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42 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.<br />

such consent he would have been a trespasser and liable to<br />

ejectment. The terms <strong>of</strong> the grant cannot be quoted ; but<br />

it does not thence follow that no permit was given or grunt<br />

made. VVe know by the Old Colony records that in ll)37<br />

or 1638, certain lands in <strong>Barnstable</strong> were run out into house<br />

and other lots ; that these lands were laid out by or under<br />

the authority <strong>of</strong> Mr. Richard Collicut <strong>of</strong> Dorchester. He<br />

was a surveyor, but there is no evidence that he was ever in<br />

<strong>Barnstable</strong>. The Plymouth records tell us the thing was<br />

done ; but they do not tell us who did it. The passage<br />

quoted from (iov. VVinthrop clearly and distinctly states<br />

that at, (jr about the time, the Plymouth records say the<br />

lands were run out, Mr. Eachiler and his company undertook<br />

to form a plantation at Mattakeese. The very lirst<br />

thing that he and his company did, undoubtedly, was to do<br />

what all such companies did in those times tirst do ; that is<br />

run out house lots for each <strong>of</strong> their party, and farming lands<br />

and meadows to be held by each in severalty. Not to presume<br />

this, is to presume that Mr. Eachiler and his company<br />

were not only wanting in common prudence, but wanting in<br />

common sense. The tirst settlers in new countries<br />

never failed to appropriate a sufficiency <strong>of</strong> laud to themselves,<br />

and in order to make such appropriation, they must<br />

tirst run them out and put up boundaries.<br />

That there were some among his company that could<br />

survey lands, scarce admits <strong>of</strong> doubt. Mr. Bachilcr, as Mr.<br />

Prince informs us, was a "man <strong>of</strong> learning and ingenuity,<br />

and wrote a tine and curious hand," and he could undoubtedly<br />

run lines and draw plans. His son John Wing, one <strong>of</strong><br />

the company, was a man <strong>of</strong> skill and energy—and he probably<br />

had with him his sons Daniel, Stephen and John, three<br />

stout youths, if not all men grown—one <strong>of</strong> whom in aftertimes<br />

was a surveyor <strong>of</strong> lands.<br />

That Mr. Bachiler's party were capable <strong>of</strong> doino- all<br />

that the Colony records say was done, does not admit <strong>of</strong><br />

doubt, and in the absence <strong>of</strong> all pro<strong>of</strong> to the contrary, it is<br />

to be presumed that they did do it.<br />

Sandwich was settled in 1637, mostly by people from<br />

Lynn—old neighbors and acquaintances <strong>of</strong> Mr. Bachiler's<br />

company—and it is probable, that being the nearest settlement<br />

to Mattakeese, that they left their women and little<br />

ones there till shelter could be procured for them in the new<br />

settlement.

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