Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

51(T GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
67. I. Desire, April 21, 1714, married July 20, 1732, James
Hawes.
68. II. Stephen, Oct. 5, 1721, married in 1743, Mercy Joyce.
She died Oct. 23, 1763, and be married 2d, Widow Thankful
Taylor. His children were Mary, June 12,1744; Anna,
March 30,1747; Joseph, Dec. 11, 1748; Mercy, Feb. 17,
1752; Stephen, Aug. 16, 1754; Mehitable, June 10, 1757;
Sarah, April 12,1760; Mary, April 10,1767; and Levi
July 16. 1769. Joseph married Ruth Taylor, and had Joseph,
and David and Asa twins. He was lost at sea with
Howes Taylor. His brother Levi was also lost at sea in 1789.
Anna, Mercy and Mehitabel, did not marry, resided in the east
part of their father's house, and died in old age. Stephen
married Desire Hall and had Susan and Mercy. He
drank to excess, spent the large estate devised to him by his
father, and died a town-pauper
Andrew Hallett died April 26, 1751, aged 67, and his widow
Mehitabel Oct. 28, 1767, aged 72. In his will dated 23d April,
1651, proved May 7, 1751, he is styled yeoman, names his wife
Mehitabel, to whom he gives one-half of his dwelling-house, privi-
lege of the well, barn room, one-half of the fruit yearly growing in
his orchard, use of one-third of his other real estate, one-third of
his personal estate, and sufficient wood at the door, cut fit for the
fire, to be furnished by his son Stephen. To his daughter Desire he
gave a piece of land on the east of Hawes' Lane, ten acres of woodland
adjoining Jonathan Hallett's, and one-half of his moveable estate.
All the rest of his estate he gave to his son Stephen.
(23.) John Hallett, Esq., son of John, born in Yarmouth,
was married Aug. 24, 1716, by Peter Thacher, Esq., to Thankful
Thacher, He died April 8, 1765, aged 77 years, and his widow
Thankful Feb. 9, 1768.
He built the large mansion-house now occupied by the widow
Elizabeth Gorham and Howard Crowell. He was Sheriff, and a
man of note in his day, but I have not space to trace his history.
His children born in Yarmouth were :
69. I. Mary, 17th Dec. 1717, m. Jan. 24, 1727, Isaac Gorham
of Barnstable, and had Mary, who married Elisha Hedge, and
Thankful, who married John Hall. She died Aug. 19, 1741,
and is buried near the East Church in Barnstable.
70. II. John, 9th Aug. 1719, married Feb. 12, 1747, Rebecca
Hallett. He died Feb. 14,1760. His children were : Mary,
Dec 26, 1748, died young ; Charles, April 4, 1751, married
Lydia Thacher, and was the father of the late George Hallett,
Esq., of Boston, and of the late Mr. Oliver Hallett, and
others; Martha, Nov. 2, 1753, died unmarried in 1794; and
John, May 4, 1756, married Hannah Hallett Apr. 10, 1781,
and resided at Great Island.