Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

92 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
acre and a half of land at the head of his farm for his convenieney.
No boundaries are given, and therefore its location cannot
be fixed.
Children horn in Barnstable.
2. I. Sarah, 15th Nov. 1653.
3. II. Mehitabel, 2d March, 1654-5, married Eleazer Hamblen
15th Oct. 1675, and had a family, was a member of the
church, and was living in 1683.
4. III. Samuel, 12th Sept. 1657. This child probably died
early. He is not mentioned afterwards on the records.
There was a Samuel Jenkins in the Colony, but too old a
man to have been the son of John.
5. IV. John, 13th Nov. 1659. (See below.)
6. V. Mary, 1st Oct. 1662, married Thomas Parker and reremoved
to Falmouth, and had a large family.
7. VI. Thomas, 16th July, 1666. (See below).
8. VII. Joseph, 31st March, 1669. (See below).
John Jenkins, son of John, resided a part of his life in Falmouth.
In 1690 he was admitted a freeman of the Colony, and
was sworn at the County Court in Barnstable June 24. The
twenty admitted on that day were the last who were sworn freemen
of the Plymouth Colony. About the year 1692 he returned
to Barnstable, and settled on a small farm on the north of the
Shoal pond in the East Parish. A part of this estate he bought
of Joshua Lumbert, and a part was probably his father's. He inheirted
all his father's lands in Falmouth. He was a man of some
note, entitled to be called Mister, a prominent member of the
church, and though he resided in a small house, and in a retired
spot, he inherited the aristocratic feelings of his English ances-
try.
"He died very suddenly on the 8th of July, 1736," aged 77.
His will is dated Dec. 15, 1730, and was proved on the third of
Aug. 1736. He names his wife Patience, provides very scantUy
for her support, and if she married again she was to have £30 and
no more, less than the one hundredth part of his eslate. She did
not marry again, but lived a widow till Oct. 28, 1745, when she
died aged, according to the church records, "above seventy
years."
To his three sons, John, Philip and Joseph, he bequeathed,
and to their male heirs, in fee tail, "all my Waquoit land, that is
all my lands east of the Mill or Five MUe river, so called, whether
divided or undivided, to be an estate in fee tail ; saving that I
give liberty to my sons and their said heirs to sell to each other,
so that said lands and meadows go not out of the families of my
said sons."
He orders that Dorothy, the widow of his son Samuel, de-