Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

6 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Mehitable, daugliter of John Davis, Esq. ,
she had born in Barnstable,
of Barnstable, by whom
I. Ezekifcl, Jan. 14, 1741-2, five months and twenty-two days
after tlie death of the father.
The widow Mehitable Hersey's history has already been
given, and it is unnecessary to give only an abstract tl)eieof in
this connection. !Slie married 1st, James Hersey, by whom she
had P^zekiel. 2d. Capt. John Russell, by whom she had Lothrop.
3d, John Sturgis, P^sq., by whom she had John and Sarah, and
4th, Hon. Daniel Davis, by whom she had Daniel.
Sept. 9. 1741, Ezekiel Hersey, of Hmgham, physician, and
Mehitable Her.-ey, of Barnstable, were appointed by Hon. Sylvanus
Bourne, Judge of Probate, Administrators of the estate of
James Hersey, late of Barnstable, in the County of Barnstable,
Physician.
Sept. -2, 1741, "Ezekiel Hersey, Hingham, in the County of
Suffolk, was appointed by Josiah Willard, Judge of Probate, to
be Guardian 'unto ye nephew James Hersey, a minor, aged about
three years'—to take into your custody such part and portion of
estate as accrues to him in right of his father James Hersey, late
of Barnstable, in the County of Barnstable, deceased."
James Hersey, 2d, was a physician and probably studied
medicine with his uncle Ezekiel at Hingham, and removed to Kit-
tery, Maine, where he died in 17.58 aged twenty years. Oct. 13,
17.58, Solomon Davis, of Boston, merchant, was appointed admin-
istrator of his estate.
Feb. 1763, Ezekiel Hersey, the brother of James, 2d, was of
legal age, and his uncle Solomon Davis resigned his trust, and he
was appointed administrator on the estate of his brother James.
On other deeds and papers recorded in the County of Suffolk,
James of Kittery, is called a physician.
I have been thus particular in quoting from the records, because
a question has arisen involving the identity of James, the
father, and James, the son. I think it perfectly certain that both
were physicians. James, the younger, was only twenty when he
died, unmarried. His heirs were, his brother Ezekiel, who was
about sixteen years of age, and his mother, who was then the
wife of John Sturgis, Esq. Neither were legally eligible, and
therefore his uncle Solomon Davis, Esq., was appointed adminis-
trator, till Ezekiel. the brother, was of legal age, and then he resigned
and Ezekiel was appointed.
That a young man, who had not completed his twentieth
year, should have been a practicing physician at Kittery seems
improbable, but there is no doubt of its accuracy. His uncle
Abner had an extensive practice in Barnstable when only 19.
Ezekiel Hersej', son of James, born Jan. 14, 1741-2, was a
clerk in the store of his uncle Solomon Davis, merchant, of Bos-