Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

386 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIKS.
the records of this family. The entries at the Londou Custom
are uot entirely reliable. In one place it is stated that he was
34 in 1635, and in another 45 years of age. I have assumed the
latter to be accurate, because it is not probable that he married at
16. His son John was born in 1622. The Custom House records
say in 1626, also in 1627. The family came over in 1635 in the
ship Abigail, Capt. Hackwell.
Born in England.
I. '
Alice,
1618, married 24th Nov. 1639, Dea. Wm. Paddy.
II. Edmund, 1620, married and had a family.
III. John, 1622.
IV. Elizabeth, 1623, married John Ellis.
V. Cycellia, 1631, probably his daughter, died young.
VI. Mary, probably born in this County, married Edward Perry.
Major John Freeman, a son of Edmund, born in England in
1622, was a more distinguished man than his father. He removed
to Eastham, and married 13th Feb. 1650, Mercy, daughter of
Gov. Thomas Prence. He lived to a venerable old age, and in
the ancient graveyard in that town are monuments wrought in the
mother country to his, and his wife's memory. His wife died first,
and on her curiously wrought gravestone a heart is depicted within
which her epitaph is engraved in small capital letters.
HERE LYES
BURIED YE BODY
OF MARCY FREEMAN
WIFE TO MAJOR
FREEMAN AGED
80 YEARS DEC'D
SEPT. 28TH
1711.
HERE LYES THE
BODY OF MAJOR
JOHN FREEMAN
DEC'd OCTOBER YE
28th 1719
IN YE 98th year
OF HIS AGE
Samuel Freeman, of Watertown, settled in Eastham, and has
many descendants. His mother married Gov. Prence, and there
is no known connection between the families of Edmund and
Samuel.
The earliest family in Barnstable was that of Nathaniel, who
married Oct. 1723, Mercy, daughter of Mr. James Paine, and a
grand-daughter of Col. John Thaeher, of Yarmouth. He died
Dec. 2, 1727. His children born in Barnstable were: 1, Bethia,
July 4, 1725 ; 2, James, Oct. 11, 1726 ; and 3, Nathaniel, March