Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

336 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
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3d. June 14, 1639, N. 8., Barnstable was incorporated as a
town, and the lands therein graiited to Rev. Joseph Hull and Mr.
Thomas Dimmoek, as a committee of the townsmen, and of such
as should thereafter be regularly admitted. In that month feev.
Mr. Lothrop and a majority of his church resolved to remove to
Barnstable, and some then came ; but a great majority came by
water Oct. 21, 1639, N. S., making the whole number of families
,then in Barnstable forty-one, the full number required.
If the names already given, .John Chipman, John Phinney,
John Otis, John Howland, Thomas Ewer, William Sergeant, and
Edward Coleman, who came to Barnstable a few years latei', are
added, the list will include the emigrant ancestors of nineteen
twentieths of the present inhabitants of the town of Barnstable.
Capt. John Dickenson and Jas. Nabor were also early inhabitants.
Nearly -.all the ofBees were conferred upon Messrs. Hull and
Dimmoek. They were the land committee, an office involving
arduous and responsible duties, and the exercise of a sound
judgment and discretion. That they performed their duties well,
the fact that no appeal from their decisions was ever made to the
Colony Court, affords sufficient evidence. They were the duputies
to the Colony Court, and seemed to possess the entire confidence
of the people. J
Mr. iDimmock was also a deputy to the Plymouth Colonv
Court in, 1640, '41, '42, '48, '49, and '60. He was admitted a
freeman of the Colony Dec. 3, 1639. June 2, 1640, Mr.
Thomas Dimmoek of Barnstable, Mr. John Crow of Yarmouth,
were appointed to "join with Mr. Edmond Freeman of Sandwich,
to hear and determine all causes and controversies within the
three townships not : exceeding twenty shillings, according to
the former order of the Court." This was the first Court established
in the County of Barnstable. Mr. B>eeman had been
elected an assistant in the preceeding March, and by virtue of that
office was a magistrate or judge ; but he was not qualified till June
2, 1640, but Mr. Dimmoek and Mr. Crow were qualified. Cases
involving larger sums were tried before the Governor and assistants.
The first court of assistants, or Supreme Court, convened
in this County, was held in Yarmouth June 17, 1641. June 5,
1644, Mr. Dimmoek and Mr. Crow were re-appointed magistrates
{Mr. Hull's popularity in Barnstable soon waned. In 1640 he does not appear to have
held any office. May 1, 1641, he was excommunicated from the Barnstable Church, for
joining a company in Yarmouth as their pastor. He was however received again into
fellowship Aug. 10, 1643. From Barnstable he removed to , Oyster Eiver, Maine, and from
thence in. 1662 to the Isle of Shoals where he died 19th Nov. 1665. Simple justice has never
been done to the memory of Eev. Joseph ,Hull. He came over in 1835, probably from
Barnstaple tn Devonshire. He welcomed Mr. Lothrop and his church to Barnstable, he
then opened the doors of his house, one of the largest and best in the plantation, for their
meetings,—he feasted them on thanksgiving days, and was untiring in his eiforts for their
temporal prosperity. He is not charged witn any immorality, or with holding any heretical
opinions; yet he was driven from the town, that probably received its name, as a mark of
respect to him. His history is worthy to be preserved, and at the proper time I shall
endeavor to do justice to his memory.