Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

190 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
records that more thau half of the number were left in churcli state.
Of these eleven Vassal was of London, but probably not a member
of Mr. Lothrop's eliurch in that city. He was the sou of John Vassal,
aldermau of London and one of the original patentees of the
Massachusetts Colony, and an assistant of the Governor. Hatherly
was for a time a merchant in London aud probablv a member of
Mr Lothrop's cliuich; but it is proliable that Devon was his native
County, and Barnstaple in tliat shire was the port where he fitted his
ships and wheie he was principally engaged in business. It is very
doubtful wliether any of those who came over in the Chailes and
White Angel were Kentish men. Wliy should they travel two hundred
miles across the country to Barnstaple when they could take
passage from London or some of the adjacent ports.
It is evident that one page of Mr. Lothrop's records is missing,
that is the list of admission to the church from 163M to 1643, for
many of the naujcs of members of the church in Karnstable are not
on the list of admissions. To the twenty above named who removed
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from Scituate to Barnstable the following six must be added :
liam and John Casely, John Crocker, Thomas Lumbert, Isaac
Wells, and Thomas Hinckley, making 26 families from Scituate.
Barnstable was incorporated June 14, 1639, N. S. Thirteen
families had then settled in the town, namely : Rev. Joseph Hull,
his son Trustram, and his son-in-law John Bursley, making one
family, Thomas Shaw, Austin Bearse, Henry Coggin, James Hamlin,
William Tilly, Thomas Aliyn, Lawrence Litchfield, T'homas
Huckins, John Smith, Roger Goodspeed, John Scndder and Nathaniel
Bacon. Mr. John Mayo and his son Samuel, were early
inhabitants, Mr. Mayo having a house when Mr. Lothrop came.
Smith, Bacon, Bursley, T. Hull, and S. Mayo, were not householders
June 1639. If to the above he added Ahram Blush. Dolar
Davis, Thos. Hatch and John Hall, who came in afterwards, it
completes the list of townsmen as recorded Jan. 1643-4.
There were at least fifteen dwelling-houses in Barnstable in
June, 1639. Some who belonged to Mr. Lothrop's church came
before October. Mr. Dimmock had built in June; and Thomas
Lumbert and Isaac Wells probably had. Nearly all of Mr. Hull's
company appear to have been from the west of England, mostly
from Devonshire and Somersetshire, perhaps a few came from
Wales, on the opposite coast of the Bristol Channel. Barnstaple
was the most convenient port for these men, and our Barnstable
derived its name from its 'Devonshire namesake, probably because
that was the town from which the first settlers sailed.
Yarmouth obtained its name in the same manner. The leading
men among the first settlers were from Norfolk County, of
which Yarmouth was the principal seaport, hence the name.
Some particulars respecting Mr. Lothrop's residence in Scituate
already given, I shall repeat, in order to give a connected narrative