Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

482 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAfiNSTABLE FAMILIES.
tion, I am inclined to the Qpinion that Joseph had the northwest
part of his father's great lot or farm set off to him in the division
of the estate, and that he built his house thereon, not far from
the location of the dwelling-house of the heirs of Ansel Hallett,
deceased. He was a townsman in 1670, and at the division of
the common meadows in 1697 had one acre allotted to him. He
is not named in the division of the common lands in 1706, and the
presumption is that some time between 1697 and 1706 he removed
from Barnstable. If he had died the settlement of his estate
would appear on the Probate Records. His lands were afterwards
the property of James Gorham.*
The widow Mary Hallett is described 31st March, 1659, as
"now living in Barnstable," implying that Barnstable had not
been her permanent place of residence. Her lands at Goodspeed's
Hill in 1654 are thus described: "Eleven acres of upland,
more or less, bounded northerly by the highway, easterly by
James Lewis' land, southerly by her own land, (called also Josias')
westerly upon John Davis, stretching upon a sett off four
rods into the swamp (Lewis' swamp) across the north end of John
Davis' land." In the Goodspeed article. No. CVII, there is a
diagram of this land. It is those portions of the Goodspeed and
Scudder lots, bounded north by the County road, east by James
Lewis, south by Goodspeed's outlet, which separates it from Josias
Hallett's land and John Davis', and west by the Hyannis
road, which separated it from John Davis' houselot ; but did not
include Lewis' Swamp, now the houselot of the heirs of F. W.
Crocker, Esq., deceased. These eleven acres are now owned by
the heirs of Timothy Reed, Esq., Major S. B. Phinney, Eben.
Bacon, Esq., heirs of F. W. Crocker, Esq., deceased, and by the
United States, (Custom House lot)
The three acres of meadow at Blush's Point, afterwards Josias',
are also described as her property.
There is no record of her death, and her name does not appear
after 1659. She probably removed, perhaps with her son
Josias to Sandwich. That she was the widow of Mr. Andrew
Hallett, Sen., there is very little reason to doubt. She is called in
the Barnstable records ''•Mrs. Hallett." Titles meant something
in those days ; her husband, wherever he was, was called Mr.
There was only only one man of the name prior to 1654, who was
entitled to that distinction, and that man was Mr. Andrew Hallett,
Sen., the husband of Wid. Mary Hallett.
(2-1.) Andrew Hallett, Jr., is the common ancestor of all
the families of the name in Barnstable and Yarmouth. He was
one of the first settlers of the town of Sandwich, and at the di-
*Mr. Hallett probably had other children than thoae named. The first wife of Robert
Davis was probably his daughter. Davis resided in Yarmouth imtil the death of Mr. Hallett
when he remcjved to Barnstable, building his house next west of Joseph Hallett's house
lot on a tract of land probably the property of his father-in-law.