Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

512 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
acquaintances. There is a common saying, often repeated, and that
has some truth in it— "the shoemaker's wife and the blacksmith's
horse go unshod." Dea. Jonathan was a carpenter, though agricul-
ture was his principal employment ; and though he had time to finish
off, and put some of his neighbor's houses in good order, he never
found time to keep his own in decent repair.
He and his wife united in full communion with the Barnstable
Church Sept. 8, 1728, and continued to be a member till July 1,
1744, when he was dismissed to the West Church in Yarmouth of
which he was soon aiter elected one of its deacons, and continued to
be till his death. He was many years one of the Selectmen of the
town of Yarmouth, and held other municipal offices. His children
were all well educated for tlie times. His son Jonathan was fitted for
Cambridge College, and his father desired him to enter ; butthe son
preferred rather to be a farmer than a clergyman.
He married Feb. 17, 1719-20, Desire Howes, with whom he '
lived in the marriage state fifty-five years, till April 3, 1775, when
she died aged 78 years. He died May 24, 1783, aged 90 years,
and is buried in the ancient burying-ground in Yarmouth, where
monuments are erected to his and his wife's memory.
In his will dated July 17, 1779, he names his sons Jonathan,
Thomas and Jeremiah, and daughters Desire Bacon and Mehitable
Swift, and his four grandchildren, Elkanah, Isaiah, Mehitabel and
Desire Crowell. He gave his dwelling-house to Jeremiah, hence
the name by which the old house was known in modern times, and
the lot of land on the south of the road on which his son Jonathan's
house stood to Jonathan. This lot was bounded easterly by the land
of Col. Enoch Hallett. To Thomas and Jeremiah he gave his orchard
on the west of Jonathan's house.
Children of the second Jonathan Hallett born in Yarmouth :
Two daughters 20th Nov. 1720) still born.
40. 1. Desire, 18th Jan. 1721-2, married Samuel Bacon 1747.
41. II. Jonathan, 10th Nov. 1723. (See account below.)
42. III. Prince, 12th Sept. 1725, died July 3, 1728.
43. IV. Abigail, 25th Aug. 1727, died June 26, 1728.
44. V. Thomas, 7th July, 1729. (See account below.)
0. VI. Abigail, 3d June, 1731, died June 23, 1731.*
0. VII. Prince, 3d June, 1782, died June 23, 1732.
45. VIII. Jeremiah, 20th Sept. 1733. (See account below.)
46. IX. Joshua, 19th March, 1735-6, died 10th May, 1736.
47. X. Sarah, 28th June 1737.
48. XI. Mehitabel, 7th May, 1740.
(17.) David Hallett, son of Jonathan, removed to Hyannis,
and settled on the land which was his father's. His house was one
Abigail and Prince. I find this so on the record ; but it looks like a mistake of the
clerk.