Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

486 GENEALOGICAli NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
May 10, 1648, the lands of Robert Dennis,* situate in the
West Field, are described in the Colony records, as 12 acres
bought of Peter Warden, 10 of Mr. Edmond Ha.wes, 7 of Mr.
Andrew Hallett, and 4 given him by the town. Thomas Flawne
had 13 acres in the same field, making the 46 acres sold.
The records of the laying out of the houselots in Yarmouth
are lost. They contained from five to six acres each, and no person
was allowed to own two adjoining lots, without he maintained
a dwelling-house on each. They were laid out on the north side
of the County road, the lands on the south being reserved as
planting grounds, and enclosed by a common fence. The western
lot adjoining the bounds of Barnstable was Dr. Thos. Starr's,
sold in 1639 to Mr. Andrew Hallett, and afterwards owned by
Capt. John Gorham. Four acres of this lot are now owned by
the Gorhams, and two by the Halletts. The second lot was Robert
Dennis', the one conveyed in the foregoing deed, and is now
owned by the Halletts, Mr. Eldredge Lovell, and Joseph Gorham.
The third lot was sett off to Gyles Hopkins, and sold by him to
Andrew Hallett, Jr., in 1642. This lot probably included the
houselot now owned by Mr. Jarius Lincoln, Jr., certainly Capt.
Charles Bassett's, Mr. Joseph Hale's, and Mr. John Bassett's,
Mill Lane being then probably its northeastern boundary. The
fourth lot was Capt. Nicholas Sympkins', and sold by him in 1644
to Andrew Hallett, Jr.
The Mill road was laid out by the first comers as a private
way. Hopkins' and iSympkins' land extended across Mill Pond
meadows, and included land in Stony Cove Neck or Sympkins'
Neck, as it is sometimes called, he owning to the creek which
still retains his name. This road led to the ancient landing-place
or wharf on the north of the Grist Mill.
By subsequent purchases Andrew Hallett, Jr., became the
largest land holder in Yarmouth, owning about three hundred
acres of the best lands and meadows in the town. On the north
side of the road his farm extended from the Gorham houselot to
the Hawes farm, where Mr. Edward W. Crocker now resides, and
included nearly all the meadows on the north. On the south side
of the road, he owned from the bounds of Barnstable nearly to
Hawes' Lane. From him the westerly part of the County road in
Yarmouth obtained the name of Hallett street, which it has retained
to this day. Beside the ample domain already described,
he owned lands and meadows in Barnstable, 1000 acres in Windham,
Conn., and rights to commonage in Yarmouth, equal to 500
acres more.
The mode in which he acquired this large estate I shall at-
*Ilobert 1)6111118 was a carpenter, and had a wife Mary, He had only one child recorded
as bom in Yarmouth, Mary, 19th Sept. 1649. I think he removed to Newport, and was
afterwards a man of note. Thomas Flawne appears to have resided in the family of Dennis.
Mr. Savage does not name him.