Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 55
Scituate and other places to Barnstable. The "bark Desire,"
Capt. Samuel Mayo, appears to have been the first vessel of any
considerable size that hailed from Barnstable. She is named in
1650. None appear to have been built at that early period,
though there was an abundance of material, and many of the first
settlers were mechanics.
Samuel House died in Scituate in 1661, leaving four children.
Samuel and Elizabeth were appointed Oct. 1, administrators on
their father's estate. His estate in Scituate was apprised at
£241,14, and in Barnstable, by John Chipman and Tristram Hull
at £249,17, a large estate in those times. William Paine, of Boston,
a man of great wealth, who died in 1660, bequeathed "to my
kinswoman Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel House, £10." She
was his grandniece.
Whether or not Samuel was a relative of Thomas, the ancestor
of the Howes family of Dennis, I have been unable to ascertain.
His name is also sometimes written House. Samuel married
Elizabeth, daughter of William Hammond of Watertown.
She was born in England in 1619, and was a member of the
Watertown church. Mr. Lothrop has the following entry on his
records : "Elizabeth Hammon, my sister, having a dismission
from the church at Watertown was joined April 14, 1636." The
meaning of "my sister" in this record is perhaps doubtful, though
in a note in the Dimmock article I have not considered it so. She
was not then a sister of his church without she had joined in London
as early as 1632. She was at the latter date only thirteen,
which renders it very doubtful ; and if she had been he would not
have called her ''my sister," but simply "sister." No instance
occurs on his records of his applying to the brethren or sisters of
his church the word my, without a relationship actually existed.
William Hamn«)nd came from Lavenham, in the County of
SufiEolk, England, and it is very improbable that his daughter
Elizabeth should have joined Mr. Lothrop's church in London. I
infer from this that Ann, the second wife of Mr. Lothrop, was
Ann Hammond, baptized 14 July, 1616. In no other manner can
the known relationship between the parties be explained.
Children of, Samuel House horn in Scituate.
2. I. Elizabeth, baptized Oct. 23, 1636.
3. II. Samuel, there is no record of his birth or baptism.
Born in Barnstable.
4. III. Sarah, baptized Aug. 1, 1641.
Born in Cambridge.
5. IV. John, born 6th Dec. 1642, baptized in Barnstable May
18, 1645,
All these children it appears by the will of the grandfather
Hammond, dated July 1, 1602, oneyear after the death of Samuel