Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

96 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
dition to thirds, he gives his best bed and £40. To his son Ebenezer
he gives the east end of his house then occupied by him, and
other property. To his son Samuel land at Skonkonet, and to his
son Josiah other property. To his grandson Thomas, son of
Ebenezer, land at Skonkonet. To his daughter Thankful he bequeathed
£10, to Mary £10, Hope £10, Experience £20, Sarab
£20. He signs his will with his mark, not always evidence that
the testator can not write ; but this will having been made seven
years before bis death, he was probably in good health at the
time, and this fact indicates that his education bad been defect-
ive.
His estate was apprised at £3,849,16,10. Among other matters
a negro woman is apprised at £100. The cniTency had then
became much depreciated and to reduce these sum-s to lawful
money two- thirds at least must be deducted. 80 bushels of corn,
wheat and other grain, in the inventory, is apprised at £49, four
times its value fifty years earlier. However, calling his estate
£1000 in lawful money, he was wealthy for the times.
He was in the eightieth year of his age when he died. He
married 24th Aug. 1687, Experience, daughter of James Hamblen,
Jr. It appears by his will that he married a second wife named
Mercy .
Children born in Barnstable.
18. I. Thankful, 19th May, 1691, married (Isaac?) Taylor. '
19. II. Experience, 28th March, 1693, married John Pope Oct.
3,1717.
20. III. Mercy, 5th Jan. 1695-6, married John White 23fl
Dec. 1718.
21. IV. Ebenezer, 5th Dec. 1697. He died June, 1750, and in
his will dated June 19, 1750, proved on the 5th of July following,
he names his wife Elizabeth and all his children.
His estate is apprised at £357,19,4 in lawful money. He
resided at West Barnstable in a part of his father's house,
situate on the estate now owned by Chipman W. Whelden.
He married 9th Nov. 1721, Judith White. She died April
25, 1729, leaving an only child Thomas. He married July
25, 1732, Elizabeth Tupper, who survived him. His children
were : 1, Thomas, born March 8, 1725-6, married Thankful
Wing of Harwich April 23, 1752; 2, Ebenezer, July 6,
1736; 3, Nathan, Oct. 21, 1734, married Dec. 9, 1762,
Rachel Howland, (father of Asa and grandfather of the
present Nathan) ; 4, Martha, Friday Nov. 4, 1737 ; and 5,
Elizabeth, Friday May 9, 1740.
22. V. Samuel, 7th Jan. 1699-10. (See below.)
VI. Josiah, 16th April, 1702, married in 1737 Mary Ellis
of Middleboro', and resided at West Barnstable. His will