Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

510 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Mary Hallett, June 1732, aged 73 years. Both are buried in the
old burying-ground in Yarmouth.
Children of Mr. John Hallett born in Yarmouth :
21. I. Thankful, married Joseph Basset Dec. 3, 1719, his second
wife died Aug. 12, 1736.
22. II. Andrew, born 1684. (See account below.)
23. III. John, 1688. (See account below.)
24. IV. Joseph. (See account below.)
25. V. Samuel. do
26. VI. Seth. do
27. VII. Hannah, , married her cousin Ebenezer Hallett
June 27, 1728, died April 20, 1729, at the birth of her
iirst child.
28. VIII. Mary, , died unmarried April 22, 1751.
29. IX. Mercy, , died Nov. 13, 1747.
30. X. Hope, born 1705, married Joseph Grifieth of Harwich.
July 24, 1729, died July 5, 1784, aged 79.
(14-11.) Ebenezer Hallett, son of Jonathan, was a farmer
and resided in Yarmouth. His dwelling-house, which has been
owned by four successive generations of Ebenezer Hallett's yet remains.
It was originally of the same description with his father's,
but by several additions of one room at a time, it is now a large two
story mansion house. Though originally of the same description
with his father's, it was better finished and furnished. In his family
record I find this entry, "Our house was in danger of burning
August 9, 1746." Perhaps there is no house in the County in
which so much wood has been consumed as in this. The Ebenezer
Halletts, especially the second, were noted for keeping large fires.
He married Aug. 14, 1712, Rebecca Howes. She died March
23, 1724-5. 2d, his cousin Hannah Hallett, June 27, 1728. She
died April 20, 1729. 3d, Mercy Gray, May 30, 1737, who survived
him. In his will dated 10th May, 1760, he gives to his wife
Mercy one-half of the moveables in the east end of his dwellinghouse,
two cows, one steer, one-third part of his sheep and hogs,
sundry articles of provision, one-third part of his grain in the
ground, the improvement of the east end of his dwelling-house, onequarter
of his barn, and a third part of his real estate, as her right
of dower or thirds during her natural life ;
twelve loads of pine and
twelve loads of oak wood annually, cut "convenient for the chimney,"
and a horse to ride to meeting and elsewhere by his sou Ebenezer.
She survived her husband several years ; but her connection
with the family was an unhappy one.
He gives legacies to his daughters Ann Crowell, Sarah Gray,
and Rebecca Hallett, to his grandchildren Ebenezer, Susannah,
John, Temperance, Rebecca, Mercy and Jonathan Whelden, and
his son-in-law John Whelden. To Ebenezer Whelden he made an
additional bequest of "one-third part in acres of the southern end of