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158 GENEALOGICAL, NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
indicted ; yet, on tiie next day, June 3, 1652, the Court condemn
"both of them to be publicly whipt at Barnstable, where they
live," and the sentence was executed at Barnstable five days afterwards,
that is on the 8th day of Juue, 1652.
These proceedings were in violation of the form of law ; the
accused were not indicted by the grand jury—they were not heard
in their defence, do not appear to have been at Court, and were
condemned and punished for a crime of which they had not confessed
themselves guilty.
The conduct of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins technically
was not in violation of the law ; but it was a violation of its spirit
and meaning. That they should be glorified and their praises
sung by the poet, and that David and Hannah should be whipped
at the post, seems not to be meting out equal and even handed
justice to all. If the Court had ordered Mrs. Judith to have been
scourged in public she would have enlisted but little sympathy in
her behalf.
David Linnel inherited, as already stated, the homestead of
his father. That portion of it that adjoined the public highway
he does not appear to have owned in 1686. He may have owned
the north part of it, and the description of it in his will favors
that presumption, and there he built his two story single house,
with a leanto. He was not a prominent man, and little is known
of him. He delayed joining the qhurch till July 1, 1688, the year
before his death. His wife did not join. His will is dated Nov.
14, 1688, and was proved March 9th following. To his sons
Samuel and Elisha, and his daughters Hannah Davis, Mary, Experience,
Susanna and Abigail, he gives one shilling each. To
his sons Jonathan and John his dwelling-house and housing and
all his lands, both upland and marsh, the upland to be divided
lengthwise, and his son Jonathan to have his house and to pay
his brother John one-half as much as said house shall be judged
to be worth by indifferent men ; and both upland and marsh to be
equally divided for quantity and quality between them, and to be
unto them, and their heirs forever." He gave to his wife Hannah
the improvement of one-third of his lands and the leanto room of
his house during her widowhood, and appoints her sole executrix.
His personal estate was apprised at £28,6,6. In the apprisement
corn and barley are rated at 1 shilling 6 pence, or 25 cents per
bushel.
The will of Wid. Hannah Linnel is dated Feb. 2, 1708-9, and
was proved on the 5th of April following. She names her daughters
Abigail Linnel, Mary Sergeant, wife of John, Experience,
wife of Jabez Davis, Susanna, wife of Eben. Phinney, and her
grand-daughter Hannah Davis, daughter of Dollar. She signs
with her mark, and appoints John Phinney, Jr., her executor.
Respecting Shubael Linnel little is known. He is named in