Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. ^91
executed in that town July 17, 1658, describes himself as a house
carpenter late of Barnstable. Feb. IG, 1667-8, he had returned to
Barnstable, where he died June 1673, aged about 80 years.
Dolar Davis' house lot was the most northerly on the east side of
the ancient Mill Way. discontinued in 1669. In his deed to Abraham
Blush, dated July 17, 1658, he says, "all my house lott of
lands lying by a place commonly called Old Mill Or'eek," containing
two acres, and was bounded northerly by his own meadow in the Mill
Pond, easterly partly upon Mr. Dimmock marsh, and partly upon
his own land ; southerly, partly on the common, and partly by
Goodman Huckins, and westerly, partly on Goodman Huckics and
partly by Nicholas Davis. His house stood not far from the water
mill built by the first settlers on the spot where the present mill
stands.
He also owned three lots of land at Stony Cove, containing
twelve acres, ten acres of meadow on the north ot his house lot, and
on the opposite side of Mill Creek, twelve acres in the old common-
field, and a lot of four acres adjoining his houselot on the south-east,
bounded westerly partly upon the common, and partly by his own
land, easterly by Nicholas Davis, northerly by Mr. Dimmock's
marsh, and southerly by Goodman Foxwell's land.
The above described lands and meadow he sold to Abraham
Blush, by deed dated 17th July, 1658. The common land named in
the above description, consisted of two acres of swamp, a little dis-
tance north-west of the Agricultural Hall, afterwards granted to
John Davie, and by him sold to Abraham Blush.
Dolar Davis' great lot of sixty acres, "butted easterly upon the
Indian Pond, westerly into the commons, bounded southerly by John
Crocker, northerly by Henry Brown." This he sold to Mr. Thomas
Allen, who re-sold .the same 22d Feb. 1665, to Roger Goodspeed.
The causeway across Mill Creek to the Common Field, which
was then, and now is, the mill dam. Mill Creek is frequently
named in the description of the lands and meadows in the vicinity ;
but the owners of the Mill are not named in the earliest records now
.extant. Nicholas Davis owned the land adjoining the spot on
which the Mill .stood. No description of his lands except the grant
made to him by the Indifin Sachem at Hyannis, is found on the town
records. After his death his lands were set off to his creditors, and
no particular description is given. John Bacon, Esq., was an early
owner in the mill, and was part owner of the landing or dock on
the west side of the mill formerly owned by Nicholas Davis, and
yet the property of the Bacons. Dolar Davis sold his farm, including
his dwelling-house arid meadows, for £75. Nicholas Davis' real
estate, not ini;luding the twelve acres sold to John Bacon, or the
Caleb Lumbert farm which was set off to his widow as her portion,
was apprised at £180. He did not own sO'Tnany acres as his father,
and it is evident that the superior value of his property consisted in