Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENKALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 61
of liquors were brought into the town of Yarmouth. The other
towns do not appear to have made returns.
The enumeration of the impprtant offices which he held proves
that he was not only a business man, but a good business man,
and a man in whom his townsmen placed implicit confidence as a
man of integrity and ability. Our annals furnish the names of
few men who, taken in all the relations of life, show a finer record
than Thomas fiuckius. The history of the formation of the Artillery
Company shows that he was a man of liberal views, and an
opponent of the bigotry and narrow sectarianism which ruled in
Massachusetts at that time. The original members of that company,
with few exceptions, were the friends of Wheelwright, consequently
were looked upon with suspicion by the government,
and it is said that if they had not chosen for their captain Robert
Reayne, a man presumed to hold different views, the charter of
the company could not have been obtained. After the death of
Mr. Lothrop the Barnstable church ceased to act in harmony.
Mr. Huckins adhered to the party that invited Mr. William Sergeant
to become its pastor. This faction belonged to the political
party that in 1656 had become dominant in the Colony, and* had
adopted the narrow sectarian policy that had always ruled in
Massachusetts.
That Mr. Huckins adopted the intolerant policy of the party
to which he belonged does not appear. Though constable in 1657,
he lived on friendly terms with his neighbor Nicholas Davis, and
as the notorious Barlow of Sandwich was employed to search the
house of Davis, it may be inferred that Huckins declined to act
officially in the case. In 1662 Mr. Huckins cordially united with
the other faction of the church in the settlement of Mr. Walley,
a man of peace and an able advocate of the tolerant principles of
the Rev. Mr. Lothrop.
Mr. Huckins owned a large real estate. He did not have the
grant of his houselot recorded until Feb. 3, 1661, and then the
record was made to correspond with the facts as they then existed.
"Six acres of upland granted (as appears per order of town
bearing date ye 14th 7 mo. 1640) to his houselot butting ona little
creek that comes out of ye great creek by Rendevous Creek and
runs up into ye woods, "(thus far seems to be quoted from the old
grant) which is now bounded north by Goodman Blush, southerly
by Goodman Cob, and easterly partly by Goodman Blush and
partly by Goodman Cob. As the roads were then only rights of
way through gates or bars, they are not mentioned. This land is
now owned by Elijah Lewis, 2d, Loring and Nathan Crocker.
It was originally bounded on the north by the lot of Dolar Davis.
The "little creek" was afterwards called Huckins Creek. From
the earliest to the present time there has been a wharf and land-