Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 369
property, in the hand writing of Gov. Hinckley, acknowledged
before him Aug. 13, 1669, and witnessed by his wife Mary Hinckley
and Peter Blossom. In this deed it is stated that the property
was sold to John Chipman in 1649. Why two deeds of the same
property were given, I am unable to explain.
Soon after 1649, John Chipman sold this lot to John Davis,
and Jan. 14, 1658, the latter sold six acres thereof to Samuel
Norman, reserving two acres at the north end on which his house
then stood. Feb. 26, 1665, Norman reconveyed this land to
Davis, with his house thereon. The portion owned by Norman, is
now known as Norman's Hill.
In 1649, Edward Fitzrandolphe removed to his farm in West
Barnstable, "a double great lot," containing 120 acres of upland,
bounded north by the meadows, east by the Bursley farm, south
by the commons, and west by the lands of Mr. Thomas Dexter.
On the north he had twenty-three acres of salt meadow, bound
west by the lands of Mr. Thomas Dexter, on the north bounded
partly by the marsh of William Dexter, partly by the common
meadows, and partly by the "Committees Creek, so called," east
by the upland of Mr. John Bursley, and south by his own land.
This tract is now known as the Bodfish and Smith farms. In
1669 he and several families from the Cape removed to New
Jersey. In Oct. 1683 his widow was living at New Piscataqua,
New Jersey.
He is called in deeds a yeoman, or farmer, and does not appear
to have been employed in any official station. He had received
a good education for those times, and as Mr. Lothrop
styles him "Master" he probably belonged to a good family. He
came probably from the west of England.
His farm at West Barnstable he sold partly to John Crocker,
Sen'r, partly to Abraham Blush, who afterwards sold to Crocker,
and the eastern portion to Rev. John Smith, whose descendants
still enjoy it.
His children born in Barnstable were :
I. Nathaniel, baptized Aug. 9, 1640, buried at Barnstable
Dec. 10, 1640.
II. Nathaniel, baptized May 15, 1642, married Nov. 1662,
Mary, daughter of Joseph Holway, or Holloway, of Sandwich,
and had 1, John, 1st Feb. 1662-3 ; and 2, Isaac, 7th
Dec. 1664. No other children recorded. He probably removed
with bis father in 1669.
III. Mary, baptized Oct. 6, 1644, died young.
IV. Hannah, baptized April 23, 1648. The town record says,
"born April 1949," an error. She married 6th Nov. 1668,
Jasper Taylor.
V. Mary, baptized June 2, 1650, (town record, "last of May