Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

400 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
21. III. Mehitabel, 4th Sept. 1681, married Samuel Howes
18th Dee. 1705.
22. IV. Alice, 30th June, 1683, married Benjamin Shelly
8th Aug. 1705.
23. V. Ebenezer, 10th Sept. 1685, (see below.)
24. VI. Mary, 2d Aug. 1687.
25. VII. Susannah, 7th Nov. 1689, married Samuel White
May 14, 1719.
26. VIII. Patience, 1st June, 1692, married Joseph Hatch
or Hallett of Dighton, May 12, 1718.
27. IX. Ruth, 12th July, 1694.
28. X. Lydia, 141h Oct. 1696, married Benjamin Marston
April 26, 1716.
29. XI. Roger, 14th Oct. 1698, (see belyw.)
30. XII. Reliance, 18th Sept. 1701, married Thomas Phinney,
Jr., March 18, 1726.
31. XIII. Moses, 24th Nov. 1704, (see below.)
12. Samuel Goodspeed, son of John, married ,
died before the vear 1718, leaving one child.
32. I. Ruth.
13. John Goodspeed, son of John, born in Barnstable June
1, 1673, died in 1721. He inherited the homestead of his father,
whom he survived only two years. He bought of John Green, of
Boston, attorney of his brother Samuel Green, the dwelling-house
and lands of the latter. They were sons of James Green, of
Barnstable, and the estate was probably that of his father's. The
real estate of John Goodspeed was apprized at £709, and his
personal estate at £640,79, a large estate in those times. In his
inventory his carpenter's tools are apprized, and I infer from that
entry that he was a mechanic. He also owned a "whale-boat and
tacklin," indicating that he was interested in the shore whale
fishery, a business in which many of the people of Barnstable at
that time were engaged. He had also four hives of bees, which
were kept by many of our ancestors.
His house was well furnished, and among other articles of
elegance and luxury, a looking-glass is named, a very rare article
of household furniture at that date.
His will was drawn up by Dr. John Russell and is without a
date, and the names of his children are not mentioned. To his
sons, {Samuel, Cornelius and John) he bequeathed all his landed
estate and houses, to be equally divided among them. To each
of his daughters (probably Elizabeth, Temperance and Experience)
he devised £60 in money, "a good feather-bed and furni-
ture." By "furniture" is meant the bedstead, bolsters, pillows,
quilts, &c., not what is now understood by the term. To his
wife's daughter Ann he gave £6, and to her daughter Content £5,
and a good feather-bed and furniture. If his personal estate was