Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF UAHNSTABLE FAMILIES. 177
two nearest aeighbors, 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 e:^tracts from his poem
addressed to James Paine, Esq., who kept a school several
years in Barnstable, and who, dm-ing his leisure hours,
coui'ted the muses.
V. Seth, born loth April, 1707.
VI. J:benezer, born 7th March, 1709, died Sept. 1710.
VII. Jude (or Judah), born -iith June, 1711.
VIII. Nathan, born, loth June, 1713, married Bethia Harding of
Eastham, 1736.
IX. Stephen, born 27th Jan'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, 1675, 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 probably
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.
III. 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, 1751-2, Mehitebel,
daughter of Job Davis. He died in 1758 leaving three
* "Christ, he was a carpenter by trade,
Aud he the doors of Hearen made.
And he did swear
That high crowned caps and plaited hair
Sliould never have admittance there."
A fashion prevailed among the ladies in Jesse's time of weai-ing the hair combed aud
plaited over a cushion resting on the top of the head- This was surmounted with a high
crowned cap.
The following is the closing stanza and is particularly addressed to Mr. Paine who was
the champion of the ladies :
"He who for a pls'treen twice told, I
Will labor for a week in school,
Can offer nothing veiy great,
So here is alll shall relate."
In another stanza Jpsse commends fo Mr. Paine the perusal of the third chapter of
I^iiiah.