Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

78 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
VI. Thankful, 25th March, 1711 ; married Ebeu'r Thomas,
Dec. 8, 1736.
Jabez Blossom, son of Peter, married 9th of Sept. 1710,
Mercy Goodspeed.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Sylvanus, born 20th Jan'ry, 1713, married Charity Snell,
1738, and settled in South Bridgewater. His grandson
Alden went to Turner, Maine, where he was a general
and high-sheriff.
Sylvanus is the only child of Jabez recorded ; but there
was a Jabez Blossom, Jr., who married May 17, 1739,
Hannah Backhouse of Sandwich ; also, a Ruth, who married
June 8, 1738, Sylvanus Barrows.
In addition to the above, there was a Peter Blossom,
born as early as 1680, who was entitled to a share in the
division of lands in 1703. If he was a son of Peter, son of
Dea. Thomas, it is difficult to account for the omission of
his name on the town and probate records. Perhaps he was
a son of Thomas, Jr. None of the Blossoms, excepting the
deacon, appear to have been church members, consequently
their children's names do not appear on the church records.
There was a Samuel Blossom of Barnstable, who married
Hannah Bodfish, Oct. 28, 1744, and had Thankful, 5th
Sept. 1745 ; Joseph, 28th Oct. 1747 ; Samuel and Hannah,
twins, 24th Jan'ry, 1752, and Mehitable, 23d June, 1753.
The mother of this family was a church member.
There was also a Benjamin Blossom of Sandwich, published
Dec. 22d, 1750, to Elizabeth Linnell, and married Oct.
31,1751, Bathsheba Percival, and had one son born in Barnstable,
Benjamin, 18th Aug. 1753.
James Blossom, son of Joseph, married Jan'ry 19th,
1758, Bethia Smith, and had children born in Barnstable
James, Feb. 3, 1760 ; Temperance. Oct. 1761; Matthias,
Sept. 12, 1765; Lucretia, Oct. 8, 1768, and Asenath, Aug.
30, 1770.
There was also a Thomas Blossom of Yarmouth, who
married Thankful Paddock, 1749, and had five children
born in Yarmouth, namely : Enos, Aug. 18, 1750 ; Thomas,
March 11, 1753; Thankful, Jan'y 6,
13th, 1758, and Ezra, May 10, 1761.
1756; Sarah, July
Benjamin Blossom, of Sandwich, by his wife Elizabeth,
had Sarah. Oct. 23. 1752: Mary, Nov. 27. 1757 ; Meribah,