Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

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, born 10th January, 1682-3. See account of family
below.
IV. Hannah, 22d January, 1684. The Hannah Child who married
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 Barnstable.
He married in 1719 Hope, and had, 1, Elizabeth,
18th July, 1720, died 18th Sept. 1720; 2, Ebenezer, 10th
April, 1723 ; 3, Richard, baptized 1st Aug. 1725 ; 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, 1745, Hannah Crocker.
She died Feb. 23, 1755, aged 37, and he married in 1756,
Abigail Freeman. His children 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, Abigail, Dec. 26, 1758 ; 7, Hope, January
21, 1761 ; and Mary, baptized April 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 April 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 children
were on the town records. His children were, 1,
Joseph, born 17th Aug. 1724; married Meribah Dexter of