Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 197
The town records respecting this family 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 earliest
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 Lovell,
and his sons John, James, William, and Andrew ; John Issum,
Thomas Bumpass, Dollar Davis, Thomas Lewis, Joshua Lumbert,
John Lianell, John Phinney, Jr., Edward Lewis, Joseph Lothrop,
Jr., John Lewis, and Edward Coleman.
Soon after this date the Hallett, Crowell, Bearse, and Claghorn
families settled at South Sea. Jouatlian Lewis, who, according
to tradition, was the first settler in the present village of
Hyannis, probably did not build his house before his marriage in
1703. The foregoing statement shows that Edward Coleman was
the first 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 Mills ; 3, 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-ahap-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. Tliis 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 J anno. 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 applied. Cotuit or Satuit means
"cold brook," and was so named because there are many springs
of cool water in the vicinity of the pond and brook of tihat name.