Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

348 UEJSEALOGIOAL MOTKiS OF UA11M8TAB1.K KAhMIMKn.
by C'apt. Samuel Mayo, Capt. Wm. Paddy, and John Barnes, and
was employed to transport the goods of Rev. Wm. Leverich, of
Sandwich, 'to Oyster Bay, Long Island. In Ilempsted harbor his
vessel was seized by Capt. Thomas Baxter, who had received a
commission from the Assembly of Providence plantation. The
matter was immediately investigated by the commissioners of the
United Colonies. The Assembly of '^Providence disapproved of
the act of Baxter, stating that he had no authority to seize the
Desire, and that his commission authorized him to seize Dutch,
and not vessels belonging to citizens of the United Colonies.
DUN, OR DUNN.
.John Dun came to Barnstable about the year 1720. His
house stood on the hill at head, or south end of Straiglit Way,
and his farm is yet known as Dun's field. He died .July 21, ITo.'i,
aged 70, and his wife Experience Aug. 17, 1746, aged .50. He
was a member of the East Church, and his children, Dorothy,
Mary, and Elizabeth, were baptized April 17, 1726; John and
Martha, April 24, 1726; Thomas, Oct. 1.5, 1727, and another
Thomas Sept. 29, 1734.
Dorothy married in 1743, Josiah Smith, tlien a resident in
Plymouth; Elizabeth was published in 174,5, to Thomas Thomas,
of Cambridge; but July 26, 1748, married Benjamin Casely.
He has no male descendants ni Barnstable, and I have no
information relative to his earlv iiistorv.