Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

332 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ment was made for Marshfield, but that town was not incorporated
till September 1640, and then as Rexame.
No formal acts of incorporation were passed in regard to anj'
of the towns, so that Barnstable is not an exception. A general
law was passed from which I have made some extracts. The
Secretary usually noted the time when acts' of incorporation were
passed, but the instrument itself was not recorded.
The history of Mr. Dimmock is identified with the early history
of the town and cannot be separated. He was the leading man
and was in some way connected with all the acts of the first settlers.
On the 5th of January, 1643-4, Thomas Hinckley, Henry Cobb,
Isaac Robinson, and Thomas Lothrop, drew up a list of those who
were then inhabitants of Barnstable, and I infer from the order
annexed to the same, that the forty-five named were also householders.
In making this list, they commenced at the west end of
the plantation, at Anthony Annable's, now Nathan Jenkins', and
proceeded eastward, recording the names of the inhabitants in the
order in which they resided to Mr. Thomas Dimmock, whose
house stood a little distance east of where Isaac Davis' now
stands.
Townsmen of Barnstable Jan. 1643-4.
1. Anthony Annable, from Scituate, 1640.
2. Abraham Blush, Duxbury, 1640.
3. Thomas Shaw, Hingham, 1639.
4. John Crocker, Scituate, 1639.
5. Dollar Davis, Duxbury, 1641-2.
§. Henry Ewell,* Scituate, 1639.
7. William Betts, Scituate, 1639.
"William Pearse of Yarmouth, 1643.
8. Robert Shelley, Scituate, 1639.
9. Thomas Hatch, Yarmouth, 1642.
10. John Cooper, Scituate, 1639.
11. Austin Bearse, came over 1638, of B. 1639.
12. William Crocker, Scituate, 1639.
13. Henry Bourne, Scituate, 1639.
14. Henry Coggin, Boston, Spring 1639.
15. Lawrence Litchfield of B., Spring 1639.
16. James Hamblin, London, of B., Spring of 1639.
17. James Cudworth, Scituate, 1640.
18. Thomas Hinckley, Scituate, 1639.
19. Samuel Hinckley, t Scituate, 8th July, 1640.
William Tilly, Spring 1639, removed to Boston 1043.
20. Isaac Robinson, Scituate, 1639.
*The town record is Henry Coxwell, an error of the clerk who transcribed the list. It
should be Henry Ewell.
tSamuel Hinckley's name is the 46th on the record. It should be the 18th. His
houselot adjoined his son Thomas Hinckley's houselot. In 1640 he built a bouse on the east
side of CoKgins' Pond, in which he resided until his removal to West Barnstable.