Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

298 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABL15 FAMILIES.
His father gave him the fourteen acres of land he owned on
the east of the Hyannis road on which he built a house. He
removed to Falmouth about the year 1710, and died in 1729, aged
80, leaving an estate appraised at £1,810. He names his ten sons
and two daughters, and his wife's daughter, Elizabeth Bacon, in
his will, which is similar to that of his brothei* Samuel's. He
orders a fund of £500 to pay legacies, &c.
(9-2) Samuel Davis, son of John Davis, resided in Barnstable.
He did not marry. He died in 1711, leaving a large
estate for those times. He owned all the land on the south side
of the road, between the lot which was his father's, and the lane
next west of the Barnstable R. R. Depot. Dec. 21, 1696, he
sold lands in Rochester, to Samuel Chipman, for £35. His will
on record is dated 25th June, 1711, and was proved on the 4th of
January following.
alogists. He says :
It is one
"I freely
of those wills that please gene-
give unto my brother Benjamin
Davis, during his natural life, the use and improvement of all the
uplands and meadows I bought of Isaac Chapman and Samuel
Sargeant here lying together^butting against the land of Ebenezer
Lewis on Potter's Neck, and so up into the woods to the head
thereof and also, in like manner, to have my woodlot lying above
the head thereof, and at the decease of my brother Benjamin,
then my will is that Samuel Davis, son of my brother Jatoez
Davis, deceased, shall have all the forementioned lands, meadows,
and woodlot, to him, his heirs and assigns, forever, he or they
paying three hundred pounds for the same, (excepting five pounds
of said sum to himself) and to have seven years time to pay out
the same, after said lands come into his hands."
He further provides, that if Samuel should die or refuse to take
the same, then Simon, son of his brother Joseph, to take the
same, on the same conditions, and if he refuse, then the next in
kin of the "Davises" to have the
divided as follows
same offer, and the £295 to be
To my sister Mary Davis, £40
Solomon, son of Jabez Davis, 5
Brother Jabez Davis' 3 daughters, 3
Sister Ruth Linnell,
" " " children,
5
7
Br. Joseph Davis' 3 sons 5 each,
" " " daughter Mary,
" Dolar Davis' son Shubael,
" " " daughter Hannah,
" " " Thankful and Mary,
15
5
5
5
2
Sister Mary, Hinckley,
" " " daughter Mary,
" Hannah Jones' children £1 each,
Br. John Davis' 10 sous £4 each,
10
1
7
40