Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAENSTABLE FAMILIES. 409
stable. About the same time he purchased a part of the Hallett
Farm, containing 100 acres of planting land, adjoining Ms houselot,
and situate mostly within the then boundaries of the town of
Barnstable. [Thomas Starr owned the nortliwest houselot in
Yarmouth. This he sold to Andrew Hallett, Senior, in 1639.
This house was afterwards John G-orham's.] This farm was
granted to Mr. Andrew Hallett in the spring of 1639, and the
boundaries of the same entered on the Plymouth Colony Records
Sept. 3, 1639, as follows
"It is granted by the Court, that Mr. Andrew Hallett shall
have his greate lott of two hundred acres at Yarmouth, 80 pole in
breadth, at the first beginning at the head of the cove [Stony
Cove] from the marked tree, and to bear up that breadth fourty
pole in length, and afterwards to be enlarged in breadth in the
ranging of yt towards the other end wch was afterwards layed
forth in form following, viz : from the sd tree on the east sid upon
a southerly lin 40 pole [following the bounds between Yarmouth
aad Barnstable to the County road] and then enlarged in breadth
towards the east 20 pole, and extending in length 60 pole [to the
stable on the west of the Yarmouth R. R. Depot] and from thence
in breadth 38 pole, [to the new Hyannis Road] and from thence
extends still in length 100 pole beyond a great pond [Long Pond]
to the end thereof ; [the S. E. corner is a rock marked F, called
the Farm Rock in the town records] and on the north and northwest
side from the said tre, 80 pole in breadth, [to the Mill Road]
and in length, first 40 pole, [to the County road] and then enlarged
to the westward 60 pole in breadth [by the County road to
Thomas Lumbart's great lot] and thence extending itself 160
pole,, and the south side thereof upon a straight line 188 pole."
The distance between the ancient monuments yet remaining
is greater than given in the record. It was customary to allow
for ponds and swamps and not include them in the admeasurement.
He also owned the land on the north of the Hallett Farm,
between Stoney Cove and the Mill Road, and the seventeen acres
of meadow on the south-west side of the Cove, (more or less)
and ten acres at Stony Cove Neck laid out to Mr. Hallett.
His farm contained very little waste land . That on the north
side of the County road, excepting a few gravelly hills, near the
bounds of Yarmouth, is a strong loam soil and good grass land ;
and that on the south is a sandy loam, of easy cultivation and
adapted to corn and rye. Taken as a whole, this farm is not so
fertile as it was formerly. The light soils on the south have been
exhausted by repeated crops, without returning sufficient manure ;
but the loam and clay soils on the north, yet retain their ancient
fertility. There were few better farms in the Colony than Capt.
Gorham's—it was well watered, convenient to the meadows, and
contained soils adapted to the cultivation of a great variety of
crops.