Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL, NOTJES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 295
suffer death. The two Quaker preachers who were confined did
not leave the Colony within the time prescribed, were again
arrested, and afterwards hung on Boston Common.
On the 6th of October following the Plymouth Colony Court
ordered the notorious Marshal Barlow "to repair to the house of
William Newland and Ralph Allen of Sandwich, and Nicholas
Davis of Barnstable, to make search in any part of their houses,
or in any of the chests or trunks of the above said, or elsewhere,
for papers or writings that were false, scandalous, and pernicious
to the government, and return such as they may find to the court."
As no retm-n appears to have been made, it is presumed no such
papers were found.
Nicholas Davis continued his business in Barnstable till 1670.
In the spring of 1672 he was a resident of Newport, where he
traded, but it does not appear that he had permanently removed
from Barnstable. He was drowned before 9th Aug. 1672. His
wife Sarah administered on his estate at Newport. Maj. John
Walley administered on his estate in Massachusetts.
It does not appear that Nicholas Davis was a member of the
Society pf Friends. His name does not appear on the records of
the Sandwich Monthly Meeting, yet he probably was a member at
the time of his removal to Rhode Island, otherwise Roger
Williams in his big book against the Quakers, would not have
boasted, that in his public conference, with the friends of George
Fox, that he made good use of the event that Nicholas Davis, one
of their leading men, was drowned.
Nicholas Davis owned a large real estate in Barnstable.
Hianna, the Sachem, gave him a tract of land on the inlet now
called Lewis' Bay. The boundaries are indefinite ; it included
the land where Timothy Baker's store now stands, and on which
he erected a warehouse. t He traded at New York, Connecticut,
and Rhode Island, and his goods were landed at Hyannis and
t To all persons to whom these presents shall coni6, know yee that I, Yanno Sachem of
a certaine tract of lands lying and being att the South See, in the presincts of Barnstable, in
the GoTemment of New Plymouth, in New England, in America, have for divers good
reasons mee moving freely and absolutely given, granted, enfeofed, and confirmed, and by
these presents do giye, graunt, enfeof, and confirm unto Nicholas Davis, of Barnstable,
aforeeaid merchant a certaine p sell of the said lands lying att the South Sea aforesaid,
commonly called by the name of Sam's Neck, bounded northerly by the lands of Barnstable
- bought of mee, the said Yanno, at the head of the river where the said Nicholas Davis hath
now erected a warehouse, and from thence extending to the head of the river, westerly
where the ludians were wont to dwell in winter, extending southerly over the mouth of the
said river to the sea, and bounded westerly partly by the said river and partly by the lands
of Barnstable, and bounded easterly by the harbor, commonly called Yanno's harbor.
The mark (Ixj ) of Yanno.
And a fseale].
Yanno Sachem above said, personally appeared before mee and acknowledged this to be
his acte and deed.
Atttest, THOMAS HINCKLEY, Assistant.
Wattanwassan, the eldest son of the said Yanno, appeared before mee and acknowledged
his &ee consent to this above said deed of gift.
THOMAS HINCKLEY, Assistant.
The above deed is dated October 26th, 1666, and recorded in Plymouth Colony Becords
Book of Deeds Vol. 3, Pago 61.
WM. S. RUSSELL, keeper of said record.