Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

506 (JENEALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
£15,00,00, or 50 dollars in silver money, showing that on the Sabbath
and ou holidays she dressed in great style.
Children of Andrew Hallett, Jr. :
7. I. Ruhama, , married Job Bourne 14th Dec. 16G4,
by whom she had five children. He died in 1676, and she
married Hersey. She was living in 1714. (See
Bourne.)
8. II. Abigail, born 1644, married Capt. Jonathan Alden of
Duxbury, Dec. 10, 1672. He was the son of John Alden
and Priseilla Mullins, born in 1627, and was seventeen years
older than his wife. He inherited the homestead of his
father in Duxbury, and died Feb. 1697, leaving an estate
apprised at £309. She died Aug. 17, 1725, aged 81 years,
and has a monument in the old graveyard in D. Her children
were Andrew, Jonathan, John and Benjamin.
9. HI. Dorcas, bap. June 1, 1646. She was not living in
1684, and probably died young.
10. IV. Jonathan, born Nov. 20, 1647. (See account, bebelow.)
11. V. John, born Dec. 11, 1650. (See account below.)
12. VI. Mehitabel, , called youngest daughter. She
married Nov. 10, 1682, John Dexter of Sandwich, and had
Elizabeth Nov. 2, 1683 ; Thomas Aug. 26, 1686 ; Abigail
May 26, 1689; John, Sept. 11, 1692; and after the latter
date removed to Portsmouth, R. I. (See Dexter.)
(10-IV.) Of the early life of Jonathan Hallett little is
known. He was not taxed in Yarmouth in 1676, and does not
appear to have been a resident. Jan. 30, 1683-4, he married
Abigail Dexter, daughter of Ensign Thomas Dexter of Sandwich,
and grand-daughter of Mr. Thomas Dexter of Lynn, In 1684 he
was constable of Sandwich, and an inhabitant of that town. He
was thirty-six when married, and his wife twenty-one years of
age. After the death of his father he removed to Yarmouth, and
resided in the west room of his father's house till 1695, the year
after the death of his mother, when he built his new house, afterwards
known as the Jeremiah Hallett house. As all the houses
built about that time were of the same description, some account
thereof may not be uninteresting. The lumber for its construction
came from Scituate, the Bangor of those times. It was two stories
high, and at first contained only two rooms, exclusive of the
attic. It stood where Mr. Joseph Hale's house now stands,
fronted due south, and was about twenty-four feet in front, by
eighteen in the rear. The timber was large, and the boarding an
inch and a quarter in thickness. The chimney was built within,
not outside of the frame. On entering the front door you stepped
over the sill, the entry floor being a foot lower than the threshold.
In the entry a cu-cular stairway led to the chamber and attic.