Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

90 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OE BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
earliest settlers in that part of the town. His old homestead
on the west of the Annable land was owned by him
and his descendants about two centuries.
July 17, 1G58, 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 ol this land
was at Stony Cove, and was sold by him in 1680 to Nathaniel
and Jeremiah Bacon ; twenty-two acres in the Old Common
Field, and sixteen acres (his house lot), on the south
of the Mill Pond. His dwelling-house stood a short distance
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, according
to the Town and Colony records, May 16, 1651
but according to the Chui'cli records, which are more reliable,
on the 26th of May, 1653. His second wife was Hannah,
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 ti'ue date, Feb. 16,
1657-8. He married for his third 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 Barnstable
were
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Sarah, born 2d Dec. 1641, bap'd 5th Dec. 1641.
H. Joseph, born 1st April, 1648, bap'd 9th April, 1648;
married Hannah Hull, 15th Sept. 1674 ; died June 14,
"1730, aged 82 years.
HI. 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,