Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 71
are Annt;, born June 15, 1715, aud Joseph, born
Aug. 24, 1721. His son Ebenezer and grandson
Nathan, had families resident iu Barnstable. Joseph
Boddsh, Sen., calls Ebenezer Thomas his grandson.
Benjamin, born July 20, l(iS3, married Nov. lU, 1709,
Lydia Crocker, daughter of Jonathan, He died in
1760, i^ged 77. He was an active man, and may be
called the founder of the Bodtish family of recent
times. He bought for £100, by a deed from bis
father-in-law, Jonathan Crocker, dated Oct. 2(1, 171o,
one-half of the twenty-acre lot and meadow which
the latter bought of his father, John Crocker, including
the dwelling-house then standing thereon. This
tract of land is situated on the east of Scorton Hill,
and is bounded southerly by the County road. Jt
was a part of the great lot of Abraham Blush, containing
fifty acres, and sold by him Feb. 10, 1()()8,
to John Crocker, Sen., and by him given in his will
to children of his brother, Dea. \V''illiam Crocker, of
whom the John Crocker, first named, was one. The
house above mentioned, a high, single house, with a
leantoo, \Yas occupied by Benjamin Bod fish and his
son Jonathan till 1809, when it was taken down, and
the present Bodfish house built on the same spot.
VI. Nathan, born Dec. 27, 1685. He married Abigail
Bursley, daughter of John. She died March '61,
1739, in the 49th year of her age, and is called on
her grave-stones at West Barnstable, the wife of
Nathaniel. I find no record of his family, and tradition
says he had no children. A Nathan Bodfish
married Patience Hathaway, and had Abigail, July
10, 1756, and Patience, Dec. 10, 1761. But this
man was perhaps a son of Robert, by his first wife.
Vn. Ebenezer, born March 10, 1687-8, removed to \A'oodbridge,
N. J., where he died unmarried in 1739, and
bequeathed his estate by will to his brother Benjamin,
who was executor, and to his sisters Hannah Thomas
and Mary Swift.
\^in. Elizabeth, born Aug. 27, 1690, married and had a
family—not living in 1735.
IX. Rebecca, born Feb. 22, 1692-3, married Benjamin
Fuller, March 25, 1714. She died March 10, 1727-8,
leaving a family.