarmouth before the records of each man's land
was made, the exact location of his houselot and of his other
lands, I am unable to give. All that I can say certainly is, that
his house was in the vicinity of the new Court House, that he
owned a small tract of land near Cooper's Pond, and that his
great lot of forty acres was at the Indian Ponds, I presume that
he bought the hoUse and lands ol Gen. .lames Cudworth, and on
his removal to Yarmouth he sold to James Naylor, who sold July
21, 1656, to Thomas Lothrop. If I am right, his eight acre
houselot was bounded north by the present County road, west by
Freeman Hinckley's Lane, south by the commons, and east by
Isaac Wells, the boundary line being not far from the present
street - called Railroad Avenue. Anciently there was a highway,
commencing at the County road between Eldridge's Hotel and the
Savings Bank building, and running north to the landing, on the
north of Potter's neck, as the land in that vicinity was called.
He owned four acres of land and meadow on the east side of that
ancient highway, and twenty-six of land on the west, and three
acres of meadow on the north. (See Maybor.) These twenty-
six acres embraced certainly two of the original allotments, prob
ably those of Mr. Cudworth and of Henry Rowley.
About the year 1651 he removed to Yarmouth, and his farm
containing 147 acres, in Conny * Furlong at Nobscusset, is de
scribed on the records. It is a short distance north-easterly from
the meeting houses at North Dennis, and a part of it yet owned
by his descendants. He also owned 15 acres of upland on the
west of Coy's Pond, and 12 acres of meadow in that vicinity, and
rights of commonage.
John Hall, Sen., was not distinguished in public Ufe. In

* The lands in Yarmouth first laid out were divided into fiirlongs, eacli of which was
known by a particular name. Snakes, Rabbits Euin, Lone Tree and others, are named.
The name of Mr. Hall's I cannot make out clearly, it is Conies, Canny, or Cunningham,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 451
1647 he was constable of the town of "Bastable," as the name of
the town was sometimes . written by the early inhabitants. He
was surveyor of highways in Yarmouth in 1653, and on the grand
inquest in 1657 and 1664. As a private citizen, he was eminent
ly distinguished for his moral worth and rehgious chai-acter.f A
more honest and upright man in all his dealings, it would be diffi
cult to find. He died in 1696, at a very advanced age, and was
probably buried in the Hall burying ground in Dennis. In his
will dated July 15, 1694, he names his son Samuel, whom he calls
eldest, John, Joseph, WilUam, Benjamin and Elisha, who it ap
pears were then Uving in Yarmouth, and his sons Nathaniel and
Gershom. His will was proved Aug, 29, 1696.
The tradition in the family is that he came from Wales ; but
nothing is certainly known on the subject; neither is it known
whether he married before or after he came over. I infer from
Richard Henchman's letter, that his nine sons were the children of
one wife. J As these names have already been given, it is un
necessary to repeat them.
(1-2.) Samuel Hall, his oldest son, was bound as an ap
prentice to Francis Baker, blacksmith ; but he was not treated
weU by his master, and in 1655, by the order of the Court, his
indentures were made void, his father paying £8. He afterward
learned the trade of a cooper. He married Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas FoUand ol Yarmouth. He died in 1696, leaving no
issue. In his will dated Oct. 7, 1693, he names his wife EUza
beth, and aU his brothers. His widow married AprU 27, 1699,
Jeremiah Jones, and she died in 1711.
(2-1.) Dea. John HaU, son of John, Sen,, resided on a
farm at Hocanom, in Yarmouth. I find no record of his mar
riage, but presume * he married PrisciUa, daughter of Austin
Bearse of Barnstable. He was a deacon of the Yarmouth church,
and died Oct. 24, 1710, aged 73 years. He was buried in the old
graveyard in Yarmouth, where he has a monument erected to his
memory. If he was 73 at his death in 1710, he was born in 1637,
as above stated. His widow died March 30, 1712, aged 68
years. Children of Dea. John HaU, and PrisciUa Bearse, born in
Yarmouth :
10. I. John born 4 (gone.)
Tsee Letter of Richard Henchman Feb. 1687, published in Tai-mouth Register,
""mrhans the John Hall named by Mr, Frothingham as of Charlestoivn in 1632, and who
wIsNo 19 on the records of the 1st church in Boston, was the Barnstable man. If so, his
TflBethiaTud sons John and Sheban, did not die as stated by Mr. Savage.
~1 find no record of this marriage; but nevertheless presume it to be the fact. Her
ase corresponds wHh that of PrisciUl, daughter of Austin Bearse, and she names all her
cfudrcn FiceptiS the first and last, after her brothers and sisters. Mr Freeman copies
f^ wfaoSrcreS his account of the Bearse family, nearly all of which is a transcript ot
my article, which he has appropriated to himself, p ^T,

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Joseph, 29th Sept. 1663.
daughter, middle Nov. 1668.
Priscilla, Feb. 1671.
Hestar, April 1672.
Mary, Ist March, 1673.
Martha, 24th Mav, 1676.
. Nathaniel, 16th Sept. 1678.
10. John HaU, 3d, married AprU 30, 1694, Margaret^
daughter of John MUler of Yarmouth. He died March 21,
1734-5, in the 70th year of his age. This gives the year of his
birth 1666, showing that he was younger than Joseph. His wife
died Jan. 13, 1723-4, in the 56th year of her age. His children
born in Yarmouth were: 1, Mehetable, 17th March, 1694-5, mar
ried Shubael Tavlor Sept. 6, 1716, and died young; 2, Sarah,
18th March, 1696-7, died March* 28, 1732 ; 3, Margaret, 13th
Sept. 1699 ; twins 7th March, 1701-2, both died young ; 4, Pris
cilla, 13th May, 1704; 5, Bethia, 24th July, 1706, died Oct. 6,
1744; 6, John, 24th Aug. 1708, died March 1, 1745; 7, Isaac,
23d Aug. 1712, died Oct. 2, 1736.
11. Dea. Joseph Hall grandson of John, and was a man of
note in his day. He. married Feb. 12, 1689-90, Hannah, daugh
ter of John MUler. She died Aug. 23, 1710, and he married 2d,
Widow Mary, relict of John Morton, and a daughter of Joseph
Faunce of Plymouth, born June 2, 1681. She died in Yarmouth
May 31, 1761, in the 80th year of her age. Dea. Joseph died
Jan. 29, 1736-7, in the 73d year of his age. His children born
in Yarmouth were: 1, Hannah, 20th Feb. 1690-1; 2, Priscilla,
28th March, 1693, married Sept. 1719, Benjamin Crocker; 3,
Margery, 24th Feb, 1694-6 ; 4, Joseph, 6th Aug, 1697, married
and had a famUy of 12, several of whom were distinguished ; 6,
Daniel, 18th July 1699, married Lydia Gray of Harwich May 18,
1721, the first couple published in Yarmouth under the then new
law ; he afterwards married two other wives, and was a deacon
and man of note. His youngest son, Samuel, removed to Ash
field, 1777. Dea. Daniel had 16 children recorded, and 4 not re
corded, two of whom were named David and EUzabeth ; 6, Jo
siah, 12th Aug. 1701, married Rebecca Howes Oct. 15, 1730; 7,
David, 6th Aug. 1704, Harvard College 1724, ordained at Sutton,
Mass., 1729, a friend of that distinguished divine. Dr. Jonathan
Edwards. He married, had twelve children, and died May 8,
1789, aged 86, and in the sixtieth year of his ministry. 8, Mary,
30th March, 1712, married Elkanah Howes, 1734; 9, Peter, 19th
May, 1716, married AbigaU Sears Dec, 21, 1738 ; 10, John, 3d
Jan. 1716-17; 11, Barshua, 6th July, 1719.
Joseph Hall, son of Dea. Joseph of Yarmouth, married Re
becca. He died 1771-2, aged 74, and his widow died March 10,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 453
1791, age^ 91 Children born in Yarmouth: 1, Hannah, 10th
Sept. 1/21, died young; 2, Joseph, 7th June, 1723, married Zip-
pera Young ; 3, Edward, 22d Jan. 1725, died AprU 20, 1765 ; 4
Hannah, 18th Dec. 1726, married Nathaniel Bassett; 5, Rebecca
16th Jan. 1/31, married James Howland ; 6, Nathaniel, 6th Jan.
1/33; 7, Stephen, 9th Jan. 1736, married Mary Freeman- 8
Betty, 16th May, 1738, married Prince Sears; 9, Nathaniel, 'ist
June, 1740, married Mehetable Howes; 10, Barnabas, 20th AprU
1742, married Mary Crocker; 11, PrisciUa, 24th July, 1744, mar
ried Jeremiah Howes ; 12, Daniel.
(1-3). Dea Joseph HaU, son of John, Sen., was an early
settier in Mansfield, Conn. He was Town Clerk, and a promi
nent man. He died in Yarmouth May 31, 1736, aged 73 years,
probably while on a voyage to his native town. He left no issue.
His widow Mary died in Mansfield Feb. 3, 1717-18.* (Manu
script letter of Wm. S. Weaver, Esq.)
(1-5). Capt. Nathaniel HaU was, if we except Joseph, the
most distinguished of the sons of John HaU, Sen. Richard
Henchman, the school-master of Yarmouth, in a letter to Dr. In
crease Mathew, dated Yarmouth, Feb. 1686-7, says : "There is in
this town one Mr. Nathaniel Hall, a man descended of eminently
religious parents ; who were very happy in aU their chUdren,
being nine sons, men whom this Nathaniel is reckoned to excel,
who in the late wars received a wound (the bullet remaining in his
body) that has taken away, in a great measure, the use of one of
his arms " &c. Capt. Hall was a corporal, in the first expedi
tion, in 1675, under Capt. John Gorham ; a sargeant in the sec
ond, in 1676, in which expedition it is probable he received the
wound for which he claimed and received a pension. The earUest
record I flnd is dated July 7, 1681, when the Court allowed him
£15 and all fines imposed on persons in Yarmouth, who were con
victed of selling spirituous liquors. There had evidently been
some previous action, for June 9, 1683, £8 was allowed him for
his continued lameness, and it is stated in the record June 5,
1684, that $40 had been paid to him in money and a license
granted to him to keep an ordinary, and all the fines imposed on
parties in Yarmouth who should sell drink contrary to law. In
final settlement of his claim, an annual pension of flve pounds
per annum for life, was offered him, which he accepted June 2,
1685. Being unable to attend to any business that required physical
*Mr, Savage blesses Dea, Joseph, Sen,, with a family. He did not follow my manu
script, yet I think I am right. Our Probate Records say he had no children at the time of
his death. The Tarmouth records are silent on the subject. So are the Mansfield, of
which town he was the Clerk, and he would probably have recorded the births of his own
children if he had any, Mr, Weaver, who has carefully examined the records, writes to me
.^at "he probably had no descendants," Mr, Savage confounds the two Dea. Joseph
H^lls. It is very curious if both should have had children of the same names and bom on
the same days.

454 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAIINSTABLE FAMILIES.
strength, he devoted his leisure time to the study of surgery and
medicine, in which, aided by his father-in-law. Rev. Mr. Thorn
ton, who was a physician as well as a minister, he acquired much
skill and performed several diflBcult surgical operations with suc
cess. In 1687 he had, in a great measure, recovered from the
effects of his wound, and proposed to remove to Boston and es
tablish himself in that town as a physician. To accomplish this
was the object ol Mr. Henchman's letter. He removed to Hing
ham, where he practiced medicine several years, and from thence
to Lewes, Sussex County, Penn.
In 1689, it appears by Church's history, that he again was a
soldier in the French and Indian wars of that period. He was a
Captain and fought with great bravery under Major Church in the
defence of Falmouth, now Portland, Sept. 21, 1689. Mather in
his Magnalia, and he certainly knew, states that the Capt, Na
thaniel Hall who fought so bravely at Falmouth, was the same
man who had served as an ofllcer in King Phillip's war.
The history of his keeping an ordinary or tavern, in Yar
mouth, presents many curious points. The Court conferred on
him the sole right of keeping an ordinary in Yarmouth, then in
cluding the present town of Dennis, and forbid all others from
selling wines or spirituous liquors without license, and constituted
him an agent to prosecute all offenders, and gave him the fines
collected. He had absolnte power conferred on him, and the
grant was to continue during his natural life. Excepting at his
house no traveler could procure lodging. The consequence was,
his house was thronged with customers and was the resort of the
intemperate and the lascivious. In two years he became dissatis
fied, and his wife who was a very pious woman, was utterly dis
gusted with the business of keeping an ordinary. He sought
other employment, and sold out to Jasper Taylor Sept. 17, 1690,
"the liberty and privilege of keeping a house of public entertain
ment in said Yarmouth, to retail all sorts of strong drink, with
out further license during the natural life of said Hall, with one-
half of all the fines taken of any English person for retailing
strong drink without license in said Yarmouth." In the enjoy
ment of the privileges conveyed, Taylor avers that Hall covenant
ed to save him harmless. The papers are full of legal quibbles,
and it is difficult to sift out the simple truth. The following are
some of the facts : Taylor was complained of for keeping an or
dinary without license, and was amerced in £4 fines. At the Octo
ber term of the Court of Common Pleas held in Barnstable on the
flrst Tuesday in October, 1703, Taylor sued Hall on his covenant
and obtained a judgment, and from this judgment Hall appealed
to the Suserior Court to be held in Plymouth. He did not deny
in his "Reasons of Appeal" that he had made such sale, but that
the covenant was void in law, and "no covenant." In law Mr.

GENEALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 455
HaU was probably right ; but he was nevertheless morally bound
to fulfil the conditions of his bargain. He would not be morally
bound to do an illegal or immoral act ; but he was bound in honor
to restore money that he had obtained by an illegal contract, and
the court rightly held that he was so responsible.
Mr. Nathaniel HaU married before 1675, Ann, daughter of
Rev. Thomas Thornton of Yarmouth. There is no record of his
chUdren in Yarmouth or Hingham. In reply to my inquiries, I
am informed that a family of the name settled early in Sussex,
but my correspondent was unable to ascertain whether the Halls
of that County were the descendants of Nathaniel.
(1-6.) Mr. Gersham HaU, son of John, Sen., was a promi
nent man. He resided some time in Chatham, from which town
he was a deputy to the Colony Court in 1791. He resided in Har
wich most of his life, and was a useful and influential man during
the early settlement of that town. He built the grist mill known
as HaU's Mill, and his residence was in that vicinity. He mar
ried flrst Bethia, daughter of Edward Bangs. She died Oct. 15,
1696, aged 54. For his second wife he married Dec. 7, 1696,
Martha BramhaU-of Hingham. She died July 2, 1733, aged 69
years. He died Oct. 31, 1732, aged 85 years, and was buried in
the Hall burying ground in Dennis, where he and his wives have
monuments. The record of his family is lost. His children
were: 1, Edward, who married twice, and died in Harwich Jan.
22, 1727, and his widow Sarah married Aug. 12, 1728, Mr.
Daniel Lege of Yarmouth. His children were : 1, Bethia, born
Dec. 31, 1709, married Andrew Clark, Jr., Aug. 20, 1729 ; 2,
Hannah, Feb. 1, 1711-12, marriedFeb. 22, 1728-9, Tully Crosby;
3, Mary, Oct. 15, 1714, married Nov. 28, 1734, Gershom HaU;
4, Edward, AprU 19, 1717, married, had a family, and died Feb.
1797, aged 80 years; 5, Sarah, AprU 27, 1720, died young; 6,
Patience, July 15, 1726.
2. Jonathan HaU, son of Gersham, had by wife Hannah,
Gersham, born Oct. 25, 1715, who married his cousin Mary.
3. Samuel HaU, son of Gersham, born 1669, married Pati
ence Rider Feb. 2, 1696-7. He died in Harwich Feb. 19, 1729-30,
and his widow married Thomas Clark, Esq.
4. Mercy HaU, daughter of Gersham, married John Chase.
5. Bethia Hall, daughter of Gersham, married Kenelen
Winslow. Capt. WiUiam Hall, son of John Senior, removed to Mans
field, Conn. He bought June 24, 1695, a thousand acre right of
land in Windham, now Mansfleld. He died June, 11, 1727, aged
76, and his wife Easter Feb. 19, 1727. His children were : 1,
Isaac, who married AprU 24, 1700, Sarah, daughter of John
Reed of Windham, and had ten children ; 2, James, who married
Mehitable Wood Oct. 15, 1716, and had ten children ; 3, William,

456 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
who married Hester  July 20, 1708, and had a family. He
probably had other children. Mr. Weaver writes that "there was
a TheophUus HaU who married Ruth Sargeant March 2, 1719-20,
but whether the son of Benjamin or WilUam I am not certain."
(1-8). Benjamin Hall, son of Jonn Senior, removed first to
Harwich and afterwards to Mansfield, Conn., when he purchased
land Sept. 15, 1708, and was then called of M. He married Feb.
7, 1677, Mehitabel Matthews of Yarmouth. He died in Mans
field Aug. 7, 1737, aged 93 years, and his widow Mehitabel Feb.
20, 1740-1, aged over 90. Little is certainly known respecting
his family. His children were probably all born in Harwich, and
the record is lost. He had a son Barnabas who married Mercy,
and had a family, the oldest born May 23, 1710 ; also a son She-
bar, who married Abigail and had a family, the oldest child born
June 13, 1711. Theophiius above named was perhaps his son.
(1-9) . Ehsha HaU, youngest son ol John, Senior, resided
in Yarmouth. He married Lydia, who died Feb. 23, 1723-4.
His children were: 1, Ebenezer, born Nov. 20, 1681, married
Mehitabel Eldredge Sept. 27, 1705; 2, Elisha, June 14, 1682,
married Mary Howes Sept. 1709 ; 3, Tabitha, Dec, 18, 1683,
married Wm, Cook March 18, 1707 ; 4, Judah, Jan, 18, 1685,
married Mehitabel; 5, Phebe, March 23,1689, married Jacob
Cobb April 3, 1716 ; 6, Job, Sept. 14, 1691 ; 7, Sylvanus, May
17, 1693. Elisha Hall, son of Elisha, and grandson of the first John,
married Mary Howes Sept. 1709, and had 1, EUsha, 26th Aug.
1710; 2, Mary, 27th July 1712 ; 3, Thankful, 31st Jan. 1715;
4, Joshua, 18th April 1717, he removed to Connecticut, thence to
Ploughed Neck, Sandwich, where he has descendants ; 6, Ste
phen, 16th July, 1719; 6, Bethia, 17th March, 1722; 7, Eliza
beth, 14th Dec. 1724 ; 8, Phebe, 20th Jan. 1630 ; 9, Lydia, 16th
Jan. 1733.
Judah HaU, son of Elisha, married Mehitabel, and had 1,
Judah, born in Plymouth 1st June, 1714 ; 2, Abner, born in Yar
mouth 21st Feb. 1719 ; 3, James, 23d Aug. 1719 ; 4, Giles, llth
July 1721; 5, Thomas, 26th AprU 1724; 6, Enoch, 27th Dec.
1725 ; 7, Sylvanus, 15th June, 1727.
(I have generally and that is my intention to trace the fami
lies one generation farther ; but the Halls can hardly be called a
Barnstable family, and as Mr. Weaver of Williamantie, and Mr.
Paine of Harwich, are interested, I resign the labor to them.)

HATHAWAY.

In early times this name was written as it is usually pro
nounced, Hadaway. Four of the name came over. Arthur, who
settled in Marshfield, and afterward removed to Dartmouth ;
John and Joseph of Taunton, and John of Barnstable.
John Hadaway of Barnstable, was born in the year 1617, as
appears by the Custom House record, and by his deposition dated
March 1, 1658-9. He came over in 1636, in the ship Blessing
from London. July 1, 1656, he married Hannah, daughter of
Mary Hallett, presumed to be the widow of the school-master,
Mr. Andrew HaUett, the elder. She died early, and he married
May 1, 1672, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Coleman of Yar
mouth. She was born in Boston 28th Feb. 1651-2, and was
thirty-five years younger than her husband.
About this time he removed to Yarmouth, not to Taunton as
stated by Mr. Savage, and built a house on a clearing in the
woods, about a quarter of a mile west of the spot where the
Town House in Yarmouth now stands, and known as Thompson's
fields, because a man of that name subsequently owned the lot.
The late Mr. Paul Rider afterwards owned the old Hadaway
house and estate. He was taxed in Yarmouth in 1675 and 1676,
showing that he removed as above stated. His rate was eight
pence in 1675, evidence that he was at that time a man of small
estate. His estate in Barnstable was equal to an average of the es
tates of the first settlers, yet it soon passed into the hands of
others. March 31, 1659, by a deed of gift, his mother-in-law
conveyed to him the land now owned by Major Phinney on the
north of the railroad, and the land where the Custom House now
stands, with the dwelUng-house thereon. Dec. 14, 1661, he
bought the house and lands of his brother-in-law, Josiah Hallett,
situate on the south of the railroad, for £10 sterling. In this
purchase was included three acres of meadow at Blushes point,
bounded north by the beach, east by the meadow of Abraham
Blush, and south and west by "Old MiU Creek." As rights of

458 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
commonage pertained to these lands and dwelling-houses, Hadda
way at that time was not a poor man.
John Hathaway of Taunton, was a very respectable man,
owned a large landed estate, and was often employed in the busi
ness of the Colony. Our John was a different man. During a
portion of his life he was intemperate in his habits, improvident,
and wasted his own and his wife's estate. He belonged to the
class of persons that I have described under the name of Caseley,
and to which I shall have occasion hereafter to refer.
He died in Yarmouth in the year 1697, aged 80 years. In
his wiU dated Aug. 3, 1689, proved Feb. 20, 1696-7, he names
his wife EUzabeth, and his sons Thomas, John, Gideon, and Ed
ward. He refers to daughters by a former wife, but does not
name them, and to two daughters by his wife EUzabeth. His
widow is named in the settlement of her brother Edward's estate
in 1714. At the division of the common lands in 1710, Thomas
is the only one of the name mentioned in Yarmouth, and there
were none at that time of the name in Barnstable.
The record of the births of the chUdren of John Hadaway .is
imperfect. On the Barnstable records four are named, namely :
I. John, born Oct. 1675, died same year.
II. John, Aug. 16, 1658.
III. Hannah, May 1662.
IV. Edward, 10th Feb. 1663-4.
Named in his will.
V. Thomas.
VI. Gideon.
He left Sarah, and probably two other daughters.
As this family is nearly extinct, I have not devoted much
time to tracing its genealogy. The ancestor was an eccentric
man, and many individuals among his descendants had their pecu
liarities. The children for several generations were brought up in
secluded spots, at a distance from neighbors, and this fact proba
bly had an influence on their characters.
John and Edward Hadaway, sons of John, died or removed
from Yarmouth before 1710. Gideon married Jan. 21, 1697, Pa
tience Beaumond of Dorchester, and perhaps removed to that
town. Of Hannah I find no account. A Sarah Hadaway, proba
bly a daughter of the flrst John, married Oct. 11, 1710, John
Page, of whose history I know nothing.
Thomas remained in Yarmouth till about the year 1715, when
he removed to Barnstable. He married Dec. 15, 1698, Sarah
Baker of Yarmouth. I flnd no record of his children by this
marriage. James, afterwards of Barnstable, and Hannah who
married Feb. 15, 1728, John Lothrop, were probably his children.
For his second wife he married May 19, 1714, Sarah Marchant of
Yarmouth, and removed to Barnstable, where he had :
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II. Sarah, June 24, 1718.
III. Temperance, May 23, 1720.
IV. Patience, Feb. 27, 1724-5.
V. Susannah, Sept. 3, 1726.
VI. Thomas, Dec. 3, 1730.
James Hadaway, probably son of Thomas by his flrst wife,
married Oct. 9, 1730, Bethia, daughter of Barnard Lumbard, and
had :
I. Lois, born 17th AprU 1732.
II. James, 13th Nov. 1733.
He died in 1733, leaving Widow Bethia and one smaU child.
At the time of his death he was in the whaUng business.
James, the second of the name, had a farm* at Rowley's
pond, afterwards called Lewis', and of late years Hadaway's
pond. His house, built perhaps by one of the Lewis family,
stood on the south side of the pond. He was a very odd man, a
flrm beUever in withcraft, and other strange fantasies. He Uved to
the ripe age of 95, a healthy old man, and to the last capable of
great physical endurance. He married Dec. 9, 1756, Mary Lum
bard, and had Benjamin, Lewis, John, and Hannah, whom I re
member — perhaps others. For his second wife he married Mary,
or Molly, as she was usually called, widow of EU Phinney, one of
the most efficient men in Barnstable during the Revolutionary
period. She was a daughter of Jabez Phinney, and was born 3d
Dec. 1735, and was perhaps one of the smallegt specimens of hu
manity. She was the mother of nine children by her first hus
band, six of whom were Uving at the time she married Hadaway.
She died Jan. 12, 1821, aged 86 years.
Of James' children John did not marry, and his father called
him his boy more than 60 years. Benjamin has descendants.
His house was destroyed by fire Feb. 1799. f His two sons were
sleeping in a chamber at the time, and could not be approached
by the stairway which was in flames. The eldest perished in his
bed, the second was rescued by the father only to survive and
suffer a few hours. Both are buried in one grave in the west
burying-ground near the East Church. In attempting to rescue
his children the father was badly burned, and for some time it
was feared that he would lose his eyesight.
Thomas Hadaway youngest son of Thomas, married Dec.
18, 1757, Huldah Smith, daughter of Matthias of West Barnsta-
*George Lewis' great lot was at Rowley's pond. Jan. 12, 1662-3, George Lewis, Sen,,
and his son George, Jr,, conveyed the same to Edward and John, sons of George, Sen,,
namely : 27 1-2 acres on the northerly side to Edward, and 27 1-2 on the southerly to John.
The latter was killed in the Rehobeth battle March 26, 1676, and his lands passed out of the
&mily and for many years have been known as the Hadaway farm.
tThe house which he built on the same spot with funds contributed to him, was also
destroyed by fire the present year.

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ble. He had several children, among whom were Frederick, Ben
jamin and Hannah. Benjamin was called carpenter Ben. to dis
tinguish him from the son of James. He was a deputy sheriff, a
captain of a militia company, and jail keeper for a time. He was
a very strong man, and among other feats he took up a barrel of
rum and drank from the bung. He bought of Mr. Eleazer Scud
der the ancient Gorham mansion house at Hyannis Port, where he ,
resided and kept a public house. He« married his cousin Han
nah, daughter of James Hadaway, and had a large family of
daughters. He was as eccentric as any of the name, and his his
tory is an illustration of the saying, "Truth is stronger than fic
tion." His sister Hannah sued him for money that she said she had
deposited with him, taking no security therefor. He denied hav
ing received it. A few days before the case was to be tried, he
remarked to his wife that he would go on board a vessel in the
harbor, and purchase a barrel of flour. He did not return.
Search was made for him. His hat was found in the surf on the
shore, his boat was adrift, and the oar which he used in sculUng
was also found near by. These circumstances seemed to prove
beyond controversy, that in attempting to board the vessel in the
harbor he was accidentally drowned. Guns were fired, sweeps
were dragged, oil was poured on the waters, and every effort was
made to recover his body without success. No one had seen him
go away, and his family and neighbors believed he was dead, and
an administrator was appointed on his estate.
Soon after he left, there was a report that he had been seen
at his brother Frederick's in Vermont, but nothing reliable could
be obtained, though it was reported that letters had been received
from him. Twenty-one years after he left he as unexpectedly re
turned to his house. No one knew where he came from, or how
he came, and it was some time before the members of his family
could realize that he was among the living. Capt. Hadaway in
his dealings with strangers was considered an honorable man ; but
with members of his family or his relatives, he was the most ec
centric of men.
Frederick married a Marchant, and removed to Vermont.
He was as eccentric as any' of the family.
Hannah married Capt. Thomas Appleton. She resided in
Boston, Gloucester, aud Barnstable. She was a woman of good
understanding, weU informed, and was distinguished for her collo
quial powers and her ready wit. For fifteen years after her mar
riage she lived in good style, and associated with the inteUigent,
the gay and the fashionable. Notwithstanding, she was a Hada
way all her days— odd, eccentric, a firm believer in witches and
witchcraft. Surprising stories she would tell of witches she had
seen and known, of their strange transformations, and of the

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 461
Strange influence that they exerted over others. Those stories
she dressed up in aU the charms of eloquence, and would half
persuade her hearers that they were true. She was the great-
grand-daughter of the first John, inherited his peculiarities; and
education, extensive reading, and association with the' in
teUigent, failed to root out the seeds of fanaticism which in
early Ufe had been so deeply implanted in her mind, that they
had become a part of her very being.

THOMAS HATCH.

Many of the name Hatch came over early. Elder WilUam
of Scituate, who came from Sandwich in England in 1635, with
wife Jane and flve children, was a noted man in the early history
of the Colony. Two of the name of Thomas came over, and
settled in Massachusetts, and afterwards removed to the Plym
outh Colony. One of them was made a freeman of Massachu
setts May 14, 1634, the same day that three others were, who
were afterwards among the flrst settlers of Yarmouth. Thomas
whom Mr. Deane calls an elder brother of William, settled in
Scituate, and died there about the year 1646, leaving a family.
Mr. Savage calls this man the freeman ; but circumstances incline
me to the opinion that it was the other Thomas who was made free
May 14, 1634.
Thomas Hatch, the ancestor of the family in this country,
was one of the nine who proposed, Jan. 7, 1638, O. S., "to take
up their freedome at Yarmouth." On the 6th of March follow
ing his name is entered on the record with those who proposed to
become freemen at the next court, but there is no mark against it
indicating that he then took the required oath. In 1641 he had
removed to Barnstable, and at the court held the first of June
that year, he with others of that town, was again "propounded to
be admitted a freeman at the next court." His name does not ap
pear on any list of freemen of the town of Barnstable. He had
taken the "oath of fideUty" before his removal from Yarmouth,

462 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
and in some instances this seems to have been considered as the
equivalent of the freeman's oath. In August 1643, his name ap
pears on the roll of those "able to bear arms in Barnstable," and
in the following January on the list ol approved inhabitants of
Barnstable. Very little is certainly known respecting him. He does not
appear to have been employed at any time, in any public busi
ness. He was not a man of wealth, and no record ol his lands
has been preserved. In 1648 Mr. Anthony Thacher claimed
eight acres in the "West Field"* in Yarmouth that had been
bought ol Thomas Hatch. This was the usual allotment, and the
probabUity is that he had an equal proportion of the lands both in
Yarmouth and in Barnstable assigned to him, I am inclined to
the opinion that his houselot in Barnstable was near the Crocker
farm at West Barnstable. Lands in that vicinity were after
wards owned by his son Jonathan, and by him sold to Capt.
Thomas Dimmock.
He died iu 1661, leaving a widow Grace and son Jonathan
and daughter Lydia, wife of Henry Taylor. Mr. Savage ^jalls him
"a young man." He was a grandfather and in my judgment had
ceased to be young.
A pleasant story is told respecting his courtship. It is said
that he was son of a farmer and served his father before learning
the trade of a tailor. His wife was also a farmer's daughter, and
in time of harvest assisted him in the fields, and was very expert
in the use of the sickle. Two young men asked her hand in mar
riage and it was agreed that the one who should reap the larger
piece in a given time should win the prize. The land was marked
off and an equal proportion assigned to Miss Grace. She was
the best reaper, and having decided that she would marry Thomas
Hatch, she slyly cut over on the part set off to him, and in conse
quence Thomas came out ahead, claimed and received her hand in
marriage. This story was related by a grandson of Thomas, and has
been preserved as a family tradition, and whether true or false is
immaterial. I doubt whether Grace, the widow of Thomas
Hatch, was the heroine of the story ; if so, she was different
from other mothers — she must have been a second wife — for if
Jonathan and Lydia had been her chUdren, she would not have al
lowed them in youth to have been aliens from their father's house
and exposed to all the temptations of a wicked world. I have no
other evidence that she was a second wife. I -want no other.
Thomas Hatch was a church member, and a freeman, a man
whose life was a living testimony of his fidelity to the principles
T.„„t'-'?^ ^^*' -^i^'f 1!*IS° open tract, cultivated by the Indians, hounded southerly by
Dennis Pond, westerly by the bounds of Barnstable, northerly it extended neariy to thi
present County road, and easterly to Hawes' Lane, The lot of Thomas Hatch was in the
immediate vicinity of the homestead of the writer, ^""¦i^-u was in mo

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 463
which he professed. He was not a man of note, yet he was an
honest man and a good neighbor. It is unnatural to suppose
that a man who sustained the character that Thomas Hatch did,
would have allowed his only son, aud only daughter, to have been
exposed to temptations, as they were, if there had not been some
superior controling influence at home.
Of the family of Thomas Hatch littie is known beside what
has been already stated. His childrent were both probably born
in England. At his death in 1661 he was probably aged, not "a
young man." Of the time of the death of his widow Grace, I
flnd no record.
2. Jonathan, born about the year 1624.
8. Lydia, born about the year 1626, married Henry Taylor Dec.
19, 1650, and had a family.
He probably had other chUdren, but none are named as sur
viving in 1661.
Jonathan Hatch was a man of indomitable energy of charac
ter — no difficulties discouraged him — no misfortunes swayed him
from his onward and determined course of life. He was a pio
neer in the march of civilization, and the history of his life, if
faithfully written, would present many points of romantic inter
est. "The boy was the father of the man." At the early age of
fourteen, it appears that Jonathan was bound as an apprentice to
Lieut. Richard Davenport, of Salem. His father and mother and
sister removed to Yarmouth, leaving him among strangers, in a
strange land. Davenport was a soldier, — a man of impetuous
spirit, and Jonathan, after remaining with him two years, deserted
from his service and came to Boston, probably with the intention
of obtaining a passage by water to Yarmouth. Sept. 2, 1640, he
was arrested in Boston as a fugitive from service, and "was cen
sured to bee severely whiped, and for the present is committed
for a- slave to Lieut. Davenport." [Mass. Rec] Whether
Jonathan escaped "the severe whipping," does not appear;
however that may be, it is certain that twenty severe whippings
would not have compelled a boy of his spirit to have returned to
the servitude of Lieut. Davenport. He had legs and he made a
legitimate use of them, and they brought him safely to his father's
house in Yarmouth.
His troubles did not cease on his arrival at the Cape. Dec.
1, 1640, Capt. Nicholas Sympkins charged him with slandering
him. The result was, the Captain had a flne ol forty shUlings
tThe evidence that Jonathan and Lydia were children of Thomas Hatch is not entirely
satisfactory. It rests on these facts : May 27, 1661, his widow Grace presented an inventory
of his estate, March 3, 1662-3, Jonathan Hatch and Lydia, wife of Henry Taylor, were ap-
' pointed administrators on the estate of Thomas Hatch, deceased. They are not called his
children, but the presumption is that they were. It will be noticed that nearly three years
elapsed after the death of Thomas, before administrators were appointed. If Ihomas had
been a brother of Jonathan and Lydia, they would have had a right to claim letters of ad
ministration after the death of Grace. I name this as possible, not as probable.

464 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
imposed on him, and Jonathan escaped without punishment.
March 1, 1641-2, he "was taken as a vagabond, and for his mis
demeanors was censured to be whipt and sent from constable to
constable to Lieut. Davenport at Salem." At the Court held
April 5, 1642, this sentence was re-considered. The court had no
authority to order the arrest of a party as a vagabond, because he
had escaped from the service of a master residing in another ju
risdiction. He was "appointed to dwell with Mr. Stephen Hop
kins," who was enjoyend to have a special care of him.
Mr. Hopkins died in 1644. Jonathan did not probably reside
long with him, for soon afterwards he appears to have been a
resident in Barnstable. Aug. 23, 1646, he was one of the four
men forming the quota of the town of Barnstable in the expedir
tion against the Narragansets and their confederates.
The foregoing records of the early life of Jonathan do not
present his character in an amiable point of view. His parents
appear to have taken no interest in his welfare, and this can be ac
counted for only on the supposition that Grace was a second wife.
I am not a writer of eulogy. I must present such facts as I flnd
on record ; and my inferences must be logical or they are worth
less. The boy was exposed to temptation on every hand — he had
no friends on whom he could rely — he was a bond servant — "a
slave" — and that servitude his proud spirit could not brook — he
resisted — he escaped from servitude ; that, in the eye of the law,
was criminal — and for that he was imprisoned, and for that en
dured cruel stripes. Though his conduct is not legally justifiable,
we cannot but admire his bold and manly resistance of the intol
erant spirit of the age, and of the law which banished him from
the^ home of his father, and which deprived him of the liberty
which he claimed as a free born citizen of the British realm.
Jonathan Hatch married April 11, 1646, Sarah Rowley,
daughter of Henry Rowley, by his first wife — a daughter of Wili
liam Palmer, Sen. From the latter's wUl dated in 1637, I infer
that Sarah's mother-in-law, though a church member, was not a
kind-hearted woman. She was a step-mother to Sarah as I have
presumed Grace had been to Jonathan. Their experience in
early life coincided — they lived long in married life, and were
blessed with a family of eleven children, nine of whom had famil
ies of their own.
After his marriage he probably resided several years at West
Barnstable before removing to South Sea, Ocl. 7, 'l651, he and
Samuel Hinckley were prosecuted by the grand jury for hiring
land of the Indians, and March 2, 1651-2, he was again prosecu
ted for furnishing an Indian with a gun, powder and shot. Feb.
1652-3, he was on the jury that laid out the road from Sandwich
to Plymouth, and in 1657 took the oath of fidelity.
The grant of his lands was recorded Feb. 14, 1665, but it is

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 465
probable that the grant was made and that he removed to South
Sea at an earlier date. His lands are thus described : "Fifty
acres more or less of upland, with a little parcel of marsh ad
joining, at a place commonly called Sepnisset on ye South Sea,"
also eight acres of meadow, four at Oyster Island^ which is very
particularly described. One-half of this farm he subsequently
sold to Thomas Shaw, and they sold the same May 27, 1661, to
Mr. John Thompson, who re-sold to John LoveU about the year
1674, and the latter's descendants yet hold most of the ancient
Hatch farm and meadows under the title derived from Thomp
son. In the deed of Hatch and Shaw to Thompson the upland is
described as being at a creek commonly called Se-paw-ess-is-set
alias Se-pau-is-set,* and is thus described : "Fifteen acres lying
on ye south side of ye said creek, bounded southerly and westerly
by ye commons, easterly by a Uttle swamp, northerly partly by ye
said creek and partly by ye harbour ; and thirty acres bounded
southerly by ye said creek, lying 140 rod long by ye sea side and
40 rod into ye woods."
At this time there were very few whites settled at South Sea.
Roger Goodspeed who resided at Mystic, was probably his near
est neighbor for several years. At that time oysters were very
abundant in the waters in the vicinity of his residence, and many
barrels were annually pickled and sent to market. For many
years after the settlement of the town, all the lime used for budd
ing purposes was manufactured in the vicinity of Sep-nis-set from
the shells of the oysters. Dry wood cut into small pieces was
procured, and a kiln built of alternate layers of shells and wood,
the whole was covered with turf, excepting a small opening at the
top and another at the bottom where the fire was set, and the
sheUs converted by the heat into quick-lime, of a superior qual
ity- Many Indians dwelt near the residence of Goodman Hatch.
The wigwam of Paup-mun-nueke, the sachem of the Massapees,
was about a mile distant. He traded with them, visited them, and
at times was perhaps too familiar with them. It was policy for
him to be on good terms with them— they were his neighbors, and
if by his conduct he had excited them to hostility, they had it in
their power to do him much injury. In June, 1658, it was proved
in court that an Indian named Repent had threatened to shoot
Gov. Prence on his return from Plymouth. Mr. Hatch was
charged with having justified Repent, but there was no proof, and
*This name, which occurs in the last Number, is called in the records a place and a
creek, its termination, however written, indicates that 'twas a place or village by the
water. The Indians probably dropped the final syllable when they referred to the cieek,
calling it Sipanesse, which perhaps means a little stream where coarse grass grows. It ap
pears to have been the name of the creek, or lagoon, on the south of ^e residence of Mr,
Seth Goodspeed. After the Hatch farm came into possession of the Lovell family large aa
ditions were made.

466 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
he was by the court admonished and released.
May 27, 1661. Goodman Hatch sold his farm at Sipnesset
and removed to Saconecet, Suconnesset, or Suckinesset,* the In
dian name of the town of Falmouth. He is not named in the
colony records till 1685 as one of the original proprietors, but
their records and deeds and other papers preserved in the family
prove that he was. At a meeting of the proprietors held Nov.
29, 1661, it was voted,
"That Jonathan Hatch and Isaac Robinson, because they
have built their houses,t shaU have lots by their houses, — that is
to say, Jonathan Hatch to have ten acres by his house lying
against the neck, [lying by the Herring Brook.] And Isaac Rob
inson to have four acres by his house, and eight acres next ad
joining to Jonathan Hatch towards Pease's land. Also because
they think themselves wronged, to be put out of the Neck, we
have considered that thCy shall have an acre and a half of meadow
within the Great Nec-k, towards Pease's land."
Goodman Hatch's farm at Falmouth contained eighty acres,
and for several years he was the agent of the proprietors, and was
employed at times in running out the bounds of lots, and attend
ing to sales and transfers of rights. He could not give up his
old habit of trading with the Indians, and June 7, 1670, was flned
£3 for selUng them liquor.
He bought three Indians ol Capt. Church — a man and his
wife and a child — June 3, 1679, the brothers of the woman ap
peared in cOurt with Goodman Hatch, and it was agreed that the
man and his wife should be released for £6, and that the child
should remain with Goodman Hatch till 24 years of age and then
be released forever. He claimed his pound of flesh ; he forgot
that when a boy he had been bound to Lieut, Davenport — that he
had repudiated his service. Had not the Indian boy the same
right — or did the difference in color abrogate the right of the one,
and establish that Of the other.
June 24, 1690, he took the freeman's oath at the County
Court in Barnstable. He was then about sixty-four years of age.
Time had tempered the fire and impetuosity of his youth, and he
had/become a sober, religious man — the venerable patriarch of a
*This name is a compound of Sucki, black ; po quauhot-k, the round clam or quohog;
and et or set, place ; means the place where Suck-au-hock or black wampan was made.
The Indians had two kinds of money, bea'ds.of wampam, the black of which three was con
sidered equal to a penny English, and the white of half the value of the black. The white
was called wampam, [white] and the black Suck^au-hock by the Indians, but the English
called it all wampam, or wampam-peage. The white was made from the stem of the peri.
winckle ; the black from the dark colored portion of the shell of the quohog. Some Eng
lish attempted to counterfeit it; but not finding it a paying business gave it up. The coun
terfeits were readily detected by the Indians.
tThis record conflicts with the family tradition that Moses, son of Jonathan, was the
first white child bom in Falmouth, and that he was called Moses because he was bom un
der the shelter of a whale-boat, and on a bed of rushes, UnfoituAately for the romance of
the story, Jonathan Hatch built a house in Falmouth two years before the birth of his son
Moses,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 467
large aud esteemed family of children and grand-children. After
that date, his name seldom appears on the public records. He
had acquired a large landed estate, and was ranked among the
wealthy of those times. His papers show that he continued to do
business till the close of his long life. As one of the agents of
the proprietors of Falmouth, he was often called upon to take the
care of their interests, and they could not have been committed to
a more careful hand. He died Dec. 1710, aged about 84 years.
His will is dated Sept. 15, 1705, and was proved Jan, 4, 1710-11.
He says he is aged, names his six sons, Thomas, Jonathan, Joseph,
Benjamin, Samuel and Moses, and his daughters Mary Weeks,
Sarah Wing and Mercy Rowley, and appoints the latter his sole
executrix. Children of Jonathan Hatch and Sarah Rowley, his wife.
Born in Barnstable. (The discrepancies between the Barnstable
and Falmouth records are noted.)
4. I. Marv, .luly 16, 1647.
5. II. Thomas, "Jan. 1, 1649.
6. III. Jonathan, Mav 17, 1652, May 16, 1652.
7. IV. Joseph, May 7', 1654, June 10, 1664.
8. V. Benjamin, Sept. 7, 1655, June 6, 1656.
9. VI, Nathaniel, June 5, 1667, Sept. 3, 1658.
10. VII. Samuel, Oct. 11, 1659, Oct. 4, 1660.
Born in Falmouth.
11. VIII. Moses, March 4, 1662, March 4, 1663.
12. IX. Sarah, March 21, 1664, March 23, 1665.
13. X. Mercy, AprU 27, 1667.
14. XI. Lydia, May 16, 1669.
(4-1.) Mary, the eldest daughter of Jonathan Hatch, mar
ried a Mr. Weeks, as we learn from the will of the father. WU
liam Weeks of Falmouth, married March 16, 1669, Mercy,
daughter of Mr. Isaac Robinson. I am incUned to the opinion
that she died early aud that he married for his second wife Mary
Hatch. The names of the children of WUliam Weeks were Mer
cy, Mehitable, Sarah, Experience, Mercy again, Jonathan, Benja
min and Lydia. These names are common in the Hatch, not in
the Robinson family. In these times the mother usually adopted
the names of her brothers and sisters, and I feel confldent that
Mary Hatch married WUliam Weeks of Falmouth. Sarah married
Nathaniel Wing, and Mercy married Nathan Rowley.
(5-2.) Thomas Hatch, named in honor of his grand-father,
was a farmer and resided in Falmouth, where he died. He mar
ried AbigaU Codman, Feb. 22, 1679, caUedof Falmouth— perhaps
daughter of Robert of Edgartown.
Children born in Falmouth.
i5. L Hepsibah, 9 Jan., 1681.

16.

II.

17,

III.

18,

IV.

19.

V.

20.

VI.

21.

Vll.

22.

VIII

28.

IX.

468 GENEALOGICAL NO-rES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES,
Thomas, 26 AprU, 1686.
Sarah, 16 Sept., 1687.
Stephen, 19 Jan., 1689.
Nathaniel, 16 March, 1693.
Mary, 16 March, 1693.
Aiareth, 16 Jan., 1695.
. Jonathan, 9 AprU, 1697.
Peter, 25 July, 1700,
(6-3,) Capt. Jonathan Hatch, son of Jonathan, was a
farmer and resided in Falmouth, where he died. Oct. 2, 1689, he
was chosen ensign of the miUtary company. June 24, 1690, at
the County Court, he took the freeman's oath. There are three
entries of his marriage on the records, all probably intended for
the same ; but apparently not the same. 1 presume he married
Dec. 4, 1676, Elizabeth Weeks of Falmouth, another entry may
be read Bethia Weeks another Elizabeth Walker.*
Children born in Falmovth.
24. I. Jonathan, 5 June, 1678.
25. II. -Sarah, 17 Sept., 1682.
26. III. Mehitabel, 19 March, 1684.
27. IV. Mary, 24 June, 1689.
28. V. Nathaniel, 30 July, 1693.
29. VI. Ebenezer, 29 Nov., 1696.
Jonathan of this family married Bethia Nye Dec. 22, 1703 ;
and had Solomon 1704 ; Thankful 1706 ; Ebenezer 1709 ; Nathan
1710;' Moses 1712; Benjamin 1715; Timothy 1732? Ebenezer
married Oct. 25, 1720, Lydia Hatch.
(7-4.) Capt. Joseph Hatch, perhaps excepting Moses, was
the most distinguished of Jonathan's sons. He was a soldier in
*Mr. Freeman in his history. Vol, 2, page 474, gives a genealogy of this family full of
mistakes, and full of positive assertions. He says ''Thomas came from Kent 1634, born in
Sandwich." This may be so, and it may be, from Wales, but there is no record. His name
is not on the list of those who embarlted at Sandwich in 1634-5 ; and the Massachusetts
records prove that he came over earlier, for he was made a freeman of that Colony May 1^,
1634, N. S., nearly a year prior to the embarkation from Sandwich. Mr. Savage says J^Ha-
than was perhaps a son of Thomas, and born at Sandwich, Eng, On this slippery founda
tion Mr. Freeman positively asserts, that Thomas came over fr-om Kent in 1634,
He also asserts that Thomas was a member of the church in Barnstable -lune 1, 1641.
This may be so — it is hard to prove a negative — especiaUy when there is a hiatus in tile list
of the admissions to the church from 1638 to 1643. Perhaps some clairvoiyant filled up the
gap for his special accommodation.
He says Jonathan had lands in Falmouth in 1660, It is surprising that this fact is not
named either in the proprietor's, the town or the Colonial records. I iiaye yet to learn that
there were any wMtes settled in Falmouth at that date — and if there was, Jonathan Hatch
was not of the number, for he did not probably remove from Barnstable till after May 27,
1661. He calls the 8th child of Capt, Joseph Hatch,- Bethia ; her name is plainly written on the
town and on the church records Kebecca, He states that Benjamin, born 1655, married
Mary Hamblin (so Ba rec. but F, says Lumbee) June 17, 1678," The Falmoutli records
say Benjamin Hatch married Mary Hamblin ; the Barnstable records say George Lewis,
Jr., married Mary Lumber. He says that the second wife of Benjamin was named "Alice,
the record has it Ellis." Ihe Barnstable church record has it Ellis, a contraction for
Elizabeth, On the Falmouth Church record it is plainly written Elizabeth, Her maiden
name was Elizabeth Eddy, boi-n at Martha's Vineyard May 3, 1669, In his list of her chil
dren he omits her son Eddy bom Aug, 2, 1700,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 469
King Philip's war, 1675 and 6. He was lieutenant of the militia
company in 1702, and afterwards captain. He inherited the home
stead of his father, acquired a large estate, and exercised a wide
influence. He married Dec. 7, 1683, Amy Allen of ChUmark.
She joined the church in Barnstable, and was baptized Aug. 3,
1701. On the church records her name is uniformly written
Amie. On the formation of the Falmouth church, Oct. 10, 1708,
she with others was dismissed to that church. Capt. Joseph
Hatch died Feb. 16, 1735, aged 83." (Grave Stones).
Children of Capt. Joseph Hatch born in Falmouth :
30. I. Lydia, 13th July, 1685.
31. II. Amy, 10th July, 1687.
32. III. Joseph, 3d Aug. 1689.
33. IV. Ichabod, 28th Oct. 1691.
34. V. Ruth, 9th Nov. 1693.
35. VI. Joanna, 2d June, 1696.
36. VII. Elizabeth, Ist Nov. 1697.
37. VIII. Rebecca, 26th Jan. 1700.
38. IX. Ebenezer, 26th March, 1702.
39. X. Barnabas, 29th Nov. 1703.
Lydia married a Mr. Gifford, a Quaker ; Amy married Jona
than Delano of Tolland, Conn.; Joseph, Jr., married in 1713,
and May 1, 1735, Rebecca, a second wife. He removed to Tol
land, died in Falmouth 1751 ; Ichabod married Abigail Weeks
Dec. 2, 1714 ; Ruth married Dea. Solomon Swift of ToUand and
Kent, Conn. ; Elizabeth married Aug. 1, 1722, Stephen Skiffe of
Tolland ; Rebecca married a Mr. Berry, and settled in Kent about
1740 ; Ebenezer married in 1741, Sarah, aged 24 ; Barnabas mar
ried Abigail Lasrell of Duxbury, Mass., in 1728.
8-7. Benjamin Hatch was a farmer. In 1729 he removed
to Mansfleld, Conn., and died there or in ToUand before the year
1736. He married three wives: 1st, Mary Hamblin, Jan. 17,
1678, a daughter of James, Jr., of Barnstable. At the time of
her marriage she had not completed her sixteenth year. She died
early, and he married March 16, 1682, Elizabeth Eddy, who was
born at Martha's Vineyard May 3, 1659. In another record her
name is written Eliza. She was admitted to the Barnstable
church July 14, 1710, and was dismissed to the church in Fal
mouth the following October, and died soon after. For his third
wife he. married Feb. 13, 1711-12, Experience, widow of Jabez
Davis, of Barnstable. She was a daughter of David Linnell,
and died a widow Dec. 1736, aged about 72.
Children of Benjamin Hatch born in Falmouth :
40. I. AbigaU, Aug. 4, 1679.
NoTB. — Mr. Freeman says Jonathan Hatch married Abigail Weeks of Barnstable, thus
adding another alias to the name of his wife Elizabeth, If the readers of the records are re-
hable, Capt, Jonathan was a valiant man, taking to himself four wives in the month of Dec,
1678— another "Blue Beard." I do not however find that he was indicted for polygamy.

41.

II.

42.

III.

43.

IV.

44.

V.

45.

VI.

46.

VII,

47.

vii;

48.

IX.

49.

X.

50.

XI.

470 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Mary, March 3, 1681.
Nathaniel, Feb. 7, 1684.
Benjamin, Oct. 17, 1686.
John, Feb. 16, 1689.
Elizabeth, March 25, 1692.
. Melatiah, Oct. 4, 1693.
I. Timothy, Oct. 19, 1695.
Hannah, May 7, 1698.
Eddy, Aug. 2, 1700.
Solomon, May 7, 1704.
Benjamin Hatch of this famUy removed to Brewster, then
Harwich, and married Aug. 11, 1715, Mary Bangs, and had
James, May 1, 1716 ; Mary, AprU 21, 1720; Benjamin, May 11,
1724 ; Ruth, June 20, 1733. He died in Brewster Feb. 14, 1769,
aged 83. (Grave Stones).
Timothy Hatch had a family. His son Major Jethro, born
Sept. 17, 1722, who removed to Kent, Conn., seems to have pre
served ail the traditions ol the family. In April and May, 1816,
Moses Hatch, Esq., of Danbury, Conn., a graduate of Yale Col
lege, carefully wrote down the statements of Major Hatch, then
94 years of age. He states that his ancestor was a tailor by
trade, and that his wife was the daughter of a farmer born in
Wales. He relates the story about the reapers which has been
told. He states that his ancestor married only one wife.
Melatiah also married and had a family. J. M. Hatch, Esq.,
of Rochester, N. Y., is a descendant, and to him I am largely in
debted for information respecting the family.
9-6. Nathaniel Hatch, son of Jonathan, born in 1657 or
1658, is not named in his father's will, and he has no family rec
ord, these facts make it probable that he died young.
10-7. Samuel Hatch was a "cordwainer," resided in Fal
mouth where he died in 1718. His wife Lydia was admitted to
the Barnstable Church Oct. 5, 1701, and his daughters Kerziah
and Lydia were baptized on the 9th of Nov. following ; Samuel,
James and Zaccheus, June 7, 1702 ; Edward July 2, 1704 ; Anne,
Sept. 1, 1706. His other children were probably baptized in Fal
mouth. The town record is imperfect. He probably resided some
time at Chilmark, to which place several of his family removed.
The name of his eldest child on the family record appears to be
Eleazer, perhaps Ebenezer ; on the church records the name is writ
ten Kerziah.
51. I. Eleazer, (Kerziah, ch. rec.) Sept. 23, 1694.
"" " Samuel, Feb. 28, 1694.
James, Aug. 23, 1696.
Lydia, May 30, 1699.
Zaccheus, Feb. 10, 1701.
Edward, bap. July 2, 1702.

52.

II.

53.

III.

54.

IV.

55.

V.

66.

VI.

GENEALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 471
57. VII. Anne, bap. Sept. 1, 1706.
58. VIII. James, and probably married AbigaU Knight, of Tis
bury, July 24, 1718.
59. IX. Martha, married David Cottie of ChUmark, Dec. 9,
1728.
Samuel Hatch, son of Samuel, married Dec. 1, 1724, Mary
Clifford, of ChUmark; James married March 22, 1720, Judith
Cottle, of Chilmark, second wife; Edward married Rebecca
Weeks at Falmouth Aug. 17, 1727, and died at Falmouth 1760.
Matthew Rowley was appointed Feb. 1750, guardian of Wait,
minor son of Edward. Anne married David Butler of Chilmark,
Dec. 2, 1725 ; Joseph married Lydia Cottle of Chilmark, Dec.
30, 1726 ; Lydia married Ebenezer Hatch (son of Jonathan and
Elizabeth), Oct. 25, 1720.
11-8. Dea. Moses Hatch, youngest son of Jonathan, repu
ted to be the flrst white child born in Falmouth, was a man of
note in his day. He was admitted to the Barnstable church June
19, 1698, and his wife Elizabeth Aug. 2, 1702. Oct. 10, 1708,
both were dismissed to the Falmouth church, of which he became
a leading member and "the first deacon." He was a wealthy
farmer, a man of good business capacity, and a good citizen.
For one act he will ever be remembered. He gave to the town
the land on which the flrst church was built, now a public square,
ornamented with trees — a beautiful place of which the citizens are
justly proud. He died "20th of May, 1747, in the 85th year of
his age," and is buried in the ancient burying grounds in Fal
mouth. Dea. Moses Hatch married May 9, 1686, Hepsiba Eddy of
Tisbury, said to be a younger sister of Elizabeth, wife of Benja-
ipin Hatch. For his second wife he married EUzabeth, daughter
of Col. John Thacher of Yarmouth, Oct. 18, 1699. She died
May 18, 1710. A Moses Hatch married ahout this time Hannah,
widow of Joshua Bangs, and a daughter of John Scudder of Barn
stable. She was baptized 5th Oct. 1651, consequently was twelve
years older than Dea. Moses, and as Mr. Savage suggests, the
disparity ol their ages renders it doubtful whether Dea. Moses
married the widow Hannah Bangs. On the Falmouth records is
this entry, "Hannah, wife of Capt. Moses Hatch, died May 13,
1739." Capt. Moses was a son of the Deacon, and if he married
the widow the disparity was stiU greater. The last wife of Dea.
Moses was named Patience. The early records of Falmouth are
difficult to decipher, and are not always reliable. There is no fuU
record of the family of Dea. Moses Hatch. The following is
obtained from various sources, and is an approximation to accu
racy :
60. I. Abiah, born Feb. 1, 1686-7, died on the 13th, and was
buried on the 14th of same month.

472 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
61. II. M * * *, a son, twin child with Abiah, died same day,
buried 2d.
62. III. Moses, Oct. 6, 1688, died Oct. 23, 1688.
63. IV. Hepsiba, Feb. 16, 1690, married Benj. Nye of Fal
mouth, who died in 1716 insolvent.
64. V. Elizabeth. She married Timothy Hallett of Yarmouth,
died Oct. 24, 1744, aged 44.
65. VI. Rebecca, bap. June 18, 1704, married in 1733 James
Lewis, of B., died July 5, 1740, aged 36.
66. VII. Hannah, bap. Oct. 14, 1705.
67. VIII. Moses, probably born before the year 1700.
68. IX- Sylvanus. I have it noted that he had a son Sylva
nus, but I canuot quote my authority.
Capt. Moses Hatch of Falmouth, probably a son of Dea.
Moses, married April, 1724, Mary, daughter of Rev. Joseph
Lord of Chatham. Her birth is thus recorded by the father:
"Mary Lord born 19-20 (2) 1701," that is, on the night of the
the 19th of April, 1701, O. S. Their children were:
Sylvanus, Jan. 24, 1725; Moses, May 28, 1732, (married Pru
dence Gorham Sept. 1766) ; Joseph, March 8, 1735 ; Hepsibah,
Feb. 12, 1737.
It is also stated that she had another child, and died during
her conflnement, Jan. 27, 1742-3. The latter date is doubtful,
and taking all the circumstances into consideration, I am inclined
to the opinion that the Hannah, wife of Capt. Moses, recorded as
having died May 13, 1739, was a blunder of the clerk. He should
have written Mary, wife of Capt. Moses Hatch, died May 13,
1739. If I am right in this supposition, the diflBculties are ex
plained. That this is right, his subsequent or second marriage
seems to favor. If his flrst wife died Jan. 27, 1743, N. S., then
he married the second very soon after the death of the flrst, for
his son Jonathan was born Dec. 17, 1743, and Benjamin Sept.
10, 1745.
The Rev. Charles Gorham Hatch, to whom I am under obliga
tions for materials for this article, is a descendant of Capt.
Moses. Sylvanus Hatch, probably son of Capt. Moses, had Sylva
nus, who resided some time at Great Bend, Penn., and finally set
tled in lUinois ; Samuel, who settled in Rome, N. Y. ; John, in
Pompey, Onandago Co., N. Y. ; Solomon, in Manluis, N. Y. ;
Charles — Orias, who was a tory and served in the British army ;
and Jethoe, who was killed at the massacre at Wyoming.
I intended to have extended this genealogy one generation
further ; but on comparing my copies of records I find so many
discrepancies, that it is unsafe to trust them. Every one com
plains of the difficulty of deciphering the early town records of
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. GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 473
them alike. The proprietor's and church records were better
kept. I would like to give a particular account of the "Little
Hatches" ol Falmouth ; but am unable. They were children of
Barnabas Hatch, who married in 1776, his relative Abigail Hatch,
and had two sons and seven daughters. Six of the daughters
were less than four feet in height, and could stand upright under
the old fashioned "lift latch" on the frontdoor of their father's
house. Neither of the six married, but lived and died in their
father's house. The other daughter, Rebecca, was of common
size, and married Robert Hammond.
The two sons were Barnabas, born June 15, 1788, and Rob
inson, born Nov. 9, 1790. Both of these were of low stature.
The one whom I knew was scarce four feet in height — a portly
gentleman, almost as broad as he was long.
The desendants of Jonathan Hatch are very numerous.
Many are in Connecticut, and in New York, and in the Western
States. Among them are many distinguished men, and most of
them inherit that energy of character for which their ancestor was
noted. They claim to be of Welch descent, and that the "honest
blood" of their maternal ancestor yet flows in their veins.

THE HALLETT FAMILY.

Several of the name of HaUett came early to New England.
WUliam, the ancestor of the Long Island famUy, was born in
Dorcetshire, England, in 1616, joined in the settlement of Green
wich, Conn., whence he removed to Long Island, and Dec. 1,
1652, purchased of Jacques Bentyn, one of the Directors of Van
TwUler's Council, 161 acres of land at HeUgate, at a place known
as Hallett's Cove. "In the faU of 1665, the Indians destroyed
his house and plantation at HaUett's Cove, which induced him to
take up his residence at Flushing. Here he was appointed Sher
iff, in 1656, but the same year was deposed by Gov. Stuyvesant,
flned and imprisoned, for entertaining the Rev. Wm. Wickenden
from Rhode Island, allowing him to preach at his house, and re-

474 GENEALpGICA^ ^TOTJIS OF BAENSTABfE FAMILIES.
ceiving the sacrament of the Lord's Svfpper from his hands. Dis^
gusted at this treatment, Mr. Hallett, on the revolt of Long Is
land from the Dutch, warmly advocated the claims of Connecti
cut; and being sent a delegate to the general court of that col
ony, he was appointed a commissioner or justice of the peace for
Flushing. Afterwards he removed to HeUgate, where he lived to
the age of about ninety years. He had two sons, "SVilham afld
Samuel, between whom in 1688 he divided his property at HeU
gate Neck. WiUiam second, died in 1729, aged 81. He wasa justice
&f the peace and captain of a company of militia. He had ten chil
dren, eight of whom married and had families^ Samuel, son of
WiUiam, died Dec. 27, 1724. He was a man of consideration in
his time. He had an only son Samuel and several daughters.?
Richard HaUett, of Boston, had a daughter AUce, who mar
ried ist, Mordecai Nichols in 1652, and 2d, Thomas Clark, of
Plymouth. Richard does not appear to have left any male de
scendants. 'A person named AngeU Hallett is mentioned in the
settlement ol Capt. Bozoan Aden's estate, of Boston, 1652.
There was a George Hallett, Sen'r, of Boston, a freeman in 1690,
consequently there was at the same tinae a George Hallett, Jr.
A Widow Lydia HaUett married at' Boston 27th Nov. 1661, John
Drummond. There was a James Hallett at Windsor, Conn,, in
1643, represented as a poor thievish servant. (See Savage.)
Mr. Andrew Hallett, gentleman, was the ancestor of the Yar
mouth and Barnstable families. He came over as early as the
year 1§37, and was of Plymouth March 1638-9. Respecting his
fainily there is very little on record. His son Andrew was one of
the flrst settlers of Sandwich. Another of his sons (probably
Samuel) is named as ]3eing of Yarmouth in 1639.-)-
" '"For an interesting account of the Long Island family, see Hiker's Annals of New
town. ~ tin making this investigation I was assisted by the late Judge Nahum Mitchell, author
of the' history of Bridgewater; and by the late William S, Russell, Esq., author of Guide
to Plymouth, and other historical works ; both good authorities. Since the above was writ
ten Mr, Freeman has published his history of Cape Cod, He says "we have no authentic
information in regard to Mr, Andrew Hallett, Sen'r,, and must rely on the conclusions of
otjiers," rVol. 2, page 199,
' Mr. Hallett is often named in the Plymouth Colony Records, considered "authentic" by
Hutchinsoil, Bancroft, Baylies, Dra)Ee, Palfrey, and many others known to fame,' ' Mr,
Freeman "relies on' the conclusions 'of others." He says that py* his wife "Mary, ih Eng
land he had B&theheba, Andrew, SafAuel, John, Hannah probably born in Barnstable,' -Jo-
sias and Joseph.." 'Where does he find tills account? Not in Deane, Savage, or Winsor,
To the latter he refers only to misquble, ' • '"
Mr, Freemah positively asserts-, tjiat Mr. Hallett had the children named, I find no
record of his marriage ; no record of the liirths or baptisms'of any of his children — ho rec
ord 'of his death br'of the settlement of bis estate; yetthere'ie no good reason fot donbtZng
that the families of the name in Yarmouth and Barnstable are his descendants. The evi
dence, however, is circumstantial, and does not justify positive statements,' Ih no family
h&i its traditional history been better preserved, or the family - papers more carefully kept,
some dated in- 1654; but it unfortunately happens that the tradition extends only to t)ie sec
ond Andrew,' and nonfe of tUe papers of the first have been ^aved. I shall endeav(A: care
fully to discriminate between that which is certain, and that wfiic^ is only probable; -
Mr, Andrew Hallett, Sen,, was a ^ouseliolder in Plymouth and in Yarmouth, and prob-
ablyH^'Barnstable, ' hx those tim&s'meA did not build noust^s t!o' let, they built tli^m to oc
cupy, and in fact the legal meaning of the term householder, was a man who had af family :
it'was hot aitplied toainan 'Who bwned'aKbuse, occupied -by- a tenant. Ihis view Of the

GENEALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 475
The widow Mary Hallett Of Barnstable, was probably his
r£t ^^''.'^^"g'^*^'^ Hannah HaUett married John Hadaway July
1656. Josias HaUett was her son, and probablv Joseph Hallett,
of Barnstable. ¦ "
This accoijat is unsatisfactory ; but it is the best I have been
able to ol?tain after much research; Mr. HaUett's children were
probably all born in Englaad, and the parish registers in that
country wo.ijld probably furnish the desired information.
He was styled "gentieman," a titie bestowed upon few in the
Colony. It shows that he was a man possessed of a good estate,
and a man of some note in his native land. He was among the
very flrst who came to Mattakeset, but did not make it his place
of residence tiU 1641. His son Samuel was of Yarmouth in 1639,
and is spoken of as a young man, for whom his father was i^-
sponsible. (Court Order, vol. 2, page 20.)
March 5, 1638-9, the Colony Court ordered the Committee of
the town of Yarmouth, consisting of Mr. Anthony Thacher, Mr.
Thomas Howes, Mr. John Crowe, Mr. Nicholas Sympkins, Wil
Uam Palmer, Philip Tabor and Joshua Barnes, to make the first
division of the planting lands, to be divided equally "to each man
according to his estate and quality, and according to their in
structions." Thacher, Howes and Crowe, had surveyed the lands
during the previous winter, and it appears that Mr. HaUett was
also in Yarmouth, and had "assumed to himself" more land than
was thought equitable, and the Colony Court appointed March 5,
1638-9, Joshua Pratt, of Plymouth, and Mr. John Vincent of
matter, I think, makes it probable, if not certain, that the elder Mr, Hallett had a family,
Tlmt the widow Mary HaUett, of Barnstable, was the widow of Andrew HaUett, Sen'r,,
rests on this evidence : in 1654 she was a resident in Barnstable, and probably had been for
several years. She and some of her children were the owners of one of the original allot
ments of lands, purchased of one of the first settlers, for in the list of the persons who in
January, 1644, were proprietors of the common lands, there was no one of uiat name, Mr-
Hallett being then a resident in Yarmouth. He was living July 1646, but his residence at
that time is not named ; but it was probably Barnstable. He died soon after this date, be-
fere the year 1648. His estate was probably legally settled, and a division thereof made
ahiong his heirs; but unfortunately no record was made-
Up to July 7, 1646, the records of judicial acts are in the handwriting of Mr, Nathaniel
Souther, after which there is a chasm of two years and three months, to Oct, 3, 1648. In
the Probate record, there is a similar chasm. During that period there does not appear to
have been a permanent Secretary. The court orders during that time are in the handwrit
ing of Gov. Bradford, Antony Thacher and others The first record made in the court or
ders by Nathaniel Morton, so many years Secretary of the Colony, is dated Dec, 7, 1647,
probjiDly written up fi-om the minutes Of others, for he did not perform all the duties till
Oct, 1648. The Judicial acts and the Probate records w>ere not written up by him, and the
papers are now lost. Notwithstanding, the records of Barnstable and some incidental en
tries on the Colony records, will enable lis to arrive at a 'conclusion which, if not entirely
satisfactory, is probable..
In 1647, at the time oi Mr. Hallett's death, Andrew and Samuel were of legal age.
Josias and Joseph were minors, if they were able bodied and cankie over with their parents,
because in Aug, 1643, all males able to bear arms were enrolled, and their names not being
on-ttie list it is safe to infer that they were'not 16 in 1643, or 21 in 1647.
Mr, Hallett left a good estate, Mr, Freeman says : "Winsor gives his estate at £1180,"
a misquotation, for if so, he was a very wealthy man, a farm of of fifty acres and its apper-
tenarifcefS could then be boiight for £10, In the divisioil «f his estate it appears that An
drew, Samnel, and Joseph, ;had the "Hallett Farm" orgi*at lot of 200 acres, and the widow
Mary, Hannah and Josiah, the estate at Goodstie'id's mil and appertenances. Mr. Andrew
HaUett, Seni, -was the oiljy man of the name in the Colony, old enough to have been the
father of this fiimily, and I think it a legitimate inference, that the Wid. Mary was his wife,
and Andrew, Jr'., ^muel, Hannah, Josias and Jbseph, fais children.

476 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Sandwich, to view the lands, "and make report thereof unto the
Court, that if these proportions which Mr. Andrew Hellott hath
assumed to himself there shall be so p'judiciall to the whole, that
then some just aud equall order be taken therein, to prevent the
evil consequences it may be to the whole plantation."
No report of the committee is on record, and it wonld appear
from the subsequent action of the Court that Mr. Hallett^ had not
"assumed to himself" a greater proportion of the planting lands
than he had a right to claim. On the 5th of May, 1639, the
Court ordered, "that the proportion of lands granted to Mr. An
drew Hellott, at Mattacheesett, shal be and remain unto him, and
those that are appoynted to set forth the bounds betwixt Matta-
cheese and Mattacheeset shall lay forth the said proportion unto
him in a convenient plase there." (Court Orders, vol. 1, page
121). The two hundred acre lot of Mr. Hallett was laid out, ap
proved by the Court and recorded Sept. 3, 1639. A particular
description of this lot is given in the account of the Gorham fam
ily, who were afterwards the principal owners. June 17, 1641, a
new boundary line was run between Barnstable and Yarmouth.
This line divided the HaUett farm into two parts ; the larger in
Barnstable contained 150 acres, and the smaller in Yarmouth con
taining forty-four acres,
Oct, 7, 1639, "It was ordered by the Court that the seven
teen acres of meadow lying at the Stony Cove (Mill Pond) in
Yarmouth, shall be laid forth for Mr. Andrew Hellott, on the
south west side of the said Cove, and if it want of that propor
tion, then to be made up on the other side, and ten acres more
upon the Stony Cove Neck."
Mr, Hallett's name first appears on record in March 1 638-9,
but he had probably then been in the country several years. He
was then a resident in Plymouth, where he had a dweUing-house
and seven and one-half acres of land situate on the "new street."
This estate he sold to Thomas Cushman, who conveyed it to
Thomas Lettis March 28, 1641-2.
Nov. 26, 1639, Mr. HaUett bought for £10 sterling, of Dr.
Thomas Starr, of Duxbury, seventeen acres of land in Yarmouth,
in two divisions, and twelve acres of meadow "with the frame ol
a house to be set and made with a chimney, and to be thached,
studded and latched, (daubing excepted) by WUliam Chase, who
was agreed with all and paid to the doing thereof by the said
Thomas Starr, before the bargain was made with Mr. Hallett."
[Deeds, page 60,] No boundaries are given in the deed. The
houselot was at the north west corner of the town of Yarmouth,
and adjoined his "great lot" on the west, south by the highway,
east by by the lot of Robert Dennis, and north by the mill pond.
It is now owned by Joshua HaUett and others. The other divis-

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 477
ion of the land was in the West Field, and he soon after sold it
to Robert Dennis. He was of Plymouth Sept. 1, 1640, and of
Yarmouth June 17, 1641, showing that heand his son Andrew be
came permanent residents of Yarmouth about the same time.
Sept. 8, 1641, Mr. Hallett mortgaged to Mr. WilUam Paddy,
to secure a debt of £5, 4s, and to William Hanbury to secure a
debt ol 29sh, "all that his farm in Barnstable, with all and sin
gular the appertenances thereunto belonging, and all his right,
title and interest of and into the same, and every part and parcel
thereof." The mortgage was for one year, and the reason he
gives for making it is, "that bee is now going into England, and
is not able to pay them," and therefore freely assigns the property
for their security.
After his return from England he resided certainly three
years in Yarmouth, and perhaps till his decease in 1647. The
mortgaging of his farm for so small a sum indicates that he was
not a man of wealth ; but the following generous act proves that
he was a man of property, or he would not have given a cow to
the poor of Yarmouth. The following is extracted from the
Plymouth Colony records, vol. 2, page 70 :
March 5, 1643-4. "Whereas information is given to the
Court that there is a cowe or a heiffer in calve given or disposed
by Mr. Andrew Hallett, Sen., of Yarmouth, for the benefitt of
the poore of the said towne of Yarmouth, which for the ordering
thereof was referred to the Court by the said Mr. Hellot, by his
letter under his hand, bearing date the first day of March, 1643 —
the Court doth therefore order that the said cowe or heiffer in
calve shal be on Mayday next delivered to Thomas Payne, of Yar
mouth, who shall have her three years next ensuing, and the milk
and the one-half of the increase during that tyme, and after the
said three years are expired, the poore of Yarmouth shall have
her and the encrease, to be disposed of by the townsmen of Yar
mouth from tyme to tyme to other ppr persons dweUing in the
said town, as they shall think fltt, and for such town, reserving
the benefltt of the said stock for the benefitt of their poore, and
not to be allienated to any other use."
At the March term of the Court in 1642, Mr. WUliam Han
bury recovered in an action ol debt on a note for £6 9s, 9d, judg
ment against Mr. Hallett for the amount of the debt, 2 pence
damage, and the cost of the suit. At the July term in 1646,
Samuel Harvey, "in action of trespass upon the ease," £6 6s,
debt, 15 shillings damages and costs of suit.
This is the last entry of his name on the records, in connect
ion with any business transaction. May 14, 1648, Mr. Thomas
Howes "laid down seven and one-half acres of meadow at the
lower end of Rock (Lone?) Tree furlong late Mr. Hallett's.

478 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
June 7, 1648, Robert Dennis claimed seven acres of land in the
West Field bought of Mr. Hallett. In a deed dated Feb. 20,
1654, the great lot of Mr. Andrew Hallett, deceased, is named.
In Lechford's Plain Dealing, he is caUed a schoolmaster. If
so, it is surprising that his son Andrew did not learn to write till
some time after he was a married man. However, there were many
in those times who could read fiuently ; but were unable to write.
That was not considered a necessary accomplishment, and it did
not necessarily follow that the man who could not write was igno
rant ; yet we may safely presume that a teacher of youth would
have instructed his own children in the elementary branches of
education. His other children were better educated ; but, not
withstanding, Andrew was the most respectable and succeeded
best in life.
Mr. Hallett, as above stated, was called a gentleman, a word
that at that time had a very different meaning attached to it, than
it has at the present time. When applied to a man, it meant that
he was connected with the gentry or wealthy class — that he was
not a mechanic or common laborer, and that he had received a
good education. Rank and title were more regarded in those days
than at the present time. Of the first settlers in Barnstable,
about thirty were entitled to be called "goodman," four to be
called "mister," and one "gentleman." What his employment
was the records do not inform us. He was engaged in too many
lawsuits for a teacher, yet Lechford was probably right. He had
not been officially employed in the public service, yet the Colony
Court decided that he had rendered some public service and was
entitled to a liberal grant, and though objection was made to the
amount, yet the Court conflrmed it, and the towns of Barnstable
and Yarmouth acquiesced.
Too few incidents of his life are known to enable us to form
a just estimate of his character. That he was a man of some
note in the Colony, has already been shown. He speculated in
wild lands ; but in doing so he only followed the fashions of the
times. Every one traded in land, from the minister in his pulpit
to the cobbler on his bench. He was frequently a party in law
suits. Th§y are not always to be avoided ; for the over-reaching
and the dishonest ought not to be allowed to possess in peace the
wealth of others. However, the man of peace, the good citizen
and obliging neighbor, very rarely appeals to the law to obtain re
dress for every offence against his property or his good name.
His experience and observation has taught him that it is not the
better way. The self-wUled, the wayward and the stubborn, as a
class, are most frequently engaged in lawsuits. Mr. HaUett did
not recover damage in any of his lawsuits, and it may thence be
inferred that he was a little stiff-necked, and believed his own to

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 479
be th#better way, a trait of character which many of his descend
ants, down to the fifth generation, inherited.*
However wayward he may have been, his generous donation
to the poor of Yarmouth wUl ever be remembered, and make us
regret that we know so littie of the man. If at the present time
a man should present a cow to the poor, the act would not be
heralded in the newspapers as an act of great benevolence, but in
order to form a just estimate of the value of the gift, it must be
borne in mind that cattle were then scarce in the Colony, and that
a cow was then the equivalent of a good sized farm, or of the
wages ol a common laborer for a year.
There is no record of his death. In the division of the
fences in Barnstable Feb. 28, 1647, Mr. or Mrs. HaUett is named,
but not in the subsequent division in 1649. This entry is proba
bly in old style, and would be 1648, new. Not much reliance,
however, is to be placed in it. He probably died in 1647, as
above stated, but if the entry in the division ol fences is reUable,
in the spring of 1648.
Of some of the members of the Hallett family I have spoken
in a note. John Hallett, who settled in Scituate, was one of the
Conihasset planters in 1646. Mr. Deane calls him a brother of
Andrew of Sandwich. Mr, Savage copies from Deane, and re
marks that his account is "confused," He has not made it any
clearer. Both mix up the families of Andrew, Sen., with that ol
Andrew, Jr., and hence the confusion.
Similarity in the family names of the Scituate and Yarmouth
families probably induced Mr, Deane to call them relatives. They
probably were ; but John of Scituate was too old a man to be
called a son of Andrew, Sen., without some more certain evidence
than has yet been obtained. Richard Curtis married "Lydia,"
daughter of John Hallett, in 1649, presuming her to be his oldest
child, 1609 is as late a period as can be assigned for the birth of
the father. In some families there are as great or a greater dis
parity in the ages of the children, but such cases are rare, and in
the absence of records it is not safe to make such presumpt
ions. Mr. Deane had but Uttle exact information respecting the
HaUett family. He evidently did not know that there were two
*Few men could tell a story more gracefully or better than the late Hon, John Beed,
He fi;equently told the following, remarking that he was an eye-witness. It is a good illus
tration of a peculiar trait of character for which many of the Hallets of other days were
noted, Perhajis it was the manner in which the story was told that made it interesting.
The fourth Jonathan Hallett and Joshua Hallett were at work together shingling a build
ing. One proposed to put up a stage ; the other said, "We can put on two or three courses
more without one." The flrst said to himself, "I can shingle as long as you without a
stage, and I will not again propose to put up a stage," and the other made the same resolu
tion. They continued nailing on course after course, both resolved not to yield, tUl both
were seen standing tiptoe beside the building, nailing on shingles as high above then;
heads as they could possibly stretch, neither yielded till it was impossible for him to drive
another nail. This singular contest attracted spectators, and the merriment which it exci
ted had, perhaps, an influence in inducing them to take a common sense view of the mat
ter and put up a stage.

480 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Andrews. John, son of Andrew, Jr., he caUs a son of John of
Scituate, and the wife of Richard Curtis he calls in one place
"Ann," and in another "Lydia." He informs us that John Hal
lett was an extensive land holder ; that his house was near the
harbor at Scituate, and that Hallett's Island near the "stepping
stones," still retains his name.
Bathsheba, the flrst wife of Mr. Richard Bourne, on the au
thority of Mr. Freeman, I called a daughter of Andrew, Sen. ;
but the statement wants confirmation.
Family of Mr. Andrew HaUett, Sen. All his chUdren prob
ably born in England :
2. I. Andrew, born about 1615, married Ann Besse, died in
1684, (see below.)
3. II. Samuel, was sixteen years of age, or upwards, in 1643,
consequently was born in England before the year 1627.
He came to Yarmouth early, before the removal of his father
from Plymouth, as the following record dated Juue 17, 1641,
seems to prove, because Mr. HaUett had no other son to
whom it could refer, Andrew being then of age and a resi
dent in Sandwich, and neither Josias nor Joseph, if they
had then came over, was over twelve in 1639.
"It is ordered by the Court, that Mr. Andrew Hallett shah
pay Massatampaimf one fadome of beads [wampam] within two
moones, beside the nett he alleadgeth the sd Massatampaim soold
him, for the deare that Mr. Hellot'a sonn bought of him about two
years since."
In the division of his father's estate a part of the "Hallett
Farm" situate within the boundaries of the town of Barnstable,
and the homestead bought of Dr. Starr in Yarmouth, appears to
have been set off to him, and was sold by his administaators,
probably to Capt. John Gorham who was the owner in 1652. J
He had no lamily. Neither widow nor children are named in
the settlement of his estate. He was drowned at Eastham, and
the particulars are thus recorded by Mr. Lothrop on the Barnsta
ble church records : "Thomas Blossom and Samuel HoUet

tMas-sa-tam-paim was the sachem of Nobscusset, or Yarmouth. He sold the lands in
the north part of Yarmouth and Dennis to Mr, Bradford, and his release in the handwrif^
ing of Anthony Thacher is yet preserved. He lived to be very aged. The first syllable of
his name signifies great — the whole perhaps "great sagamon," but I am not certain. It is
sometimes writen "Mas-am-tam-paigne,"

Jin the Gorham article I state that Capt. John purchased the whole of the "Hallett
Farm" about the year 1652, A more careful examination of deeds and the other records,
satisfies me that he did not at first purchase the whole. The forty-four ' acres of the
"Farm" within the boundaries of Yarmouth, excepting some small portions, has never
been sold, and the descendants of Andrew, Sen,, still hold it by virtue of the original
grant in 1639, also a tract of about 15 acres on the west of Long Pond ; I am also in
clined to the opinion that he did not at first purchase the northwest portion of the "Farm"
which anpears to have been set off to Joseph, who sold to James Gorham, a son of Capt.
John, My recent investigations seem to lead to this conclusion, I am perfectly certain
that I was in an error when I statod that Capt. John Gorham bought the whdle of the
"Hallett Farm," and those who keep files of these articles are requested to make the
correction by interlining before "Hallett Farm" the words "a large part of,"

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 481
drowned at the Harbour of Nocett att their first Setting out from
thence aboute a fishing voyage AprU 22, 1650."
"June 5, 1650, Letters of administration are graunted unto
Mr. Tho. Howes [of Yarmouth] and Samuel Mayo§ [of Barn-
ble] to administer upon the estate of Samuel Hollet, and to pay
the debts as fare as the estate will amount unto by equall propor
tions." The foregoing extracts show that Samuel Hallett came to
Yarmouth with the flrst settlers in the winter of 1638-9, that he
remained in that town tiU the removal of his father in 1641, en
gaged in the fisheries, and probably had the care of his father's
estate before his brother Andrew removed from Sandwich ; that he
died unmarried in 1650, and probably on account of his losses at
the time of his shipwreck, he did not leave a sufficient estate to
pay his debts in full.
4. III. Hannah, born about 1627, married July 1, 1656, John
Haddaway. (See Haddaway.)
6. IV. Josias was born after the year 1627. He was a mari
ner, and is named as living in 1663. From the notices of him in
the records, it is inferred that he did not sustain a good c har-
acter for sobriety. In the division of his father's estate, the
southerly part of the homestead was set off to him, containing
eight acres. This land is now owned by Major Sylvanus B.
Phinney, and is that part of his homestead which is situate on the
south of the swamp. Anciently there was a highway between
the swamp and the railroad, called Goodspeed's Outlet, Josias
Hallett's house was on that road. Dec. 14, 1661, he sold this es
tate and three acres ol meadow at Blush's point to John Hadde
way, for £10 sterUng. In the deed he is called "sometime ol
Barnstable." He had then removed, perhaps to Sandwich. Be
ing a householder it is probable that he had a family, though no
children are named on the town or church records. The Jona
than of Sandwich in 1684, was a son of Andrew, not of Josias.
6. V. Joseph, probably the youngest of the family, married in
1666, Elizabeth  .
Of this family no record has been preserved. It is evident
from the Colony records that he had at least one child. Lois Hal
lett, who married April 10, 1690, was probably his daughter.
She removed to Stonington, Connecticut, in 1716. In 1686 he
had a house on the north side ol the county road, between the
houses of Joseph Benjamin (now Nathan Edson's) and James
Gorham's (now Warren Marston's) . Whether his house stood on
the Hallett Farm or not, I am unable certainly to determine. In
the Gorham article I presumed that it stood on the west of the
miU road ; but having since obtained some additional informa-
icapt, Samuel Mayo had vessels employed in the coasting and fisheries. In 1647 the
town granted him liberty to erect a fish house on the pomt of land below his house now
called Crowell's point.

482 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
tion, I am inclined to the opinion that Joseph had the northwest
part of his father's great lot or farm set off to him in the divis
ion of the estate, and that he built his house thereon, not far from
the location of the dwelling-house of the heirs of Ansel Hallett,
deceased. He was a townsman in 1670, and at the division of
the common meadows in 1697 had one acre allotted to him. He
is not named in the division of the common lands in 1706, and the
presumption is that some time between 1697 and 1706 he removed
Irom Barnstable. If he had died the settlement of liis estate
would appear on the Probate Records. His lands were afterwards
the property of James Gorham.*
The widow Mary Hallett is described 31st March, 1659, as
"now living in Barnstable," implying that Barnstable had not
been her permanent place of residence. Her lands at Good-
speed's Hill in 1654 are thus described: "Eleven acres of up
land, more or less, bounded northerly by the highway, easterly by
James Lewis' land, southerly by her own land, (called also Jo
sias') westerly upon John Davis, stretching upon a sett off four
rods into the swamp (Lewis' swamp) across the north end of John
Davis' land." In the Goodspeed article. No. CVII, there is a
diagram of this land. It is those portions of the Goodspeed and'
Scudder lots, bounded north by the County road, east by James
Lewis, south by Goodspeed's outlet, which separates it from Jo
sias Hallett's land and John Davis', and west by the Hyannis
road, which separated it from John Davis' houselot ; but did not
include Lewis' Swamp, now the houselot of the heirs of F. W.
Crocker, Esq., deceased. These eleven acres are now owned by
the heirs of Timothy Reed, Esq., Major S, B. Phinney, Eben.
Bacon, Esq., heirs of F. W. Crocker, Esq., deceased, and by the
United States, (Custom House lot) .
The three acres of meadow at Blush's Point, afterwards Jo
sias', are also described as her property.
There is no record of her death, and her name does not ap
pear after 1659. She probably removed, perhaps with her son
Josias to Sandwich. That she was the widow of Mr. Andrew
Hallett, Sen,, there is very little reason to doubt. She is called in
the Barnstable records ''Mrs. Hallett." Titles meant something
in those days ; her husband, wherever he was, was called Mr.
There was only only one man of the name prior to 1654, who was
entitled to that distinction, and that man was Mr. Andrew Hal
lett, Sen., the husband of Wid. Mary Hallett.
(2-1.) Andrew, Hallett, Jr., is the common ancestor of aU
the families of the name in Barnstable and Yarmouth. He was
one of the first settlers of the town of Sandwich, and at the di-

*Mr, Hallett probably had other children than those named. The first wife of Eobert
Davis was probably his daughter, Davis resided in Yarmouth until the death of Mr, Hal-
lett when he removed to Barnstable, buUding his house next west of Joseph Hallett's house
lot on a tract of land probably the property of his father-in-law. .^»u"i.i,

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 483
vision ol the common meadows, AprU 16, 1640, he had seven and
one-half acres assigned to him. The division of the common
lands and meadows in Sandwich was made "according to each
man's estate and condition," or "quality," a most aristocratic
rule. In the other towns there were three elements on which the
division was made: 1, personal rights ; 2, to the owners of tene
ments or dwelling houses ; and 3, the estate and quality. This
was an equitable mode. One third was distributed in equal
shares to the legal inhabitants, one third equally to the owners of
dwelling-houses, without reference to the cost, and the other third
to the inhabitants in the same proportion that taxes were levied.
The proprietors of Sandwich rejected the democratic principles
involved in the first and second elements, and divided by the
third, literally observing the rule, "To him that has much, shall
much be given."
The division was made by a committee of ten, flve represent
ing the aristocracy, and flve the townsmen. The flrst five awarded
to themselves, one hundred and fourteen acres, nearly one third
of the whole. The other five were more modest iu their demands,
and took only forty and one-half acres, — leaving to be divided to
the other 56 inhabitants named, 214 1-2 acres, less than four
acres to each, 7 1-2 acres being awarded to Andrew Hallett, it
shows that he had at that time a good estate and was compara
tively a wealthy man,*
The farm of Andrew Hallett, in Sandwich, was that lately
owned by Paul Wing, deceased, at the Tack Factory village,
about in the center (from east to west) of the settlement made in
1637, This tract the Indians called Mos-keeh-tuk-gut.f
July 28, 1640, he sold his farm in Sandwich to Daniel Wing,
by whose descendants it was owned tiU recently. No considera
tion is named, and the deed is a specimen of the brevity in which
conveyances of real estate were often made, in early times.
"I, Andrew Hallett of Sandwich, have sold unto Daniel
Wing, of same town, and to his heirs and assigns forever, my
dwelling-house in Sandwich, with three acres of land joyning to
it, and the corn now growing upon it, with the cow-house. It
heth between the land of Georg-e ShawsonJ and WilUam New-
'*This is a fair specimen of the justice displayed by a i^ajority of the first settlers in
Sandwich, By the aid of the notorious Barlow (father-in-law to the wife of Andrew Hal
lett, Jr.,) they maintained their ascendency twenty five years, when they were succeeded
by a better class of men. Of the members of the Committee Mr, John Vincent, Richard
Bourne, Geo, Allen and Eobert Bodfish, should be excepted from the censure due
to the recorded acts of the committee.
tMr. Freeman says the Indian name of Sandwich was Shaume. He is mistaken,
Shaume or Shawmet, as its name implies, is a neck of land now known as Town Neck.
The swell of land on the south is sometimes called Shaume HiU; but there is no evidence
that it was so named by the aboriginers, „,i n,. ft,„„/i„n™ «f
ihe flrst settlement in Sandwich was made at Manomet m 1627, and the foundation of
the trading house built that year can yet be traced the sprmg fl:om which they obtained
water is yit to be seen, and the remains of the lading place or wharf It is on the south
side of the river, about half a mile west of Monument Depot, on the Cape Cod Bailroad,
A settiement was made at Mos-keeh-tuk-gut in 1637, and soon aftf r at Scusset, Sprmg HiU

484 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
land ; and two acres of planting land at Ma-noo-nah-Skussett ;
and five acres of planting land lying near Spring Hill ; and four
acres wanting one quarter of meadow near the Pine Neck ; and
two acres of meadow lying [iUegible] and one acre and a half
lying in the Neck, being yet undivided ; with aU commons, and aU
pasture, and all profits and appertenances whatsoever, thereunto
belonging. Witness my hand this twenty-eighth day of July, one thou-
slx hundred and forty. The mark of
H
Andrew Hallett.
Signed and delivered in presence of
Edward Dillingham,
John Wing.
Taken out of the original deed and entered on record by me,
Thomas Tupper,
Towu Clerk.
From Sandwich Andrew HaUett removed to Yarmouth, of
which town he continued to be an inhabitant till his death in
1684, In 1642 he bought the dwelUng-house of Gyles Hopkins, >
the flrst built by the English in Yarmouth, and ten acres of land.
This honse was probably erected by Mr. Stephen Hopkins, by
virtue of a grant made by the Colony Court dated Aug. 7, 1638.
It stood ou land now owned by Charles Basset, a little distance
northwesterly from the house of .loseph Hale. Traces of the
foundation are not yet entirely obliterated. The ten acres of
land were bounded northeasterly by the lands of Mr. Nicholas
Simpkins, and southwesterly by the lauds of Robert Dennis. In
1644 he bought flfteen acres of upland ol Mr. Nicholas Simpkins
adjoining his own on the east and three acres of salt meadow.
In 1655 he bought the farm of Robert Dennis, The original
deed in the handwriting of Mr, Anthony Thacher, has been pre
served, and the following is a copy :
"These presents bearing date the twenty-fourth day of Feb-

and other places. No settlement has been made at Shauioe or Town Neck to this day.
The account of the division of the common meadow^, I think, sustains this view beyond
any controversy or doubt. Moo-ne-noo-ne-nus-cus-sefr — the village Moo-re-noo-ne-nus-
caul-ton — the river or stream, I have before remarked that Indian names are descriptive
terms. These long names have been contracted to Scusset. The meaning ol the long
name applied to the river seems to be the murmuring stream, or perhaps a better transla
tion is "the stream where murmuring, sounds are heard in the evening," tho name of the
village implies "a landing place on that stream," A similar name was sometimes applied
to the long valley which terminated at Scusset or West Sandwich, In all languages there
is an analogy between sound and sense, and particularly in arbarous or unwritten lan
guages. Our English word murmur is one of this character and the Indian Moo-ne-
noo-ne is one of the same character and represents the same idea. The Indian names of
birds and beasts, were often imitations of the song or cry of each. The crow, the black
bird, the' duck, the goose, and all the birds were continually chanting to the Indian their
individual names, and so did the beasts of the field and the buzzing insects,
JGeorge Shawson, Mr. Winson says, was of Duxbury in 1638, and removed to Sand
wich in 1640. He removed to Stamford, Conn,, before 1644, where he died Feb, 19, 1695,
leaving descendants.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 485
ruary Ano Domini 1654, made between Robert Dennis of Yarmouth in
the Colony of New Plimouth in New England, carpenter, for the one
party, aud Andrew Hallett of the same towne husbandoiHn ou the other
part, witnesseth that Robert Dennis, aforesaid, lor and in consideration
of the sum of ninety pounds in good merchaatable pay iu New Eneland
to him by the said Andrew Hallett, and before the unsealing and deliv
ery of these presents well and truly satisfied aud paide, the receipt
whereof the said Robert Dennis doth hereby acknowledge and thereof
and of every part and pr cll thereof doth fully acquite exonerate and
discharge the said Andrew Hallett, his heirs, executors and administra
tors, and every of them forever by these presents have graunted, bar
gained, sould, enfeofled, and confirmed, and by these presents doe
graunt, bargain, sell, enfeofle and confirm unto the said Andrew Hal
lett and unto his heirs, that messuage or dwelling-house, with the al-
lottment of laud the said house stands in and upon, containing six
acres be it more or less, lying, situate and being in Yarmouth afore
said, neere adjoining on the easier side unto the lands and dwelling
house of him the said Andrew Hallett and now in the tennor and occu
pation ol him the said Andrew, and also forty-six acres of land be it
more or less next adjoyning to the same, bounded on the wester side
with the flarine lot of lands late Mr, Andrew Hallett's, deceased, on
the easter side, with an allotment of lands late Emauuei White's aud
now common, and a lot ol land now in the tenure and possession of Mr.
Antony Thacher, on the souther end with sold allotment of (oblitera
ted, probably Antony Thacher) the ponds and parte of the above-said
ffarni lott, and partly on the norther end with the lands of the said An
drew Hallett all lying and being in a field known and commonly called
the west fleld, and also thirteen acres of land more or less lying and be
ing in a parcell of land commonly cald stony cove, and also two acres
more or les lying and being iu a furlong cald Rabbett's min, between
the lands of Wm. Lumpkin and Richard Pritchett at Nobscussett and
three acres iu a furlong there cald plain furlong next adjoyning the
country farm, and also nine acres more or less of marsh meadow lands
lying abutting on ye foresaid land cald Stony Cove, and the two rivers
or creeks cald Stony Cove river, and a creek cald Sympkins creek and
ye meadow lands of him the said Andrew Hallett ; together with all
, and singular houses, ediflces, buildings, barnes, staules, pounds, or
chards, gardens, casements and fiitte commodities, emoluments, and
hereditaments thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, or
therewith enjoyed or accepted, deemed, reputed or taken to be pte or
pcell ol the same or any pte or pcell ol the lands above recited, and all
the estate, rights, title, interest, claim demanded whatsoever of him
the said Robert Dennis and Mary his wile and Thomas fflawne or any
or either of them oif in or to the same or any pte or pcell of the same.
To have and to hold the said bargained messuage or dwelling house
lands and premises, with their and every ol their appertenances, unto
him the said Andrew Hallett his heirs and assigns forever, to the only
proper use and behoole ol him the said Andrew Hallett and ol his heirs
and assignes lorever. In witness whereof the said Robert Dennis has
hereunto set his hand and scale.
Signed, sealed and delivered Robert Dennis. L, S.
in presence of
John Ceowe,
The marke Richard Hoee,
Antont Thacher, , . ^
A : U : I : C : V : G : [or something like it.]
This deed is recorded according to order pr me Nathaniel Morton,
Clarke ol the Court."

486 GENEALOGICAL N&TES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
May 10, 1648, the lands of Robert Dennis,* situate in the
West Field, are described in the Colony records, as 12 acres
bought of Peter Warden, 10 of Mr. Edmond Hawes, 7 of Mr.
Andrew Hallett, and 4 given him by the town. Thomas Flawne
had 13 acres in the same field, making the 46 acres sold.
The records of the layii:g out of the houselots in Yarmouth
are lost. They contained from five to six acres each, and no per
son was allowed to own two adjoining lots, without he maintained
a dwelling-house on each. They were laid out on the north side
of the County road, the lands on the south being reserved as
planting grounds, and enclosed by a common fence. The west
ern lot adjoining the bounds of Barnstable was Dr. Thos. Starr's,
sold in 1639 to Mr. Andrew HaUett, and afterwards owned by
Capt. John Gorham. Four acres of this lot are now owned by
the Gorhams, and two by the Halletts. The second lot was Rob
ert Dennis', the one conveyed in the foregoing deed, and is now
owned by the Halletts, Mr. Eldredge Lovell, and Joseph Gorham.
The third lot was sett off to Gyles Hopkins, and sold by him to
Andrew Hallett, Jr., in 1642. This lot probably included the
houselot now owned by Mr. Jarius Lincoln, Jr., certainly Capt.
Charles Bassett's, Mr. Joseph Hale's, and Mr. John Bassett's,
Mill Lane being then probably its northeastern boundary. The
fourth lot was Capt, Nicholas Sympkins', and sold by him' in 1644
to Andrew Hallett, Jr.
The Mill road was laid out by the flrst comers as a private
way. Hopkins' and Sympkins' land extended across Mill Pond
meadows, and included land in Stony Cove Neck or Sympkins'
Neck, as it is sometimes called, he owning to the creek which
still retains his name. This road led to the ancient landing-place
or wharl on the north of the Grist Mill.
By subsequent purchases Andrew Hallett, Jr. , became the
largest land holder in Yarmouth, owning about three hundred
acres of the best lands and meadows in the town. On the north
side of the road his farm extended from the Gorham houselot to
the Hawes farm, where Mr. Edward W. Crocker now resides, and
included nearly all the meadows on the north. On the south side
of the road, he owned from the bounds of Barnstable nearly to
Hawes' Lane. From him the westerly part of the Countv road in
Yarmouth obtained the name of Hallett street, which it has re
tained to this day. Beside the ample domain alreadv described^
he owned lands and meadows in Barnstable, 1000 acres in Wind
ham, Conn., and rights to commonage in Yarmouth, equal to 500
acres more.
The mode in -wtiich he acquired this large estate I ShaU at-

*Eobert Dennis was & cai-Jienter, and had a wife Mary, He had only onfe child record
ed as bom in YarinoUth, Mary, mh Sejit, 1649, I thiiik he remb-ired to NewpOM, and was
afterwards a man of note, Thomas Flawne appears to have resided In the familv of Den
nis, Mr, Savage does not name him.

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tempt to elucidate. Two words, industry and economy, are the
keys which unlock the whole mystery. If he was the eldest son,
he was entitied to a double share of his father's estate, and if so,
his share was not over £20 in value. He may with propriety be
called the representative man of the rude social organization of
his times. The great majority of our fathers lived precisely as he
lived, and practiced as he practiced, and thus laid a sure founda
tion for our present prosperity. The inhabitants of this County
fifty years ago were, with very few exceptions, the descendants of
the flrst settlers, and inherited from them habits of industry and
economy, their respect for the laws, and the reUgious institutions
in which they were trained up.
Andrew HaUett, Jr., did not acquire his wealth by official
services. His name frequently occurs on the records, but not in
connfection with any office that conferred much honor or afforded
him large emoluments. In 1642, '56 and '58, he was a surveyor
of highways; in 1661 and 1679 constable. In 1659 he was ap
pointed by the Court one of a committee to raise money for the
support of the ministry in Yarmouth. In 1660, '67 and '75, he
was on the grand jury ; and Oct. 30, 1667, he was appointed by
the Colony Court, at the request of the town, a member of the
land committee of Yarmouth. None of those are offices of honor
or proflt ; but they show that he was a man in whom his neigh
bors had confidence, that he was a man of common sense and
sound judgment. When a young man he was unable to write, yet
soon after he came to Yarmouth he acquired that art, for in 1659
I flnd his name subscribed to the verdict of a jury of inquest.
He took the oath of fideUty while a resident in Sandwich, and
his name and that of his father appears on the list of those who
were able to bear arms in Yarmouth in August, 1643. On the
criminal calendar his name does not appear. In those times the
most trifling laults were noted, and he who escaped a prosecution
must necessarily have lived a blameless life. He also kept his
name off of the civil docket. He had no lawsuits. This is nega
tive testimony ; but establishes all we wish, he was a quiet peaca-
ble man, minded his own business, and did not intermeddle with
that of others.
He was a member of the church in Yarmouth ; but circumstan
ces show that he did not entirely acquiese in all the crude notions
promulgated by Mr. Matthews. He often attended the meetings
of Mr. Lothrop, and Mr. WaUey and some of the members of his
family afterwards joined the Barnstable church. He was an ex
emplary member of the church of Christ, constant in its attend^
ahce on its ordinances, and in his family, no wordly care was ever
a bar to the performaiice of his whole duty as a parent.
Perhaps I am unnecessarily particular, that I state facts and
cu-eunistanceS that are tOo trivial, and had better be left unsaid.

488 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Perhaps it is true ; but considering the second Andrew Hallett as
a representative man, and that his history is the history of hundreds
of others, 1 am induced to particularize, and perhaps repeat some
things, because I happen to know more of him than I do of those
equally deserving, whose biography I omit.
The house which he bought of Gyles Hopkins in 1642, was
probably the same that Mr. Stephen Hopkins built in the summer
of 1638, and if so, was the flrst house buUt by the English on
Cape Cod below Sandwich, It was small and poorly constructed,
and was occupied as a dweUing not many years. As the flrst
house built by the whites, it has an historical interest. It stood
on the eastern declivity of the hill, about seventy-flve yards north
westerly from the present dwelling-house of Mr, Joseph Hale. A
depression in the ground and a rock in the wall, mark the place of
its location. An excavation was made into the side of the hill to
level the ground, and the stone and cob work chimney was built
against the bank, and outside of the frame of the house. It
probably contained at first only one room. The excavation into
the hill, and the chimney, covered nearly the whole of the west
side, and the other three sides were covered with hand-sawed or
hewn planks, and the roof with thach. The walls were not shin
gled on the outside, or plastered on the in. The seams in the
boarding were filled or "daubed" with clay. Oiled paper sup
plied the place of glass. The sills were hewn from large logs,
and projected into the room, forming low seats on three sides.
The floor was fastened to sleepers laid on the ground, and even
with the lower edge of the sills. A ladder to the chamber and a
elect door with a wooden latch and string, completed the flxtures
of the house.
In this rudely built shanty, two of the children of Gyles
Hopkins, who came over in the Mayflower, were born, and here
resided a number of years the most opulent man of Yarmouth.
Nearly all the houses of our ancestors were of this description.
The memorandum of the contract for buUding the house of the
elder Mr. Hallett, preserved in the deed of Dr. Starr, proves that
his house was of the same description. Gov. Hinckley resided in
a house of similar construction many years. De Rassier's de
scription of Plymouth in 1627, shows that the walls of the houses
in that town were covered with hewn or hand-sawed planks, aud
unshingled. As late as 1717 it was not common to plaster the in
side walls. The seams between the boards on the Meeting House
built that year on Cobb's Hill were fllled with morter, or "daubed"
precisely in the same manner as practiced by the first settlers.
That boards were used in the construction of their dwellings, by
the flrst settlers, is also shown by the agreement made June 19,
1641, between the inhabitants of Barnstable and the Indian chief
Nepaiton, to buUd the latter a house. A part of the contract was

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 489
that it should be built, "wuh a chamber floored with boards, with a
chimney and an oven therein." This contract, and the contract hy
Dr. Starr with WiUiam Chase ic 1639, estabUah the fact that boards
were used by our ancestors in the construction of their houses. In
1640 there was a saw miU in Scituate, but Mr. Deane says "we are
without date when it was erected,"
Some writers on our early history speak of the "log cabins of
ancestors." I find no evidence that they built a single log-house.
The timber in the vicinity of the settlements was unfit for such
buildings. Before the erection of saw mills, there were sawyers in
aU the towns ; and within the last fifty years, old houses have been
taken down which were originally covered with hand-sawed planks
or boards. In 1640 boards were cheap in Scituate, and for many
years after the settlement, much of the lumber used in the Plymouth
Colony was brought from that town.
The fortification houses of our fathers were built, the lower
story of stone, where it could be conveniently procured, and the sec
ond of wood. In a part ot Yarmouth (now South Dennis) where
no stone could be conveniently found, a block house was built for de
fence. This in its constructiou resembled a log-house, but no one
calls such a structure by that name. Many common houses like
that of John Crocker were surrounded by a palisade, and were in
tended as places of resort, should the Indians prove unfriendly.
Major Gookin in speaking of the wigwams, of the Indians,
says some of them were large and convenient, and more comfortable
than many houses built by the English. Mr. Lothrop calls some of
the houses of our ancestors, booths, indicating that they were most
uncomfortable residences in the winter. Some he calls pailsado,
meaning I presume that the walls were built of two parallel rows of
poles, and the space between filled with clay or other material.
Others were frame houses not large or elegantly finished, but warm
and comfortable. Dwellings of the latter description, only a few
men who were comparatively wealthy, had the means to build.
In such rude shelters from the piercing storms of the winter of
1639-40, the great mass of our ancestors resided more happily and
more contentedly than do their descendants at this day, in their well
built and well furnished mansions. Mornings and evenings they
thanked their Heavenly Father for the many blessings He had
vouchsafed to them ; that their lines had fallen in such pleasant
places ; that He had held them as in the hoUow of His hand, pro
tecting them from the savages among whom they dwelt, and the
wiles of the more savage men, who had driven them from their na
tive land. Such were the feeUhgs of our ancestors, they were ever
conscious of being under Divine protection, and were ever happy,
contented, and thankful. It is a sufficient honor to descend from
such a race of men. We need not trace our ancestry farther. The
more closely we study their character, the greater will be our rever-

490 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ence for them. The study will make us more contented with our
lot in life, happier and better men.
In the summer of 1640 they had their lauds to clear, fence and
plant, to build roads, and do many things that are incident to' the
settlement of a new country, and they found little time, if they had
the means, of improving their dweUings. Many of them resided all
their days in the houses they first erected. Improvements were
made from time to time. The thatched roof, the paper windows,
and the cob work chimney disappeared, and shingled roofs, diamond
glass windows and brick chimneys and ovens were substituted. As
the family increased the house was enlarged, first by adding a lean
to, and afterwards by adding another story. Some of the largest
old house.s now remaining, oue of which will be described in this
aiticle, were built by adding one room at a time.
The second house in which Andrew Hallett, Jr., resided, in
Yarmouth, stood on the west side of the mill road, a little distance north
of the house now occupied by Mr. John Bassett. It has been sug
gested that this was the Sympkins house repaired and enlarged. The
family tradition is that he built it.
He bought the Sympkins land in 1644, but did not build his
house till some time afterwards, if the family tradition is reliable,
that Jonathan, born ih 1647, first saw light in the old house. The
new house was built on a little knoll, and fronted due south, as all
ancieut dwellings did. By such a location, our fathers secured two
objects which they considered essential : the rays of the sun at noon,
or dinner-time, as they called that hour of the day, shone parallel
with the side of the house, and their "great room" in which they
Uved, was on the sunny or warm side of the house. The chimney
was uniformly built ou the west side, and projected outside of the
frame. The exact size of Andrew HaUett's new house cannot he
stated accurately ; it was about 22 feet by 26 on the ground, and was
only one or one-half stories high. The arrangement of the rooms
was the same as in the Dimmock house, which I have described.
The "great room," about 17 feet square, occupied the southeast cor
ner. The fireplace was eight feet wide and four deep, and the man
tle, which was of wood, was laid about five feet and a half high, so
that the family could pass to the oven,* which opened on the back of
the fireplace near the south corner. There was a small kitchen or
work room at the northwest corner ; at the northeast corner a small
pantry, with a trap door leading to the cellar. Between the pantry
and the great room was a bed-room, the floor of which was elevated
about two feet, to give greater depth to the cellar. The bed occu-
*The oven projected out on the west side of the house. I am not aware that there is a
single specimen of these old chimneys and projecting ovens now remaining in this County.
Mr, Oris Bacon's was the last I recoUect in Barnstable, A man passing a honse of tms
construction, and thinking to pass a good joke on the lady thereof, knocked at the door; on
her appearance, he said : "Madam, do you know your oven has got out of doors?" She
replied, "Will you have the kindness to bring it in, it is too hot for me to handle?"

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pied near all the space, and it was so low in the walls that a taU per
son could not stand upright therein. A ladder in the front entry led
to the chamber, which was occupied for weaving and lodging rooms.
No part of the house was ever painted or any of the rooms papered.
The windows were of small diamond shaped glass set in lead. No
bliuds or curtains were needed, and none were ever used.
The furniture of the house was for use, not for show. Half a
dozen flag bottomed, one low and one large armed chair, a table, a
large chest, and a cradle, all of domestic manufacture, was the fur
niture usually to be seen in the summer in the great room, and in
the winter a bed occupied one corner, and the looms another. " On
one side of the room there were usually two large "trencher
shelves,"! on which the pewter ware of the family was displayed, an
iron candlestick, an hour glass, a pen and ink horn, the bible, and
hymn book. >
A clock or timepiece was an article not to be found in the set
tlement. Time was reckoned thus, "daylight, sunrise, sun an hour,
two hours and three hours high, and the reverse in the afternoon.
When the sun shone, they could tell the precise apparent time at
noon, -and they had marks by which they judged very accurately
of the time from 9 A. M. till 3 P. M. Sun dials were early intro
duced, and many had them fastened to posts set in front of their
houses. If we lay aside one consideration, the cost of fuel, it may be
safely said that for comfort, convenience and health, nothing supe
rior to the old fashioned fireplace has yet been invented. Grates,
stoves and furnaces, in comparison with them, are only contemptible
contrivances for saving a little fuel, , engendering gas, dust, and
headache, and shortening a man's days. Talk with the aged, they
will uniformly tell you that the happiest hours of their lives were
spent in the corner of an old-fashioned kitchen fireplace. In the
long winter evenings the younger members of the family occupied
the low bench in the left chimuey corner, the smaller one perhaps
mounted on the dye-tub. Here they were warm and comfortable,
and could read or play without molestation, or gaze up to the stars
through the capacious chimney. In the other corner sat the mis
tress of the family in her low rocking-chair, and in front, the father
in his round-about, or in an old-fashioned arm chair.
In those days there was a social equality now unknown. There
were no visits of ceremony, — no calls to leave a card; but neighbor
called on neighbor, without previous invitation to spend a long even
ing. In such cases, aU the children of the neighborhood assembled
at the house left vacant by the parents. They parched corn, cracked
nuts, and played blind man's buff", hunt the slipper, thread the needle
through the eye, hull guU, and many other plays and games, which

tThis name seems to imply that our ancestors used trenchers, or wooden dishes on
which to cut and serve their meats.

492 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
the boarding-school Miss now regards with horror, though she can
witness with delight the indelicate girations of the ballet dancer, or
unseemly pranks o( a French waltz.
The old folks flrst discussed the English news, though it was
four or flve months old. Some one had had a letter from their rela
tives in the father land. This was passed around from family to
family, and read and discussed by the whole vicinity. The minis
try — the church — the acts of the Court — and the crops, were sub
jects that passed in review, and often familism, pedo-baptism,
quakerism, and witchcraft, came in for a -share of the conversation.
The young and the old enjoyed these social meetings, now only
known in recollection. They are past — another King has" arisen
who knows not Joseph, and all arguments is estoped by repeating
the quaint Latin dictum, ' ' Tempora mutantar,
Et nos mutamur in iUis."
That is, times change, and we must change with them, an ar
gument which many call a "clincher." The Dutchman's wife ex
pressed the same sentiment, perhaps in stronger language, when she
said to her husband, "Dear Vill, I vish as you, you'd do as- other
people do." Thus it is the good customs of our fathers are rejected,
because the vain call them old fashioned.
The fire was never sufi^ered to go out during the cool season,
and very rarely in the summer. Every morning in ihe winter, the
coals were raked forward, and a ponderous back-log put on, with
two or three smaller ones, as riders. A large fore-stick, four feet in
length, was laid on the andirons, and two or three smaller ones be
tween that and the back-log ^forming a bed into which the coals
raked forward were shovelled. Some dry sticks were laid on these,
and in a few moments a large fire was sparkling on the hearth.
Wood cost nothing in those days, and our ancestors always enjoyed
the luxury of a good fire in cold weather, and however cold the
weather, the great room was warm and comfortable. They always pro
vided themselves with pine knots, then abuudant, and in the long
winter evenings these were used instead of candles.
The kitchen or backroom was small and little used, excepting
for a store room. The tubs and pails, and the spinning wheels,
when not in use, were kept here, and a pile of wood for the morn
ing's fire.
All the clothing and bedding of the family was made in the
house. The flax and the wool were spun and wove by the inmates.
The cloth for the thick clothing of the men was sent to the clothier
to be fulled, colored and pressed.
Goodman Hallett lived on the produce of his farms. Indian
corn was his principal crop, though every family had rye, and most
of them raised sufficient wheat for their own consumption. They
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places to seU ; beans, pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, melons, tur
nips, beets, carrots, parsnips, and onions. Potatoes were not raised
by the first settlers, and it was many years before they were pro
duced in large quantities. Cattle were scarce and of high price, aud
few were killed for beef by the first settiers ; but in time they be
came abundant aud cheap. Goats were kept, and their milk was
used. Horses were early introduced ; but the country did not be
come well stocked till fifty years after the settlement of Plymouth.
Pigs multiplied rapidly, and were soon abundant in all the settle
ments. Poultry of all kinds was raised. Deer and other wild ani
mals suitable for food then roamed in the forests, and the shores, at
certain seasons, were covered with flocks of geese, ducks, plover,
and other birds.
Clams, quahogs and oysters, could be obtained at any season of
the year, and codfish, mackerel, bass, eels, and other fish, were then
more easily taken than at the present time.
None but the idle and the dissolute complained. The first set
tlers, after securing their first crop in 1640, never suffered for food,
— they always had an abundance of that which was wholesome and
palatable. At first they were short of clothing. They had to patch
up that which they brought out of England. The skins of the deer
and other animals, dressed by the Indians, were soft and pliable.
These supplied many of their wants and furnished them with warm
and comfortable, though not elegant articles of dress.
The Uttle money they obtained by the sale of peltry, oil and
fish, was carefully husbanded and used to supply their most pressing
wants. Tools, iron and some kinds of buildiug materials, were in
dispensable, and it was many years before they were fully supplied.
The first settlers iu Barnstable were as independent and as con
tented a community as ever existed. They had food enough and to
spare, — they were comfortably clad, and though their houses were
open and cold, these defects were supplied by adding wood to their
winter fires. While they suffered the inconveniences iucident to a
new settlement, they had no cause to complain of smoke, dust or
gas in their rooms.
The spring of 1641 was cold and wet. Hooping cough pre
vailed to an alarming extent among the children, yet only three
deaths occurred in Barnstable during the year. The bUls of mor
tality for the first fourteen years, exhibit an average longevity of
seventy years, showing that the inconveniences to which our fathers
were subjected were not prejudicial to their health. Their diseases
yielded to the simple remedies which our mothers gathered in the
fields and the forests. — [Ch. Records.
Goodman Hallett is caUed a husbandman. By honest industry,
skilful management and economy, he accumulated a large estate.
In 1676 his tax was equal to one twentieth of the whole assessment.
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ted so much by farming. But let any young man, of sound health,
practice in any calling in life as Goodman HaUett practiced, and he
will always succeed.
He may also have been engaged in the fisheries, and probably
was, for nearly all the flrst settlers were at certain seasons of the
year. The Mayos', Allyns', Lothrops', Gorhams' and Dimmocks',
accumulated good estates in the coasting aud West India trade.
They were not sole owners of their vessels. Others who did
not take an actiye part in these employments were interested as own
ers, and shared the profits.
His out of door arrangements were as rude as those within.
On the east of his house there was a fine spring of water, in which
he placed a large hollow log for a curb.* The supply was pure and
abundant, and in times of drought was the resort of the neighborhood.
His large wood-pile was in front ol his house, not cut and piled , but
standing on end, on each side of a large pole resting on crutches,
settled into the ground. Forty cords he considered a year's supply,
and it was cut up as wanted for the fire, into pieces three and four
feet long. Some of the logs used were large, and required the
strength of two men to roll them in, and adjust them in the fire
places for backlogs.
Goodman Hallett built his cribs as all in those times did, with
slender poles. Posts were set at each corner having short
branches left thereon, about three feet from the ground. On those
branches two stout poles were laid, 12 or 15 feet long. Across
these smaller ones, four feet in length, were closely laid. The
sides were constructed with long poles, and the roof with boards
overlapping each other. At each end there was a door or open
ing. He had several, in which he stored his large crops. Corn
was then the measure of value. With it a man could pay his
taxes or his debts, buy houses and lands ; the necessaries or the
luxuries of Ufe. To have corn in the crib, in those times, was
like having stocks and money in the Bank at the present time.
To say of a man "he has plenty ol corn in his cribs," was equiva
lent to saying he had money in his purse. Goodman Hallett was
not proud, but he delighted to exhibit to visitors his extensive
granaries, his herds and flocks, and the breadth of his cultivated
lands. Excepting for hominy or samp, he consumed very little of
his corn till it was a year old.f
'Till about the year 1770 this was one of the best springs of water m Yarmoutli.
Though on high land, it afforded an abundant supply of eool, clear, and excellent water.
About that year, during an earthquake, the spring suddenly ceased to flow. It still affords
water; but its character is entirely changed, A few years ago (lie old hoUow tree was re
moved, and tho spring cleared out, and a new curb put in, yet the water is poor. During
the same earthquake several springs in various parts of the country were simllarlv affected.
The jarring of the earth probably changed the direction of the fountains. The old spring
near the Gyles Hopkms house also failed about the same time. The fountain which fbr-
merly supplied it is now entirely dried up or turned in another direction.
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His barns in the fleld on the east of the miU road, were as
rudely constructed as those now seen on the western prairies.
Large stacks of salt hay stood near, surrounded by a fence The
barn, or cow-house, as it was called, was for the protection of the
stock, not for the storage of fodder. No English hay was then
cut. All the fresh fodder which the first settiers had, was the
stalks and husks of the Indian corn, and a poor quality of fresh
hay cut on the high meadows.
In the field by his house and in his barn fleld he set orchards.
The Kentish Cherry brought over by the Pilgrims, had rapidly
multiplied by suckers, and were always set on the outer edge, to
protect the less hardy trees within. The apple trees were raised
from seeds, brought from England, and were generally of inferior
quality. The pignose, however, was very productive and a good
winter apple. The Foxwell, yet cultivated, is a Fall apple of fair
quality. The pears were also seedlings, and many of them worth
less sorts ; but the trees were hardy and long lived. A seedling
planted by him is a good autumn fruit, and yet propagated by
grafts from the original tree. The French sugar, a very early
pear, was introduced soon after the settlement and grafted into
the poorer seedlings.* The iron pear, now known as the Black
Worcester, a winter fruit, was introduced early— and afterwards
the Catherine from the vicinity of Boston, and the Orange, a pear
of superior quality. Several of the pear trees planted by Good
man Hallett yet remain, monuments of the hardy industry of the
first comers, and living mementoes of the primitive simpUcity of
other days.
However rude may have been his dwelling, and however in
elegant may have been its surroundings, it was the home of a
happy and a. contented family. To live a good Ufe was his con
stant endeavor. He was not ambitious, be did not seek office, or
honor, or wealth. He humbly acknowledged that all he had was
'there is my crop of the year before,' and then to another he would say, 'in that crib are the
remains of the former year's crop,' "
This passage I have extracted from an unpublished biography of "Rock" Richard
Taylor, the ancestor of the Taylors resident in Yarmouth and Chatham, It was furnished
by the late Mr, WiUiam Bray, who obtained it of his grandmother, Mrs, Elizabeth Bray,
who lived to great age and retained her faculties to the last. When young she was a seam
stress; and alter finLshing her days work. Rock Richard (so called to distingui,sh him from
another Richard Taylor, who was called "tailor") invited her to walk out with him, and
that conversation then occurred, Taylor was a vain man, and perhaps I do injustice to
Goodman Hallett in the quotation. The latter's cribs were of the same description, and he
probably had in the prime of his life many more than Taylor, whose farm at Hockanom
was valued at only one-seventh of Hallett's ample domain. Mrs, Bray was seventeen when
she had the conversation referred to with Richard Taylor, and she knew nearly all the flrst
settlers. Her grandson William, when a child, delighted to hear her speak of the first set
tlers, and fromnim I obtained much that is interesting respecting the olden times.
?Solomon Otis, Esq., bom in 1696, said the two sugar pear trees on the east of his house,
were large trees when he was a boy — that they had not increased in size bnt little within
his recollection. They were grafted when small near the root. If his statement is reliable,
they were grafted aa early as 1670, A sugar pear tree on the John Seudder estate was as
old. None, however, of this variety are so ancient as the kinds known as fiill and button
pears. The Ewer pear, a seedling, was esteemed by our ancestors as one of the best.

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lent to him by the Lord, to enable him to do good, and to be use
ful, not to be wasted in luxurious Uving, or in vain and ostenta
tious display. He lived as his neighbors lived. No room in his.
house was made a sanctum sanctorum, nor had he any furniture
that was too good or too costly for his family to use. "Nothings"
he would say, "was valuable that was not useful." Again, "A
large house" makes a slave of the wife, and elegant furniture
drouges of the daughters," He had Indian servants who assisted
him in the labors of the field. They were not fed and clothed to
do that which he could do better himself, for it was his common
remark, "He that waits on himself, is well served." When asked
why he lived in so small a house, he replied, "Comfort lives in a
small house and needs no servants ; care in a large one, and re
quires many." Vanity may turn up her nose in disgust, or laugh
when these sayings are repeated ; the gay and the thoughtless
may affect to despise ; but he that marks well the stern realities.
of life, will see truth buried, not deeply, in those simple, com
mon-place sayings.
In his domestic arrangements, Goodman Hallett reduced his
theories to practice. "Daylight," he would say, "was cheaper than
candle-light," and as soon as the day broke he was up and
dressed. He kindled the fire, hrought water Irom the spring,
went to his barn, fed his cattle, his pigs and his poultry, and
milked his cows. On his return, he found all the members of his
household up and dressed, and breakfast prepared. Sitting down
in their accustomed places, the older daughter read a passage from
the Bible, and a few stanzas from a favorite hymn. Goodman
Hallett kneeling down, in a fervent prayer craved the blessing
and protection of Heaven on his country, his church, his house
hold, and his dear friends in England. Most earnestly did he
pray that the Great Shepherd would watch over and protect the
companion of his life, and gently lead the tender lambs of his
flock. The labors of the morning and the religious exercises, had
prepared them to partake of their meal with thankful hearts. No
cloth covered the well scoured table. A large wooden bowl
graced the center, fllled with savory broth, and hulled corn sup
plied the place of bread. Each had a pewter spoon, and all
dipped from the same dish, as the Saviour and his disciples did on
the eve of the crucifixion. No betrayer dipped his hand into the
dish, and while imitating the custom of the Great Master, they
never dreamed that a generation would thereafter arise who would
despise a custom which they reverenced. After the bowl was re
moved, bread or samp, milk, butter and honey, a shee or two of
meat, or a plate of fish, succeeded. Goody Hallett also had tea,
made from some favorite herb, that she had brought from the gar
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Stories about home, as he called Old England, to which the children
were never tired of Ustening. When the repast was ended, he re
turned thanks for the bountiful supply of the good things they had
enjoyed, and the many blessings which had been vouchsafed to him
and his family.
The school lasted only a few weeks in each year, and however
deep the snow or hard the storm, the chUdren never failed of attend
ing. Goodman HaUett would remark, that "it was as great a sin to
cheat children of their learning, as of their money." They were
all provided with Indian moccasins and snow shoes, and however
difficult it is to learn the art of wearing the latter, the children of
those days acquired it almost as naturally as young ducks learn to
swim. The school was kept by the second Mr. John Miller at his
house, which stood on the spot now occupied by the high school — a
good mile distant from Goodman HaUett's. If "a term of the school
was then in session, the children had their dinners put up, and were
ready to start at half past eight. ' The roads were never cleared of
snow in those days. Some were partially broken out with teams,
but not so as to supercede the necessity of snow shoes, especially
after a recent storm. It was a pretty sight, to see the Uttle ones
traiUng along on their snow shoes towards the school-house ; but it
was a common occurrence theu, and excited no curiosity.
If there was no school, and the weather was stormy, the parlor
was a scene of varied industry. When the breakfast table was
cleared off', and preliminary arrangements made for the dinner, the
looms, which in cold weather stood in a corner of the parlor, were
in motion, aud the girls were merrily turning their spinning wheels.
Meantime the master of the house, assisted by an Indian ser
vant, had watered and fed his large stock, and chopped the wood for
the daily fire. He was not lackiug in mechanical ingenuity, and on
stormy days did many little jobs which saved money. His wife fre
quently repeated the old adage, "A stitch in time saves nine," and
Goodman HaUett acquiesced. Taking his awl, his leather, thread,
wax and knife, he seated himself in the chimney corner, and succes
sively examined the shoes of the family. If a tap or a patch was
wanted, he put it on, or if there was a seam that required stitching,
it was not overlooked. The andirons were of wrought iron, and had
hooks on the front in which the spit rested. Wild fowl and venison
were then abundant, and for the family dinner a sirloin had perhaps
been spitted. Goodman Hallett turned the spit, and from time to
time basted the meat from the contents of the dripping pan. The
vegetables, which had been prepared in the morning, were hung
over the fire, and at precisely twelve o'clock, if a bright day, the
dinner was ready.
Before partaking of the meal, a blessing was craved. The meat
was cut on a wooden trencher, and served on pewter plates. Vege
tables and bread, samp or hulled corn, was on the table, and at

498 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
every meal "spoon victuals" of some kind formed a part of the re
past. Beer, which was regularly brewed every week, was used as a
substitute for tea or coffee, and by the workmen, in the place of
strong drink.
It was a saying of Goody HaUett, that "the girl who did not
know that the dish-water should be heating during meal-time, was
unfit to be married." AbigaU was in her teens, and remembered
this saying. When the dinner was- finished the water was hot, and
the table was soon cleared, the dishes washed and put iu their places
ou the "trencher" or in the cup-board.
By three o'clock the tasks of the day were finished. Goody
Hallett had woven her five yards, Abigail had spun six skeins of
woolen yarn, and Dorcas four of flax. The wheels were put away,
the parlor swept and dusted, and clean sand was "lumped" on the
floor or the old "herren boned," an act in which the women of those
days displayed their good taste. The girls had a small looking-glass,
an article of luxury which few families in those davs possessed, be
fore which they arranged their toilet. The HaUett's were never ex
travagant ; but they always dressed ueatly. The petticoat was the
principal article of dress, on which the most labor was expended.
It was made of cloth of domestic manufacture, sometimes colored,
of two thicknesses, and quilted throughout. On the lower border
and on the front, there was some ornamental needle work. Over
this a "loose gown" was worn. This was of also domestic manu;
facture, sometimes white ; but usually checked or colored. It was
open in front, and did not extend so low as the under garment. The
sleeves extended about half way from the elbow to the wrist. They
had long knit gloves or "sleeves," which they wore when they went
out. The neck and breast were covered with a handkerchief ordina-
rUy ; on great occasicfns, with a bodice or a stomacher. White
worsted stockings and Indian moccasins completed the winter ap-
-parel. This was the common dress of the woman. For the Sab
bath and great occasions, the wealthy had gayer and more costly
garments of foreign manufacture. These were carefully preserved,
and handed down from generation to generation. Dresses are yet
preserved in which mother, daughter and grand-daughter were suc
cessively married. All had checked aprons which they wore when
employed in household duties, and often a clean nice starched one
was put on the afternoon aud evening.
When they went out they had bonnets, and cloaks of thick cloth
with a hood or covering for the head attached. For many years a
bright red or scarlet was the fashionable color for these garments.
The common dresses of the men were short clothes or breeches,
a long vest, with lappets covering the hips, a round about coat or
jacket for every day, and for the Sabbath a long coat, cut a little
crossway, not "straight down" in front, with a standing collar. Thie
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. -499
liorn was used^ The pilgrims aU wore round Hats, but in after
times they adopted the cocked hat of the cavaliers. They wore loug
blue woolen' stockings that extended above the knee, and were kept
ia place by a buckle and strap on the lower part of the breeches.
Shoes fastened with large buckles completed their dress. Boys and
men wore short elbthes and long stockingai In summer stockings
and shoes were dispensed with, and' trowsers took the place of smaU
clothes, the leg of which- extended below the knee.
At the evening meal, in addition to "spoon victuals," they usu
ally had "short cakes" baked before the fire on a pan or in a spider.
In the evening the women were employed in knitting or sewing,
and occasionally in making a kind of bobinet lace, on board frames,
a few of which have been preserved. Farmers in those days se
lected a small portion of their best flax ground, on which they sowed
a double portion of seed, that the product might be of a fine aud
soft texture, flt to manufacture into lace. Goodman Hallett kept a
good flre, and as his beer barrels were never empty, he rarely was
without company. Capt. Gorham and Mr. Thacher often spent an
evening at his house, and though the use of tobacco was prohibited
by the "honorable Court," yet smoke from the pipe often curled up
the chimney on the long winter evenings.
Our ancestors were systematic in their domestic arrangements.
Monday was washing-day, a custom which has survived to this day.
On Tuesday the clothes were ironed. Wednesday in summer was
baking-day, but not in the winter. Thursday and Friday were de
voted to spinning and weaving, and Saturday was baking-day the
year round. For dinner on that day the Pilgrims eat fish, perhaps
because the Catholics, all of whose customs they abjured, dined
thereon Fridays. Baked beans, and Indian puddings were always
found on their tables on the Sabbath^ a custom yet continued in many
families. Saturday at 4 o'clock in th'e afternoon all servile labor for the'
week had ended. Preparations for the Sabbath had been made — the
wood cut and brought in- — the Sunday meal had been prepared, and
preparations made to keep the day holy to the end thereof. In the
evening the chUdren were instructed in their catechisms. They re
tired early. The Sabbath was a day of rest — aU went to church
morning and evening. They never allowed 'the weather to interfere'
with their religious duties, it was never too wet, never too hot, never
too cold to go to meeting;
In summer the male portion of the family were employed in out
of door labors from sunrise till the shades of evening began to faU.
ToU, hard aud unremitting was their portion, but it was cheerfully
performed. At hay time and harvest the girls assisted their fathers
and brothers in the field.' Their wants were few, and by industry
and' economy were easily supplied. Goodman Hallett acquired
wealth, and every young man may do the same, if he wiU practice

500 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
as he practiced. He was temperate in all things, took care of what
he had, aud every year spent less than he earned.
From year to year there was little change in Goodman Hallett'»
habits, employments and mode of living. He added a leanto or
"salt-box," as they were often called, to the west side of his house,
making two rooms in front and enlarging the kitchen. His in
creased family rendered this enlargement necessary. The west room
was sometimes called the weaving-room. Generally the object of
building a leanto was to hare a place for the looms and the spinning-
wheels — a manufactory in miniature.
Goodman HaUett died in the spring of 1684. He was at least
seventy years of age. His surviving children had married, and left
the paternal roof. In early times it was customary, in making the
inventory of a man's estate, to apprise the furniture in each room of
the house by itself. It was a good custom — it not only furnished a
description of each room, but all the articles of furniture were enu
merated in detail — carrying you into the family circle — unveiling its
secrets — laying open its wants, its hopes, its .pursuits, its aspira
tions ; — picturing the stern realities of a social life, over which two
centuries have spread the mantle of forgetfulness. The uncovered
ruins of Herculaneum do not portray the habits, mode of living, and
character of the ancient Romans, in a stronger light, or in more
vivid colors, than do these old inventories, the marked traits of the
Pilgrim character. In that city we see the evidences of luxury in
contrast with squaled poverty, and everywhere unmistakable rec
ords, that gross licentiousness prevaded all classes of its society. The
human heart, being ever the same, its surroundings will impress on
its character, an ultimate form, which the man has no power to
shake off.
Our fathers were eminently a religions people ; — with them the
future was ever present in thought — the Bible was their creed — their
laws were based on its precepts, and their daily intercourse was regu
lated by some of its familiar texts. Their children were brought up
under these influences or surroundings — they were taught that indus
try and frugality were virtues — that idleness and wastefulness were
sins to be repented of, and for which they would have to answer at
the final judgment. These old inventories exhibit no evidence of
prodigality — no squalid poverty — no traces of licentious life. They
exhibit a rude social organization, — but beneath that organization
they portray a noble race — with hardy virtues — of honest lives —
content to live on the fruits of their own unremitted toil.
Andrew Hallett's, Jr.'s, estate was apprised by John MUler and
John Thacher May 19, 1684, and sworn to by his widow Ann Hal
lett on the 81st of the same month.
In the "parlour" or "great room."
"His purse and apparell,'' £90,10,6
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 501
Acup-board, £3 10 0
The bed furniture— all, 10 05 0
The great table— forme and stools, l'l4'o
A chest and chairs, I'oo'o
The trundle-bed and furniture, s'lo'o
Pewter, s'ls'o
Brass mortar bac,^ iron scummer, dripping-pan, tin pans^all, 'l5'2
A Tunnell, spoones, candlesticks, a warming-pan— all, 10,10
An hour-glass, a brush, fler-slice and tongs— a brass sknifetfr, 6,06
Trammells^, beer barrels, iron skillett, trays— all, 17 00
Spoones, trenchers, rowling pin, looking-glass, bottles and
jugs, 8j01
All in the parlor, 116,16,04'
Deducting purse and apparel, 90,10,06
The furniture including bed, 26,05,10
Such was the furniture in the parlor of the most opulent man of
his times. The Ust was taken by honest and honorable men, and
sworn to by the surviving widow who certainly knew vThatshe had
in her house. The looms and the cradle had disappeared. Goody
Hallett was too old to weave, and she had done all her rOcking,
many years before.
The "Cup-board" or beaufet is apprised as an article of futni-
ture. They were not then permanent flxtures. They were seini-
circular in form, and placed in the corner of a room or in a recess
by the chimney, and could be removed from place to place. The
lower part was closed' by doors, andthe upper open, containing
several shelves, in form like a segment of a circle, and on these,
the little earthen and glass ware of the fanaily was displayed.
The apprisement covers the value of the cup-board and its con
tents. By the word "furniture" in the inventory, is to be under
stood everything that belonged to the bed, including curtains and
valances. The "forme" or settle, was a seat made of boards, with
a high back — a rude sofa — and in cold weather was placed in front
of the flre, — the seat and back protecting the occupants from the
cold air of the room.
The chest and chairs are apprised at one pound. In the chest
were deposited the most valuable articles of the family, and it
was secured by iron hinges and a lock. At one end there was a
till in which the money and valuable papers of the family were
kept. It was well made, and must have been worth ten shillings,
leaving the same sum as the value of all the chairs in th'e house.
"Trammells" suspended from a cross bar iu the chimney were then
universally used. Cranes and hoOfcs are modern inventions. The
"beer-barrels" are named as a part of the parlor furniture. As it
was customary to brew every week, it is probable they were not of
large size — only kegs—and being mentioned in connection with
*Baojiprobably I a misspelling intended for Box iron— an instrument then used for iron
ing clothing, as flat irons now are.

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the articles about the flreplace, perhaps they had usurped the place
of the dye-tub, which had disappeared.
In the chamber.
A mulett, £0,02,0
A bed and furniture — all, 6,18,0
22 yards of wool cloth, a suit of curtains and vallens, 2 cover
lids, 6,06,00
A coverlid, a blankett, wool cloth, hops, a chest — all, 3,10,00
A chest, a box, 6 pairs of sheets, a table-cloth, pillow case —
all, 05,08,06
A table-cloth, napkin, hunney bees and hives, flax — all, 04.15,00
Sadies, pillion and cloth and bridles, Indian corn, rye — all, 3,05,00
5 cushens, linnien and wool wheels, bacon and beefe, scales
and waits, 1,19,06
Sif ten trough, meal and corn sives, bedstead and lumber in the
chamber, 00,15,0
32,19,00
From the above, it appears that his house was only of one
story, and the chamber was uuflnished. The bee hives are named
as being in the chamber. They were made of straw, and were
put under cover in the winter, but the necessity of keeping them
in the chamber till the 19th of May does not appear, without
there was an opening in the side of the house through which the
bees could enter.*
In the leanto and kitchen. (The two first items are placed
with the furniture in the chamber — probably in the kitchen.)
Winnowing sheet, horse geers. Iron pots and kettles, £3,08,00
Frying pan, bellows, pot hooks, milk pails, and straining dish, 7,00
In the leantoo, brass and iron — a hathell, a tub and chum, 5,14,00
Earthen ware, milk vessels and lumber in ye leanto, 0,19,00
A table, 10
2 barrens, a cowle, a bagg, 2 pillow cases, 12,06
Tallow, hoggs fat, malt, linen, yarn, wool and yarne and flax, 2,17,00
Arms and ammunition, 3,02,8
(Added at the end.)
A bed and bedding thereto belonging in ye kitchen, 6,18,00
3 yards of cloth, 15
A sun dial and knife, 2

£25,05,2
Though this inventory does not state with so much particu
larity as many do the room in which each article was kept, yet it
enables us to form a correct opinion of the appearance of each
room, and gives a clear insight into his mode ol living and domes
tic arrangements. It clearly appears that the house was only one
story, that the chamber or garret was not divided into different
"-Jonathan HaUett resided in the old house till 1695, when he built his new house which
was for the times an elegant two story building— the lower story being built on the same
model as the old one. On the east side the upper story projected over the lower. If the
chamber of the old house projected in a similar manner, shelves under the projection would
be a convenient place for bee hives. I give the facts as I find them, and ofer the above
only as suggestive.

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apsM-tments, and was unfinished. The small bedroom on the
lower floor seems to have been connected with the kitchen, not
with the parlor.
His other personal property consisted of "Cartwheels, with
plow and ax, tackUng, howes and shovel, £5,6,00
Pitch forks, sythes, 3 augurs, and other tools, horse fetters, 1,4,0
Horses, mares, sheep and swine, ' 21 02 0
2 oxen, 15 cows, and 23 young cattle— all, 64 i5 00
18 jags of hay, a grindstone a lime, a peck, 4'l5'oO
Boards and Bolts, 00 1000
A drawing-knife, spit, and other small things, Oo',lo',02
Debts due the estate, 2 10 00
100,14
As boards and bolts are connected in the same line, I inter
that sawing boards by hand had not been discontinued in 1684.
He had little grain on hand, but a large stock ol cattle, indicating
that in the latter part of his life the raising of stock was his prin
cipal business. Forty head of cattle were apprised at only
£64,15 — $215.83, or an averaged only 15,37 each, showing that
during the forty-flve years since the settlement of the town, cattle
had depreciated about 75 per cent, in value.
His personal estate amounted to £271,13,09
and his real estate,
"In housing, lands and meadows," 909,00,00

Total, £1,180,13,09
His will is dated two years before his death. It is signed
with his mark, A. A., not conclusive evidence that he was unable
to write, for many good scholars have so signed their wills, but
the fact leads me to doubt the accuracy ol a remark made in the
former part of this article, "that he learned to write after he was
a married man." The provisions of the wiU are very clearly ex
pressed, and it contains much historical information, and wiU re
pay the labor of a careful perusal. "The HaUett MUl" is not
named in his will or inventory, showing that if he ever was an
owner in it, he was not at the time of his death.
FFrom Plymouth Rec, p, 194.]
WILL OF ANDREW HALLETT.
To all Christian people to whome these presents shall come : Know
yee that I, Andrew Hallett of Yarmouth, in ye Colony of New Plym
outh, being weake in body by reason of sore pains and aches, yet
blessed be God at this time present I have my reason and understanding
fresh and timely, I doe make this my last will and testament as lollow-
eth : First, I doe bequeath my soule to God that gave it unto me, and
my body to ye dust from whence it was formed by a desent and comely
Buriall, and for that portion of Temporall blessings that God hath been
pleased to posess me of,IdowUl and bequeath as foUoweth : First, I doe
will and bequeath to my loving wife one-third part ol all my whole es
tate of moveables both within my house and also one-third part of all
my cattell that I have not disposed of for ye comfort of her life and

504 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
at her dispose to whom she shall see cause to give it unto, also my will.
is that ray said wife shall have and Injpy ye easter end ol my said
house I now live in during her uaturall life, and ye thirds of all ye
profits or Improvements of all my lands, both upland and meadow, dur
ing her naturall life, and then to returne as foUoweth in this my will.
And to my son Jonathan Hallett I will and bequeath little calves past
ure, so called, which Is from my old field fence and bounds that is be
twixt me and ye said Andrew Hallett and John Gorham with ye broken
marsh belonging to ye said pasture butting against ye old mill pond.
Also i doe give unto my said son, Jonathan Hallett, my great table and
my great bedstead and ye drawne cushings and ye cubbord and ye
stands in ye Easter end of my now dwelling-house after my decease
and ye decease of my wife. And also I do give unto my. said son.Tona-
than {wenty pounds of my estate, and then my will is that my son Jona
than Hallett and my son John Hallett shall equally make a division ol
ail my lands and meadows whatsoever both within fence and without
with all housings whatsoever shall be standing upon my lands con
sidering of quantity and quallity and so to make a division as you may
agree yourselves, but in case youi cannot agree to divide ye said and
housings then to chose indifferent men between you to malie a division
of ye said Housing and lands and meadows and when equally divided,
then my son Jonathan to have ye one halfe and my son John to have
ye other halfe, only ray son Jonathan to have ye first choyce of ye
lands and housing-after devition, and my son John Hallett to have ye
other halfe of ye housing and lands and meadows, only ye said Johm
Hallett my son to pay to his brother Jonathan Hallett ye just sum of
ten pounds, also what I have already given to my son John Hallett I
doe now confirme to him as his owne proper right and for ye farme I
bought ol John Fenny,* Senr, of Barnstable, I doe confirme to ray two
sons .Jonathan Hallett and to my son John Hallett, to them and their
heirs forever to be equally divided between them two, but concerning
my other lands before mentioned in this my will, th.at in case either of
my sons Jonathan Hallett or John Hallett shall dye without I shew of
thoir bodies lawfully begotten, then I doe give liberty to either of them
to will their part of their lands and housings to whom they please, pro-
vidediit be to any of theiriowne kindred of ye Halletts, but in case any.
of my said sons doe die without any issue and — without any will then
my will is that my son that doth survive shall haye ye one halfe of his
said brothers lands that is deceased, and ye other halfe of his said lands
to his three sisters and their heirs forever, but in case that both my said
sons shall dye without any Issue and. without will as above said then
all my said lands and housing to fall to my three daughters, that is to
say to Ruhamath and Abigail and Mehettabell and their heirs forever, .
to be equally devided between them three. And to my daughter Ruha
math Bourn I doe confirme to her what she hath already, a-nd doe will
to her ye just sum of twenty pounds more of my estate, and to my
Grandchildren as Timothy, Bourne 1 do will five pounds ? and to Hanah
Bourne I doe will flve pounds, and to Blezer Bourne I do. will fiver
pounds, and Hezekiah Bourne I doe will five pounds ol my estate.
And to my daughter Abigail Alldin I doe confirme to her what I have
already given to her and do will unto her my said daughter Abigail
twenty pounds in money that I lent unto her husband Jonathan AUdin.
And my will is that ray daughter Abigail Aldiu. shall have six pound
paid more to her by my Executor, and to my daughter Abigail's chil
dren I. give twenty pounds, that Is five pounds to each of them, to be
paid by my Executor unto all my children above- expressed either at ye*
*Finney or Phinney.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 505
day ol their marriage or when they shall come to ye age of one and
twenty years or sooner il my Executor shall see cause, and to my
daughter Mehettabell I do will and bequeath unto her ye just sum ol
sixty pounds with what she hath had already ol my estate, and to my
grandchild John Bourne he shall have pounds when he shall corae of
age ol oue and twenty years, to be paid by my Executor out of their
estates according to proportion ol what they have ol mine estate. Bee
it lurther knowne by these presents that I doe make aud appoint my love-
ing wife Ann, and my son Jonathan Hallett and John Hallett joynt Ex
ecutors to this my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal
this lourteenth day ol March Ano Domi one -thousand six hundred
eighth one eighty and two. The marke ol A. A.
Andrew Hallett, and a (seal.)
Signed and sealed in presence
ol us, Thomas Thornton, Sen.
John Miller,
This will is proved at ye
Court held at Plymouth
ye 4 June, 1684,
Nathaniell Morton, Secretary.
01 the family of the second Andrew HaUett no perfect rec
ord has heen preserved. He married Anne or Anna Besse,
daughter of Anthony of Lynn and Sandwich. Tradition says she
was only fourteen at marriage, that she was a strong, healthy
woman, and was the mother of twins before she completed her
flfteenth year.* That she was very young when married, the
known age of her mother conflrms. After the death of her hus
band, she occupied the easterly part of his house. Her grandson
John Bourne resided with her, and her son Jonathan occupied the
west part of the house. She died in the spring of 1694, leaving a
wiU dated June 23, 1684. To her grandson John Bourne, she
gave her bed in the chamber with the curtains, valances, and aU
that belonged to it, and her great brass kettie or 22 shiUings in
money. To her youngest dnughter, Mehitabel Dexter, her satin
gownf and mohair petticoat. AU the rest ol her estate, apprised
at £180,07,06, (£67 of which was in money) she gave equally to
her three daughters, Euhannah ^ourne, AbigaU Alden, and Me
hitable Dexter. Her wearing apparel, consisting of articles of
wool, linen, and sUk ; hose, shoes, hat, &c., was apprised at
^he tradition fiirther relates, that on the day f°ll°™g tj^^'l'l*'' °f,??f,.=i^"t^^^^
reouested her mother, who acted as nurse, to take care of the babes, while she went out to
seerbSegg^for them The grandmotlier at that time could not have been over thirty,
for she had ffudren ofher own fifteen years younger than her grandchild AbigaU, and if
Ruhama wa^ineof°the twins, notfarW tw^ntj; ^^eral similar msancesof^ary
marriages have occurred in the family, one durmg the present year 1864. [See Cudworth
for account of Barlow family,]
tin the inventory it is called "Satinistow," a word not found in the dictionaries-
andlnanothcT^Tacefsiik, For manyyears some "f '!¦« "t-J^nSe^cf
comer were preserved as heir-looms, and some are uow probably m existence.

506 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
£15,00,00, or 50 dollars in silver money, showing that on the Sab
bath and Qu holidays she dressed in great style.
ChUdren of Andrew Hallett, Jr. :
7. I. Ruhama,  , married Job Bourne 14th Dec. 1664,
by whom she had five chUdren. He died in 1676, and she
married  Hersey. She was living in 1714. (See
Bourne.)
8. II. AbigaU, born 1644, married Capt. Jonathan Alden of
Duxbury, Dec. 10, 1672. He was the son of John Alden
and PrisciUa MuUins, born in 1627, and was seventeen years
older than his wife. He inherited the homestead of his
father in Duxbury, and died Feb. 1697, leaving an estate
apprised at £309. She died Aug. 17, 1726, aged 81 years,
and has a monument in the old graveyard in D. Her chil
dren were Andrew, Jonathan, John and Benjamin.
9. III. Dorcas, bap. June 1, 1646. She was not living in
1684, and probably died young.
10. IV. Jonathan, born Nov. 20, 1647. (See account be-
below.)
11. V. John, born Dec. 11, 1650. (See account below.)
12. VI. Mehitabel,  , called youngest daughter. She
married Nov. 10, 1682, John Dexter of Sandwich, and had
Elizabeth Nov. 2, 1683 ; Thomas Aug. 26, 1686 ; AbigaU
May 26, 1689 ; John, Sept. 11, 1692 ; and after the latter
date removed to Portsmouth, R. I. (See Dexter.)
(10-IV.) Of the early Ufe of Jonathan HaUett littie is
known. He was not taxed in Yarmouth in 1676, and does not
appear to have been a resident. Jan. 30, 1683-4, he married
Abigail Dexter, daughter of Ensign Thomas Dexter of Sandwich,
and grand-daughter of Mr. Thomas Dexter of Lynn, In 1684 he
was constable of Sandwich, and an inhabitant of that town. He
was thirty-six when married, and his wife twenty-one years of
age. After the death of his father he removed to Yarmouth, and
resided in the west room of his father's house till 1695, the year
after the death of his mother, when he built his new house, after
wards known as the Jeremiah HaUett house. As aU the houses
built about that time were of the same description, some account
thereof may not be uninteresting. The lumber for its construction
came from Scituate, the Bangor of those times. It was two sto
ries high, and at first contained only two rooms, exclusive of the
attic. It stood where Mr. Joseph Hale's house now stands,
fronted due south, and was about twenty-four feet in front, by
eighteen in the rear. The timber was large, and the boarding an
inch and a quarter in thickness. The chimney was built within,
not outside of the frame. On entering the front door you stepped
over the sill, the entry floor being a foot lower than the threshold.
In the entry a chcular stairway led to the chamber and attic.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 507
Passing into the great room or parlor you had to step over a cross
timber. That room was seventeen feet square, and no part of it
was ever plastered or finished. The chimney projected into the
room, with no finishing boards put up around it. The flreplace
was seven feet wide, four feet deep, and flve and a half high,
with an oven at the south end. The hearth was laid with flat
stones, picked up in the flelds. The siUs, which were large sticks
of timber, projected into the room and formed low seats on three
sides. The windows were of smaU diamond shaped glass set in
lead. No planed boards, no plastering, paper or paint, was used
in that house from the day it was built in 1695, tiU it was taken
down in 1819. Outwardly the house appeared very comfortable.
The upper story, on the east, projected over the lower. This pro
jection was adorned with some rude ornamental work, in the form
of acorns, hanging beneath. Subsequently two additions were
made. A one story leanto oh the rear for a kitchen and pantry,
and a leanto or "salt-box" on the west side. The inside of these
additions were ruder, if possible, than the original structure. The
back stairs were made of a pine log, with scores cut therein. There
was no raUing, and to go up or down them in the dark, was a feat
that few would venture to attempt.
The furniture of the house was as mean as the interior flnish.
His father's house was elegantly furnished in comparison.
Jonathan Hallett, after the decease of his father, was the
most wealthy man in Yarmouth, and his brother .lohn ranked next
to him ; yet with all their riches, neither was contented — neither
was happy. I have heard the aged remark that the men of the
third generation were, as a class, an ignorant and superstitious
race. The ardent piety of the flrst comers had degenerated into
lifeless formalities ; their wise economy into a desire to hoard ;
and their simple, unaffected manners, into coarseness — often to
rudeness and inciviUty. The flrst Jonathan Hallett was a type of
that class of men. Hundreds now Uving can testify that his house
was as cold, as cheerless, and as comfortless as I have described.
He had money to let to all who could give good security, and were
wUling to pay a liberal percentage, yet he had no money to ex
pend in flnishing or plastering his rooms, none to make his home
pleasant and comfortable. His excuse was, "my father's house
was never plastered." The seams of his father's house was
'¦'¦daubed," and it was warm and comfortable. Jonathan could not
afiford thatsmaU expense, he caulked the seams with "swingling
tow" which cost nothing. This was the character of the man, he
was greedy of fllty lucre ; denied himself the comforts and con
veniences of lile, Uved as meanly and as sparingly as the poorest
of the poor, that he might add to his already weU flUed coffers.
' GeneraUy the flrst settiers had not the means, and those that
had were obliged to send out to England for the articles they

508 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
wanted, and shippers in those days charged enormous profits.
Thirty per cent, was a moderate rate. Forty, fifty, and even one
hundred per cent, was paid. In Jonathan's time it was not so.
Some manufactures had been established, communication with the
mother country was more frequent, there were importers who sold
goods at a moderate advance, and the Colonies were well supplied
with articles of convenience and comfort. We cannot respect the
man who, to save a little more money, will go bare-foot in winter ;
who will run the risk of breaking his neck in clambering up a
notched log, and who lived all his days in a house that neither the
joiner, the plasterer, nor the painter ever entered. There is a gol
den mean in the path of life which neither the miser nor the
spendthrift ever see. The former never perceives the deep gulph
that separates, prudent management from miserly hoarding and the
latter that which divides an honorable, generous hospitality, from
wasteful extravagance.
Goodman Andrew Hallett, after providing in his will for the
comfortable support of his widow, making liberal bequests to his
daughters, and giving to his son Jonathan his little Calves Past
ure, as a token of his right of primogeniture, gave all the remain
der of his large estate to his two sons, enjoining on them to make
a peaceful division thereof by mutual agreement. They quar-
reUed about the boundaries of the little Calves Pasture, the birth
right of Jonathan, and they spent two year^ and a half in vain at
tempts to divide peaceably and by mutual concession and agree
ment, when they put themselves under bonds of £800, each to the
other, to abide by the award of Mr. Nathaniel Bacon, of Barn
stable, and Col, William Bassett, of Sandwich, Jonathan had
the western portion of the farm, John the eastern. The present
road to the wharf being the division line on the north side of the
County road, That there was some unpleasant feeling between
them and their famUies, is indicated by the fact that Jonathan's
descendants caUed John's, "other side Halletts."
March 5, 1686-7, Jonathan, Hallett, for £20 in current
money, bought of his brother-in-law, John Dexter, of Sandwich,
a negro slave called Harry, aged 29 years. The biU of sale, yet
preserved, is drawn up with much formality — signed, sealed and
witnessed. In 1710 he continued to rank as the most wealthy man in
Yarmouth, and his brother John next. He was an extensive
landholder in Yarmouth and in Barnstable. March 28, 1698-9, he
bought of Samuel Bradford, of Duxbury, for twenty pounds in
current money, a thousand acre right of land in Windham, Hart
ford County, Connecticut, "being the fifth lot at the crotch of the
river," and also a houselot of twelve acres abutting on the river,
with rights of commonage. It is probable he sold his Windham
farm, for none of his family removed to that town.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 509
His wiU is dated Dec. 5, 1716, and was proved Feb. 14,
1716-17. He names his five sons, Ebenezer, Thomas, Timothy,
David and Jonathan, and his daughters Mehitabel Sturgis, Eliza
beth CroweU, and Abigail Hallett. His real estate was apprised at
£2000, and his personal estate for a large sum.
The men of the third generation had very slender means of ac
quiring an education, generally their piety had degenerated into life
less, unmeaning formalities ; they were church members ; but not of
the noble, self-sacrificing race by whom the country was settled.
Jonathan Hallett loved money better than he loved the church ; he
was industrious, aud gathered up riches which his children put to a
better use than he did. He died Jan. 12, 1716-17, aged 69 years,
and his wife died Sept. 2, 1715, aged 52 years. Both are buried in
the old burying-ground in Yarmouth, where monuments are erected
to their memories.
The record of his family is lost. The leaf of the record on
which it was written is gone. His children were born, the oldest
perhaps in Sandwich, the others in Yarmouth.
13. I. Mehitabel, married Edward Sturgis, Nov. 25, 1703.
14. II. Ebenezer. (See account below.)
16. III. Thomas, born 1691. (See account below.)
16. IV. Jonathan, 1694. (See account below.)
17. V. David. (See account below.)
18. VI. Abigail, married Hatsuld Freeman, of Harwich, .Jan.
18, 1719. She lived to great age, about 100 years, and is
buried in the old burying-ground in Brewster.
19. VII. EUzabeth married Paul CroweU Oct. 21, 1714.
20. VIII. Timothy. (See account below.)
(10-10.) Mr. John HaUett, son of Andrew, born in Yar
mouth Dec. 11, 1648, was a corporal in the company of Capt. .lohn
Gorham in King PhiUp's war. He was not taxed in Yarmouth in
1676. I have not carefully investigated his history ; but he was a
man of more note than his brother Jonathan, as the Mr. afiixed to
his name indicates. His house, precisely of the description of his
brother Jonathan's, stood a little in the rear of where Capt. John
Eldridge's house now stands, and was taken down about forty years
ago. Though ranking as second in point of wealth among the in
habitants of Yarmouth, his house was never finished, never plast
ered, papered or painted, facts that show that he had as penurious a
disposition as his brother. He was constable of the town of Yar
mouth in 1682, and held other oflGices.
He married Feb. 16, 1681-2, Mary, daughter of Mr. Joseph
Howes. The Register of his family on the Yarmouth Records is
lost. In his will dated May 14, 1725, he names his children then
living. He died June 10, 1726, aged 78, and his widow, Mrs.

510 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Mary Hallett, June 1732, aged 73 years. Both are buried in the
old burying-ground in Yarmouth.
Children of Mr. John Hallett born iu Yarmouth :
21. I. Thankful, married Joseph Basset Dec. 3, 1719, his second
wife died Aug. 12, 1736.
22. II. Andrew, born 1684. (See account below.)
23. III. John, 1688. (See account below.)
24. IV. Joseph. (See account below.)
26. V. Samuel. do
26. VI. Seth. do
27. VII. Hannah,  , married her cousin Ebenezer Hal
lett June 27, 1728, died AprU 20, 1729, at the birth of her
first child.
28. VIII. Mary,  , died unmarried AprU 22, 1751.
29. IX. Mercy,  , died Nov. 13, 1747.
30. X. Hope, born 1705, married Joseph Griffeth of Harwich.
July 24, 1729, died July 5, 1784, aged 79.
(14-11.) Ebenezer Hallett, son of Jonathan, was a farmer
and resided in Yarmouth. His dwelling-house, which has been
owned by four successive generations of Ebenezer Hallett's yet re
mains. It was originally of the same description with his father's,
but by several additions of oiie room at a time, it is now a large two
story mansion house. Though originally of the same description
with his father's, it was better finished and furnished. In his fam
ily record I find this entry, "Our house was in danger ol burning
August 9, 1746." Perhaps there is no house in the County in
which so much wood has been consumed as in this. The Ebenezer
Halletts, especially the second, were noted for keeping large fires.
He married Aug. 14, 1712, Rebecca Howes. She died March
23, 1724-6. 2d, his cousin Hannah HaUett, Juue 27, 1728. She
died AprU 20, 1729. 3d, Mercy Gray, May 30, 1737, who sur
vived him. In his will dated 10th May, 1760, he gives to his wife
Mercy one-half of the moveables ia the east end of his dwelling-
house, two cows, one steer, one-third part of his sheep and hogs,
sundry articles of provision, one-third part of his grain in the
ground, the improvement of the east end of his dwelling-house, one-
quarter oi' his barn, and a third part ot his real estate, as her right
of dower or thirds during her natural life ; twelve loads of pine and
twelve loads of oak wood annually, cut "convenient for the chim
ney," and a horse to ride, to meeting and elsewhere by his sou Eben
ezer. She survived her husband several years ; but her connection
with the family was an unhappy one.
He gives legacies to his daughters Ann Crowell, Sarah Gray,
and Rebecca Hallett, to his grandchildren Ebenezer, Susannah,
John, Temperance, Rebecca, Mercy and Jonathan Whelden, and
his son-in-law John Whelden. To Ebenezer Whelden he made an
additional bequest of "one-third part in acres of the southern end of

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 511
the woodlot commonly called the "New Society" where once Simeon
Porridge lived. To his grandson Ebenezer Hallett, he gave one
pair ot gold sleeve buttons, and his coat with silver buttons ; and to
his grandson Edward Hallett one Jack-coat with silver buttons on it.
He appoints his son Ebenezer executor, makes him his residuary
legatee, and charges him with the payment of his debts aud lega
cies. (15-3.) Thomas Hallett, styled gentleman, son of Jonathan,
born in Yarmouth iu 1691, owned and resided in the large, ancient
mansion-house now standing ou the corner of Hallett St., and Wharf
Laue. It was originally built on the same plan with that of his
father's which has been described, but was better finished at first,
and has since been kept in good repair. The Halletts', as a race,
are able-bodied men, and average in stature above the common
height. Thomas was an exception. He was a short, thick-set
man. During the latter part of his life he was of feeble health.
For many years he was afflicted with a sore leg — a disease which
usually set at defiance the curative skill of the physicians of his
time. Thomas HaUett, lived in better style than mauy of his neigh
bors, and died April 10, 1772, aged 81, leaving a good estate.
He married April 9, 1719, for his first wife, Sarah, daughter
of Dea. Joseph Hawes. She was born AprU 1, 1696, and died
soon after her marriage, leaving no issue. He married Feb. 8,
1721-2, Hannah, widow of Andrew Gray of Harwich, and North
Yarmouth, Maine. She died Feb. 6, 1749-50, and he married for
his third wife, Aug. 19, 1750, Desire Gorham. She died Dec,
1767, aged 57. For his fourth wife he married Mary, widow of
Thomas Hedge, and a daughter of James Gorham. (See Gorham
genealogy No. 64.)
In his wiU dated 21st Feb. 1770, proved May 4, 1772, he gives
to his wife Mary HaUett in lieu of thirds, the improvement of aU
his real estate during her natural Ufe, one-third of his in-door
moveables, and his best cow. To his nephew Thomas Hallett, son
of his brother Jonathan, a piece of land on the south side of the
road on which Thomas' house stood, containing two acres. To his
nephews Jonathan and Jeremiah, sons of his brother Jonathan, £6
or $20 each. To his nephew Ebenezer Hallett, Jr., £6. To his
nephews Jonathan and Abner, sons of his brother David, £4 each.
To his nephews Moses, Joshua, and Isaac, sons of his brother
Timothy, deceased, £6. AU the rest of his real and personal es
tate he gave to his adopted son Joshua Gray, son of his second wife
Haunah Gray. „ i j • j ^i.
(16-4 ) Dea. Jonathan Hallett, owned and occupied the
house which was his father's residence, and which I have described
Notwithstanding he Uved in a house so meanly furnished, he had
the means of living better. He was a man of sound judgment, and
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512 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
acquaintances. There is a common saying, often repeated, and that
has some truth in it— "the shoemaker's wife and the blacksmith's
horse go unshod." Dea. Jonathan was a carpenter, though agricul
ture was his principal employment ; and though he had time to finish
ofi^, and put some of his neighbor's houses in good order, he never
found time to keep his own in decent repair.
He and his wife united in full communion with the Barnstable
Church Sept. 8, 1728, and continued to be a member till July 1,
1744, when he was dismissed to the West Church in Yarmouth of
which he was soon after elected one of its deacons, and continued to
be till his death. He was many years one of the Selectmen of the
town of Yarmonth, and held other municipal ofiices. His children
were all well educated for the times. His son Jonathan was fltted for
Cambridge College, and his father desired him to enter ; but the son
preferred rather to be a farmer than a clergyman.
He married Feb. 17, 1719-20, Desire Howes, with whom he
Uved in the marriage state flfty-five years, till April 3, 1775, when
she died aged 78 years. He died May 24, 1783, aged 90 years,
aud is buried in the ancient burying-ground in Yarmouth, where
monuments are erected to his and hi.s wife's memory.
In his will dated July 17, 1779, he names his sons Jonathan,
Thomas and Jeremiah, and daughters Desire Bacon and Mehitable
Swift, and his four grandchildren, Elkanah, Isaiah, Mehitabel apd
Desire Crowell. He gave his dwelling-house to Jeremiah, hence
the name by which the old house was known in modern times, aud
the lot of land on the south of the road on which his son Jonathan's
house stood to Jonathan. This lot was bounded easterly by the land
of Col. Enoch Hallett. To Thomas and Jeremiah he gave his or
chard on the west of Jonathan's house.
Children of the second Jonathan Hallett born in Yarmouth :
Two daughters 20th Nov. 1720, stiU born.
40. 1, Desire, 18th Jan, 1721-2, married Samuel Bacon 1747.
41. II, Jqnathan, 10th Nov. 1723. (See account below.)
42. III. Prince, 12th Sept. 1726, died July 3, 1728.
43. IV. AbigaU, 25th Aug. 1727, died June 26. 1728.
44. V. Thomas, 7th July, 1729. (See account below.)
0, VI. AbigaU, 3d June, 1731, died June 23, 1731.*
0. VII, Prince, 3d June, 1732, died June 23, 1732.
45. VIII. Jeremiah, 20th Sept. 1733. (See account below.)
46. IX. Joshua, 19th March, 1735-6, died 10th May, 1736.
47. X. Sarah, 28th June 1737.
48. XI. Mehitabel, 7th May, 1740.
(17.) David Hallett, son of Jonathan, removed to Hyannis,
and settled on the land which was his father's. His house was one
"Abigail and Prince, I flnd this so on the record ; but it looks like a mistake of the
clerk.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 513
of the first buiU in that viUage. He married 19th Aug. 1719
Mary, daughter of John Annable of West Barnstable. '
Children born in Barnstable.
49. I. Abigail, 26th June, 1720, married Prince Howes of Yar
mouth, Aug. 3, 1739.
50. II. Jonathan, 1st Dec. 1722, married Aug. 5, 1744, Mercy,
daughter of Dea. Samuel Bacon, and had John, 4th Oct.
1745 ; Jonathan, 9th Dec. 1749 ;- Nathaniel, 28th Nov.
1752; Anner, 20th March, 1755; Samuel, 26th March,
1758; Benjamin, 18th Jan. 1760 ; Edward, 6th AprU 1762;
WiUiam and David, Capt. Benjamin of this family resided
at Osterville, and was the father of the late Hon. Benjamin F.
HaUett.
51. III. David, 12th Dec. 1744, married July 18, 1753, Sarah
Lewis. 2d, Sarah Butler, Feb. 12, 1756. He died Nov.
1763.
52. IV. EUzabeth, 9th Jan., 1726.
53. V. Mehitabel, 21st Ap. 1729, married Shubael Baxter of
Yarmouth, 1746-7.
54. VI. Remember, 12th May, 1731, married Jabez Marchant of
Yarmouth, Jan. 4, 1753. . '
_55. VII. Sarah, 28th May, 1733, married Jabez Parker 1751.
56. VIII. Annah, llth May, 1737, married Nov. 1, 1759,
Elisha Kent, of Goodfield.
57. IX. Mary, llth May, 1739, married Nov. 22, 1761, Timo
thy Hamblin.
58. X. Abner, 19th May, 1741. He married Susan  ,
• had a son Abner and otliers.
Timothy Hallett, son of Jonathan, owned and resided in the
dwelling-house now occupied by Mr. Eldridge Lovell of Yarmouth.
He was a farmer, and a very respectable ipan. He married, first,
Feb. 18, 1719-20, Thankful Sturgis, who died at the birth of her
flrst child — still born — 10th Jan. 1721, and both were buried in the
same grave. Second, to Elizabeth, daughter of Dea. Moses Hatch
of Falmouth. She died Oct. 23, 1744, aged 44 years, and he mar
ried May 23, 1745, Thankful Jones of Barnstable, his third wife.
He died as recorded on his grave stones, Jan. 24, 1771, in the 69th
year of his age. His grandson Benjamin made the following record
in his family bible : "My grandfather Timothy Hallett died July 7,
1770, in the 66th year of his age." "My grandmother Elizabeth
Hallett died Oct. 23, 1744, aged 44 years."
Children of Timothy Hallett born in Yarmouth :
59. I. Timothy, 7th May, 1725, died Aug. 3, 1747.
60. II. Elizabeth, 12th June 1727, died June 7, 1728.
61. III. Moses, 20th AprU, 1629. He was an ignorant, self-
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514 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
62. IV. Benjamin, 9th Oct. 1730, married Bethia Jones of Sand
wich Ap. 26, 1759. He was pilot of a vessel bound to HaU-
fax, lost at sea, and all on board perished. He left no issue
63. V. Elizabeth, 16th Nov. 1736, died Dec. 20, 1735.
64. VI. James, 12th April, 1737, died young.
(On the family record of Benjamin HaUett, ifrandson of Timo
thy, the name of James is not given. Joshua HaUett, now Uving,
(1868) says he does not recollect of having heard his father say he
had a brother James. On the family register, the birth of Joshua
is recorded iu the year 1737, which corresponds with the record of
his a,ge at his death.)
65. VII. Joshua, lOth Jan. 1738-9. His house, yet remaining,
is the most westerly on the north side of the County road in
Yarmouth. He married Dorcas Eldridge. He died Aug. 19,
1821, aged 84, and his wife AprU 26, 1813, aged 72 years.
His children were :
Bethia, Feb. 6, 1763, died aged — yrs.
Elizabeth, Oct. 31, 1764, " " 88 "
Lydia, Feb. 21, 1767,
Dorcas, April 20, 1770,
Mary, June 23, 1772,
I'atience, April 26, 1775,
Joshua, April 12, 1778,
Omittiug Patience, who died in infancy, the average of the
family, parents and children, is 83 years and some months.
Bethia married Elkanah CroweU aud resided at West Yar
mouth. Elizabeth or Betsey as she was called, lived unmarried and
died in her father's house. Lydia married Obed Howes, Esq., of
Dennis. Dorcas was marked at birth with bunches of grapes on
her face. She married at 62 her cousin Benjamin Hallett. Mary
married, first, Josiah Baker. 2d, Robert Dixon ; and 3d, Capt.
Eben Howes of Yarmouth. She resided for a time in the Western
States ; but after her third marriage in Yarmouth, and died of
apoplexy iu 1868. Joshua married twice. He was a carpenter,
and resided iu a house on the opposite side of the road from his
father's. He died in 1863.
66. VIII. Isaac, born 24th Aug. 1742, was the youngest child
of Timothy. He was a deacon of the Yarmouth church, and
his family, as well as his brother Joshua's, are long lived. He
married in 1761 Elizabeth Eldridge. He died Oct. 5, 1814,
aged 72 years, and his widow March 1, 1831, aged 86 years.
Children born in Yarmouth.
Benjamin, Nov. 3, 1762, died Feb. 28, 1838, aged 76 years.
Thankful, Oct. 10, 1764, died Aug. 14, 1831, aged 68 years.
Isaac, Dec. 6, 1766, died 1857 aged 90 years.
Elizabeth, Feb. 23, 1769, now living, aged95 years. [Died March
26, 1866, aged 97.]

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Auna, March 26, 1771, died Sept. 24, 1823, aged 52 years.
Deborah, Aug. 3, 1773, died Sept. 24, 1857, aged 84 years.
John, Jan. 28, 1775, died 1853, aged 78 years.
Rosanua, May 1, 1778, uow liviug. [Died June, 1867, aged
89.]
Samuel, Sept. 23, 1780, died April 23, 1829, aged 48 years.
Levina, Jan. 13, 1783.
Elisha, March 8, 1777, now living.
Benjamin of this family married for his first wife, Feb. 16,
1786, AbigaU Matthews, and had Elsey Oct. 12, 1786, aud Sophia
May 3, _1791. Both of whom married the late Capt. Nathan Hal
lett. For his second wife he married, June 19, 1832, Dorcas Hal
lett. Thankful married Reuben Rider Dec. 1, 1785, and lived in
Yarmouth. Isaac married Rebecca Matthews, resided in Barnstable, aud
had a family. In his old age he lived with his daughter Ruth
Sears. EUzabeth, who married 1st, Prince CroweU, and 2d, Isaac
Gorham, is now living. Though in the ninty-sixth year of her age,
she keeps house, does her own work, runs herowu errands, and is as
well as most persons at seventy. A day or two since, while return
ing with her milk, she toppled down — jumping up quickly, she ex
claimed : "I have not spilled one drop of it."
Anna married Barnabas Marchant of Barnstable, and removed
to Falmouth.
I Deborah married Capt. Ezra CroweU, and resided in Barnsta
ble. John married Lydia Thacher, and resided in Barnstable., In
his old age he and his wife removed to Chatham.
Rosanua married Nov. 26, 1799, Zenas Howes, who died in
1853. Samuel married Lydia Ewer of Barnstable. He owned his
grandfather Timothy's house, which he sold. In the latter part of
his life he was a resident of Barnstable.
Levina married, 1st, Trustrum Nye, of Falmouth. 2d, WiU
iam Cobb of Nantucket.
Elisha married, 1st, Dorcas SmaU of Luhec, 16th Feb. 1809.
She died Jan. 27, 1848, and he married 2d, Hannah W. Davis of
Lubec. He is a ship carpenter, and a part of his life has resided at
Lubec. He has recently removed to that vicinity, where he has a
farm, on which there is a lead mine, which has been wrought.
(22.) Andrew Hallett, son of John, born in Yarmouth in
1684 built a house of the same description with his father's on the
land opposite the Barnstable Bank building. He married July 23,
1713 MehUabel, daughter of John Annable of West Barnstable.
Children born in Yarmouth.

51(5 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
67. I. Desire, AprU 21, 1714, married July 20, 1732, James
Hawes.
68. II. Stephen, Oct. 5, 1721, married in 1743, Mercy Joyce.
She died Oct. 23, 1763, and he married 2d, Widow Thankful
Taylor. His children were Mary, June 12, 1744 ; Anna,
March 30, 1747; Joseph, Dee. 11, 1748; Mercy, Feb. 17,
1752; Stephen, Aug. 16, 1754; Mehitable, June 10, 1757;
Sarah, April 12,1760; Mary, April 10,1767; and Levi
July 16, 1769. Joseph married Ruth Taylor, and had Jo
seph, and David and Asa twins. He was lost at sea with
Howes Taylor. His brother Levi was also lost at sea in 1789.
Anna, Mercy and Mehitabel, did not marry, resided in the east
part of their father's house, and died in old age. Stephen
married Desire Hall and had Susan and Mercy. He
drank to excess, spent the large estate devised to him by his
father, and died a town-pauper
Andrew HaUett died April 26, 1751, aged 67, and his widow
Mehitabel Oct. 28, 1767, aged 72. In his will dated 23d April,
1651, proved May 7, 1751, he is styled yeoman, names his wife
Mehitabel, to whom he gives one-half of his dwelling-house, privi
lege of the well, barn room, one-half of the fruit yearly growing in
his orchard, use of one-third of his other real estate, one-third of
his personal estate, and sufficient wood at the door, cut flt for the
fire, to be furnished by his son Stephen. To his daughter Desire he
gave a piece of land on the east of Hawes' Lane, ten acres of wood
land adjoining Jonathan Hallett's, and one-half of his moveable es
tate. All the rest of his estate he gave to his son Stephen.
(23,) John Hallett, Esq., son of John, born in Yarmouth,
was married Aug. 24, 1716, by Peter Thacher, Esq., to Thankful
Thacher, He died April 8, 1765, aged 77 years, and his widow
Thankful Feb. 9, 1768.
He built the large mansion-house now occupied hy the widow
Elizabeth Gorham and Howard Crowell. He was Sherifi^, and a
man of note in his day, but 1 have not space to trace his history.
His children born in Yarmouth were :
69. I. Mary, 17th Dec, 1717, m. Jan. 24, 1727, Isaac Gorham
of Barnstable, and had Mary, who married Elisha Hedge, and
Thankful, who married John Hall. She died Aug. 19, 1741,
and is buried near the East Church in Barnstable.
70. II. John, 9th Aug. 1719, married Feb. 12, 1747, Rebecca
HaUett. He died Feb, 14, 1760. His children were : Mary,
Dec 26, 1748, died young ; Charles, April 4, 1751, married
Lydia Thacher, and was the father of the late George Hallett,
Esq., of Boston, and of the late Mr. OUver Hallett, and
others; Martha, Nov. 2, 1753, died unmarried in 1794; and
Jolm, May 4, 1756, married Hannah HaUett Apr. 10, 1781,
and resided at Great Island.

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^^- ^l^- Peter, 7th Oct. 1721, married in 1739, Eunice AUen
of Harwich. She died Aug. 26, 1752. His second wife
was Sarah  , who died Feb. 13, 1760, and he married
tor his third wife Lydia Buck (or Bearse) in 1761. He
died Feb. 1794. He was the father of nineteen chUdren,
whose fortunes in life were widely dissimUar. His children
were Rebecca, Jan. 15,1743, married  Bray; John
Alien Nov. 14, 1745, married  Mackev ; Elkanah,
Sept. 16, 1749; Eunice, Dec, 24,1751; Lot, AprU 12,
17o4; Hannah, Oct. 1T56, married Gersham Cobb, and has
descendants; Temperance, Sept. 1758; Benjamin, Aug, 13,
1762, died at sea on the coast of Africa, 1790 ; George,
July 21, 1764 ; Prince, AprU 16, died a pauper in Y, ; Job,
Feb. 26, 1767, died young; Lydia, Feb. 23,1769, married
Zenas HaUett; Sarah, Feb. 10, 1771, married and removed;
Peter, March 2, 1775, died at sea ; Marv, Sept, 19, 1777,
married Joseph Hallett; Job, July 28, 1779, of Boston, now
living, and three others who died young, making 19.
(24.) Joseph HaUett, son of John, built a house like his
father's between his brother John's and Andrew's. He married
AbigaU  1722, and died Sept. 19,1735, and his widow
AbigaU Sept. 18, 1768, aged 67. His oldest child was born in
Barnstable, his other chUdren in Yarmouth.
72. I. Roland, 7th Aug. 1723. (A Rowland Hallett married
Jane Sears in 1772. He resided at Hyannis, had a son
Rowland and other children,
73, II. Joseph, 25th June, 1725, married 1745, Mary Joyce.
74. III. AbigaU, 15th June, 1727, married Samuel Gorham
AprU 20, 1747.
75. IV. Hannah, 23 Oct, 1729, married Josiah Gorham Oct. 9,
1755, and 2d, Thomas Allyn.
76. V. Eunice, 8th Jan. 1731-2.
77. VI. Elizabeth, 25th AprU, 1734.
(25.) Samuel Hallett, son of John, married June 15, 1727,
Susannah Clark ol Harwich. He resided in the house which was
his father's. His family register I do not flnd on the Yarmouth
records. His estate was settled Jan, 4, 1757, his widow Susan
nah being -then living. His children named in the settlement
are :
78. I. Enoch, born in 1737, was one of the leading men dur
ing the Revolutionary period. He was a Colonel of the
mUitia, and afterwards Sheriff of the County. He resided
in the house which was his grandfather's, already described.
Though one of the most prominent men in the County — a
man of good business capacity — a man of influence and
highly respected, yet he was satisfied to reside in a house
that neither the joiner, the plasterer, nor the painter ever en-

518 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
tered, and in which the lour winds of Heaven might contend
for the mastery. His flrst wile was Thankful Hawes,
who died Dec. 9, 1778, and he married May 25, 1780, Abi
gail Rider. He died March 8, 1788, aged 51 years. He
had fourteen children born in Yarmouth, namely : Samuel,
April 8, 1756, died Jan. 29, 1778, at Lancaster, viz : while
in the public service; Barnabas, Dec. 27, 1757, married
three wives, and has descendants ; Enoch, Feb. 19, 1760,
married Mary Sears; Heman, Jan. 27, 1762, died unmar
ried ; Abner March 27, 1764, married Mary Hallett, and
had daughter Serena, now living — he died in Aux Cays
1797; David, March 21, 1766, died at sea, had no issue;
Susannah, Dec. 29, 1767, died 13th Feb. 1768 : Susannah,
March 7, 1769, married Heman Bangs and removed to the
West; Ascha, Aug. 31, 1772, married and removed; Thank
ful, Sept. 3, 1774, resided with Rev. John MeUen, .Ir., and
died at Cambridge; Rhoda, Aug. 29, 1776, married Edward
Marston ; Abigail, Oct. 27, 1781, married Crocker Marston ;
Nancy, AprU 7, 1783, died young ; and Samuel Clark, Feb.
13, 1785 ; died unmarried at sea.
79. II. Clark, died at sea.
80. III. Thankful, married David Taylor 1749.
81. IV. Susannah, married  Bangs.
82. V. Sarah, died unmarried. She was insane and supported
by the town.
(26.) Seth Hallett, son of John, born in Yar
mouth in 1699, resided at Hyannis. He married May 8,
1729, Mary Taylor. He died May 1, 1757, aged 58, and his
widow Mary, Oct. 9, 1763, aged 62. Both are buried in the old
graveyard at Hyannis. Ciiildren born in Barnstable.
Temperance, April 18, 1729.
Hannah, Dec. 4, 1731.
. Deborah, AprU 14, 1734.
Joseph, Sept. 21, 1736.
Thankful, Sept. 21, 1736, married John Crocker 4th
June, 1760.
88. VI. AbigaU, Aug. 8, 1738.
And I have also noted that he had a son Rowland born in
1743, died Aug. 10, 1816, aged 73. (See Roland son of Sam
uel.) This Roland married Jane Sears, and among his children
was the late Seth Hallett, Esq., of Hyannis.
36. Ebenezer HaUett, son of Ebenezer, born in Yarmouth
Dec. 29, 1719, married Dec. 12, 1741, Elizabeth Bangs. He died
March 6, 1807, aged 87 years. He was a farmer, and resided in
the house which was his father's. Alter he was sixty years of

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age he set out an orchard, and lived to gather the fruit many
years. His children born in Yarmouth were :
89. I. Ruth, 18th Sept. 1743, married Eben Howes
90. II. A son, 7th Sept. 1745, died 15th of same month.
f ; ^.Edward, 6th AprU, 1747, married Sarah Hedge, and
had Nathan, Dec. 10, 1768; Ansel, Nov. 1, 1770; Hannah,
March 16, 1773; Olive, AprU 16, 1775 ; Betty, Aug. 2,
1777, died young; Betty, Nov. 2, 1779, married John
Eldridge ; Edw. Bangs March 16, 1782 ; SaUy, June 18,
1784 ; and Nancy Jan. 4, 1787. The father of this famUy
died aged 49, but his chUdren were aU long-lived, and he has
numerous descendants.
92. IV. Ebenezer, 22d May, 1750. He was a farmer, and was
one of the first contractors to carry a weekly mail to Bos
ton. (See Thacher.) His chUdren were : Lot, Oct. 17,
1777; Catte, Feb. 4, 1780; Ann, AprU 13, 1783 ; Ebene
zer, May 22, 1785 ; Matthews C, May 25, 1787 ; EUzabeth,
Feb. 4, 1790 ; Lucy, March 21, 1795 ; and RandaU, Jan.
24,1799. All are now deceased excepting Elizabeth, wile
of Charles Sears, Esq.
93. IV. Bette, 17th March, 1752.
94. V. Lucy, 4th July, 1754, died Sept. 6, 1765.
95. VI. A son, 13th Oct. 1758, died Nov. 24, 1758.
96. VII. A son, 23d June, 1759, died July 25, 1759.
97. VIII. Elizabeth, 23d March, 1764, married Eben Whel
den.
98. IX. Lucy, 20th Jan. 1768, married Johu Eldridge.
41. Jonathan HaUett, son of Dea. Jonathan, married
Thankful CroweU. By mistake she took rats-bane instead of
salts, and died in six hours. He died Feb. 6, 1814 ; aged 90
years. His chUdren were: Lydia, born llth Aug. 1745, married
Josiah Miller; Thankful, 16th Sept. 1747, married Barnabas
Hedge and removed to Maine ; Howes, 21st July, 1749, married
Temperance Hedge; Jonathan, 13th June, 1751, married Sarah
Hedge; Azuba, 4th Dec. 1752, married Ansel Taylor ; Solomon,
23d Nov. 1754, married Deborah Chapman and removed to Ken
nebec, Maine ; Elisha, married Elizabeth Hawes Oct. 15, 1779, re
moved to Kennebec; Isaiah, 10th Aug. 1762, died of small pox
in Boston harbor — left no issue ; Zenas, 9th Aug. 1768, married
Lydia Hallett ; and Josiah, 27th Aug. 1765, married Elizabeth
Matthews. Howes Hallett of this family was, in 1789, skipper of a new
fishing vessel, owned principally by a Mr. Evans of Providence,
E. I. She was lost in a gale on Nantucket Shoals, and aU on
board perished, namely : Howes HaUett, master, Josiah HaUett,
Daniel HaUett, Edmond Hallett, Levi HaUett, Joseph Hallett, Jo
siah Miller and Moody Sears.

520 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
44. Thomas Hallett, son of Jonathan, married Sarah Ham
blin, and had Ezekiel, 5th AprU, 1757, died at sea unmarried;
Desire, 15th April, 1759, married Barnabas Hallett; Judith, 31st
May, 1761, died single at Sandwich; Sarah, 14th July, 1763,
married Barnabas Hallett; Ruth, 21st July, 1765, died single at
Sandwich; Thomas, 6th Sept. 1767; Ezra, 28th March, 1769;
William, 13th March, 1775, married Abigail Thacher ; Elizabeth,
12 Nov, 1778, died single at Sandwich,
47. Jeremiah Hallett, son of Jonathan, married Hannah
Griffeth. He died Nov. 12, 1819, aged 86. His chUdren were:
Hannah, born 18th June, 1760, married John HaUett April 10,
1781 ; Mary, 1st Sept. 1763, married Abner Hallett. She lived a
widow many years, and was a living chronicle of the history of
the Halletts ; Thankful, 6th Oct. 1764, married James Sears;
Jerusha, llth March, 1767, married Ebenezer Marston ; Daniel,
20th Oct, 1769, lost at sea 1789; Rebecca, 3d Sept, 1772, mar
ried 1st, David Downs, 2d, Barnabas Bacon; Jeremiah, 28th
June, 1775, committed suicide 1837 ; and Joseph, 2d April, 1778,
married Lucretia Taylor.
Lines composed by the Rev. Timothy Alden, on the death of
Mr. James Sears' wife and two infant children :
The Sovereign Power that reigns above,
Kecalls these pledges of his love ;
The mother with the tender babes.
Retires from light to death's cold shades.
The infants free from human harm,
There sleep as on the mother's arms.
Thus to fulfil the sentence just.
The mortal part returns to dust ;
Together lay the small and great,
While lasts the intermediate state,
But at the resurrection day
The soul reanimates the clay.
Made then immortal friends in heart ;
To Christ united ne'er shall part ;
The sure approach of that great day,
May drive all gloomy thoughts away.
And free the mind Irom sorrows past.
With joys that shall forever last.
God's judgments now as dark as night.
Will then uplet as noonday light,
Displaying wisdom Infinite,
Why bosom Iriends must part so soon.
The offspring cease in early bloom.
Though this is lar Irom present choice,
Is all lor good in wisdom's voice.
That wisdom reigns, let all rejoice.
When late retired to take my rest,
1 viewed your care as one distressed, >
These thoughts arose within my breast,
II they a drooping heart can cheer.
Accept them Irom a Iriend sincere.

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(61.) Moses HaUett, son of Timothy, was born in Yar
mouth April 20, 1729. He married four wives, nam el v:
1, Phebe Hamblin, in 1751, died Nov. 28, 1769.
2, Elenor Hamblin,  died Sept. 7, 1771, aged 38.
3, Lydia Goodspeed, 1772, died Feb. 16, 1791, aged 53.
4, Betty CroweU, a daughter ol Ephraim.
He died Dec. 14, 1809, aged 80 years, and at the time of his
death had only one unsound tooth. His widow survived him sev
eral years. His chUdren born in Yarmouth, were :
I. James, llth Sept. 1752, married Dec. 24, 1778, Susannah
Taylor, and had a large family. Capt. Timothy HaUett was a
son.
II. Elizabeth, 2l8t May, 1754, married Jonathan Bassett and
removed to Kennebec.
IIL Mary, 18th March, 1756^ married Nov. 26, 1778, Jeremiah
Crowell,
IV. AbigaU, 8th Feb, 1758, married Wm. Taylor.
V. Timothy, 9th Jan. 1759-60, died May 5, 1776.
VI. Phebe, 4th Augw 1763, died single ia old age.
VII. Keziah, 26th March 1766, died unmarried Feb. 12, 1806,
She was a woman feeble in mind and in body.

THE HAMBLEN FAMILY.

As nearly aU the first settlers of Barnstable came from Lon
don and the County of Kent, it is probable that James Hamblen,
the ancestor, came from that city, as stated by Mr. David Ham
blen in the New England Historic and Genealogical Journal. Of
his early history little is known. He appears to have .been an
early member of Mr. Lothrop's Church, though the date is not
found on the record. His son Bartholemew was baptized April
24, 1642, but the baptism of his older children, Jamesand Han
nah, do not appear on the record. It is probable that they were
born in England, and that neither they nor their mother came
over so early as the father. This was a common occurrence in
early times. The father came over, and when he had provided a
home sent for his famUy.
He was one of the earliest settlers, and was in Barnstable in
the spring of 1639. His houselot, containing eight acres, was at
Coggin's Pond, and was one of those that I presume were laid out
under the authority of Mr. Collicut. It was bounded northerly
by the lot of Gov. Hinckley, easterly by the Commons, (now the
ancient graveyard) southerly by the Commons, and westerly by
the highway, which at that time after crossing the hiU on the west
turned to the north on the borders of the pond to Gov. Hinck
ley's old house, which stood near the pond, and thence turned
easterly, joining the present road at the head of Calve's Pasture
Lane. In 1686 the present road was laid out through Hamblen's
lot, and leaving a triangular shaped portion of it on the north ol
the road. Alterwards, in 1693, the location of the road having
been changed, the Hamblens were allowed to enclose that part of
the old road situate between their land and the pond, and ad
joining to Gov. Hinckley's. The westerly portion of the road
which was discontinued, opposite the south end of the pond, was
reserved as a public watering-place, and is so occupied to this
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 523
His other lands were six shares and six acres of upland in
the Calves Pasture, twenty acres of upland, and the meadow on
the north, bounded easterly by the land of Henry Bourne, and
westerly by the land of Dea. John Cooper. His great lot of fifty
acres was bounded south-westerly by the great Indian Pond,
southerly by the lot of Thomas Lothrop, and northerly by the
Commons. It was the most northerly of the Indian Pond lots,
and his son John built a house thereon. The Hamblens were
among the flrst settlers in that part of the town, and that region
of country is now known as Hamblen's Plain.
In 1686 James Hamblen, Senior's, house is described as stand
ing on his twenty acre lot, on the north side of the highway, be
tween the houses of Mr. Eussell (known in modern times as Brick
John Hinckley's) and Dea. John Cooper's, now owned by Mr.
William Hinckley and others. In the year 1653 this land is called
on the records Mr. Groom's land, but in the following year, 1654,
Goodman Hamblen's.
James Hamblen, Sen'r, died in 1690. In his will dated Jan.
23, 1683-4, he names his wile Anne and all his children. To James
he gave £10, to Bartholemew, £5, and to his daughter Hannah,
"according to ye desire of my mother," £5. All the rest of his es
tate he gave to his wife during her natural life, and after her death
to be divided equally among his childreu. He had a large real es
tate. His personal estate was apprised at £19,17.3.
Goodman Hamblen was not much in public life. He was an
honest man, a good neighbor, and a sincere christian. He was in
dustrious, and prudent in his habits, and brought up his children to
walk in his footsteps. His descendants have, with few exceptions,
inherited the good qualities of their ancestor. The Hon. Hannibal
Hamlin, Vice President of the United States, is the only one among
them who has been eminent in public Ufe. To give a full genealogy
of the family would require a volume. I cannot use all the material
I have collected without transcending the limits of a newspaper arti
cle. Several of this name came over early. Capt. Giles HamUn, of
Middletown, was a shipmaster, and a man of note in his time.
There was a Clement Hamlin of Boston, in 1776. James, of Barn
stable, is supposed to have been a brother of Giles, but I have seen
no evidence that renders it probable. Capt. GUes wrote his name
Hamlin ; James, Hamblen. This is not conclusive evidence ; but
if they were brothers the probabiUty is they would have written
their names in the same manner. Ou the Colony Eecords, except in
two instances, his name is written Hamlen. The exceptions are au
instrument to which he affixed his own signature, and an exemption
in 1657 from serving on the grand jury in consequence of sickness.
His sons wrote their name Hamblen, Rev. Mr. Lothrop wrote the
name uniformly Hamlvng ; Eev. Mr. EusseU Hamblin. In 1642

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James Hamlen was admitted a freeman of the Colony, and in 1643
was constable of the towt of Barnstable. The usual spelling is
Hamblin, hat the descendants of James are not uniforiU. Eleazer^
the great-grandfather of Vice President Hamlin, dropped the 6 as a
useless letter, and his descendants have continued to do So.
Family of James Hamblen.
His son James and daughter Hannah were probably born in
Englandj his other children in Barnstable,
James. Hannah. Bartholemew, llth AprU, 1642, bap. April 24.
John, 26th June, 1644) bap, Juue 30.
Sarah, 7th Nov. 1647, bap. saUie day.
Eleazer, 17th March, 1649-50, bap. same day.
Israel, 26th June, 1652, bap. same day.
This record shows that Goodman Hamblen was ^rery exact id
the performance of what he believed to be a religious duty, that
none of his children should die unbapiized,
James Hambleo, Jr., son of James, Was probably born in Lon
don. He came over when a child, and resided all his life in Barn"
stable. At first on his father's Coggins' Pond lot ; but in 1702 he had
removed to Hamblen's Plain, West Barnstable, when his son Ebene
zer occupied the old homesteads which he afterwards sold to Col,
Gorham. He was a farmer, an exemplary member of the Churchy
and a good citizen. He married 20th Nov, 1662^ Mary Dunham,
probably a daughter of Dea. John, of Plymouth, She died April
19, 1715, aged 73, and was the mother of fourteen children born ifl
Barnstable, namely :
9. I. Mary, 24th July, 1664, married Ben. Hatch June 17,
1678.
10. II. EHzabeth, 13th Feb. 1655'6, married John Scudder 31st
July, 1689, died in Chatham Jan. 1742-3, aged 77.
11. III. Eleazer, 12th April, 1668.
12. IV. Experience, 12th AprU, 1668.
13. V. James, 26th Aug. 1669.
14. VI. Jonathan, 6th March, 1670-1.
15. VII. A child, 28th March, 1672, died 7th April, 1672.
16. VIII. Ebenezer, 29th July, 1674.
17. IX. Elisha, 15th March, 1676-7, died 20th Dec. 1677.
18. X. Hope, 13th March, 1679-80, married Wffi, Case May 9,
1712.
19. XL Job, 15th Jan. 1681.
20. XII. John, 12th Jan. 1683.
21. XIII. Elkanah.
22. XIV. Benjamin, baptized March 16, 1684-5.
4. Bartholemew Hamblin, son of James, resided ofi hi3
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home lots. He was a farmer, a worthy and respectable man. His
aud his brother Eleazer's names appear as soldiers in the company of
Capt. John Gorham in King Philip's war. The Hamblens were
largely interested as original proprietors of the township of Gorham,
in the State of Maine.
He died April 24, 1704, aged 62 years and 14 days, leaving an
estate apprised at £309, 6shj 8d, which was divided by an agreement
dated May 31, 1704, his widow receiving one-third, each daughter
£15, and the balance to his sons.
He married 20th Jan. 1673, Susannah Dunham, perhaps a sis
ter of Mary, wife of James Hamblen, Jr.
Children horn in Barnstable,
23. I. Samuei, 25th Dec. 1674.
24. II. Mercy, 1st June, 1677. She joined the church Aug. 17,
1707, and married Edward Milton Nov. 10, 1709.
25. III. Patience, 15th AprU, 1680.
26. IV. Susannah, 16th March, 1682, unmarried July 13, 1718,
when she was admitted to the church.
27. V. Experience, 13th Feb. 1684. She was admitted to the
church May 5, 1728, married Isaac Lewis 13th Sept. 1732,
and died 24th July, 1749. [Church Eecords.]
28. VI. John, 19th June 1686, died 26th AprU, 1705.
29. VII. Ebenezer, 23d March 1689.
30. VIIL Mary, 23d May, 1691.
31. IX. Bethia, 26th Nov. 1693.
32. X. Eeliance, 30th Nov. 1696, unmarried Nov. 26, 1727,
when she joined the church.
John Hamblen, son of James, resided at Hamblen's Plain,
West Barnstable. He was a farmer. His wife Sarah Bearse was
an early member of the Church, he did not join tUl late in life. The
wiU of his son John, who died unmarried in 1734, furnishes many
particulars respecting this tamily.
John Hamblin, son of James, married Aug. 1667, Sarah,
daughter of Austin Bearse. His children born in Barnstable,
^3^.*^^ I. Melatiah, 1st July, 1668. She was living in 1734, and it
appears was then unmarried.
34. II. PriscUla, 30th AprU, 1670. She married, had deceased
in 1734, but had two surviving ohUdren.
35. III. Sarah, 1st July, 1671. She married, was hvmg in
1734, when she had three children. . , „„ ^ T^ ^aaa
36 IV. Martha, 16th Feb. 1672-3, married 30th Dec. 1696,
. Samuel Doane, was living in 1734, and then had four chil-
37. V.^^Experience, 16th AprU, 1674, She married 20th Feb.
1695, Jabez Lewis. Her brother John says she had five chil-

526 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
dren living in 1734, which is probably accurate, though the
records name only four. She removed to West Yarmouth, and
the Lewis families in that vicinity are her descendants. She
died July 26, 1766, aged 92 years aud three months.
38. VI. Hannah, 16th Feb. 1675-6, married Sept. 9, 1714. John
King of Harwich, and her brother John says had six ehUdren
in 1734. She was his fourth wife as I have it noted on the
record, certainly his third. He had a numerous family.
39. VII. Esther, 17th March, 1677, married 6th March, 1705,
her cousin Jonathan, and had seven children living in 1734.
[See Jonathan.]
40. VIII. Thankful, Oct. 1679, died Oct. 1683.
41. IX. John, 10th March 1680-1. He died unmarried in 1734.
His wiU dated April 10, 1734, proved July 3, is one of those
from which the genealogist reaps a goodly harvest of facts.
He was a wealthy man, left a large estate and much due him
ou land and mortgage. He gives legacies to all his brothers
and sisters, and to his numerous nephews and neices, and did
not forget his church and the pastor thereof. He resided in
the dwelling house which was his father's at Hamblen's Plain,
owued equally by himself and his brother Benjamin.
42. X. Ebenezer, 12th May, 1683. (See below.)
43. XI. AbigaU, 25th April, 1685. She married 13th AprU,
1711, her cousin Elkanah. She died 29th May, 1733. (See
Elkanah )
44. XII. Benjamin, llth Feb. 1686. (See below.)
John Hamblin, Sen., died in 1718, aged 73 years. His wife
Sarah died previously. In his will dated Jan. 3, 1714, proved
March 8, 1717-18, he gives to his son John one-half of his tene
ment at Indian Pond, one-half of his dwelling house and barn and
one-half of his lands, and to his sou Benjamin the other half, and to
his son Ebenezer his tenement at Cooper's Pond, and the lauds adja
cent. It appears that he had a large lauded estate, and that he
owned three houses or tenements. That at the Indian Pond he did
not occupy himself. The dwelling house which he occupied was
farther north on the "Plain." His personal estate was apprised at
£168,0,8. He names his nine daughters and three sons. As his
daughter Thankful died in 1683, it seems that he had another younger
than Benjamin not named on the record.
7. Eleazer HambUn, son of James, was a soldier in Capt.
John Gorham's company in King Philip's war, and an original pro
prietor of the town of Gorham, in Maine. I have not carefully
examined his record, and know but little of his history. His
wife was an early member of the church, and he joined in 1686. I
think he resided at Hamblen's Plain. The Eleazer Hamblins pat
ronized the lawyers more than aU others of the name ; but I may be

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 527
doing injustice iu making the remark in connection with the elder
Eleazer. He married 15 Oct. 1675, Mehitabel, daughter of John Jenkins,
and had six children born in Barnstable :
45. I. Isaac, 20th Aug., 1676.
46. II. Joseph, 20th Nov., 1680.
47. III. Mehitabel, 28th March, 1682, married Nov. 8, 1714,
John Sanderson.
48. IV. Shubael, 16th Sept., 1695.
49. V. EUsha, bap. 30th July. 1685.
50. VI. Ichabod, bap. 30th May, 1687.
The two last probably died young and therefore their names do
not appear on the town record.
(8.) Israel Hamblin, the son of James, was born the 25th of
June, 1652. It appears by the church records that he married
twice. His first wife was AbigaU, who died about the year 1700,
and his second wife was named Jemima. He resided iu the east
parish. His house stood by a pond yet known as Israel's pond on
Dimmock's lane, about a mile and a half south of the County road.
His nearest neighbor was more than half a mile distant. He cleared
away only a small space in the forest, now again covered with trees.
I am not informed respecting his occupation. He lived in a solitary
spot, and farming could not have been his principal occupation. He
is callec^Mr. ou the records, which shows that he was a man of some
note. Children of Israel Hamblen by his first wife Abigail, who was
perhaps a daughter of Joshua Lumbard.
61. L A child, 1687, died 1687.
52. II. Thankful, 24th Aug., 1689, married May 11, 1710, her
cousin Ebenezer Hamblin, son of John. She joined the church
Oct. 1713, and was living at the death of her husband in 1736.
The history of her family which will be given proves that it is
not well for so near relatives to marry each other.
53. III. Prudence, 24th Aug., 1689. She married in 1727,
Joseph Gates, of Preston.
54. IV. Israel, 15th March, 1694, married 29th May, 1715,
Dorcas Godfrey of Yarmouth, and Jan. 17, 1738-9, Bathsheba
Baker. His name appears on the Yarmouth records, and he
had by wife Dorcas, Israel, born Feb. 13, 1725, and by Bath
sheba, Thankful, Dec. 29, 1739, and Israel, June 4, 1741, aU
born in Yarmouth,
55. V. Joseph. Respecting this Joseph I have no information.
He was caUed second to distinguish him from the other two of
the same name.
56. VI. Jemima, 15th Aug., 1699.
By his second wife Jemima.

528 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
57. VII. Jacob, 28th May, 1702, married Content Hamblen
Aug. 18, 1731. He and his wife were dismissed from the
East Church to the Church in Gorham, Maine, Oct. 28, 1750,
to which town they had previously removed. He was one of
the first settlers, and he and his family were in the garrison in
1746, and remained there during the Indian war. I do not
find a record of his family. He had sons Joseph and Daniel,
and has descendants.
58. VIII. Ann, 10th AprU, 1706. She was admitted to the East
Church 1728. She married a Mr. Tilson in 1750, and re
moved to Middleboro.
(11.) Eleazer Hamblen,* son of James, 2d, born April 12,
1668, removed to Harwich. His wife was named Lydia, of Yar
mouth. I think she was a Sears. Respecting the time of his death,
I have no certain evidence. I am inclined to the opinion that he
died soon after the birth of his son Elisha, and that the Lydia Ham
blen who married Sept. 30, 1706, Thomas Snow, was his widow.
In March, 1726, as appears by the school returns, there was no
family of the name of Hamblen in Harwich. The Eleazer Hamblen
who married Sarah Sears in 1718 was probably another man, the
son of Isaac of Barnstable.
Children of Eleazer Hamblen boru in Harwich :
59. I. EUsha, Jan. 26, 1697-8, married Elizabeth Mayo, of
Eastham, and had Elijah, March 22, 1722-3, and perhaps
others.
(13.) James Hamblen, son of James, 2d, born 26th Aug.,
1669, married Oct. 8, 1690, Ruth Lewis. He united with the
West Church March 10, 1727-8, and his wife June 23, 1729.
Children born in Barnstable.
60. I. Mary, 24th June, 1691. Became a member of the church
Dec. 21, 1718, and was baptized same day.
61. II. Ruth, 25t.h Jan., 1692-3, married Samuel Crocker, Nov.
2, 1723.
62. Ill, James, 17th Julv, 1696, married  , had Silas,
AprU 15, 1722; Caleb, Feb. 8, 1723-4 ; Deborah, Jan. 19,
1726-7; Benjamin, Jan. 1, 1730; David, Jan. 11, 1732;
Hannah, Aug. 30, 1735.
63. IV. Benjamin, Nov. 8, 1702 ; died 23d Jan. 1732-3.
64. V. David, June, 1708 ; died 4th Nov. 1732.
65. VI. Hannah, June 17, 1709. Nov. 25, 1735, she was ad
mitted to the West Church and baptized, being then oonflned
*Following in the track of so eminent and careful a genealogist as the late Mr. David
Hamblen, I did not expect that the lahor of writing the Hamblen genealogy would be an
arduous task, I have full abstracts from the town, church and probate records, and other
original papers, yet many questions arise which I cannot Satisfactorily resolve. There were
three Eleazers who were cotemporaries, and four Ebenezers. To keep their families dis
tinct, requires more labor than I have now time to devote to it. If I flnd- leisure for the
investigation, I will append a note at the close of this article giving the result of further
examination. If any of the family, or others, can assist me, I will thank them to write me.

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to her bed with a consumption. Her gravestones at West
66 vtt" T K ^'-^'^u^r ^"^'^ °^ ^^' ^^^^-^ N"^- 7, 1 735, a mistake.
^^ ^tIIt '^^^ ^^'^^ J*^"^; <^ied 28th Sept. 1732.
67. VIII. DeUverance.
iR7n *'?*¦'* 'f°^°t*'!^"Hamblen, son of James, Jr., born March 6,
1670-1, married 6th March, 1705, by Mr. Russell, to Esther Ham
blen daughter of John. He died 22d June, 1743, aged 74, accord
ing to the record, and his wife died Sept. 1, 1746, aged 69.
Children horn in Barnstable. /"
68. L Solomon, 5th Dec. 1705 ; married Oct. 173^, Rebecca
iaylor, ot Yarmouth, and had Hannah July 31, 1737
69. II. Content, 12th Dec. 1707, married Aug. 18, 1731, Jacob
Hamblen.
70. III. PrisciUa, 13th July, 1709, married Capt. Simeon Davis
June 5, 1740, died April 1751, aged 41.*
71. IV. Zaccheus, 17th June, 1711, married July 29, 1736,
Mary Lumbard. There is no record of his family on the
town books.
72. V. Jabez, probably born in 1713, baptized July 13, 1718.
73. VI. Jonathan, baptized July 13, 1718, married Thankful
Buapas Dec. 12, 1744, and had Thankful AprU 18, 1747;
Jonathan, March 22, 1749 ; Tabitha, Jan. 14, 1751, and Con
tent, May 6, 1753, died Feb. 22, 1776.
74. VII. Sarah, baptized 13th July, 1718, married. There
were two Sarah Hamblens of about the same age. One mar
ried David Smith AprU 8, 1736, andthe other Ephraim Lewis
Oct. 8, 1736.
75. VIII. Josiah, Oct. 15, 1720, died March 1, 1789.
(16.) Dea. Ebenezer HambUn, son of James, Jr., born 29th
July, 1674, was a prominent man. He married 4th April, 1698,
Sarah Lewis ; but it does not appear on the records of whom she
was a daughter. George Lewis, Jr., had a daughter Sarah born in
1659, but she could not have been the mother of his children.
Ebenezer, son of John, married Thankful Hamblen, who survived
him. Ebenezer, son of Bartholemew, married Thankful Childs
1722. Dea. Hamblen removed to Sharon, Conn., where he died in
1755, aged 81. His children born in Barnstable were :
76. I. Ebenezer, 18th March, 1698-9. Au Ebenezer Hamblen,
whose wife was Prudence, had John and Israel baptized Sept.
3, 1721. He afterwards married perhaps HopestiU Davis,
widow of Shubael, and a daughter of Joshua Lumbard born
in 1686. Judging by the age, it may have been the father
who married HopestiU. An Ebenezer, perhaps this man, had
HopestUl born in Rochester April 23, 1726. "Mrs. HopestiU

76.

II.

77.

HI.

78.

IV.

79.

V.

80.

VI,

90.

VII.

Capt,

530 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Hamblen died Oct. 1756, aged above 60." — [Chufch Eec
ords. Mercy, 10th Sept. 1700.
HopestiU, 23d July, 1702.
Cornelius, 13th Juue, 1705.
Thomas, 6th May, 1710.
Isaac, 1st July, 1714.
Lewis, 31st Jan. 1718-19. Lewis was grandfather to
Nathaniel Hamblen, of Boston, aud Hon. Frederick
Haniblin, of Elira, Ohio. He, married Experieuce Jenkins
April 12, 1739, and had Sarah born in Barnstable Jan, 3,
1739-40; Nathaniel, boru in Lebanon, Conn., Nov. 29, 1741 ;
Lewis, born in Lebanon Dec. 19, 1743; he then returned to
Barnstable aud had Sarah Dee. 17, 1745; Mary, Dec. 16,
1747 ; Philemon, April 2, 1751 ; Mercy, March 25, 1753 ;
and Perez, Sept. 26, 1755.
(21.) Elkanah Hamblen, son of James, Jr., married April
14, 1711, AbigaU, daughter of John Hamblen, she died 29th of
May, 1733, and he married Aug. 11, 1734, Margaret Bates, of
Plymouth, also called of Agawam, and married June 9, 1734.
Children horn in Barnstable.
91. I. Sylvanus, 20th July, 1712, married AprU 24, 1741, Dor
cas Fish, of Falmouth, and had Sylvanus baptized Oct. 11,
1741; Simeon, June 17, 1744; Patience, Oct. 25, 1745;
Barnabas, AprU 26, 1747 ; Rachel, June 2, 1751.
92. II. Reuben, 13th March, 1714, married May 29, 1739, Hope,
daughter of Benjamin Hamblen, and had Pllkanah, June 1,
1740, died 19th April, 1750 ; Benjamin, May 7, 1742 ; Abi
gail, Feb. 23, 1743, married Lemuel Howland of Sandwich,
Dec. 11, 1765; Lemuel, April 4, 1746; Thomas, Sept. 26,
1748 ; and Hannah, Aug. 4, 1753.
93. III. AbigaU, 17th Oct. 1715.
94. IV. John, 2d Nov. 1717, married Jan. 23, 1740, Jerusha,
daughter of Shubael Hamblen, and had John, June 16,
1743 ; Lydia, Oct. 21, 1746, and probably others.
95. V. RacheU, 7th Sept. 1720, died 1722.
96. VI. Patience, 12th June, 1721.
97. VII. Tabitha, 14th AprU, 1723.
(22.) Benjamin Hamblen, son of James, Jr., baptized
March 16, 1684-5. Benjamin, son of John, remained in Barn
stable. Benjamin, son of James, Jr., removed to Eastham, and
was engaged in the whale flshery. His death is thus noticed in
the Boston News Letter of Aug. 25, 1737 : "We hear that some
time in the beginning of July, that Capt. Atherton Hough, master
of a whaUng vessel, being in the streights, kiUed a large
whale and brought her to the vessel's side as usual to cut her up,
and as the hands were hoisting the blubber into the hold, the run-

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 531
ner of the block gave way, and feU with great force on the head
of a man that stood underneath, viz : Benjamin Hamblin, of
Eastham, Mass., and instantly killed him,"
He married Oct. 25, 1716, Anne, daughter of Samuel Mayo,
Of Eastham, and had :
98. I. CorneUus, 1719, who married Jane Young June 23,
1748, and had a family. He died Nov. 8, 1791.
99. II. Benjamin, married March 24, 1747-8, Lydia Young.
100. IV. Eleazer. (This Eleazer may have been the ancestor
of Vice President Hamblen, but circumstances do not favor
the supposition.)
101. V. Lydia, married Aug. 30, 1743, John Wilcut, of Hing
ham.
Of the family of Samuel Hamblen, son of Bartholemew, I
find no record.
(29.) Ebenezer Hamblen, son of Bartholemew, born 23d
March, 1689, married Thanklul Childs 25th Oct. 1722, and had
EUzabeth 1st Oct. 1723. A Thankful Childs who was admitted
to the West Church in 1720, afterwards was dismissed to Middle
boro'. I presume this Ebenezer removed to that town ; but as
there were several Ebenezers I cannot state positively.
(41.) John Hamblen, son of John, born March 10, 1680,
died unmarried in 1734, leaving a large estate, which he disposed
of April 10, 1734, by one of those wills which rejoice the heart
of the genealogist. He remembers his nine brothers and sisters,
and his numerous nephews and neices. He gave to the West
Church £4, and to Rev. Mr. Russell £3. He appoints his brother
Ebenezer and Dea. John Crocker his executors. His wUl has en
abled me to trace the family of the first John Hamblen with per
fect certainty. (42.) Ebenezer Hamblen, son of John, resided on the es
tate which was his father's, at Great or Nine Mile Pond, called in
early times. Cooper's Pond.* He died in 1736, aged 53 years.
In his will dated Oct. 25, 1735, proved July 7, 1736, he names his
wife Thankful, his sons Gershom, Ebenezer, Timothy, Nathan,
Daniel and Samuel, and his daughters Elizabeth, Dorcas and
Thankful Bangs. His widow Thankful died Jan. 15, 1768, aged
78. She joined the Church Oct. 1713, and was a member of the
East Church at the time of her death.
Ebenezer Hamblen and his cousin Thankful Hamblen were
*M:r. Freeman in his Annals of Barnstable says, page 250 : "On the records it is often
called Cooper's Pond, It was knowh to the early settlers as the Great Indian Pond." Mr,
Freeman has confounded, as he often does, two things that are entirely separate and dis
tinct The "Great Pond," or Nine Mile Pond, situate between the westerl-jr part of the
East' Parish and Chequaquett, or Centreville was called by the early settlers Cooper's
Pond, because Dea, John Cooper owned a large tract of land on its borders. It was never
know^ as the Great Indian Pond. The Indian Ponds are between Hamhlen's Plain and
Marston's Mills, and their waters flow into Marston's Mill stream, H Mr. Freeman had
carefuUy read the records, he Would not have made the blunder.

532 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
married by Rev. Mr. RusseU May 11, 1710. Their chUdren born
in Barnstable were :
102. I. Isaac, Feb. 1711, died aged 7 weeks.
103. II. Gershom, July 19, 1713, married Aug. 9, 1739, by
Mr. Green to Hannah "Almony," a name I have not met
with before, perhaps Almy. His chUdren born in Barnsta
ble were Martha, M^y 11, 1740; Enoch, Jan 23, 1742-3 ;
Gershom, Sept. 16, 1745 ; George, Feb. 3, 1749.
104. III. Thankful, 6th Aug. 1715, married Joseph Bangs, of
Harwich, Sept. 18, 1735.
105. IV. Nathan, 29th June, 1717, deaf mute. He was living
at the death of his father, 1736.
106. V. Ebenezer, 26th Nov. 1719. He joined the East
Church when 17 years ol age. He married Joanna Ham
blen Dec. 3, 1755,* and had Joanna baptized AprU 17,
1767, Ebenezer, Dec. 14, 1760. He was chosen a deacon
of the East Church July 3, 1765. His wife died May,
1790, in the 70th year of her age.
107. VI. A daughter, stUl born, Sept. 1720.
108. VII. Samuel, 7th Jan. 1722, deaf mute. A Samuel Ham
blen, Jr., perhaps deaf and dumb Samuel, married Nov.
16, 1749, Joanna Bumpas, and had Rebecca, Sept. 13,
1750. This Samuel died early. Another Samuel married
Dec. 13, 1750, Temperance Lewis. She joined the East
Church AprU 4, 1756, and had Elijah baptized Nov. 28,
1756; Temperance, AprU 18, 1762; and Seth, March 10,
1765. I give my minutes without spending much time to
investigate. The records are deficient in regard to several
families of the name of Hamblin, and want of time com
pels me to leave it to some future investigator to supply de
ficiences.
109. VIII. Dorcas, 5th June, 1727, deaf mute.
110. IX. Timothy, 3d Sept. 1728.
111. X, EUzabeth, 20th Nov. 1730.
112. XI. Daniel, 2d AprU, 1735, married Nov. 3, 1757, Deliv
erance Childs, and had AbigaU July 2, 1761.
(44.) Benjamin Hamblen, son of John, born llth Feb.
1686-7, married May 29, 1709, Hope Huckins. Both joined the
Church July 19,1714. He resided at West Barnstable in a two
story house with a leanto (or salt-box, as sometimes caUed.) He
died in 1718, and his widow married in 1719, Ebenezer Childs.
His estate was settled AprU 6, 1724, and Joseph Hamblen was ap
pointed guardian of the chUdren. His personal estate was ap
prised at £230,16,9.

"-As there was no Joanna Hamblen horn about the year 1720, 1 hazard the opinion that
her maiden name was Bumpas, and that she was the widow of Samuel Hamblen, Jr.

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 533
Children horn in Barnstable.
113. I. Rebecca, 17th May, 1711, married Thomas Crocker
Oct. 20, 1730, and died May 9, 1756.
114. II. Hannah, baptized July, 1714.
115. III. Benjamin, baptized 'l 8th Nov. 1716, married 1740,
Mehitabel Black, of Sandwich, and 2d, Mehitabel ChUds
June 1766, and had'Mary, July 16, 1741 ; Benjamin, Feb.
25,1742-3; Nathaniel, Feb. 21, 1744; Jane, March 23,
1746 ; Ichabod, June 28, 1749. By his second wife, Mary
AprU 12, 1767; Lewis, Dec. 24, 1768; Benjamin, Sept.
30, 1770.
116. IV. Hope, baptized 31st Aug. 1718, married May 28,
1739, Reuben Hamblen.
(45.) Isaac Hamblen, son of Eleazer, born 20th Aug.
1676, married Sept. 14, 1698, Elizabeth Howland. He died in
1710, and his widow married Nov. 9, 1711, Timothy Cannon.
His brother Joseph Hamblin administered on his estate, and the
final settlement and distribution was made Feb. 20, 1737-8.
Eleazer, of Harwich, late of Barnstable, yeoman, Joseph, of
Yarmouth,' blacksmith, and Elizabeth of Barnstable, acknowl
edged the receipt of £52,0,6, of their uncle Joseph in full for
their father's estate. •
ChUdren of Isaac Hamblen born in Barnstable :
117. I. Eleazer, 22d Aug. 1699. An Eleazer Hamblen mar
ried 25th Feb. 1721-2, Jane Phinney. This could not
have been Eleazer, son of Isaac. The latter married Sarah
Sears, of Harwich, to which town he removed, and at flrst
is called a veoman, afterwards a trader. He had Barnabas
March 30, "1719 ; Sarah, March 16, 1720-1 ; Eleazer, May
24, 1723. For his second wife he married Alice Phinney,
of Barnstable, Dec. 10, 1724, by whom he had other chU
dren in Harwich of which I flnd no record. His name dis
appears in Harwich about 1740, and a family probably the
same appears in Bridgewater. I have carefully investiga
ted this matter, the proof is not conclusive, but there is
little reason to doubt that the Eleazer-born in Harwich May
24, 1723, was the Eleazer who resided successively in
Bridgewater, Harvard, Western, and finally removed to
Maine, and is the ancestor of the family of the name in
that State, of whom Vice-President Hamlin is one. This
Eleazer was a prominent man in his day, an oflScer in the
Revolutionary army, and otherwise distinguished. He mar
ried flrst Lydia Bonney, and had a very large family. To
four of his sons he gave the names of Europe, Asia, Africa
and America. I have several sheets of closely written
NOTE,— Mr, Otis at a later date, ascertained that "Irael's Pond" was named for Israel
Hamblin, Jr,, and not for his father, °-

534 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
matter in reference to this Eleazer and his descendants ;
but I have not time to transcribe them.
I have several specimens of the handwriting of Eleazer,
son of Isaac, written at different periods of his life. This
is not conclusive evidence, but it enables me to trace the
wanderings of the man and his, avocations. It is known by
tradition that the ancestor of the Maine Hamblens was a
near relative of Isaac, of Yarmouth, that he spoke fre-
quentiy of the children of Isaac, calling them his relatives.
There is another circumstance not of much weight, but in
the connection is deserving of notice. There is a most
striking family resemblance between the Hamblen's of
Maine and the Yarmouth family. One who was well ac
quainted with the latter, though he had never seen the Vice-
President, would, if he should casually meet with him, be
strongly inclined to address him as Mr. Hamblen.
117. II. Isaac, baptized 20th July, 1701, died young.
118. III. Joseph, 4th June, 1702. He was a blacksmith, and
resided about a mUe east ol the Congregational Meeting
House in Yarmouth. He married Elizabeth Matthews
March 3, 1726-7. He died 19th Jan. 1777, aged 75 years.
His children born in Yarmouth were: Hannah, March 3,
1728-9; Phebe, AprU 11,1731, married Moses HaUett;
Sarah June 11, 1733, married Thomas Hallett; Isaac,
March 14, 1735; Elizabeth, Feb. 4, 1737-8; Rebecca,
AprU 4, 1740 ; Joseph, June 15, 1742.
119. IV. Elizabeth, Oct. 1705, married Deacon Barnabas Chip-
man of Barnstable, Feb. 20, 1727-8, and died in 1753, aged
48.
(46.) Joseph Hamblen, son of Eleazer, born Nov. 20,
1680, resided in Barnstable. He was a prominent man, of good
business capacity, and lived to great age, dying Aug. 27, 1766,
aged 86 years. He was married by Mr. Russell 27th May, 1704,
to Mercy Howland. His children born in Barnstable were :
120. I. Alice, 4th Feb. 1705, married John Howland, Jr.,
1728.
121. II. Seth, March, 1708, married Sarah Blush Oct. 9, 1735,
and had Mercy Nov. 15, 1737; Sarah, Aug. 15, 1737;
Abigail, Aug. 14, 1741, married John Smith Jan. 18,1764;
Seth, Aug. 20, 1744 ; Alice, Aug. 12, 1747.
122. III. Sarah, 4th April 1711, married Ephraim Lewis Oct. 7,
1736.
123. IV. Joseph, March 10, 1715, married Dec. 8, 1738, Han
nah Lovell, and had Micah llth Nov. 1741. Major Micah
Hamblen, an oflacer of the Revolution, died Aug. 8, 1797.
He married Abigail, daughter of Samuel Parker and had Han
nah, Joseph, Micah, Temperance, Geo. W., Thomas, AbigaiL

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 535
124. V. Southworth, 21st May, 1721, married Dec. 13, 1744,
Martha Howland, add May 12, 1757, Tabitha Atkins, and
had Bethia July 3, 1758 ; Eleazer, March 25, 1760 ; South-
worth, AprU 12, 1762.
His wife Mercy died soon after the birth of Southworth,
and he married Sept. 5, 1751, Widow HopestiU Davis, a
daughter of Joshua Lumbard, born in 1686. She died Oct.
1756, aged, says the church records, above 60. She was 70
years of age at her death. As there was no other Joseph
whose age corresponded with HopestiU's, I feel confldent of
the correctness of this statement.
(48.) Shubael Hamblen, son of Eleazer, born 16th Sept.
1695, resided at West Barnstable. He married 25th March,
1719, Eleanor Winslow, of Harwich. She was a member ol the
church in Harwich, and was dismissed to the Barnstable church
Aug. 16, 1719. Children born in Barnstable.
125. I. Jerusha, 4th May, 1722, married 24th Jan. 1740, John
Hamblen, and had John June 16, 1743; Lydia, Oct. 21,
1745, and probably others. Jerusha Hamblen, who mar
ried Oct. 9, 1760, Benj. Hamblen, Jr., is probably of this
family.
126. II. Shubael, 20th Sept. 1724, married Martha Lumbard
March 7, 1751 ; 2d, Sarah Crocker, July 16, 1771, and 3d,
Ruth — ^  , and had ten children, namely : Joshua born
July 2, 1752, O. S. ; Susannah, AprU 15, 1754, N. S. ;
Timothy, Feb. 2, 1756 ; Sarah, Feb. 1754, married B.
Downs, Jr.; by his 2d wife, Martha May 31, 1762; Su
sannah, Feb. 15, 1765 ; Shubael, July 18, 1766, married
Eachel Downes; by his 3d wife, Euth, Nov. 21, 1768;
Mercy, AprU 16, 1771, and Hope, Nov. 11, 1733. By his
first marriage he came into possession of the dwelling-house
and farm of Capt. Jonathan Lombard, on the east side of
Dimmock's Lane. He fiUed up Capt. Lombard's weU, and
removed his house, a high single one with a leanto, to a
very high hill on his farm, that he might have "a clear air
and a good prospect," and all his life he and his chUdren
after him, lugged their water about half a mile up hiU from
Lumbard's Pond.
127. III. Eleanor, I8th Oct. 1726, baptized Oct. 23, died-young.
128. IV. Joshua, 21st Aug. 1728.
129. V. Mehitabel, 4th Dec. 1730, pubUshed to Benjamin
Childs 1752.
130. VI. Eleanor, 15th AprU, 1733, baptized AprU 15, 1733,
joined the church Sept. 30, 1761, married Moses Hallett, of
Yarmouth, 1771.
131. VII. Lydia, 15th Nov. 1735.

536 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
The genealogy of the Hamblens I wrote very rapidly often
sending the manuscript to the printer without looking it over and re
vising it, consequently I have made mistakes which will mislead the
reader. Since it was pHuted I have revised the article, and request
those who keep files of these papers to note the foUowing errors :
55. V. Joseph Hamblin. I say "respecting this Joseph I have no
inlormation," I had, butl wrote under the impression that the Joseph
who married Sept. 1718, Abigail Davis, was Joseph, son of Eleazer.
Abigail Davis' history 1 omitted to give in my account of her fam
ily. She was a daughter of Jabez Davis, born 26th April, 1698. After
the death ol her father in 1711, she removed to Preston, and was a mem
ber of the church in that town, and dismissed to the Barnstable church
July 9, 1721 and on the division of the church she joined the East. In
the church records the following curious passage occurs :
"July 28, 1725. The Brethren voted that Abigail Hamblen, wife to
Joseph Hamblen, shall desire the Pastor, before the congregation, to
inform of her sorrow and repentance for her inconsistency in her pro
fession in going to the assemblies ol the Quakers on the Lord's Day, ol
choice and disputing much lor them upon her return from Nantucket,
beloi-e she be admitted unto the privileges ol the church." It does not
appear by the record that she complied with the requirement ol the
Brethren, The children ol Joseph and Abigail Hamblin do not appear
on the town record. On the church records three of their children are
named: Lois, baptized Ma.y 26, 1722; Esther, April 23, 1727; Susannah,
May 12, 1728. Joseph Hamblen died soon alter the latter date, and his
widow married  Barlow. Her death is thus entered : "April 25,
1740, Abigail Barlow (lormerly Hamblen) departed this lile very aged."
As she was only 42, 1 do not perceive the propriety of calling her "very

No. 158, (11.) The flrst paragraph I wrote from recollection of the
lacts. On recurring to the Probate Eecords I find that Eleazer Ham
blin, son ol James, 2d, died in 1698, and that his widow administered
and afterwards married Thos, Snow as stated.
76, I. I say perhaps Ebenezer Hamblen married HopestiU Davis.
She married as alterwards stated, Joseph Hamblen.

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