Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

218 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
unfi'equently becoming heads of families before reaching their
majority. He came over in the Mary and John, in 1630, settling
in Dorchester. He requested to be made a freeman 19th Oct. of
that year, and was admitted 18th of May, 1631. He removed in
a few years to Scituate, and was one of the earliest of the company
who came to Barnstable. In Mr. Lothrop's diary, in speaking of
the arrival of his immediate company in town, it is recorded :
"After praises to God in public were ended, as the day was cold,
we divided into three companies, to feast together, some at Mr.
Hull's, some at Mr. Mayo's and some at brother Lombard, Sr's."
These were presumably the three largest and most eligible houses
in the settlement, and this passage indicates the standing and
means of their possessors. In 1639 the court record states that
"Thomas Lumbert* is allowed to keep victualling, or an ordinary,
for the entertainment of strangers, and to draw wines in Barnstable."
BERNARD LOMBARD.
Bernard, brother of Thomas, was also born in Tenterton, and
probably came to Dorchester, in 1630. He was in Seituate in
1634, and he and his wife joined Mr. Lothrop's church 19th April,
1635. He came to Barnstable in the fall of 1639, and his houselot
was near the site of the old mill, towards the shore. In 1660
he was appointed by the colony court to lay out lands granted to
inhabitants of Eastham ; and in 1665 to lay out 100 acres of land
in Chatham allowed to Wm. Nickerson. He was one of the seven
persons in town in 1664 having the prefix of "Mr.," a title which
at that time signified that its possessor was a man of public and
social consideration. He was also ensign of the military company
in Barnstable in. 1652, a place of distinction in those days. lia
1667 he was appointed one of the committee to lay out lands in
Succanessett. He died about 1667, aged not far from 60 years.
Mr. Savage, in his Biographical Dictionary, asserts that the
Thomas Lombard who came to Dorchester in 1630 was father of
the Thomas who also came to Barnstable in 1639. Thev were,
most probably one and the same. The genealogy of the family
is involved in so many obscurities that I do not feel competent to
trace it out, and rather than give it in an imperfect form prefer
not to undertake the task.
The Truro family of the name is derived from Thomas. This
branch has made its mark in the financial and commercial circles
of the country as few names have done. In the Western States
hardly a town exists that has not had intimate business relations
with the banking firm of Lombards.
*The early records show that the name was originally spelt "Lumbert," but the usase
has many years since changed.
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