Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

484 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
land ; and two acres of planting land at Ma-noo-nah-Skussett
and five acres
acres wanting
of planting land lying near Spring Hill ; and four
one quarter of meadow near the Pine Neck ; and
two acres of meadow lying [illegible] and one a:cre and a half
lying in the Neck, being yet undivided ; with all commons, and all
pasture, and all
belonging.
profits and appertenances whatsoever, thereunto
Witness my hand this twenty-eighth day of July, one thouslx
hundred and forty.
' The mark of
H
Andrew Hallett.
Signed and delivered in presence of
Edward Dillingham,
John Wing.
Taken out of the original deed and entered on record by me,
Thomas Tupper,
Town Clerk.
From Sandwich Andrew Hallett removed to Yarmouth, of
which town he continued to be an inhabitant till his death in
1684. In 1642 he bought the dwelling-house of Gyles Hopkins,
the first built by the English in Yarmouth, and ten acres of land.
This house was probably erected by Mr. Stephen Hopkins, by
virtue of a grant made by the Colony Court dated Aug. 7, 1638.
It stood on land now owned by Charles Basset, a little distance
northwesterly from the house of .Joseph Hale. Traces of the
foundation are not yet entirely obliterated. The ten acres of
land were bounded northeasterly by the lands of Mr. Nicholas
Simpkins, and southwesterly by the lands of Robert Dennis. In
1644 he bought fifteen acres of upland of Mr. Nicholas Simpkins
adjoining his own on the east and three acres of salt meadow.
In 1655 he bought the farm of Robert Dennis. The original
deed in the handwriting of Mr. Anthony Thacher, has been preserved,
and the following is a copy :
"These presents bearing date the twenty-fourth day of Feb-
aud other places. No settlement has been made at Shaujae or Town Neck to this day.
The account of the division of the common meadows, I think, sustains this view beyond
auy controversy or doubt. Moo-ne-noo-ne-nus-cus-set—the village Moo-re-noo-ne-nuscaul-ton—the
river or stream. I have before remarked that Indian names are descriptive
terms. These long names have been contracted to Scusset. The meaning ot the long
name applied to the river seems to be the murmuring stream, or perhaps a better translation
is "the stream where murmuring sounds are heard in the evening," the name of the
village implies "a landing place on that stream." A similar name was sometimes applied
to the long valley which terminated at Scusset or West Sandwich. In all languages there
is an analogy between sound and sen^e, and particularly in , arbarous or unwritten languages.
Our Knglish word murmur is one of this character and the Indian Moo-nenoo-ne
is one of the same character and represents the same idea. The Indian names of
birds and beasts, were often imitations of the song or cry of each. The crow, the blackbird,
the duck, the goose, and all the birds were continually chanting to the Indian their
mdividual names, and so did the beasts of the,field and the buzzing insects.
JGeorge Shawson, Mr. Winson says, was of Duxbury in 1638, and removed to Sandwich
in 1640. He removed to Stamford, Conn., before 1644, where he died Feb. 19, 1695,
leaving descendants.