Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 481
drowned at the Harbour of Noeett atti their first Setting out from
thence aboute a fishing voyage April 22, 1650."
"June 5, 16o0, Letters of administration are graunted unto
Mr. The. Howes [of Yarmouth] and Samuel Mayo§ [of Barnble]
to administer upon the estate of Samuel Hollet, and to pay
the debts as fare as the estate will amount unto. by equall propor-
tions."
The foregoing extracts show that Samuel Hallett came to
Yarmouth with the first settlers in the winter of 1638-9, that he
remained in that town till the removal of his father in 1641, engaged
in the fisheries, and probably had the care of his father's
estate before his brother Andrew removed from Sandwich ; that he
died unmarried in 1650, and probably on account of his losses at
the time of his shipwreck, he did not leave a sufHcient estate to
pay his debts in full.
4. III. Hannah, born about 1627, married July 1, 1656, John
Haddaway. (See Haddaway.)
5. IV. Josias was born after the year 1627. He was a mari-
ner, and is named as living in 1663. From the notices of him in
the records, it is inferred that he did not sustain a good c haracter
for sobriety. In the division of his father's estate, the
southerly part of the homestead was set off to him, containing
eight acres. This land is now owned by Major Sylvanus B.
Phinney, and is that part of his homestead which is situate on the
south of the swamp. Anciently there was a highway between
the swamp and the railroad, called Goodspeed's Outlet. Josias
Hallett's house was on that road. Dee. 14, 1661, he sold this estate
and three acres of meadow at Blush's point to John Haddeway,
for £10 sterling. In the deed he is called "sometime of
Barnstable." He had then removed, perhaps to Sandwich. Being
a householder it is probable that he had a family, though no
children are named on the town or church records. The Jonathan
of Sandwich in 1684, was a son of Andrew, not of Josias.
6. V. Joseph, probably the youngest of the family, married in
1666, Elizabeth .
Of this family no record has been preserved. It is evident
from the Colony records that he had at least one child. Lois Hallett,
who married April 10, 1690, was probably his daughter.
She removed to Stonington, Connecticut, in 1715. In 1686 he
had a house on the north side of the county road, betw-een the
houses of Joseph Benjamin (now Nathan Edson's) and James
Whether his house stood on
Gorham's (now' Warren Marston's) .
the Hallett Farm or not, I am unable certainly to determine. In
the Gorham article I presumed that it stood on the west of the
mill road ; but having since obtained some additional informa-
§Capt. Samuel Mayo had vessels employed in the coasting and fisheries. In 1647 the
town panted him liberty to erect a fish house on the point of land below his house now
called Crowell's point.