Thomas R Richards

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Thomas Richards
Birth: Apr 1596
Pitminster, Somerset, England
Death: 1650
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Baptized: 15 April 1596
Pitminster, Somersetshire, England

Son of Thomas Richards. A merchant from Pitminster, Somersetshire to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. First settled in Dorchester; moved to Weymouth in 1639. Died between 17 December 1650 (date of will) and 18 January 1650/1 (date of first inventory).

Married by 1620, Welthian _____. Perhaps she was sister to Thomas Loring, whom Thomas called "brother" in his will. She died between 3 July 1679 (date of will) and 4 November 1679 (probate of will).
Source: Anderson"s Great Migration Study Project.

Children:
Mary Richards Hinckley (1620 - 1659)*
John Richards (1625 - 1694)*
Anna Richards Hunt (1626 - ____)*
Alice Richards Bradford (1629 - 1671)*

THOMAS RICHARDS

ORIGIN:
Pitminster, Somersetshire
MIGRATION:
1633
FIRST RESIDENCE:
Dorchester
REMOVES:
Weymouth 1639
RETURN TRIPS:
To England about 1640, again 1646, again about 1649 (and perhaps on other occasions)
OCCUPATION:
Merchant.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP:
Admission to Weymouth church prior to 13 May 1640 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN:
13 May 1640 [MBCR 1:377].
EDUCATION:
He signed his will. No doubt he was a competent arithmetrician, being a well-stocked merchant.
OFFICES:
Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633 [DTR 3].
ESTATE:
On 5 August 1633 Thomas Richards received a four acre lot at Dorchester [DTR 2]. On 22 November 1634 "Mr. Richards" was granted a great lot of six acres [DTR 9]. On 5 July 1636 he received a grant of ten acres at Squantum Neck [DTR 18]. On 2 January 1637/8 he was granted two acres [DTR 26]. On 18 March 1637/8 he received grants of eleven acres and twelve acres [DTR 29]. In the meadow beyond Naponset, Mr. Richards received lot number eleven containing twelve acres [DTR 321].
In about 1640, Thomas Richards of Weymouth conveyed to Nicholas Butler twelve acres on Dorchester neck [Lechford 243].
In his will, dated 17 December 1650 and proved 28 January 1650[/1], Thomas Richards "of the town of Waymouth in New England being at this present [illegible] the 17 December 1650 in the town of Hull in New England aforesaid in the house of Tho: Loringe, being weak and sick in body" bequeathed that "when my son John come home my whole estate shall be cast up what it comes to and my sons John and James and Samuell and Joseph and Benjamine shall have all of them alike, double portions to my daughters out of it, my son John shall have no more than one of the rest because I have been at greater charge with him than with any of the other[s]"; "my daughter[s] Mary and Ann and Alce and Hannah shall have half so much as my sons all alike, only my daughter Mary shall have £10 more than any of the other"; "my wife shall have a competent and sufficient maintenance allowed her out of my estate, that is to say £35 a year ... during her life"; "I do give to brother Thom. Loring £5 for the charge and trouble they have been at with me"; to "Thomas Prosser £20"; "my son John shall have my sons Joseph's and Benjamine's portions in his hands until they be twenty and one years of age"; overseers "my son John and Thomas Loringe and Nicolas Baker both of Hull [sic]" [SPR NS 1:64; see also MD 9:90].
The heirs petitioned the court 28 January 1650[/1] explaining that "our dear father Mr. Thomas Richards" died without naming an executor in his will, and petitioning that "our dear mother Mrs. Welthian Richards, late wife of our dear father, deceased" be granted power to improve the estate and bring in an inventory. This was signed by "James Richards, Joseph Richards, Benjamin Richards, Mr. Thomas Hinckley desires the same by his letter, Mr. Wil[lia]m Bradford also desires the same by his letter, Epharim Hunt and Hannah Richards." The motion to accept came from Mr. John Richards [SPR 1:65 NS; MD 9:90]. The probate papers further indicated that Welthian had "been very faithful and provident for her husband conserning his estate" and that "when he went last to England he made her a letter of attorney to buy or sell or ordering of any of his estate he left behind him here" [SPR NS 1:65].
The inventory of the goods of "Mr. Thomas Richards late of Weymouth" was taken 25 January 1650[/1] £1300 17s. 11d. including £200 in real estate: "his house & land and orchard and mill £200" [SPR NS 1:66-72]. This very detailed list includes many items of clothing, obviously a merchant's stock, and "thirty-six swords."
Widow Welthean Richards signed over the estate due him to her son John Richards 30 January 1651[/2] saying that "after all the rest of my said husband's estate left to his children be made appear to be wholly expended in the satisfying of those debts in England, that my said estate shall be liable to make up what shall be remaining unsatisfied thereof" [SLR 1:144]. Her children deeded to her the home, land and mill and sizable sums of money for her comfortable maintenance 30 January 1651[/2] [SLR1:171].
In her will, dated 3 July 1679 and proved 4 November 1679, "Welthean Richards of Boston ..., widow," bequeathed to "my eldest son John Richards all that my dwelling house & land adjoining scituate in Boston," along with £300 of mine which has been in his hands; to "my son James Richards" £250 of mine which has been in my hands; to Thomas Bradford £5, to Alice Bradford £60, to Hannah Bradford £40; to Mercy Bradford £10, to William Bradford Jr. £20, to John Bradford £10, to Samuel Bradford £5, to Melatiah Bradford £5, to Mary Bradford £5, to Sarah Bradford £5, "these ten above last named being children of William Bradford of Plimouth Colony & my daughter Alice deceased"; to Samuel Hinckley £20, to Thomas Hinckley Jr. £30, to Sarah Bacon £10, to Hannah Glover £5, to Mellatiah Crocker £5, to Bathshua Hinckley £5, to Mehitable Hinckley £5, to Mary Wyborne £5, "these eight last mentioned being children of Thomas Hinckly of Plimouth Colony & my daughter Mary deceased"; to Ephraim Hunt and John Hunt, "sons to Ephraim hunt Sr. of Weymoth & my late daughter Anne," £5 apiece; to "the daughter of Mary Wiborne abovesaid £5, & to her son £10; to the son of Hannah Glover £5; to John Bradford's two children £5 each; to Samuel Hinckley's child £5; to Sarah Bacon's two children £5 each; to "my son James's six children" 20s. apiece; to Thomas Hunt's two children £5 apiece; "more to Alice & Hannah Bradford £5 each to put them in mourning at my funeral"; various philanthropic bequests and bequests of household goods to some of the children and grandchildren named above; "my loving son John Richards to be sole executor and residuary legatee [SPR 6:314-16; MD 9:91].

BIRTH:
Baptized 15 April 1596, Pitminster, Somersetshire, son of Thomas Richards [UGM 24:93].
DEATH:
Between 17 December 1650 (date of will) and 18 January 1650/1 (date of first inventory).
MARRIAGE:
By 1620 Welthian _____. Perhaps she was sister to Thomas Loring, whom Thomas called "brother" in his will. She died between 3 July 1679 (date of will) and 4 November 1679 (probate of will).
CHILDREN (i-vi baptized Pitminster, Somersetshire [UGM 24:92]):

i MARY, bp. Pitminster 11 November 1620; m. Barnstable 4 December 1641 Thomas Hinckley [PCR 8:44].

ii JOHN, bp. Pitminster 13 February 1625 [1624/5?]; in 1652/3 his mother considered matching him with Mr. William Tyng's eldest daughter [WP 6:268]; m. (1) Boston 3 May 1654 Elizabeth (Hawkins) (Long) Winthrop [BVR 48]; m. (2) Boston 1 September 1692 Ann Winthrop [Sewall 295].

iii ANN, bp. Pitminster 1 November 1626; m. say 1643 Ephraim Hunt.

iv ALICE, bp. Pitminster 7 April 1629 (d. Plymouth 12 December 1671, aged 44 [PCR 8:33]); m. by 1650 as his first wife William Bradford, son of WILLIAM BRADFORD.

v HANNAH, bp. Pitminster 26 October 1630; petitioned to name mother administrator of father's will (28 January 1650/1), but not named in mother's will (3 July 1679); no further record.

vi JAMES, bp. Pitminster 13 September 1632; m. say 1655 as her first husband Sarah Gibbons [WP 6:451].

vii SAMUEL, b. say 1634; named in father's will but not mother's; "consider the trouble that I have with Sammuell for he is such a trouble that none will share with me in, and if I put him out it will cost me so much that I cannot well bear" (Welthian Richards to her son John, 20 March 1652/3 [WP 6:268]).

viii JOSEPH, b. say 1636 (under 21 in 1650); petitioned to name mother administrator of father's will (28 January 1650/1), but not named in mother's will (3 July 1679); no further record.

ix BENJAMIN, b. say 1638 (under 21 in 1650); m. Boston 10 October 1661 Hannah Hudson [BVR 82].

ASSOCIATIONS:
On 26 March 1654 Thomas Allyn of Barnstable deposed regarding a trip which he had made to England five years earlier, during which he had sought out Hugh Norman, a former resident of Yarmouth in Plymouth Colony who had abandoned his wife in Yarmouth, returned to England and was living in Orchard, a parish near Taunton, Somersetshire. In the course of this deposition Allyn reported that, "having understood that Mr. Richards lived thereabouts, I went unto him he being his cousin and brought him over to New England, so he told me of his wickedness and his bad life he then lived in." This document was followed immediately by an undated deposition by Thomas Richards, also reporting on what he knew of Hugh Norman [MD 6:102-03, citing PCLR 2:1:105; see also NEHGR 68:62]. Assuming that the deposition of Thomas Richards was made at the time about which Allyn was reporting, this would place Thomas Richards in the vicinity of Taunton in England in 1649, probably on his last trip to England before his death. This does not constitute proof that Richards resided in this part of England before he first migrated to New England, but it is certainly a clue which should be vigorously pursued.
COMMENTS:
In about 1638 Aspinwall recorded the receipt of £100 by Israel Stoughton from Thomas Richards in payment of a debt due Gabriel Cornish of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis, Dorsetshire [Lechford 159-60;WP 4:133-34].
About 1640, Joseph Hollway of Sandwich, millwright, deposed that "in or about March last past he heard the wife of Thomas Richards of Weymouth speaking of Henry Waltham & Willm Waltham say these words vizt The Walthams are cozeners & cheaters" [Lechford 321]. Henry Waltham told his side of the story to John Winthrop in a letter dated 25 January 1640/1, indicating that Mrs. Richards behaved in a fashion "unbeseeming a modest woman's carriage" [WP 4:310]. Lechford also recorded an undated (circa 1640) action by Henry Waltham against "Thomas Richards and Welthin his wife ... for the division of one dwelling house belonging to the mill in Weymouth" [Lechford 351].
The general court ruled that Welthia, the wife of Thomas Richards of Waymoth, was to enjoy rent from Mr. Waltham's part of the house until "her husband return, (if he return this summer)" [MBCR 1:313].
Mrs. Richards brought her maid Edye White to John Winthrop for correction. Among the charges against the maid was that she was "discovering the secrets of the family, one thing she confessed about a maid that drank too much there" [WP 4:232].
On 5 December 1646 Ephraim Hunt of Weymouth, blacksmith, appointed Thomas Richards of Weymouth his lawful attorney to "take possession & seisin of certain lands in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire formerly the possessions & lands of John Hunt of Winchmore Hill in Agmondsham parish" [Aspinwall 50].
On 2 January 1649[/50] once more on his way to England, Mr. Thomas Richards gave a letter of attorney to Welthian his wife to act in all matters on his behalf [Aspinwall 273].
In 1653/4 Welthian Richards was threatened with the charge of witchcraft, having in the heat of passion threatened terrible things would happen to those she was angered at, they later falling victim to various unpleasant fates. Thomas Thacher, writing in her behalf to John Wilson and others from Weymouth 27 February 1653/4, indicated that she took Christian care of her children and that "God hath so blessed [them] that five or six of them have approved themselves to one church or other, and been readily entertained into their fellowship. Three of whom are now asleep in Jesus. Three survive. One more with us gives great hope of a thorough work on his heart" [WP 6:362]. Her case does not seem to have been brought forward.

Thomas married Welthian Loring in 1618 in , , , England. Welthian (daughter of Thomas Loring and Jane Newton) was born in 1600 in Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset, England; died on 3 Jul 1679 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Governor Thomas Hinckley on 4 Dec 1641 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Governor (son of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole) was born on 19 Mar 1618 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died on 25 Apr 1706 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Weybourne in 1671 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. John was born in 1644 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1720 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Prince in Sep 1686 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel was born on 10 Aug 1649 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Jul 1728 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Nathaniel Thomas Bacon on 27 Mar 1673 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Nathaniel (son of Nathaniel Bacon and Hannah Mayo) was born on 5 Feb 1645 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 31 Dec 1691 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Melatiah married Josiah Crocker on 23 Oct 1668 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Josiah was born on 19 Sep 1647 in West Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 2 Feb 1699 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Capt Nathaniel Glover in 1672 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Capt (son of Nathaniel Glover and Mary Ann Smith) was born on 30 Mar 1653 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 6 Jan 1723 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Will of Samuel Hinckley
I Samuel Hinckley of Barnestable in ye County of Barnestable in New England being now very Ill and weake and Every day expecting my Great and Last Chang and yet through ye mercy and Goodnes of God of disposing mind and memory am desirous according to my Duty to Sett things in order before I goe hence and therefore do make this my Last Will and Testament In manner and form following first I Comitt my soul to God in Christ who gave it me and my Body to Decent Burial when God shall Please to call me hence: And as tuching my worldly estate which God hath beyound my desearts bestowed on me my will is to dispose of it as followeth


Imprimis I Will and Bequeath unto Sarah my wife ye one half of all my Lands and housing to be at her free and Sole disposeing


It[em] I will and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Hinckley ye other half of all my sd Lands and housing to him his heirs and assignes for ever, provided that he shall confirm ye conveyance of ye Lands which I have sold of his unto Samuel Cob and henry Cobb which wear given to my sd son by his uncle Thomas Hinckley in his Last will and Testament and that my said Son Thomas shall have all ye money now due to me from Richard Childs Eliazer Crocker and Jonathan Crocker being part of ye money which I Sold his Land for


It[em] my will is that my personal estate shall be at ye dispose of Sarah my sd wife for ye paying of my Debts and Bringing up of my Children And then if any thing shall be Left to be by her disposed of amongst all my childern as she shall see cause


It[em] I constitute and appoint Sarah Hinckley my sd wife to be Sole Executrix to this my Last Will and Testament, and Desire my trusty frinds and Bretheren Cap't Seth Pope and Josiah Crocker to be over seers to advise her and to see that this my will be performed : In witness whereof I have here unto sett my hand and Seal this 12th day of march 1696: Alias 7:


Samuel [his mark] Hinckley (Seal)


Signed Sealed and declared to be his Last Will and Testament in presence of William Bassett Shubal Smith Tho Smith


April ye 7th 1697 : then William Bassett and Shubal Smith whose hands are here to sett as witnesses appeared and made oath that they did see Samuel Hinckley above Named Signe Seal and declare ye above written Instrument to be his act and Deed and that Thomas Smith was present at ye same time and sett his hand to this Instrument as a Witness before Barnabas Lothrop Judg of probats and granting Administration


Examined and duely compared with ye origanal and entered April ye 13th day : 1697 Attest Joseph Lothrop Register


[p. 42] A true Invintory of all and singuler ye Lands goods chattels and credits of Samuel Hinckley Jur Deceased prised at Barnestable ye second day of April : 1697 : by Deacon Job Crocker Josiah Crocker and Daniel Parker [Totaled £136.16.0]

History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts

edited by Simeon L. Deyo.

1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co



pages 366-418 of CHAPTER XVI.

TOWN OF BARNSTABLE.

Natural Features. —Early Industries. —Settlement. —Indian Lands and Names. —Names of Settlers. —Incorporation. —Purchase from Indians. —County Road. —Early Mills. —Common Lands. —The Revolution. —War of 1812. —Population. —Schools. —Civil History. —Churches. —Cemeteries and Villages: (Barnstable, West Barnstable, Old Cotuit, Cotuit Port, Osterville, Wianno Beach, Hyannis, Hyannis Port, Centreville, Craigsville, Marston's Mills)—Societies.

—Biographical Sketches [in separate file].
WHILE Yarmouth on the east has been dismembered and Sandwich on the west has become the mother of Bourne, Barnstable, the central town of the original three, and still the central one of the five, remains nearly the same as originally laid out. Its historical prominence as one of the original towns of 1639, and its geographical position, led to its selection as the shire town when the county was organized in 1685. It is trapezoidal in shape, the western bounds, along Sandwich and Mashpee being eleven miles in extent, and the eastern along Yarmouth six. Vineyard sound laves its southern shore along ten miles of beautiful beach, while Cape Cod bay spans six miles of Sandy neck for its northern bound. The ancient Cummaquid harbor extends across its northern part and several bays and harbors indent its southern coast. A high ridge extends east and west across the town north of the middle, south of which the surface is a vast undulating plain sloping toward the sound. The northern part contains the great salt marsh extending nearly across the town along the harbor. The streams are small and run both ways from the central ridge.

The area of ponds in this town is greater than that of any other in the county, being over seventeen hundred acres, besides many small ones unworthy of special mention. The largest is Great pond, variously known as Nine-mile or Iyanough's, embracing an area of seven hundred acres, situated about the center of the town, and having only an artificial outlet which was opened by the Nine-mile Pond Fishing Company. This pond furnishes many kinds of excellent fish.

Of the twenty-seven ponds embraced in the town only three others have visible outlets. Spruce pond, of twelve acres, has Bridge creek, and the pond of eighteen acres south of West Barnstable has Scorton creek for their respective outlets. The other ponds are Long pond of sixty-three acres, in the west part of the town; Steward's, of thirty-

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six; Muddy, of twenty-five acres, at Newtown; Shubael, of fifty; Round pond of thirteen acres, south of Shubael; Cotuit ponds, west of Shubael pond and the plains, the most southerly containing 126 acres, the one north of this 118, and the most northerly one 147 acres; Pondsville pond, eleven acres; Lovell's, forty-eight, in the west part; one north of Osterville has fourteen acres and another fifteen; Mill pond, sixteen, west of Centreville; a pond of twelve acres north of the last; Shallow pond, east of Iyanough, has ninety acres; Hathaway's, fifteen; pond north of the last, twenty-one acres; Israel, twenty-one, in east part; Small, twenty-two; Half-way, twelve: Lewis, ten; Long pond of sixty-nine acres, east of Centreville, this also has an artificial outlet; two ponds west of Hyannis, containing respectively, twelve and ten acres.

The boulders of Barnstable are profusely scattered from the north shore to the summit of the ridge, which extends in an east-westerly direction through the town. Generally these lands are the most fertile. South of the water shed no stones of any significance are found, and the soil is generally sandy. Stone fences, which are general on the north side, are not found on the south side, and the foundation stones for buildings in Osterville and other villages on the south side have been carted from a distance.

The soil on the south side of the town is somewhat sandy on the uplands, and a rich loam in the valleys and around its numerous ponds, while near the north shore the soil is a heavier loam. The varied forms of agriculture, including the great cranberry industry, constitute the principal land occupation of the people in the sparsely settled and rural communities. Brick are manufactured at West Barnstable, and boat building on the south shore is still an industry. Maritime enterprises early furnished employment to many, and became an important source of revenue for the people. In 1839 men of this town were filling every branch of maritime pursuits—from the highest positions in the best ships of the Union to the humblest coaster, to the number of 250, and after that the number increased until about 1855.

The superior advantages from its waters, the vast marshes which furnished an abundance of ha}', the supposed richness of its soil, and the many acres already cleared and cultivated by the natives, were the arguments that induced the whites to make the first settlement of the town. Permission was granted by the Plymouth court in 1639 "for seating a congregation," whose leaders had intended to settle at Sippecan (now Rochester). But a diversity of opinion arose, and the growing wish to settle at Mattacheese led to a division of the congregation into three companies, who should pray for direction in the election of committees " to set clown the township." A former grant of Mattacheese to Mr. Callicot and others, of Dorchester, having

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been rescinded, .and other impediments removed, the little band determined to seek the lands at Mattacheese. This was the Indian name of lands, now in Barnstable and the northern part of Yarmouth, adjoining the ancient Cummaquid harbor. The lands of this township contained other Indian tribes at the south and west, each having its sachem, by whom the community was ruled. The names of the small tribes and their tracts were identical. Iyanough's land and tribe was south—midway between the bay and sound; his name was often spelled Janno and Ianno and Hyanno. Chequaket, now Centreville; Coatuit, Santuit, Mistic, Skanton, partially in Sandwich; and Cotocheeset were communities and lands south of and around Iyanough's. With the remembrance that Cummaquid harbor is now Barnstable harbor, the reader will be better able to follow the first settlement and further purchase of the town.

After the determination of the congregation to "set down at Mattacheese," on the 26th of June a fast was held at Scituate, where this colony were residing, "that the Lord in his presence" go with them to this new land. Rev. John Lothrop, the beloved pastor of the church there, by his letters, found among Governor Winslow's papers, has furnished many facts concerning the trials of himself and associates as to where the settlement should be. Some historians assert that Joseph Hull, Thomas Dimock and their few associates had settled here during the summer, or in advance of Mr. Lothrop and his associates; and there are circumstances that substantiate that. On June 4, 1639 (June 14, N. S.), the colony court granted permission to Messrs. Hull, Dimock and others "to erect a plantation or town at or about a place called by the Indians Mattacheese;" and Rev. Mr. Lothrop, in his diary, said, that upon their arrival at Mattacheese, "After praise to God in public was ended, we divided into three companies to feast together—some at Mr. Hull's, some at Mr. Mayo's, and some at Br. Lumbard's Sr." Prior to this—sometime in 1638—Rev. Stephen Bachilor and a few associates made a fruitless attempt to settle in what is now the northeastern portion of Barnstable. The location was for a time considered as a part of Yarmouth; hence some writers make Rev. Bachilor a settler of Yarmouth.

There is no other record of the settlement of Barnstable until the arrival of Rev. John Lothrop and his associates on the 21st of October, 1639 (N. S.). The greater part of Mr. Lothrop's church accompanied him to Barnstable, leaving the remaining few "in a broken condition." Besides Joseph Hull and Thomas Dimock and their associates as mentioned in the grant, we find here in the autumn of 1639, John Lothrop, the pastor, Mr. Mayo, Mr. Lumbard, sr., Isaac Wells, Samuel Hinckley, Samuel Fuller, Robert Shelley, Edward Fitzrandal, Henry Ewell, Henry Rowley, James Cudworth, William Crocker, John

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Cooper, Henry Cobb, George Lewis, Robert Linnell, William Parker, Edward Caseley, William Caseley, Henry Bourne, Anthony Annable, and Isaac Robinson.

The town was incorporated September 3, 1639, and on the first Tuesday of December, the same year, its deputies took their seats in the general court.

Others came to the town during the fall, winter and spring following, so that in 1640 we find here these heads of families in addition to those already mentioned: Thomas Allyn, Nathaniel Bacon, Austin Bearse, William Bills, Abraham Blush, John Bursley, John Caseley, Henry Coggen, John Crocker, Dolor Davis, Richard Foxwell. Roger Goodspeed, James Hamblin, Thomas Hatch, Thomas Hinckley, Thomas Huckins, John Hull or Hall, Samuel Jackson, Laurence Lichfield, Thomas Lothrop, John Smith, Thomas Shaw, John Scudder, John and Samuel Mayo, Thomas Lombard, Bernard Lombard, and Robert Linnet. Before the lands were divided others had arrived, among whom were: Richard Berry, Francis Crocker, John and Nicholas Davis, William Tilley, David Linnet, Benjamin and James Lothrop, Nathaniel Mayo, Samuel Lothrop, John Foxwell, Thomas Blossom, John Blower, Thomas Boreman, William Pearse, John Russel, Nicholas Sympkins, Laurence Willis, and Samuel House.

A very few of those mentioned returned or removed elsewhere, whose names do not appear again, but the larger portion of these settlers are represented to-day in Barnstable by lineal descendants, and generally by name. Other settlers, and the sons of these already given, are named as freemen and voters in the civil acts of the proprietors, so that the reader will be enabled to trace the "new comers " to 1670.

The settlement thus begun in the Mattacheese territory was confined to the northern portion of the present town until 1644, when on the 26th of August, a further purchase of lands of the Indians was made by the town, being a portion to the southwest of that already settled by the whites. It was purchased of Serunk, a South Sea chief, and extended from the Sandwich line easterly; the consideration paid was four coats and three axes. The deed signed by Serunk, by mark, was witnessed by Anthony Annable, Henry Cobb, Thomas Allen, John Smith, Laurence Willis, and Thomas Dimock.

The second purchase, in 1647, was of Nepoyetum, Indian, by Thomas Dimock and Isaac Robinson, who were appointed by the town to act for them. The deed was signed by the parties and by Thomas Hinckley and Tauonius, Indian, as witnesses, conveying land for which the town was to build three-score rods of fence, give him two coats and do certain plowing.

The next purchase was in 1648, of Paupmunnuck, a South Sea In-

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dian. In this purchase Miles Standish acted for the settlers, and secured the southern part of the town from the Mashpee line east to the Oyster river, and to Iyanough, or Ianno's lands on the east, and to Nepoyetum's lands on the north. The pay for this was two brass kettles and some fencing done. This completed the purchase of the western part of the town from bay to sound and along the northern part; and the bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable were fixed in 1652, substantially as now. The lands at Cotuit were then part of Mashpee, but have been since added to Barnstable. In 1659 the first bounds between Yarmouth and Barnstable were fixed, nearly one mile west of the present bounds.

In 1664 a purchase of the lands of Iyanough was perfected, which gave to the town more substantially its present area. The deed was taken for the town by Thomas Hinckley, Nathaniel Bacon and Tristam Hull, being for land at the South sea extending easterly to Yarmouth, northerly to that bought of Nepoyetum, and westerly to that purchased of Paupmunnuck, except that given to Nicholas Davis, which soon after was purchased by the town. This deed embraced the southeastern part of the present town, except a tract owned by John Yanno, son of Ianough, in and around Centreville, which was purchased of him in 1680 by Thomas Hinckley in behalf of the town. Some subsequent minor purchases of small reservations brought the lands of the town to the ownership of the proprietors, and over this territory the settlers were fast erecting their rude cabins.

Of course difficulties arose regarding bounds of lands, and in 1658 the bounds between Mashpee and Barnstable were set, leaving the lands about Satuit pond to the Mashpees; and later the west bounds of Yarmouth were defined "from the centre of Stoney Cove creek due north to the sea"—substantially the present bounds. The proprietors were yet very careful as to the character of new comers, concerning which rules were made by the general court. In 1661 William Crocker and Thomas Huckins were empowered to take notice of any who should intrude themselves without the town's consent. The underlying reason, however, for such surveillance was that religions not orthodox should be kept away. There was room in town for more people if they were of the right faith, as the entire territory between the Long pond and Shoal pond had no settlers yet, and it was made " commons for the town's cattle."

The main line of travel from these Cape towns in these early days was toward Plymouth, and the subject of a road—a main, well-defined, wide road—was agitated. The road for the time had been opened from Sandwich, south of Scorton hill, south of Honey bottom, so-called, and so easterly near the old church in the West parish, through the woods on the south side of the pond into the present road, to avoid

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the creek that had no bridge. In 1685 the court ordered a road opened through Barnstable, and sixteen men, whose names appear at the bottom of the survey, were empaneled as a jury to lay it out. The road has been since known as the "county road," and is the main street of Barnstable village. By the courtesy of Mr. Gustavus A. Hinckley, of Barnstable, we are enabled to produce a copy of the original survey, verbatim et literatim, that our readers may not only enjoy its quaintness, but locate the settlers on its sides.

"The County road or highway laid out by ye in March and April 1686 through Barnstable is as followeth—beginning at ye bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable, running for ye most part easterly at a rock lying in Ralph Jones, his fence, ye north side of ye sd way and a heap of stones on ye south side of sd way, from thence to a red oak markt tree on ye south side of ye sd way upon ye land that was Capt. Fuller's, from thence to ye fence of John Fuller Jr., on ye south side of sd road, and a markt tree upon ye north side of ye way, from thence to marked trees on both sides of sd way at ye corner of Wm. Troop's fence where ye way goeth down to Scorton, from thence to ye foot of ye hill between ye fence of Wm Troop and a little swamp & so to ye said Troop's stone ditch on ye north side of sd road and a bound set on ye south side within ye fence of sd Troop ye sd Troop's dwelling house on ye north side of sd road, from thence to trees marked on each side of ye way by a swamp and from thence to a marked tree on ye north side of sd road bounded by a stone set in ye field on ye south side of sd road and Mr. Smith's house on ye north side to the fence of John Bursley bounded by trees marked within ye fence of ye Widdow Davis on ye south side of ye way runing between ye dwelling house of sd Widdow Davis and ye barn of sd John Bursley on ye north side of sd way & so over ye bridge called John Bursley's bridge, from thence to a marked tree on each side of sd way upon Peter Blossom's land to a stake set upon Peter Blossom's orchard, leaving ye sd Peter Blossom's house on ye south side of sd road, from thence thro ye lands of Wm Dexter bounded by several marks set up within ye fence of Phillip Dexter on ye north side of sd road, ye house of sd Phillip Dexter on ye north side of sd road & ye house of Increase Clap on ye south side bounded by a stone in ye orchard of sd Clap, through ye lands of Samuel Parker & John Crocker bounded by a markt tree and a stone within ye fence of sd Parker on ye south side of sd road by ye house of Richard Childs & ye house of Lieut John Howland on ye north side of sd road and ye barn of sd Howland on ye south his sheep yard in ye highway runing by ye house of Elder John Chipman on ye north and ye house of John Otis on ye north bounded by three marks set up within his fence on ye south side of sd road runing through or by ye foot of ye lands of Samuel Hinckley

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Senr, bounded by marks set up within John Otis his fence on ye north side of sd way, runing over ye bridge called Hinckley's bridge thro ye lands of Joseph Blish bounded by marks on ye side of ye sd way neer ye marsh between ye lands of Mr. Samuel Allin and sd Blish bounded by three marks set up within ye fence of sd Allin on ye north side of sd road & sd Allins and ye house of Joseph Blish on ye south side of sd road running by ye house of Widdow Annable's and ye house of Thomas Ewer both on ye north side of sd road bounded by two marks set within ye fence on sd Ewer's land on ye south side of sd road, running by or neer ye upper end of Deacon Crocker Junr. his land, on ye south side of a great rock partly at ye head of the lands of Austin Bearce, runing through a valley to coming into ye old road neer ye land of Thomas Huckins, always provided that Dea.. Crocker Junr. make ye way that is turned out of ye old road (at his Desire) or cause it to be made a good convenient passable way till it come into ye old road again, runing above ye houses of Thomas Huckins James Hamlin Senr. Mr. Russel neer by ye meeting house all on ye north side of sd road, by ye pond called formerly Coggins pond on ye north side of sd way leaving ye Governours house on ye south and his barn on ye north side of sd road bounded by three marks set up within his fence on ye south side of sd way, from thence runing by ye house of John Lothrop and Mr. Barnabas Lothrop on ye north side of sd way & so thro ye lands of Capt.. Lothrop between ye house of sd Capt Lothrop on ye southwest & ye house of Melatiah Lothrop on ye northeast side of sd road & along by ye house of Thomas Lothrop on ye north side of sd road being too narrow ye breadth of his stone wall in ye bottom neer his house, & so going along by Isaac Chapman's house and shop on south side of sd way being too narrow is bounded into his land on ye north side of sd way from ye corner of his stone wall to Henry Taylor's fence, sd road going along by ye house of Saml Sarjant on ye south side and ye house of John Davis Senr. on ye north side of sd way up ye hill called Cobbs hill by ye house and shop of Lieut James Lewis on ye south side of sd way too narrow at his barn three foot, & so sd road lying along neer ye house of Mr. Bacon on ye north side of sd way leaving ye house of Serjant James Cobb on ye south side & ye house of Ensign Shobel Dimock on ye north side of sd road sd way too narrow ye breadth of his fence from John Scudders to a stake set in his field in ye swamp, sd way runing along close by ye house of Henry Taylor on north side of sd way bounded by a little stone & a stake in ye swamp within ye fence on ye south side of sd way lying along by ye house of George Lewis & ye house of Thomas Hinckley on ye south side of sd way bounded by a little stone in ye swamp within his piece.. Said way runs by Saml Cobbs house & Josiah Davis his house on ye

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north side of sd way bounded by a stake in his field on ye south side and by Joseph Benjamin's fence by a stone set in his field and by three stones laid together and by a little stone drove into ye ground with little stones laid about it on south side of sd way, runing along thro ye lands of James Gorham leaving ye house of Josiah Hallett and James Gorham on north side of sd way bounded into the field of sd Gorham on south side of sd way by three stones & stones laid together at ye west corner of his fence of sd field & so thro ye lands of John Gorham leaving his house and barn on ye north side of sd road bounded by a stake set within his hay yard fence between his house and barn & so running to ye bounds of Yarmouth neer where are three great stones laid together being laid all along forty foot.

"The names of ye Jury: Capt. Lothrop, Lieut. Rowland, Ensign Dimock, James Gorham, Jabez Lumbart, James Cob, Saml Cob, Nathl. Bacon, Ensign Lumbart, Lieut. James Lewis, John Phinney, Job Crocker, Samuel Hinckley sr., Joseph Blish, Josiah Crocker, James Hamblin jr."
The town, tiring of long trips to Plymouth for grinding, in 1687 ordered that a wind mill be built, either on Cobb's hill or the old Meeting House hill, and appropriated money and land to pay for it. Thomas Paine of Eastham constructed one on Meeting House hill, much to the satisfaction of Barnabas Lothrop and Samuel Allen, who were the committee to oversee the work. The same year John Andrews and others were granted a tract of eight or ten acres at the river by John Goodspeed's, and the benefit of the stream, "to build and keep a fulling mill." but there is no record of its being built. Roads were rapidly laid out, branching from the county road. In 1689 the same jury, whose names have been given, opened a highway into the woods opposite the Dimock house, another into the common field, and by the opening" of this communication permission was given for another fulling mill, which was erected on the river where the Goodspeeds resided—now Marston's Mills—and Thomas Macy, or Massey, was made keeper of it. The contract with the town was that it should be kept running twenty years, and it was. much longer. The reader of the present day can hardly realize that the wool and flax at that time, and a hundred years later, were spun and woven into cloth for domestic use, and the fulling mill was as necessary as the grist mill. In 1696 other roads were laid out. and Mr. Otis had permission to build a warehouse on Rendezvous creek. He was given forty feet

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square of land for the purpose, and this was the first store-house on the harbor in that part of the town east of the present court house. Rendezvous creek is said to have run northerly across the marsh, and had its source in the swamp back of Eben B. Crocker's residence.

Prior to 1700, communities had sprung up and started the various industries that the town needed. The creeks that furnished the power for mills were south of the ridge that lines the marshes and harbor on the north side of the town. In 1696 we find along the south shore John, Benjamin and Ebenezer Goodspeed, Thomas Macy, John, James, William and Andrew Lovell, John Issum, Thomas Bumpas, Dolor Davis, Thomas Lewis, Joshua Lumbert, John Linnel, John Phinney, jr., Edward and John Lewis, Joseph Lothrop, jr., Edward Coleman, and the Hallett, Crosswell. Bearse and Claghorn families. These names are largely represented now along the southern side of the town, at Cotuit, Marston's Mills, Osterville, Centreville and Hyannis.

In 1703, after a controversy of many years, a final division and apportionment of the land of the proprietors was made. They divided about six thousand acres among those who were entitled to the lands, and this bone of contention was removed. Too many who were not proprietors, nor their descendants or assigns, wanted rights in the commons, and the final division was much complicated by the great number of actual owners. They reserved eighty acres for schools, known as the school lot, in the south part of the town, and eight)" for the ministry, known as the minister's lot. on the north side.

There was a poor house, prior to 1768, in the western part of the town, for that year it was "voted to build a new poor house on the site of the old one;" but when the first was built, neither tradition nor records give any date. This house of 1768 was used until 1821, when a new one was built on the farm which Parker Lombard had bequeathed "to the support of the poor forever." This is the house now in use, situated at West Barnstable. The Lombard tract mentioned, extends from the poor house north to the harbor. The old road running from the church to the cemetery is in part the eastern boundary of the tract.

Samuel married Sarah Jenney Pope on 13 Nov 1676 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Pope and Sarah Jenney) was born on 14 Feb 1658 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 5 Jul 1727 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bathshua married Samuel Hall on 6 Jun 1681 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel was born on 1 Jan 1651 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 8 Apr 1691 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable married Samuel Worden on 6 Jun 1681 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel was born in 1645 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Jan 1691 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable married Deacon William Avery on 25 Aug 1698 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Deacon was born on 27 Oct 1646 in Barkham, Berkshire, England; died on 15 Dec 1708 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary Graford on 11 Jan 1699 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Ruth Daggett on 11 Nov 1696 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth was born in 1676 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; died on 9 Jul 1756 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mercy Prence in 1705 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Mercy (daughter of Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo) was born on 7 Jan 1682 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 2 Sep 1735 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]