Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

22 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
all the roads, excepting that to Hyannis, anciently Baker's
Lane, have been changed, and the ancient boundaries on the
dividing lines between the lots have mostly been removed.
As early as 1653, nearly all the land in this neighborhood
had changed ownership. The present county I'oad, probably
passed on the south of Mr. James Lewis' house, now
owned by Frederick W. Crocker, Esq. When the town
was settled, the present county road, from the Meeting
House to Baker's Lane, was a deep gully, impassable for
teams. When the present road was laid out in 1686 it was
located "up Cobb's Hill" through this gully. The "Old
Mill Way" joined the county road on the east of the Meeting
House, the gate at the entrance standing north of the
town pound. From this point the "Old Mill Way" extended
north to the Mill Pond, and thence across the ancient
causeway sometimes called Blushe's bridge, to the Common
Field. The ends of the house lots butted on Mill Way not
on the county road. Beginning at the south the first lot
on west side was Roger Goodspeed's. His house stood on
this lot in 1649, but in 1653, he had surrendered it to the
town and taken other lands in exchange. The Meeting
House on Cobb's Hill and the lands now occupied for burying
grounds were included in this lot.
The second lot on the north of Goodspeed's contained
seven acres, and was set off to Elder Henry Cobb.
The third lot containing six acres was laid out to Thomas
Huckins by an order of the town dated 14th Sep. 1640.
The tourth lot, where the late Dea. Joseph Chipman resided,
was Dolar and Nicholas Davis.
On the east of the "Mill Way" the first lot was Mr. Nathaniel
Bacon's, bounded south by the county road, west by
Roger Goodspeed and the Mill Way, north (^in 1654) by
Goodman Cobb, and east partly by Goodman Cobb, and
pi»rtly by Goodman Foxwell's land. At the settlement of
the town the land on the north of the Bacon house lot was a
dense swamp, unfit for cultivation, or building purposes.
It contained some valuable timber and was reserved as town
commons. It was subsequently granted in small lots to
Goodman Cobb, John Davis and others, and subsequently
bought by the Bacon family. The land between the swamp
and mill pond, on the east of the Way was mostly owned by.