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Clerk and Treasurer - Freeman Snow.
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor - Thomas Kendrick, Watson B. Kelley, and Zephaniah Nickerson.
Surveyors of Highways - John Kenney, Leonard Free- man, Abiather Doane, Isaiah C. Kelley, Thomas Ellis, 3d, Nathan II. Chase, and Alvan Cahoon.
Field Drivers and Fence Viewers - Charles H. Kelley, Z. H. Ellis, E. B. Sears, Patrick H. Cahoon, Eben Weekes, J. Crowell, Jr., and Crowell Nickerson.
Tything Men - Sylvester Kendrick, W. M. Eldredge, Nathaniel Doane, J. C. Kelley, Obed Brooks, John Larkin, E. B. Sears, and Cyrus Nickerson.
Surveyors of Lumber - Gideon H. Tripp, Sandford Free- man, W. B. Kelley,
Constables-M. F. Nickerson, Elisha Mayo, Darius Chase, A. Lewis Chase, J. B. Cahoon, John Ryder, B. H. Eldridge, Benjamin Davis, aud Crowell Nickerson.
Measurers of Wood and Bark - W. B. Kelley, Sandford Freeman, Gideon H. Tripp.
Pound Keepeas - Orrick Doane, Isaiah Smith, and John W. Baker.
Committee to settle with the Treasurer - Erastas Chase, Isaiah Chase, and Zephaniah Nickerson.
Herring Committee - Nathaniel Doane, Eben Eldredge, Alvan Cahoon.
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ORLEANS.
This place was often called Namskaket by the Indians. It was the south part of Eastham, and incorporated as a sepa- rate town in 1797.
On the south of Orleans are Brewster and Chatham. Like these two towns it has a number of fine, fresh ponds. At the north east of the town is Nauset harbor.
Orleans extends across the cape a distance of 3 or 4 miles.
Namskaket Creek partly divides the town from Brewster. The land near it is called Skaket.
The principal villages are Orleans, South Orleans and Rock Harbor.
This town produces good crops of corn and hay, and the shores and coves abound with excellent clams, quahogs, bass, tautog, eels, &c.
HIGGINS AND BANGS FAMILIES.
Richard Higgins, the pilgrim, is by Mr. Freeman, said to have been of Celtic origin. "I have given a sketch of him in another place. His son Benjamin, born in 1640, was one of the Selectmen' in 1688, and died 14 March. 1691. Benja- min's son Isaac, born 31 August, 1672, had several children by his wife Lydia. It is unknown to me who this lady was. But one of their daughters named Rebecca, born 10 October, 1705, became the second wife of Edw. Bangs, son of Capt. Edward, whose father Capt. Jonathan, was son of the pilgrim.
Edw. Bangs and Rebecca (Higgins) were the parents of Elkanah Bangs, named probably for Rebecca's brother Elka- nah Higgins. This Elkanah Bangs, of Harwich, my great grandfather, was born 31 March 1732, and married Susanna, daughter of John Dillingham, and died in the Privateer ser- vice of the Revolution Feb. 1777, leaving several children.
He appears to have been one of those taken prisoners by the British, and held on board the Jersey Prison Ship. Sev- eral of his neighbors were also prisoners on board that ship. Among them, Thomas Mayo and his son Ebenezer, Benjamin Berry and Isaac Clark. These brave men were citizens of that part of Harwich now called Brewster.
I do not find anything about this Jersey Prison ship in Freeman's History, but there are persons living, who re- member hearing much about it from their fathers of a former generation. After Elkanah Bangs had disappeared from the scene, his sons and cousins engaged in the strife . for independence, with undaunted zeal. His son Dean was
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at different times, in both the land service and marine, as a privateersman. Isaac, nephew of Elkanah, was a volun- teer at the Lexington Alarm. Having graduated at Har- vard in 1771, and studied medicine, he enlisted, as Doc- tor's mate, and afterwards was a Lieutenant in Washing- ton's Army, and marched to Virginia, where he died in the service in 1780, aged 28. I have several years since pub- lished most of his Diary which he kept while on duty in Boston, Roxbury, New York, &c. He was a scholar, sol- dier and patriot of the highest stamp. His brother Joshua, also died in the Revolutionary service in Rhode Island, in . 1778, aged 26 years. His brother Edward was father of Edw. D. Secretary of Massachusetts.
There were 55 soldiers in the Revolutionary War by, the name of Higgins, from Cape Cod families. One was Captain Joshua, of Eastham; another, Captain Reuben ; and a third, Lieut. Ebenezer, of Eastham. Mr. Pratt says in his History, " this family is numerous and repectable."
SPARROW FAMILIES OF ORLEANS.
Jonathan Sparrow, son of Richard, the pilgrim, was constable in 1656, and took the freeman's oath in 1657. In '62, he was appointed by the Court one of a committee to take an invoice of the liquors, gunpowder, shot and lead that is brought into this government. In '65, he was engaged as schoolmaster.
Mr. Sparrow was a military man.
In '64, he belonged to a troop of horse. He was also a Deacon of the Church, one of the Selectmen of Eastham ten years, and Deputy many years to the Colony Court, and Representative to the Massachusetts General Court at Boston after the Union of the Colonies for a long time till 1700 1802. In 1789, he was commissioned as one of the Jus- tices of the Associate Court. In 1690, the war with. the French and Indians called for men and money from every town. The militia of Eastham was put on a war footing. Mr. Sparrow was chosen Captain, and Jonathan Bangs, Ensign.
Captain Sparrow, on the 19th December, 1675, partici- pated in the great Narragansett Fight, as first Lieutenant of Captain John Gorham's company, it being the second company in the Plymouth County battallion under Major . William Bradford, in the forces of the United Colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Plymouth, led by Gov. Josias Winslow, as General in Chief. Capt. Sparrow mar-
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ried first Rebecca, daughter of Edward Bangs the pilgrim, secondly, Hannah, daughter of Governor Thomas Prence, and thirdly Sarah, daughter of George Lewis. The second and third wives were widows. His children were by the first marriage. His son Jonathan, Jr., was born in 1665, and died 9 March, 1739-40, at Orleans in the 75th year of his age. I don't find whom he married, but he had a family, and his son Jonathan, born in 1721, was father of my great grand father Isaac Sparrow, who was found murdered and thrown into a pond, probably by the Indians, a year or two after his marriage with Mary Hopkins, dau. of Ebenezer.
LOCAL MILITIA.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS. Jabez Sparrow, from December 1, 1797; Moses Higgins from October 9, 1815; David Eldridge from February 29, 1832, to March 30, 1836.
Population in 1870, 1,324.
TOWN OFFICERS, 1873-4.
Town Clerk, and Treasurer. - Freeman Mayo.
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor. - Free- man Doane, John Kendrick, Ensign B. Rogers.
Collector. - Freeman Mayo.
Constable. - Freeman Mayo.
School Committee .- Joseph H. Cummings, Chr. ; Charles E. Harwood, Superintendent.
CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church. - Rev. J. B. Washburn, Pastor.
Baptist Church. - No settled Pastor.
Congregational Church. - Rev. Charles E. Harwood, Pastor.
Universalist Church. - Rev. Rufus S. Pope, Pastor.
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YARMOUTH.
In the time of Governor Bradford's administration " the bounds of Yarmouth on the easterly side, were from the town to a certain Brook called by the Indians Shuckquam, but by the English Bound Brook, and all that neck of land northward called by the Indians, Abquict (alias Aquict), with all the uplands and marsh meadow, which lie on the westerly side of the said Brook towards the town into the mouth of said Brook, and from a marked tree at the path on the said Bound Brock by a straight line south and by east, to the South Sea, so it extend not in length above eight miles. Excepting and reserving unto Missatampaine, the Sachem, the lands from Nobscussett pan, westerly from a marked tree unto another marked tree at a swamp, extend- ing westerly and from thence to another marked tree west- erly by a straight line to the sea, and from the northerly end of the said Nobscussett pan to the sea by a line from the westerly side of the said pan."
Yarmouth is bounded on the west by Barnstable and on the east by Dennis. It has good harbors on each side of the Cape for fishing and coasting vessels.
The inhabitants here, as in most of the Cape towns are engaged principally in nautical pursuits. But there is considerable other business done. Many fresh ponds of pure water are scattered over the town. Bass river runs from one of them, partially dividing Yarmouth from Den- nis. The villages are Yarmouthport, Yarmouth, South Yarmouth, and West Yarmouth.
Yarmouth was settled by the whites, about 1637. The Indian name was Mattacheese.
Some of the principal families here at the start were those of Payne, Tabor, Crowe or Crowell, Hoar, Palmer, Thacher, Hawes, Howes, Nickerson, Sturgis, Sears, Miller, Lumpkins, Worden or Warden, Wheldon, Gray, Paddock, Matthews, Joyce, Arnold, &c.
Mr. Amos Otis of Yarmouthport knows a great deal about these men and their descendants. He ought to pub- lish a history of the town. The town records before 1677 were mostly destroyed and lost.
Among the noted men of the town in later times are the following names : Tobey, Hall, Hedge, Taylor, Chapman, Hamblen, Griffith, Gorham, Davis, Alden, Doane, Hallett, Baker, Baxter, Reed, Bassett, Dennis, &c.
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WILLIAM LUMPKIN.
Wm. Lumpkin was elected and sworn Constable of Yar- mouth 3 March, 1639-40. He was on the Grand Jury in 1642-3, being then a citizen ; a Surveyor of highways in 1652-4-5 ; a Representive to the Colony Court in 1652. On the Grand Inquest in 1659, and foreman of a Coroner's Jury in '67. On 5th March, 1667, Wm. Lumpkin and Peter Worden, were fined ten shillings each for disturbance at the Yarmouth meeting House.
This disturbance consisted in their sitting in a corner and taking the liberty to converse together in a low tone during the service. They probably whispered too loud.
Mr Lumpkin's wife was Tamzen or Thomasin. He had a daughter of the same name, who married first Captain Samuel Mayo, mariner; and secondly Mr. John Sunderland.
THE HOWES FAMILY.
Thomas Howes, planter, was one of the original pur- chasers of Mattacheese (Yarmouth). He took the oath of allegiance to the King and fidelity to the Government 7 January, 1638. March 5, 1638-9, he was one of the com- mittee to divide the planting lands at the first division, and give each man a share " according to his estate and qual- ity." He was one of the Grand Inquest in 1644, and one of the Council of War in 1658.
He was frequently Representative to the Colonial Court from Yarmouth. In his will dated 26 September, 1665, he mentions his wife Mary, who survived him, and sons, Joseph, Thomas, and Jeremiah.
Captain Thomas Hawes, the son, dwelt at Yarmouth. He was admitted a freeman in 1647. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Edward Bangs, the Pilgrim. He went in the third expedition in 1776, against the Indians at Mt. Hope, also in the fifth expedition, with 21 men from Yarmouth.
He often represented the town in the Colony Court, and held other high offices. His death at Yarmouth occurred in November, 1676.
JOHN GRAY.
John Gray was at Yarmouth able to bear arms in 1643, His wife was Hannah, daughter of Mr. William Lumpkin, of Y., and they had, among other children, William, born in 1650, who is probably the " Captain William " that was in several expeditions against the Narragansett Indians.
In 1641-2, " Mr. John Gray," as he was called, was pre- sented by the Grand Jury for Swearing, and committed to
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prison. In 1676, a tax was laid on the inhabitants to de- fray the expenses of the war with King Philip, and Han- nah Gray, the widow of John was taxed £1 11 3, Kenelm Winslow £4 13 6, Mrs. Prence £1 3 4, John Dillingham £6 17 9, and Captain Howes £6 7 3. Several of these parties resided at Satucket, which was then in the liberties of Yarmouth.
THE CHAPMANS.
Isaac Chapman, was son of Ralph and Lydia (Wells, or Willis), who was daughter of Isaac Wells, or Willis, of Barnstable. The family of Chapman came from Southwark, in Surrey, a suburb of London, England.
Isaac was born 4 August, 1647, at Marshfield, and mar- ried in 1678, Rebecca (Leonard), daughter of James of Taunton, the first " bloomer" in America. Isaac had been living sometime in Bristol, Rhode Island before coming to Yarmouth. .
His daughter Lydia, born in 1679, married the second John Dillingham of Satucket, and died in 1760, leaving a numerous family.
I have an original Deed, which gives several interesting particulars respecting the Chapmans.
The following is a brief abridgement of the paper. " We Isaac Chapman, blacksmith, Isaac Chapman, Junr., cord- wainer, and Ralph Chapman, yeoman, all of Yarmouth, in the county of Barnstable, and Edw. Sturgis, yeoman, of the same town, for £35, convey to Joshua Benson, hus- bandman, and Eph. Washburn, blacksmith, both of Plymp- ton, in the county of Plymouth, a certain lot of cedar and spruce swamp, situated in the the town of Rochester, in said Plymouth county, which is the fourth lot belonging to Wm. Bradford's share at the first, being the same land bought by us of James Winslow, late of Rochester, de- ceased, which he conveyed to Isaac Chapman and Kenelm Winslow of Harwich." Date, 1733.
The above John Dillingham is called by their sor John, in . a paper, dated 25 January, 1753, "yeoman, late of Harwich," and in the same paper it is asserted that he gave by his will certain lands to his son John, the writer, and to his 'six sisters, daughters of the deceased John, viz., Lydia (Clark), Hannah (Bourne), deceased, Rebecca (Knowles), .. Abigail (Freeman), Thankful (Pope), and Sarah (Freeman.
The husband of Hannah was Jonathan Bourne of Sand- wich, gent. Lydia was widow of Roland Clark. Abi-
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gail was wife of Prence Freeman. Sarah was wife of Benjamin Freeman Jr., of Harwich. Rebecca was wife of Amos Knowles, yeoman of Eastham, and Thankful was wife of Thomas Pope, yeoman, of Dartmouth.
The pieces of land mentioned as having been given to these daughters by the will of Mr. Dillingham, were scat- tered over a wide extent of the surrounding country, 80 acres were on the southerly side of the mill-pond and were called Saphunkcond Neck. One piece was the 8th lot in the lower tier of lots above the mill-pond. One piece lay on the northerly side of the county road, and was known as the Grave Pasture. Also a tract of land in Crocky Neck, and two pieces between the two county roads that led from Stony Brook to Yarmouth. Also a piece at the elbow of the mill pond, extending south eight degrees. This last lot was, however, part of the land given to John, son of the testator, and brother to the six daughters above named.
A parcel of meadow land was also bequeathed to three of the daughters by their father. This original paper, which is an agreement to exchange several pieces of land with each other, is signed by the daughters except Hannah (Bourne) deceased, and Thankful (Pope) whose name was subscribed by Samuel Willis, probably her uncle or cousin, as her mother was Lydia (Willis.) Their husbands also signed. They were all good plain writers. The signature of John Dillingham stands first and is a bold, fine one. The whole paper is in his hand, and shows him to have been a scholar, or at least, a good business man. It was acknowledged before Thomas Winslow of Barnstable County, and Samuel Willis of Bristol County, Justices of the Peace. The will of this John Dillingham, the 3d John of Satucket, is dated 4th of August, 1758, and mentions his wife Mary, who survived him a short time. This lady was widow of Samuel Nye, of Sandwich, and her son John Dillingham, born 8 November, 1752, was the 4th John Dil- lingham of Satucket. The first wife of the 3d John was Mehetabel, daughter of John Gray and his wife Susanna (Clark). The second wife was Abigail Hinckley, who left one daughter named Mehetabel, who married Mr. Greenough of Wellfleet. The three daughters, Desire, Susanna, and Rhoda were children of the first marriage.
Mr. Dillingham by his will, above mentioned, expresses strong religious convictions, and gives most of his estate to his wife and his son John, then 6 years of age.
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The testator John, gives to his three daughters, Desire Bangs, Susanna Bangs, and Rhoda Snow, to each of them thirteen pounds, six shillings and eight pence.
To his daughter Mehetabel he gives a piece of land and all the estate his late wife Abigail brought to him. He named his wife Mary for executrix ; but she died in about a year, and Enos Snow, husband of Rhoda, one of the three daughters, was appointed to settle up the estate.
MILITARY AFFAIRS.
At the " first call" for soldiers the following are the names of those who responded. It being the alarm con- sequent upon the attack made by the Indians upon the in- habitants of Swanzey, in June 1675, or one hundred years almost to a day before the battle of Bunker Hill.
John Gorham, Captain ; Nathaniel Hall, and Samuel Hall Corporals ; Private Soldiers, Daniel Baker, William Baker, Thomas Baxter, John Berry, John Chase, James Claghorn, John Crowell, Yelverton Crowell, Joseph Egleston, Thos. Folland, Wm. Folland, Wm. Gray, Joseph Hall, Samuel Howes, Samuel Jones, Richard Lake, John Matthews, John Pugsley, Benjamin Ryder, James Severance, Jonathan Smith, John Taylor, Richard Taylor, Samuel Thomas, Thomas Thornton, Joseph Whelden, and Jotham White.
A united effort by the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth and Connecticut was made in 1675, to conquer the Indians and particularly for the destruction or subju- gation of that (then) powerful tribe called the " Narra- gansetts," occupying a part of the then colony of Rhode Island. .
Plymonth Colony was required to furnish two companies and these as a Battalion were led by Major William Brad- ford, a son of the worthy Governor of that name.
Captain John Gorham commanded one of these com- panies with Jonathan Sparrow, as Lieutenant. The names of some of those men then serving in this company were John Gorham, Captain ; Jonathan Sparrow, Lieutenant ; Sergeants, William Witherell, William Gray, and Nath.l Hall ; Corporal, John Hallett; Private Soldiers, James Claghorn, Henry Gold, Henry Gage, Benjamin Hall, Ananias Wing, Samuel Sturgis, John Pugsley, Samuel Baker, Richard Taylor, William Chase, John Whelden. The great battle in which this company took a part was on Sunday afternoon December 19, 1675. Captain Gorham escaped unhurt, but his first Sergeant, William Witherell was severely wounded. Captain Gorham being stationed
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with his company in Swanzey, sickened with a fever and there died February 5, 1676, or less than two months after the great Narragansett battle, that was the most sanguin-' ary conflict that New England had ever known.
The following named men from the Cape served one month in " King Philip's War," subsequent to the Narra- gansett Expedition.
Thomas Howes, Captain ; Samuel Hall, Sergeant; Abram Hedge, Jolin Mathews, John Whelden, Samuel Thomas, Samuel Young, John Taylor, and Benj. Ryder. At a later date in that war, were sent out under Captain Henry Gold, John Taylor, William Gage, Henry Gage, James Maker, John Mathews, John Whelden, Benjamin Ryder, and William Nickerson. Captain Thomas Howes was out again in the field with a company of 21 men whose names have not come to our knowledge.
The Cape towns were also well represented in the com- pany led by Captain Michael Peirce of Scituate, in the battle with the Indians under the noted chieftain Conanchet and which was fought near Pawtuket, Rhode Island, March 25, 1676, and in which Captain Michael Peirce and a very large part of his company were slain.
John Gorhum (a son of Captain John Gorhum who died in Swansey ), was Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment under Colonel Benjamin Church sent to fight the Indians in (what is now the state) of Maine in 1704, and a lineal decsendant of Captain Michael Peirce, commanded a com- pany in a Massachusetts regiment of the Patriot army of the revolution, in service at Rhode Island, just a century after Captain Michael Peirce led a company of Plymouth Colony into the same government, to do battle with the Indians.
In the " old French War" (1745), so called, one of the regiments was led by a member of the Gorham family, and the office of Lieutenant Colonel also filled by one of that name, and concerning which the work entitled, " Niles' Wonder Working Providence" has the following :
" Whilst we in honor these commanders have, Lets turn our thoughts to Colonel Gorham's grave Who with his ancestors distinguished are, As men of courage, mighty in the war. He lies interred in the new conquered soil, The fruit of his and other warlike toil, Lieutenant Colonel Gorham nigh of kin, To his deceased Head, did honor win, Unite in nature, name and trust they stood, Unitedly have done their country good."
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The names of the Captains in Colonel Gorham's Regi- ment, were Jonathan Carey, Edward Dimmick, Elisha Doane, Sylvanus Cobb, Israel Bailey, Gershom Bradford, and Samuel Lombard.
The old rhymes concerning two of these Captains were as follows :
" Now Captain Carey seized with sickness sore, Resigned to death, when touched his native shore ; And Captain Dimmick slain by heathen hand, As was his father under like command."
Of the Major of this Regiment, who survived the shocks of battle and disease, the rhyme continued,
" May Major Thacher live in rising fame, Worthy of ancestors that bear his name."
The names of those Yarmouth soldiers slain in battle March 26, 1676, were John Matthews, John Gage, Wil- liam Gage, Henry Gage, and Henry Gold. These were in the company commanded by Captain Michael Peirce, of Scituate, who with his Lieutenant, were also at the same time slain. Conanchet led the Indians in person on that hard fought field.
Names of Yarmouth gentlemen who held field officers' commissions in the local militia of Barnstable County.
COLONELS. John Thacher, Enoch Hallett, from July 1, 1781 to 1790 ; Thomas Thacher, from February 22, 1798 ; Isaiah Bray, from December 2, 1822, Joshua Hamblin, from March 1, 1816.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS. Enoch Hallett, from 1776 to 1781, Isaiah Bray, from November 20, 1818 to December 2, 1822, Gorham Crowell, from December 2, 1822 to No- vember 17, 1825.
TOWN OFFICERS, 1873-4.
Town Clerk and Treasurer - William P. Davis.
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor- Thatcher Taylor, Elisha Taylor, Braddock Matthews.
School Committee - Rev. John W. Dodge, Rev. E. E. . Chase, Daniel Wing.
Collector - Elisha Parker.
Constables - Elisha Parker, Charles M. Bray.
Deputy Sheriff - Charles M. Bray.
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CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church - No settled Pastor. Swedenborgian Church - William H. Mayo, Pastor. Universalist Church - Rev. Mr. Bradley, Pastor. Congregational Church - John W. Dodge, Pastor.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South Yarmouth - Rev. George W. Whitcher, Pastor.
Friends Society.
Population of Yarmouth in 1870, 2,425.
BARNSTABLE.
This is the county town of Barnstable County, and lies about 65 miles south east of Boston.
The place was called Mattacheese by the Indians. Rev. John Lothrop of Scituate, and some of his society settled here in 1639.
The names of some of the first settlers were Annable, Bourne, Caseley,Cobb, Cooper, Crocker, Cudworth, Dimoc, Ewell, Fitzrandall, Fuller, Hinckley, Lewis, Linnell, Lom- bard, Parker, Robinson, Rowell, Shalley, Wells, Allyn, Mayo, and Hull. Governor Thomas Hinckley, was born here. James Otis, the patriot, was born in this town, in 1725, and was killed by lightning at Andover in 1783. His father Colonel James Otis, born 1802, was son of Colonel John, born 1657, son of John, Jr., son of John, born 1620, first of Hingham, and last of Scituate. The second John was the first of the name who remained and died in Barn- stable. He was the grandfather of Colonel James, of the Revolution, who died in 1778.
This family have produced many distinguished charac- ters. They came originally from Barnstaple in Devonshire County, England. Amos Otis, Esq., of Yarmouthport is one of this family, and he has taken much pains to study the history of his native town, and the genealogies of the families that have dwelt there-Rev. Oakes Shaw, born in 1736, at Bridgewater, graduated H. C. in 1758, was or- dained here in 1760, and died in 1807. He was the father of the late Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, L L. D.
The harbor of Barnstable on the north side of the Cape is good for vessels of light draught. Packets ply between
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this place and Boston, and steamers between here and the neighboring ports, as well as to Boston.
Hyannis is a flourishing village 4 miles south from the Court house, on the south shore of the Cape. It has a good harbor for all classes of vessels. There are other good harbors in the town, as at Oysterville, Centreville, Cotuit, &c. A branch of the Old Colony Railroad extends from Yarmouth, to Hyannisport.
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