Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

476 GENBALOGICAl, NOTES OP BAKNSTABLE FAM11,1E&,
Sandwich, to view the lands, "and make report thereof unto the
Court, that if these proportions which Mr. Andrew Hellott hath
assumed to himself there shall be so p'judiciall to the whole, that
then some just and equall order be taken therein, to prevent the
evil consequences it may be to the whole pla)»tation."
No report of the committee is on record, and it would appear
from the subsequent action of the Court that Mr. Hallett had not
"assumed to himself" a greater proportion of the planting lauds
than he had a right to claim. On the 5th of May, 1639, the
Court Ordered, "that the proportion of lands granted to Mr. Andrew
Hellott, at Mattacheesett, shal be and remain unto him, and
those that are appoynted to set forth the bounds betwixt Mattacheese
and Mattacheeset shall lay forth the said proportion unto
him in a convenient plase there." (Coart Orders, vol. 1, page
121).
The two hundred acre lot of Mr. Hallett was laid out, approved
by the Court and recorded Sept. 3, 1639. A particular
description of this lot is given in the account of the Gorham family,
who were afterwards the principal owners. June 17, 1641, a
new boundary line was run between Barnstable and Yarmouth.
This line divided the Hallett farm into two parts ; the larger in
Barnstable contained 150 acres, and the smaller in Yarmouth containing
forty-four acres.
Oct. 7, 1639, "It was ordered by the Court that the seventeen
acres of meadow lying at the Stony Cove (Mill Pond) in
Yarmouth, shall be laid forth for Mr. Andrew Hellott, on the
south west side of the said Cove, and if it want of that proportion,
then to be made up on the other side, and ten acres more
upon the Stony Cove Neck."
Mr. Hallett's name first appears on record in March 1638-9,
but he had probably then been in the country several years. He
was then a resident in Plymouth, where he had a dwelling-house
and seven and one-half acres of land situate on the "new street."
This estate he sold to Thomas Cushman, who conveyed it to
Thomas Lettis March 28, 1641-2.
Nov. 25, 1639, Mr. Hallett bought for £10 sterling, of Dr.
Thomas Starr, of Duxbury, seventeen acres of land in Yarmouth,
in two divisions, and twelve acres of meadow "with the frame of
a house to be set and made with a chimney, and to be thached,
studded and latched, (daubing excepted) by William Chase, who
was agreed with all and paid to the doing thereof by the said
Thomas Starr, before the bargain was made with Mr. Hallett."
[Deeds, page 50.] No boundaries are given in the deed. The
houselot was at the north west corner of the town of Yarmouth,
and adjoined his "great lot" on the west, south by the highway,
east by by the lot of Robert Dennis, and north by the mill pond.
It is now owned by Joshua Hallett and others. The other divis-