Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

38 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
sitting at ease by a cheerful, blazing fire, they have been
toiling all day, exposed to the cold, driving storm.
When in the eastern country he boastingly said,
'Squire Bacon and I keep more cows than any other two
men in Barnstable"; Nathaniel had one; 'Squire Bacon
twenty.
He tooli up a bar of iron in a blaclismith's shop and
said, "I can bite an inch off of this bar," at the same time
showing a good set of teeth. A l)et on the performance of
the feat was accepted. Putting the iron near his open
mouth, he brouglit his teeth quiclily together. "There,
gentlemen," said he, "I have bitten more 'than an inch
off."
Of his wife he related the following anecdote : One
stormy winter morning, when he had no wood to kindle a
fire, no provisions in his house, and six small children
clamoring for breakfast, his wife got up, scraped a little
frost from a window, and looking out exclaimed in piteous
tones, -'Oh, what would I give for one pipe of tobacco."
Samuel Bacon, of Barnstable, took the oath of fidelity
in 1657. How long he had then been of Barnstable does
not appear. In 1(562, he had a grant of "six acres of land
more or less, sixty poles north and south, and 18 poles
wide," (less than 5 acres) at the head of Richard Foxwell's
land, bounded northerly thereby, east by the land of James
Cobb, south by the commons, and west by Xathaniel Bacon.
He married 9th of May, 1669, Martha Foxwell, and had
I. Samuel, born March 9, 1669-70.'^
n. Martha, born Jan'y, 1671.
This family disappeared early. Sifcu