Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

44 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Rachel £140 to be paid to her when of age, and a copy of Mr.
Flavel's works; to his son Ebenezer £160 when of age, and the
"three biggest books" mentioned in my father's will, his gun,
sword and iron back. The balance of his property, about £300,
he devises to his wife Mary, who married Nov. 5, 1722, John
George. His children were
65. I. Rachel, born in Barnstable Nov. 1, 1707, married May
27, 1742, Samuel Spear, Jr.
66. II. Ebenezer, born in Braintree March 14, 1713, married
July 11, 1732, (aged 19?) Hannah Nightingale, whom he
survived. He was a shipmaster, and according to tradition
died in the West Indies. He left seven children. 1, Ebenezer,
who married Ann Morton, a sister of the Hon. Perez
Morton, and had Joseph, who married his cousin Abigail
Hinckley ; John, who settled in Albany and had eight children
; Lucy, who married Isaac Prescott ; Anna, unmarried
; Sophia, married John D. Howard, Jr., of Boston;
and Herman, unmarried. 2d, Thomas was a shipmaster,
settled at first in Wellfleet and afterwards removed to Boston.
He married Susannah Hewes of Wrentham. He died
aged 34 during the Revolution, leaving a widow and four
children, some of whom were born in Wellfleet. 3d, John
was an auctioneer in Boston and a member of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company in 1772. He married
Abigail Kneeland of Boston, and had Abigail who married
her cousin Joseph, and had no children ; Mary married Edward
Church, merchant of Boston, and died Nov. 1858,
aged 87 ; John, who died unmarried in 1855 at Andover ;
Sophia, Harriet and Eliphalet, died young. 4th, Eliphalet,
a mariner, died unmarried. 5th, Mary, died unmarried
Hannah, died unmarried ; and Nancy, who married Benjamin
Gorham.
(30.) Benjamin Hinckley, son of the second Samuel, resided
at West Barnstable on a part of the Hinckley farm. I find
no settlement of his estate on the probate records. He was living
in 1745, aged 79. He married 27th Dec. 1686, Sarah, daughter
of James Cobb. He had nine children, five the record says
"dyed," and their names and ages are not recorded, neither do
they appear on the church records.
Children born in Barnstable.
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67. I. Benjamin, 18th July 1694, married Nov. 2, 1716, Abigail,
daughter of Joseph Jenkins. He died in 1745, leaving
an estate apprised at £920,13,6. His homestead at West
Barnstable was valued at £380, but the currency was then
depreciated, a yoke of oxen being valued at £30, about
double their value fifty years before. He had a family of
eleven children born in Barnstable, namely : 1, Abigail, born