Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTEX OF BAKN8TARLE FAMILIES. 347
I. Thomas, born 25th Dec. 1680.
II. John, 18th May 1GS2.
III. Ebenezei-, IVtli April, 1U84.
IV. Desire, 10th Dee. 1685; married, March 11, 1712-13,
Samuel Stetson, of Scituate.
V. Elisha, 1st Sept. 1687 ; married Temperance Stewart, and
was of Mansfield, Conn., 1729.
VI. Mercy, 10th June, 1689 ; married Samuel Stetson, Dec.
17, 1724.
VII. Benjamin, 20th June, 1691.
John Dunham was a member of the Plymouth Church, and
afterwards of the Barnstable. He was not an original proprietor.
He bought of Thomas Bowman, Jr., who removed to Falmouth,
Feb. 18, 1685, three acres of land at the Herring Brook was laid
out to him, bounded east by Goodspeed's old cart way that goeth
from Ebenezer Goodspeed's house to the place where the old
house of the said Goodspeed was by the salt marsh ; south and
west by the cove and river, and north by the commons. On the
10th of April, 1689, 30 acres which had been granted to him
several years previous was laid out to him at Oysterhead river, 65
rods square, bounded westerly by Herring River, southerly by
John Leede, Senr's, marsh, easterly by John Goodspeed's cart
way, and north by the commons.
DICKENSON.
Capt. John Dickenson married, lOth July, 1651, Elizabeth,
daughter of Mr. John Howland of Plymouth, and widow of
Ephraim Hicks. She married Hicks 13th Sept. 1649, and he died
three mouths after. He bought the lot which I presume was
originally Rev. John Smith's, containing 8 acres, bounded west by
the lot of Isaac Wells, and easterly by George Lewis. The new
Court House stands near the western boundary of his lot. In
1654, he had sold this lot to Isaac Wells, and had removed from
Barnstable.
In 1653, he was master of the Desire, of Barnstable, owned