FULLER, Lornah

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BIRTH: Also shown as Born 28 Jun 1685

Shubael married CROCKER, Hannah on 7 Mar 1708 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. Hannah (daughter of CROCKER, Jonathan and HOWLAND, Hannah) was born on 26 Mar 1688 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 26 Mar 1688 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died on 31 Mar 1751 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Apr 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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nicknamed "Little John" BIRTH: Also shown as Born Scronton Neck, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. DEATH: Also shown as Died 28 Feb 1726 ~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 7 Jan 1971

John married ROWLEY, Mehitable in 1678 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Mehitable (daughter of ROWLEY, Moses Sr. and FULLER, Elizabeth) was born on 11 Jan 1660 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died on 9 Aug 1732 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Barnstable, Connecticut, USA. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 15 Sep 1993, IFALL.

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Per "Mayflower Increasings" by Susan Roser:
The following is from the "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable," by Amos Otis, 1888.
Jonathan Crocker, son of John, owned the land now known as the Bodfish Farm at West Barnstable. He was a substantial farmer, owned a large estate; and, as his father and grand-father had done, he conveyed by deeds a large part of it to his children, reserving only a sufficiency for his comfortable support in his old age. His residence on the Bodfish Farm, probably built by his father, was a two story single house, with a leantoo, or "salt box" as they were sometimes called, on the side. This he sold in 1713 to his son-in-law, Robert Bodfish. It was taken down in 1819, and the old Bodfish mansion house stands on the same spot.

His will, which is in the hand writing of the Rev. Jonathan Russel, is dated June 1737, and the codicil thereto June 1742, four years after his death. He provides for the support of his wife Thankful, giving her the household goods she brought with her, and some bedding she had made since. He gave his son Isaac L30 and his great chair, names his son James, and James' oldest son, to whom he gave his gun. To the Rev.Jonathan Russell he devised 20 shillings; to the church 20 shillings; and to Mary Dexter then living with him L5. All the rest of his estate, real and personal, to the children of his three daughters, Lydia, Hannah and Reliance.

In the codicil to his will he gives the estate which has fallen to him by the death of his brother Nataniel, equally, in five shares, to his sons Isaac and James, to the children and heirs of his daughter Lydia Bodfish, deceased, to the children and heirs of his daughter Hannah Fuller, and to the children and heirs of his daughter Reliance Smith, deceased. At the time he made his will all his children, excepting Isaac and James, were dead, and they all resided in Connecticut.

Jonathan Crocker married for his first wife, 20th May, 1686, Hannah,daughter of Lieut. John Howland. She was the mother of all his children. After her death he married Feb. 1710-11, Thankful, widow of Mr. John Hinckley, Jr. an a daughter of Thomas Troot of Dorchester. He died Aug.24, 1746, aged 84, and is buried in the West Barnstable grave yard. No monuments are erected to the memory of either of his wives.

Jonathan married HOWLAND, Hannah on 20 May 1686 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Hannah (daughter of HOWLAND, Lieutenant John and LEE, Mary) was born on 5 May 1661 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 2 Jun 1689 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died on 11 Feb 1710 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Feb 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Also shown as Born 15 May 1661 DEATH: Also shown as Died 1711 ~BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 16 Apr 1918 ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 9 Jul 1919 ~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 22 Jan 1959

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~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 15 Feb 1934, SGEOR.

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came with his father on the MAYFLOWER and during the first winter was orphaned THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT Drafted and signed on board the Mayflower as that ship approached Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. ... Having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, ... frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time ... unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, the year of our sovereign Lord King James of England, France, and Ireland the 18th and of Scotland the fifty fourth, Anno dominie, 1620. John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Francis Cooke, Thomas Rogers, John Turner, Francis Eaton James Chilton, John Crakston, John Billington, Moses Fletcher; John Coodman, Degory Priest, Thomas Tinker, John Rigdale, Edward Fuller, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edmund Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Britterige, George Soule, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Doty, Edward Leister. ----------------------------- Samuel Fuller lived to become the fourth great-grandfather of President Wilford Woodruff. Another child, Jane, who married Samuel Fuller, a boy passenger on the Mayflower, was the fourth great-grandmother of the Prophet. BIRTH: Also shown as Born Rendenhall, Norfolk, England. BIRTH RITE: Also shown as Christening Egerton, Kent, England. ~BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 22 Oct 1929, ARIZO. ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 24 Jan 1930 ~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 25 May 1985, PROVO.

Samuel married LOTHROP, Jane on 8 Apr 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Jane (daughter of LOTHROP, Reverend John and HOWSE, Hannah) was born on 29 Sep 1614 in Egginton, Derbyshire, England; was christened on 29 Sep 1614 in Egerton, Kent, England; died on 26 Oct 1678 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Nov 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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~BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 3 Feb 1880 ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 20 Dec 1934, ARIZO. ~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 7 Feb 1968

Moses married FULLER, Elizabeth on 22 Apr 1652 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of FULLER, Doctor Matthew and IYDE, Hannah Francis) was born on 4 Apr 1626 in Fairstead, Essex, England; was christened on 4 Apr 1626 in Fairstead, Essex, England; died on 20 Jul 1690 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America; was buried in Jul 1690 in Memento Mori Cemetery, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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THOMAS UPSON (1617-1655)
ELIZABETH FULLER (1626-1690) (Note: She is not connected to John Fuller and Elisabeth Emersen.)

THOMAS UPSON was born in Stonham, Aspal, Suffolk, England in about 1617 to Richard Upson (1588-1635; born in England and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts) and unknown mother. He was the founder of the Upson family in American. He sailed from London, England, in the good ship “Increase” landing in Boston in 1635 or 1638, and who afterward removed to Hartford, Connecticut.

The name of his first wife and his children’s birth records have never been discovered. Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary states that some of his children were certainly born in England. He left his wife and daughter, Mary, in England, when he sailed to America in 1635 or 1638 with his son, Thomas Upson, Jr. They landed at Saybrook, Connecticut. Thomas was one of 163 listed in the Book of Distribution of Land in Hartford, having settled in Hartford before February 1640.

Thomas’s name appears in “ye Towne Book of Hartford” on the 3rd of January 1639, as one of those “who received land by courtesy of the town with liberty to fetch wood and keep swine and cows by proportion on the Common.” In February of 1639 he owned “several parcells of land in Hartford upon ye river of Connecticut.” His home stood on the Main Highway on the property later owned by the Porter School.

In Particular Court Records of Connecticut (vol. 22), it reads: “Hartford, August 1, 1639, Fined for unseasonable and immoderate drinking at the ‘Pinnace’ [a boat then anchored in the river or at the town wharf in Hartford,] Thomas Upson, 20 shillings.” In these early days intemperance was a prevailing vice, social drinking was universal and even countenanced by the ministry.

In 1640 the Tunxis Indians conveyed land to the English which included Farmington. Immediately Thomas sold his Hartford lands and removed from his property to Tunxis, and he became an original proprietor of the town, later called Farmington. For some time the new settlers continued to attend the First Church of Christ in Hartford.

We know that Thomas Upson married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Fuller, early in 1647 by the following record: “Thomas Upsunn was maryed to Elisibeth Fuller Jenneuary the twenty and three, one thousand six hundred forty and six.” The marriage date was actually in 1647, due to the earlier form of calendar dating.

In a list of members of the First Church at Hartford, the date of the death of Thomas Upson is entered as 1665 instead of 1655. But he did die in Farmington on 19 July 1655, his age not given. The fever and smallpox epidemic that swept through New England in 1655 took so many. (He was age 55.) His daughter Elizabeth died the day after he did. Because of the young age of the Upson children, it was many years before the estate was settled.

His wife Elizabeth, remarried (Edmund Scott, the children called him “Father Scott.”) The Court ordered a distribution of the estate on 7 September 1671, in the amount of 7 pounds to the eldest son, Thomas; 5 pounds to Stephen; 4 pounds to the eldest daughter, Mary; and 4 pounds to Hannah Upson Hickox. On 20 September 1680, Hannah’s brother Stephen discharged “Father Scott” of both his portion and that of their deceased brother, Thomas, who had died in December 1672. In June and April of 1681, the husbands of both Mary (John Welton) and Hannah (Samuel Hickox) discharged the “Father Scott” (the girls’ step-father) “on account of Father Upson’s Estate.” So, in effect the Upson children forewent their inheritances.

Thomas Upson died 19 July 1655, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, from a fever or small pox. His daughter Elizabeth died the next day of the same illness.

A memorial to the founds of Hartford, Connecticut reads as follows: “Thomas Upson founder of the Upson Family in America who settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1638, a proprietor of Farmington, Connecticut in 1640 where he died.”

ELIZABETH FULLER was born 4 April 1626 in Fairstead, Essex, England, to unknown parents. (She is not the “Elizabeth Fuller” who is a descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower.) She arrived in Hartford in 1646. She married (1) Thomas Upson 23 January 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. She married (2) Edmund Scott.

In a court dated 21 August 1646, Elizabeth Fuller was sentenced to be severely corrected for an offense against morality. This was probably due to her first child, Hannah, being born illegitimately. This is not mentioned by the Upson Genealogy.

Elizabeth died 20 July 1690 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 64. (Sometimes the death date is listed the same as her daughter Elizabeth Upson’s death date—20 July 1655, which is wrong. Elizabeth Fuller Upson married Edmund Scott after her husband, Thomas Upon, died.)

Children of Thomas Upson and his first wife:
1.Mary, eldest daughter, was married in 1667 to John Welton of Wales while crossing the Atlantic. Upon reaching this country, they were in Saybrook, and in 1672 removed to Farmington where John was one of the proprietors of that town. They had 12 children. Mary died at Waterbury on 18 October 1716; and John on 18 June 1726.
2.Thomas Upson, eldest son, removed to Saybrook. The town records show what he died unmarried at Saybrook, when, on 9 December 1672, he was “killed by an ox-cart going over his head.”

Children of Thomas Upson and Elizabeth Fuller:
1.Hannah Upson was born about 1647 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut. She married Sergeant Samuel Hickox 25 October 1644. She died 20 July 1707 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, at about age 60.
2.Elizabeth Upson, b. 1650; d. 20 July 1655 as a child, the day after her father died with the same fever.
3.Stephen Upson, b. about 1650 in Farmington. He married 29 Dec 1682 Mary Lee. Stephen was 5 when his father died. His older brother died in 1672 when he was 22, and he inherited his estate. Stephen became the only lineal descendant to carry on the Upson name. He died 5 November 1735 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut.

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[These are notes on the early settling of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, concerning Henry Rowley, Samuel Fuller and others, from Simeon L. Deyo's "History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620-1890" See source information at end.]

[This is a basic history of the beginning of the Barnstable settlement. Henry Rowley was a member of John Lothrop's Congregation.]
[p.20]
Bartholomew Gosnold was the first European to explore the area of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He sailed from Falmouth, in Cornwall, [England] 'in a small bark, with thirty-two men,' and landed on 14 May 1602, 'on the eastern coast of Massachusetts, north of Cape Cod.' On 19 May 1602, Gosnold sighted 'the high lands of Barnstable and Yarmouth, and discovered and named Martha's Vineyard.' He returned to England on 23 July 1602.
In 1604, De Monts explored 'from the St. Lawrence river to Cape Cod and southward.'
'In 1607 a settlement was attempted at Kennebeck by the Plymouth Company, but the winter of 1607-8 being severe, and many discouragements interposing, the survivors returned to England in the following spring.'
In 1614, Captain John Smith sailed along the coast, and made a 'fine map' of the coastline, which he presented to King Charles in England. The area was named 'New England.'
In 1619, Sir Fernando Gorges sent Mr. Thomas Dermer to New England. He found a pestilence had swept over the Indian population, and some villages were utterly depopulated. Dermer was attacked by Indians, and nearly all his boat's crew were killed. Dermer escaped after receiving fourteen wounds.

[p.22]
At this time, Walter Raleigh and a group were beginning a settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, and the Dutch were establishing a settlement in New Amsterdam (later New York).
In July 1620, 'religious exiles at Leyden' who had fled England in 1608, were ready to embark for the New World. The first company of these 120 resolute emigrants sailed on the Mayflower and Speedwell, from Southampton, England. "The Speedwell proved unseaworthy and was abandoned, thus reducing the number" of passengers who could sail to America, to "101 on board the Mayflower, which, after many delays, left Plymouth, England, September 6, 1620." On 11 November 1620, 'after a voyage of sixty-six days,' they anchored in New England.
'After solemnly thanking God, it was proposed that the forty-one males who were of age should subscribe a compact, which was to be the basis of their government.'
'Hon. Francis Baylies, in his history of New Plymouth, says that this compact adopted in the cabin of the Mayflower "established a most important principle, a principle which is the foundation of all the democratic institutions of America, and is the basis of the republic."'
"The following is an exact copy of the compact:
"In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith &c., having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof, do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
"In witness whereof, we have hereunder subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the 11th day of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, anno Domini 1620."

[p.26]
In 1627 the colonists established a trading house at Manomet (Bourne), on the south side of Monument river, to facilitate trade with the Narragansett country, New Amsterdam, and the shores of Long Island sound.

[p.27]
By 1630, the population of the colony had reached 300 settlers.

[p. 28]
In 1636, "the only towns settled were Plymouth, Duxbury and Scituate."

[p. 29]
In the summer of 1639, 'the territory of Barnstable, Yarmouth and Dennis became settled.' 'In this year, 1639, so many had migrated to the towns of Barnstable, Yarmouth and Sandwich, that they were invested with the rights of towns and were each entitled to two delegates to an assembly for legislation. In October of the same year the authorities at Plymouth ordered a pound to be erected at Yarmouth, and established there a pair of stocks. The stocks of that day, in which the petty offenders were compelled to sit, were one of the mediums through which the Plymouth court would impress a notion of its dignity upon any who disregarded its authority."
"In 1641 the active ministers of Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth were John Laythorpe[Lothrop], John Mayo, William Leverich, John Miller and Marmaduke Matthews. These each bore the title of Mister, that insignia of Puritan importance which at that time was only applied to the learned and the wealthy."
The communities of Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth remained under the legal jurisdiction of Plymouth until 1685, when the Plymouth colony was divided into three counties-- Plymouth, Bristol, and Barnstable.

[p.367-369, Settlement at Mattacheese, (later Barnstable and Yarmouth] 1639, by Henry Rowley and others]

'Permission was granted by the Plymouth court in 1639 "for seating [establishing] a congregation," whose leaders had intended to settle at Sippecan (now Rochester). But a diversity of opinion arose, and the growing wish to settle at Mattacheese led to a division of the congregation into three companies, who should pray for direction in the election of committees " to set down the township." A former grant of Mattacheese to Mr. Callicot and others, of Dorchester, having been rescinded, and other impediments removed, the little band determined to seek the lands at Mattacheese. This was the Indian name of lands, now in Barnstable and the northern part of Yarmouth, adjoining the ancient Cummaquid harbor. The lands of this township contained other Indian tribes at the south and west, each having its sachem [ie., leader], by whom the community was ruled. The names of the small tribes and their tracts were identical. lyanough's land and tribe was south—midway between the bay and sound; his name was often spelled Janno and lanno and Hyanno. Chequaket, now Centreville; Coatuit, Santuit, Mistic, Skanton, partially in Sandwich; and Cotocheeset were communities and lands south of and around lyanough's. With the remembrance that Cummaquid harbor is now Barnstable harbor, the reader will be better able to follow the first settlement and further purchase of the town.'
'After the determination of the congregation to "set down at Mattacheese," on the 26th of June [1639] a fast was held at Scituate, where this colony were residing, " that the Lord in his presence" [would] go with them to this new land. Rev. John Lothrop, the beloved pastor of the church there, by his letters, found among Governor Winslow's papers, has furnished many facts concerning the trials of himself and associates as to where the settlement should be.'
'There is no other record of the settlement of Barnstable until the arrival of Rev. John Lothrop and his associates on the 21st of October, 1639 (N. S.). The greater part of Mr. Lothrop's church accompanied him to Barnstable, leaving the remaining few "in a broken condition." Besides Joseph Hull and Thomas Dimock and their associates as mentioned in the grant, we find here in the autumn of 1639, John Lothrop, the pastor, Mr. Mayo, Mr. Lumbard, sr., Isaac Wells, Samuel Hinckley, Samuel Fuller, Robert Shelley, Edward Fitzrandal, Henry Ewell, Henry Rowley, James Cudworth, William Crocker, John Cooper, Henry Cobb, George Lewis, Robert Linnell, William Parker, Edward Caseley, William Caseley, Henry Bourne, Anthony Annable, and Isaac Robinson.'

'The town [of Barnstable] was incorporated September 3, 1639, and on the first Tuesday of December, the same year, its deputies took their seats in the general court. Others came to the town during the fall, winter and spring following, so that in 1640 we find here these heads of families in addition to those already mentioned [notice that many of these additional settlers have the same last names of the original settlers, and were relatives]:

Thomas Allyn, Nathaniel Bacon, Austin Bearse, William Bills, Abraham Blush, John Bursley, John Caseley, Henry Coggen, John Crocker, Dolor Davis, Richard Foxwell, Roger Goodspeed, James Hamblin, Thomas Hatch, Thomas Hinckley, Thomas Huckins, John Hull or Hall, Samuel Jackson, Laurence Lichfield, Thomas Lothrop, John Smith, Thomas Shaw, John Scudder, John and Samuel Mayo, Thomas Lombard, Bernard Lombard, and Robert Linnet.

Before the lands were divided others had arrived, among whom were: Richard Berry, Francis Crocker, John and Nicholas Davis, William Tilley, David Linnet, Benjamin and James Lothrop, Nathaniel Mayo, Samuel Lothrop, John Foxwell, Thomas Blossom, John Blower, Thomas Boreman, William Pearse, John Russel, Nicholas Sympkins, Laurence Willis, and Samuel House.'

[p. 370, Barnstable established rules]

'The proprietors [of Barnstable] were yet very careful as to the character of newcomers, concerning which rules were made by the general court. In 1661 William Crocker and Thomas Huckins were empowered to take notice of any who should intrude themselves without the town's consent. The underlying reason, however, for such surveillance was that religions not orthodox should be kept away. There was room in town for more people if they were of the right faith, as the entire territory between the Long pond and Shoal pond had no settlers yet, and it was made "commons [ie., a shared grazing area] for the town's cattle."'

[p. 371-373, the town of Barnstable was surveyed and roads were planned]

'In 1685 the court ordered a road opened through Barnstable, and sixteen men, whose names appear at the bottom of the survey, were empaneled as a jury to lay it out. The road has been since known as the "county road," and is the main street of Barnstable village.' [The town boundaries were described.] "The names of ye Jury: Capt. Lothrop, Lieut. Rowland, Ensign Dimock, James Gorham, Jabez Lumbart, James Cob, Saml Cob, Nathl. Bacon, Ensign Lumbart, Lieut. James Lewis, John Phinney, Job Crocker, Samuel Hinckley sr., Joseph Blish, Josiah Crocker, James Hamblin jr."

'The town, tiring of long trips to Plymouth for grinding [the grains raised on their farms], in 1687 ordered that a wind mill be built, either on Cobb's hill or the old Meeting House hill, and appropriated money and land to pay for it. Thomas Paine of Eastham constructed one on Meeting House hill, much to the satisfaction of Barnabas Lothrop and Samuel Allen, who were the committee to oversee the work.'
Also, in 1687, John Andrews and others were granted a tract of eight or ten acres next to a river, to build a fulling mill, where wool and flax could be processed, spun and woven into cloth.
Roads were rapidly laid out, branching from the county road.

[p. 375-376, Barnstable public meetings were held at the church meeting house until 1840]

[pp. 378-379, 1640, the proprietors decided that they would get the first opportunity to purchase lands within Barnstable;
1641, the lands of Barnstable were to be surveyed, the town selected training grounds (for the town militia to practice), stocks and a whipping post were planned (as had been used at Plymouth);
1642, public punishments were decided]

[p.379, Barnstable Town Events of 1643, 45 voters were in Barnstable;
1645, duties of the town officers were increased;
1646, Barnstable arranged for men of the town to fill a quota required for the Narragansett expedition, a new meeting house was now used for public gatherings, "as was the custom; and this invariable rule, to construct the meeting house for civil and religious meetings as soon as possible after a plantation had been seated, has followed the descendants of the Pilgrims wherever they have planted a colony,";
1651, 'In 1651 the order was made to record the bounds and titles of lands in the plantation, and gate keepers were appointed ;"
1655, "it was ordered that Captain Miles Standish and Mr. Hatherly [military leaders from Plymouth] have authority to settle all difficulties with the Indians, which might be submitted to them by the deputies [of Barnstable];"
1662, the Barnstable town meeting "ordered that the sons of the present inhabitants shall be successively received as inhabitants and allowed equal town privileges in the Commons and other privileges of the present inhabitants, at the day of their marriage, or at the age of 24, whichever happens first," and at that meeting Samuel Bacon, Samuel Fuller, Caleb Lumbard, Jabez Lumbard, Samuel Fuller, jr., Joseph Benjamin, Nicholas Bonham, James Hamblin, Thomas Lumbard, Samuel Norman, Samuel Hicks, James Cobb, Edward Coleman, John Rowland, John Sargeant, John Crocker, Edward Lewis, Daniel Stewart, Thomas Ewer and John Lewis were admitted, making the number of voters in the town sixty-five, which number was increased to eighty-nine in 1670 by other additions.
In 1670 a List of Freemen and Voters was recorded in Barnstable. "The list of freemen and their widows not heretofore given, were: John Thompson, Henry Taylor, Edward Taylor, Moses Rowley [son of Henry Rowley], Mark Ridley, Samuel Storrs, John Scudder, William Sargeant, John Phinney, sr., John Phinney, jr., Jabez and Jedediah Lumbard, Benjamin Lumbard, Caleb Lumbard, Widow Lothrop, Widow Lumbard, John Otis, Robert Parker, Joshua Lumbard, sr., Melt. Lothrop, Joseph Lothrop, Ralph Jones, John Jenkins, John Huckins, John Rowland, John Hinckley, Barnabas Lothrop, Widow Lewis, Thomas Lewis, John Lewis, James Lewis, Edward Lewis, Shubael Dimock, Nathaniel Fitzrandal, John Fuller, Matthew Fuller, Samuel Fuller, sr., Samuel Fuller, jr., Samuel Fuller, son of Matthew, John and Nathaniel Goodspeed, Samuel Allyn, Nathaniel Bacon, jr., Peter Blossom, John Chipman, James Claghorn, James Cobb, Job Crocker, Josiah Crocker, Robert Davis, Thomas Dexter, William Dexter, William Troop, Thomas Walley, sr., John Gorham, Joseph Hallett, Bart. Hamblin, James Hamblin, sr., and James Hamblin, jr." ]

[p.381] TOWN OFFICERS OF BARNSTABLE [Henry Rowley was a Barnstable Representative to the General Court at Plymouth in 1643]

[p.383-385] CHURCHES OF BARNSTABLE COUNTY
[A background of Reverend John Lothrop's Congregation, of which, Henry Rowley and family were members]
'In 1616 Rev. Henry Jacobs organized a Congregational church at Southwark, London, [England] of which John Lothrop became pastor. In 1634 about thirty of this church, with Mr. Lothrop, immigrated to this continent, locating in the wilderness of Scituate, where they were joined by thirteen of the church who had previously arrived. October 31, 1639, Mr. Lothrop, with the majority of the Scituate church, as already appears, came to Barnstable. A few days after the arrival a fast was held

"to implore the grace of God to settle us here in church estate, and to unite us together in holy walking, and to make us faithful in keeping covenant with God and one another."

That the church here progressed and worked harmoniously is evinced by Mr. Lothrop's diary, which says:

"April 15, 1640, a day of fasting and prayer on occasion of the investing of Br. Mayo with the office of teaching elder, upon whom myself, Mr. Hull and Br. Cobb lay our hands; and for the Lord to find out a place for meeting, and that we may agree in it."

Tradition has it that the first meetings held in Barnstable were on and around a large rock westerly of Coggin's pond, on the north side of the county road. This rock has ruthlessly been removed, but a portion of it has been permanently placed at the southeast corner of the premises of Edward Scudder, in the north line of the highway.'

'The lapse of 250 years renders tradition dim, and even the small amount of records extant cannot definitely give the date of the building of the first meeting house or where it stood. It is clear that none had been built in March, 1644, for Mr. Lothrop said in his diary, March 24th,

"our meeting being held at the end of Mr. Burseley's house."

But by the same diary it appears that

" May, 1646, met in our new meeting house."

Where this first meeting house was located is in doubt. There are those who say it was near the present Baptist church in the village of Barnstable, but all there is in the records to substantiate the tradition is that Mr. Lothrop, the pastor, was given land near that meeting house and he first lived nearly opposite the present court house. Mr. Palfrey said the first was one-fourth of a mile -west of the present East Parish church, on the west side of the old burying ground. Mr. Otis says,

"The first meeting house stood in the ancient graveyard on the opposite of the road from Mr. Hull's house."

It was undoubtedly near the old burying ground by the present Methodist Episcopal church.'

'Mr. Lothrop died November 8, 1653, and tradition says it was in the house now occupied by the Sturgis Library."

[p. 394-395]THE VILLAGE OF BARNSTABLE, [Henry Rowley being an early resident.]

"Village of Barnstable.

—Like some other villages of the county, the settlement of this is contemporaneous with that of the town, the first settlement of the plantation being the nucleus of the present village. The names of the first pioneers have been given for the town, and we will now endeavor to place them in their first residences in the village.

In 1640, when their first primitive dwellings had been erected, Rev. John Lothrop's was where the present hotel of Mr. Eldridge stands, nearly opposite the court house:
Henry Rowley near Mr. Lothrop's;
Isaac Wells near where the court house stands;
George Lewis, sr., near the site of the Ainsworth house;
Edward Fitzrandal on the corner by the Hyannis road;
Henry Cobb near the present Unitarian church, and the hill was named Cobb's hill from this fact;
Richard Foxwell near the present Agricultural Hall;
Bernard Lumbert, further east, near the old mill;
and Nathaniel Bacon, John Smith, Roger Goodspeed, Thomas Huckins, John Scudder, Samuel Mayo and Thomas Dimock were also in the eastern part of the present village, east of John Lothrop's.
Around Coggin's pond were settled Henry Bourne, Thomas Hinckley, Henry Coggin, Laurence Litchfield. James Hamblin and William Tilley.
Between Coggin's pond and the present court house were Isaac Robinson, James Cudworth, Samuel Jackson, Thomas Allyn, John Mayo, John Caseley, Robert Linnell, William Caseley, Thomas Lothrop and Thomas Lumbert. Several, including John Bursley, settled west of Coggin's pond, the settlement, like the present village, being scattered along for a space of three miles. The center of the village then was a little east of Coggin's pond.

"Many of these first houses [in Barnstable] were made of timber and lumber brought from the saw mill at Scituate, the distance by water being short and transportation by boats easy. The house in which Governor Hinckley lived and died was just east of Marcus M. Nye's store, on the north side of the county road, near the head of " Calf Pasture lane." The governor's former house was on the opposite side of the county road, and here, under a stone wall, is the well which he used. His dust rests under a suitable slab, inscribed with record of his virtues, in the Methodist burying ground east of where he lived. Stone houses were early built in the western part of the then village or community, and houses with the first story of stone were very common.

The so-called Scudder lane of later years was "Calf Pasture lane" in the early days of the village, and led to common lands held at that time by the proprietors, and which are known to this day as the calf pasture lands. It is in tradition that the first comers to this town and village first settled at this pasture land, and the next year moved back from the water. The lane was opened prior to the laying out of the county road in 1686. Later it was the outlet to the harbor for fishing, and early in the present century Nelson and Daniel Scudder built a wharf on the harbor communicating with the lane, and from it several fishing vessels were sent out in connection with others of a fleet of forty that were made up from the rendezvous wharf and Cobb & Smith's wharf. For several years this fleet went and came regularly, and a lucrative business in mackerel fishing was carried on. Rendezvous lane is the street that runs northerly from the present Baptist church. The other wharves were located on the present "Poverty lane" that runs to the harbor from near Masonic Hall.'

Among the early industries here was that of salt making. Nathaniel Gorham boiled sea water and made salt, on Sandy neck, during the revolutionary war. Many of the present residents of Barnstable village remember when the " Common field "—the marsh in the rear of the Unitarian church—was a field of salt works."

[pp.395-397] BUSINESSES OF BARNSTABLE

In 1639, the town of Barnstable gave Thomas Lumbert permission "to keep victualling, or an Ordinary [an Inn, or Tavern] for the entertainment of strangers." Of course " to draw wines" was the main business of the tavern in those days. Several others operated taverns in the area."

"As early as taverns and places "to draw wines" existed in this village, the primitive store, with its rum, molasses and other staples, was also a contingent necessity. The variety of goods increased with the desires and growth of the village and surrounding town."

In colonial times, three regularly scheduled boats, or, "packets" at the village wharf shipped goods, passengers and mail, regularly between Barnstable and Boston, before the railroad. There were formerly store-houses located on the wharf, and a fishing industry.

[Henry Rowley died in 1673, shortly after purchasing land in, or moving to, Falmouth, Massachusetts. Falmouth was twenty-one miles southwest of Barnstable. Henry's son, Moses Rowley, continued to live in Barnstable, Massachusetts, until a few years after Henry's death, at which time Moses moved to Falmouth.]

SOURCE
Simeon L. Deyo, History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620-1890 (Salem, Massachusetts: Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, 1890), 368, 381, 394; digital scanned image, openlibrary.org, Internet Archive

John married BODFISH, Mary on 26 Oct 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. Mary (daughter of BODFISH, Robert and STUGG, Bridget) was born on 5 May 1635; was christened on 11 Jun 1637; died in Dec 1663 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 25 May 1985, PROVO.

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DEATH: Also shown as Died 1704 ~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 1 May 1946, SLAKE.

John married LEE, Mary on 26 Oct 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Mary (daughter of LEE, Robert and ATWOOD, Mary) was born in 1630 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died on 6 May 1693 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in May 1693. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 1 May 1973