Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

120 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF EAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Lumber, died 20th March, 1709-10-
5. IV. James, born in 1631, in England, married Oct. 31,
1655, Sarah Lane, daughter of George of Hingham, died
Oct. 4, 1713, aged 82 yrs.
6. V. Edward, probably born in England, married 9th May,
1661, Hannah Cobb, daughter of Elder Henry. He died
March 29, 1703. She died Jan. 17, 1729-30, aged 90 years,
3 months, 12 days.
7. VI. John, born in Scituate March 2, 1637-8, baptized
March 11, 1637-8, an inhabitant of Barnstable 1670, killed
at the Eehobeth battle March 26, 1676.
8. VII. Ephraim, born in Barnstable July 23, 1641, baptized
July 25, 1641. He was living in 1663, bntthereis no notice
of him after. He was probably dead in 1670.
9. VIII. Sarah, born in Barnstable Feb. 2, 1643-4, baptized
Feb. 11, 1643-4, married 1st James Cobb, 26th Dec. 1663,
and 2d Jonathan Sparrow, Esq., of Eastham. She died in
Barnstable "Feb. 11, 1735, in the 92d year of her age," as
recorded on her grave stones, according to the town records
92 years and 9 days.
Mr. Deane says he also had Nathaniel 1645, and Joseph
1647. Neither the town colony or church records, confirm this
statement. Mr. Savage rejects this addition but gives him a son
Jabez, who died unmarried. His authority I do not lind.
(3.) Thomas Lewes, son of George, was born in England
about the year 1628. He came over with his father when a child
of four years, residing about three years in Plymouth, then removed
with his father to Scituate, and from thence to Barnstable
in 1639. His education was obtained in the new settlements, before
public schools had been established. Generally the children
of the first comers were better educated than the succeeding generations.
The ministers of religion had, at that time, small
parishes and smaller salaries, and necessity compelled them to resort
to other employment. Many of the early pastors were
physicians, and nearly all of them taught a school in the winter,
and cultivated their farms in the summer. All of George Lewes's
chUdren excepting George were well educated for the times.
In the investigation of the history of Thomas Lewes, I have
been aided by Thomas Lewis, Jr., Esq., and S. P. Bourne, Esq.,
of Falmouth. The colonial records, the town and church of Barnstable
and of Falmouth, the Probate and the records of the proprietors
of Suekenessett have been carefully examined. The result
of the investigation is this, he was a son of George Lewes,
married and lived in Barnstable as stated, and died in Falmouth
after 1703, but these records fail to show where he resided from
1670 to 1677. This gap covers the period when Mr. Deane says
he was at Swansea, was Selectman, &c., and had by wife Han-